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Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-09-03

The Tyler Democrat Reporter has
a mack of expressing itself upon all
subjects in plain and unmistakable
language, and upon diversified agri-
culture contains the following truth
full remarks: whenever Smith
county farmers once try the plan of
raising wheat and diversifying their
crops SO as to insure a good living
at home, they will never quit and
return to cotton. We know of a
truth that a great big, good. rich
living can be made at home any
where i'll East Texas, for we saw it
done fifty years ago, when there
wasn't market within a hundred
miles where anything could be
bought. Then people did without
store clothes, store provisions and
store everything else, but, don't you
forget it, all who made the proper
efforts lived like white heads-lived
at home and boarded at the same
place. 1t can be done now"
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-09-03

yoTToN still comes rolling in at
. rate of from three to five hun
red bales per day-notwithstand-
ing the low price.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-09-03

TIE BRENNAN compress is receiv-
ing q lot of cotton and has to be
run on full time to compress it all.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-09-03
LOCAL NEWS.

BRENNAN hopes to receive $4,000
bales of cotton this season.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-09-03

The colored people of Dallas pro-
claim themselves as being well
pleased with the separate coach law.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-09-03

CALDWELL is to have an artesian
well. Will the city Of Brennan sit
still and see the towns all around
us forge ahead in the matter of
lights and water? Surely not. Bren-
ham should be all means have ar
tesian water and electric lights.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-09-03

A GRAND ''Turn-Fest" Is announ-
ced to be heldat Latium on Septem-
Der the 18th. The Bellville band has
been engaged for the occasion.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-09-03

The BANNER is prepared to turn
out first class job work on short
notice, and can do your work any
day.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-09-03

NOTWITHSTANDING the low price of
cotton, the staple keeps coming in
great quantities.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-09-03

California has 2,675 of the giant trees still
left and of these the largest is 80 feet in d.
anetsr.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-09-03

A manufacturing town viii be
established near Chicago by Chi
go syndicate and eastern capitalists
One thousand acres of land have
been purchased. Price 100000.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-09-03

An Augusta (Me.) druggist owns a
cat which can tell the difference be-
tween one dollar bill and five
dollar bill, and drinks her milk
through a straw.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-09-03

Geo. Childs, Denver horse Jock
ey, become violently insane because
his intended wife broke off the
engagement. He was sent to the
insane asylum.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-09-03

Thursday afternoon Tom Bishop,
a colored employee in the sausage
factory of Mr.. Fritz Fisher, got his
hand caught in sausage mill and
had the middle finger of his left hand
ground up and so badly lacerated
that amputation was necessary.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-09-03

At Paris a woman named Tom
bard was arrested for attempting to
murder her husband by pouring
molten lead in his ear.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-09-03
Miscellaneous Items.

We may give advice, but we can
not give conduct.
More grass widows are found in
clover than in weeds.
If tastes didn't differ restaurants
would have an easy time.
1t is lot the longest sermons that
awakens the most sinners.
Charles King, demented, kills his
mother near Circleville, Ohio.
Three persons burned to death in
a London tenement house fire.
Negroes raid store near Memphis
and shoot the proprietor dead.
A colored Mikado company has
been organized at Philadelphia.
A tree is green when in foliage
and boy is green in his folly-age.
The Texas exhibit car is in Chica-
go and is viewed by hundreds every
day.
Hearts is the fa7or1te game at the
summer resorts this year. The
game is played with cards-some-
times.
1t is reported that N. Eifel has
invented steel bridge for use in
war. 1t is in parts, and can be put
up in hurry.
Recent calculations show that the
electromotive force of bolt Of
lightning produces an energy of up
ward of 100000 horse power.
At Paris woman named Tom
bard was arrested for attempting to
murder her husband by pouring
molten lead in his ear.
Gen Ghilds- q DenVar horse lock
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-09-03

The total forest area in the United States
IS estimated at 4S1, 764 500 acres.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-09-03
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.

