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The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-07-25
Clocks.

Joseph Schmidt, matchmaker and eweler,
24I Commerce street, next door to Net,e's
drug store, has received large assortment of
clocks of greater variety than any in the city.
There are such kinds as never were seen
here. Bought from first hands, enables him
to sell at lower prices than any other dealer.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-07-25

Parties can rely on having their prescriptions pre-
pared with the greatest and accuracy.
They make a specially Of the following
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-07-25
Sa.. Pedro Springs.

An open air concert every evening from,
4 O'Clock to 10 p. m, at San Pedro Spring .
The public cordially invited. s-Iatf
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-07-25
the Youngest Bride on Record.

The youngest bride that we have ever heard
of is Mis- Catoe, who was married lust across
the South Carolina line. the other day, to Mr..
Thomas Payne Miss Catoe's age is eleven
years and seven months, and her husband is
bowed under the weight of only twenty years,
1t was "sure enough marriage, regularly
ordained minister of the Gospel performing
the CEREMONY Charlotte Observer.
The Osceola times., 1882-05-27
Corn Against Cotton.
New Orleans Picayune.

Land that is rich enough TO make a
bale ef cotton TO the acre will produce
thirty-fve bushels of corn and half that
amount OF clay peas, or fifty bushels of
corn and peas, These will uHually bring
about 81 bushel. II a man plants and
cultivates all the corn and peas he can
save, and another on the same kind of
land plants and cultivates all the cotton
he can make and save, which crop will
bring in the most clear money after all
expenses in sending to market are paid2
The corn, peas, pea hay, and enriching
the land by the pea crop, will certainly
give these decided advantage over cot
ton.
There are plenty of farmers in the
West who do not make more than ftty
bushels of corn to the acre; and sell corn
at % cents bushel, equal to Sl2 80 an
acre. A good farmer on most any land
in the South, properly fertilized with
peavines and other heme fertilizers,
should make twenty to twenty five BUSH
els of corn - the acre, and pea crop
besides, the whele worth $50 TO $40 an
acre. Why then, will not the corn crop
in the South pay? Besides, home made
corn sold to on-producers in the South,
prevents 80 much money from leaving
the country, while Western corn takes
money from the South to return no more;
then the corn in the West that is made
into whisky which is sent TO the south
takes the balance of tile proceeds of the
cotton crop and of all other crops to the
West and TO the extent OF tens Of mil
lions of dollars yearly.
The Osceola times., 1882-05-27
A Prompt Father.
Youths Companion.

Several years ago there appeared ir
the London Punch the following bit O
wit advice to a Young Man about tc
be Married-Don't." 1t is said that the
auther, Douglass Jerrold, received f5 foi
his ten words Of advice, or half pound
a word.
Costly as it may seem, and we believe
it the highest price ever paid for ter
words, the advice would, if needed, be
cheap to many a youth of both sexe:
even if Paid for out of their own pockets
1t is but uttering a commonplace to say
that not all marriages are made in heav
en-, or that many who marry in haste re.
pent at leisure. Yet these truisms seem
to have lost their sense, through neglect
to heed them. But the increasing busi.
ness of divorce courts emphasizes them.
Foolish young women, when caution
ed to think long and well, talk lachry.
mosely about putting impediments "to
the marriage of true minds" They
would show better sense and much more
principle should they refuse 10 marry,
even on the eve of the wedding, the man
whom they then learn is unfit to call a
pure woman my wife" There can be
no marriage of true minds" when the
grave of woman's happiness dawns be-
side the alter.
Father, | don't love -, and know
he is not the man for me to marry," said
a daughter, day or two before her
wedding.
ut is too late now, my dauI Inter. Mat
tiers have gone too far; the wedding
must take place" His decision cost him
a lifelong regret.
A gentleman in Washington was made
OF sterner stuff and had, withal. better
sense. The announcement OF the mar
riage had been made. The cards were
out, and the wedding was to be one OF
the events" of Washington society. One
week before the day, the father learning
that the young man, though well con.
nected, was an unworthy and disreputa
BILE character, published card announc.
ing that "in consequence of recent dis.
closures the nuptials would not take
place.
A daughters happiness should out.
weigh all the suggestions of false pride
and social timidity. Better was il for
his daughter to be stared at as nine.
days wonder than TO stare for life at the
skeleton in the house.
The Osceola times., 1882-05-27
Very Ancient English.
Domorcst's Monthly.

