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The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-03-15


About ten years ago a family consist
ing OF mother and three daughters came
to Paris from the United States for the
purpose of educating the girls and Civ
ing them special advantages in the work
which they had undertaken. The mother
was American, the father, then deceased.
a German, but the daughters, who were
very young at this time, were thoroughly
American in pluck, and in their de
termination to get on and make the most
Of their opportunities. / will pass over
the years of trial and struggle this brave
little family endured before they began
to experience the benefit of tn sir many
sacrifices, or before they began to meet
with the recognition their talents de-
served. To-day, however, one daughter
is rising artist with n much praised
picture in last years salon, for which she
received honorable mention;" the sec
ond daughter is the only woman physi-
clan in France who has been admitted
to the most famous surgical hospital
here in Paris, and is now the wife of
distinguished young scientist, who takes
her name with his own. The third Girl
"a charming young woman she is, too
chose astronomy for her profession,
and is at this moment the only woman
employed at the observatory here; in
fact, the only one Of her sex who mas
been intrusted with the responsible
position of an observing" astronomer
regularly employed by the Government.
This Is an uncommon record for one
family, especially so in a country where
the progress Of women in the higher
professions is still viewed with surprise,
and any advance outside of the beaten
tracks thought revolutionary, not to say
unfeminine, in the extreme.-Bostoa
Herald.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-03-15
nestructtre Man Makes Deserts.

Several writer's on American antlquI-
ties have called attention to the tradi-
lions of the Aztecs and Mayas (the
aborignes of Yucatanl, who have pre-
served the memory of time when their
forelathers inhatite a land in the far
Northwest, where they maintained their
independence for a long series of cen
turies, till famine at last obliged them
to seek a new home in the wilds of the
tropics Baron Waldeck's conjecture
that the cradle of the Aztecs was the
great central valley of tab seems con-
firmed by the absolute desolute desola-
ton Of the Salt Lake Basin. Even in
dreary Dakota the uplands are heavily
timbered, and many of the Colorado
parks" deserve their attractive names ;
but in central Utah, even the tops of the
Sierras are as bald as the skull of a Nor
mon patriarch The present barrenness
of large area of our western tablelands,
may, indeed, be due to the same causes
that desolared enormous territories of
the eastern continent, where the desert
sand now covers regions which I'M
doubtedly once formed the garden spots
of the Mediterranean coastlands. The
traveller ChampOliOn goes so far as TO
deny the existence ofany aboriginal de-
sert, and maintains that even the sand
wastes of northern Africa owe their
nakedness to the havoc of the woodman's
axe, and, judging from the traces OF
former water courses, and the petrifed
stumps of sand-buried trees. may once
have teemed with forests and luxuriant
meadows. ''Here, as in southern Europe
and western asia" he says, "the hand
of man has blighted the loneliness of our
Mother Earth; Earth was Eden once.
and the burning sun of the desert is the
angel with the flaming sword, that has
driven our forefathers from the gates of
Paradise. - Yankee Blade,
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-03-15
WORDS OF WISDOM.
be actire in public service.

BE active in public service.
Three things to dO-think, live, and
act.
Be the same thing that ye would be
called.
The most itself is too small for the
covetous.
Fair words break never a bone; foul
words many a one.
The simple faith of little child is the
worlds truest homage.
Three things to hate-crueIty, AFRO
gance, and ingratitude.
There is nothing which is bringing US
opportunity but is also bringing US dan
ger.
We are told to let our light shine, and
if it does, the light will be its own wit
ness.
An opportunity improved is a danger
avoided. An opportunity neglected is
danger not met
1t is great guilt in any one to allow
what mental faculties he may possess to
become rusty from disuse, or to submit
them implicitly to another.
Shallow things are capable only of the
mystery of darkness. The most genuine
and profound things you may bring forth
into the fullest light, and let the sun
shine batter them through and through.
Sometimes ideas are made flesh; they
breathe upon US with warm breath; they
touch us with soft, responsive hands;
they leok upon us with sad, sincere ewes,
and speak to US in appealing tones.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-03-15
The Sperm Whale.

