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San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-06-28

himself as well as watching his adj
yersary. One minute passed. Two
minutes passed. Three. Four. Five,
"Now, gentlemen" said the doctor
| in solemn tones, it is time to make
the final drawing"
This was the fatal choice. Both
men were ready for the cast OF the
die. Savalle tossed the gold piece
aloft, and the Doctor cried out,
"Heads." "Heads" it was, and De-
l.grave took a pill from the box, leav-
ing only one. "Now,' said the Doc
tor, "the remaining one is for you.
You will please swallow them to-
gether."
The two men raised their hands at
the same time and deposited the pills
on their tongues and took a draught
of claret. One second passed, and
there was no movement. Two seconds,
and neither stirred. Then-"Good
Godr exclaimed Riviere, his eyes
starting from their sockets. He
turned half around to the left, raised
his hands above his head and shrieked
long wild shrek that belated travel
ers even to this day say they hear on
the shell road, near the island.
He fell prone to the earth, and,
save q nervous contraction of the
muscles of the face, there was no
movement. ...
Delagrave took him by the hand as
he lay on the damp grass, and said,
in a tender voice: 81 regret it, but it
was to be-"
The funeral was one of the largest
ever seen in New Orleans, and for
weeks the cafes were agog with the
story of the duel. The beautiful
widow, Mortified at the affair, would
never see Delagrave afterward, and
is now happy grandmere on Bayou
Lafourche, having married wealthy
planter two years after the fatal event.
Delagrave, weighed down with the
trials of an unhappy life, wrinkled
and tottering, strolls along Canal
street of warm afternoons, assisted by
negro servant. Having a bare
competency, he has never actually
suffered from wants; but he shows
evidence of great mental anguish.
The sight of pill-box makes him
shudder, and the taste of claret will
give him convulsions.-Nep Orleans
Times Democrat.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-06-28
FAIRY LAND.
ny Lillian NJ. THOMPSON.

ORE morning opened the orchard gate
Aud stood alone with tho gray old trees
With tho robin caroling to her mate
And tho hordes of the drswSi!y toiiins DOCS
Ontside had left but the common world,
Though abeautiful world bloom and song
Ia, spring had her azure wings unfurled,
And scattered the treasures withheld 10 long,
sut what was this palace 80 rich and rare,
With its strange, curved columns OF varied
gray?
Worc they daade!ions or jewels fair,
That thick on the emerald carpet layi
What was this fragment which iluttered down
From the gorgeous dome of tinted snow!
Was it a scrap Of the sunrise blown
From the rosy clouds to tho earth below!
Was It the wing OF some inckless spirit,
Ruthlessly severed by fairy queon'
Or an atom OF living, quiyering light
Caught aad detained by snowflake sheen!
Was it delicate pearly shell
Fashioned by elves in the oceans gloom!
Or talisman wrought by some magic spell!
Nay twas but petal Of apple-bloom.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-06-28

One of the results of the meet
ing of superintendent of the Paclhc,
Texas and Wells g. Fargo Express
companies, at st. Louis, week ago,
at which G. Il. Campbell represented
the Texas and Wells Fargo compa'
MES, and L. A. Fuller and James
Aiken the Pacific Express Company,
was to fix on rates from New Orleans
to all points in Texas where these
companies have Offices. The agreeu
rates are being published for tne
guidance of the local agents at poinIs
affected. The st. Louis meeting was
to confer on the wild cutting between
the companies named and to come " !,
some remedial understanding Il
was agreed to resume charges on lnI
basis heretofore arranged for genera
business. In the matter Of New VI.
leans business, the Pacific E1Ples'
being an adjunct of Gould,s SYSTEM system,
had Il their own way over the Ie1s
and New Orleans Railway. Ihe va
of rates during the past winter nss
broken into the receipts OF the Gull
pany very materially.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-06-28
The New TWO-Cent Stamp.

The Postmaster General has ap-
proved the design for the new two
cent stamp, of which the following is
a description: On tablet is Sus-
pended an incised shield, decorated
with headwork, oval forming
framework, surrounding copy OF
Houdin's life-cast of Washington.
At the base of the oval is the figure
60" and below the shield is the WORD
two" on the left, and the word
"cent" ON the right. Surrounding
the upper part of the oval appear til the
words United States Postage" Inc
color of the stamp is metallic red: 1t
is handsome piece of workmanship
and displays decided artistic taste'
the shading being particularly delicate
and finished.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-06-28
In Search Ofan Alibi.

