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St. Leonard Hotel,
SAN ANTONIO. TEXAS.

This Hotel has lately been open
cd on the European Plan, and
promises to be rery popular. All
Of the appointments are Jrst-class
and ne,o, and edining room has
tsw equals in the Southwest.
The proprietor, Phineas r.
Lounsbery, is a No,o York man,
and knows how a hotel ought TO
be kept; and ace can ans'cer from
personal experience that those once
enjoying its comforts ,siH be sure
TO return again. dc6ly
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NO PAPER NEXT WEEK.

II il not unusual in Texas foi
country newspaper employees to take
holiday by missing an issue during
Christmas week. We now have q
more urgent reason for such omis'
sion, in the fact that we shall have to
remove our Office prior to Jan. lst'
1884. The moving OF printing o.
fec is at all times job simply Jaw
full, and we greatly deprecate the
prospect OF that sort Of holiday "en-
ioyment'; but such is the fate allotted
MS. Nevertheless we extend to all
our patrons the compliments and
good wishes OF the season.
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The following is a partial list o
the contents

The following is q partial list Of
the contents
HAYS COUNTy-Historicsl Sketch I;
Area, Altitude, Location, etc; Pro-
auctions; Streams, ETC.; Climate--Health {;
Prices of Land and improvements, Sections
of the County ParticulArized; The Mountain
Region: Additional notes and Comments !;
Adjoining Counties
Towns OF THE CouSTY.-San Marcos,
Romantic Situation. improvements; Water
Power and Business Kyle; DuPre; Drip
ping Springs; Wimberley; Purgstory Springs
Hunter.
SrA7rsrIos-Tax Rolls for 1888 compared
with 1882; Railroad Business; Schools and
schsol Fund Apportionment
HIrsCoUSrI SCENERY described At large /;
Boat hides on the San Marcos Springs as de-
scribed by Bishop Doggett and others
Their Wonderful Fairy Scenery; Grand and
Beautiful Views in the Mountain Region, de-
scribed BY tourists.
MIscEILANEoUs-'Why GO 90 Texas :
The kind Of People Who are Wanted in
Te1as;" The Right Time 10 Go North and
TO Come South; Texas Exemption aud
Homestead Law Terms Of Renting LADd ;
State Free School Endowment Fund A
Ten-yeAr-old Boys View Of the Situation
about San Marcos in ls76.
PorTzI.-"Tbe River ssk Msrcos," BY
Nollis z Moore, beautiful production Of
q cslsbrNtsd Southern poetess Prophets
Tribute 10 San Marcos ''Besutful Tens
q gzPhie and spiey parody.
J1s DE thing 10 ssnd 10 friends and cor
rspe.dsuts sbroaA Orders filed Il the fol
I0ring rztess
Single copiss. ave osuts eseh ~ cope.
for154s; IL coPiss for Scots; and At tire
nsuts e.ch for lErgs- nu1bsrs Oriez from
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A "spEcK Of war" was reported
from Brentwood on the 18th. 1t
was reported that IN armed band OF
200 fence cutters were moving on
the town with the purpose of burn
ing it and killing some Of the citizens.
The town people flew to arms, and
were REINFORCED from the country.
The invading party however, laid
down their arms at the demand of
the sheriff. We suspect this whole
affair was much exaggerated.
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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-03-01
Dipbtheria and Typboil Fever,

