Brenham Daily Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 40, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 16, 1898 Page: 2 of 4
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BRENHAM DAILY BANNER
JOHN' ti. RANKIN,
Editor, PublUhrr and Proprietor.
WOMXSBA7 VO&KQTS. FEE. 15, 1S9S.
For Governor
HON. JOSEPH D. SAYEKS,
of Baftrop County,
f For lieutenant Governor
HON. H. M. JOHNSTON,
of Harris County.
The New Haven company of
horse guards has voted to go to
the Paris exposition in 1900.
Missouri and Pennsylvania
have joined New York in fight-
ing against republican bossism.
It is now said that Spain has
decided to concentrate the Span-
ish fleet at Havana. She is
evidently seeking trouble with
Uncle Sam.
The New York Times says that
if the deserters, the beggars, the
frauds and the perjurers were
cut out off the pension list would
be reduced one-half. This is
strong language and is no doubt
true.
Cowarelice rather than good
statesmanship prevents war with
Spain. Of course our heads of
government are not afraid of
being whipped. They merly fear
that our commercial relations
might suffer.
Speaking of gold, twenty-four
karat is the standard. Articles
made of twenty-four karat are
made of pure gold, one silver ar.d
one of copper; eighteen-karat
gold and three parts each of sil
ver and copper; twelve-karat
gold has 8 1-2 copper and 3 1-2
silver.
The present vaccilating and
disgusting conduct of foreign af
fairs on the part of the republi-
can administration »is enough to
make Old Jim Blain turn over in
his grave. What would that
great diplomat think of our pres
ent "vigorous foreign policy,'
any how?
An account of a Georgia en-
tertainment is said to read as fol
lows: "The play was to have
been Hamlet. But Hamlet, while
on his way to the schoolhouse,
fell into a dry well and broke his
left leg, so the actors had a regular
Georgia 'breakdown,' in which
people have to be killed."
The French government can
imprison Zola for daring U> tell
the truth and challenge the jus
tice of its sentences in backing
the courtmartial, but that will not
prevent the larger world outside
of France from passing judgment
upon the government that prac-
tically damns the honesty of a
subject in order to prevent the
uncovering of its own corrup
tions.
The Gatesville Messenger con-
siders it a shame that there
should be anything but the most
complimentary expressions con
cerning any of the democratic
candidates for governor. Jester,
Wynne, Crane and Sayers are
*11 gentlemen of fine ability and
have most exemplary public
records. Indeed the state may
Well be proud with either of them
in the executive chair.
To kiss or not kiss is the ques-
tion that agitates Atlanta society
needlessly, for this is one of the
things that is only properly done
in secret and should not be
paraded for criticism anywhere.
The young man who is favored
by his lady friends with their
kisses, and does not know enough
to be silent and discrete about it,
does not know enough to
appreciate a good thing and
should lose it.
The Waxahachie Light thinks
every county in Texas ought to
exert herself to send a sensible
man to the next legislature; men
who have had experience with
the political affairs of life and
know the needs of the people are
what we want. v Sophomoric ora-
tory and fore^pic display are
good in their place, possibly, but
a man to make and unmake laws
ought to be a man of brains and
experience. Every county has
them, and they are to be .found
In all profession? and callings.
A LESSON IN CULTIVATION. j
According to the Journal of!
Agriculture the average corn !
crop for 1S97 for the twenty- j
three States in which corn forms j
an important feature, is estimated j
to be 22 bushels per acre. The |
average for the State of Missouri j
is given at 25 bushels. Illinois j
has an average of 2'-' bushels, j
New York being first with 32 j
bashels. The State board of ag- j
ri.sultu're at the Illinois State fair |
at Springfield, awarded the prizes !
it had offered for the largest crop I
of corn grown on an acre of I
land, and the results are worth j
noting when reading of the com- j
paratively low average of all the j
corn growing States. There <
were no conditions imposed as to j
cultivation, etc., the only proviso!
was that the yield should be cer- i
tified by responsible parties as a
guarantee against fraud or mis- I
take. The competition was par-1
ticipated in by a number of j
farmers, twelve of whom suc-
ceeded in raising 100 bushels per
acre and over. The first prize
was taken by John Powers,
Whiteside county, HI., with a
yield of 10*3 bushels per acre; K.
