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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-01-14
WEATHER PREDICTION.

THE STATESMAN'S weather prophet
seems to have changed his vocation.
He raised great expectations for a
time, and his weekly letter was
looked for with interest mingled with
anxiety. He said he had discovered
the secrets OF stormology and de-
signed a system of prophecy that
never failed.
He told us we would have the ear
lest and severest winter within the
past twenty years. He missed the
mark by great deal. So far the
winter, not alone in Texas but
throughout the states, has been as
mild as the mildest of past seasons
and our faith is bankrupt. We have
no i'll feelings towards the prophet. for
he did Us no harm. Had he foretold Il
mild winter and we had experienced
hard one the case would have been
different But he did good, he scared
some people into providing some shell
ter and feed for stock that won d
otherwise have had to rustic for both.
So is every calamity mixed with
mercy. May false foul weather proph-
cts increase and widely disseminate
their DEMONSTRATIONS
At the same time. it would be use
ful % have weather prOphesieS which
we could RELY on. Things are tending
that way. Meteoro'og knowledge is
on the on the increase and the weather
burea now connected with the depart
ment of agriculture. has mad9 a
change in the collection or data and
the publishing of forecasts that will
make the service more valuable. Every
newspaper reader must have noticed
the worthlessness of forecasts in the
past. even when they were perfectly
accurate. Under the late system oh.
servations were made at s n. m. and s
y. m so that the period embraced in
the pre- fiction had about half expired
before the morning paper containing
me into the hands Of the reader
he 1st inst. the time was changed
to 10 noon and T. midnight and the
prediction will cover the whole Of the
next dav. These will be published in
the evening papers and repeated
in the morning ones unless
there is necessity for change.
whenever the conditions are favor.
able it is intended to make long range
forecasts.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-01-14
A WHOLE vEALLGI ATTACKED
BY La crippe-Homes Desola'ed and
Strong Men Frustrated.
One Family Only Escapes without
Serious Results.
A Short History and Its Less on.

WINONA, Stark Co., Ind, Dec. 2S, '9l,
During the winter eff 1891 L and my
family Of six were taken with La
Grippe. The disease was very pre-
valent at the time in the village where
| resided, nearly eve y che being sick
with it. Our doctors treated it as
best they could, but were very
unsuccessful in the treatment Of
it. AS soon as my family were
taken sick | went to a drug store and
bought six bottles of Pe-Iu-na, and
we all took it according to the direc-
tiOns given on the bot le, and although
our cases seemed to be more than
usually violent in the outset, yet our
recovery was prompt and we were all
well much sooner than those who
We're treated by the regular ply stefan.
In the beginning of the attack we all
had violent cough, bleeding at the
nose and splitting of blood, but the
Peru ma promptly relieved us and we
took no other medicine during our
sickness. Many people died of the
La Grippe during this epidemic and
few, il any, were sick so short time
as myself and family. After we were
all sound and well again we still had
one bottle of Pe-ru-na left in he house.
| can cheeriulIy recommend Peru
ma as cnre for la grippe and gen
eral family medicine. | shall not be
without Pc Tu-na in my house again
unless | am absolutely unable to.
get it. ,.
will answer any letters of inquiry
| iCh N tn l.
OF the particulars. &. Il. HATFIELD.
The above is the unsolicited testi-
mOny Of an honest laborng II an. He
did exactly what hundreds of other
parents have done, and what hum
dreds of others ale doing, and What
hundreds OF hundI eds will do as soon.
as they find out the value of Pc
runa as family medicine. Not
only did Mr.. Hatfield save money by
resorting to Pe-ru-na, but his
family recovered much sooner and
more perfectly than those treated in
the ordinary way.
The fact is, there is no equal to Pc
ru-na for la grippe, catarrh (acute or
chr0nic), coughs, colds, bronchitis and
consumption in the early stages. Pc
ru ma is the prescriptro on Of a renowned
physician who has been in constant
practice over thirty-five years, and
this remedy has been used in four pi-
denies of la grippe previous to this
on with Underwriting success, Com
plete directions accompany each bot
tie, and is kept by most druggists.
Send fora free copy of The Family
Physician No. 2 on la grippe catarrh
and all climatic diseases of winter.
Address Pe-ru-na Drug Manuiactur-
ing Co., Columbus. O.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-01-14
COUNTY ROADS.

