Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-07-30
EDITORIAL NOTES.
PRIZE fighting is on the decline.

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AN effort is being made to sup
press gambling in Mexico.
Licensing crime" is the way the
Statesman rubs it into San Antonio
yellow fever is said to be at Vers
Cruz and Baker, the British Consul
there, has died.
RAIN-MAKER Melbourn produced
rain at Canton, Ohio, Sunday. This
is his seventh success out of eight
trials.
i Missouri is outstripping Kentucky
in the stock raising business. For,
merly the best horses and mules
came from Kentucky, but now the
best stock is raised in Missouri.
The king of Belgium has not sue.
ceeded in making his Congo invest
ments pay very well, so badly indeed
that they have well nigh swallowed
up by his own fortune, if not also the
vast property that he holds in trust
for his sister, the ex-Empress Char
lotte of Mexico.
! ALL Texas seems to be undergo
:! ing revival. Most of the Banners
exchanges tell of revivals of various
magnitude. In some parts OF
Texas it is so hot at this season OF
the year that people can't. help
thinking of dying, and naturally,
thoughts of death creates a desire
to turn TO God.
The sub-treasury scheme is one
thing and the alien land law an.
other. Because most of the farmers,
Alliance have seen fit to indorse
both is no argument that they are
twin sisters as some of our exchanges
would have us believe. The farmers
Alliance get right on a great many
questions one of which is the alien
land law.
TEXAS is in the midst of a great
love feast. In some places it takes
the shape of old citizens meetings,
in others veterans reunions, cha
tauquas and camp-meetings by the
score. These meetings bring the
people together and teach them the
lesson of divine origin, love thy
neighbor as thyself, and naturally
result in great good.
The latest Century dictionary de-
fines Sheeny as follows: "Origin
obscure. A sharp fellow, hence a
Jew; a term of approbrition, also
used attributively. (Slang)." Some
of the papers assert that the Jews
are indignant about this definition,
while some others state that the
word is used more by the Jews them
selves than any others.
Mrs. LELAND STANFoRD's trust deed
giving 100000 to endow five kinder
garteus in San Francisco has Just
been fled. As the income will be 5
per cent each school viii get $1,000
year. These schools are said to
have already had an appreciable eff
feet in reducing the number of
'hoodlums" who infest the streets of
San Francisco, and in lettering the
condition of the tenement house
districts.
THOUGH the alien land law may
produce a stringency at first, this
will be overcome without any serious
results, and the law will prove in
the end to be a good one. The
lands of this country should be
owned by citizens of this country,
who see as we see, feel as we fell.
The alien land owner can sell out
or come over and abide with US.
On the 14th of July, while party
was feasting at the restaurant La
France, German named Schulen-
berg grossly insulted the flag of the
United States. Peter Wendell, sa-
loon keeper in Jaurez, Mex, just
across the river from Ell Paso, said
Schulenberg acted right, and a num-
Der of Americans present demolished
his saloon, leaving not a door or win
dow in the place.
LEE RHODES, one of the speakers
Monday morning atSulphur Springs
said that great revolution was i'm
pending, peaceable if possible but
worse than the revolution in France
if the people could not secure relief
by the ballot. John Browns always
preceded Garrisons. The people
must have a change, and if the change
did not relieve them it was impossi-
BILE to make things worse than the
present state of affairs.
SAM JONES, who is at present en-
gagged at the Corpus Christi. Chau-
tauqua, in his first sermon there
"got off, some good things, among
them the following paragraphs
"a Methodist minister ought to
be the most independent man on