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San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1885-12-31
Postponed.

The fifteen hundred edition of the
FREE PRESS, announced in our last to
appear Jan. 7, will not appear till the
week following. Our engagements
have been such that we could not get
it up for the date first named in a
manner satisfactory to ourself-hence
the postponement
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ST. LOUIS LETTER.
Sr. LOUIS, Mo. Dec, "a, 1885.

ST. Louis, Mo. Dec, "a, 1850
EDITOR FREE PREss:-It is now al
most certain that Sadie Hayes, who
murdered Sergt. jerks Of the police
force over q year ago, will hang fol-
her awful crimo on January Is, 1886,
A powerful petition sent to the
Governor praying for mercy,is signed
by hundreds of good women of st.
Louis. Their appeal for commute
ton is bitter reproach to the Execu-
tive and Legislative departments OF
the State government for their con-
nivance and political support of the
unbridled liquor traffic existing In
this city. 1t is an awful commentary
on the murder and misery of so many
caused by strong drink. Five police
officers have been brutally assaulted
by the "hoodlum element" of st.
Louis in the past three days. Two
of the officers are thought to be fa-
tally injured.
Burglaries, petty thefts, and small
embellishments are epidemic here this
time of year, SO much SO, that courts
have not time to try them, and many
are dismissed for want of prosecution
or compromised and forgiven. The
''Murderers' row" in our city Jail re
ceived q new lodger last night named
Weber. This murderer's friends
say that drunken customer named
O'Donell presumed to dispute with
Mr.. Weber about 10 cents worth of
beer and Mr.. Weber crushed the dis
honest customers skull with large
mallet or "bung starter" tits thought
Mr.. Weber has too much money and
political influence in his ward to en-
terrain any serious apprehensions con-
corning his speedy release from GUS
tody.
The new building erected on the
corner of Broadway and Pine street
is eight stories high and is an archi-
tectural beauty. The Equity or Gould
Building, corner of 9th and Locust
streets will be ten stories in height.
The finest building West of New
York will be erected on the corner Of
4th and Olive streets and will be ten
stories high. 1t will be finished April
LIST, 1886. st. Louis is improving
rapidly in splendid buildings and i'm
mense fortunes, enormous corpora
tions, proving beyond doubt that
the rich are getting richer and the
poor are getting poorer. Thousands
are out shopping this Christmas eve.
Many are happy and many hundreds
of men women and children must be
content to feast on the sight and
smell of that which they cannot afford
to buy. Christmas brings good cheer
and bright scenes in large city but
it brings to view so much sadness
also, SO much hunger and nakedness
the poor little waits who are
not to blame for their condition, that
the sense of enjoyment is neutralized
at the sight. The pleasure and de-
light of tho holidays is mingled with
which is not pleasurable to
the heart
Happy Christmas to the editor and
readers of the FREE Press.
Carl, SMYTuE.
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Science Hall.
SCIENCE HALL, Dec. % 1885.