For the past two months the county
road making rec has been engaged
on the Austin and Georgetown road
opposite the poor farm. This particu-
lar section of the county seems to
have been chosen not through any
favoritism to the citizens on that line
of travel, but because the black mud
lane at that point is one of the worst
in the state and in contiguity to an
available supply of limestone rock
suitable for "macadam.'
The county is to be congratulated
on having at length gotten board of
commissioners alive to the importance
Of road improvement, and who have
done more practical and permanent
road making in the past twelve
months than their predecessors in
office did in the last ten years; and it
is to be hoped that their efforts will
meet with the approval they deserve
from those benefited.
The piece of road now in hand has
been constructed for a distance of
about 400 yards, and when it becomes
consolidated will form a roadway for
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-01-14
OUR PREMIUM DOUBLE MAP.
Worth Three or Four Times the Pric,

Worth Three or Four Times the Price.
A subscriber says:
ST. ELMO, Tex, Nov. IA, 1891.
Statesman Publishing Co.
The Nicely double wall map received
from you is away ahead OF my eXpec-
tations. 1t is model of cheapness,
and is worth three or four times what
you ask for it. Yours truly,
w. HI. CULLEN.
Tie above referred TO mapis the one
which we send to any one subscribing
for The DAILY or WEEKLY STATES.
MAN tor SO and - respectively. Send
in your order. You will be surprised
at the bargain.
STATESMAN PUBLISHING Co.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-01-14
DON'T HIDE BEHIND A STRAW.


A number of people have been
greatly exercised for fear that all the
money collected for Worlds fair pur-
poses would be appropriated to the
base and selfish ends of unscrup-
ulous Office holders, who were all liv
ing at ease and drawing fat salaries
These people will be relieved to learn
that all the salaries now being paid
amount to only S59l .66 n month; that
these include .he salaries of financial
agent, chief of educational depart
ment, secretary, stenographer, type
writer and bookkeeper, with various
others; that these are expected to give
their whole time to the work, and
that they are making less than they
would make with any other business
engagement. Put aside your foolish
fears, that if genuine don't do you
credit, and if entertained rs all excuse
for your not giving, won't avail you
with your neighbors or the cause of
Texas in question.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-01-14
THE AMOUNT RAISED.

THE AMOUNT RAISED
The last report sent out by the Tex
as board of directors of the World 5
Fair makes very interesting reading,
though it is also somewhat dIscouf-
aging. 1t shows that out OF 25O coun-
ties in Texas 100 have sent in money
raised for the Worlds Fair fund. The
whole amount sent in up to date Is
SAT-. 80. The sums vary from 81, the
lowest, to SG25, the highest, including
$3.50 coming from Runnels county,
which is the only county in the state
that has raised its assessment. There
is, in nearly every case, very great
discrepancy between the amount as
sessed and the amount collected IN
the various counties. For instance,
the directors estimated the loyalty
and patriotism of Dallas county at
$lO,O50.45, but only $227 worth of pa
triotism has yet been found There.
The love Of country in Galveston
oounty was put down at SI7l2,4O,
but only $40 worth OF 1t
has materalized. The state pride
of Harris county was estimated at 3d.
5000, but this was away off, as SIG is
all it has amounted to, upto this time.
The genuine Texas loyalty OF BeXar
county was accounted at S7,32I.-
20, but the figure is only S02'
Even Tarrant county, so long the
headquarters of patriotism, should
have deposited So, 1890 in the treas
ury, but has only dropped in the Wild
owls mite, $40. And there Is Travis
county, last but not least; Travis, the
seat of the state capitol; Travis, whose
pride in the great state might be sup
posed to overstep the pride OF all her
sister counties-Travis was called
upon to invest 81, 428.05 in perpetual
ing the glory Of this state among
nations; and has already marched
boldly up to the contribution box and
dropped in $l6S! Some of the smaller
and more thinly settled counties
have done better than those named,
which contain the most prominent
cities i'm the state. Bee county has
raised Sl31 80, Brown $ll4.5O, Cher
okee SLIT, Coleman $205, and Nueces
Si35. But think of it! All over the
state, for more than six months, peo-
pie have been making desperate eXer-
lions, ladies have been giving all
kinds of entertainments, papers have
been publishing columns of editorial
and unlimited notices, and nothing
has been left undone to arouse the
patriotism Of the people, and with it
all, only Sl47l.3O worth of it has been
aroused. 1t was fondly hoped that
Texas would be patriotic to the extent
of 10 cents head, which would have
enabled the Texas exhibit to make a
fine showing in building of its own;
but what is to be done with II people
whose loyalty stops short when it has
donated five one-hundredths OF q
mill to the cause of patriotism?, Let
us either take Texas off the map and
tear down the Alamo, or act decently
in this matter and raise this Worlds
fair money without letting the world
know how near failure we have come.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-01-14

