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San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-04-12
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(f'rom Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, April g, 1883.

WASHINGTON, April 6, 1888.
Notice has been given in the House
that the tariff bill will DO called up
ton on tho 18th inst. An effort will
then DO made 10 hold the House
down to the consideration OF the
measure until Q vote is taken. or
course the republicans are prepared
TO repeat on the floor OF the House
everything which they did in the
committee room TO delay the bill,
hoping in this way 10 defeat it.
The democratic programme is to
got tho tariff bill disposed Of before
the meeting Of the st. Louis conven-
ton, in June. From the present out
look tho chances are rather against q
vote being reached by that time, but
the effort will be made all the same.
The chances OF the final passage Of
the bill have largely increased recent
ly, and while 1t is by no means GER
tain now that the bill will pass, it is
more than probable that it will. At
any rate the arguments over the bill
will place this whole question in a
palmer light before the country than
heretofore. People will in conse-
quence, look into the question them
selves, people who have in the past
taken some political demagognes
statement of it as true, and the result
cannot fail to be o gain for the reve-
nue. reformers.
The Senate has spent more than a
week wrangling over the House bill
authorizing the Secretary of the
Treasury to purchase United States
bonds with the surplus. The Senate
is not divided on party lines, as both
parties have held caucuses to try to
agree what should be done. The
Silver Senators of both parties insist
on amending the bill in some manner
to increase the purchases of silver by
the Government.
The House has had its wrangle
too. The cause was the bill to re-
fund the direct taxes paid by the
several States into the United States
Treasury. A large majority of the
House favor this bill, but owing to
the peculiar rules under which the
body works, a determined minority
can, by tilibustering, delay and some
times even defeat legislation. The
opponents of the bill resorted to this
method on Wednesday and succeed
ed in keeping the House in session
until gao o. m, Thursday morning.
All day and all night were spent in
dilatory motions. Such furious fill
clustering had scarcely ever been seen
since the foundation of the House of
Representatives
Senator Sherman says the report
that he had or intended to retire
from the race for the Presidential
is entirely untrue.
Gen. Clark, the clerk of the House
of Representatives, says he is tired
of hearing the House denounced for
doing nothing. He can prove by
figures that it has done more work
than any of it's predecessors ever did
so early in the session. 1t has passed
up to date 222 private and 129 pub
lie bills.
The Public Lands Committee of
the House has reported bill forfeit
ing about 40.000,000 acres of the
Northern Pacific, Southern Pacific
and Ontonagon land grants.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-04-12

The Waco Examiner intimates that
the machine no longer works we'll in
local politics:
The city elections have not been
especially gratifying to the Democra-
cy. Fort Worth going Prohibition,
Dallas Republican and Houston cap
tured by the Knights of Labor, in
dictates that the great Democratic
rarty of Texas is orumbling beneath
ITS own weight
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-04-12

A contract has been signed with
Denver, Cal, cattlemen to furnish
the French government each year
10000 head Of beef cattle for the
French army.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-04-12

The Waco Advance, Cranfills pa
per, has been enlarged to IN eight
page six column sheet. We are glad
to note this indication of prosperity
and progress,
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-04-12

Grain is being carried lately across
the Atlantic Ocean for IL cents per
bushel, just one-half what it costs
the ship companies to load and I'M
load it. The reason of this is the
number of emigrant steamers must
have ballast in returning to Europe,
and they actually pay to get cargo.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-04-12

There were 24,199,741 barrels of
malt liquors sold from breweries in
the United States in 1887, or an in
crease of 10 ID per cent. over the
sales of 1885.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-04-12

The excess of imports over exports
in February amounted to S10,172,9S2
against an EXCESS of $4,379,379 in
February of last year,
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-04-12

The exports of cotton during Feb
ruary amounted to $19,532,S74; of
breadstuffs, S10,03S,741; total exports
about $55, 100000.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-04-12

"Plant trees" urges the Houston
Post in an article of some length, 1t
must have been napping-too late
now to plant trees till next fall
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-04-12

Heiress. an afraid it Is not fOT
me that YOU come here 50 of.en. bu;
for ny money. Ardent WOOer You
are cruel to saw -. How can ] gsi
your money WitbOut getting yea
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-04-12
To Printers.

