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Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-10-08
yine they are.

IuSA lInaSln0 GneY are.
Can man who falls off roof b,
called an eaVes-dropper7
The elephant is duh and slow, but
you can't get away with him.
Always forgive your eremies-es
Ipecially those you can't whip.
An infantile recipe.-What to dc
to obtain white heods-nothing.
1t is not considered an offense fol-
a switchman to flag at his work.
A friend in need is a friend who
generally strikes you for a quarter.
'AIine is a checkered career, >
sighed the champion chess-plaYer,
A plant said to cause milk sickness
has been discovered near Sullivan,
III.
Love that is made in the autumn
woods may not last through a cold
winter.
How can you expect to get inform
alton from letter when it is not
posted?
The first mile on the road to hell
looks as though it led straight to
Heaven.
Hardly a week passes but we are
constantly surrounded by perils seen
and kerosene.
The soul has no pillow on which
to repose SO soft and sweet as
good conscience.
People who are in their way to
Heaven never stop to try to prove
that there is no hell.
Outwardly all is quiet at Briceville
and Coal Greek, Tenn, but vague I'M
easiness prevails.
The story of COWS getting drunk
on fermented apple pomace comes
from ClarksYille, Mo.
Considerable damage has been
done to crops in Minnesota and the
Dakotas by prairie fires.
Five men were killed and several
injured by collision on the Union
Pacific near Aocatello, Idaho.
Cartaring CARA, the Mexican rebel, |
was defeated in an engagement with |
Mexican troops and then hanged to
a tree.
Bishop Turner, in a sermon in
Boston advised colored people to go
to Africa and set up a nation of
negroes.
The extra session of the Tennes-
see legislature adjourned without
taking action on the convict lease
system.
No lawyer in Salyersville, Ky,
will defend Logan Murphy, who
murdered his father in a quarrel
over trife.
Thomas A. Edison says the secret
Of success is to do but one thing at
4 time; a control of thought and
attention it takes some years of pa
tience to learn. |
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STORY OF A PIANO,
A Genius Who Found DifacuIty in Keep
ing Vow to Bis Sweetheart.

A Genius Who Found Difaculty in Keep
ing Vow to Bis Sweetheart.
Probably the severest ordeal that
genius can undergo is to be deprived of
the exercise of its powers. NJ. de Pont-
martin had a pathetic illustration of
this in his acquaintance with one of the
greatest pianists of the present century.
He relates the strange story in ''Les
Souvenirs dun Vieux Critique"
Though not a player himself, NJ. de
Pontmartin had fine piano. One day
the proprietor OF the village hotel called
to say that the evening before a gentle
man, apparently a Hungarian or an
Austrian, had arrived at his house, a
person about N. Pontmartin's age, ele-
CANT of appearance and wearing an ex-
preston of touching melancholy.
In the morning, it seemed, the
stranger would take no breakfast, but
besought NJ Pierron, the hotel keeper,
for a piano, saying that circumstances
had prevented his touching one for
year.
A little later the stranger was seated
at NJ. Pontmartin's piano, and it was
soon manifest that he was not only
wonderful artist but an inventor of
new methods, whose touch tripled the
power and volume of the instrument
He played on and on. Shortly before
midnight he seemed to put his whole
soul into improvising funeral march,
which ended with finale of wonderful
tragic beauty just as the village clock
struck IL.
'Adieu and thanks" said the strange
guest, not waiting to hear NJ. Pont-
martins exclamation: 1T is / who
thank you'll My piano is sacred hence
forth" The next morning he went
away, begging NJ. Pierron not to ask
his real name.
The following year, just after hear
ing List, NJ. Pontmartin called on his
friend, Zimmerman. He was explain
ing to the incredulous musician that his
admiration for the great List was
tempered by the memory of an incom-
parable genius whom he had heard at
Avignon, when there was a knock at
the door, and as the critic relates, II
heard a voice that thrilled me say,
May l enterP 'Sigismund Thalberg,
cried Zimmerman in joyful surprise.
Il recognized my mysterious visitor,
but my delight was checked by the sad
ness in his face He said to me, My
dear sir, I owe you an explanation.
On the 3Oth of April promised Cath
crime B, a beautiful girl whom l
loved, that would not touch a piano
until April 30 OF the next year; this is
an evidence that my piano and my art
were not first in my regard. AT the
end of the year she was to become my
wife,
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A Subordinate.

