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San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-05-11
The Female "COmp."

OF all the occupations in which wo-
man can engage for the purpose of max
ing an honest living the most thankless
is that of setting type. The female
compositor leads weary, drearY life.
She is never permitted to strike fat
take, she is denied the inestimable boon
of setting up the thoughtful matter
which emanates from the editorial
room, she is never reckoned capable of
handling manuscript, and the very idea
of her being capable to set up display
head is deemed atrocious. She is ex-
pected to hammer away at miscellane.
Gus reprint; the only bonanza she ever
strikes is solid minion, with an occa-
sional oasis of loaded BREWER, when the
business manager concludes that adver-
Using is dull enough to admit the big
gest kind of type. But this is not all
the worst remains to be told. When
the work is done for the day, it is not
with the female printer as with the
rest of the trade. She cannot adjourn
to a convenient and comfortable saloon
and play pedro or old sledge for beer,
OF THROW ulCe lOr uFC-COHU C1Sdio, VI
Jeff for the drinks. She must pick her
way home through all sorts of weather
to a dreary room and cold bed. She
has no wife to thrash, no children to
scold, no furniture to break-none OF
those sweet luxuries which are supposed
to be part and parcel Of the glorious art
pgeservative. as a class female COM
positors are diligent and worthy. They
never "scjer," they never bother the
editors for chewing tobacco, they never
prowl around among the exchanges for
the Police Gazette, they never get
themselves full of bulge and try to
clean cut rival print shops, they never
swear about the business manager, they
do not smoke nasty old clay pipes, they
never strike for more pay, they do not
allude TO editorial matter as "slush,
or hog wash"-in short, they are pa
tent, gentle, conscientious and reliable.
TDey peg right along for seven dollars
a week, dress tidilY, keep solid with
the foreman, and, last of ali. when the
female compositor gets tired OF the
unceasipg round of toll, sne
marries the best looking printer IN the
shop, and then she becomes verier
slave than before.-DeTUer Tribune.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-05-11
Perihelion and AphelIon.

: The earth reaches her perihelion ..
nearest point to the sun the firs, y,
January. She is then three MILF
miles nearer the sun than when -
aphelion, or her most distant point fron'
the sun on the first of July. As an
earth moves in an elliptical orbit snS S
the sun is situated in one of the foe; ~
the eclipse, she must sometimes ba
nearer him than at others. Her naaS
est point is called perihelion, from two
Greek words meaning near the SIM
Her most distant point is called anna
lion, from two Greek words mean;n.
from the sun. Though much nearer 70
the sun in January than in July. tbs
increased proximity is not even per'
ceived by far the greater portion of tba
myriads of human beings on whom the
sun shines. And yet tho three million
miles that measures the earth's in.
creased nearness is a distance of which
we can form little conception.
BY measuring the suns diameter
from day to day throughout the wear
we have the means of determining the
relative distances of the sun from the
earth. In this way the shape of the
earths orbit was found out. The earth
moves fastest at perihelion, for the
suns attraction is then strongest, and
the greater his attraction tho faster she
moves. This is proved by measuring
the suns apparent movement through
the ecliptic. Thus, on the LIST of Jan.
uary he moves through sixty-one min.
utes of the ecliptic; on the 1st of july
he moves through ABOUT fifty.seven
minutes, giving four minutes of de.
gree in increased velocity, which
means countless miles in the eartb's
actual speed.
An interesting question connected
with perihelion is the reason why we
do not have the hottest weather when
we are nearest the sun. It is because
it occurs in the northern winter when
the suns rays fall obliquely upon the
earth and give comparatively little
heat, though it is probable that the Sc
verify of mid-winter is tempered by
the benignant influence. The reverse
takes place in the Southern hemis.
phere, where doubtless, the occurrence
of perihelion increases the midsummer
heat. This theory accounts for the fact
that in Australia and Southern Africa
the temperature in winter is higher
than in corresponding ATTITUDES north
of the equator. The earth's perihelion
is, therefore, an interesting topic for
study to those who would understand
the play of some of the great forces
that rule the worlds in space, for the
same laws control the movements of the
smallest planet and the largest sun.
Journal.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-05-11

