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Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-04

THE Dallas Fair closes Sun
day. The attendance from Bren-
ham has been very much reduc-
ed from former years, The rail-
road fair has been $3.50 instead
of $500 and this has probably
had something to do with the
light attendance.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-04
LOCAL NE WIS

DUCK shooting is good sport
Just at present.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-04

THE Santa Fe southbound
passenger was four hours behind
schedule time in reaching Bren-
ham Thursday morning.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-04
Meals. for Fifteen Cents.

Dinner at the fremont hotel,
opposite Central freight depot
from 10 to 3 o'clock every day at
10 cents. As good as any %
cent meal in the city.
ROBERT FLETCHER, Prop.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-04

GOLD CRMP" paid short visit
TO this mediate section Thursday
morning and for a time fires and
overcoats were in demand. The
first breath of winter always hurts
worse than all the balance that
follows.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-04
Al, Uncertain, Disease.

There is no disease more uncertain in its
nature than dyspepsia. Physicians say that
the symptoms of no TWO eases agree. IL Is
thereinra most difficult to make correct
diagu is. No matter under what disguise
dyspepsia attacks You, Browns Iron Bitters
viii cure Ii. Invaluable in all diseases of
the stomach, blood and nerves. For sale by
R. E. Luhn, Druggist.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-04

ONE touch of winter makes all
South Texas SILVER.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-04
A Comparison.

PIMA IuI tIIlGi, O6dIIlS Will SOIle
phases of the railway problem in
Great Britain and the United
States, Robert P. Porter says the
most superficial observer must be
struck with the widely different
treatment accorded railway en-
terprise by the legislators of the
two countries. In England the
railways have been treated with
reasonable intelligence; and,
while parliament has insisted
upon equal and reasonable rates,
they have not, as in this country,
been tied up by an interstate law
which forbids freedom of con-
tract for the purpose of unifica-
ton of charges at competing
points, nor harassed in a thous-
and different ways by almost half
a hundred legislatures with I'M
limited power and great inclina-
ton for local mischief. As a re-
suit of this policy, the returns of
the British railways for 1896 show
these properties to be in exceed
ingly prosperous condition, near
ly all the stocks bringing fair
dividends, the interest on the
loans and bonds promptly paid,
the wages OF the employees on
some roads voluntarily increased,
and an increased employment,
both in the shops and on the
tracks.
Last year the statistician of the
interstate commerce commission,
when contemplating the fact that
in two years our railways had
run behind over 100000, re-
marked: "Should this continue,
either the investments or the
credits of railways must disap-
pear" In the United States the
credit has already gone and the
investment is rapidly following.
About $500, 100000, or over
seventy-fiv per cent of the
capital stock Of railways pays no
dividend whatever. In England
the returns of 1896 show that
only 1885, 100000, or about eight
per cent of the capital stock is
Unremunerative. In England
the dividends average nearly
four per cent; in the United
States last year only about one
and one-half per cent.
In the United Kingdom, the
interest of no loans nor bonds
went by default. The report
says of about So, 100000 "not en-
titled to interest,"" and interest
ranging from two to five per
cent and over was paid on the
loans and. debentures, aggrega-
ting abouts1, $50, OOO,0 600. As an
Offset to this healthy showing,
we have about S89O,OO0,OOO of
the bonds of American railways
in default, or nearly II per cent
of the whole. AS investments
for savings funds, with a few
noted exceptions, the American
railway security cuts no figure.
On the other hand, English rail-
way securities are looked upon
in that country as excellent
stocks to buy, not for specuIa-
ton, but for investment. As
consequence, English railways
can command all the necessary
capital to carry on needed i'm
provement and employ the full
quota of hands.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-04

BRENHAM's total cotton receipts
to date amount in round numbers
TO $4,000 bales, slightly more
than half the number of bales re-
ceived at a corresponding date
last season.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-04

THE thermometer dropped to
49 in the wee sma' hours of
Thursday morning.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-04

THE dengue fever has par
alyzed everything except the
matrimonial market.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-04

WEDDINGS and rumors of we'd
dings continue to multiply.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-04

CAPTAIN J. G. SLOAN, general
and ticket agent at the
Union depot, says every man in
town who hasn't had the dengue
will hear something to- his inter-
est by calling and registering.
The captain INDUCES the belief
that not an individual in the city
has been immune from the pre-
vailing epidemic, and his theory
will doubtless be sustained by
the facts, if developed.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-04

