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The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-05-17
WORDS OF WISDOM.


Empty vessels make most sound
Do not ride free horse to death.
Debt is the worst kind of poverty.
cleaTe the log according to the grain.
There is a peace more destructive than
war.
Children and fools should not handle
edge tools.
We are not shaped and fashioned by
what we love.
Waste not time, for time is the staff
life is made of.
Children and fools should not see
work that is half done.
One is never more on trial than in the
moment of excessive good fortune.
Find out your wo1k, and stand to it;
the night cometh when no man can work.
Life is no idle dream, but a solemn
reality based on and encompassed by
eternity.
Work of whatever kind, If rightly
rendered, is the best teacher of knowl-
edge and trainer of virtue.
There is a small chance of truth at the
goal where there is not a childlike sim
plicitl' at the starting-post.
The soul in deep sorrow recoils from
talk, thinks from words, as the delicate
flower from cold night breeze.
Our value in life is not in being con-
spicucns, but in being faithful to the
work given US and the trust imposed on
us.
II Il no great matter to live lovingly
with good natured, humble and meek
persons; but he who can do so with the
forward, wilful, ignorant, peevish and
perverse, hath true charity.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-05-17

Artistic fan making was among the
industries That persisted IN the revolu-
tionaFy upheaYal, and the Directory and
Empire fans Of more pretensions than
the humble scuibs and prints, are ugly
ana m bad taste. but IS the world fell
into sometning ike its old way Of hg-
ing, the demand for costly toys grew up
again, aud fan making revived with
many kindred industries. The old taste
ana the old skill were still to be found
N French brains and French fingers:
Paris fans soon regained their old su-
premacy, and 10 Paris alone. saws a
writer in the N0man's World. are fans
DOW MAIDS on which skill, and art, and
time 10 tie value of $500, have been
expended The exhibition az South
Eeusingten, eighteen years ago, gave
great impetus 10 the English ian trade, and
such an one Is the eighteenth century
Italinn imitation Japanese f2226l could
be reproduced by the trade, or the
mount painted By any art amateur, and
nothing need be more charming in the
hand Of q graceful woman. But We
have not yet reached the French cost Of
$500. Let US congratulate ourselves on
this; let Us be glad that, as 9 nation, we
are not Easieful enough either Of money
or Of ART 10 squadder fne psinfing on a
parchment ill-designed to set forth its
beauties, and that must be marred At the
first folding, aud ruined ia a few times
q using.
Five hundred dollars for fan Not for
an cid fan O. historic OF artistic interest;
not for g relic TO be preserved. and 10
snow new generations Of how their
forcfathers lived but $500 for modern
fan 70 be carried, soiled and ruined.
surely. Of all Vanitias this is the
raipest; Of all luxurious waste the most
RaHt0n. The SIT Of the painter is not
encouraged but degraded, and no one
and no an is really benefited by the ex-
travacauoes look a. II how we may, there
is no plea 10 be raised for this. Five hun
dred dollars What education il might
bring 70 untaught aspiring taienf-what
pleasure 70 q hundred fanless, pretty
girls.
To now maay who are dying its price
would give the breath Of fresh air the
glowing fire they need no screen 10 shade
their faces FRONT But no. It does not
10 10 thiak Of all that could be bought
and saved with the price Of u Paris fan.
qr We shall feel as ill-disposed to spend
- aa $500 on our sceptres, and what
'roald lawmakers do then-poor thingsl
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-05-17

There was 3 man talking the other day
about the tricks practiced by ticket sell
ers aud ticket takers who were in col
fusion to ego snooks." Their idea is to
get the collected tickets back 70 the
ticket seller so that they can be sold twice
and accounted for but once, the extra
money making up the ssnooks.n To
90 this undetected the tricks are en-
ployed Out at Cheltenham Beach once,
said, the man, one of ticket sellers had
by the side Of his big tin box huge cot
ton umbrella. Every once in awhile he
would slip a ticket or two into the ca
pacious nav OF the umbrella, dropping
the rest in the box where they be-
longed. This worked successfully, and
at lunch time the tickets were slipped
back to the ticket seller, who was in
with the deal. and resold to the profit of
both. Late in the afternoon it began to
rain One of the managers had occasion
10 run outside of the gate. He saw the
umbrella by the ticket takers side and
grabbed il, saying: 'sI'll return you this
10 a moment AS he opened it shower
Of tickets fell to the ground, and the
trick was thus accidentally exposed. 1t
is perhaps unnecessary to state that the
ticket taker was at once relieved from
duty. Years ago, out at the West Side
Driving Park, a certain gate keeper used
to take q sandwich in TO a certain ticket
seller at frequent intervals. This mans
appetite was apparently so enormous
that he attracted attention. One day the
ticket seller was wayiaid and four tickets
were found, eareiully placed between
the slices Of ham and bread. Some days
later suspected ticket taker was
searched for tickets held out. Nothing
was found in his clothes, and he was at
last requested to pull off the heavy boots
he always wore. He did so, reluctantly,
and a shower of tickets fell TO the
ground. There are, truly, tricks in all
trades. - Chica50 Htyald.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-05-17
A cnnIne Newspaper Thief

