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THB KUTUKB OF AUSTIN.
Id a few yearn if properly availed of
Aostin is dettined to be one of the larseBt
cities in Texse. The reasons for thisare
appareut to all and hardly need be reiter-
ated. In the first plaoe we are the capital
of a great state whose resuuroes are illim-
itable whose growth in material wealth is
progressing at a ratio that will make
Texas in the near future tthe riohott btate
in the galaxy of states. The wealth of
Texas will be reflected upon its capital
and millions added to the millioDa
already expended here by the state gov
ernment all of which influences the pros-
perity of the city. The revenues derived
by the trade of Austin from state expend
itures in our midst go very far toward
sustaining it. Hot we have other and far
better prospects than this. The country
tributary to our trado and whiah we can
make always bo is annually developing
in wealth that arises from advanoing ag-
riculture stock raising and kindred inter
ests and prosperous surroundings are es-
sential to the growth of all towns. An-
other thing: The supoiiority of Austin
as a residence city over every other oity
in the south its advantages an educa-
tional oenter its unsurpassed healthful
cess and beautiful scenery will oontinue
to attract people of wealth and comfort
able circumstances from different parts
of the state here to make their homes and
educate their ohlldren. And then which
is now most important if a system of
manufactories is started aa they must and
will be Austin in this new field will
gather both riches and population-
These are no visionary theories but
are based on incontestable prein
ises. Those who live to see it
five years from to-day will see real estate
run up to boom prioes and Austin a oity
of fifty thousand people all prosperous
and happy; the whirl of machinery will
everywhere be beard; trade will be firm
and there will be unmistakablo evidences
of thrift running through all classes of
our people. The Btate "government the
University and our local advantages have
to this time done their fnll share in the
work hitherto aooomplished it is the duty
and privilege of our oitizens now to start
the new era of manufactories which in
turn will soon bring in their wake in
creased railroad facilities.
BLAINE AND MALUM E.
There was so little of sterotype about
the interview of the Fort Worth delega
tion with Blaine the other day that the
very informality of the talk between
these representative citizens from dif
ferent and distant seotions of the great
repablio is positively refreshing. The dia-
logue betweed Blaine and Mr. Mnlone
editor of the Gazette the one personating
the journalism of the south the other a
great government and the party in power
was oce of the most nntnral things in
the world. itiere was no
"put on" no strained formality but these
two representative men talked as cne
neighbor talks to another in every day
langiage but in dialects that forcibly ex-
pressed the wishes of each. Mr. Melons
whilst inviting the "Plumed Knight" to
Texas very adroitly for an editor rung
in something about the administration
showing to the country its ability to rise
superior to mere partisanship to
which Bleine assented. The words
spoken were oom monflace but
the interview of Blaine and '.he
Teisns may have an agreeable effect
throughout the oonntry. Evidently Mr.
Malone has shown himself as apt a dlplo-
amtist as a successful editor.
Oua Taylor correspondent while giving
an account of the big cattle business now
beirg done by that enterprising and
therefore thriving town also announocs
this morning the organization of the se-
cret order of Night Caps. The new ordi r
is held nnoom titutional that is to say op-
posed to the old style morning "constitutions!."
should 'our hation-8 constitution
BB KKCAST?
The boldest dooument that has come
under our observation for months a docu-
ment arguing to and advocating the most
radical ohaciges iu cur form of govern-
mm t is a pamphlet just issued by a Mr.
O. J. Smith of New York city. Theopen-
iag purugrnph of the article explains its
drift: "Now that i he echoes of a hundred
impressive centennial oratious glorifying
the Constitution atd congratulating our-
selves hive died away let us pause to en-
quire whether all is really will with us.
Iu the lives of mea aiid of nations it some-
times happens that the period of the
greatest self-corn piaoenoy is the main
point of danger. Let ns go back of the
swelling periods of our orators and in-
quire into the facts." The writer then
abruptly plunges into the cause for Lis
ditquie.ude in this language:
We have it is conceded a spoils sys-
tem. It is an eld system which has
grown with the growth of the natioa and
is stronger now than ever before. We
have two spoils parties and a spoils gov-
ernment i he age and the strength of
the spoils system indicate upon the sur-
face that it is one of our cherished insti-
tutions. Aid why? Is it because of our
ignoranoef Our people in mass are bet-
ter eduoated and more intelligent than
those of any other country. Is it be-
cause we lack patriotism and interest in
.nblio affairs? The experiences in our
civil war give an answer in the negative.
