San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 29, 1883 Page: 6 of 8
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SUNBEAMS.
TIkto wi wevor a minboum goldou
That full on a deilt j)Uce
Uit Iff t Mimo trco of ltIiroMiice
Tint timo could never efftca.
. A hour bo it eror no hallowed
Or freighted with momorio dear
May dumber in hI1ic forgotten
Through many and many year.
Tet a word or a tone may awaken
IU Hluniberlng beauty anow
Loug aftr the sweet-Toloed ainger
Had fadod from earthlr riew.
There waa nevor a heart ao hardened
Or tainted with iu and denpair
But tho loro f the dear Kodoemer
Might ilud an abiding place there.
Yet countlemt thoiiHan are yearning
For aympatliy kiuduon and love
And houIh in diirkno-w are dying
Without a gleam from above.
There wa never a Huubeam wanted
Or a hour that waa eung in vain
And houU that Mpewod lout and dying
Chrirtt'M mercy may not roolaini.
.tn... ....tr Oia miuboaiUfl of kiuduOHri
4 ill-" " vr- ..
Though your doodn may nevor be known ;
The harvcHt will ripen jn glory
If tho Hood bo faithfully nown.
And life with a awoot bonedictiou
Will fade into omlleaa day
Like the golden hues of the Bunbeam
Tliut fade in the twilight gray.
John C. JJJuir.
AN EDITOR'S STORY.
1IY A UETIRED EDITOR. .
It was in the year 187 . I was
.then managing editor of the "Times"
perhaps the most influential daily pa-
per in one of the largest cities of the
west which I shall designate as
Burkee. One day I wanted a Ger-
man to do some work for me among
iho German population of the' city
and employed a trustworthy young
man whom I knew and who was at
the time working in the postoffice.
He did an occasional joh for me for
several weeks.
About this time a mysterious rob-
bery of the mails occurred at the post-
office. Perhaps you remember it
the thief was believed to have torn
the letters in small pieces and swal-
lowed them in order to cover up all
traces of his crime. It made con-
siderable talk at the time in the news-
papers. To my surprise my young
German Schwarz was his name
was arrested on suspicion of being
nrpfvnorl in tliA fvimfi. and so far as
I had time to examine circumstances
pointed strongly to liim as tho guiliy
V) Alt
Well I was extremely busy and
-so let the matter drop and tried an-
other man to look after items in the
German quarter of the city. . I had
forgotten pretty much all about it un-
.til looking over the court record of
the "Times" oue morning some time
after I noticed that Schwarz had been
found guilty and sentenced to ten
years) in the state prison. "Well
that's the lastof that fellow too bad"
I thought to myself and turned to my
slesk.
I hadn't worked an hour when
there entered my sanctum a pretty
woman one of those German blonds.
She was evidently worked up about
sonic thing for she was cry hi g and
wringing her hands as she exclaimed
in broken English:
"Oh Meester 13rown Meester
TBrown vat shall I do? Vat shall I do?
in. -i :m n. ...1:111.. i;i
KJUf my ciiuureii my iiiiue uwc vuu-
dren their father must go to prison
and he is innocent he is innocent I
Oh Meester Brown vat shall I do?"
I managed to get her seated and
speedily found that she was the wife
of Schwarz ; that she had three chil-
dren without any visible means of
support; and that she firmly believed
her husband innocent for she kept
interrupting me with
"He is innocent I know he is in-
nocent. He is the victim of a con-
spiracy!" I questioned her further and soon
made up my mind that there was
something wrong about the case. I
whistled down the speaking tube for
-the law reporter. He appeared in a
moment.
"What is it about this Schwarz
case".'" I inquired of him.
"Well sir it is a very serious af-
fair. I believe there is a conspiracy
to get Schwarz into the state prison
iu order to shield the guilty parties.
I think he is perfectly innocent and
I am convinced that the prosecuting
attorney and the judge think so too"
was the law reporter's reply.
The affair began to look interest-
ing and I determined to follow it up.
I told Mrs. Schwarz to remain in
my othce and I would see what could
be done. Then I ran down around
the comer to see the prosecuting at-
torney in the case a lawyer by the
way who figured in the Guiteau trial
last spring.