The sperm whale is the largest of the
toothed cetaceans. It is not handsome
animal, but is has a marked individuality.
1t has great commercial value. Its
habits are peculiarly distinctive. The
largest males average about eighty-three
feet in length. The head is over one
quarter of its length and nearly one-third
of its whole bulk. Unlike the whale
bone whales, the sperm has but one
spout-hole, which is located very near
the end of the snout, and is ten to twelve
inches in length. In color they resemble
the tnback, with the exception of the
breast, which is a silvery gray. 1t is es-
tlmated that the head alone produces
about ne-third of all the oil obtained.
On the right side of the head is a cavity
called the lease, =" which contains pure
oil and graduated substance known as
spermaceti- From this case alone as
many as fifteen barrels of oil have been
taken. The spout of a sperm whale may
be seen from distance of three to five
miles. He has the wonderful power of
remaining under water from fifty min
utes to an hour and a quarter. If fright
ened when lying or moving in hori-
zontal position it has the faculty of in
stantly sinking without changing its po-
sition. 1t is often very active when at
play, sometimes throwing nearly its en-
tire body out of water.
The sperm whale, unlike the other
cetaceans, roams the arctic and tropic
waters of the Pacific Ocean the year
round irrespective of seasons. The
mother will never desert her young, and
when pursued will ASSET it, as best she
can, to escape. The females always stay
and sympathize with one of their
wounded or captured mates. The young
males will, however, in such instances,
make off in great trepidation.
The aged sperm whale is sometimes
very vicious. Instances are on record in
which they have made furious attacks
upon ships aud speedily sunk them. Its
manner of obtaining food issingular. 1t
swims through the water with its lower
jaw dropped to nearly a right angle
with its body, and thus readily catches
whatever prey comes within the pale of
its huge jaws.-Sdn Francisco Chronicle.
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A Butler Masqueradts as a Diplomat.

On one occasion while British Minister
in Washington, Lord Sackville's trusted
butler asked for and obtained permission
to visit Baltimore for few days. I'm
mediately his arrival there he drove to
one of the leading hotels and registered
as Hon. Lionel Sackville West. An
hour or two later note was handed to
him, in which the writer stated that
although personally unacquainted with
the British Minister they were DESTROYS
OF extending to him the hospitality of
their house during his stay and closed
with an invitation that he would be their
guest at dinner that evening. This in
vitation was accepted by the butler, who
arrayed himself In full dress attire and
actually attended the dinner, where
throughout the evening he maintained
his assumed character with such clever
ness that neither his entertainer nor the
guests asked in his honor ever suspected
that he was other than just what he re.
presented himself to be, the Bliniste,
Plenipotentiary from the Court of ST.
James.-Ne5 York Grapiie,
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-03-15
WHEN LOVE PASSED BY.
Twas busy with my nlourhinr.

was busy with my ploughing,
When Love passed by.
Come" she cried, 'forsake thy drudging
LIES delights are few and grudging;
What hath man of all his striving,
All his planning and contriving,
here beneath the sky!
Wherl the grave opes to receive him,
Wealth and wit and honors leave him
Love endures for aver
But answered: Il am ploughing.
When with straight and even furrow
All the field is covered thorough
/ win follow.n
Love passed by.
was busy with my sowing,
When Love passed by.
"Coms,n she cried, give DER thy toiling;
For thou mol thou hast but moiling:-
Follow me, where meadows fertile
Bloom unsown with rose and myrtle,
Laughing to the sky:
Laugh for joy the thousand flowers
Birds and brooks-the laughing hours
All unnoted fy.n
When my acres all are planted,
Gladly to thy realm enchanted
viii follow
Love passed by.
was busy with my reaping.
When love passed by.
Come, she cried, thou planted'st grieving,
Ripenei sorrows art thou sheaving.
II the heart lie fallow, vain is
Sarnersd store. Thy wealth OF grain is
Less than Loves least sigh.
TASTE thee-for the hours fast dwindls
Ere the Pyre of Hope shall kindIe
In LIES western sky"
But answered: II am reaping.
When with song of youth and maiden,
Home the hock-cart comes, fuIl-laden,
viii follow
Love passed by.
mad gathered in my harvest,
When Love passed by
stay" calied-to her, swift speeding.
Iuraing not, my cry unheeding,-
Stay, 0 Love, l fain would follow
Stay thy flight, o heet-winged swallow
Cieaying twilight skyl
l am old and worn and weary,
Void my fields and heart-and dreary,
With thee would lily.
aarnered woe is all my harvest,
Sad ghosts of my dead hopes haunt me.
Fierce regrets, like demons, taunt me
Stayl-I followi'
Love passed by.
Solomon Soils Cohen.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-03-15
She Was Saved.

