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San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-07-03

Greenville Is to have an opera
house and Sherman electro lights.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-07-03
Something for Home Consumptlon.

The following Is from former citizen
and minister of the gospel Of this place.
For want of space we are compelled to omit
portion Of his letter.
The Osceola times., 1884-07-05

from forty-five or fifty to eighty nd 100
miles an hour.
1t has been agreed by authorities in
Paris to purchase an estate in Algeria for
use as an agricultural school for 200 in.
digent children. The probable cost OF
the estate is l,l00000f
Allen Clifford and wife, of Easton,
Washington County, N. Y. will celebrate
at Christmas the SEVENTEEN anniversary
their wedding. If life is spared TO them.
He is 90 3ys ars old, and she is SO.
The man in Macon, Ga, who bought
of a confectioner for SIP the right to eat
all the candy he wanted for month, has
reluctantly seen the close of the thirtieth
day Not so the confectioner, for the
eater consumed S21.7 worth of his goods.
The style of wearing the hair is now
'up" and ladies say IT requires an i'm
mense amount of frizzing, curling and
manipulation to draw the hair into three
bows on the top Of the head and to have
few fluffy drop curls hanging down the
nape of the neck.
The millennium, according to the Rev
DIR. Wild, of Toronto, will begin in 1885
Then life will be so prolonged that man
at the age of 100 will be regarded rs still
in his Infancy. This is important If true
But we remember that Canada is the
home Of Virgins and Vennor.
The Osceola times., 1884-07-05
HUSBANDS AND HELPMEErs.

"Bangs! indeed w exclaimed Mrs
Crimsonbeak to her friend, Mrs. Yeast
who had suggested them; "even m,
husband wants me to wear them, but h,
can't pull the wool over my eyes in tina
way w-Yonkers Statesman.
She was admiriHg herself and a $2'
spring bonnet. 'Do you think it becom
ing, dear ?" she asked of her young hUs
band. "Yes, l do" was his response
81 think it becoming veiy decidedly
dear."-Cincinnati Saturday Night.
Big gilt darning needles and big gill
pins are the latest fancies for bonnet
and hat decorations. After this a man
won't throw himself down so promiscu-
ously on the bed where his wit s hat is
sweetly reposing.-Lowell Citizen.
There is only one thing that can make
more fuss than circus--two circuses-
Trenton Times. If the Times man had
ever lived in house where there was a
woman who had to give up her chance
of assisting at a fashionable wedding be-
cause her husband had accidentally sat
down on her new bonnet, he wouldn't
talk about circuses as fussy occasions,
Fall River Advance.
In New York woman is paid cents
for making shirt and the papers speak
oft as an outrage. Yet here in Vermont
woman not Only doesn't get cent for
making a shirt, but thinks herself mighty
happy if her husband doesn't swear like
parrot at the way it fits.-Burlington
Free Press.
The Osceola times., 1884-07-05
How to Grow Thin.

Light, Late Heavy Weight" writes to
the London Standard: After attempting,
with signal failure, the different systems,
Banning, Harvev, &C., found that the
great secret of keeping away fat was to
limit the quantity of liquid consumed,
and not the quality. To a man of mod
crate appetite the amount of solid food is
OF no importance it is the management
of liquids that makes the difference Ia
the amount of fat, and consequently in
the amount of weight put on. The fol-
lowing rules, faithfully carried ont, will
in a month take of II stone weight OF fat
from any one who carries it in excess Of
what is necessary for his system.
First. Thr meals day only.
Second. No Intermediate nips or
snacks.
Third. At each meal any reasonable
amount Of any solid food and one half
pint of any liquid
This regime lea yes you healthy and
vigorous, and one week is quite enough
to make one reconciled to an apparently
mot really limited amount Of liquid.
On it have hunted, shot, played rae
quets, cricket and tennis, and for years
have been as sound as bell. The rate
at which weight is lost is surprising at
first. A fourteen stone man, who is car
rying two stone of useless fat, will part
with il at the rate of one pound day,
but suffers no inconvenience beyond the
looseness of his carmen .. An OCCASION
al unbending of the bow. in the shape
of relaxation of the quantity rule, will
very soon work itself off, but these un-
bendings must not come oftener than
once in tive or six weeks.
For the corpuleDt this is a certain cure,
but if very large feeders are anxious to
try it II is necessary to make some re-
ducton in solid food as well. Hunting
men will find themselves stone lighter
for il, if they carry unnecessary fat, al
most beforr they are aware of it, as they
will waste 80 quickly from the exercise.
The Osceola times., 1884-07-05
speed of Thought.