"What is tkere wrong abont this
Schwarz case Mr. Dole?" I asked.
wll. tht evidence was clear
enough- he said "yet I fear it was a
conspiracy against the poor fellow
was his first remark. 'fI felt sure
when we convicted him that he was
tke victim of a mysterious train of
circumstances that it was impossible
to fathom. We are going to Move
fer his pardea right away."
I then called on the judge who bad
presided at the trial and he said re
was so nearly of the attorney s opin-
ton that be was ready to sign a re-
quest for the man's pardon. He also
believed that Schwarz was the nctim
of a vilo conspiracy though it was
impossible to prove n.
I hurried back to the office where
Mrs. Schwara was awaiting mo with
tearful anxious face.
"Well madam I believe we 11 have
your husband out of jail at short no-
T mm our A ha is innocent."
Here she interrupted me with all
sorts of exclamations oi joy u iuua
fnlnaao
"Time for that after we get him
oat" said I "aid you've got to ao
most of the work. New I will write
a petition to the President of the
United States for your husband's par-
don and you take it to the persons
whose names I give you and get them
to sign it. Do this as quick as you
can and then come here for youmust
6tart to Washington with it this af-
ternoon." Then I wrote a brief statement f
the case petitioning for the man's
pardon aad gave the woman a note
(written on my office paper and
signed my name as managing editor)
requesting the persons to whom it
was nddreased-20 of the most influ
ential citizens of Burkee-to sign the
petition as a special personal favor to
me.
The woman took the papers and
wH off like a shot. In two or three
hours sho returned with the names all
signed to the petition. I folded the
paper in proper form and wrote on
the back in 'red ink :
"Mr. President: -I believe Mr.
Sfiliwarz to be thorouehlv innocent.
Tf von will erant his pardon he will
j - o x
be immediately restored to his former
position on the Burkee Times. I shall
esteem your pardon as a great person-
al favor. Yours respectfully Silas
II. Brown managing editor of the
Burkee limes.
"Now listen to what I say and do
just as I tell you" I said to Mrs.
Schwarz who was watching me witn
interest so intense that it was painful.
I ou in list take this petition tome
President vourself. You must start
this afternoon. When you get there
fro straight to the White House. It
o CJ
will be senators' day and the secre-
... v. m 1
tary will tell you the rresiacnt is Dusy
and you cannot see him. You must
answer: 'But I must see him; I have
a messaore to the President from the
Burkee Times.' Then if he hesitates
6how him this card and tell him I
sent you but don't say anything
else;" and I gave her one of my au-
tocrauh cards which had written on
it "Silas II. Brown managing editor
Burkee Tunes.
She promised to do strictly as I
had told her lavished her thanks as
upon me and then went away to pre-
pare for the journey. I trusted to
the verv odditv and "cheekiness" of
the manage to secure her an audience
with her president and felt confident
that General Grant would pardon the
man when he saw that I was ready to
employ him again. Besides I had
recently visited Washington and had
renewed mv acouaintance with the
President and I was certain he would
dojne almost any favor for the Bur-
kee Time was a power in the West
and' even presidents were not slow to
heed its counsels.
Now the manasrinc editor of a great
metropolitan daily newspaper is not
supposed to be "hdgety over any-
thing but I confess for the next two
or three davs I was rather anxious to
know the result of any philanthropic
effort.
At last one afternoon Mrs. Sch
warz came rushing into my room
the dust of the journey still on tier
clothes her eyes sparkling like diam-
onds and her face lighted up witli an
indescribable look of joy. She gripped
a package of documents in her hands
and exclaimed as she entered:
"Oh I've got it! I've got it! Thank
God and you. Meester Brown I've
got it! The pardon! Me husband is
vreel"
And then she repeated it ever and
over while tears of joy rolled down
her cheeks and I confess my eyes
felt pretty watery."
"WelJ.well sit down sit down and
tell me all about it" I said in a husky
voice.
Mrs. Schwarz after some gyrations
about the room calmed herself enough
to be seated and tell rae her story.
"Veil I go to Washington all right.
I go right up to de big Vite House.
