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JefferSOn's Horses.

Jefferson, like most of his class IN
Virginia in those days, was "land poor"
and the practices of buying and selling
on indefinitely long credits, of never
paying or receiving cash for anything,
of purchasing extensions of indebteness
at ruinous rates, were enough of them
selves to have ruined man Of larger
means and of more frugal habits than
Mr.. Jefferson, and he, unfortunately,
was never man either Of large means
or of frugal habits His accounts show
that he was continually buying things
he could not afford, and indulging him.
self when he should have denied HIM
self.
Here are the prices paid for the
horses of a Democratic President III
those days:
Teby , Reed from Col John Hoomes of the
Bowling Green bay horse Wildair
VT old IG hands hgh for which am
to pay him 5ooD May
Gaze the servant an order on J. Barnes
for his Expenses and trouble, d:
April 20 Reed from j. W. Eppes the following
horses bought for me
from Bell ;toD paiablc June 16 yr
old last year
2from Shore sooD paiabe July Il VT
old from axhall 5coD paiable July
IL 6 VI old.
Thus it appears that our first Demo-
cratic President started with five
horses, the cheapest of which cost 500,
and the dearest 500. The Wildair re-
ferred to in the first Of the foregoing
entries as costing $500 was "the mag
niticent Wildair" which Jefferson rode
to the Capitol and hitched to the pail
sades while he went in to deliver his
inaugural.
There were neither wagon roads,
pavements, sidewalks nor railroads in
those days in Washington, and there
was no getting about, therefore, for
either sex without horses. But we have
changed all this.-John Bi9elo,c, in
Harper's Magazine.
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AS THE headlight of the locomotive
eliminates the track and its surround
ings, revealing dangerous obstacles, its
rays shooting into the distant darkness,
SO the mind and soul are the lights
which shine on the mortal pathway, in
tended to be the headlight of the lower
animal nature, the guide, the controlling
agent of the body, the higher influence.
instead of being manacled, and to a
great extent dictated, the superior
yielding to the mferior.-Dr. j. II.
Hanatord.
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The Fixed Stars-Other Suns.

The fixed stars were at first so called
to distinguish them from the planets or
wanderers. For while the latter orbs
are continually changing their positions
with reference to the ether heavenly
bodies the fixed stars seem to the un-
aided eyes to keep the same relative
positions in the celestial sphere gener-
alton after generation. But bv tie aid
OF the telescope it has been learned
that this unchangeability is not real;
that these stars really move, some OF
them with great rapidity, hut Their dis
tance from us Is so great that the rai Q
OF change is imperceptlble during any
brief period of time. 1t may not be
perceived in single century or two,
but in the duration of thousands of
years it becomes visible. That these
fixed stars are all suns of other svs-
TENS Is no longer doubted by astrono-
mers. We cannot see the planets that
revolve around them, Iecuuse at their
great distance reflected Light would not
be vsib'e to us, but We believe such
planets to be there, for reas oning from
our knowledge of the works of tie
Creator, lie would not create those
magnificent sources Of light and heat
without Pi!ttlnG them to some use. The
distances ut tiit%c SrliS from orr SyS-
TEN and f-c:A Ca i other are so great
that they may be said to be act,;all be-
yOnd the measurement not nero. OF all
human means of computing distance,
bNt even OF tn t. cOmrrehel sion. The
distances of q few OF them from us have
been measured, but the most are SO far
away that by no known means can we
even approximate their immense dis
tanccs. The nearest fixed star to our
system is Alpha Centauli, one of the
stars in the constellation of the Centaur,
and is 81, $50, 900, 900, 900 miles distant
from us, or 23O, 600 times as far as from
the earth to the sun. If our sun were
moved so far away it would give us less
than one-third as much light as now
comes to us from this star. SO we may
believe Alpha Centauri to be sun
with a surface three times as great as
that of our "orb of day." and volume
over five times as great Many of the
fixed stars are probably many thousand
times as large as our sun. We NAV
write in figures the distances that can
reduce such mighty orbs to mere twink
ling points of light, we may speak of
them as so many billions of billions of
miles, but they convey no real idea to
us. Our minds cannot conceive of such
immensity; it belongs to the unthink-
able knowledge of the infinite. If We
needed further evidence than that given
by reasoning on the revelations Of the
telescope to prove to us that the fixed
stars are suns resembl 'ug our sun in
general constitution aud condition, we
have found it in spectroscopic analysis,
which shows us that the light from
them is essentially similar to that which
emanates from our sun, being formed
by the consumption of similar gases,
oxygen, hydrogen, etc.-Iater Ocean.
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STATE OF LOUISIANA
Goth judicial Di>ti t Court, Par
ish Lafouvcle.
Gil + IS OFFICE

