Texas Democrat. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 30, 1897 Page: 1 of 8
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TEXAS DEMOCRAT.
DANIEL WATSON, Proprietor, Fundamental Principles of Democracy are Fundaments mciples of SelPGovernment- SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $1-50 PER YEAR*
Volume V
SAN MARCOS, TEXAS, THURS
GRA1D1ST SA
Ilaf Ever Was Known!
SEPTEMBER 30, 1897.
NUMBER 32
T. A. Porter & Co,
Till? UP-TO-DATE GROCERS.
Cheapest House in South-west
Texas Quality of Goods i
° Considered.
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Their line is selected from all the leading grocery concerns of the
United States. They have just what you want and cau save you money.
I have the pleasure to announce that ! have purchased u^U
McMeans Stock
★ ★ * ,★ of Go
AT ©0«. ON THE DOLLAR.
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and I have moved the same in with my present stock, and will sell
at prices that will suit every buyer’s pocket book. Now I have the
largest and greatest assortment of
Dry Inis? Sloes and Slothing
ever shown under one roof in Hays County,
ing the savings of the farming
population, and an agitation has
been going on for some years in
favor of a transier of the municipal
Joe Munday Lectures.
Rev. * Joe Munday, the noted
evangelist and lecturer of San
Marcos, lectured to men only at
system to the postal authorities and the Baptist church Tuesday night,
the adoption of something like the. The lecture was a severe denuncia-
French system. The Kolnische} tiou of vice in all its forms, and it
Zeitung of a recent date contained
an interesting article on this, sub-
ject in which the advantages of
such a transfer were set forth at
length, and the necessity of mak-
ing provision-for the farmers as
well as the mechanics in the cities
and the larger towns was demon-
j strafed in forcible language.
( * * T 4- onnn Ko /I nm Ari **
made a good impression on his
audience. Mr. Munday possesses
the happy faculty of holding the
attention and winning the sym-
pathy of his audience by illustrat-
ing his points with apt anecdotes,
and his talent for mimicry is un-
equalled. But he can also play on
the pathetic side of human nature,
i ‘It cannot be denied,” the j and he uses both witn telling effect
writer says, “that hundreds of
thousands of people in the empire
would gladly by a part of their
This Is all I have to say,
I HAVE MORE GOODS THAN I CARE FOR
AND I MUST SELL THEM.
My Woollen Dress Goods Department cannot be beat-new
stock j ust bought by me and by Mi*. McMeans. Prices run from
15c. to $1.50 per yard, and will sell the''same straight at 60c. on
the dollar. I have also more clothing* than l have room for, and it
will go at 60c. on the dollar. Come "as soon as possible and secure
the best bargains. • ■ -
mi mss
Big Dry,, Goods Store.
wages, every mouth if they were
not prevented by. insufficient op-
portunities. .... An imperial
post savings systemggmuld be of
the greatest Ocularly
to the .fir
there is a post office within conve-
nient reach of every farmer, the
postal system is everywhere trust-
ed, and would not only furnish a
convenient opportuuity for deposits
but. an easy method of payment.”
The late Emperor Frederick was
a great believer in the postal sav
ings bank system, and if he had
lived it is probable that it would
have been adopted in Germany
long ago. \
FOR SALE.
GERMANY’S SAVINGS BANKS.
William E. Curtis writes from
Berlin to the Chicago Record that
in Germany the savings banks sys-
tem is managed by the municipal
government instead of the national
authoiities, as in England, France,
Belgium, Italy and other European
countries. The system dates back
for nearly a century and, with the
exception of some unimportant
details, is uniform throughout the
empire. German thrift is proverb-
ial. There are no other people in
the world who can do without
luxuries and things they do not
actualty need witn so great a de-
gree of contentment. From the
cradle the children are taught
econo ary. It is as much a matter
of education as the catechism. In
Some of the schools the children-
are instructed to gather during
their play hours and on their way
to and from their homes all such
apparently valueless objects as old
bottles, tin cans, refuse metals,
etc., which are sold to the junk-
shops and the proceeds deposited
to the credit of the child in the
nearest savings bank. The sam£
spirit that inspires this economy
has caused the number of deposi-
tors in the savings banks of the
empire to exceed the number of
households. It is often the case
that every child and every servant
in a family has his own account at
the bank, which, when it amounts
to a certain Sum, ir withdrawn for
permanent investment.
