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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-09-04
FEATURES OF THE STRIKE.

There is an important principle in
volved in the strike on the New York
Central. 1t is the very same on which
arose the great southern strike on
the Gould system in 1886, with which
Texas had some experience. A single
principle has led TO some OF the
bloodiest wars i'll history and that
which underlies the present troubles
in New York account for the determi-
nation and persistence with which the
fight has been carried on on both
sides-the New York Central and the
knights of Labor.
The principle at issue is sharply
defined by the history of the strike.
At different times during the spring
and summer the railroad company
discharged some fifty or sixty en-
ployes for causes such as drunkenness,
incompetency and other reasons, as
stated by Vice President Webb. The
organization of knights of Labor, to
which the men belonged, protested,
first asked an explanation on the part
of the company, and when told that
was refused-the company denying
the right of the Knights to ask its
reasons-demaude the reinstatement
of the discharged men. This was also
refused, and strike was ordered all
along the line Ct the Central.
Neither the question of wages nor
of eight hours as days work
had any connection with the
trouble, and the only issue WAS
whether the company shall be forced
first to give its reasons for discharge
and second to reinstate in its service
persons whom it did not want.
One charge against the company is
that the men were discharged for no
other reason than because they were
Knights OF Labor. ms mas peen oe-
MED by Webb.
If the principle contended for by
the strikers is surrendered and the
employer can be forced to keep on his
pay roll men he don't want; or to give
his reasons every time he lets out
such inimical person or an incompe-
tent, vicious or drunken man, it
would certainly be queer state OF
things. No laborer or railroad employe
would for moment think of running
his family affairs and employing his
cook or other domestics on such a
plan. But this is precisely the prin-
ciple involved in the New York strike
None Of us but wish the laborer, the
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-09-04

If IT is true that consistency is the
virtue of fools then do many news
papers Of the country shiningly
demonstrate their Milliancy. The
Boston Herald thus illustrates one
case:
This action OF Senator Quay on the
federal election bill answers one ell
tightening purpose. 1t gives the read
ers OF the organs an opportunity they
would not otherwise have had of being
told the real character of Quay. Here
is the New York Tribune CHASING
him with "all the election scoun-
drels in the land" who want
the Lodge1 bill defeated. 1t
speaks OF his combination with DEM
ocrats to defeat the elections bill"
and then goes OH to say that "meas-
ures of that character are never pleas
ing to the corruptionists and rascals
of either party" 1t eliminates in
saying that "the person who owes all
his political prominence or considera-
ton to his faculty Of handling repeat
ers or of buying votes, of course OBJ
jects to an election law. This is the
same Quay whose arraigument by
very responsible accus!rs in connec
ton with the State treasury OF Penn
sylvania was passed over in the same
quarter without an intimation that
he was other than a saint and a mar
tyr.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-09-04

mechanic, the railroad employe the
very highest wages they can get and
all the comforts, privileges and rights
consistent with law and justice. But
will the laboring classes be sustained
by public opinion when they contend
for principle as plain as that in
volved in the New York strike, and
which, admitted, would be subversive
OF alllaw and order?
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-09-04
InprntitEde of RenuhlicS.

For presuming to issue military
emancipation proclamation, and thus
break the back of slavery and rebellion
with one blow, Gen. Fremont was sup
pressed. The country that finally adopt
ed his policy after an untold loss Of blood
and treasure neglected to accord him
either credit or reward until it was well
nigh too late. 1t is an impressive in
stance of the ingratitude of republics
Boston Globe.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-09-04
A Woman to Whom 10 Is a Lucky Number

