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It of the management
H. J. MOORE.
Manager City Advertising department.
Artistic displays and write-ups pre
pared on ahort notice. Telephone 17#
er drop him a postal and he will call
•nd fix you up an advert sement that
Will bring results.
BEST IS Ghe CHEAPEST
C. H. MUELLER’S
‘Zinc and Lead’
STANDS UNCHALLENGED
It Is not Cheap but Good
in Quality
a THE SEAMLESS SIDE.
There is a seamless side to things and
.the wise man always turns the seam
i less side out. The fashion that would
wear the coat with the seamy side on
the outHtdc lias gone out of style in
this country to come in again no more
i forever. The going out marks the prog-
; rtss of the true civilization.
Why it should be considered the thing
to wear the rough side <4 things out and
the smooth side in is not hard to un-
•lerstand. Selfishness is the predomi-
nating feeling of the human breast anl
number one is the number that is look
ed after first in ail natural conditions.
This is the natural thing.
It is only in the cultured ranks of
the world in those who have had the
training of generations in their vein.
; Ijilt the smooth side of things is in
I ■variably turned outward and the world
at large given no hint of what the in-
aide conditions are. This is the pro-
tection of culture against crudity.
It is all very well to descant ujion hon-
esty. opennundedness ingenuousness and
। all the other names by which discour-
l tesy and brutal /rankness are commend
ed to the vpinda of men and women but
; they do nod dioguiae the fact that the
Tea] pleasure of social and business life
Hies in wearing the seamless side of your
I clothing out.
If this is indispensible in the common
and ordinary associations of life it is
' infinitely more so in the closer and
more friendly and intimate relation.-.
Where all the peace and pleasure and
। comfort lies in the harmony of inter-
! course the necessity of making that in-
‘ tercourse smooth as oil is apparent.
It is no small thing for a„man hot-
headed imperious willful by nature
I when saddled with large responsibilities
; and being absolute lord of thousands of
subordinates to consider this thing rd
a pleasant exterior and how much the
comfort of these thousands depend upon
' his method of meeting and treating
them.
It is only the new to a situation that
are awkward in it. It is only those
■who have never borne authority who
are devnineering. The old families are
always noteri for their good manners.
: The man or woman who treats a enb-
i ordinate unfeelingly is devoid of the
| very first instincts of the truly polite.
It is not a question of feeling. It is
I a question of necessity lie is lacking
i as a nmn who can not in the face of
i the needs of his position curb his natu-
s ral tendencies to make those around him
i feel his autlarrity and make their la-
I hors as pleasaint as possible /or them
consistent of course with their proper
' performance.
AA hat is needed is this that respect
for those who are in a measure depend
' ent upon you that leads you to fed
responsible for their good and th« ir
I comfort in your employment and for
your careful consideration of all that
; make- their lives more worth the uv
Mig and their work the better worth the
s doing.
The man who treats hi- wife with the
most genuine consideration is the sn*n
who will treat his domestics his clerks.
hi« employes ami hi* business associ-
ates with the greatest consideration.
The woman who is universally sweet
and charming in her nature *• shown
with husband and children will treat
her cook and her coachman ami her
ma i<U all right.
Politenvwi is not the veneering on the
outside of life. It is the clear grain - I
Ingrained good fiTling coming to the
»urfa<e. Therefore the need ■ * culti-
vating it ami looking for it in your as-
so>-iates and making it a matter of prime
importance in all the business of the
office and all the life of home.
No matter what the fashion it is not
fashion but necessity that governs. Tl c
nc easily that is laid upon every man
to be as much of a nun as he can be.
upon every woman to be an much of
a woman a* it is within all her power*
to become. The swiftness of life is only
the sweetness of those with whom wc
live.
Better lie every day in the week as
to your feelings tempera anarhngnees
that is lie in manner at least appear-
ing all amiability Y you feel like a
fiend then make every one around you
miserable on account of your mean dis-
position. Pretend a kindness and a good
feeling if you do not possess it.
Call it hypeernsy call it deceit rail it
lying or what not. only do it. Wear
your coat with the eoarse seem out of
sight. Wear your temper with the
meanness of it out of sight. Wear your
life with all that is pleasant and at-
tractive and all that makea life more
endurable for others on the outside.
It takes oil ami not sami to lubricate
the journals of all machinery business
social dcenestic fraternal churchly and
all the rest. There is little preaching
of hellfire compared to what there was
a generation ago and the long faces of
the hypocrites are much shorter than
they were. They had to come to it.
"rhe world and the church arc both
learning. Hie one that there is no pi-
ety in a long /ace ami the other that
there is no virtue in being disagrre
able. The man or woman with a taking
manner and a pleasant face is at a pre-
mium. There is a great advantage in
an agreeable manner even as business
capital.