Many people have noticed the re-
markable quickness ofthought in dream
ing, how long story, with many details
and extending over great period of
time, will flash through the mind in a
few minutes, but they seldom have any
means Of even approximately measuring
the quickness with which they sometimes
dream. There is now going the rounds
of the press story purportlng to tell the
dream of a railway engineer, which, il
true, affords means of measurement,
and the story itself has every appear
ance of being genuine relation of ex-
perience.
The engineer had been without sleep
and on duty for many hours, and at last
fell asleep at his post. Then he !ream.
ed quite an elaborate story of an acci-
dent resulting from a confusion of train
orders; how he studied over the words
of the dispatch, trying to make out theil
| meaning, and then how, his train com.
ing into collision with another, he was
thrown back into his seat in the cal
with his hand on the throttle.
AT that instant consciousness return.
ed, and he found that it was all dream
and that although his train was travel.
ing at the rate of As miles an hour, il
had gone only $50 feet while the dream
was passing through his mind, this dis
tance being fixed by the position Of the
train with respect to signal lights on the
line. This is the interesting part of the
story, for if these measurements are ap-
proximately correct, the dream occupied
less than four seconds of time.
The Osceola times., 1884-07-05
ALEvEL-HEADED PRESIDENT.
How He saved His Bank from succumb.
ing to q Run.

81 saved a bank from bursting once
myself" remarked a seedv-looking old
chap, as he laid down paper which he
had perused second-handed. 81 admit
I amt very wealthy now, but years ago
before my trouble came on me, ! had
large interests in manufacturing and
banking. was president of the bank
in our town when there was little pan
ic and the people made a run. went
in to see how they were getting along
Just as the excitement began, when |
found they couldn't stand it until the
close of the banking hears. The direc-
tors wanted TO suspend, but | objected
| told 'em to leave it to re.
Happened it was payday at my shop.
Hustled up here, put flea in the en-
gineer's ear, and in five minutes the en-
gine broke down. The men were glad
to get holiday, but wanted their money.
/ told 'em we didn't have the currency
ready, but would give em checks on the
bank. My clerks made out the checks
in hurry, and weren't over-particular
The Osceola times., 1884-07-05
PERSONAL PUFFs.

Mark Twain is learning TO ride the BIZ
cycle.
Queen Victoria is resting quietly a,
Windsor Castle.
President Arthur is well posted on
poetry, and is fond Of fiction.
Sitting Bull has signed contract to
travel with a show company.
DIR. Schliemanns enthusiasm is bound
less when he makes an important find"
Gray Bear, an ex-chief of the Sioux
Indians, is police officer at Fargo, Oak
Ame. Bonaparte, who is now in WASH
ington, may join her husband in Paris
this summer.
Miss May is the spring-like name of
the youny lady who is nominated for
the belle of the Newport season.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps is forty years
old. Her chief work, "Gates Ajar," was
written when she was only twenty years
old.
Wilhelm Geriche, who is coming from
Germany TO succeed Mr.. Hensell, as con-
VI tut Dtetou StflptN,
is promised salary of $500 anaualiy
for five years.
Nj. Waddington. French Ambassador
to England, never goes anywhere, il is
said. unless accompanied by his wife,
who is an American lady, and who is
both his secretary and treasurer.
The Astors are still buying real estate
in New York They have bought much
on Broadway and Wall street, and in
the new district above Harlem river. In
1880 they bought S6,0Oo,0OO worth Of
property.
Mrs. Elizabeth Gordon, of Canterbury,
VI, who is hale and hearty, and was
never sick in her whole life, says she
can produce proof of her birth
April q, 17S2; boasts that she has been
persistent pipe-smoker all her days, and
believes that if she had been equally
addicted to whisky and opium, she
would have been born at least five years
earlier.
The Osceola times., 1884-07-05
wOMAN's SIXTH SENSE
The subtle Something that Brings Abont
Present mcnt.