Il had q funny experience once, n said
Officer s1nartw0od ''when l was walking
on nv beat, that was then in the western
part Of the city. a paper-earner came
10 me and SAID that somebody was steal
ing the papers left every morning on a
certain doorstep before the subscriber
got chance 70 see them. The gentle
man had given the carrier fits; SO I de.
iermined to watch the house and catch
fhe kid that was stealing the papers.
The next morning I concealed myself
opposite and saw the carrier leave his
papers, and in a few minutes big black
Newfoundland dog from the adjoining
yard vaulted the fence and picked up
the papers in his mouth. He then
jumped the fence and disappeared in
the back yard. The next morning ]
gave him tip with my club, and after
that be LEI those papers severely alone.
- CsNiE1gti In ailef.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-05-17
mondeIrnI MemorIes for Business.


Phil Armour, the great Chicago pork
packer, is said to have remarked that q
good memory is necessary TO one who
wishes to succeed. This is, perhaps, q
trife strong. and yet there is no lack of
evidence TO support the statement Ar
mour himself is an example of what q
good memory can do. He is as wonder
fui in his time as Cardinal Mezzofanti
was ia his He is said 10 carry the
smallest detail Of his immense business
Ia his head. He can remember the date
of-small as well as large business trans
actions. He knows the names of pretty
nearly al Of his army OF employees.
After the building of the addition to his
great establishment in Chicago he as
tonished a circle Of friends By rafting
offhand the number Of bricks, CARLOADS
Of sand, feet Of timber, etc, that were
used in The construction. Armour's gift
is n natural one. He has never cult
waited il, but the demands of his bust
ness have unquestionablg kept his
powers Ct memory in active training.
sold Hutch, as the imperturbable
Chicago wheat manipulation is called, is
another nan gifted with an extraordi-
nary memory He needs no books to
carry bis transactions in, although, of
course, ne uses them With him, too,
retentiyeness is natural gift. He re-
members everything that he wants to
remember. but says frankly he doesn't
know how he does it. He also possesses
the gift of not remembering things he
does not wish to remember. But then
that glft is not rare.-Kansas Ctg
Tins.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-05-17
A.phalt FIeIds and PETROLEUM. Lake.

Z. c. Beardsley, 6 well-knowL oil and
gas expert, Of Pittsburg, Penn, was re-
Gently delegated by capitalists TO visit
Utah with a view to ascertaining what
truth there vas IN the report that great
fields OF asphaltum containing hundreds
of thousands Of tons were 20 be fop-.d in
- 4.4son. ~. 8easaSle,y las ~ 70
turned, and in speaking of his visit
said: "Seven hundred thousand tons
Of asphalt seems like large amount. vet
a field near Vernial, Utah, contains fully
that quantity. The asphalt was form
erly crude petroleum which escaped
from natural openings IN the ground,
flowed into the plain where it now lies
and there dried The field Is located
some little distance from railroad, but
q line is being rapidly built-the Colo
RADIO and Midland-which viii tap it.
Asphalt is worth $50 ton. Ex-senator
Tabor, Of Colorado. is interested in the
company about TO develop the field, and
the capital is Il, 600, COO
In Wyoming, near Fort Washita, is
another big asphalt field. Timothy
Mullen, OF Pittsburg, is interested in the
oil-producing fields in this district.
There IS actually a petroleum lake in
that region. was there and saw it.
Mullen and George Graf, two Pennsyl-
vanians, discovered a number of oil
springs on Poison Spider Creek. They
turned the course of the stream and
formed large natural oil tank out of
Whist had once been the bed of Poison
Spider Greek They then turned the oil
into this basin, aud IS it has been flowing
st fair rate for many months, lake Of
petroleum has been formed. They have
thousands Of barreis of the fluid waiting
for the railroad to come and haul it to
the ocean. The long-expected railroad
may reash that locality this summer"
.Nes l1ork Tribune.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-05-17
WOMAN'S WORLD.
PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR
FEMININE READERS.



