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The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-12-15

THE holiday season naturally brings
activity into about every line OF busi-
ness. and especially in the retail trade
Heretofore, In this vicinity the volume
Of trade bus always decreased imme-
diately after the holiday season, hut the
indications now point to u genuine re-
vival of business all round, which Is
permanent In this that people had with
stood the dull times Of the past few
years, are now on their feet, and that
while there viii be considerably Of II
boom during the holidays that It viii
not be followed with an actual falling
oil Of all business in the days immedi-
ately following.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-12-15

A MEMORIAL and constitution has been
received in Congress from Dakota, ask
Ing for admission into the Union as a
State. Dakota will make the fortieth
Stnte In the sisterhuod
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-12-15

state In the sisterhood.
rHE Laredo Times says: "a San An
tonic man completed Nat boat the
other day, and, taking his family on
board, set sail down the blue san An
tonic for the future great at Aransas
Pass. lie will have to sail over, or
through about 20 miles Of solid raft after
entering the Guadalupe, and the alliga-
tors there are more numerous than flies
In Corslcana. II is just above the first
raft that MIR. Peter Pagan AYERS that he
has often seen an alligator fully 20 feet
In length. This monster could take IN
the whole family, and feel no inconvenl-
enep In consequence"
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-19
For the Sunday Sentinel
LITTLE aELEEN.
Br ). l. COLE N. D.

little HELEN. whose dimpled feet 30 small
Beth might be clasped In one loving hand,
Has gone and obeyed the sasIors call.
And treads the sunny plains oil the. "Be.ler
Land"
Her bright sparkling eyes and her prattlins
feet.
Are TO be heard and seen on earth no more
she walks with angels on the golden street,
,xesth the jasper walls on that golden shore.
Twas the spring time when she was called away
The air wss rsdolent with sweet perfume.
Nature was clad IN beautiful array,
When We laid our darling in the quiet tomb.
she rests serenely where the daisies grow,
Aud crystal dewdrops sparkle above her,
Ter erfume laden zephyrs gently blow
tearing mt mories 70 Us who love her.
On her little mound on the quiet slope,
Wen plant sweet flowers and sxOtics rare.
Ven live aad trust, abide In faith and hope,
= nd meet our darling HELEN over there"
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-19
She Caught Severe Cold in Jerusalem in
I56S
York sun.

She Caught Severe Cold In Jerusalem in
1868.
Louisville Courier Journal
On q west bound Michigan Central train
the other day were a delicate appearing
young woman and an int lligent looking
young man. evidently husband and wife.
Immt diately behind this couple sat the man
Ito be found on every train-who would
die III net permitted to hear the sound of his
own voice at all times and IN all places. The
young lady had q troublesome cough, q fac:
which seemed to bother the talking machine
behind her greatly. At last he leaned for
ward and addressed her escort:
That gal's got bad cough"
yes"
Ever try cainip tea?'
3 "She hasn't drank anything else for more
than 300 years. She caught severe cold in
Jerusalem in 1868. l had fifty barrels OF cat
nip tea put into the baggage car for her use
between here and Chicago" pause
NO, 6uniOns. That's purely bunion
cough, you will notice, if you watch her
closely"
Amt the drsught lestle strong from
that window" after longer pause.
No, she has 10 have it. IL takes ID 900
pounds OF air TO make her q respectable
breath. We have patent breath incubator
which she uses at home It covers II 600
ares of valuabe land"
ibid you say she was our wife?i
mo. / oion't say anything of the sort.
She's one of these new fashioned Internal
machines that I'm taking over to England 10
blow up the Queen. The only trouble is
that am subject to fits and when got one
Of them break things up terribly"
Whist brings them on to you2"
Taking. Why, it was only yesterday
ihst killed three men, woman aud = pair
of twins before | could be got under con
troll. l feel very queer about the mead 40 ".
II
l reckon I'll go ont into the smokin' car"
said the bore. sidiDg out of the seat II
Con feel very we'll myself
Dent hurry away" shouted the young
man, while general litter ran through the
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-19

