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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-05
The Awakening.

Oh, not the night and not the storm,
And not the hghtning's fire;
But sunlight's torch, the kind, the warm,
This, this invoke the Tyre.
Felicia Hemans.
Oh, not tie fight, the foeman's rour.
The GOODNESS under fire.
But going out to fish for trout,
This, this awoke the liar.
Boston Courier
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-05
Slow of Movement.

Guest lin restauranu-W Waiter. where's that
cheese orderedi
Waiter-lt'S coming, sir. coming.
Guest-Well, wish you would ask It to
hurry up.-Texas Siftings.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-05
Shoot

Now In suburban haunts
Once more begins the fun,
Where hens bring up the plants
Much quicker than the sun.
Boston Courier
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-05
Philosophy.

This world Is but fieeting show,
And no wise man regrets 1t,
For man wants little here below,
And generally he gets IL.
-Somerville journal
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-05

A new brand Of fowls-the 0rpington
lis Just coming into notice among
English poultrymen. 1t is claimed that
they are good layers and table fowls.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-05

Don't let insect pests get the start Of
you Much trouble is saved by beginning
TO fight them as soon as they appear.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-05

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MI ~ Eve ticulars sent FREE.
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, 1888-09-12

the power of Britannia, and could not
assert the manhood of American strength
and love of right. But the message
came. 1t awakened the startled senate as
if the seismic freaks of Charleston were
repeated. Never was seen a manlier,
nobler or stronger paper. No doubt re-
manned that the man of destiny in the
white house was not only a true blue
American, but that he had the courage of
most patriotic convictions OF a statesman
like character.
And yet the Republican press teens
with every scrap from the English press
favorable to Mr.. Cleveland. But they
do not publish such singing paragraphs
as those from the leading English Jews
papers, in commenting on the presidents
fisheries message, so we will reproduce
one. 1t is from the London Standard,
than which there is no more influential
newspaper in the worlds metropolis:
1T will be well for the president and
government of the United States to re-
member that Canada is a dependency of
Great Britain, and if the necessity should
unfortunately arise she has behind her
English guns and English ironclads. If
our American cousins fail to understand
this allusion-if Indifferent to tons of
coarse brutality which seems to be a dis
tinguishing feature of their domestic poll
tics, they drive us to reply to their insults
in a strain they will comprehend, perhaps
we may be allowed to remind them of the
Trent affair. 4 II n 4 If we nave to
deal with a nation of flibusters let us at
least know it.aWe will tell our American
cousins frankly that we have not advanc-
ed so far toward ideal Christianity that
we are prepared to turn our cheek to the
ns-Atlantic smiter."
And so the great Standard admits that
Cleveland las smittcn the English cheek
How does this conduct compare with the
gratuitous assertions of s~erviency?
Intelligent and thinking people have
measured the shallowness of the Eng
fish" dodge. Cleveland is neither cult
waiting nor snubbing England. He is
simply discharging his duty as the presi-
dent of the American people in a manner
that will satisfy them for four years
longer.
, 1888-09-12

The British consul at Bussorah, on the
Persian gulf, in his last report states
that a remarkable improvement has taken
place in the climate of the country round
Bussorah, with the substitution of date
and wheat cultivation for that of rice.
The malarious fever, to which Bussorah
gave its name, is now comparatively rare;
and sallow compilations and worn looks,
which some years ago were universal, are
now no longer seen. The northwest wind,
which prevails in the hot weather, instead
of being moist and clammy, MS it used to
be, is dry and hot. The month of Septem-
Der. when the marsh which is formed
yearly by the overflow of the Euphrates
is drying up, is still the least healthy
season. December and January are cold.
July and August are intensely hot. The
rest of the year is very much like the
spring and summer of southern Europe,
Boston Transcript.
, 1888-09-12
Senator Douglas, Lifelike Remains.

at is not generally known" said
Stephen A. Douglas, ''that the remains
of my father, reposing there in that
vault at the base of the Douglas monu-
ment, are as well preserved today as ever.
Die died in 1861, just a month before the
first battle of Bull Run. His body was
embalmed at that time, put in an air
tight casket, which was again inclosed in
an iron coffin. When the monument was
erected in his honor in 1866 the ron case
on top of the glass cover over his face
was removed and his features were as
ifelke and unchanged as ever. In 1880,
nineteen years after his death, the air
tight casket was inclosed in a zinc coffin,
which in turn was put into a marble
sarcophagus, in which it still rests. On
that occasion again the face was exposed
to view. 1t had not changed a particle.
There was not the slightest indication of
decay, and a physician residing in the
neigbborhood of the monument tells me
that the body, if not unduly disturbed,
will remain as it is for many, many years
to come Chicago Herald.
, 1888-09-12
IT WAS FUNNY

