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Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-25

''DEBT,' says the Rockdale
Reporter, sis the chains that bind
down proud hearts and noble
minds with shame and remorse-
If you owe any man you are his
slave. This may not be very
choice language, but cross
eyed man can understand It.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-11-25

SAVERS will be the next gov
ernor of Texas. = Hallettsville
Herald.
Correct; 60 up head.
The Progress., 1897-11-06

lision. and hundreds Of hands ready to
overreach YOU and take all YOU have.
Defense against cold, defense against
heat, defense against sickness, defense
against the worlds abuse, defense
all the way down to the grave, and
even the tombstones sometimes Is not
a sufficient barricade.
If a soldier. who has been on guard |
shivering and stung with the colo,
pacing up and down the parapet with
shouldered musket, is glad when some
one comes to relieve guard and he can
go inside the fortress. ought not that
man to shout for joy who can put
down his weapon of earthly defense
and go in to the Kings castle? VINO is
the more unfortunate. the soldier VINO
has to stand guard twelve hours or the
man who h as to stand guard six hours
We have common sense about every
thing but religion. common sense
about everything but transterence
from this world.
Again: There il . blessing in an alb
breviated earthly existence in the fact
that one escapes SO many bereave-
mentA The longer we live the more
attachments and the more kindred.
the more chords to be wounded or
rasped or sundered. II . man live on
to 20 or so years Of age, how many
graves are cleft at his feet! In that
long reach of time father and mother
go, brothers and sisters go. children
go, grandchildren go, personal friends
outside the family circle whom they
had loved with love like that of Da-
vid and Jonathan. Besides that,
some men have natural trepl-
dation about dissolution, and ever
and anon during forty or fifty
| or sixty years, this horror
| of their dissolution shudders through
I soul and body. Now. suppose the lad
I goes at 16 years Of age? He escapes SO
| funerals, SO caskets. so obsequies. 50
| awful wrenchings of the heart 1t Is
| hard enough for US to bear their depar-
ture, but is it not easier for US TO bear
their departure than for them to stay
| and bear SO departures? Shall we not
by the grace of God rouse ourselves
into a generosity of bereavement which
will practically say: 1T is hard
enough for me to go through this be-
reavement, but how glad l am that he
will never have to go through it" Sc
1 reason with myself, and so you will
find it helpful to reason with your
selves David lost his son. Though
l OdSlO was King IL 10y Oa Xix
earth mourning and inconsolable for
some time. At this distance of time,
which do you really think was the one
to be congratulated, the short-livec
child, or the long-lived father Had
| David died as early as that child dieG
ne would, in the first place, have es
capped that particular bereavement
then he would have escaped the wors1
| hereayement of bsalom his recreRn
son, and the pursuit OF the Philistines
! and the fatigues Of his military cam
paign, and the jealousy Of Saul, ans
the perfidy of Ahithopel, and the ours
. of Shimei, and the destruction of hi
family at Ziklag, and. above all, h,
would have escaped the two great ca
. lamities OF his life, the great sins o
, uncleanness aud murder. David live,
, to be Of vast use to the church and tn
world. but SO far IS his own happines
, | was concerned, does 1t not seem to yo
The Progress., 1897-11-06
Blessings Of an Abbreviated Earth
ly Existence.
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmags Presents some
Comforting Thoughts for Those Who
Have Lost Children-A Bal
sam for Many Wounds.