at Mt. Vernon was drafted. He refused to
report and was arrested by the Provost Mar
shall. He was confined In the second story
OF hotel, His brother got leave TO visit
him, and, while be was in the room, the con-
script tied some sheets together, and let him
telf down and escaped. The Provost Marshal
finding his brother there, told him DE would
take him in his brothers place. He held
him for few days prisoner. The man
sued In the Posey Circuit Court for damages
and got $50, / believe. 1t was amusing to
hear counsel on that trial describe the Tefu-
gee. In writing this truthful history
ought not to fail TO mention that the Home
Guard once made an incuTsion into Ken
tucky. When the forces returned there were
many hundreds of negroes who came along.
There sprang into being distinct branch OF
business. which under the name OF 'suosti-
tute brokerage" rose, reigned and nnaily
fell. Many and many q negro was put into
the army at $500 paid by the conscript,
while the negro sometimes only received $50
or S25 and the balance went to the broker.
In a short time this abuse was rectihed, but
great sums of money were made By the
brokers before the War Department could
provide for the new contingency At the
time cf the first draft law busiI ess was dull
but moUey 10 The ha1ds OF farmers espe'
cially, abundant. These were d ash
times on The border. A drafted man would
readily pay $500 10 be excused from serVlee.
There spIsng II before the Provost Marshal
a lively pTacIice. BawJ ers attended every
day v ith bundles of alfilsvi,s 10 show that
the drafted men were not ft for the service.
All the diseases that humanity is heir to
were maIshalled by country doctors and rel.
atlyes in formidable documents. L remem-
Der that the most successful practitioner IN
this court always relied on fits" It was per-
fectly certain that a man who had its was
not DIT for soldier. The prevalence OF TITS
was alarmingly great in the rural districts.
/ After a while the new business venture was
| destroyed by an act of Congress, which pro-
v'ded tina. any person who charged more
| than ten dollars for serv ices in presenting
The csse OF drafted mall for excuse from
service should be fined and imprisoned.
| When this law wss made known the pending
| car es were all dismissed. The lawyers retired
| from the practice, and cases of f.9 became
very infrequent.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-19
my SAINT.
MARGARET z. sAGSEa.

Ny saint As name her fancy yos thinking
OF some gracious woman, tall, stately, and
fair,
who bears her sereneiy, while wearing full
The beautiful crown OF her FURNISHED brown
hair.
Your vision is one for an artist 10 paint:
But its loveliness vsinly would strive to show
The form and the face and the charm Of my
saint.
Is she young Is she Oide am puzzled to tell
Her age is the last thing one thinks of, you
see.
known double
The sorrws life portions to you aud TO me.
still her tones are so steady, her smiles are 50
The glance Of her eye is so fearless and brave.
Few note the locks faded, the pale brow in
By lines that no chisel but pains can engrave.
The saints. whom we women have reyerencei
sp nj hours in prayer at the altar aud shrine;
Ny saint in brief snaIehes her time for prayer
By heaTtthrobs cries out to the Helper Di-
vine,
So busy for others, worn sisters and mothers.
Whose puI deus she aics them 10 lift as she /;
In love TO the neighbor, in lOwliest labor,
she serves the dear LoTd in service TO man.
Not dfmpleO anu no. IN lIt'S
Who fights. though victor, is guerdoned with
scars
The old wounds awaking, oft hurt 20 heart
breaking;
New pink and white beauty such agOny msrs,
But children adorn her, the babies climb Ger
her,
The weary sob out their distress on her breast,
And her plain little dwelling, it goes without
telling.
Is cosy and curtained and warm as nest.
She hasn't much money, this saint OF ny prais-
ing.
But never her loaf is TOO small 10 be shared
OF her best she is giving while patiently living;
The one household darling VINO could not DC
spared
Oh, fer be the day when the angels shall call
her:
AT the thought, at the presage, my spirit
grows faint;
The way would be dreary, once shorn OF thC
CHEEKY,
The dear, QUAINT presence 1 christen Ny Sam
BURLINGTON Hawkeye.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-19
True Even Upto Death.
lSt. Paul Globe.