SCIENCE HALL, Dec. % 1885.
Ed. FREE PRESS: Thinking that you
would like to read few interesting items
from this institute, will take upon myself
the responsibility of informing you gener-
ally. On Wednesday, Dec 20, the pupils
entertained a large audience, consisting Of
the friends and patrons of the school. The
exercises opened ct 10 o'clock, a. m. with
prayer, by DR.. Hillyer, which was followed
by a song appropriate for the occasion, after
which there were several Rotations and
music. Then came Mrs. Andrews elocution
class which, considering the limited time
she has had to train them, did exceedingly
well. After this followed debate, 'Re-
solved that intemperance exerts greater
evil over the world than war" Affirmative
Mr.. ]. A. Pannell, Mr.. N. s. Ward, both
sides did exceedingly well in Encouragement.
The decision was rendered to the affirmative.
This was followed by recitations and decla-
nations, which closed the morning exercises.
The proceedings of the afternoon were
opened by another debate: "Resolved that
increased wealth has favorable effect on
the morals Of people" Mr.. J. w. Cloud
All. Mr.. G. l.. Andrews Neg. This was 8
very interesting and excited discussion, and
both seemed TO be very tenacious. They
also displayed excellent oratorical powers.
The affirmative was defeated, although il
was a very close contest The remainder
Of the evening was occupied by the Alethiah
society. which vas opened by prayer from
Mr.. ]. W Cloud, followed by a salutatOry
address by Miss Alma Miller, this Was fol
lowed BY Rotations and music, which
closed with the vale1ictory address By Miss
Matte Scallorn- This society consists, with
but few exceptions, wholly Of young ladies,
and thsy deserve great deal Of commend
tion for their Efforts IN making Il suocess-
The exercises Of the night were opened
With prayer. DR.. Halysr. followed BY song
Of greeting. This Was sleceeded By hierz-
~ and musical erercises Il the nost select
style. The Young IN and isdiss erhihlted
more than oriins,y training in eseh Of tbese
dsuartnsufs. Els erereis-s clossd sIth a.
orifiou hy Nr,tFrznk STANLEY, Ilis subject
beng Mini Va CRY q man
MrE An ~ oEersi tro Trizas for The
male Hn5 - T,-7iiis rTbo srosIlsl y D.
rla-rafi11 sd rsfstrfir-- Er- J. y Cloud
ard Pas ,st.rlsy ssrt ti1s winner for the
va1-z --izs Thy 'irsu s-raEs
f5r o. 49, -ts-h NJ stsnlsT sss fss
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EDIToR FREE PRRss:-Tho undersigned
committee having been appointed to repres-
ent our grievances to our fellow citizens
through tho press Of Hays county, would
respectfully represent that ON the night of
the 2tth, INST, our school house was burned.
This being the second burning of the same
kind in our vicinity duing the year. Our
houses were not costly, but we, like some
of Galveston's poor, lost all we had; and we
cannot afford, though We are poor and I'M
able to rebuild, to BIO without house in
which to worship God, and send our chill
dren to school. Therefore, relying upon
the hberality of our fellow citizens who have
always responded in aid of education and
christianity, we feel that IL is only necessary
to offer you an opportunity in order to Sc
cure the desired help. A committee has
been appointed to receive contributions,
among which is the Hon. e. II. Kone of
San Marcos.
Respectfully submitted,
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No Omission.

We announced in our last that no
paper would be issued from this office
this week. A pressure OF local news
and business matters has caused us
DO reconsider onr purpose, 30 we is
sue as usual, but compromise" with
the "holiday times" by half sheet.
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named gentlemen be appointed COMMITTEES
to solicit subscriptions'for building, etc, A.
+. Bridges, s. p. Bozarth. Il. +. Yantis, z
L. wimberly, e. p. Liny, II. @. Hubbs,
Jno. A. Watson, and Hon. Ed. Il. Kone OF
San Marcos.
Meeting thcn adjourned until Monday
next. More anon. OBSERVER.
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Brutal and Murderous Guards-Horri'
BILE Details.

The Denton Monitor tells terri
BILE story Of the treatment of convictf
on the Carrot farm, as related by one
who has been pardoned, John M.
Ashley:
He returns home a physical wreck,
on account OF the cruel and inhuman
treatment received during bis unjust
Imprisonment and punishments on
the Carrot farm. He is hardly able
to get about on crutches- We learn
from him that the prisoners are work
ed from the peep of day until dark,
and are driven, amidst curses and
blows, in a most barbarous Mariner.
He actually saw them stripped and
beaten to death by one Sergeant S.
II. Box and then buried like a dog in
board box, without any ceremony
whatever. The law provides that
thirty-nine lasbes may be applied, but
l39 were frequently administered,
for DO other reason than that they
were sick and could not stand upon
Their feet to work He saw the
sergeant knock down one George
Teubrook, from Wise county He
died during the night as be was very
ueak and could not work Joe DAVIS
uss besten b desth for TIE cTine 81
falling down from shser exhaustion
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Pntents Granted.

Patents granted to citizens of the South
ern States on Dec. /, 1885 and reportet
expressively for the FREE Press by @. A
Snow & Co. Patent lawyers, Opposite U. s
Patent Office, Washington, d. @.
y. Barron, Newman, Ga Leveler.
w. e. Elan, Americus, Ga. Ticket case
s. G. Flinton, Orange Factory, N. G.
Tobacco steamer,
F. L. Foushee, Batesville, Ark. Churning
device.
J. g. Gum. Knoxville, Tenn. Fruit
drier.
G. T. Mason, Sumter, s. G. Cotton picker
stem.
w. s. Mckenzie, Kemp. Tex. Combina-
ton wrench.
S. Moorman, Lafayette, Ala. Car coupl-
ing.
Z. S. Mullinax, Ganado, Tex. Wire street
cher.
G. A. D. Riley, Savannah, Ga. Locomo-
tive headlight.
w. A. Sipe. Monterey, Va. Book rest.
Fl. H. Summer, Senoia, Ga. Compound
pillow beam.
G. M. Traylor, Atlanta, GA. Travelling
sign for cars,
M. r. Oinson, Hope, Ark. Feed cutter.
J. II. Webb, Middle Settlement, Ark.
Spoke socket.
F. L. White, Gainesville Tex. Churn.
j. N. Williams, Mobile, Ala. Envelope.
M. M. Wilson, Honey Grove, Tex.
Tripgear.
Ut Winburn, Sumter s @ Motor.
j T Nixon, Lexington. Miss. Cotton gin.
s Perkins, Stamford, Ky. Bee hive.
j. w.. Hawkins, Munfordville. Ky.
Tobacco plant settler.
r. F, Horton, Walnut Lane, La. Cotton
press.
NJ F Irvine, Lampases, Texas. Weighing
apparatus.
w G Kinard, Towaliga, Ga. Plow.
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THE THREE GREAT LANGUAGES.


