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The record-union., 1897-10-23
Mems
Fine Neckmear, SOC.

Our New York buyer has sent of the latest
novelties to be had in Mems Teck Scarfs in the small
knot sailor shapes.
The patterns and coors beautiful and quite beyond
the power OF words picture We will say, however,
that clan pads abound also the dot patterns that
eryone likes.
Made in a frs-cass manner, of fine quality silks, and
marked soc each
Not one of these Ties should be in stock week from
They will not if you find out about them.
The record-union., 1897-10-23
To-day's 70n
Price, lou
Embroidery Lessons.

The embroidery classes under
Mrs. L. Hummell are to be resun-
ed October Goth. For full infor1na-
ton apply at embroidery counters.
The record-union., 1897-10-23
Stove Boards.

Many shapes and sizes in zinc
and crystallized Stove Boards. Pa
per and wood lined. Prices 75c to
ST s..
We can save you money in these
goods.
The record-union., 1897-10-23
Hardwood
|Bedsteads, So 90.

Full size Bedsteads of hard
wood, neat carving, the headboard
8 feet high. Price So 90.
The record-union., 1897-10-23
Second Warders.

The Non-Partisan Club in the Sec
ond Ward met last evening and in
dorsed r. D. Stephens for Mayor.
The record-union., 1897-10-23
Band Concert.

There will be band concert in
Our stores Saturday evening by
the Forester Band, George c.
Holbrook, Director.
March, 'Hamlin Rifles Hall
Potpourri from "Fatinitza'' -. .Suppe
Ballet music and Soldiers Chorus
from William Tell' .Rossini
Medley, "The Latest Hits Rocker
''F'antasie," from 'Maritana'' Wallace
Songs without words (a) ''The Lost
Chord" (b) Let Me Dream
Again. :. :. :. >. Sullivan
Waltz, ''Zenda'' Witmark
Two-step, "The Belle of the Season"
80. BrattOn
The record-union., 1897-10-23
Department Two-Jo ohnson, Judge)
Friday. October 22d.

Friday, October 22d.
Estate of Ann Anderson, deceased
Order confirming sale of personal prop
erty.
Estate of F. p. Nevis, deceased-Final
account and petition for homestead
taken under advisement
Estate of Emma E. Drummond, de-
ceased-Order granted to sell personal
property.
Estate and guardianship of Cotton
minors-Guardian finally discharged.
Estate of jeremiah Burton, deceased
Charles I. Burton appointed admins
traitor; appraisers, NJ. Keefe, NJ. Brooks
and - Ellis.
Estate of Michael P. Haley, deceased
Order settling final account and for
distribution.
Estate of Jose S. Sibastiao, deceased
Same order; Rosalin S. Sebastiao ap-
pointed guardian of minor children.
Estate of E. c. Jones, deceased
Order to sell personal property.
Peter Wager VS.. Creditors--S. B. Smith
appointed assignee.
Minna E. Mink VS.. Fred Mink-De-
murrer overruled.
All other cases continued.
The record-union., 1897-10-23
BARBAROUS
TREATMENT.
Brutal Punishment of a Private in
the Regular Army
Wha Left the Barracks Without First Gain
Ing Permission.

Kicked and Stabbed and Dragged
Violently Down Stairs With
His Arms and Feet Bound-The
Injured Soldier Relates His
Story Before a Court of In
quiry.
The record-union., 1897-10-23
SUPERIOR COURT.

Department One-Hughes, Judge.)
Friday, October 22d.
Estate of Harriet A McCracken. de-
ceased-Permission given to lease realty.
Estate of Ellen B. Dorsey, deceased
Admission set aside.
Estate of Howell Clark, deceased
win admitted to probate; Annie E..
Clark appointed Administrative.
Will X. Clark VS.. Creditors-Pre-
ferred claim allowed.
Hong Ping VS.. Creditors-Permission
given to file new account.
Andrew Aiken VS.. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
discharged.
H. F. Wilson VS.. Creditors-Sheriff
appointed assignee.
G. w. Foulks VS.. Charles Campo
donico, ct al-Submitted and taken
under advisement.
E. J. Figg, administrator, VS.. Sarah
Andrews-Judgment set aside.
All other cases continued.
The record-union., 1897-10-23

Real Cut Glass Flower Vases,
3 inches high, for single buds or
violets. &C each.
The record-union., 1897-10-23
Egg Shampoo.

