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The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-01-03
1884.
HARPER'S BAZAAR.
ILLUSTRATED.

Harper's Bazaar is al the most brilliant and
useful Household Journal in existence 1t Is the ac-
knowledged arbiter of fashion in this country Its
fashion plates the newest and most stylish aud
its pattern sheet supplements and economic sugges-
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are Of the highest order. Its Stories poems and
says by the first American and European Authors
Its choice pictures would fill portfolios, and its
humorous cuts the most amusing TO be found in
any journal in America. host OF brilliant novelties
promised for 1884.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-01-03

THE Washington Capitol, in an article on
the condition Of General Mckenzie, says: at
is not true, as stated in some quarters, that
General Mckenzie has inherited his insanity.
There was no faint in his family. His uncle,
John Slidell, who was Judge in Louisiana
and afterwards United States Senator, did die
at an advanced aged of sofiening Of the brain,
but there was no insanity in his case. Nobody
ever accused John Slldell Of crazness. Cen
eral McKenzie's father, whose name was orig
inally Alexander Siidell, took the name Of
Mckenzie from relative who left him for
tune on condition that he would do so. He
was commander in the navy at the time Of
his death in IS47. The fortune was swept
away in the failure OF the United States bank
General McKenzie's mother, whose maiden
name was Robinson (she belonged to New
York family and was relative Of Hamilton
FISH, died only last year. She was woman
Of strong traits Of character, and left a small
fortune to her daughter Harriet, who since
her death has been keeping house for General
Mckenzie in San Antonio. His only brother
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VALUABLE PROPERTY
FOR SALE.

Hotel property in Boerne, Texas. situated on
the Public Square and the banlt of Cibolo
Creek. The house has 20 rooms 900 feet of
promenade gallery. two story, has ~ acres of
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also fine garden. Has two wellsa nd cstern
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Plenty OF stable room, and is the stage stand
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we are nuthprlzed TO announce J. N. Gala
Rher as candidate for reelection 70 the onice
Oh A.derman in the First ward, at the ensuing
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Helena weekly herald., 1884-06-12
Hard Reading.

From the National Review
/ find most English books of to-day hard
to read, by reason of their style. They
offend by the familiarity either of careless
ness or of excessive cOloring. They have
either no manner or too much manner.
They are either awkward or jaunty. They
lack measure, reserve, cOmpOsure; IN
word, they are deficient in self-restraint
and self-respect. If they are letters they
do not belong to the aristocracy of letters.
When Napoleon took Talleyr and by the ear
in presence of his entire court, the minister
not unnaturally remarked What pity
so great man should be so ill-bred" 1t
is common thing nowadays for writers
who have not even the excuse of greatness
to "take the public by the ear" and the
public unfortunately, are not SO fastidlous
as the bishop of Autun. When one writer
presents himself to it with free-and-easy
air. and, so to speak, in his dressing gown
and slippers, or when another writer bursts
upon it in spangles and gorgeous vesture,
unhappyily it does not tell the former to
20 home and dress himself, nor convey to
the latter that he is uncommonly like a
harlequin. The vulgar like vulgarity, and
above all things they love bright colors.
Not few writers in our time have passed
for men of letters by dint of being ungram-
matical and still greater number have
achieved reputation by the prOdigal en-
ployment of adjectives and expletives that
dazzle but scarcely illumine.
Helena weekly herald., 1884-06-12
The Dream OfLife.

