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Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-28

"OUR wagon roads through
out the country" said Bill Nye,
care a disgrace to civilization,
and before we undertake to sup
ply underwear and sealskin COW
cred bibles with flexible backs to
the Africans, it might be well to
put few dollars into the relief
of CALLED and broken down
horses that have lost their health
on our miserable highways. The
country system, as I know it, is
about as poor and inefficient as
could be. With a road overseer
in each road district, whose duty
it is to collect so many days
work or SO many dollars from
each taxpayer in the district, Of
course, no tax payer would pay a
dollar when he can come and
make mud pies on the road all
day, and visit and gossip with
the neighbors and save his dol
lar, too. With all due respect to
the farmer, I will state right
here that he does not know how
to make good roads. An All
wise Providence never intended
that he should know. The pro-
fessional road builders, with the
money used by our self made
road architects, would, in few
years, make roads in the United.
States over which two or three
times the present sized load
could be easily drawn, and the
dumb beasts of the republic
would rise up and call US blessed
for doing it.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-28

POPULAR excitement regarding
the finding of gold in the Klon-
dixie region has measurably sub
sided, as the result of better
knowledge regarding the Difficult
ties of obtaining the precious
metal. But it is likely to break
out afresh next spring, and it is
also likely to tempt men out of
legitimate business into adven-
ture. There is a peculiar bent
in human nature which prompts
men to get rich quickly, and
while experience teaches that the
only reliable road to fortune is
that Of industry, manufacture or
trade, the Klondike fever seizes
the strongest and completely up
sets them. The injury done by
the finding of a few fortunes in
the Yukon Valley to the business
world, by way of unsettling other
wise contented men, is incalcula-
BILE. Next spring there will be
an unprecedented rush to the
gold field, and it will afford strik-
ing proof of the instability and
weakness of the young men of
this generation, whose ambition
ought to be satisfied in the pur-
suit of the ordinary aims Of bust
ness, without the chasing of a
dream.
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IA
CaPbunCIeS!

It's the same story. The experience
of all sufferers with blood diseases is,
Identical. First the doctors are con-
suited, and their prescription of potash
and mercury is taken faithfully, but
without result. Months pass, and the
rnercuria1 dose is continued, until
finally, his condition being no better,
or often worse, the patient becomes
discouraged and decides to change
treatment.
Patent medicines are then takeny
but until the right one is found the
results are the same. S. S. S. is the
only blood remedy on the market
which is guaranteed purely vegetable
1t is the only one that contains no
mercury, no potash, or other mineral,
and therefore is the only one that
promptly gets at the bottom of all
blood diseases and cures permanently.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-28

A sEvEN-FooT vein of exceed
ingly rich gold ore has been
struck in the Red River mine at
Acton, Cal. The vein is sprinkled
thickly with free gold. The re-
port said that there appeared to
be tens of thousands of tons of
the richest ore ever struck in that
part of the state.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-28
THE NEGRO IN POLITICS.

The following, from a recent
issue of the Lafayette (La.) Ca
zette, shows the trend of public
sentiment in the south after
thirty-odd years experience with
the negro as an enfranchised
citizen:
"The negro will never control
the politics of this State, because
the Democratic party won't let
him, but he is a factor neverthe-
less, and those who tell us that
the race issue is used by design
ing men to brighten weak-mind-
ed voters are not speaking the
truth. What caused the trouble
in st. Landry Parish last year?
1t was the negro vote and moth
ing else. 1t is an undeniable
fact that in several parishes in
this State the negroes hold the
balance of power, and so long as
a single parish is at the mercy of
corrupt and ignorant negroes it
is pure nonsense to call the race
issue a political spook. In some
parishes the effectual method of
the shotgun had been employed
to rid the election of the degrad-
ing influence of the darkies,
while in others means less hon.
orable and manly have been re-
sorted to by the whites to insure
Caucasian rule.
SIN our opinion bulldozing
is better than a dishonest ballot.
One is manly, and the other is
despisable and low. Tell a negro
he can't vote but don't advise
him to go to the polls and then
steal his vote. That's bush
whacking, a form of warfare
popular among greasers and
jayhawkers. But there is still
a better way to purge our politics
of the communicating presence
of the black voter. 1t is legal
Acknowledgement. Bulldozing
begets disorder and brings the
law into contempt.
ga dishonest ballot is de-
moralizing, corrupt and debauch-
ing and detrimental to every in
terest of organized society and
civilized government. Either
method may bring temporary
prosperity and peace, but just as
sure as there is supreme ruler
who presides over the destinies
of nations, either will act some
day as a boomerang. What is
and very much needed is
an organic law that will disfran-
chise, on an enduring basis, the
mass of ignorance which, despite
the asseveration of our optimistic
friends, is continuous menace to
good government. The great
work of settling this vexing
question will be intrusted to the
men who will compose the con-
convention next Feb
ruary, and let us hope that they |
will have both the inclination
and ability to settle it fairly and
WE'LL"
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-28

