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The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-04-26

Ottoman Silks
And satns. in all colors and styles, Persian |
lawns, nuns veillngs in all shades just received
at Joske s Sons, Alamo street. 3-29-tt
If you want to buy good gold and silver
watches, chains and jewelry cheap go TO the
Trustees sales No. 22l Commerce street.
New spring clothing and hats just in.
PANCoAsT & SON.
Notice.
Heavy supplies daily will be received at my
depot, opposite and south of San Fernando
cathedral, Galan street, during all summer
season. (4-23-lw) JOHN KINAHAH.
Card receivers, cake baskets castors, ice
pitcher, buffers tea sets, triple ana quadrupe
plate at 22l Commerce street. Trustees s,',s
For Rogers silver plated knives and forks,
and triple and quardruple silver and plated
ware go 10 Trustees sale 81 Commerce street
4-8-lm.
Piece goods by the suit or yard for spring
PANooAsT x Son.
Boys Clothing,
One of the largest stocks in the city, can he
found at j. Joske & Sons, Alamo plaza. 3-SV-tI
For ruple and guard ripple silver plated
ware 20 TO the Trustee sale, ri Commerce
! street. 4-o-lm
Fine, Fresh Country Butter
Is daily received at Gilbert's fruit store. No.
/ Houston street. 4-b-lm
| For Sale
! A fine saddle horse, with saddle and bride, al.
most new. Horse has been worked TO harness
Inquire at this office, 4~ll-tf
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-10-20
Sweet Potatoes for Winter Use.

Few crops are more easily injured by
frost than sweet potatoes, hence it is
important to harvest these tubers before
the weather is cold enough tofreeze the
ground. On the other hand care must
be exercised not to dig sweet potatoes
until they are ripe. for the Immature
tubers will not keep long.
Farmers differ somewhat in their
opinions as to the right time for lifting
sweet potatoes from the soil. A COM
mon practice is to wait until frost has
destroyed the vines, but some object to
this on the plea that the tubers are liable
to come out with frosted ends. The
latter class harvest their potatoes as
soon as they have attained mature
growth.
Sweet potatoes can be rapidly har-
vested with pillow; this should be done
in dry weather and the roots air-dried
in the shade previous to being stored
for the season.
Almost every section of country has
its own special mode of storing sweet
potatoes, but the same general prin-
ciples govern them all. For safe keep
ing the tubers must be excluded from
the cold air and light in a dry, equable
temperature. At the South practice
commonly followed is killing the pota-
toes in dry place and protecting the
hills by thatching with boards and
straw. Some twenty to forty bushels
in a hill is the rule. At the North large
quantities of potatoes are kept in root
houses constructed for the purpose,
with arrangements for maintaining the
proper temperature. Farmers who
have tight, dry cellars pack their roots
in bins lined with straw; others pack
the tubers in shallow boxes placed in
tiers, with space between for ventila-
ton. Dry sand is considered a good
packing material ~. Y. World.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-10-20
A Pioneer Exhibitor.

In the early days of Michigan, when
county fair was to be remembered,
one of the southern counties in Michi-
gan held fair one fall at which one of
the exhibitors was a man named
Prother. He had an entry of poultry,
another of cattle and third of vege-
tables. When the judges on poultry
came around, Prother met them with:
Gentlemen, here are the biggest
hens, the latest geese and the heaviest
turkeys in this State. [ want first
premium.
"We'll see about it, replied one.
81 want the first premium or I'll lick
the three of you half to death!'' an
nounced Prother, in strictly business
tone, and it may be said right here that
he didn't get the premium and that he
kept his word. Two of the judges were
battered until they couldn't see, and
the third got away after having two
teeth knocked out.
When the judges on cattle came
around they turned up their noses at
Prother's old COW and two half-starved
calves, but he placidly remarked:
Gentlemen, that ere cow was
driven four hundred and eighty miles
to reach this State, and them calves
can be beat for blood. Their grand
mother was owned by the Empress of
France"
Something was said about his care
lessness in not entering his stock for
the bone-yard instead of the fair, and
he answered with:
Gentlemen, I'm willing to take sec
ond premium, and if | don't get it
you'd better hire some one to hold
men'
They neglected his advice, and in due
course of time had their noses driven
back or their eyes put in mourning.
Prother was telling the judges ON veg
etables what they might expect in case
he did not secure a premium, when he
was arrested, but only after he had
pounded two constables. Within three
weeks after the fair he had mauled the
President run the Secretary into the
woods and p1llverized the Treasurer,
and before the end of six months he
had licked all the judges but two, and
was hunting for them with great en-
ergy when he got before the courts and
was sent to jail for year.-Detro3
Free Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-10-20
For Young Readers.
THE SERIOUS BOY.