On a projected electric railway between
Vienna and Buda Pesth, distance of $50
miles, it is proposed to- make an average
speed of IS to so miles an hour.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-09-03

Recent calculations show that the
electromotive force of a bolt Of
produces an energy of up
ward of 5000, 600 horse power.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-09-03

1t is reported that n. Eifel has
invented steel bridge for use in
war. 1t is in parts, and can be put
up in hurry.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-20
OUT OF A JOB.

Fifteen hundred census clerks are about
20 be discharged, and most of them, of
course, in sadly impecunious condition.
There is nothing more precarious and
melancholy than the life of 8 petty gov
eminent clerk at the Federal capital. The
wonder is that any intelligent man in
good health and habits of work should
ever accept, much less seek, petty political
office. A government clerk, even when he
belongs to the permanent establishment,
gets from $500 to $500 per year; the
chief clerk of a department gets
perhaps $500. but only an exceptionally
competent man rises TO he chief clerk. and
comparatively few rise TO the ST 800 class.
Rents are high in Washington; the habits
OF society are extravagant; the temptations
to dissipation touch you on every side:
the so-ealied tenure of Office even with a
sober, competent, faithful man is at best
insecure. The clerk may be ousted by a
change OF administration; by a triumph
of the other party or by the caprice of the
head of his bureau, for in spite of civil SER
vice rules mean superior can always
freeze out" man of any self-respect he
desires 10 get rid of.
The petty office-holder at Washington
enjoys no social dignity or consideration
as he does in Germany. where men of learn
ing, of literary and scientific attachments
accept small government clerkships. be-
cause they lose nothing by it in social or
professional repute, but the average gov
ernlcent clerk at Washington is not seldom
subjected to system of official espionage
and quasi-military surveillance on the
part OF his superiors that soon makes +.
manly. high-spirited man chafe. RESIGN
In disgust, and turns timid man into a
shrinking. sueservient lsckey. Personal
independence Is extinguished by official
pressure, and political independence is
instantly resented as a reason for removal
if order for its repression is not sncediIv
obeyed. Petty federal offices in situation.
remote from Washington aud other great
cities are less subject to the CALLING
persecution Of brief authority, but every
federal office-holder feels tina, he is praeti.
cally less = free American citizen in sneech
and action than he was before he took ~.
flee. He is directly or indirectly made 70
pay more than his fair share of the CAM
paign expenses, not by legal eompulsion.
Of course, but by kind of silent pressure
which does its work IS eflecsually as II
there were no law forhidding political as.
sessmen;s. Every government official
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-20

New DIX HINES.
According 10 advices the maritime exchange
has received. the steamer Charles W. Wetmore
ID now on her way from Quehes to Liverpool,
whore she will show the Englismen what an
American "whaleback'' is like. The wetmore
is a product of the Western shipyards, having
been launched from one of the establishments
on the great lakes She s built of steel, and like
her sisters which have been turned out re-
Gently she looks very little like the rest of sea-
going craft There 10 very little OF her above
water and with her rounded back and small
supsrstructures, she is far from being snowy
boat. The wetmore came down the lakes with
load of 81, 900 bushels OF grain on board, passed
through the canals, and reached Quebec on the
evening of July ). She made only very short
stop there and steamed away on her voyage to
Liverpool In crossing Lake Ontario she ran
into heavy gale, but came through il in hand
some style. She proved herself to be aremark-
ably good sea boat. The pilots who took her
through the rapids told the Quebec reporters
that she was very easily handled Captain
Joseph Hastings, who used to command the
Allan line steamer Partisan, 10 the skipper. The
wetmore, after delivering her cargo in Liver
pool, will come to New York to take on board .
lot OF machinery which she will carry out to
Puget sound. twill be used In shipyard
there. A Western newspaper man is making
the trip on the wetinore, and is to tell every
body about the voyage. II the "whalsbacks"
prove to be ~ successful on salt water as they
have been on fresh they are likely TO make some
big changes in the freight carrying methods on
the ocean. Their advocates claim for them all
sorts of advantages over the usual style of
ocean going freight steamers. This pioneer of
her class in deep-sea voysging is expected to
reach Puget sound some time in October or No
vember.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-20
TAKE YOUR CHOICE
And History, Seldom Erring,
Will Record You
Sage or Savage.

