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The Monitor-register., 1897-03-05

II second the notion" said the man
on the rear of the tandem.
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Hotel Rules.

A hotel in Georgia has adopted
the following rules for the guild
ance of its guests:
The motto of this hotel is: "Dc
unto others as they will do unto
YOU
There are three departments
up stairs, down stairs and out
doors. Out doors is the cheap
est.
If the bell in your room is bro
ken wiring the towel.
"God helps those who help
themselves" but God help those
who get caught helping them
selves here.
No alarm clock furnished by
the management. Before retir-
ing wind up your bed and hear it
tick.
To prevent guests from carry
ing fruit from the table we will
have no fruit.
Anyone wishing to take a drive
after lunch can repair to the
woodshed and drive nails.
Guests having nightmare will
find the harness in the closet.
Thirteen at the dinner table is
bad sign. 1t is sign that we
will have no supper.
Each room supplied with a
handsome chrome card with the
following inscription: Honesty
is the best policy"
If the hotel is not on the right
side of the street let it be known
at the office and it will be prompt
ly removed to the other side.
No spoons allowed on to tables
occupied by newly married
couples. This is the prevent
spooning in public.
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THE Atlanta Constitution says:
"There is no reason why the
price of cotton should not show an
early and very material advance.
The only thing that can prevent
it will be the lack of an increas-
ed demand for cotton goods
Many of the eastern mills still
have large stocks of unsold goods
on hand, and some of these have
been added to by the. antieipa-
ton of higher prices caused by
the tariff. Thus far, cotton goods
have made no material response
to tariff legislation nor to the in
symptoms of prosperity.
When the response does come,
the Constitution hopes and be-
lieves that the price of the south
ern staple will rise.
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LITTLE BANNERS.

There will not be enough mer
in heaven for the women to fine
fault with.
If procrashnation stole time
only the world would be but lit
tie harmed.
When men are at loss what
to say they usually swear.
A girl never tries to extinguish
the spark as long as a man has
money to burn.
Some people are like one-leg-
ged milk stools-no good unless
sat upon.
The mau who never argues
with woman, children OF fools
has but few arguments.
a millionaire has a better show
in this world than the average
theatrical manager.
The swan always sings before
it dies and death often ends the
mosquitoes song.
When a wife puts on too many
airs the atmosphere of her home
is not what it should be.
An ounce of prevention is not
worth a pound of cure in the
pork-packing business.
There is something wrong with
the woman who talks only when
she has something to say.
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IT will doubtless surprise many
Americans to learn that fugi-
tive slave case was lately tried in
San Francisco. The Chinese
CONSUL, apparently in his official
capacity, waited upon one of the
Christian missions in the city and
demanded the surrender of a wo-
man staying there of her own
free will, as owing service to a
Chinaman whose claim to her was
based on his purchase of her for
good and lawful money. The
mission people refused to give her
up and advised the consul to try
writ of habeas corpus, which
he did. The woman was brought
into court and the question
whether this human being ac-
tually belonged to herself or to a
man who had bought her of an
other man was considered for
several weeks, the court finally
giving the woman to herself and
allowing her to remain at the
mission. The singular feature of
the case is that this slavery, this
enticing of women and girls from
China to California, to be held in
bondage, is perfectly understood
and their detention as slaves af-
ter their arrival, seems to be no.
toriously known to the white or
American inhabitants. The names
of Chinese slave dealers in San
Francisco are as we'll known as
the Chinese consul. The
Queens Room" a slave mark
ct, was, until its comparatively
recent abolition by the police, a
familiar place. The number of
female slaves now held in San
Francisco is estimated at 1,500.
They are there and everybody
knows it. 1t is altogether sing
ular state of affairs and in some
future day, when it is told that
in the year 1897 1 500 slaves were
held in the city OF San Francisco
the conundrum which everybody
give up will be; "Why was it
permitted"
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GREATER NEW YORK.

