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

1--WE favor the entire repeal of internal
taxes rather than the surrender of any
part of our protective system" This is
the language in which the republican
party declares that free liquor and tobacco
are better than to surrender any part of
the tax of so per cent on copper ore, "a
per cent on cotton thread, So per cent on
crockery, SO per cent on common window
glass, lob per cent on building beams of
iron and steel, and ~ per cent on blank
cts New YORK Times, Ind.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-05

towns in the commonwealth in which
there is an excess of persons of foreign
parentage. These towns have SO per
cent of the population, while the remain
ing $50 towns, which contain a majority
of native born parentage, represent only
Al per cent of the whole" That is, our
foreign influx gravItates into towns and
cities
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-05

IT is reported that Burchard is for
Cleveland in this race. Well, so he was
in the last, and truth com pels the comics
sion that he would aid democracy better
by fighting it than by trying to defend it.
Has the magnetic Blaine appreciated the
truth of this remark and beguiled him
into champioping our side? If SO, Blaine
has done Harrison good ton for which
he should be duly grateful.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-05

CANDIDATES who may ask for nomina.
tions from the democratic party should
pledge themselves to support all the nom
inees of the party from president to con-
stable, and should any refuse to do so they
place themselves beyond the pale of party
organization.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-05

Mr.. GRAIN has been invited by the ma
tional dem ocratic committee to take the
stump in Indiana, New Jersey and New
York and help out the party in the COM
ing campaign. This is an honor we'll be-
slowed. Mr.. Grain has in congress won
for himself an enviable reputation as a
fluent, logical and forcible speaker. And
that he has well earned his laurels there
is evidenced by this demand the national
committee makes upon him to serve the
party where the hard work must be done
and the victory won. Texas is proud of
her young and talented congressman.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-05

The tariff issue in the present canvass
between the democrats and republicans is
sharply drawn in the platforms of the two
parties. The republicans favor a tariff
for protection with incidental revenue;
the democrats favor tariff for revenue,
with incidental protection.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-05
Why G. F. Morse Is Lucky Man

Mr.. G. F. Morse, Of $50 Harrison ave.,
Boston, Mass, is lucky man. He held
one tenth of ticket No. 1852, which drew
the second capitol prize of $4,000, in the
drawing of the Louisiana State Lottery,
held on June 10. To reporter, Mr..
Morse said: at is true that drew $4,000
in the recent drawing of the Louisiana
lottery. 1 held one-tenth of ticket 1852.
This is the second time have been lucky"
continued Mr.. Morse. ~ also drew $4,000
last December, In that drawing 1 held
one-twentieth of the 100000 prize, ticket
No. S,1S0."-Boston (Mess.) Record, April
o.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-05

"Parson," said Elder Plainspeech, "that
sermon of yours this morning wasn't up
to the mark. 1t didn't effect me in the
usual way" "No," said Parson Cushion
duster, II saw that by your face" How
could you tell!" asked the elder. "You
kept awake all the time" said the parson.
-Burdette.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-05

Prof. Monroe Smith tells us, in Political
Science Quarterly, some most astonishing
facts. or all the population Of Massa-
chusetts only Sos, 491 were born Of native
parents, while 919,s69 had foreign parents
and 1874 we're born OF mixed parent
age. That lie, Massachusetts, is, in fact,
foreign state, for 1888 per cent of her
blood is foreign. "There are 6S cities and
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-05

The objectionable Sin: Friendly
Maiden-"Why, that was Marion Oldstyle.
Why didn't you speak to herr" Esthetic
Maiden-"She fortunes my taste so, can
not endure her for friend any longer.
She has just bought two new suits, and
there isn't single shade of green in
either of them."-Town Topics.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-05

TIE republican platform is in itself
strange contradiction. After declaring
for free whiskey, they then, with but one
dissenting voice, say we are awfully pious
and we want the world to be, therefore
we counsel temperance and morality and
would point wandering humanity to the
straight and narrow way that skirts the
devious and menacing encroachments of
sin, that leads upward and onward Just
beyond the outstretched hand of the evil
one, and that will land all upon that
plane of moral grandeur where we now
stand. What thing it is to be a republi-
can. But from such, as also from the
pestilence and sudden death, Oh! Lord
deliver US.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-05

