The San Saba News. (San Saba, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 28, Ed. 1, Friday, May 16, 1890 Page: 2 of 4
This newspaper is part of the collection entitled: Texas Digital Newspaper Program and was provided to The Portal to Texas History by the UNT Libraries.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
1
uori P H HMT ly to
tho roco eicn T in Canada and brinjj
about a test of strength Tho nntago
nism of blood and religion has existed
for years but hero is a distinct issue
upon which tho fight may come on
Paris morals are getting even worse
Last year out of 26000 malefactors 16
000 vera under twenty years of age
The corruption in this wholesale way of
he youth of a great city is the most un-
favorable sign of the many unfavorable
signs given by the French capital The
morajjcliance of France has long been
inCvTirovinccs
i
Probably 1000 steers are shipped alive
out of New York every day Their
landing place on the other side as a rule
is Dcptford London Ships carry all
tho way from fifty or sixty head up to
COO each If a hundred or two are
carried they arc kept on the upper deck
If from 400 to COO ore carried then two
decks and sometimes three must bo de
voted to the cattle
The Supremo Court decides that the
law requiring citizens of Idaho when
about to register to swear that they are
not bigamists or polygamists and that
they are not members of any order that
practices or encourages plural marriages
is constitutional The decision was ren-
dered in a suit brought to test the con-
stitutionality of tho law and will greatly
aid in the suppression ofMormonism
Latest British emigration returns show
that Great Britain continues to be tho
European colonizer par excellence Eng-
land has delivered herself of 164225
emigrants during 1890 Ireland comes
next with 64972 while Scotland the
land which founds empires on a peck of
oatmeal contributes 25371 This
makes Great Britains total 254568 out-
put for 1SS9 compared with 279928 for
1SS8 Of foreigners making use of Brit-
ish ports for embarkation 83008 left
Great Britain in 18S9 compared with
113230 ia 1880 Of the total of all na-
tions threefourths selected the United
States as their new home Scotland send-
ing so large a proportion as 17593
There are four members of the United
States Senate who can never be candi-
dates for the Presidency of this republic
under the constitution because of an
1 q t t
nd I
waSUBlu mTEngiand General McMillan
of Michigan in Canada Senator Beck
of Kentucky in Scotland and Senator
Pazco of Florida in England While
it is the exception rather than otherwise
that a Senator was bom in the State he
represents sectional lines have been
closely observed Of the northern Sena-
tors only two were born in the South
Cullom of Illinois and Senator Ilawlcy
of Connecticut in North Carolina Not
one southern Senator is of northern
origin
t The low point to which the price ol
hides has bees forced through the de-
pression which has existed of late seem3
to have tempted sellers to try to find a-
new market for their merchandise Dar
ing the past few weeks about 80000 to
100000 dry Western hides have been
shipped to Europe in order to try that
market How this new departure will
turn out is at present entirely problemati-
cal but if European tanners can use our
hides to advantage it will offer up a new
field and tend to give a tone of steadi-
ness to this market that has not been felt
for a long time The recent shipments
of African hides to Europe from thi3
market while a new feature in itselfwas
not of that importance to the trade here
that this latter shipment will be if it
proves successful in opening up a new
market
A scientific fact of great valueand one
which should bring comfort to legions
of that large class of people who are
weary of the caprices of an erratic or
tardy Jivcr has lately been established
Experiments have proved that large por-
tions of the liver can be removed without
serious disturbance to the animal func-
tions of the human body The explana
tIuSTm 0uTIact emstobetiatitSgone happiness of their presence lay nor
theXlmc has a woniisTlzljwwer of repro
jtaetfea Jonfiek found Xhst within a
few day of the removal of portion of
i
the liver lbs work of its reproduction
began and that it proceeded with great
rapidity to completion In certain cases
he fouqd that within a period of a few
weeks as much was reproduced as had
been removed and this amounted occa-
sionally to twice as much as had been
left behind
It is said that the chronic state of fear
in which he lives has driven the Czar of
Russia insane The stories told of the
dread and apprehension with which his
mind is filled by the plots of the revolu-
tionists have been no exaggerations of
the truth His life from hour to hour is
one of abject and quaking fear every
bush is a Nihilist and every obscure
cranny of his palace conceals a mine An
autocrat and a despot he has refused to
modify the tyrannous rnle which has
brought these dangers into being A
representative Government or even
smaller concessions would have quieted
his reign and preserved his reason The
Chicago Herald thinks it not to bo won-
dered at that he has gone insane The
task of maintaining a despotism when
en monarYmies are crumbling would
been too much for a more powerful
Pnow
Lire and to hold
Jm rubles or gold
fUWng
n can bring
fiofknow1
fctSjFounj People
ATERIOK
not August day there had
loud of dust in tho east like a
rvof smoke No breath of air
< nor did it mm to advance a
5 The 6ky was a steely blue the air
quivered like the white heat from a caul-
dron af molten metal In the crisp and
dry buffalo grass myraid insect life gave
to the simmering air a dreamy monoto-
nous sound like the humming of f araway
beesThe
The afternoon passed darkness gath-
ered and with the
rising moon came a
cool wind from off the snowcrested
peaks The cloud of dust subsided and
revealed a line of moving whitccovef
wagons
As the caravan drew near a gaunt
prairie wolf rose suddenly out of the
grass gave a long dolorous howl and
fled across the plain After him as if