THE Appeal uses its lit
tie scalpel on the New York Herald
after this wise: Occasionally the
New York Herald lifts the cellar door
and lets out a man who can write Il
real editorial; but no sooner has he
performed his work than he is shut
up again to make way for the men
who write about tuberculosis in the
Molluca Islands, the notified iags of
the storm center and cramp colo
among the Yatides.n
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-01-14
Fort Worth Residence Burned.

Special to he Statesman
FORT WORTH, Tex. Jan. 1l.-Fire
tonight destroyed the elegant two
story boarding house of Mrs. NJ. f.
Holmes, corner Fourth and Lamar
streets. Loss on building, $500; loss
on furniture, $1,000; no insurance. A
defective flue caused the fire.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-01-14

LII has been said that in man or
woman. decay begins at the top. Just
as it is the highest peaks that are the
barest, and are quickest denuded of
verdure, SO often it is the hair that ia
the soonest touched by the frosts of
care, and shows the first sign of dis
ease.
No matter what may be the charm
or perfection of feature in woman, it is
much discounted if qhe hair shows
waste places, or is deficient.
There is absolutely no occasion for
any woman lesOrting to false
fronts" or artificial additions, when
an ample and sure tonic, and pre- serva-
tive is provided in the Louisiana
creole Hair Restorer, which removes
all andruff destroys the animate
mat attacks the root. stimulates
growth and gives the hair Just the
properties it requires to become
luXuriant and healthy.
ltappears especially to exercise a
remarkable influence upon the color
properties of the ha +. so that in a lit-
tie while. sometimes with a few an
plications, hair that is losing its color
is restored, and regains a natural.
beauty it has not bad for years. This
mas heen demonstrated in hundr, de
OF cases, and trial of the preparation
is all that is necessary to bring convic-
tion to any mind The price is one
dollar per bottle, and if your druggist
or merchant should be out of il. send
tothe Mansfield Drug Co., proprielors
Memphis, Tenn.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-01-14
EXPLANATIONS IN ORDER.

The New York Republicans have
been looking somewhat into the Off
cial career of Ex-Governor Hill, and
the charges they bring against him
are serious. They show that he has
stolen seats in the Senate; dismiss ed
an officer for refusing to certify as cor
rect certificate which he knew to be
fraudulent, and appointed in his place
an officer who would not hesitate to
do what was required of him. The
Democratic party cannot afford to go
into this campaign with such weight
about its neck. If the charges are
false, let Hill hasten toprove them so.
If they are true, he has injured him
selfa and his party by trying to crawl
into power over the stepping stones
of treachery and deceit. Can he stand
up, as did his rival few years ago,
and send back the stern, uncompro-
misino message, "Tell the TRUTH? 1t
is greatly to 10 feared that he is not
made of such material.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-01-14
NO NEW DEVELOPMENTS.
Everything Quiet So Far As Heard From
On The Border.


