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WHERE HELIGoLAND Is.

While Germany and Grea
Britain have been making a great to-
do and holding big love feast over
the cession by the latter to the
former of Heligoland, which is said
to have proven a disturbing source
to the Russian bear and to have
formed basis for the belief that a
secret alliance and private combine
has been formed between the two
powers aforesaid, the average news
paper reader on this side of the wa
ter no doubt has as little idea of
what Heligoland is, where it is stu
ated, ETC., as he has of the man in
the moon. For the information of
those who feel an interest in it and
have not already consulted their
biographies and cyclopoedias on the
subject, it may be stated that Helig-
GLAND is little speck in the German
ocean, lying between forty and fifty
miles from the mouths of the Elbe
and Weser. Although formerly
more extensive, it is said to be at
present only about three miles in
circumference. 1t is partly a lofty
rock on which there is little town
built, and as small as it is, it is said
to possess good accommodations for
the shipping that frequently seeks
shelter there. Since early in the
present century it has been in the
possession of the British, but is for
the most part peopled by the Dutch,
or Hollanders. It has never be-
longed to the German empire, but
was seized by the British to prevent
its becoming subject to the French
in the Napoleonic wars. Since the
German empire has been consolida-
ted Prussia has had strong hank
ering after the town and port, and
Chancellor Bismarck made several
futile efforts to secure it. Although
the English did not need it and
made scarcely any use of it, they
held on to it as obstinately as they
did to Malta. As to the moving
cause which led to its cession an ex-
change says: "There has been a
little friction between the British
and German courts over the parti-
ton of the eastern coast and terrific
ries Of Africa. Stanley uttered an
alarm that the British were likely to
be overreached by the sturdy leu
tons, but an agreement has been
reached between them, which, in the
Judgment of our old countrymsn,
secures for the United Kingdom the
lions share of the Dark Continent;
and as token of satisfaction with
the bargain made Great Britain con-
cedes the worthless ledge to Ger
One report represents that
the dowager empress of Germany
secured by her personal influence
the islet for her son.
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SORRY BUNGLERS.

The Fort Worth Gazette pub
fishes list of mistakes made by the
wet nurses and managers of Geo.
Clark's little party in the present
gubernatorial ca mpaign. When
they are all enumerated the list is
quite lengthy. The Gazette only
mentions the principal mistakes, but
even though it be incomplete and
far from exhaustive the list exceeds
considerably the Mistakes of
Moses as pointed out by Pagan
Bob Ingersoll. The Gazette men
tons as mistake No. the denial by
the anti-comm1ssionists of the right
of the state to regulate railways,
when, as the Gazette observes,
every schoolboy knows that the
denial of a right is not the best ar
gument to use against the exercise
of a right. The second mistake as
signed to the anti-commission
"Warwicks" was the association of
"Hogg and a commission together
in denunciatory speeches and writ
ings until in the popular mind they
became associated together and peo-
pie who honestly favored commits
sion felt that they could not honest
ly and consistently do otherwise
than favor Hogg for governor, al
though Wheeler and Hall, two other
gubernatorial candidates, b o h
claimed to favor commission. The
third mistake of the Clarkite fugle-
men was in the demagogue cry that
capital would avoid Texas if "Hosg
end a commission" triumphed, the
people of the state being disposed
to resent the imputation that they
must sell their political souls to the
money power in other states. The
berating of Gen. Hogg for accepting
railroad pass and saving the state
money by using it, while nothing
was said about the anti commission
crowd who rode on free passes, Is
assigned as another mistake. This
was followed by the charge of black
mailing against the attorney-g general,
made before the public years after
the alleged matchmaking occurred.
The organization of "non-partlsan
business mems clubs" the meeting
of the small crowd of railroad attor-
neys, land agents and representa-
tives of mortgage loan companies
which met at Dallas aud nominated
Judge Cook and issued an address
that was an n suit to the masses of
the sturdy democratic yeomanry of
Texas, and the establishment of
Cook and Hall headquarters in the
same town with a strong umbilical
cord connecting the two are also
suggested as some Of the distin-
guished mistakes of the Clark lead
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Fourth of July Celebration.

