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Daily Kennebec journal., 1899-10-27

'r.SNHbSi lidiiS itdse Augusta az fol
THROUGH TRAINS.
GOING WEST-s.35 A. NJ for Lewiston
Harrington, Phillips, Rockland, pnrr,
land, Boston, Bridgton, Montreal ami
quebec, 1900 A. M, for Brunswick, Lew.
iston, Portland and Boston, Farmington
Phillips, Carrabasset, Rangeley, RocE,
land, Montreal ana the West; 3'I0 p M
local TO Portland; 3.4S r. NJ. (express) "a.
BRUNSWICK. Bath. Rockland, Lewistoo
Portland and Boston; 1885 +. VI. (nlgh.
PullmanJ every night for Lewiston. Rafh
PoTtand and Boston; 1.55 A. ~ Portland
ana Boston. '4
GOING EAsT-1.35 A. NJ. (nigbt Nv
PRESS for Skowhegan, Bangor, Bar Har.
boT' ~. stephen, 81 John, Halifax ana
vile, Belfast. Skowhegan, Bangor and
Bucksport, Vanceboro, st. Stephen. H0ul.
ton. Woodstock, St. John and HalifaY.
lZ3 j. NJ. local to Watervile ana Pan.
sor and Lewiston, via Oakland ana win.
throp; 2%9 /. NJ express for Watervile,
Hanggr, Bar Harbor. Wash. "a. r. r.
Old Town, Patten, Houlton. Fort Fair,
neld- PreSque Isle and Caribou, via r. r.
a. X. r.; 3i5 r. W. for Waterville. OAR
land. North Anson. Bingham, Sk0whegan
Be!fast, FoXcrOft. GreenYille, Bangor
O!d Town and Mattawamkeag; 728 ri NJ
for Watervile 49,
SUNDAYS-Goi West, l.55 A. N fo-
Portland Boston; l0.25 A. W. IG55 p. M
for Brunswick Bath. Portland and R0s.
ton. Going East. l-25 A. NJ. Bangor Els
worth ana wash. 20. r. r., gl5 A. n
and 2>0 n NJ. for WaterviIle and Bangor .
The Night Pullman Train Leaving ~
30 A. M. going east does not conner f1r
SkoWhegan on Monday mornings or so-
Belfast, Fnxcroft Or beyond Bangor, er-
Washington County Railr)ad. Sunday
mornings.
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ACCOMMODATIONS TRAINS

Through tickets y California and all
points South ana West may be had OF r.
~. walker, ticket agent, Augusta, the
only office i'm Augusta selling via all
routes ana checking baggage free Of ex-
peusr.
GEO. F. EVANS. v. P. & Gen. Man.
r. i. BOOTHBY, 6. +. {. T. A.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1899-10-27

Interest due and accrued.
Net deferred and unreported
premiums on policies in
1Orcc
Daily Kennebec journal., 1899-10-27

Five weeks to Thanksgiving day.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1899-10-27

That 15-year-old Patten boy who
killed 4 100 pound moose with shot
gun performed remarkable feat. lit
il safe to say that his heart-beats can
still be heard in the adjoining towns
and that he is still unable to make his
hair stay down. Facing half "A ton oi
charging bull moose With q shotgun, is
pretty serious business for boy.
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Railroads and Steanlboats.f !
MAINE CENTRAL R. R.
In Effect Oct. I, 1sOD.

lows: =
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POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE.

w. S. Gilbert, the librettist, counts his
working hours from midnight to noon.
E. Ruggles Brice, director OF convict
prisons for England, is to visit this coun-
try to study American penal Institutions.
WI Ting-fang. Chinese minister at
Washinbton. is recovering from his first
experience of Caucasian grip, and will
soon be able to resume his regular duties.
Horatio Garland Tuttle Of Macon, Mo-,
is an uncle of Vice President Hobart, and
though II years old. attends regularly to
his business. His grandfather was lieu
tenant under General Gates during the rev.
olution and one of the Boston tea party
Admiral Deweys Washington shoemaker
recently sent his distinguished customer
an expensive pair OF boots with the re-
quest that the admiral give. in return. the
shoes he wore during the battle OF Manila.
but Dewey could not remember what shoes
he had worn.
According to the "EtoIlc Beige" the
health Of Princess Louise OF Coburg.
daughter of the king OF Belgium, who has
been for many months shut up in luna
tic asylum in Austria, is beginning to de-
cline. Her memory is, it Is said. com
pletely gone, and she never asks for any
news of her parents or other relatives.
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SOME posrscRrrrs.