The Hon. Amos j. Cummings tells a
funny story about printer named Aus.
tin. While Cummings was setting type in
the New York Tribune Office good many
years age, Austin did Sub" work a spell.
One day Austin said to Cummings: "rhis
Office is more honest than the Times Of
fee" "Why, because when went out to.
day left an apple on my case, and when
l came back, there it was, safe and sound;
nobody had eaten it," "Well?" "Now,
just to show you how different the Times
printers are, while was working there
last week, one of the boys went off, leav-
ing an orange on his case. I took 1t and
ate it."-Chicsgo News.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-05

A great part of these private
pension bills are. indeed gross
wrong and an insult to the proud
name of an American soldier, and
for party convention to condemn the
president for vetoing them shows an utter
inability to understand how every true
soldier must regard them.-Philadelphis
Times, Ind.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-05

The republican platform is about as
full of mis- statements of fact and audac-
ious bounc es as usual, and that is saying
much.-New York Sun, Ind.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-05

We have no hesitation in recommending
Halls Vegetable Sicilisn Hair Remover as
a sure cure for dsndruff, and to restore
the natural color of the hair.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-05

The democratic party does not believe
in absolute prohibition, but it recognizes
the fact that the movem mt in favor of
absolute prohibition is sincere and i'm
portant one, and entitled to the respect
which the republican fanfsronade of false
pretense adopted as platform of princi-
Piles at Chicago does not deserve. If the
men who are supporting the candidacy of
General Fiske for the presidency this year
can convince the republicans that prohi-
bition is the one live issue before the
country the democrats will be glad, for il
will force republicanism to throw off the
mask af hypocrisy, and compel republic
oanism either to confess that it cannot
grapple with the subject, disband and
leave the field clear to democracy and
prohibition, or else honestly accept pro-
hibition as its cardinal principle, and
fight on that line.-Brooklyn Citizen,
Dem.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-02-04
The Life Of a Crystal.

We generally think of minerals as dead
Jumps Of inactive matter. But they may
be said to be alive, creatures of vital
pulsations and separated into individuals
as distinct as the pines in the forest or
the tigers in jungle. The disposition
Of crystals are as diverse as those of AMI
mails. They throb with unseen currents
Of energy. They grow in size as long as
they have opportunity. They can be
killed, too, though not as easily as an
oak or dog A strong electric shock
discharged through crystal will de-
compose it very rapidly if it is OF soft
structure, causing the particles TO gradu-
ually disintegrate in the reverse order
from its growth until the poor thing lies
dead, shapeless ruin. IT is true, the
crystals life is unlike that of higher
creatures. But the difference between
vegetable and. animal life is no greater
than that between mineral and vegetable
life. Linnaus, the great Swedish ma
turalist, defined the three Kingdoms by
saying: "Stones grow, plants grow and
feel, animals grow and feel and move"
- Rike Audke.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-02-04
Scenes Of Carnage at the Pyramids

Long after Rameses H., Cambyses
came, and on the pyramid plain con-
quered the Egyptians, mutilated the face
of the Sphinx and broke into the true
outlines of the pyramids ruthless con-
queror, vandal and destroyer that he
was. Twenty-four centuries after, Ma
poleon, with his conquering hosts, met
the gold-covered Mamelukes, who, rid
ing as swift as the wind and as flame
of fire, hacked the barrels Of the French
guns with their blades of Damascus steel.
1t was like a blazing volcano. All was
smoke and blood and mutilation, as
though an earthquake had come.
Dropping their heads to the sa ]dle-bow,
the fearless Mamelukes rode forward anu
met the awful volleys of the invader but
only to sink in the sand. Without
horses then, and laying upon their
backs wounded, they cut at the legs Of
the enemy with their keen sabres, never
yielding until conquered by death.
And there, close TO the Sphinx, one
can see now the very place whence came
up the clouds of smoke and fame amid
the yells Of the demons who fought,
where lay the masses of dead and dying,
where the depleted ranks of the victims
moved along with bristling arms and
broken misunderstanding and swirling
like the sea that refuses to be quiet after
the storm Seribn<r's.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-02-04
How the Money Comes Back.

