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The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-05-16
Firemen ona Racing Steamer.

1t IS hot, calm day in the middle of
summer, the sea rolling in long, smooth,
oily swells. There Is a Egh breeze right
astern, but the ship is steaming as fast as
the wind and the sails hang isslessly
from the yards and flap against the masts
and ropes. As one descends the engine
room ladder the air feels close and deadly
heavy, and brings on a dull headache.
The engineer on watch IS dragging him
self round as if his limbs were of lead,
and even the engines do not seem to be
going ahead with their usual energy. As
We pass through the tunnel which con
meets the engine room with the stoke
hole the sitting atmosphere nearly drives
US back. There is not a breath of air
coming down the ventilators, and the
heat is so great that one has a sensation
as of lump of LEAD in the ears, and
ones voice sounds thick and far away
The firemen are stripped to the waist
and the engineer has very little NOR on,
being only distinguishable by the gilt
band and badge on his cap as he moves
about from one furnace to another, di-
iGCLluB TIC uItlllCI Vi ~ uitAtAAit1 t44N
water in the boilers.
In spite of the heat the fire burns dull,
for they can get no air, and the fremen,
urged on-one might almost say driven
by the engineer, ''are doing all they
know" with rake and shovel to keep up
steam, the perspiration running in streams
down their coal begrimed bodies and
leaving them striped like zebras-
Each man in turn falls back exhausted,
and is succeeded by another, who lays
hold of the heavy "slice, and works the
fire through and through; but all to no
purpose, for in spite Of all they can do
the steam will not rise. In technical
language, "she is steaming stiff. - and
unless the wind changes or gets stronger,
will continue to dose.
To keep on at work without drinking
Is impossible, and the fremen consume
an incredible quantity of water; but, in
spite of all the praise bestowed upon this
beverage by teetotallers, 1t has its dangers
when drank TO excess, especially in
HIGH temperature, and presently one of
the men. WHO has been indulging too
freely. is seized with cramps in the
stomach and has to be carried on deck,
leaving the rest tearing away at the Oh
stinate Contemporary Regie0.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-05-16
THREE TRAVELLERS

Three travellers met in Brander Pass,
By the bubbling Brander spring;
They shared their cake and their venisou
And they talked of many thing
OF books, of song and foreign lands,
OF strange and wandering lives,
And by and by. in softer tones,
They spoke of their homes and wives.
81 married the Lady o Logan Brae,s
Said one, with lofty air;
There isna in a the North countree
A house with better share
OF gold and gear, and hill and lock,
Of houses and farms TO rent;
There's many a man has envied me
And Pm mair than weel coutentn
dream Of a woman as bright as day,p
The second traveller said.
dream of form of perfect grace,
OF a noble face and head,
OF eyes that are as blue as heaven,
OF flowing nut-brown hair;
That is my wife, and, though not rich,
Oh, she is wondrous fairm
The third one said; Il have a wife.
She is neither rich nor fair;
She hasnot gold, nor gear, nor land,
Nor a wealth of nut-bTown hair;
But, oh she loves me! and her love
Has stood through every test.
Beauty and gold are good, but, friends,
We know that love is best"
They filled their cups in the spring again,
And they said, right heartily;
Heres to the loving, faithful wife,
Wherever her home may ber'
And soon they took their different ways,
One thought in each mans breast;
Beauty is good, and gold is good,
But true love is the best
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-05-16
GRSNED AT HENSrFN.

Policeman Hennifn, active and watch
full of the public welfare, saw a cabmau
whipping a horse.
"What are you doing therel" the po-
liceman called.
"Don't you see what am doing7"
ayes, 1 do.
"Then why do you ask mel'
''YOu impudent rascal, I'll run you in. -
The policeman gotin the cab and ordered
the fellow to drive to the Harrison street
station. The next morning the cabnan
was arraigned before court, and when
the Judge asked who had made the
arrest, Henniin stepped forward and
said:
"Your honor, saw this man whipping
his horse and arrested him."
"And your honor" the cabman broke
in, 81 whipped him because he kicked
me. There's not a man in this town
that's kinder to horse than I've been to
this one, and under the circumstance
had a right to whip him
THAT may be, =" the judge answered,
''but am compelled to fine you though
the amount be merely nominal. l will
therefore assess your fine at fifty cents "
Gan right, the cabman replied, land
I wish to present a bill for seventy-fve
cents against the city"
''What fort" the judge asked.
For hauling this policeman to the
station
''Did he bring you in his cabl' the
judge asked of the policeman.
"Your honor I arrested him and in
stead of calling a patrol wagon 1 thought
the easiest way would be to have him
drive down here and"
'Give him seventy-fve cents, said
the judge.
The cabman received the money,
placed fifty cents on the judges desk,
put twenty-five cents in his own pocket,
grinned at Policeman Hennifn and strobe
out.-Arkansalo Traoeler.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-05-16
Naming a Town.

