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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-05-06
THE RED FLAG.

We read in the dispatches this morning
that red flag was carried in the process
sion of dissatisfied workingmen in that
city yesterday. Under the meddlesome
tators the upheaval of certain classes of
working people in Chicago, for the last
day or two, could not have been any won
der, considering recent events here in
Texas as we'll as other neighboring states
Agitators, under the guise of organizers
for this, that and the other workingmen's
secret association, we'll paid by these So
cietes, and, as a general rule, having no
property interest in the welfare of the
country, have for months been scattering
the irebrands OF discord and dissatisfac-
ton among the ignorant lower classes of
the great cities. Their passions have
been aroused, the ignorance and natura
criminal tendencies of the dwellers of the
slums have been played upon, and the i'm
mense demonstration in the streets of
Chicago yesterday is the result. But we
can be less surprised at the army of dis
satisfied workmen parVding in the
great metropolis of the west, than
at the appearance of the red
flag of the commune, which was car
ried by man at the head of the procession.
The significant emblem, though not out
of keeping with such multitude, seemed
scarcely in harmony with the peaceable
object of the processionists. And yet,
without doubt, the reg flag represented
the sentiments of a large portion of the
assemblage. The leaven of socialism
and cOmmunism-"acc exotics," ac-
cording to the language of the grand jury
in New York, on Friday concerning the
bOycott-is working among the ignorant
The results are such scenes as were re-
ported all over the north and west yester-
day The hundred headed hydra is grow
ing. 1t is gradually but surely wrapping
its deathly coils around the business in
terests, and threatening the liberties of
the country. The bloody spectre of
communism has risen, typifed by the red
flag in Chicago yesterday, and it is now
becoming question among thinking
men, whether the "accursed exotics" of
European origin will not have to be up
rooted by European methods.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-05-06

SOME of the press are convinced that
Swain is fool, with not enough sense to
keep from being nominated, while Others
are of the opinion that he is man well
versed in wire-pulling and tricks, which
would have done credit to Michavelli, if
he were one of our politicians of to-day.
The former do not want him nominated,
because he has not enough sense; the
latter do not want him nominated because
he has too much sense. If one agrees
with the latter, then, according to the
Examiner, Swain is sure to get there. for
that able paper said that a smart politi-
clan, who is comptroller, could be nomi-
mated for governor every time-if he
wanted the office.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-05-06
SOME PLAIN TRUTHS.

Will the business men of Austin stand
idly by and not make movement to re-
gain some of her lost opportunities
Alabama" tells the readers of The
STATESMAN this morning some plain
truths, and it is a disgrace if the citi-
zens of this naturally well endowed city do
not redeem her from such a reproach as
the one that comes from her very midst.
Men have been heard to say in the past
week that if this Bastrop road is not
changed from Taylor to Austin that they
are going to leave the latter place, and
yet these very same men are unwilling to
give a cent.
I'VE must have railroad. Austin will
be ruined without it. Our trade will be
all taken away" says one man who repre-
sents class.
THAT is true" says the practical man,
but what will you give:"
That Is a clincher; not another word is
said by the blower; he sinks back into
his shell like a snail, and waits until the
storm blows over, and when it is passed
he looks out, and if he has been moved
away from where he crawled in, it makes
no difference.
There are men in this city who are
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-05-06
TIE GOODNIGHT CASE.