The usual rate of interest paid by
he municipal savings banks in
Germany is 3 per cent- and, al-
though their management is in-
trusted to the municipalities, the
banking inspectors of the general
government exercise a supervision
over them. There is usually a
general office, with a director in
chief at the cit}' hall, whose prin-
cipal duty is to receive remitiances
from branch offices thae are estab-
lished in every ward. These funds
he invests in government bonds or
in securities of equal value. The
latitude of investment is much
greater than is allowed the postal
savings bank authorities in Eng-
land and France. The funds may
be invested in gilt-edge real estate
mortgages and even in the erection
ef buildings, but before this is
done the proposition must be sub-
mitted to the committee of the
comm council which has jurisdic-
tion over the savings banks, This
committee, which is composed of
practical financiers, bankers, mer-
chants and manufacturers and men
who are, in the habit of handling
monejy, acts as a sort of board of
directors for the system.
In Berlin there are seventy nine
branch offices with 483,000 deposi-
tors out of a population of $1,800,-
000, and the total deposits are a
little more than $40,000,000. In
Dresden the savings banks show a
still larger ntility in proportion to
the population. Although the
number of people in
only about oue-fifih as
Berln, there are half
positors in the saving./
the deposits exceed
In some of the oth-i
proportion is much large
town of Alx-la-Chapell
ample, with only 1 io,489yJx>pula-
tion. there are over 106,000 deposi-
tors, with credits of more than
$20,000,000. In Altona, a city of
149.000 people, there are over
130.000 depositors, with nearly
$20,000,000 to their credit.
This illustrates the extent and
the value of the service ; but there
is a great deal of complaint from
For sale cheap for cash, a second
hand bath outfit as good as new.
Heater and bathing aparatus com-
plete in good working order.
Worth $32.00. Will take $12.50
Call at Griffin’s BarberShop.
Eslray Notice.
Taken up and estrayed by J. M.
Morris, county com. Precinct No.
4, Hays count)*-, for the use and
benefit of Hays county, the follow-
ing estray animals, to-wit: Two
brown horse mules, about 13 hands
high, 10 or 12 years old, one
branded C on left shoulder, one
branded R B on left shoulder, now
in I. V. Davis’ pasture near Drip-
ping Sp.iings; also one dun filley
running at Capt. McLendon’s,
also one bay horse, 14$ hands high,
13 years old, branded, W. D. Gar-
rett’s brand.
Given under my hand and seal
of office this 1st day of August,
1867.
Jas. G. Storey,
Clerk Co, Court, Hays Co., Tex.
He is a close student of human
nature and handles sin and vice
without gloves. In speaking of
the evil of drink Mr. Munday said
saloon men were engaged in a bad
business, that they were going to
hell and carrying others with them
because liquor makes men dan-
gerous. *■ xfe said that some
preachers make a mistake in abus-
ing saloon men, and that the way
to win them to Christ was to preach
the warm, tender and loving gos-
pel of Christ, and not to beat them
over the head with abusive lang-
uage from the pulpit. He said
that preaohers who called them
hard, abusive names drove them
from the church, and that was why
so many saloon men did not go to
church. His theory is to denounce
their business, but not to abuse the
man.
Wednesday night Mr. Munday
lectured to a mixed audience on
the subject, ‘‘There’s a bran new
baby in town.” This lecture is a
budget of fun, but there is an un-
der-current of wisdom and philos-
ophy, as well as a sprinkling of
pathos, that makes it well worth
hearing. The advice to parents
and children, if heeded, would
make this a better world-
Mr. Munday says he will prob-
ablp make arrangements to hold a
revival here at some future date.—
Hondo Herald.
8th
St. Louis Exposition, Sept
to Oct. 23rd.
The I. & G. Ry. will sell round
trip excursion tickets to St Louis,
Mo., Tuesdays aud Thursdays of
each week between September 9th
and October 21st at rate of fare and
and one-third, tickets limited ten
days for return.
D. J. Price, G- P. & T. A.,
Palestine, Texas.
DE R FU L are the cures by
» w Hood’s Sarsaparilla, and yet they
the agrarians that no provision is j are simple and natural. Hood’s Sarsa-
made by the government for receiv-l parilla makes PURSE BLOOD.
How’s This.
We offer One Hundred Dollars
for any case of Catarrh that cannot
be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props.,
Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned, have known
F. J. Cheney for the last fifteen
years, and believe him perfectly
honorable in all business business
transactions, and financially aide
to carry out auv abligation made
by their firm.
West & Trdax. Wholesale Drug-
gists, Toledo, 0.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken in-
ternally, acting directly upon the
blood and mucous surfaces of the
system. Price 75c. per bottle.
Sold by all Druggists. Testimon-
ials free.
Hail’s family Pills a>*e the beste
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