The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-07-20
EXCHANGE INTERVIEWS.

5 windward and predicts that:
, The populists who are true reformers al
heart VIII unite with the democrats and
electing W. j. Bryan president. or course
the middle Of tho road" Dops will train Il
themselves. and their leaders will again sci
them out to the republicans for q good round
sum.
No. there will be selling out this time
The average pop has seen the error OF his
ways and will gladly return where he will
! be most welcomed-to the bosom of the
democratic fold
Tho Brady Sentinel sterling democratic
paper OF the old school. has Just entered upon
l It's twentieth year. and The Post congratu-
lates 1t upon It's useful career and wishes 1t
continued and increased prosperity.
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The Montague Democrat smiles all over
for the following good news
Tho farmers OF Montague county have their
crops worked out for the last time. Crops
were never more promising and big yield
In cotton and corn Ia assured.
The Fort Worth Morning Register unfods
tale of woe which may be read with profit
by other aspiring burgs. Hear 1t:
Citizens of Fort Worth should remember
that when II comes to giving away the nrivi-
leges OF its streets. absolutely to corporations
=. for IA term of years that only two aldermen
can be found to vote against the proposition.
Are all the others owned BY the corporations?
Are the streets of the city of 50 little value
that they can be given away. or the use OF
them guaranteed for twenty five years without
compensation?
The Texas stockman and Farmer reminds
It's readers that:
Fairs will be held at Seguin, Center Point.
Victoria and Fredericksburg during the
months of September and October. Theso
fairs have always been we'll supported In the
past and the attendance at each ought TO
be largely increased this year owing TO fine
crop prospects and the prosperity of all those
engaged In the various branches of the live
stock industry.
Our county fairs are doing much to foster
and encourage stock and agricultural indus.
tries. and the people OF every community
should help them along.
Tho Victoria Guide is doing some good
sensible work among and for the colored
people. This is Its latest hint to those who
would engage In matrmony:
A very becoming law would be one to not
ALLOW any young man TO become a Benedict
until he has first provided home and holds
4 q decd for tho same. II this the law
there would be better living among the
s nearoes Aye young man who Is not frugal
enough TO nrst buy a nice home has no earth
ly business with n wife.
I II you plant that idea in the minds of
young men starting out In life 1t will most
assuredly encourage habits of sobrlety and
economy. fellow that will not work and
lay up something Is seldom any good to
himaef or the community.
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Who snys the wheel of progress is not on
the move? Read the following from the
Colorado citizen:
Mr.. knight of Hazclhurst. Miss. proposes
10 ship to Mr. Seth Warner. a farmer near
Paris Texas. nifty monkeys 90 be used in
Eatbering the cotton this fall. KpiRh, claims
tbgt tie monkeys pick cotton cleaner than
tue negro and at about one-hat the cost.
day under trainer. 1t Is sail the monreys
were successfully oxperimeuted with on sew
eral plantations In Mississippi last fall. Our
local NEGROES say II monkeys are brought
here there Will be war,
II would certainly be novelty to see n
crowd OF trained monkeys gathering cotton in
Texas.
The FL PRso Times disnoses OF very IN
terestlng incident this way:
Ex-Governor Hogg is real glad he created
July A. It's cold day In the bailiwick of
Texas warmest political number when Judge
llogg can not create a sensation. He Is full
OF sensation and good democratic doctrine.
Correct. james stephen is equal to any
emergency.
There's n land that Is falrer than this"
aud the Greenvile Banner thus Views 1t from
afar:
The Banner does not publish this paragraph
for the purpose of encouraging wholesale emil
grafton OF our young men to Paraguay, but 1t
is said that when gentleman is introduced
to n lady OF that country he is expected to
salute her with kiss.
This would BIO charming Improvement on
our every day methods OF greeting. but we
almost tremble for tho shock such n custom
would cause Uncle Dan McGary. Jeff Mole
more and other aesthetic apostles of the pre-
valing and less ardent mode OF salutation.
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The III Paso Herald speaks OF the medical
profession and its triumphs as follows:
| 1t Is astonishing what great advances sur
gical science has made within the lives OF
young men now living, one OF the most re-
markahle of these was recently performed at
badly hurt by falling slate. the back part OF |
his skull being badly crushed and the brains |
lacerated. All hope OF saving the mans life |
had been abandoned when Or. Hartman de-
scrt. A young heifer was brought in. her
brains carefully removed and substituted for |
| the injured portion of the mans brain. Il Ia |
believed that the miner will survive the deli |
cate operation, and the case will doubtless be |
elcsely watched by surgeons
There is no doubt that surgical science has |
iistanced medicine In the race OF progress. |
III us extraordinary advance many of the
old theories have been utterly disproved For |
eyamrle, it was m almost universal belief. |
ane is so set down In the medical iouri els.
that when persons brain was injured by
accident or otherwise partial II not complete
Paralysis necessarily followed Lis idea. how
ever is exploded not only IN the case above
referred TO. but in = still more remarkable
Instance occurring near San Antonio some
years ago whore an iron rod was shot through
the brain OF man. who sun lives in the |
Alamo City, and who is apparently as visor-
ons as he was before the occurrence. The
surgeons skin and the surgeons knife are
performing wonders these days. and their
advancement is Enthusiastically marvellous.
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