On the one side you have the old schools
OF medicine, born in obscurity and reared
In ignorance, with whom mediocrity
ranks as genius and fossilized eonserva-
tism IS the acme of wisdom. They are the
product of a parched imagination and q
stunted intellect. They are the result of
the DARK ages and the thumbscrew, of
myth and mystery, of astrology and al
chemy. Their great boast is antiquity
but the title is disputed by Baalam's ass.
On the other side stands the Uistogentic
system OF medicine. 1t is the offspring of
modern thought, of modern investigation,
OF modern experience. 1t is the result of
research, the triumph of reason. Like
Mlnerva,t sprang from the brain OF modern
Jupiter-science. Its challenge is investi-
cation: It's passport is truth. Which side
will win?
SEATTEE, WASH, June 8, 1891.
Our baoy was very sick, and we tried
several physicians in turn. None of them
seemed TO know what the matter was. She
couldn t stand; couldn't play; it was diff
cult Tor her to get her breath; she had
choking spells from the time she was 4
months old; would choke every five min
utes during the night, and was subject 10
conyuislons and muscular contraction.
We had about given up hope of her getting
well, when We took her to DR.. Jordan, and
in very short time she commenced to inn
pIONSf $1,000 nave lily
appeared entirely, and she has not had q
sign OF them for some time.
Ii gives me great pleasure to make this
statement, so that others who have chill
dren that are i'll may know where to take
them for treatment
MRS. CHARLES r. BRYEMAN,
Third ST., between Bell and Blanchard.
SEATTLE, WASHINGroN,l
April 20, 1891
Three years ago my son was taken sick
with pneumonia, which left him with
terrible cough. He got gradually worse,
and continually expectorated pus. We
Travelled around in different parts OF Cali
fornia with him, consulting doctor after
doctor. None of them could do him any
good. He got so very bad that after COM
ing 10 Seattle We had half dozen promi-
nent physicians here in town TO see him.
They said his left lung was all gone and
that he could not possibly live. Hearing
of DR.. Jordan We sent for him. He came
up and pronounced il a bad case, but said
he thought he could pull him through all
right. he commenced to pick up right
away. and In couple of months was able
TO 90 10 work.
We cannot be thankful enough to DR..
Jordan for what his medicines have done
for my Gear son. We now use nothing
but the Histogenetic medicines in case of
sickness. HANNAH JOHNSTON,
2,o2o Second street, Seattle, Wash.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-20
The "Graphic" Party.


The state has just been traversed by an organ
lied party of newspaper advertisement solicit
ora, known ~ the Graphic syndicate Newspaper
party. They travel about In an elegant Pullman
coach, known ~ the Mayfower, and attract .
great deal of attention wherever they co. The
ostensible object for which this party came to
the state is to collect information, sketches and
photographs for q special edition of the Graphic,
which will thoroughly reflect in text, pictures
and superior mechanical execution the
wonderful progress, and the developed
and undeveloped resources of the local
tiles visited" The real object In to
collect and publish information and photo
graphs of those towns and communities which
will pay large sum for them. In other words,
they will write up and illustrate any place which
will nay enough for it. What is the Graphics
Who ever heard of it before the visit of these
Pullman coach trampss Has it any circulation
or standing as q reputable newspaper? 1t GER
tainly has neither. An advertisement in such Q
publication is of doubtful utility and it 10 to be
regretted that number of towns have paid
money to secure representation in it. There are
better ways of advertising than in the Graphic,
which the advertisers themselves will have to
distribute il they wish il to be seen by the read
ing puhlic
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-20