We frankly confess to have experienced
a fair average degree of hllarity while
perusing the leading editorial article in
yesterday issue of the San. The article
was headed "a Disappointment and we
have reason to believe that it was intended
to smite Cleveland's superb letter of ac-
ceptance with crushing sarcastic force.
The late lamented Josh Billings used to
deliver a lecture on milk in which milk
was never even remotely alluded to. The
Sun has succeeded in giving to the pub
lie an essay on disappointment with sue
cess equally glittering. AS a specimen of
sustained mental effort they will rank side
by side; as raw, Juicy humor the Suns
article must take precedence over the
lecture of the esteemed but unhappily de-
tunct Mr.. Billings.
Here is a specimen brick snatched from
the very vortex Of the seething mass of
thoughts on the president letter: The
San would be glad to publish the letter
if it were readable, but we dislike to sur.
render our space to mere rot, the drivel of
a badly scared politician who is trying to
hedge; an unsuccessful attempt to dodge
the issue he has raised.
AS a constant reader of the Sun for 10
these many years we assume to be now
able to recognize drivel under whatever
circumstances we may happen to come
across it: therefore we are prepared to
take a paralyzed oath that the quotation
which we have made from our enterpris-
ing contemporary is the undiluted and I'M
m~itigated article.
Assuming that what the San says re-
garding the presidents letter is strictly
true it has committed an objectionable
political blunder in not giving the entire
document to the world. IF it had been
published in all its naked obscurity with
the rot and drivel oozing from every pore
providing all the time that it was I'M
readable and that it contained rot and
drivel-then would it have caused a wild
thrill of Joy throughout the Republican
camp and corresponding gloom in the
ranks of the unterrifed Democracy.
THE LEADER gave the public an op
p~ortunity to judge of the strength o.
weakness OF the Cleveland letter Just a!
it does this morning of the Harris on let
ter. 1t reserves the right to comment il
its own way on both documents, but i
will not attempt to befuddle its readers BY
suppressing either of them.
But the Sun comments, Just the same
are calculated to introduce a bowling
streak of unrestrained hilarity into the
bosom CT any sorrow laden family it may
enter. Henceforth and forevermore lei
the accomplished editor of the Arizono
Kicker hang his diminished head for the
disappointment editor of the San is
heaving toward the wire at a $50 clip.
Timel
, 1888-09-12
The Garden of America.

Bearing on the proposition of Maj.
Powell to reclaim the Colorado deserts,
for which congress has already made a
preliminary appropriation, is an article by
Joaquin Miller on The North American
Nile" He urges that the land instead of
being a desert is in reality enormously
fertile, These ruins of Arizona are
older than history-as old as the oldest
ruins on the Nile of Egypt. The region
then was densely populated. No allure
ments of gold; nothing but the generous
soil and the genial climate built up cities
here that rivaled in extent those of Egypt.
If then these primitive people made a
garden of this land, where we now insist
on locating d desert, can we not do some
thing with u improved methodist" Very
clearly this region was once the garden of
America, and it is reclaimable. Miller
says he never ate incl bananas than those
grown neal Fort Yuma. His article is
full of enthusiasm and poetry, but also of
facts and sound sense as well. No doubt
he is right in calling it the North Ameri
can Nile: and every way more interesting
for it's antiquities, as well as natural
grandeurs. than the Nile of Africa
Globe-Democrat.
, 1888-09-12
POOR HARRISOM.

1t is with feelings of unqualified pleas
ure that we this morning submit to our
readers the letter of acceptance which
Benjamin Harrison has issued to the Re-
publican committe of notification. Com
parsons are usually odious, but following
as it does SO close on the heels of the
Cleveland letter Mr.. Harrison's compost
ton naturally invites comparison with it.
Leaving aside for the moment all parti-
san preiudices Mr.. Harrison literary eff
fort sinks into comparative insigniicance.
1t scarcely ever reaches the plane on which
the Cleveland letter is moulded, and at
times descends to the Level of the sheer
est humbuggery. There can no longer
exist even a doubt that Mr. Harrison is
not a statesman of the Miss Nancy type.
He is prim and even prudish in his ut
crane Those of us who have perused
with ravished delight tie intellectual
ebullitions OF the Ohio hen merchant,
Rutherford B. Hayes, will find in the
Harrison letter a striking similarity of
thought and expression. The Democrats
couldn't want anything better or the Re-
publicans anything worse.
Mr.. Harrison makes a valiant effort to
confound tariff reform and free
trade and covers his own flank with the
statement that there is no immediate
chance of wiping out the internal revenue
and, interentially, that there will be no
free whisky. he doesn't appear to view
with any alarm the constantly increasing
surplus aud would purchase presumably
at a heavy p%remium) the outstanding
bonds and allow the existing peruicious
, 1888-09-12