"You have a secret, Angelica" said
the young husband fondly, as he kissed
her eyelids down. 81 have seen far
away look in your lovely eyes for the last
twenty-four hours. You must tell your
own Augustus all. This suspense is mad
dening"
"0h, Augustus, cried the beautiful
girl, as she butted her head against his
recently ironed shirt-front. Il can con-
ceal from you nothing have a soft
corn"
With one bound her lord rushed from
the room. To dash madly round the
block, to size the first physician within
hail, to bring him breathless into the
presence of his loved one, was the work
of five minutes, thirty-two seconds,
Waterbury time. She was saved -
Drate's Magazine.
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WOMAN'S WORLD.
PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR
FEMININE READERS.


| VI odpaHcsG w omen.
The better class of Japanese women
are by no means uneducated. They re-
celye, l am told, better training than
the women Of any other Oriental nation.
and they are better treated than those
OF any other Asiatic nation. The .IaDan.
csc girl can, as a rule, read and write
Japanese She learns all about bonse.
hold matters, and she takes the whole
charge Of the household. This Is her
| sphere, and she is known as the bonors-
BILE mistress Of the household. Her
husband has no right to be meddIing
with the cooking stove. She paws tbe
servants and the market bills. In the
case OF the poorer merchants she often
acts as one OF the clerks in the stores
and takes the place of the husband
when he IS not present. In the country
you will find her often working in the
fields, and at Nikko I saw great num-
hers o.. women who acted US the leaders of
pack horses carrying copper and goods
up and down the mountains. Still I
think the women here have an easier
time than those of the lower classes of
Germany or Holland, and you see fewer
labor hardened faces among the other
sex here than you do in many of the
countries of Europe.
The wifeis, however, after all but lit
tie better than a servant of the husband,
and the ties of marriage and divorce are
here so loose that he can dispense with
her at pleasure Marriage In Japan is
not attended with the solemnity and re-
hgious ceremony of the American we'd
ding. 1t is a civil contract and the
negotiations for it go on, as rule.
through the parents. The young man
and woman have no preliminary court
ship, and the seeing one another for one
or two times is the only chance they have
of deciding whether there is any COM
patibility of temperament G..
Carpenter.
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Recines.

GINGER CooKrEs.-Two cups of mo-
lasses, one cup of melted lard, one of
boiling water, three spoonfuls Of ginger,
with flour enough to make a stiff dough.
Roll then and bake in a quick oven.
MrFFiN~.-One pint of milk, two beaten
eggs, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, two
teaspoOnfuls Of cream tartar. one tea
spoonful Of soda, -four enough to make
a batter that will drop from the spoon.
Brown BREAD.-Two cups of mo-
lasses, two cups of buttermilk, two cups
of corn meal, one and one-half cups of
white -four, three cups of brown flour,
two heaping teaspoonfuls of soda. Cover
up as air tight as possible in a mold, and
boil hard for three hours
flashed PoTAToEs.-Cut some cold
boiled potatoes into small slices, butter
a shallow baking dish, put in potatoes
about half an inch deep, sprinkle with
pepper, salt and bits of butter, pour
enough milk over to cover them all and
bake in brisk oven till quite brown.
WHITE MOUNTAIN CARE.-Two cups
of sugar, one cup of utter. one cup Of
sweet milk, four eggs, four cups Of -four,
two teaspoonfuls O. baking powder.
Cream butter and sugar together, add
the beaten yolks, Their the milk, flour
with the baking powoe- sifted through
it, and last the beaten whites. Flavor.
ing. Bake in one loaf
Drowned CAULIFLowER.- Beat together
Two eggs, a little salt, four tablespoons
of sweet cream. and small quantity of
grated bread crumbs well mOistened with
a little milk, until of the consistency Of
batter. Steam the Cauliiiower until it Il
tender, but not fallen t o pieces Separate
it into small punches. dip each top in the
prepared mixture, and place in nice or
der in pudding dish Brown in an oven,
and serve hot.
STEAMED SPINACH.-Wash vel
put it into a saucepan, after it has been
well drained Add no water but cover
the pan closely and cook until done.
Then take it from the pau, chop fine,
adding half cup OF cream or milk, and
a tablespoonful Of butter; return to
saucepan ard cook three minutes longer
adding a little ham essence, II you nave
it. If not it Is quite good without.
Serve and garnish with hard Ooileu eggs
cut in slices.
Mashed PoTAToEs WrTH BicoN--
Cut into a saucepan, in small pieces, one
quarter of pound Of bacon and an onion
and Mace over the fire Tie together
ecveraI branches Of parsley, one of thyme,
two bav ayes, placing within a couple
of cloves, and when the onion commences
to color place these in the saucepan and
nour in one pint of water. Wash, peel,
and cut in quarters eight potatoes, sea
son with a pinch of pepper and nutmeg,
and add these to the contents Of the
nan. When the potatoes are thoroughly
cooked remove the parsley with its sea
soning, mash the potatoes well in the
pan, and this dish S prepared.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-03-15
Monker Deteetors Of spurious Coin.

