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roll-calls there would be no record
of his presence. He is large man,
slow of movement and has the ap-
pearance of being lazy. His atti-
tude is stolid and he appears i'm
movable, but he is one of the most
alert men in the house. He has the
reputation of being one of the two
best lawyers in the house, E. B.
Taylor being the other, and though
he does not speak, the record is full
of his wisdom and is often bright
ened by his wit. Men in the house
are glad to sit near him, as one
might be glad to have a well-stocked
library to draw from. Culberson is
a mine from which others dig gems.
Saying nothing himself, he tells
this member or that member some
good thing to say, and the recipient
of his suggestion gets the credit for
the wit or wisdom dropped from the
lips of the sphynx. The record is
full of the sayings OF the man who
never speaks. Sitting in silence he
speaks with dozen tongues"
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The dailies bring him no relief.
There is no news. Even Stanley,
who never found it too hot in
Africa for his energy of courage, is
resting in England. He promises
to come over and see US at the be-
ginning of cool weather. There is
no help. The paper must be off on
time. The machine cannot be
stopped, and that cry of copy will
pursue We editors by day and startle
him in his dreams at night through
all this cheated term" There is no
help for US. This burden we bear
for our readers. There is but one
way in which they can in any way
show their compassion and give US
a little comfort, and that is to pay
up their subscription. 1t is as re-
freshing as ice-water-money for
your subscriptions, we mean.
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THE TIRED EDITOR,

The commonest interrogation
heard on the streets nowadays is
the provokingly impertinent one,
rs it hot enough for you p This
question is calculated to exasperate
the newspaperman more than any
other class of individuals. For, it
forcibly recalls to his mind what an
irksome task is ever set before him
and of what tribulations he is com
PEELED to go through in the dis
charge of his duty to his patrons.
There is nobody but an experienced
newspaper man who can realize
what trying ordeal and a burden
some task it is to write during hot
weather-especially for a daily
newspaper. Some people no doubt
have an idea that it is pleasant
pastime. And it may be by way of
variety and for a change, where one
is privileged to take up his pen and
dash off few lines and lay it down
as the humor strikes him. But
when it becomes routine work and
the editor realizes that he has daily
such an amount of space to fill and
that he must fill it whether he feels
in the humor or not, it is that which
vexes and harnesses his tired spirit
and works him into a frenzy when
impertinently asked if it is hot
enough for him. The above intro
ductory remarks must serve as suffi-
Gent excuse to the readers of the
BANNER for the following clipping
from a Methodist exchange, with
which we are at this time thorough
ly en- rapport, and which is herewith
reproduced for purpose:
But We editor, what of We editor
No rest for him. Only more work
Too hot for correspondents to write
too hot for any body to write a
/ sermon for the pulpit-too hot even
to write about baptism or to prove
that the Complexities Will never get
to heaven. So We editor must make
bricks without straw, and truly he
''passeth through the brickkiln. ;"
He swelters in his office, and the
cry Of copy is the heartIess cry of
the task-master. He turns to his
exchanges. There is nothing worth
copying. How fiat and insipid the
ipapers become this hot weather
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THE TEXAS DELEGATION.