The singular fact Is mentioned in soma
Of tho Continental papers that bofb
Queen Victoria and Empress Aiaris
Theresa were alike In the delight which
they took 10 living in c fripid atmos-
phere. Maria Theresa wss sccustomed
70 place her writing table b. an omen
window 10 the dead OF winter. and fhe
SNOW often drifted into the spartment
and Eel upon the paper which was being
used The aides in attendance upo1
the Empress suffered severely from tbe
cold, while The royal hairdresser ouce
had bis hands partially frozen while en-
gagged in his lily task. One Of the
Ministers who was in attendance upon
net Majesty never entered her presence
without arst wrapping himself in furs as
ior miaTiuter driFe.-SaB Erancis0
Chfonicl.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-05-17

So INDEsTRUcTIBLE by wear or de-
cay is the African teakwood that yes
sells built of it have lasted fully 100
years, to be then broken up only on
account of their poor sailing qualities
on account of faulty models. The
wood, in fact, is one of the most re-
markable employed in human indus
tries on the score of its great weight,
hardness, and durability, It's weight
varying from some forty-two to fifty
two pounds per cubic foot. 1t works
easily, but because of the large guam
tity OF sick contained. in It the tools
employed in its manipulation are in a
short time worn away. 1t, however.
possesses the advantage of containing
an oil which prevents the spikes and
other iron work with which it NAV
come in contact from rusting. The
difference between this and the East
Indian lockwood, though both are
used for shipbuilding, is notable. The
latter, which IS really the most valu-
able timber produced in that country,
is light and easily worked, strong,
durable, not liable to the attacks of in
sects, abounds in sick, and resembles
coarse mahogany. The tree requires
some sixty to eighty years growth to
produce the size of timber preferred
for shipbuilding, and much of It is used
in England for this purpose.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-05-17

"a ru-sfv your blood and fortify your system
- ~, s.biii.atins effects Of spring weather
AZ No ether season Is the bitter taste IN me mouth
mora prominsnt, the breath SO oasnsise, ~. -.
srov.y dizssnsss so frequent. or th.- e1trsHs
tsr.d feeling SO prevalent Hoods saEsaIalllH -
lust the medicine to build up tns
,1.t 49, s,eline and create good appetite ny
this spring. -,,. s.-.,-.-iil,
.s IL the best blood medicine nave ever
t.F,n y 1fEs A. P. LEIGHTON. Portland. Ne
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-05-17
RELIGIOUS READING.
"on Great Waters. /"

On Great Waters"
The ship has crossed the harbor bar.
And leaving home and friends afar,
Sails forth beneath the evening star.
With prayer Of watchers left behind,
It sails before the springing wind;
Strong is the bark, and God is kind.
o, baby souls, sent forth from heaven,
To you the sea is also given
A weary struggle to be striven
Ye too have left the light Of home
For warning winds and waves-to roam
Across dreary waste of foam;
And what shall be the end for yer
Dark shipwreck in the midmost scar
Or triumph to eternityi
Fear not; for if ye brave the blast
With Gods own colors at the mast,
The haven will BE- sure at last.
Arthur L. Salmon in Good Words.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-05-17

'-rmiHe Il again seen on tea gowns.
leiis Of je1ted net should be worn
VIA jsttsd millinery.
among new fabrics are 70 be seen
'ooa-striped nets aad games.
early ai fuil-dsess toilets except
-1lt1ntes, are deiai-trained.
eiringiess boBnets should alvavs he
-l0li panied By fimsy mask veil.
soft gray and she'll pink viii he IA fsv-
'iits combination for spring toilets.
spring mu er are haadsomels mad.
q combinations Of black aud steel GRAZ
The tendency in the newest srnl,5,;s
efies seems 70 be toward mere 5el;cs.e
designs
English bridal dresses Of white olotb
o white velvet are Invariably trimmed
pr fur.
Redi1gotes are more than ever in
i'sshion, and fhe Directoire is stiII the
iaTofite model
Bonnet Plus are iarz-er than formerly
p show nanF psaierns Of which many
hofai IL dssfsea
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-05-17
So Iemedy for gLin diseaseg. gay