The fellows who make their living
selling gold bricks and doing the confi-
dence game are always smooth artists.
These fellows every one of them wear
their coats with the wains smoothly
pressed and the rough edges always hid-
den. Why? Because they mus please
to succeed and they have learned their
lesson.
This is one reason why the commer-
cial agents of the present are so pleas-
ant to meet. They have to lie pleasant.
It is a groundhog case with them. They
must make a favorable impression on
their prospective customer or do r.o
business. They cultivate the art of
pleasing till it becomes natural.
One of the best trainings that a young
business man can have is to turn him
out on the road. It will prove a liberal
education. It will teach him to turn
all the seams of his nature inside and
keep the raw edges out of sight. The
man Avho learns this early in his life
has learned a whole lot before be is
old.
The pleasure of social intercourse the
comfort of business relations the har-
mony of home the success orf the church
all alike dqicnd on this one thing put-
ting the smooth side out. Do it for
yourself and you will soon do it for
others. The man who shows his own
best side is very apt to show the best
side of those he speaks for and of.
We are in this world for the fun of
it as much as for anything eke. if
there is nothing in living but its drudg-
ery then qirit. This does not mean that
life is not to be taken seriously. It mcaivi
that it is to be taken sensibly and that
it is every man's duty fo keep the dis-
agreeable things out of sight.
No one cared what Mont Pelee bad
inside of it until it turned the seamy
side out and then literally there was
hell to pay. So with all life keep the
eruptions down. Turn the smooth side
</ things out. If any one tries to turn
up the skirt of your coat to see what
kind of a seam there is there do not
let Mm.
The private things of your iife of
your friend’s life of your domestic iife
arc your own. Allow no one to turn
these out. Stand for the defense of all
that is inside. Admit nothing. Deny
that it is the right of any to know
what you conceal inside. His right stops
■with your outside. Make that smooth.
Grove's Black Root Liver Pills.
Made from an active principle ob-
tained from Black Root. They act on
the liver equal to calomel and leave
no bad after effects. No griping no
sick stomach. Will core chronic con-
stipation. Price 25 cents.
This Date In History—May 25.
l(Fs—Gregory VII. saint
and pope generally call-
ed Hildebrand. In whose
pontificate the papacy
first became supreme In
temporal affair* died;
born IMS.
Ws9—Richard Cromwell re-
signed and the protec-
torate ended. It had
lasted five years. Rich-
ard Inherited nothing of
bls father'* sternness or
mental power. He reigned as protector
but eight months having been pro-
claimed by the army on the death of
bls father. Sept. 3. 1658.
1803—Ralph Waldo Emerson born at Bos-
ton; died 1882.
I®?—The Opera Comlque burned In Paris;
200 lives lost
1898—Second call for United States volun-
teers for the Spanish war; 75000 asked
for.
1890—Rosa Bonheur famous animal paint-
er. died at Fontainebleau; born 1821.
IN THIS CITY 21 YEARS AGO.
From The Light of May 25 1881.
Murder of Pat Lyons still a mystery
and puzzles the coroner Anton Adam.
Railroad from San Antonio to Top-
olovampo Mexico contemplated.
Thomas G. Williams secretary of
the San Antonio Gas Company pub-
lishes a card about the city’s contract
for lighting.
Ed P Gifford resigns as circulator
for The Light and enters the mail ser-
vice of the government on the Texas
Pacific.
Postoffice at Converse discontinued.
Hungarian counts who are visiting
the city went out fo Ceon Springs on
a pleasure jaunt.
Location of the State University to
be left to a vote of the people.
The merit of Hood's fwriuiparilla is
phoven by the wonderful cures it effects.
THE MOUNTAIN OF
TRANSFIGURATION
(Copy HMhJ by Daily Story Pub.
Co.) %
Dwight Van Wert was not deformed
in any way and yet he was fearfully and
womierfuny made —there was no deny-
ing tlMt. Hit luxuriant drop of flame-
hm-J hair took on quite without culture
the contour of a lull-blown prize ohry-
santheuium. Trout an archipelago of
freckle* resembling «i aepia map of
Oceanica. His nose rose like the tower
of la'baiwm tihat looketh toward Da-
ma«'U». To right and left a epreadißg
ear flapped defiance to any threatening
head wind and thia was but the cupoln
so to apmk for an eaeortment of leg*
and arms that had apparently been «e
lecteii quite wt rauiom from a pile of
left-over* in uome forgotten corner of
bhe creator's workshop. AU of which
description ia grossly exaggerated of
course but in no wwy misleading for 1
found out long aga tliat in portraying
Van it was alwolutely necessary to ex-
aggerate in order to make one realize
how far from beautiful he was.
