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San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-05-31
Letters to MilliOnaireS.

The name OF Mr.. w. w. Cofcofan
is so widely known by his deeds OF
philanthropy, and is so intimately
identified with every movement that
is calculated to alleviate suffering and
improve the conditions of the unfor
tunate, that the appeals which come
to him for all sorts of charitable pur
poses are almost overwhelming.
For instance, lady entirely I'm
known to Mr.. Corcoran writes a long
letter, in which she states that her
husband is worth $4,000, and is do
ing a large and prosperous business.
The writer, however, desires to be
independent of her husband, and asks
Mr.. Corcoran to send her money
enough so she may live on the inter
est. This letter is we'll written, and
closes with an urgent invitation to
Mr.. Corcoran to come and make her
visit at her home in New England,
to see her garden and enjoy the fruits
and flowers. The writer was evident
ly we'll to do in this world, and refined
and educated, yet, amid her prosperity,
she had one ambition which was not
satisfied, and that was to have bank
account of her own. In this particu-
lar she is not, perhaps, an isolated
example, but the course of reasoning
which led her to think that an entire
stranger would help her is entirely
unique.
81 want barrel of mess pork; and
l want you to send it to me-" was the
laconic but peremptory letter received
from man in one of the southern
states. Mr.. Corcoran, amused by this
strange demand, sent the pork as re-
quested: What was the result? He
was rewarded by receiving request
for another barrel,
A young lady asked Mr.. Corcoran
to send her pink silk dress, trimmed
to order to enable her to attend a ball
in Virginia. This letter is much in
the style of an order to dressmaker,
ana there is nothing to indicate that
the writer had any doubt that the
request would be granted.
Another lady correspondent, living
in EEsope, sends sixteen pages of
commercial post, closely written, CIV
ing history of her family, which
seems 80 have had very ancient orr
gin, and requesting that $4,000 be
sent to her address, to enable the
writer to take trip to the southern
part OF France for the benefit of her
health.
1t is said that Jay Gould receives
scores of begging letters every day. A
newspaper writer states that a few
days ago one came flom Switzerland,
in which an impecunious dressmaker,
wanted him to aid in establishing her
in Pans, where she might cut into
Worth and break his corner" in the
dressmaking art. An ambitious SUIT
gait student recently asked for a small
sum TO enable him to open
studio and compete with his more
fortunate rivals, and London soldier
in the Queens Own wanted money to
enable him to reach this country and
buy a farm. Many of the cases are
investigated, and if the writer's are
learned 20 be worthy of charity they
ale not left empty handed. 1t is said
that Mr.. Gould gives away many
thousands Of dollars a year for chaity's
sake. not OstentatiOusly but in a quiet
way. where 1t viii do the most good.
Frequently he receives letters from
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-05-31

ALL accounts represent Mexico as
being in the enjoyment Of a degree OIL
national prosperity heretofore un'
known in her history. Gen. Strathe1'
consul general to that republic re,
ports to the state department al
Washington, a general impetus d, III
that country, the result of the rapidly
growing railway system. lie says.
Mining which has hitherto been TIT
chief productive industry of the couL'
try, is now increasing to an eXlraoi
binary degree, both in extent an. anu
variety, while the old esta6llSne11
works, generally of silver and gOluii
are introducing new methods ana
machinery, and actively develoPIITTs
their capacities for production. we
hear of the discovery of new yeL nJ
reopening of old and abanGoneJ
mines, the discovery of iron, coal anu
petroleum, and all elements OF mater S,.
al wealth with a rapidity that OAiii''
statistics. Clipped.
WHEN will the editor be IN? s-- .-
the office boy at "a Colorado neWsP@IR, T.
office. We'll, 1 don't know =
sure; not till they kind Of quiet aO ~
and quit watching to lynch MN ~
that editorial published yesterday
AGE IS venerable in man- io,-l !.
uould he in woman. if she ever DeeA--'-
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-05-31
ADDRESS TO THE TEXAS PRESS
ASSOCIATION.

