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Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-08-28

The attention of the readers of
the BASNER is called to the card of
MIR. AT. Threadgill, which is to be
found in this issue. As has been
heretofore noted, Mr.. Threadgill
has recently come in our midst from
Navasota and succeeds Mr.. o. NJ.
Cornitius in the iewelry business.
MIR. Threadgill bears the best of
recommendations as an honest, up
right fine business man and will
prove great accession to Brennan.
He is man of his word, can be re-
lied on every time to do what he
says he will do and is a safe man to
do busiI with. Besides carrying
a full of jewelry, spectacles,
gold pe and everything to be
found frst-class establishment,
he is esl matchmaker and re-
paire,' z grantees all work per-
Fol bite Wine Vine
gar. Uses, Best Laun-
dry per box $3.50,
& HoDpE.
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-01-19
WANT GOOD WORDS.

That was good scheme of the old
man in Pennsylvania who wrote out his
own funeral sermon before he COM
mitted suicide. This would have adj
yantages in cases where no suicide was
to add to the difficulties Of the preacher.
A man so tough that he could not find
any passages in his own life to work
into a jsthumous screed that would
sound well. would not care what was
said of him. 1t is no doubt fact that
many men know OF some decent things
they have done that have not been gen
orally suspected. According to some
recent writers it was the custom among
the ancient Egyptians, in the event of
the death Of prominent man, for the
people who knew him to meet and hold
sort of inquest over his character. If
he averaged UP well, their verdict
was in favor of his entomb-
ment in the charnel quarters
he had equipped for himself,
where the collateral circumstances af-
fected his future condition. The popu-
lace didn't have any old notices in
mind about saying only good things of
the defunct. and their conclusions were
impartial. This ordeal and its results
were great restraints upon the men who
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-01-19
ODD TIMES WE HEAR.

A New York policeman is charged
with stealing thermometer.
At rat hunt held in School District
No. 5, of Bethlehem township, Coshoc-
ton county, recently, 2,066 rats were
killed.
William Greer, who is engaged in the
cattle business on the Canadian river,
Deer's Fork district, Texas, shot and
killed white deer few mornings ago.
Six bushels of Christmas and New
Year articles that failed of being for
warded ON account of lack of address
and care in direction. are piled up in
New York postoffice.
The owner of toboggan slide in Ohio
promised at the beginning of december
TO give 10 per cent of his gross earnings
this winter to the missionary cause. In
despair he has now raised his offer to 25
per cent, and still the snow doesn't
come.
Mrs. Albert Evans. of British Colum-
bia, is said to be the one woman in that
region who can successfully fight the
tiger. She fights with lead and not
with gold. however, and the winning so
far has been on her side. The last
tiger that she fought weighed $50
pounds.
Ten thousand men and boys are idle
along the Hudson river who depend on
their work in the ice harvesting at this
season OF the year for their living. The
weather is warm and spring-Iike, aud
not pound of ice is visible in the river:
not even on the flats or in the coYes or
inlets.
w. NJ. Nordyke, of Parsons, Kan, fell
on happy manner of collecting bill
of an Iowa man the other day. He
wrapped up a 50-cent plug of tobacco
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-01-19
MEMS FIXINGs.

So far as suitings are concerned, there
seems to be positive solid color fever
raging just at present.
The double-breasted long sack reefine
Jacket, made to fit loosely. Is the bright
particular hit of this season in the
clothing business.
Among the leading taiIors there is
much diversity of opinion regarding the
fabrics and the cut of the forthcoming
lightweight top-coat.
1t is curious fact that the loud and
weird patterns i'll trousers never gain
any formidable headWay under such
temperate restrictions as prevail to-day.
but only bloom in the fullest radiance
! when the cut is at one of the extremes; {;
either very tight or very loose.
Weli-made atrousers are seen at their
best under the present accepted vogue
as to measurements. The. tendency
toward the absurd balloon revival has
been happily checked. The correct
trousers are now cut reasonably snug
about the hip. with straight fall and
slight sharp taper toward point at the
bottom.
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-01-19
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE.

