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The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-04-19

EX-SENATOR MCDONALD, of Indiana,
has formally announced himself as be-
ing in the Democratic Presidential race.
mot for Joseph" will be the cry If the
leaders Of that party insist upon their
expressed intention of running Tilden.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-04-19

Ladies approve Of your smoking
Little Joker"
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-04-19
SPRING

Is the season In which bad or poisoned blood Is
most apt 70 show itself. Nature, ut this juno
ture, needs something TO assist IL In throwing
on the impurities which have collected by the
sluggish circulation of blood during the cold
winter months. Swifts Specific Ia natures
great helper, and 1t is a purely vegetable alter
native and tonic.
Rev. l.. d. Paine. Macon, Ca. writes 1--WE
have been using Swift's Specific at the orphans
home as q remedy for blood complaints and as
a general health tonic, and have had remark
able results from its use on the children and
employees OF the institution: II Is such an ex-
cellent tonic and Keeps the blood 30 pure that
tho system is ess liable to disease. II has cured
some OF our children of scrofula."
=. W.. IL. Gilbert, druggist, Albany, Ca, writes I:
|" We are selling large quantities OF Swift's
SPECIFIC for spring alternative and general
health tonic, and with the best results 1t Is
now largely used as a preventive and cure for
Malaria. Therea are many remarkable evidences
Our Treatise on Hood and Skin Diseases
mailed free TO applicants. go
THE SWIFT sPECIFIC Co.,
Drawer q Atlanta, Ga.
New York once, 100 West Twenty Third st.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-04-19

Entered al postofice ut San Antoine, Iesas
second-class matter.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-04-19

IT Is cold day when Galveston does
not want an appropriation or favor; the
latest is a request to Congressman Ochil-
tree TO use his influence in securing
muskets for the use Of the Washington
Guards of that city, during the Houston
Interstate drill. Galveston seems to
have put her pride in her pocket.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-04-19


The readers Of the LIGHT no doubt
have noticed the crowded condition of
its columns Of late, to the exclusion of
considerable reading matter. This, of
course is gratifying to its proprietors,
who gratefully appreciate this Uberality
on the part Of its advertisers. But the
LIGHT does not propose to neglect its
thousand Of readers, and to that end will
enlarge the paper to seven columns to a
page, and propcrtionately longer, and
the price will remain the same, only 10
cents week. The LIGHT is prosperous,
and It also Is enterprising, and by the
first Of May, II the new material already
ordered arrives, the enlargement win be
made, and our readers viii be supplied
with all the news possible, with also a
generous increase Of ellaneous read
Ing matter. -
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-04-19

ONE Of the most admirable things in
the way Of comparative criticism we
have ever seen is Ivan Tourgeniefi7s
Hamlet and Don Quixote," translated
for the May number of The Modern Age.
1t belongs to class Of writing not gen.
orally met with in this country, and
contains many striking thoughts.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-04-19

The House Committee on Foreign AZ
fairs have put q chip on their shoulders,
so to speak, and suggest that something
more vigorous than diplomatic CORE
spondence be inaugurated to insure JUS
fice for American citizens at the hands
OF foreign powers. This great American
country has been stepped on by almost
every other power, and it is high time
some one was kicking.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-03-12
Dressing Room Songs,