The mortality statistics collected by
the Census Bureau furnish some inter-
esting points with regard to the dis
tribution OF certain diseases. The num-
Der of deaths during the census year
reported as due to diphtheria is males,
1S,S49 females, 1919; total. SO, 1893;
giving proportion 5l.33 per thousand
of all deaths in which the causes are re-
ported. The total number of deaths
from diphtheria under one year of age
was 1886; under five years of age it
was 20.O35; between five and fifteen
years of age 16, I62. In the north At
lantic States the proportion of deaths
from diphtheria to the total number of
deaths having recorded causes was 81
29 per Thousand, being in the cities
46.71 per thousand and in the small
towns and rural districts, $3.50. In the
Gulf coast States the proportion OF
deaths from diphtheria was but y. 16
per thousand (13.74 in New Orleans
and 1927 elsewhere), and in the lake
regions it was S1.15. Six cities, from
Rochester to Chicago, give an average
of 78.1 and the remainder of the re-
gion 81. 10 per thousand. The statistics
y
instructive. The total number of deaths
from typhoid fever reported are males,
IL. 1852; females, 1903 total %, ,905,
being in the proportion of 31.21 per
thousand of all deaths having reported
causes. In the north Atlantic States
the proportion of deaths from this cause
was 16.2 20 per thousand in the large
cities and 19.95 in the country. In New
Orleans it was 7.67, and in the rest of
the Gulf States S0.02. Ia the lake region
the deaths from typhoid were 17.16 per
thousand in the large cities and2 27.31 in
the remainder of this region. 1t will
be seen from these figures that neither
diphtheria nor enteric fever are especial
ly diseases of the large cities. They ap-
pear to be more prevalent in the small
towns and rural districts which have no
general water supply or system of sew
erage. but obtain their water from
springs and wells. and observe the
usual custom of storing excreta in cess
pools or vaults.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-03-01
Sound Doctrine.

! One OF the professors of Princeton
college in his address to the students
called attention to the fact that there
was too much athletics in the colleges
and not enough brain work. He said
one is impressed with the fact that in
strolling about the colleges of the coun-
try nothing can be heard about educa-
tional matters and the subject of books
seldom enters the minds of the students,
but athletic sports occupy their whole
time and attention. This professor has
ott uCh u hCs nus, ana Odi1Uu uIuoI UIUI
to an evil that should be stopped. A
moderate dose eff athletic sports mixed
in with thorough college education
viii not injure the young men who are
graduating from the colleges of the
country, but when the students get the
idea, as they seem to have, that mus
cles like 4 prize-fghter and hand like
baseball is all that is essential to a
college education, then it is time for
reform. There is no question but that
one-baf OF the young men in college
think vastly more of cultivating their
muscles than they do of cultivating
their brains, and it is time the colleges
of the country were transformed from o
gymnasium into a school for cultivating
the intellect Millions of dollars have
been spent in erecting colleges, and
thousands OF dollars are yearly spent in
sending young men to these schools of
learning and keeping them there, to
have them graduate, or leave in few
years with nothing to show for their
time spent in college except knowl-
edge of how to row boat or play
game of ball 1t is seldom one hears
of the progress of the several classes in
the colleges except it be in the line of
boat-racing or winning game of base
ball, or hazing fellow member, and un-
less there is a reform inaugurated, and
the colleges pay more attention to books
and less to athletic sports. the public
will soon think that the sendmg of our
young men to college is a useless piece
of extravaganza. As it now is there
are more young men from the bottom
of the ladder of mercantile life, and
from the farm, filling the counting
rooms. and the college graduate is
forced to the farm or a lumber-yard to
earn living The Princeton professor
is sound and he should be supported in
his theories. San.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-03-01
A Hot-Water Bottle for the Muff.

| have recently heard of an invention
that has been patented by a lady, of a
muff with an inside receptacle for hold
ing hot water or any other fluid, the
same being introduced through a mouth
piece on top, which when in use is kept
securely corked. A horrid man saws:
.'Here is presented a grand opportunity
The same muff that holds water will
also hold less temperate fluid, and there
can be contained in i not only warmth
for the hands, but warmth for the entire
body, and the woman who bends grace
fully while raising her muff, burying
her face in its furry surface, ostensibly
to warm a nose presumably red with
cold, can draw in a draught more po-
tent than the limpid Croton. Other
articles can be utilized in the samew way,
and in conyocation of strong-minded
women one may expect to hear of one
tapping sherry from her boa. whisky
from her muff, and variety of cordials
from small sacks contained withip the
folds of her sealskin or cape. "-AdUer-
fiser
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-03-01
He Tried A New Game.

