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The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1881-10-08
The Man he Wanted.

A while ago an editor wanted an as
sistant and had many applications, The
first young man said he had enjoyed
two years experience in the business,
and Thought he understood It thorough
ly in all its branches. But he didn't
get the job. Others, with similar quail
ioations, presented themselves, biat
were refused. One young man said H.
had worked in an office, wrote a clear
hand and knew how 10 prepare copy,
aud wnsn't afraid 10 try any job, though
he might not be ahlo 10 carry il through,
as he didn't know the whole business
yet and the editor said ~You are
the man want want man viz
does not know the whole business.
Then l shall DO able 10 tell him some
thing and eau run the paper that way.
II isn't always well to know too much.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1881-10-08
A Beautlfnl Science.
NorrIsiown Herald.

Astronomy is beautiful science,
We are told that II railway was run
from the earth 10 the nearest fixed star,
aud the fare was one penny for every
hundred miloa, and II You were TO take
a mass Of gold to the ticket Office equal
to the national debtor $500, 00O, 900
lit would not be sufficient to pay for
a ticket to the nearest fixed star afore.
said.
IL this be tho case, il matters very
httlo 10 na whether such railway il
ever constructed. II would be discour-
aging 20 go TO tho ticket office with 4
mass OF gold equal 70 $500, GOA, GOO
and he Informed thal the fare ~as
s5, 67s, 052N0O. II tho ticket agent
wouldn't trust until We got back wed
he compelled to ierego he trip,
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1881-10-08
Encourage Home MANUFACTURES.

The idea of encouraging home man
ufacturing and developing our re.
sources is fixing itself firmly in the
in many places manufactures are con
templated or in progress of erection.
Prosperity follows increased manufac.
turing.
The inventors thoughts the miners
delving-the machinsts cunning toll
changed to muscles of steel and hearts
OF oak, appear on our harvest fields,
and sweeps down the golden grain with
the precision of clock-work and the
speed of the tornado. They appear and
abide by our firesides, thing of beau
ty and Joy forever, relieving our wives
and daughters of days and nights of
tedious stitching. He who captures the
wild waterfall, and tames it to twirl the
spindle and throw the shuttle. as hon
estly pays for the cloth he wears rs lie
who gathers the snowy cotton boil, or
shears the bleating sheep.
The people of the West would to-day
be better off with much less number
OF acres cultivated and larger amount
of manufacturing in their midst. This
every one must admit. If one man has
not the means to start business OF
this character, let combination of men
furnish the capital. Every village and
every community, should give encour.
agement to home manufacture. En-.
lightened selfishness, as we'll as the
general good, dictates such u policy
The Yves. should be dotted all over
with manufacturing establishments. Lee
the West stand by its own interests
encourage home manufactures, and III
prosperity will increase. Western man
ufactories are prosperous and successful
rs any in the world Western Agri
cultitTist.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1881-10-08
Rapid Progress in Texas.

A special statistical edition of the
Galveston Menus shows that l 1884 miles
of railway have been completed in
Texas within year, and that within
two years Al additional towns OF com
mercial importance have been reached
by rail or have sprung into existence,
and that the value of the States pro-
ducts has increased from $57 800, 141 ia
ls7s-79 to S95, $50, $50 in 1Ss0-S1. The
amount and value Of the chief staples
OF the State for the past year are Cot
ton, 1,260,247 bales; value, S56,7ll,1l5;
wool, 20,67l $3.50 pounds; value, $i,754,
522; hides, l2,262,052 pounds; value,
81 All, 4l6; cattle, ,s74 head; value,
Sl5,923,OlS; horses and mules, 2S.l75
head; value, 81 ,40S,750; grain, 39,G6t
car loads: value, S6,94l ,375; lumber
27S, 600, 5i2 feet; value, S5,572, l0l cot.
ton seed cake and oil, sl,2l2,3l5; mis-
cellaneous products, $l,344,72s; sugar
and molasses, 1891 40, Total value
sos, 960,030.
There has been expended during th'
year for railroad construction within
the State something like S20,OOO,OOO
which added 10 the above would give
grand total OF $4,000, $50 as the sun
derived by Texas 10 the credit Of il
industrial and agricultural resources, o
fully double thai Of the year is7S-7e
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1881-10-08