Ethnolog.sts say that the people whose
earliest traces are found in England were
like the modern Australians. They
we're black men with low brows, and
were very inferior specimens of humani-
ty. These were all destroyed during the
glacial period, when Grea. Britain was
covered with icebergs. After the ice
age, and when Britain became habitable
again, new race made its appearance,
some Of the descendants of which are
a part of the English. nation. What they
were originally we only know from
tombs or barrows, in which are found
their skeletons, weapons, domestic uten.
ells and ornaments. They were dark,
short and thick set race. Their skulls
were long and narrow. They were unac-
qrainted with metals, and used stone
implements in war and agriculture. They
seemed to live in little communities after
a socialistic fashion, and 1t is certain
that they had some domestic animals,
among others pigs. These stone-age
men, as they were called, would cut q
sorry figure beside the Englishmen OF
to day, for the latter is the product OF
mixed and very much superior races.
The Osceola times., 1882-05-27
The Capitalist and the Editor.
Virginia City (Nev Chronicle.

81 came in to ask" began little old
man in a whisper, looking as if fearful Of
being overheard, and drawing his chair
close up to the editor, "if you know any.
thing Of the condition Of the Nevada
Bank"
No special information" replied the
editor.
Then you think it soivent-perfectly
solvent" demanded the little man, with
intense eagerness.
Certainly"
might | ask what its capital is-ts
paid up capital?"
"Three millions, / believe" said the
editor, beginning TO wonder what manner
of man had floated against him.
And" continued the man in black,
tugging in nervous excitement at his
thin and struggling iron.g gray beard,
whats the Nevada Banks reserve-its
reserve-that's what want to find out?"
"Four millions, think"
And how is it invested--how is ii in
vested?" He fairly gulped with eagerness
as he glued his eyes upon those of the
editor and awaited the reply;
"In United States bonds"
"Ah, he said, with sigh of relief, "Tm
glad of that. Then"-here he looked all
around to make sure there were no list
eners-"then you think man could
safely intrlst his money in it?'
"Why, certainly. There is no safer
bank in the world. 1t has unlimited
backing"
The little old man chuckled and took
the editors hand, which he shook almost
gleefuily
"You have done me great favor, SIR"
he exclaimed, "a great favor and / shall
not forget it,"
"It bothers you TO be sure that your
moneys safe, suppose, sir?' said the ed
itor with that respect in tone and manner
which every independent citizeE instinc.
lively assumes when addressinga wealthy
man.
"Well -er-no, not Just yet The fact
is," he cried with burst of confidence,
I'm about to change my manner of life.
I'm tifty-five to-day and have formed
resolution that henceforth ! shall save
my money instead of spending it. as /
have done from my youth up, and have
suffered considerable anxiety about
where to put my money when get it.
in point of fact" he went on, i am Just
now excessively hard up, and II you
could oblige me, sir, with the loan Of
dollar until / am started on my new Ca
reer you would lay me under a heavy
Obligation"
The editor staggered toward the club
in the corner, but when he turned he
was alone
The Osceola times., 1882-05-27
Life In High Attitudes.