'DOes Nine. Nilsson commence singing
as soon as she enters theatre before a re-
hearsaI?" repeated Herr Kaschmsnn when
the reporter put question to that effect
Way, certainly. We all sing before the
performance il the dressing rooms. You
know one cannot risk to open the mouth
after long silence only after appearing on
the stage. One is very likely to hit false
note, and if that should happen at the
very opening Of an important part it
would not only confuse the SINGER himself,
but the others also. We always sing
few bars while waiting in the wings for
the sign of q prompter. There, of course,
we have to do 1t soto voce; but in the
dressing rooms we sing righ; out to have
the voice clear and ringing when our time
CONES. We don't do that because we like
it, but as matter of necessity"
'Do singers use any corrective3 during
a performance inquired the reporter.
II have hesrd<hat Wachtei eats dried
prunes and Nine. Luccs muncAes igs,"
said the singer, ''but L can't say whether
that is true. The great Niemann, of the
Berlin opera, always has half-and-half-
that Is, porter and champagne-rcadyf for
him when he Goes heavy parts in Wagner's
compositions. Coffee, either with or
without the yolk of an egg. aud hot water
is much liked by some singers Others
take coffee with an addition of strong
hqlor; but do not believe IN any cJrrec-
tive. 1t may stimulate the voice for
time, but a reaction is sure to follow.
The best thing in the werld ia continued
training and practcIng, and good protec-
ton and Gale OF the throat while the voice
Is not in use."
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-03-12
Origin of Rip Van WinkIe-

OF the thousands of people who have
read Washington Irving's famous story,
"Rip Van Winkle," or have seen that
Incompatible actor, Joseph Jefferson,
In the play of the same name, COMPARE
lively few are aware that the story is
not original with Irving, hut was taken
from an old German legend in which
the main features are identical with the
narrative of the American author. The
tale was primarily called "Peter CLAUS, q"
of which the following was the original
version:
Peter Claus was goatherd of Sitten-
dorf and tended his f1ocks in the Kyff-
hausen mountains. Here he was ac-
customed to let them rest every evening
In a mead, surrounded by an old wall,
while he made his muster of them; but
for some days he had remarked that one
of his finest goats always disappeared
sometime after coming to this spot, and
did not join the flock until late. Watch
ing her more attentiyely, he observed
that she slipped through an o. ening In
the wall, up which he crept after the
animal and found her In sort OF caye,
busily employed IN cleaning the oat
grains that dropped down singly from
the roof. He looked up and shook his
ears amids the shower of corn that now
fell down upon him, but with all his in
quiry could descern nothing. At last
he heard above the stamp and neighing
of horses, from whose managers 1t was
probable the oats had fallen.
Peter was yet standing in astonish-
ment at the sound of horses in 80 un-
usual place, when boy appeared,
who, by signs, without speaking a word,
desired him to follow. Accordingly he
assembled few steps and passed over a
walled court, into hollow, closed In On
all sides by lofty rocks, where partial
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-03-12
The Prime of Life.

People call the age Of 10 the "prime
of life." Who invented that mocking
phrase? Some subacid eynic doubtless.
Because it is not the prime of life by any
means. At 10 the hair at the temples
is whitening; at 40 your ''fguren is
broadening; at 40 you begin to be
called "a harmless fellow" by your
pretty nieces and friends. \ most dis
gushing time of lifel When with dig
nified step you walk toward your yawn-
ing grave at 20, you are at least an
object of respect and reyerence-if you
have money. Your white locks and
your snowy beard crown you with the
majesty of old. But to be 40! Youare
neither young nor old. Your hair is
pepper and salt in color. Your speech
has become, i'll spite of yourself. set in
stilted sentences. You perhaps would
dirt, but in the attempt meet with dire
disaster. This enterprise is met with
the giggleS of girlhood, and you are
driven ANONYMOUSLY from the scene by
some masher of twenty summers. The
real prime of life is when your muscles
are like twisted cords of the finest Bes-
semer steel. You don't care much
about girls at that time. and your lungs
are like the bellows that blow the
furnace; When you Dave only
to say one pretty word and show your
white teeth and twist up the ends of
your youthful mustaehe, and any pretty
glrl you want just signs once and tum.
bles into your arms. That is the
prime of life. 1t is all over when you
begin to call for your dinner and grum-
bic at the breakfast buttered toast.
When you have become a judge of wine
1t is indeed time to leave the arena and
to accept the wornout gladiator's gift
of the wooden sword.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-03-12
Modern Dress,