Washington, September % The
following dispatch has been sent by
the secretary of state to the governors
of the several states and territories:
You are respectfully invited to be
present ut the funeral ceremony of the
late president James A. Garfield, at
Cleveland ON Monday, September the
Goth, at o'clock p. m.
Signed JAMES G.. BLAINE.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1881-10-08

rur eatate Of rich man Is hallowed
ground 10 the lawyers and they viii
travel for miles 10 prey upon H.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1881-10-08

iiunai Dispatch line on Tiffany car
whose temperature was from 40 to A. II
Dallas Herald.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-09-29
LADIES, DEPARTMENT.
Queer Head.Picces.

The gold and silver head-pieces which
the Friesland women wear so universally
are of two kinds, one being q skull cap
divided down the middle and closely
covering the hair, the other side pieces,
consisting of little disks, elaborately
chased, and often of really beautiful
work. The skull cap is made OF thin
gold or silver, and the prices of these
necessary ornaments run very high,
gold skull cap costing from 800 to 400
Syuilders "a guilder being equal to thirty
eight cents, while the silver prices are
from fifty to seventy guilders. The
greater number are heirlooms; and in
cases where this cannot be so, the first
duty of Frisian woman is to save up
until she can decorate her head as
Frieslander should.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-09-29
Advice TO the Girls.

When man chooses the profession Of
law he does not expect to be a musician
and journalist also. He knows that
If he would succeed he must devote
himself to the one chosen calling.
When woman marries she realizes that
in order to reach lofty heights in wife
and motherhood she must sacrifice
lesser aims. She must be willing to
Law aside the delightful occupations
which have made her girlhood pleasant.
She must know that from the hour her
baby is laid in the cradle, dressed with
loving forethought, to that darker hour
when the mature man lies down in his
last sleep, that she will give full mean
ing to the words, Constant care,
That her mind once unfe.tered will be
at liberty no more, but is bound by ties
stronger than life or death to those who
have come to her from out Of the great
unknown. Wait awhile, girls think
it all over before you promise to be
come wjves-to take these duties and
burdens upon You. Sweet and satisfy
ing as are the obligations of wife and
mother, they are not to be taken
lightly. A husband must not be looked
upon as a sort Of perpetual beau, and
children as extremely uncertain and
improbable adjupcts. Unless, like
Wilhelm Meister, your apprenticeship
ended, you reach out of yourself and
ask for larger duties, for wider field
OF labor, you had better stay at home
with father and mother, digniiying the
relations of daughter, filling the old
established home with mild radiance
which would seem but a dim light in a
new one.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-09-29
Ancient Elections.

As hitherto, SO again, we must go
back to the beginning to take up the
clew. Out OF that earliest stage OF the
savage horde in which there is no su.
premacy beyond that of the man whose
strength, or courage, or cunning, gives
him predominance, the first step is to
the practice OF election deliberate
choice of leader in war. About the
conducting OF elections in rude tribes
travellers are silent probably the meth
DDS used are various. But we have ac
counts Of elections as they we're made
by European peoples during early
times. In ancient Scandinavia the chief
OF province. chosen by the assembled
people, was thereupon "cieyated amid
the clash of arms and the shouts of the
multitude and among the ancient
Germans he was carried on a shield.
Recalling, as this does, the chairing OF
a newly-elected member of parliam ent
up to recent times, and reminding us
that orig .nally among ourselves election
was by show OF hands, we are taught
that the choice OF a representative was
once identical with the choice of n
chief. Our house OF commons had its
roots in local gatherings like those in
which uncivilized tribes select their
head warriors.
Besides conscious selection, thcre
occurs among rude peoples selection
by lot. The Samoans, for instance, by
spinning a cocoanut, which on coming
to rest points to one OF the surrounding
persons, thereby single him out. Early
historic races supply illustrations as
the Hebrews in the affair of Saul and
Jonathan, and as the Homeric Greeks
when fixing on champion to light
with Hector. In both these last cases
there was q belief in supernatural in
huence the lot was supposed to be
divinely determined. And probably at
the outset, choice by lot for political
purposes among the Athenians, and for
military purposes among the Romans,
as also in later times the use OF the lot
for choosing deputies in some of the
Italian republics, and in Spain (as in
Leon during the twelfth century,, was
influenced by n kindred belief; though
doubtless the desire to give equal
chances to rich and poor, or else to as
sign without dispute q mission which
was onerous or dangerous, entered into
the motive or was even predominant
Here, however, the fact to be noted 's
that this mode Of choice, which plays a
part in representation, may also be
traced back to the usages of primitive
people. Herbert Spencer.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-09-29