The glorious Fourth" will be
duly celebrated in this city to-mor-
row under the auspices of the Ger
mania society, and it will no doubt
be the biggest celebration of the
event ever witnessed in Brenham
Mr.. Fred Dobert, the president OF
the Germania, requests the BANNER
to state that all those who intend to
in the street parade are
to be on hand in front of
Zelss' bakery, at the corner OF Main
and Market streets, before 10
o'clock, as it is the intention to
start promptly at that hour whether
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furious course advised by the kick
ers. Their forte seems to lie in
writing open letters and making
stump speeches with view to dis
rupting the democratic party. They
called on Chairman Finley to estab-
lish some rule to determine a per-
sons democracy so as 1t could be
ascertained who were entitled to
vote in the primaries. The chair
man replied that the party had never
announced any fixed rule, but trusted
to the loyalty and discretion of its
members in local organizations in
such matters. He suggested, how
ever, that voter should reside in
the locality where the primary is
held, should possess the general
qualifications of voter and be a
democrat !; that an open announce
ment of adherence to the principles
of democracy, accompanied by an
obligation to support its organized
action, should be regarded ordinarily
as sufficient evidence of good faith
to be a passport into democratic
primaries and that, should there
exist IN any particular locality ser
ious apprehension of an element
previously unfriendly, in bad faith
seeking admission into the primaries
the local organization should pro-
vide an effectual method to exclude
all such, being careful to close the
doors against no democratic voter
who honestly and in good faith
seeks admission. These just and
reasonable suggestions do not seem
to satisfy the noisy and rantanker-
Gus fomenters in Geo. Clark's party.
Bryan Barry, Clark's puppet, who is
nominally wet nurse and manager
of the anti-commission campaign,
oficiously and presumptuously
usurps the authority of the chairman
of the state democratic executive
committee by himself furnishing a
test of democracy for the admission
of persons to participation in the
primaries, and writes an open letter
in which he advises, aids, abets and
encourages factional strife, bolts in
local conventions and primaries and
the sending of contesting delega-
tons to the state convention where
the Clarkites fail to carry their
point. At one sweep he would have
all members of the farmers alliance
and knights of labor excluded from
democratic councils, and the Clark
lite supporters on the stump have
echoed this sentiment. Should the
rule demanded by the Clarkites be
adhered to they, themselves, would
be excluded from participation in
the primaries two years hence as
enemies of the democracy" The
Clarkites must be disciplined. The
leniency with which they have been
and the good-natured,
humorous way in which their cam
paign efforts have been treated has
been abused and has encouraged
them to act too insolently They
must halt. A word to the wise is
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RAIlRoAp coMM1ss1oNs.