A NEW remedy for skin diseases, says
the Hospital, is a continual bath, the
patient eating, drinking and sleeping
there until cured. One patient has
been kept in such bath for 3s5 days.
He is tied up always at night to pre-
vent him from slipping so as to be
drowned The palms and soles be-
come much shriveled, but the rest OF
the skin is unchanged. The water is
kept at 9S degrees
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-05-17

the bosom that first pillowed them. Myi
myl how low down a man must have de-
scended to have no regard for the place
where his cradle was rocked. Don't mock
their brogus or their stumbling at
tempts at the hardest Of all
languages to learn. namely the
EngIls4 language. warrant that they 9I
speak English as well as you could talk
Scandinavian Treat them in America as
you would like to be treated if for the sake
OF your honest principles or a better hyei-
hood for yourself or your family you had
moved under the shadow Of Jungfrau.
or the Rigi, or the Giants Causeway,
or the Bohemian Forest, or the Fran
CONAN Jura- II they get homesick, as some
OF them are, suggest to them that God is as
near to help them here as He was near them
before they crossed the Atlantic, and that the
souls final flight is less than a second whether
from the beach Of the Caspian Sea or the
banks Of Lake Erie. Evangelize their adults
through the churches and their chill
dren through the schools and let home
missions and tract societies and the Bible
translated in all the languages Of these for
eign people have full swing
Rejoice as Christian patriots that instead
OF being an element Of weakness the foreign
people thoroughly evangelical will be our
mlghtlest defence against all tho world The
Congress of the United States recently ordered
built new forts all up and down our Ameri-
can coasts, and q new navy is about to be
projected. But let me say that three hun
dred million dollars expended in coast de
Tense will not be so mighty as a vast foreign
population living in America With hun
dreds of thousands OF Germans in New
York, Germany would as soon think Of
bombshelling Berlin as attacking US With
hundreds OF thousands of hrenchmen in New
York, France would as soon think of firing
on Paris. With hundreds of thousands OF
Engiishnlen in New York. England would
as soon think of destroying London.
The mightiest defence against Euro
pean nations is a wall of Europeans
reaching all up and down the American con
tb1enf. wall of heads and hearts conse-
ctsted to free government 4 bulwark OF
Foreign humanity heaved up all along our
1h1ros reseuforeed BIZ the Atlantic Ocean.
arlssa e i IS vita senlp7esis and Caribbean
- airlrlnds and 9iaia4 oillo Y. ready % ting
q 1r7pf 1hessl eia tsFe neqi IS q
natio tl.s 2's Z 4 i y HI &; So !. !.
ARD L found 10 rs selfses ~ sei't ,idt is;l
Hin - SIX hued<Sd miIi0u peonle viii yel
'sis -.soizln - our zsizli1llal table iat God
preside To Him be dedicated the metal al
our mines, the sheaves of our harvest fields
the fruits of our orchards, the fabrics of our
manufactures, the telescopes of observa.
tories, the volumes of our Libraries. the sor,es.
ut our churches, the affections of our hearts
and all our lakes become baptismal
fonts and all our mountains affairs OF praise
and all our valleys amphitheatres of wor-
ship, and our country, having become fifty
nations consolidated into one, may its every
heart throb be a pulsation of gratitude to
Him who made ''of one blood all nations"
and ransomed that blood by the payment Of
the last drop of His own.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-05-17

A clergyman, after years of suffering from
that lOathsome disease, Cstarrh, and vainly
trying every known remedy, at last found
prescription which completely cured and saved
MIN from death. Any sufferer from this dread
envelope to Prof. J. a. Lawrence, IS Warren
ST. y. y, viii receive the recipe free of charge
1fafiicted with sore eyes use DR.. Isaac Thomp-
sons Eye-wster. Druggists sell at 25c per bottle
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-05-17

., 10 he Editor-Please inform your readers
that have positive remedy for the above
named disease which warrant TO cure the
worst cases 50 strong is my faith in its viz
tues that will send free a sample bottle and
valuable treatise to any sufferer who viii give
me his = y and Express address. Resp'y.
u. Q. ROOT. ". @. lS3 Pearl St. New York.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-05-17
Our Public Schools.