S. Fursman, of Woodford coun-
ty, grew 100 bushels, and took
second premium. The next ten
produced respectively, 150, 114,
143, 142,110, 110, 108, 103, and
two had 100 bushels—an average
for the twelve of 128 1-2 bushels
per acre. There was a general
Concensus of opinion among the
competitors that the best fertil-
izer for corn production was a
previous crop of clover. All
were agreed that the first essen-
tial for a heavy crop depended
upon deep, early plowing, thor-
ough preparation of the seed bed
by repeated working, and fre-
quent shallow cultivation during
growth of the crop. All these
codditions for successful corn
growing seem to be, and should
be, within the means of every
farmer. Looking at the condi-
tions under which crops of HKi
and 100 bushels per acre were
grown, there ia nothing apparent
to account for the immense dif-
ference between tn jho results and
the average for the state of 29
bushels. The heaviest crop was
grown in a northwestern county
of the state; the next heaviest in
a central one; as wero in fact
nearly all the others; two samples
were from west central counties.
The second premium sample was
raised almost wholly by hand
labor, the hoe and spado being
the chief implements used. This
last fact really means what the
whole of the competition teaches,
that by thorough painstaking
cultivation the average corn crop
can be immensely increased. It
may bo argued that this was but
a small area cultivated, and that
the labor lavished upon it could
not be bestowed upon, say a
patch of fifty acres. But if crops
of 100 bushels per acre can be
grown by increased care in p|ant-
fng and cultivation it will be
possible to plant less than one-
third the area to produce the
average crop now raised. In
other words, if the fertilizer, care
and cultivation now given to fifty
acres, were bestowed upon twenty
acres, the probabilities are that
the farmer would be the gainer.
The time is approaching when
more thoroughness in all farm
t#ethods will be demanded of
those who live by farming opera-
tions. Competition is becoming
keener all the time, and the most
sanguine friends of th^ farmer do
not anticipate for any extended
period of high prices,perhaps not
bo high as at present, for some
farm commodities. Such com-
petitions as those now referred
to are useful as showing what
can be done where there is an in-
centive for good work; and the
motto, "What has been done, can
be done again," should stimulate
others in the same direction.
NEW YORK STORE
Bargains. BARGAINS. Bargains.
\\
As we intend leaving
ill inaugurate a
you need anv
for the East shortly
foods. I f
thing
in our line it
Grand Sweeping Sale.
SOME OF
Prices will he cut in all departments, as we
don't intend to carry over any of our winter
will pay you to get our prices before buying.
OUR SWEEPING SALE PRICES :
STAPLE DEPARTMENT-
Fast Color Calico. ■> cents ] cr yard
Cotton Stripes, 3 cents per yard.
Rrown Domestic, '■> cents per yard.
Sea Islam) Domestic, 4 cents |><t yard.
Mattress Ticking, fi cents a yard.
Bleached Domestic at 4 cents a yard.
Green Ticket Lonsdale, ) .'5-4 cents a yard
Cood Cotton Flannel, I 1-2 cents a yard.
MUSLIN UNDEEWEAE.
cent Gowns at 10 cents.
(53 cent Chemise at 35 cents.
fio cent Drawers at 35 cents.
75 cert Gowns at 53 cents.
75 cent Chemise at 54 cents.
75 cent Drawers at 52 cents,
SI.00 Gowns at 72 cents.
1,00 Chemise at 73 cents.
1.00 Drawers at 74 cents.
1.50 Gowns at 58 cents.
1,50 Chemise at 97 cents.
1.50 Drawers at 03 cents.
CAPES AND JACKETS,
$1.00 Capes at 50 cents
1.50 Capes at 75 cents
2.00 Capes at 95 cents.
3.00 Capes at 1.50
4.oo Capes at 2.oo
5.oo Capes at 2.49.