been bereft of their children. The
text is:
The righteous is taken away from the e'ii 70
cou.e.-Isaiah lvii-, l.
We all spend much time in Panegyrlc
of longevity. We consider it great
thing to live to be an octogenarian. II
anyone dies in youth we say: wv nat
q pity DIR. Mullen bergh, in old age,
said that the hymn written IN early
life by his own hand. no more ex-
pressed his sentiment when it said:
would not live Away
Ifoue be pleasantly circumstanced,
he never wants to go. William cullen
Bryant, the great poet. at So years OF
age. standing in my house IN fes'ai
group, reading ''Thanatopsis' without
spectacles. was just as anxious TO i've
as when at is years of age ne wrote
tina, immortal threnody. Cato feared
at 50 years Of age that he would not
live to learn Greek. Monaidesco at
lis years, writing the history OF his
time, feared a collapse. Theophrastus,
writing a book At 90 years OF age,
was anxious to live to complete 1t
Tavriow Weed. at about Sd years OF
age, found life as great desiraoliity
as when he snuffed out his first poll
tieian Albert Barnes, so Well pre-
pared for the next world at 40, SAID ne
would rather stay here. SO 1t Is all
the way down. l suppose that the last
time that Methuselah was out OF doors
in a storm he was afraid of getting his
fee. wet lest it should shorten his days
Indeed, l some time ago preached
sermon on the blessings of lon
pevi,y, but 1 now propose TO
preach TO you about the blessings
of an abbreviated earthly exist
ence. If were an agnostic L wouio
say a man is blessed in proportion 10
thsAnumber of years he can stay on
terra nrIHa, because after that he faiis
eff the docks, and he is ever picked
out of the depths 1t Is only TO De Set
uxS in some morgue of the universe TO
see if any body will claim him 1T l
thought God made man only to last
forty or fifty or q hundred years, and
then he was to go into annihilation, l
would saw his chief business ought to
be TO keep alive and even in good
weather to be very cautious, and to
carry an umbrella and take overshoes-
and life preservers, and bronze armor
and weapons of defense, less he fall on
into nothinguess and obliteration-
But my friends, you are not agnos
tics. You believe in Immortality and
the eternal residence of the righteou:
in Heaven. and, therefore, first re
mark that an abbreviated earthly eX
Silence is to be desired, and Is bless
ing, because it makes ones ife-worh
very compact
Some men go to business at sever
o'clock in the morning and return a
seven in the evening. Others go a
eight o'clock and return at twelve
Others go at ten and return at four.
have friends who are ten hours ia.
in business; others who are i've hours
others who are one hour. They all o.
their work we'll; they do their entlr
work and then they return. Whlci
position do YOU think the most desir
able? You say, other things being
equal, the man who is the shortes
time detained in business, and who cal
return home the quickest, is the mos
blessed.
The Progress., 1897-11-06

10 he die at 90 he has to toll all the way !
toll o'clock at night The sooner
we get through our work the better.
The harvest all in barrack or barn, the
farmer does not sit down In the STUB
blefield but, shouldering his scEthe'
and taking his pitcher from under the |
tree. he makes staignt lire Tor III ola !
homestead. All we want to be ANXIOUS
about is to get our work done. and Wen
done. and the quicker the better.
Again: There is a blessing IN an ao-
breviated earthly existence In the TACT
that moral disaster might come upon
the man if he tarried long. Recently
a man who had been prominent in
churches, and who had been admired
for his generosity and kindness every
where, for forgery was sent to the
state prison for Is years Twenty
wears ago there was no more proba-
Oility of that mans committing COM
mercial dishonesty than you Will COM
NIT commercial dishonesty. The
number of men who fall into ruin
| between so and 10 years OF age Is
| is appalling. If they had died 80 years
| before, it would have been better Tor
! them and better for their families
| The shorter the voyage, the less
| chance for a cyclone.
! There is wrong theory abroad,
| that if ones youth be right his OLD
| age will be right You might as well
saw there is nothing wanting for
| ships safety except TO get 1t fully
| launched on the Atlantic ocean. l
| have some times asked those who were
school-mates or coilege-mates OF some
| great defaulter: What kind Of a boy
was heq What kind of q young man
was hep" And they have said: why,
he was a splendid fellow; had no idea
he could ever go into such an outrage.
The fact is. the great temptation OF
| life sometimes come far on in midlife,
or in old age.
| The great pressure of temptation
comes sometim in this direction; at
about 45 years of age mans nervous
system changes, and some one tells
him he must take stimulants to keep
himself up, and he takes stimulants to
keep himself up. until the stimulants
x cp him down. or q man has been 60
ing along for3 or 20 wears N unsuc-
| cessful business, and here Is an open
ing where by one dishonorable action
he can lift himself and lift his family
from all financial embarrassment He
attempts to leap the chasm and he falls
into it
l linen II Is In dICcr liIe tuat TIC RIco
temptation of success comes 1t mar
makes a fortune before 80 years of age
he generally loses it before 40 The
solid and permanent fortunes for the
most part do not come to their cEma1
until in mid-life, or in old age. The
most of the bank presidents have whit
hair. Many of those who have beer
largely successful have been flung o
| arrogance or worldliness or dissipation
. in old age. They may not have los
their integrity, but they have becom'
| so worldly and so selfish under the in
fluence of large success that it is evi
dent to every body that their success
has been q temporal calamity and al
| eternal damage. Concerning man.
, people, it may be said it seems as if i
|, would have been better if they ccul'
have embarked from this life at 10 o
, so years of age
| no x-nf. lDoyv the reason why tn
The Progress., 1897-11-06

