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Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-03

WITH the beginning of the last
week before the meeting of congress
the representatives are focking to
Washington in increasing numbers
and their presence is giving renewed
interest to the speakership contest
All five of the avowed candidates are
now in Washington. The expressed
views and desires of the candidates
show plainly that the one unmistak-
able fact in the contest is that no
candidate at the present has sufi-
Gent number of absolutely pledged
votes to make his election certain.
Messrs. Crisp and Mills are each
very sanguine of winning and each
expresses a belief that the contest
will be short, sharp and decisive
Each hopes to win on the second, if
not on the first ballot.
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BREVITIES.
A man never means what he says
unless there is something in 1t.

A man never means what he says
unless there is something in 1t.
The mole worthless q woman is
the more correspondents she has.
No man is as good as he looks
when he has his wedding suit on.
The woman who understands
him best is the woman a man will
love most.
On an average letters received
for the Emperor of Germany num-
Der 900 per day.
The Opota train was recently
dlralled near Lisbon and many
persons injured.
You often hear men say, "FIl
tell you what kind of a mani am"
but they never do it.
The newly adopted small bore
rife will be introduced int actual
use in the Italian army.
A man never has so great a
trouble as when be has one he can't
blame on any one else.
A peanut slipping into a Provi-
dence boys lung resulted in his
death, q day or two ago.
The wheat crop of 1891 is the
greatest in our history; tobacco crop
is the greatest. The corn crop of
1891 is the second greatest, and the
cotton crop is equal to the greatest
in quantity and the equalof the best
in quality. The vegetable crop was
never better, and the fruit crop was
never so prolific. The orange crops
of Florida and California are SO fine
that importatlons of oranges from
the Mediterranean are about shut
out.
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THE soUrH,s EXPORT BUSINESS.

THE soUTH's EXPORT BUSINESS.
The Manufacturers Record, of
Baltimore, of November IS, in re-
viewing the industrial progress of
the South, says: 'The development
of the South's foreign trade, upon
which the Manufacturers Record
has so frequently commented, and
which was emphasized last week in
the announcement of the Inaugural
ton of four steamship lines from
Newport News to Europe, receives
another illustration this week in the
establishment of five steamer lines
from Norfolk to London, Liverpool,
Glasgow, Havre and Antwerp. The
magnitude which this business has
already attained is shown in the
fact that the government report of
the value Of foreign exports from
the United States foc October puts
the total from all Southern ports at
S44, 100000, against $5S,300,000
from the rest of the country, the
country, the shipments from the
South being over AZ per cent. of the
total for the month The tendency
of Western trade to seek foreign
outlets through Southern ports is
being daily impressed upon the
country, and while Newport News
and Norfolk, with their regular
steamer lines, are making heavy
shipments of grain, -four, provisions,
lumber, ETC., the more southerly At
lantic ports are also advancing rapid
ly, and New Orleans and Galveston
are handling a big grain and general
business, the shipments of wheat
from the former city for the four
months ended October 81 having
been 6, 29O,0OO bushels against 291,-
600 bushels for the corresponding
time last year. This growth of the
South's foreign trade is destined to
have widereaching influence upon
the prosperity and progress of this
section. Added to the steady in
dustrial advancement which is going
on, it means that the manufacturing
interests are to be supplemented by
great commercial cities with their
immense traffic.
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DON'T HURRY TO GET RICH.

The problem of how to get rich
engrosses the attention of one-third
the adult population, while the ques-
ton of how to keep out of the poor
house engrosses the attention of the
other two-thirds. liberal share of
both classes at the same time being
engaged in the study OF how to keep
out of Jail.
Some attain the pinnacle of their
hopes by lucky investments, and
some careful souls by depositing
their funds in a savings bank for
half a century undergoing a decipline
which brings then next door to
starvation without entering it's por-
tails and finally they reach the height
of their ambition in the possession
of few thousand then die.
Again, says the Financial News
there are men of activity-and in
these times one must be counted in
this class or be left behind the pro-
cession-who are constantly on the
move, and the reckoning figure
ahead is always the mighty dollar. :"
Sometimes the figure vanishes before
the grasp is made, but it is caught
with sufficient frequency to make a
cart load when gray hairs admonish
the need of rest and retirement.
There are no set rules for getting
rich. The men who are certain to
reach this end are men of conserva-
tive habit, of wise comprehension,
of active and progressive spirit, who
have the ability to recognize a good
thing when they see it, and who are
content to await the development of
its fruitful qualities. However rapid
they may be in the search for the
dollars singly, they are seldom in a
hurry to get rich.
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Is COMPETITION A FAILURE =?