THE precipitation during the
recent rainfall was 200 inches,
according to the rain guage of
Captain J. G. Sloan, U. S. signal
service representative.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-04

In q letter to friend in this
city Mrs. Wimberly gives an ac-
count Of the death of her hus-
band, Rev. W. W. Wimberly,
which resulted a few days ago
from the yellow fever scourge
now devastating the Crescent
City. Rev. Mr.. Wimberly had
only been a resident of New Or
leans about a year, going direct
from Brennan to that place.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-04

Mr.. S. F. HoHLT was able to be
on the streets Thursday for the
first time in nearly a fortnight,
ne having been confined to his
room that length of time with the
dreadful dengue. This is the
6rst spell of sickness that Mr..
Hohlt has ever encountered dur
ing forty years of existence.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-04

Now that the social season has
beenformally opened let the clubs
of.all sorts and society people in
general wake up and keep "open
house" for a season, Maybe it
VIII instill some new life and
energy into everything. 1t will
at least give the industrious So
.ciety editor something with which
20 employ his time.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-04
ACCORDING to a Washington

ACCORDING to Washington
special Mrs. Mckinley recently
had the naming of four little
-Angora kittens, and they were
GhrisSened, respectively, Carl
decker, Evangelina Cisneros,
b. Weyler and Senior de LONE.
Immediately after the christen-
ing Weyler and De Lone were
ordered drowned. Spain will
doubtless loose the dogs Of war
Il that cat story is repeated
abroad.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-04

TEMPLE is to have a Post Of
the Travellers Protection Asso-
citation.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-04

A GERMAN doctor has started
xhe theory that most drunkards
can be cured by very simple
and pleasant course of treatment
namely by eating apples at
every meal. Apples, if eaten in
large quantities, possess proper
ties which entirely do away with
the craving that all confirmed
.drunkards have for drink.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-04

Fruit Buffers at I. Now-~
akowsky d Co.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-04
Three Score And Ten Years.

Mrs. VIM. Drusedow died
Wednesday night near Long
Point, in her SEVENTEEN year.
The funeral occurred Thursday
afternoon. a bereaved husband
and three children, two daugh-
ters and a son, survive her. The
son, Mr.. VIM. Drusedow, resides
at Taylor and was notified by
wire of his mothers demise. The
family belong to the early
pioneers of Washington county,
and have the sympathy of many
friends in their sad affection.
THE people in the pecan belt
will pocket from 100000 to
So, 100000 if they will gather the
crop clean and market the nuts
judiciously. is said that pecan
exchanges will be formed and
the large buyers will send agents
into the region yielding largely
of those excellent nuts. The
prices demanded will be heavy.
The Louisiana pecan crop is
light. In some OF the States it is
a failure. Under any circum-
stances Texas leads in pecans
and this year the crop is enough
to about compensate for the
drouth loss in cotton.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-08-13
GENIUS GsD OGD aIt.
The Exercise of Intellect Docs No
Shorten Life


The Gentleman's Magazine, in an
article ON the Age of Genius tends
10 disprove the assertion that brain
power is Incompatible with health.
Once we were told that if We wished to
become octogenarians we must IaN
aside ambition. We must be careful in
our diet and temperate in our wishes.
We must wait upon our bodies and as
much as possible keep the mind out
uf sight. In order to diSprove that
counsel, we have only to turn from
empty words to solid fact.
First, To take the great men ccle-
brated in war and conquest. since
theirs, also, is species of genius. is
to find the list headed with Neuophon.
Dumouriez and Wellington at 81. 81
and s.. Thence it continues To Charlie
magne at II. From him the numbers
decline, though not hastily, to Napo-
leon at u and, lowest Of ali, Alexander
the Great, at -. Nearly 90 per cent of
the warriors chosen at random reached
the Biblical standard of three score
and ten.
Then, beginning with the great
names of statecraft, there are Frank
lin and Tallyraud, both at 81. Palmer
ston at 81 and Washington at G7. with
the list keeping well up in the fifties
and at the end slowly falling to -.
This is imposing. especially if we add
Gladstone and Bismarck, both well
over their cightieth year.
Science and philosophy begin with
Ilumboldtat Sc. S9.andfurnislran imposing
list of men whose brains were worked
TO the fullest extent, and of whom no
less than 63 per cent. completed their
seventeen year.
In short, almost one-half the greatest
geniuses the world has yet seen have
attained the age of 40 years. Let no
one Zoe deferred from becoming ge-
MUS by the fear of early death,
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-08-13
JOBS OF CHEMISTS.
Ia" Queer Class OF Patrons T-Iar They
Have to- serve


