Brenham Weekly Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 9, 1905 Page: 6 of 8
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Weekly Banner.
One Sollftr » T*»r-
JOHN O. BASKIS,
Editor, PnblUher and Proprietor.
Entered *1 the Postofi&ce in Brenham
Texas, u »econd-dM» mail matter,
Office of Publication—The -Banker's new
Iron building, Watt Sandy itreet, Brenb&m,
Pexai. _____
OUH AtfKNTS.
Following are authorised agents of Thi
iiann**, who«e receipts lor gubtcription will
:ie recognized at this office:
W KrfLEY—Joe Mikeska.
QREENVINE—J. W. 8chwickert.
KENNEY—L. W. Swearingeo.
BURTON—Thomas Watson.
HEMPSTEAD—Joseph W. Nooner,
GAY HILL—Dr. G. A- Wedemeyer.
PRAIRIE HILL—T. G. Wendt.
WILLIAM TEN N—Henry Gascamp.
CHAPPELL HILL—J. M. Carlisle.
WHITMAN—Mre. Kate Ewmg.
SHELBY—Friti G. Wolf.
Special Notice.
Recipts for subscription to the
Weekly Banner must be signed by
the publisher, or his duly authorite.i
agents, whose names appear in each
issue.
The prineise number of words
in the Old and New Testaments
is 773,692 and by reading some
thing like ten minutes a d»y at
the pace of 20 words a minute,
one could read the bible through
in a year.
Sponsor is Appointed.
Louisville, Ky., Feb. 27th.—
General Stephen B. Lee, com*
mander in chief of the United
Confederate Veterana, has an-
nounced the appointment of Miss
Carrie Peyton Wheeler, daugh-
ter of General Joseph Wheeler,
to be sponsor for the South at
the Confederate reunion to be
held in Louisville June 14, 15
and 16.
Miss Wheeler has selected Miss
Lena Swift, of Atianta, and Miss
Carrie Hall, of Louisville, to be
her maids of honor.
The Association of Newspa-
per publishers in session at New
York indorsed President Roose-
velt for his action in investigate
ihg the paper trust, by the fol-
lowing resolution:
Resolved, that the American
Newspaper Publishers Associa-
tion extend grateful appreciation
to President Roosevelt and the
department of justice for the
prompt response to the request
of this association for an invea-:
tigatien and legal proceedings
against the combination of paper
manufacturers, which proceed
ings are pending in the United
States circuit court for the dis-
trict of Minnesota and being vig-
orously prosecuted.
It Was a Timely Move by Congress
Congress has virtually placed
the building of the Panama canal
in the hands of President Roose-
velt and given him a free rien.
Something had to be done, if
anything was accomplished in
the way of construction. Nearly
two years have been lost and
there were so many high salaried
commissioners, civil and military
officials, with conflicting au-
thority, that the whole enterprise
was tied, hand and foot, with red
tape and paralyzed with graft.
The United States owns 98 per
oent of the stock of the Panama
railroad; the other 2 per cent be-
ing held by the trans-continental
railroad combine, and so great is
the influence of these roads, that
with only two shares of stock, i
they absolutely dictate its ratea
and policies to this government.
It oosts more to transport a ton
<af freight from Colon to Panama
<KtJ miles) than from New York
to San Francisco around the horn.
Everything will be done by the
railroads to delav the building of
the canal, and . cry corrupting
influence will be brought to bear
against those who have the con*
struction in charge, so that in
order to minimize the probability
o! a repetition of the French
scandal, the building of the canal
will be turned over to the war
department under the direction
®f the president.—Grand Saline
iun.
Usage Versus Law.
The manner in which property
is rendered for taxation is a re-
markable instance of the force of
usage in the face of the plain
letter of the law. The law re-
quires all property to be assessed
at its fair market value, yet it is
a matter of common knowledge
that nine-tenths of the property
in Texas, especially real estate,
is never assessed at exceeding
two-thirds of its value, and most
frequently at half its value, and
often even less.
This basis of rendition has
been so long acquiesced in and
permitted by the assessors that
the law which they swore to obey
has been lost Bight of and is per-
sistently ignored
There can be no possible ex-
ouse for such action. Taxes are
collected if. order to meet the ex-
penses of government and it is
the function of government to
protect the property of the citi-
zen, and ju3t in proportion as
any citizen has property he
should contribute to paying the
expenses of its protection.
If a man h«» a house worth ten
thousand dollars and a stock of
goods worth as much more, he
insures both for their full value
if he is able and can get the in-
surance, and if loss occurs col-
lects insurance unto the utmost
farthing.
