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Get but the truth once uttere',
and It's ike q star new born, that
drops into It's place. and which, once
circ'ing IN its placid round. DOT 81
The tumult cf .he earth can shake
james Russe.l Lowell
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MAILS.

ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF. TO AND
FROM SAN MARCOS POST OFFICE.
Mail, from Austin arrive at $40 a. m. and SAC
D. m; close at Sis a. m. aud s;i5 p. m.
Nails from San Antonio arrive al $40 A. m. and
SOS D. n. .; close 81 s;la a. N ana SIS p. N.
Luling, arrives At u u, closes al lz:so. 7. u.
Above mails arrive and depart daily.
Blsnco, via aWiInberley-departET Tuesdsv and Friday
n 6 A. n. Arrives Monday and Thursday Al
IN.
oTFIcE HounE.
General Delivery fruln 5 A. ~. 20 u y and from
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The psin ard riisery suffered b fhose uho
are afiicied With dyspepsia are iDoescrtable-
The distress of TIE body is equalled O. F1r-
passed ~ the confusion and fortunes q tbe
mind. fius nskinz ifs victims fufIer double
allictiou. HE rciief Ntfh j. rirgn y
Ho0i's s1rz,parfIl. has csused thausa11t 70
D. fl.sr Efui frr fiIis r-s ~ nd irire IdiErls
ne cs1sst q tyE7,sJ,siA, and ie-lea - tst O.
gesfIvt orEz1t. II Hool's ssrs.P1rllA
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HOW OUR MONEY is SPENT
As Shown ny the U. s. Official Statis-
tics for 1885.

HOW OUR MONEY is SPENT
As Shown ny the U. s. Official Statis-
tics for 1885.
In round numbers three billion four hund-
red and eighty-two million five hundred
thousand dollars, ($3, 4s2, ,5OO,OOO.) divided
as follows:
-..Home and Foreign Missions. $5, SOC, 900.
..---Public Education, $S5, 600, 600.
-~vSngar and Molasses, 1856, 900, 900.
and Shoes, 1896, 000,0
Goods, $2lO, 100000.
s-.-se..---. Sawed Lumber, $233, O00, 900.
-.s..-.-.1.-.--n-Iron and Steel, $3.50 600, 600.
..---.-s-.-r--.sz.-sMeat, $803, 600, 600.
uu.au=r.gra.s.,s.=szs=-sBre $500, 900. 900
u.,z.-..z-...-z.,-,.--..--.Tobacco, 5000, ,0OO,-
600.
-4....u-- ..l.-sz.....s..-...Liquor, 100000
600.
The above figures show TINT our liquors
cost nine hundred million dollars, ($900,-
OO0, 0,000) or
One. eighth more than all our meat ana
bread.
Three times as much as our iron or steel.
Ten times as much as our Public education.
Our tobacco costs six hundred million dol
lars ($600, 600, ,000i or
One-fifth more than our bread.
Twice as much rs our meat and iron.
Three times as much as our boots and
shoes.
Seven times as much as our public educa-
tion.
Our liquors and tobacco cost one billion
five hundred million dollars ($1, 800, ,0O0,-
O0O or,
Three times as much as our bread.
Five times as much as our meat and iron.
Seven times rs much as our lumber.
Seventeen times as much as our public edu-
cation, and these two items alone cost more
than four-fifths of all the rest.
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General Rosecrans recently regis
tered at = botel as from Columbus.
O. ani there is ru1or that When
he iaTes the Treasury be VII take
A. Lis residence 1t OhiOs c1Pital and
run fOr Coueross-
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President Frances z Willard, Of
the Nationai w. @ 7. q, sends ont
= circaiar ealing for TIE setting apart
jy the cburcbes of Sunday, OciobeT
4. ss q atenperzDcs Sabbalh
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J. W. Bal. Of Concord. Mass, Who
originated the Concord grape in l849.
still hOurisbes IN he vineyard in that
Revolutionary village
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CuI-RtrII,S.

NETHopfST.-PrcachirE the Nefhosis'
Church every Srbba D, srv. Bgekner Harris Pasior
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l. @. Chamberlain. LII D., Of Be
loit, Wis, is elected President Of the
Wisconsin State University, to sue
csed President Bascom.
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, 1886-05-01
THE sCuooL ELECTION.

As The LEADER suggested a week ago,
political considerations should be allowed
no weight in determining the choice of
any citizen in a matter OF purely local i'm
portancc, such as the election Of school
trustees. Especially is this the case
where party lines are not attempted to be
drawn by making party nominations. The
Office has no political significance, and the
man who. in its administration, would al
low himself to be Influenced by partisan
views should be from that very fact in
competent to discharge its duties. The
question presented to the people of Chey-
enne relates solely to the maintaining of
an efficient system of schools, AMI wise
expenditure of public money in that be-
half Personal integrity and business ca
pacity are prime qualifications, and if to
these be added experience, thorough
knowledge Of the needs Of the community
and active interest in education, one is
not called upon TO make inquiry as to
what ticket the candidate may have sup
ported or what views he may entertain on
silver coinage or the tariff. The outgoing
members Of the board-John II. Durbin,
II. S. Oliver and A. c. Snyder-are DOS
sessed Of all the necessary qualifications,
and have shown themselves efficient Dur
ing their term Of office the board has la
t...l L.-....I. r. A.. -. .-..-
of the district, and the experiment of sub
stituting new men, unfamiliar with the
workings of the system as successfully in
operation, might work injury and him
drance. This is the prevailing sentiment
Of tho community, and consequently
there is no doubt as To the reelection of
the gentlemen named, II no, unanimously
at least without serious opposition.
, 1886-05-01

Surely that little shining hill is not the
mighty Teneriffe that has all these years
doomed up SO grandly in my imagina-
tion. But as day after day went by that
little shining hill peering over the ridge
grew and grew upon me-or rather !
grew up toward it. Grandeur and sub
Unity are not attributes of things, but
are sentiments and emotions of the mind
The peak was not at fault. 1t was l.
And gradually trained by reverent study
my puny soul expanded to a growing
comprehension of the awful majesty be-
fore me.
There are in the world much higher
mountains than this. Pixies peak is
nearly 10. 200 feet high-but the whole
country about its base is already 1900
feet. Thus, TO the observer, the noun
tain proper is only 5000 feet. Teneriffe
springs its whole height directly from
the sea itself, and, as if this was not
enough. the water Immediately surround
ing it is very deep. Soundings have
been made to the depth of %, 000. feet.
Thus, this mountain, from its top to its
base, is 3s, 900 feet or over eve miles
high.-Canary Islands Cor. Detroit Free
Press.
, 1886-05-01

THE Cherokees are having trouble
among themselves over a dispute which
has arisen concerning the qualifications
requisite for citizenship in their tribal ma
ton, or national tribe-for their status is
somewhat anomalous Their domestic
quarrel could affect nobody but them.
selves were il not for certain treaty obi.
cations under which the United States
concede certain rights and promise certain
privileges to all Cherokees. Hence the
need Of having il well defined to whom
that term applies. The error in treating
with an Indian tribe on the footing Of a
foreign nation was natural and venial SO
far as the civilized nations of the Ter
ntory then resident east of the Mississippi
are concerned, but the frequent recurrence
Of difficulties and the menace of grave
questions yet TO arise. should be a warming
against such action in future, Let tribal
relations have such social force a, their in
dividuals may choose 20 recognize, but let
the s~eFernment ignore them wholly and
act drrctly upon the individual himself
The Indian question might in this way be
deprived of much Of its perplexing char
sc,er; aud that with all regard to the re-
quirements Of justice and sufficient allow
ance for extenuating circumstances.
, 1886-05-01

At a recent meeting of the Dublin
ROYAL society, Prof. +. w. Barrett gave
an account of experiments which he had
made to test the pen~etrative power of the
Wenham double quadriform burner in
fogs. This burner consists of four super
posed ss-jet gas burners placed along
side of -four similar superposed burners.
The eight burners are in M plane, par
allel to which, and at the proper focal
distance, are eight annular lenses or one
side, and a similar set of lenses on the
other. Tho lights blend into one at a
distance Of 1900 feet from the light
house.
The experiments were made IN two
foggy evenings, on the second Of which
the fog was so dense as TO cut off a pow
erful revolving light at half the distance,
and to silence a fog siren driven by a
gas engine, and placed beside the Wen
ham light. The latter was easily seen by
the naked eye. and its position deter
mined. at six miles distance. The re
v%olving light in that case was cut oil at
something under three miles distance
Boston Budget.
, 1886-05-01
the FUrURg HIsToRIAN.

The best materials for history next to
contemporaneous public records and not
far behind even these in importance, have
always been found in the correspondence
Of the great actors on the stage of events.
Whenever one of these has undertaken
the task Of writing memoirs Of his W
time so far as its notable features have
come within his W experience, the his
%torian's task has been lightened in many
important respects. Since the great re-
bellion in England and the wars of the
league in France there is almost an un-
broken succession Of such memoirs, and.
as a consequence, the history Of those
countries during the last two centuries
has been made clear, perspicuous aud
dramatic. The same may be said of
American history during the revolution
and the generation Immediately succeed
ing-the formative period of our nation
life. The voluminous correspondence Of
Washington, the varied and various
writings OF Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton
and the elder Adams, the pungent strict
ures Of Pickering, all cast valuable side.
lights on the moving panorama Of great
events, explaining motives and causes and
clearing up much that was obscure to the
men Of those days, but is luminous to
their descendants. In our own time the
research Of posterity has been anticipated
By such a food of contemporary mar
rative-for none OF it is history-as has
never illustrated any similar page Of his
tory. Great warriors have given accounts
Of their own campaigns, wise statesmen
have written down their recollection of
great movements which they have pro-
NOTED, and cunning politicians have re-
vesled the machinery which has been
broughtin into action in party strife and too
frequently affected the administration of
public affairs The future historian who
can patiently ascertain the truth OF
conflicting statements and rise above the
prejudice which necessarily obscures the
perception, will have such a mass of au-
thentic testimony as will enable him
clearly to perceive the truth. Posteriiy
often reverses contemporary judgment,
and II is this fact which constitutes the
~valueof historical study. Were we to ac-
cept the estimate of Sidney or Penn. Of
Bolingbroke or Marlborough, which either
friends or enemies placed upon the merits
Il Ill
, 1886-05-01
The Royal blue Button In Australia.

The Royal blue Button in Australia
This is what they call in England and
the English colonies, the royal blue but
ton. You get one when you are received
by the queen, or if il is in Australia,
where l got mine, by the governor gen
eral. who represents her. 1t is an ordi-
nary looking button, having On its ex-
posed surface a groundwork or drab
upon which a yellowish rosette with a
blue center is worked. A metal shank
with a small metal disk painted black
completes the article. In the manufac-
turing they must cost about 40 cents a
gross. One Of these is given to each per-
son who has audience with the governor,
and it is worn in the lapel of the coat as
a badge Of the royal favor.
The governor general is a great gun in
the colonies, and there is more red tape
about him than can DO found at Windsor
castle. When he condescends to go to
the theatre, his visit costs the local man
ager about 5000 for carpets and decora-
tions, and her he takes such a retinue
with him, all Of whom get in for nothing.
that there is little room for the rest of
the public. A funny thing concerning
his visit is that as soon as he enters the
door the performance must stop, the
band or orchestra strikes up God Save
the Queen" and everybody in the house
rises to his or her feet and turns to the
royal box, remaining standing until the
governor sits down. l saw a perform
ance of ~Uncle Toms Cabin" once, in
Adelaide; the governor came in just as
Eliza was crossing the ice, and there she
had to stand in midstream on the tossing
foes until God Save the Queen" came
TO an end and the governor took his seat,
when Eliza resumed her journey g
the dancing ice-cakes. Charles Hicks in
Globe-D Democrat.
, 1886-05-01

THIRrY years ago rs per cent of the
foreign IN Of the United States
was carried in American vessels last year.
Of more than double the volume of COM
merce, scarcely IS per cent paid rnll or
tribute to American shipping. and of the
small amount carried under the national
flag, fully half consisted Of steamer
freights. The reason is apparent In
1856, any vessel owned BY American chi
Eens was entitled to regisirauon-this did
not cause a general purchase of ships
abroad, but the possible competniorkrp
down the prices at home Now that
American ships must be bulk IN tins
country. foreign competition is no longer
possible. and Il far as sailing vessels are
concerned, the American marine rs almost
extinct Steamship lines have not suf-
fered 10 proportion, yet the remedy pro-
posed is to subsidize these, instead Of re-
pealing the destructive profession in the
interest OF all
, 1886-05-01

" President CLEVELAND persists in
his determination not to nominate a min
lister to Austria, it may accidentally be
demonstrated that the whole corps Of
.aeryiceable politicians converted into use
less diplomats is not only an expensive
Suses wholly unnecessary burden. A
minister at the English court, another at
Madrid, and a rowing envoy for the rest
OF Europe ought to meet all possible con-
tingebcies. Chnroes' 4 o6aires would
suffice Tor the rest Of the world, even
where consuls general could not accom-.
plish sil purpessspf occasionally official in-
~tercourse. Mexico, Of course, Is excepted
from the list on sevquht Of seighborhood
aud the possibility OF sudden dispute
, 1886-05-01
Q BLESSED SLEEP.

o blessed sleep, the rosebuds red
That blew in sunset skies are dead.
The night winds Voc at this soft hour.
Full mani n star to golden flower
In heavens dnsky meads o'erhead.
With flashing wings now closed, row
spread
The ~flrcfiies all the darkness thread.
But all things else obey thy power
o blessed sleepl
My soul casts off all doubt and dread;
Despair beyond the stars has fed,
And hides him in some lonely tower.
Then fold me in thy slumberous bower
Where poppies droop their languid head
o blessed sleepi
-Dabney Marshall, in Times-D Democrat
, 1886-05-01

A short time ago a friend of mine. a
nnehman in Douglas county, suffered ter
ribly from alkali poisoning, and was nearly
crazy when | stopped at his ranch. l
took out a bottle Of Chamberlain Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy, and gave
him two small doses, relieving him almost
Instantly, and perhaps saving his life. 1t
now forms one of his principle stand bys.
II has saved me and my family much pain
and suffering, and | would not be without
this great remedy for any consideration.
o. 5. McClain, Real Estate Agent,
sol Sixteenth It,. Denver, Colo.
Sold by W. n. Hunt.
, 1886-05-01

LAND agitation is becoming trouble
some in Scotland also, but to nothing like
the extent to which it has so long dis
turbed the peace Of Ireland. The cases
are difierent-the one is an equal member
ola constitutional union adopted on her
part from choice. the other a dependent.
int coened to subsection and afterwards
betrayed into union. Besides. there are
no questions of race or religious DONNA
ton in Scotland.
, 1886-05-01

DR.. a. Tucker Wise, an English au-
thority on pulmonary diseases, says that
the effects on the Anglo-Saxon race Of
living in a cold climate may be seen in
Canada and some OF the northern states
OF the American Union. where the race
Is physically superior and more vigorous
Ina that q the parent stock. This is
contrary TO the belize Of most English
tourists. who insist that the race deterio-
rates physically il the onlder parts OF
Ameaen.-Exchange.
, 1886-05-01

THERE seems to be an ebb in the tide of
immigration to this country. The per
sistent efforts of Bismarck have had an
effect to lessen emigration from Germany.
or to turn Il in other directions, and dur
ing the last ssx montKsIbe arrivals frem
Ireland, alSo. have notably decreased
according to the records kept at Castle
Garden. The number of Scandinayians
seeking homes in the United States re-
mains about the same, while there has
been a relative increase in the number Of
Eugli1h immigrants. who belong mainly
10 the agricultural class.
, 1886-05-01

The general public is not aware of the
existence Of a medal Of honor which is
conferred by vote of congress on officers
and enlisted men in the naval and mill
tary service of the United States. The
manner in which this decoration is con-
fcrred is not calculated to render it
widely known, y 1t is always voted on
in a hurry, along with a lot Of Other
routine military business. and SEM to its
winner by mail without the least cere-
mony. The medal was created during
the civil war and has many welrers.-
New York News.
, 1886-05-01

The best blood purifier and system reg
ulator ever placed within reach Of suffer
ing humanity, truly is Electric Filters.
Inactivity ofthe liver, biliousness, jaun-
dice. constipation, weak kidneys, or any
disease of the urinary organs, or whoever
requires an appetizer. tonic, or mild slim
ulant, will always find Electric Bittcrs the
best and only certain cure known. They
act surely and quickly, every bottle guar
antocd to give entire satisfaction or money
refunded. Sold at fifty cents a bottle by
w y Hunt
, 1886-05-01

CANADA seems inclined to maintain her
fishing interests by legislation of some
what arbitrary character, and her seizure
of a New England schooner may involve
grave international questions. But the
dominion is not altogether a nation and
may not receive much countenance from
the home government"
, 1886-05-01

The New York Herald has undertaken
a searching investigation of public land
frauds, and plumes itself upon the discov-
cry Of what has long been known and
often charged. The findings ~corroborate
the report Of Commissioner Sparks and
show that, IL that earnest official has gone
to far, he has at least been moving in the
right direction.
, 1886-05-01

WANT OF development facilities has
long depressed the mining interests of
Wyoming, Notwithstanding the we'll
known mineral wealth of the territory;
but every indication points TO a general
revival Of this dormant industry. The
present year will probably see a greater
advance than has been made during the
last decade
, 1886-05-01

The last paragraph written by Gen.
MeClellan-n his article Just published in
the May Cenhry-commences with the
words, 80 long as life lasts" 1t was
written on the evening before the life of
the accomplished soldier and great com
mander came to so sudden an end.
, 1886-05-01

Yet another improvement is now being
devised by the prefecture Of the Seine.
An art section is to be added to a suhi-
cient number OF the district libraries to
meet the needs Of all the artisan popula-
ton. This section is to comprise all kinds
of books, engravings. and photographs
bearing on the arts Of design, and most
Of the contents will be lent out for home
use. One library OF the kind, enriched by
private endowments. was opened not
long ago, and before long the whole Of
Paris viii be provided with this excellent
apparatus of technical education Chi
cago Tribune.
, 1886-05-01

The Pittsburg DispIteh says: Official
inquiry into the killing of a nan by cleo
tricity does not seem likely to make any
thug clearer than the fact already self
evident, namely, that if the wires had
been underground the man would not
have been killed"
, 1886-05-01

For enterprise, push and a desire to get
such goods as will give the trade s~atisfac-
ton, ". N. Hunt leads all competition.
He sells DIR. Bosanko's Cough and Lung
Syrup. because is the best medicine on
the market, for coughs, colds, Group and
primary consumption. Price so cts. and
Hoo. Samples free.
, 1886-05-01

The bill introduced in congress for the
protection Of pure wines by an additional
impost on limitations and authorizations, is
a rational move in the interest of temper
ance and the California wine growers.