lieving that the universe swings around
some great center. Anyone who has.
studied the earth and studied the
heavens knows that Gods tavorite
figure in geometry - q circle When!
God put forth His hand to create the
universe He did not strike that hand at
right angles, but He waved 1t IN
circle, aud kept On waving in circle
until systems and considerations and
calaxies and worlds took that motion.
Our plAnet swinging around the sun.
other planets swinRing around other
suns, but somewhere q great hub.
around which the great wheel OF the
universe turns. Now the center Is
Heaven That is the capital OF the
universe. That is the great metropolis
of immensely.
Does not our common sense teach us
that. in matters of study. it is better
for us to move out from the center
toward the circumference. rather than
to be on the circumference, where our
world now is? We are like those who
study the American continent while
standing on the Atlantic beach. The
way to study the continent Is TO cross
it, or TO 90 to the heart OF it. Our
standpoint in this world is defective.
We are at the wrong end OF the tele-
scope. The best way to study piece
Of machinery is, not to stand on
the door step and try to look IN, but
to 20 in with the engineer
and take our place right amid
the saws and the cylinders We
wear our eyes out and our
brain out, from the fact that we are
| studying under such great disadvan-
| tage. Millions of dollars for observa-
tories TO study things about the moon.
| about the sun, about the rings OF Sat-
urn, about transits and OSCILLATIONS
and cell pses, simply because our stu
dio. our observatory il poorly situated
We are down in the cellar trying to
study the palace of the universe, while
our departed Christian friends have
gone upstairs amid the skylights TO
study. Now, when one can sooner get
to the center of things, is he not to be
congratulated? Who wants to be al
| ways in the freshman class? We
study God in this world by the Bibli-
cal photograph Of Him; but We all
know we can, in five minutes OF inter-
view with friend, get more accurate
idea of him than we can by studying
him SO years through pictures or
words The little child that died last
night knows more of God than all An
dover and all Princeton, and all New
brunswick, and all Edin burgh. and all
the theological institutes in Christen-
dom. Is it not better to go up to the
very headquarters of knowledge?
Does not our common sense teach US
that it Is better TO be at the center
than to be clear out on the rim OF the
wheel. holding nervously fast TO the
tire, lest we be suddenly hurled into
light and eternal felicity? Through
. ALL kinds Of optical instruments trying
to peer in through the cracks and the
keyholes Of Heaven-afraid that both
doors Of the celestial mansion will be
swung wide open before our entranced
vision - rushing about among the
, apothecary shops of this world, won
dering if this is good for rheumatism,
. and that il good for neuralgia, and
something else is good for bad cough,
J lest we be suddenly ushered into z
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-06-11
THE VERDICT STANDS.
0hicago's Vote For Mayor 10 Not . II
verseA Of McKinley's Victory.