A healthy growth of hair de-
pends upon clean scalp. Our
liquid Egg Shampoo is perfect
scalp cleanser and harmless. Easy
to apply and very economical. 25c.
The record-union., 1897-10-23

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All dru
glsIs refund the money If il fails TO cure. 25c.
The record-union., 1897-10-23

DR.. A. T. SANDEN,
632 Market Street. San Francisc
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-12-30
Black Art in Eating,

Although the culinary has in the last
20 years made rapid strides, there is a
certain sameness about dinner-parties
which, to the habitual diner-out, comes
but little short of dull monotony. A
lady in Kensington originated the idea
OF giving every year memorial dinner
on the anniversary of her husbands
death. The dining-room was draped for
the occasion in mauve and black.
The tablecloth was of mauve silk, and
the only decorations used were violets.
The ladies were gowned either in black
or mauve, and the footmen were
dressed in black breeches and coats
and mauve silk stockings. On either
side of the hostess sat two black
poodles, excellently clipped after the
approved French fashion, with mauve
colored bows on their necks. The
menu was remarkable for the absence
of any color in the viands, save mauve,
the rest being either black or white.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-12-30
CHINESE QUICK CALCULATOR.
Mathematics In the Shop of a Col
OralO Curio Dealer

OI
OradO Curio Dealer.
Charlie Chan, Chinese curio dealer
of Colorado Springs, Col, is a mathe-
matician whose ability to solve the most
intricate of problems with almost
lightning capacity, by use of Chinese
abacus, has just come to light, says the
Boston Transcript. Some eastern tour
lists made purchases of Chan the other
day aggregating $3s9.S2 These pur-
chases ranged from cents to $35. The
Chinaman took his rack and before the
tourists were aware he was counting
had the correct result.
This excited the purchasers to ask
questions about the mode of calcula-
ton, and to give Chan sums to do. The
party found that the merchant from the
orient had marvellous talent in hand
ling figures. College professors were
told of the prodigy. and to satisfy them
selves went to his shop to put him to a
test. Problems, ponderous and in
tricate, were given to him, but he
proved equal to them all and displayed
deXterity in handling his beads and
an accuracy in computation that caused
the professors to pronounce him
wonder. Chan is regarded as the
wealthiest Chinaman in Colorado and is
a successful business man of 35 years of
age. He proudly traces his ancestry
back for 2,000 years. His musical talent
is also remarkable,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-12-30
PROFESSIONS IN THE WEST.
In the Good Old Days a Man HAD
Several.


In the life of modern business COM
mupity a man must beware of too much
wisdom, says the Chautauquan. The
specialist is the man who succeeds and
having once set his hand to an occupa-
ton one dare never leave it under pen
atty of failure in what he has chosen as
his life work, In the west all this was
different. Versatility was a necessity.
The successful man must know how to
do many things. The gleanings OF any
one field of activity were too small to
afford living of themselves. This fact
was accepted by the citizens of the
country, sometimes with grim humor
which marked the west.
A young lawyer in western town
had out sign which read: John
Jones, attorney-at-law. Real estate and
insurance. Collections promptly attend
ed to at all hours of the day or night.
Good Ohio cider for sale at five cents
glass" A storekeeper had on his win
dow the legend: wall paper and mar
riage licenses" thus announcing two
commodities for which there was a
very small demand. One of the prom
inent citizens of such town was
gambler, farmer, fighter and a
school teacher all in one. There seemed
to the minds of the inhabitants of the
country nothing homogeneous in this
mixing up of occupations, it being
taken for granted that man would
endeavor to make living in the ways
for which he seemed best fitted.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-12-30
A WONDERFUL ACHIEVEMENT.
The Method by which n Dear anu
Blind Boy Was Taught

