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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-05-21
NATIONAL CHARITY CONFERENCE.
Yesterdays Proceeding of the Convention at
lndianapOlis-Views on Idiots.


lndianapolis-Views on Idiots.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, May l6.-The
attendance and interest in the Ma
tional Charity conference continues.
The committee to whom was referred
the selection of the place for the next
meeting has decided upon, Denver,
and its report will be adopted. date
between June 10 and July 10, 1899, to
be fixed. The care of idiots was also
handled at the morning session. DR.
w. b. Fish, superintendent of the IL
linois school tor imbeciles made a
somewhat extended report of the con-
dition and treatment OF idiots in this
country. He advocated the COLOMBIA
ton of this class of unfortunates and
gave the results of the school under
his charge where a large farm is Guilt
waited at a profit. These views met
with favor by those interested in the
subject
A. o. Wright read paper on "The
defective classes
In the evening the committee on the
cooperation OF women in the manage
ment OF the charitable, penal and cor
regional institutions with Miss Clara
Barton, of Red Cross Association
fame, as chairman, rendered it's re-
port. Mrs. V. Il. Smith of Connec.
ticut. rendered the report and it was
follc wed by an interesting discussion.
Not few valuable statistics are con-
tanned in it. Numerous institutions
in the city were thronged with visitors
during the day.
Tomorrow the various pulpits in the
city will be occupied by delegates.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-05-21
ITALY.
HEALING THE DISSENsIoNS.

HEALING The DlSSENSlONS.
ROME, May 16.-In order to put an
end to the difficulties and discussions
that have ensued between the bishops
and the priests of America consequent
upon divisions and delimitations of
diocesan power, the propaganda has
issued a decree announcing that the
priests affected by said divisions shall
belong to those diocesses wherein they
were at the time the delimitations were
made 1t is stated here that were it
not that the pope's letter to Cardinal
Gibbons is expected to heal the discus
sions in the American episcopacy, the
American archbishop would be sum
moned to Rome to a conference with q
view to settling the existing disagree
mentS,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-05-21

THE matter of locating the perma-
nent state military encampment is
still unsettled. 1t is in the hands OF
an efficient committee who are max
ing personal inspection of the vari-
GUS places offered, and of course they
have as yet given no intimation as to
what their decision will be. THE
STATESMAN is we'll enough posted how
ever, on the comparative excellence OF
the various propositions to venture
the assertion that one Of the many
superior locations in the suburbs of
Austin will be the final choice.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-05-21
THE PENSION RuREAU.

The determined fight made by Gen
Raum against charges preferred
against his department in congress has
hardly faded from the public mind
Upon the floor of the house the pen
sion office was denounced as seething
cesspool of corruption. But the Re-
publican majority on the committee
managed to whitewash the commits
sioner, and half the people were lulled
into the belief that after all the bur-
eau might be all right.
But an accuser now comes forward
in the person of no less a Republican
leader than Secretary Noble, who says
that the charges that Commissioner
Raum's son sold offices in the bureau,
besides committing other acts of cor
ruption and rascality are true. Raum,
ST., denies it again, but the country
will believe his chief.
There is little doubt that Raum's son
is only one of many. He happened to
get caught, others more fortunate hav
escaped.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-05-21
Left for Their Homes.

HOUSTON, May 16.-Nearly all the
firemen have departed for their homes.
On their return from the excursion to
the Gulf they were taken in carriages
and driven over the city, and at 2
o'clock an elegant lunch was spread at
Merkeps Grove. The four DAYS of
pleasure and business passed without
n unpleasant incident, so far as the
isitors are concerned.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-05-21
PORTUGAL.
THE NEW CABINET.

LISBON, May 16.-It il expected Sc
nor Januiro will become premier and
minister of war, Senior Voscoucells,
minister of the interior; Senior -
Carvalho, minister of finance, and Sc
nor Macedos, minister of foreign affairs.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-05-21
A Tremendous Premium.