they had risen from the earth by magic
wenta pony and rider abronzed grizzled
old man as gannt and evidently dread-
ing the newcomers as much as the wolf
The caravan numbering thirty wagons
went into camp in the form of a hollow
square the people and animals inside the
barrier of wagons The sound of voices
the smell of cooking the laughter of
children and the red glow of the camp
fires made a bit of welcome life in the
solemn land breaking the soundless
monotony of centuries
Later when the fires were low and
when the only noises were the champing
of the animals and the tread of the sentry
on watch a strange elfish figure ran out
of the stockade and began to dance in
the moonlight a girl of twelve or therea-
bouts with big sparkling eyes and short
black curls flying over her pretty brow
A bearded face was thrust out under a
wagon cover and a gruff but not un-
kindly voice called
Come in here you Maverick want
the Injuns to git ye
The rhild laughed mockingly and
continued her dance After the third
call the big man jumped out of the wagon
and ran after her When she could run
rib longer she dropped like a log re-
maining stiff and still while he carried
her to the wagon
Gritty aint she mam he said as
the child rolled over like a stick of wood
The lady addressed was a tall thin
person with a wrinkled face sharp black
eyes behind spectacles corkscrew curls
and a habit of wearing little shoulder
capes in the hottest weather She was a-
New England school teacher going West
to better herself
Grittyis Western I presume Mr
Chase said the lady Miss Mary Ann
Heed What on earth do you call her
a Maverick for Miss Heed clicked her
needles viciously She knitted all day
jolting in a corner of the wagon a pic-
ture of martyrdom
In my kentry Texas said Chase
they calls them stray young cattle that
dont git branded Mavericks they dont
blong to no herd an them that finds
cits cm
Reed
I dunno whispered the man with
ii > anxious look toward the sleeping
child A feller that met me two day3
ago on the eastbound wagontrain told
me her pa and ma hed died suddenlyan
the children hed scattered an hed
never heered o Janet at all Her
granmarm hed krphcr iroraa baby an
the old lady dyin Janets uncle jest
shipped her off to Denver where her
folks was livin Dont seem nobody to
take her
Why didnt you send her back with
these folks asked Miss Reed
Cause they was only harf way an
was short for grub they wouldnt take
herYet
Yet the Maverick was a great pet on
the journey Every one liked her and
welcomed her bright presence to their
ergons Around the camp fires even
the men gathered to hear her sing the
quaint old hymn her grandmoter had
taught her She held tired babies till
ber little arms were numb she told
stories to weary children and was a
nunistering angel at every wagon at the
isX one in the train most of all
This wagon had joined the train in
Missouri and belonged to an unfortunate
fiimily that Chase called Pikes The
fither a sullen sickly man drove the
four lean oxen the mother halfdead
from malaria seldom lifted her head from
her bed and the nine children practically
orphans took care of themselves and of
a little motherless girl sent to her father
in Denver
This baby Rose was a merry little
creature of three beautiful and winning
and much liked But the days were toil-
some ones and as the Browns had charge
of her no one interfered though many of
the party wondered who could have
trusted her with them
The two younger Browns homely
faded little souls were faithful guar
dians over her The other children were
unruly and rude but these two seemed
like some good old folks who had lived
out wellrounded lives and been trans
laled back to earth to begin over again
To these children Janets was
csttld she could tell stories enough to
satisfy them Once Janet coming un-
observed heard the youngest Pike tell
Jag baby Rose who was cross one of
n fown stories
Too sorrerful little things cried
Janet cant you make em up your-
selves of your own
For a week at Eight the sentry at the
stockade saw faroff black moving
specks on the horizon and weary
and anxious were the hours ofdark
ness early the start eager the
to get on without the attack Each man
would mutter in the gray dawn as hag-
gard and white he harnessed his team
Thauk God another night of peace no
Indians yet
Janet said Chase one morning
when she came to watch him harness his
team ef them Iojuns comes an gits
the better o us you git on that ere lectle
gray pony Nance thar an take Rose
an set out fur them low hills cross
tharNance
Nance likes me smiled Janet I
feed her my bread
All of us like ye ye Maverick ycr so
chipper alius Chase said admiringly
The Injuns shant git ye cf we kin help
it
That day a young wife was sick and
all the long hours Janet tended the wail-
ing baby its mother was too ill to care
for She looked back at the line of
wagons and thought of baby Rose that
she loved best of all
Those good little Pikes will see to
her she thought hopefully But the
two little Pikes were weary that day
ns and no one noted
j
ulC 5 cac1 of18 wns they
Mid one was drifting away
aid
JEVERNOJ t halt Janet freed from
= j for Rose Then the news
flew from wagon to wagon the child was
gone and no one had seen her all day
Miss Reed remembered seeing her run-
ning among the sunflowers at breakfast
time
Aint nobody going for her cried
Janet in agony She ran to each wagon
to be met with the same answer It
cannot be done
You see Janet said Chase a sob in
his voice theres fifty women an chil-
dren here an only thirty men to guard
em there may be hundreds of Injuns out
there We darent leave camp or theyll
know it an weve searched all the plains
with a glass an theres no sign of
her
But termorrer choked Janet
Shell not be awanderin missy
dont arsk mc to tell ye but theres In
juns an perarie wolves
We must only tell her father she
died never the whole truth said Miss
Reed coming to the wagon for her rub-
bers which she wore on the dryest
nights
Chase walked away and sat down by the
fire No dont talk no more Janet
as the child went to him it arent no