Boston Courier.
Here is q singular instance of the work.
ing of that subtle, fine sixth sense, which
is apt to affect women more than men,
and which is so mysterious in character
that we often incline to deny its exist
ence at all. A lady sat sewing quietly in
her sitting room, and in an inner cham
Der the ndrse had just put the baby to
sleep and laid her in her basinette. As
the nurse came out Of the chamber she
said to her mistress:
"The little thing is asleep for three
hours, nam, III warrant"
The nurse went down stairs, and for
about a minute the mother sewed on.
Suddenly desire seized her to 60 and
take the sleeping child from its crib.
"What nonsense" she said t. herself
"Baby is sound asleep. Nurse just put
her down, shall not CO."
Instantly, however, some power stron-
ger even than the last, urged the mother
to go to her baby; and after moment,
she rose, half vexed with herself, and
went to her chamber. The baby was
asleep in her little bed, safely tucked in
with soft white and pink blankets. One
small hand was thrown above the little
brown head. 1t was half open, the ex-
quisite fingers slightly curved, and the
palm as rosy as the depths of a lovely
she'll
"My baby" whispered the mother, ad-
oring the little sleeper as mothers will.
"My own little babyl"
She bent over suddenly, third time
impelled by that mysterious force which
was controlling her, and for no apparent
reason took the sleeping baby in her
arms and went swiftly into the other
room. She had scarcely crossed the
threshold when startling sound caused
her 10 look back. Through sitting cloud
of thick gray dust, she saw that the cell
ing above the baby's cradle had fallen,
burying the heaps of rosy blankets and
lying heaviest of all upon that spot where
but for her mystic warning, her little
child would even now be living.
The Osceola times., 1884-07-05
Attentions After Marriage.
Yonkers Statesu an.

The beautiful attentions which were
so pleasing before marriage are too often
forgotten afterwards, writes one who has
learned from experience. The music
dies out of the voice; everything is taken
for granted, and the love that, like the
silver jet of fountain leaped TO heaven,
denied its natural outlet, ceases to flow
altogether. Then comes dull, heavy,
hard days, with two unhappy ones tied
together wishing themselves apart and
not always content with merely wishing.
This is unnatural and wrong. What
married life wants TO give it new tone and
sweetness, is more of the manner as well
az the spirit ofthe courting time. Very
much of the pleasure Of courtship comes
from the constant attentions Of the parties
to each other. Their affection voices it.
self in all possible ways. Every sentence
is edged with compliment, and spoken
in tender tones. Every look is con-
fesslon. Every act Is a new word of the
exhaustess vocabulary of love. And it
is the fact that affection confesses itself
continually in look and word and act,
making the voice musical and the fingers
poetic in their touch and doing that
makes the experience SO beautiful, the
only Eden many woman has on earth.
Love must have expression or It will
die II can be kept forever, beaut iul and
blessed as at first, by giving II constant
,,ttnrope., in urnrl apI opf The moro il
and noble service, the stronger and moie
satisfying and more blessed will 1t be.
The house becomes home only when
love drops its heavenly mamma in il fresh
every day, and the true marriage vow is
not made once for all at the altar, but
by loving words, helpful services and
delicate attentions to the end.
The Osceola times., 1884-07-05
A sketch OF El Mahdi.
London Daily News.