A Woman to Whom IS Is a Lucky Number.
Thirteen is full of i'll omen to some
people and full of good luck to others.
1t brought great fortune to Cora Edsall,
the latest star to rise in the theatrical
armament. She went to see j. M. Hill,
the manager, number Of times and
failed to meet him. She resolved to try
once moro and make that last effort.
She was informed at the Union Square
theatre that he was at Clarendon hall
rehearsing. She went there.
AS she put her foot on the first of the
stone stairs to ascend she remembered
that she was in Thirteenth street. 1t
was the thirteenth time she lad gone
after Mr. Hill. She lived in house
numbered IS, had ridden down town in
q car No. 10, and it was the 18th day of
the month. She was so frightened at
the accumulation of thirteens that she
almost tainted. She drew her foot back
and was about to give up when the
thought struck her that maybe so many
thirteens meant success.
She took heart and went on. When
she arrived in the hall Mr.. Hill was set
ting some dispute among the actors.
Ee was standing in the auditorium alone.
The rehearsal was just over. AS the
manager turned to leave she went up to
him and said she wanted an engagement.
Mr.. Hill replied that his company was
full. She asked him to hear her read
He agreed. She read to him then and
there. He accepted her, had a play
written for her and brought her out as a
leading attraction.-N York Press.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-09-04
4 Efenu Card to Eat,

A corfectioner has placed ON the mar
ket menu card made Of sweetened
dough rolled out very thin. The bill of
fare is printed on this in ink made from
colored sugar. Having ordered the
dishes you want, you amuse yourself
while waiting for them by eating the
bill of fare, which acts as an appetizer.
philadelphia Record.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-09-04
Boiling Eggs by Prayer.

One of the oldest uses of the Nicene
creed is that which it is applied to by
the women of ancient Mecca, where the
creed was in great part originally form
ulated. They recite it after putting eggs
in pot to boil as a measure of the time
needed to cook them. 1t is said that
they do this without any idea of irrever-
ence.-Churchman.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-09-04
A Happy and Favored Spider.

Far up in the corner of my room is a
big black cobweb, and big black spider
dwells therein. He has dwelt there
quite year now, and although many
surreptitious feminine glances of horror
at the wretched housekeeping of some
people steal up to that corner my happy
spider is never disturbed. think he al
most loves me now; he comes down
often, dropping inch by inch, by thin
golden thread, and he runs rapidly and
twinkling-legged over my table and pa
pers, pausing for moments at time to
look at me with bright, unwinking eyes
and motionless body.
Happy, happy fellow! He has his
health, his spirits, and his home with a
tiny sweetheart locked therein, where
no covetous eyes may find her. What
more could he ask to make him happy?
But one day-ah, me!-some one else
will come into this room with an alert
eye for cobwebs and strong hand
to remove them, and then-then-when
he is homeless and friendless and hope
less my spider may understand how
right down good l was to him.-Ella
Higginson in West Shore.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-09-04
THE PEOPLES FORUM.

ARTICLES appearing IN this column are
written over Individual responsibility and
are published as matters that may be of
general interest and simply to point dis
cussion. THE STATESMAN will not be re-
garded as indorsing anything herein below
contained unless favorably commented on
editorially.l
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-09-04
4 Foolish Question.

Bobby-Pa, are you very busy to-
night?
Father-Wcll, I'm just reading the pa
per, Bobby. What is it?
Bobby-There's race Of little people
called Pigmies, isn't there?"
Father-Yes.
Bobby-Well, pa, when they grow up
are they Eogmies?
Father-Bobby, you can go to bed at
once.-Munsey's Weekly.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-09-04
A Bows PRAYER,

Smart children's saying are rather
overdone, but there was a good deal Of
diplomacy about little fellow who
prayed long and earnestly for a double
ripper. Finally his mother tcld him that
perhaps God didn't think best for him to
have double ripper, and his next
prayer was formed little differently,
80 Lord, please send me two sleds and
O board. "-Springfeld Homestead.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-09-04
nyoscyamus Seeds for Toothache

A Russian practitioner recommends
the use of hyoscysmus seeds for tooth
ache. His plan is to burn the seeds and
to convey the smoke through little
paper tube to the hole in the tooth. He
declares that in nearly all cases one ap-
plication, OF at most two, will suffice to
cure the eothache.-London Lancet.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-09-04
No High Comedy Nowadays.