1t has often been said that the style is
the man; we might also venture to add
that the dress is the woman, and, In
many lamentable instances. that the
woman is the dress and nothing more.
Without entering upon any intricate
discussion about the expedieneies, pro-
prietieS OF imprOprieties of fashion, or
prOphesying that better future when
every one shall be fashion to himself,
we would venture few remarks ON the
prevailing mode of dressing and its NOR
al effect On the rising generation.
1t were hard to determine what is ab-
solutely beautiful and absolutely ugly,
the significance of these terms being al
together relative; but it were well to
study when thing is ugly and when it
is beautiful, and apply the rule to our
style of dress.
Accidents in nature are very often
beautiful. A deformed, weather-beat-
en- tree in an otherwise pleasing land
scape may prove a necessary diseOrd in
its harmony, and hence pass for beau
ty; but discOrds and eoncords have their
established laws, their TdiSOn d. etre,
and as the world is supposed to travel
toward an esthetic as well as moral ex-
cellence, We would fain maintain that
dress, considered in the light of art, be-
comes vital question the moment it
effects the education of taste,
Our own moral rectitude and innate
sense of the beautiful, in great meas
ure, regulate our taste; yet in new coun-
tiles where art IS still in its infancy,
and the public mind still unsehOoled in
that direction, the eye takes in all forms
and shapes with but little discrimins-
ton; and the extravaganza of dress,
the Bohemian taste of a certain class Of
women whose very Irregularities of life
have often dictated fashion, and thus
it into otherwise pure-minded
and, like the sensation
novel, prove as subtitle a poison in cor
rupting their sense Of the beautiful as
the latter their minds and hearts.
Our fashions, with but few excep-
tlons, come from France. Every coun-
try has Its speciality. The natural good
taste of the French, their taste, their
quick sense of appropriateness have
given their styles the grace, the fitness
and the usefulness society admires in
them.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-03-12
NO. H..
Street sweepers-

The street sweepers OF Paris earn,
the men five cents an hour, and the
women four cents. While you are
studying the ways and haunts of the
rag-pickers, you naturally become ac-
quainted with the ways and haunts of
the street sweepers. 1t appears that,
according to police regulation of 1779
each householder in Paris Is compelled
to sweep the pavement and road IN
front OF his house before a. N. The
Paris1ans, however, objected to rise so
early, and the municipality offered to
find persons who would undertake the
task of sweeping. The householders
levied pro rata tax on their tenants,
and four companies entered into con-
tract with the city of Paris to keep the
streets free from mud, dust and snow.
This plan is stIll adopted. The sweepers
are placed under the orders of Inspec-
tors appointed by the prefect, and at
o'clock each morning in winter and half
past in summer the 5weepers assemble
at different parts of the city to answer
the roll-call. The sweepers are almost
exclusively foreigners, and hail chiefly
from the grand duchies Of Luxemborg
and Baden, from Alsaee and from Fland-
ers. Luxemborg provides the majority,
and the language of the sweepsrs ls
mainly a low German patois. How
these sweepers manage to live is mys-
terry, and how they manage to save
money, return to the fatherland, and
buy scrap OF land, as they often do,
Is still greater mystery. The key to
both these problems Is cooperation.
Men and women from the same village
herd together in groups OF 10 or 20, and
hire room in some back street. The
furniture to begin with, is few bundles
OF straw and an esrthen cooking pot.
Sheets and blankets are unknown among
them. Each lies down in his or her
clothes. However defective they may
be Ii cleanliness, they are reputed to be-
Of almost perfect morality. Men and
women alike, as you see them sweeping
the streets with the regular rustling
swOOp of their long-handIed besoms,
seem to be pictures of health and hap
piness. Many of the women and girls
are good-looking, and with their old
head dress and the bright
colored kerchief pinned over their
shoulders, the boneuses, or ''muddies,'
IS they call themselves, might often
'empt painters pencil. if our Partisan
painters were only In the habit of rising
,arly,
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-03-12