ny MSS. A. W. X. PAINTER
oh. friends, assemble led here to-day,
With one accord NO came 10 pay
Tribute 20 Freedoms shrine
Her vast dominion spreading DER
our continent from shore TO shore
Shall echo yours and mine
From humble OF emerald hue
Unrising far 20 depths OF blue
Ina prairie zephyr sighs-
From wild Atlaniics rushing roar,
From calm Paciiic's peaceful shore
The gladstone song shall rise
From whore tho great lakes guard our line
From forests OF the sobbing pine
And from tho western plain,
Aud We. within our southern home,
Where still the lingering muses. roam
Will chant the same refrain.
Ours If a land unbound by creeds,
Here each mans honors are his deeds;
Our nations peers are men
whose talents give them sovereignty,
Our nations aristocracy,
Are yc, Knights of the Pen.
lint though with cheer YOU gather,
Ills meet that you shonld give
A sigh for those departed,
While toasting those who live.
Some of our best and brightest
Have passed form us for aye,
Have mingled with the many
Adown deaths dismal way.
We'll pay the grateful tribute
10 those we'd fain recall
To Him who sought life's mystery,
To those who had love fer all;
And dearest, best of poets,
T..l.. hoo NJ tbnrn
A chord of tender sadness
Which to his name replies.
r,ough soon the tears will vanish,
Each vacant place be filled.
Our fond heart will not Danish
The truths that each instilied.
Dear southland long in morning
For her beloved lost cause
viii gladly hail the dawning,
And in her sorrow pause.
Wen take from her the willow
And crown with roses gay,
10 literature forever
Well wed our lands to-day.
In this, her star of glory,
We've men who'll make her name
lilstrous in future story
First on the page Of fame,
Here in these halls assembled,
Our brightest and our best
It's yours. tho Lone Star honor
And pride of the southwest.
But knights, who bear our banner
Beware your fearful power
'Tis noble when used rightly,
Yc hold glorious dover.
Ambition Yields sccptre,
IT'S power makes men mad.
Till ignorance is banished
Your pride should make you sad
Guard it jealous lest you find
ggrandizement toe, great,
Lest You should hold the gold god
Above the veal of state;
Self reverence, self knowledge, here
The greatest must begin
Yet seek the God-like attribute
lis sclf-cOntrol must win.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-05-31
The Biggest Nugget.

How gold came to be distributed
over the surface of the earth is one
of the unsolved problems of modern
science. It has been found on the
surface in nearly all portions Of the
globe. In the time of Julius Caesar,
the savage inhabitants of the British
Isles wore golden ornaments made OF
the precious metal found near the
river beds. Columbus, it will be re-
membered, discovered great quantities
of gold on the West Indian islands
from sources which have long been
exhausted. The day of placer dig
gings on the Pacific Coast is also
over. Probably the only gold fields
left to-day are in Africa. Undoubt-
eddy this surface gold was washed out
of the rocks from the mountainous
country in which the streams took
their rise. A record has been kept OF
the large masses of gold called mug
gets found in the various streams i'll
California. In 1860 nugget weigh
ing 1886 ounces was taken from the
Monumental Mine, Sierra Buttes, the
value of which was estimated at
from $21, 900 to 100000. Another
great nugget, worth $4,000, was
taken from the Rainbow Mine,
Chipp's Flats, in 1881; in 1853, a
nugget was found III French Ravine,
weighing 532 ounces, worth $4,000.
In the same ravine, in 1851, nugget
of 436 ounces was found, worth
$4,000. Many other nuggets have
been found from time to time worth
from one to five thousand dollars.
Undoubtedly these great blocks of
gpld were washed down from forma
lions similar to the famous Comstoek,
which, it may be interesting to note,
has now yielded over $500, 100000 IN
geld and silver. There are, no
doubt, in the vast mineral regions Of
tn, West hundreds of ComstOchs yet
to be discovered. While there is little
more surface gold, the sources from
which it came in the Sierra and Rocky
Mountains are as yet untouched.
The United States has the greatest
bullion mines in the world so far as
known: indeed. We produce to-day
more than half the precious metal
found on the face OF the globe
D.4norest's Monthly for juno.
-Wov,x's richtl- exclaimed a PHI
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-05-31

"WouAx's riChti" exclaimed Phil
adelphia man, when the subject was
preached. "What more nights DO
they want2 Ny wife bosses me; Our
daughters boss rs both, and the ser
want girl bosses the whole family It's
time the men were allowed some
nights.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-14
SOME INDIANAPOLIS BOOKS.