The great city at the mouth OF
the Hudson is soon to choose a
mayor. Its future prosperity
will depend largely on the up
Brightness and ability of the man
first chosen to that exalted sta
ton. The smaller New York has
been cursed at times by corrupt
or inefficient mayors. Tweed
robbed the city, and made his
name a synonym for knavery.
Republican and Democratic Of
fcials combined at a later period
to defraud the taxpayers. Form
ing a collision they distributed
the offices among their friends,
and made strangers aghast at the
misgovernment. At last the
friends of order combined and
drove many of the robbers from
power. Mayor Strong was sue
cessful in securing many re-
forms, and the experience of the
past year has shown thatif the
citizens rise above narrow par
tisanship they can obtain good
order.
At the present time Seth Low
is proposed as a candidate by
those who care more for the city's
veal and reputation than for the
success of party. Hewas mayor
for a year or two of Brooklyn,
and won honor as an incorrup-
tible official. While he frankly
says, 81 am a Republican, and
expect to remain So" he declares
his purpose, if chosen mayor, to
make the veal of the new city
paramount to partisan adyan-
tage. He will aim to appoint eff
ficient, capable, and upright men
to office, and to hold them to
strict account. Platt and his
henchmen, however, want a
mayor who will select as subor-
dinates narrow partisans. Tam
many, on the other hand, desires
a Democrat who will care for the
henchmen of his party. They
have been in office so long that
they are hungry for the emolu-
nents. There are likely to be
three candidates in the field.
Both Plat and Tammany hate
Low, and will defeat him if pos
sible.
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THE END NEAR AT HAND.

The attention of astronomers
throughout the world lately has
been directed to the appearance
of group of extraordinary spots
on the sun. This probably is the
most portentous natural phe-
nomenon which has been observ-
ed during the recorded history of
man. 1t is watched by men of
science with equal wonder and
alarm, for they have no knowl-
edge of any appearance of a SIM
liar character. Naturally, there
have been many speculations as
to its nature.
Prof. Corrigan, one of the most
eminent astronomers in this
country, has reached a conclus-
ion concerning the nature of the
process now taking place on the
sun. He concludes that it is
nothing less than the creation Of
a new planet, which certainly
will entail a fearful disturbance
to the earth, and possibly the
destruction of all life upon it.
Here it is we'll to compare the
conclusion of Prof. Corrigan with
certain words in the eighth chap
ter of the Revelation of st. John,
which seems to describe the event
now foretold by science. The
tenth verse of the eighth chapter
reads:
"And the third angel sounded
and there fell a great star from
heaven, burning as it were a
lamp, and it fell upon the third
part of the rivers and upon the
fountains of waters"
The chapter goes on to des-
cribe in dreadful, prophetic Ian
guage a CONFUSION of the uni
verse, which apparently is the
sun and the consequent partial
destruction of the earth.-St.
Louis Republic.
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THE costs of strikes in this
country between the year 1881
and 1894 is placed by the labor
bureau at Washington at 1853, :
8O7, 1866, and the number of per-
sons thrown out of employment
at 3, 814, 400. These figures alone
prove that a strike is wasteful
and ineffective way to settle a
labor controversy
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A BICYCLE has just been COM
pleted which promises to revolu-
tionize the wheels of the world
The difference between this and
the older machines is that it util-
yes the entire power furnished by
the engine of propulsion-the leg
of the rider. The change is, OF
course, in the gearing, but it is
not chainless Wheel. that sort
which it is said will next year be
the king of all wheels, it is a.
compound crank wheel.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-07