l, the undersigned do hereby certify that
the f"!i"wln" named persons were drawn i,s
Jurors tor the Oct"hrr term of Court 1885 bv
the Jury eoiEilisSloners oi said Parish on
the 9th day of August. 1885.
.nl For the .,rd week of said Court berin.
nlng ''lI Monday. October ,2h, 1850, t. serve
IS p' TIT jury viz Ward
Lepine L. A. 9TH
, Davis MOurne lsu
J Dornth, Edward eth
Frosclair Sylvain 9th
> cups Oscar 9TH
d Bayc TheOlule 2nd
Ogeron st. Juste 4th
Gritfen join Il. 9th
9 Dar,len w. L. 5th
l0 Dantin Philip 2nd
IL Bourgeois Richard 2nd
Is Touls Firmin 7th
IA Scanlan Frank 4th
- Bernard Theophile eth
Ii Burke William 2nd
IL NalcOur Prosper 9th
Is Bergeron Emile j. 2nd
i9 Lusignan J. Bite 2nd
20 Chivers JAS. f. 2nl
y Griffin William Jr. 10th
- Lombas j. a. :}rd
23 BoudreauX Cztmc 9th
"a Saucer Edward 7th
p Leonard Arthur 5th
20 Schneider l.. +. End
y kraemer Antoine 9th
- Toups Paulin 9Th
~ Himc Lovingly 5th
80 Claudet Armant 4th
In faith whereof
i~~) Witness my hand and the impress
LIS: of my seal of office this 9th day OF
81 August, a. u. 1881
j. w. kN0BLOCF,
Dy Clerk Of said Cour
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ABOUT the only reference to base ball
in holy writ that we remember is where
Rebecca goes to the right field with
pitcher. The right field for water.
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'kOel:h Oh Itch"

'Rough on Itch" cures humors, erup
tions, ring-worm. letter. salt rheuln, frost
ed feet chillhiains.
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s'ROtIgll OH 'E0osilache.

Instant relief for Neuralgi Toothach
Faceache. Ask for Rough ON Toothache,
Is and % cents.
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Catarrhal i
q eel ne

Hacking, irritating Coughs, Colds. Sore
Throat. cured by Rough on Coughs,
Troches, l5c. Liquid. 25c.
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k1retIY tHONlem.

Ladies who would retain freshness an
vivacity. Don't fail to try wells Healtl
Renewer."
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Wide Awake.

three or four hours every night coughing.
Get immediat" relief and sonnd rest by
using Wells Rough on Coughs. Troches.
15c.: Balsam. 23c.
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NO. IL.

For the indefinite aches and pains Of nervous
patients: T0NGALINK is superior to any other ano-
dyne. For Nervous Headache OK Muscular Rheu.
matism, it is almost a specific"
PARK RITCHIE. M D.. st. Paul, Minn.
" Have used ToNGALINE in cases of Neuralgic
Headaches with success in almost every instance
In strictly Neuralgia forms it is une1celed."
o. D. NORTON NJ D.. Cincinnati, Ohio,
"ToNoAL1NE has already done good service in two
cases of habitual Headache"
THEo. HERMANN, M D., st. Thomas, Mo.
PRICE ONE DOLLAR PER BOTTLE.
d Ill WASHINGTON AVENUE, ST. LOUIS.
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The Hope Oftlre n alton.

