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San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-11-22
A Day Ahead.

He was leaning up against the city
hall fence yesterday, and as n knot ol
men near him began to talk politics
he reused up and inquired:
"Shemtlen, who's 'elected?'
"Nobody yet" replied one.
"Hain't we had leckshun yeti
mo, it is to morrow"
"Hooray, Didn'tknow but leckshur
had got ahead of me-
"Who's your candidates?
"Whoser my candidate? Shemlen
that's solemn question-very sol
emn. Do look like er man who'd
vote to er plunge zhis country into
er bankruptcy?"
mo"
"Never! Id die first! Do er re-
semble man who'd vote to enslave or
peoples"
No"
"Never! Zhe dear people! Give me
liberty or death! Shemlen, do ! ef
resemble man who wants to break ur
zhis glorious union7'
"No.'
"Never! Give me or union or give
me or death! Whoser my candidate!
eyes"
"Shemlen, have I been asked 10 Oh
take a zhrnk? No, never! Has eI
any one taken me by er arm and led
me to er place of sin and asked me te
shmoke or imbibe. No, not one! Has
any one lent me quarter? No! Has
er any one spoke kind words to me-
Not q shoul! Whoser my candidate
Shemlen, 60 to er Halifax '-Detrol'
Free Press.
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NUMBER Az.
A Dakota Blizzard.

Little or no snow falls in Dakota
from November to April. 1t is toe
cold to snow, and the blizzard is not
a snow storm Gn the ordinary sense
OF the word), but cold wind which
comes sweeping down from Behring
Straits with n velocity OF from fifty
to sixty miles an hour, bringing with
it q blast OF finely powdered ice I'M
agine a thick fog, oil OF ice, blown
along by high wind; the tiny par
ticles, coming with such velocity,
sting like blow from whip Lash.
Nothing can stand before it. Those
buffalo and cattle who are used it
make for the leo side of the nearest
hill. hay-stack or building, and hud-
die close together for safety, trusting
ta heing covered by the snow and
thus kept warm; when, if the storm
does not last too long, they may
escape alive. You cannot see across
the street from one house to another,
and men have been frozen to death
within few feet Of home and safety.
The thermometer falls many degrees
below aero, beyond the power OF
mercury to measure it; only the best
spirit thermometers can be used for
these low temperatures. When going
with the wind you are driven along
with resistless force; if against 1t,
you are knocked down and buffeted
about; unless you are so fortunate as
to find speedy help and shelter you
are almost sure to be frozen to death.
st. Nicholas.
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Killed Her Drunken. MurderOus Hus-
hand.

BRmSGH.N, Ala, Nov. 11.--W. A.
Schumacher, postmaster at Carbon
Hill, Walker county. forty miles west
of this city, was today shot and in
stantly killed by his wife. who is only
nineteen years old, and to whom he
had been married only n short time.
Schumacher had been drinking heav.
ily since the election. This morning
he attacked his wife and threatened
10 burn her to-dsath in oil, She dis
armed him once, and when he at
tackled her a second time, she drew a
pistol and shot him through The
heart She then attempted 10 shoot
herself: bat was prevented Schn-
mackcr vas one % the most Promi
nent citizens Of Walker county. Mrs.
Schumacker has bern arrested
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Good.By (!

There's kind OF chilly feelin' in the blowin'
of the breeze,
Aud sense of sadness stealin' through the
tresses OF the trees;
And it's not the sad Septumbor that's slowly
drawn' nigh,
But les that / remember have como 10
say "Good-by!"
.'Good.by," the wind il wailin'; "Good.by VI
the trees complain,
As they bend low down to whisper with
their green leaves white with rain,
Good by" the roses murmur, an the
bsndin' lilies sigh
As il they all felt sorry ! had come to say
"Good-by!"
I reckon oil have said II, some time or Other
soft
An easy like-with eyes cast down, that
dared not look aloft,
For the tears that trembled in them, for the
lips that choked the sigh
When IL kind o. took holt o. tho heart, on
made it beat "Good-by!"
didn't think twas hard to soy, but standin'
here alone
With the pleasant past behin' me, an the
future dim. unknown.
A gloamin' yonder iu the dark, can't keep
back the sigh
An I'm weepin' like woman, nc bid you
all "Good-byl"
The work I've done is with you; may be
some things went wrong;
Like q note that mars the music in tho
sweet flow of song!
But, brethren, when you think OF me,
only wish you would
Say as the Muster said of one: "He hath
done what he could"
And when you sit together, in the time as
yet to be,
BY your love encircled fire-sides in this
pleasant land of Lee,
Let the sweet past come before you, an
with somethin' like sigh,
Jes' say: ave amt forgot him since the
day he said 'Good-by!'" ,"
F. L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution.
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CHURCH Es.

