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San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1889-01-03
a SAD STORY,

The child cough,d. The mother ran. No
remedy was near. Before morning the poor
little sufferer wns dead. Moral: Always keep
DIR. Acker's English Remedy for Consunp.
ton at hand. For sale by q. 4. Bass, drug
gist.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1889-01-03

The sidewalks in Salt Lake City
are twenty feet wide, so that Nor
mon elder can go walking with his
wife at his side.-Puck.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1889-01-03
Very long scarfs of black lace in
various fine patterns are imported.

Dujardin's Life Essence Is very valuable Thete
The ,tomrch l. unable to extract from the ieod the
albunen an phosph orous The Lilo Essence Ia I'M
mcdirtely absor bed. aud nouri hes the nervous
system, with ut any aid from digestion. Price
u so a bottle, All druggists, jams mi
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1889-01-03

Boston claims some convets to
There is also some bndd-
lists among the nurserymen of Pitts
burg Chronicle.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1889-01-03

Fur trimmings for late autumn
coats of colored cloths nre black fur
Alaska sable, fox and Persian lamb
skin.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1889-01-03

Virgins, the prophet, appears to
be lost, SAYS an exchange. This is
all profit aud no loSs.-Yonkers Ga
zctte.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1889-01-03

"What is Singles running for?
81 didn't know ho was running for
anything"
"Oh, but he is then. I saw him
going to church last Sunday. Boston
Transcript.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1889-01-03

Oliver Wendell Holmes has made
more money as surgeon thin as u
writer.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1889-01-03

1t is m odd fact that coal beds are
furnished with petroleum springs.
brakes Magazine.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1889-01-03

Octave Fcnillet, the famous French
novelist, has buried an only son,
Young man of 80.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1889-01-03

Passengers musnt expect 20 hear
the jibboom 10 calm weather.-Ocean
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INDIANAPOLIS SET!EEL :
BEST PAPEh FOR IIlIhIA EEFS
Good a. 4 Letter from Home to
Old In6iani rs.

TIE SENTINEL has recently chai.sei
rr1ua-s--..-'. a-i undsrc6ur rsary -lI.roye-
rsHt- o. o. noe one 90 THE Laufsrzuas-.
-r.r-f rar l1fra a-f rro-t Progressive r-rs-
r1r.--1 rr Or. HH-r-rN.
s~zHI.Ia CIV % Any sl.tir- FEEE 20 sTl-
T-C SENTINEL
sj',daurpoEs. INDIAN
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-03-09
LOST A CUSTOMER.
How an Aesthetic Barber Frightened Ono
Of His Best Clients.

How an Aesthetic Barber Frightened Ono
Of His Best Clients.
LET me have close shave" said a
lew customer, as he settled back in his
chair and looked dreamily at the
ceiling in downtown barbershop.
I'D rather not" said tho aesthetic
barber, throwing the hair back from
his full, expansive brow and looking
sadly at the man in the chair.
whats that you say? What's the
matter? Come, come, hurry upr'
NO, no, my good man, you do not
know what you are asking for. Do
you know what close shave means?
l never did until looked at face the
other day through the microscope
which had been treated to this luxu-
rious process. Why. the entire skin
resembled a piece of raw beef. To
make the face perfectly smooth re-
quires not only the removal of the
hair, but also portion of the cuticle,
and a close shave means the removal
of layer OF skin all around. The
blood vessels thus exposed are not
visible to the eye, but under the mi
croscope each little quivering mouth
holding minute drop protests against
such cruel treatment. The nerve tips
are also uncovered. and the pores are
left unprotected. which makes the skin
tender and unhealthy. This sudden
exposure of the inner layer of the skin
renders person liable to have colds,
hoarseness and sore throat, and it is
only that the face and neck are pachy-
dermatous-"
Hold on, barber! Not another
wordr' exclaimed the customer. A
look of sadness had come over his face
and he seemed to be mentally calculat-
ing the amount of epidermis that had
been sacrificed in many years of close
shaves. Suddenly jumping from his
chair he said with deep feeling:
s.Tll never shave again."
In moment more he was gone Tho
aesthetic barber was astonished at the
unexpected result of his effort to rid a
fellow being of a foolish notion. and he
had a chill when the boss barber told
him that the loss OF trade would be
deducted from his salary.-N Y. 1Fits
uue.
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THE FENCE QUESTION.