use Im the only old Injun fighter in
camp Ive growed gray at it Ive got
tcr take the lead
Janet went quickly to her wagon By
the light of a flickering candle she
printed in a round childish hand on a
bit of paper these few words
Mr Chase I an goin to find Rose an
takeNnce JaintnogoodinfightinInjuns
an I heard you say my folks was dead
Dont you come for me cause they need you
They dont me that is only a Maverick
Janet
She pinned this note to his blanket
then went softly out in the starlight to
tho corner where Nance stood Fear-
lessly she blanketed the animal fastened
the surcingle then led her quietly out to
an open space between two wagons
She looked back at the dying camp
Gres the groups of men sleeping in the
light of them their guns by their sides
the silhouettes of the women against the
wagon curtains Miss Reeds prim and
queer with the funny curls How safe
it was here how lonely and dreadful
outside She climbed ou the pony and
turned her head toward the east the
animal thinking of her home struck into
a run The sentinal saw Nance disap-
pear in the darknees but did not note
the little rider
That onery gray pony as aint been
worked all the way hey got loose an
gone he said to the crowd of excited
men who ran out at the noise
Every unusual rattling of gravel under
Nance s hoofs quickened the beating of
Janets heart every dark object was to
her a beast of prey every sound the
coming of the red men She thought of
the oldtime stories Of Indian warfare
and cruelty her grandmother had told
her of the horrors of the plains the men
spoke of by the campfires
But Im the only one in all that train
as hasnt anybody to care for me she
said bravely There was only me to
be spared
When the moon rose it showed her no
living object on the great plains The
camp was far out of vision and not even
a spark from its fires glimmered on the
still air Absolute quiet and solitude
the world seemed asleep
At the top of a little rise in the road
Janet halted to rest her tired horse and
once more to look around the lonely
land The quivering of Nance startled
There in the moonlit road stood baby
Rose her yellow curls dishevelled her
face tearstained and dirty her gown
torn her little feet bare and bleeding
She still clung to her flowers that had led
her astray long hours before
Near the child a lean gray wolf sat on
his haunches regarding her with a pro-
found and melancholy stare
At the sight of the pony the wolf gave
a weird howl turned and trotted swiftly
across the plains The childwith a wild
cry ran forward
I knew youd turn Janie I lost all
day an hungy an the doggie corned an
singed I had a doggie once Bounce
where mamma was Oh I want my
mamma
Janet held her close kissed her tears
away and then she gave her tae food she
had brought her own supper She
lifted her to the ponys back led Nance
to some low hills that might give them
shelter and there waited for daylight
I never knew nights was so long be-
fore sighed Janet holding Rose in her
arms Nance is laid down an asleep
Only me awake an I must keep watch
for wolves an Injuns Now the moons
goin too an it gets lonesomer Ill
say all the hymns I know to keep me
awake on brave
Try as she would her head would
droop the words grow confused and
weary As the moon sank and the chill
increased the shivering child covered
Rose with her own skirt and then to
keep warm and awake walked up and
down beside her
What was it that low trampling
sound coming louder and nearer so fast
Janet caught up Rose and ran back to the
hill the horse followed trembling in
every linb Just beyond the hill in a
furious gallip came a mass of horsesand
dimly amid the fog of dust about them
Janet saw the forms of their Indian
riders
Joe said Injuns was wussn wolves
sobbed Janet Dear Lord let them go-
on an not find us
The Indians passed on their path
marked by clouds of sand that helped
the darkness mercifully to hide the chil-
dren
Theyre gone cried Janet but
hardly were the words uttered when
there came another louder trampling the
click of arms against saddles and more
horses hundreds of them it seemed to
Janet and then bringing joy to her
heart an American voice calling For-
ward as the cavalrymen pressed on af-
ter the Indians
The danger having passed the tired
child fell asleep with Rose in her arms
When she woke it was bright sunlight
i > r dazed eyes saw Nance feeding near
by 1 running toward her and an oldish
man mJte gray DeanJ an < 1 bronzed
face lookingffltji kindly By his side
was the lean wolfJ y ha < 1 a > ucd a dog
I knew it was a tSpc one cried
Janet x
In course you did smUsd the old
man Me an my gal Ann ljscd fell
out twenty odd year ago cause I oWncd
a tame bar She went tcr Bosting
turned schoolmarm an I emigrated to
Iowy
Janet very wideoyed told him about
Jliss Reed who was one of their wagon
pazty Gaining courage she also gave
her own history and Roses as far as she
knewWal
Wal you bo a powerful talker
cried the old man Now come eat an
then well ketch up with the caravan
Say though sis would you say lowin
fur age an my whiskers Ann Reed aint
no bctterlookin then me
Youre both nice for old folks said
Janet politely
He led them to a dugout in the hills
where they found plenty to cat and then
they lay ia o strange Stupor taose pa they set out for t a wajtoai Janet with
X
Rose on Nance the wolf followiagjth
old mans bronco
The row last night sis f SpSa3
was Uncle Sams sojers arteqlnJHMjj
same as has been hangin round ycr train
Wonder how them serious wayspfJEAru
Reeds would a took with Injons j
At night they reached tho campi
place of the wagons where thereRi
great rejoicing Chase cspecUUylfSji
ing often to stroke Janets curband mtii
ter Ef you aint a horned hero ljieverj
knowed one 1 The stuff of a pioneer IJjB
Janets only sadness was that oncfrlittlm
grave where tho youngest PiKe lavg
the child had died tho nightibeforis
How many nameless gravessome pat
tiny ones there used to be on thaf
pathway to the West 5f
When Janet with Rose in hljrja
climbed into her wagon the hejrnrli
proached and said mysteriously