I go up to tie secretary and I dell him
I would hie to tee de Bresident.
I've a message for him from de Bur-Tk.-...
nn 1a secretary he
look very cross an he say is sena-
tors' day you cannot see de presi-
dent! But I say I must see mm; I
have a message from de Burkee Dtmet
and here is Meester Brown's card an
he told me not to deU you anything
else' and I handed him your card.
He looked at it and told me to wait a
minute. Den he went away an' den
I vas frightened. Pretty soon he
come back an' he say 'You may see
de Bresident;' an' I went in to where
de Bresident was.
"It was a beeg beeg high room all
very gran' and I vas awful 'fraid. De
President sat at beeg table covered
withbapers. He looked very cross;
he had a cigar in kis mouth; and oh
I vas very much afraid and wished I
hadn't come. Den I tink me of mo
boor husband and me children an I
say 'Meester Bresident I have a pe-
tition to you an' I handed de petition
to him. His face grew blacker and
blacker as he read it an' my heart
went vay vay down in me. Den he
say It is no use I can't do. some-
dings for you;' and be lay de petition
down on lie table looking very cross.
"Did you read de writing on de
back Meester Bresident? Did yon
see what Meester Brown wrote?" I
cried wid my heart in me throat. De
President he pick it up again an' he
read de writin on de back an' hees
face oh it grew so much lighter an'
he say.
"Humph if Brown will put dis
man to work on de Burkee Dimes he
had better be dere dan in de state
prison!'
"An' den he write a little an he
handed de paper to me an he say
Your husband is vrec f an I cried an'
said 'Tank you .Meester Bresident'
an' made a curtsy an' den I ran for
de train an' here I am an' am so
glad!"
"Capital so far" "but don't let's
waste time let's go and get your hus
band."
So we ordered a hack and started
for the county jail. Arrived there
we found that Schwarz had been taken
tn the state prison -10 miles away
just an hour and ahalf before. Well we
telegraph to the prison that he was a
free man and went down to bring
him back in the next train. We
found our telegram had arrived just
too late Schwarz had been taken to
the prison barber shop and had lost
his fine beal and his hair xmt ne
hadn't been behind the prison bars.
I can't describe the meeting of Sch-
warz and his wife. We all cried and
were very happy.
Well. I brought that man back to
Burkee and gave him his old place on
the Times. 1 gave notice to tne em-
ployes that nothing was ever to be
said to him about the past and that
whoever did so would be promptly
discharged. The next thing to do
was to keep the story out of the other
paper the Burkee uepuuiu-an. jnow
the editor oi the licpnuiican nau tne
reputation of beinc a heartless man
who would never keep anything out
of print no matter what tne circum-
stances were. I was not much ac-
ouainted with him except through
the "editorial amenities" we threw at
each other daily m true western style.
So it was with some misgivings that
I called on him at his office. There
I told him the whole story. When I
got through he was wiping away the
tears and so was 1. Me said notinng
but summoned his local editor.
"Mr. Short." he said when the
local editor appeared "you have heard
of this Schwarz case I suppose?"
"Yes sir."
Weil. sir. never refer to it in the
Republican in any way under penalty
of instant discharge. Instruct your
reporters to the same effect.''
"Very well sir. answered the local
editor withdrawing
I returned to my office in a happy
state of mind. No mention was ever
made of the affair in any paper. We
all helped the man up as best we
could. There never was a more faith-
ful worker and to-day he holds a res-
ponsible position on the same paper
at a large salary while if he hadn't
been pardoned he would still have
two or three years of prison life before
him and the Lord only knows what
would have become of hi3 children.
And the best part of it all is that a
few years after he was pardoned' one
of the old postoffice clerks at Burkee
died confessing that he was guilty of
the mail robbery and completely ex-
onerating Schwarz from anyparticipa-
tion in the crime for which ne came
so near spending ten years of his life
in jail.
But that raessa'ge to the President
from the Burkee Time was a little
the cheekiest thing I ever did in my
life. I guess that neither Grant nor
any president before or since ever
received another like it.
The above story is a literal narra-
tion of facts except that the names
of the participants and the name of
the city where the Burkee Time is
still a great and prosperous newspaper
are completely olianged.