The BANNER has been favored with
copy in printed pamphlet form of
a letter received by Hon. Thos. J.
Brown, of Sherman, from Hon. L.
n. Trammell, chairman of the rail-
road commission of the state of
Georgia, in reply to an inquiry ask
ing for information with reference
to the workings, effects, influences,
ETC., of the railroad commission in
that state. The great hue and cry
set up by the anti-commissionists is
and has been that the creation of a
railway commission in Texas would
put a stop to railroad building, and
without ceremony or any attempt at
argument the advocates of the pro-
posed railroad commission have been
fatty classed as enemies of the rail
road interests. The charge, how
ever, is so unreasonable that it has
had no effect, scarcely, and it is
hardly worth while to waste breath
in answering it. And instead of dig
nifying it with reply we would res
pectfully call to the attention of the
anti-commisslonists the facts given
by the chairman of the Georgia rail-
way commission in regard to its
workings and effects. In the first
place, the annual cost of the COM
mission is only $4,000, whereas
the ants in this state make great
bugaboo of the cost into which it
would plunge Texas. The Georgia
commission went into effect in 1879,
which resulted in very large reduc-
ton of freight and passenger rates.
Passenger fare was reduced from
five to. three cents, or nearly half,
while freight reduction las been
considerably larger, without any
corresponding injury to the rail
roads. The commissioner makes
out table giving the rates charged
by the railroads per 100 pounds on
bacon, flour, grain and cotton, and
then the reductions made by the
commission. This immense reduc-
ton has been as remarked, without
injury to the railroads, as is shown
by a comparative statement of the
prices at which the stocks of the
Central railroad and of the Georgia
railroad, the two principal and most
extensive roads in the state, were
selling in 1879, at the time the COM
mission was created, and now. In
1879 Georgia railroad stock sold at
rs and now sells at pol. In 1879
the Central railroad stock sold at 70
and now sells at 121. Moreover, in
to charges being redaced
and property enhanced, there has
been an immense increase in mileage.
For five years prior to the establish
ment of the commission railroad
building in Georgia averaged not ex
ceedlng twenty miles per annum.
Since the establishment of the com
two thousand miles of road
have been built. an a, erage Of two
hundred miles a year. To show
how the people of Georgia regard |
The railway commission, all of the |
candidates for governor for the past |
light years, the members Of the |
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THE TETHER TAUT.

When the little clique of Clarkites
got together in Dallas in limitation
of the three tailors of Tooley street
and after resoluting and nominating
gubernational candidate, issued an
address Haunting an insult into the
face of the democracy of Texas and
charging that the baser elements
swayed by the baser passions had
gotten control of it, the BANNER was
firmly convinced that all that was
necessary to be done to effectually
dispose of these arrogant, presump-
tuous self-styled apostolic success
sors and representatives of the pure
democracy, was to give them all the
rope that they wanted. They were
gwen the rope and they have sue
cessfully committed felo de Sc. But
after hanging themselves tLey refuse
to behave like decent corpses and
persist in kicking and making a lot
of noise. So much so that Chair
man Finley. of the state democratic
executive committee, has been com
PEELED to issue another address to
the party, warning every true demo-
crat against the seditious and in
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STRANGER THAN FICTION.

Once in while persons with liter
airy aspirations can be heard deplor-
ing the fact that they were not born
a few centuries earlier so that they
could have had plenty of subjects
upon which to have written in the
gold mine of literature without hit
ting on something upon which
somebody else had written
before and thereby run the
risk of being accused of pla-
gia1ism. But time and experience
prove that truth is stranger than
fiction and that there is nothing I'M
real, or, at least, that has not an air
of ultimate probability about it.
Hence, only little of the creative
genius with bit of the romancing
disposition ought to be sufficient en-
dowment for any person aspiring to
literary fame. When Jules Verne
wrote his celebrated novel "Around
the World in so Days" it was regard
ed as a pure piece of romancing fc-
ton. The strongest element about
works of fiction is the air of impro-
liability, and the idea of person be-
ing able to encircle the globe in that
length of time when he wrote his
book was regarded as one of the
purest of fctions. But the recent
trips of Miss Nellie Bly,, Miss Bis
land and of George Francis Train
have demonstrated that the distance
can be Travelled over in considerably
less time even than that. We have
a recent instance of the improbable
and unreal becoming probabilities
and realities. Robert Louis Steven
son, the author of '.Dr. Jekyll and
Mr.. Hyde" once wrote serio- comic
sketch of an imaginary organization
of morose beings designated the
Suicide club" whose eligibility to
membership prescribed that each
member was to die by his own hand
upon a fixed day of the year, the
person and place of the tragedy to
be designated by a monthly drawing
of lots. 1t is safe to say that when
the author wrote this fcticn he
never dreamed that it would ever
have a parallel in reality. But it has
A dispatch from New York the other
day contained a sequel to the exis-
tence of such an organization in an
the death by suicide of
one Wendell Baum. -Four years ago
five citizens of German birth met on
an Easter Monday, and feeling low
spirited, they agreed half in jest to
form themselves into club for the
purpose of ommitting suicide, one
each year It was decided that lots
should be drawn right then and
there to determine the victim for the
first Easter Monday, and the lot fell
on a man named Schwartzenheim.
He lived his year out without any
feeling of discontinue at
his approaching doom, but on the
date set the four other members
met and each received a telegram
announcing that he had cut his
throat. The club drank to his men,
DRY and cast lots for the next victim.
Each killed himself according to his
lot, Wendell Baum being the last to
shuttle off. The president of the
club received a note from Baum's
landlady announcing the fact. The
president is the only member now
left and several wagers have been
made that he will kill himself next
Easter if he is not placed under re-
straint.
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The Waco News is an optimist.
1t says: "Our,locsl weather prophet
predicts drouth. 1t is just as easy
to predict nice showers and much
more pleasant.
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The grand german fest and ball
to be given by the Washington
brass band will be held at the paEil-
ion one mile west of Washington on
the BRENNAN road, next Sunday,
July 9th. Everybody is cordially
invited to attend,
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ers. The Gazette truly says in con-
clusion that the arguments $50
called by courtesy of the Clarkites
shave been such as to excite the re-
sentiment of the people, y while their
tricks shave been such as to martyr
ize Mr.. Hogg and endear him to the
people
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-07-03