This generation knows almost nothing
by stage experience of pure high comedy
except in the way of revival. What I'M
der the name of comedy has occasionally
won success on our English stage is
production which has somewhat reached
upward to tragedy or stretched down
ward to farce, or, more often, has Dor
rowed the fine feathers of melodrama.
The true. fuller modern comedy, such as
Moliere initiated, and even our best res
toration comedy playwrights have but
poorly initiated from him, and such as
once or twice that greatest comedy ge-
MUS of this century, Labiche, has at
tempted in an age that asked for lower
things, is an unknown thing now on tbs
London stage.
Now this finer and fuller comedy that
we know not ismore than amere represen
tation of life, OF even an Interpretation
of it. It is larger thing altogether, for,
first, it must contain some clement OF
not unkindly satire, with keen wit and
broad humOr, or it is no true comedy.
Then, too. nature is not TO be merely
photographed, but a mirror is to be held
up to reflect the likeness an6 at times
the antics Of human nature; but it must
be magic mirror, that shall have just
such power of artful distortion in it as
shat we shall never ourselves be hurt to
think we perceive Our own lineaments
disfgured or our own motions Knocked
Finally, there must be some sort of cleo
tricism-a picking out Of the salient
points Of human nature, an intensified
ton and an enhancement. 1t is clear
there must be this, for the realism loving
audiences could not stand the pointless
and long winded talk of ordinary men
and women.-Fortnightly Review.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-09-04
Clear Proof.

Proud Father-Taken high degrees in
your scientific course? Proud of you,
my boy. BY the way, can you prove
that heat expands and cold contracts?
College Graduate Certainly. Don't
the days grow longer in warm weather
and shorter in winter?-Pittsburg Bulle.
sin.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-09-04
A Question of the Conservation of Energy

A correspondent writes: at is a well
known law that energy is indestructi-
BILE, but case came to my notice a short
time ago in which it is hard to tell in
what form the energy appears. A metal
spring is placed under tension, and
while in this state is fastened and placed
in acid until it is completely dissolved.
What becomes of the energy stored up
in the spring? Is it turned into heat,
and, if so, how?'-New Orleans Plea
WINE
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-09-04
Miss Bashkirtsef,s Tomb.

Marie's body lies in the chapel built
by her mother in the cemetery of Passy,
just outside Of Paris. the chapel is a
work of art, designed by Bastien Lee
pages brother and made of marble. In
building this memorial chapel Nine.
Bashliirtseff disregarded cost entirely, so
much SO in fact that it went beyond even
her means, and still remains to be paid
for. Around Maries grave are hung all
her best pictures, those of some of her
girl friends still alive, which must be
rather gloomy, and the picture which
Bastien Lepage painted when he tried
unsuccessfully to win the Prix de Rome
as young man, for which Nine. Bash
kirtseff paid an immense price after the
artists death. She thought, as she told
Marie's friends, that it would please
Marie to have the painting in which Bas-
ten was so much interested hanging up
near her body. The building of such a
chapel as Marie's in the cemetery of
Passy was contrary to the municipal reg
ulations. 1t was through the influence
of the Marechal de Canrobert, who is
also a senator, that Nine. Bashkirtseff
got special permission from the Paris
municipal council.-New York Sun.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-09-04

To obtain any of these letters the appli.
cant must say advertised" pay one cent
and give date of list. Have your letters
addressed in care Of your street and num-
will be sent to the dead letter Office at
Washington. d. G. J. G. DEGREES, P. M.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-09-04
What is Scrcfu'a

1t is that impurity in the blood, whic' 'eum~
lating in the glands of the neck, dces un.
slightly Jumps or swellings; whic' ,ses painfui
running sores on the arms, lei feet; when
deyelopes ulcers in the eyes, ears, or nose often
causing blindness or deafness; which is the origin
of pimples cancerous growths, or many other
manifestations usually ascribed to humors'
1t is a more formidable enemy than consumption
or cancer alone, for scrofula combines the WORSE
possible features of both. Being the most ancient
is the most general of all diseases or affections
for very few persons entirely free from It,
How can it be cured? By taking Hoods Sarsa'
parilla which, by the cures it has accomplished
often when other medicines have failed, has
proven itself to be potent and peculiar medicine
for this disease. For all affections of the blood
Hoods Sarsaparilla is unequalled, and some OF the
cures it has effected are really wonderful lfyou
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be sure to give Hoods Sarsaparilla trial.
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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-09-04
TRAVIS COUNTY DEMOCRATIC TICKET,