debt, whether OF the mortgaged or
" floating" sort. Comparatively few
churches are endowed with such fund
as Mr.. Kimball mentions. When there
is such an endowment, it's operation is
almost uniformly. ~ he states. In a
certain church, whose endowment is
30 great that the highest pew rent was
only 81 year, the members became so
spiritually lazy that they had either TO
go to sleep or 10 quarrel. Rich men
are more plenty than endowments, and
are bonanzas 10 churches which properly
use them and teach them how to give.
For every church which has either rich
men or endowment, there are twenty
poor ones which have nothing but a
debt. Kimball thinks all the churches
ought 10 do business on &c. o. D."
basis, and then there would he no
church debtg.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-09-29
grown girls, matrons and elderly

grown girls, matrons and elderly
women.
Pale shades OF pink and cream color
arc the favorite huos for artistic testheti C
dresses.
Plush stripes on wool satin grounds
are seen among other novelty trimming
materials.
Basques of MORE, black and in dark
rich colors, will be worn with skirts of
various kinds.
Zouave turbans of red and blue fine
wool, with red tassels, are much worn
by little girls.
Little owls in black metal, with dia-
mond, ruby, or emerald eyes, are fav-
orite ornaments.
Eight or more bridemaids, one-half
being little girls under twelve, is the
latest style in England.
Floral decorations for wedding, din
ner, and reception tables are more pro-
fuse and eccentric than ever.
Short dresses continue in vogue on all
occasions, and there is no indication
that there will be change in respect to
length this season.
The latest style of new shoe has
heel of the dice-box order, POLITICALLY
called Louis Quiuze, and has lattice
work of straps across the instep.
Lawn handkerchiefs, with blue or
pink borders, are often worn around the
neck in place of collars, the ends tucked
in the folds of the surplice waists.
Satin cords in passementerie are the
features in dress trimmings. They add
the luster that all dull silk passemen-
terie need for trimming silk fabrics.
In artificial flowers there is a great
vogue for cut silk blossoms, the blue
bell, geranium, hyacinth and polyanthus
being all reproduced in this manner.
Pink gingham has been worn TO such
an extent in London that the good
natured Princess of Wales has been
forced to fly to the rescue and wear
blue.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-09-29
Quick at Figures.

The Syracuse IN. " Courier slludes
to youthful prodigy who is an in.
mate of tho penitentiary. His name is
James Nolan, but is better known as
Jimmy the Bootblack." Jimmy
is q lightning calculator. Although
possessing little or no education, he Ia
as much At home among figures as fish
is in its natural element. In this re-
spect the boy is 3 wonder. 4 glance
over q column Of figures Is sufficient to
enable him TO give tho footing. II
standing before blackboard, while
another person is putting down figures,
he will be ready with the sum total
when the last stroke Is made, no matter
how saplGly one may make lhem.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-09-29
COlorcd Women and Kisses.

4 Kentuckian tells a reporter of the
Louisville Post that colored women
never kiss each other, and the reporter
adds they seldom shake hands. The
first may be true, but the last certainly
is not. The Kentuckian says:
In all my life have never seen two
genuine negro women kiss, and 1 have
often heard my father remark the same
thing. He was over sixty years old, and
frequently told us that it was tradition
through all his family the negro women
never kiss d. A friend OF mine, who
has been great traveller, has visited
Africa and Hayti, has remarked to me
the strange fact that negro women never
kiss. Why is it?
In social relations there is less de
ception among the blacks than among
the whites. They are too full of nature to
pretend to what they do not feel. Scan
dals, divorces and other iniquities that
flow on from deception, are Of seldom
occurrence among them. The subject
of negro women not kissing has often
been discussed right here in Kentucky
where the customs and the habits Of the
negro should be known and understood,
and old men who have been surrounded
by negroes all their lives declare tina.
they never heard Of negro women kiss
ing.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-09-29

nights--mainly nights--gone by, when
the same songs and the same hurrah-
boys choruses were the regular thing
with them at Harvard, Yale or Prince
ton.
The late Colonel Fisk was not regu-
lar patron of Delmonico's. He went
further uptown, but now and then he
spilled over from his bowl of bounty
there. On one occasion, at half-past
4 +. ~, he called at the Office.
"Charlie," said he, II want a tiptop
stand-up lunch, with flowers and all
that sort of thing, served in the Erie
building for $50 men at half.past six. !"
"ThRts two hours from now"
i" Well, a great deal can be done in
two hours"
I" All right, colonel, I'll do it, but it
will be an expensive job for you"
" Who said anything about the cost /?
You do it and I'll pay for it"
OF course the lunch was served and
equally Of course the $1,000 bill was
paid.
At another time, when Fisk was work
jig mp the Ninth regiment, ball was
given at the Academy and Fisk was
anxious that Delmonico should furnish
thS tih.S supper. They declined on the
ground that there was no profit in it.
"How much guarantee do You want ?
sail Jim. "a thousand dollarB," said
Delmonico. "All right" replied Fisk,
"Ill take five hundred supper tickets, +"
aud he did.
The Ring potentates never favored
Delmonico's uptown house much, but
spent thousands Of dollars in the Cham
bers street place. Peter b. Sweeney
used TO go there when he wished to be
quiet and by himself
When Tweed's daughter was to be
married the old man called on Del
monico two months in advance, and
without mentioning terms, simply said (.
" / want supper, good one, for my
daughters wedding; 800 people. Good
day The day after the supper Was
served he called and paid for it.
" Do You keep your people q long
time" Mr.. Delmonico was once asked.
Some Of them"
1.-The cooks-how about ;hcmgr
Well, / pay the present head cook
si,0OOa year; his predecessor. $4,000.
The other cooks get from sl5 TO $50 q
week"
"What do you give the head waiter ?
"F'ifteen hundred dollars and his
board and lodging. The table waiter
get $50 a month, and average sGOin fees
| wanted to transfer one Of them from
the saloon to the bar, raising him from
$50 to 500, but he wouldn't go because
he made $50 where he was.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-09-29
Fashion Notes.

The only small imported hat seen as
yet is a turban.
The rage for Spanish lace has not in
the least abated.
New wall papers initiate gobelin tap.
astries admirably.
Beaded plush bands will trim hand.
some heavy wraps.
With black scarfs or fichus no white
is worn around the neck.
Copper and brickdust shades are as
fashionable as terra-cotta.
Small hats and bonnets begin TO ap.
pear among imported shapes.
Puffed sleeves are seen among va
rietv of novelties in this line.
Quantities OF bangle bracelets arc
worn over mousquetaire gloves.
Standing high collars and rolling
low collars are equally fashionable.
Cheviot mixtures in what are termed
heather shades will be much worn.
Even elderly women look well in
white or cream-colored all-wool dresses.
Large metallic hook-and-eye fasten-
ings for cloaks and wraps are revived.
Velvet and plush will be the high
novelty dress trimming materials of
1881.
Tunis lace Is a new effective heavy
lace used for linen collars ard pillow
iba4Rfss.
ure Of 4 cosars ash 80 = e's'lalzz.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-09-29

A Burlington man looked into the
garden hose to see why the water didn't
come, Just as HE son turned the water
on ii the hydsant. and when the doctor
came the stricken man told him that he
saw The felloe climb over the fence.
but didn't see his revolver until Just As
he shot. And then he wanted 70 know
how long he had 70 live and sAid he was
not afraid to die. Baa when be got At
the true inwardncss Of IL ne hunted
for that boy nearly three hours. wish
piece Of lath and skate strap 70 hold
him. and then didn't tird hin.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-09-29
Where Poker Prevails.