A recent issue of the New York
Commercial Advertiser contains a
writeup by its Washington cores
pondent of the delegation from this
state in the national house of repre-
sentatives, of which all Texans
should feel proud. The Lone Star
state for several years past has been
ably represented in the national
halls OF legislation, and at no time,
it would seem, has her representa-
tives succeeded in commanding a
higher degree of respect and infu-
ence than is entertained for the sit
ting members. The New York con-
temporary says that, taking the
whole delegation through, there is
no state in the union better repre-
sented, and that while they are all
men of far more than avearge ability
they are known as the silent delega-
ton of the house. Col. Buck Kill
gore is put down as the most loqua-
cious member, speaking oftener tnan
any of the others, but his one
speech is short and effective. He is
the great collector" usurping the
place of Holman, of Indiana, who
for years has been dubbed 'the
watchdog of the treasury His
manner is described as modest and
amiable. He never uses manuscript
but speaks freely with perfect self
confidence. Mr.. Savers is paid a
very high compliment. He is said
to have taken the place of the late
Mr.. Randall in the house as an intel
ligent economist and authority on
appropriations, in respect to which
he is considered the best informed
member and speaks often, but never
uses his information for buucombe,
but business. Congressman Grain,
who was one of the most promising
young orators of the last congress
and who was highly esteemed by
President Cleveland, has dropped
more into habitual silence as he ma
lures. Judge Abbott has had little
to say, and MIR. Moore has only
come into prominence in opposing
the outrage of unseating members
in the election contests. The high
est compliment is reserved for Hon
D. B. Culberson. OF him the cor
respondent says: He seldom says
word on the floor, and but for the
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MEETS WITH FAVOR.

The movement inaugurated il
Richmond, Va, during the ceremo
MES of unwilling the equestrian
statue of General Robert E. Lee, tc
erect jointly in Baltimore or some
other Southern city monument tc
the memory of both Ulysses S
Grant and Robert E. Lee, has moi
only met with favor among the old
confederates, but strikes a respon
sive chord in the hearts of many
friends in the North, and another
proposition has been made to erect
an equestrian statue of the two lead
ing generals of the opposing hosts
in the closing scenes of the late
civil strife at Cumberland Gap, an
important and historic battle-ground
The movement is warmly supported
and endorsed by Murat Halstead's
paper, the Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette, which has turned from a
rabid, bloody-shirt bowler to iber-
al, broad-gauged and dignifed pa
per, although it is still republican in
politics. Concerning the proposed
monument the Cincinnati paper
says: at should not be question
of location, or a question of the size
of the statues, or a question of what
material the monuments should be
built of. The question at heart to
every true American citizen is the
sentiment which is permeating the
country at large, and which is
sweeping everything before 1.-THE
sentiments of reconciliation, of unity
and fraternal love. 1t is not SO
much the question of the statues of
the men themselves that has made
this project SO extremely popular as
it is the monument of peace, inaugu-
rated by ex-confederate soldiers, in
dorsed by the members of the
Grand Army of the Republic, and
sustained by the citizens of every
state, and who demand the burial of
the bloody-shirt, and who are anz-
ious to immortalize the periods of
the reunion of once divided coun-
try, reunited in everything that
goes to make nation powerful.
prosperous, happy and contented.
Such sentiments coming from a pa
per estwhile an implacable and un,
compromising foe of the South are
bound to be echoed throughout the
North, and the probabilities are that
the North's military hero is at last
to be properly honored, although
the movement had to cone from
this section.
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REEDS FORCE BILL.

