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Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-08

THRoUGH traffic on the Austin
branch of the Central road is still
suspended. Tickets are sold no
further east than Chappell Hill, and
it will probably be two or three days
vet before through communication
is established, while it will be fully
a week longer before night trains
are resumed. The passenger train
ran down to Chappell Hill from
BRENNAN at s o'clock yesterday
morning and passed through west
bound at the usual time. The train
from Austin was again late.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-08

Mr.. JACK RoUTT reported yester-
day that the Brazos river in below
Chappeil Hill was falling very slow
ly. Many farmers have had their
crops entirely ruined and are thor
oughly disheartened.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-08

SENATOR JONATHAN LANE, of Fayette
county, who is a candidate for lieu
tenant-governor and who addressed
the Bellvillians yesterday, will be the
orator of the day at the Brennan
maifest.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-08

As PREVIOUSLY announced, County
Judge Kirk went down to Chappell
Hill on Tuesday to discuss road
matters with the citizens and to try
to get somebody to accept the va
cant county commissionership. The
judges trip was highly satisfactory
to him and proved eminently sue
cessful. He succeeded in getting
MIR. R. B. johnson to accept the
place. Mr.. johnson is well known
lumber merchant, and better Sc
lection for the place could not have
been made.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-08

For Cider and White Wine Vine
gar, Syrup and Molases, Best Laun-
dry Soap, $3.50 per box $3.50,
small boxes 20 cents.
Go to SLOAN & HoDpE.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-08

You can have your pictures en-
larged and put in handsome frame
8x1O for $1.95 by calling on or ad-
dressing E. F. Rankin, BANNER
Office, Brennan, Texas.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-08

SEScE through traffic on the Cen
trail road has been interrupted local
travel is light.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-08

Jacob & Eldridge, food distribu-
tors. Always something new. Fresh
fish every Friday morning. Every
thing delivered free.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-08

The Brennan Field Artillery band
got off yesterday evening for Hous-
ton to play for the maifest at that
place.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-08

Our elm is to please. Heqdquar-
tiers for fancy goods. Our prices
are bedrock, to meet the times.
Jacob & Eldridge.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-08

JUST REcE1vED.-Eight barrels o.
Old handmade Sour Mash Whiskey
at the Merchants Exchange Saloon
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-08

The ninth annual maifest of the
fire department will be inaugurated
tomorrow.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-08

The May queens wagon for the
fest was decorated yesterday at
Heartfeld's shop.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-08

The teachers in the public schools
are now busy drilling their pupils
for the closing exercises.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-08

VACATION is only about month
of now and the small boys are happy.
Their parents are not.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-08

PARTIES in from Gay Hill and In
dependence reported yesterday that
the Yegua was still slowly falling. =
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-08

Chill Concarne, 25 cents a can:
celery sauce, pIrest olive oil, sal
mon. with tomato sauce, 90 cents.
Jacob & Eldridge.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-08

Apricots, peaches, prunes, cherries,
canned, eVaporated, or in bottles,
put up in brandy.
Jacob & Eldridge.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-08

Try Fairbanks White Clover Leaf
lard, for sale by e. FISHER.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-08

Mr.. FERDINAND WERNER, the hand
some, portly and popular member OF
the we'll known solid business firm
OF Werner & Dobert, celebrated his
natal anniversary yesterday and re-
ceived numerous congratulations.
An entertainment was given in honor
of the event at night at the residence
Of his wife's mother, Mrs. Knol!e, at
which there were several invited
guests.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-05-08

