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4 ham and county Of Washing
ton, to-wit:
Mr.. 0. N. Corritus' eIe-
giant residence with two lots
and improvements thereon,
situated on Jackson street.
An early purchaser will GER
tainly get a bargain in this
property.
Mr.. Julian McFarland's
elegant home and improve
ments at a bargain.
MIR. Giesecke's lot of one
acre of land with five room
house, two galleries, good
well and stable thereon, next
to korff's residence. Price
$175O.
Mr.. T. J. Pampell's loo
acre farm and improvements,
one mile east of city, IS acres
in cultivation, rented at So
per acre. Price $500 per
acre.
MIR. PampeIPs two city lots,
coed houses on each, situated
near Russi's mills, Price
$4,000 each.
Mr.. T, J. Pampel's 3 lots
in Camptown west of Public
School building, same side,
AMI street.
Mr.. Larry Brennan's i'm
proved place on the Central
railroad, 800 yards south of
Union depot. Price $1,000.
1t is a bargain.
Mr.. A. G. Jessens place, 1
acre lot, good house thereon,
on Clinton street, near Cen
tral depot Cheap.
Mrs. s. Brooks place, one
lot and improvements on Pc
can street, beautiful location;
rents at SIS per month. Price
$3.50,
Mr.. T. J. Evans fine 600
acre farm near the town of
Washington, $40 acres in cul-
tivation, rented at $3.50 to
$500 per acre. This farm is
offered at a bargain to an
early purchaser.
Mrs. Spoford's lands, about
5 miles east of BRENNAN on
he Independence road fine
black land, is now on the
market, in small OF large
racts. Several other houses
md lots for sale or rent in
-ariOus portions of the city.
Lite Accident and Fire Insurance Gf-
35tGd in first class companies. Con-
llt your interests by giving me a GSA
ThGl needing anything in my line
JNO, IS. VENSOE
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

The State Of Texas, Washington County:
All persons having claims against the es.
tate OF Joel Newman, deceased. are hereby
notified that, OF the 2lst day of May 1890
letters tes'amentary in said estate was grant.
ed me and all persons are required to pre-
sent their claims thin the time prescribed
BY law. My residence and postofffce address
is Brady, McCu!loch county, Texas.
F. NJ. NEWMAN.
BRENNAN, TEXAS, May q, 1890.
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HEDER STONE.
MRS. A. NJ. GIDpINss
GilIGFS, Do Your Own WORK.

The undersigned has bought the right for
Washington county for the FARMERS
GIN SAW GUNNER AND SHARP
ENER, with which any sinner can sharpen
his own Gin ut a mere nominal cost. The
machines can be had at Burton of f. GIEpR
or c. W. Frazer. who is now visiting the
ginners of Washington county.
BRENNAN, Texas, June 8, 1890.
c. w. FRAZER, Burton-We have exam
ined the Farmers GIN sharpener and find
that the same does neat and fast work
RCFF & MILLER.
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TERNs.-Legal and transient advertise
nents 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.
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JUDGE Cook is lowering his dignity
and self-respect BY running for gov
ernor at the instigation of the Clark
crowd. They have no idea of being
able to secure the nomination for
him and make no pretentions that
way. 1t is simply anything to beat
Hogg. The Clark organs concede
that Hogg will go into the conven-
ton with a majority of the delegates
instructed for and in favor of him
and their only hope is to prevent a
two-thirds majority. Hence, it is
as plain as the nose ON mans face
that Cook is simply being used as a
tool and catspaw just like Hall.
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OUR AGENTS.

JOIN F. WEBUsCH, Burton, Texas.
F. NJ. GRIFFIN, Lyons, Texas.
10 MIKEsKI, Wesley, Texas.
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Schuetzenfest,
AT
VALLEY GROVE.
in Fritz Harms pasture,
Sunday June q. 1890.