"Do you think life is worth living ?" was
asked of Mignet, the late French historian,
five or six years ago, when he was more
than eighty. II was," he replied, mot
born to fortune, and have never been rich.
Yet, if had the option of taking fresh
start in life on the conditions under which
/ set out should not hesitate to accept the
offer. / feel like person who has wit
messed a great drama which is drawing to
its close. and who has done his best to
understand it. l have not had box
ticket of my own, but was able to enter
the best boxes, which, between the acts, is
an advantage. Human existence is full OF
interest to me still. 1t greatly depends
upon ourselves whether we 60 through it
in manner to be satisfied with it or other
wise. Life to me has been perpetual
fete. My greatest trouble has been in
seeing friends drop into the grave. But l
have learned to accept death en- philosophy.
1t is not the evil we are in the habit of
painting it,"
Helena weekly herald., 1884-06-12
Moral influence of the COcOanut.
IPopular Science Monthly. |

Popular Science Monthly
But the worst thing about the cocoanut
palm, the missionaries always say, is the
fatal fact that, when once fairly started, it
goes on bearing fruit uninterruptedly for
forty years. This is very immoral and
wrong of the ill-conditioned tree, because
it encourages the idyllic Polynesian to lie
under the palms all day long, cooling his
limbs in the sea occasionally, sporting with
Amaryllis in the shade, or with the tangles
of Neara's hair and waiting for the nuts to
drop down in due time, when he ought
according to European nOtions) to be kill
ing himself with hard work under blaz-
ing sky, raising cotton, sugar, indigo and
coffee for the immediate benefit OF the
white merchant and the ultimate advan-
tage of the British public. 1t doesn't en-
force habits of steady industry and per-
severance, the good missionaries say 1T
doesn't induce the native to feel that burn
ing desire for Manchester piece-goods and
the other blessings of civilization which
ought properly to accompany the propaga-
tion of the missionary in foreign parts.
You stick your nut in the sand you sit by
few years and watch it growing you
pick up the ripe fruits as they fall from
the tree, and you sell them at last for
illimitable red cloth to the Manchester
piece-goods merchant. Nothing could be
more simple or more satisfactory. And
yet it is difficult to see the precise moral
distinction between the owner of cocoa
nut field in the South Sea Islands and the
owner of coal mine or big estate in
commercial England. Each lounges de-
corously through life after his own fashion
only the one lounges in Russia-leather
chair at a club in Pail Mall, while the
other lounges in nice soft dust heap be-
side rolling surf in Tahiti or the Hawaiian
Archipelago.
Helena weekly herald., 1884-06-12
Do Remem Der.

Do remember that you are married to
man and not to a god be prepared for i'm
pertectiOns.
Do anticipate the discovery by your hus-
band that you are only a woman" :" if you
were not he would not care about you.
Do, once in while, let your husband
have the last word it will crafty him
and be no particular loss to yOu.
Do be reasonable; it is great deal to
ask under some circumstances, but do try
reasonable women are rare-be rare.
Do remember that servants are made of
the same material as you are, a little coarser
grained, perhaps, but the same in essentials.
Do try and forget yourself; as for your
husband. forget that you married him and
remember that he married you; he will
then probably do the reverse.
Do let him read the newspaper at break
fast table; it is unsociable, but then its
only trifie after all, and he likes it,
Do let him know more than you do once
in while; it keeps up his selt-respect, and
you will be none the worse for admitting
that you are not actually infallible.
Do remember that the interest of life is
not centered in your home circle; do
familiarize yourself in outside events.
Do read something in the papers besides
fashion notes and society columns; have
some knowledge of what is going on in for
eign countries.
Do be a companion to your husband if
he is wise man; and if he is not, try to
make him become your companion raise
his standard, do not let him lower yours.
Do respect your husbands prejudices
do respect his relations, especially his
mother; she is not the less his mother
because she is your mother-in-law she
loved him before you did.
Helena weekly herald., 1884-06-12
THE STORY OF LIFE

