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Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-18
THE PENSION ABUSE.

The expenditure of S145, 200, :
900 year for the payment Of
pensions is an item in our over
crowded national budget which
is always sure to meet with about
the same sort of criticism, and
the criticism always meets with
substantially the same reply,
says the Christian Evangelist.
The uniform objection is that
the pension system has been
abused until there are more i'm
posters than needy veterans
among its beneficiaries. Besides
this there is an occasional insin-
uation that, whether with or
without grounds, the pension
bureau has been used as the
ally of a party in political cam
paigns. The answer to all criti-
cism and hints of extravaganza
is an appeal to patriotism and
the gratitude due from the nation
to its defenders. This is senti-
ment which is tolerably certain
to meet with approval almost
anywhere, but it does not touch
the question of the abuse of the
pension system and the need of
some sort of legislation to pre-
vent further frauds. One abuse
which calls for correction is the
practice of granting pensions for
life to widows of veterans in
cases where, for example, a girl
of twenty has married an old
soldier of seventy five for the
sake of gaining comfortable
annuity from the government.
Such cases have been more nu-
merous than is commonly sup
posed. There are only about ten
survivors of the second war with
England still on the pension roll,
but the government is support
ing, in whole or in part $500
widows of veterans of 1912. 1t is
not easy to see what claim upon
the government these women
have, who were born long after
the close of the war and whose
husbands must necessarily have
died of old age long before now
even if there had been no war.
The same is true of the young
widows of civil war veterans. 1t
has been proposed to deny pen
sions to widows of veterans mar
ried after certain date, and it is
an evidence of good sense that
many of the veterans are joining
in the support of some such
measure.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-18

REFERRING to the new school
history of the United States, by
DIR. Jones, of Virginia, the Balti-
more Sun makes the following
truthful comment: ''There has
long been a demand for a school
history of the United States
which, while fair to all sections,
would do full justice to the south
ern states. Many of our SOCIAL
ed histories are but perversions
of fact. Written with knowledge
of but one small section of the
country, they have exaggerated
the Importance of trivial Incl
dents in its history, to the neglect
of more important events else
where. Bias, often unconscious,
has contributed to further distort
the truth, so that we have no
proper account in brief space of
the colonial period, the war of
the revolution, the formation of
the constitution and the ideas
that instrument was designed to
express. The period from the
formation of the government to
1851 has been described with
equal unfairness. When We come
to the civil war, its events, causes
and results, we find inaccuracy,
misrepresentation and perversion
as their maximum. We have, in
fact, no school history of the
United States by a northern
writer which is not utterly unfair
and misleading, while others from
southern sources are often color
less and insipid by reason of at
tempts to avoid controverted
points"
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-18
A Foot Ball Team.

Brennan has a full-fledged
foot ball team in good working
order and anxious to compete
with the chrysanthemum heads of
Bryan in match game for
which challenge has been is
sued. The officers of the aggre-
cation are Chas. Carlisle, presi-
dent; Billie Mayfield, secretary
and treasurer; VIM. Krug, cap
tain. Players have been as
signed positions as follows:
Krug, Center; Rogers, L. Guard;
Campbell, L. Tackle; Coin, L.
End; Pace, R. Guard; Carlisle,
R. Tackle; Mcfarland. R. End;
Holland, IA Back; Mayield. L.
Half; Eldridge, R. Half; Grif-
fing, full Back.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-18
FEW LIEN LAW.