When F. H. Head settled on the
Machado Ranch, near San Diego, Cal =,
and began to build Elsinore, then IN
named, he was puzzled about the chris
tening. What should he call the coming
city by the lake and springsl Finally
he choose Lake something or other-a
long compromising the postofiice au
thorities would not have it. They wrote
Mr. Head that one word was enough
and sent him list to choose from. He
took Elsinore, and few days afterward
announced the fact to old Senior Mach
ado. The aged don was for a moment
nonplussed. gel Senor," he said &;
(Which senior do you mean, yourself or
myself" yourself, of course, replied
the diplomatic Head. And to this day
the Machados believe that the name
Elsinore is but gringo corruption OF
"El Senior" the senior who owned the
original property.-ATgoaam.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-05-16
Sc on Nance. the wolf foIloriag "a

Rose on Nance, the wolf following tbs
old mans bronco.
1.-THE row last night, SIS" he said,
''was Uncle SANS sojers arter Injuns,
same as has been hangin' round yer train.
Wonder how them serious ways of Ann
Reeds would "a took with Injnnssp
At night they reached the campi1sl
place of the wagons, where there q
great rejoicing-Chase, especially, &C I
ing often to stroke Janet's curls, and NUT
ter: ''Ef you amt horned hero, never
knowed one The stuff of pioneerln
Janet's only sadness was that one little
grave where the youngest pike Lay
the child had died the night besoret
How many nameless graves, some pat
tiny ones, there used to be on that
pathway to the West
When Janet, with Rose in her al
climbed into her wagon, the hermit
preached and said, mysteriously;
the same Ann Reed, sis, an she's Z
a-pettin' that wolf like he were poo~s (
dog. Amt set agin 'em no more.
Two miles from Denver they met a
horseman so pale and anxious they knew
who he was even before he called
hOarsely:
SIS my baby with you9"
"Aye, she be, =" answered Chase, shut
we'd met We with blank faces an sorref-
full hearts but for Janet here"
Then he told the story, and the father
got down from his horse to kiss her first
before his own child.
'I'm well on, Joe, he said, brokenly.
81 can do well for her, and you say she
has no one. will have two daughters
instead of one"
''You amt Maverick no more, Janet
cried Joe, something shining in his honest
eyes, San there amt one of US but will
bid We God-speed. Eff ever lone little
child was worth fathers love an care,
you be, an the blessin' of all US that
knowed ye goes with ye."
And as she, with Rose and her father,
parted from the companions of the long
wagon journey, they followed her with
loving, fearful eyes, that little Maverick
who had found happy home.-Yoath's
Companion.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-05-16
An Instance of Nerve.

Biedler, the famous Montana scout who
recently died, was as intrepid as he was
fertile of resource in danger. One time
at Miles City he came out of the door of
a house to find himself within twenty in
ches of the muzzle of forty -four calibre
revolver in the hand of noted desperate
on whose trail the Deputy Marshal had
ofttimes camped.
''pm goin' to blow the innards out OF
your skull, you vigilante hound, quoth
the bad man.
''Not with that thing" said "X'' (the
scouts pseudonym) in a conversational
but semi-querulous tone. at amt
cooked"
The bad man threw up the pistol to
see if Biedler was right, and made the
mistake of life which ended right there,
st. Paul Pioneer Press.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-05-16
Competition Among Plants.