''Rocky Fork" the latest book of our towns
woman, Mrs. Catherwood, has had quite
good circulation IN the East. Those who
love the country and woods life like the
book. To read it is to live with "Mother
Out Doors" to have the great woods cooling
ones face, and to dip in woods streams that
run over powders or spread into still pools
under the leaning trees To read Rocky
Fork" is to eat mountain tea" to feel the
evening GOODNESS and the long shadows steal
ing over the earth, and TO see the primrose
tints of sunset and the cows coming home at
night. Moreover it is to be caught in the
woods in storm, with streaming garments
and shoes that squirt water at every step,
enjoying the delicious bath of warm summer
rain; and not with fear but with exhilara-
ton, seeing the frightful gares of the light
ming and hearing the deafening roars of
thunder, and the long, sublime, whistling
crash, the wonderful cry of falling trees, and
smelling the rank, fresh smell of wet earth
and scents of peppermint.
To read Rocky Fork is to live in sweet,
quiet old house where there is spare room
having paster-of-paris cat and parrot
on opposite ends of the mantelpiece, and
where there is bedroom having white
valanced four-poster, a crib and trundle-
bed under a window scraped by a cherry
tree. 1t is to go to sleep hearing frogs sing
ing their loudest as if to drown the far
reaching cry of insects which make the sum-
mer night ring. 1t is to be little girl put
ting on pair of fine, open-worked stockings
here And then it is to 20 to school in an
old school-house whose oblong windows look
as if they had lain down to dream. 1t is to
play with children having the sincere, re-
Elective bovine eyes which always distinguish
country children-eyes that seem as full of
woodsy sweets as the volets. 1t is to be
drenched with the dew of health while run
ming in the woods, to have dozens of rushes
through the air in grapevine swing, with a
swift-footed girl running under you to
send you up among the branches.
1t is to play with elder flower
dolls those woods-babies warm from the sun
and freshly green and more alive than the
most complete dolls, with the many-ringed
floor of stump for a playhouse, and with
an upstairs and a downstairs and acorn
delft on little shelves of bark, propped with
pebbles, and fleece of woods moss finer
than the most gorgeous Persian rug, on the
playhouse hoor-all in the cool wood
shadows.
Through the deliciousness of Rocky Fork
runs the thread of delightful tale that con-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-14

upper ether. They would scorn the elderly
PERSONS suggestions without doubt, but he
could disclose fact learned by experience,
that the ordinary man can serve his fellows
by going his way quietly in the common
walks of life better than by standing on a
pinnacle and declaring that hope is dead and
existence itself a calamity, The horizon
may be narrow, but is as wide as his capacity.
1t would do no good to mention these things,
and the elderly man goes on his way know
ing that the melancholy student will some
day discover, in the intervals of measuring
molasses or figuring in the hog market, that
the true reformer and philosopher is he who
works quietly on the material that lies at his
hand, rather than the one who attempts to
revolutionize whole world. In the meantime
the lover of the student would be glad if he
could infuse into his oratorical efforts some
of the joyousness and brightness and merri-
ment which properly belongs to the boy, and
without which he is an abnormal creature
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-14
a MEDICAL VIEW.