He was lawyer and came home
from the lodge in the gray dawn of
the morning and found the bosom
of his family clothed, and in her
right mind.
Charlie, said she, on family re-
turning proffered kiss, "you have
spent another night of carousal and
dissipation"
"Why do you say that, my dear?"
because your breath smells hor-
nd with whisky"
"But, my dear, don't you know
you would be ruled out of court
on single point of circumstancial
evidence like that? You ought to
have a concatenatien of cumulative
facts and illustrative circumstances
that would establish your charge ire
fragibly. As it is, what you allege
is a mere supposition that viii not
hold water a minute"
Then the fires of practical logic
blazed out of her black eyes, and seiz-
ing a dipper,sh exclaimed: "Here is
something that will hold water, 1
reckon" and as she plunged the arg
ument into a boiling kettle Of water,
Charles struck out vigorously for the
gate In quest Of an ahbi.--TOLedO
American.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-06-28
A Female Pioneer Of the Press.
New Orleans Picayune.

In a tiny, coy little cottage, in
Yazoo City, lives the first real news
paper woman in this country. Wis
terra vines climb over the windows
and low door-ways, and magnolia
trees cast graceful shadows over the
wide, worn porches. The yellow
Yazoo river flows peacefully past the
foot of the street, and glimpses of it
can be caught now and then through
the trees. Here in this quiet house
lives Mrs. Harriet n. Prewett, the
Oldest newspaper woman in this
country, In 1S4S Mrs. Prewett was
left widow, the most important of
her possessions being three little
children and a weekly newspaper, the
YahOO City Wing, afterwards the Ban
nSr.
For more than fourteen years Mrs.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-06-28

Prewett was editor, proprietor, nan.
editor, agent, book keeper and ma;I;Ms
clerk for her spunky little paper SLs
also kept house, saw that things w nne
tidy at home, and did the SEWING " ons
patching, mending and knitting 10" fO,
her three children. Her editor; sTs
were strong and fearless, and eve.
cised strong influence in Mississ;nn;
politics. Mrs. Prewett held ont p ~
long as she could against the extremS
measure of secession; but when che
did haul down her Union fac che
became one of the boldest, bravest
defenders of the southern cause. A.
one time Mrs. Prewett had an editorial
tilt with Mrs. Swisshelm, who was
then running paper in Massacbn.
sets, regarding the respective merit.
of their babies. At another time .
Jackson, Miss, editor, intending To bs
sarcastic, invited the editress Of the
Banner to put on her breeches and
come over to Jackson and run the
legislature, she having criticized some
of the acts of the members. The
editress retorted that if the jackson
editor would put on his breaches and
come over to Yazoo City he would be
received by two little boys, one eight
and the other ten years old, who would
hang leather medal about his neck
as an 1. o. U. for sound whaling to
be administered as soon as they were
grown big enough to do it.
Mrs. Prewett's was the first paper
in the country to announce the name
of Willard Fillmore for the presidency.
This brave, hard working woman used
to take her sewing to the office with
her, and when interrupted by the
proverbial fends that haunted news
paper Offices, even before the wal, she
would lay aside her pen and sew or
knit while talking, so as not to loose
any time. Finally, this grand woman's
atrength gave way-and she became
a helpless invalid. For twenty years
she has been tied hand and foot to an
invalid's chair, whence, with an eye
as keen and mind as bright as it
was when editress ola dashing, inhu-
entail paper, she looks out on the
world in which she has already &C
complished her life's work. Mrs.
Prewett's home reminds the visitor of
the home of Paul FL. Hayne. Brown
honeysuckle vines frame in the little
cottage. Inside, in her own room,
walls and ceiling are deity covered
with the pictures cut from illustrated
papers-ten years in the history Of
the pictorial publications Of this
country are traced upon its walls.
Mrs. Prewett is a bright, cultivated
weman, in her day she was one of the
most beautiful women in the south,
and was sought for her womanly
graces as we'll as for her brilliant in
tellect. She is delightful, recalling
great names dear to southern people,
and has the political and literary his
tory of the state and of the south fresh
in her mind. She remembers her
visits to the old office of the Picayone,
years ago, and spoke of the sensation
the appearance Of the first daily news
paper in the south created everywhere.
To-day Mrs. Prewett is a graceful
writer, and occasionally dainty poems,
like white winged birds, futter out
into the newspaper world from her
little home in the peaceful Yazoo val
ley.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-09-21
"Self-Made Men"