Poker, whatever that may be. is all
the rage a; Hot Springs, Ark. A CORE
spondent says: 1t is played in the
hotel parlcrs, bedrooms and offices, in
fact almost everywhere. Day and night
parties may be seen. Doctors aud
lawyers play in the back Offices; all
classes are at IL, from the nabob 10 the
waiter Of the dining-room. Boys are
often seen at quiet game of "dnw."
In short. IL is an epidemic. As 10 the
gambling houses, they are open day and
night. Sundays included. All banking
games are in full blast. from faro" TO
chuck-a-luck." Twelve tables are run
In one house, and il is difficult for .
player to succeed in placing his money
on card or figure, 80 great i thecrowd
around the tables. "Faro," "hazArd" "
and roulette" are the most popular
games.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-09-29
Home Life for the Blind.

In an address before the College for
the Blind. at Upper Norwood, Henry
Fawcett, the blind postmaster general
of England, said that, speaking of his
own experience, the greatest service
that could be rendered TO the blind was
TO enable them to live as far as possible
the same life as IL they had not lost
their sight. They should not be i'm.
prisoned in institutions or separated
from their friends. Few who had not
experienced It could imagine the indie
scribable Joy to them OF home life
Some persons hesitated to speak TO the
blind about outward objects. There
could be no greater error. The pleasant
est and happiest hours of his life were
those when he was with his friends,
who talked about everything they saw
jnst as II lac was not present who in q
room talked about the pictures. when
walking described the scenery they were
passing through, and who described the
people they met. When with the blind
people should talk with them about
and describe everything they saw. The
speaker concluded by remarkiny that
there was plenty OF goodwill 10 assist
the blind, but what was required was
better organization.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-09-29

4 preposterous story is published by
French periodical which, from IFS
name-.Siscle Meic1ic-ought to rise
superior TO such temptations, of q man
who, desiring TO commit suicide, drove
a poinari up to the hilt into his head
with a mallet. To his surprise and
modification, so far from falling dead
in his tracks, he experienced no dis
agreeable sensation whatever. RealiZ-
ing that discovery would be embarrass-
ing, he endeavored 70 pail out the
poinari, but it would not yield TO his
efforts. At last be was compelled to
summon physicians, but neither singly
nor altogether could they start the dag
ger, which was so firmly wedged that
the wouId-bs suicide was easily lifted
from his feet 10y its hilt. 1he man was
ultimately taken TO workshop in the
neighborhood, accompanied by the
medical gentlemen, and there he was
seated on the floor. held down in q sit
ting posture by two persons, while me-
chanical force was used to draw the
weapon from the skull. The operation
was no sooner over than the patient rose
TO his feet, thanked the doctors for
their attention. and prepared to take his
leave. But for fear of subsequent com
plications, he was sent to the hospital
and kept there for q week. Nothing
ensuing to cause alarm, he was sent
home, leaving scientific men TO rack
their brains over the problem his singu-
lar case presented.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-09-29
A Whale Parents Dc,otion.

Sperm whales usually travel in
schools, and in going into a body com
posed OF COWS and calves" the latter
although yielding but small amount
of oil, are struck" first. by this
method both are captured. The mother
will not leave her offspring, neither will
1t attack the boat, but will remain close
to the calf, apparently urging it to
escape by sounding OF by fight. The
little one" can only remain a short
time under water, consequently its
dam is almost constantly target for
lances, which she will continue to re.
ceive, although not being fast to the
boat, until life is extinct. when the calf
will be killed. She will sacrifice her
own life in the attempt to assist her
young, and TO any one except q whaler
il would appear like cold-blooded aud
heartless murder. Even they cannot
help admiring the devotion, and will
endeavor to make the struggle as brief
as possible. The "calf" exhibits no
such filial affection, for IL the mother is
harpooned first he will Immediately
take French leave, leaving the old
lady" TO fight her own battles. Ex-
treme caution is used when striking q
calf to avoid a mortal wound, as his
death is sure to be followed by the
flight of the COW, who follows il in
stantiv