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Arkansas ladies' journal. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1884-1886, 1885-08-29

eANeo anu pldnlleu ana
laughed little laughter, while the birds SANG
outside the window and roses nodded on
the sill-liglt laughter whose sound had
reached faithful old nurse Barker, who in
the be room overhead was dropping quiet
tears over her work and praying in wo- /
mans instructive wordless way that no
harm might come to her sweet young lady
through the foolish promise of silence
which she had yielded to the girls coaxng
commands. Poor simple, bewildered Bar
ker How many times she prayed that
prayer IN the long sunny weeks that fol-
lowed when the old red farm house was
lett behind and she knitted away industri-
ously In the little woodland studio, where
the birds sang their sweetest and the dog
roses bloomed brightest and the sunbeams
rode like boats along the wind. What
would be the end of it all, she wondered,
when the sittiDgs should be over and the
summer ended, and the warm gre n forest
bleak and bare and brown? Sometimes
on nights when Vivien came in to her from
the starlight rose garden with shining eyes
and flushed face, and heart beating storm
lily in her beautiful round breast, she put
the question into words, but a flash of pas
sionate pain in the dark eyes, a reck-
less laugh, or burst of sudden tears was
her only answer.
Ii the same question ever asked itself of
Rex Raneford as he walked from the rose
garden through those franrant summer
nights, he didnot heedit, but flung it away
as he flung the glowing end of his Havana
and went back to his dream of the stately
head the dusky eyes, the little smiling
mouth like rose in the moonlight. He
did not once waken to the fact that he
loved her. She was pure, sweet wo-
man ana Inc new, intimate compromising
was full of marvellous, tender grace to
him, he had told himself in the beginning
was not for him; he had already loved and
lost, and the dead dream was to be the only
dream forevermore, and then, feeling him
self in safe waters he had cast off all anchor
and let himself drift blindly with the tide.
He was pulled up suddenly and sharply
on one sunny afternoon in late August, by
a letter from Percival Steele :" The
world is desolate," he wrote; "the club
in mourning; the season, ashes La Gree
has disappeared A week after your
ignominious and unforgiven flight she van
ished as utterly as if sunk in the sirens
Arkansas ladies' journal. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1884-1886, 1885-08-29

Ills wife this day week Over and
over, Rex read the words, till his brain
whirled with them. One week! Onlv
one week lie threw the letter into Wv
lens lap, and sank down beside her. shad-
ing his eyes with his hand Ifof late he
had realized at all that the golden DAYS
must end, it was as of some future POSSIBLE
lty too far and faint to think Of, and now
1t was come SO near, so near? The rustic
OF the paper aroused him, as Vivien turned
the sheet. He looked up into her face
with dazed, hopeless eyes. There was no
surprise there, no grief, no pain; only
swift flush as of sudden resentment as she
read on. He gotup unsteadily, and CROPPED
his hand among his brushes. His ewes
were hot with sudden rush of tears. She
does not care She does not care he was
thinking, bitterly, and he--his heart was
bare to him at last-he cared SO much
Vivien folded the letter and replaced it
IN its envelope. Then she got up compos-
edly, a faint rose odor floating from her
gown as she moved. and stood it up against
his easel.
so you are engaged to cousin" she
said How charming--for you! Your
friend writes handsome hand p
hex turned upon her in swift, hot pas
sion,
Is that what you have to say to me-
that?" he cried, fercely; and then grew
suddenly silent; and silently they went
down the road together, while the late
birds made sad plant, and the ryerrippled
blood red in The setting sun.
And SO it was that the halcyon days
came to an end.
The week that followed was dreary
one. The studio was deserted, the palettes
lett neglected, the brushes untouched. Up
and down through the quiet woods, rest
lessly, feverishly as an imprisoned spirit,
wandered Rex, scorning the past, hopeless
for the present, and with conflicting i'm
pulses as to the future. He had thought
himself SO firm in his chivalrous love for
his cousin, 50 true, 50 steadfast; had bowed
in a daily credo before his own shrine, and
now was the altar shattered, and the idol
shown but clay. He could not realize that
the old love had passed SO readily into the
new He had planted and fostered lily,
and loI it had come up pa sionate, Grim
son rose. There had been something vir-
ginal in his heart, and he had violated it ;I
! sacrilege, and he had been the perpetra-
5or. He chafed against himself in bitter
Arkansas ladies' journal. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1884-1886, 1885-08-29
WHEN
[Gontin |