The Siamese ape is said to be in great
request among Siamese merchants as
cash er in their counting houses. Vast
quantities of base coin obtain circulation
in Siam, and the faculty of discrimina,
ton between good money and bad would
appear to be possessed by these gifted
monkeys in such an extraordinary ae'
gree of development that no human be-
ing, however carefully trained, can com com
pete with them. The cashier ape mell
tatively puts into his mouth each colp
presented to him in business payments,
and tests it with great deliberatlon- III
method of testing is regarded ~ com
merciaI circles as infallible' ana, as .
matter of fact. his decision IS uniformly
accepted by all parties interested IN thi
Transaction.
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.The Man with tbe Lantern. y

One of the greatest terrors of the
Pennsylvania oil region is 1.-THE man
with the lantern" He has been the cause
of more needless CONGREGATIONS among
oil wells than anything else, and has cost
the region millions of dollars. He is
usually an employee about the wells, and,
in nine cases out of ten, man of ex-
perience and intelligence; but he will
persist in taking the chances in paying a
visit now and then to some gas enveloped
oil tank, carrying the lighted lantern
with him. The result isn't always dis
astrous, but that is not to the credit of
the man with the lantern. Usually an
explosion results. If destructive fire
does not follow that, the fact will be
without precedent. Sometimes the cause
of fire of this kind will not be quite
certain at first, but it only needs a roll
call of the employees of that particular
property and the taking of an account of
the tool house stock to ascertain the
cause. There will boon employe short,
and the number of lanterns will be less
one. Then it is known that the man
with the lantern has been wa king.
The man with the lantern first ap-
peared in history in 1914. 1t was at
Marietta, Ohio. Nobody knew what pc
troleum was in those days, but in dig
ging 4 well out there once oil was discov-
cred. 1t was called fossil oil" by the
local saYants. There was a great deal of
gas with it. A lot of the oil was col
lected in a cistern. One night the man
with the lantern came stalking on the
scene, but the pyrotechnical wonders
aud splendors that were displayed in that
vicinity for days and nights as a result of
his visit failed to compensate his widow
and six small children for his transfgu-
ration. He materialized with the e
ginning of oil operations in the vicinity
of Titusvilie twenty-elght years ago, and
his dread apparition will continue to
walk abroad as long as oil wells last.
The girl with the oil can has
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-03-15
Sovereign Food for Invalids.

Milk is the sovereign food upon which
physicians depend to nourish their pa
tients through serious illness. Go into
the room OF the average patient, and you
will ind somewhere in ton chair, at
the head of the bed, on the "window
sill, " or convenient table-milk which
has been standing in its glass for a
longer or shorter time, possibly for some
hours. To leave milk in the sick room
IS one of the worst habits nurse can
have, and only the most slovenly are
ever guilty of it. When your patient
wants milk, 20 to the chest, or suitable
place where it is kept, and pour out into
a glass made as clean as possible, tho
quantity which you think is needed-nO
more. Let him take what he wants,
and then at once throw what remains
away, and wash out the glass. Never
leave it in the sick room a minute.
game rule hold &C
food.-Br0okign Citizen.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-03-15
He Got the Surnrise.