There is more Catarrh in this section Of
the country than all other diseases put to-
geiher, and until the last few years was sup
posed to be incurable. For a great many
years doctors pronounced it local disease,
and prescribed local remedies, and by con-
stantly failing to cure with local treatment,
pronounced it incurable. Science has proven
catarrh to be 4 constitutional disease, and
therefore requires constitutional treatment.
Halls Catarrn Cure, manufactured by +. j.
Cheny 4 Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only con-
stItutional cure on the MARKET 1t is taken
internally IN doses from 10 drops to a teas
poonful. 1t acts directly on the blood and
mucous surfaces Of the system. They offer
one hundred dollars for any case ii fails to
cure. Send for circulars and testimonials.
Addres, +. j. CHENEY & CO,
Toledo, O.
BEn. Sold by Druggists, &c.
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THE Chicago Record claims
that the labor problem is but an
other name for the problem of
Christianity. The condition of
the masses is the measure of the
church's success. 1t is not the
separating power, but the leav-
ening power of religion that is
the test of its strength. The
university of the gospel is not to
be proved only by its spread to
every Enthusiastically, but also
by its penetration into every
stratum of society-yertically.
Jesus never came to save a few
saints out of wicked world, He
came to save the world. " The
poor" He said-that is; the
commonalty-" We have always
with you" 1t is not holy
nunnery, nor holy suburb, but
it is a holy city that is the de-
sign of religion.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-07

THE British custom of charging
a small price for public docu-
ments, instead of giving them
away, is one which it would be
well for our government to follow,
the Chicago Record says. I'm
der our system of giving away
public documents persons who
have no use for them secure
them oftentimes because they are
free.
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EDWARD BELLAMY. author

EDWARD BELLAMY, author of
Looking Backward and other
works, is reported very sick.
He has been taken to Colorado
in the hope that he may be bene-
fitted by a change of climate. 1t
is feared by his friends that his
lungs are affected.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-07

IT has been discovered that the
Postal Congress adopted stamp
colors for the different countries
in the Union. Americas two
cent stamp is carmine and hence
it will not be changed to green
as had been proposed recently.
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THE Colorado man who has Just
heard that fellow he sent to
Alaska with grub stake" three
years ago wants him to come on
IN the spring and get his half of
claims worth 100000 is a
strong believer in the existence
of honesty.
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For Over Fifty Years.

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been
used for over fifty years by millions of moth
ers fer their children while teething, with per
feet success. 1t soothes the child. softens
the gums, allays all pain; cures wind collie,
ard is the best remedy for diarrhoea," it
will relieve the poor little sufferer immedi-
ately. Sold by druggists in every part of the
world. Be sure and ask for "Mrs. Winslow' S
Soothing Syrup" and take no other kind
twenty-five cents bottle.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-07

A VENETIAN glass manufact-
urer is now making glass bonnets
by the thousand. The glass cloth
of which they are composed has
the same brilliancy of color as
silk and is impervious to water.
Glass is also made into a fine
cloth which can be worn next to
the skin without discomfort.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-07

DR.. HANCHER, pastor of Meth
odist Episcopal church at Kansas
City, Mo-, and his congregation
believe in keeping up with the
times. The church is to have a
deaconess, a bicycle check stand,
an umbrella check stand, Sum
day morning nursery and after a
while day nursery and a kin
dergarten.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-07

A PLAGUE of fleas this year has
descended upon Yonkers, Mount
Vernon and other Hudson river
towns, and people are leaving
their homes to escape from the
millions of these vigorous little
tormentors.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-07

ALL political factions in Ken
lucky can unite in support of the
proposal to erect a monument to
John Richie, who now sleeps in
an unmarked grave in Nelson
county in that state. John
Richie was the father of the
Kentucky whisky industry.
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His Earnings Gone.

