Brenham Weekly Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 2, 1905 Page: 3 of 8
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BAD INFLUENCE OP DIHT.
TO FIT THE CRIME.
PART OF THE ESTATE.
Undoubtedly Exercises a Deleterious
Moral Effect
Dirt is contagious. If anybody
doubts it let him observe the streets.
Littered with all sorts of rubbish, they
offer a positive invitation to every-
body to toss or sweep his surplus mat-
ter into them. If the streets were
kept in a proper state of cleanliness-
no decent person at least would think
of throwing anything upon the road
way or in the gutters. There is also
a moral effect. Cleanly surrounding
beget clean habits. Children going t
and from school are unconsciously In-
fluenced by what they see, and dirty
streets being a standing example of
untidiness in those to whom they nat-
urally look for leading, they grow in-
different and careless. Thus the toler-
ation of dirt on tho streets becomes
not only a menace to health, but an
influence for evil. Considerations of
this sort may have no place in the
average alderman's mind, which seems
to take its inspirations from medieval
times when the public thoroughfares
were tho common sewers.—Chicago
Journal.
TWO DUELS NOT FOUGHT.
Bismarck Figured in Both, But Scored
Only in One.
Bismarck and Rechberg, the Aus-
trian premier, decided to fight a duel
upon a certain morrow. "Why not
now?" said Bismarck; "we have our
pistols here." And they agreed to a
duel there and then. But first Bis-
marck had to write a dispatch to his
government giving the cause of the
duel. This he asked Rechberg to for-
ward in case he (Bismarck) fell.
Rechberg read the report and his pas-
sion cooled. "What you say is quite
correct," he remarked, "but is it really
worth fighting a duel for such a rea-
son?" "That is exactly my opinion,"
said Bismarck, and the matter ended
on the spot. That was Bismarck's tri-
umph, but Virchow scored when the
"iron chancellor" challenged him.
"Here are two sausages," said Vir-
chow, "one filled with trichinae, the
other perfectly wholesome. But they
cannot be told apart. Let his excel-
lency do me the honor to eat one and
I will eat tho other." The duel was
not fought.
Professor Evidently Approved of Com-
ing "Execution."
Tho daughter of the house was
pounding away at the piano like a
human plledrlrer, ajad the faces of the
assembled gueets bore traces of acute
mental anguish. Suddenly the "music"
ceased, and the company, in order to
remove all possibility of its resump
Hon, burst out into a salvo of applause
The proud and happy mother of the
performer approached the guest of tho
evening, old Herr Zwillbier, who wa>
stamping his feet and clapping his
hands like an unemployed cabman on
a frosty morning. "And what do you
think of my daughter's execution, Herr
Zwillbier?" she inquired, smiling
sweetly upon the old gentleman.
"Your dorder's vot, matam!" he cried.
"Her execution," replied the somewhat
astonished lady. "'Er egsecutlon!"
shouted the professor, " 'er egsecutlon!
Matam, I congradulade you! Ven vos
'ee to be? Veil vos 'ee goming off? I
to be bresend vlll efery efford make!"
And in his excitement he shook his
hostess violently by the hand, and
almost burst into tears.—Liverpool
(Eng.) Mercury.
BATTLE OF KEEN WITS.
Sample of Repartee at Court of the
"Merry Monarch."
I>r, Isaac Barrow, chaplain-in-ordi-
nary to King Charles II. of England,
was more appreciated by tjie "merry
monarch" for his Wit and vivacity
than for his learning. The witty and
wicked Lord Ro«hester onoe met his
m:^"h in Barrow. Rochester, think-
ing to banter him, with a flippant air
and a, low, formal bow accosted him
with "Doctor, I am yours to my shoe-
tie." Barrow, perceiving Mb drift, re-
turned the salute with "My lord, I am
yours to the ground." Rochester quick-
ly returned it with "Doctor, 1 am
yours to the center," which was smart-
ly followed up by Barrow with "My
lord, I am yours to the antipodes."
Upon which Rochester, disdaining to
bo foiled by a musty old piece of
divinity, as he used to call him, ex-
claimed, "Doctor, 1 am yours to the
lowest pit of hell." Upon which Bar
.turatng. upon his heel, with a sar-
castic smile replied, "There, my lord,
I leave you,"
Servant Folk in India Remain Lor»0 In
Positions.
Servant folk in India attach them-
selves to the house; they become part
of the family, writes Mra. Everard
Cotes. Certainly masters have a trou-
blesome habit, every twenty years or
so, of slipping away to England to
grow old in the enjoyment of "pen-
sin," but there is usually gome one
left behind of the old stock, some son
or daughter grown and married and
living in Lucknow or Jubbulpore, who
will take on the servants of,childlu>od.
and to whom they contentedly go. Or
they grow, by the claim of long cus-
tom; to the place. Our gardner, Atma,
was here gardening for fourteen years
before we came; and we have been
his titular lords for sis. Wo perform a
function; we pay him his wages and
admire his roses, but we are inci-
dental, Atma and the garden are the
enduring facts. Long after we have
disappeared in the direction of Perim
and the Red sea Atma v ill prune and
rule in this, our once domain, for
which of our successors would dream
of turning out the diviner of every
dahlia, the geographer of all the hid-
den roots and bulbs?