ALITrLE boy asked mamma the foi-
lowing question, to which ell mammals
answers are not yetrecorded: Mamma,
if a bear should swallow me L would
die, wouldn't II" Yes, dear. AND
would 1 go to heaven?" Yes, dear;
And would the bear have to go, tooF
il a competitive trial between Two
butchers at Fresno, the other day, one
Of them killed and dressed a sheep u
FIVE minutes and twenty seconds, ana .
beef in ten minutes and twenty SECONDS.
Another butcher, who was present. on,
not one Of the competitors, killed an9
dressed sheep in three minutes anN
twelve seconds.
TIE goose is not silly; nor Is ne
sage heA wise.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-05-11

to anything as il will only take three
minutes 10 lift freight car from one
truck to the other, and five minutes fol
sleeper. The companies have JUS
purchased one OF the patent steam
Shutters, 30 successfully used in all parts
OF the country.
II is also learned that the contract
has been made for q period of 90 years
The alliance just formed is for the pur'
pose Of checkmating the Gould system
The readers of the Republican are
well aware that the Texas and st. Louis
line has encountered great deal OF
opposition SINCE the determination to
extend its line through the state OF
Arkansas. When it was opeI ated only
from Texarkana to Tyler, in the state
of Texas, the Narrow-gauge was re-
garded rs valuable feeder by the Iron
Mountain officials. In fact, Mr.. Mar
auand, when president of the Iron
Mountain, could not refrain from max
ing the most praiseworthy mention OF
the line in his annual report year
ago. but since that time there has been
war between the roads, dating from the
period Of the survey for the Arkansas
extension of the Narrow-gauge. An
order was issued by the Iron Mountain
last Notwithstanding its agents to charge
full local rates on all business between
that line and the Narrow-gauge, which
practically shut the latter out from st.
Louis business. AS retaliation, Col.
j. w. Paramore, the president OF the
T. and st. L., Immediately cut down
rates, putting passenger fares at three
cents per mile. Meanwhile the
EXTENSION on THE NARROW GAUGE.
Was pushed q head in both Arkansas
and Texas, and the work has pro-
crossed so rapidly that within the time
alluded to the through line will be
to Clarendon, Ark, thus
giving about 200 miles ready for opera
ton in Arkansas alone. AS soon as the
bridges are completed over the Arkan-
sas, White and Red rivers, the road
will be opened to Gainesville, Waco, and
Houston, in Texas, and branches will
be built to Helena and Little Rock in
the fall. There will be one or two I'M
portant branches in Texas, and the
business men of Forth Worth are con-
structing a narrow. gauge line to inter-
sect the II. and St. L., the road to take
a southwestward direction in order to
reach some driving business points in
the Lone Star state.
Col. Paramore, in speaking of the
alliance formed, said yesterday that he
it of vital Importance to
;he cities named above, as we'll as the
states of Arkansas and Texas, as 1t
would secure an independent line be-
7ond the Gould control, for the period
If fifty years; and that it could not fail
llso to be of great Importance to the
Texas and st. Louis Railway company,
Is it would strengthen its securities and
insure it a good business from the time
If the opening of the road. 1t is
earned further that this alliance insures
he immediate and rapid extension of
he Texas and St. Louis railway to the
Rio Grande and all important points IN
he states of Arkansas and Texas.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-05-11