The members of the Light Guard
band report having had an enjoyable
time at the Zionsville fest on Sun
day.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-07-03

Ma. CARL RoEssLER was IN the
city on Tuesday after a coffin for a
little child who died in the Wiede
settlement.
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Born of the local military COM.
panies will leave for San Antoni
next Saturday night. They will haYs
a coach apiece.
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Mr.. D. B. WILLIAMS says that if it
doesn't rain in a few days crops viii
be made to suffer. Old corn is al
ready made, but young corn Will be
cut short.
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SHERIFF DEYER spent Monday
travelling out in the country in the
neighborhood of Hidalgo bluffs, and
he reports fine crops out that way.
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The Waco Day says Lodges fed
eral election bill ought to have an
appropriate caption, and suggests
GA bill to raise h-ll in the South, ="
etc.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-07-03

The opening speech" of Dick
Hall, the alleged gubernatorial can
didate, is still being sent out as a
supplement" with some of the coun-
try papers.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-07-03

HUGH McCLUSe, son of Capt. Fl.
L. McClung, is now installed in
District Clerk Herbet,s Office as an.
assistant.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-07-03

The BANNER has no patience with
those politicians and suffragians
who profess to be in favor of Gen.
Hogg for governor and yet make
great blow about being free men
and being opposed to instructions.
AT any rate If the democrats
of Washington county are in favor
of Hogg and believe he is the best
man in the race they should come
square out for him and send an in
stI-ucted delegation so that the
moral influence may be worth some
thing in inducing other counties to
instruct for him. Let it not be
known only by hearsay how the
delegates from Washington county
to the state convention stand.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-07-03

Tom ESTES has succeeded Black
Lockridge, Jr., at the Wells Fargo
express Office. Black goes to Waco
to accept position.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-07-03

The Texas Farmer has got to be
an issue in the campaign among the
Clarkites. Col. Bill Shaw has been
warming them under their shirt-tails
a little hotter than they could stand.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-07-03

YESTERDAY afternoon Mr.. August
Lindemann, the hardware merchant,
took list and went around to Sc
cure the signatures of merchants
and business men who would agree
to close up tomorrow and give their
clerks chance to celebrate the
GLORIOUS Fourth He was not
over an hour and secured the sigma.
lures of nineteen firms and did not
meet with refusal from anybody.
The stores will be closed after
eleven o'clock in the morning.
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Thursday, July 3. 1890.

The BANNER congratulates the Gal
weston News on the nomination Of
its esteemed friend, Hon. Miles
Crowley, as a candidate for the leg
islature.
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Mr.. L. J. LocKErr shipped a cof
fin on Friday to Lyons. The coffin
was ordered by A. J. Radford.
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NOTICE.
assistant.