JoHNsoN's UNIVERSAL. CYcLoPKDIA
is a whole library of universal knowledge
from the pens of the ablest scholars In
America and Europe. 1t is accepted as
high authority in our leading colleges.
It is not for the few, like Appleton's, the
britannica, or the International, but for
all. 1t has just been thoroughly re used
at a cost of over 500, 900 and three years
labor by forty editors, and over 1000 re-
nowned contributors. 1t is in eight con-
venient sized volumes. No father can
give to his child at school or his son and
daughter lust entering the arena of lite,
anything that will be of more permanent
benefit. 1t is an education supplement
tary 20 that of the schools. JoEnson's is
now the latest by more than ten years.
Address for particulars and terms,
A. j. JOHNSON & Co,
II Great Jones Street,
New York.
, 1888-09-12

Glass eyes never produce irritation or
become painful except when exposed for
a long time to a strong fame. This is
strictly prohibited. A very amusing in
anc came under my notice some time
ago. a horse dealer, who visited a well
known auction and salesroom in this city.
purchased a horse, which, to all appear
ances, was a model of symmetry and per
lection, but two nights a%fterward, while
standing in front of a lamppost ON Broad
way, he suddenly became restless, and
darted through the streets in great fury.
When stopped his owner became alarmed
on discovering the animals eye blazing
hot, but further investigation laid the
swindle bare, and the glass eye was at
once extracted.-Joseph w. Gavan in New
York Press.
, 1888-09-12
not suffer.

MAINE has gone Republican. Alabama
will in all human probability go Demo-
cratic. Neither statement will startle
anybody, because one is Republican and
the other Democratic as a matter of
course. When the Republicans get down
to capturing a Democratic state then they
will have something to howl about. They
counted the chickens before they were
Matched last August in Kentucky. They
were sure of tremendous Republican
gains. In 1886 Kentucky gave a Demo-
cratic majority of about 1900. In
1888 Kentucky gave a Democratic ma
jority of about $4,000. The Democrats
are willing to concede Maine and Kansas,
but when it comes to New York, New
Jersey, Connecticut and Indiana, keep
your eyes wide open for something is
going to drop.
, 1888-09-12
LOVE HATH BETRAYED THEE.

Weep in the silence, oh heart, my heart,
Love hath wearied of theei
And thou in the gloom of the shadow of doom
Forever alone must be.
Weep in the silence, oh heart, my heart.
Love hath betrayed theei
Break in the silence, oh heart, my heart,
Love hath hidden his facet
Hath deafened his ear till he cannot hear;
Hath left thee to thy disgrace.
Break in the silence, oh heart, my heart,
Love hath betrayed theei
Die in the silence, oh heart, my heart.
Love hath broken his world
Thy pleading prayer beats the empty oil
Like the bruised wings of q bird.
Die in the silence, oh heart, my heart,
Love hath betrayed theei
Susie NJ. Best
, 1888-09-12
Notice..Timber Culture.
United States Land Office,

Cheyenne, WYo., Sept. 6, 1888.
Complaint having been entered at this
Office by Isaac johnson against Frank R.
Lawrence for failure to comply with law
as to timber culture entry No. 9O5, dated
July 1855, upon the Sc ! NV and lots
3, 4 and 5. sec 6; tip IA n, r GO W, in Lar
annie county, Wyoming, with a view to
the cancellation of said entry; contestant
alleging that said entryman has failed to
pillow or cultivate, or cause to be plowed,
plant or planted or cultivated any portion
Of said tract, the SAID parties are hereby
summoned to appear at this office on the
9th day Of October. 1888, at 10 o'clock
a. M, to respond and furnish testimony
concerning said alleged failure.
Edgar S. Wilson, Register.
, 1888-09-12
Results of Mental overwork.

