Brenham Daily Banner-Press (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 258, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 28, 1915 Page: 2 of 6
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*HAM BANNER PUBLISHING COMPANY
tier, Jr. President
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Nen Secretary-Treasurer
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 28,
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for Fletchers
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC
A&y erroneous reflections upon the character, stand-
or reputation of any person, firm or corporation,
may appear in the columns of The Banner-Press,
• gladly corrected upon its being brought to the
on of the publishers.
STRIKE WOULD SETTLE IT.
Suppose the men who are doing the fighting
the European war should become imbued
the strike spirit such as takes hold of un-
lid, mistreated and often abused working
and women in the United States?
It would leave the army officers without
to spill and if tert was any fighting
it left among the officers it wouldn't take
ninety days to conclude the unpleasant-
-they'd either be killed off or would be
the "missing" column with no bleached
to prove "they died, as if o'ercome by
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Wouldn't it be a great blessing if "walking
ites" should appear in the columns on
ler side and become imbued and inspired to
extent that "mercy and truth are met to-
iT: righteousness and peace have kissed
other," to the end that every man should
induced to lay down their arms and wend
way back to the hearthstone of their
res and children, mothers, fathers and
learts.
sides would win, the country would be
^fitted, humanity would be blessed and the
above would wink their approval, but
money grabbers whose anger is accentuat-
[ to the pitch of inveighling honest men into
► meshes of war would be whipped to a stand-
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WHENCE THE REVENUES?
;*"lfeighborlng West Virginia has seen fit to
pt prohibition, and during the recent con-
in Ohio much was said of the brntfits
ieved thereby. Trade was better, the peo-
were happier and morals were elevated,
the material side of the situation is be-
ing to obstrude itself. The Auditor of
ite has called recently for either an increase
in the revenue of $700,000 or a corresponding
' enchment in ordinary expenditures. Dis-
irding the loss of the liquor license income
General Assembly made liberal appropria-
te and created two new department.-, of
How the hour has struck for the paying of
piper. In some of the cities the Councils
ive laid a professional and occupational tax,
icate in detail and hydra-headed ir: scope,
state must now cast about it for new
. (purees of impost. Quite naturally the easy
Ipfgeetion is made to increase the general levy,
the State Board of Public Works has al-
advanced the rate from 6 cents on the
100 valuation in the fiscal year of 1913 to 10
its in the fiscal year which began last July
Yet this will not take care of the deficit.
Auditor, it may be said with proper def-
lce, foolishly proposes to compel the em-
bers of the state to provide for the mainte-
of the operating department of the work-
l's compensation fund, all of which now
out of their pockets.
But, if he has gone astray on this particular
jject, he is in the right path when he sounds
warning against the too great and too
jid increase of general taxes:
"We should make haste slowly and deliber-
|y and be sure of our ability to pay as we go
By a too great increase of taxes we
discourage not only our own people, but
the influx of outside capital, and thereby
jder the very causes we desire so much to
Ivance."
It is with regret that the state's financial of-
foresees the hampering of the advance-
of the schools, the extension of the good
system and the construction of necessary
ic buildings, and adds the intimation that
jblic treasury may have to be replenished
the issuing of bonds.
; may be argued that this is a presentation
jrial matters as against a great moral
Admitting this as true, the situation
may be called upon to meet in 1916
changed thereby. The Prohibitionists
only be intensely moral, as they see
must be equally practical, as every-
tes it. In their new campaign
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Exchange Comment
Is Oscar B. Colquitt preparing to carry
the war into Africa, figuratively speaking?
A newspaper dspatch from Austin says that
while the former governor has finally decided
to make his future home in the city of Dallas,
he will at once make an extended visit to the
north and east before settling down perma-
nently. Colquitt told a newspaper reporter in
connection with this trip to the North and East
that he had received an invitation to deliver
an address in Detroit, Mich., on February 3,
elaborating his recent attack on the Wilson ad-
ministration, and that he had also been invited
to speak at the Hippodrome, in New York, on
January 31. It would seem from these devel-
opments that the retiring Texas governor be-
lieves he has a message to deliver to the Ameri-
can people and he is preparing to make the de-
livery.—El Paso Times.