The cepartnership heretofore existing be-
tween Irwin Is johnson, in the Saloon bust
ness at Burton, has been dissolved by mu-
tual consent, Irwin retiring from the firm,
and beng succeeded by Mr.. Craig, the style
of the firm now being Johnson & Craig, who
assume all liabilities OF the iaiefirm.
1ot(-T Tpvr-rN
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In dispatch to the Galveston
News from Cameron, the home of
the federal supervisor OF census for
this district, the population of Bren-
ham is put down at five thousand
one hundred and fifty which is a gain
of only nine hundred and fifty in ten
years, and yet there have been that
many babies born in the place with
in that length of time. The above
figures, while not give as exact, are
said to be approximately correct, and
it is claimed by the supervisor that
the precise figures will not vary
more than few score.
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The BANNER having reprobated the
Galveston News for beng a meddle-
some interloper in the affairs of the
democratic party, feeling of lone
someness has come over the News
and it longs for company. 1t pleads
pathetically for recognition of the
Group" or Small Party" and sug-
gests the organization Of such
party after the manner of British
and European politics. If the News
but knew it, it has already what its
heart yearns for. The Clark gang is
about the smallest group of So
called politicians in America.
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CoLoRED SUMNER NoRMu.-Prof.
Harris, principal, is now under full
Roadway and doing good work.
The following is the program of ex-
ercises for to-day:
How to teach spelling.-J. Il.
Hughes.
Elementary Grammar. &C. S.
Williamson.
How to teach addition.-H. j.
McAdoo.
Elementary Geography.-G. W.
Patterson.
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there is anybody in the procession
or not, in order to avoid the heat of
the day. A military salute will be
fired by the Brennan Field Artillery /.
at 6 o'clock. From eight to ten
o'clock there will be music on the
square. The procession will start
punctually at 10 o'clock in the fol
lowing order: Fred Fisher, chief
marshal, and Ed. Amsler and F. W
Schuerenberg, assistants: Light
Guard brass band, BRENNAN Light
Guard, Brennan Fire Department.
Societies and Civic organizations on !.
foot, Brennan Field Artillery and z
people in carriages. The procession
will march once around the court
house and then to the park. At IL !.
o'clock there will be prize shooting
by the Germania shooting club; din
ner at II; speaking at 2 o'clock by
W. W. Searcy, Esq, orator of the
day; children's games and prizes
from three to five o'clock; drill BIZ
Light Guard and Field Artillery at
6 o'clock. During the noon hour
there will be concert by the Light
Guard band and singing by the
Maenperchor. The prize shoot by
the Brennan gun club will take
place some time during the after
noon. At night there will be grand
fireworks at s o'clock, and at 9
o'clock the ball begins. The pavil-
ion has been finished and the park
has been placedlin fine order. La
dies will find plenty of seats on the
ground and nice soda water, ice
cream and other refreshments sepa-
rate from the bar. Everybody is in :,
yited to attend the celebration.
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ANOTHER batch of county and pre-
cinct conventions were held on
Saturday. Of the county conYen-
tions the following instructed for
Hogg for governor: Cooke, Mitchell,
Marion, Lampasas, Concho, Comal,
Burleson, Llano, Kinney, LaSalle,
Orange and Wharton. For Cook:
Hardin, Hemphill and Ell Paso. In
the primary conventions the follow.
ing counties were carried for Hogg:
Colorado, Washington, Live Oak,
Hays, Upshar, RockEall and Harris,
and none for Cook. This is the way
it will be throughout, except that it
will be more and more unanimous for
Hogg.
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FoR the sake of decency it is to
be regretted that those self-confess-
ed bushwhackers and renegade
sheets, the two Newses, will persist
in taking a dish in the affairs of the
democratic party. On last Sunday
these papers contained a lengthy
communication from ''staff cores
pondent," who has unearthed a con
spiracy by dark lanternites to steal
the democratic party. What do
the Newses care if the democratic
party is kidnapped? Have they not
openly avowed in the present cam
paign that they will not support the
next democratic nominee for gov
ernor