0hicsgo's Vote For Mayor L. Not . Re-
verseA Of McKinleys Victory. -
Certain New York papers, notably
The World, continue to deceive their
readers by the allegation that the choice
Of Carter H. Harrison for mayor was .
reversal of the verdict which Chicago
gave last November in favor Of McKil--
ley, sound money and protection. This
is the veriest nonsense and could only
impose upon those who blindly follow
q blind guide in the Interpretation Of
political happenings
I If The World and its provincial ech-
oes are DESTROYS Of knowing the truth.
they will take notice of these facts:
{ First. -Mr. Harrison himself is on
record before and after the election a.
denying that national issues were in
volved in the contest. He was supported
by thousands Of men who voted for
Mckinley, Republicans as we'll as DEM
ocrats, and who on the same issues are
ready to vote for him again.
Second. The gold Democrats divided
their votes among the four candidates
for mayor. Their organization and their
organ, The Chronicle, were avowedly
for Hesing, few voted for Harlan and
Sears, but many were openly for Harri-
son.
Third.-The Republican national ad-
ministration distinctly declined all over
lures from the machine hackers Of Sears
to give the stamp Of its approval to the
Republican candidacy. Sears, Hesing
and Harlan were equally loyal support
ers Of Mckinley last fall, and the ad
ministration made no choice between
them.
Fourth. actual vote polled for
Harrison was little if any in excess Of
that cast for Bryan, and great factor
in the making Of the Harrison majority
was the failure Of thousands of Nc
Kinley voters to vote at all, their absti
nence being due either to languid in
terest in the late campaign, as compared
with that for the presidency, or to posi-
tive disgust over the suicidal division
in the Republican ranks
Fifth.-The Dingley bill, which The
World affects to believe had something
to do with the result, was never even
mentioned in the local contest, except
once, when Lorimer and The Inter
Ocean tried to bring it to the front and
were SO severely sat upon that they new
or opened their heads on the subject
again.
These are the facts. The World may
take or leave them. The truth remains
National politics played no part what
ever in Carter Harrison 8 election. Chi
cago's Mckinley verdict stands.-Chi.
oago Times Herald.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-06-11
THE NEW TARIFF.

Opposition to Its Enactment subsiding In
New England.
Sober second thought has brought
about a wonderful abatement Of the
Democratic denunciation Of the Dingley
bill in this section Of the country.
When the bill was first presented, II
was ferociously attacked even by many
Of the men who earned the title Of
"honor Democrats" in the late election.
They accused it of immensely increas-
ing the cost Of living and Of smothering
the foreign trade. They insisted that it
was extravaganza in it's general range Of
duties; that, in short, it was "proteo-
ionism run mad" No epithet was too
harsh to hurl against it.
But our superheated friends now seem
to be cooling off. They no longer crack
the welkin with shrill circumstances
against this "robber" legislation. Here
and tn ere Democratic newspapers have
gone 30 far as to speak respectfully Of
the Dingley tariff, and it is only the
most rabid and INSCRIPTIONS sheets
which cling to the earlier policy Of vio-
lent misrepr sentation.-Boston Jour-
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-06-11
Death Through . Tarantulo.

Death Through Tarantul0. ".
One Of the quickest and most ooi.-
plete and justifiable killings that ever
/ saw came about through tarantula.
It was at mine camp, and the camp
bully had q tarantula impaled on a
stick. A man newly arrived frch the
east stood gazing. fascinated with hor-
ror, at the squirming reptile, working
it's black fangs in the effort to reach
something that it could fasten them
into. Suddenly, without warning, the
bully thrust the tarantula straight into
the tenderfoot's face. His whiskers
saved him from the fangs, but he let
ont q yell as if he had actually been
bitten and jumped back, I fully believe,
ten feet. Then, as the fellow came pok.
ing the tarantula toward him again, the
tenderfoot drew his revolver and turned
loose on bis tormentor. His first shot
would have been enough, az it went
straight through the fellows body, but
the tenderfoot had his excitement ito
work of, and he never stopped shooting
until his revolver had been emptied and
the man with the tarantula was sieve.
"Served him right, was the verdict Of
the ooroner's jury, and the case never
went to court for trial. New York Sun.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-06-11

The following article relating Il q
the death Of 4. j. Allen uppearutl In
the Webster City (la.) Tribune:
Sudden Death Of A. J. Allen.
a. }. Allen, one Ut the best known
old settlers in this city and a man
highly respected by all. died very
suddenly at about O'Clock this
morning, May 9th, at his home
in the southern part Of the city
The cause Of his death was apo
plexy, re having suffered three
strokes within the past wear. He
and Mrs. Allen returned early in
April from "A winters visit with
their daughter in Minnesota. a3
On May 10Th he suffered tho sec
Und stroke which left him quite
feeble. His condition was some
what alarming last night, but this
morning he seemed unusually bright.
He arose at his usual time. dressed
himself, ute his breakfast and was
rea ding his paper when the sum-
mons came. He called to his wife
who responded promptly, but when
she reached his side he was dead.
A. j. Allen was born in Cayuga
county, N. Y, June 9th, 1921. He
came to Green county, ILL.,, in 1884,,
where he was married in 1874 to
Miss Mary Hunt. who survives him.
They came to Webster City in 1877
where Mr.. Allen was engaged in the
harness business up to I, few years
ago, when he retired, having worked
continuously at the trade for over
65 years. He was the last Of. u
family of II children; Besides the
wife, two children survive him, the
son Edwin. living in Michigan. and
Mrs G. D. Auyer, Of, Little Falls,
MINI.
The funeral survice will he held at
the family home Sunday afternoon
Il: 4 O'clock, and will he conducted
by Revs. Amos. Crum and G. P.
BQardman.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-06-11