A good compositor can find work
II immediate application be made at
this office.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-04-12

Austin is hoping to meet the re-
quirements of the Arkansas Pass and
secure the road.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-04-12

Hon. Roscoe Conkling is seriously
i'll.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-22
suNoRY soUIes.
A BLAcKBoARD language-Choctaw.

A BLACKBOARD language-Choctaw.
A CLEAN give away-a Christmas present.
SOME married men can not be blamed for
going ON tear: their wives blow them up
so much they can't help busting"
TINS mania for Importation is waxing ex-
tremely verging. Not only is 1t verging on
the ridiculous, but upon the preposterous.
We might, possibly, stand the plum pud-
dings, but let US draw the line at the par
sons.
A FEMALE contributor brought In CON-
munication written on both sides Of the
paper. The editor scowled and refused it,
'Well,r she rctorted, sd like to know if
you don't print on both sides.n There's no
such thing as arguing with woman.
A NOTED traveller, who has made the Ian
guage Of the Zuni Indians study, says that
the mythic language is the same as that Of
the Chinese. This we freely conccde, and
moro, we firmly believe the bona fide zupi=
csc and Chinese languages to be identical.
"HoRATIor' exclaimed terrified woman
to her husband, in tragic whisper, at the
midnight hour, there's some one in the
house Didn't you hear that neisef' Eyes,
dear,r wcarily replied he; don't be
alarmed. that's only that self-feeder help
ing itself to another dollars worth of coal y
THE Laplanders make Christmas dinner
feast rare indeed. They serve up slabs Of
raw whale swimming in bears oil and q
soup can Of seals blood on the side. The
dessert usually consists of deviled strap
ends and fish giblcts, the whole topped Oh
with the caput mortuum Of sundry tallow
dfps.
The Turks are essenaauy vegetarIans {.
They eat beef very rarely, and never pork or
veal. They indulge in drinks, lean fowls
and finally sheep, the flesh of which they
cut of in small pieces. These pieces are
strung upon long spits. which are held and
turned for some minutes over hot Goals.
where they are slowly rosted, retaining all
their juices. This Is what is called kebab, a
heaithful and nutritious food, which Euro
peans find delicious.
ALoxG the Congo in Africa are tribes Of
pigmy natives not exceeding four feet and
seven inches in height, called Batua. They
1--we in hgts Ia tho yilds and them meaps q
subsistence are game and palm wine which
they trade for maize and fruits with thei'
neighbors.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-22
He Felt raken Tn.

What makes you look so blue this morn
ing, judi" asked Mrs Squeezem of her
husband on morning after he had returned
from Chicago. where he had been looking
up city investment.
Nothing Don't bother mn,n he snapped
in return
Why, Judi What makes you so crossi',
sDo you recollect the nice building lots
on that lithograph of the property bought
In the Chicago suburbs about four years
agos'
sYes.p
And you know have paid the taxes on
1t each year and chuckled over nv city
investment and told all of our neighbors
what splendid investment IT wasp
"Well. / think have heard YOU brag a
little about it. What of it.''
" l saw il Yesterday
"That shouldn't make you feel biue.',
1t shouldn't! Well, you just pay five
hundred dollars for a beautiful. picturesque
piece OF land that is marked out into fine
lawns and avenues and set OF with hand
some shade trees; then, when you visit Il
and take stroll over the ground, find il
reeking with ashes and garbage, see ragged
children tunabiIng about, so dirty bed-buQ
wouldn't taste lem, listen TO 4 crowd Of
Bohemian strikers curse. and you'd hold
your nose and light cut for home. By the
time you got back you'd feel blue and be-
come convinced that art is more deceitfrl
than lottery advertisement
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NO. 80.