Ours is ttie only nation in the world in
which parties are mn in turned only for
spoils pnrposes and in which the govern-
ment is little more than a Bpoils maohine;
and yet we are not deficient in patriotism
' public spirit or intelligence. One other
fact that almost universally our people
who have no personal interest in spoils
detest the system adds to the perplexity
of the situation.
What is the cause of the spoils system ?
Why has this disease of the body politic
grown so long and assumed suoh propor-
tions under conditions apparently unfa-
vorable to it? Bishop Potter says that
we have d generattd. The assertion has
no foundation iu faot. The civil seivioe
reformers tell us that the wicked and
vicious have got possession of public af-
fairs and that the better classes mu.-t
ral.y and overthrow the machine. But
why in a free state have the wicked been
more powerful than the good?
The cause of the spoils system lies
mainly in the fixed and unchangeable
nature of our geueral government'. The
greut and good men who oreated our re-
public reformed or abolished everything
that in their view called for ohange. They
broke np the established order from its
foundations and built a new struoture.
Having finished their work they incor-
porated in the orgacio law provisions
practically forbidding change. They had
faith in themselves but little in those who
were to come after them. If they had
mistrusted themselves as much as they
doubted posterity they would have inau-
gurated no revolution and established no
republic The fetters wh eh they plaoed
in the organic law are oalled the checks
ani balances of the Constitution the two
houses of congress the one representing
the people the other the states; the veto of
the exeoutive; a president with more
power daring his term of office than any
constitutional monaroh and a supreme
)urt holding for life. These are the con-
servative iolluenoes in the Con-
stitution intended to prevent
nhenge without due consideration.
Bat ohangp is progress and in forbidding
ohange the fathers forbade progress. In
providing against the possibility of mis-
takes they fixed in our political system
the greatest possible blunder the inabil-
ity to oorreot a mistake. They did not
see that in forbidding the people to go
baokward they restricted them from going
forward.
Upon this sweeping premise he builds
elaborate argument for suoh changes in
our form' of government as will correot
what he calls mistakes made by the fram-
ers of onr Constitution among which the
most important mentioned are as follows:
It fixed unchangeably the representa-
tion of eaoh state in the United States
senate nnder the working of which one
vjtcr in Nevada has the same representa-
tion as one hundred voters in New York.
It gave ns a complicated electoral oollege
which has more than ocoe defeated
the will cf the people. Under our
Constitution minorities rule over
majorities and majorities are powerless
to produce ohange. The republican
party which polled in the last general
uleotioa 100000 totes less than the demo-
cratic party now controls all branches of
the general governmenf. With the ad-
mission of the new states the republican
party may through its power in the si n-
ate prevent the expression of the will of
the majority for fifty years though el-
ways in the minority in votes. Why
should good men ooncern themselves
about politics when the checks and balan-
ces of the Constitution forbid ohange?
What oan we expeot but that politics shall
become a trade in which the meanest and
lowest engage that ths buying atd selling
of votes shall becomo universal and that
parties shall beoome mere spoils maohiues
in a state where change is practically for-
bidden by the orgai io law?
The wiijertlu n institutes a comparison
between the growth of eovernmental re
form in England add Ami rica and says :
England has advaccsd at home through
peace; Amerioa has progressed only
through revolution. Ia Ecgland parties
stand for mer.sures acd reorganize readily
upon the line of principle; in Amerioa
parties stand for plunder and ontlive all
distinctions of prinoiple. The publio
questions of Englsndare live ones and in-
teresting to the whole of civilization; in
Amerioa the issnes are usually dead ones
save the one question of spoils which
disgusts the universe. In England a
change of party means a ohange of polio j ;
in America a ohange of party means
nothing but a change in placemen. In
England the people rule; In Amerioa the
republican party has been in the minority
almost constantly for fifteen years but
during this period it has been impossible
for the majority to ohanga on republican
measure of legislation. In England
majorities are effeotire; in America the
man now in the presidential chair re-
ceived a hundred thousand votes less than
his csmpetitor.