6.oo capes at 2.98
7.oo capes at 3.48
8.oo capes at 3.98
Some Ridiculously Low Prices in Our Clothing Department.
BOYS' CLOTHING-
■SI.00 Suits at 50c ' $1.50 Suits at 75 cents
2.00 Suits at ilKc 3.00 Suits at $1.45
$4.00 Suits at $2-98.
YOUTH'S CLOTHING.
oo Suils at $3.25
8.oo Suits at 5.45
$7.oo Suits at $4.95
lo.oo Suits at (5.40
12.00 Suits at 7.50.
MEN'S CLOTHING.
$ lo.oo Suits at 5oo 1 l.oo Suits at 5.50
12.oo Suits at 6.50 13.oo Suits at 7.50
15.00 Suits at 9.00.
All our $1.00 Shirts in Negligee and Stilt Bosoms will go at 50c.
We will make a sweeping cut in our Millinery department,
Fall'■Millinery before Miss Link leaven
as we wish to close out all
or the Kurt to purchase our Spring stock.
our
CATHER & BUSTER, brenham
The Greenville Banner says:
"The future of this great country
fa full of exciting hope, but it de-
pends entirely on the tillers of
the soil whether that hope is
Wlirrrl or Dot. The neglect to
tjlpprove our agriculture will be
The Taylor Tribune thinks the
newspaper editors and corres-
pondents that are attacking;
Major Sayers on account of his
position on the money question
are making a very serious mis-
take, and one that will surely
hurt their friend in the guberna-
torial contest. The Tribune is
friendly to all the candidates to
governor and regards them all
good democrats and loyal e
porters of the principle for v
our party, led by »'ir> i
fought so nobly j- (^
paign. Majo- . Sayerg k
The Wonders of Nature.
Astronomers pretend to a wor-
ship of nature—they speak of the
majesty and the unutterable
glory of star lit skies; but as a
matter of fact the louse that
Burns saw on a woman's bonnet
is just as wonderful in its move-
ments and all that pertains to a
louse as the procession of the
planets or the fires of the North-
ern lights. Ilumbolt makes
much ado over the Southern
cross. But Ilumbolt was a hum-
bug. A drop of water is just as
wonderful and just as sublimo as
the ocean—a grain of sand is
just as majestic as the earth, and
a spark of fire just as glorious as
tho flames that leap thousands of
miles out of the sun. It is just
as scientific to call an aggrega-
tion of small things wonderful,
glorious and majestic as it would
be to call an aggregation of
counterfeit dollars good money.
That size does not effect princi-
ples is a dogma of scienco. The
universe is only relatively large.
It is large because wo aro small.
In all pervading space the con-
stellation Hercules and the
myriad suns which revolve about
him, are but a speck, a mote in
the eyo of the infinite.—Arm-
strong's Autonomist.
CASTORiA
For Infants and Chiidren.
The Best is,
Avoid Imitations
Aye, the
OE AND
Cheapest
Sub-
stitutes
I. Nowakowsry*
C. W. Lejim.
R. E. LUHN.
DRUGS
BRENHAM .TEXAS.
Stable Drugs Fine Chemicals Patent Medicines. Combs
llalr, Jinll and Tooth Brunhcs in Ending Variety.
I'h yiicians prescriptions always receive prompt tttention and will bo fillod with the
uhnoBt care at awy time, day or night, in medicines, quality is of the first important tbf
best is the cheapest
SOHMID BROS,
SOI.K AOKNT3 FOB THE CKI.K.lItATBI>
LONE ST*AR BEER.
Our ICtiK »"<l CaWnot Bottled l»eer It Un»urpiMa«I.
We aro also aponts for the Standard Sowing Machine—the beat in
the market. For buying good Dry Goods and Groceries cheap, call onue
and save money.
LOUIS KOKf*',
I1UUH OIJBMOW
KORFF * CLEMONS,
IBUTCHERSI^
-DEALERSIH-
Ti» f«-
italli
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vrspptt.