4
Beyond question the prophet" il
man of considerable intelligence and
extraordinary force of character. In
| barren discussion as TO the nature or au.
thority of his mission he loses no time
If any man be bold enough TO chal-
lenge his divine origin or express disbe-
lief he is permitted to choose between
submission, open acknowledgment and
decapitation. On the other hand, he
protects and encourages those who vol
UNFAIRLY accept him as the true Mahdi-
the man sent by Allah to reform man
kind. He boasts some education, as it
is understood in the East that is, he
reads and writes, and is well versed in
the koran and the commentators. He
speaks both the Barbari and Arabic Ian
guages. His life is simple in the extreme.
He INDUCES in none of the luxuries
or vanities of life. except perhaps a
weakness for large number of wfes.
He is credited with the possession of 80
of these aids to happiness, though the
orthodox number allowed by the koran
is only four. By system of temporary
divorce, it seems he keeps within the
letter of the Mohammedan law; the la
dies taking their turn to be divorced and
taken on again.
The Mahdi, the correspondent also
says, is fighting prophet. He takes
part in all the battles, and does not
spare his own person. There is a report
current that in the fight with Hicks
army he received sword cut across the
forehead which divi led the brass cap
which he wears under the turban. and
inflicted an ugly wound. For some time
after the battle he did not appear in pub
lie, and it is suspected that the wound
may have had something to do with the
extraordinary inaction of the Mahdi's
forces since the defeat of Gen. Hicks.
Mohammed Ahmed is "a total absti-
nence man of the purest water" Not
alone are wine and all sorts of spiritu-
Gus liquor forbidden, but even the more
harmless enjoyments of tobacco and cof-
fee are anantbema, and severe penalties
inflicted on any one discovered using
the forbidden luxuries. One of the refu-
gee merchants now at Dongola relates
that having been caught by some Of the
Mahdi's soldiers smoking cigarette he
was seized, brought before the prophet.
and sentenced to receive one hundred
and fifty lashes, which were duly admin
istered.
The Osceola times., 1884-07-05
WORRIED ABOUT HIS WEALTH.
A Saline suggestion to a Particular !,
Fresh Young Man.

One of Bradiord's bookkeepers had a
deposit of $500 in the First National
Bank on Thursday. He was affected
with the panic fever, aud when the
crowd stampeded for the "rrn," the
clerk was one of the first TO draw out
his precious roll. As he stood at the
desk counting it over looker-on ap-
preached him and said
SCOT your money all safe, | see"
lob, yes" replied the clerk. "All
right now"
well" said the locker-on, "what are
you going to with it now? Do you know
that to-hight the city will be overrun
with pickpockets and burglars? No
mans house will be safe from burglary,
and they are liable to knock you down
and rob you on the street"
"Great Scott DO you believe that ?''
exclaimed the clerk, as he clntched the
$500 roll convulsively, while the perspi-
ration started out on his face. What
shall | do with it? You wouldn't advise
me TO put il back in the bank-I can't
risk that"
"Oh, no. said the looker-on. "My
advice is for you to 20 straight home.
Take bucket of cold water and stir in
a couple of handfuis of salt. Give your
head a coed soaking. Then add more
salt and soak your feet. Finally put a
good strong mustard plaster on that roll
of greenbacks and sit up all night and
nurse it. You may pull through all
right, Don't forget the salt. Good day"
Bradford Mail.
The Osceola times., 1884-07-05
POINTS PICKED UP.

The japanese live almost wholly on
fish.
The Old Testament revision will be
completed in July.
Rome celebrated the 2637th anniyer-
sary of its foundation by Romulus on
the 9th ultimo.
The Brazilian Government has lust
spent $10,000,O00 upon the new wster
supply Of Rio
The President of France has a salary
Of $4,000 year, with $l200OO more
for entertaining and travelling.
At Marshall, Texas, cotton seed has
been sold 80 freely to oil mills that fa,'-
mcrs find trouble in getting good seed
enough to plant.
A lady living at Morillton, Ark, is the
lively widow Of eleven husbands. The
eligible bachelors of that town think ser.
ously Of fleeing to the North.
The editorial opinion of the United
States, 20 far - heard from, is that, in
admitting Mrs. Kilgore to the bar Judge
Thayer acted ike a gentleman and
scholar.
Five thouaand alligator hides were
shipped from Orange, Texas, in one week
recently The killing of alligators for
their skins is quite an industry along the
Sabine.
An Old duck shooter calculates that
hguad bllls A. q the rate ofthirty-fve TO
Mklmm hcuz, aad other varieties
The Osceola times., 1884-07-05
WISER THAN SOLOMON,
Why AN Enterprising settler Married h,
settler with Three Daughters,