not investigate ana he turned ms norse.s
head homeward.
a. Hold on said L If will be brave
enough to ride down Harlem road VIII
you be kind enough to wait here for my re-
turnf
4" But your horse win get frightened
he said, with a shudder, evading my ques-
ton. remembered, perhaps, not any too
soon, that the animal rode was rather
skittish; so changed my tactics. Well
will you take charge of my horse, then, if
take stroll into ghostdoml'
a. wouldn't talk that way, if were in
your place, Mr.. Nixon he replied, for per-
haps you Will get more of ghostdom'' than
you care for. will hold your horse for
you, however, but not here win ride up
the main road short distance
as All right l calculated; and dismount-
ing, gave Dorr Slater the rein, who left
me to my foolhardy undertaking, as he
called it. In trice he was cantering away,
calling after me as parting shot, that If
twas the death of me, he would not be to
blame.'
/ was very curious to solve the only
supernatural mystery coming directly un-
der my personal notice; and started down
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-22

in better spirits. Suddenly, however, he
sprang to his feet, exclaiming: "Oh, Allie,
love, what is the matter.''
"' All started up in alarm, but could see
nothing. Wbere;n they questioned in f.
fright, seeing Keith's white face and terri
fed manner
"'Oh! don't you seer he made answer,
staring into space, the blood is running
all down her face and she -stares so.'
"'With this he started forward, but what
ever he saw vanished, for he turned to the
Mortified family and moaned out: g Allie is
dead; oh I! my Godt''
"sThen he fed down this road, it being
The one she was expected to take on her re-
turn
al am going to find Allie he cried, wild
ly, as he rushed away. The family having
seen nothing followed him. not clearly
understanding what they were doing. It
was now dusk, but they followed on.
Presently the horse Allie had ridden away
rushed by them furiously. OhI'' they
walled, in chorus; '' Howard is right, and
Allie is k1lledr'
In a few moments they met Keith, COM
ing at rapid pace, bearing in hls arms the
hfeless form Of their daughter; the blood
was running from CHASTITY wound in the
right temple. but alpeady her heart had
ceased 70 beat
Keith staggered toward them with his
precious burden, and uttered a low cry Of
deepest anguish. Mr.. Wentworth caught
the lifeless body of Allie In his arms, just
as Howard fell prone on the earth, In dead
faint In some manner. they could not re-
can, they managed to get them home-the
deadand the dying, for Howard Keith new
er rallied from the awful shock occasioned
by Allies terrible death The physician
said that if his health had been better. he
might hays survived, but as 1t was, he sue
cumbed- :
.ss Weli. they buried them side by side, in
deep, wide grave-and it was dreadful
And, ever since, there's a horse rushes
down Harlem road. just after dark; and
any one possessing courage enough 70 pa
troll this byway after Aishtsall, can see .
phantom lover hearing d phantom girl hur-
riedly through the shadows; so they say.
They say, too. that the apparitioa ia true, IN
form aad feature. 10 Howard keith and Allie
Wentworth. For INV part would rather
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-22

THE farmers of this country are saved
from the infiiction Of s2O.0O0,000 tax, by
the recent decision of the United States Su-
preme' Court in the driven-well case. A
royalty of ten dollars each was claimed by
the patentee on the 100000 wells through
out the country. The case has been before
the courts Of ten States of the Union and
has been before the Supreme Court for over
three years. 1t is said the claimant has
for twenty years been extorting money
from farmers in every State and county.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-22

The toy gun of commerce is occupying too
prominent place among our merchantable
articles to be conducive to the peace and
safety Of the people. Hardly day goes by
that fresh victim is not added to the al
ready interminable list of those who have
pcrished at the baneful muzzles of the cheap
but erratic firearms that are being placed
In the hands Of our youth.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-22

