Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-11-27
LETTER FROM AUSTIN.
AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. %, 1890.


EDITOR BANNER:
A Young teacher in the high school here
has the ereatesti7onY on spare the rod and
spoil the child" that has been seen anywhere
else in scholastic training. A pole about
ten feet long stands close at hand, and when
noise, inattention, disobedience, or anything
refractory are on the taps, down comes that
weapon ike bosom of destruction on to the
floor with bang that sets every scholar to
laughing and then everyone returns to his
lesson with renewed energy. He reigns with
a charm of kindness that is really astonish-
ing in one so youthful both in years and inn
parting knowledge to others, although hav-
ing been 8 matriculant at the University,
with highest honors there. What lesson
for a teacher in South Texas who recently
bruised and striped the tender flesh OF a
widows son for some infringement OF his lmpe
rial ordinance; and that man is called Professor!
and WAS abetted in his brutality by the SOL
emn school committee who held council
and commended his conduct. One among
the most brilliant and humane writers of
! our time says that mo good man or woman
will ever strike child" 1t is cruel and
cowsrdly and sows seeds of cruelty and
disobedience in children that is never wholly
eradicsted." The person who infiicts this
pain upon the helpless is either cowardly,
sick or insane; for the hrst We would pre-
scribe about three weeks toll at a scavenger
cart; drench the second with pint of castor
oil, and for the last straight jacket and
term, with the six hundred other patients,
up here, being treated for similar malady.
The senegambian population own ahouse
OF worship here whose clear bell chimes can
be heard over half of the city. The color
| line is very strenuously drawn in its member
shsp, and none but those having caucasion
leinage ere permitted to sit beneath the drop
mgs from its sanctuary. When those chimes
ring out, calling the ungodly to church, you
will see yellow stream set thitberward for
an aristocratic "holier than thou" exh, bition
within its strong walls Il sometimes hsp-
pens that an ebony son of Africa escorts
the cream-hued best half of himself to the
holy entrance and then perch himself on 3
rock outside for two or three hours; contem-
plate his splay feet and muse on the sinful
ness and origin of man. The wife of Fred
Douglas, who is a white woman, would
have free entrance, while he, being thick
Tipped, coal black negro would be excluded
from its sacred portals. A new bridge,
spanning the Colorado, has just been turned
over to the commissioners. 1t is the best OF
three that have connected the eastside with
Austin on the west, and over three hundred
people crossed over it in one day by actual
count. o. S. Oliver was the engineer and
one of the best architects in Texas. The road
bed is broad and strong, andits side ways are
sufficiently wide 10 admit of pedestrianism
without the aid of esculapian service for
broken ribs after having passed one another
on them. The dam cup foamed over a
trihe at our meagre report of its financial
outlay; 100000 in bonds have been taken,
and 100000 are on hand yet to be sold be-
fore closing their dam sale that has added
this enormous weight to that already on
Austin's overburde1ed shoulders. Her water
rates were way up in the clouds anyhow, and
their state, county and city taxes piled on,
creates growing corners for nearly all real
estate owners. There is talk of extending
the city limits; if that is done they might
run their lines into he gulsh shore while
about It eEd the eby give those Il ret who
need Il nj ST. rhry nave an ordnance TO
keep .S,Ine out ut he streets. and tl,ewhere,
VIII, =. they have no business, but one Of the
name has turned the tables and ballooned
it over their heads into the public crib, will
make laws, and exclude many on tother
side the bsrbed wires, who are squealing to
climb in also. A school girl told US the
other day he has boy whom he calls -Ura
Hogg, and girl" lama Hogg, that doubt
less are destined TO engender MT little dis
satisfaction, and some profanity, by those
harnessed with names like theirs.
Mrs. Swisher might iosm a rifle if she
! knew we had made Sir in The Sir of
.tiil!i ID, ~" These error. will i"tudt often
wl,u lie 81 Exp ctc'i, AID sometimes push
{ "a. IN" lie rI,hr'Io'i-. : = and Sin may be
! y nUlEn",.. uu,,e il a while, although out OF
place as We have placed one of them for the
authoress. LoTTIE c. EFkoR.