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Doing their Duty.

Ex-Speaker Carlisle has been spend
ing some time in Washington. On
his return to his home in Kentucky
he gave pnblic expression TO his views
regarding president Cleveland and
his administration. Mr.. Carlisle said:
81 am satisfied that Mr.. Cleveland
and the heads Of the various depart
ments are doing the very best they
can under the circumstances, and
that they are entitled to the support
and confidence of their political friends
throughout the country. The presi-
dent is q sensible, honest and patri-
otic man, whose highest amcition is
to discharge his official dnties in strict
accordance with the constitution and
laws, and for the promotion Of the
public welfare. a
He is careful and conscientious
about everything he undertakes, aud
if he commits any mistakes in making
appointments or otherwise, they will,
in my opinion, be due to the fact
that he is not able in every instance
to obtain correct information concern
ing the matters upon which he is com
PEELED to act He works hard, listens
patiently to the statements and the
suggestions of others, and then he
decides according to his own iudg-
ment as to what is right and proper
under the circumstances. The amount
of work he performs is remarkable, Ho
is in his Office from early in the morn
ing till late in the afternoon, and
nearly every evening he is engaged
for several hours with some member
of the cabinet, examining papers and
discussing questions connected with
the business OF the departments.
+ mention this merely to show the
injustice Of the complaints which have
been made in some quarters on the
ground that tho administration has
been moving too slowly. II is phys
ically impossible for the president
and his cabinet to do more than they
are doing. People who think chat
the entire body OF officers and em-
ployes who have charge Of these vast
interests, and who are familiar with
them, can be suddenly changed with
out detriment to the public service,
are, in my opinion, very much mis-
taken, and therefore / think the adj
ministration has 80 far acted wisely
in respect to this subject. But this
does not mean that the party which
has received the indorsement Of the
people shall not control the govern
ment. 1t means, simply, as / under
stand it, that hasty and inconsiderato
action will be avoided as far as possb-
BILE, and that due care and caution
will be exercised in determining the
times and the placesin which changes
can be properly made.
President Cleveland is solid with
the people, and every time disap-
pointed ofice-holder or his friends
howl, they feel more assured than
ever that thepublic servants at Wash
ington are doing their duty.
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BEECHER, Texas, j
Riel and his Cause.

The Canadian government will not
hang Riel. There are too many
Frenchmen in lower Canada who
have the same blood in their veins as
has the revolutionist. There are too
many discontented people in the
provinces who know that Riel's cause
was a Just one. 1t will not do to
court further trouble at present. The
spirit Of Old Papinot still fingers in
the land, and many there are still Inv
ing who met the English nuskets
with sharp pointed sticks under him;
Revolution was the only method
which the half-breeds could pursue
successfully to "get into court
English Ofice-mongers treat with
contempt all appeals from the com
mon people. and the only way TO reach
the ear OF the nation is to shoot down
a few petty tyrants. This the bali
breeds have done, and their griey-
ances will be Investigated.
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SOCIETIES

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nur.days in sseh uOuth- 2 = koss.
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For Tho Free Press.

For Tho Free Press.
GladstOne's Fall.
Say. was it the ghost of her Gordon that
came,
And mantled tho cheeks of her children
with shame?
Or was it the Arab along the dark Nile,
His Soudanese policy many thought vile!
Or was it green Erin, brave, starving and
strong,
Protesting, and voting. against every wronngF
Or was it the dread of the great Russian
bear,
That wei ghed him down with her groans of
despair?
Or was it his course with the dusky Afghan,
That made her lose faith in the stately old
man2
Oh, mol 1t was something far worse than
them all,
That brought on the crisis, and caused his
downfall
The Tories revolted-the isles of the free,
Like Boston, of old, at his tax upon tea,
A tribute, they said, they could not afford;
And so, like their tea, he was thrown over,
board,
TeatotalIy swamped, and eternally floored.
NJ,
GALVESTON, TEXAS, June IA. 1885.
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GULLIBILITY.