(load for the Complexion.
A professional beauty attributes her
personal youthfulnees to a skin lotion
i thos composed: "Half a pint of alco.
{hoi, two ounces of spirits of ammo-
nia and Ave ounces of sea salt, to be
added to sufficient boiling water to.
make a quart in all, when the mixture
should be placed in a bottle and thor-
oughly shaken before use. This lo-
tion, which should be well rubbed into
the skin daily, is said to be especially
efficacious in taking the fatigue out of
tired muscles."
Queer Little Church.
One of the queerest and most Iso-
lated churches in England is a little
J gray edifice in tho valley of WestdaU?
! Head, Cumberland. It is over four
j hundred years old, and has only two
windows and eight pews. The pulpit
is lighted by a slit of glass in the
roof. A little bell hangs loosely in the1
open belfry, and on stormy nights
drearily mingles its tones with the
wind and thunder.
ABOVE THE PETTING AGE.
Why Queen Victoria Did Not Fondle
Swazi "Infant."
Sir John Richard Robinson in his
"Fifty Years of Fleet Street" tells
of an amusing incident during the
visit of the Swazi deputation from the
Transvaal to England at the close of
1894. "The Swazi braves went to
Windsor and had an audience of her
majesty Queen Victoria. They were
very graciously received. Oro of their
number began to speak, "ml xn in-
terpreter followed him phrase by
phrase. 'We come. 0 great mother,'
he said, 'to bring to you <~mr babe.
Take him, O mother, to thy knees;
fold him to thy breast.' Here the
queen, half frightened, exclaimed,
'But where is the child? I don't see
him. Where is he?' 'Here, O mother,'
said the Swazi, gravely, at the same
time bringing forward a big black
about six feet high and weighing well
over 200 pounds. 'He is here.'"
Newton Had Jealous Mother.
The bachelorhood of Sir Isaac New-
ion was a puzzle to some of his con-
temporaries, hut others knew he re-
mained single solely on account of his
mother. He thought the world of her
and her affection for Mfc; was un-
bounded, but her maternal love was
marred by jealousy, and whenever
her son thought of marriage or
evinced ft passing interest in a pretty
face she wept and wrung her hands
and managed somehow to check true
love's course. He finally told her he
would give up all notion of marriage
as Jong as she lived. After her death
he found himself too deeply absorbed
in his scientific work and too mature
to think of matrimony.
Virtue in "Holy Wells."
Practically all the iils to which the
slesh is heir can be cured by one or
another of the holy wells of England,
:t is'claimed. St. Ninan's, in Corn-
nail, Is said to restore , lunatics to
sanity, but the patient must be Im-
mersed in the water and held there
Until the breath has nearly left his
body. This seems a heroic measure.
But even this is not so severe as the
treatment which must, be endured if a
madman Is to be cured at Llandegla
Well, in Wales, for after the victim is
nearly drowned he is trussed like a
ibwl and laid under the communion
table of the neighboring church for the
night.
Untruthful Monarch.
Concerning King William IV. of
England the following story has ap-
peared, the, donates* of Strafford be-
ing responsible for it. The king was
at. dinner. "Next to him was a titled
"oman whom he was entertaining
with some extraordinary anecdotes,
which the lady found it impossible to
believe were true. She therefore an-
swered: 'Oh, sir, I beg your pardon,
hut I really do not think that can be
true.' To her surprise he instantly re
piled, 'You are quite right, marm,
there is not a word of truth in it. It
is a lie, marm, a d d He. In fact,
marm, we all lie; we can't help it.
We had it from our mother!' This,"
| concludes the countess of Strafford,
"was the biggest lie of all, for Queen
Chrrlotte was a very truthful person,
never given to lying."
Perils Faced by Diver?.
Pearl diving and ruby mining ap-
peal to the gambling instinct which
is part of the Burmese character. A
man may be a beggar one day and the
next, through a lucky find at diving or
digging, may be rich for the rest of
his life. But pearl diving has its
i perils, some of which may be gath-
I ered from the following passage:
i "They talk of ambergris and whales
and divers' risks; of two recent deaths
from the snapping of tjh" tube. In one
rase the life-tender hauled hand-over-
I band, but not quick enough to save his
! rnan, who came Up dead nnd black in
j i » face. Another's helmet, being un-
I '.justed, let in the wa*~r. He sig-
naled, but was kept down, being sup-
posed nervous, and ultimately came
up dead. Still another diver's head
swelled up so that they could scarcely
remove; the helmet. The diver's life
in these seas is a risky one, short,
riotous, lucrative."^
Friends in Affliction.
