San Marcos Cresset. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 9, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 29, 1885 Page: 4 of 4
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C. M. HULL, Editor.
Terms of Subscription :
One year, $2.00. Six months, $1.00.
Tuesday, September 29,1885.
THE DAY LILY.
[Nora Perry in Youth’s Companion,}
Just for a d iy, for a day,
I break into bloom;
Just for a day, for a day,
I shed my perfume.
Just for a day, for a day,
“Alack and alas,
How fleeting and brief thy stay,*
They cry, as I pass.
But fleeting and brief, I give
The wealth of my soul
Just for the day that 1 live,
Without stint or control.
What more can a life bestow
Ere it pas es away,
Than its all, though its warmth and glow
Be but for a day?
How Cu-ter Was Killed.
[Bo :onRecord.]
Sitting Bull went on:
“(Jn the lirst day’s fight do you rccol-
tec’ an Indian mounted on a black horse
v.'bo was armed with a ’camp stick’ (an
Indian lance , and was cheering and urg-
ing on his men?”
Sergt Ilyan—That was when you were
trying to break our skirmish line. The
chief was -x00 or 800 yards away, and 1
fired on him a number of times.
bitting Bull (with much merriment;—
That was me. Soon after that I went to
the s ene of the fight with Custer, and
was not in battle after that day. I re
member when two of your pack mules
charged down to the water from your
camp on the bluff. They were loaded
with ammunition, and we used that am-
munition, as well as what we got from
c uster in the second day’s fight. When 1
went to take charge of the battle at the
other end of the valley, where Custer
made his attack, I left Crazy Horse in
command of my young men who were
fighting you and iieno.
Sergt. Byau—Was the fight going on
when you got there?
Sitting Bull—Oh, yes! We. had them
Burrounded.
Sergt. Ryan—It has been stated that
Rain-in-the-1 ape claimed that he killed
Custer. JDid lie?
Sitting Bull—There is no truth in it.
So many were firing at Custer at the same
time that no one could tell whether he hit
him or not
Sergt. Ryan—You are telling the truth
there. I was in command of the detah
that buried ( uster after Gen. Terry came
up. There was a number of bullets in
( uster s body, and he and a newspaper
man named Kelley were the only ones
whose bodies had not been mutilated.
The Valley of the Yellowstone.
I Cor, Cincin uti Enquirer.]
This valley seems composed of two dis-
tinct sections. We have left the region
of the inferno, and are suddenly in para
dise. The sulphur stream, boiling water
and blinding alkali plans have suddenly
vanished, and in their place come the
cool winds from the mountain rushing
through the dense shadows of the pint-
woods. A pleasant ride of thirty miles
brought us to the camp, near the grand
canon, and we shall soon see this wonder
of wonders. I ha e waited to compare it
to the 1 osemite and the valley of Mexico,
b it comparison with any spot on earth is
imp .ss hie. It stands alone utterly unlike
•ay thing the world holds.
tpeakiug to an Englishman who has
been with us I said that i ierstadt or
Church should come here and spend
years iu order to reproduce it on canvas,
und he answered:. “ Twould be useless.
No brush could do it justice, and the
picture would be laughed at as an exag
geration. ” I think he was right. It is
not so much in the grandeur of the cliffs,
though they tower a thousand feet or
more on either hand, as in its wonder
fully vivid coloring. Bright gold and
sulphur, deop crimson and blue, with the
dark green of the pine trees and the
rushing water, together with the fair
blue sky and the light of the setting sun.
Make the colors as vivid as you can, and
tbe crag as fantastic as a dream, and you
may in some small degree realize what
this wonder of Almighty God is like.
The bhrine of the Invisible, the Throne
of the Eternal—it fascinates, and one can
simply sit and gaze upon it in silence.
Surely the people can not know what our
laud holds, or the thousands would nock
here and not to Switzerland.
Love-letter Writing with the Typewriter-
iCincin-i ti Commercial Gazette.]