Prizes will be given to the children for
climbing the SLICK pole and hitting the
ROSTERS head blindfolded and to the old
people for rum nc in sacks. The Brenharn
Field Artillery Band will furnish the music.
Refreshments on the ground. The Brenhan
Field Artillery are invited to attend.
A. G. c. EOSS
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Bee county initiates the Cook
campaign by being the first to in
struct her delegates for him.-Lul-
ing Signal.
The Signal has either been deceiv-
ed by the methods of some OF the
other Clarkite organs, or else it
humors the deception. The time
that Bee county instructed for Cook
was during the excitement over
fence-cutting lawlessness in Western
and Southwestern Texas four or five
years ago, on which occasion Judge
Cook advertised himself through the
papers like he did later in the rail
road strike. The BANNER wagers the
Signal dollars to doughnuts that
Bee county will instruct for Hogg.
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Two Mexicans were found MUIR
dered near Pena the other day.
They were citizens of Mexico and
crossed the river to take part in a
gambling feast. They were success
full in the games and won all the
money, 1t is supposed they were
followed up by their victims.
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The Galveston News still persists
in being an interloper and an Off
cious intermeddler in the affairs of
the democratic party. 1t says that
the commissioners are playing a
desperate game to secure instruc-
tons for Hogg by holding primaries
without sufficient notice and rushing
things for him. In making this
charge the News illustrates the
story of stop thief" and gives away
the scheme Of the Clarkites. For
instance, Bastrop country is over
whelmningly in favor of Hogg and
a commission. A few Clarkites
around tie town of Bas-
trop held "mass-meeting" OF demo,
Gratis without even the formality
Of holding primaries and elected
delegates. They dared not send a
solid Clark delegation for fear Of the
consequences Of such an outrage,
and, therefore, divided the delega-
lion up between Clark and Hogg.
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GIDDINGS & ELDRIDGE.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-07
London in 1916.
Laurence Hutton, in Harper's Weekly.

The ancieut rhymester who met his sis
ter Ann as they were both crossing Lon
don Bridge in the thirteenth year of the
first James, if he could come back to Lon
don in the ffty-third year of Victoria,
would find it more easy to recognize his
sister Ann than to recognize London
Bridge, or London itself In 1916 London
was the London of Shakespeare and Ben
Johnson. and London as the wars of New
York and Lancaster had found and left it
no more like to the London of to-day
than was the fiat island discovered by
Hendrlck Hudson in 1909 like unto the
metropolitan city of 1890 which we call
New York. In 1916 little John Milton was
beginning the study of Latin in Pawl' s
Schulz; Bacon was living in chambers in
Gray's Inn; Dayton occupied the bay-win-
dow house next to the east end of st.
Dunstan's Church in Fleet Street; Izaak
Walton had halls of shop in the same
thoroughfare two doors west of Chancery
Lane, and was buying his fshhooks in
Harp Alley; Raleigh, having finished his
History of the World, was fitting out his
expedition to Guiana; Belmont and
Fletcher were living together on the
Bankside, not far from the Play House.
with 1.-The same cloaths and cloake, ETC..
between them and John Taylor, the
Water Poet, was still waterman, getting
ready to start on his ''Pennyless Pilgrim
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-07
Adventures on the Plains.

Henry Innfan, in Harper's Weekly.
Early in March, 1867, a party of friends,
all old buffalo hunters, now living and
prominent citizens of Wichita and Great
Bend in Kansas, were camped in Para
disc Valley then a famous rendezvous of
the animals they were after. One day,
when out on the range stalking, and wide
ly separated from each other, an awful
blizzard came up. Three reached camp
the furthest away was fairly caught in it.,
and night coming on was compelled to re-
sort to method frequently employed by
persons lost on the plains. Luckily he
soon found a superannuated bull that had
been abandoned by the herd, and killing
him, took out the viscera, and himself
crawled inside the huge beast, where he
lay comparatively comfortable until morn
ing, the storm having cleared off, and the
sun shining brightly. But when he at
tempted to get out, found himself a pris-
oner, the immense ribs of the creature
having frozen together, and locked him up
as tightly as if he were in cell. Fortu-
nately his friends, who were searching for
him and firing off their rifles which he
heard and yelled out to them discovered
and released him from his peculiar predic-
ament.
At another time two old plainsmen were
away up the Platte among the foothills
hunting buffalo, and they, as is generally
the case, became separated. In an hour
or two one killed fat young COW, and,
leaving his rife on the GROUND, went up
and commenced to skin her. While busily
engaged in the work, he suddenly heard,
right behind him, suppressed sort of a
snort, and looking around, saw to his dis
may monstrous grizzly, ambling along in
that animals characteristic manner, with
in few feet of him.
In front, only a few rods away, there
happened to be clump of scrubby pines
and he incontinently made break for
them, climbing into the tallest tree in less
time than it requires to write it. The
bear deliberately ate a hearty meal off the
COW, and when he had satisfied himself,
quietly lay down alongside the carcass and
went to sleep, keeping one eye probably on
the hunter corralled in the tree. In the
early evening his partner came to the spot
killed the bear, which, full of buffalo, was
sluggish and unwary and became an easy
victim, and the unwilling prisoner came
down from his perch. The last time
saw him he told me he still had the bear s
hide, which he kept as a memento of his
foolishness in separating from his rifle. a
thing he had never done before nor since.
and which no hunter should be guilty Of.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-07
The SLAUGHTER of the BuffaIoes.