Special to The Statesman.
SAN ANTONIO, Jan. 1O.-There are
no new developments in the Cara
matter. The information at govern
ment headquarters is to the effect
that the troops ale still in the field
with good hopes of rounding up the
reVolutionists in a short time. There
have been no fights in the past twenty
our hours. The heavy cavalry horses
me Amy are suffering considerably
and many of them are ridden down.
The troops upon the Mexican side Of
the river now mum her about 5000, and
are increasing in their vigilance. ut
would be impossible for any of the
CARA people to cross to that side and
avoid death, consequently they re-
main on this side.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-01-14

Hoods SarsapariIla has a st adiIv
increasing popularity, which can
oniy be won by an article of real
merit. Give it trial,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-01-14

The weather bureau is a costly
piece of machinery, and it is me
those paying the cost Of running 1t
should get something reliable for
their money.
PATERNALISM.
Paternalism is contrary to Ameri-
can instincts, says Il J. Powell IN
Rural New Yorker. We ran away
from England to escape paternalism.
Under the Jameses and under the
rleses there were laws regulating
how many cattle a man might keep
and ordering the proportion OF land TO
lee used for wheatand for grazing.
Then as colonies We were peStere
with paterualsm as to our markets
We were told where we might sell
and where we might not sell our
products. The result was that we
had to cut loose from our pater or
mater.
infant industries sometimes re-
quire paternalism or maternalism.
The farmer does not feel sure that he
gets much help thereby. We have
solid bottom for progress in the will
of the people. The town meeting ar
ranges all taxes. But in our cities
people get more paternalism. Streets
are laid out or torn up or used for
public improvements" without the
vote of the people; and taxes are
levied paternally. AS q result Glad
stone says that America has failed to
show her ability to manage munich
palities.
Seth Low insists that it is a great
anomaly that city governments can
levy taxes and borrow money and
bankrupt the people without vote of
the people, while in village or any
where outside of municipal lines this
cannot be done.
On the whole, we had better go
slower on public Improvements rather
than be saddled with more paternaI-
ism. Louis Napoleon tore Paris down
by whole blocks to build up more gor-
geously; that was paternalism.
Bellamy has system of state UNI
brellas; that is lovingly paternal.
We are enduring bad roads until
the people can see and feel the need
of better ones. They are beginning
to do so and to act.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-15
Wages at homestead.

The workers at Homestead get pretty
well paid for their labor, particularly the
skilled workmen. Their wages range all
the way from $40 to S275 per month. Those
known as rollers earn from $3.50 to 1915
per month. The average earnings Of heat
ers are from $3.50 to $3.50, helpers $3.50,
trainmen $97 to Sl20. head shearers 800,
shearers' helpers s95, gaugers SIS, and a
variety of other workmen get about $75 per
month. The unskilled workmen get $40
per month.
The new scale of wages that was pro-
posed by the Carnegie Steel Association af-
fected the pay Of about 1923 skilled work
men. 1t did not affect the pay Of the great
majority of the employees Of the mills in the
least.
1t is now pretty generally admitted that
the attack on the Pinkerton men was not
due so much to a feeling of hostility to them
as to the fact that If the Pinkerton men got
into the mills it would be possible to operate
the mills with non-union men. Their g
is naturally some hostility to Pinkerton men
among organized workingmen, because
they are looked upon as the instruments
employed by capitalists in their conflicts
with workmen, but it is probable that there
would have been no conflict between them
coming had not been regarded as the first
step toward introducing non-union work
men into the mills.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-15
Henrik Ipsen's Courtship.

The London News gives this interesting
version Of Henrik Ibsen's courtship: When he
fell in love with the beautiful daughter of Pas
tor Thoresen how to make known the fact to her
troubled him for weeks. At last be resolved to
write to her. He would come and fetch his an
swer the same afternoon at 8 o'clock. Did the
lady accept him she would be at home, - other
wise not. at S O'Clock he presented himself,
and the maid asked him TO 20 into the best
room. He was very hopeful and was glad to
have time to collect himself before he met the
lady But when he had waited half an hour aw-
full doubts began to assail him. After an hour had
passed he imagined the letter had not reached
the young lady. Some fatal mistake was making
a fool Of him. Still he waited on. After two
hours he began to be ashamed Of himself She
would learn that he had sat two hours in that
deserted house and would laugh at him. At
last he jumped up in rage and ran to the door.
He was opening 1t when loud peal of laughter
arrested him. He turned and saw the fair head
Of his adored emerge from under the sofa. Her
mouth was laughing but her eyes were filled
with tears. 20, you dear, good fellow. to wait
all this while" she said. Il wanted to see how
many minutes lovers patience lasts. How
hard the floor Isl Now, help me to get OUT, and
then we will talk" In less than week the
marriage was arranged.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-15
A Thrilling Adventure.