settler with Three Daughters,
"Do you see that old fellow sitting
across there with linen dtister on ?''
said guest of the Grand Pacific last
evening, pointing to an elderly individ-
ual who was reclining on one of the sofas
in the lobby. 'He is the most uncon-
scionable land-grabber in America. He
and came in together from st. Paul to-
day and he told me all about it. He
went up to Dakota three years ago from
York State, and after looking the coun-
try over he made up his mind that it
was a good place to settle. Land was to
be had cheap by pre-emption, and what
do you suppose the old cuss did ?"
"He was unmarried and had no one
but himself in the world. He went back
East and married widow, who had one
widowed and three old-maid daughters,
and brought them all out here. Then
the old man entered a claim, and the
daughters, four of them, all entered
claims alongside. SO there you have it.
The old man practically owns 800 acres
of good land. He built the girls shanties
on their claims, and they live in them
enough to satisfy the law, but the whole
thing is done under the superintendent
of the old man, who is an old reprobate
fear | asked him If the widow he
married was good-looking and amiable
and he replied:
"'Oh, no; can't say she is. / would
a heap rather have taken one of the girls
and | may yet, when the old woman is
gone; but business is business. and the
only way could get the whole family
was to take the mother first. "-Chicago
Herald
The Osceola times., 1884-07-05
AN EAR FOR Music.

what n Spider Was Observed to do Under
the 'ise of the TuniRgfork.
A great many years ago prisoner OF
state, who was allowed TO cheer the soli-
tude of his dungeon by playing on his
flute, discovered after awhile that every
time he played great numbers of spi-
ders gathered about him. Since then
the liking Of spiders for music has been
proved. | myself had cften wished to
play for a spider audience, but was not
well enough acquainted with any musi-
cal instrument to coax tune out OF
it.
A scientific gentleman of Europe gave
gave rue valuable hint by an expert
ment of his own. He used tuningfork.
Now ! can play tuningfork as well as
anybody. l procured tuningfork, and
then sought out spider. ! found a
handsome, brand-new web, and though
| did not see Mistress Epelra, knew
she must be at home. Epeira diadema
is her full name, though most persons
call her garden spider. 1t is she who
makes those beautiful, wheel-like webs
which festoon the rosebushes and trees.
As have said, Nine Spider was not
visible. | knew, however, she msst be
in her gossamer parlor, which is attach
ed to her web.
Here was good chance to try tuning
fork music. Trapped the fork on stone
and in moment soft. melOdious hum,
filed the air. | touched one of the
spokes of the web with the fork. On
the instant, madame flew out of her par
lor in great haste, hesitated moment
at the out edge of the web, and then in
stead of going straight to the tuning.fork
ran to the very centre of the web.
When there, she quickly caught hold
of each of the spokes one after the other,
and gave it a little tug. as boy does his
fishing line to see if fish is hooked.
Each was passed by until she came to
the spoke upon which the humming-fork
rested. There she stopped, and it was
easy to see she was excited She gave
the whole web a shake; then tugged at
the spoke again. "Ilum-m-m-m" still
tiiO ioih hoN, lDN-
ever.
Madame was satisfied. Her mind was
made up. Down she darted and caught
the end of the fork in her arms. She
tried to bite into the hard metal, and at
the same time she spun web of silk
around the two prongs, which by this
time had ceased vibrating.
I pulled the fork away, and Nine.
Epeira retired in disappointment to the
centre of the web. But if she was disap-
pointed, so was !, for | was satisfied that
it was not the music of the fork that had
attracted her. Unfortunately it was al
together too probable that she mistook
the hum of the fork for the buzz IF a fly
"a sort of music no doubt very sweet to
her
Time after time | repeated the expert
ment with the fork touching in turn each
spoke of the web, and each time Nine.
Spider was deluded into trying to cap
ture the tuning-fork. 1t was odd that
she did not learn wisdom by repeated
disappointment.
The Osceola times., 1884-07-05

the sickliest child, that gets the most
fondling.
People learn wisdom by experience
A man never wakes up his second baby
to see it laugh.
A Zulu belle is like the proverbial
prophet. She has not much on'er in her
own country.
In the social circles of the chicken
yard the lines are very distinctly drawn,
fol each has her own set.
Mary Anderson says she is not afraio
of Bismarck. She must then feel conf.
dent that she doesn't contain trichine.
The trout season is at its zenith, and
you can now catch five pound trout
with a two hundred pound liar almost
any day in the week.
A Baltimore swell went TO a fancy
dress ball as donkey, and his friends
say it is the first time he has ever failed
to make an ass of himself.
"What is wanted in this country, "
said the bride as she examined the wed.
ding presents, SIS silver service reform
This set is plated"