In 1868, the Union Pacific Railroad and
it's branch in Kansas was completed across
the plains to the foothills of the Rocky
Mountains-th western limit OF the buff
falo range-and that year witnessed the
inauguration of the wholesale and wanton
slaughter of the great ruminants, ending
only with their practical extinction in 1885
by regular hunters for their hides, and by
the crowds of tourists who crossed the
continent for mere pleasure and sport, then
made possible by the advent of the Iron
trail: these latter heartlessly killed for
the excitement of the novel experience,
| often never even touching particle of the
flesh, or possessing themselves of a single
robe as they rode along at slow rate of
speed. The former numbering thousands
of old frontiersmen, all expert shots and
many novlces- pioneer settlers on the
public domain" just opened under the
various land laws-from beyond the Platte
to far south of the Arkansas, within trans
porting distance of the two roads, day aft
er day for years made it lucrative bust
ness to kill for robes only, a market for
which had suddenly sprung up all over the
country.
On either sides of the lines of the rail-
road, within close range for nearly their
whole distance. the most conspicuous OBJ
jects in those days were the desiccated
carcasses of the noble beasts that had been
ruthlessly slaughtered by the thoughtless
and excited passengers en- route across the
continent.
On the open air prairie, too miles away
from the course of legitimate travel, one
could walk in places all day OIL the dead
bodies of the buffaloes, killed by the hide
hunters, without stepping on the ground!
Then was the opportunity far congress to
interpose. Restricting the transportation
of robes by the railroads and express COM
panies could have saved the buffalo from
extinction. | believe there was some alb
surd law enacted in relation to preventing
the terrible slaughter, but it made it only
a misdemeanor On the part of the hunter
to kill-anout as effective provision, so
the average plainsman was concerned, az
to attempt to defect a tornado with
palm-leaf fan. The price of robes ranged
all the way from fifty cents-the amount
paid primarily-to two dollars and half
as they became scarcer. L. have bought
many a finely tanned and ornamented
silk robe from the Indians for half
loaf of Tread or cupful of sugar; but that
was twenty-five years ago. To-day the
same kind would easily bring one hun
dred and fifty dollars, if procurable at all
anywhere, which | very much doubt
Henry lnman in Harper's Weekly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-07
YOUNG AND PRETTY HBAB''
A Sketch of the Cleverest Woman of tn
NaIu York News o Out