REPORTS received by the Agricultural
pect for good crops in the south. There
is a general increase in the acreage Of
winter and spring wheat and oats, and
a slight decrease in that of cotton. The
increase of food crops is as follows {:
Tennessee, 40 per cent. in wheat and
40 per cent. III oats; North Carolina,
wheat % per cent. oats 81 per cent. :;
Georgia, wheat 20 per cent, oats 80 per
cent South Carolina, wheat 25per cent,
oats 80 per cent; Arkansas, wheat IL
per cent, cats 10 per cent. In all these
states there is reported q decrease in
the purchase OF commercial fertilizers
amounting in the estimated total to
100000. Alabama reports that owing
to the very short crop Of corn produced
last year, on account of drouth, the
planting of winter wheat and oats was
fully 80 per cent greater than ever be-
fore, while the preparations for corn
are increased in as great ratio. With
a good season the food crop will be
enough for two years supply. The de-
crease in cotton. owing to the floods,
is estimated at 100000 to $4,000 bales.
The Queen imposes q fine of ten
oxen and 80 on any person in Madagas-
car who manufactures alcoholic bever-
ages, and lighter one on those who
sell or drink them. Yet the festive
Madagascar. like the brethren in Maine,
will have his tOddy aid takes it
straight" To drink whisky is the
first habit Taught him by those who
-bask in the blessings of benign civ
ilization.'
Two men were mending 9 tank in a
Louisville oil refinery. A red-hot bolt
was dropped into some turpentine
which had been carelessly left il the
bottom The interior OF the vessel was
instantly al me. The workmen
into the exit hole together.
Neither would give way to the other,
and both could not pass through at the
same time. The consequence vas that
they we're fatally burned.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-05-11
A TRIPLE ALLIANCE.
Between the Illinois Central, Cairo short Line
and Texas and 1t. Louis Roads.
From the Globe Democrat.


1t is learned upon the best authority
that the Texas and st. Louis Railway
company has made Il traffic contract
with the Illinois Central and the ST.
Louis, Alton and Terre Haute Railway
.companies--the latter more commonly
known rs the Cairo Short Linen
which the companies agree to form a
through line of road from st. Louis and
Chicago into Texas aud Arkansas
Under the agreement, each company is
to put in sufficient number of cars,
with transferable trucks to accommo-
date the through business between the
cities mentioned and the states of Ar
kansas and Texas. The st. Louis. Al.
ton and Terre Haute company ratified
the contract last Thursday aud the
other cnmpI-ies had Treviously ratified
ii. CLd r r;Sc new arrangement II )
con-, u pla - 20 run tie trains of the
Texss and st. Louis railway into the
Union 6epo. in ST. Louis and also
through sleepers to Chicago.
The trafiic contract, by which the
new through route Is established, Will
go into effect June l. Each road Is to
furnish G3D cars, and rs tvo of the
lines are OF the standard gauge, and
the I. and 81. L. is Of tie narrow
gauge, il vii be Necessary t.
TEANsFER THE CARS
Frou. the trHcks at Cairo. At that
place the live stock coming over the
r0ute viii be trARsfvTe2, and there also
the stock VII be fed. On regular
freight there vii DC 10 delay 10 amount
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-05-11

.l A Mesauit Block Paving Company
has been organized in San Antonio.
Laredo is being flooded with coun
terfeit silver, supposed to be made
across the border.
The surviving members OF Hoods
Texas Brigade will hold their reunion
in San Antonio June ~.
"A drove of four hundred horses re-
Gently arrived at San Antonio from
Mexico, on their way to the Kansas
City market. ..
"A convict force of sixty men com
menced laying track at the Garret
April 25th on the Paris branch OF the
Texas Central railroad.
Mr.. w. Scott, secretary Of the wool
growers Association, has issued call
for that Association to meet again at
San Antonio on the 7th Of June.
The other day the City Marshal OF
BRENNAN put up and sold at public
auction yagrant, who was knocked oil
at 1925. 1t was a hog from the pound.
"A Central Texas paper advises the
merchants of its town to be careful how
they advertise in the paper as it always
produces a rush for their goods.
Hon. T. J. Jackson, at Astonia,
North Texas, few days since, killed
rattlesnake six feet long, eight inches
in circumference and with twelve rat
ties. .............,f
1t is stated that Colonel Hunting
ton has purchased thirty acres OF land
at Houston, Texas, on which to locate
the extensive car-shops of his com
pany.
Marshall Messenger April Il:
The outlook for bountiful crops
throughout this county was never more
favorable. Merchants and producers
are happy in anticipation OF prosper
Gus year.
Galveston is called the ISLAND
City" Houston the Bayou City," Aus
tin the "City of the Hills" Dallas the
"Queen City," Denison the Gate City,
San Antonio the Alamo City," New
Braunfels the "Bosen Stadt," or the
"City of Roses"
Owing to the scarcity Of laborers
many sheep men in this and other Sec
tions of the state are agitating move
ment, having as its object the introduce
ton of the "heathen Chinee." The
great number of Celestials now in the
employ of the Southern Pacific Rail
road Construction Company will soon
be turned loose to prey upon the peo-
pie of Texas to their hearts content.
-Track-laying on the New York,
Texas and Mexican Railway is progress
ing at the rate of mile and half
day. The first division of 100 miles,
between Rosenberg Junction and Vic
toria, will be completed by May 10 and
opened for traffic by June l.. The line
has been located seventy miles beyond
Victoria, and the second division OF
100 miles will be put under contract as
soon as traffic is established upon the
first division. A vigorous effort will be
made to reach Brownsville by January
l, 1883. Our engineer crops is now IN
the field, making preliminary sur
vey from Matamoras to Tampico, Mex
leo, 300 miles, which will constitute the
Mexican Division of the New York,
Texas and Mexican. Count Joseph
Telfner, general contractor of the line,
IS in Europe, and will return about
Juno l and take up his residence IL
Virginia, which will become headquar-
ters for the road upon completion to
5he point.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-05-11