There was once a serious little boy,
VINO never smiled and who rarely spoke;
Arithmetic was his only JOY,
And he could not be made to take joke.
If ever any one CHANGED to read
Or tell HIM joke, i'll accents chilly,
To an older person he said: ''lndeedY
To a younger person: THAT is silly"
1t happened one day, when he went to school,
That his tender mother wrapped up his
Though such was not her general rule
In IA leaf from recent number of Punch.
When noontime came, and he spread it out,
The picture attracted his notice mt once;
And he said, with scorn: beyond doubt,
There are people who like to play the
dunce!'
Now, what this picture was, my dears,
would gladly tell you, if knew,
For should not be troubled by any fears
That what happened to him might happen
to you.
And then for Il minute sat perfectly still;
Then he went as if he were going to choke,
And said, with an effort: That is sill"
A violent chuckle stopped him here;
He did not know what to make of it.
He said to himself: This is very queer
wonder If it can be fit?
1.-THE sensation is singular and new.
l can not be laughing; I've too much
sense"
Once more a chuckle shook him all through,
And he tumbled abruptly OFF the fence.
He had never laughed in his life before;
He was just eleven years old, and so
When he tried to stop, he laughed the more,
For he'd all that time to make up, you
know.
His mother CHANGED to be passing by;
She was sensible, as well as kind,
So she did not stop to scream and cry,
But showed at once her presence of mind.
She leaned him up against the fence
For to stand alone he was quite unable
She put him through pounds, shillings and
pence,
And then the multiplication table.
By the time he had got to ten times ten,
He had a lmost recovered his self-command;
He was only smiling little then,
Ana by twelve times twelve he was able to
stand.
But his mother was fully convinced that day
That it's safer to laugh as one goes along,
For if it accumulates in this way
1t acquires force that is terribly strong.
So now she keeps telling him little jokes,
And he's learned an almost agreeable
smile.
He may some day laugh, as do other folks
But she can not expect that yet awhile.
The moral is plain to be seen, of course
We should all learn laughing while we are
SMALL
If we don't it may come with alarming force,
Or-more dreadful still-never come al all.
-MdTgdret Vdndep1ft, in st. Nicholds.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-10-20
A Princess Worth Millions, but Almost
Pauper.