Chemists sometime have. queer OK
perieucns- The following facts. saws
the Chicago journal. were toll bv
professor i'm one of the western
unia"rsiliss- For about ten wears
EaNe made a specially of examining
and reporting upon cases Of real OF sus-
pe"ted poisoning As a number OF my
ciisrs have Lecn connected with murder
trials, l have had considerable notice
IA the daily papers. This reputation
for making analyses for poisons has
brought me a queer class of patrons.
Every year / have one OF more old
men come To me with samples OF food
To be examined for poison. These men,
without exception, have married Young
wives. and when the husband l. tsrlen
sick and does not recover as quickly as
lac thinks he should. he begins to sus-
pect that his young wife wants TO get
rid of him. and is poisoning him grad
ually through the medium Of his food.
OF course he does not want his wife. t.
know Of his suspicious, and he quietly
gets "A sample of the food he suspects,
and Al some unusual hour for work,
generally either early in the morning
or very late in the evening. he comes To-
me and tells me very secretly that he
wishes To have an examination for poi
son made
Now. the odd part is that though 1
have made a number of such analyses.
| have never found poison present in
any ease. Then the husband Is Verv
much afraid that his wife wall find out
that he suspects her, and he gets out
"t nay laboratory in the quickest and
qUietest manner possible. So every
year | expect to see some elderly man
coming apprehensively up my Office
stairs with wcll-Concealed sample of
food about him TO Zoe examined for POI
son. Every wear he comes. every y ear
] make my analysis and find no poison,
and every year the old gentleman pets
Information that he considers cheap at
the price"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-08-13
GIVES OFF LIGHT.
An Ever Active Glow Issues from a
Recent Bit of Urnnium

In a recent lecture before the Roval
society Lord Kelvin indicated the cor
rectness of Nolta's early theories in
relation to contact electricity. He
show ed that when IA zinc plate and a
-oppcr plate are brought into contact
with one another and then separated
one was charged with positive eIectrici-
~ and the other with negative. He
further demonstrated that this was not
due to oxidation by air or the moisture
of the atmosphere, as is stated in the
textbooks of the day. Lord Kelvin
exhibited other experiments iIluSrrat-
ing electrification produced by means
of dissimilar metals, and showed some
curious properties possessed by urani-
um. III Il plate of this metal was con
nected with an electrometer and
touched by plate of aluminium posi-
tive electrification WAS produced. grad
ually changing past zero to negative.
lie also demonstrated that the RAYS
given off by uranium in a dark room
are constant property of the sub
stance and not a slow radiation of
previously absorbed light, as has been
claimed. but he could offer no solution
of the mysterious action of this metal
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-08-13
a DIFFERENT CUSTOM.
" mt l. Proper in tIe United state.
L. Not in Nextco