The medical aspect of the alcohol question
as related to public health was lately dis
cussed by the British Medical Association,
As to the influence of alcohol on health
medical men are divided A minority main
tain that its moderate use favors physical
well-being and good morals; the majority of
educated physicians hold all indulgence in
alcohol during health to be injurious. Alco-
ium tremens and acute alcoholic poisoning
indirectly by producing diminished resisting
power to disease. Statistics pertaining to
drunkenness are generally unreliable, and
are warped to suit the ends of temperance
lecturers, total abstainers and political par
ties. The most reliable statistics are those of
army medical officers whore the effects of
alcohol in known quantities on large bodies
of men undergoing severe physical exertion
in varying climates and seasons are accu-
rately observed and honestly recorded. The
government return of the sickness and NOR
tality of European troops in the Madras
army for 1S49 showed Ill per cent.
of deaths among the total abstain
ers, 23.1 per cent, among the tenn
perate, and AS per cent. among the
Incorporate. DR.. N. S. Kerr, who read the
leading paper before the British Association,
concluded that the annual mortality due to
alcohol in the United Kingdom exceeded
10000, while twice that number died from
disease, accident, violence or starvation
caused by the intemperance of others. DR..
Noble, of Manchester, attributes one-third of
the disease in England to intemperance.
DIR. Drysdale, of London, stated his convic-
ton that alcohol is one of the commonest
causes of death, ranking next to consump-
ton. DR.. Carter, of Liverpool, observed that
the fact that total abstainers lived longer
than the so-called moderate drinkers was as
well established as any undemonstrable
fact could be. Seatliff, of London, remarked
that the statistics of life Insurance. as proof
of the beneficial result of abstinence, agreed
with his own experience. He thought medi-
cal men should have the courage of their
convictions, and advise their patrons of the
danger of alcohol in health. The weight of
opinion of this learned body of medical men
was that, while alcohol has immense value
as a medicinal agent its habitual use as an
ordinary article of diet is unnecessary for
healthy persons
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-14

chanic arts" This act and the schools aris-
ing from it, as we'll as the half hundred
schools for the same purpose supported by
private funds, are due to the enormous
strides which science has made in the
United States. The Journal has for years
been advocating the coeducation of hand
and mind in the higher grades
of city schools. 1t is glad
to know that some of the leading public
school men in the State have carefully felt
of the public pulse, and are falling into line.
Superintendent Tarbell, Of the city schools,
in his recent paper before the Indianapolis
Literary Club, took the ground that manual
education can now be brought as a mental
factor into certain grades OF the public
schools. Our city needs practical instruction
in art and industry for its working classes.
So does Evansville; so does Terre Haute and
Fort Wayne If this element comes in, it
must be ntelligently directed, countenanced
by school boards and supervisors, otherwise it
will share the fate of the so-called science
and geometry of Dress" which was so mis-
managed as to put the manual element
back a half-score of years in the
public schools of indianapolis, This move
ment is in the interest of the workingmen;
it will aid in nprooting the idea of caste in
labor The artisans of our cities have the
right to insist that instruction in industrial
art be put on the same plane as physics and
chemistry in the high schools, and made OPP
tionG for those who prefer it to the orna-
mental studies which so largely fill high
school courses of study. 1t is to be hoped
that some of the men of wealth, for whom
the cities have done so much, will come to
the front with their money and influence
and build for themselves lasting monu-
ment and for the State capital well-equip-
ped manual-labor school.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-14

tracts the hearts of its young readers with
fear or expands them with pleasure tale
filled with the intense incidents of a flood in
the woods; tale in crisp, Saxon-English,
lighted up with many fine Western idiom,
and gllmmering with funny little streak of
humor, particularly bright in the dialogues.
1t is hard to leave the folks in this
book. You want to stay always with
the affectionate little sister, who con-
sents to become the grandparent of her
doll in order that a younger sister may
may be its mother. You want to go on play
ing with the little girls whose sunbonnets
turn their mouths toward you like tunnels.
You want to spend more evenings with
Roberts Liza" and have more suppers of
cookies crumbled in cream, and hear more
songs and stories from the darling little sis
ter who calls her doll Jawgeanno.
The Dogberry Bunch, by Mrs. Catherwood,
is story with regular central plot and
fifteen outfiowing incidents, viz: the loss of
the baby and the adventures of the other
children while seeking him. 1t is about a
family of good children who have no pa
rents, but live together, earning their own
living and doing great many things which
children blessed with parents are not al
lowed to do They paint and alter their hab-
itation as they like; they have one play
house up in tree, they have another in a
caboose. Imagine the incidents that flow
therefrom, and the story unrols series of
scenes of village life, the reading of which
might fill childs heart with
joy and resolution tor the rest of
his life. Take this as a specimen
of the authors humor 1t describes playing
on an organ. "The Professor was one of
those performers who are said to play all
over. Now his shoulders galloped with his
hands down the octaves, and his feet in a
mad stampede Numbered among the pedals.
Then he raised himself as if to leap headlong
among the pipes and beat his brains out;
but, making quick dash to the left, he
pulled out a handful of stops, jumped vio-
lently to the right as if he had made up his
mind to surprise the blower at his tricks and
thrash him, and only changed it in time to
grab another handful of stops and climb the
banks of keys again. He was improvising."
''Craque o Doom" is rather queer, rather
weird, and is a book written in a fascinat-
ingly-interesting style, and with a glowing
sense of power. Mrs. Catherwood has GER
tain gusto in writing about wax candles
beaming fires vast expanse of hall melting
away into velvet-covered stairs and other
luxuries, and when she places such things
against the background of muddy roads and
the clouds and rain of Western winter
they are very vivid The talk and the doings
of poor Ohio folks are wonderfully portrayed
in "Craque O. DOOM" MARY DEAN.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-14
BREAKFAST CHAT.