The wonderful amount of art pre-
served in Rome, and for that matter all
over Italy, is due to the fact that in
certain families plate, Jewels and works
of art are entailed the same as real
estate is in England, and cannot be sold
and dispersed, which is very fortunate
thing for Italy, and a very unfortunate
thing for the unhappy owners. 1t has
kept their old palaces with their price
less art treasures together, and makes
in Rome hundred museums of quite
as great value as the best of the public
collections-not in extent, but quality.
One noble family in Rome is the
happy, or unhappy, possessor of q
palace that contains 10,000,000 of lire,
which is $4,000, 900, worth of paintings,
statuary and plate, and nothing else.
There is not a dollar of revenue, not a
dollar of money, not enough to light
single kitchen fire. The unhappy Prin-
dine upon Michael Angeles, nor can she
sell square inch of the priceless can
vas andmarble with which the immense
palace is filled.
So the palace is opened to the visitors
and small fee is eXacted from each for
the care of canes, umbrellas and over
coats, which are presumed to 90 to the
respectable-looking serving man who
performs that office, but it doesn't. Her
Highness keeps sharp lookout on him,
and every copper he receives finds its
way to her, and from the proceeds of
this exhibition she manages to starve,
though she does ride in carriage and
keep servants in livery. Being Princess,
she must have a carriage and flunkies
in livery, whether she have money to
support the style or not. She receives,
if the weather be good and the city
thronged with visitors, as much as ten
dollars day, and on that she must
live, for she has nothing but the art in
the palace, and that she can neither sell
nor mortgage.
All this is very bad for the Princess, but
very good for Rome. The family pictures
bring visitors who spend money every
where except upon the magnet that at
tracts them, What she is striving to do
is to marry her son to a rich American
girl, girl whose father would be will
ing to pay 100000 or 100000 for a
title for his daughter, and her daughter
to rich American or Englishman from
whom she might borrow money as oc-
casion demands. With all this wealth
in her possession she is so poor that a
meal of cold victuals would be charity
to herd. Il. Locke iai Toledo Blade.
The first medical school for women
in Canada was recently opened at To
rontO.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-10-20

the early morning sun beaming upon
her. All the trees on the bank were
running past her in a most confusing
manner. Papa was lifting her from
the window into q boat held by two
other men close to the house, which
still rocked and heaved as it settled
deeper and deeper into the water.
Papa, where is mammal"
"Safe. dear. Some steamboat men
brought her in shore, and found her
late last night.
"Oh-h-h! Well, then, papa, get my
kitty and poor old Biddy. Oh dear!
my neck and my shoulders hurt"
As the boat neared the shore she
opened her eyes in amazement, almost
in fright
That mammal she cried. ''Stand
ing up: Oh, mamma, you'll hurt your
selfr'
But mamma met Pearl at the very
edge of the water, and led her to the
house whose friendly doors had been
opened to them. Doctors have talked
learnedly of such cases-about will
power, nerve force, and other things
hard to understand. All l can tell
about it is that great excitement and
some very serious thinking had worked
wonderful change in PEARLS mother.
She now looked out at the house and
saw the water pouring in at the win
dow from which the idol of her heart
had just been rescued. With arms
tight about her, she said:
''He has taken care of us, Pearl, bet
ter than we could have dreamed. SID
neg Dayre, IN Harper'S Young People.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-10-20
" Going To-"
SeT'Ue1'.

Children are very fond of saying:
" l was going to-" The boy lets the rats
catch his chickens. He was going to
fill up the hole with glass, and to set
traps for the rats; but he did not do it
in time and the chickens were eaten.
He consoles himself for the loss and
excuses his carelessness by saying: 81
was going to attend TO that A horse
falls through broken plank in the
stable and breaks his leg, and is killed to
put him out of his suffering. The owner
was going to fix that weak plank, and
so excuses himself. A boy vets his feet
and sits for hours without changing his
shoes, catches q severe cold and Isl
obliged to have the doctor for a week.
His mother told him to change his wet
shoes when he came in, and he was CO.
ing to do it, but he did not. A girl
tears her new dress so badly that all
her mending can not make it look well
again. There was a little rent before,
and she was going to mend it. but she
forgot. And SO we might go on giving
instance after instance, such as happens
in every home with almost every man
and woman, boy and girl. 'Procras-
tination " is not only "the thief of
time" but is the worker of vast mis-
chiefs. If a Mister I-was-going-to"
lives in your house, just give him warn
ing to leave. He is a lounger and .
nuisance. He never did any good.
He has wrought unnumbered mischiefs.
The girl or boy who begins to live with
him will have very unhappy time of
it, and life will not be successful. Put
Mister I-was-going-to" out of your
house, and keep him out. Always do
things which you are going to do
Baptist Weekly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-10-20
WHICH ROAD TO TAKE.