Why do you permit such impu-
denceP said the Pullman traveller to
his companion after quarrel with the
porter.
Can't help it. He's the porter;
I'm only director in the company. -
New York Epoch
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4ASLhtCc AdAl14a, IL q zfV O1~Oo41l
perary insanity at Corpus Christ
Saturday, drowned three of his chill
dren, Helen, aged Is, Rowena, agec
liz and Ralph, % month old baby
and then himself.
u. A. Nichols, a farmer living
ten miles from Hampstead returning
home Friday night was shot and
robbed, several bullets lodging IL
his legs. His team ran away and
threw him out os the wagon. Two
weeks ago his brother had a similar
experience.
The excavation for the new
mill at Memphis, Hall county, is be
ing made, and the carpenters will be
ready for work as soon as the lum-
Der arrives. The mill be 35xS0 feet
and three stories high. Considera-
Die wheat has already been bought
and the mill will be put in running
order.
"A Rio Grande City letter says
that on September "a, Guadalupe
CARA fell asleep" as his funeral
notice reads, with the unanimous
approval of all who knew him. He
died with his boots on. The place
was the Tongue ranch, six miles
from there, and the bullet which en-
tered his back and came out of his
throat was fred from a Winchester
rife in the hands of some person
unknown. Cara was in his house
and was shot from the outside. His
enemies were so many that it will
never be known who put out his
chunk. He was a bepistolled des-
perado, and a terror to his country.
The inquest developed only the sat
isfactory fact that Cara was dead.
Ferdinado Crouz and Bonifacio
Gonzales were arrested for the
crime. One was released and the
other is out on S25 bond to an
swer the charge of murder.
"A dispatch from Runge, karnes
county, says: For some unexplained
reason the deer of neighboring
counties appear to have ali conferred
near here. For three weeks past
the brush has been filled with bucks,
does and fawns. They have vaulted
over pasture wires, and in many
places cropped the grass in the
pastures so closely that cattle can
not live on it. They have invaded
.cornfelds and broken down the
growing stalks, and in some of the
cotton plantation their passage has
been marked by swath of crushed
plants. Venison has been killed and
given away there until no one will
eat it. Recently Sam Daily, a ranch
man, left town on horseback. A half
mile away he ran into a bunch of
thirty deer, which were browsing on
the inside of the road. He was armed
with a Colts revolver, and emptied
six barrels into the fleeing herd He
was rewarded by three dead deer.
Preparations are being made for a
grand drive.
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STATE NEWS.

Terrell has new morning
paper.
-Alvord has been dubbed ''Straw-
berry City"
Immigrants are pouring into
Hale county.
-Menhis, Hall county, wants
waterworks.
-Quanah needs frst.class dry
goods store.
The Brentwood fair was a de-
Fcided success.
Sherman is to have an electric
street railway.
The canning factory of Alvord
is running day and night:
Crops in Wise county are re-
ported to be unusually fine.
The home of Mrs. Henry near
Sherman was burned Friday. Loss
$1,000.
JAS. Gibbs was drugged and
Iobbed in Ft. Worth Friday night,
losing SLY.
The Wise county fair began
to-day Tuesday likewise the Nc
.Gregor fair.
j. NJ. Turner, of Denison, was
indicted by the grand jury for pois-
-oning his wife.
The Greenville Herald says the
cotton of that section is nearly all
open at this early season.
The Kelly pillow factory is now
running on full time and will COM
mence shipping plows this month
Gregg County Clarion.
j. W. Russum, Taylor county
farmer was killed by being thrown
from a wagon by a runaway team
and run over getting his neck
broken.
The protracted meeting at the
Christian church at Hillsboro closed
Sunday morning. Eight new mem
!. bers were added to the church dur
ing the meeting.
The Hale County Herald says q
nice Taia visited that section last Fri
'..1aafss .s,7-c t1r(3e-- The farmers will
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MICH Needed srmnathv.

Two BouIevardiers meet ALLOW
Inc to condole with you. my dear Con
tran. have just heard of your aunt's
death. 1t is a terrible loss for you"
Right you are. She has cut me of
with a shilling. lie CaIendrier
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Changed Hands.