The story comes Of a thrilling adventure re-
Gently occurring to William johnson. prospec-
tor, says the LotUer Californian. On a trip from
Alamo to the broken country north of Trinidad
Pass his horse was picking its trail through a
dark canyon when he was stunned and almost
dropped upon him from an overhanging tree
The frightened horse plunged down the canyon
and Johnson twisting in his saddle, managed
to wrench the murderous claws of the lion from
his shoulder. At this moment the horse saw a
Sonora lynx in his pathway, and swerving sud
denly aside hurled the lion from his back directly
upon the lynx. Tho two beasts locked throats,
became hRht-heAded, and did not recover his
senses until found by his partner two days later
on the desert. After he had partly recovered
the two men visited the spot, but only a few
blood despatched boulders marked the scene
OF the fray. The wounded man has wobbly
shoulder to prove bis participation in the event.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-15
a Bachelors Growl.

From London Punch.
o, the beautiful women, the women OF ancient
days,
The ripe and the red who are done and dead
With never a word of praise;
The rich, round Sallies and Susans, the Pollies
and Joans and Prues,
Who guarded their fame and saw no shame
In walking In low-heeled shoes.
They never snrieked on platform; they never
desired vote;
They sat in q row and liked things slow,
While they knitted or patched a coat.
They lived with nothing Of Latin. and Jolly
sight less Of Greek,
And made up their books and changed their
cooks
On an average once week.
They never ventured in hansoms, nor climbed
to the topmost bus;
Nor talked with twang In the latest slang;
They left these fashions to US.
But, ali, she was sweet and pleasant though
possibly not well read,
The excellent wife, who cheered your life,
And vanished at 10 to bed.
And it's, o, the pity, the pity that time should
annul
The wearers of skirts who mended SHIRTS,
And never thought nurseries dull.
For eVerything's topsy turvy now, the mt
are bedded at 10,
While the women sit up, aud smoke ana sup
In the Club OF the Chickless Hen.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-15
A Curious Character.

Between San Antonio and my town, of the
line OF the Southern Pacific railroad there lives
one OF the quaintest judicial characters this
country has ever known" said Henry Csrdenas
OF Eagle Pass, Tex, to writer for the st. Louis
Globe-Democrat. t"His name Is Roy Bean, and
his home is at a little station called Langtry.
he owns everything in the town except the
depot, and for twenty five years has held undis-
puted sway over the country within a radius Of
twenty miles OF his home. He is postmaster,
deputy United States marshal and justice of
the peace, all at one and the same time despite
the statutes. He insists on his title of judge,
and the man who failed to call him by it would
fall very seriously under his displeasure, He
has invested himself, independent of the state
authorities, with the most sweeping judicial
powers, and his rulings and decisions are IN
questioned in the vicinity. About the Queerest
decision, perhaps. that he has ever rem
dered, was in the case of ahe murder Of
a Chinaman by cowboy 1ktiJ occurred a
number Of years ago. while the railroad was
being built Chinese labor was, employed to do
the work. A drunken cowboy rode into the rail
road camp one night and had fun by shooting
Of the Cinnamon. bullet hit one of the Mon
golians and killed him. The cowboy was ar
rested and arrsigned the next day before Judge
Roy Bean. mass of testimony was taken
which Consumed nearly the entire day II was
evident TO the court that the Chinaman had
been killed by the cowboy. In fact. Judge Bean
said himself that there was no doubt of that.
But he continued, with great gravity Of de-
meanor, L have consulted the statutes very
carefully, and am unable to find in them one
word against a white man killing Chinsman.
did not make the statutes of Texas. 1t is my
sworn and sacred duty to interpret them.
Therefore, In the absence Of anything In the
law against a white man killing a Chinaman, 1
discharge the prisoner at the bar, but give him
warning not to repeat the offense.' And the
cowboy walked out OF the court room free
man, and lives 10 my town to-day"