blind Boy Was Taught.
William T. Ellis writes a paper for
the St. Nicholas on Helen Keller anu
Tommy Stringer," telling how the we'll
known blind girl secured means for the
education of little boy similarly al
Aicted. BY personal appeals to the pup,
lie Helen raised sufficient sum to SEM
little Tommy Stringer to the kinder
garten for the blind at Jamaica RAM
Mass. Mr.. Ellis says of his education IN
this institutions:
"Thither, on April 10, 1891, came
"Baby Tom" as Helen called this five
year-old child 1t was a pitiful spec
tacle that greeted his Boston friends
when the boy was brought to the kin
dergarten. His life had been spent
mostly in bed tit was the easiest place
to care for him), and he could not
walk at all, nor even stand with COD
fidence. Of signs for indicating his
wants he had none. He was as little
beast. tearing and destroying his own
clothes, and all else destructible that
was within his reach. His temper and
stubbornness were fearful.
To the appalling task of giving the
first rays of light to this child, Helen
and her teacher set themselves. until a
permanent instructor could be secured.
With almost inconceivable patience and
love. kind friends began the education
OF this untutored mind. The lessons of
discipline, regular habits. and obe-
dience had to precede and accompany
the teaching of manual speech.
How could this child, who had not
the remotest conception of any sort OF
language, be taught to talk?
The method, simply stated. was this:
Every time that bread was given him
the letters "b-r-e-a-d" were formed in
the manual alphabet on the boys own
fingers. and also in his hand, by the
fingers of his teacher. Again and again
this was repeated, thousands of times.
1t was slow work. The mind had lain
too long without knowledge to receive
easily the idea of speech. Even after
the teachers were sure that Tom under
stood the definite connection between
the word dread" and those finger mo-
tons. he refused to use his knowledge,
because of his strange perrersity. At
last. after nine months of teaching and
waiting, the little fingers voluntarily
spelled "b-r-e-a-d," and the beginning
had been made.
Other words soon followed, and ere
long the mystery of speech was COM
pretended. Tom took his place in
the kindergarten classes and learned
all that was taught the other boys
Reading, writing, arithmetic, gym
nastics and other studies were un-
dertaken; and to-day. in almost all
respects, save such as are entirely de-
pendent upon eye and ear, he is as well
educated as the average boy of his
wears.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-12-30
FooLINo AN APE.
His Curiosity Always Led to HIS Be-
ing Caught.


The big ape in the ZOO needed exer-
else. This he obtained by being allowed
the run of the large monkey house, in
stead of remaining in side room, be-
fore the visitors came, says the London
Spectator. AS he knew he would be
caught and put back into his own room
at this hour the ape used to climb up on
to the top of the other monkeys cages
and refuse to come down. AS he could
not be tempted by food, Mr.. Bartlett
appealed to his mind by working on
what he had noted to be his weak
points, curiosity and cowardice.
This is Mr.. Frank Buckland's account
Of the daily proceedings at this hour:
"Mr. Bartlett went to the keeper, and,
touching him gently on the shoulder,
directed his attention in mysterious
manner to the dark passage under
meath the gas pipe which traverses the
house, pretending to point out to SUIT
ton some horrible unknown creature,
using an energetic manner, but saying
nothing except words to this effect:
Look out-there he is-there he ISL
At the same time the two men would
peer into tho dark place under the gas
pipe" The monkey used presently to
come down to see what the subject of
fear and interest was, when Mr.. Bart
lett and Sutton used to shout: Hes
coming out! He's coming out!" and
rush away in the direction of Joe's cage.
The monkey would rush for the same
place of safety, which happened to be
the door of his own house, and some
times enter it before them. auckland
notes it as curious that the monkey
never learned the deception. but would
be taken in by it whenever the time
came to finish his mornings airing.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-12-30
BUYING ONE SHOE.

Other People Do 1t Besides One
Legged Men.
"What does man do for shoes when
be has only one leg. or his feet are not
mates?"
This question was thrust at big
Market street shoe dealer, but it didn't
seem to bother him bit, says the
Philadelphia Bulletin.
"He comes in here and has his feet
fitted just as easily as the ordinary
man," he said. ut is a common oc-
;urrence in all shoe stores to have one
legged men as customers. We break a
pair of shoes, sell the one required,
and charge the customer little more
than half the cost of the complete pair.
No, the odd shoes are not allowed to
accumulate. They would simply be-
come incumberances. They are prompt
ly sent back to the factory and mates
made for them on the same last. 1t is
not only for one-legged men that we
are thus compelled to break pairs. There
are lots of people in the world whose
feet are not mates. 1t is curious fact
that nearly every mans left foot is a
trife larger than the right one, but as
a general thing this does not interfere
with correct fitting. In many cases,
however, we encounter men one Of
whose feet are so swollen by corns, bun
ions, govt or some other affection that
he has to wear shoes of odd sizes. For
these customers it is necessary to break
two pairs, both of which afterward have
their missing mates supplied at the
factory and go back into the general
stool, -
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-12-30
,,cuTNINe.s STRANGE FREAK.
HOW II Tore n Scottish Army Officers
Clothing to Fragments.