The supposition that competition
is the life of trade has, since the
time Of Adam Smith, been an axiom
and a proverb. We have believed in
the doctrine that competition is the
life of trade as implicitly perhaps as
we have believed in any economic
doctrine. In spite of this, every
observing man knows that competi-
ton has very often proved to be the
death of trade. In fact, one of the
strongest forces that has caused the
organization of monopolies and
trusts is the demonstration by COM
peting firms that competition would
end in disaster. The inability to
Withstand competition is what has
caused combinations.
Mr.. Aldace F. Walker, who was
for a long time one of the Inter state
Commerce Commissioners and is
now the chairman of the Western
Traffic Association, has made a
thorough historical study of the rise,
growth, and application of this
doctrine of competition the life of
trade and he shows in thought
full contribution to the December
number of The Forum how competi-
ton is just as often the death of
trade as it is the life of trade. He
shows how the old doctrine that we
have so long believed in has utterly
broken down. He shows that by
the development of modern com
merce competition can no longer be
trusted in all cases to bring or to
maintain healthful sort of industry.
He concludes his study of this sub
ject by expressing himself in favor
of a regulated competition. Mr..
Walkers historical treatment of the
subject and the pertinent examples
with which he fortifes his argu-
ments, make this one of the most
original and important contributions
to economic science that has been
presented in our current literature
for many day,
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Something for the New Year.

The world renowned success of Hostetters
Stomach Bitters, and their continued popu-
laIity for over third of century as a stom-
achic, is scarcely more wonderful than the
welcome that greets the annual appearance of
Hostetter'S Almanac. This valuable med cal
treatise is published by the Hostetter Company,
Pittsburgh, Pa, under their own immediate
supervision, employing 6o.hands in that de-
partment. They are running about II months
IL the year on this work, and the issue of same
for 1892 Will be more than ten millions, print
ed in the English, German, French, Welsh,
Norwegian, Swedish, Holland, Bohemian
and Spanish languages. Refer to copy of 1t
forYaluable and Interesting reading concerning
health, and numerous testimonials as to the
efficacy of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters,
amusement, varied information, astronomical
calculations and chronological items, &C.
which can be depended On for correctness.
The Almanac for 1892 can be obtained free OF
cost, from druggists and general country deal
ers in all parts Of the country.
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

| WV DOChANAN, VI 4OuuSSSS6, 3D. :
every convict shall be returned to
the mines if it takes every able-bod,
led man in the State to do it.
The Apaches are on the war-path
in Arizona and are committing dep
relations upon the people of that
territory.
SMALL pox is said to again be
epidemic in Guatemala and Hondu-
ras. Suffering in the famine dis
tricts in the interior is intense and
riots are feared.
IT is said Russia is about to issue
a degree prohibiting the expectation
OF horses, which is considered evil
dence that Russia is preparing for
hostilities III the near future.
The New York World, in estimat-
ing the votes for the speakership,
gives Crisp 107, Mills 81, inclusive
of 10 votes from Texas, Mcmillan %;
Springer Is, Hatch ID, Bynum 10.
If the earth could be parceled out
the real estate for each person would
not be large, still the people can
huddle together and, densely popu,
lated as it is III some places, the earth
has room for great many more
people. 1t is estimated that there
are twenty-five and a half acres for
every living person.
TIE New Argentine Pacific rail
troad, from Buenos Ayers to the foot
of the Andes, has on it what is prob
ably the longest tangent in tue
world. This is $40 kilometers (221
niles without curve. In this dis
lance there is not a single bridge
and no opening larger than an or
binary culvert, no cut greater than
one meter in depth, and no fill Of a
height exceeding one meter. There
is almost and entire absence of wood
on the plain across which the wes-
TEN end of the road is located. This
has led to the extensive use of me-
talic ties, which will be employed on
nearly the entire road.
D:REcToR-General Davis has made
a report to the Committee on Awards
in which he SAYS that 142 iuries, en-
bracing $50 jurors or judges will be
necessary at the Exposition. He
believes that appointment on these
Juries of Award will be considered
high honor and that better class
of jurors will be secured if no salary
is offered. He recommends, how
ever, the payment of six dollars a
day to each Juror in lieu of expenses.
He thinks a prize of $500 should be
offered for the best design for a
medal, two prizes of $3.50 for the
next best two designs: and like in
prizes in case of designs for d1plo-
mas. The Government is expected
to appropriate about 100000 for
carrying out the awarding of the
medals and diplomas. 1t is hoped,
too, that the medals will be struck
in the Government building at the
Exposition, and the diplomas will be
prepared in the Bureau Of Engrav-
ing and Printing at Washington.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-03