L. Not I'm Mexico.
ne man Who had been down in Mex
lo" trying Ia buy mp a carload Of silver
'"ll''rS made for the American market
ana guaranteed worth their weight in
N'-'TiihE silver. Was iu town the other
,'''N looking for customers incidental
J. ne ran across a Star reporter and
"H'I'u L" sell him ton OF two of dol
lars Then the man asked for a Iigbr
AN" The reporter, Tipping the ashes
from his cigar, handed IL over 70 the
returned traveller.
There's such a difference in cus-
toms" said The man. taking his Iiabr
from the borrowed cigar. Vow Nm
notice how Politely and thourbtfuIly
i"r ih"ughtfulness X the true polite
ness you knocked the ashes of your
'i-aT "hcn you handed /, TO mt. To light
min-"''
Henort"r7s are always polite" sug-
'">iod the reporter.
rs / WAS saving" continued the
man, unhcc.liuc. there i su,b 4 diff
ference in customs Now. when went
u McNiro the first time. didn't know
the Mexican code Of manners. and
about the first thing did when landed
was L" ask man for a light. He hand
eel me cigar with the ashes on.
Thought II was bal manners. but |
hipprd them OF and kindIe,l rny weed
dad that four OF FIVE times. and I
always got IL I'm the same way. Then
began iu hope some Of them would
ASK me for "a light ~ ! could show Mex
l"" what real manners were. | got the
'hanor "ne day. and when a man asked
m" fora light ] ilippetl of th,. ashes and,
with s;iiasim at least two yards across
in IFS widest sweep. l extended him
IN" hlalin" stump. He took IL. of course.
h"iH" too polite To treat a stran-
"''r otherwise. hut he did il in a way
that showed me something was wrong,
and began asking a question OF two.
q" he result WAS that / discovered
what the true form was and What an
ass ! had been making Of myself try
infs 10 teach those old CASTLE suaparcons
~ hat The code cigarro was. NV in
srrurtor told me that the thing TO do
was tn leave the ashes on al their fun
a"d To dain-i'v touch the unIinhred ci-
car OF cigarette Just about the fire line
between the ash and the tobacco. After
ihs''. being no longer iu ignorance, to
av"id blocashct or International com
plicatior~, I never again was Hip with
the ashes of my cigar Washington
Star.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-08-13
sENsoRY HALLuCINATIoNS.
The Seeing of Ghosts Due to Defective
EyeSighf.

y recnt number of the Australian
Medical Gazette contains a brief but
Instructive report of the cure of a case
OF haIlucinatory disorder. The patient.
a man aged GO years, had suffered I-r
two Years from subjective visual sensa-
tions not day passed that he did noI
see = large number of spectral human
figures. and believing himself TO be
haunted 10y ghosts he had become very
dcspondeEt and melancholy. On Set h
ing medical advice IL was found that
he had seHile cataract. When this MAS
removed by operation the ghosts led
and the man recovered his usual health.
In lhiS connection Nc may cite the csc
of a tradcsman in Beriia whose shop
was haunted by apparitions resembling
in appearance some OF his deceased us
toners He was an intelligent man.
aware that he suffered from seusory
halluCination. and made notes of his
sub bJeCtiVc Impressions In due time he
submitted has eyes TO examination AID
operation. with the result of a restora-
tion of normal vision and the immedi-
ate and final disappearance of his in
tangible visitors. The obvious teach
ing OF the foregoing and similar cases Is
that in these modern days the person to
be resOrted to for the eNorcism of suir-
its and demons is the opthalmic sur
geon.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-08-13
HISTORIC BATTLE GROUNDS.
Strategic Points Used by the Ancient.
and Moderns.

1t is in theater of old wars and
amid scenes made familiar to all tn.
world through classic story that the
Turk and the Greek are contending.
Pharsalos, to which Crown Prince
Constantine retreated from Larissal, Is
the ancient Pharsalia i'll name, but not
in site, lying some eight miles TO tbs
Southw est OF the battle ground where
Julius Caesar overcame Pompey in ~
IL. [. Pompey's troops on that occasion
retreated To LariSsa, reversing the
movement made by the Greek troops on
Friday.
Edhem Pasha invaded Greece by the
very pass through which Nerxcs led
his immense Persian army in $50 r. {
Milouna pass is that pass by Petra
Pythium and Olooson." referred to bv
Grote and mentioned by Livy. The
Greeks had expected NerNes to enter
the Ihessaiian plain by the way of the
vale of Tempe, between Olympus and
oSs;i. and they occupied that pass. But
when the Macedonian king privately
sent them word that NerNes was tc
come by the other pass. west of Olym-
pus, they gave up the plan of meeting
him on their northern frontier. If they
louna pass they might have kept him
out OF their C,uIltry land have saved
Athens. just Constantine would have
arerted all danger to Greece if lac had
been able To keep Edhem Pasha north
of the mountains.
Since lac has let Larissa go so sheaply
it is not likely that in his weaker. posi-
ton at PhaIsalos he will offer an effect
IN.
there will be no Thermopylae. In the
first place. the road the victorious Turks
Will take towards Athens, if the for
tunes of war allow them To take any.
does not run through the famous pass
where Leonidas and his 300 Spartans
held out so Naliantly against XcrNeS.
From Zeltun to the west of the MaIic
gulf government road runs directly
to Athens. But what is more to the
point, there is no longer a pass at Their
mopylae- AS HerOdotus describes il.
there was barely room for a wagon road
between Mount Oeta and the shore of
the gulf. so that but three or four of
Leonidas' Spartans could fight abreast
In 2,3OO years the alluvial deposit
brought down by the Spercheios has
filled in the gulf far from the ancient
shore, so that a broad marsh is now
seen where Leonidas kept the pass
The hot springs which gave the place
the name of the hot gates" still flow.
however. The changed shore line and
the construction of new roads west of
the mountain have DESTROYED this most
famous of classic battle grounds. Here
1T was that the Aeotolians met Philip.
that AntiOchus contended with the Ro-
mans, and the Greeks with Brennus and
the Cauls. The treachery of Ephialtes.
who showed NerNes "A mountain p:lss
that enabled him to get in the rear of
tn" Spartans, was initiated in some of
the later conflicts, and with the same
results
Salonica, at the head of the gulf.
which the Greeks threatened to de
Stroy. is the Thessalonica where 81. Paul
WAS so inhospitably treated that ne
went away to Kara Feria. and was
thence privately conveyed to Dion on
the gulf, where he took ship for Athens.
y. y. Times
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-08-13

In Russia necessary formality for
the happiness of a anewly-married couple
is that their parents should be wet from
head 10 foot. In summer they are
ducked in the nearest river o. pond- and
in winter they are usually rolled in the
snow. At the village of SyStcrky in
Upha recently the wedding guests be
ing drunk. as = customary. poured
buckets of water over the brides IA
ther with the Thermometer al ten de-
c-rnes below zern. whereof ". died
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-08-13
RcmarkabIc Longevity.

An Irish gentlemen was recently at
tended by an eminent LonCOn physi-
cLan- who, pausing and looking AT him
with an inquiring glance. said:
Il should like to know, s-r. If your
family have been long lived?''
Long lived. = II - resi- on,led the pa
tient. thou"htfully. We'll. doctor. I'll
just tell you how it *. Our family *
a west of Ireland family, and the age of
nv ancestors derended entirely uron
the judge and jury no tried them. -
PearSon's Weekly.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-08-13
UNAOULTERAIED SPICE.

There is nothing in the Bible which
requires ChriStians to be sad.
proud look is abomination to the
Lord. as wcii as lying tongue.
Grace and nature work harmoniously
together. if we can but ward of
prurient iinTers-
1T is almost impossible to feel cross
while YOU are looking pleasant, or dis
cnnsOlate while you are looking cheer
full.
We shall all be considerably sur
prised. hen we get to Heaven. at find
ing things there different from what
We eXpected.-Gan Hamilton
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-08-13

THE LONG, HARD HILL.

They We're standing in the sunlight
OF the summer time of life.
She was stiil without husband
lie was waiting for a wife
Ana her cheeks were rich and rosy,
And her lips We're luscious red,
80 ne pressed her dimplod fingers
As he looked at her and said
AS they stood there in the heather
W mere the road had crossed the rill: &.
May We not fare together
Up this long, hard hiIl?''
Now her hand began to tremble
And her eyes were fun of tears
As she trained them on the road that
W oun'' away among the wears:
But size had no voice to answer
Hin she could not understand
For the future lay before her
l-ike far-Cff fairy land.
lhtrc was sunlight On the heather
Ihere was music in the rill,
As they Went away ,ogether
Up the long. hard hill.
Oftentimes the way was sunny.
other times twas full of lures,
Eut the love that had come to them
was he true love that endures
Ihough the bonny brow is wrinkIed
though the raven lock b,. gray
Yet the road might have been rougher
Had she gone the other way
Now the frost is on the heather
Ana the snow is on the rill,
ana they re Goa sting down the short side
or the long. hard hill.
-Cy Warmap, IL. " Y Sun.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-08-13
lOOk AWAY.

When the storm with its mantle Of dark
ness comes down,
And the ,kest clouds cover the sky
When all nature is gloomy with shadow
ard froWn,
And the swift-rollinE tempest i nigh:
Look away. TIRE milling soul. the thick dark
ness pierce through
For beyond are the sunlight and beautiful
blue.
When the deepest affiiction and sorrow are
thine.
With burdencd heart ready to break
When thy footsteps are painful and life
doth decline
And the hopes that had stayed thee for
sake
Look away. fainting one take His promises
true
They VIII give you the sunshine and
heavens own blue
Frederick J. Stevens. in United Presby-
terian.