The New Orleans Times-Demo-
crat expresses a confident belief that
Cowpuncher Reed will not be able
to drive the republican members of
the senate to the solid support of
the infamous Lodge federal election
bill, and that in this body the meas
ure will meet with a signal defeat.
In the same spirit the Chicago
News, an independent republican
paper, offers consolation in the sug-
gestion that even If the obnoxious
measure should become a law it has
often happened that disreputable
political practices have reacted with
swift vengeance upon men response
Bile for them, and that good citizens
may rest easy in the knowledge that
virtue resides with the people, even
though for time bad men seem to
prosper. Outside of fewrabid parti-
san organs which live off the foul va
pors OF malice and sectional hate
there isn't scarcely a newspaper IN
the country of responsibility and ex-
tended circulation that doesn't de-
nounce the bill, and 1t is not be-
lieved that the sober second thought
of the people will countenance the
Infamous measure. The Philadel-
phia Record says if it should pass it
would be a confession on the part of
the republican party that it no long
er relies on the popular suffrage as
basis of strength, and that it is de-
termined to exc out its lack of votes
by force and fraud. The Record
further ventures the opinion that the
passage of the bill would be the
death knell of the party it is intend
ed to keep alive. The Philadelphia
Times characterizes the bill as
monster birth of revolutionary par
tisanship' and says that if the SEN
ate doesn't halt it, its passage will
be the death-kneel of republicanism.
The Louisville Courier journal says:
The bill is sectional throughout
it is the conception of a little junta
in charge of the republican party, a
iunta made up of assumption, insin-
cerity, sectional malice and partisan
corruption. This cabal is blind and
bigoted, animated by persistent
desire to prosecute, which has run
in the blood of New England states
men since the time they burnt
witches and drove Roger Williams
from his home" The Kansas City
Times ventures the following opin-
ion: "Bent on perpetuating
power which has offended public
opinion and driven to the OPPOSITION
all the intelligence and political mo-
rality of the country, the republicaa
party has adopted in its caucus a
continuance for kneading into a co
herring mass the ignorant negro vote
of the South and hurting it against
not only the commerce and good Or
der of that section, but against the
growing sentiment of the West and
North upon the uppermost ques-
tions of taxation and finance. Super
visors and deputy marshals, who
will most certainly be appointed
from among the most desperate and
constituencies partisan heelers, are
to make popular elections the same
farce that has been
in the caucus bound votes
Of the present house of representa-
tives." Should the bill become a
law it would entail a cost of from
ten to fifteen million dollars at
every election held.
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ANTI-CoMMIssION PALAvER.

President Lott OF the Arkansas
Pass railroad has returned to San
Antonio and says the wild agita,
ton" of the commission question is
what prevented him from raising
money in New York to pay interest
on the company's bonds.-Houston
Age.
The above recalls another in
stance when President Lott went to
Boston for the purpose of borrow
ing money to build the northwes-
tern extension of the Arkansas Pass
road to Kerrville. This writer was
at the time city editor of the San
Antonio Times and telegraphic cor
respondent of the Galveston News.
The Arkansas Pass road was three OF
four months behind in paying off its
employees, as it had always been be-
fore and has been since. Employees
were paid off in time checks which
they could only get cashed at a
heavy discount, and finally the
banks refused to cash them at any
price almost. Many contractors
and sub-contractors on the road who
had to hire men and teams and pay
them off in cash were broken and
lost thousands of dollars by having
to wait indefinitely for their pay.
The railroad men would come to
this writer day after day and week
after week and month after month
with the complaint that the railroad
company was behind with them and
that they could not get paid off.
The writer was begged and impor-
tuned to write up" the railroad
company and to champion the cause
of the laborers. But as the Arkansas
Pass road was regarded as strictly a
San. Antonio enterprise the San An
tonic papers were loath to publish
that might be unfavorable.
The writer, however, sent a dispatch
to the Galveston News stating the
financial condition Of the road. The
dispatch got into the associated
press and the next morning while
President Lott, who was in Boston,
as stated, for the purpose of bor-
money, was seated at his ho-
tel slipping his coffee and reading
over his paper he had the pleasure
of reading the interesting bit of
news. He telegraphed at once to
Manager Yoakum to see the cores
pondent and try to have it
smoothed over, as it prevented him
from borrowing money. This was
before the wild agitation of a rail-
way commission began, and is exact
ly the cause which now prevents the
road from borrowing money. The
San Antonio & Arkansas Pass COM
pany started to build the road with
out cent of money, scarcely, and
has not only been behind constantly
in paying off its hands, but while
behind has constantly been
borrowing money to construct new
branches and mortgaging every foot
of it. The railway commission agi-
tation has no more to do with the
difficulty of borrowing money than
the man in the moon. But the
above from the Houston Age is a
fair sample of the palaver which the
ants have been using.
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The county commissioners held a
short called meeting yesterday ef-
ternoon to elect constable in the
It'll or Gay Hill precinct. One of
the bondsmen of Constable j. R.
Roberts had withdrawn and the
court had ordered the constable to
give new bond, which he failed to
comply with. Commissioners Ans
Ter and Broesche and judge Kirk
were present at the meeting The
office was declared vacant and Gus
Schumacher was elected to fill the
vacancy.
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BUTTERwoRrH, of Ohio, makes the
following protest against the tyranny
of Cowpuncher Reed and the caucus:
If 1 were about to be gathered to
my fathers, and if [ were allowed
the privilege of expressing one final
wish for the welfare of my country,
one wish that would be gratifed,
should ask that for just one year
just one session-members of Con
gress should be enabled and permit
ted to honestly express their
thoughts and feelings on the floor
of the House, and to honestly vote
accordinging to their best judg-
ment.
There is nothing manly in such a
wall as the above coming from q
man like Butterworth. 1t is a con-
fession of abIect moral cowardlce,
and he deserves neither sympathy
nor applause for yenturing to pro
test.
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MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.
TULANE UNIVERSITY or LOUISIANA,