During the past few days there has
been good deal of comment written
about John Roach and Jay Gould be-
ing "self-made ment' These gentle
men have been telling the Senate sub
Committe on Labor and Education.
about the early years of their poverty,
and how they gradually rose to affiu-
ence and power. 1t seems to be as
sumed by a great many people that
the fact that these men were once poor
makes amends for the inordinate
amount of riches which they have OBJ
tained by questionable methods and dis
reputable bargains.
What is it makes "self-made man
superior character to anybody else
we have never been able to understand.
The fact that man is poor and in
distress, and yet feels that he has some,
thing within him capable of better
things, is simply a stimulus to him to
be shrewd, energetic, careful and dill
gent. He is animated solely by the
selfish motive of bettering his own con
dition. This is always commendable,
but it is not remarkable. a man de-
serves no particular credit for it,
We hold that the man more desery
ing OF credit is the one who, born to
wealth and luxury, is able to deny him
self the pleasures of vicious indulgence
and indolent recreation, and makes his
life useful, not, alone to himself but to
those around him. A poor young man
is often kept in the paths of virtue and
industry not because he is morally a
whit better than others who are squan-
deriug themselves in dissipation, but
simply because he has not the money
or the opportunity to go astray. He
would be likely to do the same as they
ii he had the chance.
There is no small amount of non
sense spouted in this country about our
self-made men. Half of them are Doors,
hogs, misers, sharpers and rascals, Jay
Gould is the fair sample of the rich
man who has made himself He has
none of the small current vices in GER
tain respects of his life he is what some
worthy people would call "model
mani" and yet who has inflicted more
ruin and blighted more lives than this
great speculator, who from the day of
his early manhood has been constantly
figuring, watching, scheming, manipu-
lating, calculating and aocumulating.
He has, indeed, been self made-rather
selfshly made.
1t is no wonderful thing for poor
man to avail himself of honest oppor-
tunities to become rich or great, while
it is despicable when he avails himself
of dishonest opportunities. But the
world is not in the habit of discrimina-
ting much as TO the means employed,
so long as the end is secured Chron-
Sele- Herald.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-09-21
Pickle for Curing Meat,

A large amount of beef, pork and
mutton is lost to farmers every season
by not being perfectly cured Every
year large number of recipes are pub
lished in agricultural papers for curing
meat, some of which are valuable
Some thirty years ago the Germantown
Telegraph published recipe that was
tried by large number of people and
highly commended. The next year
it was republished with like results,
whereupon the paper fell into the hab-
it of publishing it every season, and it
claims that no person has ever tried it
for curing beef, pork, mutton, tongue,
or hams and ever afterward cured meat
in any other manner with satisfaction
to himself The following is reprint
of the famous recipe
To one gallon OF water take one aud
half pounds of salt, one-half pound
of sugar, one-half ounce saltpetre, one
half ounce potash. Use only pure
article of potash if this cannot be OBJ
tanned, omit it altogether. In this ra-
ito the pickle can be increased to any
quantity desired. Let these be boiled
together until all the dirt from the su-
gar rises to the top and is skinned off.
Then throw it into tub to cool, and
when cold, pour it over your beef or
pork. The meat must be well covered
with pickle, and should not be put
down for at least two days, after kill
ing, during which time it should be
slightly sprinkled with powdered salt
peter which removes all surface blood,
etc, leaving the meat fresh and clean.
Some omit boiling the pickle, and find
it to answer well, though the operation
of boiling purifies the pickle by throw
ing off the dirt always to be found in
salt and sugar. If this recipe is strict
ly followed, it will require single trial
to prove its superiority over the com
mon way, or most ways, of putting
down meat, and will not soon be aban-
doned for any other The meat is un-
surpassed for sweetness, delicacy aud
freshness of color.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-09-21
Put a Brand on Him.