now II Tore n Scottish Army Ohcer's
Clothing to Fragments.
"A most remarkable example OF the
terrible effects of a lightning stroke
Is described in the London Graphic.
Mai. Jameson, formerly OF the Scot
fish Rifles, accompanied by his father
and mother, went into a meadow to
nick mushrooms. Maj. Jameson was
some distance in front. and there was
a single clap of thunder and flash OF
LIGHTNING, which frightened Mrs. jane
son and she and her husband went into
q wood and returned to the house, ex-
Meeting that Maj. jameson would fol-
low.
About half an hour later Maj. Jame-
son was found by a game keeper, ly-
inp ON his face in the field quite dead.
Around him, in radius OF several yards,
we're his clothes and boots, which had
been torn and scattered about In an
extraordinary manner. The lightning
onpeared to have struck Maj. jane
sen on the right side of the head tear
ing the cap he was wearing 10 pieces
and burning his hair off. 1t then
passed inside his collar, down the front
of his body and both legs, into his boots'
which were torn to atoms, and then
passed into the ground. tearing hole
about 1s inches in circumference and
three inches deep.
The deceased mans collar was torn
into 100 pieces. none larger than six
pence, the front of his jacket was rent
into ribbons. and the jacket and under
vest literally torn to shreds, and the
Lnickerbockers he was wearing were
stripped off and scattered on the
ground. Maj. Jameson's stockings ana
CATERS were similarly torn IN pieces,
and on the boots the lightning had re-
markable effect.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-12-30
A TOM THUMB TRAIN.
To be Put on Exhibition at the
Omaha Fair.


To BE Put on Exhibition at the
Omaha Fair.
A TON Thumb" train, so called be-
cause it is supposed to- be the smallest
in the world, is to be exhibited at the
Trans-Mississippi exposition at Omaha,
reports the Pittsburgh Dispatch. 1t
was constructed by young man, who.
without any technical training, made
all the patterns, did all the casting, and
put together the whole train with his
own hands. The engine weighs $50
pounds. It's length, with tender, is G
feet 71a inches. The length of the cylin-
der is IA by 21s inches. The driving
wheels are inches in diameter, and yet
the locomotive hauls six observation
cars, in each of which two children can
becomfortably seated. Thesecars are Al
inches long and IA inches wide. and
covered after the fashion of the ordinary
observation car. The entire train, con-
sisting of engine, tender, four observa-
ton cars, one box car and a caboose,
is bnt 80 feet in lenth. Six gallons of
water in the tender tank and five in the
boiler will furnish steam to propel it
for two hours. Coal is hauled and
shoveled out of the tender in the ortho-
dox manner. In fact, the little engine
is complete in miniature in every detail.
Instead of using oil in the headlight a
small electric battery in the engine
under the cab seat furnishes an mean
descent light, which is described as
sparkling from the pilot like the
diamond in hotel clerks shirt front.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-12-30
Trees That Grow FIute.

This is the asofar, which grows in the
southern districts of NuDia> 1t yields a
gum known to dealers as gedaref or
senaar gum. DR.. Schweinfurt tells us
that when the wind blows among it's
branches it produces a sound very much
like that of flute. These musical
properties are due to the fact that the
base OF the thorns, with which it's
branches are plentifully provided, is
perforated by an insect in search of the
sticky sap. The wind blowing in these
little holes transforms the thorns into
miniature flutes.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-12-30
Remarkable Coincidence.

A remarkable coincidence occurred
some time ago at Osborne. Among
those who went down to the Isle of
Wight to receive from her majesty the
honor of knighthood were three out of
the five mayors designated in the
jubilee list for that distinction, namely,
the mayors of Brighton, Norwich and
Stafford. Upon arrival at the palace
they were invited to subscribe their
names in the queens birthday book,
when it was found that October IS was
the birthday of all three.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-12-30
Handbills at Herculaneum.