JOSH Billings weather prognOsticl-
ton: Whenever you sec 4 flock Cf
geese all standing on ole leg except
the old gander, and he chaWing his
cud, lcok ont for southwest wind to-
morrow or the next day, CT the next
day after, OF at some future time.
Whenever dogs are seen travelling
around with nothing 10 do, and old
maids refuse their tea, and hop vines
won't climb, and the grinds:ones won't
grind, then You may expect little crop
OF oats, and beans won't pay for har-
vesting.
-EsTHETICIsN has received a black
eye. Jesse James was ssssssinated
thile busting q picture.-N Q. Plea
gII1e.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-05-11
A soIprER ii &c cHINEA.

Arriving there, / found an oppOr-
tunity Of enlisting in the Forty-eighth
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-05-11
TEXAS TOPICS.

5 A Mesquit Block Paving Company
ina been organized in San Antonio.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-08-19
What Shall We Fat I

This is an important question in these
times of high prices. DIR. Hall, in his
Journal of Health--a good authority,
by the way-says the cheapest articles
of food at present prices are bread
especially corn meal-butter. moIasses,
beans and rice. He shows that 25 cents
worth of -four at 8 cents per pound con-
tains much nourishment as 1926 worth
of roast beef at Is cents per pound,
and that pint OF white beans, costing
seven cents, has the same amount OF
nutriment as three and half pounds of
beef at 25 cents per pound; or i'll othe
words, that the roast beef diet is twelve
times as expensive as the beans. Fur
thermore, pound of Indian meal will
60 as far as pound of fine -four, cost
ing nearly twice as much. Here are
some of the common articles of food,
showing the amount of nutriment con.
tanned and the time required for diges-
ton:
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-08-19
Starting Out.

In setting up a home for two, be
satisfied to commence on small scale.
1t is too common for young house.
keepers to begin where their mothers
ended. Buy all that is necessary to
work skillfully with; adorn your homes
with all that will render it comfortable
Do not look at richer homes and covel
their costly furniture. If secret dissat-
isfaction is to spring up, go a step
farther, visit the homes of the suffering
poor; contrast your own neatly-furnish-
ed rooms with their cheerless apart
ments. You will then be prepared to
meet your husband with grateful
heart, and be ready to appreciate the
toll and self-denial which he has en-
dured in the business world to surround
you with the delights of home; and you
will cooperate cheerfully with him in
so arranging expenses that his mind
will not be constantly harrassed lest his
family expenditures may encroach upon
public payments. Be independent; a
young housekeeper never needed greater
moral courage than she does now to
resist the arrogance of fashion. Do moi
let the AS and BIS decide what you shall
have, neither let them hold the strings
of your purse. You know best what
You can and oughtto afford. 1t matters
little what people think, provided you
are true to yourself, to right and duty,
and keep your expenses within your
means. Then you may be both inde-
pendent and happy.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-08-19
Slavery In Hawaii.