"a morning, talking TO 1he eagto olfo III
=, .nnnv window, whistling to the thrush
limo IN the shadow of the pines, even
=. ming tune under his breath over his
- white rolls and golden coffee. It
ned somehow, a very wonderful thing
him that morning to be young and a
,tor and to breakfast where the butter
fs rode by on the sunbeams, and the
I'd pine fragrance foated on the wind.
Il stepped out of the low window and
I..Lcd across the sunshine, and wondered
M he had never before realized what a
Is,otiful world he lived in, what perfect
tbiDg life was He took up his hat and
t0,sed it into the air boyishly for simple
badness. He felt that he could forget
he vasa man and run and climb and shout
Ike child for very joy of living.
II was not mood in which he could
yItB earnestly to his work. True, he took
DIT his oils and scattered his rags and
psyed with his brushes, but the painting
Tgnt on slowly, just touch that bright
ehed the sunshine or glistened on the half
: hid river and then he would lay down his
brush and toy with the little dog-rose
apOping on his palette.
/ From the chatty hostess of the inn he
bad learned that the dark-eyed stranger
was boarder at one of the neighboring
farm houses, an elderly woman, evidently
a@rt OF upper servant being with her.
What was her station in life he wondered
''ght he dare prefer request to make a
l''lralt Of her! Before noon he had given
RPall semblance of work, turned from the
''a'o and was walking blithely along the
@0 leading toward the little red farm
'aSe designated. When it came in view
FRPstated, stopped on the road and half
a'ned back, Then he straighted himself
's'n0 walked on resolutely. She could
Vp0 more than refuse at the worst, and
vas not going to let weak heart hold
n. n from K On. his possible good fortune. Be-
NJ, "s ielt strangely confident of success.
AZ ;'l ~ was no room for disappointment in
,G.I E5Ie'f day lie repeated the sophism
e N an hour later as he closed the
n. M gaze behind ss him and turned back to
s u n, Vivien-he repeated the name
nlE ''p over it was 50 dainty, 50 stately,
srss IA ner Someway; and It had been 50 50
bn,s,, innocent and naive Of her to have
MA bsIy given it instead of hes surname
AsS nj h as mad introduced himself. vivien
Az p ~. cold and proud and willfnI j
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1885-08-20
Prohibition IN Bee County.
Marlin Ball.


We have been sent the following
for publication;
BKEvLLR, TEX, May 2, 's5,
Hon j. j. Swami, Kosse, Tex:
Ny Dear Sir:-Yours OF the 10Th
ult received, and in answer ] can say
that the local option law has been in
force in this county since 1877, con-
tinuously, and is likely to remsin so,
as there is hardly any opposition to 1t
here.
It's effect is plainly noticed in the
almost total absence OF crime in the
county. We do not have more cases
on the criminal docket Of tho county
court during year now, than we
had at one term when you were pros
ecuting attorney, in lS76-77. There
are as few violations of this law as
any of the other misdemeanors, IN
fact, the last prosecution under this
law was a conviction in 1880, and one
case now pending in the county court.
There are some topers in the county
who send off for whlskey, and keep it
at home. Without whisky no gam
bling house can be successfully run,
consequently we have neither saloons,
doggeries nor gambling houses.
While we lose the occupation tax
or license on the sale of alcohol, yet
we save that amount five fold in the
expense of prosecuting criminals, For
six years past, Bee county has only
levied Is cents on the 800 valuation
for general expenses, and no special
taxes for five years-and yet we have
money enough in the treasury to pay
every scrip that is outstanding. You
will remember that since 1876 have
filled my present position, conse,
quently know whereof l write. L
cannot see why every religious or
moral man or good citizen should
not favor prohibition. Very truly
yours, W. II. HAYS
County Judge.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1885-08-20
RecollectiOns about COlfax.
Chicago Iuter- Ocean.