Formerly '47-'Si, the University Of Louisiahai
Its advantages for practical instruction. and
especially in the diseases of the Southwest,
are unequale1, as the law secures it super
abundant materials from the great Charity
Hospital with its 700 beds, and 10000 pa
tients annually. Students have no hospital
tees to pay and special instruction IS daily
given at the RED SIDE OF THE sIcK, as in 30
other institution. Next college session be-
gins October Goth, 1890. For catalogue or
information, address
PROF. S. E. CHAILLE, N. D., DEAN,
e P. o. Drauer e6I, y,Ne'r Orleans, Ia.
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A Bold Theft.

On Tuesday a German farmer
named Bammel, who lives at Well
come, in Austin county, came into
Brennan with eight hundred pounds
of honey, which he sold and invested
the proceeds in dry goods, groceries
and articles of merchandise. After
loading his wares on his wagon he
drove into Amsler's yard and left
his team for a few seconds to go to
Schmid Bros to settle for some of
his purchases. He is certain that he
was gone from his wagon not ex-
ceeding five minutes but when hes
returned he found that the wagon
was bare and that everything had
been stolen and spirited away.
Whoever committed the theft was a
bold and slick artist, and it is mar
vel how he managed to get away
with the goods in such short order
without being detected.
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Mr.. HEBER STONE says that his ie9l
factory has made the most success
full run this summer that it has eya
made. The machinery is all in peri
feet working order and yet the fac
tory is not able to supply the de-
mand. There seems to be general
ice famine and the BRENNAN fac tory
is receiving orders from all over the
country. The BANNER is glad to
know that it is at last paying run
ming expenses.
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SOME Of the boys who are attend
ing the military encampment at San
Antonio are not having as much fun
as they anticipated, Judging by the
blue letters which their friends be-
hind have received from them. They
complain that the camp is too far
out for them to see much of the
city, and, besides, the military dis
cipline is so strictly enforced that
they cannot get off to go skylark-
ing.
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Has the Waco Day Topped? 1t
says it lis fain to confess that Gen.
Hogg's boom is big one" We
thought it would be sorry confes-
sion.
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Two OR three days ago a fourteen
year-old lad named Crowhurst, living
in the southern portion of the city
at the Testard place, became
tangled up in the ropes while lead
ing a couple of horses. The ami
mails ierked him around consldera-
bly, and he sustained what the doc
tors call ''green stick" fracture.
His arm, was not broken but was
torn, twisted and bruised up badly.
The attending physician reported
him out of pain Yesterday. y
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-07-10