The English Anthropological society
has been culling from reports of school.
masters observations on the symptoms
of mental fatigue. The observations re-
veal that WEAKNESS of mind reveals itself
under the aspects of irritability and in
capacity.
Children at school showed such signs of
mental irritability as sleeplessness and
nervous laughter, while those who were
fatigued could neither sleep nor get up
their taskwork. The tagging will showed
itself by lolling, yawning, and q languid
manner Headache also resulted from
overstrain in study, when combined with
pdefective ventilation.-Youth's Compan-
ion
, 1888-09-12

taxation to remain. He appears to be-
lieve in the paternal system of govern
ment and would give direct aid to the
public schools. He is opposed to trusts
and in his remarks on the subject gives
Blaine a blow between the eyes. He
holds out a candle for the return of the
mugwump sinners in a lot OF platitudes
on civil service reform and founders
towards the close of his letter with almost
incoherent haste.
Democrats may confidently invite COM
parsons between the letter of their own
chief and that of the Republican standard
bearer. Mr.. Cleveland's document will
mt suffer,
, 1888-09-12
Honesty by Weight.

us that boy the new j%unior?' the presi-
dent of the bank asked the cashier, point
ing to a youth in the office.
Eyes, sir"
Have you tested his honestly"
"Yes, sir. | left him alone in your
room for half an hour or more to count a
pile of gold, which l told him had not
been counted"
''Of course it had been counted?"
"No, sir"
"That was rather risky, wasn't it?"
Not at all" replied the cashier; ~
weighed the gold myself rst."-Pitts-
burg Dispatch.
, 1888-09-12

The inhabitants of mountainous dis
tricts and of dry. elevated table lands may
have a better sight than jewellers in low,
humid, and level regions, although just
the reverse may be the case. Among
European nations the Germans are gener
ally supposed to have weak eyes, owing.
some imagine, to their excessive indul-
gence in tobacco, while others attribute
the supposed decay to the form of typo
used in their books, which requires closer
looking at than ours in reading.-Long-
mans MngaZine.
, 1888-09-12

President Bay of the New York
board of health, IAtely called attention to
the subject of the use of more durable
ink, and enforced his words by saying
that it was of Importance to people all
over the land. He says hat very many
of the records of births, deaths and mar
riages received at the Office of the board
are written in aniline inks, and that the
paper upon which these fugitive fluids
are used becomes in ten years perfectly
blank, the ink having entirely evaporated.
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
, 1888-09-12

a new bullet proposed for the English
army is of an unusually small caliber,
and is encased in an outer sheet of nickel,
which increases its power of penetration.
1t is used with a rifle of greater thick
ness of barrel, in which a heavier charge
than usual can be fired. Several hundred
of the rifles AVE been made for expert
mental use.-New York Sun.
, 1888-09-12
CLEVELAND AND THE IRISH.

YIN HL<iAND AND IHE INIOII.
Apropos of tariff reform, 1t is import
ant to observe the ink-ish methods OF
the Republican press in treating the tariff
discussion. When cornered on the exact
surplus and on over production, refuge is
taken ia the assertion, as bold as it is un-
true, that Cleveland and the Democracy
favor England and the English at the ex-
pense of the United States and the Amer
leans.
They assert. In as serious a manner as
the gravity of the situation will permit,
that the Mills bill is simply a measure die
tated, fostered and paid for by the Eng
lish, as if England was the only foreign
nation FROM which American merchants
imported merchandise, manufactures or
metals. But there is method in this mad
ness of Misrepresentation, and that is,
to ALLEVIATE the Irish vote from the Demo.
cratic party.
Nor does the attempt to prov this
ridiculous idea stop at the tariff reform
bill. Before the presidents fisheries
message, the fire eating element of the
Republican press brayed loud and deep
f r something akin to war. 1t was said
that Cleveland was cowardly, trucking to
, 1888-09-12
Notice for Publication.
Land Office at Cheyenne, Wyo.,

Land Office at Cheyenne, Wyo.,
Aug. 25, 1855.
Notice is hereby given that the follow
ing-named settler has fled notice of his
intention to make final proof in support
of his claim, ard that said proof will be
made before the register and receiver at
Cheyenne, Wyo., on Sept 81, 1888, viz:
John a. McGregOr,
d. S. 449S, for lots 2 and 3, sec "a, tip IA
D, + 81 W.
He names the following witnesses to
prove his continuous residence upon, and
cultivation of said land, viz: William
Farrell, Edward Francis, Alexander G..
McGregor, Thomas Castle, all of Chey-
enne, Wyo.
Edgar S. Wilson, Register.
, 1888-09-12
4 rheater ooer,s s-ngcestion