The !Uw riwt Reader.
Lesson I.
It is night. A policeman awakes
until a midden start and moves around
the corner having a secret fear at his
heart that ho had slept tnrougn an
that night and all next day and far
into to-morrow night. It is night in
a great city. The poker and faro
rooms are in full blast 10000 loafers
are holding down street corners and
here and there an intoxicated alder-
man can be seen making his way to
a policy shop or a gathering of the
Savement ring. Under the cover of
arkness . first manufactured over
0000 years ago the hotel-beat low-
ers bis duds from the fourth-story win-
dow; all who have dead -head tickets
start for the operft house; hundreds
of young men set out to spark ; re-
porters fondly look forward to fires
robberies and murders and church
choirs meet to rhearso and wrangle
and lay up clubs for each other.
'Tis night in the country. The
stock has been fed the squeal of the
pig is hushed and the tired horse
munches at his corn and wonders
why his master throws in so many
cobs without a kernel on them. The
watch dog sits at the gate perfectly
willing to chew up any of the neigh-
bors for a cent and within the farm
house all is serene or would be if
John Henry could find the grease
for his boots and Mary Ann could
find her dime novel the old man dis-
coverthe hiding-place of the bootjack
the mother solve the mvsterv of aow
come of her neighbors managed to get
a dress costing two shillings per yard
while she had nothing but calico.
'Tis night on the ocean. The
proud steamer sails gallantly on and
on the captain shoring in his berth
the mates playing euchre the look-
out asleep and everything in readi-
ness to swear in case of collision that
it was all the other vessel's fault.
Nothing is heard but the steady beat
of the propller. the groans of the
emigrants and the voices of man and
women declaiting that anybody who
plans an ocean voyage for pleasure
ou?ht to be shot to death with cod
fish balls.' The sportive gambols away
... -. i i i it
his hard earnings the wnaie roils
over for another nap and the business-like
shark follows in the wake
to pick up any opportunity which may
tumble overboard.
'Tis niffht on the prairie. ' The red
men gather about the camp-fire to
count the scalps they nave taken
within the last week and to grumble
at the erovernment for not furnishing
them port wine and repeating rifles.
-. . . i i
The white hunter and trapper curis
himself up to wonder where he can
find old bones for breakfast and to
realize what a fool he has made of
himself and the gaunt wolf shoul-
ders his stomach and sets out in search
of something worth living for.
Night grows apace. In the city
the weary wife takes her place in the
hall with club in hand. In the coun-
try the old folks fall into bed aweary
with the work of the day and the
young people spark and chew pop-
corn. On the ocean the sea-sikers
continue to grow worse and the
songs of the mermaids fall flat. On
the prairie the Indians finally decide
to make war in the spring the hunt-
er falls asleep to dream of eating his
boots for dinner and the wolf meets
a wild-cat and offers to toss up to
see which shall eat the other.
Blessed be night. But for it the
burglars and gas companies would
fill our poorhouses. and the afternoon
papers would have no morning jour
nals to steal rrom.
A Love Tragedy With a Sequel.
Eamey Thomas was released from
custody at the Cold Creek mines Mon-
day having served out his sentence.
He passed through the city last night
en route to Nashville his former home.
There is quite a romance connected
with tho imprisonment of Thomas.
In 1875 he killed Joe DeaLa clerk at the
Maxwell house in Nashville for in-
sulting a young lady to w hom he was
engaged to be married. He was sen-
tenced to the penitentiary for twenty-
one years but his sentence was com-
muted ten years by Governor Porter
and again was reduced oa account of
pood behavior during confinement.
Thomas says he is going to marry the
young lady whose honor he defended
at such a dear cost as soon as he suc-
ceeds ia getting work. She has remain-
ed true to him daring his imprisonment
writing to him and often sending him
many delicacies and sweet remember-
ances. He is man of neat appear-
ance about thirty-five years of age and
ba a manly face and a'clear bright eye
Ghattntioogn Time.
1913 childres attend the free
school of Galveston.
YanderbUt's Wealth.
Sw York Comipondnc Sto FnrcUoo Ctfl.