The outcome in this important and no
table case, yesterday, an account of which
will be found in our local columns, will
astonish few persons conversant with the
drift of state land matters for the last
year or two. That it was test case, and
Mr.. Goodnight singled out as the repre-
sentative Of n class, with whom the state
essayed to settle the question, whether the
vast bodies Of lands, belonging to the
school children of the state, can be, in de-
iianCs Of law and state authority, occu
pied, aud the educational revenues of the
state debarred of sums also vast. The
report OF the proceedings of the case will
be of high interest to the legal profess
sion and the general public as well.
The positions assumed by the defense
were a. adroit rs the interests involved
were extensive. The question of iuris
dictian seems to have been the important
and pivotal one, for on this the defend
ant, Inder tho law and the constitution,
was allowed to so back with the case to
Danley county. With the history of the
,recent cases against Mr. Goodnight in
that county Of course, nobody ex
poets he will, in the near future, be greatly
bothered in grazing his immense herds
on the childrens grass, free, entirely free,
while school children are minus portion
of the money necessary to pay their
schooling, and which, practically goes
into the Golfers of equity nabobs in Scot
land, or somewhere else,
1t may be proper to remark that Mr..
Goodnight is now, and has been at all
times, ready to pay rental of four cents
per acre for the school land occupied by
himself and associates, and has annually
but it was refused. The question remains
TO be settled; Did the land board have tie
right to change the lease law as il was
originally passed by the Legislature! Did
the board have the right to change the
lease price, fixed by law at four cents per
acre, to eight and twenty cents? This APP
pears to be the main question, and The
STATESMAN holds and has always held, that
the land board exceeded its authority in
changing the law.
The board was created by the law for
the purpose of executing the law, and
for no other purpose, and
its action in constituting itself
legislative body was unwarranted and
illegal. If the board had proceeded to
carry out the law, thegreater portion, in fact,
all the schollands would have been leased
within twelve months after the passage of
the law, and would now be yielding the
school fund an annual income of no less
than million and quarter of dollars.
Applications now on file with the secretary
of the land board, to lease at four cents,
show that all of the school land would
have been taken at that price
The board refused to lease at that price,
and the result has been that the land has
been used and occupied by cattle men and
corporations free of cost, and the school |
fund deprived of the princely revenue
which might have been flowing in all this |
time. Who is to blame for this condition
of things? The land board.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-05-06
TIE OVATION TO MR.. DAVIS.

In the dispatches this morning will be
found highly interesting account of the
journey of ex-President Davis and party
from Montgomery to Atlanta. Beyond
all doubt it is the greatest ovation ever
accorded any public man IN the south.
The sincerity of the popular demonstra-
ton probably surpassed any similar event
in the southern states, and since the war.
Subsequently to the close of hOstilities
and the surrender at Appomattox the
people of the south have refrained from
similar ovations, and their former lead
ers from offering the occasion for them,
through fear of rousing the demon of
sectional hate in the north, and bringing
down upon their heads the malicious
persecution of past republican admins
trations. But the people of the south
again have voice in the administration
of the government, and now that their
loyalty to the constitution cannot be even
suspected, they can, as on the occasion of
Mr.. Davis visit to Georgia, express the
real feeling of their hearts for the grand
character of their old leader. We, at this
distance, can heartily share in the feeling
which prompted the outpouring of peo-
pie along the route to welcome Mr.. Davis
and strew flowers in his path. We glory
in the fact that they did, and if this is an
other outbreak of treason, as charged by
meeting at Albany, on Friday, then let
them make the most of it. We are as free
to-day as the people of New York, and by
all the gods, we shall hurrah for JEFF.
Davis, or any other man, when it suits us.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-05-06

wealthy, and who would not give cent
to public improvement for anything
on earth less than the return of the cent
itself. These are the men who frown
down progress and public spirit, and who,
if it depended on them alone, would ruin
any place where they lived. Austin can do
without such membranes as these. They
can take up their baggage and leave.
They will never be missed, save as mis-
fortunes are missed.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-05-06
Is IT FIGHT OR RUN.