lie propounds the question: "Is it safe
in a republic to plaoe fixed obstacles in
the way of the exeoution of the people's
will?" and then prooesds to the remedy fc
thinks necessary to fit the ills oomplained
of:
What can bs done to remedy the blun-
ders of the Constitution? First we should
modify our na iunbl self-ooiciit suffi-
ciently to acknowledge the fact that our
general government dots not respond to
the people; that i: is a petrifaction handed
down to ns by men who died long ago;
that the government should respond to
the living; that the living ehould carry
the responsibility of their own time; that
wi-dom did not eiie with the fathers; that
the people of the present should rule in
the present and tbt-.t the people of the
future should rule in the future; that that
government is not free which does not ro
spond to the people;' that onr government
is like a ship that yields no' obidience to
its captain but is ruu by a olockwork set
a century before.
These conclusions put into practical
effect he declares mean abolishing the
United States senate; revoking the presi-
dent's veto acd re qnring him to resign
when not in harmony with the majority;
dispensing with the electoral oclhgeand
either choosing the president by a direct
vote of the people or through the house
of representatives and finally abolishing
also every s'.ate senate.
Such is the sweeping the radioal reform
he would inaugurate and this for the mott
part if we have caught the drift of his er-
gument because of the rapid growth of
the spoils system. Had we not as a na
tior better go Blow in this? Wi l not the
remedy prove worse than the disease?
True it is he argues in most part from-
just cause for complaint. The spoils sys
tern is a monstrous growth and most une-
qual dots it seem that the majority of our
people cannot in every instance elect
their president. Also it is unfortunate
that congress because of branohes at va
rianoe in political faith oannot at all times
quickly pass much needed legislation. But
have not these two last designated evils
their brighter their conservative their
sound and substantial warrant for exist-
ence? They stand out as prominent bul-
warks against rash resolution in thought
and purpose; they are a mighty anohor to
the windward holding the ship of state
against any w ild olamor for an unexplored
a rash and foolish attempt at something
sound reason has not said what. Weigh
against such objections as he has brought
forward the sturdy faots of our nation's
history and answer if he has not far over-
shot the mark in radical ohanges he clam-
ors for. Q He asserts our Constitution :'
unbending bnt it has with wonderful sup-
pleness adapted itself to the marvelous
growth of a oentnry. A handful of people
have grown to nearly seventy millions; a
narrow strip of aountry along theAtlantio
has stretched from ocean to ooeau. Al
most every type of the human family
every olass of feeling thought and ambi-
tion have been transplanted toour shores
and yet with wonderful unity and cohe
sion have we grown np together and the
grand old Constitution has continued to
rook os in liberty to proteot ns in law.
Unquestionably there is throughout the
union a growing disgnst for the
evil the hydra headed monster the
spoils system and there has also been
muoh unrest as to the unsatisfactory re-
sults in presidential elootions. But will
any of the reforms he mentions materially
effect the spoils system? Will they oreate
the healthy publio sentiment and that re-
sponse to it which alone will down that
evil? The day nJay ocme when the people
may eleot their president by a direct vote
bnt we do not wish to see the time of no
state or nations! senate and if suoh a'
time should ever be then a presidential
veto would be more essential to the peo-
ple's safety than ever before. Mr. O. J.
Smith has blszed a way that will not be
followed for many very many years to
oome.
TEXAS MEDICAL OPINION.
The last nomber of Daniel's Texas Med-
ical Journal published in Austin the or
gan of the Texas Medical association one
of the very best numbers Doctor Daniel
has yet issued oontains many interesting
and instructive articles.
One and the leading one in the num
ber is an able and well-written paper on
that terrible malady which causes so many
parents to tremble diphtheria. The pa-
per wF.s originally read before the Travis
County Medioal association by its presi
dent Doctor John Preston first assistant
physioian of the State Lunatic asylum of
this oity; a gentleman whose scientific
ability has been recognized by the County
Medical association in its eleotion of him
as its president and whose urbanity
in his official poeition at . th
mvlnm has made bim hosts
of friends in this city. Doctor Preston
eives a clear snooinot account of the
symptoms etiology prognosis and treat
meet of diphtheria.
The Journal also gives an account of
the proceedings of the State Medioal as-
sociation at its reoent meeting and among
other thirgs the remarks of Dootor
Swearingen of this oity on state medioal
legislation. Doctor Swearingen thought
and correctly that reform in this direa
tion must oome slowly and that our legis
lators will suffer no dictation. Doctor
Swearingen might have gone a step fur
ther and held that the movement for
state control of medical praotioe to be
successful must oome from the people
themselves.