Comparative Importance of the English
Over the French and German Tongues.
The language in which Shakespeare
and Milton wrote was the language of
but five or six millions of people in their
day, and as late as one hundred years
ago English was spoken by not more
than fifteen or sixteen million people,
says the Paris american Register At
the same period French was the mother
tongue of at least thirty million people,
and German, in one or other of its
forms, was the language of from thirty
to forty million people. This state OF
affairs is now completely reversed. Be-
tween forty and fifty years ago the En-
glish language equaled the German in
the number of those who spoke it, and
now the latter is left far behind in the
race. German is spoken by 100000
persons in theAustria-Hungarian empire
$4,000, 600 in the German empire. 10000
in Belgium, 2, ,000, 900 in Switzerland. and
the native tongue of some 100000
in. the United States and Canada. This
gives total of about sixty million per.
sons who may speak German.
With French the case is much the
same. but the gain during the past cen-
turv has been smaller than that of Ger
man. French is now spoken by the
38, 600, 600 people of France, by 2,250,-
600 in Belgium, 100000 in Alsace-Lor-
raine, 100000 in Switzerland. 1,500. 600
in Canada and the United States. 600.-
600 in Hayti, and by 100000 in Al
giers, India, the West Indies, and Afri-
ca; in all about forty-fve million.
English is now spoken by all but some
SOC, 900 of the 81. 900. 900 persons in the
British Islands. by So. coo. 600 out of the
56, coo. 600 inhabitants of the United
States, by 1900. 600 persons in Canada,
100000 in Australasia. /. 700, 900 per-
sons in the West Indies, and perhaps by
1000, 600 in India and the other British
colonies. This brings up the total to
100000. 900. which can not be very tar
from the truth. = Chicago Newe
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what She GOT.

Z
Mrs. Blue had sent her cook out to
do the marketing. and when she re-
turned she went down tes see what she
had got, and if she had done her work
properly,
"Well, Mary" she inquired. "did you
get the vegetablesP"
'.Yesum.'
'And the fishe"
s'Yesum."
sAnd the melonp"
"Yesum."
aAnd the groceriesp'
ssYesum,
There wasn't anything else for you
to get, was thereP"
"Yesum.n
II guess you must be mistaken; that's
all told you to get, wasn't ite'
"Yesum."
swell, II hope TO goodness you haven't
been buying things you had no business
to buy. What else did you getp' and
the lady's voice had an angry quaveT
in it.
II got back, mum, that's all. "
The lady looked at the load Of stud
the girl had brought with her. and,
wondered if sarcasm were intended, but
she only smiled sweetly. Merchant
Ir0ueler.
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FRAUDS IN CIGARS.