In one of our homes for aged, In-
digent and crippled old men are a
blind contractor and a deaf mason,
named respectively Sfcafer and Grube.
An automobile snorted by. "What be
that?" asked Shofer. Grube explain-
ed. "It's a vast, noisy baste, for sure,"
commented the blind. "Noisy? I
didn't hear no noise,'' said Grube. "But
I seen it right enough. You be sore
afflicted, Shofer, not to have the use
of your eyesight." "It don't trouble
me, It don't," returned Shofer, "but
I thanks the I^ord every time I looks
at ye I'm spared my hearing." Thus
one man's affliction Is another man's
score.
A Hundred Years From Now.
A hundred yoars from now, dear heart,
We will not care at nil:
It will not matter then a whit—
The honey or the gall.
The summer days that we have known
Will all forgotten be and flown;
The garden will be overgrown
* Where now the roses fall.
A hundred years from now, fond heart,
We'll neither know nor care.
What came of all life's bitterness
Or followed love's despair.
When all these years hav* flown, sweet-
heart.
The grief will all be o'er;
The sea of care will surge in vain
Upon the careless shore.
A hundred years from now. sweetheart.
We will not mind the pain:
The throbbing crimson tide of life
Will not have left n stain.
This song we sing together, dear.
Will mean no more than means a tear;
Let's build one castle more in Spain.
And one more dream dream here.
—Lambert Norman Jackson.
Use for Young Turkeys.
It haB been demonstrated that the
turkey is a fine destroyer of the boll
weevil, t e tobacco worm and the to-
mato worm. They get fat on that
sort of diet and keep so with a bit of
grain thrown in oiice in a while and
attention to their sleeping quarters.
The boll weevil gets busy in the
spring, and so do the young turkeys.
The tomato worms are about the fields
at tho time the young birds are most
zealous in satisfying an appetite that
has no bounds. The boll weevil and
the worms <;o into hibernation in the
fall just about the time that there is
a demand for fat turkeys that can't
be satiated.
The Plucky Type. ,
How the world likes a cheerful
plucky' girl who makes a brave fight
and hides her skeleton in a closet in-
stead of folding her hands and whin-
ing because things don't come her
way, says the Philadelphia Public
Ledge; the girl who puts her own
griefs as much as possible asiie—
who takes a wholesome Interest ie
life.
Kerosene to Clean Clocks.
A few drops of kerosene oil will do
much toward starting particles of dust
from machinery. If a clock is to be
cleaned, it can be done effectively by
placing in the lower part a soft clqth
saturated with kerosene. The bits of
dirt and particles of dust will be loos-
ened by the vapors and will drop dowr
and can be removed.
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I Think of Thee.
I think of thee, I think of thee.
A* flrst dawn of day,
I think of thee,, I think of thee,
When from tho east the sunbeams stray.
When the early lark takes wing,
To carol forth his news of spring,
His notes to me one image bring.
And so X think of thee.
I think of thee. I think of thee,
When the sun in the south is high;
I think of thee, I think of thee,
As noonday bright draws nigh;
As I wander in the grove,
The trillings of the birds above
Remind me of the one X love,
And so I think of thee.
1 think of thee, I think of thee,
When the sun's bright beams are gone;
I think of thee. I think of thee,
As evening hours come on;
Where glowing in the distant blue
Shine the stars so bright and true
Their beauty but reminds of you,
And so I think of thee.
The Baby Explains.
Some time ago, a day nursery gave
its little ones an outing at the beach.
As a group of them stood looking at
the ocean, one of them said, in an
fcwe-struck voice: "Say, God must be
awful rich to be able to put so much
salt in the water! I wonder where he
gets all the water from, anyway?"
"Why, he turns a hose Into it from
heata*. and lets the water run all
W course," came the unhesitat-
ing answer from a wee maiden expert
enced la garden irrigation.
A Pathetic Letter.
A tenement house child of New York
who spent a happy day in the home of
a Settlement worker, wrote the fol-
lowing pathetic little account of her
visit In a letter: "Miss Blank lives In
a big, beautiful house. There are
three floors and lots of rooms. I should
think it would be hard for them to
find each other, there are so many
rooms. It is not so hard to find each
other when you live in part of one
room. The floors were hard and
shiny, with little pieces of carpet on
iheji. No piece was big enough to
co\. ■ a whole room."
Winter Dreams.
'Still can I sometimes hear in dreams,
Around the caverned coral keys,
("banting their mighty tidal themes.