For Representative,
A. W. TERRELL,
n. A. DAWSON.
Tor County Judge,
WILLIAM Won ROSENBERG.
Tor County Attorney,
ANDREW J. GIBSON.
Tor Collector Of Taxes,
= JOHN W. KELLY.
Tor Assessor Of Taxes,
HAM NJ. METZ.
For Sheriff,
EMMETT WHITE.
Tor Clerk Of District Court,
JAMES P. HART.
Tor County Clerk,
JOHN o. JOHNSON.
For County School Superintendent,
J. q. ROGERS.
For County Treasurer,
W. A. PITTS.
For County Surveyor,
j. f. WALLACE.
Tor Hide and Animal Inspector
II. L. CAPERToN.
For County Commissioners,
JOHN W. BROWN, Precinct No. l.
W. n. McELRoY, Precinct No 2.
JOHN W. YOUNG, Precinct No. 8,
CHARLES F. AUSTIN, Precinct No. 4.
Tor Justice Of the reace, Precinct No. 8,
JOHN A. STUART,
CHARLES J. FISHER.
Tor Constable. Precinct No. 3
JAMES NJ. DAVIS.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-09-04
LIST OF LETTERS.

Following is the list of letters remaining
uncalled for and advertised at the POST
office at Austin, Tex, for the week ending
August %, 1890:
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-09-04
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.

DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
To be Voted November 4, 1890.
STATE TICKET.
For Governor,
JAMES S. HoGG
For Lieutenant Governor,
GEO. C. PENDLEToN.
For. Comptroller,
JOHN d. MCCALL.
For Treasurer,
WILLIAM b. WORKMAN.
For Commissioner Of General Land once,
W. Il. McGAUGHEY.
For Attorney General,
CHARLES A. CULDERS0N.
For Superintendent of Public Instruction,
II. C. PR1TCHETT.
CONGRESSIONAL TICKET.
For Ccngress-Tchtli District,
JOSEPH D. SAVERS.
JUDICIAL TICKET.
For District Attorney,
JAMES II. ROBERTSON.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-09-04

To be Voted November 4, 1880.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-09-04

FOREIGN LIST.
Alcorsa, Francisco Bex, Emile
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-09-04

For District Attorney,
JAMES II. ROBERTSON.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-09-04

For Congress-Tchth District,
JOSEPH d. SAVERS.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-04-03
WHAT a BABY CAN DO.

Give it chance, and it can smash
more dishes than the most industrious
servant girl in the country
1t can fall down Oftener and with less
provocation than the most expert tum-
bier in the circus ring.
1t can make more genuine fuss over a
simple brass pin than its mother would
over broken back.
1t can choke itself black i'll the face
with greater ease than the most accom-
plished wretch that ever was executed.
1t can keep family in constant tur-
moil from morning till night and night
till morning without once varying its
tune.
1t can be relied upon to sleep peace
fully all day when the father is away at
business and cry persistently at night
when he is particularly sleepy.
1t may he the naughtiest, dirtiest, ugli-
est most fretful baby in all the world,
but YOU can never make its mother be
lieve it. and you had better not try.
1t can be charming and model infant
when no one is around, but when visitors
are present it can exhibit more bad tenn
per than both of its parents together.
1t can brighten up house better than
all the furniture ever made; make sweet
er music than the finest orchestra organ
ized fill larger place in its parents
| breasts than they knew they had, and
when it goes away it can cause greater
vacancy and leave greater blank than
! all the rest of the world put together.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-04-03
"BOoK OFTHE DEAD"