lowering his pistol. IF you will pro.
duce the missing testament, it shall be
al owed to appear that you found 1t ac-
cidentally, and volutarily restored it.
On these conditions will you live?'
Yes y
Capt. Jack waiteduntil his eyes had
rested upon the will by which May
Lakeman was made the heir, and then
he put up his pistol and departed.
Ispeople had wondered when they
heard that Gaspard was the heir, they
wondered still more when this new
thing came Out,-that Gaspard Gram
mont had found the second will, by
which the great property was left 10
May Lakeman, and had voluntarily
surrendered it to the Surrogate. Peo-
pie sought to find him, that they might
praise him for his magnanimity; but
they found him not. He had gone away,
none knew whither-he had gone never
TO return.
Dear jack said May, as she nestled
in her husbands embrace-they were
in the snuggery, in the bend of the
great bay-window, and Jack had been
telling the story of his interview in
that same room with Gaspard. Would
you really have shot him?'
What does my darling think about
it?' Il think, Jack, that you could do
a very bold daring deed; but do not
think you could do bad one.'
And you think it would have been
wrong to have shot Gaspard if he had
refused to give up the will?'
'O!-how can you ask me? Dear
Jack, if his blood had been upon your
hands
Hush, darling! l knew my man;
and l knew also, my own weakness;
and, to guard against accident. L
threatened the poor wretch with an
empty pistol.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-03-12

Some men have Sunday soul which
they screw on in due time, and take off
again every Monday morning.
Do all that you can stand, and then
fear lest you may fail, and by the grace
of God you are safe.
Nothing can atone for the want of
mOdesty without which beauty is un-
graceful and VIII ietestable.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-03-12
BECaREFUL WHAT YOU SAY.
neaking of q persons faults,

In speaking of a persons faults,
Pray don't forget your own,
Remember those with homes of glass
Should never throw a stone.
If we have nothing else to do,
Than talk of those who sin.
Yes, better we commence at home,
And from that point begin.
We have no right TO judge a man
Until he's fairly tried;
Should we not like his company,
We know the world is wide.
Some may have faults, and who has not?
The old as well as young;
Perhaps we may, for aught we know,
Have fifty TO their one.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-03-12

There is no trait more valuable than
a determination to persevere when the
right thing il to be accomplished.
Ever life is walled with the gates
OF progress, and to mans touch hang
their latch.strings OF opportunity.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-03-12

Everybody seems to consider him.
self kind of moral half-bushel to
measure the worlds fraIlties III.
Do not impose too much upon
patience and change 1t to fury.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-03-12

A bitter word may make wound
that will never heal. A kind word may
win a friend that will never turn
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-22
TRAGIC END OF AN INTRIGUE.
A Scandal Which Ended in a Man Making His
Will and Taking His Own Life.