One other very interesting article is that
of Dcotor Dock giving a statement cf
two oases of genuine leprosy in Galveston
Dootor Dock holds it not contagious1 and
that it originated in the I-land City. Is
not this against all previous ideas of Iep
rnrl 1 If these oases originated in Gal
vestoo why has leprosy never appeared
there before? Has the olimate there just
become favorable to such a disease r
Biecham's Pills oure bilious and nerv
ous ills.
JUDICIAL BEHESTS.
Abstract of Cases Decided by the
Supreme Court.
The supreme court decided the follow-
ing oses Friday:
H . Gross v.. City of Lampasa? ap-
pealed from Lampasas county; reversid
aud remaucVd. Opinion by Associate
Justice Henry.
Thomas Roche vs. J. C. Lovell from
Tarrant county ; rt versed and remauded.
Opiuion by Associate Justice Henry.
Tprrey Davidaou and GiOccup vs. Wil-
liam Cameron & Co. from Taylor count) ;
bthrmed subj-ot to remittor of costs by
defendant. Opition by Associate Justice
Gaines.
The Gross case is an notion to reoover
damages of the ciry of Lampasas for al-
leged injuries to his homeetead premises
tesclting from the overflow of surfaoe
water into ths j. Hint iff 's lot caused by the
grading and cralning done by the oity
precipitating largo quantities of watir
upon the premises without outlet for its
escape. AIsj on aouount of the oity dig-
ging a broad and deep ditch between the
street and the sidewalk of the premises
cutting off convenient acoess to and from
the oity injuring the beauty of the prem-
ises and endangeiing the lives
of the family. And oil other
minor accounts of complaint.
The city pleaded general denial and
specially averred that its aotion was rea-
sonable and proper and lawful as defend-
ant had a right to use the street for such
purposes; and further that plaintiff had
full warrant from defendant to make
wulks aoross or oover the entire ditch and
that the ditch was necessary on account
of the unhealthy and dangerous condition
of plaintiff's premises; aud denying that
plaintiff s premises were damaged bat
claiming on the oontrary they were en-
hanced in value and improved as to their
health and comfort.
There is a special plea also that defend
ant had by prescription acquired an
easement to have the waters thus diverttd
through a certain well defined natural
channel running through said premises
on aooouut of the rugged nature of the
ground affording no otcer outlet; and
that plaintiff s premises as an inferior
heritage owed the light of suoh drainage
aa a natural dnty or servitude to the city's
superior estate; that in fine the aotion of
the oity was neoessary to abate a puuiio
nuisance.
The plaintiff complained that the ditch
was not skillfully made so as to carry off
the water as designed from his premises;
and on the other hand defendant oom-
plained that a wall made by plaintiff
blocked the water into a pond so as to ob
struct drainage.
The judgment rendered was that neither
party should reoover the relief sought
against the other and that plaintiff pay
all oosts of suit. Plaintiff on appeal
complains the court erred in gjving judg-
ment for appellant beoause it 'appears
from the judge's conclusions of facts
that plaintiff sustained injury
from the act of defendant
and because if the ditch was justified by
the facta the defendant should still have
been held liable in damages for the de-
fective and unskillful manner in whiob
the work was done.
The conrt below concluded that the
ditoh was necessary in consequence of
plaintiff's wall creating a stagnant pond
and that while plaintiff's property with-
out the wall would be damaged yet with
the wall it is not damaged by the ditoh.
Held: Plaintiff under the fao of the
oase eojoyedjthe right.to build the wall
upon his own land and prevent its over
flow by the. surfaoe water. Lessard
page 715. Having this right ilain-
tiff Btood with regard to the nuisance
oreated by the surfaoe water after it had
been obstructed by the wan as aid other
people affeoted by it ; and just as he would
have stood if not previously oonnected
with it in any way.
Further held: The right or the city to
construct the ditoh along the street is
given by the law and existed without any
regard to plaintiffs aotion but it was the
duty of the oity to oonstruot it with at
least ordinary skill so as to
iniure claintiff and his property as
little as could be done consistently with
the oity's right to make the improvement.