The bank note or treasury note that
goes forth from the bureau OF engraving
and printing, looking so bright and
handsome, comes back in time, perhaps
ragged, dirty. and torn, like some old
tramp, to end its career there. Every
day or two one will see q closed van,
looking like big safe on wheels, drawn
through the streets from the Treasury
Department to the bureau, attended
usually by three or four men. This con-
tains the old paper money that has come
back to the treasury for redemption. It
is taken to a loom in the rear of the
bureau of engraving and printing. In
the floor of this room are two circular
holes, about two feet in diameter.
Looking down one of these holes into
the dark depths below one can see part
of the surface of huge iron cylinder.
The cylinder can be opened by means of
a round lid or cover. When the old
money is brought in it is dumped down
a funnel into one of these cylinders A
committee, comprising representatives
of the different branches OF the Treasury
Department interested, besides one rep
resentative, in theory at least, of the
general public, gravely watches the
operation. When all the money has
been dumped and mixed with the chemi-
Gals used in the process of maceration,
the cylinder lid is closed and locked
with several padlocks. Each member
of the committee takes the key of one of
the padlocKs. The cylinder is then set
TO revolving, and turns and turns until
the committeeman come the next day
and open the lid. If they find that the
mass has been reduced to pulp and lost
all semblance and trace of its original
character the cylinder is emptied. If
the maceration is not completed the
cylinder is set in motion again. From
800 to 1000 pounds of old notes, aggre-
eating millions of dollars, are placed in
cylinder at time, and what would
constitute princely fortune is churned
away into nothing but a pulpy mass
in night Washington Star.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-02-04
WISE WORDS.

Meddling rarely accomplisheS anything
except mischief.
Happiness is wayside flower growing
by the highway of usefulness.
Zeal without judgment, is like gun
powder in the hands of child.
There is nothing so adorable as hero
ism. And there is no heroism COM
parable to the determination to speak
the truth.
Lost wealth may be replaced by indus
try, lost knowledge by study, lost health
by temperance or medicine, but lost time
is gone forever.
Finding out about what one sees is the
best way of getting an education. The
trouble with the most of us is that we
accept what we see without inquiry or
knowledge.
"Man is only that which he knows and
knows only that which he is" and if
each day is made to leave behind it some
finer pose of body, some new gem of
thought or knowledge, some loftier aim
of spirit, age can be nothing less than a
beautiful grace.
There is nothing so delightful as the
hearing or speaking of truth. For this
reason there is no conversation so agree
able as that of the man ofintegrity, who
hears without any intention to betray,
and speaks without any intention to
deceive.-PL0t0.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-02-04
Paying fsr the RIght to FIy the Flag.

When two of the most distinguished
Senators in public life called upon Sec
rotary Bayard recently and insisted upon
an appointment in the consular service
for one of their constituents, the Secre-
tary replied that he had nothing which
it would pay the man to accept. The
Washington correspondent of the New
York Herald tells the continuation Of the
story:
"He isn't particular about the salary"
one of the visitors observed; "$1 900 q
year will suit him."
"a thousand dollars a year." echoed
she Secretary sarcastically, "why, l can
find 500 men within twenty-four hours
who would jump at it. Good men, too"
he continued emphatically. seeing a
look of incredulity upon his visitors
faces.
"Look here" he continued, pointing
to the department register, edo you sec
this place, and this, and thiss" indicat-
ing them as he spoke. "You will see
that the emoluments of these offices fall
below $50 per annum in each case.
Would you think that anybody would
desire an appointment at so trifing
remuneration as that? No, of course, you
don't, and yet have applications daily
for them. 1t is true the applicants are
not Americans. They are natives of the
different countries in which these consul
lar offices are situated. The men who
want them are engaged in trade. The
appointment would permit them to fly
the American flag and invoke the protec-
4. IL. -. L.
event of trouble. Several years ago the
Consul General ut one of the far eastern
countries was paid $50. 900 for five con-
sular agencies in his district He did
this without the consent of his Govern
ment, but he got the money just the
same. You will see by the register that
the fees at all five of the places scarcely
foot up 800 year. The appointment
carried with it, as l have said, the right
to fly the American flag. 1t happened
that the men in each case were bankers.
The ruler of that country had the not
unusual eastern fashion of sometimes
levying heavy tribute upon his rich
subjects. Not unfrequently this tribute
amounted to as much as the sum paid to
the Consul General. The moment they
represented the United States that mo-
ment they were free men so far as coer-
sion from their ruler went. They paid
high for their immunity, but it undoubt-
eddy was a good investment.
~ trust, gentlemen" continued the
Secretary, "that this brief illustration
will show the futility of ever expecting
a vacancy in the consular service, no
matter how unimportant the position
may be. Sometimes the incumbent dies
or is dismissed-sometims, l say. But
can assure you in all seriousness that
ne never, never resigns"
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-02-04
The Correct Time.