'T-ah-but want some meat, " she
said, as she entered a shop on Grand
River avenue.
"Yes'm," was the stereotyped reply.
81 was pas housekeeper for two years,
you know"
"Yes'm."
"And want good meat, you know 4"
"Yes'm"
''The very best Which is the best
beefsteak."
"A cut from the neck, maam."
"Oh, yes, I'd forgotten. Well, give
me two pounds, you know, and l shall
cock 1t myself, and give Charlie a sur
prise. "-DetroH Free Pr,sg.
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General HOWE. who ha. lust assume

General HowasSs, who has Just assumed
command Of he Department Of the At
laniie. with headquarters a. Governors
Island. New York City, is ffty-eight
years Of age. Of medium height and
wears full beard He lost an arm in the
Civil War. He has the reputation Of be-
ing an exceedingly strict diseipIinarian,
aads5s nsieers on Governors Island fear
tEas sssFess nay not be granted in future
80 freely az hey have been. The General
is also deyont Christian. During the
late war, and while on the plains re
Gently. he expected his officers to attend
prayers at his quarters every night. 1t
= said that his piety goes so far that he
refused TO pursue Indians on Sunday
while On the trail, going into camp on
saturday night and not mo7ing again
att Monday morning.
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1T is an interesting fact, observes a
writer IN the New York Tri5Hs.s, that no
really great hymn is sectarian. The
masterpieces OF Charles Wesley could be
used, and for ought know, have been
used, IN the services Of the Roman Cath
ole Church, Just as some of Faber's
beautiful though sensuous hymns are
used in Protestant Churches. Churches
may snsthematize each other in their
prayers but in their hymns they can all
unite. and forget for s time the party
walls OF opinion and prejudice that
separate them
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uoes not concern the oil trade in
ness way. She is first mentioned in
history back in the early days of Oil
Creek. The Widow McClintock, owner
of the great McClintock farm, was tho
first one on record who hastened her fire
with the oil can with the result that has
since become painfully familiar. 1t was
through that careless act of hers that her
adopted son, John Steele, was left father
less and motherless on a cold aud cheer
less world with only $27OG day coming
in from the McClintock wells for him to
keep the wolf from the door with.
Everybody knows how Johnny Steele
("Coal Oil Johnny'1 got along. His for
tune disappeared almost as quickly as
the oil can that gave it TO him.-Neto
York Times.
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Not Encouraging.

Dolly-'Aw, Willie, 1 must have
msde-aw-a tremendous hitTith that
little Browson girl; she ASKED me for
my photo, the other day"
Willie-''Did-y' give it to herq'
Dolly -"Yaws, of course"
Willie-''Well, that settles You at that
house, me deah fel. She gives those
photos to the servant girl with "out
when this one calls" written on it."-
Life.
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HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
Rioe Cooked 10 Perfention.

Ree should be cooked in a milk boiler.
IN, Inen there is no danger of scorching.
mere are many methods of cooking this.
anu II Is often served as a vegetable.
W nave found the easiest way the fol-
lowing; Wash one cup of rice and put
on 10 COOK with two cups of cold water
and level teaspoonful Of salt. Cover
ana keep constantly cooking, and at the
end OF one hour 1t is ready for the table,
every kernel perfect and soft. Do not
stir It; 1t breaks the kernels. Itisa
good plain dessert especially for deli
cate stomachs, with or without sugar
and cream and raisins.-Neao York o.
esrrs.
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stranger-'T hear this is a great sec
ton for fox hunting"
Oak Tree Inn Host-"'Yes, stree; par
ties come down from the city every fall;
come in grand style, too; been coming
for years"
"Isn't there danger that you will run
out of foxes."
Not a bit. We are still using the
fox we began with. philadelphia
Record.
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The Florida orange crop is estimated
at 1900, 600 boxes, which is more than
double the product of any previous year.
Each box holds. on an average, $50
oranges, which will be ten for every per
sos in the United States. But these
$50. 0oO. coo Floridas will not be one
half the oranges sold in our markets.
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She Forgot Nothing.

Mrs. Anglomaniac to butler)-''Mat-
thew, his Grace, the Duke of Twedle-
dun, dimes and sleeps here tonight. ]
want everything in the most correct Eng
lIsh way"
Matthew-"Ho, yes, hindeed, mum. "
Mrs Anglomaniac-"'>erve tea in the
drawing-r0om at five and dinner at eight
and thirty o'clock. Have no napkins at
breakfast tomorrow, and serve cold
game pates from the sideboard j"
Matthew-''Ho, yes, hindeed, mum. {"
Mrs Northumberland, Mathew,
see that the weather is foggy. want
his Grace to feel entirely at home"
Matthew-"Ho, yes, hindeed, num-"
Nm York SIN.