From the day he entered school he
was the legitimate prey of tease and
bully. 1 suppose it was bard on A'an
at first for at home his mother had not
called him Briektop nor his father
taunted him with the upward tilt of bis
nose but he took it all with stoical
heroism thrashed whom he could di-
verted whom he could hel|Kx| some with
their lewons ami bribed others by judici-
ous outlay of his spending money until
at graduation he was as popular as any
fellow in the class bowbeit as far from
hand-onie as ■when a little tad of six.
At college lie came out at the head of
his class. He took a year iu Europe af-
ter that; then he came home went in
with his fattier and fell in love with
Grace tSenero.
Of course he fell in love with Grace.
Grace had • nose Phidias conk! not have
bettered a complexion like the blending
of the wild rose aioi the lily-of-bhe-vaUey
a figure that was the glory of a tailor-
made and the apotheosis of a ball gown
hair she could let fall in lustrous bil-
lows to her feet eyes so big and 'brown
and deep it made you dizzy to look into
them. It was simply 'heartbreaking to
contemplate and all the more so when
the victim was a personal friend.
Van never took me into his confidence
but I suspect Grace had figured in hi*
plans ever since his first day at school
when she had asked to have her seat
changed "because rt made her feel so
bad to look at ft twat little Van Wert
boy.” Anyway he had always done
things for her; written to her sent her
presents ami now he went at it deliber-
ately to pay her every courteous atten-
tion affection could suggest or monej
(uruish means for.
If you have ever done anything in vivi-
sectibn you remember how you felt th*
first time ou saw a live animal cut to
pieces. It is not a pleasant sensation
but with some of ns it came to be almost
chronic while we v.aitched Van's court-
ship drag out its sickening length.
He was sucn a good fellow and she
such a nice girl. To jiotvr his soul out
in her service and yet never bore her
seemed to have become the purpose of
hM life; to let him know the truth and
yet spare him all rhe could seemed to
fie hers.
Grace ami her mother spent the sum-
mer at the lakes ami so did Van. In
the latter fart of November sire went
into the city on her aunt's invitation
ami immed;ately t ail's business took
him in at least as often as once a week.
When she returned early in February
and Van was as attentive as ever 1
knew tliat that blimtness-crf-love busi-
ness Iman's love) is a true story for
Van never seemed to realize that she
had been running away from him and
the whole miserable thing was worse
tangled than ever because we saw that
she had got to strike hard which was
not going to be pleaeant for her ana
Van was going to be cut up to beat
everything.
it was up in my room one night in
March that Ken ami Trenchant and I
got to talking it over. We had heard
a rumor that Grace and her mother were
going to Europe and we knew that
meant one of two things—either Van
would tie reckless ami get his quietus
right away or eke on some cooked-up
excuse or other he would follow tihem.
“Of course” said Ken as he gave a
vicious pull at his cigar “there’s no use
kicking against the pricks. Van has got
to swing some day. and maybe the sooner
it’s over the belter.”
“Of course” Trench admitted “Van’s
got to take his medicine that's all right
but—hang it!—the such ano end of a
good fellow and it'll break 'him all up
and—lsmi! I wish somebody would chlo-
roform him.”
"Fellows” said Ken “can't we do
.something for Van to break his fall?
Hold a blanket for him or something.'
I told Ken he was a fool but that no
longer makes the impression on tiiim
Ih it it should.
"No—hang it!” he said “1 mean it.
Now look here. We all know that Van
isn't what you might call a tearing
beauty. And—great hat! there are
other girls nice girls slews of girls
that would take him quick if they could
get him. Fellows with six-figure bank
accounts aren't at a discount—not yet.
Suppose we three were to form a sort
of benevolent conspiracy get one of the
girls into it Mamin Crane mayiie and
then pull every wire we could- Bead rice
Benedick fashion —until we had him
married—”
Pope Gregory.
“No use" interrupted Trenchard; “we
might break Mamie Crane's heart prob-
ably would but that is al] would ever
come of it. Better leave the whole
thing alone.”
I felt that I knew Van a HUie better
thin cither of the ether fellows did and
I thought I understood the situation so
now I spokd up.
"I tell you •fellows.” I said “there is
just one thing can ease the pressure.
iou can't drive \ an you can't coax
him and he is not trying do win on bis
beauty you can lie mighty sure of that
but. he knows and earra a lot for Grace;
he knows he's got ability he knows he's
got money and ho thinks he could make
her happy enough so that after a while'
that countenance of his would be—for-
gotten you know—she'd get used to it.