The will phantoms aud shri eking cries Of a
worthless humbug can make money by impos-
Ing upon the credulity aud Ignorance OF an hon
est public, and the supply OF this species OF
work seems more than adequate to the demand.
The enuuciation OF facts-that have stood
crucial tests facts proven by brain force and
tangible evidence, should satisfy all laudable
enterprises; but the execrabe habit OF teaching
false ideas for self aggrandisement is truly rep
ehensble and should be scJrned by all classes.
When we tell the public that B. B. B. Is the
great Blood Poison Remedy contains 1odide OF
Potash as one Of its ingredients, and when we,
as old members of the medical protest., n, say
that Iodide of potash is nots poison, we think
Il very prssumptlve for men outside ofthe pro-
fession to assert that is poison. The Facts do
not warrant such q conclusion. and If those who
make the assertion that Potash is poison do
not know better they are set Of unenvisble ig-
noramusss.
As a solid foundation ofheavy masonry has
been built for B. B. B., upon which 1t Is now
proudly perched-the broken arches and fallen
columns Of braxen humbugs will soon be in
search Of fresh "cock and bull'' stories and
more printer's ink, but merit cannot be downed
Al5oush B. B. B. is only year old, yet its ef-
fect-its magical and peerless power over all
blood, skin, and kidney diseases. has been In
delibly stamped upon the tablets Of the memory
Of Thousands here at home, who have been cured
after having used hundreds ofbottles OF 9TH
or remedies.
Compared to other remedies, B. B. B. Ia the
radiant sunbeam ofmiddsy flinging its glittering
glare to saddened hearts, while others are pale
mooubeams, pushing through misty meshes OF
darkness, in search Of something they can cure.
tcures Blood Diseases and Poisons, Catarrh,
Old Ulcers, Scrofuls. rheumatism, Skin Diseas-
ss, Kidney troubles, etc., aud we hold a 81 page
book full OF evidence-Atlanta evidence-that
cannot be doubted, proving all we claim. Our
certificates are aot phantasmagoricel, nor TAR
fetched, bnt are voluntary outbnrsts OF men and
women Of Atlanta. jn4 I'm
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all right, and has returned to the Ho-
tel do jackson until next court.
Mr.. Cliff Ellison, who is Temporal
rily sojourning here, has not furnished
the necessary requisites to entitle him
to a departure, and in consequence
his stay with us will be indefinite.
I am going fishing next week, SO
you may prepare yourself for some
thing sensational. +. >
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NO
New York Herald /:

New York Herald: >ti
II have occasion, by the nature of
my work, to know what is being done
in the treasury and by the adminis-
tration in the way Of reforming long
standing and very grave abuses; and
I say to you that, in the important
matters with which 1 am necessarily
familiar, this Democratic administra-
ton has done more in three months
than has been done in fifteen years
before s
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1885-06-25

Let Us symp.thiEe with our SISTER
state. ArI-ansas- The seventeeL-year
Ioousts are springing in nyriads from
the soil and Ms Belle Boyd is teach.
ing eloeution IN the very capital Of
tl,e stafe.-Fort Worth Gazette
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1885-06-25

Ex-msyor French, who is after the
San Antonio post-Ohice, is conscien
tious in his belief that the dead past
should bury the past There was a
time when he was a republican can
didase ior a county ofice.-FL Worth
Gazette.
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JUNE.