Nothing in current history is more
shocking than the story of female
slavery in the Sandwich Islands. That
the abominable" practice of buying and
selling white girls exists there seems to
be clearly proved by the statements of
Mr.. ii. LANCE, the commissioner for
Norwegian immigrants in Hawaii. A
native of Finland bought a girl for
seventy-five dollars. A negro and a
Norwegian, long residents of the island
purchased each girl on condition to
work the three years agreed upon.
Another man, whose name is given,
sold his servant to missionary. A
plantation overseer fell in love with q
girl, and proposed to her employer
really her owner to buy her. The sum
of one hundred dollars was demanded.
The alleged lover demurred and offered
smaller sum, and, after considerable
vrangling, the bargain was closed for
seventy two dollars and fifty cents
the seller insuring the buyer that the
girl was sound and good worker.
The traffic in human chattels is en-
gagged in and encouraged by the large
planters, who rule the islands-the
kings, the ministers and the judges
being all under their sway. Mr.. Lange
very properly requests his government
to forbid any more immigration to
Hawaii. This beastly business is car
ried on in the country whose nominal
sovereign was received with regal
honors at Windsor Castle and in several
capitals on the Continent.-[San Fran
cisco American.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-08-19
Forcing Their Way.

Strange as it seems to those unobtru.
sive souls who shine only in the seclu-
sion of home. there are people who will
resort to any meanness in order to get
into society" It is curious to observe
the efforts of these people. The ladies
are especially anxious. There is moth
ing they will not do to get introduced
to certain people, and to obtain the
recognition of certain coteries. For
this, they will break up housekeeping,
and board at fashionable hotels. Fol
this. they move from street to street
and square to square. paying rent be.
yOnd their incomes, anG running Their
husbands in debt for carpets and up
holstery. For this, they run up heav y
bills at the dry goods stores, and ride
about in carriage, when their husbands
are running their legs off, striving to
pay their notes. For this. they struggle
to get the best pew in the most fashion
able churches, where they go on Sun
day, greatly against their inclinations,
the only consolation being that some
one of acknowledged position saw their
new bonnet or shawl. In the eyes Of
sensible people they make themselves
only ridiculous.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-08-19
"OId M aids ,,

The term is already almost an OK.
tinct one. The world is beginning to
realize that many noble women are too
honest, too brave and too pure to use
marriage as makeshift. And it is
plain that there cannot now be in
existence more thoughtful, more large
hearted, more self sacrificing, more.
modest, tender and truthful women
than these. As society comes to see
that woman is as separate an entity, as
distinct an individuality as man, it
will pay less regard to her accidents
and more to herself. It will not take
it for granted that she has had dis
appointment" at a tender age, or
buried her youthful lover, or been the
victim Of Misunderstanding" if she
write herself "Miss" at forty. Nor will
it audibly wonder why a charming
woman is unmarried after twenty-five.
1t will admire Der for her admirable
ness, whether that has had the certifi-
cate of some mans expressed approba-
ton or not. It will permit her to live
her own life. In the past the patience
of single women has been too complete
and self-sacrificing. Almost with one
accord have they consented to efface
themselves, as the French say. grieving
the while in silence that married sisters
and preoccupied brothers-in- and
gay young nieces-alas that even dis
appointed parents-wer so ready to
efface them. They have seemed con-
tent to live only for others, But this
virtue OF self-sacrifice is greatly mis-
understood. To deny ones self for a
great end, to help the weak, to relieve
the burdened, that is heroic. But only
to sew for the idle, to take steps for the
inconsiderate, to pamper vanity and
folly with endless services, to be an un-
paid upper servant for unappreciative
kindred, to make ones self of no
account that selishness may prosper,
this is selfish and perpetuates tyranny.
This degrades and belittles her who
ministers, as it initiates and misleads
her who is ministered unto. By cult
waiting little of that selfishness which
she sees in others, the single woman
may command respect. She should not
slight her dress, and put away from her
the ornaments and graces Of life. They
are her armor and defense, her argu-
ment and appeal for it is for her to
show, in her own person, how much
more is the woman than the wife, and
how incontestable is her right to a
place in the house, in society, and in
the world.