Duluth Tribune: The head.
quarters of the silver Republican
organization will be established in
Duluth June 10, according to
latest reports. The national com.
m,ttee will be permanently or
ganized in Chicago June 8. Ex'
Congressman G. A. Towne is
expected to return to Duluth
about June 10, when he will i'm.
mediately take steps to establish
the headquarters.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-06-11

Minneapolis Tribune: "Czar''
Reed should not feel hurt at the
jibes of the Simpsons, Morgans
and J. Richardson Lewises Of the
opposition. These things are. but
some of the penalties of greatness.
Kaiser Wilhelm was hooted.at by
a mob in the streets of Berlin
last week, the Irish leaders in'par'
llment refuse to recognize the
queens jubilee, and the Princeton
students assaulted Grover Cleveland
with their callege yell few days
since.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-06-11

because the weather happens
to be warm. If you have a
weak throat, a slight hacking
cough, or some trouble with
the bronchial tubes, summer is
the best time to get rid Of it.
If you are losing flesh there is
all the more need of attention.
Weakness about the chest and
thinness should never go to-
gether. One greatly increases
the danger of the other. Heal
the throat, cure the cough, and
strengthen the whole system
now. Keep taking SCOTS
Emulsion all summer. &
For sale by al druggists At &C and S,.ea
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-06-11

The Minneapolis grand jury is
investigating the suspended banks
in that city, and desired to obtain
the reports the state bank exam
liner made to the governor. Gov.
Clongh was requested to give them
to the grand jury, and he refuses
to do so. He takes the request as
an Interference with his rights
as governor. It is claimed that
these reports that were filed with
the governor long before the
banks suspended will show that
the public examiner reported the
banks to be in unsafe condition,
aud that when the banks were al.
lowed to continue it simply re-
rulted in allowing the banks to
defraud large number of people.
It is almost certain that those
official reports would reveal some
interesting facts, and there is gen.
eral belief that they should be made
public. It isn't a question of
what Gov. Clough's rights are,
but if justice would be aided by
his giving those reports to the
grand jury, the governor of the
state should not use his rights"
to shield any guilty parties.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-06-11

The Hudson Star and III mes man
wears glasses. but he says he saw u
portion of the following: The
bicycle is gradually working it's way
into the affections of the farmers as
a vehicle of usefulness. A Troy
man came to town the other day
with a fine basket of eggs, and a
Pleasant Valley girl brought In a
lusty pair Of calves on her salty.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-06-11

Schlatter, the :'divine healer. y
who attracted so much attention
in the West couple of years ago,
has died in Mexico. He was fast
ing, and went so long without
food that he starved to death.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-06-11

During May the national debt
was reduced about $500, 900. The
receipts were several million dol.
lars more than IN May, 1896, ow'
ing solely to the increased i'm
portations Of goods upon which
the tariff bill proposes to increase
the duty.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-06-11
The burning to death of nearly Is

The burning to death Of nearly 100
persons at the Paris fire is another mel
ancholy lesson on the awful conse-
quenoes of losing ones head. There
were eight entrances besides windows
in the building. But instead of looking
around and finding these all the people
rushed like sheep to the one main en-
trance ~
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-06-11
Only tho Young Dance.

The maidens who are elbowed out of
all pleasure at dances by young matrons
will approve Of the custom which OBJ
tains at the court of Berlin, where the
emperor and empress set the fashion Of
only looking on. Elderly ladies do not
dance at all and young married ladies
very rarely. The floor is only meant for
young people of both sexes.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-06-11
Political StrAteeY.

When the Wilson tariff bill was pass
ed, scarcely a Democrat could be found
who was satisfied with it. Its results
were worse than was expected. yet Dem
ocrats advise Republicans to stick to
the deficit breeder. This must be polit-
ical strategy.