For children, slow in development. puny
scrawny and delicate, use Wells Health
Renewer''
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M.WMM&NA

How many terrible aches ones poor head
has, and what suffering is caused by these
headaches Relief may be had from Nervous,
Neuralgia, or Sick Headache by the use of
GAm ~ nAt>no Which is not cure-all but
SVV\90sVSW which is cure for Nervous
Headache, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Sciatica
and Gout. No proprietary medicine has ever
obtained such strong endorsement from the
medical profession.
FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
A. A. MElllER, Sole Proprietor. 100 a
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Assisted Each Other.

@Look here" said a white woman,
entering the kitchen and addressing the
colored lady who had .iust been en-
ployed to increase the grocery bill,
"what are you doing with all these
women here? only hired you"
"Tibber sho yer did"
"Then why do you bring SO many
women with yOu?"
"Dis heah one, lady, is my daughter.
She comes ter wait on me"
"Yes. but those others?"
"Wait, lady. Doan be petuous. Dis
udder one is my Cousin Frances"
"W hat is she doing here?"
"Come ter wait on my daughter
"Great goodness, who is that ?"
pointing to another one.
'Dat's Mrs. Napoleon"
"What right has she here?'
"W'y, she comes ter wait on Cousin
Frances. Lady, l doan like de way
ver's actin ertall. White folks place
is de house, an I nebar coul' DO my
work when Ga come pokin' 'roun'."
Get oUt, now. all of you"
sIinber so We viii ef yer ain {
pleased. Doau banker airtar workin'
for cullar folks nohow. Good mawnin. :"
--irhdnsd,c Irareler.
Our Old Friend Josie.
Every day while at Trouville saw q
snowy lady of most voluminous pro-
portions and gorgeously arrayed a
PAmericane, driving out in u dashing
victoria or slowly gliding along like a
frigate under full sail through the mar
row streets. Everybody looked after
her, for she was most -after-able
person. I could not tell why believed
her to be an American unless because
of her elaborate costume, for she was a
vivid brunette, such as one sees a
thousand times oftener in France than
in the United States. and her heavily
powdered complexion told no tales of
nativity anywhere between Chicago
and Timbuctoo. Upon inquiry / was
told that she was q Cuban widow, i'm
mensely rich and staying at the Roches
Noires. One day she sailed past us
upon the beach as l sat there in COM
pany with o certain New York criminal
lawyer. called his attention to the
showy Cuban widow. "Cuban!" he ex-
claimed, in startled astonishment.
"Why, that is the Ed Stokes and jim
| Fisk's widow, Josie Mansfield. Paris
letter.
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For knowledge to become wisdom
the soul must be rooted in God.
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Life EsreserVer.

II YOU'RE losing your.grip on life, try
Wells Health Renewer." Goes direct to
weak spots.
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Mothers.

Ifyou are failing. broken, worn out and
nervous, use Wells Health Renewcr''
l Dollar. Druggists.
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Rough FOm Pain,": POrOuse'
pXlSters

Strengthening, improved, the best for
backache. pains in chest or side. rheuma-
Sun, neuralgia.
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wslOOpilI. Cough.

and the many Throat Affections of chill
dren promptly, pleasantly and safely re-
lieved by Rough on Coughs" Troches.
l5c Balsam. 25c.
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4: !: 81: :: :::

else in this world. All, of either sex, succeed
ion first hour. The broad road to fortune
opens before the workers, absolutely sure.
At once address, TRUE & Co., Augusta, Ne
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Z eDn0 M0n presents girem a,cay.
% p@DU.NINylJSend lis ) cents nnstaoe

and by mail you will get free a package of
goods of large value, that will start you in
work that will at once bring you in money
faster than anything else in America. All
about the $:00.00O in presents with each box.
Agents wanted everywhere. of either sex, of
I'll ages, for all the time or spare time only,
to work for us at their own homes. For
times for all workers absolutely assured
Don't delay. H. HALLETT g. Co., Portland
Maine.
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| Clears out rats, mice, reaches: flies
ants. bea,bugs. skunks, chipmunks, go
pliers. 15c. Druggists.
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Thin People.

sWell,' Health Renewer.' restores
health and visor, cures Dyspepsia, Head
ache, Nervousness, Debility. One Dollar
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Heart Pains.