NUMEROUS and varied are the schemes
afoot for the diversion of the tremendous
force going TO waste in the Falls of Niagara,
into channels Of usefulness, but as the
projects are all as yet in an enbryotic state
the chances arc that the present genera
ton will have passed away ere the bridling
of that mighty power shall have been ac-
complished.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-22

AT last an avenue Of return has been
opened up to the immense streams of wealth
that have been conducted into European
Golfers by tourists from our shores, and
those possessed with mania for importing,
through the efforts of the boss OF our cow
boys and the captain of our sluggers. All
we need do to keep accounts balanced is to
send over an occasional wild-west outfit or
get up grand international fisticuff tour
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-22

THINGS have come to such pass in Kan
sas that the farmers arc compelled. in order
to save their families from perishing with
cold and hunger, to obtain by force that
which they should have provided them free
ly, at all hazards. Along 400 miles of one
Of the principal roads through the State the
coal supply had been shut of and a band Of
300 men recently forced coal train to
stand and deliver.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-22

The existing uncertainty and the profes-
sional controversy over the condition of the
Crown Prince of Germany gives rise to
suspicion that medicine is empirical This
may be wrong, but of one thing there is lit
tie doubt, aud that is that medicine, as q
rule, is expensive, and the most of it very
disagreeable to take
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-22

TIE saying that ''every dog has his day"
may have burr on it, but as applied to
man 1t is certainly a good one. Some bat
ter their way to the forefront of conspicuity
with their fists; some .''git there via Can
ada, while others resort to a -pie-eating
match or a course of patent medicine guz-
cling as means of introducing themselves
10 the notice of the world. But what boots
it the avenue, so they get plaster cut in
the papers.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-22
-R0nbIr.
The Light of the House.

The Light of the House.
Beyond the cheat Of time. here where you died,
you livel
You pace the garden-ways, secure and SEN
sitve;
You hnger on the stair: loves lonely pulses
leap;
The harpsichord is shaken; the dogs look up
from sleep.
Years after and years afteri You hold your
heirdom still,
Your winning youth about you, your joyous
force and skill,
Unvexed, unappreLended, with waking sense
adored:
And still the house is happy that hath so dear
a lord.
To every quiet inmate, strong in the cheer you
brought,
Your name is as q spell midway OF speech and
thought;
And unto whose knocks, an awe-struck visitor,
The sunshine that was you floods all the open
door.
Il. l. Gainey, IN " Y IndependsAt.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-22

WITHIN few weeks four instances have
been recorded In which children have per-
ished in burning buildings in which they
were left fastened in by their parents, who,
IN some cases, were away at places of en-
tertsinment. temporal o nores! The fun
has got to come
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-22

IT is stated that the reported scarcity of
money in Eastern centers has been attrib
uted to the extent to which railway build
ing has been carried in tho last year. A
rumor places the amount thus expended at
s24O, 100000. This view seems absurd as
money invested in railroad building finds a
speedier circulation than that devoted to al
most any other purpose.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-22

CERTAIN Americans who have travelled
through Europe, report that the riffraff of
the cities are gathered until there is ship
load, then they are landed in this country
by some unscrupulous shipmaster at so
r1uch pcr head. The Lawmakers of this
land should place huge sign over the en-
trance to Castle Garden which should read:
Unassorted lots not accepted.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-22

WE are sometimes led to wonder what
effect the electric light of the future will
I have on the people who have acquired the
habit of blowing out the gas. No doubt
they will make up their minds that their
mission in life is ended and will content
themselves to bear few years longer with
the untowardness of things
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-22

he has been found. Who! Why the fel-
low who stole red-hot stove. A St Louis
policeman came upon a man with a small
stove on his shoulder in which was fire
and kettle in which potatoes were boil
ing. Hereafter the - red-hot stove'' need
not be excluded from the list of things steal
able.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-22

THERE are property-holdcrs in the city Of
Washington who are taxed for orer half a
million who purchased their land at a few
cents a square foot, and have held it for ad-
vancement, some of it now being valued at
five dollars a foot
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-22

FoRrY-FIvE million ems Of solid nonpareil
and agate type are TO be used in the s.Centu-
ry Dictionary" one Of the largest under
tahnss OF the kind ever recorded, now under
way in New York
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-22
PAS REPLY
The Spell of the NIistIetoe.