A Sketch of the Cleverest Woman of the
New York Newspapers Secret Out.
Dab, TIE clever newspaper cores
pondent, who has been called the Sphinx
of the New York press, is woman about
whose personality there has always been a
great deal of curiosity. She is of south
ern birth, married early, was soon
widowed and thrown upon her own re-
sources. Her success with her pen is con-
sidered something marvellous, but when
it is remembered that she writes exactly as
she speaks her social success is easily I'M
derstOod.
Like all southern women, she is attrac-
tive to men, but she is much prouder. of
the women who are her friends, and who
stand by her through thick and thin, than
she is of her masculine adOrers.
She is generally esteemed as the most
unselfsh and most generous woman among
the women journalists of New York. An
enthusiastic woman once said to her
THAT she believed Bah could 90 any
where or speak to anybody and she would
come out of it unhurt. because In every
place and with everybody it was always
evident that she was gentlewoman
To see her at her best, drop in some
afternoon at her dainty New York apart
ments when she is at home informally.
There steps forward to meet you a small,
slender woman, whose dark brown eyes
look out from under halo of blonde hair
purely blonde hair-that has never been
touched by any of the bleaches She is
dressed in an empire costume of rose and
dark green, and looks as if she might have
been one Of the ladies of the court of the
Empress Josephine. She speaks like an
Englishwoman, though every now and
then there is a slight southern accent
that is most fascinating. One of the
editors of the New York Tribune said
that she spoke the best Saxon he had ever
heard.
The room tells the story of the woman;
the walls are covered with pictures and
books are everywhere poetry and history,
the last new novel and the last new maya
zine Books of illustrations and curious
old plays make up her feast of reason and
form the great extravaganza of her fe.
On the walls are oil paintings and water
colors done by well known artists who
have asked to contribute in making for
her 1.-The house beautiful"
There is Henner picture showing one
of his wondrous Titan beauties, and OPP
posite to it is large one OF Mrs. Langtry,
framed in silver and overlaid with white
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-07
SCIENTIFIC GLEANINGS.

Steam heating of railway carriages
used extensively in this country, was in.
troduced into Prussia the past winter.
1t is claimed that when mines are light
ed by incandescents lamps accidents
from explosive gases will become very
rare.
In the formation of single locomotive
steam engine there are nearly 5000 pieces
to be put together, and these require tt
be as accurately adjusted as the works of a
watch.
1t was proposed in great paper before
the institute of Naval Architects to sub
stitute for the comparatively narrow and
deep self righting lifeboats a more shall
low. beamy, non-self righting boat.
1t is said that a common cOwcatcher
attachment to locomotives is about the
only article of universal use that has ever
been patented its infentor being D. B.
Davies of Columbus. who found his model
in the plow Red lights on the rear of
trains, it is further said, were adopted at
the suggestion of the late Mrs. Swisshelm,
after railway accident In. which she mad
narrow escape.
An English photographer claims to hay
obtained a photograph IN which the nature
al colors were produced when the exposure
was made, by accident, just at the moment
when there came binding flash of Light
ming. He says that friend of his once got
a colored plate under similar circumstan-
ces, and believes that electricity has to do
with photographing colors.
The butterfly pumps nectar into itself
through tube, and bees and flies suck up
their food with their long tongue or pro-
coscis The spiders mouth is quite a
complicated affair 1t has fangs for hold
ing its prey, masticatory organs for bruis-
ing its solid food and sucking apparatus
for taking up the fluid. Quite as COM
plicated is the mouth of the mosquito,
which consists of the lances, the saws and
the pumping tubes.
A Finland paper mentions curious stone
in the northern part of the country that
serves the people instead of barometer,
This stone, which they call ''Ilmakiur, y
turns black or blackish gray, when foul
weather is approaching; fine weather has
the effect of turning it almost white. The
Firms regard the stone with superstihous
reverence, but the scientists say its changes
In color are due to salts contained In its
composition.
The diameter of trees varies not only
from summer to winter but from day to
day. They are larger from noon until twi-
light next morning, than from twilight to
noon, and are smaller in winter than in
summer. Water and sap of trees expand
not only in proportion as they rise above,
but also as they go below the freezing point.
Low temperature as we'll as high promotes
evaporation and the trees evaporate from
their branches in winter, and so the colder
the weather the more they shrink.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-07