Prince Albert Victor of Wales was
hissed in Calcutta.
Prof. Tucker. of Andover, limits the
original thinkers of America to three
Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin
and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Harper & Bros. will shortly publish
Stanley's letters telling the story of the
rescue of Emln Bey, with illustrations
and route map-a fOrerunner of the
grand narrative which will be eagerly
awaited.
The Armours in Chicago did busi-
ness or S60,D00,000 last year. S5,00000O in
excess of 1888. Six thousand men were
employed and paid $3.00O,OOO. The firm
killed 100000 hogs, G00,O00 cattle and
250,0O0 sheep.
John S. Wise says that Harrison had
better be cautious, as there is Virginia
statute which provides that any nom
resident OF the state who kills ducks
below tideWater is amenable. But who
kills ducks? Not the president, surely.
Gilbert Wooton's pig is game enough
for him..
Chauncey Bf. Depew saws he made
the great mistake of his life when he
delivered his first humorous speech.
He didn't see it then. but ROW he real
ICES it keenly. Instead OF being regard
ed as convincing logician or good
lawyer, or even a serious thinker, he is
always taken for funny man.
The Empress Eugenie has Just pre-
sented to the fathers who have the keep
ing of the mortuary chapel at Farnbor-
0ugh, where the remains of Napoleon
Ill. and the prince imperial are in
tered, a magnificent altar cloth, made
from her wedding gown. The cloth has
been made by the empress herself. 1t
is trimmed with the lace and embroidery
which ornamented the dress.
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-01-19
AIDS TO GOODNESS.

Wicked sinners are direct tax on the
truly good.-New Orleans Picayuue.
A church fair phenomenon. The
longer a man stays the shorter he gets.
Rome Sentinel.
Sinners cannot go straight to the devil
because they are crooked.-NeW Or
leans picayune.
The unpopular minister is apt to feel
as if wrecked on lone barren aiSles.-
Bingha mtOn Leader.
Ifmen will have no care for the fut-
ure they will soon have sorrow for the
past.-Asiatic Aphorism.
would give nothing for that mans
religion whose very dog and cat are not
the better for it.-Choice Selection.
a man who can control his tongue
will have no trouble in bending almost
anything to his wilI.-Milwaukee Jour
nal.
Prosperity awaits all men, and even
purSues some, but it is never found in
the haunts of vice.-Norristown (Pa.)
Times.
1t is hard to tell which is the easier
to go forward at a revival or backward
when the revival is oYer.-Dubuque
Herald,
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-01-19
BETTER METHODS.

The professional agitators, whether
religious reyivaliSts or temperance re-
formers. are evidently losing ground.
Perhaps this is more seeming than real,
and is due to the disposition of the reg
ulars TO rule them out. In medicine the
localized and orthodox practitioners al
ways look with disfayor and jealousy
upon the men who travel about claim
ing wonderful success in certain spe-
eialtIes. The SAM JoNEsEs, Boy Preacher
HARRIsoNs, and all the professional
once were with the religious persua-
sions. At recent ministers assoca-
ton in Wisconsin there was almost
unanimous expression against the spas
modIc work. There is reluctance in
pulpit or pew to incur the imputation of
standing in the way of any effort to
bring the erring into the fold.
but the great majority do not
indorse the methods of those
who go about saving men by
contract, and who measure the pay they
exact by the number of persons they
can aid to church rolls. The Salvation
Army has contributed to this result.
The impression prevails more than in
the past thatphysical emotion and senti-
mental excitement are not exalted or
permanent forces. and that the drum
ming for saints differs materially from
the tootings of campaign eXhorters for
votes. Those who are caught by the
devices of religious charlatanS are not
found to be of the moral stamina that
endures. and small net assets accrue to
the religious eXchequer. In the temper
ance line, there is growing lack of en-
thusiasm over the efforts of the men
who make lucrative parade of claims
that they are ''brands from the burn
ing" Still, it is not believed that there
is any check to the development Of the
best in religion and morals.
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-01-19

and forwarded it G.. o. D. SlO.50. The
debtor paid the amount and found in
side the receipted bill of long standing
and the tobacco.
A farmer living in the southern part
of Douglas county. Kan, has discov-
cred vein of marble and granite about
thirty feet in thickness and about
twenty-five feet below the surface. Sue
ceSsive strata developed different colors,
beginning with a mottled gray and run
ming through a blush, pink, blue, red
and clear white.
Owing to the almost unparalleled
mlldness of the present winter, the
strawberry season in Southern Alabama
will open this year at an earlier period
than ever before known. The vines are
are loaded with fruit. and shipping will
commence next week. A large portion
of the Immense crop raised in this see
ton goes to st. Louis.
Charley SprOuse, who lives in West
Fork, near Parkersburg, caught a big
pike, which weighed twenty-nine
pounds, IN strange manner day or
two ago. The rise in the KanaWha
oyerfowed the picket fence which sur
rounds Sprouse's garden. When the
water fell, the pike, which had got in
While it was up, couldn't get out and
was captured.
Nearly thirty years ago locomotive
on the Erie railway exploded her boiler
near the depot at Almond, Allegheny
county, N. Y, killing two men and in
Juring another quite severely. Last
week a mill race at that place was
cleaned out and in it was found the bell
belonging to the unfortunate locomo-
tive, which must have been hurled a
distance of forty rods.
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-01-19
SUNDAY SMILES.

