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Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1890-03-08
Are You Superstitious ?

Find out by asking yourself the fol-
lowing twenty questions;
1. Do you believe in witches, sprites,
elves, fairies, vampires, ghouls, orges,
imps, gnpmes, bogies, brownies, pixsies
OF leprechauns?
2. Do you believe in an evil genius?
8. Do you believe in an evil eye?
4. Do you believe in bottomless
pit?
5. Do you believe in a devil with
horns, cloven feet and long spiked
tail?
g. Would you pass night in a
graveyard, or church, with corpse in
a church or in a charnel house?
7. Do you wear anything which can
be considered in the nature Of tails
man or mascot
8. Did you ever employ anything as
a talisman?
8. Do you attach anything to four
leaf clover?
10. Would you willingly pass under
a ladder?
II. Do you feel uncomfortable when
you spill salt?
u. Would you sit down with thir-
teen at the table?
49, Would you start on trip on
Friday, or would you defer commenc-
ing an important work on that day?
IA. Do you attach any particular
importance to certain numbers, especi-
ally to three, seven and nine?
10. Would you give child of yours
the same name as that of one who had
just died?
IS. Are you afraid of the dark ?
II. Did you ever have your fortune
told by gypsy, astrologer, cards or like
tests?
10. Were you ever made uneasy by
hearing the insect known as the death
watch?
10. Would you knock three times
on church door at midnight?
20. Do you believe in dreams, signs,
omens. warnings, or hand writings?
Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1890-03-08
Published by request.
THE TEMPERANCE SHIP.

JNo. G. WHITTIER,
Take courage, temperance workers,
You shall not suffer wreck,
While up to God the peoples prayers
Are rising from your deck.
Wait cheerily, temperance workers,
For daylight and for land;
The breath of God is in your sail.
Your rudder in His hand
Sail sail on deep freighted
With blessings and with hopes;
The good of old with shadowy hands
Are pulling at your ropes.
Behind you, holy martyrs
Uplift the palm and crown;
Before you, unborn ages send
Their benedictions down.
Courage your work isholy,
Gods errands never fail
Sweep on through storm and darkness,
The thunder and the hail
Work on sail on the morning comes,
The port you shall yet win;
And all the bells of God shall ring
The ship of temperance in.
Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1890-03-08
Home From A Wedding Jour-
noy.

"How glad l am, dearie, that our
tastes are so very simpler said young
Mrs. Honeylip to her husband when
they had returned from their bridal tour
and were furnishing the fiat in which
they were to be $50 perfectly happy"
ave agree about everything, don't
we darling? ?" she continued. eve both
wanted cardinal and gray to be the
prevailing tones in the parlor, we
agreed exactly about the blue room,
and both wanted oak for the dining
room and hall. We like the same
kind of chairs. Oh, we agree exactly,
don't we? And how nice it is I'd feel
dreadfulif we didn't agree, particularly
about any important thing
$50 would |, darling" he said. "It's
just lovely to live in such perfect har-
mony. Now l guess I'll hang this
lovely little water-color your aunt gave
US right over this cabinet, shan't l? ?"
81 don't hardly know, dear. Would
mt it look better over that bracket on
the opposite wall %
81 hardly think so, love; the light
is so much better here"
"Do you think so, George? Really,
now, l don't like it in that light"
"You don't? Why it's just the light
for it. It's entirely too dark for
water-color on the other wall"
81 don't think so at all. Water
colors don't want great deal of light.
They certainly don't want to be in
the shade"
"They certainly don't want to hang
in a perfect glare of light"
Il guess Eve hung pictures before
to-day, and"
80, George, how cross you are p
''I'm no crosser than you, and
"You are, too, and I-oh, how
can you be so cruel p
"Pshaw, Helen, only said"
81 know what you said, and it has
broken my heart"
''There, there, dear"
ooh, it has I-I-George do you
really want me to go back to mamma
aud papa ?"
"Why darling, you know"
'Be-be-cause, boo-hoo, if you d
do hoo-hoo, | will 1t would be bet
ter, boo-hoo, than for us to quarrel so
over everything, and
'There, there, my dear, /"
mamma was afraid we were TOO I'M
like in disposition to get along well,
but Il, oh, Gearge, this is too per-
fectly dreadful p
"There, darling, we'll hang it just
where you say P'-DetroH Free Press.
Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1890-03-08

Delay is fatal 10 all social well-bei1g
and happiness. Ia our relations with
Others nothing is more nccdful than TO
do quickly that which we are able to
do iot their comfort and pleasure.
Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1890-03-08

If man hope not for that which
bafleth hope, he shall not find it; for
it is past searching for and and past
finding out.
Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1890-03-08

In standing an umbrella at The door
always stick the point in al overahoe,
If there is any handY.
Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1890-03-08

Magistrate-"Pat Murphy, Che con-
stable says you were fighting. What
have you to say for yourself ?" Pat
Murphy-"Well, yer worship, OF had
a clean white shirt on, an Oh was
moighty proud av it that Oh got up a
bit av row wild man 30 as Oi
cud take me coat an 'wesllit off and
show it.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-01
Special.