\\ hat you want isn’t another woman in
the rase—it’s another man. and if you
were as smart as Van as rich as Van
as much in love with Grace as Van. ami
luuKkome. J tell you Van would give him
a free held fur her sake —only; providing
•AN ANTONIO SUNDAY LIGHT SAN ANTONIO TKX- MAY 29 1902.
BY FREDERICK HALL.
he were jwd as good a fellow M Van
and \ an would have to lie the jmlgi. but
he woukl judge fair.*'
We were silent and just at that mo-
ment there was a tap ut the door.
"Com* in” 1 called.
Tlx- door opened and—it was D» ight
Van Wert.
Wc must have looked like a trio of
detected counterfeit* (but Van never
noticed.
“Rod' he said in a ronetrained un-
natural voice “nny 1 ask the boys tio
excuse you I—l woukl like to |>eak
to you—privately—for a minute.”
1 knew it must mean thia death sen
lence. and 1 followed him like a lamb
to the sla ighter. Van ekmed the door
softly took my arm ami led me .icroa*
fo where the great hall lamp shed it* reel
light down upon us bo tn.
“Rod old man” he said “I have
come to tell you that 1 am engaged to
lie married. You know to whom the
best girl and ileirest in the w >rld—-
ami I wanted you to Ge the first to con-
gratulate me. It will be in a couple of
months 'here and on the Mh of June
we sail for |£urope on the Campania.”
He gave my hand a mimhling pres-
sure then grijqiel me fiy the shoulders
and held me off at arms' length. And
1 looked at him—at his rubricated hair
hi* tip tilted nose his lavish wealth of
freckles his wind-break ears ami his eyes
in which was shining the glory of the
New Jerusalem —and—by Jove! Dwight
Ven Wert was/ the handsomest fellow I
ever saw. ।
For Ov«r Sixty Y*an.
AN OLD and REMEDY
Mre. Winslow's Hoothlng Kyriip
has been used tor over SIXTY YEAKB by
MILLIONS of MOTHERS for their CHIL
DREN WHILE TEETHING WITH PERFECT
SUCi 'ESS II SOOTHES the chlM. SOITKNS
the GUMS. ALLA YSall PAIN; CURES WIND
COLIC and Is the I ett remedy tor IHAR
RH<EA Sold by Druggist ia every part of the
world. Be sure »ud ask for
Mr*. Wlnalow*a Soothing Syrup
ANDTAK* KOOTHBR KIND
Twcnty-flv« Cant* a Botti*.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
Thad W. (Smith and wife lo Petry J.
I/ewis lot 2 block 3 went side of San
Pedro avenue; $2.3(10.
Thad W. Smith and wife to Perry J.
la>wi» by trustee lot 2 block 3. west
side of San Pedro avenue; $10(10.
S. B. and O. A. Nwink to Frank E.
Beatty part of lots 3 and 4 bloi-k 4
north side of Warren street; $2000.
T. F. Coffey and wife to Otto Zirkel
lot 4. block 14 south side of Montana
street; $1400.
E. J. and Mabel Wilson to .1. E Da-
venport lot 14 block 5 city Block 812
on East Elmira street; $BOO.
J. B. Dunning and wife to V. A. Petty
tract of land bounded by Cmnqrgo In-
diamda and Barrera streets; $BOO.
Mrs. Susie and W. <1 Lott to C. C.
Janin lot 12. bkick 11 city block 1836
Laurel Heights; $4OO.
Letzerich to August Heintze lots
6 ” 8 13 to 16 block 11 on Calhoun
and Wilson streets $1238.75.
Peter Peterson and wife! to Henry N.
Schroeder lot 44 and north half of Jb’i
45. city block 1162 on Avenue C; $825.
Gus A. Maucrmann to Ferd Stuffel
lot 13 block o o. c. I. 5; $lO.
laniis Timimer lo Josie B. Tinnner
lots 11 and 12 block on Aratvsasf
street; $1 and other considenAti/ms.
E. S. and 8. P. Maury to Peter Peter-
son deed of correction lot 44 block 962
on Avenue A.
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.
Buy your table and preserving fruits
ami vegetables by the package cnly at
Reilly Bros..
ALLEGED KIDNAPPING.
Cook Arrested Because of a Girl’s Dis-
appearance.
The 16-year-old daughter of »
prominent saloon man of this city it is
alleged was enticed away from her home
Friday night by a widow aged 21 years
with the intention of abducting her.
The widow it is said was in the em-
ploy of the family as cook and was
prepared to quit work having her
clothes packed ready to depart when
she was placed under arrest and a
charge of abduction lodged against her
by the father of the girl.