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The 25th legislature passed a
laborer's lien law ard in order
that those who may be benefited
by the law-may know its pur-
port and effect-I ask space to
give in substance this law. The
act was one of the platform
pledges. The first section reads
''That when any clerk, ac-
countant, bookkeeper, artisan,
craftsman, factory operative,
servant, mechanic, quarryman or
laborer, farm hand may labor
or perform any service in any
office, store, saloon, hotel, shop,
mine, quarry, mandatory or
mill of any character or any
farm, by virtue of any contract
with any person, employer, firm,
corporation or his or their agents,
in order to secure the payment
of the amount due said employees
shall have a first lien upon all
products, machinery, tools, fix
lures, apparatus, goods, wares,
merchandise, chattles or things
of value of whatever character
they may be, created in part or
in whole by the labor of such
persons or necessarily connected
with the performance of such
labor or service which may be
owned by or in the possession of
the employers"
provided, that the lien herein
to a farm hand shall be subor-
dinate to the landlords lien now
provided by law"
The second section provides in
substance that whenever any en-
ployer shall fail or refuse to make
payment the employee shall make
duplicate accounts of such SER
vice with the amount due and
present or have presented to the
employer one of the accounts
within thirty days after the in
debtedness shall have occurred.
The other to be filed by the
county clerk of the county in
which said services was rendered
and shall be recorded by the
county clerk in a book kept for
that purpose, same account
to be sworn to. The same to be
foreclosed within a month.
The third section provides:
"All wages, if service is by
agreement, performed by the day
or week shall be due and pay
able weekly, or if by the month
shall be due and payable
monthly"
l would advise all laboring men
to file away a copy of this paper
for future reference. You will
observe that farm hands, such as
cotton choppers or cotton pick
ers, have a preferred lien on farm
for their wages.-Green-
vile Herald.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-18
To Cure
ScrOfuld

1t ought to interest everybody to
know that the terrible affection
called Scrofula is the forerunner of
still more terrible disease. Scrofu1a
is the seed of consumption. 1t is so
deep-seated and obstinate that not
one doctor in a hundred can cure it.
To cure Scrofula, you must cure the
blood. You must go down to the
roots and reach deep. A Guessing
over with mineral poisons is not
only useless, but makes things a
great deal worse.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-18
EsTRAY NOTICE.

Taken up by H. ]. Neinast,
Long Point, Texas, one brown
stag, II or Is years old, brand
blotched, marked crop off left
ear, and overbit in right ear, APP
praised at SO. Estrayed before
W. R. Ewing, justice of the.
peace, precinct No. 8, Washing
ton county.
o. A. SEWARD,
County Clerk.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-18

Swiff's Specific cures Scrofula
when nothing else will. 1t purifies
and vitalizes the blood. 1t drives
out the poisonous elements. 1t stops
the accumulation of morbid deposits.
1t is purely vegetable. and is the
discovery of an eminent scientist.
1t is for the blood alone that is all
it is good for. If you have Scrofula,
Catarrh, Rheumatism, Cancer. Ec-
zema or any other Blood Disease,
S. SIS. will cure you, no matter how
many doctors or other medicines
have failed.
Id to the SWIFT SPECIFIC Co., Atlanta, Ga,
for free books about Blood Diseases.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-18

THE New York Herald says /:
more than $4,000 persons will
directly or Indirectly draw pay
from the city in the first admin
istration of the mayor of Greater
New York. The salaries of 3d.
600 of these, whose names will be
actually on the city's pay roll,
will aggregate s33, 100000. Part
of this amount includes the sala-
ries and patronage of the other
officers elected on Tuesday, but
this is comparatively small, most
of the total representing the pat
ronage of Greater New York's
mayor, Robert A. Van Wyck. A
conservative estimate of those
who will draw pay Indirectly
fromthe city through city con-
tracts and the like, is $4,000.
Mayor Strong, at the time the
greater city charter was passed,
estimated this force as equal to,
if not exceeding, the actual num-
Der of all office holders. Second
only to the president of the
United States in the value of his
patronage, the first mayor of the
greater city is first in the insig-
nificance of this patronage. With
his colleagues-elect of the same
political party as himself, Mr..
Van Wyck can lead an army of
ofice-holders, and those indi-
rectly employed by the city as
great as the army of the Po-
tomac."
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-18
STATE NEWS.
-Diptheria prevails at Bon