The greatest hight to which man has
ever mounted is about five and a half
miles above the sea level, and the bal.
loonists who ventured on that experiment
were very glad to come down as thew
were almost frozen and almost suffocated
The cold so benumbed their hands that
had they not taken the precaution IN
carry with them chemicals for the pro.
duction of little artificial heat thew
would have become helpless and lost
their lives from inability TO pull a rope
and let out the gas of the air ship. The
the air which they breathed was too thin
to support life, and they felt all the SEN
sations of partial strangling or drowning.
OF course any labor at such hight was
impossible.
The census shows that the elevation at
which men can can live and work TO an
advantage, and which they therefore
generally choose, is very low one. The
average hight of the United States above
the sea level is about 2,600 feet, but the
mean elevation of the population ia
about 700 feet. A hight Of 10000 feet ia
considerably less than two miles, yet Of
all the so COG, 900 of people in our coun-
try only 26,400 live at that elevation.
| Not only men but other animals and
plants as well, find the struggle OF exist
ence harder as they rise higher. As
plants and animals diminish in number,
the means of supporting human life rap
idly decrease, so that the up ward growth
OF the population, 80 to speak, is checked
long before the cold becomes too severe
to be endured or the air too thin for
breathing.
The bulk of the little band who reach.
ed the height of ten thousand feet are
miners, and could be nothing else. More
than three-fourth of the whole popula-
ton choose to live at less than one thou.
sand feet, or considerably less than one.
fifth of mile above the sea, and only
three per cent. of the inhabitants take
their homes at hight of two thousand
feet. If it we're possible to walk upward
from the earth as rapidly rs upon its sur.
face, an ordinary pedestrian in half an
hour could pass the limit at which hu-
man life can be permanently maintained
and in little more than an hour he would
reach point where he could not exist
at all. If the builders of Bable had ever
scaled the mountains beyond their plain
vision not miracle would have been re-
quired to convince them that their en-
terprise was great waste oflabor.
The Osceola times., 1882-05-27

DIR. Jennings then rose to say that
Richey's case was only one OF many
steamboatmen and newspaper editors
and printers, those who 20 to work on
Sabbath evening. and others, might all
have TO have their cases considered as
soon as a decision in this scase was made.
Rev. DIR. Scovel took the floor TO state
that he would offer the following resolu-
ton defining the Presbyterys ground on
the subject Of Sabbath observance.
"Presbytery takes occasion to declare
its firm Judgment that pursuing on the
Sabbath the usual employments and
ayocations of life which are not compre-
hended under the distinctions Of things
necessity or mercy is contrary to the
Fourth Commandment, and not TO be
justified by the plea OF previous prepara-
ton for certain avocation or the neces.
sity of temporal support either for myself
or dependents"
This he followed with most energetic
speech, protesting against any compro-
mise, and saying that it was point OF q
danger when the church begins to adillt
that there is a difference between the
way in which the fourth and the other
commandments should be observed
"Workingmen," said he, "out of theil
pittances, will contribute to keep some Of
their numbers from starving while they
are fighting for principle, and shall the
Church of God refuse support to those
who lose their places because they obey
His word?"
Mr.. Reed, the member of the Session
in question, then made another state
ment OF the case, saying that Richey hac
made defense to the Sessions, and hat
asked them not TO make fish out of hin
and flesh out of the others, who wert
guilty OF the same transgression as hi
was. 1--WE would lose one.third of oul
congregation if we commenced to disci
pine them for Sunday work." said he
land we don't like TO begin matter o
so much importance without considera
| tion
The Osceola times., 1882-05-27
Victor HugO's Faith.

/ feel in myself the future life. l am
like forest which has been more than
once cut down. The new shoots are
stronger and livelier than ever. | am
rising, ! know, toward the sky. The
sunshine is on my head. The earth
gives me its generous sap, but heaven
lights me with the reflection Of unknown
worlds.
You say the soul is nothing but the re-
sultant Of bodily powers. Why then is
my soul the more luminous when my
bodily powers begin to fail? Winter is
on my head and eternal spring is in my
heart. Then breathe, at this hour, the
fragrance OF the lilacs, the viotets and the
roses az at twenty years.
The nearer / approach the end the
palmer hear around me the immortal
symphonies of the worlds which invite
me. 1t is marvellous, yet simple. 1t is
a fairy tale, and it is history. For half a
century have been writing my thoughts
in proee. verse, history, philosophy,
drama, romance, tradition, satire, ode,
song-I have tried all. But feel that
have not said the thousandth part OF
what is in me.
When 90 down to the grave l can
say, like 80 many others, 81 have fnish-
ed my days work. but l cannot say, Il
have finished my life." Ny days work
will begin again the next morning. The
tomb is not blind alley; it is thor
oughfare. 1t closes in the twilight to
open with the dawn.
l improve every hour because l love
this world as my fatherland. My work
is only beginning. My monument is
hardly above its foundation. ! would
be glad to see it mounting and mounting
forever. The thirst for the infinite
proves in6nity.
The Osceola times., 1882-05-27