Afghanistan has q regular army of about
900 men.
Spain has 1927 iron mines, 4e1 coal and
thirty lead and silver mines.
Connecticut's homicides in 1898 were
twenty-seven, as compared with twenty
four in 1897 and twenty five in 1896.
Since natural gas was first discovered
in Indiana 1918 oil well and 3S4S gas holes
have been sunk.
South Dakota has surplus OF money
in the State treasury. It recently tool, up
$4,000 of bonds not due until 1910.
The State library in Pennsylvania,
with 141 1916 volumes, is the second In size
of such libraries In the United States.
Many of the chiefs Of State depart
ments in Michigan's capital save hotel
bills by the use of folding beds In their
Offices.
1t has been judieially decided in South
Carolina that. under q provision OF the
State constitution, Juror must be q
qualified voter.
A book published IN Japan 1000 years
ago notes that at that time good silk was
already produced In Twenty-Five provinces
Of that country.
police herdcuff the arms OF the prisoners
around telegraph poles. The lawbreakers
can stand, sit or lie down. but can not
escape hugshg the pole.
The Methodist Episcopal church. South,
has church of fifty members in Cuba
with native pastor. During the war
the pastor sold his furniture and books
to save his family from starvation.
AT the outbreak Of the revolution there
were twenty-four papers published in
the American colonies. Pennsylvania had
eight. Massachusetts seven. Connecticut
and New York three each. Rhode Island
two and New Hampshire one.
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HOUSTON, SUNDAY, JAN. 10, $500.
TW EN- TY-SlX PAGES.
INCREASE OF CITY POPULATION.

Professor E. ]. James, In the January
Academy of Political and Social Science,
presents quite an interesting article ON the
growth OF the large cities, being. more
strictly speaking, a comparison o, relative
growth OF the urban with the uon-urban
population.
1t has long been an observant fact that
tho increase in population in the cities
has been much in excess OF that of the
rural districts. and that this concentration
in the large trade centers is not peculiar
to any particular country
In 1890, the year of the hrst census Of
the United States, the percentage II the
total population In cities Of 5000 inhabit
ants or more was 335, in 1890 the per-
centage was 1920: end, at the usual rate
OF increase, tie percentage Is probably now
about 80 or "a Professor James thinks
that 5000 inhabitants is too higa a limit
for urban populations and favors 1000, the
percentage IN towns of that size or larger
being In 1896 SO. This probably Is much
too low as places with even 5000 or 5000
Inhabitants have few OF the characteristics
of city. Considering al! places with not
less thar 1000 urban however, the urban
population Increased between 1880 and 1890
47.07 per cent. and the rural population
only 1906 per cent. The most rapid growth
in this country has been In the cities In
the sparseiy settled districts of the West
as Omaha, Denver and Kansas City.
In England the same tendencies are evi.
dent. Between 1851 and 1891 the urbar
population, on the basis OK towns of 1907
or more increased 15.3 per cont and the
rural "a per cent. In 1890 els per cent o.
the total population of England lived II
towns OF 10 900 or more inhabitants and 2.
per cent in cities of $4,000 or more
Though France, MS whole. has been de-
creasing In numbers of late, Paris has
managed to increase by 100000 in the last
i've years. Rural France has decreased In
the same time 100000 The showing Of
Germany. Austria and RUSSIA has been
more like that OF England.
One result Of the greater increase in the
cities compared with the rural districts
suggests the Baltimore News, was brought
out in the recent Investigations Of the
labor question by Professor Wyckoff Of
Princeton. The rapid increase in the cite:
has. OF course, made labor competition
keener and work more difficult to obtain
while the number OF men out OF work hal
Increased Professor Wyckoff found tina
the farmers are almost always in neet
OF bands whom they can not get
would be we'll II means could be devised
for sending large part Of our Immigrants
into the farm districts, or at least keeping
them from crowding the tenement dis
tricfs. OF the great cities in which larg
majority OF them eett.e
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the figures also show that the actual con-
sumption by the mills Of Europe and
America has been greater than ever be-
fore. The demand has not fallen on to
any noticeable extent since the first Of
the year, although tho receipts at ports
and interior towns have been greatly BE-
low expectations.
There is every reason to believe that
:he world needs all the cotton raised IN
America last year. and although several
million bales werc bought this season At
prices nc to Sac per pound below present
quotations. II is generally predicted that
the three million or more bales yet 10
come forward will net better results for
the owners OF the staple. The pity OF It
is, however. that the man who raised the
cotton has secured very little OF the re-
cent advance and will not be benefited
by any gain in prices that may be re-
corded this spring. The cotton has long
ago passed from the farmers hands.
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As TO THE POST.