Popular estimates of VanderLilf.
wealth range all. the way from Jj
hundred to six hundred million;
There can be no exaggeration ia
lowest of these figures and raaj S
but little m the higher. Speakin t!
a Time reporter the other dav as E
a reported retention of bonds bvtS
New York Central Mr. .Vaaffi
stated incidentally that he Limself
held between sixty and seventy ma
lions of the stock of the New York
Central which pays regular dividend!
of one per cent a month; that then
was about one hundred millions in
the Vanderbilt family and besides
this he was a large holder in the
bonded debt of the . company whick
ranks at over par. Add this to sixty
odd millions of registered United
States bonds that stand in his name
and the enormous interest he is know'
to iioiu iu omer rauroaas his real
estate and properties of various kinds
and the aggregate must be something
enormous making him beyond doubt
the richest man in the world. Kox
is there probably in the whole coun.
try a man who lives on a smaller pro.
portion of his income than does this
millionaire. For a man of his wealth
he is exceedingly economical and ir-
respective of stock speculations in
which with his immense command
of capital he is always winner and
the growing appreciation of all his
properties he must out of the sheer
savings from this income be adding
millions every year to his already
enormous fortune. Vanderbilt iB
said by those who know him to be
ve. dull and stupid by no means
the equal of his father in those quali-
ties which enabled the Staten Island
boatman to become the great steam-
ship commodore and finally the un-
rivalled railroad king. But he has all
the plodding sagacity that enables him
to hold on to what he gets and he
has surrounded himself in the man-
agement of his great railroad inter-
ests by the -best executors and ad-
visers. Should he live as long as his
father and be succeeded by another
Vanderbilt of the same kind it is a
curious speculation as to what the
Vanderbilt fortune will amount to or
perhaps rather what there would be
at the end of the third generation
left for other people. Yet if Gould
were twenty years younger it is in the
possibilities that he might easily dis-
tance Vanderbilt before it came to his
turn to start for that land where
earthly wealth cannot be taken for
he with ail the money-making quali-
ties of the first Vanderbilt has
reached that point where the millions
roll up of themselves even though
their possessor be a fool or idiot. Ad-
mission to the picture gallery in
Vanderbilt's new house on Fifth
avenue is to be had on two afternoons
in the week by previously writing for
tickets of admission and is availed of
by people who not only want to see
the pictures but to behold for them-
selves the inside of the house of the
great millionaire. Not much of it is
to be seen however but what there
is is very fine and costly. Your Cali-
fornia millionaire Gov. Stanford
quietly occupies Vanderbilt's old
house having his office in Mill's
building the erection of another
California millionaire who since his
daughter's marriage witi Whitelaw
Keed has bought out the mortgage
held by Jay Gould on the Tribune and
taken the paper founded by Horace
Greely into the family.
-"Adulterated Teas.
m. i no nnnlierl to tea8
from Japan and Chinaappears to mm
necessarv io ineir ame
of the same word is to Indian teas from
the simple fact that .tea can only be
tea-as if it is not tea it is something
else and should be sold under a differ-
ent name. The cause need not be looKea
for as it is simply uue io iu
ing public. The middle man and re-
tail dealer unit in full force and we
sapient housewife who would tnst amer
reject "oleomargarine" or "butterine
for butter will most meekly accept
mixture of willow or other leaves i bi0n
ly faced with copperas and Indioo
Prussian blue as pure green tea
this when infusion and a slight Kno
edge of the tea leaf would place au
a position to test the.put lty for uk
selves. Further check is at band w
sediment presenting au appearance i
its adulterant. From most conn tries
complaints are frequent that
tea" is unprocurable at any price . btm
pure tea is manufactured bnI u f
much of it reaches the consumer w
China and Japan teas w scU
question By the time it has pav
from the bush to the factory taenjf
to the middleman and grocer aca
nallr into th. cup of t"Sj
drinker its original MbJ
puzzle its manufacturer to aw
its class certainly as regl
teas whose frequent wiulP'
transformations often destroy
of it ori-in.-r. lhvleJphJ'''ie-9
The speaker of the House
allv known as the chair w iJea
caa.e he i atdon on o O"8-
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