Scrofu1a, Eczema, letter,
Cancer, Carbuncles, Rheumatism
Contagious Blood Poison,
Catarrh, or any other form of blood
troubles, will find in S. S. S. a prompt
and permanent cure; it matters not
how deep seated the disease, or what
other treatment has failed. Carbunc1es
are the result of an impoverished con-
dition of the blood, causing depressed
vitality and such a low state of health
that it is difficult for the system to with
stand even the mildest illness.
Mr.. Joseph c. Mygatt, OF No. 400 Han
cock Ave, Athens, Ga, says: 8 con-
tracted blood poison from dye, which
developed such alarming symptoms,
that my life was almost despaired of.
AT one time there were fourteen car
bunc1es on my body, and my suffering
was such that for months was unable
to do any work. The best physician
in our city treated me constantly, but
his efforts were of no avail, my condi-
ton growing worse all the while.
as. S. S. was recommended, and after
I had taken the first bottle, an inn
provement was noticed. grew better
every day, and after taking six bottles
was entirely cured. The carbuncles
all disappeared, leaving my skin per-
fectly clear, and have never had one
since''
There is not a disease of the blood,
it matters not how severe, which S.
S. S. VIII not cure. It is guaranteed
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-28

THE new Texas game law is a
daisy, says the Pleasanton Mon
itor. If a man we're to meet a
wild goose or a duck in the road
and were to jump at it and scare
it to death, or if he were to
knock it on the head with a stick
or shoot it with his pistol, he
would violate the law. They can
only be killed legally with gun
capable of being held to the
shoulder. The boys are denied
the delicious sport of catching
patridges in the traps. or nets,
and the silk stocking fellows
can't shoot them until after De-
tober 1.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-28

THE postoffice department at
Washington has adopted policy
of general extension of the money
order system. Complaints have
been constantly filed by business
houses that their correspondents
at villages are unable to send
money orders because their post
Offices have no such facilities.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-28
TO HAPPINESS wEZHoyr'WORK.

! HO hAPPINESS NEGAOUI WURh.
i Another bubble has broken
exclaims the Brooklyn Eagle
First it was that of the Topolo.
bampo colony, then it was thai
of Mr.. Debs and now it is the
Ischeme of an hundred men who
j sailed for an island in the South
Seas, where there were pretty
brown maids who wanted white
husbands and would do all the
housework, where there was
nothing to do but loaf in the
shade of palms and bananas and
allow ripe fruit to drop into the
open mouth and where brooks OF
lager beer puzzled softly over coral
banks. When the adventures
got to the South Seas they visit
ed number of islands, but on
every one of them discovered
that the English and German
companies had put up barbed-
wire fences and posted notices
against trespass. Forty of the
men gave up the idea of finding
Eden and settled upon the Island
of Suval where they will plant
bananas and work. The other
sixty will go to New Zealand,
and if they do not succeed in
finding a place where the free
lunch is plenty and work difficult
to get, they may put back to San
Francisco. They will get back
here in a more advanced state of
wisdom than when they sailed.
They will have learned the truth
of Heine's aphorism, "There,
where thou art not, is happiness"
The fact is there are few places
in this world where one can re-
frain from work, or find happi-
ness without work. Nor work
harder than those who think they
are not working at all. The
leisure class suffers a boredom
that is tenfold worse than that
endured by the men and women
who labor and who in truth are
seldom bored at all. They have
not time to think about their
petty needs and ills, and it is a
self consciousness that gives rise
to dissatisfaction. The woman
who has nothing to think about
but her own blessed back, who
spends her time with milliners
and dressmakers and in shops
and carriages, IS unhappy and
deserves to be. The woman who
has something to do for others is
the woman who sings. Life in
the tropics is on many accounts
easier than life in the temperate
districts; fruits grow with little
teasing; no coal is required to-
keep family warm; there is no
incentive to effort; labor is cheap
and all that the white settler has
to do is to sit on a veraHda. But
who wants to lead that sort of
life? Nobody with blood in him.
A hundred times better is the
land of battling gales, the stony
hillside, the reluctant farm; for
there men put themselves into
the soil and get strength back
from it. Nothing comes out of
the tropics to which those hum
bred misguided men set sail. The
tropics never produced soldier,
an inventor, a writer, an artist,
not even a successful shop
keeper. Life that is easy and
lazy is a life not worth living.
@-o-S
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-28

UNCLE SAM has decided to es-
tablish a military post and will
shortly issue an order creating a
military reservation in that por-
ton of Alaska lying within a
radius Of so miles of st. Michaels,
with Lieutenant Colonel Randall
in command, for the purpose of
protecting United States interests
in that country.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-28