Caddo Mills Banner: The Houston Post is
the best. tho most reliable and by far the
newsiest paper in Texas,
Luling Signal; In the language of tho
Broadway prince. c. A. Edwards of The
Houston Post is a red hot number. His let
tiers are as refreshing as May morning and
as POINTED as n Spanish dagger"
Willis Index: C. A. Edwards the talented
Washington correspondent OF Tho Houston
Post. hits the trusts a telling blow in that
paper in the issue of the 10TH
liearns Democrat: The Houston Post is de-
ycloping into vox populi daily right along,
and is in limo with democratic principles OF
government of the people. for the people and
by the people.
Conroe Courier: The papers on the culture
and care OF tobacco, now running In The
Houston Post. should be read by every one
interested IN the growing OF this now In
dustry. Tho Post is always doing something
for It's country's good.
Halletsville Herald: The Post 10 doing a
vast deal OF fne missionary work for TsxaA
As tho organ OF tho State democracy The
Post u power.
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THD OUTLOOK FOR COTTON.

Mr.. Alfred B. Shepperson OF New York
. we'll known cotton statlstician. gives 1t
as his opinion that cotton is today the
cheapest of our staple products. and he be-
lieyes that II will have an upward tendency
this spring. especially II there Is any
marked decrease In the coming seasons
acreage.
The visible supply OF cotton IL now the
largest on record. being about 900 bales
more than at corresponding time last year.
but only about 100000 more than In 1894.
Mr. shcpperson points out in this connec-
tion that the consumption of the mills
ID Hurope ana America IL also larger tLan
evsr before. being fully 100000 bales (oi
50 pounds metz per week. and In addi-
tiqn to this We will probably ship an aver
40 Or 5000 bales per week to Japan, etc.
Europe and America alone are consuming
hiliy I.500.o0o bales more cotton than in
~ season Of lSst-sb. and the increased
consumption requires larger visible and
inyisible stocks to b carried.
Nj. Bhepperson does not believe that
ne CROP. Will bs over u,2oo,00o bales, and
- thinks the spinning quality viii be low
erjthan any crop Of recent years. The New
York etatistician has probably undercsti-
n6tsd ~ sis6 o. the crop, but his guess
VII hat6iy fail - far below the mark M
N ~. Maillso prediction OF l2.0oo.ooO
N ~ Gkceo1 ~ correct figures. popu.
= snn1 eopeerYativs estimate IL for q
~ y. ~ ~. tx. 900 bales, Of which amount
.tn ~ ~ knva tx Already 0Orna Anto
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The object Lesson of Barker.
Angleton Times.

Barker. station on the Missouri, Kan
sas and Texas, above Houston, Is to have
big cotton mill. with capacity Of 1000
spindies. requiring a total investment of
$4,000 The company has purchased 49,
900 acres of lund at Barker, which will be
cut up into small tracts and sold to OPP
orators and others who wish to make their
homes there. The Missouri, Kansas and
Texas Will at once commence the erection
OF $4,000 brick depot In order TO accom-
MEDIATE the business OF the new town. This
Is an object lesson for Angleton and other
ambitious coast towns. With almost count
less thousands OF acres of rich but nom
productive land surrounding the town,
there is no good reason why land dona-
ton can not be raised sufficient to secure
a cotton mill. which would give employ
mcnt 10 several hundred people and prove
nucleus for other manufacturing enter
prises. All of the Southern States. except
Texas. are securing cotton mills by the
score, and Tcxas could have them also II
she would get up and hustle for them
Texas will never become prosperous until
she manufactures the. raw material which
she produces In such great abundance.
Why not have q cotton factory At ANGLE
tons She can have II II she wants
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rh,rss-.ev.n Year. Asa \