New YORK, May Johannes F.
Ward & Co., shipping. merchants, re-
ceived a cablegram today from Buenos
Ayres stating that gold there had
reached So 80 premium, highest rate
ever known in the Argentine Republic.
Ward said that this would seem to in
dictate that something serious had
happened there.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-05-21

THE ACT which admitted Louisiana
to the union as a state was so framed
that all residents of any territory of the
acquired domain prior to its admission
as state should become a citizen OF
the union by the act of admission.
Under this head came the man whom
the people from Nebraska recently
elected as their governor. Governor
Boyd was good man and Demo>
crat, and a partisan court declared
him ineligible to the office, saying he
was not a citizen. AS bare-faced a
foisted Republican upon the people
Nebraska.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-05-21
First Of the Sea son.

WAxAHAcH1E, Tex, May l6.-The
first game of the season, Waco vs..
Waxahachie, resulted as follow 8:
Waxahachie -, Waco 5. Batteries
Blackburn and Dawkin, Kittle and
Land. Um pire-Will Rose.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-05-21

THERE is an important station in
Hayti known as the Mole or st.
Nicholas which the United States de-
sires to secure. Harrison's clumsy
administration sent war fleet there
to make the negotiations, just as they
did recently in regard TO that coaling
station in the Pacific. The results
were the same. Hayti looked on it as
threat and refused to enter into ne
gotiations. The New York Herald
speaking OF the matter, says: at
seems probable that the ordering Of
the squadron of revolution to Hayti
was not only unnecessary but unfor-
tunate. Except as a menace there
was no apparent excuse for increasing
our naval force in Haytian waters; as
a menace it was a lamentable failure
AS one acquainted with the Haytian
people might have known it would be.
Mr.. Harrison's naval demonstrations
against Hayti seems to have been a
flat failure from every point of view. 2"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-05-21
A Short Run,

NEW YORK. May 16.-The steamer
Furst Bismarck arrived from South
ampton in six days, fourteen hours and
SIX minutes, beating the best maiden
record of any line.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-05-21
EnMuNns IN A NEW ROLE.
April II, 1891.

The New England ex-senator ls
nothing if not fanatical, nor since his
retirement from the national halls OF
legislation does he seem to have los'
his penchant for interfering in other
peoples affairs.
This time the fana,icism OF the
venerable advocate of the force bill
assumes the form of religious intoler-
ance. Taking the quilting OF the new
Catholic univer ity at Washington
one of the finest in the world-as q
text Mr.. Edmunds, who is a Protest.
ant, vents the national government
TO be used as an engine to retard the
further advance of Catholicism in
which he affects to see danger to the
government and menace in the rear
ing of the magnificent new seat OF
learning in the shadows Of the federal
capitol.
Mr.. Edmunds is too old and shrewd
a statesman to forget that religious
liberty is one of the main pillars on
which this government rests. 1t is
in maintaining that pillar inviolate
and intact that our security, welfare
and prosperity depend. That pillar
is an enduring monument to the sa-
gacity, wisdom and foresight OF the
founders of the American constitution.
Religious liberty is one of the things
that the colonies contended for
at Bunker Hill and
finally achieved at Yorktown.
1t is a principal of which the people OF
the United States must never lose
sight, nor ever throw overheard.
The government is neither Protest
ant, Catholic or Pagan. All sects have
equal claims to its benefits, none have
the exclusive right to it, nor to use il
against the others. Yet, Ex-senator
Edmunds wants its influence thrown
against Catholicism and in favor Of
Protestan tism. Such step would
set most dangerous precedent. The
theory of our government is that il
protects all religions, Baptist, Metho-
dist, Presbyterians, Unitarians, Uni
versalists, Catholics and all others il
the free exercise of their beliefs, con-
victions and tenets. There is no
much probability of any of them eve
attempting to lay hands on the govern
ment, which is their protector, as Mr.
Edmunds seems to fear in relation tt
Catholicism. When they do Uncle
Sam will be around there. Let ul
have free, full religious liberty for al
alike. Let any or all sects rear AZ
many and as grand universities at the
national or at the state capitals al
they choose. The more the better
Mr.. Edmunds to the contrary not
Withstanding,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-05-21

