Brenham Daily Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 276, Ed. 1 Friday, November 12, 1897 Page: 2 of 4
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BKENHAM DAILY BAN NEK
JOHN 6. HANK IN,
Kditor, 1'nbllRher mul Proprietor.
FRIDAY MOSimTO, NOVEMBER 12, 1M7
A cigarette and the cigaretted
lad that smoked it, caused a
8900,000 conflagration in St.
Louis last week.
Both, Bucknor and Breckin
ridge, are charged with having
voted the straight republican
ticket at the recent election in
Kentucky.
The top crop of cotton in Texas
this year has been completely
destroyed by the "top sot," a
new disease imported into thin
country by the "cotton crop liar."
If the announcements of the
social triumphs of Mrs. Langtry
and her kind were given less
prominence in our newspapers it
would bo better for the morals of
our people.
The Hawaiian Minister of Fi-
nance has just floated anothi r
loan of §200,000, making the total
indebtedness of the Dole govern-
ment S4,500,000, which the United
States must assume if annexa-
tion is accomplished.
John Bull, in allowing him-
self to become nervous over the
prospects of war between the
United States and Spain, is go*
ing through a lot of entirely
needless worry. There will be
no war between this country ar.d
Spain.
The Bandera Enterprise says:
"More wheat, corn and oats will
be planted in Texas next year
than ever before, but she will still
produce 3,000,000 bales of five
cent cotton and buy car loads of
flour and meat in the North."
THE PEHSIOH ABUSE.
The expenditure of 8145,000,-
000 a year for the payment of
pensions is an item in our over-
crowded national budget which j
is always sure to meet with about
the same sort of criticism, and j
the criticism always meets with :
substantially the same reply, 1
says the Christian Evangelist. |
The uniform objection is that;
the pension system has been j —
abused until there are more im- , , _ y
postors than needy veterans j GRAND BARGAIN SAl.h
among its beneficiaries. Besides ;
NEW YORK STORE.
BARGAINS
BARGAINS
BARCAINS.
The Midlothian-Argus states
that a letter was picked up < n
the streets of Cedar llill the other
day containing five twenty-dol
lar bills and addressed to the
constable stating that the mow
was a part of the funds taken
from the postoffiec there r
centiy.
a teubible f
.inline is nivalin:
the province of Archangel,
government of European Kuhsiu,
in tUfe extreme north. Many
have already died of starvation.
The people wander about redu <■( <Hf yenrs iIcji 1
almost to skeletons, their head-'
swollen to the size of buckets.
Tea is the only means of subsis
tehee.
The democratic members of tlx
Ohio legislature are naid to havt
expressed their willingness U
support Governor Bushnell for
United States senator, 'provided
a sufficient number of republi-
cans to secure his election won
coincide with them. Anything
to beat Mark Hanna, is their
slogan! •
The coinage of Iho mints of th
United States thus far this yea
amounts to 875,100,000, as against
847,870,000 for the same time in
1896. The coinage at the 1'hila
delphia mint for September was
the largest in its history. Of tin
878,100,000 coined this year
about 865,500,000 were in gold
Texas Farm aiid Hunch forei
bly expresses the situation in the
following brief paragraph
"Money in the vaults of tho treas
ury or in the hands of 500 mil
lionairea means prosperity—to
them. It is otherwise with the
great mass of toilers who can
hardly get money enough to pay
their taxes or feed their families
if they have no taxable proper
1 ty."
Mexico has cheap labor and
bids fair to become a formidable
competitor in growing cotton.
This year in some of the states
the cotton acreage was increased
four-fold, v In the low lands,
where fros\ does not come, the
cotton plant become 3 a parenital
shrub which bears every season
It is believed that cotton can be
grown at a profit iu .some parts
of Mexico at two cents a pound.