A hen-pecked husband who had fire.
quentlv found the door locked when he
came home late at night and little too
full to find the heyhole, if he had been
allowed to carry key; said that he
sometimes kept himself awake by rae
ing up the long gravel walk and throw
ing himself with full force against the
huge oak doors, in vain efforts to break
them in. But the doors never yielded,
and he always retired from the contest
a sorer but soberer man. On one even
ing he disclosed the canker in his heart
by confdentially asking one of his COM
panions what he did when he went
home little late, and triiie unsteady,
if his wife scolded and fretted all the re-
mainder of the night and refused to let
him sleep. ''Do?n replied the other,
"why, | just kick her out that's all. "
There was CLEAN in the eye of the
sad man when this information was re-
ceived, but nothing more was said about
the matter. The rest of the party MOTTO
ed, however, that the sadness seemed to
suddenly disappear from his manner,
and an expression of hope and even of
confidence took its place. A few more
bottles were opened and then the party
adjourned. 1t was late, and as most OF
them lived in the hotel, they retired to
their rooms, but not all of them to rest.
Within half an hour the sad man reach
ed his room, where his wife, like Tam
O'Shanter's, had long been:
Gatheri1' her broos like gatherin' storm
Nursin her wrath to keep il warm.
There was a sound of reyelry by nigh.
from that direction. First a murmur OF
angry, then "a furious, words. Then a
grating sound, as if resolute man,
with his back against the wall, was try
ing TO force some Objectionable obiec,
away from him. Then noise as OF
athletes engaged In desperate contest a
creaking OF timyo4s, as of ship in all the
fury OF a storm, and then crash, fol
lowed by half-suppressed scream. a
few half-uttered curses and a furioue
ringing of bells that woke the echoes in
the Office below Soon bell bows came
fitting through the dinly-lighted halls,
and, later, the entire night force of port
ers appeared, tugging up the stairs with
new bedsteads and down with the re-
mains OF an old one, while the awaken
ed neighbors, through half-opened doors
caught glimpses of white-robed figures
silently but sullenly experimenting the
removal Of the wreck and the rearrangc
ment of the furniture, Evidently the
experts remedy wouldn't work in this
case. A woman had been found whs
wOuldn' t be kicked out of bed.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-03-01
An Artists Model Who Had Seen Life.

An artist of my acquaintance was
searching for a model in the streets of
New York. Crossing Union Square he
saw the very type of face he required.
The owner of the face was seated on
one of the benches in an attitude of
cheerful expectancy. The artist accost-
ed the old man and asked him if he
would pose. He readily consented,
went to the studio at the appointed
time, was employed, gave satisfaction,
and became sort Of retainer at the
studio. His massive white head and
large white beard met with favor in
aesthetic circles. BY degrees, items of
his personal history came to light. He
had been a gold-digger in California in
the early days of the mining excite
ment. He claimed to have experienced
fifteen shipwrecks in the capacity Of a
sea-captain. Left an orphan at an
early age, he had been educated by a
physician, and had acquired some
knowledge of medicine. Fate threw
him among the Indians of the far West,
presumably on his way from the gold
diggings, and he became medicine
man. tie was learned in natural phil
Osophy and possessed a neurological
cabinet and also a collection of roots,
each twisted by nature into the shape
of one of the letters of the alphabet.
He painted shells skillfully, and had an
ambition to 60 around the world in a
canoe. This remarkable person also
wrote poetry and was a Yankee. 1t
needed only a master-brush to make
this same representative Yankee as
classical as Millet peasant Charlotte
adams in the Century.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-03-01
EXCITED THOUSANDS.

All over the land are going into ecstacy
over DIR. Kings New Discovery for
Consumption. Their unlocked for re-
covery by the timely use of this great
life Saving remedy, causes them to go
nearly wild in its praise 1t is guaran-
teed to positively cure Severe Coughs,
Colds, Asthma, Hay Fever, Bronchitis,
Hoarseness, Loss of Voice. or any affec
tion of the Throat and Lungs. Trial
bottles free at Robinson & Heinrich s
Drug Store. Large size S1.00.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-03-01
a Maiden.