According to the statements of the
police it appears that the girl was en-
ticed away frem her home early Fri-
day night at which time the wiflow
also disappeared. Nothing at first was
thought (/ it but when the daughter
did not return home yesterday morning
the parents became alarmed and im-
mediately notified police headquarters.
Mounted Officer McDevitt was sent to
investigate the matter and later return-
ed to headquarters with the widow in
his custody where she was detained un-
til a satisfactory bond waa given. The
daughter was still missing up to this
time but was later found by Officer
Garvin in a house on Wickes street
and returned to her home.
The widow in a statement to Police
Lieutenant Fcstw said tlmt she endeav-
ored to persuade the gill that she had
a home and ought to stay there but
notwithstanding this the girl left home
on her own accord ami thait she had
nothing to do with her disappearance.
TAXES PAID.
•Special to the Sunday Light.
Austin Tex. May 21. —The tax col-
lectors of the following counties today
sent in their annual statements ot the
taxes collected during the year 1901:
.Mitehell Fannin San Saba and Grayson.
This makes a total of 134 counties which
have thus far sent in their annual state-
ments.
The Texas and Loumiaim Railroad
Company today paid its quarterly pas-
senger taxes into the Comptroller's De-
partment amounting to $17.81 on
the grosi passenger earnings
for the quarter ending March 31. 1901.
The same company also paid $9.80 pas-
senger taxes on $989.15 the gross pas-
senger taxes for the quarter ending
March 31 1902.
FARNSWORTH A COLONEL.
Special to the Sunday Light.
Austin Tex. May 24.—J. E. Farns-
worth of Dallas general manager of the
Southwestern Telephone Company was
today appointed lieutenant colonel ami
assistant commissary general for the
division of the Volunteer Guard.
< 01. Farnsworth a ocanmiaeion was issued
tndUy and is now awaiting the signature
of the Governor.
It Boils—Texas Crude Oil Burner.
—WALL PAPER AT HERWECK'B.
OLD LEFAIRE AS OTHELLO
BY ADA MAY KRECKER.
(Capvright 1902 by Daily Story Pub.
Co.)
Every one in the reception room *mil
cd a* Burney pawed through. She car-
ried one of the letter* on which the
conversation had bcm turning. Behind
trotted the mountainous figure of dear
old l<afaire whose rosy brown expan-
sive visage was conspicuoualv written
with a consciousness of hi* lowly po-
sition as her satellite.
Miss Ixwnby of third floor Imck had
lieen recounting the story of her little
seance the evening before when happen-
ing upon him alone by the firelight. She
took tlie ottoman by his side explained
she wanted to go over confidentially
with him some curious facts which had
been noted in connection with Burney’s
recent correspondence pointing out the
numlaT of envelopes addressed to her in
a certain fine vertical hand writing
which had been observed on the hall
stand and recalling the stranger of the
afternoon .Maude Hughes went away.
From behind the palm tree between
the two front windows Miss
spied a tall graceful blonde walking at
Burney’s side as she returned from her
farewell to Maude. And he had prat-
tled on like a scjiool boy until the early
autumn nightfall. With the next mor-
ning the daily letters began to appear one
by the early eight o'clock mail anoth-
er every evening although once she had
seen a note when coming up from lunch-
eon which must have been an extra
third since Burney always took the
morning arrival with her as she left
the house after breakfasting.
“I told him to be a man cried Miss
Lienby with martial spirit “and quo-
ted that from <>t hell la about rather lov-
ing a toad in a dungeon than keeping
a corner of the thing one loves for
other's use. He ought not let a giddy
young woman that's ready to work up
on any creature in trousers play with
his man’s affections—all for another
fickle flirtation.”
As the lady went on a pair of lively
eyes representing third floor hall front
agitated her audience by flashing the
dispatch that the characters of her nar-
rative were present realties.
In unobservant ignorance Burney with
Lefare ran the gossiper’s gauntlet but
the little hall boy always prying into
affairs on the other side of the portiers
found his countenance all too narrow for
his smiles as the pair stepped out of
the vestibule for their twilight stroll.
"Why. Peter Peter” exclaimed the
girl softly laying hold of the large arm
by her side “how amusing that all of a
sudden you should care to know all
about my correspondents! Aren’t you
getting too inquisitive?”
Burney was gently and very seduc
tively sportive. “You don't want to
become effeminate do you? Do you
think it* your style dear a burly thing
like you? Oh well an Amazon per
hsps you could do that. Only personal
ly I woukl find you quite charming. I
believe if in your native role of wiseacre
bachelor you would go on with that
very enlivening dissertation of a few
moments ago on the Nature and Desti-
ny of Flirting; A Plea for Eternal Affin
ilies. That is what you were talking
about isn't it?”