age" In 1916 King James was selling
peerages to the highest bidders. holding
costly theatrical revels at Whitehall on
Sunday evenings. to the utter horror of
the Puritons, lavishlng favors upon Buck
ingham at the public expense. and doing
all of those unaccountable things which
led Sully to call him the wisest fool in Eu-
rope In 1916 the Tower stood on the
eastern vel &c of London, as Visschar saw
1t, while Whitehall was the extreme west
ern boundary, and the city of Westmins-
ter was still considerable distance out of
town; the gardens of the aristocratic man
slOns on the Strand extended down to the
Thames on the one side, or back to the
open fields on the other: the streets were
narrow, dirty, ill-payed, full of ruts and
holes, and robbers and rutians of all kinds;
the Fleet River. the Fleet Ditch. and the
Fleet Prison were filed with pestiferous
inhabitants; the common people herded in
poor wooden buildings, and even the mer-
chant princes, living In luxury over their
own shops, knew nothing of what we con-
slider the comforts or conveniences of life.
The Thames was the main highway, and
IN 1916, and for many years thereafter. it
had but one bridge for anybody's sister
Ann to cross. The population of London
at the time Of the accession of James was
a little ever one hundred and fifty
thousand, the people of Paris number
ing more than those of London and Dublin
put together The city was lighted with
lanterns containing cOtton-wick candles.
nearly all travellers carrying, or having
carried for them, their own links when
they ventured into the streets after the set
of sun; and red and white roses in 1916
grew in the Temple Gardens as their de-
scendants grow in the same earth today
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-07
THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
HELPS BY THE WAY.
HARTFORD TIMES.

AS the days pass swiftly onward,
Leaving all you hoped and planned for
Still undone:
As you see the shadows gather
Thick before your hurrying feet,
And the way seems yer lonesome,
And the path grows very steep
Courage, friend, be not disheartened;
Lend a hand!
And the faltering brother near you
Help to stand
Just a little heavier maybe,
Than your own
Is the load which he is bearing
All alone.
Yes, the days are passing swiftly,
But we may
Find a ray of light to cheer US
On our way.
AS we journey up the hillside,
Shadows come, but need not stay,
If we look for CLEANS of sunshine
When the cloud has passed away.
All, friends, life is not so dreary
After all
'Tis the way we do our duties
Makes them small.
Grand and glorions could the humblest
Life-work be,
If we only tried to dc it
Worthily.
Use your time, but do not waste it;
Moments fly.
You will find time for resting
By-and-by
While SO many hearts are breaking,
While so many homes are sad,
Happy we should be if only
We can make one poor heart glad.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-07
DO FISHES FEEL PAIN:
A Fisherman Thinks They Are Insensible
to Feeling, and Offers Some Evidence.

to Feeling, and Offers Some Evidence.
| A writer in Forest and Stream says: |
have read many articles on the subject of
| whether fish, when caught on the hook,
feel any pain or whether their struggles
were merely the result of finding them
selves fast fish a great deal in the
summer months for trout, bass and pick
erel, and have done so for years. | have
studied the matter very carefulfully and
have made up my mind from various in
cidents that have come under my observa-
ton that fish are not sensitive to pain as
are warm blooded animals, | will cite
two instances that show to me plainly that
| must be right in my conclusions on this
subject:
Last October, while fishing for pickerel
on Lake Cary, Wyoming county, Pa, in
company with a companion. among other
fish that we caught was a pickerel that
weighed nearly, if not quite, three
pounds. Ny friend pulled it up, and as it
came on the top saw about twelve feet of
very course brown line hanging to it. Up
on inspecting it more closely found that
the fish had in It's side a very strong and
coarse hook, to which the piece of line
was attached. The wound must have been
made a very short time previous to our
catching the fish, for it was bleeding
quite freely and looked very fresh, and if
the fish could feel the pain it would GER
tainly have deferred it from taking the
hook so soon after such an injury.
There was only one other party fishing
on the lake that day, as it was cold and
windy, and that piekerel must have re-
ceived his injury from them and have come
nearly across the lake to Us, dragging that
heavy line with him.
The other instance occurred in this
way:
| was fishing with skipping bait :
most of you readers know that this is a
piece of pork rind, or pickereI belly
and had with me friend who, though he
could handle a brigade under heavy fire,
was not up to the trick of catching fish
that way. [ was having fairly good sport,
but he got impatient, and finally, when he
had good strike, he jerked so hard as to
break his line, and away went the fish,
and he at once proposed to 60 home, but
told him in a joke if he would wait FIVE
or ten minutes would catch that fish and
get back his hook So we sat down and
had short smoke.
Soon commenced to cast my hook near
where he lost his fish. [ had strike, and
to our mutual surprise out came the gen
erai S fish, with his hook we'll fastened in
its mouth.
Now, I dom think the fish would have
taken the bait so soon again had it been
in any pain from the hook.