The deep Iiermudan seas,
' Still see through morning's turquoise air,
With outburst of some lyric cow,
The sunset' breasted redblrds fare
Fronj bough to cedar bough,
Still catch from fields that gleam like
snow
(The sweet snow of that blossom zone!)
From urns gold centered, row on row,
The lily attar blown.
Still sense the symmetry of palms—
Their stately boles, their pendant
plumes—
The sudden storms, the vast blue calms,
Night's starless tropic glooms.
Ah. wondrous potency of dream.
Beyond all range of mortal art,
In winter thus to stir a gleam
Of summer in the heart!
—Clinton Scollard.
Electrical Night O'ock.
Prof. Fred rich Hirth of Munich has
Invented an ingenious bedside appar-
atus by which a person in an eiec
trlcally-lighted bedroom can tell the
time with hardly any movement. The
invention consists of a lamp, which
on a. button being pressed throws
upon the ceiling an.optical represen-
tation of a small watch lighted by
electricity. The figure is sharp and
distinct, and is enlarged to the size
of a church clock.
About Man's Wisdom.
if we cannot help growing old ii.
years, at least we can all try to grov
old gracefully. "Do you think I'm a
fool, sir?" thundered a fiery Scofcct
laird to his new footman. "Weel,. nlr,"
replied the canny Scot, "I'm not long
nere and cannot ken yet," If we ought
not to call a man happy till he dies,
It is equally premature to call h'm
wiso till we see how h t manages his
old age.
What Pleases a Man.
Generally speaking, a man likes to
he told he Is handsome, whether he Is
or not. He likes to be told he has small
feet. This Is a tip for wives. There
Is more virtue In a pair of tight shoes
in keeping a man at home in the
evenings than In all the Ten Com-
mandments. It pleases a man to be
asked for advice. You don't need to
take It. Most men have advice to give
away, and they are always willing to
bestow It on women gratis. It pleases
a man for a woman to depend on him.
This is the reason why many foolish
girls could get two husbands apiece,
while strong-minded women remain
old maids.—Montreal Herald.
Beggar's Amusing Excuse.
At a dinner a Russian beggar was
caught In the act of stealing a valu-
able bit of silver. His host remon-
strated with him. The beggar was
most penitent, but offered this amus-
ing excuse: "By stealing I broke the
eighth commandment, which says,
'Thou shalt not steal.' But if I re-
frained from stealing I broke the
tenth commandment, which says
'Thou shalt not covet.' As I had to
break one commandment either way, I
thought I might as well have the sil-
ver."
Resources of Hudson Bay.
Hudson bay Is 1,000 miles long and
COO miles v/ide at its northern part.
The bay is a great source of riches;
it abounds in all kinds of fish,
although the Industry will remain un
developed, as will also the oil Indus
try from the whales and porpoises and
walruses, until it Is navigated and is
thus brought within the limits of the
commercial world.
Life of Frozen Fish.
A Berlin professor has been experi
menting with the effects of extreme
cold on fish life. He has found that
many fishes remain alive in a tem-
perature of 45 degrees below freezing
point, but they then become so hard
and brittle that they splinter like a
piece of ice when struck against h
hard substance.
Mineral In Eastern Asia.
Eastern Asia is one of the rlcuesi
mineral fuel regions in the world
The area of all the paying coal layer?
in Europe comprises only 22,760 squan
miles, an area equal to that in ono ei
the Russian provinces—the Kazai
province.
Marmalade a Parisian Novelty.
A woman just back from Europe
says that in Paris she noticed on a res
tan rant menu one day the two words
"Le Dundee." She ordered It. The
waiter wore a smile of suppressed tri-
umph when he came back. "Le Dun
di," he murmured insinuatingly, and
helped her to two tablespoonfnIs o|
her old friend, Scotch marmalade. It
seems that marmalade is quite the
cape? in Paris now, but it Is eaten at
dinner, and in place of a sweet, with-
out bread.
About Precious Stones.
After the diamond, the sapphire Is
the hardest stone; with her more
beautiful sister she possesses also the
quality of resisting the attack of the
file, but she is, however, cloudy in
appearance and of a milky hue. The
topat Is slightly yellowish, and sur-
renders to the cutting teeth of the file.
There are a great number of white
diamonds, but a pure, clear, transpar-
ent stone without a shade of color la
more rare than is often supposed.
Cures of Water.
Since the discovery of radium in t!:
old London bathing pool tho iconoclas
may assert that the miraculous cure
by waters, from the pool of Silram t
that of Lourdes, are properly crodii
able to the emanations of radium.
Whale-Boiling Plant.
A plant for uoilin* whM**, whic'
cost $1,000,000, Is In operation i:
Newfoundland. Every ounce of tfcf
whale is used in the manufacture t
oil, stearin, bone meat, or bones, and
-other articles of commerce.
Theo, Qchii'macher,
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