An Eastern Farmers Comment ON This
Perennial Subject.
Undoubtedly, as an exchange sug-
gests, the best way to manage breachy
animals is to have the kind of fences
that they can not throw down or jump
over, for bad fences make unruly stock.
Cattle reared on farms where the
fences are poor are apt to be trouble
some ever after, but If they can be kept
from jumping until four or five years
old it is surprising how slight barrier
will keep them within bounds. 1t is
therefore important that cattle should
be kept from contracting breaehy
habits while young. What kind of
build and maintain will depend upon
his locality. the scarcity of timber. etc.
In regions where chestnut or some
other durable timber is plentiful the
old Virginia worm fence possesses some
advantages. 1t is easily built and
readily moved when necessary to
change the shape and size of zelda
But there is no economy of timber in
the worm fence and at the best it
requires constant care and atten-
ton. A good, solid post-and-rail fence
requires a better class of timber
and more labor to build, but it will
last many for years, with little or no
care, and If made five rails high is
about the most ''unjumpable" thing
that a breachy animal is likely to at
tempt. On farms encountered with
stones. stone walls, il well-laid up on q
foundation below frost line, will last q
long time with slight repairs, but or
dinarily the work is done in too much
of hurry, and poorly built stone
wall is only nuisance. 1t is aques-
ton whether in most cases the stones
could not be disposed of to better adj
vantage in some other way. An old
stone wall that has been staked and
ridered is about the most untidy and
ugly a combination in the shape OF u
fence that one can imagine. The
barbed wire fence. in spite of its draw
backs, is rapidly growing in popularity.
Its comparative cheapness and the ease
with which it may be kept from becom-
ing harbor for weeds and other foul
growths are in its favor. There is q
tendency to do away with the long and
dangerous barbs that were first intro
duced, and to make them just long
enough to act as reminders. An ami
NAL soon learns to respect fence with
even short barbs on it Stu. the wire
fence, even in its modified forms, Is far
from being perfect one. The best
fence Is still thing of the future.
Perhaps Yankee ingenuity viii some
day furnish us with cheap, portable
and durable stock barrier that will not
be a terror to tn man who wishes to
60 across lots, or to the toiler who
yearns for Arrest on the top rail at the
end Of HE ROW. RhiIedeIpkie Rksso,
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The words "selah" nd ''mizpah'
are Hebrew and occur in the Script
ures. The former is of doubtful mean
ing. occurring frequently in the Psalms.
1t is supposed to signify silence or q
pause in the music of the song. and
again to signify that special attention
is to be given to the subject. ''Miz-
pah" signifies 1.-THE Lord watch be-
tween you and me, when we are absent
from one another"
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lin front Of a shoe store ia Colum-

lin front Of q shoe store ia Colum-
bus. Ga, stands q stuffed bear shin. A
visitor was passing eating pecans.
While he was opening the nuts and de-
vouring their contents he became OBJ
livious to his surroundings. Raising
his eyes in front of the store he found
himself. as he supposed, confronted by
an angry, living bear, and, plying his
knife vigorously, he cut the stufing
from the imaginary wild beast in a
style that would have delighted the
heart of a Rocky Mountain hunter.
The bear is dead, and the young man
wished he was, too, many times since,
when being leased by his fun-loving
companions.
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A TAME BUTTERFLY.
How It's Life Was Prolonged Through .
Whole Winter.

How Its Life Was Prolonged Through
Whole Winter.
One cold. bleak December morning,
when the sky and all nature wore the
sullen, Responding look so peculiar to
our climate at this season, lady, who
for the first time had risen from bed
of sickness, went into an adjoining
apartment, where she perceived gay
and beautiful butterfly in the window.
Astonished at finding this creature of
flowers and sunshine in so uncongenial
a situation, she watched its movements
and operations.
As the sun came out for a bright,
brief space, the butterfly fiuttered joy
ously about the window, and impaired
to the sick room an air of cheerfulness
and hope. Towards evening. however,
the tiny creature dropped its wings.
The lady then placed it in glass tum-
bier on the mantle-piece. During the
night hard frost came on, and the
room was in consequence very cold. In
the morning the butterfly lay in the
bottom of the tumbler, apparently dead.
The invalid, grieved that her gentle
companion of the previous day should
so soon perish, made some effort to re-
store its fragile existence. She put it
on her own warm hand, and, breathing
upon it, perceived it gave signs Of re-
turning animation. She then once
more placed it in the glass house on
the rug before the fire. Soon the ele-
CANT little insect spread out its many
colored wings, and few to the window,
where the sun was shining brightly.
By and by the sun retired, and the
window-panes getting cold, the crea-
ture sank down on the carpet again,
apparently lifeless. The same means
were used to restore animation, and
with the same success.
This alienation of life and death
went on for many days till at last the
grateful little thing became quite tame,
and seemed to be acquainted with its
benefactress. When she went to the
window, and held out her finger, it
would, of its own accord, hop upon it;
sometimes it would settle for an hour
at a time upon her hand or neck when
she was reading or writing. Its food
consisted of honey; drop of which
the lady would put upon her hand.
when the butterfly would uncurl its
sucker. and gradually sip it up; then
it usually slipped drop of water in the
same way. The feeding only took
place once in three or four days.
In this manner the butterhy's exist
ence was prolonged through the whole
winter and part of the following spring.
As it approached the end of its career
its wings became quite transparent. and
its spirits apparently detected. 1t
would rest quietly in its ''crystal
palace" even when the sun was WOO
ing it to come out, and, at last, one
morning in April, it was found dead
quite dead.-N y Led2er.
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FARM AND FIREsIoE.


teacups sugar, one teacup molasses,
one teacup butter, two large table,
spoonfuls ginger. three teaspoonfuls
1oda dissolved in little warm water;
mix rather hard, roll out thin, bake
quick.-Albany Journal
Brown Macaroni: The common
pipe macaroni is used for it. This is
first boiled, then cut up and stewed in
brown stock until it has absorbed the
whole, when it should be spread on
fat dish and little more stock poured
over; the dish should be garnished with
pieces of toast oman's World.
Egg Hash: Three teaspoonfuls Of
milk and pinch of salt to each WELL
beaten Ssg; to each three eggs add one
cupful Of chopped, cold, boiled potatoes
and one teacupful of chopped fresh meat
of any sort. Grease a spider lavishly
with meat drippings, and stir constant
ly until well-heated through.
"A horse that is naturally courage
Gus may be made cowardly by abuse.
If he often receives blows the fear Of
them is uppermost; and any unknown
noise is imagined to be coming hurt,
the escape from which is an uncontrol-
liable impulse. The man who abuses
his horses is often rewarded by the
destruction of his property and injury
to himself. the result of runaways.
-Soiled bedding should be kept
through the day away from the stalls.
If piled under the managers, the horses
are compelled to breathe the offensive
ammoniacal odors, which are injuri-
Gus to their eyes, lungs and general
health. Many horse has learned the
habit Of pulling on his halter through
his efforts to get away from the smell
of soiled bedding. Agricul-
turist.
The value OF clover as an egg food
is readily seen by the large percentage
of lime and phosphoric acid. OF all
vegetable kingdom it is the most access
sible and cheapest food. Fed with
meat scraps it makes a nearly complete
egg food. Sulphur is also present. as
well as salt-in fact all ingredients
necessary to the formation of an egg
can be found in the above foods, and
all are in such a form as to be readily
assimilated by the digestive organs Of
. fowl.
Drowned Oysters on Toast: Open
two dozen large oysters, keeping them
separate from their juice. Then mix
smoothly the yelk Of two eggs with a
little -four; beard the oysters and
season them with salt and pepper;
then dip them separately in the mix
ture of egg and -four, place them in a
saucepan and brown them in little
clarified butter. When brown take
them out of the saucepan and pour
the juice of the oysters into the butter
remaining in the pan. Thicker this
with little -four, and, after simmering
it gently for two or three minutes, pu,
in the oysters and let them remain
until they get thoroughly hot, then
take them out and serve on slices oil
toasted bread.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-03-09
FLOWERS AND INSECTS.