The EgyptiOn Book of the Dead or
funeral ritual contains, probably, the old
est existing record of the faith of man in
the immortality of the soul. Its chapters
are found inscribed on mummy cases, or
written on rolls of papyrus within them,
The book recounts the supposed expert
ence of the soul after death; its passage
across the land of darkness into the
blessed field, to its final judgment and
inal admission into the presence of its
Father in ''the eternal dwelling place OF
the cleansed spirit" The following pas
Spge from one of these mummy cases re.
ntly exhumed shows its express declara.
ton of future life: The osiris (soul)
lives after death. Every god rejoices
with life; the osiris rejoices as the gods
rejoice.
1t is supposed that the Book of the
Dead originated with the Egyptians be
tween 1000 and 5000 years before Christ
A mummy case from the great pyramid
inscribed 100 years before the time oi
Jesus, has the following beautiful in
spiration: so God, the protector of hin
who cries to Thee, he is Thine; let hin
have no harm; let him be as one of Thy
flying servants; Thou art he, he is Thou
Make it well for him in the land of thu
spirits. st. Louis Republic.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-04-03
NUMBER II.
VERMONT CAPITAL ABROAD.

notice complaints in some of the Yer
mont papers, that Vermont capital is
sent abroad to boom other places to the
neglect of home. take it that the thing
is not done from purely disinterested
motives, but rather from greed. The 3
or 10 per cent interest promised is the
tempting bait, money is loaned freely at
these rates, both on city lots and on farm
mortgages and the cupidity of the agents
who make the loans is so eager that they
often lend it on insufficient security, so
there is great probability that the secur-
ity will have to be relied upon for pay
ment, and in many instances will be
found to be insufficient. This prediction
will apply to loans on city lots and farm
mortgages. Take the city of Minneapolis
for example, if you please, with pOpu-
latiOn of about 900, there is a territory
already dedicated and much of it plated
and on the market, and within the city
limits, equal to the towns of ,,Newburry,
Bradford, the two Fairlees and Thetford.
That Minneapolis is thrifty, growing
place and destined to be great city, is
more than problematical, but it is likely
to be long time before all the territory
appropriated will be needed: and some
body has got to lose some money The
facility with which money could be OBJ
tanned has tempted many, who could put
up small margin, to borrow money
when the boom was filling, and those
who neglected to close up before it was
full, simply got stuck; and have since
been waiting for another boom, but how
long none can tell. The loan agents,
through their ambition for the commits
SiOnS, have placed many loans precar-
iousl5-an instance to the point is the
case of lady in New Hampshire, who
had thousand dollars to invest, which
she put in the hands of an agent. He
put $50 of it on an so acre farm of which
quite a number of acres was represented
as under improvement, with house and
other buildings upon it, which were in
smed for her benefit; as the interest was
not paid, she had her mortgage fore
closed and finds it to be, greater part
of it, worthless tamarack swamp, nine
miles from any road or place of business,
and almost worthless. This is perhaps
IN exceptional case, but money has been
SO easily obtained as to be temptation
to both speculation and fraud, and in
the former case too often results in the
the ruin of the borrower. And my adj
vice to my eastern friends is to go
slow with their money. Western
people can no better afford to pay eX-
lorbitant interest than eastern people,
and the more of it they pay, the deeper
5hey sink They borrow to pay Dor
rowed money, and there will be day of
reckoning to all such.-COr. Bradford
Opinion.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-04-03
FLORIDA WEDDING RECEPTION.

LINE BYL Q. PARTRIDGE.
Long years ago, when this old world was young
There was man who lived alone;
Who baked his bread, or sewcd his buttons on
The record does not tell.
While in this lonely state he fell asleep one day
"a deep sleep" the good book says, which
means, they say.
That no one nudged him with the clock strikes
fve,"
"'Tis time you built the fire." er such as that
No, he slept oil; no milkmnn's bell, or fishers
Disturbed the calm tranquility Of his r'pose.
But lie who made him loved him well, aud said
1t /, not good the man should live alone.
IN take a part of him n, xt to his heart
And make a helper for his toll to share his good
and i'll,
So when he awoke beholl grand surprise.
\new edition of himself, revised, improved,
A beauteous present from the Authors hand.
This was a wedding, crystal, silver, golden,
God himself gave the fair bride away,
Yea, performed the ceremony which made then
one.
Theirs was an ideal home brimful OF joy
He never told how well his ''mother cooked. v
MOI did she answer, "betle cooked her boy. >
From then till now as generations come and go
Have men agreed that no investment ever made
Was half so wise and rich, as when man gave
rib,
And took a wife from Gods own hand.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-04-03
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