President HARRIsoN intends visit
ing England when his present term
expires. Furthermore, it is said
that the Marquis Of Salisbury has in
timated his willingness to accord to
General Harrison and his wife the
houors accorded 10 foreign princes,
if 1t Will please the people of the
United States, but tlat lie cannot
officially recognize the presidents
relations.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-03

Section Foreman Doyle on the
Houston and Texas Central, Sunday
night found the dead body of man
named Evans lying alongside the
track near Hearne. Deceased had
recently been killed by a passing
train. He was a farmer in the
neighborhood and was well and
favorably known.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-03

WHEN the supply is greater than
the demand the man who holds the
supply has to suffer. Last year
there was a potato famine. This
year, in one California district near
Sacramento, $4,000 bushels of pota-
toes were not dug up because it
would not pay to market them.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-03

IT has been decided that all goods
manufactured in foreign countries
must be entered, if all is foreign ex-
hibits, even though the capital of the
manufacturing concerns has been
furnished bv Americans.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-03
Thursday, December srd, 1891.

No WOOD base cuts will be publish
ed in the BANNER. Advertisers
should make a note of this and in
ordering trade cuts remember that
only metal base 'tgoes."
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-03

A RATTLEsNAkE with two heads has
been captured in California. 1t has
fangs in both its mouths.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-03

A MONUMENT to the memory of the
poet priest of the South Father A.
]. Ryan is to be erected at Mobile,
Ala. It is a celtic cross of white
Vermont marble.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-03

The McCarthyites in Ireland are
very sanguine that the Parnellites
will not hold more than four seats
at the approaching general election,
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-03

BoUNT1Es were paid for sixty-one
bears, thirty wolves, forty-nine
lynxes, 6O16 foxes, 739 eagles and
4539 hawks in Norway last year.
The supply is not exhausted.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-03

Poor old st. Louis. There is an
item out of this kind: In St. Louis
recently large building in one OF
The best business streets of the city
was torn down simply because it
was thought to be 'hoodooed, " which
shows that superstition still has a
strong hold on some people.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-03

THERE is dog at Cheyenne that
will, it is claimed, pick an American
dollar from a pile including any
number or sort of coins of similar
appearance, size and weight.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-03

NJ. ZEIGFRRIED, a member of the
chamber of deputies, said that if the
United States would reduce the duty
on French silks, woolens and cot
tons, France would reduce the duty
on American imports.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-03

AT PRESENT Russian writers seem
to be the persons of genius and
originality in literature. An
Authors Museum" is to be es-
tablished in st. Petersburg to con-
tain mementoes and relics of famous
Russian literary men and women.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-03

A WASHINGTON letter says: "Sen.
ator John NJ. Palmer is one of the
most inveterate pedestrians in
Washington, and his wife seems to
share his love of outdoor walks
about the capital"
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-03
OIL As STEAMSHIP FUEL.

Oil as steamship fuel is soop to be
adopted by the Inman line of steam
ships on the score of superiority and
economy. The Lima oil being espe-
cially adapted for heating purposes
will be utilized, and arrangements
are being perfected for piping the
fluid from the Ohio field to the sea-
board. The Standard Oil Company
not only controls this prolific field,
but also own a large interest in the
Inman steamship line, hence the ac-
ton Of the Inman company in estab-
fishing new and cheaper method of
engine-power over coal.
The pronounced success of the
fuel, says the Pittsburg Dispatch, is
shown by its liberal use in Chicago
mills and manufactures. Over 5000
barrels are piped there daily from
Ohio with satisfactory results. For
merly the oil was Objectionable on
account of its odor, but through the
ingenuity of chemists the crude oil
has been deodorized to such an extent
that its smell is hardly noticeable.
1t is being used at the Brilliant pump
ing station, on the Allegheny river,
with most fattering results. No
trouble whatever is experienced in
regulating it, as there is stop-cock
similar to that on a common Llum-
mating gas burner. On the steam
ships an immense tank is to be built
with sufficient capacity to supply
fuel for a two weeks voyage. The
steamers will be fed at Hunters
Point, where the United Pipe Line
now loads the freight vessels with
petroleum to foreign ports.
Coal as fuel is heavy, and the new
innovation will materially decrease
tonnage and give more room for
freight. There are six large and ell
egant vessels in active service on the
Inman Line, all of which are to be
equipped for the use of the new fuel.
The International Navigation Com
pany is the powerful concern which
controls the Inman and Red Star
Lines, and it is almost a sure thing
if tbs former adopts the new fuel
successfully, every one of the latter
ships will be also navigated by the
same system.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-03