METHopIsT.-PrsschinE at the Methods
Church every sabbath, Rev. ". n. b. Biggs, Pastor
Sunday School at Q. m. Sin Cling at O'Clock p. N
Prayer Meeting on Wednesday. Young hentprAy
et meeting on Monday night. a.,
BAPrlsT.-Presching at the Baptist Chpret
avery sunday. Rev. W. y. Beverley, Pastor
Sunday School sts:3o 8. m. Young mems prayer
meeting Tuesday night. Congregational prayer
meeting Wednesday night.
PRRsBYTgRlAH.-serviee and aud 4th SUNDAY
sseh month. !. pastor' SUNDAY
School every Sabbath At $50 an. PRAYER Meet
ing every Thursdsy ct t;so p. m. All are invited
TO attend. Y
caRlsTIAN.-Rldsr Pastor
tended to all.
PRorRsrAET RPIscoP J. Gilbresth
Pastor. Services the 2nd and 4th sundsJa 10 eaet
nenth. Sunday school evsrJ Sunday.
Rev. Rather Smith Pastor.
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Things Lest by Women.

lyon would be surprised to see the
things we find in the ladies room,
said an employe Of dry goods store
"Handkerchiefs. empty pocket books
even bustles and change are quite
common, bat the most astonishing
thing of all is the whisky flask. A
large number of empty TASKS arc
found and every one of them is still
rendolent Of its former contents.
suppose the women who carry then
are liable to fainting spells-NeW
York Sun.
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Evan Jones not a YIdeite.

The Mercury takes pleasure aud
pride in announcing that the Fort
Worth Gazette's charge that Evan
Jones, president of the Farmers
State Alliance, is f. member OF the
National Order Of Videttes, is untrue.
The Mercury wrote 10 Bro. Jones on
this matter, and herewith publishes
bis reply:
Il am not connected with any po.
litical convention. club or ring. score;
or otherwise. EvAx JOxEs.
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Martyrs to Headache

Seek relief in vain, until they begin 10
use Ayers Sarsaparila. Then they re-
gret the years Of suffering they might
have escaped had they tried this remedy
earlier. The trouble was constitutional
not local and, until Ayers Sarsapa-
rilla did its effective work as an
Alternative and Blood Purifier, they were
compelled to suffer.
Tho wife Of Samuel Page, 81 Austin
ST., Lowell, Mass, was, for long time,
subject to severe headaches, the result
OF stomach and liver disorders. A per-
feet cure has been effected by Ayers
Sarsaparilla.
Frank Roberts, 727 Washington ST.,
Boston, says that lie formerly had ter
rible headaches, and until he took
Ayers Sarsaparilla, never found any
medicine that would give
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-11-22
The National Party.

This, now, should become the ac-
cepted title of the prohibition party.
The solid republican north and the
solid democratic south-both made
and kept sectionally solid by the rum
power-cannot ever be brought into
q common brotherhood through eth
or old political party. This antagonistn
is deepening and widening to the per
il of free institutions. Shall it contin.
ue7 We plead for national unity and
interstate fraternity, but it is impos-
sible in the presence OF apower whose
life depends upon sectionalizing poll
tics and dominating governmental
policies in the interest Of an over
mastering money-greed.
A new party must take the field,
equipped in spirit to bridge the chasm
between the sections and mako this
people one people in heart and hand
What mission OF patriotic and
Christly service awaits the true states
men. Whisky partyism is tho dag
ger of Brutus, drinking the life-blood
of national unity. Away with the
traitor.-The Issue.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-11-22

When it was announced in parlia-
mont that his majesty's forces had
gained victory over the American
rebels, "Yes, answered Colonel Barre,
''and few more such victories will
lose America to his majesty" Gen.
tlemen of the monopolies, You have
beten this time-but thopeople's time
is coming fast. Springfield Republi-
can, Ind.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-11-22
The First Marriage.

Il don't cay marriage is a failure.
SAID Adam. candidly, as be sat down
on a log inst outside the Garden oi
Eden. and lorke1 bungTily at tie
fruit on the other side nf the wall
bat III had remained singlc tLi-
wouldn't have happenei
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-11-22

~Oh. pa, / heard you talking this
morning about scratching the ticket
Is the ticket itchyl" No. nv son,
but the palm that holds it is
brakes Nag zine
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-11-22

4 Chanute lKas minister prayed
tlat The Lord w0nid not withhold
his Blessing from this congregation.
even II some of them we're looking
ror1f a. s1rre one else
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Permanent Relief.

EVERY Spring, for years." writes
Lizzie w. DeVeau, 262 Fifteenth ST.,
Brooklyn, n. Y, ~ have had intoler-
able headaches. / commenced the use
of Ayers Sarsaparilla last March, and
have not had a headache since that
time"
az suffered from headache, indiges-
ton, and debility, and was hardly able
to drag myself abont the house" writes
Mrs. NJ. NJ. Lewis, OF A ST., Lowell,
Mass. "Ayer's Sarsaparilla has worked
a marvellous change in my case. L now
feel strong and well as ever"
Jonas Garman, ESQ, of Lykins, Pa,
writes: For years 1 have suffered
dreadfully, every Spring, from headache,
caused by impurity of the blood and
bilousness. 1t seemed for days and
weeks that my head would split open.
Nothing relieved me till 1 took Ayers
Sarsaparilla. This medicine has cured
me completely"
When Mrs. Genevra Belanger, of "a
Bridge st., Springfield, Mass, began to
use Ayers Sarsaparilla, she had suffered
for some years from serious affection
of the kidneys. Every Spring, also, she
was afflicted with headache, loss OF
appetite, and indigestion. A friend per-
shaded her to use Ayers Sarsaparilla,
which benefited her wonderfully. HeI
health is now perfect. Martyrs to head.
ache should try
n
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-11-22

No c0mpr1mise With the EquoT
evil Stsill firm for Prohibition
every day il tie year
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GENERAL DIRECTORY.
OFFICIAL.

ooxaRussMAH-SrH DISTRICT:
Hen. l.. ". Moore, of Fayette County.
sExAros -25rH DIsrRIoT
ass. WE. Burger. OF Guadalupe 10.
ssrsKsrxrArJvns-9lsr DIsrRIcTt
Hen Geo. r. Meg ishee, Of Hays Co.
aen, ], L. Rllison, Of Caldwell Co.
vtsraIor oouRr--z7xD prsraIor.
H.,. n. reIohmueilsr. Presiding Judge. Lagrange
J. N. Bethany. Attorney, Austin Go.
rInus oy HOLDING COURT.
HAr,.-lst Mondays in March and September. May
continue three weeks,
COUNTY orrIosRs.
I'd r. Kons, Judge County Court.
las a. RurIeson, Dist. aud County CLERK.
S.B. Mcbride, County Attorney.
Jas. 4. Wren sheriff. N. Turner Deputy; q,
,c.s. Cock, Iu.'ie.s. Of the Peace e" Ere. 70
r. r usSSs s.. &C. -
!o,; o;H'.,:: :,,:.. :. :. =" :.
J.u. Patterson, County Treasurer.
RS. Fortson, ASSESSOR.
Otto Groos. Surveyor.
vi. Owe. oon'r Pre:!ne' 70.
1..s; =; g.: sssSis.. ssss.; :.
vi, steel. Constable pr':s!H0' .e.,
Jepp Henson,
rInxs oy MoLDisa CouSry AID PREorsor oouEfs-
County Court for CRIMINAL, Civil and Probate oes
asss-+,h Mondays 10 January Apr'''u'S'o''o-
Der.
Cenmis ssioners' 'Court-2d Mondays In February
Nay, August and November.
Justice Court, Precinct No. l-Last MONDAY III
zach month. at San Marcos. , ola.
Precinct No. sd Pridsy In each month nv .Ciy
" SD - Wimbsrieys MILL
/" A-4th Sat. Dripping Springs.
-..,a-- TOWN. oTPIcERs.
kayor-Ham nett Hardy. ,,,
Council-w. D. Wood. q ". Donslson, dia
johnson. De- A.. Glover, I'D. J. L. Green' f'''o
Smith, Dan Hoibsini and VIM. Glesen.
harshsl-J. u Turner.
Street Commit ssioner j. ". Danforth.
Council meets the first Wednesday In eacn mou'n
Public School Trustees meet first Tuesday In eaeu
month at the Mayor's o1ce.
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FREE PRESS.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY AND NsrEnEp AT rHR
posroYyIcE AT SAN MARoos' TEXAS AS SEQ
oyp GLASS MATTER. ) nv, n. -.
ADVERTISING RATES.

t,oal and Transisnt Advertisements will
IA charged One Dollar per square for the
Spst insertion, and Fifty Cents per square
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Ill, be counted as full squares. ..,.
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Ayers Sarsapariha,

Prepared by DR.. J. C. Aver s Co., Lowell, Mass
Price 81; six bottles, IS. Worth &5 bottle
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-03-10
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

There wants pothing but believ-
ing prayer to turn the promise into a
performance.
The passion Of acquiring riches IN
order to support a vain expense cor
rupts the purest souls.
There is no Christian duty that is
not to be seasoned and set OFT with
cheerfulness. -lMltOn.
1t is great mercy to enjoy the
gospel of peace, but greater to ENJOY
the peace of the gospel.
When a great truth really fills the
mind it naturally seeks to find express
sion in speech. 1t is then more dlffl-
cult to restrain ones self from speak
ing than it is to speak.
If God tells us any thing, we ac-
cept it as sure, unquestionable, infalll-
BILE truth. If he walls anything we de-
sire to leave it vailed, for the limit OF
revelation is the limit of our faith.
The piety that Christ smiles upon
is piety that will stand a pinch, and
face a storm; that would rather eat an
honest crust, than fare sumptuously on
unholy gains; that gladly gives up its
couch of ease to sally off on its mission
among the outcasts; that sets its Puri-
tan face like flint against fashionable
sins. Our Young People.
Like the air, the church must press
equally upon all the surfaces OF So
Getty; like the sea, flow into every
nook of the shore-line of humanity;
like the sun, shine on things foul and
low as we'll as fair and high; for she
was organized, commissioned and
equipped for the moral reformation
of the whole world Bishop Simpson.
1t is seldom borne in mind that
without constant reformation-that is,
without constant return to the fount-
ain head-every religion, even the
most perfect, nay, the most perfect on
account of its very perfection more
even than others, suffers from its con-
tact with the world, as the purest air
suffers from the mere fact of its being
breathed. -Mar Miller
The Lord loveth the cheerful CIV
er. Remember Jesus commends giving
according to the ability of the dener
Mark xii. 41-44. tells that Jesus sat
over against the treasury or contribu-
ton box at The Temple, and beheld how
the people cas- money into the treas
ury, and then in that wonderful homily
explained ~the true virtue of giving. -
Buds and Blossoms.
An Arab. when one day the ques-
ton was put, "How doyou know there
is God?" turned with apparent in-
dignation upon the questioner, and re-
piled: "How do | know whether mar
or camel passed my tent last nightP
can tell that from the foot-marks;
there can be no mistake about Them
His own footprints are the best evil
dence and character of jehovah
Friendly Greeting.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-03-10
PROFIT FROM POULTRY.
A Remunerative Business When Confined
Within Certain Limits.

A Remunerative Business When Confined
Within Certain Limits.
Comparatively few farmers, who raise
more or less poultry, ever keep an ac-
count of expenditures and receipts,
and so the real condition of the balance
sheet is practically unknow. Some
will imagine that the keeping of poul-
try results in profit, while others claim
that sit costs more than it comes to. y
A neighboring farmer commenced, on
the first of January, 1887, with sixty
hens and roosters, and during the ell
tire years kept a careful account of all
expenses and receipts, and was we'll
satisfied with the result Not having
all the figures at hand we can only
give the general result On the first of
January, 1888, he had seventy fowls,
ten more than he started with; had
sold nearly $50 worth of chickens,
enough to pay for all the food pro-
vided, and had sold between $40 and
$50 worth of eggs. In this trial the
feed was of the greatest variety and
given warm, in the morning. both
summer and winter. It consisted of
wheat, buckwheat, corn; oats, meat
scraps, ground bone, fine feed, and
meal scalded, with condiments of GIN
ger, pepper, sulphur, etc. The feed
at night was corn and buckwheat. In
this case the cost of keeping the fowls
fell somewhat below what istgenerally
considered an average. We have no.
ticed a good many records of the cost
Of keeping fowls, and the average did
not fall a great way below one dollar
per head, but in this case the cost varied
but little from eighty cents per head.
Nor has any mention been made Of
the manure that can be accumulated
from a flock of sixty fowls when upon
their roosts, if properly taken care of.
But of course this would serve as an
offset to the time spent in caring for
the same.
The poultry business, when confined
within certain limits, may without
doubt be made a profitable branch of
farm industry, and anyone knows that
there is always a healthy demand for
fresh eggs in preference to those that
have already been shipped & long dis
lance and are of doubtful character.
Nm. Il. Teonlans. in A. ]. o5se'rer.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-03-10
BEAR CUBS.
It Is a Dangerous Business to Fool
With Them.