Some bold, bad theft, without fear
of God or respect of man, visited
Editor Finley's residence Sun.
day night while the family were
at church and relieved him Of
$3.50 in cash and a fine pistol
ia borrowed one, of course. U.s.
ually when newspaper men are
$50 successful in accommodating
money they go into the banking
business, but Editor Finley has
been succeeding so well lately
that he got careless and left his
money lying around loose, thus
tempting some unfortunate fell
low to give him an object lesson
in finance. The cash taken rep
resented the savings of five
months salary on a republican
paper, and Bro. Finley is lucky in
not having saved a larger
amount. The craft here and
throughout the state will sympa-
thize with the loser in the con-
temptuous treatment received
from the burglar, who was SO
mean as to cut through wire
screen and muss and touse things
up stairs in the search for hidden
wealth.-Greenville Herald.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-07

The United States Consul at
Annoy, China, is authority for the
statement that the Chinese pre-
fer American cotton fabrics,
spinnings, flour, oils, canned
goods and meats, and buy them
in preference, and pay higher
price for them than for similar
goods from other countries.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-07

THE horses of German cavalry
regiments are to be shod with pa
per shoes, recent experiments
having proved their durability
and lightness desirable.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-07

A GERMAN has invented what
he calls the overloaded gun"
1t is doubtless a destructive
weapon, but is not likely to COM
pare in fatal tendencies with the
American "unloaded" guns.
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SEATTLE, in the state of Wash
ington, is profiting by the Alas
kan gold excitement, and its cit
liens fully expect that it will
have a population of 100, 900 peo-
pie by the end of 1898.
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DIR. STEPHEN EMMENs, of Staten

DR.. STEPHEN EMNENs, of Staten
Island, N. Y, claims that he has
been manufacturing gold from
silver for the past three months,
and that the artificial bullion has
stood the test of the government
assay office. The books of the
assay office bear him out.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-07

A LETTER from an Alaska gold
miner says the temperature one
day last winter dropped to Y
degrees below zero, freezing his
bottle of "pain killer and he
believes it was 10 degrees colder
during the night.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-07

MENNoN1TEs of Kansas, Ne
braska, Colorado, South Dakota
and Oregon are thinking about
forming colony near Houston,
Tex.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-07

MINISTER WooDFoRD seems to
possess to a marked degree the
American knack of calling an
opponents hand with such a
genial countenance as to rob the
ensuing showdown of much of
its unpleasant aspect.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-07

IF TesIa's wireless telegraphy
is a success we ought to be able
to learn this winter whether it is
really worth while to go to the
Klondike in the spring.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-07

THE big dailies appear wonder
fully inconsistent in one par
ticular. They permit all their
artists to sign their names to
their drawings, whatever their
merit, but accord to but few of
their writer's that privilege.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-07

ARKANSAS fruit growers are
negotiating for a car load of red
ants to be used in killing worms
in orchards.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-07

The new fashionable hand
shake goes up and down-a sort
of milk shake, as it were.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-07

THE university of California is
to become one of the famous uni
versities of the world. AT any
rate, it is to have, if designs are
carried out, the finest pile of
buildings on the globe, and these
brilliant schemes are to be put
into effect at once. Inside of a
year ground will be broken for
the first of magnificent group
of buildings. There are to be %
or 80 of them. All the buildings
are to be of stone and built to
last for ages. How many mil
lions they will cost Regent Elm
stein refuses to say, but he has
enough pledged to make his mag
nificent plan a certainty.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-07

THE Washington Post is not a
free silver paper, but it is dis
gusted with the flippancy With
which many papers refer to the
recent fall in silver. The Post
says: ''If it were decided-which
it certainly is not-that no more
silver will be bought for coinage
in this country; if the people had
voted-which they have not-in
favor of the unconditional ac-
ceptance and maintenance of
gold monometallism-even under
these conditions we should find
no satisfaction in the falling price
of silver. We have about $780,
600, 900 in silver that we are car
rying and are bound to carry at
a parity with gold Ought we to.
be glad of a process that cheap
ems the coins Of the country?
Ought any organ of sound money
to shout in glee when value goes
out of and fiat goes into our
currency? Every penny that
falls from the price of silver
means a reduction of millions in
the commercial value of. our
coins. Is there anything funny
in that?"
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-07

GEN. WEYLER now says he can
knock the spots off Cuba in four
months. It's dollars to dough-
nuts he can't do it in four years.
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FAILING INTO LINE.