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-Diptheria prevails at Bon
ham.
-Llano county farmers are
making fine quality of molasses
from Milo Maize.
1t is reported that there has
been another wholesale removal
of passenger and freight conduc-
tors on the Santa Fe.
j. A. Bennett was given q
life sentence at Hilisboro, Tex,
for the murder of Mrs. Mary Jen-
kins in December of last year.
D. Dreeben, a prominent
merchant of Fort Worth, has as
signed for the benefit of his cred
itirs. Liabilities $50, 32O.76.
Galveston has entered suit
against the City street railway
company for back taxes and
street improvements amounting
to S43, 1883.
Only five counties were rep
resented at the colored anti rape
convention which convened at
Columbus last week Colorado,
Austin, Fort Bend, Pamela,
Caldwell and Wharton.
Judge Teichmueller, of La
Grange, holds as unconstitu-
tional the act passed by the 18th
legislature regulating attach
ment of witnesses, which en-
braces the fee bill.
-Whitecaps are active in
Falls county and have served
notice on number of farmers
that their tenant houses will be
burned and their farms sown in
johnson grass should they de-
mand money rent for their land.
w. P. Nelson, of Fort Worth.
has filed suit against Sells Bros
circus for $4,000 damages for
injuries received by the blowing
against him of one of their bill
boards, knocking him to the
ground and causing him to be
run over by loaded van.
One of the most destructive
prairie fires known for years has
just swept over the greater por-
ton of Crosby county. The
grass was very rank and the wind
was blowing almost a gale. The
fire travelled almost as fast as
a horse could run, destroying
everything in its path. A flock
of sheep, literally burned to
crisp, their blackened corpses
lying punched together where
they had assembemble in
their helpless terror. A great
many small cowmen will be COM
PEELED to move out to secure VIM
ter pasture.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-18

IT may not be generally known
to our taxpayers that the last
legislature passed a law inflict-
ing a penalty of 10 per cent on
all taxes not paid by January
31st of each year. In order that
our readers may be fully posted
on the requirements of this law
we print the section in full, which
is as follows:
"Section 1O5, chapter 1O3.
If any person shall fail or refuse
to pay the taxes imposed upon
him or his property by law until
the 31st day of January next
succeeding the return of the as
sessment rolls of the county to
the comptroller, penalty of ten
per cent on the entire amount of
such taxes shall accrue.'
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-18
MEXICO has cheap labor and

MEXICO has cheap labor and
bids fair to become a formidable
competitor in growing cotton.
This year in some of the states
the cotton acreage was increased
four-fold. In the low lands,
where frost does not come, the
cotton plant becomes a parental
shrub which bears every season,
It is believed that cotton can be
grown at profit in some parts
of Mexico at two cents a pound.
1t remains to be seen whether
Mexican cotton will be as good
quality as that grown in our
southern states. It is the poor
quality of tropical grown cotton
that has given the American pro-
duct its advance over the cotton
produced in India.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-18

WHEN one remembers that but
little more than a generation ago
South Carolina was not only
without a factory of any kind,
but made a specially of opposing
the manufacturing interests of
the North, it seems strange to
hear that she now leads all the
Southern States in cotton manu-
featuring. She has ffty-four
mills running at present, operat-
ing in all nearly 1000, 900 spin
dies and consuming yearly 49,
767,042 pounds of cotton. Her
cotton crop this year will be in
round numbers 100000 bales of
which the home mills will con-
sumo $4,000. or about 40 per
cent of the entire crop.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-18

WITH gradually improving
system of irrigation the Egyptian
cotton product is increasing and
becoming more profitable. The
annual production is now 247, :
100000 pounds of lint and o.,
275,000 bushels of seed, with a
total value of 1924, 900, an in
crease of go per cent within seven
years. The value of the crop per
acre is about S69.25; cost of pro-
duction, $3.50; net profit,
S22.75.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-18