A spring suit-The acrobat's costume.
Time.
The tailor trade is a fitting occupation
for anyb0dy.-Rome Sentinel.
Patti'S lowest notes reach as high as
81, 600 every night. ashlngton Star.
Blood is living retutatlon of the say
ing that nothing was made i'll vein.-
Bnghamton Herald.
The livery stable man is so mad at
this weather that he feels like Sleighing
some one.-TOledO Blade.
When man who greatly admires a
beautiful woman makes her profound
bow, does he court her on the stoop?-
Boston Courier.
Crimsonbeak-I saw you going down
the street with beau OH each arm last
night. Miss Fussanfeather Which
beaus? ''Your elbows" = Yonkers
Statesman.
He-Why do you break the engage
ment? She-Because pas dog bit you
last night, and wouldn't run the risk
OF bringing hydrOphGbia into the fam
lily for the whole world.-Epoch.
Bank President discovering cashier
in the act of eloping with the funhs)-
Well, L am surprised! Cashier-By
Jove, so am L! Funny, ehi-Lawrence
American.
Taiior-You promised me faithfully
yesterday morning that you would call
in and settle fol- that suit last night if
itralned pitchforkS. Gu ,tomer-Yes,
know; but it didn't rain pitchforks.
Time.
'Tis more blessed to give than to receive,
In this world of sin and toll;
If you dpu't believe it, you've but to ask
The lad who takes castor Oil
-keSrueY EnterDrise
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-01-19
THE sIOKl Of A DAY.
The duke of Aosta is dead.


Walker Blaine's rem 1inS are buried.
Montreal is to have no winter carnival.
Europe is connected with East Africa by
cable.
T.V. Powderly is arrested on the charge of
conspiracy.
Several Missouri state officers are charged
with bOodesm.
An 0watonna girl kills herself on account
of a love affair.
Sank Center firm will manufacture twine
from pine wood.
Winnipeg is to have a new prpar, backed
10y the government.
Robert Garrett is said ID be sane and u pris-
oner in his own honse
Congressm IN F.ank introduces q bill locat-
ing the worlds fair at st. Louis.
Mrs. l.. IL. HerSchlield. of Helena cowhides
Supt. BraGen. of The assay oiLce.
Joseph j. Lockey is elected president Of
the National German American bank.
Miss Flora Mays, of Ala5aml, runs away
with former lover or her wedding day.
Thomas Crehan, the father of Mrs. Oliver
Doud Byron aud Ada Rehan. dies in court
The suit of William Welch against ". W.
Erwin for S75,VGO damages is begun in ST.
Paul.
Warren L. Watus. of ST. Paul, wins the
Youths Companion prize of Sl,U0O offered
for the best story.
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-01-19

were much in view of their fellows.
The later impression is that the old
mummy-makers were somewhat super
stitious, but the average modern man
has notion that it is desirable TO give
people who want to chance to say a
good word about him after be has
dropped out. He doesn't think it will
really affect him in his new estate or
abode, but the feeling is natural and
general one. Possibly there is an unde-
fined norton that somehow the good
words said may reach judicial ears on
the other side, and make things more
comfortable,
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-01-19

WASHINGTON, Jan. IS.-For Wisconsin:
Fair in southern light local SHOWS i'll north
crn portion; variable winds; warmer in eas t.
ern. stationary temperature III western por-
tion. For Iowa: Fair; variable Winds;
warmer in western portion, stationary tem-
perature iii eastern portion. For Minnesota:
Light local SHOWS: lder iii northwest,
slight changes in temperature in southeast
portion: variable winds For North Dakota:
Light loral SHOWS; northerly winds: slightly
warmer in eastern, stationary temperature in
western portion. For South DaEota: Fair
followed in western portion by local SHOWS;
variable winds: sli Chilly warmer.
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-01-19