The business men of Austin say that
there are too many irons in the fire; that
they can not subsidize and build rail
roads to Mason and to Bastrop; that it is
asking too much of, and imposing too
heavy burden on them. This is not the
case now, the reason for that plant
is gone, we have the positive unequivocal
assurance that the road to Burnet will be
extended on west through Llano, San
Saba and Mason or adjoining country,
The route adopted of course viii be the
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-05-06

scene of all of a grand and sublime drama,
when the curtain falls and the audience
heayes deep sigh of relief. If Mr.. Davis
assisted at the Inauguration of a monu-
ment inscribed with his name, it is neither
so lasting nor so brilliant as the monu-
ment of history bearing his name and that
of his cause, more lasting than marble,
more durable than brass.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-05-06

The Fort Worth Gazette asks the ques-
ticn why its city should not be san educa-
tional center" This is the reason: Be-
cause Austin has gotten there with both
feet, and ranks to-day ahead Gf any city
in the south of less than one hundred
thousand inhabitants for educational ad-
vantages. The state university, with a
corps of professors, the peer of any
university in the land, has made giant
strides into the front ranks of national
educational Institutions. Our public
schools, under their efficient management
have the best advantages that can be Of
fered, and these things taken into connec-
ton with the fact that the state library is
here, and that the health of the city is
frst-class, place Austin pre-eminently in
the front ranks as an educational center.
so far in front, in fact, that Fort Worth
with her many railroad facilities, will
never Overtake her. Stick to your rail
roads, Fort, and let Austin alone in this
matter, for she ranks you SO far that you
are not considered in the race with her.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-05-06

I DAMS NEGOTIATED-Wll negotiate loaAs
Il on improved farms and pasture lands. ~
commission; interest payable annually; cheapesIi'
rates ever offered in Austin. Call on II. II. Chii-
ders, Mcdonald building, Austin, Texas.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-05-06

GALVESTON and Dallas are having dis
pute as to their comparative merits and
the inducements they each offer for hold
ing the state conveation there. Calves
ton says Dallas is hot enough to be used
as a temporary receptacle for wicked spir-
its when the seat of the main government
has filled its immediate territory. Dallas
says, You're another" and shows that
the test was made by putting the Their
mometer there near the head OF certain
editor in that city, while in Galveston it
was put somewhere between Editor Lowe
and Mayor Fulton. Let them both pull
hair as much as they want to, and in the
mean time, Austin will step in and "bear
the palm alone"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-05-06

QHnE For Nervous Debility, Seminal weakness,
NHnE Lost Manhood ETC., the effects of youthful
lndscretons. Positively Permanent Cur,
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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-05-06
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estate loans on long time of any amount from Slv.
to 100000 without delay, al lowest rates current
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-05-06
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, 1886-02-02


Some imaginative and wonderfully
learned German scholars tell us that ev-
cry snowflake is inhabited by happy lit
tie beings, who begin their existence,
hold their revels, live long lives Of hap
piness and delight. die and are buried,
all during the descent of the snowflake
from the world of clouds 10 the solid
land. These scholars also tell us that ev-
cry quare foot OF air possesses from
12. 600, 600 TO 10, 0OO, 600 Of more or less
perfect little beings, and that at every
ordinary breath we destroy millions,
more or less, Of these happy lives. The
sigh Of a healthy lover is supposed to
swallow up about 1000, 600. They in
sist that the dust. which will, as all
know, accumulate in the most secure
and secret places, is merely the remains
Of millions and billions of these little be-
ings who have died Of old age.
All this. of course, is mere guess work.
But I do know that the snow in some
parts Of the world is thickly inhabited.
| have seen new snow in Idaho black
with little insects. People there call
them SNOW flies. They are as lively as
possible, and will darken your footprints,
walk AS fast AS you may. They are
found only on the high mountains and
only in very fresh and very deep SNOW.
They, Of course, do not annoy you in any
way. They arr infinitely smaller than
the ordinary flea, but they are not a
whit less lively in their locomotion.-
st. Nicholas.
, 1886-02-02