been very unhappy ana now shall b
Ut peace. See, she forgives me; sho
knows I loved her. Do my memory
Justice, old friend, and run Old 6S' to the
station" 81.
Even while he was speaking there
was fearful shock! The engine seemed
to leap bodily in the air, then turn over
and over in an awful plunge downward
In the instant that hung clutohing the
rail of the cab during our mad somer-
sault I saw, or thought saw, that weird
white form bending over the form OF
Shelly fallen inert upon the floor, then
came a sound like the rending of the
sky, and all was darkness.
When l came to myself was in bed.
weak, crushed and at the very verge Of
death. In the weeks of slow recovery that
followed learned that we had been
wrecked upon misplaced switch, and In
the complete wreck that followed but one
life had bcen sacrificed, as expected
Shelly's. He had been found in the cab
of the ruined engine with the spring OF
the Unbelievable thrust through his
left breast like knife. He lad only
too surely predicted his own strange
death. But the wound in his breast,
,, the counterpart of that phantom shape
how explain it? And how explain what
saw and what he said before he died?
Do the dead come back and exact retri-
button from US for our crimes against
them? Did l indeed see the ghost of
Shelly's wife slain by his jealous hand.
or was it merely the wild imagery of de-
lirium Of the long fever which followed
my injury? Who shall say? Who in
deed shall answer any one of the ques-
tions which make up the mystery we
call life?-M. C. Hammond, in brakes
Magazine.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-05-08

night, that weird picture rises before
my eyes, and that wild voice rings in
my ears, until my flesh creeps and the
cold sweat starts out upon me. Then
see before me again-but will tell you
the story and you shall Judge for your
self. They say that learned men and
philosophers deny that such things can
be. Well, wish the wisest and most
skeptical of them all could have stood
in my shoes that night; it would have
given him something to think of for a
long time, at any rate.
That winter was bitterly cold one
and terribly severe on US railroad men,
exposed, as We always are, to the worst
of it at all hours of the day and night.
Many good fellow died of colds caught
in the merciless storms of that year, or,
benumbed and stiffened in the icy
winds, missed his grip and rolled under
the wheels, and-well, only train
hand gone! Who takes note of such
small matters?
I was firing on the heavy engine,
known along the line as "Old 6s.' She
was tough old bruiser and sometimes
obstinate as mule, SO that, fire as you
might, you coula not keep steam in her
boiler nor the hand on the gauge up to
the sixty-pound mark. But on the
whole she was trustworthy enough as
engines 60, and once get her in good
humor she would pound along at a forty
mile gait as lively as the best Of them.
My engineer, Shelly, was one OF the
smartest and steadiest men on the road
an eye like a hawks to catch signals,
hand of steel at the valve and bar,
cool and steady in danger and fearless
of death, as if he would sooner have
met it than not-which often suspect
ed was really the case. He was not one
of your rough, swearing, drinking fell
lows, but, as was plain to see, had
known better things than the hard,
coarse life of an engineer. He never
kept company with the rest of the men,
though he was never offensive nor put
on lofty airs; but there was kind of
reserve about him which seemed to keep
every one at distance without any eff
fort on his part He had no enemies
and NO friends. Those who knew him
best knew but little about the man him
self and nothing whatever about his
past history.
There had been some rumors of ter
rible tragedy in his life-the sudden
death Of his wife, it was said, by vio-
lence; but they were very vague. He
never referred to them himself, and no
one else would have dreamed of ques-
tioning him. Even I, who had been
firing for him, riding by his side for
many months, and for whom think,h
felt as much friendship as he could feel
for any human being, would have as
soor thought Of putting my hand in the
blower as to have asked him any ques-
tions. And even to-day am really as
much in the dark as was then; for that
strange and terrible experience which l
am going to relate only deepened the
mystery.
The winter of re was hard one, as I
have said, and, though early in the sea-
son, the night of the 10th of November
was one of the bitterest of the year.
Cold, gray and quiet; no moon. no stars
and no clouds, only kind Of obscurity
over every thing, in which objects were
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-05-08
THE MCDONALD FAMILY.