Fraudulent Manufacturers Who Initiate
Popular and Expensive Brands.
"Now, there's cigar" said tobacco
merchant whose firm handled more
than million dollars worth of cigars
a year, ''that has made great reputa-
ton within the past year. and which is
eagerly smoked by all good judges OF
cigars, and yet there is so much cheat
ing done in this particular brand that
fully twothirds of the smokers are
swindled. | am not surprised, either,
that they do not find it out, as the cheat
ing is very adroitly done. The price of
the cigar to dealers is twenty-five and
half cents, and yet you can buy the
cigar, or what they pretend is the cigar,
all over town for twenty-five cents We
will not retail them for less than twenty
eight cents, because that gives us little
enough profit.
Are all that are sold for twenty-five
cents bogus?''
''They are not the true imported
brand, as rule. Of course, there are
occasional big hotels and restaurants
that are content to handle them at a
margin of two and half cents. The
fraud is effected in this way: Clerks or
boys in the hotels or restaurants where
the genuine brand is sold keep the
boxes when they become empty and
supply them at fair cost-say fifty
cents apieee-to the small dealers. A
domestic cigar is manufactured of the
exact shape and color of the imported
brand, and the box is filed with these
domestic cigars. The box is genuine,
and the cigars very much like the real
thing. The dealer. by this little game,
clears about thirteen cents on cigar
a pretty tidy profit, and well worth the
r1lse even if it is State Prison offense.
''How can one detect the spurious
onepn
''Only an expert can tell the differ
enee in the make of the cigar at glance,
but if you look carefully at the date on
the box it might give you clew. For
instance, saw some cigars that were
not over. a week old the other day that
were in box labeled October II. The
manufacturers on the other side are en-
deavoring to throw difficulties in the
way of these fraudulent dealers by put
ting peculiar glaze on their boxes.
But the cigar thieves soon get hold of
the boxes. so what are they going to dc
about it?'-N. Y. Suts.
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There is also spiracle near the head
When about to transform into the pupa
or chrysalis state, the body contracts
into barrel-shaped case, and turns
brown and hard. This case is called
the puparium, and within it the maggot
becomes pupa or chrysalis.
The house-fiy, having as maggot
lived a squalid existence, after a pupal
sleep of from five to seven days, pushes
off one end of its pupal case. and on
emerging from the case. Immediately
runs about, though its wings are still
small, soft and baggy, much as in the
pupa. Soon. however. the skin becomes
dry and hard; the fluid in the wings
dries, and in a few moments the fiy
takes fight.
If in its winged state the fly is one of
the most disagreeable features of dog
days, and people wonder why flies were
ever made at all, it should be remem-
bered that flies have an infancy as mag
gots, and the loathsome life they then
lead as scavengers cleanses and purities
the August air, and aids in lowering
the death rate of our cities and towns.
While most house-fiies die on APP
proach of winter, multitudes being at
tackled by white fungus, their swollen
dead bodies remaining on the wall or
windows in October, few live through
the winter. While writing this article
on the first warm day in spring. few
flies have for the first time made their
appearance in our study. These will
lay their eggs about stables in the late
spring, and thus give rise to a swarm
OF maggots and August fiies.-A. S.
Packard, Jr., in Youth's Companion.
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SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The lower clergy of the City Of
Rome are so poorly paid that many Of
them are in absolute penury.
The Swedenborgians in the United
States number eghty-seven churches,
ninety-two ministers and four thousand
members.
The number of Quakers in the
United States is estimated at less than
100000. They have d fine college at
Richmond, Ind.
Fifty years ago schoolmasters had
no clocks or watches, but told the time
of the day by mark on the floor, or if
cloudy, guessed at noon. Chicago Her
aid.
Western colleges claim that the
average age of graduates is rising there
-and with it presumably the standard
OF admlssion-as well as in the Eastern
colleges es.--Bostop Journal.
An experienced educator says that
the ideal commencement programme
should always contain three features
production by member of the class,
one by an alumnus and another by q
well-known speaker. - Chicago Times.
1t has just been made known by the
directors that Hiram College, at which
President Garfield was a student and
subsequently its President, is to be
moved from its present location to
Warren, Ohio, the county seat of Trum-
bull County.
Among the converted Indians OF
Arizona and New Mexico the real hero
of the Bible is Daniel. The meekness
aud lowliness of the SAVIOR do not
appeal to their imagination with the
force of Daniels experiences among the
lions.
Henry B. Stanton's unique book OF
racy "reminiscences says that Dr. Beman
of Troy. N. Y. leader Of the New
School Presbyterians, used to repeat the
following with gusto:
We nned all;
In Gains murder
We sinned furder.
BY DIR. Green
Our sin is SEEN"
DR.. Ashbel Green was president of
Princeton College.
I'm the year 1900 there were in tho
United States $3.50 evangelical
CHuICHoSi AH 1CoO, 4O.OfOf III lolUt w.
148, and in 1880. $1,000. gain Of o.
600 in ten years, ending in 1880. The
number of communicates in evangelical
churches in the United States in 1906
was 364, 900; in 1850, 2,529, 900; in 1870,
6.673, 600. and in 1880. 10.065, 600.
Taking the whole country through,
there was in 1900 one evangelical com
municant in every 144 inhabitants; in
1850, one to every 81; in 1870.s one to
every 81, and in 1880, one to every g.
N. Z. Tribune.
No preacher need preach to empty
pews these days. Let him just pro.
claim from his pulpit that the most of
the Bible is fable, and that those pas
sages which aren't fables don't mean
what the wisest and best men in the
past nineteen centuries have agreed
that they do mean. and that there isn't
any hell. or if there is one it isn's very
hot, and all those people who have the
most to gain by such being the case
will flock to hear him. his sermons will
be published in the newspapers, and he
will gain q notoriety which the plain
preaching of the Word could never be.
stow upon him. - Pittsburgh Pa. ] Com
nserciGl.
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Collie in Horses.