The undersigned having bought the interest
of Schulze & Amsler in the old Giesecke Bak-
cry, will hereafter conduct the business in his
own name, and solicits the patronage of the
people of Brennan and surrounding country.
VIII keep on hand at all times full supply or
fresh Groceries, Bread, Pies, Cakes, Candies,
Tobacco and Cigars. Give me trial.
CHRISTIAN WIELKENS.
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AND
AND
DON'T YOU F0RGET IT.

That we are still in the ring this year.
That our stores renot on the public square,
That, therefore, we are compelled to sell
cheaper
Than other high toned concerns.
That this will draw trade down here.
That we are selling you good goods at low
figures.
That we are this year importing Crockery.
Toys, Cutlery, etc.
That we contract for American goods from
factories.
That we always will guarantee you goods as
we'll as prices.
That we keep the largest assortment of 5, 10
and 25 cent goods.
That our two stores are four doors above H.
Fishers grocery.
That our naUIe is
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STAPLE & FANCY GROCERIES
West,side Court Square.
Just Received:

Fresh Pigs Feet, Picked Beef,
Fresh Mackerel, Rolled Picked Her.
ring, Sweet Mangoe Pickles, Dill
Pickles, Fresh Hams and Breakfast
Bacon, new California and Baltimore
Can Fruits and Vegetables, Coffee
Beef and Fresh Cheese. VIII have
CELERY every week.
Yours Respectfully,
j. ii. QUEBE, Brennan Grocer,
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And Catherinep

10Th of April 49,
HE stopped. And CatherineP
asked.
''she died on the SOth, at the very
hour when I finished the funeral
march, just as the clock in the belfry
struck midnight
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Knoop & schawe.
To the Ladies!
Please call on W. h. ELDRIDGE
For First Class Groceries.

Have Just received new sour
krout, cabbage, new mackeral,
Fulton market picked beef, end
less variety of preserves, jelIies,
jams, finest sardines, Brook trout.
Kippered herring, devil crabs with
sheet, saratoga chips, Clipped beef.
In fact everything found in a first
class grocery store, at the lowest
prices.
w IT EJDRTDGE
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The father and brother of a dear lit
tie woman died of consumption, and
she firmly believed she would soon fol-
low them with the same dread disease
She had a friend who believed the in
valid had inherited her mothers
stronger constitution, and if she could
only be aroused and the idea banished
from her mind that she would soon die
she might be a well woman. Argu-
ments were IN vain, and, as the friend
was going away for years, she gave a
geranium to the dear little woman,
with the request that she would take
care of it, and also that she would
work out in the garden through the
spring and summer two hours day.
81 might as well do it" said the inva-
lid, ''for l shall not live but few
weeks OF months at the longest"
Very feeble were her first attempts at
gardening. and she would often say On
~ 7ie aor
ally e4def plants were added. Sic -
came very much interested int garden
ing, and her mind was taken up in
reading and in caring for her flowers.
In the winter bay window was full
of blooming plants. 1t is now three
years since she began this new cure,
and it has worked wonders. She is a
healthy, happy woman now and says
that women stay in the house too
much, are afraid of their clothes, and |
the tight lacing makes short breath, |
and then they say. We are not strong |
enough to work in a garden" Shut
up the pill boxes and throw away the
bottles Breathe the fresh air and take
your medicine at the end OF a light hoe
handle, and see if you don't save doc
5or's bills.-Vick's Magazine.
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Miscellaneous Items.

The spider is the original business
centre.
Filthy lucre is not made Of base
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ELECTROMAGNETIC DISCOVERIES.

In the progress of electro mag
netie science, according to Prof. A.
E. Kennedy, these facts seem to
have been fully established: 1. The
great achievement since Faraday's
time has been the determination
that all electricity flows, or tends to,
in closed curves or circuits, so that
we have the electrostatlc circuit, the
galvanic circuit, and the magnetic
circuit, each resembling, as it were,
an endless chain or bundle of end
less chains; and the laws which con-
troll these three different types of
circuit show wonderful analogies. 2.
The due appreciation of theinfuence
of the ether and its Importance in
all electromagnetic phenomena.
While originally the electrical activ-
ity seemed to be confined to the
battery or conducting wires of
galvanic circuit, is is now believed
that the ether surrounding these
conductors plays fully as active
part in the process of conduction;
and the mind sees free space no
longer void, but filed with an active
and responsible substance-the ether.
1t looks almost as if matter were
inert in comparison with the ether.
3. The evidence in favor of the pro-
position that light is a vibratory
disturbance in the ether of an cleo.
The Bossier banner., 1891-10-01

An instep pad is new fad of those
fair women who are so unfortunate as
to be possessed of a ''low-b bred" foot 1t
is simply linen pad fitted in place di-
rectly over where the instep should be
but very often isn't. If such fashion
becomes general it will compel shoe
makers to keep a stock of shoes with
high insteps,, and the moderately low
heels now demanded alike by good
sense and fashion. 1t is next to impos-
sible now to get shoe with high in
step, except one made on what is
known as the Spanish last" and a
acknowledgements heel is a part
OF the makeup of these shoes.-N. Y.
Tribune
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HERE AND THERE.