Mr.. Colfax always had a pocketful
of postal cards about him, and writ
ing on the cars, he dropped little
notes of encouragement, suggestion
or criticism along the routes OF his
lecturing tours. II discussion with
some one in Kansas was broken off
suddenly, it would be resumed in a
letter written the next week from New
York. He was the sort of man to
take almost as much pride in the fact
that he could set type, as that he had
been vice-president. He early estab-
lished an acquaintance with printers
and newspaper men, and with them,
lowest and highest, he was always
hail fellow we'll met.
Among his friends and with his
family, MIR. Colfax lived up evenly
and squarely to the ideal plane OF his
writings. In MI his lecture engage
ments, extending over a good many
years, he made it point to spend
Saturday night and Sunday with his
family at home. There was q dispo
sition to laugh at Colfaxs idea Of
steaming across three or four states
to spend one day at home and then
steam back the next Monday, but he
never abandoned the cu&om. He
always spoke of his wife with the ez
ultant kindness of bridegroom
There was more to the people in the
example of such q man than the Gym
les would be wiling to admit
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1885-08-20

The local option election for this
precinct (No. ~ has been set Tor
Tuesday Sept. LIST The awful fact
Blanco county is losing every year
the $1,000 license by not having a So.
loon, will now "bob up serenely', and
be passed around the circle OF 'hard
and soft drinkers for the next twenty
days with zeal worthy OF better
cause. The positive fact that crime
rnder the local option sway, has de-
creased TO the minimum, that men
who in saloon days were poor and
hard run are now on their feet, and
the beautiful absence of the euchre
deck and dice box, will only be thot
of by men who have boys to raise a
town to build up and souls to save.
Be very careful that you do not, by
"voting in saloon, send the soul OF
YOUR own boy to hell!-Blanco News
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1885-08-20

Our neighbor Of the Cresset had
an elaborate editorial in his first issue,
which we meant 10 have noticed
sooner, but have not had time. The
article is devoted 10 giving the wri-
ters conception Of the true mission
OF q newspaper editor This in sub
stance he defines 10 be purely one oil
bnsiness-by which he seems TO mean
TO try as nearly rs possible 10 please
everybody, and float with the current
in order to pick up all the pennies
possible. H. insists that the editor,
and especially the country editor,
should not venture to take any po-
sition in advance Of public sentiment
that tits highly impairment and i'm
proper for him TO do 30. Such is the
drift OF our neighbours Tticle-such
his platform, SO to speak. To it we
must express our entire dissent.
1t is true the publishing and edit
ing OF a newspaper is to a large ex'
tent a matter OF business; but he
must be very obtuse who does not
perceive that il is something a great
deal beyond and above that. The
editor necessarily deals with ideas as
we'll as facts, and is to large extent
the creator and leader of public
sentiment. The editor OF The most
obscure country newspaper shares
with the rural preachers OF the Cos
pei their responsibilities. 1t is a ne
cessity of his position, aud he can
not shirk it without being recreant to
true manhood and good citizenship
What would be thought of preach
or who would speak with bated
breath of any great moral evil, be
cause public sentiment still sanction
cd it, or because some influential
member or members of his congre
CATION might disapprove, and hi
bread and butter be imperiled? Ye
not less culpable and base would b'
the editor who would do this, for h'
is often equally and sometimes grea
deal more responsible.
No; in spite of our neighbours la
bored effort, the fact remains that tho
press is and of right should be
mighty moulder of public sentiment
1t should be devoted not only to ma
king money, but should be the cham
pion of virtue, the stern censor OF al
that initiates against the good OF SO
ciety. Our neighbours position ma,
suit himself, but for our own par
we'd s'rather bea kitten and cry NEW
than such a journalist or editor.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1885-08-20
ST. LOUIS LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.