If ex-governor Colquitt would appear at the
hippodrome in Gotham with all the criminals
he liberated during his tenure in office he would
create probably as big a sensation as A1 Jen-
nings of Oklahoma did in his story in Saturday
Evening Post, entitled, "Beating Back". Mr.
Colquitt could have his press agent play strong
on "Turning the Rascals Out".
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The Time Was when the first art of a print-
er was to kill all the booze he could and "rush
the growler" from morning until night. He
was a "knight of the road" and when he hit a
printing office the ethics of the trade demand-
ed that he get at least the price of a meal. The
glory of the old days has departed. The
printer rides in chair cars instead of the blind
baggage and he has rather "set up" the price
of a meal than to have you think he is a "hobo"
out on the bum. But ye old time printer was
an artist when it came to setting type and
he could set anything from straight news to
the most intricate job. Here's to the memory
of the old-time printer—like many things of
the old days—he has left us and it is question-
able whether we are better by his passing.—
Temple Telegram.
Some "dirty-fingered type-sticker" must have
written the above. If we were compelled to go
on the witness stand, like Mr. Rockefeller and
other big "guys", we'd tell the truth and noth-
ing but the truth and say right out in meetin'
that the passing of the olcl-time printer has
robbed the craft of lots of its charm, and when
we recall the story Sam Eylar used to tell of
"sleeping with a healy monster out in Arizona."
and how Cave Hurley soaked a dozen Spavin
Cure horse doctor books, (not worth the room
they occupied,) to a bar 'tender for a quart of
barrel whisky, and with what eclat Jack Jor-
dan related his pedogogal experience, it almost
makes us yearn for the good old days when
the "woods were full of tramp printers" who
elected to call themselves "manipulators of the
silent messengers of tought."
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"Jitney" Cars, Which take their name from
the fact that "jitney" means 5 cents, are vex-
ing electric cars and perplexing legislative
bodies. The latest means of transportation,
which means the quickest, is in demand in
these days of hurry, hustle and bustle. If the
"jitney" beats the electric it is no more than
the electric has done for the mule car, and is
doing for the steam engine. It begins to look
as though it is up to the street car people to
improve their service or get out of the way of
the "jitney".—Corsicana Sun.
And it might be well to add that the mulc^
has not made such a jackass of himself because
of his lost opportunity to trot up and down a
public street, with a soda cracker box filled
with suckers tied to him, as the electric car
owners are making of themselves braying
about the dictum of evolution that is as inev-
itable as the revolving of the sun. If the
street car men will bide their time they may
see the aeroplane put the itney car owners
out of business.
If A Man Takes a woman's arm to assist
her over a cigarette paper that someone has
dropped on the sidewalk, it is a sign they are
not married. If he allows her to go unassist-
ed up a flight of stairs to a dentist's office it
is evidence that their hearts have been united
in the holy bonds of wedlock.—Claude Callun,
in Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
Who'd blame a married man for refusin' to
assist his wife up a flight of stairs to a den-
tist's office? The dentist would pull the wife's
tooth and then pull her husband's leg. It is
only proper that married men should be cau-
tious when it comes to assisting their wives.
they should be frank enough to tell the voters
how they intend to make up the deficiencies
in the budget that will appear if they are vic-
torious.—Cincinnatti Enquirer.