(Which road do we take, grandpa?
inquired Harry, as grandpa's little black
mare and Harry's pretty little pony
battered slowly, side by side, up tow
ard the crossroads.
whichever road you would like the
BEST" replied grandpa, carelessly.
Harry turned and looked at grandpa,
it was such an oddreply, but grandpa's
face gave no more information than
his answer had done.
You are joking, grandpa know
you are, said Harry, laughing.
Joking! am very serious" replied
grandpa.
But, grandpa, we want to 60 to
Cresson."
$50 we do. Your cousins will be
pleased to see you, Harry"
Harry found that grandpa said no more
about the road so he waited a minute
until they came to the point where the
question must be decided.
Grandpa dreY up his reins and quite
stopped his little mare. and Harry won
dered very much what grandp pa meant
to do, coming to q full stop Just at the
point where the two roads crossed each
other.
"Do you forget which road to take,
grandpa?"
''No, indeed, I have trotted over
them both too often to forget about
them"
Then, which shall we take, grand
pap"
1.-The one you like best, boy
Harry was perpleXed. Grandpa
seemed so earnest in saying such silly
thing.
II don't care which road we take,
grandpa, only want to go to Cresson."
You want to 90 to Cresson, of
course, but it is strange you do not de-
eide which you like the appearance of
best; one you notice is much smoother
and easier travelled than the other
"Grandpa, l am sure they can not
both 90 to Cresson.n
"Oh, no, nobody said they did, BOY;
but what does.that matter?'
Harry was greatly disturbed he
thought something must be the matter
with grandpa, or that he was very pro-
voking.
''We can not get to Cresson, grand
pa, if we take the wrong road" he re-
piled, scrap impatiently; chow can
it matter about my liking the road?"
sit matters great deal. One road
is up hill and down all the way for
miles, and leads over stream which
we would be obliged to ford; the other
is smoother, easier; which do you think
yoTi would prefer?''
''But, grandpa, we will have to take
the right one, no matter what kind of
q one it is"
"Why, my dear boy, your words are
contrary TO the actions of the greater
part of the people of the world how
do you happen to speak so unreason-
ablyP"
Harry's little Nudge was getting
scrap fussy, and wanted to go; Harry
looked perpleXed as he tried to make
Nudge stand still.
Il do not know grandpa; but do let
us 60" he pleaded.
Eyes, it is hard to stand still; ponies,
horses, boys, men, women-time, all
like to go, and do go, but the great
point to decide is where to 90, and how
to get there
''Grandpa, you are too funny for any
thing" said Harry, more and more be-
wildered; eve decided to go to Cresson,
and now the thing to do is to go, isn't
it?''
Eyes, but how?-that is the ques-
ton"
"By the road which leads there,
grandpa, for you know yourself if we
take the wrong road we will never,
never reach Cresson, if we even ride for
year"
"Do you really mean that, boyP" in
quired grandpa, solemnly; "do you
mean to say that it is so important
about the road2'N
Harr7 did not like to laugh at grand
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-10-20
.J0YTO THE Old MANS EYES.

Beside the open window
A gray haired man sat down.
The railroad train that bore him
Sped through the grimy town;
And everywhere, extended
As far as eye could view,
The yellow corn and barley
And fragrant orchards grew.
Along the steely river
Great factories were seen,
And tiny newborn hamlets
Were nestled in the green:
And sounds of engine labor
We're rising to the skies,
And all the landscape bristled
With signs of enterprise.
The old man gazed about him
And wiped away tear.
Alas" he sighed, outblotted
Is all | held most dear.
The trees, the wood, the mountain,
The prospects | have known
All things that were familiar
Are passed away and gone"
Beside the stranger loitered
A little shrill-voiced chap,
And dropped q small priZe-package
Into that strangers lap.
The old man started quickly,
He started and was mute,
He eyed the small boys basket,
His papers and his fruit.
And from his laboring bosom
Came signs of glad relief,
And clutching at the train-boy,
He uttered this in brief:
81 fancied all was altered,
A glad surprise has come,
/ see the self-same packages
You had ere left home"
N. Y. Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-10-20