say, what is life? 'Tis to be born
A helpless babe, to greet the light
With sharp wall, as if the morn
Foretell a cloudy noon and night
To weep, to sleep, and weep again
With sunny smiles between-and then?
And then apace the infant grows
To be a laughing, sprightly boy,
Happy despite his little woes.
Were he but conscious of his JOY!
To be, in short, from two TO ten,
A merry, moody child-and then?
And then, in coat and trowers clad,
To learn to say the decalogue,
And break it. an unthinking lad,
With mirth and mischief all agog;
A truant oft by field and fen,
And capture butterfiies-and then?
And then, increased i'll strength and size,
To be anon a youth full grown,
A hero in his mothers eyes,
A young Apollo in his own;
To initiate the ways OF men
In fashionable sin-and then?
And then, at last, to be "A man,
To fall in love, to WOO and wed;
With seething brain to scheme and plan
TO gather gold or toll for BREAD
To sue for shame with tongue and pen
And gain or lose the prize!
And then in gray and wrinkled old
To mourn the speed of life's decline;
To praise the scene our youth beheld,
And dwell in the memory of lang syne /;
To dream awhile with darkened ken,
To drop in the grave-and then?
Helena weekly herald., 1884-06-12
Fat stock in Fairs.
| National Stockman.l


Why should not the fat-stock feature of
the county fair be a matter of almost equal
prominence with the fine stock exhibit?
If farmers are interested in seeing what
their stock should be bred from, it is a
matter no less to see the models Of what
they should be at maturity. Indeed, this
latter feature of an exhibition is practi-
cal demonstration of what is tOreshadOwed
in the former, and completes an illustration
of cause and effect which is most striking.
1t ought to be easily practicable to secure
good displays of fat stock in many coun-
ties or comparatively small districts IN the
leading breeding regiOns-collections which
will do honor to the exhibitors and to the
country, and which will also do much to
stimulate the less progressive farmers OF
the region round about, teaching them to
study animals carefully, and to compare
them with others. Object lesson teaching
is wonderfully effective. We remember
what we see better than what we hear
about. We are more influenced by exam
pie than by argument or exhOrtatiOn. The
more practical we can make our fairs the
better, and the incorporation of the fat
stock feature in local exhibitions is GER
tainly move in the direction of increasing
their interest and usefulness. This branch
of fair need not be large, nor need the
premiums, though they should be liberal
he extravagant; but it should be distinct
1t would generally not be practicable, and
it might as rule be unadvisable, to classi-
fy by breeds-but these are details which
each association could adjust to suit its own
notion. We hope to see something done in
a number of places in the coming season.
Helena weekly herald., 1884-06-12
Cheap Telegraphy.

In Great Britain telegram Of twenty
words, with the address, can be sent to any
part of the kingdom for one shilling
about twenty-five cents of our money. On
the continent where the governments have
control of the telegraph, the rates are much
cheaper. In Belgium and Switzerland, for
instance, there are half-franc kilograms
that is, something less than ten cents OF
our money-while in Paris the telegraph
system is supplemented by pneumatic
tubes, carrying post cards for half a franc.
The English government paid e1O,OOO,OOO
for what was worth commercially not
more than s7,OOO,OOO; yet so great has
been the increase of business due to Gov
eminent control, that the shilling rate is
soon to be reduced. The address will, as
heretofore, be free; twelve cents will be
charged for six words, eighteen cents for
twelve words, and twenty-five cents las
now for twenty words. Telegraphing IN
this country is under corporate control
and we are charged more than any other
country on the earth.
Helena weekly herald., 1884-06-12
Dog Teams in Idaho.
ISan Francisco Chronicle


During the day of my arrival saw a
few men sweating under the labor of pull
ing two sacks OF -four on tobOggan, and
several dog trains. These dogs are anus
ing if not admirable as means of trans
porting freight. They are made up of In
dian dogs, collies, mongrels, scrub yelpers,
Newfoundlands and mastiffS, and now and
then bulldog The driver goes behind
and urges them on with snowballs, now
and then finding it necessary to 90 forward
and make lazy cur work up to his collar
by giving him the blight of a packing rope.
Poor brute, Probably it is his only blight
of any kind for many hours. L asked one
dog team man what he fed to his dogs and
he said
"Tallow and Indian meal"
"Are they trained?"
No; we pick up all sorts of dogs and
work them in very soon by putting good
dog on the lead"
DO they never balk 2"
'No; dogs are the blankest fools in the
world, while they are the sagaciOusest
animals. Why, when them dogs near
about pull their toe-nails off comm up a
steep hill, they bark out their delight
when l go up and pat them on the head
and call them good dogs Horses or nc
other animals won't be fed on such tatfy
Why, these dogs will stand it to be cussed
for miles and then be tickled to death at a
pat ON the head"
The merchants say the dog teams spoil
goods like mischief. They are all the time
tipping them over and rolling them
around.
Helena weekly herald., 1884-06-12
IN THE BRIDLE.PATH.