There was touching story told by Mr..
Gladstone when Announcing the death OF
the Princess Alice in Parliamsnt. She had
teen cautioned by the physicians not to in
hale the breath OF her little bog, who WAS
i'll with dipb liberia. The little fellow was
tossing in his bed in the delirium of fever.
The Princess stood by the side of her child
and laid her hand on his brow and began to
ca less him. Touch cooled the fevered brain
and brought the wandering soul back from
its Wild dslirium to nestle for moment in
the lap of mothers love. Then throwing
his arms around her neck he whispered,
Mamma, kiss me-" The instinct of a
mothers love was stronger than science aud
she pressed Ter lips to those OF her child.
And yet there is not woman in all the
world but would say she would not have had
q mothers heart If she had not kissed her
BARN. And so it will be TO the end of time.
The mother will kiss her child. the vile her
husband and the lover his sweetheart, though
death in 8 thousand forms lay concealed De-
meath the vermilion coloring of the pouting
lips.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-19
To-Day.

See that What burdens Heaven may lay
Upon 30 II shrinking neck to-day,
To-Day YOU bear;
SOT seek 10 shun their weary weight,
Nor, bowed with dread. anticipate
Tomorrow care.
Nor with too great load shall Fate,
That Knows the end, your shoulders freight
Or heart Cypress.
If but to-say's appointed work
You gTspple With, nor wish TO shirk
Its due distress.
The coward heart that turns away
From present tasks: with justice may
ForbOdings fill.
Fools try 10 quaff to-norrow's wine;
As though t0-mOrrOw's sun could SHINE
ULrisen still,
New York sun.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-19
ApRel-Food.

Give me kiss. Twill cure the pain and ache
OF long day OF WEAKNESS and toll:
Like summer sunshine all LIES shadows make
Ny burdens lighter, aud my slns aSsOil."
Sc every day he lived on angel's-food:
Made strong and valiant By her wifely kiss;
TO o1ayely put aside temptations rude,
Yet knew not whence MS arInor came wis.
Nor knows he now, albeit she is gone,
But lives his life In brave and sanity mood
The kisses which he grew and siren gthened on,
Are still to him his daily sngel-f0od.
M. L. Rayne in Detroit.Free Press.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-19
Ne. I17l.-A Scientific Students GA

Ne. I17l.-A Scientific Students Quiz
Are you student OF eonchology?
II So come walk upon the beach with me.
Let us inspect & certain small crustacean.
A charming subject for your contemplation.
IL has hne eyes, though round enough to Durst,
4 u apron wears-it is a lady 'hrst''
A fine example for our human maids,
lis not prOgressive-no! 1t retrOgrades
And are you fond, my friend. or botany?
] hope you sre-cOme see the last with me.
pant the vulgar have entitled 'all y
an you its scientifc name recall?
o fe, for shame! The question strikes you
dumb;
The plant is Penieum Pfeliferum!
That vouih alone his fellow far sErpasres
Who kn5ws the names and natures OF the grasses.
A
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-19
Distance.

The captured bird is sweet. but sweeter the bird
that flies
And the sweetest voice of the lark IS his song
from the highest skies:
The fish from the nets are good. but the best re-
mains In the sea.
II tickle the woman you love, what woman so fair
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-19
Wa, ted to Be Disremoved.
IExehange ]

Civil service examiner 60 colored appli-
Giant for the situation of letter. csrrier)-
Safe the distance from London, England, to
Calcutta, India. via Suez canal
Colored applicant-Ssy. boss. ef yo'ss
gvine ter put me on dat route, YOU kin
disremove my spplicashun offsn de book.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-19
Tho ADriI Trial.

To the reader sending ia the best lot OF
answers to the fKnotty Problems of April
will be presented fine Mark Twain scrap
book. The solutions for each week
should be orwsrded within six days after
the date OF the Sentinel containing the puz-
zles answered
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-19
30. II14-Whas AmIp

IN shsdowy nook by the side OF q hill,
My silvery on 1oles dow:
And 81 my side the l0lg gresn fern
And wee white violets grow.
The shy wild birds love me well,
And the little forsst.fawn;
And catch the tiuts of the eastern SKY,
Like pearl at early morn, ]. A.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-19