By sowing salt freely on the vai
ways of the flower garden it viii ges
ly assist in preventing grass and vec
from appearing.
Men that know say that an q
perienced orchardist buys but feWp
rieties of trees and vines, but that III
novice buys everything of which hes's
heard.
There is as much as eighteen han
dred pounds of water in tonoitn
nips, but water taken in that shay
seems to be capable of assisting digs
ton more than the same amount Of 50
ter drank from the trough.
1t is a question if the pasture sa
ways benefited by the close croPpe
given it by too numerous flock 9
sheep. The grass roots are left boz
and exposed to fully to the heat Of tai
midsummer sun.
"A farmer should first find @'l
whether or not his COW is capablea
producing a profit before beginning =
feed her on scientific principles. liner
are thousands of cows that could na
produce a cents worth of profit on ii'I
best feed on earth.
The cost of keeping cow has oesi'
shown to be about ten cents per daa
or $50 per year. Any variation iFos
this is probably offset by the difteren@
in value of profits. If COW will a9
pay this per year she is worse than 3
COW.
The use of complete fertilizers .
wolves a waste in all cases where y
soil already contains an abundance :,
one or two of the chief elements =
plant food, and requires only the suf
Elementary addition of the missing o@
or two elements.-T. Greiner.
In Florida, where crickets oi'a
seriously damage choice plants Just g
out, the plan has been adopted OF ea'
ting off the top and bottom Of t0ls.
pound fruit cans and placing Ihe q
sulting cylinder over the very suill
rose bushes, cuttings and other s'D'-
choice plants liable to attack.
1t is better to pass all food throusa
the bodies of the animals, If MANURE .
desired, than to attempt to make - |.
nure by adding all kinds OF maseils. y.
to the manure heap. Bulk inaisap'
nothing. A ton of concentrated 81
nure is easier handled, and entalis 81
labor in every way, than to buila Y
pile of materials that win require Du.I y
hauling and handling, and when -
possess but little value.
Poultry does best in small IT,
and in new places. The hennoss
ought never to be the large, inliDsr.
affair capable of accommodating n &.
eral hundred hens. If disease q 81
min get in such a house 1t IS 49, W.,
impossible to entirely eradicate el1n.
The large building may afford chssr {. ~.
accommodation for eaclS lndif'1.-
fowl, but in the end will not p.g NJ
SO profitable as number OF slD1.'
houses that can be moved from pAa' n
place and secure perfect isolalion j,
flocks during at least the snininhA
son.
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WASTE ON THE FARM.
Prolific Source of Debt and Mortgages
Discussed.

Prolific Source of Debt and Mortgages
Discussed.
We would like to indulge in n little
plain talk with farmers upon the above
subject. Riding through the country
on the cars or IN d carriage, every
thoughtful, observing man must be i'm
pressed by the fact that a considerable
proportion of the land in sight is run-
ming to waste, producing much less
than its capacity. We will see laroe
tracts of wet land, swamps or swales,
producing but little else than coarse.
wild weeds neither palatable nor
nutritious. The land is making little or
no return for the capital invested in If
or the taxes paid upon it. It is but a
drag, dead weight upon the remain
der OF the farm, and its loss must be
made up from the profits of the land
under good cultivation.
Then the observing will see that pas-
ture fields are not yielding as much
feed as they ought to, because the seed
ing IS thin, run out, as the saying is, or
perhaps killed out in spots by water or
freezing. How many old pasture
fields on average farms are Welding
anything like good burden of tame
grass. Whatever it may fall short of
its maximum capacity under good man.
agement, is lost, waste. No farmer can
afford such waste. No manufacturer
or merchant could remain solvent a
year who permitted such waste.
Then we see that meadows ore often
but little better. There may be spots
or stripes of rank, luxuriant
grass which would yield from
two to two and hslf tons
The Bossier banner., 1891-10-01