the same Ann Reed sis an sheii
apettin that wolf like ho were jrjwj
dog Aint set agin cm no more
Two miles from Denver theylmetja
horseman so pale and anxious tb egknew
who he was even before hejfcaued
hoarsely
Is my baby with you
Aye she be answered Chasejjjjbu
wed met ye with blank faces ansorTe
ful hearts but for Janet here
Then he told the story and tho father
got down from his horse to kiss her first
before his own child
Im well on Joe he said brokenly
I can do well for her and you say she
ha3 no one I will have two daughters
instead of one
You aint a Maverick no more Janet j
cried Joe something shining in his honest
eyes an there aint one of us but will
bid ye Godspeed Ef ever a lone little
child was worth a fathers love an care
you be an the blessin of all us that
knowed ye goes with ye
And as she with Rose and her father
parted from the companions of the long
wagon journey they followed her with
loving tearful eyes that little Maverick
who had found a happy home Toutft
Companion
Competition Among Plants
The principle of competition is so ac
tive and so vigorous in the vegetable
world that it keeps up a sort of domestic
warfare among plants The struggle to
get on in the world is less noticeable in
our latitude than it is in tropics Wher
the possibilities of reaching tho most gi-
gantic size are the greatest there the in
dividual plant struggles most eagerly tsT
get into the foremost place Plants are
much like ourselves
As an instance of how one tree will
take advantage of another tree may be
mentioned the conduct of what is called
the parasitic fig The seed of this plant
is distributed by birds Suppose one of
these seeds happens to lodge in the fork
of a jack fruittree It germinates as
well there as it would on the ground
The young plant sends a long root
down until it reaches the soil Then it
grows vigorously and its first develop-
ment is toward spreading itself all over
the jack fruittree until it has smothered
and killed it The fosterchild steps into
the shoes of its fosterparent
Quite as fierce a struggle though a-
more open one is maintained among
members of the same family The case
is reported in Nature of a species of htraj
cleum which was allowed to seed JfrceljFJ
On the first of June 1880 there wereiM
hundred and seventythree seedingsSjJW
the nineteenth of August followingjtoal
one hundred and five of them remaiiSdi
The missing ones had been pnshedltTffie
wall by the more vigorous survivorsj
A more striking instance still offi C
and fatal competition is found in the
vigorous one gets first through gfanall
hole at the top to the open air andtherw
upon it strangles and feeds upon s ftae
rest flPH
All the reflections of modern scientific
teaching whenever these examplestpsre
touched upon are made with regard to
the remorselessness of Nature to tho care
for self and the absolute disregard for
others The one observation is that in
all cases the weakest goes to the wall
This is looking upon plant life as we too
often look upon our own lives May it
not be that plants arc even more liko our-
selves than the common view of their his-
tory admits and that we may look upon
their fate with the moro humanizing sen-
timent Whom the gods love die
young Youths Companion
Carrier Swallows
It seems to be quite possible that tho
swallow will prove a successful rival to
the carrier pigeon in its peculiar line of
service The idea of domesticating thjf
little feathered favorite has been takwfc
up in France the exigencies of war hav-
ing suggested the possibility of its use-
fulness A Frenchman has been cxpers
menting with the birds for years Hi
his managed to tame them and make
them love their cage so that they return
to it after a few hours liberty
The birds spend tho winter at their
home aud do not change their residence
with tho change of seasons On this
point their master says that if the swal-
lows migrate he thinks it must be less-
on account of the cold than for the want
of their regular food They live upon
inscct3 and when these disappear with
tho coming of fair weather in the autumn
the swallows take their lcavo so as not
to die of hunger With food to its lik-
ing provided the swallow goes abroad in
January and returns again to its cote as
freely as it does in July
Tho speed of these messengers can be
judged from a single experiment An
untrained swallow having its nest on a
farm near Roubaix was caught and
taken in a cage to Paris where it was set
at liberty In less than an hour and a
half it was back at the farm It had
passed over about two hundred and fifty
kilometers a little more than one hun-
dred and fiftyfive miles in ninety min-
utes It is asserted that the trained ones
will do still better but how much betten
they can do will not bo known untirth
art of training them has been furtherjjea
veloped 3RMI
Their great speed and their dimicuiive
recommendftfie1
forms are what especially
swallows for use in war It wouUJnol
be an easy matter to shoot such carrilrP
on tho wing and they would very tilj
outfly any trained hawks
An Instance or Nenre
Biedler the famous Montana scontylio
recently died was as intrepid as
fertile of resource in danger Oneftime
at Miles City ho came out of the door of
a house to find himself within twenty in
ches of the muzzle of a fortyfour calibre
revolver in the hand of a noted desperado
on whose trail tho DeputyMarshal had
ofttimes camped
Im goin to blow the innards out ol
your skull you vigilante hound quotb
the bad man
Not with that thing said X the
scouts pseudonym in a conversational
but semiquerulous tone It ainl
cocked
The bad man threw up the pistol to
see if Biedler was right and made the
mistake of a life which ended right there
rSt Paul Pionetr Pr
pSff
W
BUDGET OF FUN
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FK03I
VARIOUS SOURCES
Good Xighfc Substitute For a Brain
A Young Jjady on tho Decline
A Mean Husband Exccp
tionsto RulcsEtcEtc
Goodnight goodnight She heard him
speak
These words with manly grace
3n parlor sofa dim and i
Along
ek <
the hallways space
Bat when they gained the outer door