IT HAS been boosted that at the re-
cent banquet of the Protective Tariff
league in New York $500, 900 900 were
represented in the persons of those
about that festive board. Those who
stayed away and mourned for tariff re-
duction represented 50,000,000 of peo-
pie. That's about the way the thing
evens up. Protection represents the
boarded wealth of the millionaires
while tariff reduction represents the
people.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-05-21
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April 81, 1891.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-05-21

GEN. RAUM admits his son opened a
letter, pocketed the $72 in it, and took
the money home with him. The
father says they did not know where
the money came from, and his son
deposited it in the Treasury. Tho ex-
piaration is lame. The money did not
belong to him, and youLg Raum had
No husinesa wifi, H.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-05-21
FARM NOTES..
VALUABLE INFORMATION ABOUT
FARM CROPS THAT WILL
INTEREST FARMERS.
Interesting Notes About Colts sheep
and Swine That Will Please
People Interested in
Such stock.

1rhis departments edited by Capt. John
G. Edgar of Duval, to whom all correspon-
dence should be addressed.l
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-05-21

CONSPICUOUS, in big type on a
prominent page of the New York Her
aid appeared recently, the following
"Our candidate. j. G. Blaine. The
man who attends to business and our
honor and who does not go masquer-
aiding about the country, telling old
rebels they were quite right, calling
them Confederates and not daring to
Say we were federals.
Neither the Herald nor the Rel ub'
lican party nor the Democratic party
wish this sort of Peers'-soap-or-
Brooke's-monkey brand that-won't-
wash. clothes individual for president
of this glorious Union. Good morn
ing" Is this intended as boom for
Blaine or as a soap advertisement? 1t
is hard to decide. 1t is an injustice to
Harrison and an indignity to the
south whatever else it may be.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-05-21


Sheep are perhaps the most profita.
BILE of all live stock kept on the farm,
but their value is not fully appre-
ciated by the farmer or it would soon
be the exception to find farm with
them. 1t takes very little money to
start flock and they can be easily
and cheaply graded up and improved
as mutton and wool producers They
afford palatable and nutritious food
at less cost and trouble than beef or
pork while their fleece is as saleable
as cotton, but vastly more profitable.
For these reasons alone they should be
kept by the farmer, but when their
value as weed destroyers and
manure manufacturers is consid-
cred the case is much stronger in
their favor. They are veritable vege-
table scavengers. They will eat up al
most every kind of noXious weed and
scrub growth, giving grass a chance.
Pastures that have been overrun by
weeds 10 the exclusion of grass can, in
two years, be thoroughly cleared up
and covered with grass.
The through manner in which sheep
masticate their food makes it impossi-
Die Tor any seed to survive the opera
ton and few years will suffice to ex-
terminate every weed within their
reach.
They make the most complete fer
tilizer and distribute it more effective
ly than any machine yet invented.
While the quality of horses, cattle
and hogs has been steadily I'M
proving, the flock master has
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-09-10
As He Used to Do,

One of our street car conductors was
formerly Methodist minister. How
he came to be running street car I
never knew, but he did his work well,
though he had some peculiar ways.
He had been on the front platform
one day collecting fares, and when he
came back to the rear platform a pas
senger told him that man got on at
Houston street and was sitting inside.
The conductor stood in the doorway
and looked in, but he could not be sure
of his man. Then he said with all
calmness, "Will the gentleman who got
on at Houston street please rise9"
The gentleman stood up like a man
and paid his fare. New York Sun.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-09-10
&y6SylSybSgSGgg1@y
Plain Words About Dog Worship.