An English woman is responsible for
the suggestion that along with other i'm.
provements to theater seats, there be an
arrangement by which they can be sunk
through a trap in the floor into a saloon
below, SO that men can go out between
the acts and see a man without treading
on the toes of all the women near them.
New York Sun.
, 1888-09-12

1t is sod to think of the trouble Robin
son Crusoe put himself to when he under
took to make himself a boat. Had he beer
up in archaeology he would have followed
out q tree TRUNK with red hot stones. His
ancestors appear to have used this rude,
but effective, method. A canoe found re-
Gently in the Tunhovd ford, in Central
Norway, has proved to have been fash
Toned after this manner. 1t is in good
condition, and will be shown at the mu-
scum of Christiania Detroit Free Press.
, 1888-09-12

There recently died in this city a well
known Boston merchant of convivial
habits, and who was known as a good
liver in IN epicurean sense. Among those
who attended the funeral were two
friends, one of whom said to the other:
d ought to have lived twenty years
longer; he had a constitution equal to it"
Yes" replied the philosopher of the
two, an ex-member of the senate, "a man
inherits his constitution; but he makes
his own bylaws. Boston Budget.
, 1888-09-12
New Type Setting n1aehines.

Several inventors are at work upon
machines which cast and set type at the
same time, each letter being cast when a
key is pressed. The principal trouble
with this class of machines, and with all
other type setting machines, is that it is
difficult to ''justify"-that is. to fill out
the lines properly at the right hand end
and space properly between the Words
st. Louis Republic.
, 1888-09-12
New English School.

A young woman's polytechnic institute
Is a new English school, the object of
which is to supply technical instruction to
women, such as dressmaking, cookery and
bookkeeping. In the evening the build
ing will be used as a young woman's club,
and rooms are fitted up for social purposes
and reading.-Good Housekeeping.
, 1888-09-12
China Is Waking Up.

The British consul at Hankow says that
China, though still spoken of as a country
of s%tagnation and stereotyped ideas, Is
really only a little behind it's pushing
neighbor. Japan. in its haste to get rid Of
ancient preiudices.tChicag Herald.
, 1888-09-12

An idea has been developed in Germany
In the shape of the manufacture of NOR
tar by machinery in large quantities, to be
delivered to contractors and individuals
as required for use. About 1000, 900
barrels were disposed Of In Berlin on this
plan alone last year.-Public Opinion.
, 1888-09-12

English shoemakers always cut a V in
the bench leather for luck. Swedish
carpenters mark a cross on their tools
for the same purpose, and many painters
mark a cross and triangle on a high scat
folding before they feel comfortable upon
it.-New York Graphic.
, 1888-09-12

Land Ufice at Cheyenne, Wyo.
Aug. IS, 1888.
Notice is hereby given that
John A. McGreRor.
of Cheyenne, Wyo., has filed notice of
intention to make proof on his desert land
claim No. 3400, for the s } ne !. Sc / NV
/, W J Sc / and e J sw /, sec 80, tip "a n,
ne / NV and NV ne /, sec 5, tip % n,
r 81 W. before the register and receiver at
Cheyenne, Wyo,, on Saturday, the Doth
day of Sept. 1883.
He names the following witnesses to
prove the complete irrigation and recla-
nation of said land:
William Atchison of Chugwater, Wyo..
Cyrus N. Haskins Of Cheyenne, Wyo.,
Isaac N. Bard of Little Bear, Wyo.. and
Robert E. Hollenbeck OF Cheyenne, Wyo.
Edgar S. Wilson, Register.
, 1888-09-12
When ronr skin is vellow.

N JVUI UNTH 10 gOTIUWs
When your skin is full of pimples you
need a good blood medicine that can be
relied upon. Beggs' Blood Purifier and
Blood Maker is warranted as a positive
cure for all of the above, so you can not
possibly run any risk when you get a bot
tie of this wonderful medicine. w. N.
Hunt druggist.
, 1888-09-12

We have Just received our fall styles of
suitings and they are neater than ever be-
fore. On account of adopting the cash
system in that department we can make.
suits from SIS to $40 cheaper than before.
If you want a suit made see what we
have. j. Hellman.
, 1888-09-12

A soldier who was seen to take off his
cap while using the telephone informed a
questioner that he did so because he was
talking to his superior officer.