It remains to be seen whether
Mexican cotton will be as good
quality as that grown in our
southern states. It is the poor
quality of tropical grown cotton
that has given the American pro-
duct its advance over the cotton
produced in India.
this there is an occasional insin-
uation that, whether with or
without grounds, the pension
bureau has been used as the j
ally of a party in political earn- j
paigns. The answer to all criti-
cism and hints 'if extravagant •;
is an appeal to patriotism and
the gratitude duo from the nation :
to its defenders. This is a senti-
ment which is tolerably certain
o meet with approval almost •
anywhere, but it does not touch j
the question of the abuse of the
pension system and the need of
a urio sort of legislation to pre-
vent further frauds. -One abuse :
which calls for correction is the
practice of granting pensions for
life to widows of veterans in !
cases where, for example, a girl !
f twenty has married an old j
soldier of seventy-five for the i
sake of gaining a comfortable j
annuity from the government, i
Such eases have been more mi- j
merous than is commonly sup- j
posed. There are only about ten j
survivors of the second war with i
England-still on the pension roll, j
but the government is support- !
ing, in whole or in part 2,800
widows of veterans of 1812. It is j
not easy to see what claim up< ri
the government these women
have, who were born long after
the close of the war and whose
husbands must necessarily havi
died of old age long before now
even if there had been no war.
The same is true of the young
widows of civil war veterans. It
has been proposed to deny pen-
sions to widows of veterans mar-
ried after a certain date, and it is
an evidence of good sense that
many of tho veterans are joining
in tho support of some such
measure.
Commencing November lllh, and Continuing for 30
We will throw our
cut that will move things
\ou to look at ours liefon
immense stock on the market at a great sacrifice,
in a hurry. We are still selling the balunc
Ow'uu
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tin-
to the low price of Cotton we find we have overstocked onrselves and have decided^
C. B. CONS stock of Clothing at 50 cents on the Dollar. If you are in Deed of anyl||
bin ing.
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The largest line o
Youth's Clothing ever
shown in Brenham, in
all.the latest styles ami
colors.
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Our Little Captain
suits is sold ui der
Guarantee. Your
money refunded for
every one that fails to
give satisfaction.
one
g it will
The little
suit is guaranteed
to rip nor fade. They
havt no equal when it
comes to wear. Try
one and you will have
no other.
500 Capes ari<
1 Jackets will be included in this sale. Our Millinery Department has no equal.
.",00 Pattern Hats just from New York. Call around arid inspect our line before buying,.
Cather & Buster,
BRENHAM, TEX.
state hews.
—Beaumont is to indulge in
the luxuries of a street railway.
—lion. John M. Logan, of
Tyler, announces
himself a full
candidate for comp-j
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\ F W. SCHUERENBERG,
W. T. Carrington,
There is more (.'ntnrrh in this ne< lion of
the country than all other «luem«:s put to-
gether, awl until the hat few year:* wxs *ur>-
pofed t<> li; iiiCurRhl«,( For a great many
years dull pforv.uncoU it ft loco I disease,
and |ire«oil>ed local lemediea, and by ton-
t-willy failing to eur»« with I-oil treatment,
pronounced it incurable. Science hia proven
eatirrh to bw a Constitutional disease, and
therefore reouire* constitutional treatment
Hall's ( atairn Cure, nowiufaetured l>y K. J.
(Jheny & Co., Toledo, Ohio is the only con-
stitutional cure on th" market* li is taken
internally in dose* from iO flrnpi t<> a tean-
poonftil It acta dine ly on the blood nod
mucom surface# of the system. 'I hey ofh-r
one hunrlred dollars fur any case it fails to
cure. Bend for circular* on<l testimonials.
Vddres, y. J. CUBJUK) \ CO,
To'ulo, O
flpf^oltl 1 y DiugKud*. 75c.
Gen. Gomez, it is said, has
ordered Gen. Julio Sanguilly, the
Cuban patriot now in New York,
to report for duty in the insurgent
ranks instanter. This order
places him in an embarrassing
position. Sanguilly had become
an American citizen and when
arrested in Havana two years
ago only released from Moro
Castle upon pledging his word
not to again take up arms against
Spain. Not long afterwards
General Gomez ordered him to
report for duty, but Secretary
Shertnan, it is said, informed
Sanguilly that if he did so he
would forfeit bis American citi -
xan»hip.