Inventor Thomas A. Edison has been
working or the p%honograph, which has
heretofore amounted to nothing but a toy
and which he proposes to make useful.
He is building a photograph with n FIVE
foot wheel TO be driven by steam, and
by means of a funnel thirty feet long the
sound impaired TO the photograph is to
be magnifed forty times. Thus sound
will be carried 10 n distance Of two blocks
from the speaker.
But If Mr.. Edison can make il repro.
luce the tones and manner of the orator
as exactly AS it will repeat his words, the
decay Of American oratory may be ar
rested, for it will be easy for n city full
Of people to hear n favorite orator with
out having TO crowd each other and get
their pockets picked in order 10 get
within hearing distance. The phono-
graph will, moreover, become a valuable
assistant chairman of national conven-
tons. The permanent chairman, who
nov smashes gavels and bowls himself
hoarse in the efforts 10 stop the %uproaro:.s
applause that has greeted somebody's
speech nominating the other factions
candidate, will be able TO make a sugges-
ton TO the monograph in an undertone
and have it repeated in a thundertone.
AS "A queller Of mobs the photograph
will also prove useful. The able chief Of
police can stand inside the barricaded
station and tell a mass of rioters in the
street, via the monograph on the station
house roof, to go home by Q O'Clock,
sharp, or they will be fired into. Science
IS a great thing and Mr.. Edison is a great
man Of science.-Philadelphia Times.
, 1886-02-02

An interesting statement is made by
Col. Barrow. who was the chief organ.
izer of mounted infantry in the British
campaigns in the Soudan. The horses
for the Nineteenth hussars were Arab
stations OF fourteen hands, whose aver
age age was between 8 and . years,
bought in Syria and lower Egypt. Out
of $50 horses, during nine months in a
hard campaign, only twelve died from
disease. This he attributes, firstly, 70
the climate of the Soudan being MOTT
suitable for horses, and, secondly, to thu
Syrian horse having a wonderful consd-
tuition.
The distance marched, irrespective OF
"Reminiscences, etc, was over 1900
miles, and the weight carried averaged
1876 pounds. The weather during the
last four months was very trying, food
was often limited, and during the desert
march water wa very scarce. When
Gen. Stewards column made its final adj
vance, the 1856 horses the Nineteenth had
with them marched to the Nile without
having received a drop of water for fifty
five hours, and only one pound of grain.
Some fifteen or twenty had no water for
seventy hours. AT the end of the cam
paign, and after a weeks rest, the ami
mails were handed owe to the Twentieth
hussars at Assouan in as good order rs
when they left Wady-Halfa nine months
observation-disclosures Tribune.
, 1886-02-02

AT a reception az Mrs. Horatio Kings
met our Chinese consul, Huang Sih
Cinien. He is small and quiet, even shy.
lie was in full forgery and l hardly know
how the shipping scissors of a crazy-quilt
fend could have been kept off from him
had he appeared in some OF our small
towns. The richness of the stuffs, heav.
lily braided and embroidered, would have
been a great temptation. Indeed, tn,
tout ensemble Of the little man woult
have made a very gorgeous center-pieci
for a prize quilt.
The color | liked best was the coffee
tint Of his highly polished skin. OF
course not a spear Of hair was allowed to
wander away from the long cue. 1t was
drawn sc tightly l think it must be di-
rectly responsible for the upward in
clination Of the corners of his little,
black, velvet eyes. We are indebted TO
Bret Harte for that expression so con
venient on some occasions, "childlike
and bland but since l have seen other
than the ~heathen Chineer j can't help
thinking how admirably 1t answers to
sum up the manner of those who do not
use their %capanious sleeves to secrete the
missing cards. They are, as a race, it
seems to me, most childlike, simple, and
unaffected. Imagine any one Of us. Of
such ancient pedigree that we could
trace ourselves back to Confucius, taking
lessons in English as calmly and un9
consciously as this consul.
The secretary and interpreter, Mr..
Wing, wore his 4store clothes so natur-
ally that l asked how it happened and
was told that he was not exactly born in
them, but, coming here to school when
he was very small, he had grown up in
the clothes OF an American tailor. He is
one of those whom Mr.. Burimgame in
duced the Chinese government to send
here to be educated. and he is a graduate
Of Yale. With the permission to dress
MS our men do came the royal consent to
cut off the cue, as he wears his hair like
the "Melican man.-Mrs. f. b. Custer in
Chicago Tribune.
, 1886-02-02