ST. LOUIS, Aug. IA, 1885.
ED. FREE PRESS - Lennox Max
well, the murderer of Arthur Preller,
will arrive here next Sunday morning
from Auckland, New Zealand, in
charge of two st. Louis detectives,
who made the longest chase on rec
ord for a criminal. Your readers have
already been made familiar through
the FREE Press with the details OF
the ''trunk murder at the Southern
Hotel last spring, and the trial OF this
murderous dude will be the most ex-
citing and sensational in the history
of the country. I will keep your read
ers posted as the trial progresses, and
detail the new and startliug revela-
tons of the hotel tragedy as they
transpire in the court room.
The grand Exposition building is
rapidly filing with treasures of art,
and magnificent display of every,
thing that the industry and genius Of
man (nnd woman) can produce. The
exhibition this fall will far surpass
any previous collection. The entrance
price has been lowered to Is cents
and the celebrated Gilmore Band
from the East, will furnish the music
Vice-president Hendricks will be owe,
to see the show.
w. d. Farrar, worthy young mar
of this city, met violent death at st
Charles, Mo-, two drys ago. He was
conductor of freight train, and was
crushed to death between the cars OF
the moving train.
The Natatorium or swimming
schooD is the centre of amusement fol
city society just now. Your cores
pendent witnessed the bathing "car
nival" last night, and it was queer
sight to see. Over a hundred ladies
and gentlemen plunged and floun
dered promiscuously in the large
pool, attired in bathing suits. Some
of the costumes were "real handsome
said fair one - but scanty enough
to make lady feel little "skittish
in in such u crowd, thought
CARL SMYTHE.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1885-08-20
CITATION.
THF STATE OF TEXAS,
COUNTY OF HAYS.

THF STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF HAYS.
The State of Texas TO the Sheriff or any
Constable of Hays County, Texas, Greet
ing:
Whereas, S. L. Pegues has flld an ac-
count in my Office against James Bradford,
for the sum of $50 25 for suit, and has
hled an affidavit that the said defendant
James Bradford, is not a resident of the
State Of Texas. You are therefore command
Ell to summons by publication for four sue
csssiye weeks in the San Marcos FREE PEEss,
a newspaper published in the town Of San
Marcos. James Bradford 10 appear in the
povn Of Sau Marcos, in Hays county, Tex
as. on the last Monday in August 1855, at
no O'Clock A n, 70 answer the complaint
Of :. l. Pegues in plea Of debt on an
open account. for the sum Of thirty-niue
dollars and twenty-five one hundred dollars.
Herein fail not but Of this WIT make due
rsturn ~ the law requires.
Give1 under my hand July %. 1855.
c. s. COCK.
Justice Peace, Hays 20. Texas.
Nv S14u
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1885-08-20

We are sorry to see evidences OF
continued hostility to our free school
system by some who have several
times been signally defeated before
the people. We had hoped after that
all would acquiesce, and heartily fall
in and help build up our public
schools. 1t seems that some more
illegal" questions are being raised.
We beg our city council to take the
proRptest steps to have these ques-
tons settled by the proper authority,
SO that the necessary work to put the
schools on foot may at once be begun.
There is really no time to be lost.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1885-08-20

w. W. Davis, of Gonzales, an al
legged former state senator, as we
learn from the Richmond, Ind, papers,
has been called to that place on ac-
count of previous visit there by his
wife, in company with another man
whether handsomer OF not not stat
ed. She found her way to the Home
of the Friendless there, and told some
things about him which he denies.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1885-08-20

The unwilling of the monument OF
the late Hon. Gustave Schleicher
took place at San Antonio on Satur-
day. The monument, we learn, is a
very fine and appropriate one, the
work of Underhill & Co., of Austin.
1t is a remarkable fact, that during
his Two terms in congress Mr.. Schlei-
cher actually reached the foremost
rank of its members, and led in solid
reputation the delegation from his
own state. If his life had been spared
it is difficult to predict to what polit-
zeal height he might not have at
timed. Hon. Columbus Epson, his
successor in congress, delivered the
address on this occasion, and altho
very unlike Mr.. Scbleicher in most
respects, gave a very happy estimate
of his character. He referred to the
course which was pursued towards
Mir. Schleicher during his last can
vass, which is generally supposed to
have caused his untimely death. In
asmuch as his opponent in that can
vass, Gov. Ireland, was present this
was rather a delicate matter, but was
clearly aud properly shown mp. That
is one passage in the life of the Gov
ernor which himself and friends car
scarcely refer to with pleasure oil
pride
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1885-08-20

PALESTINE, Aug 19.--LSpecial. A
colored girl called upon county attor-
ney Reagan this morning, for the
purpose OF having white man al
rested on the charge of seduction,
claiming him to be the father Of her
child. The law prohibiting the in
ter-marriage of whites and blacks in
this state prevented the taking of the
affidavit, as marriage being impossi-
bic the charge could not be sustained.
Upon the above the San Antonio
Express justly comments edltorially
as follows:
If the ruling in the case of that
colored girl at Palestine, reported in
yesterdays Express, was correct, our
laws are lacking in justice. Every
possible protection to virtue should
be given. and if there is any discrlm-
nation at all, it should be in favor of
the weaker and more exposed. The
law against the inter-marriage OF the
races should not be allowed to raise a
protecting barrier against the punish
ment of white man for the seduc-
ton of colored girl. The white
people of the state cannot afford to
sully their escutcheon by connivlng at
or countenancing any such injustice.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1885-08-20