Palpitation. DropSical. Swellings, Dizzi-
ness, IndiSestion Headache. 81 eplcssness
cured by We'll, Health Renewer.'
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ssKGslcll on Corn :.

Ash for Wells Rough on Corns." l5c
Quick, complete cule. Hard CT soft corn>,
warts bunions
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Bur you don't admire her! Why,
aer nose is decidedly repousse." Re
Noosse, you mean, my dear" "Well.
perhaps l do. It looks as if it had been
pounded. any way" y."-Erchange.
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Rough On P:lin," l
kDlslsteh.:

Strengthening, Improved, the best for
backache, pains in chest or side. rheuula-
tism, neuralgia.
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'.1sO,lsla shsl Coughs"

Ask for "Rongh on Coughs, for Coughs
Colds. Sore Throat, Hoarscntss. Troches
ljc: Liquid. 25c
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-14
Commissioners Court.

The County Commissioners were in
session yesterday, still engaged in the
consideration of road business.
VIM. Mcmillan was appointed over,
seer of road precinct No. 1879, from
his residence to the county line.
Mack Jones was appointed overseer
of the road from mouth of the Mccall
lane to the San Antonio road.
A road of the Second-claSS was es-
tablished from the Manor and Rice's
crossing road, running east and inter.
sectipg with the North Manor and
Elgin road.
Fritz Vaelker was appointed over
seer of Road Precinct No. 131.
A road of the second class was es-
tablished, beginning at the corner of
the Anderson and Bissell leagues, to
J. J. Davis place, and warrants for
damages incidental to establishing
lows: Charles Pace, 500; Bargely,
500; John d. Grumbles, 1925.
a petition Tor pubic road of the
second-class, commencing at Weber
vile and intersecting the Austin and
Bastrop road at or near Haynie
Chapel, was read, and M. IDgraham.
Miles Epler, II. L. NORWOOD, SGdcK
Washington and John Wolf were ap-
pointed a jury to lay out said road.
On petition for the establishment
of first class road from the town of
Manor, westward to the Austin and
Cameron road, near the crossing OF
South Gilleland Creek, A. l.. Bell
VIM. Howell, J. Z. Gregg, Emory W.
Smith and John E. Rainey were ap-
pointed a jury to consider the
| same.
A number of warrants in favor Of
different individuals, were drawn
and court adjourned, to meet at 9 a
M, this morning
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-14

A lady correspondent gives the fol-
lowing instructive hints on the all
important subject of popping the
question: Never propose to girl
who has been out driving the day or
the evening before with another man.
Women have not the versatility of
men, and cannot as readily turn from
one object to another. Never propose
to a woman who has recently rejected
some one else. Woman is naturally
sympathetic, and in refusing proffered
love she instinctively, almost uncon-
sciously, devotes herself to a life of
celibacy. She should be carefully
watched until the reaction takes place
and then she becomes even better pre-
pared than before to lend attention to
declaration. If she bas been engaged
and the relation has been dissolved,
| the lover may even be little
careless in the selection of his
time. To girl once engaged an en-
gagement becomes necessity, and
she is prepared at almost any moment
to listen favoTaDly to an advantageous
proposition. To propose to a girlin her
own home in the afternoon is madness
and if the excursion fails the newt
able deduction is that for such girl
the evening is the only time that
promises any possibility of success
1t is a work of supererogation tt
dwell on evening declarations. Every
man understands them, and he ha:
only to make the most cursory eXami
nation as to the health of the subjec
before entrusting his ambition t.
. | words
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STATE NE VS..

Brownwood is having candy pull
ings.
Waxahachie has 400 pupils enrolled
in the public schools.
Bonham rejoices in the curiosity Of
chicken with four legs.
The measles are prevailing in Pear
sail. Up to date that town has ship
ped $4,000 pounds of wool.
The Northwest Texas Wool-Grow-
er, published by Mr.. r. A. Musgrove,
at Sweetwater, is just out. 1t is quite
creditabfe sheet.
Miss Belle Hinchman, supposed to
be on her death bed, and Mr.. Toney
Jones were joined in marriage the
other day at Notwithstanding Reg
lister.
A negro named Bradford was ar
rested in Kosse, the other day, having
keys to three prominent stores in the
town, and $400 worth of stolen goods
in his house.
The excitement over the discovery
of silver in Abilene has snbsided.
The ore was analysed by a local
chemist, and was found to be iron
pyrites, without either silver OF cop
per.
The election to determine whether
Groesbeck should incorporate or not,
passed off very quietly yesterday, and
the measure was defeated by major
ity of 81 notes.-the vote standing Ii
for and 40 against incorporation.
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COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
Synopsis of Their Proceedings Yes
terday.

Synopsis of Their Proceedings Yes
terday.
The regular term of the Commits
sioners' Court began yesterday, with
all the members present, Judge Fue
more presiding The attention of thr
Count was directed to petitions TO
roads, among them the following: A
petition for the laying out of public
road of the second class, beginning on
the Manor and Rice Crossing road at
the northwest corner of the Mier and
son tract and running to the Manor
road. A Bell, J. Is. Darlington, j. N.
Evans, TONNES Gregg, and A. A. An
deIson were appointed jury to lay
out and work the road.
A petition for road from
mouth of lane leading from
Giles Burdett's between DR.
MaxwelPs and Henry Dickson's to
east boundry line of Millican and lay
lor tracts was dismissed.
A second class road from the
Swede church on Decker Branch to
the Blue Bluff road was anon, petit
tions, and l.. b. Giles, j. w. Grooms,
Temp Norwood, Jno. Maple and Lon
Q. Hill, appointed jury to to mark
and lay out the same.
Petition for third class road from
Bakers store on Gilleland Creek to the
Austin and Phugerville road. T. E..
Powell, W. l.. Stiles, Jno, Webb, VIM.
Gregg and B. @. Giles appointed COM
mission rs.
On h-lring report OF the jury of
view, the court established third
class road from the lower San An
tonic road, via Manchaca, to Bear
Creek.
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The Deadly Human saliva.

1t is only within a comparatively
recent period that the attention of the
midical world has been drawn to the
possession by human saliva of Yiru-
lence, which, under certain conditions
is hardly surpassed by that possessed
bG the poison of the rattlesnake and
others of its class. 1t was that cele-
brated Investigator Pasteur, to whom
we owe so much, who, no earlier than
1881, proclaimed his discovery of "a
new disease" from injecting into the
simultaneous connective tissue of a
rabbit, the saliva obtained from q
child that had died of hydrophobia,
and the experiments of DR.. Sternberg,
U. S. A, subsequently,, who employed
normal human saliva, have furnished
sufficient evidence that, however
harmless we have been accustomed to
regard this secretion of the salivary
and other glands. and as potent only
for physiological functions, we must
henceforth accord to it another and
mere dangerous quality that brings
its study into the realm of PATHOLOGY
cal inquiry, and forces attention to it
on account of the interest it possesses
from surgical point of view.
These experiments of DR.. Sternberg
which have been repeated for the most
part by DR.. Claxton ovid. Medical
Times, vol. Kill No. $500, have fully
established the fact that when normal
human saliva is injected into the sub
cutaneous connective tissue of rabbits
death ensues in from twenty-four
hours to three weeks. When larger
animals were experimental ON only
local symptoms, in the production Of
abscerses at the seat of puncture, were
obtained. And we are accordingly
led to the inference that the potency
of the poison diminishes as the size of
the animal experimental upon increa-
ses in the scale of being-an inference
which is not supported by the results
of the case here reported.-Medical
Record