ing, '.you are more to be envied than
any gentleman know"
SWhy sof' responded Mr.. Ridgeway,
81 am not aware of any cause ior which
l should be particularly envied."
"What, sir p exclaimed the young man
in astonishment. "Why, you are MIL
lionaire! think of the thousands your IN
come brings every month";
swell, what Of that?" replied Mr..
Ridgeway. "All l get out OF 1t is my
yictuals and clothes, and can't eat more
than one mans allowance and wear
more than a suit at time. Pray can't
you do as much?"
"Ah, butt said the youth, "think OF
the hundreds of fine houses you own,
and the rentals they bring YOU"
What better off am l for that" re
piled the rich man. 81 can only live IN
one house at time; as for the money
receive for rents, why l can't eat 1t OF
wear il; can only nse it to buy othel
houses for people to live in; they are the
benefciaries, not l."
"But you can buy splendid furniture
and costly pictures, and fine carriages
and horses-in fact, anything you de
sire"
"And after | have bought them," re
sponded Mr.. Ridgeway, what then?
can look at the furniture and pictures
and the poorest man, who is not blind
can do the same.
Il can ride no easier in fine car
riage than you can in the omnibus fo
five cents, without the trouble OF attend
ing to drivers, footmen and hostlers; ant
as to anything desire, l can tell yo'
young man, that the less we desire II
this world, the happier we shall be.
"All my wealth can't buy:a single da,,
more of life-can not buy back my you'll
cannot procure me power to keep afa
off the hour of death, and then, wha
will all avail, when in few short year
at most lie down in the grave an'
leave it all forever? Young man, yo'
have no cause to envy me-"
The Osceola times., 1882-05-27
Krupp's New Guns.
Berlin Cor. London Standard.

Berlin Cor London standard.
Novel artillery experiments of an ap-
parently highly important character
took place few days ago at Messrs
krupp's great shootingground near Mep
pen. Trials were made with both new
cannon and projectiles A new shell,
called Torpedo shell" was fred from
a 2l-centimetre gun. This is stated to
afford practical solution to problem
which has long engaged the attention of
artillerists, namely, to construct missiles
which, alter piercing the object aimed
at, shall explode with torpedo-like effect.
or the new guns experimental with the
most important was the pivot cannon,
specially destined for the equipment of
gun boats. The pivot upon the top of
which the cannon is fixed, is prolonged
right down into the hold OF the vessel,
where 1t is turned, and SO moves with it
the cannon abovein any direction. This
contrivance, it is asserted. quite obviates
any rebound, even after the firing of a
heavy charge. 1t also contributes great
ly to insure the success of aim, and at
the same time gives increased velocity 10
the projectile. This pivot system NAV
1t is stated, even when the guns are of a
large bore such as thirty thirty-fve or
f,rty centimetres-be employed for the
equipment of each of small gun-boats. 1t
is estimated that the cost and equipment
OF each Of these pivot gun. boats would
not be more than tenth of large fri.
gate, and it is insisted that they would
be far more effective instruments of de.
on account Of their swiftness
and the facility with which they are
The Osceola times., 1882-05-27
LIVES or DEEP SECLuSION.
How the Members Of the Order of the Bur
led Alive Live.