Mrs. LILLE DEvEREAUX BLAKE, a
lady of much repute in the movements
of women in New York, has made a
personal application to the mayor for
appointment as street cleaning commits
sioner. Her business qualities are su-
perior, and she makes good points 9TH
eIwise. Women are adopts in cleaning
houses, and street cleaning is a related
department for which there is special
fitness in the sex. If she is appointed
it is safe to wager that the streets
of that city will be clean enough for the
worlds fair.
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-01-19
Ex-Gov. S. I. Hauser
of Montana has arrived
in New York, says a
Hauser's
Position.

press reporter Ill that
city. The governor aSpired to political
leadership In the new state. and was
supposed to have been slated for United
States Senator by the Democrats. He
was defeated in their caucus by a
coalition of Clark and Maginnis, and
proceeded to make trouble by keeping
his friends out of the Democratic rump
legislature and so preventing quorum.
He held his position for four or five
days and then gave it up in
answer to appeals from Demo-
cratic senators i'll Washington to
let two sets of senators be sent Oh there.
He told me as much yesterday, saying
among other things: II objected to the
Democratic senators going in with the
Republican senators, and so allowing
Lieut.. Gov. Richards to make a legal
organization Of that body. | fought it
off for three weeks. | tried also to COM
promise our difficulties with the Repub-
licans, because believed it to be best
for the new state to have no dispute,
and offered to forego my own candi-
dacy in that event.
Concerning the status of the two DEM
OcratS who have credentials from Gov.
TOoIe, Mr.. Hauser said: "When all
other efforts failed to get Legislation and
two certainly legal senators elected, the
Republicans meanwhile having elected
United States senators. it seemed to be
necessity for the Democrats to have
two contestants at Washington. How
to get them there with the best creden-
tials was the question. 1t was one my
friends thought important enough to
refer to Democratic statesmen of na-
tiOnal reputation. In procuring this in
formation my friends delayed matters
several days after the caucus. when we
voted on Senator Vests suggestion, he
having wired us that he had consulted
the ablest senators in WashingtOn.'
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-01-19

A SINGULAR reason is credited to
some of the New York papers, probably
Brother SHEPARD's in particular, for
wanting the rope returned in place of the
electrical machine for the execution of
criminals. 1t is apprehended that the
uncertainty of the electricity may cause
the victim to postpone repentance fill too
late. Still, the new device is be-
lieved to be good, and should not be re-
iected. Tne rope doesn't always make
a saint of the wife killer.
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-01-19

girl was in bed, looking very much cast
down, and complaining OF pam and vio-
lent sickness.
In answer to her mistress question,
she explained that she had cold, and
had taken some patent medicine which
mad been recommended for the chill
dren.
''How much did you take?" asked her
mistress.
on the bottle. 1t said, Ten drops for an
infant, thirty drops for an adult, and q
tablespoonful for an emetic.' l knew
wasn't an infant or an adult,so thought
must be an emetic, and the pesky stuff
has pretty nigh turned me inside out"
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-01-19
WHAT GLADYS SAID.

Said Gladys. with smile of bright disdain.
(The season is her first; she knows not yet
The sweet and bitter uses of her reign,
The perils In her frowns and dimples set;)
Said Gladys land heard her little foot
Beat in impatience on the favored ground,
The while longed to button up that boot
With kisses from its toe to ankle roundJ;
Said Gladys land listened, Who would not?
Watching those lips that might q saint be
guilel--
What did she say2 Really. can't tell what
I'm only certain that saw her smile.
Madeline s. Bridges, in Puck.
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-01-19
THE VANISHED WOOD.

They've cut the wood away,
The cool, green wood,
Wherein j used to play
In happy mood.
The woodman's az has cleft
Each noble tree,
And low. alas is left
No shade for me.
The brooks that flow in May
Are dry before
The first hot summer day,
And flow no more.
The fields are brown and bare,
And parched with heat;
No more doth hover there
The pine scents sweet.
No more his note is heard
To olithely ring
Where erst the woodland bird
Wonld sit and sing.
No more the wood flowers bloom
Where once they bloomed
Amid the emerald gloom
OF ferns entombed.
Fled, now, the woodland sights,
The scented airl
Fled, all the sweet delights
That once were thereI
And fed the gracious mood
That came 10 me,
When TO that quiet wood
used to fee.
Boston Journal.
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-01-19
Inside Out.