How Busy Moths Garry Precious Tokens
from Blossom to Blossom.
The slender stamens now explore the
gloom. and hang their festoons Of web
by pollen across their tips. None too
soon, for even now a silvery moth cir
cles about the blossom, and settles
among the outstretched filaments, sip
ping the nectar in tremulous content
But he carries precious portion as he
hies away, golden necklace, perhaps,
aud with it message to yonder bios
som among the alders, and thus until
the dawn, his rounds directed with a
deep design of which he is an innocent
instrument, but which insures per-
petual paradise OF primroses for future
slippers like himself. Nor Is it neces-
sary to visit the haunt Of the evening
primrose to observe this beautiful
episode. The same may be witnessed
almost any summer evening much
nearer home, even about your porch.
and among city walls, heralded by
those fresh, dewy whiffs from the night
blooming honeysuckle, where the
bright bevies OF blushing buds are
bursting in anticipation of that kiss
which harms not" as the welcome
sphinx-moth. piloted by the two great
glowing lanterns Of its eyes, hovers in
the murmurous cloud of its humming
phautom-wings. How often have
watched these mimic humming- birds
in the gathering dusk, whirling about
the flowers, following the circuit Of
each fresh-blown cluster, fitting and
swaying in their buoyant poise above
the blossoms throat. only their long
bodies visible in the fuzzy, buzzy
h;slos Of wings, the slender capillary
tongues uncoiled, nearly six inches in
length, and thust in turn deep into the
honeyed tubes.-W Hdnsilton Gibsons
IN Harpcr's Magazine.
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CAUSES OF CONSUMPTION.
Improper Drainage OF the Soil Largely Re.
sponsiblc for 1t.

Improper Drainage Of the Soil Largely Re.
sponsIblc for 1t.
Some interesting statistics have been
gathered by DR.. Simon upon the sub
ject of consumption. In fifteen English
towns recently recorded by DIR, Simon
the deaths from consumption fell inn
mediately when the subsoil was dried
from a system of drainage. In Sails
bury the deaths from consumption fell
40 per cent; in Ely AZ per cent, and
Merthyr Tydvil, which gained least,
had its death rate from consumption
lowered IL per cent. From statistics
we know the high mortality from con-
sumption in the British army, and es-
pecially in the Guards, is due to con-
fined ARA mortality which has been
so affected by better ventilation of bar
racks that the consumptive death rate
fell in the Guards from 125 in 10000 in
the year 1858 to 1863 in the year 1875;
that is to say. the deaths from con-
sumption alone in the Guards in 1875
were less than seventh Of the number
OF 1858.
The researches of DR.. Bowditch, of
Massachusetts, and DIR. Buchanan, of
England. also strongly confirm that the
comparative degree of wetness in the
soil is fair measure of the proportion
of consumption among the residents
thereon. DIR. Pepper, Of Philadelphia.
attempted an investigation of the dis
tribution of the same disease for the
State of Pennsylvania and presented
his data and certain conclusions to the
Chronological Association as contri-
button to the chronological study OF
the disease. His inquiries were sent
to $50 of the 5000 physicians distrib-
uted through sixty-seven counties,
and replies were received from 120 cor
respondents in forty-seven counties
The general deductions from the an
swers are that the localities having
high mortality from consumption are
those of little elevation and large an
nual rainfall, and that the hemlock
regions, which correspond quite closely
with the favorable climatic regions.
have the greatest immunity. A very
small proportion OF the respondents
recognize the influence Of special local
causes for this disease. such as the
greater dampness Of one house than
another. The hereditary nature OF the
disease is almost unanimously admitted,
while its infectious quality is receiving
more general recognition. In race the
negroes seem the most liable and the
jews the most exempt, but there are
many other factors than those Of ma
tionality to be taken into account. DR.
Pepper regards his paper las the first
crude and imperfect result OF an inves-
tigation which he hopes to be able to
continue to much greater degree OF
completeness The address (for which
the author deserves the highest COM
mendation) is accompanied with elabo-
rate maps, charts and tables.-M +.
Mail and Express.
Foot ball games in England never
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One More Unfortunate.