The mistlctoe, the mistletoe,
Its charm is often sung, know,
And blushing bellies delight to group
Just where its verdant leaflets droop.
Though subtle is its spell. know,
1 do not love the mistletoe.
And this is why: last Christmas Eve
As May and l were taking leave,
cast q careless upward glance
And saw that we were-quite by chance
Beneath q spray of mistletoe.
We were alone, and-well, you know.
But scarcely on the perfumed air
The kiss had died, when-pa stood there.
Oh, strange mischance, he raised his foot
And smote me with his box-toed boot;
fed the scene in haste, and SO
I do not like the missile toe.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-22

ONE-THIRD Of the shorthand reporters of
New York and Brooklyn, numbering over
three thousand in all, are women.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-22
sANcTuM SPECIALS.

LocKPoRT, N. Y, produces more paper
than any other city in the United States.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-22
Ial. Exp.ana1lon.

''Why are you always growing about the
ofice-boy." asked broker of his head
clerk
'1've got good reasons replied the
grumbler- a woman may possibly throw
a chunk OF coal or billet Of wood at a
strange cat that Is walking over the linen
she has spread on the snow to bleach and
she may escape disabling a child In the
next yard behind her; but tell You there's
no boy can work in this Office and use my
pen for a nutpicker without laying up
trouble that gviil conae home 20 poost
Az oculist may aot be an elocutlonist,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-22
Drifts.

Ye would not say. If one should wreathe her
head
With fold on fold of misty. snowy lace.
That she was grieying for some cherished
grace
Just vanished, or for some dear friend just
dead.
Then WHY, when suddenly great Nature weaves
Some night about her orows a filmy crown,
Whittier than lilies. softer than the down
OF swans, why say, ye watchers, that she
grevesf
Say, rather, Natures thoughts. which We ean
flowers,
Tired growing Of their own sweet fairness,
sWtt
Tho mother covered them with downy drifs,
6aying: sleep. TIL L wake you with soft show
ers."
Lucy Il. Ta.y, ia Hzrfer's Hs<k,r
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The " Terror"

The "TerrOr." "
Little shoe-strings all united,
That make the tiny shoes go ''iop;"
A hat with half the brim torn on,
A hole that shows the curls on top.
But then beneath II such q face,
All rogushness and baby glee,
And dimples that play hide and seek
Around the crimson mouth so wee.
And fngers-but why try TO tell
or all the mischief they contrive'
The doggie could q tale unfold"
And kittie now is not alive.
And is he wicked when he swims
Small chickens in the place of ducksi
Or when he sees the buds unfold,
Before the flower comes he plucksi
Or when he takes his sisters dolls
And pulls the 'criers" in them outi
Or runs pin in papa's watch
To see what little 'tick's" abouti
Oh, mother hearts, you'll take him in,
This naughty terror" household joy;
Because in him you will but see
The picture Of your own small boy.
Il. L. Ednsto.
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i clothed myself in plain attire,
And sought to win my hearts desire;
found the sweetest face knew,
maid as pure as morning dew;
or loves undying fame told,
That burned like vestal fires of old.
No blush illumed the angel face,
And yet her words were full of grace.
She did not feel the love, she said,
THAT maidens must who truly we'd:
she held me as pleasant friend,
And there her thought of me must end,
And then a richer garb chose.
And borrowed perfume from the rose;
l boosted OF a kindly fate
That gave to rac vast estate;
talked Of gilded castle walls.
And shaded walks, and stately halls.
Her splendid eyes were radiant now,
Her velvet cheeks were Gil agiow.
She said she loved to hear me toll
No other voice she liked as well.
told her it would pleasure lend
That she would be to me a friend
-TdRkee Blade.