knows that he is expected to vol
unfairly contribute to the party fund
and he does it, not because he is eager to
spend his slender salary, but because he
cannot afford to decline. The higher of
fees carry with them, of course, more so
cial dignity. but they are relatively no
better paid and there is the same restive-
ness under the official gags and manacles;
the same profound depression of spirits
under the malaria of the official atmos-
phere at Washington that cankers the
temper, il it does not sour the soul.
The demoralizing influence of political
office-holding is so great that ten years of
it usually units man contentedly to pur-
sue any other calling. The ordinary clerk
in his service learns nothing that can pos
sibly help him when he is out of office,
except in some instances that kind of dis
reputable knowledge that may enable him
TO set up as shyster claim agent. A
first curbstone broker, then curbstone
loafer, and finally a ditch drunkard.
So with an old-time office-holder; he is
never weary of trying to get back into of
fee, and If he fails he becomes cheap tool
of the lobby or government claim agent.
The uncle of Salmon p. Chase was sem
ator from Vermont, and refused to
give his impecunious young nephew q
clerkship, telling him TO go to work at
anything he could find rather than take a
place at the public crib. Five hundred
dollars year earned in q sawmill is better
than Thousand at the public crib, for once
in office nine out of ten stay in Office
until their day of execution and expulsion
comes, and then how pitiful is the sight of
old men turned into the streets, who have
learned nothing but the routine of daily
duty. Their address, energy and ambition
are all gone with their youth. Anything
is better than the mental paralysis that is
the fate of lifelong petty ofiee-holder
that is suddenly dropped back into the
world to wrestle for living.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-20
SEATTLE. MONDAY. july go.
WHAT MIGHT BE DONE.

Ifanybody desires to do Seattle a kindly
service he will lead one of the aldermen
into corner and whisper to him that the
city council is not body of town consta-
bles. The members are not expected to
run around smelling for broken sewers, in
speeding worn-out planks, arresting pea
nut vendors, and scolding officers for not
doing their duty.
1t is a legislative assembly instituted for
the sole purpose of making laws and leav-
ing il to other departments of the govern
ment to execute them. The Board of Aid
ermen has no more authority to send an
order to the chief of police than the Law and
Order League has. Each of the aldermen
has the right of any private citizen to CON-
plain of an officer to the head of his de-
partment, but no more. The City Council
bears the same relation to the municipal
ity that the Legislature does to the
State. What would be thought of
the Senate, if it should send out orders to
the Secretary of State, or if it should meet
month after month and neither discuss
revenue nor make set appropriation for
expenses, but let the whole state run pell-
NELL into deht7 How many of the alder
men know what it is costing the city per
month"; The fire department sends in an
estimate that it viii need 81 900 month
for supplies for the remainder of the year,
and the next month puts in bills amount
ing to s., 400 Does anybody ask why2
A bill to effect saving of several thou
sand dollars month is killed without q
one mans sons salary and throws an
other mans son out of a fat job. 1t is for
such reason that society frowns down
the putting into Office of relatives. 1t
Is not . crime, but IL throws a mans mo-
tives open to suspicion when he puts his
near and trusty relatives into office and
passes upon their bills. We have had with
in the past two or three years notorious
instance of the mischief that may be done
by having relatives too closely allied in in
terest placed in a position where the pub
lie purse may suffer.
If the council could only get rid of these
family pap-feeders and would discuss
pubic matters upon public grounds,
if il would not bother itself about special
permits for peddlers or splitting constitu-
tional hairs, there might be some hope of
getting settled the questions whether Is
or 50 candle-power lights should be used,
whether saloon limits should be
arbitrary or determined by rational
considerations, whether sewers are
to be constructed piecemeal or on system,
and paid for BY taxation or by assessment.
We might then have regulated expendi-
ture as all other cities have We might
have streets methodically named. even if
they cannot be labeled, ordinances framed
that win stand application and legis-
lative body which would attend strictly to
its own business.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-20
FREE TREATMENT FOR ALL
Drs. Darrin Make a Generous Offer to
Treat the Rich and Poor. the High
and Low, All Classes, Grades
and Stations, Free OF
Charge, from 10
to II a. m.
Daily.