"Yes, you bet marrige is failure"
nc exclaimed as he came out of saloon
wiping his chin. Heres my own case
to prove it."
.'Don's you live happily7" asked one
Of the crowd.
..No!n
..Whyf"
.sWhy! Because have only three
dollars q week to run on. My wife
earns i've, but she won't give up but
three. and I've got to squeeze along on
that while some other husbands have IF
teea. Yes. marriage is q dead fat failure.
None Of us husbands are loved and
supported Is we ought to bev'-- pstrn''
{fss Press.
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KING OKO JUMBO.
David Her Tells How African Poten-
tate Doctored Himself

David Ker Tells How African Poten.
tate Doctored Himself
King Oko Jumbo of Bonny-in whose
august company Mrs. Ker and myself
had the honor of being shipyrecked
upon the west coast of Africa in the
summer of 1885-was said to be bit of
humorist in his way, but zoe saw very
little trace of humor about him in the
course of that disastrous voyage, dur
ing the whole of which he was probably
the most wretched man on board. In
deed, what with his chronic internal
malady, the ceaseless rain that prevent
ed him from coming on deck, and the
prolonged sea-sickness which, like
Death in Shirley's famous poem, "lays
its icy hand on kings" the poor King
might well be weary of life at sea-
Nor were these his only troubles.
Having never been out of his own
country till the trip to England from
which he was returning. he had natu-
rally very hazy ideas Of geography, and
doubtless imagined his little kingdom
ON the Bonny river (Which he was
pining to see) to be somewhere at the
other end of the world, many long
months away from him.
But one night (the very night before
the shipwreck, by an ominous coinci-
dence) we at length got him out upon
the main-deck; and it was a fine sight
to see our stalwart captain supporting
the old mans lettering steps, and help
ing him on to the cane lounge set for
him upon the after-hatch. The sick
man frightened up wonderfully be-
meath the influence of good Captain
Porter's CHEEKY talk about old times in
West Africa, and did his best to eat the
food that we brought him; but no per-
suasion could induce him either to take
medicine or to see the ships doctor,
who unfortunately happened to be a
very yonng man.
Medicine no good" said the old
warrior. disdainfully; doctor no good
no sabbee nothing. One time l sick
at home; no can sleep two night I
make send for white mans doctor from
English factory. White doctor come
young boy. smooth face, no sable
nothing. say: No can sleep now
you make me sleep Doctor say.
'Spose you take this bottle of sleep
stuff; you drink ten-twelve drop one
time. ten-twelve drop other time, you
sleep good. take sleep-stuff; drink
him all up one time. sleep five whole
day, five whole night! En-, Captain?
me sabbee better than doctor that time!
Ha, ha, hal"
And the King exploded into such
boisterous laughter that all the features
of his queer old face seemed to change
places. and to dance kind of insane
quadrille in and out of each other. as if
hairs breadth escape from death by
an overdose of laudanum were the
finest joke in the world. But could
not help thinking that there are not a
few Kings, in far more civilized re-
gious than Bonny, who are just as use
| full and intelligent when broad-awake
as poor Oko Jumbo was during his five
days nap.-Darid Ker, in Harper q
Weekly.
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Upon your Stomach with blue pill, pody-
lively despair Of helping your liver. vio-
lence committed upon your inner man will do
no good. Real help, prompt and thorough,
is to be found in the wholesome enti-bilious
medicine, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters,
which is, moreover, productive OF happy re-
suits in malarial disease, rheumatism, dys-