“Do you know Peter it convinced me
that you fire a born orator—on that
topic I mean of course; n most wothy
cause to champion! I fairly thrilled at
your exordium on the high calling of
adorable woman. One’s whole body-
feels different (as of course you under
stand) when one is thrilled by art ora
tor’s impassionate use of the queen’s En
glish. The blood runs racily and travels
such unbeaten tracks of one’s anatomy.
Well that's the way I felt Peter when
you were descanting upon 'Nature's an
gels of loveliness’—‘glorious eyes’—
‘cheeks like pearls and rubies'—‘hearts
and sympathies divine etcetera etcet-
era.’ ”
“And you said the attraction between
people was like the chemical affinities
of atom to atom didn't you? Which
was an exceedingly apt figure. Some
of us for instance are so like nitrogen
aren't we? \Ve can combine with so
many different atoms and break away
from them again so lightly. Now do
go on Peter and tell me all about it.
You would not have considered that an
exhaustive treatment of the subject.”
But unhappy Lafaire was silent. In
the light of Miss Lezenby’s words Bur-
ney’s jocularity looked ominous. He
sighed at the scattered leaves along the
avenue as at his own radiant hopes fad
ing at his feet. This little pet of his
had been child girl and woman bud and
blossom all in one fair miracle of win-
ning femininity. In his holy of holies
he had esconed her regailing his dry
old hermit’s mental palate with the art>
ful expressions of her busy young mind
and feeding a fathomless yearing upon
the warm girl affections which had
seemed too blithe and simple to be ex-
perienced with lovers.
Such satisfied trust had been his that
no past or present of the precious sweet-
heart had ever been arraigned for a
trial. Burney's face and ways seemed
to tell him that lie needed to know of
her family or outside interests while the
other in cident out of his own troublous
chronicles which had been given her was
the chapter on the fascinating lady who
had turned him away but was always
still remembered. Everything else had
been sublimely personal and immediate.
They had disdained practical things.
Yet. rash the wooing certainly ap-
peared. Several tripping weeks with a
tiny stranger girl and his marriage day
was already set. What if she were af
ter all. a gay little deceiver and he ev-
eryliody’i* langhikig stork her Simple
Simon and both ? Those letters for
these many weeks without a word to
her true love nor any whisper of the
eliquent blonde beau. Maybe her
charms were the finished flowers of
much practice —on others—his prede
sessors—or contcm|Hiraries ? Probably
he was the innocent and not she. It
was folly anyway to expect a queen
old original like himself to engage the
heart of such a darling siren as Burney.
Ah but she must not make a top of
him. He must show himself a person
of mettle —a man as Miss Lozcnhy had
advised.
Burney's chatter purled orf now and
then arresting its frolicsome flow just
long enough to invite a remark from her
companion as her eyes glan<-ed upward in
quest of a reason for his taciturnity.
Finally she exclaimed:
“Peter you are so unsociable!”
He was too sad and distressed to be
aide to explain himself so evaded her
with badinage very unusual for his op
en simplicity and born of the mo-
ment's exigencies.
“I see an elf in each of your eyes.
Cherie” he remarked. “I’erhap* he i*
an imp. And on the corner of your
mouth is perched a nikwoM-vnic clown.”
Burney looked amused. They were
rounding a corner and homeward bound
and discerned someone at the house
ringing the bell.
"Oh Peter!” cried the girl only in-
stantly to dart away. “That'* a man
1 konw.”
Drawing nearer Lafaire recognized in
the refined stately figure which she was
effusively hailing the hero of Miss lai
zenby's doorstep eposode; his rivel and
a veritable A|>ollo. 1U!
Every sMspieioa Iwcamc inrarnalc be-
fore him. Ilie denouement bubbles
bursted. treachery laid bare. The dal-
lying dispk'asiire which had been unset-
tling his placid calm of mind now rose
in tempests. Wilder and wilder with-
in. he slowly stepped along reaching
the Imttlefield nt the door in a lieetling
passion determined to measure swords.
Cheerily graraful Burney turned to
acknowledge hi* preaence. “Mr. Mer-
she began. "Maude Hughe*’ fiance Pe-
ter. And think of it he say* she's com-
ing back tonight. Maude left town you
know the very day Mr. Merrill came
but wither cun stand it so she’s to be
here again. And a good joke it is too.
You see it has been kept a secret from
me. Two letters a day from her imag-
ine. and not a hint of it. But now it
will be tit for tat as Mr. Merrill wishes
u* to go down to the station with him
to meet her. So come Peter only ten
minutes until train time.”
The result of l-afaire'* first appear-
ance as Othello did not warrant a sec-
ond engagement.