In the current number of the Presbyterian
Review IS a clear forcible and able article
upon the question, ''Are our Public Schools
GodiessT The reply is, First, Not by their
origin. The American school of our fathers
Was IN It's aims exercises and textbooks a
Christian school Sucn in the historical
sense is the American Public School,
The motive which urged our fathers to the
establishment of schools, was professedly
drawn from religion For nearly two cen
turies, no one lsped the idea that a goddess
school was the logical outcome of a Christian
Secondly. They are not Goddess by any
constitutional or statutory requirement.
Long after the constitution went into onera-
ton the power of taxation for the support of
religion IN the Protestant form was actually
exercised in some of the States. That mower
sun exists and might be exercised by any
STATE 10 any extent and in favor of Chris
uanity or any other religious system.
The author Of the articl Rev. H n
nklns, D. D., thinks it is high time to come
70 halt in yielding TO the demand for God
less public schools, and that toe last parIeyis
now in progress. He closes with the remark
''One thing Is absolutely certan. CHRISTIANITY
IS ever increasing In power and, in the long
run, VIII never tolerate the absurd and az
gressive claims of modern inidelity. The
system Of public schools must be held. in its
sphere, true to the claims of Chris ianitv. or
they must 90, with all other enemies of
Christ to the WALL
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Now is the Time

Il wish to enroll ny mana a. one Of these who
,vsder1vss health from the use o. Hoods Sara
VIENNA For u1zny years have taken st. especially
In the early spring EAsl am troubled with diEzi-
ness, duIness. unpleasant taste IN ny mouth IN
~ ,,or,inu II removes this bad taste, relieves
-, tsasnehe and makes re feel greatly refrsshed
Tss two bottles have useI this spring have hesn
worth a dollar dose l advise all my faeaas 70
tarsft." JoHs Br,Ns. ea Isd Street. town Of Lake
Chicago. III
NIB. II you decide TO take Hoods sarsapar1liA 90
not BE- induced to buy any other.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-05-17

Have ; on a father? Have you mother?
Have you a son or daughter, sister or brother
who has not yet taken Kemps Balsam for the
Throat and Lungs, the guaranteed remedy for
the cure of Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Group and
al Throat and Lung troubles? II so, WHY
when a sample bottle is gladly given to you
free by any druggist and the large size costs
only SOC and 81
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-05-17

A MAN in Craig County. Virginia,
has three children whose names are.
respectively, Jailey Green Bird May
flower Brickey, Oregon Texas Geor-
gianna Brickey, and Molina TruxiIla
Eutaw sebilla ToOtater Brickey. The
names ere ''elared to be so entered in
the famil Bi Re.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-05-17

TIE Japan Herald gives some figures
to show how the Canadian Pacific
steamer line has cut out the San Fran.
cisco lines, and it attributes this in a
great measure to the trouble given to
shippers by the necessity of consular
certificates, which Canada does not re-
quire. 1t is not due to any difference
in rates of freight, "as rates have all
along ruled pretty much alike In
the season Of 1887 SO, up to the middle
of December, the shipments to Canada
by San Francisco steamers were 1856
l72 pounds, while the Canadian line
carried 3,773. 92l pounds. This season
up to the same date, the shipments via
San Francisco have been only 735. 265
pounds, while 5,35s,944 pounds have
been sent via Vancouver.
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,o,, nv all druExists 81; six for s. Prepared only
~ CT HOOD CO.. ApothscHries' Lowell 'A'z7
too Doses one Dollar
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IT'S but short journey across the isthlnus
Of now.-Bovee.
II in the day of sorrow we own Gods
presence in the cloud, we shall find Him a so
In the pillar OF fire, Frightening and Cheering
our way as the night comes on.
Those who retire from the world on ac-
count Of its SIN and peskiuess, must not for
get that they have yet TO keep company with
a person who wants just as much watching
as anybody else.
Christian graces are ike perfumes; the
more they are pressed the sweeter they smell
Like stars that shine brightest in the dark:
like trees that are shaken; the deeper root
they take, the more fruit they bear.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-05-17

THERE are over three hundred thousand bee
keepers in America
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-05-17

thousands of girls WIN emerging from the chs stage
of their existence they their teens Nervous excab
table by strange
nde the oversight and
Faote Prescription them through this
critical period during which, in lives alas the seeds of dis
diseases peculiar the female But this
herself family and social station to be
Favore
Prescription legitimate carefully experienced
physician, delicate organization 1t is
composition perfectly harmless its effects
condition of the system Sold by druggists; $780, six bottles for $500
ASSOCIATION Ppeus
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Hoods Sarsaparilla

sold by all druggists 81; sir for - Prspared only
BIZ G. 1 HOOD 4 CO. APotheearies. Lowell. Mass
100 Doses one Dollar