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Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-01

Of the 10000 diamond cutters at
Amsterdam, who are all Jews, 1000
are said to be without work, the
CHIEF diamond cutting establishments
having closed on account of the
enormous rise in the price of raw
diamonds. The rise is attributed to
the London house of Rothschild,
which has monopolized the trade IN
raw diamonds.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-01

The Austin Statesman treats the
aged chestnut which has beenrevived
about Wilkes Booth, the assassin of
President Lincoln, still being alive
as a fresh matter and says the report
can hardly be true, ''yet the woman
Worcester does point out several
suspicious circumstances connected
with the burial of the man they said
was Booth
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-01

The BANNER is in receipt of
pamphlet entitled, 1.-THE South's
Redemption from Poverty to Pros
perity," which is republication of
the Bankers Edition" of the Balti-
more Manufacturers Record issued
last December, with additional statis
tics, bringing the report down to the
close of the year.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-01

The Queen Regent of Spain rises
early, takes a cold bath every morn
ing even in winter, and performs
her toilet with the help of one of
her waiting-maids. She usually
dresses very plainly, and never
wears jewelry except on ceremonial
occasions.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-01

UNCLE SAN will soon be bloated
bondholder himself at the rate the
public debt is being paid off. When
Gen. Grant was president it was
considered quite remarkable that
the public debt was being paid off
at the rate of a million annually.
But it is now being diminished at
an average rate of more than a mil
lion week.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-01

EVEN the strongest anti-Hoggites
are compelled to admit that he made
an able presentation of his position
In his opening speech for governor
at Rusk.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-01

TERMs.-Legal and transient advertise.
ments inserted at one dollar per square of
one inch for first insertion, and fifty cents
per square for each subsequent insertion.
Obituary notices and tributes of respect in
serted at half price.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-01

WHILE the proper spirit has been
aroused now Is the time to keep the
railroad project stirred up ndpushed
along until work is actually begun.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-01

The bill for the improvement of
Arkansas Pass has been put through
congress. 1t does not include any
appropriation from the federal gov
eminent.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-01

THERE is quite a spirited contest
in the republican party of Pennsyl-
vania for the gubernatorial nomina,
ton, and it has been suggested that
Wanamaker may be nominated as a
last resort. The New York Star OBJ
serves that the Pennsylvania reps
must find it hard to be compelled to
fall back upon marled-down job lots
from the bargain counter, even
though they be cheap for cash.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-01

JAY GOULD has purchased build
ing site at FL Paso, and it said he
will erect him a winter residence on
it, by the advice of his physician.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-01

\ The little kingdom of Greece is
negotiating in London for loan of
eighty million francs to complete
the Larissa railroad.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-01

The reps may as well cease count
ing Rhode Island even in the column
of doubtful states, for it is morally
certain to align itself in the demo
cratic column at the next presiden-
tial election.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-01

HATzFELDT, theimpecunious prince
who backed bis title against Hunting
tons gold and adopted daughter, is
said to have returned to his old fail
-gambling-and to have lost
heavily.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-01

SEVERAL gentlemen are still engag
ed in making an undignifed scramble
to assume the judicial ermine of the
late Judge Sabin.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-01

The BANNER extends congratula-
tions to Galveston, the future great
city and deep water port of Texas.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-01

The worlds fair bill has finally
passed congress, and the Chicagoans
now have permission to spread them
selves for the coming event.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-01

To BE in style, Hon. Geo. McCor-
mick, of Columbus, will contest
Judge Moore's seat in congress from
the Eigth district.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-01

DISTRESSING reports have been re-
ceived from the overfowed districts
along the lower Mississippi. Numer-
GUS cases of drowning are reported.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-01

BRENNAN did herself proud in the
way the visitorsto the railroad meet
ing were entertained.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-01

THE proposed railroad from Hunts
vile to La Grange via Brennan will
be worth more to this city than any
one has any idea it will.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-01

The indictments against Frank
Woodruff and Kunze, in the Cronin
murder case, have been dismissed
and the prisoners released.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-01

The Hillsboro Reflector is reaping
a harvest in the way of announcing
candidates for county offices.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-01

BRENNAN is certainly creating a
favorable impression on strangers
and visitors just now
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-01