JUNE.
gazed upon the glorious sky
And the green mountains round
And thought that when l came to lie
Within the silent ground,
'Twere pleasant, that in tlowery June,
When brooks send up joyful tune,
And groves joyous sound,
The sexton's hand my grave to make,
The rich, green mountain turf should
break.
A cell within the frozen mold,
A coffin borne through sleet,
And icy clods above it rolled.
While fierce the temposts beat
Away II will not think of these
Blue be the sky and soft the breeze,
Earth green beneath the feet,
And be the damp mold gently pressed
Into my narrow place of rest.
There through the long, long summer
hours
The golden light should lie,
And thick young herbs, and groups of
flowers,
Stand in their beauty by.
The oriole should build and tell
His love tale close beside my cell;
The idle butterfly
Should rest him there, and there be heard
The housewife bee and humming- bird.
And what If cheerful shouts at noon
Come, from the village sent,
Or songs of maids beneath the moon
With fairy laughter blent,
And what if in the evening light,
Betrothed lovers walk in sight
OF my low monument?
] would the lovely scene around
Might know no sadder sight nor sound.
know, I know, should not see
The seasons glorious show,
Nor would its brightness shine for ME
Nor its wild music flow
But if around my place of sleep
The friends l love should come to weep
They might not haste to go;
Soft airs. and song, and light. and bloom
Should keep them lingering by my tomb
These to their softened hearts should beal
The thought of what has been,
And speak of one who cannot share
The gladness of the scenes.
Whose part in all the pomp that fills
The circuit of the summer hills,
Is-that his grave is green;
And deeply would their hearts rejoice
To hear again his living voice.
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MAILS.

ARRIvAL AND DEPARTURE OF, TO AND
FROM SAN MARCOS POST OFFICE.
Nails from Austin arrive at $40 a. M ana S''O
D. m; close at Sis q. m. and S:oo p m'
usi,s from San Antonio arrive at S45 a. m. and
Gas o. m: close at s:l5 a. m. and 6:l5 p: m. =,
Luiing, arrives at IL NJ, closes a. lE4o' r. IA
Above mails arrive and depart daily.
at a A. M, Arrives Thursday aud Saturday AZ
P. N.
oTPIcE HOURS.
General Delivery from A. NJ, to IL NJ. and from n
Up. N.to5 P. NJ except during ols'vSS n on
Sundays thirty minutes after distribution OF ea'"
of the principal mails. uv,roN p N
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Death In June Preferred.

Give us the old songs and poems now and
then-so we here give place to one of our
old favorites. June at the North is the queen
of the year-equivalent to April in this part
of Texas. Apropos, wenot long since pub
lished on item that the managers of tho New
York public schools had ruled out Bryant's
poems as not being worthy Of place among
their school exercises. Such stupidity ap-
pears to us to be objectionable. Apro-
pos again, it is worth noting that Bryant
actually died June ~, ls7S.-[ED. FREE
PRESS
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For the FREE PzEss.
A Pro bIem.

No thoughts or feelings, are innate,
They are but evolutions, all,
To mortals, in this dark estate,
At mystic revelations call.
II so, Of mind, why not of man, sir!
What reader can the riddle answer!
Pray, do SO, quickly, if you can, sir
DARWIN.
BEEoHER. Texas, June 10, 1885.
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GENERAL DIRECTORY.
OFEICIA l..