They ride, they ride with slackened rein,
Facing the sinking sun,
And he is telling her over again
The tale that never Is dore-
The tale that's as old as the bending blue,
And as old as the singing sea
And il never has happened that one of two
Maryeled what it could be.
II never has happened that one of two,
Blithe boys glad girls. together
Who have felt that love was enough to do
In the sweet and the sunny weather
But have found right words for the songs OF BIRDS
In the greenery overhead;
For to build the nest in the spring Is best,
And It's best in the spring to wed.
oh. he rides at her bride rein,
And he bends him to her ear,
With the musical tones of the old refrain
That ladies delight to hear.
And his words were pleasant as rain that pl'sefs'
Low on the laughing leaves,
And kind as the CHEEKY sun that natters
The GOLD of harvest sheaves.
And his hand is on her bride rem,
And his look it is on her cheek
He needs not to tell her over again
of the guerdon that he would seek
But oh the telling, it's like the smelling
OF the mignonette and the rose
For no matter how long you sing love song
You can never come to its close.
Helena weekly herald., 1884-06-12
ONCE is ENOUGH.
How People Feel About Repeating
Their Lives.
Detroit Free Press.

Detroit Free Press.
Though most people do their best to pro-
long life, few are in favor of repeating it.
Even with the wisdom acquired in life
to arm one for the battle, no one longs to
90 back and try it all over again. Indeed,
those who are honest admit that they could
not do it; that knowing what the ordeal is,
they would have no courage to begin it.
Each seems to feel as he nears the end OF
the intricate and tiresome journey that he
has been miraculOusly preserved; that an
other time he might not be so fortunate
The greater his accumulation of wisdom
the more certain he is of this. Nothing is
so destructive to self-conceit as living.
1t is not the disabled, the defeated, and
the bat1ied alone who rejoice that the b0si-
ness of life is one that can have no repeti-
tiOn. The successful, the hOnOred, the en-
vied-those who are considered victOrs-
entertain the same feeling. They rejoice
that it is not to be done over again.
No one wants to have his childhood over
again, although that stage of existence
may have been comparatively happy
one. Maturity has taught him that it was
inferior; and sad as his wisdom is, he
would not exchange it for the crude bliss
of ignorance.
The middle-a aged man sighs perhaps that
his youth has been spent unprOftably, bu,
he does not want it back again.
The patriarch boasts of his days of strong
young manhood, but he would not g(
back and live them over if he could No
he does not wish to live it over again, nO
even its happiest hours. They are all safe
in memory, he speaks of them with /;
smile and sigh, but he does not ask fol
them again. Yet they were full Of honor
crowded with love and crowned with sue
cess.
And the aged woman whose girlhoot
was blaze of belledom, and whose early
womanhOOd was rich in happiness doe
she sigh to repeat her vanished years /
asked she would say: Zone is enough"
And SO everywhere the same refusal t.
90 through it all would be heard. "Onc'
is enough" Who. after reading poets
could return to the primer and find it en-
durable? Who either wishes or needs tt
learn the same lesson twice? Once i
enough.
Helena weekly herald., 1884-06-12
Salutary Use of Water.
IMinnehahan.1