The Navasota Tablet claim!
that this is the only country o
the earth where political power
rests in the hands of the people
andy for that reason, every
mo1archy of the world is IN.
friendly to it, as a standing
threat to their order of ruling the
people. Jealousy, only feebly
expresses feelings toward it;
hatred, malice and cunning, are
the only words that express it.
Fearing to attack it openly.
and knowing the terrible power
of a money system for controlling
!, a people, it was the first great
government whose money sys-
tenn England, even slyly, dared
to attack; knowing too, if she
could effect her purpose here, all
the lesser powers of Europe
would follow the example. IN
fortunately, she found men who
were willing to engage in the
conspiracy, and in 1873, did
secretly succeed in destroying
our currency system.
Since then, prices, and indus
tries of all kinds have been
gradually languishing; and,
when the final blow was given in
the repeal of the last fragment of
silver law we had in 1898, the
whole industrial fabric fell; since
then, we have had no measure
for prices, and the people have
only lived by the practice of the
hardest, coarest, rudest and even
the meanest economy. All of
this while, they saw working men
suffer, and idle men prosper;
they saw millionaires increase
both in number and wealth, and
thereby knew that the very laws
of nature had been reversed, and
are now demanding in no IN
certain tones that they be put
back; that all men shall have
equal opportunities restored to
them, and proper prices for their
labor-that they should no
longer be subjected to a fraudu-
lent currency systemic pro-.
tective tariffs, to monopoies, to
trusts, combinations and ''bucket
shop" prices.
The South is solid in this di-
rec6on, and can always be relied
on in the hour of trial; if the
West and Northwest will equally
do their duty in the near succeed
ing elections next year, and in
1900, this bloodsucking class,
who draw the very life out of the
people, can be successfully driven
from the places they have SO long
desecrated and disgraced.
Within the last few days, Colo
RADIO and Nebraska have held
conventions for nominating state
officers, in which Democrats,
Populists and Silver Republicans
came together and nominated
fusion candidates. Pennsylvania
did the same things, and Endorsed
the Chicago platform; Kansas
have gone 'horse, foot
and dragons over to the Dem
ocrats, and general platform de-
"the free and independ-
ent coinage of silver and suffi-
cient volume of paper money to
be issued by the government,
and denounces government by
Thus, the reform of the politi-
cal conditions has been bravely
begun. The platform is plain,
direct and the sound suits US ex-
actly with no middle of the
road" foolishness and humbug.
When people talk that way they
mean business, and the class who
have been playing the role of
treasury robbers, and gold buck
aneers had better make ready to
''git up and git -
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THE water has been turned on
in the great Yaqui ditch, in Mex
leo, which is destined to irrigate
the hitherto desert lands of the
great valley of the Yaqui river.
This marks the contamination of
a great enterprise which promises
much for the future of northern
Mexico, and which has been car
ried on almost entirely with
United States money.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-04-28
Men, Women and Hats.

German professor has been study
ing that article Of masculine apparel
which the irreverent call "stovepipe"
and has found In 1t proof of mans SUI
periorlty to woman Time was, he says,
when men, like women now, ornament
ed their hats with ribbons and feathers
more or less beautiful and wore gar
ments Of the brightest colors they could
find, This was all "plumage d'amour;"
1t Indicated no Intellectual superiority
and no moral worth. 1t merely repre-
scented the superiority of the peacock
over the peahen. Now men have mott
ed. Their headgear has become the I'M
plumed "stovepipe," their habit the mex
presslve frock coat. 1t Is woman, the
professor points out, who wears the
'plumage d'amour" today, in her hat
and elsewhere.
Nature, he explains, means something
by every evolution or revolution she
permits. What she means by this one
is that fine feathers are best suited to
the feather Drained. The plumed hat of
woman is symbolical of her fall, the
plain "stovepipe" of man. of his rise in
intellectually. Mans moral worth. in
short, has become such that he can lose
plumage to the inferior animals. If this
isn't Just like man for all the world"
nothing ever was.-New York Times.