MEETS SUNDAY TO
GET UP SCHEDULE
Temple, Texas, Jan. 28.—President
H. P. Robertson Jr., of the Middle
Texas baseball league has called a
meeting of franchise owners to be
held in this city Sunday, January 31,
for the purpose of disposing of the
report of the schedule committee and
closing up several other matters of
important business. Strict attention
will be paid the umpire question and
good salaries will be paid in order
to secure the services of skilled hand-
lers of the indicator. This was the
only sore spot during the entire sea-
son of last year and steps will be
taken this year in advance to cor-
rect the same. From the various
towns composing the league word is
being received of activities being car-
ried on in the way of signing play-
ers and otherwise getting ready for
the season which opens April 16 for
a 100-game season of two divisions.
EXPROPRIATION GRAIN ORDER
Received by Germans in the Very
Best Spirit
Berlin, Jan. 28 (via London) Jan.
28.—The governmental order for the
expropriation of all stocks of corn,
wheat and flour, which was announced
most unexpectedly Tuesday night, nat-
urally is the chief topic of Jiscussion
by the newspapers and the people.
All are inclined to accept it in the
best spirit and without grumbling,
as a necessary measure to check the
misuse of grain stocks which had been
going on despite the earlier govern-
mental measures and to conserve the
grain until the next harvest.
All stocks of corn, wheat and flour
are ordered seized by February 1.
All business transactions in these
commodities are forbidden from Jan-
uary 26.
All municipalities are charged with
the duty of setting aside suitable sup-
plies of preserved meats.
The owners of corn are ordered to
report their stocks immediately,
whereupon confiscation, at a fixed
price, will follow.
A government distributing office
for tfre regulation of consumption will
b^stablished, distribution being made
according to the number of inhabi-
tants.
frank case echo hisard
Detective and Two Other Men on
Trial for Perjury
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 28.—Dan S. Le-
han, Southern manager of a national
detective agency; Arthur Thurman, a
local lawyer and C. (j. Tedder, for-
merly a policeman, were placed on
trial here before Judge Hill in the
Fulton county superior court, charged
with subornation of perjury in con-
nection with the Frank case.
It is charged that they procured
false affidavits from Rev. c. B. Rags-
dale and R. B. Barber, in which the
affiaints declared they overheard
James Conley, a negro factory
sweeper, tell another negro he had
killed a white girl in the pencil fac-
tory where Mary Phagan's body was
found. Conley now is serving a
year's sentence as accessory to the
murder of Mary Phagan. Ragsdale
and Barber later repudiated the affi-
davits.
REDFIELD SCORES
BIG SHIP OWNERS
FOR HIGH CHARGES
Galveston, Jan. 28.—In an interview
Wednesday with representatives of
the press, Secretary of Commerce
William C. Redfield declared that he
had expected to find great opposition
in Galveston to the Bhip purchase
bill, that he had found opposition else-
where and that he expected to con-
tinue to find opposition to any meas-
ure that cuts into the extortionate
profits now enjoyed by steamship
owners. He declared that a railroad
man would be thrown in the peni-
tentiary for attempting to charge such
extortionate rates as the steamships
now charge, and that laws equally
stringent should be passed in regard
to the steamship business.
Mr. Redfield was the guest of honor
at a luncheon given by the Galveston
Cotton Exchange at Hotel GaJvez.
He was the only speaker of the oc-
casion, was introduced in due form
by President I. H. Kempner of the
cotton exchange, and preceeded to
outline the work of the department
of commerce.
Special reduction sale going on now
at the Variety Store, the cheap atore.
Lowest prices ever seen on this kind
of goods. Tickets given just the
same, notwithstanding the low prices.
—Adv.240-lmo
The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been
in use lor over 90 years* has borne the signature of
and has beeu made Tinder his per- •
sonal supervision since its infancy.
Allow no one to deceive you In this.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and " Just-as-good " are but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health ot
Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment*
What is CASTORIA
Castorla Is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare-
goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worm®
and allays Feverishness. For more than thirty years it
has been in constant use for the relief of Constipation.
Flatulency, Wind Colic, all Teething Troubles and
Diarrhoea. It regulates the Stomach and Bowels,
assimilates the Food, giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children's Panacea—Tho Mother's Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
Bears the Signature of
In Use For Over 30 Years
The Kind You Have Always Bought
LIFE 01 THING
AFTER ANOTHER
WITH MUSIC MAN
Hutchinosn, Kans. Jan. 28;—R.