"Women are Necessary eYil, - he said, bring Ing
down his fist hard on the counter to emphasize
the haartless remark. 1t was in the village store
at West Milton, Saratoga County, and the speaker
was the central figure of group OF bunchollc
philosophers lie was homely slovcnly and six
ty,r
"There's where differ from you altogether
said Mr. George 7. Graham OF the same pl ace
"Women are mostly what men make 'em. When
husbands are brdtes wives will tall into submis-
sion or make home hot for the men, and theyr,
unnatural in either character Love them, and
especially be good TO them when they're sick, and
you'll have no trouble. There's my wife, now
She's suffered good deal with dyspepsia, nervous
prosrati0n and other ailments that took the bloom
OF her cheeks and the spring out of her steps,
Well she saw an advertisement of PARLER's Tonic.
ana thought it would be just the thing for her
case. Gentlemen sent flve miles after a bottle
she TOOK IL. sent again after more so several
good IL has done her YOU would say that women
are The greatest OF Gods blessings, and PARKER's
TONIC Is the next"
This preparation, which has been known as PAR.
RERs GINGER IONIC, will hereafter be called sim.
ply PAKKERs TONIC. This change has been rem
dered necessary by substitutes imposed upon
their customers by unprincped dealers under the
name Of ginger and as ginger Is really an unim-
pofglnt uavoring ingredient we drop the mis-
leading word.
There Is no change, however, I'm the preparation
Itself, and all bottles remaining in the hands OF
dealers, wrapped under the name OF PARKER's
GINGER TONIC contain the genuine medicine II the
facsimile signature OF HIsC0X d CO., Is at the bot
tom under outside wrapper,
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-09-21
THE COLUMBIAN AND DEMOCRAT BI OOMsBURG CoLUMBIAT
MAKING Indian Tobacco.

Another cake of tobacco readily en-.
listed red man to so show me how to
prepare Indian tobacco We went to-
gether down TO the stream aud cut a
handful or two of red willow twigs,
while the boy who was with us picked
handful of sumac leaves, and another
of wire-grass. Thus provided, we &C.
turned TO the lodge, and the ashes of
cedar charcoal fire being famed into a
red heat with my hat, by.the.way,
which one of Indians unceremoniously
took off my head for the purpose), the
process commenced The outer rcd
bark of the willow twigs was first of
all peeled off and thrown aside---it is
generally supposed that the Indians
smoke this bark, but this is a mistake
and then the under yellow bark
was peeled upward in strips, but left
attached to the twig at one end AS
each twig was peeled it was stuck iuto
the ground at the edge of the fire (slop-
ing slightly over the embers), and the
strips of yellow underbark hanging
down gradually curled up with the
heat, crinkling themselves in kind of
rosette round the top of the twig.
when they had shrveled up rs tight
ly as they could do the twig was pull
ed up, and the crisp bark crumbled off
between the hands on to a clean spot
prepared for it con the hearth The
result was the "kinnnikinic' of travel
ers, pale yellow pile of stuff resem-
bling ''granulated" tobacco. Mean.
while the wire-grass had been roughly
plated into little mat about the size
of the palms of the two hands, and on
this layer of sumac leaves had been
spread out. As soon as the latter be-
gan to wrinkle up with the heat they
were turned over, and eventually, when
they had ceased forming into blisters,
and when, therefore, the moisture was
all dried out, they were taken off and
powdered between the hands, and the
result mixed with the "kinnikinnc
| was now informed that the tobacco
was ready SO, having cleaned my pipe
as thoroughly as possible, and fastened
my cigarette-holder over the mouth
piece, l filed Pukwana up to the muz-
zle with the Indian mixture, and smok
ed it. What was it like ? Well, it
was very like willow bark and sumac
leaves, but not bit like tobacco It
was neither narcotic or stimulant, but
rather pleasant, mild and aromatic to
the taste, giving out profuse smoke
of acrid smell.-PHu. RoBINsoN, in
Ha,per's Magazine for October.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-09-21

NAILS IN HoRsEs' FEET "A Mon
treal company has three hundred
horses in its employ In connection
with the establishment is department
known as the hospital, where are kept
all the horses that have been disabled
to such an extent as to need treatment
from a veterinary surgeon. Since
the lst of April the company have had
forty four serious cases in which the
animals have been laid up from one
week to two months each, besides
about fifty less serious ones that have
probably only required few nights
rest and the application of poultices
The company 5 sexperience is that many
of the worst cases arise from injuries
to the horses feet, caused by nails upon
which they tread in the street. The
presence of the nails is attributed to
the habit that prevails among many of
the janitors and others in mercantile
establishments, of burning the old
broken boxes which have been used in
the shipment of goods, etc, aud then
throwing the ashes, including the nails
which have hitherto held the boxes TO
gether in the streets.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-09-21
Bone Manure for Pasture.