His courage seemed to flinch
For though ne said goodnight once more
He didnt budge an inch
Goodnlghtgoodnight Twas very hard
To say that last goodnight t
Long shadows swept the garden sward
The moon kept high and bright
That it was late seemed really plain
To every sense yet no
Except to say goodnight again
He made no break to go
Tis late no longer early now
The hour has grown and chill
The dawn creeps oer the mountains
brow
Goodnight he murmurs stilL
GoodnT from window overhead
A voice in accents strange
Remarks Young manis time you said
Goodmorning tor a change
Judge
SUBSTITUTE FOB A BRAIN
Ella Do you know what Harry
Harebrain threatens to do if you do not
accept him
Bella No I am sure I do not
Ella He declares he will put a bullet
into hishead
Bella Well it will be a good idea
to hive something in there Lowell
Citizen
A TOUKG LADY ON THE DECLINE
Judkinson who had just been rejected
by Miss Martinvale was met near her
gate by the young ladys aunt who
affectionately remarked
You have just been to see my niece
now is the dear girl
Very much on the decline replied
Judkinson as he hastened away The
Ledger
A MEAN IIUSHAND
Husband greatly excited Get ray
hat dearest A dog catcher has stolen
the poodle and says he is going to kill
it
Wife The hateful manl Are you
going to see if you can take itfrom him
darling
No I am going to see that he keeps
his word Time
JUVENILE REPENTANCE
Johnny you have been a bad boy to-
day j
Yesm
Are you sorry
Yesm
Why are you sorry
3os I know that the chances are about
seventeen to frwo that Im goin to get
licked Merchant Traveler
AMENDMENT ACCEPTED
Judge Whats the charge officer
Officer Petty larceny your honor
Prisoner interrupting I beg your
pardon juuge the charge istimpersonat
officer
Judge How do youmakevthatout
Prisoner I took a handful of pea
auoiand an orange from a poor1 womans
themi
land without paying for Puei
EATING FOK A DELICATE ATTENTION
y Wifc Dear George how does the
rejoicing cap suit you that I presented
cn J n fie V > nwith last Christmas
USDSuw JlijUtctl With it
a i it aI zrr r u
o >
the conflict on those thst saeJiSS
goes among
<
w V i
of the same age
Th fruit < llwaof It was very thoughtful very
fruitj wJ you to give me such a present
from fifteen to twentyfour seeds jwhich
all germinate at one time TheYmosi
pfe The till for it has just come
Vill you pay it now or skall I tell
man to call again Boston Courier
JHE BALE WAS MADE AT ONCE
Merchant Young man I think I
willgive yon an orderbut I much fear
tfiaPyou have not told the exact truth
regarding your goods
Drummer Well sir the fact is I
have not Why sir sinking his voice
to a whisper were I to tell the truth
about those goods Id be murdered for
my samples bt fore I reached the next
town Philadelphia Enquirer
EXCEPTIONS TO EULES
Sirason Alwayslbe industrious and
truthful and you areibound to prosper
Timson Yes I suppose you are
right You have always lived up to this
principle I believe
Simson I have always endeavored
to
Timsom And you are worth
Simson My dear sir you must be
aware that there are exceptions to all
rules London TidBiti
JOHNSON MISUNDERSTOOD ITEIt
Mistress of the House widow
Well Johnson of course Im very sorry
to lose you at tho same time I must con
gratulate you on your good fortune in
having this money left you Pleasantly
I suppose youll be looking out for a wife
now Johnson Well mum beggin your
pardon and Im sure I feel highly hon-
ored at what you propose but cr I
am engaged to a young woman already
Grip
A QUICK METHOD OF COUNTISO
Little Bertram had promised his
mother always to count 100 before
speaking after becoming angry
One day his sister snatched an orange
from him and his angry retort came in a
suspiciously short time
Bertrand said lus mother did
you count 100
Yesm
How did you count it
Ten twenty firty forty fifty sixty
seventy eighty ninety hunded Sew
Yorh Sun
HAED TO PLEASE
ook here said a subscriber as he
talked into the office I want you to
step my paper
Whats tho reason
jThere aint enough new3 in it Too
much opinions and that sort of thing
iTabout half an hour another subscrib
made his appearance
Ive concluded to stop my paper
diheou
ou have
JYcs sir
Ito tired of reading about accidents
andjinicides and such things What I
ntiis good solid opinions
lAnd tho editor sat down and thought
great ponderous opinions about people in
general Merchant Traveler
xAVEHY
VEHY PLAIN
Mrs Binks angrily Call that an
argument Oh get out I
Mrs Winks Dont you say get out
to me
Mr3 Binks I address the expression
not to you bat to your argument I do
not ask you to get out to get out of the
room or tho house or the town or the
country or the plauet or the universe
Do I make myself plain
Mrs Winks You couldnt possibly
make yourself any plainer than you arc
naturally Ntv YqtI WeeHy
THE WIFE HE WAKTFD
She I confess William that your
proposal gives me much pleasure I
would bo foolish to pretend that it does
not yet
He Yet what What possible ob-
jection can you have to becoming my
wife You know that I love you and
am able to provide for you
She Yes but I fear I would be but
a sorry housekeeper
He Why so
She weeping bitterly Because I
have never been to a cooking school
He All the better dearest all the
better
She All the better
Ho Yes You will stay at home
and attend to the cooking instead of
wanting to go out and lecture on the
culinary art You are just the kind of a
wife I want Boston Courier
A LITTLE MISTAKE
A cleryman tells this story I had
been asked by one of our brethren to
take part in n service at his church I
was to preach the sermon and came pre
pared with one of my most striking ones
Jast as I was mounting the pulpit steps
however the pastor whispered in my
ear I thought you ought to know that
this is a funeral service
You may imagine my feelings They
must have been something like Dr
Depews when at the inauguration of a
college ho found himself expected on
ten minutes notice to deliver the his-
torical address
nowevcr I had a little time to collect
my thoughts It was a memorial service
not a funeral and I must do the deceased