For Eighty Eight Years It Has Been Rep
resented at the Capital.
The Office of the Secretary of the Sem
ate contains larger quota Of dne-look-
ing men than any other Office in the
Among those who attract popular stten-
ton, and at whom lady visitors look with
smiling and envious visages is men,
Der of the Mcdonald family. The Nc
Donald family has had great deal to
do with the keeping CT the records OF
the United States Senate-in fact, there
would not have been any Senate records
in existence prior to the year 1914 had
it not been for the vigilant activity of
place in the Senate. That was j. G..
Mcdonald. He was appointed in 1909 as
chief clerk under Samuel Otis, and
served twenty-seven years, resigning
his Office just before his death. Perhaps
the most valuable service he rendered
the United States was given when the
British forces were marching toward
this city in 1914 intent on the destruc-
ton of the Government buildings. Mr..
McDonald's first thought was for the
Senate records, and these he packed up
and carted off to the crypt Of the little
church in Rock Creek cemetery. There
he hid them, and there he found them
when the invaders had departed. The
records of the House Of Representa-
tives were destroyed because there was
no Mcdonald at that end of the capitol
to care for them.
The vacancy caused by the resigna.
ton of J. G. Mcdonald was prize for
which there were many applicants, and
it looked for awhile as though the Nc
Donald family might lose its representa-
ton. 1t did not though, for Senators
Thomas H. Benton, Richard 81. Bayard,
Felix Grundy, Samuel Southland, Josiah
Kent, William Hendricks. and num-
Der of others secured the appointment
in the secretary's Office of William j.
Mcdonald. He became chief clerk on
the death of General Hickey in 1867,
and held that responsible position until
June, 1878, when he died. after an unin-
terrupted service of forty-two years. Be.
fore that occurred, however ION March
1879, Fl. 3. Mcdonald, son of William
j., was appointed to place in the Of
fee, and he is there now-the journal
clerk of the Senate.
lightweight years is the length OF
aggregate public service of these three
members of the Mcdonald family
Washington Star,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-05-08

properly pruned in the first place. Fig.
l represents the young tree when first
set out. Itgrew with a single stem and
. few side shoots.
These were cut off as represented, so
as to form the frame work of the new
head. In the course of year or two,
and by rubbing off needless shoots as
they start, the head is made to assume
the form represented by Fig. Q. By a
little yearly attention in removing
supernumerary shoots as they start, the
tree is gradually brought into the regu-
lar shape in bearing represented after
the leaves have fallen) shown by Fig.
3. Fig. 4 represents the tree of equal
age and culture, but with no attention
given it for forming a symmetrical
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-05-08
WIT AND WISDOM.

MANY . man is ready to raise An OBJ
iection who couldn't raise cent-Tex.
- Siftings.
-Gossips serve Satan without the in
terveution Of formal contract. Mil
waukee Journal
Sell your confidence at high price.
II at all; to be strong keep your own
counsel.-Dumas.
1t is hard to be grateful to the man
who fought your battle for you and got
Hcked.-Atchison Globe.
Tho easiest money to spend, and the
hardest money to save, is that which we
have not yet earned.-N. Y. Ledger.
We sleep, but the loom of life never
stops; and the pattern which was weav-
Ing when the sun went down is weaving
when it comes up Tomorrow
1T is often more necessary to con-
zeal contempt than resentment, the
former being never forgiven, but the
latter being sometimes forgot.-Chester-
Reld.
The true strength Of every human
soul is to be dependent on as many no
bier as it can discern; and to be depend
ed upon by as many inferior as it can
reach. -Ruskin.
We can not make much of people
who lack stability. And yet how many
there are who have kindly instincts and
good faculties in many directions, but
who spoil their whole lives by simple
want of earncstness.-United Presbyte-
eian.
The only possible cure for bitter
memory is to sweeten it in the unseltish
spirit that can return good for evil. A
fountain like this in any human heart
will quench every burning resentment
in it's overhowing tide.-Journalo of Com
merce.
Our chief concern in life is not with
the things that are done to us. or that
happen to US, but with what we do our.
selves. So long as man remains true
and faithful in his relations in life,
nothing can happen to him which con-
tains any shadow Of real humilation.-
Christian Union.
Slang and evaporation are the bane
of our speech and literature. We snatch
at by-sayings and phrases of double
meaning rather than sift our ideas and
mako careful selection of language for
the conveyance of thought. Plain
words lose their moaning, become too
weak to 60 alone, and have to be boil
stored up by adjectives. Marion Har-
land.
How little is known of what is in
the bosom Of those around us. We
might explain many GOODNESS could we
look into the heart concealed from us.
We should often pity where we hate,
love where we curl the lip with scorn
and Indignation. To judge without re-
serve OF any human action is a culpable
temerity. of all our sins the most IN
feeling and frequent
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-05-08
AGRICULTURAL HINTS.
SHAPING APPLE TREES.
Some Timely Hints on an Importan
Subject.