There are very few man who do not pride
themselves on always having the correct time
and wonderful and delicate mechaniyms are
devised to enable them to do SO. But the
more delicate a chronometer is made, the
more subject it becomes to arrangement, and
unless it be kept always perfectly clean. 1t
soon Iooses It's usefulness. What wonder,
then, that the human machine-so much
more delicate and intricate than any work
of Man-should require to be kept thoroughly
cleansed, The liver is the handspring Of
this complex structure, and on the impuli-
ties left in the blood by a disordered liver,
depend most of the ills that flesh is heir to.
Even consumption (which is lung-scrofulal,
is traceable to the imperfect ction of this or
gan. Kidney diseases, skin diseases. sick
headache, heart disease, dropsy, and long
catalogue of grave maladies have their origin
in a torpid, or sluggish liver. DIR, Pierces
Golden Medical Discovery, by establishing a
healthy, normal action of the liver, acts as a
cure and preventive of these diseases.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-02-04

Hoods Household Calendar for 1888, as us
ual, leads all others in beauty and style. The
most taking feature about it, becaufe it is
unique in Calendars, is that it is cut-Out, as if
by hand, and the bright, healthy face of a
handsome Young girl, with wealth OF brown
hair, contrasts beautifully with her blue bon
net and strings. he mead is a marvel of
color printing, the flesh tints being as natur-
al as life. The pad is also printed in colors,
with special design for every month, and
there is condensed upon it large amount of
valuable information; indeed, it has SO many
points of excellence that it must be seen to be
appreciated.
Copies may be obtained at the drug store,
or by sending six cents in stamps to G. l.
Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass,
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-02-04
The shah's Great WeaIth.

What he terms his museum is curious
place. 1t contains profusion of costly
articles and objects of art such as exist
nowhere else at the present day, it being
the opinion of well-informed Europeans,
who have viewed these treasures, that
their money value is perhaps twenty-fold
that of the contents of the So called green
vaults at Dresden. 1t is impossible to
give exact figures, for they could only be
obtained after long and minute inspec-
ton and valuation by experts; but
roughly estimated, it is probable that
there is more than 800, 900, 900 worth of
jewelry, precious stones, coined and I'M
coined gold, costly 0Nts de rertu, fine
porcelain and glassware, old weapons
and armor, tableware and ornaments of
exquisite Persian and Hindu workman
ship, etc. The so called peacock throne
"a part of the plumber Nadia Shah car
ried off from Delhi $50 years ago) is alone
valued at many millions, even after a
number of the large, rough and uncut
Jewels have been broken out and stolen.
1t is an incongruous place, this museum.
There you will see vases of agate or gold
and lapis lazuli, said to be worth millions;
and alongside Of them empty perfume
bottles of European make, with gaudy
labels, that can be had at wholesale for
about five cents apiece. You will see
priceless mosaics and exquisitely painted
cups and cans and vases, which were
presented by some European potentate;
and side by side with them you will
notice horrible daubs, veritable 10-cent
chromos, picked up the Lord knows how
and where. You will perceive glass
cases filed with huge heaps of rubies,
diamonds, emeralds, sapphires, turquoises,
garnets, topazes, beryls, of all sizes and
kinds, cut and uncut; and cheek by jowl
with these your eyes will see cheap music
boxes, Jews harps and squeaky hand
organs.
The Shah must also be in condition to
bull the market on pearls, for here is,
for instance, a big glass case, twenty
four inches long by eighteen inches wide
and high, that is more than half filed
with beautiful pearls (mostly from the
Persian Gulf fisheries) of all sizes and
degrees of loneliness. In aseparate long
case the orders and decorations of the
Shah, coming from nearly every country
in the world, are kept on exhibition; but
the crown jewels are in little box that
is always locked and for which the Shah
himself forever, waking or sleeping,
carries the keys. The contents of this box
and of the several vaults where he keep
his piles on piles of bright, shining, un-
used money, he never allows others to
view, although the museum may be
visited once year by the European
diplomatists and the friends that they
vouch for Cosmopolitan.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-02-04
1T REMOVED THE PIMPLEs.