BRENNAN should by all means have
a first class hotel. 1t makes no diff
ference what advantages we possess,
strangers coming to the city and be-
ing compelled to stop at an apology
of hotel will go off and talk about
us and speak Of what a one-horse
town Brennan is. Strangers form
their first impressions of a place by
the hotel accommodations, because
the hotel is the stplace they strike
for.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-01

Col. JoELssH. B. MILLER, formerly
connected with the Austin Statesman
announces his intention to embark
in evening journalism.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-01

The San Antonio Times, which
has recently undergone change OF
proprietorship and management, ap,
pears with new head-dress and in
an enlarged, form, and now looks
truly metropolitan. Under the new
management the paper has our best
wishes. Conducted on honorable
principles there is no reason why
the paper should not be big sue
cess.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-01

Mr.. Hogg took ten columns OF
cold type to open his canvass and
announce his views as a candidate
for governor In the entire ten
columns he does not once say, in
plain, unequivocal letters, that he
favors a railway commission.-Hous-
ton Post.
If the Post has any doubt as to
where he stands it can be very easily
resolved of it.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-01

Charity that is paraded is no
charity at all.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-01

Occulist is bay stallion IS hands ard
inches high sired by Hardwood, he by
Blackwood, Jr., be by Old Blackwood. LIST
Dana Abide by Withers, old Almont, his
Dam by Edwin Forest; Hardwood dam by
Columbus Black rood Jrs. dam was Belle
Sheridan.
The finest trotting strain of blood courses
his veins, and sny one acquainted with the
turf register of the performances of the
celebrated trotters of the country will not
deny the fact that more purses have been
won and horses sold Tor higher prices Of this
strain Obj Cd than any other.
insurance. $50 90
season. ..................... Is 80
| am prepared 70 take care or mares from
4 distan, at my farm at 81 80 per month.
DAVID WHITE, White Hall,
G ines County, T.xas.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-01

IF some Of the aspiring weather
cranks would turn from predicting
unusual atmospheric and electric
disturbances, floods, ETC., and seek
fame in the field ofpolitical prophecy
ing, in the light OF the developments
since the Harrison election, they
would establish their reputation as
true prophets by predicting that the
g. o. p. will get foretaste of sheol
in next fall elections, and that two
years hence they will experience the
genuine article.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-01

Weekly, 50 6 year, in advance.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-01

Mr.. A. G. LUCAS, of the Bedford
Republican, delivered an address be-
lore the Iowa editor" convention re-
Gently on ''How to Raise the Devil. -
His remarks were not as profane as
might be suggested to some by the
title, but were confined to a discus
sion of the apprenticeship question.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-01
OUR AGENTS.

JOIN F. WEIBUsCH, Burton, Texas,
F. NJ. GRIFFIN, Lyons, Texas.
10 MIKEsKI, Wesley, Texas.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-01

I'll, The celebrated trottlRg sta stallion 0cculi;t
will will T make the season Of 1880 at ChapPell
Hill Hill, Na AVA ta. and 1y farm alternating be-
VIII be at Chappell Hill on Tuesday and
Wednesday, March 4th and 5th, returning
9th Gay.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-01

New YORK STAR: The bounty sys-
tenn is the protection system with
the meath taken of. Governor
Yarmouth, of New Orleans, a great
sugar planter, told the ways and
means comp-ittee that the bounty
system would not suit the planters
at all, because the people wouldn't
stand it; the bounty would not last
two years; as soon as the people dis
covered that the protection system
was merely disguised bounty sys-
tenn they would wipe out the whole
thing. Governor Yarmouth is a
very cleyer-headed man.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-01

HE San Antonio Times publishes
an interview with a prominent stock
man of New Mexico on a visit to that
city, who reports the cattle interests
in the territory in an awfully distress
ing condition OIL account of long
drouth. There are but very few run
nlng streams there at present, he re-
ports. The cattle have to travel
twelve or fifteen miles for wafer. the
ground in the intervening space be-
inG bare Of grass, and they become
so weak and exhausted that they
cannot travel back to the grazing
lands and lie around the water holes
until they starve to death.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-01

MORE can be done IN the way of
building the Huntsville and La
Grange road via Brennan now while
the proper enthusiasm is aroused
than can ever be done hereafter. if
the project is allowed to lag until
suspicion and doubt are cast over il.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-01

TIE Cameron Herald with truth
remarks that those who claim that
the state has no right to regulate
railroads, on the ground that they
belong to private corporations, use
the same argument that Blaine did
when he said that trusts were private
enterprises"
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-01

-Blackbirds are creating sad
havoc with the corn crops in Ander
son county. They swarm in my
RAIDS and have been so destructive
to the tender shoots of corn that
frequent replanting has had to be
resorted to. Thousands of them
lave been poisoned with corn soaked
in strychnine aud others shot. but it
dOesn t appear to diminish the mum
ber.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-01-23

SEE the fine display of gold and
silver watchesa at CHURcH " Co.'s.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-01-23
The Bad Old Times.