An aged, eccentric Indian by the
name OF John Shanks is repairin 9 the
old council-house in Portage, N. Y,
with peculiar dry moss, which he
gathers in a neighboring woods. He
packs the interior space between the
logs with the moss, and with q curious
wooden trowel he plasters the outside
walls with a tough clay, which makes
the walls impervious to wind and cold.
Buffalo Express.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-10-20

"A young lady and gentleman drove
up to a parsons house in Oxford, Ala,
recently and were married while sitting
in the buggy, the parson sitting on his
own balcony and delivering the GUS
tomary questions, etc.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-10-20

"A dog gained acces, to a Kansas
corral of l,5O0 sheep one night and bit
oue-third of them about the head and
face. Within eleven days 800 died of
hydrophobia. Chicago NeOS.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-10-20

The first medical school for women
in Canada was recently opened at To-
ronto.
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-01-22

The publishers OF Ratledge'" hon.h,y
os.r Twelve valuable rewards "
IN IL cir Monthly for February A"'"s
which are the following; q, . IA.
We will give $50 90 in sold 10 Can. '"s
,sr.op ,silina as which is the miaule
20. 90 ,ba pld Tes,ament scTistnfe'
n we February /" , 10Th 1883 should Two ,h 81
's~erd viii I've divided. The wH r,,3
80. ,o,va,dsd to the winner Feora
,rv l5,h 1853. Persons trying Tor .n'
r.x.ri must send 40 csns ~ S Nv,
| |no po..are stamps Iak.D) Win the y,
sn s Tor which they -ill receive rec ". ,n
nrd address the winner OF .n me, re e
ward and the correct answer VIZ w. y
nnhIi.h,d Address Rnthl"dse ru"
| ,,aipu Company, E,ston, fonha'
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-01-22

Tur GRAIN gamblers have Hrca"rneo
In forcing the price OF wheat VI" '"o
.,,.,-., l,u.h. which would make AL
,n,-,a,. Of about eight cents barrsi
on the prIce ol flour. Inc hout gam
.,l,,,. r'',r.t, fore u very biandiy and
,ou -. that luune rsscals the grain
dealars having run up the prioe o'
,l.at they ara PEELED 10 run up lhe
nricp Of -four THY cents a barrel lh"'
vhlrs the grain gamblers make eign'
,.,.r, a.cItiona. n the grain that mahe'
I q b,rrw Of -FOUR tie nouf sa'ho'o
.t.,s ,nr,y-,WC cents on barrel o
4..r H. heu We speak OF Hour gam
r,rr- 0, course we mean 'hose WIZ d
.t...n,.d Of the -four trade-who hon
-1.. .,d.ry ,tr,B.s. our local dealer
cannot leIp IL, mseIFtS' het' we nav
l ar..unlrnr III favor Of reprrsslV
foc...,o ,,.p,,h gain and flour gan
; rY,r. such year ot plenty ,esl ecIaA'
t ,,.d ,yl,4a, crops both il The Irlte
states and IN Europe, las oe'doh o'f
j Ir.,yn. and et III ruc midst OF p'eht.
i ,t... .,,,,.n. AT. raised. II t!ere l. al
s. v,ay Nv which grain gampIlns can
j. -.,-}.r1 that way should 10 "rct
= ,a,,..A immediately, aud these gal
- -.t.,.t...j .,tI ar nv
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-01-22