NdIilSNllle age. -
Speaking of receptions ~,
the editor OF the Age-usuAi''
Dan'l--gave one once. 1t wss
SO elegant or stylish as the w.
receptions that our big da'l'~
their society columns, but y
merously attended. IT WA
post and the visitors numpers s-s1
600, and among them Were si< ~
man. McClernand and Garncsk
Sullivan, now owner OF .nu -
Houston and H. d. Jonnson' ~
been postmaster OF Houston, ~
Churchill and Colonel Jams v!nlIG
Colonel Roger @. Mills, now
senator. helped receive. Ins ~
gan Friday. January ., isen
on the evening of Sunday ~
thirty three years ago. ~ ~
visitors Invited us to return
as guests OF the United s.A.h
us free transportation anu NJ
escort-and we accepted
But. upon second thougnL
us that midwinter WAS nvvs1
sea son OF the year for li'p ~
decided to withdraw our accsttsd n
of which. however. we o
our hosts. .,nG1
Uncle Dan'l was once
guest OF the United states 80
the Brenham jail In 1861. :
months after the war cios ' = Il
assigned quarters by twsvcui19
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his good name" through the courts. Under
the present statute the press is permitted
to lie all 1t cares to SO long as the lies
are used to cover UP villainy and polish
off whited sepulchers. When meanness Is
to be exposed for the benefit Of the public
the law claps a muzzle over the press.
This can be set down as another one OF
those wise and benevolent measures for
which we are indebted to the grand old
democratic party. The Plaindealer has
told many unpleasant truths in it's history.
1t could tell many others of more import
ance, but the law hangs over us like the
sword of Damocles and says. Oh it, do
you want to go to the penitentiary?" And
we must confess TO not having an ambi-
ton in that direction.
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bushes. League ofacers.

The Houston Business League has elected
w. A. Childress as its president and Tom
Richardson secretary for the ensuing year,
both capital selections. It is due to the
untiring energy of these gentlemen that
the Fruit. Flower and Vegetable Festival
has been SO successful the past two years.
Other matters that affect the business In
terests of Houston have been championed
by these gentlemen and they are con-
tinuaily hustling for more. The project OF
holding an annual midwinter fair at Hous-
ton Is meeting with much favor and will
materially aid the interests of this section
OF the State. Both Mr.. Childress and Mr..
h'chardson will undoubtedly take hold of
me scheme with vigor and push 1t to mag
nincent success.
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Wallisvillo Age.
The editor OF the Age is going to tho
worlds fair in Paris next year, and pre-
paratory to the visit is learning to speak
French and German. Mr.. Herman Iichtsn-
stein. an Age printer. boards at the Age
mansion. He speaks both languages and
the plan Is this: At breakfast and supper
the editor gets nothing TO eat without he
asks for It In French, Mr.. LIchtenstcin
teaching him how to ask. At dinner Ger-
man is substituted for French. After those
two languages are mastered Spanish and
Italian will be taken up. The plan Is orig
inal and Is the best ever devised for learn
ing foreign languages. We propose to have
Il copyrighted and 70 permit nobody to use
It without paying the Ago royalty.
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Democratic Protection.

N"eokuucnes Plaindealer.
me fia'ndealer has received an article
rom one OF Its subscribers exposing and
,o"s"ns travelling medicine fake. which
we are requested to print. Without doubt
.ne party needs exposing, but Just now
arg not sure but that Ne
h,kn' become involved in ON. !,
n rross unpleasant and wholly M
t,aouesple things which are nIrhtmaras
IN, IN ns newspaper fraternity. known az :
as~ suit. Any scoundrel is psrmittea I'm
nsr,, ne present statute to rob swind,s
inSir,so, burn town, and woe INTO ~.
tass rr,s WHO has the temerity 10 rn asS
Hihs SriI y asssrSuelss,on q biz rssssissy
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A Newspaper Team.

But won't Charlie Edwards and George
Bailey make Texas newspaper team in
washington? What they won't hear can't
DO heard. what they won't see can't be
seen, what they won't write can't be writ
ten and what they won't do can't be done.
We are not Offering Newspaper men prizes
for supplying the missing letters.
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first paper of any note to array itself IN
defense of the party and take up arms
against the assailant. The Post has given
the New York Journal several well de-
served dressings of late for Its slanderous
attacks on Bryan and Bailey. In panueI-
ing To the whims OF yellow journalism the
Journal has lowered itself in the estima-
ton of the better class Of people.
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Here's a cha noe.