It is probably the general impression
that posters and handbills are modern
inventions, but it has just been discov-
cred that the ancient Romans practiced
this method of advertising. In digging
at Herculaneum there was brought to
light pillar covered with bills, one on
top Of another. The paste used to stick
them was made OF gum arabic. The
bills, when separated and examined,
were found to be programmes and an
nounoements IT public meetings, and
even election "A vclamatious. !,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-12-30
BURNING WOMEN.
Satisfying the Savage Human rE'
stinct OF Cruelty.

Satisfying the Savage Human H.
stinct OF Cruelty.
The horrible punishment of burning
women alive seems to have existed in
Saxon, England, but perhaps only in
the case of slaves, says the Athenaeum.
Under the Norman rulers. any woman,
bond or free, who killed her husband,
was burned alive, and the same punish
ment for this crime. and also for high
treason, and even for coming and other
minor offenses. continue or arose from
time to time through the second and
third periods until it was abolished by
act of parliament in 100, the last actual
execution of this kind having, however,
taken place six years earlier. The whip
ping of women for various cffenses con-
tinued even later; public whipping
was not abandoned until 1917, and cases
of private whipping occurred rs late as
1920.
There can be no doubt, we think, that
the savage human instinct of cruelty
had something to do with the barbarous
punishments above mentioned. AS the
old Roman public longed for the
carnage of the circus, as the Spanish
populace crowded to the auto-da-fe in
the fourishing days of the inquisition,
so the lower (perhaps not only the low
cry strata of English nationality took
delight in witnessing fortunes which,
in all probability, were devised and
kept up partly for their entertainment.
Mr.. Cleveland tells us that Judge
Jeffreys, in sentencing a woman to be
whipped, is reported to have said:
"Hangman, charge you to pay par
ticular attention to this lady. Scourge
her till her blood runs down. 1t is
Christmas time, cold time for madam
to strip; see that you burn her Shout
ders thoroughly"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-12-30
A Curious sunerstitinn

Among the superstitions of the Sen.
eca Indians was one most beautiful one.
When young maiden died they i'm
prisoned young bird until it first be-
gan to try its powers of song, and then,
loading 1t with caresses and messages.
they loosed its bonds over her grave, in
the belief that it would not fold Ito
wings nor close its eyes until it had
flown to the spirit land and delivered its
precious burden of affection to the
loved and lost one.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-12-30
No Highway. in China.

Cyclists in China lead an untram-
melled existence. There is no system of
road regulations outside the towns
whatever, for the simple reason that
the roads are underlined, being neither
bounded by fence nor hedge. While
the farmer has the right to pillow up
any road passing through land, drivers
of vehicles have an equal right, and they
exercise it, too, of traversing any por-
ton of the country at large.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-12-30
EyadinE the Law.

Chinese vendors Of lottery tickets in
San Francisco seek to evsde the law by
having the tickets painted on their
hands, a paper substitute being pro
fused when sals II made.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-12-30
Steam pOWer.

The steam power of the world NAV be
reckoned as equivalent to the strength
OF 1,ooo.ooo,ooo Of men, which is more
than twice the number Of workmen ex.
isting.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-12-30


a
" y nal" cunE Court
wTsKE 2 G Gt judge Travis County Texas
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-01-22
the Bryan man stopped talking.
Political Paragraphs,


Any community which can get $1,000
worth of good from two hours of Mr..
Bryan certainly needs enlightenment
on financial matters.
Since McKinley's election the Next
can dollar has gone up to 81 cents,
while the American dollar has not gone
up Il cent or down a mill.
In the meantime it is perfectly sare
to wager that the rumor that Mr.. Bryan.
is to receive $4,000 for fifty lectures Is
W the target about 1G to 1.
In his opening lecture in Atlanta MIR.
Bryan remarked that "many events
have transpircd recently" Lindley
Murray never would have permitted
events to act like that.
Col. Jones says he thinks the Demo-
Gratis really won last November, but
were counted out. The colonel evident
ly has been listening again to the mas
ter workman who built his ante-elec-
ton predictions.
Col. Jones writes to n San Francisco
nan to say that he believes i've carried
this election by a large majority and it
has been boldly stolen from u.s." If the
colonel keeps on lie will o become
much more "amoosin'" than Artemus
Wards kangaroo.