Youths Companion.
A wise doctor was asked to name a
few of the things most productive of
ill-health, and the first item he men,
toned was patent medicine. Much of
this stuff is taken with little more in
telligence than was displayed by GER
tam Bridget.
She did not come down to her morn
ing work, and the housewife went up
stairs to see what WAS the matter. The
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-01-19
The Husband

The Husband Apropos of the re-
cent discussion in an
RepeHted. exchange as to the
best method of keep
ing giddy husbands at home O. nights,
comes the following anecdote, says the
New York Sun. A little woman up
town, whose honeymoon waned thee
years ago. discovered to her sorrow
that her husband took more inter
est in "a man who called on
important business just as [ was
leaving the Office" than in his home
life. After puZzling her pretty head for
many lonely evenings, she hit at last
upon plan to startle her liege lord into
repentance.
One night, after the little bronze clock
had sounded forth dozen chimes, the
husband entered the fat in the cOndi-
ton usual to gentlemen who devote
themselves too aSsidiUusly to their Of
fees. He found on the table a note adj
dressed TO himself, informing him that
his spouse had gone to the opera with
"a FRIEND"
Sitting word which is not to be
found in the ritual, he sank into chair,
and gazed vacantly into the fire. Re-
morse entered his heart, and he mur-
INJURED all audible vow that he would
never. no never, in italicized capitals,
go out at night without his dear little
wife. Was his repentance too late
has his wires heart already
hardened toward him? Who was
this "friend," anyhow? He would
20 to the Metropolitan and
escort her home himself. He rose eX-
citedly and started for the door, but
his progress was arrested by pair of
laughing black eyes that peeped at him
from behind the portieres. That was
six months ago, and since then fond
husband has discovered that his darling
is even more entertaining than she was
in ante-nuptial days.
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-01-19

THAT immigration literature being
distributed by the agents of Vermont
would nave been shock to the fathers.
1t includes colored maps showing the
location of deserted tracts that new set
tiers are wanted for. Bright red spots
show the lands that have failed to re-
tain the once cOhtented residents.
These are furnished with ample build
ings in good condition, and the home
seeker is offered them at from s. to $40
an acre. The lively colors on the map
are not suggested by the situation.
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-01-19

KATE FIELD means to make her new
paper popular in congress. She urges
general increase OF pay, the president
500, 900. senators $4,000, and represent
atives $4,000. She says: 'Our public
men may be rewarded in heaven. They
certainly get little but cuffs in this
world" Still, it is very rare that one of
them wants TO 70 for the rewards. They
may know more about the situation
than KATE does.
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-01-19

State Oil Inspector Nichols yesterday filed
his statement of oil inspected during Decem-
ber. There were In all Ii, ,O93 barrels of oil
inspected, and the fees paid into the state
treasury. less the inspectors salary. was
S1,Ul3.12. The inspection in Hennepin
county was 1904 barrels, Ramsey 9. 900 bar
rels and st. Louis .. rs barrels Six barrels
in Clay county were found to be unsafe.
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-01-19

THE city editor of the Boston Herald
died last week with the grip and its Sc
quences. He had held that position on
the Herald for twenty-five years. His
experience with the disease was similar
to that of WALKER BLAINE.
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-01-19

rather than to the present, would it not
be wise for Us to check this tendency to
city building, and. by aiming to dis
tribute the growing population, also
manage to maintain mere equal dis
trIDutioD of wealth?
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-01-19

IT Us said that nearly all the NAM
mothIeight to twelve-story flats in New
York city built few years ago are
now being sold under foreclosure. The
smaller ones are doing better.
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-01-19
PLUSH
MARKETS

For instance, we have
five of these, all elegant
goods, made to sell at S85,
and you can have any of
them at $40 go per cent
Less than cost. Plush gar
ments of all kinds we will
almost give away. We
don't want to carry any.
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-01-19
III s! I
DOWN.

They are down now, sure
enough, and for the first
time in many years we can
give you a choice of FIRST
QUALITY garments after
Xmas. If you want a gar
ment for next Winter it
will pay you to buy it now.
Come in and we will give
you a
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-01-19

In A recent debating society in Kan
sas the question was, docs Farming in
Kansas Pay?' When the affirmative
started in the chief negative disputant
opened the stove door and shoyeled in
q bushel of corn.