Mote, a piano salesman, with one
wife in Minneapolis, Minn., and an-
other in Hutchinson, met wife No. 3
in Garden City, Kan., on Wednesday,
married her on Friday, was arrested
on Sunday and was sentenced to an
indeterminate period in the State pen-
itentiary yesterday.
Mote pleaded guilty to a charge of
bigamy and asked for mercy assert-
ing he was intoxicated at the time
of his last marriage and was urged
to it by companions.
KAISER FIFTY-SIX YESTERDAY
Amnesty Decrees in Honor Are Issued
Favorable to Soldiers
Berlin, Jan. 28 (by wireless to Lon-
don).—Two birthday decrees of am-
nesty were issued by Emperor Wil-
liam Wednesday, the fifty-sixth anni-
versary of his birth. The first releas-
es soldiers in the field from disci-
plinary punishment inflicted upon
them by court martial within a limit
of six months imprisonment; the sec-
ond decree annuls the prosecution of
soldiers for offenses committed prior
to the receipt of their call to arms.
Doesn't Help Us
New York, Jan. 28.—Supreme Court
Justice Erlanger decided Wednesday
that American citizens who had in-
curred debts in European countries
where moratoriums were declared
after the war began, may take ad-
vantage of the moratorium.
NEGRO FATALLY
SHOOTS SHERIFF
ALABAMA TOWN
Selma, Ala., January 28.—A pis-
tol duel here between Deputy Sher-
iff George h. McNeill and Jim Fow-
ler, a negro whom McNeill sought to
arrest, brought death to the officer
and to the negro and the destruction
of the negro's home by lire.
Three deputies went to the ne-
gro's home to make the arrest. Mc-
Neill entered the house while his two
assistants were left in the front yard.
Soon pistol shots were heard. The
two officers rushed into the house
and found McNeill fatally wounded
and the negro dead with a revolver
in his hand. Flashes from the pis-
tol had set Are to the house.
The two deputies brought their
dead fellow-officer back to the county
jail, leaving the negro's body to
burn with his home. The body was
found later burned to a crisp.
CANADA MUST CONTRIBUTE
Parliament Will Be Asked to Give
Million to War Fund.
Montreal, Que., January 28.—The
Canadian parliament will be asked
to vote $100,000,000 toward the
expenses of carrying on the war in
Europe, at the session which begins
next month, according to a declara-
tion male Wednesday by George E„
Foster, dominion minister of trade
and commerce, in a speech before
the Canadian club.
The dominion has already voted
$50,000,000.
Eubscribe for the Banner-Press.
STOMACH TROUBLE
FOR FIVE YEARS
Hqority of Friends Thought Ml.
Hughes Would Die, But
One Helped Him tc
Recovery.
Pomeroyton, Ky.—In interesting id-
vices from this place, Mr. A. J. Hughes
writes as follows: "I was down with
stomach trouble for five (5) years, and
would have sick headache so bad, at
times, that 1 thought surely I would die.
I tried different treatments, but they
did not seem to do me any good.
1 got so bad, I could not eat or sleep,
ind all my friends, except one, thought 1
would die. He advised me to try
fhcdford'i Black-Draught, and quit
taking other medicines. I decided to
take his advice, although I did not have
any confidence in it.
I have now been taking Black-Draught
for three months, and it has cured me—
haven't had those awful sick headaches
since 1 began using it.
1 am so thankful for what Black-
Draught has done for me."
Thedford's Black-Draught has been
found a very valuable medicine for de-
rangements of the stomach and liver. It
is composed of pure, vegetable herbs,
contains no dangerous ingredients, and
acts gently, yet surely. It can be freely
used by young and old, and should be
kept in every family chest
Qet a package today.
Only a quarter.
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