LIVE STOCK AND SAUSAGE lANUPAGTUBEBS,
BF.ENIIAM, TEXAS
IIlRhM MarUt l'rice 'or liivo Stock. Grdnra for SauoaRe promptly fillod.
Hon. J. L. M. Curry, journal
agent of the i'eabody educational
fund, is responsible for the asser-
tion that not moro than 1 per;
cent of American youths receive j
collegiate education. Fully 90
per cent of the children are d'
pendent on public schools t Q ^
j FOR VOUR OYSTERS,
I F '
Your soups, after dinner, or for a light lunch there is |j
er Snaps,
eis, and
i
!k
nothing like our dainty and attractive little
MTT.g CRACKERS
*
We have a large assortment of wafers and Biscuits of all kinds. Gin
Saratoga Flakes, Snow Flakes, Ginger Wafers, High Teas, Butter V
everything in the Cracker line fresh every day.
Vegetable, Field and Flower Seed. Amber and Orange jj
Cane Seed. |
I. Nowakbwsky & Co.!
them for citizenship and th
ties of life.
.e du-
THE MAGNOLIA St L0QN
^f toimform thep- jblicingen-
, , na. r?e ' »ck of Wines
Liquors and tig- flnd u
interest you if 1
thing in that b
amine and pr'
elsewhere.
derffeCial 8 ttontion ^ y or"
irs
n need » mv-
canch to rj'i tx-
ice ere nut-^hv.ins
Bale
Yours very .y,
J Lkwin.
jW, Harrison's candy store.
THE MOST
FOR THE MONEY.
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B
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up
/hich
Jryan,
it cam
, „ _ a true
thfi'hfM''10 who always w orks for
c interests of tbf j people;
influence than any «♦ her public
man in the State. ' The
hkt we ought to cherish in mor
It sad government, as wV
i the arte. A well ci>
produces not or'
and fruit*
more pi*
fbo 6
> a as
itivated
■ij' grains,
but another
jcious crop—men
-*re maintain them—
jeat and intelligent peo-
Jittt pride and sure de-
aation.''
people
without regard to par ty or party
faction like him and Jie has their
confidence. It will, therefore,
not do to try to diacm lit him be-
cause perhaps be w as not as
loud as others in his a. dvocacy of
free silver. It may bi that in a
quiet way he has done more for
the silver cause than .many who
, have made a great Dotf»>
i
Major Botts' Roses Again,
he flower garden of Major T.
Botts is famous for its fine
roses. It is shown to visitors as
one of the sights of the city, and
its profusion of flowers and
wealth of color are the admira-
tion of all. Nearly all of the
Major's fino roses were bought
from the RosedaleNurseries; the
moral is, if you want roses, fine
roses, in short, Botts' roses, get
them at Rosedale. We have
Bride,
Meteor,
R. E. Lee,
Marie Lambert,
Franciska Kruger,
La France,
Perle des Jardins,
Marechal Niel,
Catherine Mermet,
Marie Van Houtte,
and many other ever-blooming
varieties. One year old plants,
field grown, 25c; two year old
bushes, large and very strong,
50c. Address Rosedale Nurseries,
Brenham, Texas.
NOT THE MOST SPACE, PERHAPS,*
BUT
THE MOST RESULTS
for the same amount of money accrue to
the advertisers who use the columns of
The Brenham Banner
AND
DAILY
WEEKLY
J- H- PRINZING,
CHEAP CASH
GROCER.
FOR TO-DAY
Fresh Cranberries, 121-2c Qt.
Cracknells,
Fresh German
Business men who are not using its
columns are losing a rare opportunity
of reaching the most progressive people
of this section.
The Weekly Banner
is tli t widest circulated and best read paper in
Central Texas. It has been doing busines3
here for thirty-two years.
Ring or Write for Advertising Rates
We carry a Splendid stock of groceries, arid solicit your
kind inspection and patronage.
Very Respectfully,
J- H- QUEBE. Manager.
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Rankin, John G. Brenham Daily Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 40, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 16, 1898, newspaper, February 16, 1898; Brenham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth484973/m1/2/?q=ROSENBERG: accessed April 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.