AS regards the free use of water under
some conditions of the digestive organs, it
msy be said that no agent can prove safer
OF more salutory. Those who have morbid
conditions of the stomach or bowels which
do not SO far impart the general vigor as
to prevent attention being given to the
ordinary duties of life, can often use large
draughts of water, especially in the morn
ing, with manifest advantage. Obstinate
constipation is thereby removed, the nor
NAL peristaltic motions of the bowels are
restored, and the secretiOns may be vastly
improved We notice the salutary in
fluence of water drinking upon many of
those who resort to the so-called mineral
springs which abound in the country. 1t
is not necessary that these springs should
hold abnormal quantities of salts of any
kind to effect cures it is only necessary
that the water should be pure.
Helena weekly herald., 1884-06-12

A New York correspondent writing
from the city tells this:
Mr. August Belmont was sitting IN one
of the rooms in the Mills Building on
Thursday while the crowd was gazing ann
lessly at the Metropolitan Bank, waiting
for the doors to open, and remarked, in his
quiet, conservative, or rather phlegmatlc
manner: These things have to come
every now and then, and it is good thing
that they do; people have been trying too
long to digest the enormous variety and
amount of securities which they have had
crammed down their throats, and the re-
suit has been an accumulation of bile
which the stomach would not stand. They
will throw it off and feel all the better for
it; then they will be ready to take hold
with much better appetite
Helena weekly herald., 1884-06-12
On the Bench.

A pretentious woman, the wife OF
Judge, was in the habit of constantly re-
ferring to the fact that her husband was
"on the bench" At party one evening
the belle of the occasion, who was also
great beress, ON hearing the lady make the
usual reference, said:
THAT reminds me of my grandfather's
career"
Indeed! | never heard that any OF
your family had been on the bench )" ex-
claimed the lady.
"Oh, yes" nonchalantly answered the
belle. at was shoemaker's bench"
Helena weekly herald., 1884-06-12
WHAT is THE MORAL

Once in olden times, when winter
Melted at the breath of spring,
Flowers began to bud and blossom,
Sweet the birds to pipe and sing.
Fair and fairer grew each fioweret,
Clear and jubilant the song,
Til too soon, a wild commotion
Rose among the little throng.
Each would rank above the other
Rullfnch, Linnet, Robin red.
Note like mine is none" says Blackbird
Whistling blithely over head.
..Is there song as mine so soothing "
CoftIv COOS sweet Turtle Dove.
None can trill as ]" shouts Skylark,
Carolling the clouds above.
..yybst a foolish, sad commotion?"
Nightingale makes sadly moan;
"Tll away, and in the forest
Sing bv night, and all alone"
.sthe birds were, so the flowers.
Iily vowed that she was fair
Far before all others; Pansy
claimed the prize with pensive air.
Daisv Daffodil and Primrose,
Uvacinth and Harebell blue,
Peerless beauty claimed, when, shyly
Finishing Rose came forth to view.
"Whv should one alone be fairest?
I've no wish at all to be
Loylier thought than my sweet sisters;
Fragrance is enough for me-"
Spring, who heard the silly quarrel,
Looked with roguish smile, and said:
"She is fairest who is meekest;
That is you, then, Rosebud red.
When your merry notes, my song-birds,
Sweetly sound DER hill and dale,
None will touch the heart as yours do,
Tender, lovely Nightingale"
Helena weekly herald., 1884-06-12
GOD BLESS YOU.

God bless you-in three words prayer,
Exalted, fond, devout, sincere
With health and strength,
And days of length,
With joys of youth,
With lips of truth,
With heart that nobly beats to do
As you'd have others do to you.
God bless you,
God bless you on the land or sea,
Where er n wanderer you may be,
With days of peace,
With wealth's increase,
With life that shames
Degenerate aims;
With heart kept holy in his sight
With hand that's brave to do the right
God bless youi
God bless you as your life descends
Times hillside steep. with faithful friends;
With lot well cast,
With faith steadfast
With will to bless
Those favored less
with strength to reach yon realm of bliss
Better aud brighter by far than this
God bless you!