A RELIEF EXPEDITION.
Not a rap had he on not a square iwn
of doth
From his feet to the hair of his head
But was drenched—in fact we could
see he was wroth
And these arc the words that ne aaid:
“I’ve stood it I tell you as long as I
can!
And I’m done! Why man even sit-
ting
With nothing to do but just jiggle a
fan —
From each pore my life-strength emit-
ting.
I’ve lost flesh loot temiicr lost com-
fort lost health —
Lost everything that's worth the get-
ting.
Because I imagined I’d add fo my wealth
By staying at ho«ne here and sweat-
ing.
My customers up in the Roekies so coo]
Enjoy tramping fishing and boating
By log fires at evening they prove me
a fool
As over their sports they sit gloat-
ing.
'The Denver Road'? Yes that is the
way —
From this torture there’s ‘Only One
Road!’
‘Don't Have to Apologize!’ patrons all
sav
The puddle in fart has but one toad. '
’ ■ r
The puddle was large where the speaker
had sat
The sweat he had swote was asteam-
ing; '
We hustled him off to the mountains
and that
Made his scowls give way to smiles
beaming.
r
Write about it to A. A. Glioson Fort
Worth.
• THE CLIMATE OF COLORADO.
Colorado w the land of sunshine. The
Government Weather Bureau reports an
iversge of 357 sunshiny days covering
i jariod of 'twenty years. Sunshine be-
ing the greatest factor of health this
feature of Colorado’s climate cannot be
over-estimated. To put it in another
way the sun is above the 'horizon 4444
hours each year and at Denver official
report shows an average of 3051 hours
a year of sunshine or 68 2-3 per cent of
the possible whole. No other state or
country ran present such attractions to
the health-seeker.
■Humidity i* another factor of 'health
and twepty-two years of official observa-
tion shows an average of 49.64 per cent
of saturation in Colorado. This import-
ant feature is made manifest by a com-
parison with the average 'humidity of
Chicago which is 69.6 j>er cent; New
York 72 per cent and San Francisco
74 per cent.
The altitude of Colorado carries with
it a crisp electric atmosphere through
which the warm suji whines with slighT
loss. The chief health resort of Switzer-
land is located at an altitude of an even
mile above the sea level. The elevation
of Denver is exactly the same but the
difference in climatic conditions is shown
in the growth of tender shrubs and
plants. Near Denver many varieties of
tender shrubs and plants grow and
thrive while «t the same altitude in
Switzerland they cannot exist. Just so
with the delicate invalid. A prominent
physician in a paper read before (lie
Academy of Medicine in New York said:
“At Colorado Springs for instance in
i given period one month there will be
twenty-eight good days- —at Davos in
Switzerland only t venty. At Colorado
Springs during the shortest days of win-
ter the invalid may enjoy eight hours
if sunshine —at Davos only four ami one-
half. In early spring as soon as the
snow begins to melt invalids are cum-
nelled to leave Davos while at Colorado
spring’ they may remain with benefit
throughout the entire year.” Davos is
unquestionably the most desirable of the
high altitude resort* in Europe but
these statements must impress upon the
reader Hie sujierior advantage*! of Colo-
rado Spring* which is only cited as one
if the many desirable resort points in
the State of Colorado.
The Colorado climate is not alone an
almost perfect specific for the cure of
pulmonary and asthmatic troubles -hut
it affords" to all the greatest enjoyment
of outdoor life the year round. The
•old of winter like the heat of summer
is tcm|iereil by the <lry rarefied air and
its invigorating quality i* condwive of
mental ami physical vigor and the larg-
est measure of health. The percentage
of zero weather is less than in any other
locality where that degree of cold is
reach*d at all anil a striking peculiarity
if Colorado coldness exists in the faet
that winds do nnt occur during the
period of low temperature.
For beautifully illustrated literature
write to the jKUtsenger department of the
Denver Road Fort Worth Texas.
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imoke droo in at the Crystal—it'a the
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Why a*k a phyaMui to find out
whether your kidney* are diseased?
Take a glass itumhler and fill it with
urine. If there V a seslmielit after
standing twenty-four hours your kid-
neys are wick. If you have a desire to
urinate often a pain in the Isuk or if
your urine Mains linen you should at
once take Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite
Remmiy as delay is dangerous. There is
no question about its being the best and
surest medicine in the world for any
and all diseases of the kidney* liver
bladder and "of the urinary] 'passages
rheutism dysjiepsia coradi|iation of the
bowels and the sicknesses peculiar to
women kt ipiickly relieve* inability to
hold urine ami the necessity of getting
up often during the niglit. It atop* that
Maiding (Klin when passing urine »n<l
correots the bad! effects of whitkey ami
beer.