Reckoned by itself, there isn't much
to bear cub under six months old, no
matter what particular breed of the
varmint it belongs to, grizzly, CHINA
mon, or what not Nevertheless, by
fooling with a bear cub fellow can
very easily get himself into bigger
rumpus than if he had tackled a full
grown animal to begin with. Take a
cub and its mother together, and the
combination is every bit as dangerous
as two full-grown bears. Not because
the youngster is likely to take any
hand in the fight but because the old
she bear will fight a heap savager and
die harder on account of the cub, every
time. II you want to see an old squaw
bear turn herself wrong side out with
fury and cave around till her eyes
throw off sparks, all you have to do is
to get cornered up betwixt her and
her cub as ! once happened to be.
1t came about one day while Sage
brush Bill and the three Englishmen
were out in the mountains hunting,
and was staying at home tolook after
the camp. Our camp. You will remem-
Der, was in a little mountain park near
the head waters Of the Rosebud on the
Crow reservation, Montana. Our
mules were picketed in a sort of off
shoot of the park, a short distance
away where there was plenty of bunch
grass, and was just returning from
watering them and shifting them over
new ground one morning, when I
stumbled upon brown bear cub about
four months old. The sight of q cub
abroad at that age without its mother
Is SO very unusual that / concluded at
once that it must be an orphan, and
gave chase with the idea Of rounding
It mp. had no gun or revolver with
me, nothing ID fact but my bowie, for,
as say, merely strolled over from
camp to water and shift the mules.
TIE cub was a lively and muscular lit
tie wnelp. With legs almost as thick as
its body; and as / took after him, he
hustled along through the pines at a
pace that made me hump in order to
keep him company I might have run |
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-03-10
WIT AND WISDOM.

IT'S the bouquet of old wine that
makes the toper's nose gay.-Picayu'se.
The happiness of love is in action;
its test is what one is willing to do for
Others. Ben Hur.
Boston wants to erect monument
to Mother Goose. Why not? Detroit
has so honored Michigander. -Pica-
y@ne.
Gentleman is term which does
not apply to any station, but to the
heart and feelings in every station.
1alfourd.
What three words did Adam use
when he Introduced himself to Eve,
which read backwards and forwards
the same? He said: Madam, Pm
Adam"
1.-THE difference between a form
and ceremony said Whately, sis
nice one, and it lies in this: You sit
upon form and you stand upon cere-
mony."
You see, the trouble with "suc-
cess that is too dearly bought is that
you have got to 60 on associating with
yourself after you have obtained it
Rochester Union.
without COMMISSIONING of the
heart-no one can be truly great"
says a philosopher. If this be true. so
long rs there are mice in the world it
sh1Jts ont women
Some musicians are fond of speak
ing Of the ''colors'' of the tones of va
rious musical instruments. We Won
der if they have noticed that the cornet
is always "blew?n -Burlington Free
Press.
An interesting exchange asks:
did you ever see a left-handed idiot
or a baldheaded fool?" We have seen
the baldheaded fool. He spent half the
money he made for hair restorers.-
Lincoln Journal.
No man, however bad, is wholly
dishonest We know great many
who would not run in debt for nearly
so many things as they do if they only
had money enough to pay for some of
them. LoaUeU Citizen.
And now electricity is to be added
to the defensive features of the barbed
wire-fenee. Electricity is the only
thing posse ssing the power to make the
barbed wire-fence more shocking
affair than it is at presently ].
World
Wife (p1eadingly) = I'm afraid,
George, you do not love me as well as
you used to. Husband-Whyp W.
Because you always let me get up to
light the Gre. H.-Nonsense, my love.
Your getting up to light the fire makes
me love you all the more.
Whatever convenience NAV be
thought to be in falsehood and dissim-
ulatfon, it is soor over; but the incon-
venience of it is perpetual, because it
brings a man under everlasting ieal-
ousy and suspicion, so that he is not
believed when he speaks the truth, nor
trusted when perhaps he means hon.
esty.-1alfotsoas.