ROUND MOUNTAIN, Tex, March %, 1887
A lady friend of mine has for several years
been troubled with bumps and pimples on her
face and neck, for which she used various cos
metics in order to remove them and beautify
and improve her complexion +; but these local
applications wero only temporary and left her
skin in worse condition.
recommended an internal pre- paration-
known as Botanic Blood Balm-which have
been using and selling about two years; she
used three bottles and nearly all pimples have
disappeared, her skin is soft and smooth, and
her general health much improved. She ex-
presses herself much grati6ed, and can recon-
mend it to all who are thus affected.
Mrs. $. NJ WILSON.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-02-04
TurkIsh Contempt fOr ForeIgners.

confess that this contempt Of the
Franks, which the Turks do not disguise,
gave me much pleasure. At CONSTANT
nople, or at least in stamboul, you feel
that you. Frank, do not exist in the
eyes Of the Turk. You may wear the
largest check suit that a London tailor
can produce, aud yet the Turk will pass
without deigning even TO look at you.
At the public fountains he will go
through all his religious additions in
your presence as If you were miles away.
He will spread out his carpet, turn bis
face toward Mecca and say his prayers
while you are looking on; and so mean
are you in his estimation that he ignores
you. Atlantic Monthly.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-02-04

DIR. J. S. COMBS, OwensviIle, Ohio, says: 81
have given SCOTS EMULSION of Cod
Liver Oil with Hypophosphites to -four pa
tients with better results than seemed posi-
BILE with any remedy. All were her editary
cases of Lung disease, and advanced to that
stage when Coughs, pain in the chest, fire.,
quent breathing, frequent pulse, fever and
Emnciation. All these cases have increas-
ed in weight from IS to % lbs, and are not
now needing any medicine"
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-02-04
GIVES BETTER SATISFACTION

CADIz, KY, July 9th. 1887.
Please send me one box Blood Balm Catarrh
Snuff by return mail, as one of my customers
is taking B. B. B. for catarrh and wants a box
of the snufH. B. B. B. gives better satisfaction
than any medicine ever sold. have sold 10
dozen in the past 10 weeks. and it gives good
satisfaction. If don't remit all right for snuff
write me. Yours,
w. N. BRANDON.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-02-04
LU M BAOO.


Carriage. Why so many dcviate from
graceful carriage may be accounted for in As
many ways as there are misshapen beings
MUSCULAR WEAKNESS.
Lame Back.-The spinal column IS the main.
stay of the body, which stiiiens ND III;
straight man or woman. and nature ha,
provided muscular supports 10 hold i, erect
TWISTED OUT OF SHAPE.
Distortions. and women Terklesslv
twist themselves out Of shape, and the re-.
suit is the few standing straight and III.
many bending down.
SYMPTOMS.
Pains.-Thosc which afIlict tho back are tbs
most insid;ous or subtitle They come n
times without warning; we rise from NJ.
ting posture TO find the back 50 crippled o.
strained as to cause acute suffering.
TREATMENT.
Cure.-Rub the parts afflicted freely with
ST. JACOBS OIL; rub hard and vigorously.
producing warmth and II the pain is slow
in yielding wrap the parts in flannel st.ep9
in hot water and wTing out.
Sold bv Druggists and Dodicrs ErTHc,ez
The CHARLES A. voGELsR CO.. Baltimore. Nd