brother justice I started and talked
my best for a quarter of an hour then I
stepped down
As I did so the pastor who had in-
formed mc of the nature of the service
approached me He seemed semewhat
embarrassed but he shook my hand
warmly
It was a good sermon sir he said
Yes I replied for to tell you the
truth I thought so myself considering
the circumstances
It was a good sermon he repeated
but but
Well I asked
But it wasnt a brother who died it
wasa sister Yankee Blade
CHUNKED AT HENNIFIN
Policeman Hennifin active and watch-
ful of the public welfare saw a cabman
whipping a horse
What are you doing there the po-
liceman called
Dont you sec what I am doing
Yes I do
Then why do you ask me
You impudent rascal Ill run you in
The policeman got in the cab and ordered
the fellow to drive to the Harrison street
station The next morning the cabman
was arraigned before court and when
the judge asked who had made the
arrest Hennifin stepped forward and
said
Your honor I saw this man whipping
his horse and I arrested him
And your honor the cabman broke
in I whipped him because he kicked
me Theres not a man in this town
thats kinder to a horse than Ive been to
this one and under the circumstance I
had a right to whip him
That may be the judge answered
but I am compelled to fine you though
the amount be merely nominal I will
therefore assess your fine at fifty cents
All right the cabman replied and
I wish to present a bill for seventyfive
cents against the city
What for the judge asked
For h3ulimrlhis B0JiceiDatt taths
station
Did ho bring you in his cab the
judge asked of the policeman
Your honor I arrested him and in-
stead of calling a patrol wagon I thought
the easiest way would be to have him
drive down here and
Give him seventyfive cents said
the judge
The cabman received the money
placed fifty cents on the judges desk
put twentyfive cents in his own pocket
grinned at Policeman Hennifin and strode
out Ariantam Traveler
Wine at 2000000 a Bottle
Wine at 2000000 a bottle is a drink
that in expense would rival the luxurious
taste of barbaric splendor when price
less pearls were thrown into the winecup
to give a rich flavor to its contents yet
in the city of Bremen just such a costly
beverage may be found Iu the wonder-
ful winecellar under the Hotel Je Ville
in the Rose apartment there are twelve
cases of holy wine each case inscribed
with the name of one of the apostles
This ancient wine was deposited in its
present place in the year 1C24 25S years
ago One case of this wine consisting
of five o hofts of 204 bottles cost 500
rixdollars in 1624 including the expense
of keeping up the cellar interest on the
original outlay and interests upon in-
terest one of those oxhofts would today
cost 553657640 rixdollars three single
bottles 2273812 rixdollars a glass or
the eighth part of a bottle is worth
340476 rixdollars or about S262000
or at tho rate of 540 rixdollars 265
per drop Panama Star and Herald
Preserving Fabrics From Decay
A Belgian chemist has according to
the Textile Manufacturer discoverel a
means for rendering fabrics no matter
how delicate in texture or color proof
against decay The wonderful state of
preservation which the head bands of
Egyptian mummies exhibit is due to
their having been impregnated with a
kind of resin This led the iuventor to
make certain experiments with the cub
stance extracted from birch barb to
which the peculiar aroma of Russian
leather is due and he found out that the
green tar which was left over after the
oil used in tanning had been extracted
from the white bark of the birch tree
yields neither acid nor alkaloid and that
in solution with alcohol it forms a liquid
of remarkable fluidity with the powsr of
resisting when once dried even for ac-
tion of alcohol itself This substance
will it is said unite with the most deli-
cate and brilliant color and render them
imperishable
Naming a Town
WhenF II Heald settled on the
Machado Ranch near San Diego Cal
and began to build Elsinorc then un-
named he was puzzled about the chris-
tening What should he call the coming
city by the lake and springs Finally
he choose Lake something or other a-
long compound but the postofiicc au-
thorities would not have it They wrote
Mr Heald that one won was enough
and sent him a list to choose from lit
took Elsinore and a few days afterward
announced the fact to old Senor Mach
ado The aged don was for a moment
nonplussed El Senor he said
which senor do you mean yourself or
myself Yourself of course replied
the diplomatic Heald And to this day
the Machados believe that the name
Elsinore is but a gringo corruption of
El Senor the senor who owned the
original property Argonaut
Statistics for 18S9 place the avage
price of milch cows in the United States
at 2465 and of all other cattle 1779
METEORIC SHOWERS
THEIR VISITATIONS OF PERIOD-
ICAL OCCURRENCE
Evplanat ions as to Their Cause Their
Frequency Tho Light They lro
duco Peculiar Tints In
Their Flame
There are certain epochs in tho year
when particular meteoric showers are
due Assiduous observation has given a
list of nearly 100 such showers in the
course of a year each of which may bq
expected on a certain date from a certain
part of the heavens
Particuliar showers havo characteris-
tic features that is some meteors are
very swift others rather slow Somo
vanish and lcavo no trace while others
are accompanied by tails and leavq
streaks after the nucleus has disappeared
Few of these showers last more than ono
or two days though there are somo in-
stances where it is suspected that succes-
sive meteors belonging to the same group
appear during several weeks Certain
dates have been noticed to be more espe-
cially fireball epochs That is tho rare
event of an exceptionally large and brilN
iant meteor or fireball is moro apt to oc-
cur on certain dates
January 25 is the date of the mete-
oric shower characterized by the swift-
ness of its components which are usually
attended by streaks The radiant point
of this shower is in tho constellation
called Bernices Hair a star cluster
one of the morning constellations As