Some Timely Hints ON an Important
Subject.
Now that tho time is approaching for
starting young apple orchards, few
'uggestions will, says the Country Gem
tleman. be timely relative to giving the
trees good shape, the correct remark
having been often made that If they are
pruned into the rightshape when young
none but light pruning will be required
Afterwards There are many good Guilt
vators who take good care of their
trees and supply all the requirements
tor thrifty growth who nevertheless
allow them to take q very irregular
shape. In the accompanying figures
directions are offered for keeping them
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-05-08

partly visible, distorted and changed, so
that we had to keep sharper lookout
even than upon dead-black night.
The run was long one and we were
carrying only two cars, one passenger
and one freight, both empty. for we ex-
pected to get one load when we met the
north bound express at Sharp's juno
ton.
When swung myself into the cab 1
was startled by the expression of
Shelly's face. It was deadly pale and
set. remember noticing that he had
bitten his lower lip and that there was
blood upon it.
why, Shelly, old man, what has
happened?" exclaimed. ."Are you
sick?
He smiled and his features relaxed
slowly into their usual sad expression,
rs he answered: s.... .........
mo. Tom, nothing has happened,
only a headache. Don't mind me-"
Just then we received the signal to
start and soon left the station behind
Us in the gloom. had my hands full
keeping head Of steam on for the first
few miles, but as busted myself about
the furnace, could not help glane,ng
At Shelly now and then, - he sat peer.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-05-08

ing out into the dusk before US, with
that strange set look upon his face, and
thinking: "A heart-ache, poor fellow,
instead of headache Is what you
mean"
There were twenty miles Of straight
driving before we made the first stop.
We had got over about half the distance
and was just settling down to steady
work, having my furnaces we'll loaded
and seen that my water gauges were
we'll up, when was startled by sharp
exclamation from Shelly. Looking up
quickly, was shocked at his appear
ance. He was leaning forward, gazing
out Of the cab window, which was open.
his eyes starting from his head and his
whole air expressive of the most in
tense terror and expectancy. Above the
clanking of the machinery and the whizz
of the escaping steam, could hear his
loud, quick breathing.
Shelly" cried, what is it?"
He did not heed me until I had 70
peated my question in louder tone.
He put out his hand as if to silence
me without turning. "Hush!" he said,
in a strange, choked voice; "hush, Tom!
she is there"
'She! who?'' I asked, in alarm.
'"There is no one there. You are i'll,
Shelly"
''No, no." he answered, in the same
husky tone. "She is there, I tell you. ="
''You are mad, Shelly" cried, nerv-
ously. hardly knowing what was say
So Vho% 10
such a night as this?"
He slowly turned his face toward me
and by the faint light of the gauge lamp
l could see how locked and rigid his
features were.
mo fioing woman" he said in slow,
penetrating whisper, every syllable of
which was audible above the noise of
the engine. "A dead woman, Tom"
l am not naturally nervous M an, and
at times, at least, in the prime of my
youth and strength, feared neither
man nor ghost, but confess was thor
oughly shaken. There was something
so uncanny about the whole thing. The
unnatural expression of the mans face,
the blood-curdling accents of his voice,
his evident belief in his own i'm
pressions. all contributed to send an icy
chill down my skin and bring the per-
spiration out upon my forehead.
''Shellyw cried, SHELLY, don't look
out there. Shut the window and sit
down. I'll run her to Sharp's and
give you time to get over this"
For reply he beckoned me to his side
and against my will I crossed to where
he stood.
Look there!" he muttered in my ear,
while his fingers closed upon my arm
with vise-like grip. There just
ahead of the pilot in the glare of the
head-light-and tell me what you see."
In the lane of light flung far ahead
upon the tracks, making a brilliant
wedge in the darkness, the steam,
driven downward by the icy wind, rolled
in dense white volumes, at times shut
ting off the view as with thick, wav-
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-05-08
THE DECK COMPLETE.
Twenty Years Spent in Picking Up Pack
of Cards.