MEDFoRD, Wis. May 2l.-The Keller Hubbell
scandal which burst anew upon the community
Yesterday, wound up with q tragedy last night
Keeler, the postmaster, intercepted letter from
his wife to Hubbell, which, it is said, furnished
abundant evidence of criminal intimacy between
the two. He loaded a revolver, sought out his
wife, and fired at her. Mrs. Keeler ran out of
the postofice into drug store next door, with
Keeler in pursuit. He was held until the sheriff
came up and disarmed him. He declared that
if Hubbell and his wife did not leave town he
would kill them both. Judge Phelps went to
the bank, of which Hubbcll was president, and
told Hubbell, who was as yet unconscious of
the scene enacted within a few yards of him,
OF what had occurred He asked Phelps
what caused the shooting and Phelps told him
of that intercepted letter. He asked what it
contained Phelps answered: II do not know.
She is at my house; you can go and see her"
Hubbell called at Judge Phelps's about 4;30, re
mained few minutes and left remarking:
There is nothing left me to do but make my
will and 60 away l will be back in two hours
He went directly to his office, which is in his res
idence. About o'clock he crossed the street to
the store of GLASGOW Bros, asked one of the
firm to witness his signature, saying; This is
my last will Take it. and should ything hap
pen to me, produce it. He left a note addressed
what to do; who to notify of his death by
telegraph; who to write to; inclosed a check
to pay his boy and the woman
who attended mis- rooms; a memorandum of all
accounts due him; asked him to keep cool, to
pay depositors, etc He said in this THAT
man." referring to Keeler has driven this wo-
man to do what she did, and deserves no sympa-
thy" He then took his coat off, folded a quilt
and laid it on the bed, saturateda towel with
chloroform, lay down upon the bed, put a pistol
to his left temple and fred'a shot directly into
his brain. Death must have been instantaneous.
About 10 o'clock his friends began to grow anx
ious at his absence, and a search revealed him
lying as above described on his bed
Keeler and his wife left on the same train to-
day. 1t is rumored they we're reconciled.
Hubbelps will, after a few bequests to relatives
and friends, left the residue of his estate to Mrs
Keller Hubbell was president of the Exchange
Bank of Medford, treasurer OF Taylor county
and very prominent citizen. His estate is va
riously estimated at from $40. 600 to SO 900.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-22
MINOR MENTION,

A Belief that the House Ways and Means
Committee Will Hold No More Meetings.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, May 21.-Said member of the
ways and means committee, to day: ut is my
opinion that our committee will not get together
again this session to transact any business, un-
less it be to report the Potter refunding bill.
There have been several attempts lately to Sc
cure quorum, but without success, and it is not
likely that further attempts will be made"
''Then you do not believe that there will be
any report on the Hewitt Tucker or ONeill
tariff billsl"
NO. and further, have very strong belief
that the authors of those bills never expected
that they would be heard from after reference to
the ways and means committee. They were
simply presented for the purpose of making
political capital for the three gentlemen
named"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-22

saw not his trick, which was pending his motion
adjourn. The object of course, was
to throw the case over another day,
and in the meantime try and drum up a sufti-
cient number of votes to get Mr.. Peelle out.
Upon this motion the yeas and nays were also
taken, and by just one vOte-l18 to 1l9-ad-
journment was had amidst applause from the
Democratic side. The vote by which the House
would have declared English fraudulent claim
ant, had not Springer secured the opportunity
for motion to adjourn, was 118 to 120. The
Sergeant at arms had been busily drumming up
recruits between the two votes. The Democrats
will tomorrow have to secure nine more votes
outside of the pending pairs if they put in En-
glish They say they will have them.
Mr.. Peelle is tonight very much delighted, and
he thinks he will keep his seat The Democrats
who are opposed to the fraud which will proba-
bly, be consumnated tomorrow, speak in the
bitterest terms of it. Mr.. Mills, of Texas, pro
nounced it tonight as an outrage and disgrace
to great party. He said every Democratic pa
per in the country ought to denounce it. There
is also good deal of criticism of the methods
which the elder English has employed to get his
son seated 1t has been one of the most brazen
specimens of lobbyism ever seen, even in Wash
ington. Altogether the seat-stealers are in no
comfortable frame of mind The way in which
the case comes up to morrow will be on a motion
to reconsider the vote by which the House to-day
said that Mr. Peelle is the right man in the
right place.
There is great deal of canvassing tonight
about the le-English case. Notices have
been sent out for everybody to be on hand.
Shaky Democrats are undergoing the process of
trying to have their knee-joints strengthened.
Republicans are also on the alert, and think to-
night that they will keep Mr.. Peelle in. The
chances certainly are tinged with bright rays of
hope VIII English tonight was respondent.
He talked in agitated language about the Demo
Gratis who voted for Mr.. Peelle, and used bad
words. He admitted that he did not think he
would get his seat