How Easily Things Go Wrong.
ALAS, how easily things go wrong
sigh TOO much or q kiss too long
And father patience is quite worn out:
There's a hurried ste p and wrathiui shout,
And the dream of youthful rair Is Ger
A youth escapes through the open door
With terTog imprinted upon his face.
And goes down the street al lying pace
With bat in hand and dog IN chase.
The deg to the flying youth draws nigh:
There's savage growl and piercing cry.
ALAS how easily things go wrong:
Why did the lover stay so longY
painting youth at his mothers door
Is yowing he'll go out to court no more:
A dog is returning with visage grim,
Dragging an listers tails with him,
''Alasl bow EASILY things so wrong.
When lover f0olishly tarries TO long;
''And yet how easily things go right"
When be leaves at a decent time OF night,
He's wise who this in his memory logs:
Fathers are fathers, aud DOGS are dogs.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-19

Writing from Lynn, Mass, correspond
ent r. minds the Scientific American that, as
an instance OF . remarkable flight of an ex.
exploded in that city aud the flying portion.
describing circle high in the air. landed
nine hundred feet from where it started.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-19
RAMBERGER
Hat Specialties!

The people appreciate Low Prices Look at these figures
ONE DOLLAR buys nice lght-colored stiff Hat
Latest style.
TWO DOLLARS buys fine Stiff Hat either black
brown--Latest style
FIFTY CENTS buys fine Silk C inalmost any shape
You may wish
that all our Hats and Caps offered in the pro
portion. Call and
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-19
The March Award.

The sender of the best lot of answers to the
"Knotty Problems of March was d. A.
Cloud, Indianapolis, to whom the prize is
awarded. r. Eaton, Greeley, Colo. deserves
honorable mention" for the second list in
size. The other lists forwarded were mostly
for single week only.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-19
GNOTTY PROBLEEs.

Our readers are invited TO furnish original enig-
mas, chTsdes, riddles. rubses and other "knotty
problems" addressing all communications rela
tive to this department to z. B. Chad6ouTn. Lew
istOn, Maine.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-19
No. 11se.-A simple Play.

when a metallic point you spy
Upon q string. 1t may be Il
A slight sppeudaye TO a dress
Ny name will Just SIS well express
i am e catch-word. or a cure;
And something mean and paltry, too:
II y>On at me should get 4 peep
Perhaps IoB' d call me q young sheep;
And yet risky lad would say
IN nothing but a simple play.
NFIS1STAS
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-19
No lisa Numerical Enie ma.

Little Nellie, who il trying to /, >. 8, f.
G. her der brother JACK finds il very diff
cOlt TO Ie member what she reads abon5 tue
/ . B. nat curiOns Australian bird-Rnd
tther creatures ard she oitel feels obliged
60 sin up ) 8, at night to stndy about
them. UNCLE BEN,
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-19
Berry Benson in April Century.


Tell no secrets to thy servant.
IL you hate a man. let him live
To know ths Dsg search the old.
May TO morrow be all you wish.
Even q cur NAV bark e his own gate.
Dig two graves before cursing a neighbor.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-19
No. 1I7O.-Prosy Charades.

y
J. First is something very small, second
is smaller, and whole is stupid and dull,
having no first
2. Whole hiss no beard, though second
may have. That second is whole there can
he no doubt, though first positively denies
this fact. NELsoNIAN.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-19

The silent man is often worth listening to
He is a wise man who can preach q snort
sermon.
A man who lends money to his friend shall
never see either bis friend Of his money
sgaiD.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-19

WHEN BLOCK OPPOSITE POST OFFICE
includes the old and established BRYANT
Il STRATTON school, together with the
BUSINESS COLLEGE.
The departments OF the university are in
first class working order. Persons interested
in an honest and efficient school are invited
to see the improved condition OF the institu-
ton under its new management. Actual bus
ness department is now in operation.
Officers and proprietors:
ELI F. BRowN, President.
ORRIN Ii. TOOK Vice Pre-
EMMETT J. HEB, Secretary.
WIN. NJ. REDNAN, Treasurer.
nS- Full particulars to any address.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-19