All druggista sell Dr. David Kennedy'*
Favorite Remedy in tihe new 50 cents
»ize ami the regular $l.OO size bottle*.
You ran have a trial bottle and pam-
phlet of valuatde medical advice sent tre*
by mail postpaid by mentioning this pa-
per ami sending your a.idTei-s to the
Dr. David Kennedy Corporation Rond-
out N. Y. The publishers of this paper
guarantee the genuineness of thia liberal
offer.
JOILN.BON"S SUCCEHBOR.
F. L Riley Appointed Chief Deputy to
District Clerk Burkey.
District Clerk George Surkey ha* ap-
pointed F. L Riley his chief deputy to
succeed W. W. Joli in-on upon the latter's
resignation to accept the city collector-
i»hip. The appoint merit lakes effect
June 1. Mr. Riley is ait presept fitaiem-
ber of the force of deputies on the dis-
trict clerk's staff. He is an affable gen-
tlemap and will no doubt fill hU new
position iu a capable and competent
manner.
UP AND NMftING.
Captain John P. Campbell Bexar
county's former popular sheriff who has
been laid up the mist six weeks with a
severe spell of illness is up and about
again. He was on the streets yesterday
ami was kept busy shaking hands with
his many friends who congratulated
him upon his recovery and were glad to
see him looking so well
HYMENEAL.
Louis Sper-cer colored and Rosa Hor-
ton. colored.
W illie Howard colored and Florence
Collins colored.
THE DUTIES OF OFFICERS.
There is good sound advice in the fol-
lowing from the Brenham Daily Banner:
“When a man is elected to office his
first and only purpose should be to
tierform well the functions of that
The futre should be h/t tq take care
of itself. He who would prostitute the
functions of a great office to further
his political cuds is the basest character
of traitor and deserves well the con-
tempt of his countrymen. One thing
at a time should be the motto of every
office holder. If his service to the peo-
ple should not recommend him for fur-
ther preraotioa then he does not de-
serve it.”
But the trouble is that it is not
heeded. The officers as a rule think
more about re-election than the impar-
tial discharge of their sworn duty.
ILLEGAL SWEATING.
The practice of sweating prisoners to
gain confessions has long been known
to be illegal. Now according to the
New Orleans Daily States the queetio!
has been decided. The report says:
“According to the decision of the Mis-
siseippi Supreme Court in the case c<
Ammons vs. State frc«n the Circuit
Court of Warren county sweatbox con-
fession* obtained from prisoners aro
not competent evidence on which to se-
cure conviction. The evidence showed
that Ammons had been ‘ put through
‘sweating’ process by the Chief ot Police
of Vicksburg and in desperation finally
confessed to the crim*. The Supreme
Court now reversed the ease and de-
clared that confessions must be wholly
voluntary and not extorted by any que*-
tiodable method.”
ADVERTISERS MUST HAVE NERVE.
Expenditure of Money Must be Made Be-
fore Returns Can Tie Expected.
If a business is localized says Otto
J. Koch in the Milwaukee Sentinel the
most effective mediums are the newspa-
pers in the locality to which the trade
is confined. If it is general then the
plan to meet prospective buyers must
emliody mediums best adapted to the
needs of the business to lie aTlvertised.
Advertising requires the same intelli-
gent thought and consideration that an
evenly balanced businem man give* to
every detail of hi* own business yet
comparatively Tew business men treat
the subject of advertising with the con-
sideration due to «o important and hec-
essary a selling factor in this age of
progress and competition.
It takes a man of good nerve and
backbone to become a general advertiser
because at best it requires an invest-
ment of money and time before the
“crumbs thrown upon the waters come
back" and timid men are apt to lose
courage or liecome doubtful at just the
time when the greatest effort and deter-
mination i» required.
There never was a time when advertis-
ing could lie no profitably employed an
now and there never was a time when
money could be so easily wasted. The
opportunity tn take hold and profit by
advertising lie* entirely witK the man
who want* to employ it yi his business
and whether or not it i* profitable de-
pends first of all upon the merit of fhe
goods to lie marketed and then upon
good business judgment a sensible plan
of introduction the proper appeal to fhc
consumer and denier and the intelligent
and economical handling of every de-
tail essential to a well conducted ad-
vertising campaign. i
THE GREAT DIFFERENCE.
Dallas street railway employes wan*
shorter hours and more pay. However-
er. thnt’s nothing strange. That'* whst!
wc all want."—Fort AVnrth Mail-Telc-
gran’. The Pan Antonio boy* under
President Jenkin* have been satisfied
for they are well paid and nine hours
constitute a day's work. A
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