THE Stakeholder, of Philadel-
phia, Pa, says: ''New England
is feeling to a very serious ex-
tent the competition of the large
number of cotton mills establish
ed at the south within the past
few years. Proximity to the cot
ton fields, and the large amount
of cheap labor obtainiable in
that section give southern manu-
facturers very ponderable adj
vantage in rivalry with the older
centers of cotton manufacture.
Eight years ago the southern
mills were consuming about $40, :
800 bales of cotton annually,
while in the past year actual con-
sumption is estimated at 1, 042, :
671 bales. In other words, the
south's manufacturing capacity
has doubled within decade"
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-28

JUDGING from the tone of the
State press Joe Sayers is develop
ing considerable strength as a
gubernatorial candidate in var
ious parts Of the State. He is a
straight democrat, who never
attempts to hide his light under a
bushel.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-28

THE Kansas City Star says
that ''the big crowds that greet
Bryan wherever he speaks, war
rant the conviction that the big
wheat crop has not settled the
silver question"
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-28

MARTIN IRONS, king bee of the
knights of Labor in 1886, is now
engaged in organizing social de-
mocracy clubs in Navarro county.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-28
AWonderfuI Dlscoverv,

The last quarter of a century records
many wonderful discoveries in medicine,
but none that have accomplished more for
humanity than that sterling old remedy.
Browns Iron Bitters. 1t seems to contain
the very elements of good health, and neither
man, woman or child can take it without
deriving the greatest benefit. For sale by
r. E. Luhn, Sole Agent.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-28

IT seems almost like profana-
ton to build a railroad upon the
holy ground where Moses is said
to have received the command
ments of the Almighty, but a line
of railway from the Red sea to
the top of Mount Sinai is con-
templated and a few years hence
probably it will cause no more
comment than any other road
anywhere else.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-28

NELLIE NORMAN, the pretty
23-year-old girl who committed
suicide in st. Louis last
week by taking a dose of carbolic
acid, was Nellie Anderson, a
former belle of Fresno, Cali
fornia, where her wealthy parents
still reside.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-28

THE report current last week
that President Diaz, of Mexico,
had ordered Mac Stewart, who is
confined in jail at Paral Mexico,
charged with killing a policeman,
to be shot on November 3rd, is
denied.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-28

"A race riot is said to have
occurred at Hallville, in Harrison
county, on the 10Th. The negroes
were caught in the act of depre-
dating on white mems property
and resisted arrest, which brought
on the trouble.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-28

AN Ohio man was arrested in
New York last week for whole
sale swindling. By changing
figures on checks he is said to
have stolen $780, 900 in the last
four years.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-28

THE mayor of st. Louis has
refused to permit anarchists to
hold public meetings in that city,
which goes to prove that he car
ries a level head.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-28

BOSTON has declared war on
the treating system. A party of
prominent men met at a. hotel to
form a club whose most promi-
nent bylaw is a provision which
absolutely forbids any member
to pay for another's drinks.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-28

LAWYERS are multiplying in
this country at the rate of 10000
annually, or rather, graduates of
aw schools are increasing at that
ratio. Not all of them, however,
can be called lawyers, except by
professional courtesy.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-28

THERE are said to be six mil
lion miles of telegraph wire in
use in the world at this time.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-28

MATTERS are becoming serious
and complicated for Mark Hanna,
and it is said all the federal
officials from Ohio are to return
home at once and put in their
best ticks for Mark. He needs
assistance.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-28
THE insurance agents of Texa,

The insurance agents of Texas
are also kicking over the pay
ment of the occupation tax levied
on them by the last legislature.
They want to be let alone while
exercising the arbitrary privilege
of levying the most exorbitant
rates for insurance-so excessive,
in fact, as to debar men in
moderate circumstances from
4alling out policies.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-28

DAN STUART announces that he
has about succeeded in arrang-
ing another smuggling match be-
tween Corbett and Fitzsimmons,
to be pulled off in Nevada some
time in June or July of next
year.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-28

Of the thirty eight sultans
who have ruled the Ottoman en-
pire since the conquest of Con-
stantinople by the Turks thirty
four have died violent deaths.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-28

POLITICIANS are said to be
numerous at Dallas and some
pretty heavy log-rolling is being
done in a quiet way.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-28

HON. W. J. BRYAN has con-
sented to put in the last week
prior to the election in stumping
Ohio in the interest of the demo-
cratic ticket.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-28

THE democratic boilers of New
York City will support Henry
George for mayor in opposition
to Van Wyck, the regular demo-
cratic nominee.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-28

THE United States Supreme
Court has postponed the hearing
of the Texas anti trust cases.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-28

THE wholesale oyster trade OF
New York amounts to between
S25, 100000 and S30,OOO,0OO a
year.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-28