this meteor is claimed to have been seen
in the evening it is more likely to havo
been one uf the unclassified sporadic
meteors Information as to tho position
of motion apparent brilliancy color
time of appearance and length of time
during which the appearance lasted is
likely to be valuable in the recovery of
the principal characteristics of an event
which is necessarily seen but by few
How do you account for these mete-
oric showers coming at regular periods
was asked
All we can say is that tho celestial
spaces arc thinly populated in every di-
rection with these scattered fragments
which are veritablo miniature planets
traveling in different orbits around the
sun in many instances and serving as
messengers from one star to another in
others
The number of them is simplycount
Iess They make up in number what
they lack in size so that if we could
gather together all tho minuto members
that go to make up a group it might
make a body of very respectable size al-
though the individual components are so
small that they seldom escape complete
disintegration and dissolution in their
passage through the atmosphere
What produces the great light which
always follows the passage of a meteor
The light which is seen while tho
passage of a meteor through tho air lasU
may bo due partly to the combustion of
the materials of the air of life but it is
mainly au incandescence of the con-
densed atmosphere which accumulates in
advance of an object which is moving
many times the rapidity of a cannon ball
often I may say with many hundred
times the rapidity of a cannon ball
Under these conditions even the seem-
ingly flimsy resistance of the air becomes
as great as that of a solid body pro-
ducing intense heat and in the case of a
large meteoric stone frequently result-
ing in the fracture and demolition of the
objectColored
Colored meteors are sometimes seen
with a > eculiar tint of the flame being
jIiia < ii < luiriiin a ooma spccLtl in-
gredient of the meteor We have yellow
irreen and occasionally red meteors but
the majority are white like the majority
of the stars It cannot be said that any-
one part of the earth can be more affected
by these visitants than another There
is however a diurnal periodicity the
largest number being seen in the early
morning hours when that portion of the
heavens comes in view toward which the
orbital motion of the earth i3 carrying us
Wc then see not merely thecomparative
ly few meteors who speed is sufficient to
enable them to overtake the earth but
that larger number composed of all those
which are gathered up iu the track cf
the advancing earth whether moving
with against or athwart its course
Pittiotin Dhpateh
Counterfeit Coffee
There are two kinds of bogus coffee
an imitation bean and the ground article
The beau is the most difficult to produce
ind it is only recently that actual success
iu this direction has been attained The
bogus bean must not only look like the
genuine berry when raw but it should be
capable of taking a proper color when
roasted A very good specimen is now
manufactured in Philadelphia and Tren-
ton being composed of rye Hour glucose
and water The soft paste is then
moulded and carefully dried To the cy
of an expert the presence of this imita-
tion is easy of detection and it cannot bi
used to any great extent among whole-
salers
But when coffee goes to the retailer
adulteration begins Sometimes the re-
tailer is deceived but nine times out ol
ten he is the one who introduces adul
teration Tho ground article is verj
easily produced for then it isonlyneces
sary to give the material a proper coloi
and infusing an aroma by strong decor
tions of coffee essence When mixed
with real coffee even the expert eye and
tongue may be deceived while to the or-
dinary consumer it seems to be the genu-
ine product
Bogus coffee beans have only a slight
resemblance to the natural berry f < u
though they possess proper form the ci
catriceonjthe inner face is too smooth
Then again the gray color of the raw bean
is not quite up to the mark but wher
these manufactured beans are roasted with
fivo per cent of genuine coffee they find
a ready sale These bogus beans can be
made at a cost of 30 per 1000 pounds
and when mixed with fifty pounds ol
pure coffee the whole 1050 pounds cost
3750 or three aud threequarters cents
per pound so that a profit of nearly 100
per cent is the result ifi York World
Luxury Next Door to Poverty
Ill venture tho assertion says a-
New York letter to tho Pittsburg
Dispatch tliat there is no city in
in the world where luxury and squalor
live so close together as in New
York The other day I had occasion to
call on Mr Andrew Carnegie regarding
his new library in Allegheny I took
a Broadway surface car getting off at
Fiftyfirst street I walked eastward on
the numbered thoroughfare which was
filled with swarthy Italians sitting in the
j doors of their shops from which cma
nated in large quantities excited snatches
of their musical language and stron airs
I from stewed garlic and stale beer I
i walked on wondering if my distin
guished friend could not have an humble
namesake who abode in this ncihborJ
hood I crossed Sixth avenue and lo-
a grand transformation
scencl A mo-
ment before mid
squalor and rags
across the street luxury and laces It
is up in this portion of the city that tho
Vanderbilts Astors and such nabobs live
but they never know what daily
goes on
within a stones throw of their palatial
homes
THHEF TRAVELERS
Three travelers met in Brander Pass
By the bubbling Brander spring
They shored their cato and their venison
And they talked of many a thing
Of books of song and foreign lnd
Of strange and wandering lives
And by and by in softer tones
They spoke of their homes and wives
I married the Lady o Logan Brae
Said one with a lofty air
There isna in a the North countrce
A house with a better share
Of gold and gear tald hill and lock
Of houses and farms to rent
Theres many a man has envied mo
And Im malr than weel content
Dream of a woman as bright as vlay
The second traveler said
