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The Parent of Insomnia.

The parent of insomnia or wakefulness is
in nine cases out of ten a dyspeptlc stomach.
Good digestion gives sound sleep; indigestion
interferes with it. The brain and stomach
sympathizes. One of the prominent symp-
toms of weak state of the gastric organs is q
disturbance of the great nerve entrepot, the
brain. Invigorate the stomach, and you re-
store equilibrium to the great centre. A most
reliable medicine for the purpose is Hostel
ter's Stomach Bitters, which is far preferable
to mineral sedatives and powerful narcotics
which, though they may for time exert a
soporifc influence upon the brain, soon cease
to act, and invariably injure the tone of the
stomach. The Bitters, on the contrary, re-
store activity to the operations of that all
important organ, and their benefcent influ-
ence is reflected in sound sleep and a tranquil
state of the nervous system. A wholesome
impetus is likewise given to the action of the
liver and bowels by its use.
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Mulching,

Garler and Forest.
There is really no tree or plant
which is not benefited by mulch.
ing. 1t Is not improbable that we
shall yet come to a system of agri-
culture in which mulch will be US
ed for corn and potatoes and gar
den vegetables. Experiments in
that line have proved beneficial.
The only question is, will the ex-
pense and trouble be compensated
by sufficiently larger crops? TAX
ing into consideration the liability
to droughts there is little doubt
but we can devise some methods of
mulchiDg that will pay. What we
need now is statistics of losses and
waste of our fairly estlmable crops.
We must then consider how much
of this is preventable. l believe
that the loss and the waste of the
fruit crop is at least one-half, and
of the corn and root crop one
fourth of the average. The fluc-
tuation of prices is not the chief
difficulty with the farmer; the
point to aim at is securing full re-
Enumeration for work and expense
by getting invariable harvestings.
But mulching has an application of
very great Importance IN the plant.
ing OF trees. No tree, under any
circumstances, should be set with
out a foot covering at once. 1t is
the one most important point in
planting, more so than large holes
and carefully set roots we'll pound
ed down. Pruning has less to do
with the life and growth of the
tree. 1 reckon that a pear tree
we'll mulched gains three years
over one that Is not. Chip refuse,
coal ashes, wood ashes mixed with
waste, long manure, cut straw, old
or waste hay. all are good mate
rial.
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FOSTERS FORECASTS.

My last letter gave forecasts of
the very changeable weather from
August 4 to IA. The next storm
wave will be due to leave the Pa
cific coast about the 18th, cross the
Rocky-Allegheny valley from 18th
to 10Th, and reach the Atlantic
coast about the Goth. The regular
movements of these midsummer
storm waves from west to east, will
not be so manifest to casual observ-
ers as were those of the spring
months. The rains and other eff
fects will develop only in isolated
localities, and will appear more as
chance and irregular disturbances
than the effects of regular storm
waves. This storm wave will inau-
gurate the hottest period of the
summer, and bring the finest corn
and cotton weather of the season.
The weather will not be settled but
changeable from 16thItos22nd, after
which it will be more uniformly
warm and dry.
1 must correct my statement
about the cotton crop. 1 meant to
say that this years crop would not
exceed that of last year, but inadver-
tentlY used the wrong figures. The
crop of 1890 was about S,65O,0OO
bales and this years crop is estimat-
ed at 100000 bales. 1 do not be-
lieve it will reach that amount. To
make more radical statement than
this would be construed as an effort
to affect prices. The buyer and
seller, the manufacturer and con-
sumner, are all specially interested in
the date of the first killing frost and
the question as to whether the crop
will mature early or late for the vol
ume of the cotton crop depends on
these two points. There is some
danger of the late corn crop being
cut short by early frosts in the
Northern corn belt.
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TEACHERS EXAMINATIONS.

Judge L. Kirk has received the
following circular letter, which is self
explanatory. Read it:
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, AUSTIN,
TEXAS, August 10, 1S9l.-Hon. County SUI
perintendent (ex-oficioy Washington county,
Texas.-Dear Sir: have received from
county superintendent and teachers letters
requesting that an examination for teachers
certificates be authorized the last of August
or the first Of September as the first examin-
alton held under the provisions of the law
will not be earlier than October Sth and 9th.
Since many teachers failed to have their GER
tihcates renewed under the letter of advice
sent from this department May 18th, and in
order to prevent hardshIps TO individuals and
inconvenience or delay in the management
of school affairs, county superintendent are
hereby authorized to hold an examination
for teachers certificates on Thursday and
Friday. the third and fourth days ofSeptem-
Der. 1891. Questions will be furnished by
this department in accordance with the law.
County superintendent (ex-otfcio) are here
by requested to give as full notice of this eX-
animation is may be possible, that all teach
ers desiring to avail themselves of this op-
portunitv of obtaining certificates may dose.
All teachers should present themselves early
Thursday morning. The school law is now
in the hands of the printer and copies will
be furnished to all county superintendents as
soon as received. ID. Y. PRITCHErT,
State Superintendent Public Instruction.
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The amendments to the constitu-
ton have all probably been carried
by small maiorities.
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The Russian imperial council has
decided to prohibit the expectation
of corn from Russia, owing to the
bad harvest in Russia which caused
a scarcity of this cereal.
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FRED DOUGLASS, minister to Hayti
has rendered his resignation to the
State department.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-08-20

TIE Alliance of Kansas are form
ing shipping associations.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-08-20

SENATOR INGALLS, is lecturing in
Kentucky.
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AGESr Bennett is back in the In
dian Territory disturbing the intru-
ders.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-08-20

The Maryland Alliance boasts
that it can defeat Senator German.
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WESTERN counties will all be bank
rupted paying for Jack rabbit
scalps, unless the precedent set in
one of them recently of the COM
missioners bluntly refusing to pay
for them, is followed by the others
1t is estimated that there is enough
in the Rio Grande country tobank-
rupt two States like Texas.
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A TELEGRAM from Buenos Ayres as
serts that Chill will declare war
against Bolivia because the govern
ment of the latter country has re-
cognized the congressional party of
Chill as belligerents.
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The Salvadoran government holds
that the seizure of the City of
Panama has a precedent in the
seizure of the Itata by the United
States government. The steamer is
still at La Liberated.
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Mrs. JEFFERSON DAVIS will be at
Richmond, Va, in October to select
the place of burial of her husband.
She has expressed desire to have
the remains of all her family inferred
beside her husband.
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THE political atmosphere in Ohio
is getting decidedly warm; in fact
it is heating up so rapidly that
Major Mckinley is already calling
upon the republican executive COM
mittee for more funds; but, it seems
that there are no more funds
eomeatable just now, the manufac-
turers having positively refused to
undergo the bleeding process at this
time.
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THERE is little change in the mar
kets in any direction. Henry
Clews & Coz circular says the
stock market has shown some activ-
ity and recoveries in prices, but the
advances have been mainly due to
increased sales. The resumption of
the silver question, he says is en-
couraging distrust, but is more due
to the seriousness of the view taken
of the situation than would arise
should free coinage law actually
be enacted.
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Thursday, August 90, 1891.
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A TERRIBLE story of cold blooded
butchery comes from st. George,
Utah, and is accredited to Mormons.
1t was the murder of the whole
family of Richard Bell. A posse
went out to the place and forced the
door open. They found the whole
family dead in bed. Each had been
murdered, and the work had ev-
IDENTIFY been done while the victims
were asleep, for none had struggled.
Bell and his wife both had their
heads crushed, while the boys had
their Threats cut from ear to ear,
evidently done with one slash of a
knife.
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The London Daily News says: "It
is reassuring to learn that crops in
the United States are exceptionally
large. The farmers of America are
masters of the situation and it hopes
they will use their strength merci-
fully. Corners III necessaries of life
are never laudable and at present is
a little short of fendish.n The
News can console itself with the
assurance that American farmers
have never been able to sufficiently
organize to corner anything. The
farmers must find purchasers for her
good crops and will sell at the
market price as soon as they are
gathered.
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DURING the year of 1890 there
we're exported from this country to
Brazil, Cuba, Porto Rico and San
Domingo goods of an aggregate
value of S27,746,356. During the
same year We imported goods from
them amounting to S119, 1249S6.
The balance OF trade against US that
this country paid in gold or its
equivalent was S91,37S,63O. Here
is large cash margin that the re-
ciprocity treaties recently concluded
viii enable US to remove by substi
tuting for it the products of our
farms, mills and factories. It is
reasonable to expect that under the
benefcent operation Of these treaties
we shall do even better than this,
for those countries have been for
years heavy purchasers of British.
German and French goods, large
proportion of which this country can
now supply at considerable adyant-
age over our foreign competitors.
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American Corn In Europe.

The effort which is being made by
the federal department OF agriculture
to push the sales of American corn in
Europe deserve the commendation OF
the whole people. Just at present the
agent of the department Is at work III
Germany, and some success In his en-
deavors in that quarter Is looked Tor
with great confidence by the govern
ment. He is TO continue his task. 1t Is
understood. for year or two yet; ana
IN doing this he is to consult with the
principal grain importers and CONNER
cial bodies in the leading importing
countries of Europe. There are rea-
sons 10 expect good results from TINS
missionary work Corn has qualities
which can not fail TO make it popular
on the other side of the Atlantic
when they are fairly understood.
It is nutritious and cheap, and
can be prepared for the table
in more appetizing fashion
and in a greater variety of ways
than anv other cereal. When its good
points are thoroughly learned and APP
perciated abroad the demand for 1t must
immensely and permanently increase.
Among the poorer classes OF continen-
corn must prove highly acceptable when
once its virtues are made known. 1t
will BE- a good substitute for rye when
that product. as at present, becomes
scarce and dear. and when a fair chance
is offered for il TO reveal itself, 1t viii
probably to a large degree displace rye
among those TO whom cheapncss IN
the selection of food Is the prime con-
sideration.
The benefit which would come TO the
country from the opening OF new
markets for corn are obvious enough to
5e understood by all intelligent persons.
II is. in a monetary s5nse, the most I'm
Dortant of the products OF the soil OF The
United States. Its value largely cxceeda
that OF wheat, hay Cr cotton, which are
aside from corn, our leading agri-
cultural crops. Until recently the
sale OF corn was virtually ne
stricted 10 this country. Only signif
icant portion Of the annual yield has
been sent abroad. Even in lSsg, wher
the WELD here was larger than II ever wa:
before or since, and when expectation
reached the highest figure in the aggre
! gate il ever touched. the proportion ofth'
EXPORT. amounted 10 only 1. - per cent d
the years crop. while our foreign sale
of wheat we're over - per cent In th'
same year. These facts will show tn'
/ advantages 10 the country which fh'
I introduction Of corn into Europe OF
f = scale commensurate wit1 0u
/ facilities for producing il would bring
/ We can enlarge our yield In al import
ant degree whenever the demand war
rants il. Low prices in recent year
hare kept the output down 70 a muci
/ lower level than would otherwise hav'
! been reached. but IL cur markets abroas
I be widened sufficiently 10 render To
expansion in acreage profitable nc ea'
as readily produce 3.000 o., 90 hushei
as we this year produce -,vU.OS9,VSV.- =
Globe-DsEeerst
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Postmaster General Wanamaker is
receiving general support and encour-
agement in his effort to secure free
country delivery. BY obtaining an ap-
preparation Of $4,000 from the 5lst
congress to be used in experiments in
country school districts he was able TO
demonstrate the correctness OF his the
nv that the cost Of this extension would
be more than compensated by the in
creased use of mails by country popu-
lations now isolated from daily com
with the world. The farm
ers can thus be afforded postal convent
ences enjoyed at present only in the
cities, and the department deficit will
actually be diminished.
Mr.. Wanamakcr deserves every en-
in this project. While
Blaine and Rusk are en-
larging the farmers market, attending
to his foreign relations, Mr.. Wanama-
ker is endcavoring SO far as lies within
the scope Of the postal department to
redeem him from the monotony and in
Of farm life. With daily free
delivery of mail in country districts will
come a relief from the dreariness OF ex-
istence ia scattered hamlets and educa-
ton by daily contact with the world,
the enlivenment of farm communities.
the infusion Of new influences and new
ideas and interests, the enlargement OF
the farmers horizon and the LIBERAL
izing Of his sentiments. 1t is marvel,
as the farmer is from the
avocations and multi
form interests OF society. that he IS as
liberal and intelligent as be is. When
other interests than those of tilling the
soil are injected into the farmers daily
life ii will b robbed OF its meagrenerss
and monotony and the tendency OF lam
HUI towards the cities will be depriv-
IA II one of its substantial causes. The
CAPITAL suggests to the farmers of Kan
sas that they endorse Mr.. Wanama,
ker's project BY petitions to the 90
congress which will meet in December
Capital.
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The NOSE.
Prof Annie OppFnheim, "A Noted Physi
ogn0mist, Di~conrses Upon 1t.

Last year Prof. Annie Oppenheim
Went to the military exhibition to study
noses. saws q London letter to the N.
Y. Hernld and then made an examina-
ton Of the old pensioners in Chelsea.
Every one Of them nearly had the
prominent part of the nose at the top,
she said. "NVhen the nose comes
boldly out at that part il is the sign Of
an aggressive spirit When it projects
more midway it shows disposition to
resent attack or defend friends. but
without that spontaneous impulse to
combat which YOU find in the real
fighter and whicn is conspicuous in all
the portraits Of the distinguished gen
erals or soldiers which one sees.
You can almost tell persons
character from the nose alone" she
remarked. "All great men have great
noses. The Greek'nosc, which has no
protuberance, but is straight argues
great senses of aesthetics, of beauty,
but 10 character and no power Of con
tention.
Large nostrils show courage. Peo-
pie Of fearless disposition breathe fully
and freely. All the tiercer animals
have dilated nostrils. The dropping
nostrils show histrionic talent. If the
nose also droops it denotes a tragic
power and if only the nostrils the
capacity is marked for the interprota-
ton Of comedy.
Where the nose is thin at the
bridge it shows generosity. while a
h0se that is thick at the bridge. argues
aatcquisitiveneSs. When it is tip-lilted
NE the petal Of flower the person is
@lulstive. A projecting nose argues
@position 10 investigate. 1t is
anead Of the person. as it were, and
"%ats TO scent out things"
Ffof. Oppenheim delivers a lecture
rr'ery day at the German exhibition at
Laf. court ia London. She has pub
nsled one on Two works on her pet
Hielce, for, although she has formed
ner own deductions. they are all based.
In on intuition or instinct. but on
anatomical PRINCIPLES.
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PASTE AND SCISSORS.

Mrs. Mackay has a string of flawlcss
diamonds two yards long.
Washington is the only city of any
size in this country that possesses no
factories.
According to the Norwegian papers
Henrik Ibsen will visit this country
next year.
Iowa has no statute providing for
the prevention of prize-hghts or pun
ishing the participants.
A Chinese newspaper published in
San Francisco has been sued for libel
by negro and an Indian.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, began Greek
at 20. and now she has just read the
plays of Sophocles in the original.
For his fifty lectures in this country.
according to the London Chronicle.
Sir Edward Arnold will receive sum
equal to a years salary of Lord Sails
bury"
Blaine and Proctor are the only
members of the Cabinet who do not
smoke, while Foster has the pre-emi-
smoker of the official family.
The history of the world in Arabic
is being written by Mahmond Fehmy
Pasha. companion of Arab in exile
III Ceylon. He hopes to finish ii this
year. 1t will be in five large volumes.
The Hawaiian race has been steadily
dwindling in numbers during the pres
ent century, and the latest census
gives it population of but 40 600, OIL
decrease of one-half within a GEN.
turv.
General Maury is the third distin-
guished Confederate officer to have a
desk in the War Records Office in
Washington The other two are Gen
eral Marcus Wright and General
George Field.
A check for 800 came from Cali
fornia to Bernard McCaughey, of Paw
tucket, II. l., the other day. 1t was
from a young man whom he had loan
ed 5000 to pay college expenses nine
teen years ago. Mr.. McCaughey re-
fused to accept more than 5000.
In one of the Paris papers an Amer
| ican has complained that the tomo oi
La Fayette is sadly neglected; that nc
attempt has been made TO decorate The
grave, although there are thousands
of Americans in Paris. The writer
saws he found ragged American FLAG
on the grave. and this he replaced by
a new Que. In all France there re-
mains not one person named La
| FaYette.
STATE OF ONO, CITY OF TOLEDO tss
Frank 7. Cheney makes oath that he is th'
senior PARTNER of the firm OF +. J. Cheney Co
doing business in the city of Toledo, county an'
state aforesaid and that said frp vii! pay thu
sum OF ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for eacl
and every case Of Catarrh that cannot be cureC
by the use of Halls Catarrh Cure.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in II.
rresence this 9th day OF December. a d. tSSt
A. w. GLEASON,
;sEAL xo,.rv p,,uc
Hairs Catarrh Cure IS taken internally, ant
acts directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system. Send for the tesumoniaL
free. x.,,~-,-x- ~
Tole~o Ohio
-Sold hv drurrfsts IS cents.
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Alarming Increase of Crime Among the
Young-Cause and Prevention.

Alarming Increase Of Crime Among the
Young-Cause aud Prevention.
The following extracts from the an
nual address of President Alexander
Hogeland before the national conven-
rion OF the National Boys and Girls
Home EMPLOYMENT association, held in
Topeka last week:
"All rejecting persons have for years
past, known that crime among youths
and minors was'on the increase, espec-
ially among our boys and young men.
To prove this we will give some statis-
tics. We have in the peniteAtiaries In
the United States about 60, 600 convicts,
the averages in sexes Is 100 males to one
female: one-halt of these are under Il
years of age: is per cent serve q second
term, and they are all recruited newly
every two years. The cost OF arrest
and conviction, including time, to the
state is not less than 5000 each. 1t Is
u fact that while we have all the ma
chinery of legal character Cor punish
ing She boy for wrOng-doing, we have
no association for hunting him employ
ment.
Then again. Wc sell this time to the
contractors at 40 cents per day TO man
ufacture boots and shoes, doors, sashes,
blinds and other articles. All agree
that this keeps out Of employment
60. OO1 mechanics who have done no
wrong and who have learned some
trade in their boyhood and possibly
have families to support
ITO the $4,000 convicts referred TO,
we may add ii. 900 more, boys and girls
| in our schools of reform, while Jails,
poor houses and workhouses will in
crease the number to over 2OO,OOo.
Then we have 10000 tramps, one-half OF
whom are minors. Ten years ago these
tratnps we're all boys. 1t is fact not
| generally known that al tramps begin
| their lives as. boys. Recent investlga-
tions show that out OF 5000 boys and
girls in the schools Of reform, ninety
eigh. out of every hundred were sent
there from the towns.
'"The chief causes assigned are. lack
of suitable home influences and employ
ment. reading dime novels, and show
bills of scenes of murder illustrated oy
certain dramatic companies, lotteries,
| games of chance, use OF tobacco, hang
ing about saloons, theaters and lO-cenl
shows, and falling In with all sorts ol
vile companions, out In the streets al
all hours OF the night; then follow petty
thieving and stealing their way on
trains from one city to another"
The association aims to reach the
youth, and provide homes and employ
ment as the hest means OF preventing
crime and of saving expense To the
| state
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THE Kansas City Star in comment
no mon the result Of the late elections
LIZ. 1sIt is true that Governor Camp
hsil labored under great disadvantages
ri faced q powerful party disaffection
II cincinnati: he was handicapped by a
l;I,ear nlanlx which was only adopted in
It'll democratic convention after a hard
saht Ill IND with which he WAS not In
sTmpathy, and he fought against the
IL a,,ance Of many thousands OF dollars
nonred into Ohio BY the protected IN
iponas+s po NJ the country And the hard
est es f;vnt he had during the whole cam
sao;an III Vas in protection to American
ind5strv.n and that alone was the nam
asue a III which Governor Campbell! was
defeated,
The southern argus., 1891-11-12

iy1.iat aelc are nineiecn varieties Of wild
80 s'sHlag ~ AsataRs,