The city government pays the
police to protect his property and
firemen to extinguish fire that
may threaten to consume it, and
if it be stolen he promptly calls
on other officers paid by the oity
or state to recover it, and there-
fore he has employed the agenoies
of government to protect twenty
thousand dollars worth of proper-
ty, yet when called upon to state
its value in order that it may be
ascertained what proportion of
the expenses of protection he
should pay, renders perhaps only
half of it and swears to the ren-
dition, and the assessor, without
investigation, accepts it and the
government is defrauded and oth-
ertaxpayere are done injustioe.
This is a common, every-day
occurrence, and it is not sur-
prising that the revenues of the
state are short. It is the result
of dishonest usage taking the
place of a plain statute, which
needs no interpretation, and eva-
sion of which should not be per-
mitted.
It is the duty of assessors to
"assess"—that is, to fix a value
upon property listed with him—
and if he is fit for the position he
has at least an approximate idea
of- the "fair market value
of the property," certainly of
real estate, in the county, and
when he accepts a value put on
by the owner which he knows is
less than its fair market value,
he fails in the performance of
his duty and violates bis oath of
office, a failure and violation
which can not be exoused by
pleading usage and custom.
The owner is required to make
oath and sign a statement and
swear to it if all the property
which is liable to taxation and
which he is required to render
and give its value, and it is the
duty of the assessor to fix a
value on the property if he is not
satisfied with that the owner
gives; yet in nine instances out
of ten the owner prepares a list
of what he sees fit to render and
signs the affidavit on the blank
and leaves it with the assessor or:
mails it to him, and in that way
the statutory requirement of an !
oath, in the sense of what an
oath really means, is evaded,:
and this annullment of the law,
which is what it really is, is
sought to be excused on the
ground of custom and usage.
The law must be so changed aa
to make such disregard of the
law impossible.—Houston Chron ■
icle.
The Origin of the "Monroe Doctrine "
When Canning was prime
minister of England he oalled in-
to conference Mr. Rush, our able
minister resident in England at
the time, and proposed to him
that instead of England's joining
the holy alliance a combination
should be made between England
and the United 8tates to resist
the re •establishment of the status
quo, at least so far as concerned
the western hemisphere. Mr.
Rush presented the matter to
President Monroe. Mr. Monroe
was a cautious statesman, and
fortunately there were living in
the United States James Madison
and Thomas Jefferson, who were
oalled into consultation by letter,
and they thought the suggestion
of Mr. Canning & good one But,
curiously enough, they thought
the hand was good enough to
play alone, and they advised
against any alliance with Great
Britain on a purely American
question, and consequently Mr.
Monroe made his celebrated mas-
sage to the congress announcing
what has since corue to be known
to the world as the Monroe
Doctrine, which in its last an-
alysis means "America for the
Americans." Itwas in reference
to this great chapter in our his-
tory that Mr. Canning claimed to
have called a new world into ex-
istence to adjust the balanoe of
the old. The doctrine as enun-
ciated by Monroe did not set
forth all we now mean by the
phrase, nor did he probably un-
derstand bow far into the future
his aotion would extend.—The
Earth.
Brsinwork Doesn't Kill.
In the lectur.' on longevity tleliv
cred last week before the Royal
College of Physicians, Sir Herman
Weber, himself an ^ octogenarian
gave official support to the doctrine
that brainwork does not kill, bu;
rather the reverse. A few of his
instances are Sophocles, Plato, Ga-
len, Cicero, Moltke, Bismarck
Mommsen, and Gladstone, to whom
might be added Hobbes, Carlvle
Spencer, and among living men
Kelvin. The facts are that brain-
work increases the supply of blood
to the nerve cells, and promotes
their nutrition and health, Mosso.
an Italian, laid a man on a delicate-
ly balanced table, and showed that
the head end sank whenever the
subject did a mental sum or any
other brainwork. The increased
weight of his head was due to the
life-giving bk. ,'j. The truth ie that
brainwork, ah Aich, never killed
anybody.
Head and Heart.
When I look about the world
and see the children that are
born today or this year, or this
age, ooming into this world that
has been nearly taken up before
they arrived; when I see that
they have not even an opportun-
ity to labor for bread; when I see
in our splendid country that some
who do the most have the least,
and that others who do have the
most- -I say to myself that there
is something wrong, and I hope
that the time may come when
every child that shall hereafter
be invited to our feast shall have
an opportunity with all others.
There is only one way, in my
judgment, to bring that about,
and that is not simply the univer-
ealllducation of the head, but by
universal education of the heart.