IF the announcements of the
social triumphs of Mrs. Langtry
and her kind were given less
prominence in our newspapers it
would be better for the morals of
our people.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-18

THE romance as well as the
danger of the trail over Chilkoot
pass will vanish next spring
when the new electric railway
over the pass will be finished.
There is water power enough in
the vicinity to furnish electricity
to run all the cars wanted.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-18

A little child of j. R. Hays, liv-
ing near Colquitt, Ga, overturned
a pot of boiling water, scaIding
itself SO severely that the skin
came off its breast and limbs. The
distressed parents sent to Mr.. B ssh,
a merchant of Colquitt for a relse-
DIV, and he promptly forwarde6S
Chamberlain's Pain Balm. Another
or two made it sound
and well. For sale r. e. Luhn.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-18

The democratic State conven-
ton of Louisiana will be held at
Baton Rouge on the 9th of De-
cember.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-18

GEN. GOMEZ, it is said, has
ordered Gen. Julio Sanguilly, the
Cuban patriot now in New York,
to report for duty in the insurgent
ranks instanter. This order
places him in an embarrassing
position. Sanguilly had become
an American citizen and when
arrested in Havana two years
ago only released from Moro
Castle upon pledging his word
not to again take up arms against
Spain. Not long afterwards
General Gomez ordered him to
report for duty, but Secretary
Sherman, it is said, informed
Sanguilly that if he did so he
would forfeit his American cid-
zenship.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-18

THE Denison Herald of the
10th inst. says: "There was a
lot of green corn on the market
yesterday. Several farmers near
Denison are raising the Mexican
June corn, planting it in June
and July and even as late as Au-
gust, for the late fall market All
the experiments with that corn
that have been tried in this Sec
ton have been very successful.
The corn thrives and produces
well here and can be raised and
sold at an enormous profit"
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-18

In politics the San Antonio
Express exhibits a decided lean
ing towards republicanism; at
least, it stoutly opposes every eff
fort put forth by the organized
democracy of the country.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-18

WHY not interview the ef of
the Texas goldbug harem, Hon.
George Clark, on the result of
the elections in Kentucky, Vir-
ginia, New York and Nebraska?
He might be able to assign some
kind of cause for the clean sweep
made by the true-blue democ-
racy.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-18

THE Fort Worth Register as
serts that Ohio still retains her
reputation as a fat State for leg
islators in senatorial years, and
then winks at Mark with "the
other eve"
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-18

AS fasters the sect of jams, in
India, are far ahead of all rivals.
Fasts of from 80 to 40 days are
very common, and once a year
they are said to abstain from
food for Is days.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-18

CHAUNcY DEPEw considers
Organism and bimetalism two
very live issues at the presant
time.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-18

THE Paris News claims that
some men are wise in the matter
of advertising, while others are
decidedly otherwise.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-18

BRYANIsM has taken a fresh
hold on the people of the east,
which will grow and expand I'M
til 1900, when it will sweep the
country like a cyclone, landing
William Jennings Bryan in the
White House, there to abide as
the chief executive officer of this
great country.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-18

THE condition of the concen-
tradoes of Cuba as detailed in the
dispatches in the daily press, are
simply heart-rending and appeal
in tones of thunder to the inhabi-
tants of civilized nations for
prompt and speedy redress.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-18

FIREMAN JOHN TIMMs, who was
badly injured by the bursting of
a water guage at the National
Compress last week, is able to be
out in town.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-18

THE San Antonio Light de-
clares that this Grant and Green
business is the worst dose that
has yet been given the Republic
cans of Texas.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-18

THE attempt to colonize the
Illinois mines with Coolee labor
ers will likely result in the worst
riot this country has ever wit
messed. But, should some of the
mine owners be numbered among
the dead, in case of a collision,
the country would likely be bet
ter off.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-18

THE goldbug boilers have at
last arrived at the conclusion
that they are a nonentity, politi-
cally speaking.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-18