Horses suffer much at this season
from indigestion, induced by oyerdrink.
ing of water from excessive thirst, which
is produced by too long abstinence while
at work in the field. and by feeding
while in condition of prostration from
WEAKNESS. Owners of horses should
remember as they go to the shade for a
resting spell and drink Of cool water.
or something else that is pleasant and
refreshing, that their more wearied
horses also need to slake their thirst
and to refresh themselves with a cool
rest. Denied this necessary drink, the
horses when brought in at noon plunge
their heads into a pail Of cold water
just drawn from well, chill the sf0m-
ach by the too copious draught, and so
prevent digestion of the noon feed.
After the afternoons work the horse
comes in still more wearied and suffer-
ing, and is attacked with fit Of collie.
This is the history of many case in
which a good horse is thrown away and
lost by a careless or thoughtless owner.
IN r Times,
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HER WAY TO SAY "No."

My sweetheart sat knitting. "My darling, -
said j,
"I have had. a most beautiful dream
She feigned not to hear me and made no re-
Said simply: "I'm turning the seam"
reached for the knittng--a mesh of soft
That She held in her fingers so small;
But she Id: Don't disturb me, I'm busy
I'm knitting sock for doIl."
"Don't tease me SO, darling" pettishly
you're just dying to hear. I'll be bound
But she pushed back her curls, as she softly
replied:
"Just wait till I've knitted around
waited awhile, ard then closer drew,
And breaking of silence the seal.
Isaid Now you're ready, let me tell it to
She answered: 'Tm setting the heel"
smiled and frowned. and looked up at the
clock,
Regretting that soon I must GO;
Then looked at my teaser-she held up the
Saying: would you put red in the toe?"
"You shall hear me, darling, you dearest of
she placed both her hands on her brow,
And laughingly said, as she threw back the
curls:
81 dreamed of a cottage close down by the
sea,
Meath the brightest and bluest of skies"
She answered: "Sit further away from me,
please,
Ny needles will get in your eyes"
81 dreamed we were there in that home on
the shore,
And that love. darling, love made us
rich
81 told you to sit further off once before;
You're the cause of my dropping stitch"
At last it was finished, then madly said:
Am !, dearest, lover or friendP'
She took the small scissors and severed the
thread,
Saying ''Wait till I've fastened the end"
"Will you marry, me, dariing?" said in low
tone
There was nothing to do but to go;
For learned at the last what I first might
have known
1t was always her way to say "No."
IT. 0. Chisholm, in Louisville Courier
Josf7ldg
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A pisinterested Party.

Hello, therer' called out bartender
in West Brighton beer pavilion while
the thirsty souls from an incoming boat
surged in front of him. '.Hello, therei
you didn't pay"
But the two men he addressed did not
seem to hear him, and they lounged out
side.
''Say, Fritz called out the bartender
to waiter. Say, Fritz, hail them fell
Iers for the price. They've gone out
without settling.n
The tall German laid down his tray,
wiped his mouth with his apron and
started ferociously after the receding
couple. Soon he came back with a feS-
toon of dark blue under the battlements
of his left eye. There was rent in his
duster and a lump under his jaw the
size of Goldfish ball.
did you coilectP" called out the bar
tender.
Nav said the waiter.
"Wouldn't they give upP"
Nav"
What you dop''
'Tole dem to seddle up or I'd wollop
dem."
That was right. What did they say
to thatpn
"Nodings. Won pucked me by der
chaw, der odder fetched me on der eye.
Dey nogged me oud right away, | bed
youn
The deuce they did. Did you smash
.em back?''
Smash 'em backp Nav; vat for
should take up your kivarrelsg"
1t is anticipated that the presen.
year will be good one for Havana ci-
gars, on the ground that every fifth year
since 1869 the crop has been excellent.
while during the intermediate years i
has been Indifferent.
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AN idea Of the magnitude of the
cattle trade of the United States NAV be
easily estimated by remembering that
in 1884 we exported $40. 600. 900 Of beef
and beef products, and that this was
not more than six per cent. of the total
value of these products. The total value
of beef and beef products was nearly
800. 10000 and ninety-fonr per cent.
of this was consumed at home. Yet,
large as these figures. they represent a
Yearly consumption - estimating the
population at 55. 900. 000-of a little
more than ten dollars per capita per
year, Chicago Inter Ocean,