GEN. HoGG closed his campaign
for the governorship at San Antonio
on Saturday night. He will rest
until the convention meets.
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SUPPOSE the papers all join in agi-
Eating the enforcement Of the
vagrancy laws for a change from the
discussion of politics.
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ABOUT dozen more counties have
instructed for Hogg, and none for
Cook, Hall or Wheeler.
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TIE Memphis Avalanche says that
instead Of arguing at length on the
constitutionality of the election bill,
the Southern members of congress
would do well to adopt as their
guide in debate on that measure the
language of Mr.. Hemphill, of South
Carolina: I'VE must either rule the
South or leave it, and we will not
leave it..
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JUDGE KIRK and County Commits
sionors Amsler and Broesche went
down to Bellville yesterday evening
to witness the contest OF road ma
chimes to-day.
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IT still appears to be nip and tucE
between Kilgore and Hubbard IL
the congressional race.
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Col. ROBERT STAFFORD and his
brother John Stafford, prominent
bankers, citizens and stockmen of
Columbus, Colorado county, were
shockingly murdered on Monday
evening by the city marshal of the
place. It was a most unfortunate
affair and a reproach to the entire
state, besides a wrong and injury
inflicted upon every property-owner
in the town. 1t is safe to say that
real estate will not be in very great
demand at Columbus for some time
to come.
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The anti-eommissionists will not
be compelled to eat crow at San
Antonio. They may have their
choice of this bird or Cooked goose.
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EVERY train for the past several
days has carried off from one to a
dozen Brenhamites bent on hunting
a cooler place and enjoying a sum-
mer vacation.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-07-10

For the first time IL many years,
not single peach has been seen in
market in Brenham this year.
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WBEN people desire to have mis-
takes corrected in the paper they
should see that the matter IS of suf-
ficient Importance to demand a cor
rection.
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Thursday, July 10. 1890

The next legislature of Texas will
have grand opportunity to distin-
guish itself.
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Mr.. JOIN HARVEY, who was in
town yesterday, reported that all of
the old settlers on Kentucky Ridge
were selling out.
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Mrs. JAKE NEU, whose residence
was destroyed by fire few weeks
ago, has the lumber hauled on the
ground with which to build a new
residence.
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OMAEA WoRLD-HERALD: Harrison
has scored SIX vetoes! Go it, old
mani Keep your wind and don't
get ratified, and, above all, look out
for low balls.
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THERE will be a big prize-shoot
again at Burton on the 18th of Au-
gust under the auspices of the gun
club of that place.
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THE San Antonio Times, although
rather late about it, announces in a
double loaded editorial that it will
henceforth be found supporting
Hogg for governor.
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SINCE the measles subsided the
doctors say that they receive very
few calls.
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THE Chappell Hill people have
started movement to improve and
beautify the two cemeteries in that
community known as the Masonic
cemetery and the Atkinson burying
ground.
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The colored man, Frederick Gala.
han, and the two women, Elvina
King and Mary Hosea, who were
mixed up In the row at the moon
light picnic given at the colored
schoolhouse out on the Gay Hill
road Saturday night were fined 81
each and costs in Justice Curry's
court yesterday.
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The paragraph going the rounds
that VIM. Green, colored man from
Kyle, is running for congress in the
Sth district, seems to be mistake.
It is probable that VIM. Green, a
white republican farmer from Austin
county, is the candidate alluded to.
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The entertainment of the Young
Mems Social club on Tuesday even
ing was the most SHINY attended
one of the season. The program,
however, was very good one,
albeit little late in being presented.
There were very few married people
present.
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THERE are few inconsistent gen
tlemen hereabouts that claim to be
in favor of Hogg for governor but
opposed to instructions, and yet
were very anxious to have them.
selves and their friends instructed
for county Offices in the primary
conventions.
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ONLY two marriage licenses were
issued during the past week. They
were to John Maloin and Belle
White, and to William Sommerfeld
and Augusta Mier.
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A LITERALLY signed endorsement
of Mr.. Tom Evans appears in this
issue, which is worthy of careful
perusal. Mr.. Evans is an old citi-
zen of Washington county and his
claims deserve to be carefully con.
sidered by the county convention.