OF hay to the acre. ~
OF the field would be q r.s., lae
thin and bare spots that Nv aa9'
not pay legal interest n ~ 4 AZ
menl. ~ lae
Eut, observe the pr,;n
fields upon which labor l.. ns'as
pended in cultivation. IT, Ea ~
you see an even growth Inv u
field. There may be portion. . |, ~
iuxuriance of the grain 4 tral' Il aa''
ing, impressing us with tba
hberality of nature. but bo, l'a
other portions the stand a ~ 0'a
and the growth short and s.ag ~
fertility over the field is ~, %saE
and water has settled in lo,, Sal
killed out the plants or cho.,poa spoa
development. Proper undsrss
such places would convey "A a 'a
and prevent the loss of plant. ''
But there is another gr..
everywhere apparent even 1"
best cultivated farms, n.nl, sp0a
waste from the growth i
weeds These rob the useful nl... ~
necessary water and food, erora r'a
out OF their places ovav, wv
smother, suppress them. T'bor ,-''l
phatically robbers, and sborla 1, az
lawed, ostracized, suppressed i,
mated, annihilated WIN A. sA's
upon the farm caused by robhs.
is enough to account Tor all tb;s
sion in agriculture of which wss !
much. Why, it is enough 10 !.
for all this increase of farm moas u
OF which we read so mush ana
artful politicians are so readv !,
tribute to the measures Of 1a
versaries. No other business 1
country could endure such a r..
would bankrupt all engaged in Il
Let us for a moment cons,S..
names of some of the most aog,..
most impudent of these robbers N
is quack, thistles of several ~
notably Canada, dock of specis. :.
tain of two kinds-narrow.leo,.sj
worse daisy of species, ox.evod !
worst at present, charlock On
mustard, wild carrot and pum..
others. Is it surprising that afls,l
these robbers have had their cbans.,
the plant-food and moisture. the A..
from which the farmer expects tar.
his profit should fare so poorly2
Now, will farmers consider tb;s,
lem: Could you by proper cultiysF
bring up the yield of every souars,
and square foot of your fields q (
of the best square rod or p,,
foot, how much larger vou5
the acreage yield of your era
After you have given that proR,
sufficient consideration, take this
you should bring up the yield d
best square rod of every field d
highest possible capacity and the 4
of every other rod equally, how vi
your yields of crops then compare
your present yields?
The truth is, and may as well Ii
knowledged, the farmers Of this %
try possess too much land. They
everywhere applying the fertilizers.
cultivation, the working capital requi
for the cultivation of one acre to |
three, four acres. They are was
their capital and their energies On
much land. In the new era Of agri
ture, soon to dawn, our farmers, tau
by sad experience, are going to con-
trate their efforts. Southern Farm
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DIR. Charles Eastman, the Sioux In
dian to whom Elaine Goodale was mar
ried, was good deal of an athlete
Whlle at Dartmouth. His practice
soinetlmes disturbed students under
neath and near his room. On one oc-
caslon some eighty sufferers paid him q
visit to throw him out Of the window.
The civilized Sioux met them with a
revolver and a dumb-bell. 1t is unnec,
essary to say he was net tRrawn out
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How He Got 1t.

''How did you ever acquire such an
enormous appetite for red pepper2'
when l was boy an old woman
hated told my mother she could break
me of biting my nails by keeping red
pepper sprinkled on em. Chicago
Tribune.
The Bossier banner., 1891-10-01
Selecting a Watermelon.

The eating of watermelon is an art
learned only by long and varied expert
ence. 1t isn't fruit with which to be-
gin ones breakfast, or for that matter
to begin or end ones dinner, that is, if
one expects to eat other things It is
quite an art to select a choice melon
without cutting small hole through
its fat, green sides, but it can be done;
the same as an expert can tell coun-
terfeit from a genuine bill-by the feel
ing and general appearance. The dark
green of the melon should be the color
of English ivy leaves; the yellowish
spot underneath caused by its contact
with mother earth should be tested
with the pressure of the finger. The
spot should have springy resistance
and the indentation thus made should
not be noticeable when the finger is re-
moved. If it remains the melon is too
ripe and not likely to be watery. If no
depression can be made the melon is
not ripe enough.-N. Y. Herald.
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