1850 Cane brake.
'1l60.-The mania a uotu.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-19

No. II6S.-A Charade.
che sunlight slsnted soft and gold
Across city fast asleep.
Where shining nsrbie shafts arose. -
With messy bases, broad and deep.
And eds OF green and plumy grass,
Ana frsts. untouched, of yellow mold.
And wild and weed-green banks that tell
OF 1t arts grown careless. free and cold.
And quaint, bright places, childishlY,
Win rosy shells and t1nsel deckedi
Yet pitifully showing forth,
some lives made weary, chrushed aud
wrecked.
The sunlight slanted DER the whole,
And on 3 era ssy. rolling nil;
Across bridge, there Law beneath
thy stream, fern grown and still.
Across three slender girlish forms,
One all ia blue, and two IA white;
Their faces framed in Haunting bats,
We're turned, like flowers, to the light.
Across three boyish cavaliers,
Nho talked with voices glad and gay,
About a hundred foolish things.
And twenty seconds distant lay
The fading forms oil fOwer-like girls.
The wasting frames of manly men;
The breezes signing, swept the trees,
Lig hit laughter ripE led do1d the glen'
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-19
No. 1909 -.Behead aud CurtaiI.

No. 1169 --Behead and CurtaiI.
!. Behesd and curtail game of cards.
Inc rest Will wheel the dirt from your yards.
. The same to an iron, muddy feet ne'er scern.
ing,
VIII change TO a cloth very useful in mourn.
ing.
O. 4 man who uses the pen will be
The place, when a child, my nurse laid me.
4 "ueavy OF heart" at once may be seen
To change into 8 useful machine.
IPSLASTr,
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-19

Answers
1153.-Ink.
ll54.-Campanile.
ll55.-God is nov hers.
1I56.-Death.
1851 Nail.
1l5S.- o rlando;
7 hurio;
n ellen;
L phesus;
L yssnder;
L eonatus;
o phelis.
1850 -Canehraka
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-11

From the Philadelphia Record.
The anti-Cleveland Democrats have been
having pretty poor luck of late. Tammany
has surrendered. Van Pelt, of Chicago, has
mustered his "65,000 Cook county Demo
Gratis" and found them short $4,000 by actual
count. Congressman Barksdale, of Missis-
sippi, whom the correspondents had selected
to lead the revolt in the House, says he has
no quarrel with tho president Senator
Eustis, of Louisiana seems to surprise with
in himself the active opposition, and resem-
bles the shost of Koscusko in Campbell's
poem, being "tew but undismayed." These
gentlemen should remember the experience
of the rash young man, who undertook TO see
Artemus Wards mammoth and unparalleled
show without paying. -. The Snowman
fell upon him. When the young
man was taken homo to his mother she in
spected him narrowly and said "I see
what ails you, my son. You have been Fool
ing with Thrashing Machine. You have
gone in with the oats and came out with the
straw, and the horses have got you under
their feet and tnmpled upon you with their
huts, my son.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-11

The bilious are its certain prey. In intormIt-
tent and remittcnt fever, dumb ague and ague
cake, the liver is always seriously affected and
the blood contaminated with bile. One of the
chief reasons why Hostetter's Stomach Bitters
is such sure defense against chills and fever
and every form of malarial disease, is, that it
does away with liability to the disease by re-
forming irrcgularity of the hillary organ in ad-
vance OF the arrival of the season when the dis
ease il prevalent There Is no finer fortifying
preparative for those about visiting or emf
grating to alocality where the Miasma-taint eX
lists. There Is no certain immunity from dis
ease in IN endemic epidemic form, to De Sc
cured by the use of the average tonics and anti
spasmodics. But where quininc fails the Bitters
succeeds both in preventing and curing. More
over, ii removes every Vestige of dyspepsia and
overcomes constipation, rheumatism, inactivity
OF the kidneys and bladder, and tnnquilizes
and strengthens the nervous system a5-l2
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-11
DEATH.

Weep not that death has barred his blade
And thrust 1t In the sprfngiug corn,
While bending stems that droop and fade
lie marks ana passes by in scorn.
Weep not that some make prayer in vain
To death through all the weary days;
His sickle reaps the nobest grain.
Aud leaves the tires beside the ways.
Weep not to see his hand appear
And beckon DER the western sea;
The gallant hearts TO us so dear,
oh death, are dearer still to thee.
Weep not that strong young spirits lie
Oflght and life and love bereft;
Nay, weep not for the good that die,
But for the evil that are left.
-Erop, Chambers Journal.