Twenty Years Spent in Picking Up a Pack
of Cards.
Frank Damek, a member of the sport
ing fraternity of Chicago, has probably
the queerest deck of cards in the world.
He has been twenty years collecting
the pack and is exceedingly proud Of it.
He first began by picking up playing
cards in the street when he happened to
run across them. In this way he got fiji
teen or more before he began striking
duplicates. Some days he would find two
or three, and then it would be months
before he would see another stray paste
board. But he persevered and always
kept his eyes open to add to his strange
collection. In ten years he had all but
thirteen cards necessary to complete his
deck. In the next three years he con-
sidered himself lucky in finding all but
four. The missing ones were the jack
Of clubs, the deuce of diamonds, the
eight-spot of diamonds, and the trey
of spades. In the course of an
other year he picked up the
eight of diamonds and six months
later was overjoyed to find what
A0 ~ AA0V VAOukAV was q AuAA uCOh Va
cards lying on the sidewalk on Dearborn
street, between Adams and jackson
streets. He thought his long search
was at an end and that he could easily
complete his wonderful deck. The jack
of clubs and the trey of spades were
there all right, but five or six cards were
missing, and among them the deuce OF
diamonds. It seemed as though he
would never be able to secure his fifty
second card, but the other day he enter
ed one of the suburban trains on the
Northwestern, and almost the first thing
he saw was the deuce of diamonds face
upwards in the aisle. 1t was gilt-edged
and glossy backed, the finest of them
all. He had been searching for it for
five and half years, and breathed a
sigh of relief. The pack is composed Of
cards Of all qualities, from the cheapest
to the highest priced. Some are clean
and bright and others are soiled and
we'll worn.-Chicago Tribune.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-05-08
HELPS FOR HOUSEkEEPERS.

How to Lessen the Strain Incident to
Many Routine Duties.
When doing an ironing, it is help 4,
the tired mother to select one rod of the
clothes-rack upon which to hang articles
that need repairing. When button is
missing, rip or rent in little aprons or
hole in stocking. hang the garment
on the one selected rod; then, when the
clothes are folded to be put away. they
need no examining, as the pieces requir-
ing few stitches are all in one place.
Make it a golden rule to never put an
article away unmended.
Bingham aprons for little girls are
pretty trimmed with straight rows OF
serpentine braid, stitched on by the
sewing-machine through the center OF
the braid; it is easily done up If ironed
on the wrong side.
Black ink spots may be taken from
white goods by dipping the soiled parts
in melted tallow, letting it lie TO,
awhile, and then washing in the ordi.
nary way.
Whenever eggs are used in baking, It
is better to beat them thoroughly be.
fore any other Ingredients are added.
This is especially true when baking
powder is used, as too much beating,
after the powder is added, seems to kill
its essential qualities.
An easy way to make pudding and
at the same time save cold rice that
may be left from another meal, is to
take one cup of the cooked rice, one
pint Of sweet milk, two eggs, lump of
butter as large as a walnut, sugar to
taste, a cupful of raisins and nutmeg TO
flavor. Beat the eggs. sugar and butter
together, then add the other things,
and bake or steam until done.
Sometimes when women have an uu.
usually tiresome days work to do, they
put on light shoes with thin soles, hop
ing by this means to avoid fatigue.
This is . mistake, as heavy shoes, if
they fit we'll, will prevent both corns
and aching feet. 1t is said teaspoon.
full each of tar, sugar and saltpeter
melted together will cure corns; put q
little on thin, kid leather and apply.
In cleansing black stockings it is not
necessary to wash the entire stocking
every time they are done up. By little
care the feet only may be washed, and
thus the color may be retained much
longer. Stockings should never be put
into the suds until they are turned
wrong side out-Cor. Farm and Fire
side,