For a change. how does the forego-
ing caption look? We have long been
accustomed TO the other phrase, the
good old times" let us change it..
There were the bad old times Of the
French revolution, when blood flowed
like water and the greatest murderer
was the best fellow. There were worse
old times before the French reyolu-
ton; times of tyranny and royal ca
price and unutterable debaucherv in
HIGH places; times that could only be
purified as by FIRE There were the
bad old times of the middle ages in
Europe. when children were allowed
to have their feelings wrought up so
that they would enlist by the 10000
in hopeless crusade against the Mos
lens, only to die by the 10000.
There we're the bad old times in En-
gland when it was a perfectly respect
able thing for a gentleman to get drunk
once in a while, and when no one was
read out Of good society because he
was a gambler and when women la
bored hali-naked in the coal mines,
worse treated than the dolkeys them
selves
There were the times when only the
few could obtain an education, and the
masses could scarcely hope TO get
above the condition Of their fathers
There were the bad old times in our
own land when there was only one
protesting Christian TO every fourteen
of the population, instead Of one In five
as at present; when our rulers were
pronounced atheists and our scholars
were pronounced skeptics. There were
the bad old times Of slavery and disun-
ion and civil war and carpet-baoisn.
There were the bad old times when not
one voice, even of one crying i'm the
wilderness. was raised against the
curse of rum-selling; when some min
listers of the gospel themselves tippled
at each house on their round of pas
toral calls, and the members Of the
flock were not allowed to follow their
example.
Let us thank God that the bad old
times have gone never to return, as we
hope. The new times are not as good
as those that are coming, but they are
bcttcr than the past, and the eastern
sky is Frightening G0iQeU RUtc.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-01-23

A Series Of Biblical R0IaIG4S,

Written BY famous noveusts, viii DC az
other new feature Of TIE INTER OCEAS
The Rev. Georg EDers has written ,-5
first Of the series, entitled "JoSHUA'
Which began to run in the paper in Oc.'.
Der. This will be succeeded in January y
one from the pen Of Elizabath Stuart E-As-.,,
author Of Gates Affair."" etc. Her s-ory W.
be a novel OF the times Of Christ, ana W.
be entitled COME FORTH" The i2La2.7
Il. Rider EaEgard win write a stcTy OF -
early times Of Babylon and Jeruz 7-l' !.
be entitled ESTHER" There is no ao'1'
but these stories will attract great aver
ton.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-01-23
nonum Nomen. nonum Omen.

Picture dealer: Hero is little gem,
two little crouics with bottle between
them. The artist is quite celebrated
but he called it "A Symposium in the
catalogue, and nobody looked it up.
Art critic: what bhuder, lie
ought to have called it Prohibition al
Bar Iarbor.' Picture dealer: "Oh
be did better than that He changed
the title to a Pair of Tights, and Mr.
Whitepate, the rich connoisseur, has
just ordered it without ever having seer
ii. HHScy's bckiU
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-01-23

OuR teas, coffees, and dried fruits
can't Toe beat A. Spratler
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-01-23
croun Can Be Prevented.

We want every mother to know
that Group can he prevented. 1t can
be prevented in thousands of cases.
True Group never appears without
due and timely warning; few
hours. or day or two before the
attack, the child becomes hoar>e.
This hoarseness Is the first indiea.
ton of Group, and is sure sign
that Group is TO follow unless prompt
" and properly treated. The free
use of Cham berlaiu's Cough Rene
DIV as directed with each bottle, I'M
der the heading 80 prevent Group"
will dispel all symptoms of the
disease. The proper way, Is to keep
q bottle of this remedy at hand. 1t
costs but so cents, and only few
doses, or al most not over one-thrd
of a bottle, is required to dispel all
symptoms of the disease. Can you
afford to ris> So much for SO little?
There is not the least danger I'M
giving this remedy III large and
frequent doses, which are always
required, as ID contains NO injurious
substance. It's also Invaluable FOR
colds and wboupiug-cough For
sale 10y w. H. puleauX.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-01-23
Mason ( Hamln PlaRO-FOrtS and Organ

5. II. Osborne has secured the
agency for Iowa, Grant and LaFay-
cite counties to sell these celebrated
instruments. None better. Head
quarters, Mineral Point. lSly
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-01-23

APPLES A few barrels of choice
varieties left. Hendra Bros.