MR.. W. W. CoRcoRAN, of Washington, does not
rapidly improve.
Ex-MINIsTER soHENcK, who now lives in Wash
ington, Ia in i'll health.
MAHOGANY, ebony, rosewood and cedar are
used as fuel by the poorest people In some parts
of Mexico.
1T is said that Mr.. Arthur is the first Presi-
sident of the United States to visit Florida dur
ing his term of office.
Iii told of General W. T. Sherman that when
he was alientenant of artillery stationed in Up
per California, he once undertook to brew big
bowl of punch. He used 160 gallons Of Cali
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-14

PROOFS are accommodating that the Chinese
barbarians cannot be civilized At the annual
business settlement in China bankrupts are able
to pay their creditors at least 70 per cent. An
offer to settle for less is regarded as swindlng
This fact of itself shows an untutored mind, but
further proof that the Chinese are inferior comes
from Philadelphia A missionary of that city
endeavored to organize baseball club among
the Celestial laundrymeD, but at the first re-
hearsaI the "team" was thoroughly demorazed.
jumped over the fence nearest the city, and has
not since been heard from.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-14

THE dispatches from Georgia show that in the
State convention, which wrangled in Atlanta for
full two days over the choice of successor to the
late Governor Stephens, the reactionary element
finally triumphed in the person of Henry d.
Mcdaniel, who was adopted as a compromise
candidate upon the recommendation of a COM
mttee of conference. Colonel Mcdaniel, was
born in Walton county, Georgia, forty-six years
ago. He graduated at Mercer University, Geor-
gia; began the practice of law at Monroe in 1857;
was a delegate to the Secession convention and
went with tho Eleventh Georgia to to the army
as First Lieutenant and became Major in 1868.
He was so severely wounded at Gettysburg that
his life was despaired of, and until the end of the
war he laid in hospital He was member of
the Constitutional convention of 1868. When
his disabilities were removed in 1872 he was
elected member of the lower house, where he
served two years and was then promoted TO the
Senate and remained there eight years, decin-
ing re collection. Though he suffers he is one OF
the most successful lawyers In the State, but he
belongs to the ultra Bourbon Democratic ring
The triumph of this faction in such State as
Georgia, the Empire State of the South, may
have no little influence upon political events in
the next year or two.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-14

THE circumstances surrounding the case OF
young Mr.. Asher, of the State University, who
the first prize at the oratorical contest, are
not such to contribute to the efficient disoiD-
line of that institution. Gush and fusttan may
easily spoil not only young man of fair prom
Use, but the value of the college as well. Fourth
Of July spread glesm is not worth that price.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-14

THERE is a movement among Boston educators
to introduce morality department into the
public schools. Emerson's "Conduct OF Life" is
suggested q textbook for beginners. From
Behavior" the child can go on to "Culture,"
then to Power" then Beauty" which will be
a winters work. This, says the Advertiser, SOL
EMMY, ought to strengthen the power of
thought, increase the extent OF use-whatever
that may mean-the grace of manners, and
''lighten the faces with the true beauty OF ex-
preston" Just so. If Western barbarian can
be allowed a suggestion on so exalted theme,
it might be well, in view of Tewksbury and
other developments of Massachusetts culture,
to give preliminary course of the ten COM
mandments and the golden rule.