WATTERsoN throws up the
sponge and announces his inten-
ton of quitting the drive" and
will weekly assume his position
at the rear of the column.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-18

SENATOR BLACKBURN assures
Mr.. Watterson that the true blue,
unadulterated democrats will
elect the next senator from Ken
lucky.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-18

Both, Bucknor and Breckin-
ridge, are charged with having
voted the straight republican
ticket at the recent election in
Kentucky.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-18

The Fort Worth Register pre-
sents a much improved appear
ance, its news service being
equal to that of almost any daily
paper in the State.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-18
From the Lone Star State comes

From the Lone Star State comes
the following letter, written by W.
F. Gass, editor of the Mt. Vernon,
(Tex.) Herald: II have used
Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy in my family for
the past year, and find it the best
remedy for colo and dirrhoea that
1 have ever tried. It's effects are
instantaneous and satisfactory, and
l cheerfulIy recommend it, especi-
ally for cramp collie and diarrhoea.
Indeed, we shall try and keep a
bottle of it on our medicine shelf as
long as we keep house" For sale
by r. E. Luhn.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-18

THE Beaumont Journal is of
the opinion that if cotton plant
ers want to benefit themselves
they should organize vigilance
committees with the object of
removing" all crop reporters
and statisticians. These are
worse pests than the boil worms.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-18

The top crop of cotton in Texas
this year has been completely
destroyed by the stop rot" a
new disease imported into this
country by the "cotton crop liar"
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-18

MCKINLEY prosperity is not the
kind that is calculated to relieve
the pressing necessities of the
people.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-18

Boys boring in the earth at
Arlington, KY, found kerosene
oil of such purity as to be mark
etable without refining, and
moreover, at so favorable a point
for commercial purposes that by
the mere laying Of a siding from
a trunk line railroad the oil may
be loaded directly for shipment.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-18

THE pops cut very small fig
ure in last weeks elections.
They have "kinder frazzled out'
anV WaV,
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-18

THE yellow fever epidemic at
New Orleans seems to be grad
ually playing out" as a result
of the return of cooler weather.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-18

A Kingston girl sent 10 cents
to a New York advertiser to find
out how to whiten the hands:
"Soak 'em in dish water three
times day." 1t tickled her
mother nearly to death.-Ex.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-18

VIM. R. FOSTER, who stole
S193, 900 from the New York Pro-
duce Exchange, has been arrest
ed in Paris.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-18

A CIGARETTE and the cigaretted
lad that smoked it, caused a
100000 conflagration in st.
Louis last week.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-18

Be suresto read the new adver-
tisement of the Ant street gro
GERS, Messrs. l. Nowakowsky &c
Co.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-18

UNCLE SAM is said to possess
only nine frst-class battleships.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-02-16
THE LATEST SCIENTIFIC KNOMl.
.EOGE ON FOOD AND DIG, STiOM.

The real cause of most of our diseases is
simply an inability to digest food. This
induces thinness, weakness, loss of flesh
and fat, loss of vitality, wasting away.
Loss of flesh and vitality means constant
liability to sickness. Wasting away is
consumption.
II getting thin Is what ails you, there Is
only one thing to do-get fat. The only
way to do 1t Is to take something which
win help your stomach and stimulate 1t to
do its work.
II you are tired out you do not like to
move your legs or arms. III your stomach
is tired it does not like to digest; 1t cannot
do its wosk.
4 To eat, or even to eat with relish does
not necessarily mean that enc Is being
nourished. Strength, vitality and flesh
are the true indications.
Getting thin Is sign that you need the
Shaker Digestive Cordial. You would not
be getting thin II you could digest your
food.
The Shaker Digestive Cordial not only
contains artifcially digested food, but 1t
will digest other foods in the stomach.
A single 10 cent bottle will show whether
or not it Is going to meet the conditions OF
your case, ard If so, its continued use may
be depended on to effect cure. All drug
gists keep 1t in stock.