A spirited young lady of this city is
reported to ha e summarily ended an
interesting and promising love match
simply because her adored young man
insisted on conducting his part of the cor-
respondence with the aid of a typewriter.
She declared she could easily read his
manuscript, and did not propose to file
away any more machine-made love let-
ters.
There is indeed something cold, unsym-
pathetic in a friend’s letter that has been
ground out of a typewriter. It lacks
individuality, suggests the printed circu-
lar. No doubt the typewriter, in the
hands of an adept, expedites business, but
some men will spend more time fooling
with the apparatus, and afterward attach-
ing their names to the awkwardly
constructed lines in order to make people
think they employ a correspondence clerk,
than if they were to sit down, pen in
hand, and dash off the little message they
wish conveyed.
Will Y« u Have Tea or Coffee ?
jNew York Midland Express.]
It has been said that the tea-drinking
nations of the world always prove them-
selves superior, when a conflict arises, to
the coffee-drinkers and the British, Ger-
man and Eussians have been cited to
prove this, as opposed to the French,
Austrians and the Turks. But the rule
will scarcely hold good. The Chinese are
the greatest tea-drinkers, and next
to them the Russians; and neither
of these nations is a model for
others to follow. Coffee is gaining
ground in all the northern nations,
and may some day he used more largely
than tea everywhere except in tea pro-
ducing countries and those immediately
contiguous to them, like China and Rus-
sia Whether the change is a good one
or not, let the doctors determine. Opin-
ions among them seem to be divided on
that, as on every other question of diet.
Every one ought to know which suits his
own interior economy best.
Flash Literature.
[Evansvil'e* Argus.]
“Say Jimmie, you want to let up on
them kind of papers, ” said a little tele-
graph boy to another.
“What for? It’s a good paper. ”
“No. it ain’t. Don t you see that it's
The Telegraph Operator’s Journal?”
“Well, what of it?”
“Wliv. it’s Hash literature.”
Tlie Ceckle-Bur Bird.
A Georgia paper says that before the
war there was a bird in the south that fed
exclusively on the cockle-burs. At cer-
tain seasons of the year these birds would
sweep down upon the fields and when
they departed not a bur remained. The
smell of burnt and burning powder for
four years seems to have been too much
for the bur eaters, since now not a bird of
the kind is to be found in the bush.
Detroit Free Press: The love of money
is the desire to be served by our fellow
creatures instead of our serving them.
S. H. B A R R E T T ’ S
lillilil
NEW UNITED MONSTER
RAILROAD SHOWS,
Triple Circus, World’s Menagerie, Museum of Living Wonders,
Elevated Stage and Grand Racing Carnival.
Will Exliiloit art San Marcos on
FRIDAY, OCTOBER, 9,
IN ALL ITS MASSIVE AND DNDIVIDA BLE SPLENDOR
200
STAR PERFORMFRS
Hlars of First Magnitude All I
First in order and in merit we name the Celebrated Artist,
James rboloinson
The Laurel-Crowned EMPEROR OF EQUERTRIANA. hie proudlv
• wears the tide undisputed and untarnished. This
famous Artist is the Most Fearless, Intrepid
and Dashing. Bareback Rider in the
entire world today.
3VEiss Emma Lake
Who holds a like proud and deservedly bestowed title as the QUEEN
OF THE SIDE-SADDLE. A Bewitchingly Beautiful and Graceful
Rider, who has no equal as a Horsewoman.
THE
WONDERFUL MELROSE TROUPE OF BICYCLISTS
MISS VIOLA RIVERS
EQUESTRIANA’S ARTIST DAUGHTER, who, with Her Flying Steeds
and Jugglery, awakens wonder and delight* is also without an equal in her
specialties.
TS*SsiS^:
I
JAMES TAYLOR & BR0
DEALERS IN
STAPLEAND FANCYGROCERIES
A Larger number of Star Artists than any other Ten Shows.
BRAZIL BROTHERS, ANDY SWEENEY, MACART FAMILY, FRANK
ASHTON, LEOPOLD BROTHERS, ZURELLA AND DUBOIS
AND 200 OTHERS.