Opinions differ about babies. There
are many men who do not care for
them, who positively dislike them, ex-
cept they be their own. Fatherhood is
capable of working miracles, and gen.
orally fulfills its capacity. But are
there any sensible, we'll balanced men
who can enjoy the spectacle of wom-
an bestowing caresses on a curt Think
of her pressing it to her breast, leaning
her cheek against it, allowing it to lick
her face, to touch her very lipsl And
how much worse to see it, as one often
may in the streets, or in private
housesl BAIL Whose gorge, If
healthy, does not rise at itl He would
be bold or hardened who should be
willing to succeed poodle in wom-
ans affections and hold second place
there, as he probably would.
Is there any more effectual way for a
woman to disenchant herself, to turn
the poetry Of her graceful being into
harsh and hateful prosef And yet so
infatuated is the cynolatist that she
really believes she stirs the admiration
and inhames the breasts of men by OBJ.
serving her irrational rites. Even il
they should or could envy the object
worshiped, they would despise the wor,
shipper. They may dread and detest ri
walls, but the knowledge that their ri
val is beast would cure the maddest
love ever kindled. II Venus herself
should fall to fondling small dog she
would cease from that moment to be
the Goddess of Love and Beauty. She
would instantly and forever be deposed
from Olympus. st Louis Globe-Demo
erat
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-09-10

when she endeavored to keep the band
of her skirt and the band of her waist
under the belt which was supposed to
conceal the point of juncture
The new device is simple one, and
it is done by the means of that uni
versal beautifer and magic ornamenter
gimp. A nice broad piece of gimp,
preferably silver, but allowably black or
any other color which harmonizes with
the costume, is sewed upon the band
of the dress skirt. This band is then
hooked over the waistband and is
grappled in place by means Of jewel
headed pins, which are placed both for
ornament and for use at intervals OF
two inches around skirt.
Thus the unities are preserved, a
pretty effect is accomplished and every
one pleased. And all with the aid Of
gimp.-New York World.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-09-10
A Dreadful Charge.

Some twenty years ago, when prose
cutions for ''ritualism" were in vogue,
q high church clergyman was appointed
to a country parish near to a low
church town. He was youngish and
unmarried, and so was his curate. The
local newspaper, ever jealous for evan
gelical truth, soon informed its readers
of the new rector's crimes, He turned
10 the east; he bowed to the Gloria; in
the pulpit he wore a surplice-that
characteristic garment of the scarlet
woman. And there was one accuse
ton which touched both the rector and
his curate. 'Will it be believed" said
the pious print, that they openly
practice celibacy, even in the public
streetsl" This was meant to arouse
and no doubt it did arouse, the spin
sters and widows of the neighborhoo(
to a timely vindication of the rights o
woman. Notes and Queries.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-09-10

"Why do not women wear pocketsQ
And why do they always carry every
thing in their purse, and their purse in
their hand in such a manner as to
tempt the dishonestT What an I'M
worthy taunt is thisl Woman does
not wear pockets because man has left
her nothing to put in them, and that is
one reason. Another reason is because
she does not want them. She is not as
man is, and is not obliged to carry about
with her everywhere cigar case, a box
of matches, pocketbook, a latch key,
and a dozen other utilities. AS for
carrying her purse in her hand, she
carries it there because she has not got
pocket.
Also, it is more convenient to carry il
there; she is of generous and liberal
nature, and would always be giving,
so that she likes to have her purse
ready. 1t is u much safer method, too
her pocket might be picked OF hel
purse, whereas in her hand she car
keep her eye upon it, And if anybody
does snatch her purse, it would moi
matter much, for it rarely contains any
thing but visiting cards and few
postage stamps. Women do veal
pockets They have pockets in every
one of their dresses, 1--WE really be
lieve that this is true, and that they
have pockets, only they don't us.
them because they can never find them.
Spectator.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-09-10

Iput in the Mill Head waters, writes
Mr.. Garrett from Hartford, 500 trout
at II 80. About half an hour after
ward l went to see how they were get
ting on, and observed a small pike
among them. l went and fetched a
rod and line, but he darted into the
weeds. This I repeated several times
till 6 o'clock, when l succeeded in cap
turing him. On opening him to see
what mischief he had committed
counted no less than flfty-one young
trout.-Pall Mall Budget.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-09-10
Mystery.

How the human system ever RECEIVERS from
the bad effects Of the nauseous medicines often
literally poured into It for the suppoSitive
relief OF dyspepsia, liver complaint. constlpa-
ton, rheumatism and other ailments, is O
mystery. The mischief done by bad medl.
cines is scarcely less than that caused by dis
ease. II they who are weak, bilious, dyspep-
tic, constipated or rheumatic, would oftener
be guided by the experience Of invalids who
have thoroughly tested Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters, they would in every instance obtain
the speediest aid derivable from rational
at the same time thoroughly safe remedy,
derived from vegetable sources, and possess
ing, In consequence of Its basis Of pure spirits,
properties as medicinal stimulant not to be
found in the fiery local bitters and stlmulants
and languid.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-09-10

Some genius of a woman who has
struggled for seasons to keep her skirt
and her waist under her belt has
thought Of way to make these two
bands join each other In picturesque
harmony. No more will one see that
unhappy lapse which so often has
marred the symmetry Of woman's toilet
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-09-10
Highly POetical.

Young Doctor ION his wedding tour
-Wifey, dear, just look at that pecul-
lar blending of colors In the sky. The
cloud overhanging yonder peak is e1-
actly the color of a diseased liver
Figaro in Wien.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-28
WORK GRADING ALLEY

CONTRACT WORK GRADING ALLEY,
- block n, St. Anthony Park = Office
of the Board of Public Works, City of
st. Paul, Mimi, Aug. 26, 1891. : Sealed
bids will be = received by the Board of
Public Works in and for the cOrpo
poration of the City of st. Paul, Mime
sofa, at their office in said city, until II
m. on the Sth day of September, A. D. 1891,
for grading alley running east and west
through block n. st. Anthony Park,
in said city, according to plans and specifi-
cations on, file in the Office of said Board.
A bond with at least two (2) sureties, in
sum of at least twenty (20) per cent, or
of at least ten d0) per cent of the gross
amount bid, must accompany each bid. said
check shall be made payable to the Clerk Of
said Board.
The said Board reserves the right to reject
any and ali bids.
J.C. QUINBY, President Pro TEN.
official: j. II. KERKER,
Clerk Board of Public Works.
aug27-10t
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-28
MONEY GALORE !.

With the great crop now
being harvested will come a
great abundance Of money
TO the Northwest. This al
ways means speculation, and
there is nothing of which our
people are so fond of as spec
ulating in real estate. With
st. Paul and Minneapolis
growing at their presentrate
our real estate is the best
speculation in the country,
and people are finding this
out. After our last boom
many people here and some
elsewhere thought it was the
end Of real estate ppofits,and
because real estate was dull
for a time that the city was
gone to the bad. But it has
really done better than ever
before. Outsiders have found
this out, and some few peo-
pie here know it. The fool
killer has been around this
year and scared the croakers
away, and this fact, with our
great crops, has started
things on a new boom. Visit
the factories, the wholesale,
merchants, or the retailers
and keep your eyes open, and
you will see this for your
self. Activity in real estate
will follow this, and it has,
in fact, already begun. For
a while you will not notice
it. But look back a year
from now and y GU will see
the difference. In a growing
city real estate booms are
like waves in a rising flood.
One comes and peeedes. and
each one that follows goes far
Their than the one before. The
purchases that are being made
show that the wave is COM
ing again. So buy now and
you get the benefit. If you
want a home buy now and
get the benefit Of low prices.
If you want an investment
or a speculation, by all means
buy now.
We are now Offering prop
erty at ridieulously low
prices, just to keep the ball
rolling. But we shall raise
them soon. Come and buy
now at your own price. If
you wait you will have to
pay our price, and then you
will want to be kicked by long-eared
quadruped, and will call on yourself to
do the Job. We have the best property
in South st. Paul, the great manulaGt-
urinq place of the present and future,
and will sell lots worth S500to $1,000
for $3.50 to $500 to imprOVers.
We have also 200 acres Of the very
best land for market gardens, COnven-
ientIy located, which we will sell in
quantities to suit. We have good
property in all paris Of the city, and
some specially line business property.