For the benefit of those who are not
already acquainted with their mode of
operating by electro-magnetism, and who
may be seeking aid, though distrustful,
after many failures of everybody and
everything, DR.. Darrin makes the extra
ordinary and most generous offer to treat
the afflicted free of charge. between the
hours of 10 and IL a. m. each day, until
further notice, to prove to the community
at large his ability and skill. That the
Drs. Darrin have effected extraordinary
cures after all efforts sewhere have failed.
is fact supported by the strongest evil
dence. Their cures, moreover, are rapid
and permanent.
They make a speciality of all diseases of
the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat, and all
nervous, chronic and private diseases,
such as Loss of Manhood, Blood Taints,
Syphilis, elect, Gonorrh@a, Structure,
Spermattorrh9a, Seminal Weakness,
or Loss of Desire or Sexual
Power in man or woman. All peculiar Fee
male Troubles, Leucorrh9a, Displacements.
ETC., are contidentially and successfully
treated, and will under no circumstances
take case that they cannot cure or bene-
fit. Consultation free. Charges reason
able. Cures of private diseases guaran-
teed and never published in the papers.
Most cases can receive home treatment
after visit to the Doctors Office. In
quiries answered and circulars sent free.
parties writing will please mention paper. }
Drs. Darrin have their offices in THE
Normandy" cor. Third and James streets,
Seattle, Wash.
Office hours from 10 to 5daily; evenings,
7toS; SUNDAYS, 10 to IL.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-20
A MODEL EUROPEAN MUNICIPAL
GOVERNMENT.

Americans are fond of comparing public
institutions on this side of the water with
those abroad, and usually the showing is
greatly in our favor, but in one respect,
namely, in the matter of municipal en-
gineering and municipal government, We
are from ten to fifteen years behind. 1t
is simply because the model Euro
pean cities like Paris, Glasgow,
Berlin, Manchester, Birmingham and
Liverpool secure the services of the high
est expert talent, while the larger Ameri-
can cities grope forward under the rule of
demagogues, whose last thought, if they
have at any time thought beyond self
interest, is for public progress and welfare.
An interesting object lesson in the
study and review of foreign mu-
nicipal government is the city of
Dresden, the capital of Ssxony, which
has population of Dol, 900 people, little
less than Cleveland and little more than
Buffalo. In 1883 the receipts from taxes
amounted to 81, ZOO Above all its debts
the city has in its treasury fortune of
St, 81, 600 administered by the city council.
The total expenditure for the city schools,
which contain some 81, 1000 scholars, was,
in 1883, over $400, 900. The charitable trust
funds OF the city, some of them running
back to 1917, amount to nearly $5,000,OO0.
The City Savings Bank has 10000 de-
positors. and the whole amount due
depositors was nearly $4,000, 600 in 1855.
This bank is conducted for the benefit of
the working classes by committee of the
city government. The funds are invested
In national bonds and in railway securi-
ties bearing interest at 5, 81 and per
cent. The city supports five hospitals for
women and children, owns and operates
its own water-works, and its gasworks
earned clear of all expenses in 1883 about
$4,000 for the treasury. The cost of
living is not much lower than in America,
but bread, beer and cigars are
cheap. The hack fare for one person
is 125s cents within certain prescribed
limits, and when four persons take a car
rage the cost is about 51S cents each.
Horse-cars traverse the principal streets,
the fares ranging from 21s cents to cents.
The messenger work costs but 121l cents
an hour. OF the thirty members of the
Rath, fourteen are salsried, and are elected
for life. The chief burgomaster of the
Rath must in all cases receive a salary.
The Rath, whose duties are executive. is
elected by the college of deputies of
seventy-two members elected by the people.
and its members serve without pay or
emolument. The office is regarded as one
of distinguished honor, and refusal to
serve is punished by considerable fine
unless a reasonable excuse is given. The
duties of this college of deputies embrace
the appropriation of all moneys for the
city's purposes, the inspection and over
sight of the accounts kept by the city de-
partments under the direction of the Rath,
the punishment for certain offenses, by
fines, TO a stated amount, and the estab-
hshment. alteration or abandonment of
81 civic ordinances.