There being nothing in the record to show
that the ditoh may not be so oonstrncted
ss not to injure the value of plantiff'g
property and to proteot persons crossing
it from all danger it is further held that
if the ditoh as constructed is subject to
these ohanges and no faots exist to exouse
defendant from the obligation to oonstruot
it with f uflioient skill to oause such wrongs
plait tiff ought to have judgment for suoh
damages as proximately resnlt to him
from them. Judgment is reversed and the
oause remanded.
The Roohe case is a land controversy in
whioh Roche pleaded not guilty and im-
provement in good faith ia an action tf
trespass to try title brought against him
bv Livell. Mary E. Dnmaa claiming to be
surviving widow and in community of
James P. Dumas conveyed the land to
Soott L. Dumas and he to John C. Lovell.
No proof was made of the date or fact
that she married James P. Dumas.
There was verdiot for plaintiff and that
he pay $70 for value of improvements in
excesssof the UEe of the land and looate
the liue between plaintiff and defendant
as set forth in the verdiot defining the
bounds.
Held: A necessary link in the plain-
tiff's chain of title was evidenoe that Mary
E. Dumas was the wife of James E. Dumas
at the date of his acquisition of title to
the land ; and that neither the moitals in
the oourt proceedings when she qualified
as survivor in community or in her deed
to her vendee are evidence of that fact.
Further held: The description of the
land or rather the want of any desoiip-
ion in the verdiot did not acthorie a
recovery of the particular tract desonbed
in the jndgment or in the petition.
For these and other reafons the judg-
mei.t is reversed and the oause re
manded.
The Cameron fc Co. case was an action
of debt evidenced by three promie-
aorv notes less Certain admitted oredits
and involving the question of alleged sat
isfaction of the old notes by suostitusicn
of new ones. A supplemental answer of
plaintiff alleged in substance that the
whole indebtedness or aeieuuauio e-
ee'eded the amount of the new notes by
11500 and that the agreement was that
upon payment of that sum in cah the
tew notes were to be received in
extinguishment of the old but that the
defendants have wholly xaiiea to make tne
oanh navment.
There is no statement of facts in the
reoord and but one bill of exceptions
whioh is called to the attention of this
oourt bv an assignment of error. This
bill whioh preseoU the only question of
difficclty in the cat e sets out an offer to
prove by witnesses named that defend
ants by agreement of the plaintiffs and
with their consent had executed the new
notes to plaintiffs in lieu of and substitu-
tion for the notes Bued on and that the
sued- on notes were then and
there received in payment end
satisfaction of said old notes.
Also that by agreement and in considera-
tion of aforesaid agreement the defend-
ants then aud thero sobm.tted to have
said tew notes disuounted at the rate of
12 per oeut per annum and the saiJ notes
were so discounted end passed to credit of
defendants. The court on suggestion of
plaiutiff refuted to hear suoh evidence or
nermit it to no to the jury. To this ruling
the defendants exoepted and asked that
the same be made part of the record.
It may be admitted says justice
Gaines thut where a ' creditor re
ceives of a debtor a new
promissory note with the understanding
that it is taken iu satisfaction of the old
indebtedness the prior debt is exiin-
gufthed. But the question arises whether
in the absence of a statement of facts we
oan say that the plain iffs in error have
been prejudiced by the rnling in questson.
Held: That as a rule this oourt will
not without a statement of faot-' revise
the ruiiugs of the oourt below in the ad-
mission or exclusion of evidenoe; ye'
where the evidenoe appears material and
relevant to the issnes nnder any probable
state of the testimony and where the
ground of objection is one that is not
tenable the bill of exceptions ought to be
considered and the rulicg rtversed
although no statement of faots appears in
the record.
It is to be noted adds Judge Gaines
that the Lotts were in defendants' posses
sion and made part of their pleading?. If
tbev were ever in the bands of the plain
tiff s the fuot that at the time of filing the
answer the defendants bad the notis
tends to establish the plaintiff's replica-
tion that they were to. be taken in satis-
faction of the old notes upon a condition
with which the defendants failed to com
ply. We cannot say from the reoord that
defendants as witnesses may not have
distinctly admitted in their testimony
that they were to pay $1500 in cash before
the agreement for the extinguishment of
the old notes should take effect and that
they had failed to pay the money accord
ing to contract. If so the exclusion of
the evidence did not harm defendants.