Vain are the common metaphors of song
To paint this lovely one:
All language does Der wrong
In which the praise ot other maids is sung
The misty tenderness Of Spring,
4 young dove with its lifted wing,
A lily ere its dew l. she'd
Snow-drops with roses overhead,
Clear coral blooming in purple sea,
Pure pearls, and soft-caryed ivory,
y gliding fawn in jasmine shade,
a Msy-hnwer smiling half afraid,
An airy cioudlets fieecy treSs,
Ttuged with the new moons cbaste caresss
Faint odors of pale miguoDette
With Twilights iangud kisses wet,
The Dawn : first bushes, and the look
That CLEANS within mountain brook
All hint of her, but none express
Her natures perfect lOvehness-
Her purity Of iook and tone.
the light of love about her thrown,
Her delicate and winsOme grace,
The chseied ciearuess Of her face,
The sweet repose in which she lives,
Unconscious of the joy she gives:
or all that's finest. uaUEht but her
Can be her clear interpreter.
Her beauty is a spirit true,
To all that Is divine in you;
a sight OF her is q new sense
To one in love with innocence.
Horati0 Nelson Powers.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-03-01
Mnuruing Six Mnnths.

Sam Johnsing borrowed black suit
from Uncle Nose to attend the funeral
of Sans father-in-law, Sam promising
TO return the habiliments of woe as soon
as the obsequies We're over.
Uncle Nose did not lay eyes on Sam,
norwas the garb of bereavement return
ed for three weeks. until, on turning the
corner of Austin Avenue and Pecan
street, Uncle Nose ran right out against
Samuel the mourner. He had on the
identical habilimentS of woe, but they
looked as if they had suffered more than
Sam.
Didn't yer tole me yer was gwine tc
bring them ar clothes back as soon as
yer fodder-in-law was planted?"
Il did promise dat ar, Uncle Nose,
but my wife says hit wouldn't be 'spect-
ful to de memory oh de remains to 90
outer mourningfor six mumfs at tdevery
least. ."-Ieras Siftinqs.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-03-01

A Chatham street merchant is strict
in regard to the personal appearance of
his clerks wearing mustache and when
one of them applied to him for permis-
sion TO raise a mustache-''Datv vas all
right he replied; ''you shoot raise so
much viskers as you blease, so long you
don't wear 'em in the store during pish-
ur-z houry,'
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-03-01
Rnrtnn on Invisible Dayils.

With the exception of Ibn Chaldir,
who passed nine tenths of his long life
in a public library. Robert Burton, the
vicar of Segrave, was probably the best
read man who ever lived. He had
studied philology, philosophy, theolo-
gy, law, and medicine; he was first
class mathematician, jealous astrono-
mer, and calculator of nativitiesn; he
had read nearly every volume in the
Bodleian collection and in the library Of
Christ-Church College. He was well
versed in the philosophical speculations
Of the medieval school-men. He had
mastered the inductive system of his
great contemporary. All this learning
did not prevent him from perpetrating
the following dicta:
''The air is not so full of flies in sum-
mer as it is at all times of invisible
devils. Fiery devils are such as COM
monty work by blazing stars, fire
brakes, or jgneS fatui (Which lead men
often IN fumjfaa ait prGcipitia), whom,
if travellers wish to keep off, they must
pronounce the name of God with clear
voice, or adore him with their faces in
contact with the ground. Aerial devils
are such as keep quarters in the air,
cause tempests, thunder and lightning,
make it rain stones, wool. frogs, etc.
Subterranean devils are as common as
the rest, and do as much harm. The
last are conYerSant about the center of
the earth, to torture the souls of damn
ed men to the day of Judgment; their
egress and RECESS some suppose to be
about Etna, Lipari, Terra del FuegoCD,
ETC., because many shrieks and fearful
cries are continually heard thereabouts,
and familiar apparitions of dead men,
ghosts, and goblins. The devil being a
slender and incomprehensible spirit,
can easily insinuate himself into human
bodies. A nun did eat lettuce without
grace, or signing it with the sign of the
cross, and was instantly possessed
Fct5c L. OsWald, IN Popular Science
1fODfHl5y fo1. E'eb77yry.3f