CoNaREssMAS-STB DISTINCT:
Hon, James r. Miller, Of Gonzales County.
sENAToa 18th DISTRICT:
Hon. Geo. Pfeuffer, of Comal Co.
RrpsxsRsrArIvrs--9lsr DISTRICT:
Hon J. II. Combs, Of Hays Co.
Hon. :. N. Jolly. Of Caldwell Co.
DISTRICT 0oURT--2aSD DISTINCT.
Hon, II. Teichmueller, Presiding Judge. LaGrange
i'm. Bethany. Attorney, Austin Co.
rrsEs OF HOLDING COURT. 30
H.ys.-lst Mondays In March and September. May
continue three weeks.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Ed D. Kone, Judge County Court.
Jas. G. Burleson, Dist. and County Clerk.
Owen Ford, County Attorney.
a. e. Barber Sheriff. J. s.. Davis, Deputy:
C.s: Cock, Justice. of the Peace Pre- No;
David Lynch, .
j. II. Patterson, County Treasurer.
X. 8. FortsUn, Assessor.
Joe. G. Eve, Surveyor.
TT. Mecs..y. c0H'r Preo!ao' No: !
j. 4. BurlesOn, .
Peter Schmitt,
Frank Obanion, Constable precinct No. l.
TIMES or HOLDING County AND PBEoIsor CouRrs-
County Court for Criminal, Civil and Pr.bate ous
aness-4th Mondays in January, March, May, July,
September and November.
Commissioners Court-2d Mondays In February
Nay, August and November. =
Justice Court, Precinct No. Last Monday 10
each month. at San N ARGOS.
month, San Marcos. A., c,..
Precinct No. 2-2d Friday in each month M. City
+" SD " wimberiey's Mill.
4-4th /" Dripping Springs.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Mayor-wm. Giesen. -,
Council-W. D, Wood. G. W. Donaldson, JONI
williamson, D. A. Glover. I'D. ]. L. Green.
Marshal-T. N. Prince.
Street observation-disclosures Watkins.
Council meets the frst Tuesday in each month.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-04-04
Lightning Rods.

A correspondent III Cumberland
County, Pa, states that rod agent
called on him to convince him that
plated copper was much better for
lightning rods than iron, and especial
ly better thanrusted iron. He brought
"a battery with two rods a foot
long, one plated copper and the other
rusted iron. With the copper, held in
the hand in contact with the battery.
the electric current could be felt; with
the ruSted IRON no sensation was per-
ceptible, and the agent triumphed.
We have never yet met with a light
nng-rOd agent whom we could not 81
lence with two or three questions.
This one must have been very ignOr-
ant If he did not know that frictiOnal
or machine electricity is entirely dis
tInct from that produced by acids act
ing on metal. The former is the same
as that coming from the clouds; and
II our correspondent had required the
agent to perform the experiment with
a common electric machine sufficient
to give q strong spark, there would
have been no difference between the
copper and the rusted iron. The Gov
erlng OF nOn-cOnducting rust, which ex-
Guided the galvanic current, would
have been instantly passed by the
spark. Copper is a better conductor
than IRON, IN about the same degree as
It's higher cost, and iron being sitter is
better. On account of the very com
mon want OF information on the prin-
clp!es OF electricity, thefailure of many
lightning rods as protectors OF build
ings from their wrong construction. is
readily accounted for.-Counhy Gen
fpnlan.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-04-04
More Brain Power on the Farm

About the best use a farmer can
make OF himself is, to devote the long
winter evenings to an increase OF his
mental activity. Farms differ in their
productlveness, mainly according to
the amount OF intelligence that is
brought to their cultivation. Brain
power may be increased bv q thor
ough knowledge of the present condi-
ton OF the farm, and its worth as
machine to make money. What
crops have paid, and what have been
raised and sold at loss? What per
cent. has 1t paid on the capital invest
ed? In the case OF the gain what Sc
cured 1t? Was it the manure applied
or the frequent tillage, or the extra
amount OF rainfall? In the case of
loss, was 1t the want of fertilizers. was
the crop chOked by weeds. or was the
seed poor. and the crop damaged by
the planting This accounting for
failures Is rs profitable rs Dragging
over big crops. without making any
record Otthe process OF Obtainingtnem.
Bran power may be increased bv
planning improvements. There may
be several acres Of Paat-swamp or bog
meadow producing only brush and
bog hay, hardly worthcuttinc. There
Is good outlet, and it can be drained
three feet or more deep. Cipher out
the cost OF drainage, and of making it
produce three tons of clover or timo-
thy to the acre. Would not the sight
OF the waving heads of the grass be
more pleasing than the cat-tails, flags
and skunk-cabbages, that now waste
their sweetness upon the desert air?
There may be an acre Of swale. under
laid with hard pan, over which ferns.
weeds, and aquatic grasses run riot
during the whole summer. Is it not
time the bottom was knocked out of
1t, by tiles laid three or four feet in
the ground and the superhuous water
compelled to 60 through these, instead
OF creeping lazily over the surface? It
can be made the best grass land on
the farm. Why not make it so. and
handle the dollars that come from the
crops? Brain power can
be increased by reading and digesting
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-04-04