Dream of a form of perfect grace
Of a noble face and head
Of eyes that are as bine as heaven
Of flowing nutbrown hair
That is my wife and though not rich
Oh she is wondrous fairf1
The third one said I have a wife
She is neither rich nor fair
She has not gold nor gear nor land
Nor a wealth of nutbrown hair
Bat oh she loves me and her love
Has stood through every test
Beauty and gold are good but friends
We know that love is best
They filled their cups in the spring again
And they said right heartily
Heres to the loving faithful wife
Wherever her home may be
And soon they took their different ways
One thought in each mans breast
Beauty is good and gold U good
But true love is the best
PITII AND POLYL
A stovepipe The song of tho kettle
A watch sold at cost is par tickularly
a bargain Merchant Traveler
The living skeleton goes on exhibition
in a dime museum because he is in re-
duced circumstances Picayune
When the gates ajar it is natural thai
it should be considered a proper place foi
sweetmeets Yoniert Gazette
A manufacturer of artificial limbs
should never be forgetful It is his busi
ness to remember Watfrington Pott
A man who pUys tho clarionet has
some ground to regret that the season for
reed birds is over Merchant Traveler
The girls since first the world began
Have always sought the ideal man
But when they captured their ideal
They found him more ideal than real
There are persons that it is not safe to
hold out the olive branch of peace to
unless you have a club in the other
hand
It is said that it takes three genera-
tions to make a gentleman The recipe
fails when the third generation is a girl
Binghamton Leader
They say that copper is so cheap it scarcely
pays to mino it more
But ordinary common sense seems just as
rare as heretofore
Washington Star
He To live by your side mein Frau
lein I forsake everything parents hon-
ors titles fortune She innocently
Then pray what is there left forme
Easier Sachrlchten
Gentleman to tramp What you
here again It hasnt been a week since
I gave you a half dollar Tramp
Just a week sir but great heavens
you dont expect a man to live a year on
fifty cents do you
Unsuspecting Mother I cant imag-
ine where all the cake goes Guilty
Ethel anxious to avert suspicion It
must bo the kid Unsusiecting Mother
The kid What kid Guilty Ethel
I dont know but I heard Uncle
Harry say to papa That kid takes the
cake Time
Firemen on a Racing Steamer
It is a hot calm day in the midlife of
summer the sea rolling in long smooth
oily swells There is a ligh breeze right
astern but the ship is teaming as fast as
the wind and the sails liang lisslessly
from the yards and flap against tho masts
and ropes As one descends the engine
room ladder the air feels close and deadly
heavy and brings on a dull headache
The engineer on watch is dragging him-
self round as if his limbs were of lead
and even the engines do not seem to bo
going ahead with their usual energy As
we pass through the tunnel which con-
nects the engine room with the stoke
hole the stifling atmosphere nearly drives
us back There is not a breath of air
coming down the ventilators and the
heat is so great that one has a sensation
as of a lump of le id in the cars and
ones voice sounds thick and far away
The firemen are stripped to the waist
and the engineer has very little morj on
being only distinguishable by the gilt
band and badge on his cap as he moves
abcut from one furnace to another di-
recting the firemen or regulating the
water in the boilers
In spite of the heat the fire burnsdull
for they can get no air and the firemen
urged on one might almost say driven
by the engineer are doing all they
know with rake and shovel to keep up
steam the perspiration running in streams
down their coal begrimed bodies and
leaving them striped like zebras
Each man in turn falls back exhausted
and is succeeded by another who lays
hold of the heavy slice and works the
fire through and through but all to no
purpose for in spite of all they can do
the steam will not rise In technical
language she is steaming stiff and
unless the wind changes or gets stronger
will continue to do so
To keep on at work without drinking
is impossible and the firemen consume
an incredible quantity of water but in
spite of all the praise bestowed upon this
beverage by teetotallers it has its dangers
when drank to excess especially in a
hih temperature and presently one of
the men who has been indulging too
freely is seized with cramps in the
stomach and has to be carried on deck
leaving the rest tearing away at the ob-
stinate fires Contemporary Iteziea
Mexicos Vanderbllt
Judge Murat Masterson was at the Le-
land yesterday direct from the City of
Mexico AVith him is Don Luis Huller
who is the Yandcrbilt of Mexico though
a Vanderbilt would have little standing
in his family for he prints a golden crest
at the head of his note paper which hi3
distinguished such a long line of Huller
Dons that the memory of man does not
begin to run back to the first of them
Don Luis is of tho bluestblooded Cas
tilians He lives in a castle atTacuba
the little town but a few miles from the
City of Mexico where two other of
Mexicos wealthiest men live Antonio
Escandon and Sebaston Wier Don Hul-
ler owns and occupies the famous illa
de Barron The place is really a palace
The house has fifty rooms and its con-
struction is on a scale of magnificence
equal to anything in Mexico The
the
and
grounds alone coft 600000
whole place several times that sum Host
of the interior finishings were lmportefl
from Europe and even the stone carvings
for the doorway and the great ff
ve
into tho grounds were imported
with all This magnificence i ° l
of u
the owner spends much
there ow to
Europe He is on his way
join to family Wi Tr0ui
0
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
The San Saba News. (San Saba, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 28, Ed. 1, Friday, May 16, 1890, newspaper, May 16, 1890; San Saba, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth110742/m1/2/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .