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The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-05-01

Propositions to donate a suitable
site of not less than 200 acres of land
100 of which shall be tillable. in some
healthy, thriving community OF
schools and churches, for permanent
widows and orphans home in Texas
may be submitted to Jno. II. Walton
grand master, at Waco, Texas. On
or about LIST July, next, the sub-cOm'
mittee will personally examine al
offers and determine the site of said
home.
NJ. d. HERRING,
Chr. Sub. Com.
uy.no Nf.,.h tgaI
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-05-01
OR. FELIX GoURAuD'S
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purlnos as well as beauties the skin. No
other cosmetic will doit

erly made. Accept no counterfeit Of simila
name The distinguished Dr ]. A Sayer. said
to n lady Of the haut ton "a patiently AS you
ladies will use them, recommend Gouraud
Cream as the least harmful OF all the skin
prepa. ptions." one bottle viii last six months
using II every day. Also POudre subtle re-
moves superfnus hair without injury To the
skin. Nine. NJ 7 Gouraud. sole prop. IS
Bond st., N Y.
FOR sale by MI druggists and fancy goods
dealers throughout the U s., Canada and Eu.
ope nB-Bewarc of base limitations. 81 600
reward for arrest aud proof 0f any one selling
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-05-01

THE Punishment of Dick Hubbard
may not turn out so well after all, as
many fondly hoped II would.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-05-01

KoMAnorF is the hero of the hour.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-05-01
WACO, TEXAS, MAY i, 1885.
CLOUDY weather still.

HAS England Nelson at this juno
ture?
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-05-01

Important Notice.
THE EXAMINER will not be held responsible
LOT any bills contracted by employees of this
ONCE. except on Q written order signed by the
business manager.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18
Lincoln and His Assassin.
IPittsburg Chronicle.l

Manager John Ellsler, of the Opera
House, probably knew John Wilkes
Booth as well as any man now living.
He was not only intimately associated
with him in theatrical affairs, but was
also his partner in oil speculations
"Here are dozens of letters from
Booth" said Mr. Ellsler this morning.
"They are in regard to our oil trans
actions. We operated on the bank of the
Allegheny River, opposite Franklin, and
Booth was there great deal. In 1864 he
wrote to me to come to Franklin, and |
joined him in July. We were there un-
I'll he left to fill his engagements in Sep
tember have always had one theory
in regard to Booths action. He knew
Lincoln we'll, and always spoke kindly of
him. Time and again have heard him
allude to Mr. Lincoln as Uncle Abe
They frequently met and had converse.
tions.
Booth was a man whose word was his
bond. He would sacrifice everything
and go through fire and blood 10 keep a
pledge. Ihave always thought that he
took to drinking, and while in his cups
joined some society or went into some
plot; that lots were cast to decide who
would carry out the plans, and that
Booth was the man 10 whose hand fell
the assassination of President Lincoln.
His regard for his promise led him to
carry out the plot, and he would have
done it if he had been deputed to kill his
own father.
About two weeks before the assassina.
ton an Eastern company offered $4,000
for the property owned by Booth and
myself. l wrote and telegraphed to him
a great many times, but got no answer.
He was in Washington, but must have
been so engaged in the plot that he did
not think Of.snything else"
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18
How Gath, Learned tO Use the
Weed.