leu Al1Ne Live.
The Order of the Buried Alive, in
Rome, the Convent of the Sepolite Vive,
is remnant of the middle ages in the life
of to-day. The London Queens cores
pondent had the privilege of an entrance
within, one after another, Of the five iron
doors, and talking with the superior
through the thick swathing of woolen
veil, bnt ordinary communication with
the convent is carried on through the
barrel" which fills an opening in the
wall. Over the barrel is written "Who
will live contented within these walls
let her leave at the gate every earthly
care" You knock at the barrel, which
turns slowly around till it shows sec
ton like that Of an orange from which
one of the quarters has been cut out. You
speak to the invisible sitter, who asks
your will and she answers in good ltal.
ian and cultivated intonatioD. You hear
the voice quite distinctly, but as if it
were far, far away. She is really separ.
ated from you only by slender slice Of
wood. but ske is absolutely invisible.
Not the smallest chink is visible between
you and her. Sound travels through
the barrier, but sight is absolutely exclu-
ded. These nuns live on charity, keep
ing two Lents in this year-one from
November to Christmas, the other the
ordinary lent of Catholic Christendom
Living, therefore, on charity, they NAV
eat whatever is given to them, eavlng
flesh meat" during the fasting time. Ii
you take them a cake or loaf of bread
a bottle of wine, roll of chocolate bon
bons, basket of eggs, it is all good for
them. They must be absolutely without
food for twenty four hours before they
may ask for help from the outside world.
And when they have looked starvation
in the face, then they may ring a bell
which means: Help us, we are famsh.
ingr Perhaps you take them nothing
eatable, but you place on the ledge OF
the cut orange. by which you sit, some
money, demanding in return their "car-
toilDi," or little papers. The barrel turns
slowly round, then back again, and yo
find on the ledge where you had laid
your lire paper of "cartolini." These
are very small, thin, light-printed slips,
neatly folded in tiny packets, three to
each packet, which if you swallow in
faith, will cure You of all disease. Aft
er your talk is ended, the barrel turns
round once more and presents its face as
0! an immovable and impenetrable look.
lug barrier One Of the pretty traditions
OF Rome is that each sister has her day.
when she throws flower over the m
vent wall as sign TO her watching
friends that she is still alive. When she
has been gathered to the majority the
flower is not thrown, and the veil has
fallen forever.
The Osceola times., 1882-05-27
A Modern Sodem.

DIR. Herrick johnson, of the Fourth
PRESBYTERIAN church of Chicago. thus
summarizes the condition Of things in
that city: Politics seized by unprinci'
Piled aspirants for place and power; OH
cial power dispensed with no regard
whatever to the public veal; ballots some
times served out like fixed ammunition
and dropped into the box at the word OF
command with kind of military pride
in not caring " hat they contain, provided
they come from the proper quarter; a
mayor who will go into liquor dealers
convention and publicly boast of having
been brought up on whiskey; a munich
pal chief whose sworn duty it Is to en-
force law, seeking to regulate an iniqui-
ty which he is under legal obligations to
suppress; gambling houses Haunting their
shameless and lawless infamy in open
day; dago dens and low varieties visited,
and often crowded, by hundreds and
thousands of young men and young
women Il lS5 actually counted as enter
ing one of those vile establishment on
one evening between the hours Of and
II p. m.); 1000 places for the sale OF liq-
uor, j. g., more saloons than lamp posts
fifteen miles Of solid grog shops; liquor
sold to minors in fragrant violation OF
law, and boys and girls found drunk in
the street; Sabbath that, in some por-
tions of the city, is sort Of high carni-
val, where men and women trample on
everything sacred with defiant and inso
lent scof over 10000 children between
the ages of and 81 without any religious
instruction whatever; the majority of the
crime committed by minors; crimina
classes controlling the juries and packing
them to their purpose" DIR. johnson, il
may be here remarked, is the clergyman
whose two-column letters in the Chicago
newspapers against the theater, attracted
recently such universal attention.
The Osceola times., 1882-05-27
Lawyer Who Fancies a Blonde Jury.
New Haven Register

MIR. Bush, OF states council in the NAL
ley case, said he was satisfied with the
Jury he thought they would try the case
fairly.
Mr.. Jones of the defense said: "We ex-
rect an acquittal at their hands. The
boys are glad the jury is impaneled, and
feel certain Of a discharge.
WAS there, Mr.. Jones. any premedita,.
ton about the selection Of a blonde juryT
asked the reporter. 81 see the jury are
mostly of that order of beauty"
The lawyer did not answer the ques-
ton directly, but said with an apology
for smile: BLONDES are preferred in
some quarters, you know"
Then you are of the opinion that 9
jury Of dark complexioned men is to be
feared ?"
I'm the selection of the jury" he re-
Piled, II exercised my instinct AZ to III,
cial expression. This has never failed
me in a case yet. and will not fail me IN
this"