HE WONDER OF ARABIA.
4
AB-DUL-EL-HEER
The wonder of the Orient, in his fearless Riding Leaping and Tumbling, and
his ENTIRE ALL-STAR CIRCUS, composed of a host of Artists from the
other Hemisphere.
OUR MAMMOTH MENAGERIE
Contains COUNTLESS CAGES of LIVING WILD ANIMALS, and numer-
ous specimens never before exhibited, has had added this year, at an enormous
expense, many imported new features.
THE ONLY GIANT TWO-HONED SUMATRIAN
Rhinoceros
B^TDrov. ; Zebras, Hyenas. Giraffes, Elands, Camels, Dromedaries, and
several oim-^strange and rare beasts, Elephants in harness, Trained Giraffes,
Trained Camels, Trained Zebras.
-A- Huge Hippopotamus
The Lar*'st—in in Ref, t-lie only one—ever exhibited in the world.
The only Living Pair of
C OAL BLACK AFRICAN TIGERS
On Earth, AjrclaTaousaud other All-Alone Features of ZOOLICAL RE-
NOWN. ’< I
The triant Elephant.
Mr- Robert Stiolcney
THE IMPERATOR OF THE ARENA, the wonderful Master of the Horse,
thd best General Athlete and most Versatile Performer livining. Graceful
and daring, outrivaling all rivalry.
A host of others too numerous to mention—Athletes, Gymnasts, Contor-
tionists, Wrestlers, Posers, Gladiators, Antipodeanists, Equilibrists, Acrobats
Aerialists, Unicyclists, Tricyclists, etc., etc. Together with the
PRINCE KO-KIN-SEC-A-WAO
AND A-
QUEENSWARE, TINWARE, GLASSWARE,
Woodenware, Willowware, Canned Goods, Etc
SAN MARCOS, TEXAS.
D
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xwLvj
DEALERS IN
GOODS,
CLOTHING.
Fine Hats, Shoes, Notions, &c.
SAN MARCOS, TEXAS.
The Only Exclusively Dry Goods House in Hays County.
ED. CHRISTIAN.
R. HAYWARD
£D. CHRISTIAN & CO*
DEALERS IN
Lumber, Shingles, Lath, Sash,
DOORS -A.3SHD BLI3STI3S.
All Orders Promptly Filled. Office and Yard, Near I. & G. N. R. R. Depot
SAN MARCOS, TEXAS.
At the
A ROYAL JAPANESE CIRCUS OF TWENTY TROUPES.
WeightTen Tons. Making the most complete Menagerie on earth.
Ouir G-rand Street, Pageant
Outvying in splendor the grandest Oriental Fetes. A sceneof Regal Splendor
Bright, Radiant and Glorious, with 8 Bands of Music, Many Golden Chariots
Band ears and Golden Cages, Pages, Knights. Ladies, Equerries, etc,, etc., a
whole menagerie of Dens of Ferocious, Wild Living Animals open in the
Streets.
m
AUSTIN, Oct, 8, SAN MARCOS, Oct. 9, NEW BRAUNFELS, Oct. 10,
SAN ANTONIO, Oct. 12.
will be found
THE BEST BRANDS OF WHISKIES, ALSO WINES, ICE COLD
BEER THE MOST SATISFACTORY CIGARS,
AND THE BEST
ZBILLL^HID AND FOOL TABLES.
WILLIAM KYSER, Proprietor.
K. FRQMME,
DRUGGIST and PHARMACIST.
A complete assortment of Drugs and Druggists’ Sundries.
Lunsford, Sinz & McBride
SAN MARCOS, TEXAS,
CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS,
Office and Shop over Cowley <fc Curry’s.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED FOR ALL WORK DONE BY US.
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Hull, C. M. San Marcos Cresset. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 9, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 29, 1885, newspaper, September 29, 1885; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth614580/m1/4/?q=%22~1%22~1&rotate=0: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State University.