If the bill itself had shown thut no other
evidenoe had been introduced upon the
particular issue or had shown that the
evidence was excluded solely npon the
giound that in the opiuion of the oourt
the execution and delivery ot tne new
notes nnder the oirouinstanots proposed
to be passed did not discharge the
old it might call for a different ruling.
Held: Where a reoord shows the pro
ceedings only in part every reasonable
presumption will be indulged in favor of
the conn's ruling and the case will not be
reversed nnless it appear that upon no
possible state of the case could the ruling
be npheld. Where this court oannot say
that there was manifest error in exclud-
ing the testimony nnder consideration the
assignment of error predicated npon suoh
ruling will be held as not well taken.
The assignment of excessive verdiot be
ing confessed by remittitur the judgment
is htlirmed less the amount remitted.
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Quite convenient: Miss Pry e I thought
it my dnty Mrs. Braggs to toll you that
Mr. Braggs was seen down town this morn-
ing in an awful state of intoxication. I
thought you might be thankful perhaps
if Ioameand told you that none of us in
the neighborhood fthink any less of yon
on that acoount. In fact yon have the
sympathy of the entire community. Mrs.
Braggs You can keep your sympathy to
yourself. This spree will keep him out of
the way while I am oleaning house. Terre
Haute Express.
The oorreot way is to buy -goods from
the manufacturer when possible. The
Elkhart Carriage and Harness Manufac-
turing company of Elkhart Ind. have no
agents. They make first-class goods
ship anywhere' privilege to examine. See
advertisement.
A woman who could not vote nor make
speeohes nor march with a oampaiin club
has been deprived of the postoffioe in the
village of Liberty Mo. for "offensive par
tisanship." On the oooasion of a repub
lican campaign club parade she presented
a boquet to one of the members with the
remark that be would need it to lay on
Harrison's political grave after the eleo
tion. Having pnt a republican voter and
worker in her place (Jlarkson feels that
he has purged the postoffioe of an offen
sive partisan. St. Boms I'oBt-Dispatch
Dem.
Advice to Motners.
Mrs. Winslow'a Soothing Syrup should
always be used for ohildren teething. It
soothes 4he ohild softens the gums alhys
all pain cures wind oolio and the best
remedy for diarhocea. Twonty'-five cents
a bottle.
Reported Indian Outbreak. .
' CmoAOO.May 31. A dispatoh from Oma
ha says an Indian outbreak is reported
in Keyapapa county on the Dakota front-
ier. The settlers are soid to be flocking
into Nordi'n and the plaoe is being forti
fied.
A Boat's Crew Lost.
Watebiown N. Y. May 31. Further
particulars have been reoeived of the
barge Bavaria one of the Calvin's boat'
that was reported stranded on Gallon p
island. It seems that when the baige
struck tne boat's crew of eight persons ia
all took to a smell boat but on account of
the terrific gale they coald not reaoh the
island and were lost.
IKHART
CARRIAGE
Every Buffer sold
dUu added to the
We are m-nnfactarers and have No
! No. l.
Farm Harness;
Anentn. For
$24.50
itr4S?.
with the consumer. We ehiD anywhere.
We pay frttnht ehnnjet hoth vayt ii not
satisfactory. Warrant everything for
with rtririlrfi nf
X yenrn. Any one mat can wnw can or-
der a Brjfrffy or Harness from ns as well ae
pay ft 10 to to some middle man to order
lor tnem. we
rmtvm
ONE PRICE ONLY.
Platform. Combination. anf
3-Snrinir Wannim. MIO i same
as others Hell at $45.
are line as sell for $140. Phaeton fe 1 3 1
same ss sold at S165. Roail Carts. 1 7.
e box and deliver on
We make
lairora naguu aDUT
o? HARNESS
line of
Onr flnrnen
Leather. Single SI 8 to gat)
I IK lit uonDle 82 to !4U.
64 pae ilM. Catalogue. Free
AddreasW. B. PRATT. SfiflV
ELKHART.
11
The Chief Keason for the great success ot
Hoofl's fsnrsaparllla is found in the fact that
Merit Wins. It Is the best blood purifier and
ictun'.ly accomplishes all that is claimed for it.
prepared only liv C. l. Hood & Co- Lowell. Maw
HANDSOME EXHIBIT.
San Antonio and Bexar County
Have Done Themselves Proud.
Fort Worth Gazette.