Constance drew her hand from him
proudly, a sudden crimson dying each
white cheek.
Not until we have heard what this
woman has to say" she said.
Il am his wife, the woman said,
simply, the fire in her eyes suddenly
quenched in tears; and, drawing from
her bosom a folded paper, she handed
it to the minister.
This is correct" the clergyman
said, turning toward the bridal party.
''Slr, what have you to say?"
But Ernest Riviere was not there;
he had opened passage through the
silent, shrinking guests, and gone from
reprOach or explanation out into the
night, and those who watched him de
part, followed by the slender figure OF
his young wife, never looked upon
either face again.
There was instant confusion, III
which Charles Vincent drew his former
employer aside and spoke few words
to him in low, eager tones; then the
old man, after grasping Charley warm
ly by the hand, turned to his daughter
81 did not know when | urged YOU to
pay III uCDt " inc SCOuuuItl bN Ildt-
rying him, that | was breaking your
heart, my child he said, taking his
girl hand in his, you were going to
marry to please me, and | have PROV
en- myself unfit to select husband for
you; now, you may choose for your
self, and I'll say no word against your
happiness"
Constance looked up, glad light in
her eyes; and Charlie, who had also
approached her, held out his hand.
She laid hers within it with a
vivid blush and a sunny smile, and
her father turned to the wondering
guests.
Il am not going to allow you to
leave us without seeing the ceremony
performed for which [ invited YOU" he
said. Il stepped between my daughter
and an honorable mans love through
sense Ofindebtednesst to that scoundrel.
But now | give her hand, with my
blessing, to one who has long had her
young heart, our old acquaintance,
Charlie Vincent. So, Mr.. Strong" to
the clergyman, you may proceed this
time without fear of an interruption"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-04-04
Some Farm Proverbs.

|. My son, place not to thy lips the
rolled leaf OF Nico hana Tabaculn. for
its taste is offensive and it will impair
the sweetness OF thy breath;
2. For the nasty he goat cheweth it,
and the foul green worm loveth it;
3. But rather make it into n decoc-
ton to drive from thy plants the
troublesome fly and the pestiferous
spider;
4. Or sprinkle it over thy vines to
keep away the bug that eateth them;
5. Or burn it, so that the smoke
thereof will purify the incubating
nests of thy hens.
6. Then for, thy neatness and
thoughtful care, thy spouse will put
her arms around thee, and thy daugh-
tiers regard thee with affectionate rev
erence.
7. And thy plants will flourish as
the green bay tree, and thy vines be
loaded with fruit-and thy life will be
prolonged.
8. Use not prOfane language toward
thy mule, lest he lay back his ears and
kick thee; nor toward thy OK, lest he
become excited and refuse to labor;
nor toward the man who serveth thee;
noryet to any member of thy house
hold; for unruly speech will not bring
RAIN or blessing
9. But let thy words be gentle and
thy voice mellifluous; show a benign
countenance to thy enemy as well as
to thy friend, and hewill cease his re
vikings and no longer trespass on thy
fields;
10. And thy affairs shall prosper ex-
ceedingly, and thy life run as smooth
ly as a river of water
IL. What thou doest, do sit should
be done.
-. The tree that is planted unseen
ly Will not grow; and in the season
thereof when thou puttest thy hand
upon its fruit, it will not be there.
10. The seed that thou sowest
should be sown Alright; if too deep the
cold earth will destroy it; if too shall
low, the drouth and the winds will IN
lure it-and when the harvest cores
there will be no harvest, and thy lit
tie ones will cry for bread.-T. G. in
the Prairie Farmer.