The time will come thai a man
who has accumulated his millions
of money will not be respected
unless with those millions he im-
proves the condition of his fel•
lowmen. The time wilt come
when the man of genius will not
be respected unless he uses his
best thought for the amelioration
of mankind. The time will come
when it will be utterly impossible
for a man to go down to death
grasping millions in his clutch of
avarice; going down amid want,
destitution and starvation. The
time will come when it will be im-
possible for such a man to die
without his exit being followed
with the scorn and execration of
all true men and women. The
time will oome when such a man
who is made to open his bands
merely because bis knuckles
have been stricken by death,
cannot purohase " applause by
leaving a portion of that which
has been wrung from the poor to
be devoted to the glory of God.—
Col. Robert C. Ingersoll.
A (iuaranteed Care for PlUi.
Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Pro-
tr 'ding Piles. Druggists refund
ra aey if Pazo Ointment fails to cure
a y ca8<?,*no matter how loDg staud-
in^, in 6 to 14 days. First applica*
ti a gives ease and reBt. 50j. If
your druggist hasn't it send 50c in
stamss find it will be forwarded post
paid by Paris Medicine Co , St.Louis
There is one good thing about
building air castles—it keeps the
builder looking up instead of
down.
Job Printing.
Give your orders for state-
ments, letter and bill heads, en-
velopes, and anything you may
want in the printing line, to the
home printers, The Banner does
as good work and on just as good
paper as printing offices in the
large cities. The type, paper,
ink and press work are equal to
the best. Give us a trial order
and be convinced.
Locations in Texas Wanted.
The Frisco System Land and
Immigration Association is al-
ready turning its share of the
southwestern tide of immigration
to Texas.
Three hundred and fifty agents
of the Association from the East
and North have just completed a
tour of Texas and viewing its re*
sources and interviewed its
landowners and looal Associa-
tion agents, for the sole purpose
of better presenting Texas op-
portunities to homeseekers and
investors in the older states.
This Association is the most
efficient of its kind in existence,
and has agents everywhere in
the United States. If you wish
to sell your farm, town or other
property, or if you desire capital
for factories, mercantile estab-
lishments, or any of the indus-
tries, please address R. S.
Lemon, Secretary Immigration
Bureau, Dept. A, Frisco Build*
ing, Saint Louis, Mo.
S. A. HUGHES,
General Immigration Agent
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To Cure a Cold in One Day
Caret Grip
fa Two Days.
M"** Bromofiahme.T^.^ ST
I offer for sale my premises, con-
sisting of 1409 acres, located within
three miles of Columbus, County
6eat of Colorado county, Texas Of
this tract about 000 acres is arable;
670 in wood land, good for pasture;
the timber is post oak, black jack
and hickory. There is gravel on
this land that I think could be used
for paving and railroad grading; the
balance of the land is bottom; fronts
the Colorado riv6r and consists of
black walnut and cotton wood tim-
ber. The grade of field land runs
from black waxey to light sandy,
furnishing every grade of soil desire
ed. It will produce any crop adapt-
ed to this latitude, including rice,
cane, tobacco, cotton, corn and fruits
such as peaches, pears, figs, plums,
etc., and besides it would make an
excellent hay and stock farm. The
place has good water and is healthy.
It is improved; my dwelling has 8
rooms, with bath room, halls and
galleries; have a wind mill, with
pipes through the house and yard;
have baggy house, cribs, sheds etc.;
also ten tenant houses. 1 believe
there is oil under the plat where the
house is located, as the water has a
greasy appearance at times. The
wells on <the place are from 40 to 60
feet deep. -A school within 1 mile
and four churches with 3 miles. The
farm is beautiful; consists of table
land, and is dotted here and there
with live oaks.
This is one of the most desirable
plantations in Colorado county and
will be sold remarkably cheap to an
early applicant. For further par-
ticulars apply at the Banner office,
Brenbam, Texas.
Valuable Farm for Sale.
tract of land consisting of about
325 acres, located in the old Union
Hill neighborhood, near Burton, is
offered for sale at $25 per acre to
an early applicant. The premises
consist, of a good Bix room resi-
dence; two good tenant houses:
75 acres in cultivation; entire tract
under enclosure; about 100 acres in
cedar timber, balance in post oak
and prairie land; everlasting spring
and well water on premises. For
farther particulars apply at the
Banner office
V3i Ki
Who says it don't pay to advertise?
Don't all answer at once!
A few days ago a very prominent citizen of
our county "dropped in" to the "Dry Goods Em-
porium" Department of our elaborate business and
after exchanging greetings, introduced his amia-
ble wife, and said: "1 noticed your advertisement
in the "old reliable" Brenham Banner and forth-
with suggested to my "better-half" to "let's go
and see what's in it," We are here and want to
make some purchases and have the money to pay
for them."