GEO. M. PULLMAN, the sleeping
ear magnate, died at his resi-
dence in Chicago on last Tues
day morning of heart disease.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-28
Purely Vegetable

and is a real blood remedy for real
blood troubles. promptly reaching the
seat of the disease, and forcing it out
permanently.
Books on cancer, and blood and skin
diseases mailed free to any address
Swift Specific Co, Atlanta, Ga
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-28

THERE are said to be three
hundred and fifty thousand
bicycles in use in New York
City.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-28

THERE are five tickets in the
field for the municipal offices in
Greater New York and the can
vass is gradually warming up.
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STATE NEWS

uSIGS'
The Santa Fe shop forces
have been increased at Cleburne.
"A Luling man is experiment.
ing with mesquite beans as cattle
food.
John Keys was knocked
down on Main street in Bolton
last Monday night and robbed of
$50.
The general offices of the
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe rail-
way have been moved back to
Galveston.
The Texas Farm and Stock
Journal has moved its Office of
publication from Fort Worth to
Dallas.
The 9-year-old son of J. T.
Levy, of Cleburne, was kicked
by a horse and instantly killed
last Saturday.
Spinal meningitis has ap-
peared among the horses in Gal
weston and is proving fatal in al
most every case.
Charlton is raging in cpl
demic from among the horses at
Velasco, about a dozen horses
having died of the disease.
-Navasota' s fair grounds were
sold at auction last Tuesday to
satisfy a mortgage indebtedness
against the association for ST.
255.75.
Fort Worth has granted the
Postal Telegraph company per-
mission to establish and erect
lines along the streets in that
city.
The Santa Fe officials are
discussing the advisability of
erecting new office building in
Cleburne in the new yards, to be
occupied by the superintendent,
train dispatchers, etc.
Over forty head of horses
have died in the vicinity of We
lasco last week from an epidemic
of meningitis or Charlton which
is raging among horses in that
section.
Near Mckinney Wednesday
evening the 3-year-old daughter
of Bud Lane fell in front of a
loaded wagon, the wheels pass
ing over her body, causing
death in Is minutes.
Capt. John sessums, of
Houston, has organized a new
colored military company of 35
men to be known as the Erickson
Cavalry, in honor of Sheriff
Erickson, of Harris county.
Henry Aycock who, some
six years ago was foreman of
this office, was shot in the left
side by Emerson Barbee, at
Greenville, and seriously wound
ed. A dispute over a business
settlement is given as the cause.
Emerson was released on 81 900
bond.
The Southwest Texas fair
association will hold their annual
exhibit at Victoria on November
9th, 10th, 18th and 18th, and
promise to make it the largest
and best fair ever held in South
west Texas. Many good horses
are coming and the races promise
to be fine.
DR.. Folsetter, Veterinary
Surgeon of the State Sanitary
Board, has been making num-
Ger of Investigations and autopsies
of the disease that has proven so
fatal to horses in the vicinity of
Alvin, and has arrived at the
conclusion that the disease is
spinal meningitis, caused by a
peculiar kind of grass containing
a great amount of argat.
The handsome new Santa Fe
passenger depot on Commerce
street, Dallas, which was begun
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Counting all classes of PRESERVES,
Germany can in "a hours raise
an army of 100000 disciplined
men.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-28

COTTON seems to decline a
point every time the cable clicks
between New York and Liver
pool.
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THE Athletic club will hold a
reception at their headquarters
next Thursday evening compli-
mentary to DR.. J. B. York and
bride.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-28

IT is said that President Nc
Kinley has commenced collecting
material for his annual message.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-28

IT is stated that the treasury
deficit for the year solar amounts
to only S32,440,927.
The record-union., 1897-09-22
FIFTEEN ROUNDS.
The Spanjer-Agnew Glove Contest
ON the 3Oth,

On the night of the 30th instant-one
week from -morrow-the glove match
between Lon Agnew of San Francisco
and Henry Spanjer of this city will
take place in the hall of the Sacramento
Athletic Club under it's management.
The match will be one of fifteen
rounds, and ought to be the best seen
in Sacramento in years. The men be-
long in the light welterweight division
which has given the most satisfactory
glove exhibitions. Few of the heavy
weights are capable of putting up good
fights, and the bantams and feather
weights are most too small to enthuse
admirers of the fistic art. The welters
are generally more evenly matched and
handle themselves better than the big
fellows. 1MNI
Agnew has a fine ring record, and
is regarded as a top-notcher at the
Bay. Spanjer is a member of the
local athletic club, and has
won his spurs in high-class am
ateur tournaments. He is strong,
clever and game, and he and Agnew
should be able to put up splendid ex-
hibition.
The fact that the Sacramento Athletic
Club will manage the contest is guar
antee that it will be conducted on the
level and that the man entitled to the
decision will get it.