The historic and illustrious county of
Bexar wi h its still more noted Alamo
City has three exhibits at the Spring
Palace besides a generous contribution
of plants oereais and grains classified
and plr.cedin the various -departments to
which they belong. As the stranger en-'
ters the main entranoe of the Spring Pal-
ace at the north front if he will oast his
eye up through the oapaoious rotunda
he will see npon the nortnern wan occupy-
ing a spaoe twenty-eight feet high and
eighteen wide the main San Antonio ex.
hicit-. From almOBt any point of view in
the building oan be seen in the center of
this space on the wall a drawing of the
exposition building of the San Antonio
International fair whioh occurs next No-
vember. This drawing is seven feet high
and thirteen feet long is in perspective
and is made of thirteen different woods
found in Bexar county. The work is ia
varied colors and is highly polished. Un-
derneath are the words "Exposition
Building iSan Antonio Texas" in gold
letters. In the coiner are the words
"Made of Thirteen Native Wooss of
Bexar oonnty." Over th pioture are the
words "Mexico and Amerioa Interna-
tional fair November 5 to 16 1889 San
Antonio Tex." The letters of these words
are made of aigrietta. The following are
the native woods of Bexar county of which
this pioture is made: Maple ash oak two
varieties of gum oedar walnut hackber-
ry osage orange holly pine elder and
mc-Eqnite. The entire picture is tasteful-
ly and appropriately draped with the flags
of Mexico the United States and
Texas and is eurmonnted by
a pair of ox horns five and
a half feet long polished in San Antonio.
The npper portion of the spaoe on the
wall abovethe pioture of the International
exposition building is deoorated with the
oereais of the county graps vines aigrietta
and caotus in the center of wbioh are ths
words in moss "Bexar county." On ths
floor around this wall spaoe is quite a va-
riety of products and resources peculiar to
San Antonio and to Bexar county includ-
ing a handsome oi llection of Angora goat
skins and skins of various other animals
also a fine collection of native
woods and minerals and speci-
mens of wood beautifully oarved by ladies
in the State Art sohool of San intocio.
This exhibit is inclosed by a railing con-
sisting of rope of moss oonneotu g posts
of laurel with the spaoe between covered
with Mexican and American flags; alto
gether this exhibit is as it is designed to
be truly representative of the peouliar
products of the Alamo oity and Bexar
county. On the first floor in the western
portion of the Spring Palace is
a fao simile miniature of
the woild renowned Alamo. Th'i
miniature is a dead image of the great
and sombre original in San Antonio. It
is made of the native cement of the Alamo
city and in oolor literally represents the
Alamo is it now appears. It is seven feet
long and five feet wide and re6ts upon a
table the surrounding surface of whioh
looks like the earth around the Alamo ths
base of the table being enoiroled by the
gags of all nations making the en-
tire pile look like the grand old
mausoleum of liberty which it was. Above
this miniature Alamo are the historic and
ever thrilling words "Remember the
Alamo" and through the bars over the
front entranoe every admirer of dauntless
courage and lover of patriotism will have
an opportunity to drop in bis contribution
toward the ereotion of the grandest monu-
ment in the sooth to be built in San An-
tonio in a few years to commemorate that
Mecca of valor in Texas history of whioh it
has'been said: "Tbermopylte had its mes-
senger of defeat; the Alamo had none."
Start'iDg Corruption.
assembly this morning the report from
the committee on eleotionsoonoorning the
Rlnnlr Tulanri hnhftru nu. WBS read. ThD
report stated that 75 to 100 men were
bribed to vote for John G. Sbaffield jr.
republican who he Ids the seat and that
$25 to $100 was paid for votes. Ths cor-
ruption revealed by the report was almost
impossible to believe. The republicans
made counter charges against the demo-
crats of similar proceedings. With the
report was a resolution that Shaffiald was
not legally elected and not entitled to bis
seat in the house and that Christopher E.
Cbamplin was entitled to the seat held by
Shafficld. The house voted 40 to 21 to
ootticue the matter to the January ses-
sion .
& HARNESS MANUFACTURING CO.
bj aeentii has several
manufacturer's price.
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Full HIcfcel HarneM
l.i vrn. bare dealt
rnmitinn huuina.
give no credit ana nave
TopBnantlefl. S80(
oars In Elkhart frte of ckargu
an all No. t Onk
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