As soon as the American boy is born
and has been a few times logged, and
has played truant once OF twice, he
thinks it necessary to smoke or to chew.
The first superb experience he has is that
OF getting sick over tobacco.
l can well remember when my mother
sent me on certain occasion with
small tin can, such as was then up to
our manufacturing quality, to bring
some milk or cream home to favor the
coffee
An elder son of thunder had given me
that afternoon a small piece of tobacco
carefully knitted of his plug. He recon-
mended that tobacco as entirely innoxi-
Gus, and the proper thing to begin upon.
As went along with the milk-caE
nibbled at the tobacco. There was some
thing in it indulgeut and enticing, yet
not wholly wholesome BY the time
got home with the milk such movements
were going on in my head that no battle
l have ever seen matched with them.
got down on log-for they were
making new well in the garland put
my head over the grass and struggled to
lose my stomach. have often lost it
since with one half the exertion. My
mother came out and sympathized with
me; my brother, who was of harder ma
terial, said had been chewing tobacco.
We made majority against him of one,
and it was decreed that had q delicate
nature, fine tastes, and was entirely above
chewing tobacco. But / have never since
had an encounter with tobacco in that
form.
a little later on | tackled the cigar.
The first cigar didn't make me sick, and
that was my ruin. A large row of brick
houses has since gone down my throat on
account of the failure of that cigar to do
its work. The second or third cigar
plunged me into condition of curious
intoxication, where was drunk not only
in the whole upper story, but it appeared
to me that l had the DRINKS of muir
dered man all condensed there. Never
theless, such is the depravity of human
nature, / preserved smoking, and Occasi-
Onally do it now.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18


The levees which skirt the river front
of New Orleans afford many interesting
sights to the observer of human nature,
both in the day time and at night
The lowest scum of the city make the
levees, in the vicinity of the cotton-boat
landings, q place of resort and place
where they can lie out in the warm rays
of the semi. tropical sun and battle them
selves in its glory to their hearts con-
tent without molestation from anyone.
Along the front of the levees, which
slope gradually to the waters edge, the
negro element congregate perpetually,
day and night, and as soon as one of the
monster Mississippi cotton-boats makes a
landing, they rush to it in their desire
TO help roll off the bales of cotton and re-
ceive therefor small amount of money
and large amount of plasphemy from
the mate, who is proverbial in the region
of the Mississippi for the inventive
faculty of originating new and horrible
invectives, which are hurled at poor
Sambo in massive and unheeded quaint.
ties. This is not the best of their efforts
to get the negroes latent and sometimes
never-resuscitated activity into play. /
have often seen one kicked clear into the
river, upon which he would arouse him.
self sufficiently TO swim IN upon the
levee and return to bis work, il il need
less to say, with renewed energy"
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18

'The good paymaster is lord of another
mans purse" he that is known to pay
punctuslly, and exactly to the time he
promises, may at any time and on any
occasion raise all the money his friends
can spare. This is sometimes of great
use.
After industry and frugality, nothing
contributes more to the raising of a
young man in the world than punctuali-
ty and justice in all his dealings; there
fore never keep borrowed money an hour
beyond the time you promised, lest dis
appointment shut your friends purse
forever. Beware of thinking all your
own that you possess, and living accord
ingly. 1t is mistake that many people
who have credit fall into. To prevent
this, keep an exact account for some
time, both of yonr expenses and your in
come.
If you take the pains at first to men
ton particulars, it will have this good
efect-you will discover how wonderful
ly small, trifling expenses mount up TO
large sums, and will discern what might
have been and may for the future be
saved, without occasioning any great in
convenience. In short, the way to wealth,
If you desire it, is as plain as the way to
market. 1t depends chiefly on two words
industry and frugality, that is, waste
neither time nor money, but make the
best use of both. Without industry and
frueality nothing will do and with them
svervthino
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18
Holding n Buffalo's Tail.
youths Compsnion.l

Artemus Ward said that whenever he
saw rattlesnake's head looking out of a
hole, he passed respectfully by at a
proper distance, rejecting that that
hole belongs to that snaik."
If the two gentlemen who figure in
this adventure had taken time 10 think,
they might have concluded not only that
chat tail belongs to that buffalo" but
that the whole yard belonged to him
and wisely Kept the other side of the
fence
A buffalo bull is, as rule, safer
animal to admire at distance than to
pat on the back.
The Manitoba Free Press says that the
other day party, consisting of Mr..
Henry Kelley, merchant of st. Louis,
Thomas Brown and ]. NJ Ross, drove
out to Stony Mountain u see Redson's
menagerie and view the premises gener-
ally.
The buffalo attracted Mr.. Kelly's at
tention particularly. In an enclosure
was an old bull, solitary and alone. Mr..
Kelly thought he would like to frater-
nize with the monarch of the plains and
pat him pleasantly on the back. He
accordingly leaped into the enclosure
with cheerful smile, and approached
the gloomy brute with an easy nom
chslance that made him the envy of the
spectators. In the meantime, Mr.. Ross
and Mr.. Brown, on the other side of the
fence, winked unostentationsly at each
other and waited for Developments
Presently they came, Mr.. Kelly losfed
dreamily up to the bull, called him a
pet name or two, and patted him on the
back. 1t is said that the majestic ami
NAL actually turned pale at Mr.. Kelly's
audacity, but the report lacks confirma.
ton. The buffalo eyed him for a mo-
men. or Two with stoical indifference,
and then made lightning pass at him
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18
The. Hypocrisy Of ConventtonaIism
New Orleans Picsyunel

The world il so old, men as a rule are
such inveterate imitators, literature is so
apt to shape itself in the molss of the
schools of the day that voice perfectly
natural and fresh surprises almost as
much as il delights US.
The ancients enjoyed an advantage in
that they wrote before the great art of
writing III had been invented, says Lich
tenberg. There are standards of taste,
cannons of criticism, DEGREES of authority
that the prudent and the worldly-wise
will never dare to defy.
A genius, brave in the consciousness of
his strength, may now and then venture
TO act them aside; but mediocrity, how
ever ambitious, will always copy. The
case would not be so lamentable were
this insincerity and intellectual timidity
confined to literature
COnventionalism rules the world. In
the conversation of these who are Ordi-
nsrily called cultivated people the same
old cut and dried opinion, the same old
stock of silent quotations, and set
phrases even, are reported ad nauseam.
One might suppose that people got
their talk as the parvenu does his man.
ners, out of handbook of etiquette.
But now and then we find child of ma
ture who is not afraid TO speak right out
hes or her own honest and simple opin-
ions, and however crude, however wide
of the mark they may be, we are alwaGs
charmed, for then at least we have
found something genuine, original and
natural.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18
so SHE REFUSED HIM.

Last night. within the little curtained room,
Where the gay music sounded family clear,
And silver lights came stealing through the
gloom.
You told the tale that women love 70 hear;
You told II well. with firm hands casping mine,
And deep eyes glowing with a tender light
Mere acting, But your prayer was halfdiviDe
Last night, last night.
An. you had much 70 offer; wealth enough
To gild the future, and path Of ease
For one whose Way Is somewhat dark and rough;
New friends-life calm a. summer seas.
And something twas IL oye0 to keep "a true
And make u precious IN each others sight
Ard then. indeed. my hearts resolve knew.
Last night, last night.
Let the world go, with all = dross and pelf.
Only .Or one. like POrfia, could say.
81 would be trebled twenty times myself;
Only for one, and he i far away;
His voice came back to me, distinct and dear.
The present faded, but the past was clear.
Last night, last night.
II others answered as answered then,
We would hear less. perehance, Of blighted
lives;
There would be truer women, nobler men,
And fewer dreaTy homes and fathless wives;
Because l could not give you all my best
I gave you nothing. Judge me-was rightt
You may thank Heaven that stood the test
Last night, last night.
- Boston Transcript
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18


Though from the boughs to which they've long
been clinsing,
The Autumn leaves are dropping one bv one
Yet from their dust, new forms OF beauty, spring
ing.
Shall smile again in Summers gentle sun.
Though one by one the pearly drops Of morning.
From dropping flowers on viewless pinions
rise.
Wen see them YET the gorgeous clouds sdOrn-
ing
With glowing arches Of celestial dyes
Though one by one the stars are fading slowly
That all night long kept vigil in the sky,
The distant mountain peaks. like prophets molly
Proclaim that mornings light and song are
nigh.
Though with slow step goes forth the sower
weeping.
Aud on earth's lap his precious treasure leaves,
Yet comes the harvest, with its joyous reaping.
When shall be gathered home the riPened
shesves
Though by the friends fondIy
cherish
Withdraw from ours. the cold and trembling
hand.
And leave Us sorrowful, they DO not perish
They yet shall greet US 10 fsirer land.
Yes. from all cIipes. where'er the faithful sIum-
Meath scorching suns, or arctic snow aud
Stainless they'll rise. in myriads without num-
Der;
All. all, shall meet-there shall not one be lost.
-rChambers' journal
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18
Bill Nye's Philosophy.
THE Ingleside.l

To the young the future has a roseate
hue. The roseate hue comes high, but
we have to use it in this place. To the
young there spreads out a glorious range
of possibilities.
After the youth has Endorsed for an
intimate friend a few times, and pur-
chased the paper at the bank himself
later on, the horizon won't seem to hor-
lion so unanimously as it did aforetime.
l remember at one time of purchasing
such piece of accommodation paper at
bank, and / still have it. | didn't
need it any more than a cat needs eleven
tails at one and the same time. Still
the bank made it an object to me, and /
secured it. Such things as these harshly
knock the fluff and bloom off the cheek
of youth, and prompt us to turn the
strawberry box bottom side up before We
purchase it.
Youth is gay and hopeful, age is
covered with experience and scars where
the skin has been knocked of and had to
grow on again. To the young dollar
looks large and strong, but to the middle
aged and the old it is weak and ineffi-
cient. When We are in the hayday and
fizz of existence, we believe everything,
but after awhile we murmur. whats
that you're givin' us" or words of like
character.
Age brings caution and lot of shop
worn experience purchased at the high
est market price. Time brings vain re-
grets and wisdom teeth that can be left
in glass of water over night.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18
boston Republic.l

Among the colonial possessions, or,
more correctly, dependencies. of Hol-
land, there is a remarkable little state
which, in its constitution and original
costume of its inhabitants, surpasses the
boldest dreams of the advocates of wom-
ems rights.
In the Island of Java, between the
cities of Batavia and Samarang, is the
kingdom of Bantam, which, although
tributary to Holland, is an independent
state. The sovereign is, indeed, man,
but all the rest of the government be-
longs to the fair sex.
The king is entirely dependent upon
his state council. The highest authori-
ties, military commanders and soldiers
are, without exception, of the female
sex. These amazons ride in the mascu-
line style, wearing sharp steel points in
stead of spurs. They carry pointed
lance, which swings very gracefully at
their side, and also a musket, which they
are able to discharge at full gsllop. The
capital of this little state lies in the most
picturesque part of the island in fruit
full plain, and Is defended by two we'll
kept fortresses. /.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18
[Cor. San Francisco Chronicle.

We say good night to Aunt Katy and
drive on. The sky is peculiar to Florida
on such a night-a steel blue, with
thousands of tiny heecy clouds like
daisies, flecking its bosom, and under
which the moon looks and laughs like
beautiful face through brides white
veil.
We pass through lane, on the right
of which we see glimpses of water
through clumps of young oak and come
presently TO the Jackson orange tree.
All the JacksOns are out on the porch of
the little brown householder, mother
and babies-and there hang the clustered
oranges, from three To four thousand, on
that grand old tree. Old Well, perhaps
twenty years have roughened its bark;
and after Jackson is dead, and his chill
dren, and his children's children. some
body will pluck the golden fruit from
those same limbs, for it has seyenty-fiye
wears yet in which To reach its prime.
Jackson comes up, and with his hands
full of silver goes back with baskets and
ladder, and presently we are pairing and
eating the luscious fruit.
perhaps de ladies would like some
sugar-cane," Jackson says, pocketing his
money. "Ps got it wild ten jints, five
cents stick" OF course we are all
clamorous for sugar cane and keep the
gentlemen of our party busy cutting the
big sticks into section. Maybe you
don't know what feast we had on oran-
ges and sugar-cane away out it the wild
woods of Florida.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18
THE WAY TO SUCCEED.
IPhiladelphia Post.I

The true secret of success is in being
master of the situation, and strong in
the consciousness that you can do at
least one thing well-as well as it can
possibly be done. This applies to every
calling and every condition Of life.
There is always demand for skilled
doctors and lawyers, as we'll as for
skilled artisans and workpeople, and so
there. will be as long as the world lasts.
They always have as much as they can
do, and as the busiest people invariably
have the most time, they can always
contrive to accomplish twice as much as
others.
The cutlery about over-population. and
about the ranks of every profession and
trade being overcrowded, is partly owing
to the fact that the legions of the unfit
stand idle and incapable, waiting for
luck or good fortune to come to them,
but not knowing how to set to work and
conquer fate for themselves.
A happy or fortunate chance, or COM
bination of circumstances may present
itself, but if We are to take advan tage of
it, we must have clear visions to perceive
it, energy to pursue, and skill to improve
and make the most of ii.
There is no time in life for lounging
about and taking things easily; if we in
tend to succeed, there is always some
thing to be done. and when that is fin
ished something else crops up, or grows
out of the previous piece of work.
Another essential element of success
is briskness--a very different thing from
the hurry which has given rise to the
expression, "the more haste, the less
speed" Things that are done briskly
have crisp freshness about them that is
worth good deal, and the worker is
left unfatigued, and ready TO go on
again.
The consciousness of something at
tempted, something DONE" as the poet
puts it, gives him new nerve and cour-
age, and be goes on rejoicing as strong
man to run race.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18
Personalities.

John Hall, in the chronological Jour
nal, gives the following good advice about
personalities:
keep clear of personalities in general
conversation. Talk of things, objects,
thoughts. The smallest minds occupy
themselves with personalities. PERSONAL
ties must sometimes be talked because we
have to learn and find out mems charac.
teristics for legitimate objects, but it is
70 be with confidential persons. Do not
needlessly report i'll of others
There are times when we are COM
PEELED TO say, 4 do not think Bouncer q
true, honest man. But when there Is
no need to express an opinion let poor
Bcuncer swagger away. Others will
take his measure, no doubt, and save
you the trouble of Analysing him and
instructing them. And as far as posi-
BILE dwell on the good side OF human be-
ings.
There are family boards where a con-
slant process of depreciatiug, assigning
motives, and cutting up character goes
forward They are not pleasant places.
One who is healthy does not wish to dine
at a dissecting table. There is evil
enough in man, God knows! But il is
not the mission of every young man and
woman to detail and report it all. Keep
the atmosphere all pure as possible, and
fragrant with gentleness and charity"
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18
The Senator'S Daughter.
tClesvland Leader.1


She came into the three-cent car as 1t
was going up Pennsylvania avenue with
full load of passengers, and without a
word of thanks pumped herself down in
to a seat politely given her by young
colored man. She had diamonds in her
ears, sealskin cloak upon her back and
beneath this shown out dress of fiowery
velvet brOcade.
Her bangs were cut in ,le latest edi-
tion of fashions dictates, and her nostrils
dilated almost contemptuously as she
pressed her dress carfully away from the
cheap threadbare but clean coat of her
colored neighbor. She evidently thought
herself on plane many degrees above
him, and when she handed him her
change in three coppers l noticed that
she was carful that her hand should not
touch his She held it so far of, indeed
that one of the pennies dropped, and,
falling between the close, net-like crate
of the floor, reposed serenely cop
per island in the midst of sea of tobac-
co spit.
The young lady with an angry glance
looked up at the man, and said, Can you
pick it up?' He politely stopped over
and made the attempt, but it was impOs-
sible. As he touched the coin, it slid
further into the filth, and without say
ing word he reached up and paid the
young lsdy's fare out of his own pocket.
As for her, she noticed that the coin
was still there. She glanced at at and
said nothing, not even thank you. As
the car rolled on the passengers silently
drew comparisons, and l can tell you they
we're not in favor Of the Senator's dsugh-
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18
Hcw Some NJ. DIS. Live.

An English paper gives some of the
curiosities of medical life. One doctor
lunches every day at castle where the
household is very large and his chances
for a patient excellent. He meets
some of the best company in England,
and chances geuinea for each stten-
dance.
A very wealthy man near large city
cannot bear TO be alone at night, so an
eminent city physician gets s., 900 year
for lodging in the house.
One young doctor has 80. 600 year for
looking after the health of an old lady.
She has to be inspected three times a
day, but is as ''strong as horse" and so
perverse that he has great trouble with
her.