Result: Sale of a nice bill of Dry Goods for cash.
Moral: Advertise, spend your money at home;
ave and let live, and be prosperous.
Come to see us We treat all alike, while we
sell no goods at cost, we will please you.
Very Respectjully,
THOS WATSON C.1
General Dealers in Merchandise,
Washington County. Burton, Texas.
GROCERIES,
Seed Potatoes, Garden Seeds,
Fa tnported China Sets,
Children's Bikes, Wagons, Etc.
Fancy Lamps, Cut Glass Setts, Crockery
and Oueensware in endless variety.
Free delivery to all parts of the city,
O. SCHAWE * SON,
Phone No. 41—4 Rings.
SrenJh.a.m., Teacas.
LANDS and FARMS for SALE.
One 800 acre farm, 12 miles north
of Brenham, in the Gay Hill neigh-
borhood; good dwelling; seven good
tanant houses; steam gin: plenty of
good well water; terms—one-third
cash, balance on time to suit pur-
chaser; 6 per cent interest on deferr
ed payments.
One 165 acre farm, 4 miles North
of Brenham; good dwelling; 2 good
tenant houses; wind mill; 18 or 20
acres in meadow; good pasture; 65
acres in cultivation; plenty of water
and timber.
One 185 acre farm, 6 miles West
of Brenham, near Mill Creek switch;
new residence; new 40-60 barn; wind
mill; all new land; new fences; sixty
acres in cultivation; black land; plen-
ty of timber and water.
One 261 acre farm, 7 miles West
of Brenham; good two-story dwell-
ing; three tenant houses; 125 acres in
cultivation; balanoe in pasture; good
spring and well water; fine timber;
all undes good fence.
One small 67 acre farm, 2$ miles
North of Brenham; good dwelling;
nice hay patch; fine soil for truok
growing.
One 150 acre farm, 5 miles North-
east of Brenham; good dwelling;
good pasture; all black land and un-
der good fence.
One 68£ acre farm, 3J miles west
of Brenham, on Central Railway, J
mile south of Berlin; 40 acres in
cultivation, balance pasture and tim-
ber; land fenced off in 5 different
fields; 2 good tanks; new well and
underground cistern; large dwelling
and outhouses; a few bearing pear
trees; located ^ mile from school-
house and German Lutheran church
For further particulars apply to
Jobs G. Rankin, Brenham, Texas.
244 acres eight miles South of
Brenham, near Welcome, in German
settlement; heavy black land; 140 in
cultivation, 24 in meadow, 80 in pas-
ture; 3 tenant houses in good condi-
tion, also wells, barns and outhouses;
some timber and ever running water;
all under fence; price $32 per acre;
easy terms.
157 acres, 3 miles north of Bren-
ham; half bottom land: about sixty
acres in pasture; balance in cultiva-
tion; plenty of timber; good running
water;good residence, outhouses and
barns; good well water; $28 per acre;
easy terms.
1470 aores Ranoh, all under fence
large springs, timber, fine black land
in Erath county; two good tenant
houses; outhouses and barns iou ag<)d
condition; $10 per acre; one^ti/rd
dash, balauce on easy terms.
430 acres in Lee county; 8 miles
north of Ledbetter; about 350 in cul-
tivation; part bottom land; good
houses and wells; $10 per acre; half
cash, balance per agreement.
Fine Farm for Sale.
One 240 acre farm, nearly square,
looated 2£ miles North of Brenham;
150 acres in cultivation, composed
of black, sandy and bottom land, fine
meadow, good houses and fence*,
good well, running water in pasture;
will sell in quantity to suit purchas-
er. A bargain to an early applicant.
For further particulars apply at the
Banner'office.
f One of the best farms in Aus*
tin County, consisting of 250
aores, about 200 acres in cultiva-
tion, balance pasture; plenty of
water and timber. This farm is
located on the West bank of Mill
Creek on publio road between
Welcome and Brenham. Has
four good tenant houses. Land
black and waxy. For particu-
lars apply to John G. Rankin.
InpveiPFara for Sale.
A well improved farm, containing
64 acres, good 4-room cottage with
gallery, barn, buggy house, stable
smokehouse, cow sheds, etc., gooc"
well water, all enclosed with pew
fence, located 4 miles West of Br^
ham, near the Wesley road. A I
gain to an early applicant, as
premises must be sold, as owner \
decided to leave the State.
further particulars apply atBinnm
office.
140 acres in Robertson com....,/
cheap. Inquire for further pftiij»ir
ulars of John G. Rankin/
Brenham, Tex^.
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