An English Paper in commenting
upon the subject, remarks that the
Cheshire dairy farmer, by the free use
of bone manure laid on the grass lands.
makes his farm, which at one time, be-
fore the application of bone manure
fed only twenty head of cows, now
feeds forty. In Cheshire two-thrds
or more generally three fourths, of a
dairy farm ale kept in perfect pasture,
the remainder in tillage. Its dairy
farmers are commonly bound to lay
the whole of their manure not on the
arabic, but the grass land, purchasing
what may be necessary for the arabic,
The chief improvement besides drain
age consists in the application of bone
manure. In the milk of each COW, in
its urine in its manure, in the bones of
each calf reared and sold off, farm
parts with as much earthly phosphates
of lime as is contained in half a hun
dred weight of bone dust Hence the
advantage of returning this mineral
manure by boning grass lands. The
quantity of bones now commonly Civ
en- in Cheshire to an imperial acre OF
grass land is 1000 TO 1900 weight.
This dressing on pasture land will last
seven or eight years, but on moved
land about half of that period.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-09-21
A Reliable Man Wantad.

"a reliable man wanted to take
1 charge OF q farm IA reliable man
wanted in a counting house'--'A re-
liable man wanted 30 superntend a
mill. What demand there is for
reliable men ! Young women want
them for husbands, fathers and moth.
ers want them for Sons iu-law Peo.
pie in trouble inquire anxiousy for a
reliable lawyer whom they can consult
the sick want a rcliabla physician, the
churches want reliable man for q
minister, although they do not adver-
tise their wants in a newspaper
There seems to be no end TO the de.
mand for reliable men. Are reliable
men 80 scarce that so much point is
made of getting them
We apprehend that they are not as
plenty rs they should be. Reliable
architects and contractors and engi.
neers are not TO be found in every
place, or there would not be 80 many
railway and bridge accidents Cash.
iers and bank officers are not always re
liable or there would be no defalca-
tions. The same may be said of trus.
tees or insurance officers. In truth, re
liable men do not crowd one another
in any class or occupation
Young man, it ia for you to deter
mine whether you will be reliable
man or not. It depends upon your
self, Nothing is easier, only resolve
that Won will be reliable man and
stick to it through every temptation.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-09-21


'it has become so common to write tho
beginning of an article, in an elegant in
teresting manner,
Then run ii into some advertisement
that we avoid all such t U..
And simply call attention to the merits
of Hop Bltters IN as plain, honest terms as
possible,
40 induce people
''To give them one trial. which so proves
their value that they will never use any
thing else"
The REMEDY so fayorably noticed in all
the papers,
"Religious and secular, is
"Having a large sale. and is supplanting
all other medicines
There is no denying the virtues of the
Hop plant and tile prOprietors of Hop Bit
ters have shown great shrewdness
And ability
In compounding a medicine whose vir-
tues are so palpable TO every ones obscrva-
ton"
DlI She Rie.
"No
'Sho fingered and suffered along, pining
away all the time for years"
The doctors doing her no good !"
And at last was cured by this Hop Bit
49, Nitr tttlyNtH o'tl ~ iiuNil dDbNlt
''Indeed Indeed !"
''How thankful we should be t or that
medicine"
"A DauNter'S Misery.
Eleven years our daughter suffered on
II bed of misery,
"From a complication of kidney, liver,
rheumatic trouble and Nervous debility,
Under the care of the best physicians,
Who gave her disease various names,
but no relief,
And now she is restored to us in good
health by as simple remedy as Hop Bit.
ters, that we had stunned for years before
using it."-THE PARENTS.
Father is Getting wen.
"My daughters say
-, How much better father Is since he used Hop
Bitters."
.,ie IS getting well after his long suffering from
disease declared incllrable,"
and we are 80 glad that he used your Bitters."
LADY OF Utica, N Y.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-09-21

A Philadelphia man thinks he has
discovered areliable substitute for lager
beer He means to deoxidize Limhur-
ger cheese, extract the powerful essence,
and then bottle the latter to use as
smelling salts. Every time a man feels
ike taking glass of beer all that will
be necessary to cure the craving and
make him feel as if he were in a Ger.
man saloon is to take one sniff at the
essence bottle