Referring to tho now school
history of tho United States, by
Dr. Jones, of Virginia, the Balti-
more Sun makes the following
truthful comment: "There has
long been a demand for a school
history of tho United States
which, while fair to all sections
would do full justice to tho south
t>fi\ states. Many of our so-call
ed histories are but perversions
o£ fact. Written with knowledg
of but one small section of th
country, they have exaggerated
the importanoe of trivial inci
dents in its history, to the neglect
of more important events else
where. Bias, often unconscious
has contributed to further distor
the truth, so that we have ri<
proper account in brief space o
the colonial period, the war of
the revolution, tho formation of
the constitution and the ideas
that instrument was designed to
express. The period from the
formation of the government to
1861 has been described with
equal unfairness. When we come
to the civil war, its events, causes
and results, wo find inaccuracy
misrepresentation and perversion
as their maximum. We have, in
fact, no school history of the
United States by a northern
writer which is not utterly unfair
and misleading, while others from
southern sources are often color
less and insipid by reason of at-
tempts to avoid controverted
points."
For Over Fifty Years.
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing .Syrup has been
used for over fifty years by millions of moth-
ers U r their children while teething, with per-
fect success. It soothes the child, softers
lha t<um.«, allays all pain; cures wind colic,
ard \\ the best remedy for diarrhoea," it
will relieve the poor little sufferer immedi-
ately. Sold by druggist* in every part of the
world, lie sure an J ask for "Mrs. Winslow'g
lothing Syrup" and take no other kind
T wen ty-live cents a l>otUe.
With a gradually improving
system of irrigation the Egyptian
otton product la increasing and
becoming more profitable. The
annual production is now 247,-
500,000 pounds of lint and 22,-
75,000 bushels of seed, with a
total value of $5,624,000, an in-
crease of CO per cent within seven
years. The value of the crop per
a;re is about 809.25; cost of pro-
duction, $40*50; net profit,
822.75.
, fledgei
| troller.
—Four hundred head of beeves
! were loaded on tho cars at Waller
j last week bound for Cuba to feed .
I the Spanish army.
j —Tramps are arrested by city j
i officers at Temple as vagrants
j and are required to work out
' their fines on the streets in do-
| fault of payment.
—R, S. Mason, of Cooke
county, died last Monday ofi
I lockjaw, caused l>y sticking aj
tack in his foot a few days pro- »
vious.
—At Robert Leo, in Coke |
county, last Tuesday, Kd. Good
struck Jim Hutchinson over the
head with a billiard cue, from
tho effects of which he died.
—J. W. Bitting, for twenty
years tho leading merchant of
Manor, has been compelled to
file a deed of trust for tho benefit
of his creditors. Assets about
$80,000; liabilities much less.
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C ASTORIA
For Infants and Children.
—DEALER IN—
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p. aq & Family
lluu Supplies.
LADIES' PALACE
lestaiiraot
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IIUKNJIAU, TEXAS.
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A full supply of Freth and season-
able goods kept in Stock. Will meet
all legitimate competition. Patron-
age solicited and haiisfaction guaran-
teed, Free city Delivery, (jive me
a trial,
THE NEW FAD of the CITV.
MEALS AT ALL
IIOUU#.
We employ nothing but the v< ry beft
cooks. Polite attoi.t on to all. (Jive us a
call.
rcsh Oy>tcrs Daily.
I>. 11. WILLIAMS, Propiletor.
WOOD
Hawed rn l Split for MoV< s and fire pTho»#
Deli ^rocl to any part of the City at $4 5o
per cord, cash on delivery Y»rd nenr Cen-
tral freght depot. O A. LIN DEM ANN.
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Richard A- McCurdy, President.
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I he Leading Dealer in Buggies,. Carts, Hacks, Wagons and
Agricultural Implements,
West Sandy Street, Brenham, Texas.
—Whitecaps are active in
Falls county and have served
notice on a number of farmers
that their tenant houses will be
burned and their farms sov.n in
Johnson grass should they de-
mand money rent for their land.
—W. 1'. Nelson, of Fort Worth,
has filed suit against Sells Bros.'
circus for $10,000 damages for
injuries received by the blowing
against him of one of their bill
boards, knocking him to the
ground and causing him to be
run over by a loaded van. •
—One of tho most destructive
prairie fires known for years has
just swept over the greater por-
tion of Crosby county. The
grass was very rank and the wind
was blowing almost a gale. The
fire traveled almost as fast as a
a horse could run, destroying
everything in its path. A flock
of sheep, literally burned to a
crisp, their blackened corpses
lying bunched together where
they had assembemble in
their helpless terror. A great
many small cowmen will be com-
pelled to move out to secure win-
ter pasture.
A Kingston girl sent 10 cents
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out how to whiten the hands:
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