karnes County News.
And Houston is moving for a fair. too.
The more the merrier, and between San
Aptcnto and Houston this section ought to
y kSls % ~ itssit SSstsy tAsssvSiiy 8
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sMs DAILY posr. 4 Tssa e SUNDAY g y. y. POST.
ssai.wHHkLY POST. sss Gels. pr Week.
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Telephone Numbers: s ss.!:.:: u. IL:

w. clty.Ths Post 10 :el.vered to any part Of the
sity BY carriers. per Month. $500; three months
$500; six months. 5000; one year. $1,000.
M. Theodore Bering has charge Of the city,
circulation ana collecting. Messrs. Theodore
est.ng. Charles Lott and Tom South are the au-
eoriked collectors OF al city bills both sdverfs-
iue and subscription) and no money should b
paid to any one other than those named, unless
special written authority signed by the business
manager 10 shown. Al accounts Of any sfs
should be paid by creek In favor Of he Hous-
son Printing Company.
ssbscribess falling to reeel,e The Post regularly
VII please notify the office promptly. Every
Paper Is expected 70 - delivered not later than
e:,o o'clock q a.
Uodsr no circum stances win orders given BY
employees on the office be recognized and
~ paid, or accepted In payment OF accounts.
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NM HOUSTON DAILY POST.
~ fHn
uoustOn Printing Company.

|! = s 2SyNSTos vic.. sss:'D:s1
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The Go.-rnor'. pr,vat. secretary.
Port I.avacaen.

Judge N. a. Cravens, who vail otnciats
In the capacity Of private secretary to
Governor Savers, is q man Of large pro-
portions, He weighs over 800 pounds and
IL an eloquent and able man. A better Sc
lsctien could net hays been made. Judge
csavoas = e1itsf q ~ wulis Salsz.
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susses,ps3sn b. Mall Daily and Sunday Psst cns
yeaf, $500; slx months. $500. three nonths.
Sa.oo: nne month. $500.
fnn SUNDAY Post, one year, St.So.
tU1 SeMi- WEEKLY Posr Mondays and Thursdaysl
enc year. Si.oo; six months, 80 cents; three
nonths. ~ cents.
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esssseu O1Hces--EAssefn business once a Tribune
buidIne. New York (The S. c. Be.kw'th Spss-
eiai Agency; Westesf 4e9 1.-THE Rookery) Sh''
eaeo. THE S. c. Beckwth Special Agency.
yraveltnr Asents--C- S., e. Holland. Travsl!ne
Auditor: E. r. Holland. 3. Thfoop Travelling
Aeentn
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IN. First 10 Defeaa Democracy.
whitswright Sun.
ws:ss y A;:sss:ss I: :;s /. :sis =;
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Tho Greater New York assessors have now
brought the valuation Of the real estate of
that metropolis up to the stupendous total OF
$3.50, 04s.S17. These figures ovsrtop the total
assessed valuation OF any State in the Union
outside Of New York
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"A town that can build railway like the
Houston and Texas Central can build n cot
ton factory" said Major Sayers at the Cotton
Exchange banquet, And they can--if they
want to-
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The republican prophecy that Expansionist
Croker Will succeed in Sitting the democratic
party wide in two by his views and conten-
tions Is the same as putting ones faith in the
ability to split sawlog with toothpck
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Tho Chicago idea is said to DO running
strongly to Imperialism these days, One
symptom Of It may be seen. possibly, In this
item from q Chicago newspaper: 'Thers is
nm Increased tendency here toward coats OF
arms on family carriages. During the pas,
year many OF these vehicles have been made
to order and so adorned Two Of these carr
rlages. made for different families, cost 5000
each" With imperialism. of course. there
should come nobility; and nobility will
need coats OF arms and family carriages bear
Ing crssts, There Is. however, suggests the
Savannah News. one rcdeeming feature about
Chicago's coats Of arms fol-de-rol. namely,
thai the tinsel and glitter OF the shields and
bars and things may catch the eye OF some of
the rich American girls and keep them from
going to Europe to buy husbands with coats
of arms.
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The wire trust has increased tho price OF
wire and nails 50 a ton. And yet there are
great and learned political economists who say
trusts tend to cheaper the cost Of living.
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There is provocation enough lying around
Austin to afford Editor Workman OF the
Statesman an ideal opportunity to do some
really vigorous swatting. And we are here TO
express the opinion that he will do It.
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In Havana tho ordinary death rate per 1000
persons Is about a. to / compared with the
ordinary death rate in American cities. But
BY Initiating the Spanish policy OF poisoning
the soil and the water and negccting the most
obvious sanitary precautions. It is easy to
make the most favorably located city center
Of residential disease. Too many cities in this
country are keeping an open door" to what
ever pestilential scourss may DO abroad in the
world
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Now Jersey is reported to be about to adopt
an effective antitrust law. and 1t is high
time that It did so, for 1t is responsible for the
existence Of many of them.
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In few days now Governor sayers will take
official effect At Austin. and still some people
will not be happy