San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-04-05
EDITORIAL BREyITiEs.

paper, when tremendous hurric"n'
swept over the island and acted as
meteorological antiseptic, for on the
following day not single additional
case of cholera broke out, and none have
been reported since.
A CRUSADE against the cigarette is
likely to be begun among the children
III the public schools in Philadelphia.
One of the principals, Mr.. William
Stephens, has called the attention OF
the Board of Education to the subject,
in which he says that, of the $4,000 pu-
pills in the public schools of the city, a
large proportion use tobacco in various
forms; and that the habit has increased
to an alarming extent since the cigarette
was instituted. Mr.. Stephens has pre-
pared and had printed short state
ment of the physical and mental dis
orders produced in children by to-
bacco. and has pasted it on the inside
of the cover of every textbook used in
his school. The Association of Male
Principals has approved his letter to
the Board, and an energetic campaign
on that lire is the expected result.
MR.. HERBERT AVER, the large iron
merchant and manufacturer who failed
in Chicago, had very romantic history.
His father, John V. Aver, began life as
q school-teacher in New Orleans, where
he clandestinely married rich society
belle When her parents learned of it
they concealed her, making Aver be-
ieve that she was dead. He went to
Chicago, established his immense bust
ness, and married another woman, who
bore him several children. After But
Ter captured New Orleans, Aver met
and recognized his first wife, then Mrs.
Copeland, and the mother of several
children. She informed him that the
Oldest, Herbert, then Confederate
prisoner, was his own. He was subse-
quently exchanged, and went North
with his father, who gave him place
in his office, and on his death left him
in charge of his whole business; of
which he afterward succeeded in obtain
ing full ownership and control.
Mr.. OKEBURY, of New York, shut
himself up in his room, turned on the
gas and tried to die of asphyxia, but
was discovered while yet alive, but in
an unconscious condition. After ordi-
nary remedies had failed to restore him,
the physicians tried TRANSMISSION of
blood, young, jet-black negro volun-
teering for the purpose. About quart
of blood was drawn from the arm of
the negro and transferred to the veins
of Okebury with such success that the
would-be suicide soon regained his
senses. The singular part of the affair
occurred when the mans wife and child
were sent for. He refused to speak to
either, saying that he did not know
them, but when the colored man whose
blood had brought him back to life
CHANGED to enter the room Okebury sa-
luted him as dear brother" adding,
this man is my brother, and / do not
know this woman" The question
which now agitates Mrs. Okebury is
whether her husband is crazy or
whether that quart of African blood
has transformed him into man of an
other race.
AMERICAN advertisers have something
vet to learn of their contemporaries in
France, where everything is done with
a chic and boldness hardly approach
able elsewhere. A remarkable scene
was recently described in a Paris pa
per where ahusband, very fond of the
chase, was in the habit of leaving his
wife to solace herself with her lover.
Being obliged suddenly to escape the
lover lowered himself from a window
by means of a rope made from the
linen sheets, napkins and other house
hold articles of the kind, just as the
husband entered. She, nevertheless,
was in terrible anguish, fearful lest the
rope Of linen should have broken and
that her lover might be lying on the
ground a mangled corpse. But no, he
had escaped unharmed; the handker-
chief and the napkins did not give way.
1t was a miracle; but, like all miracles,