fl, ,,,,.. u.,,n 10 IL there Is something
.,.e the Board OF Health might 90 "
,rt.v,ate the .uti-rers by snal -po1' IN
this resp. ct our SISTER c''S VI
! ci,e.te- il far il advance OF Us we
mr.. cr,hib,v informed that when the
, af-ea-e breaks u in lAihi!y III ina
,ity tb. house il mined ately quaiah
tirel and man is appointed u I"h'
,ci,arge Of II aud attend to All the wal u
LET rLp inmate. a.d the city bears All W.
expeu-os. This prevents any "Aho
of the spread of the disease tht'ue
hank rol,. ,r ether n ohey, hahHe'
from the inmates OF the house 10 p"'
= ,ic- oI's,He,
rho need Os more assistance Ia IA"
q .a.4- Of ru. ul7-ate Is shown N ease
p. vyt.r, the nurse IL not able OF hlms'
n .,,r,r-.,fru a,irud 30 rr'pir'nR III
=. r.ly for ,rtcrlnrtt. The Chester -
60 to,r,t,r- provide tor a. sunh con''hR''
], o,~. We are H"dlng no fault with o.
"a local authorities on tnis sc1rT, ol
,e merely ca" attention 10 the maui
A fla. everything possible may b. Prov
A -dfy J..rr,-r 1he danger atd aIi'N'h
~ ..... .,urr,r,. rrrr di..ase which at u
re .o,.ta.o bad enough,
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-01-22

The amount realized from the o9o, , u
Heart Fair, recently held IN mo ihst'
Int Hsl, foots up the meat sum %
IS Os, 10, distributed by '"n,,S a., a. =, ~
'0n, schmidt aid Keller, a l'Z -
n "" and schpldry, s"9ell; Fra
w md Flliuser, s,779 Aiolp'
| h aoch, 1896 20 Held ANA Es'er, s4' -,
u Tbs amount received from M
a,ol. w,s sjO3 -, and was won by
Fat, ar Kelley. The watch was "o'
IauIs fl ,mmerer and So 10 wa
~ a:,..J m. cane WAS won by Cob JOIN
10 tarTa.
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-01-22
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BIANhETs.
QUILTS.
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WAlNWR!GhTS
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EGlSrER'S Order. ,.cx
NV rAsrLs COUNTY, DEL. Jan; D. 80,
I'pon the application OF AIl1ea -. - Tnbn
,rd Pl"hnn Hudson, Jr., Executors nl ;'o',n
u uuI.mn late Of 81 Georges huhutoa, u"
,i nm,nty hec.ased MS ordered ana ~.
ah hy IT.. Register mat the fkscul"ts ,n ILL.,
.n,t tive notice Of granting Of l."t'sfs To-"
m.nt,ry upon the estate Vt tte "a",,uy
,.',h M. date of granting thereof, ny chutan.
atyrrt,scments to be posted within ior's "a a.
| S.r, ne date Of such Letters III ~ w
,,,'., ,,nnlIr ulGccs Of the county "i re" ~
~. ranII,r.pu Nil persons having uflha'',',
o,,iuut tn, estate 10 present INC ",''
lnIjdr bv An Act Of hSscinhl! w w. ~. nm,
mnIr and provided and al.o 'hut" "r n" ~,
a. IA. Inserted within the same p''l"H i ~
ln.Iy Rgpl pIICkN,a newsphp"i m'nrai,
in " .nulngtun and 10 be continue"
three weeks. lc. q. d. 1900, an, Sea
Given under the hhnI auu ,''a
s.. 'nfuthcc Of the REGISTER hlotr'an, =
* Wilmington, in Ne" 'asu ',,,."
ut1re,a.i the day and yenr nn9'r rr,,,e.'
NoTirg An persons h''lnl t'n ,'ru,snt m
same duIy uitcsted to the fAt'".o''
Trf1rG tnIrAIrd day Of January a. ~ c.,
| or abide til" Act OF Assein''' !"
: made au1 provided:
!. ALfKEuL. EvlSuS, Executors,
JOHN T.. HUDSON, JR. 5,.,,,,v he,
Address. - Clayton, Kent 'ou"s,
ware.