The Third psrtyites are to hold
their convention in st. Louis Febru-
airy %, 1892.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-03

GEORGE DR1ER, the Pole who muir
dered Mrs. Fannie NJ. Fadden on
October Is, near Cape Charles, Va,
has been seen sentenced to be hanged
on January 10, 1892.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-03

A NEW kind of bird has been dis.
covered in Wyoming. It has the
head and beak of a boot owl, the
body and mech of a rooster, and its
tail is similar to that of a peacock,
and when shot made noise not IN
like that of guinea hen.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-03

The announcement is make that
W. D. Howells will shortly cease to
occupy the editors study" OF
Harper's Magazine. His place Will
be taken by Mr.. Charles Dudley
Warner, whose knowledge of men
and books and whose critical powers
ape of the first-class order.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-03

HERE is probably the first claim to
be above the "Bard of Avon A
French critic, Mirabeau, says Mau-
rice Maeterlinck, a new writer in
Belgium, has put into his Princess
Maleine" things more beautiful than
the most beautiful things in Shake,
Speare.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-03

Mex will almost risk their lives
for a free pass. An Illinois man
threw himself in front of fast train
on the Big Four railroad, near
Middlesworth, with the hope that
the railroad officials would compro-
mise damages by giving him an an
nual pass over the line.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-03

THERE are records of elephants
that have lived for 200 years, and an
age of $50 years is not regarded as
SO very old for an elephant. 1t
takes about a quarter of a century
to get the elephant to full maturity.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-03

VIRGINIA, Maryland and North
Carolina each have two species OF
lizard provided with three eyes
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GOOD MEASURE.
Yes, good measure, pressed down
and running over.

Some of these little proprietors of sarsa-
parillas put up in half-pint bottles are en-
yiouS of the increasing popularity of DR..
John Bulls Sarsaparilla, put up as it is in
large quart bottles, and intimate that theirs
Is more concentrated. This is as false e.
deceit can be. A teaspoonful of Bulls
SarSaparilla contains more concentrated
medicinal virtue than tablespoonful Of
any other sarsaparilla made. 4 bottle IL
times the curative virtue of bottle of any
other blood purifier made. No exception
ID made. Now an invalid wants his
moneys worth. He wants good measure
Therefore, unless misled through ignor-
arce, when his system needs blood puri-
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-03

A CIRCULAR has been issued to the
governors of the various provinces
of the Russian empire notifying
them to forbid Hebrews to buy
corn.
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a GOOD

der, when his system needs tonic, when
bis system is breaking down from blood
impurity or some wasting disease, he will
demand Of his druggist bottle of Bulls
Sarsaparilla, and on no occasion be per-
sunded to take anything that may be of
cred in its stead IS being lust as good"
There is no other remedy so good as Bulls
Sarsaparilla for such diseases as scrofulA
syphilitic affections, salt-rheum, itch, co
sema, pimples, sores, rheumatism, lame
back, swollen joints, aching muscles, nsrv-
Gus weakness nervous debility, Ioss Of
appetite, loss Of flesh, loss of strength,
sleeplessnesS, premature old age, etc.
T.B. Woodruff, Jacksonville, Ind, Writas:
For ten years had been an invalid. Be-
came n chronic medicine taker. There is
NOT blood remedy or tonic advertised
that did not try. From none of them did
! derive any permanent good. l became
discouraged. My system was full of blood
impurities. My skin was covered in placed
with brown patches and little sores Ny
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-03

JOHN D. PARK Ct Sons, Wholesale Agents,
r5, Ia and I79 Sycamore St, Cincinnati, o.
1871
Jos, Tristram, agent for above medicine
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-03

BE- When you have chills and fever, II
you want sure cure and one that does nck
taste bad, take Smiths Tonic Syrup. II
will please you better than Quinine or any
other chill medicine.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-03

nB Your children will be more healthy.
happy and pretty, if you occasionally give
them Dr. JohE Bulls Worm Destroyers.
Try them. Price Is cents.
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MRs. JEFFERSON DAVIS has, through
her attorney, General HoadIey,
brought suit against the Belford
Publishing Co. of New York to recov-
er royalties Oh the sales of her book,
Jefferson Davis, Ex-President of
the Confederate States; a Memoir by
His Wife" The book was begun by
Jefferson Davis, and completed by
Mrs Davis, after Mr.. Davis death.
The Belford company did not live
up to their contract with Mrs. Davis
it is alleged, and she sues to recover
possession of the publication.