Noble r. MooRE, the poetess, spent
her young girlhood with her parents
in this place - their home being on
the river, near the spot where John
Richards now resides. Some remains
of their cottage were yet visible when
we came to this place. In this con.
nection, the following beautiful pas
sage from her poem, "The River San
Marcos, will be read with interest.
After an inimitably beautiful descrip'
ton of the origin of the river, and
tracing it down to the old mill and
ford, she proceeds rs follows. The
reference to our present "Chautauqua
Hill will be noticed:
"And here, down slcping to the waters marse,
The fields. all golden with the harvest, come;
And here the horssman. refining In hist teed'
At eve will pause, and mark the village spires
Clean golden in the setting sun. and FAR
Across deeply furrowed field will glance
with idle eye upon a stIteiy iA,
That, 0irt ,riM ceRirs. rises likc u King,
To mark the farther limit Of the field.
| Twas there, between the hill aud river. stood
A shaded cottage ; pnd Its roof WAS low
And dark, and vines that twined the porch but
served
To hide the bleakness Of Its wall But then
| ,rwAs homeland "Hsaven is near US Ia our child
hood.
And was but q child; and summer days
That since have oiientimcs seemed long and sad,
We're fleeter then than even the morning winds
That sent my brothers. fairy bark, wsll-balanoed,
In safety down the rivers tide"
The entire poem is not less beauti-
full and graphic. Those who have
never read it will lose a rare treat il
they fail to call at the FREE Press OF.
flee and get a copy of our Extra, de
voted to o full description of oul
town and county, which contains the
poem complete.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1885-08-20

Governor Ireland has issued q
proclamation declaring that after
August 10, strict quarantine shall
be enforced against all persons from
Vera Cruz and other yellow fever in
fected cities of Mexico, and travellers
will be required to show passports
that they have not been at any in
fected place within 20 days. The
governor calls upon all citizens to aid
In CARRYING out this order.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1885-08-20

The Summer Institute at San Mar
cos seems TO have come fully up to
the expectations Of its proprietors'
Such institutions grow with year,
and all the first meeting needs TO in
sure Intimate success il encourage
ment enough TO continue it. II 1t
does that, the first meeting can be
pronounced successful one, though
the attendance may not have come up
TO the expectations of the sangulne
ones. The San Marcos Summer In
stitute certainly has the best wishes
of the Express,-S. A. Express,
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1885-08-20

Olivier Payne, q brilliant French
man who was supposed to be the
counsellor of FL Mahdi it is said has
been assassinated by the completely
of the British government. Upon
which the San Antonio Express well
says:
The reports of the manner in which
Olivier Payne was killed will attract
worldwide attention, and promise &c
place another black mark ON England !
escutcheou in connection with her op
erations in Egypt and the Soudan-
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1885-08-20
SPECIAL
NOTICE
To All Concerned in
Cotton Ginning.

The undersigned proposes to gin
cotton in San Marcos at the follow
ing rates: From Monday next to the
3Oth of September, $500 for bales of
500 pounds, including bagging and
ties. After the 30th of September
the price at my gins will depend
upon the amount of custom, prices of
bagging and ties, wages, etc.
1 have two Pratt gins, a large bale
yard and water laid to lint room and
at gin heads. Farmers are respect
fully invited to come and inspect the
premises. w. ). GRAY.
aug13-7w.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1885-08-20
San Marcos and Hays County.

The FREE Press Extra OF October
1883, supplemented by the regular is
sue of Aug. Is, '95, furnishes the BEST
most truthful and complete descrip-
ton of our town and county to be
had. Call or send to the office for
copies-6ve cents each.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1885-08-20

Representative Mills and senator
Coke have recently uttered their con-
demnation of prohibition. The good
book we believe says that 'great men
are not always wise, and so we think
IL will turn out in the present case.
Politicians may manipulate party
caucuses, but the aroused moral sense
of the people will not down at their
bidding.