DIR. Earle read, before the Chicago
Medical society, an interesting paper on
,pium-snoking, in which he held that
there are many popular misapprehensions
'oncerning this vice. There are 9, 900, 900
opium-smokers in China, or less than two
thirds Of 1 per cent of the population
not so great a proportion as people gener-
ally believed. In Chicago he held that
there were less than 200 habitual opium
InoSers, and these in every case were
lissolute members of society.
He said that all the talk about "ele-
gantly-dressed, respectable women being
driven to opium dons in their carriages
to hit the pipe, " was mere rubbish. The
symptoms characterizing the recovery
from the effects of n smoke were similar
to but less severe than those in opium
eating. Opium smoking had no particu-
larry harmful effects physically, but it
resulted in moral wreck-all opium
mokers being liars. Legislation against
hc smoking Of opium had been very sue
aessful in Nevada, and the police here
had lone much to check the habit. lie
contended that it is a vice and not a dis
,lse, and that opium smokers do not care
20 rcfurm.-Chicago Tribune.
, 1886-02-02
A SKETCH OF IDEAL SPAIN.


The ~spalnards "a Strange Nation-Ands-
issia and SeviIIe-The Cathedral.
The Spaniards ARE n strange nation,
and one that. not understanding, per
haps we have no right to Judge. There
are very few Of the decorative arts that
they have not at one time thoroughly
understood, yet all seems dead and gone
now. They show you what they have
done-never what they are doing. This
is the country to which st. Peter needed
no guide when he returned. ut is all
Just as | left it, Certainly 1t seems 50
when you enter Toledo, the ancient CAPT
tai. The same bridge spans the Tagus az
when Toledo was a Moorish city; the
same quaint old buildings look down
upon you. yet with all it is a cherry,
sunny, pleasant look. and you love TO
linger in the streets Of this ancient dame;
you certainly leave il with regret.
From here south you enter upon your
ideal Spain. and until you leave it in
far away Malaga IL will dance and smile
and sing before you until you forget that
il has known days Of darkness, and been
a land OF such deeds OF horror as its his
tory speaks OF. Andalusia keeps one
grand holiday always; from the noun
tains 10 the sea there is nothing to be
seen save happiness, even the beggars
laugh and sing, and the air is full Of the
scent of roses and orange blossoms. Here
you find the gay costumes, here the fan
and mantilla reign supreme, here the
women are beautiful, and here, unlike
the most OF their sex, they know it, too.
The whirl Of life moves faster and faster,
carrying you ON through beautiful Cor
dova with its mosque Of a thousand pill
lars landing you at last in stately
Seville, that queen Of Spanish cities.
Such ia the rush and tumult of the life
around you, such the interest in the ever
changing panorama that for n time all
objects Of history and art are forgotten
and you jam your hat OF the back Of
your head and go along with the rest oi
the crowd for n gay, good time: and You
have ii, for the size of your head on the
following morning abundantly proves.
Still. it is an immense relief TO pass from
all this noise and tumult into the cool.
quiet and majestic silence of her grand
cathedral from the restless present 10 the
peaceful past, separated only by thccotft
Of orange trees planted over "A thousand
years ago by the dusky moor. The
"Pcace OF God" seems 10 reign here for
ever. and We enter into and become part
Of il. While we linger under the bene-
diction Of these solemn arches 1t Is not
given us To have much Of it in our lives,
and when we do find il, It's like "a rock
IN a weary land" All around you the
dim isles stretch away until lost in the
distance, a stray sunbeam lights up the
golden haired hoy in Murillo's Guardian
Angel, every head is bowed in silent
~snpplication, for it is not hard to remem-
Der your God here.-Cor. Cincinnati En-
nninrr.