San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-09-28
OcropEa, 1880.

OcropEa, 1850.
This months instalment of the Diary
has prefxed the drawing of railroad en-
CINE, extending across the page, with the
name of the month showing through the
smoke above, and the letters I. & G. N. II.
r. ON the tender.
1. They think there will he regular trims
next week. Carried my Galveston News
around and sold them all
g. Some of my things came. Carried
some Frank Lsslies and News around and
sold them. Got new cap at Johnson's.
3. Rode to the bridge again. Have
worn my shoes since Monday. Rained hard
in the morning. They've got telegraph
Office near the bridge. Pulled up my pea
nuts got abont two quarts.
4. little more of my things came.
Laura started to school again. Mr. Spur
gcon [deaf and dumb printer] came. Got
me an account book. Miss Russell went to
Austin on the cars this evening.
5. Has been about 48o. Hardly any
mail came. Papa got me some oysters.
Went to the railroad while. Papa got
pumpkin.
6. Miss Russell got back Carried and
sold all my Ne,oses. Saw the engine so by our
house. Put my peanuts under the stove to
dry.
z. Had some pumpkin pie and candy and
raisins for my birthday. Miss Russell gave
me pencil Got some more things from
the News Co.
s. Sent for some more things. There
are two apples and pear on our trees
8. The railroad is five miles past town.
Papa got big advertisement of show that
will be Friday after next.
TO- The engine came in to-day.
15 1t got cold had fires.
49, Papa let Mr.. Robinson have Haw to
canvass with he got two subscribers. Had
snap-beans for dinner.
II. Pulled one of the little apples. Was
40 o. Papa wanted to take Doinin off, but
Laura cried so, he didn't.
IA break of five days will be Noticed in
the above, the first for some years. After
the trains began running, the writer became
quite engrossed in his news business. which
was rather too much for his health and
strength. He had been in the habit of writ
ing up his Diary atnight, but the mails COM
ing in late, he was hindered. For this reas-
on an interruption of about two and half
months here occurs in the Diary. We deep
ly regret tho circumstances which caused it,
and the absence of his record of an inter-
esting period. The only entry during
that time was at Christmas, which he never
overlooked, and which is as follows:]
Christmas Wasn't very cold Papa gave
me ''Little Giant" photographic pen], and
a diary, and comb and gave Laura work
box and autograph album and box of paper,
etc.; and Nellie breastpin and album ; and
Laura gave her motto. Had great big
turkey, and pudding, and everything. Pa
pa went to Mr.. Breeding's and got some
fruit trees, and gave Haw whole apple.
Thy epirit, ere our fatal loss,
Did ever rise from high to higher
AS mounts the heavenward altar fire,
As flies the lighter through the gross.
But thou art turned to something strange
And have lost the links that bound
Thy changes; here upon the ground
No more partaker of thy change.
For though my nature rarely yields
To that vague fear implied in death;
Nor shudders at the CULTS beneath,
The howlings from forgotten fields;
Yet oft, when sundown skirts the moor,
An inner trouble behold,
A spectral doubt which makes me cold,
That I shall be thy mate no more,
Though following with an upward mind
The wonders that have come to thee,
Through all the secular to be,
But evermore life behind.
Ie1nysoR.
what Alexander Wight Have
Done"
The late Gar Of Russia was eminently a
,reat man, as his action in hberating thir-