The principle of competition is so ac-
tive and so vigorous in the vegetable
world that it keeps up sort of domestic
warfare among plants. The struggle to
get on in the world is less noticeable in
our latitude than it is in tropics. Whers
the possibilities of reaching the most gi-
gantic size are the greatest, there the in
dividual plant struggles most eagerly e
get into the foremost place. Plants are
much like ourselves.
As an instance of how one tree will
take advantage of another tree, may be
mentioned the conduct of what is called
the parasitic fig. The seed of this plant
is distributed by birds. Suppose one of
these seeds happens to lodge in the fork
of jack fruit-tree. 1t terminates as
well there as it would on the ground.
The young plant sends a long root
down until it reaches the soil. Then it
grows vigorously, and its first develop
ment is toward spreading itself all over
the jack fruit-tree until it has smothered
and killed it. The foster-child steps into
the shoes of its foster-parent.
Quite as fierce struggle, though a
more open one, is maintained among
members of the same family. The case
is reported in Nature of species ofhera-
cleum which was allowed to seed freely.
On the first of June, 1880, there were lyc
hundred and seventy-three seedlings On
the nineteenth of August following, only
one hundred and five of them remained.
The missing ones had been pushed 20 the
wall by the more vigorous survivors.
A more striking instance still, Of fierce
and fatal competition, is found in the,
the conflict goes on among those that are.l
of the same age. This fruit confairss
from fifteen to twenty-four seeds, which
all terminate at one time The most
vigorous one gets first through small
hole at the top to the open air, and there
upon it strangles and feeds upon all the
rest.
All the reflections of modern Scientific
teaching, whenever these examples are
touched upon, are made with regard to
the remorselessness of Nature; to the care
for self, and the absolute disregard for
others. The one observation is that sin
all cases the weakest goes to the wall"
This is looking upon plant life as we too
often look upon our own lives. May it
not be that plants are even more like our
selves than the common view of their his
tory admits, and that we may look upon
their fate with the more humanizing SEN
timent, "Whom the gods love, die
youngl"-YoutFs Companion.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-05-16
PITH AND POINT.

A stcvepipe-The song Of the kettle.
q watch sold at cost is par tickularly
a bargain. Merchant Trageler.
The living skeleton goes on exhibition
in dime museum because he is in re-
duced circumstances.-Pjc ayIne.
When the gates a-jar it is natural that
it should be considered a proper place fol-
sweet-meets-Y 0akers Gazette.
A manufacturer of artificial limbs
should never be forgetful. 1t is his bust
ness to remember Washington Post.
A man who plays the clarionet has
some ground to regret that the season for
reed birds is Over.-HerciaHt TraUeler.
The girls, since first the world began,
Have always sought the ideal man.;
But when they captured their ideal
They found him more ideal than real
There are persons that it Is not safe to
hold out the olive branch of peace to,
unless you have a club in the other
hand
1t is said that it takes three genera
tons to make a gentleman. The recipe
fails when the third generation is girl.
BiHghamtOR Lender.
They say that copper is so cheap it scarcely
pays to mine it more,
But ordinary common sense seems just as
rare as heretofore.
Washington Star
He-"To live by your side, mein Frau
lein, 1 forsake everything-parents, hon
ors, titles, fortune" She Gnnocently}-
"Then, pray, what is there left for met"
-Basler Nachrichten.
Gentleman TO tramp)-''What, you
here agail2 1t hasn't been a week since
l gave you a half dollar Tramp
''Just a week, sir; but great heavens
you don't expect man to live year on
fifty cents, do youl"
Unsuspecting Mother-''I can't mag
inc where all the cake goes" Guilty
Ethel (anxious to avert suspicion)-''It
must be the kid Unsuspecting Mother
THE kid What kid2" Guilty Ethel
d don't know, but I heard Uncle
Harry say to papa: That kid takes the
cake. 'n-TiRle.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-05-16

The low point to which the price OF
hides has been forced through the de-
preston which has existed of late, seems
to have tempted sellers to try to find a
new market for their merchandise. Dur
ing the past few weeks about so, 900 to
100, 900 dry Western hides have been
shipped to Europe, in order to try that
market How this new departure viii
turn out is at present entirely problemati-
cal, but if European tanners can use our
hides to advantage, it viii offer up a new
feid, and tend to give a tone of steadi-
ness to this market that has not been felt
for long time. The recent shipments
Of African hides to Europe from this
market, while new feature in itself, was
not Of that importance to the trade here
that this latter shipment will be if it
proves successful in opening up a new
market.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-05-16

A scientific fact Of great value, and one
which should bring comfort to legions
Of that large class OF people who are
weary of the caprices of an cratic or
tardy liver, has lately been established.
Experiments have proved that large por-
tons of the liver can be removed without
serious disturbance to the animal func-
tons of the human body. The explaua-
,tioE Of this curious fsct seems to be that
has a wonderful power Of repro
daetiou. 2onfck found f.sof within a
few days Of the removal Of portions of
the liver, the work of its reproduction
began, and that it proceeded with great
rapidity to completion. In certain cases
he found that within period of a few
weeks as much was reproduced as had
been removed, aud this amounted occa-
sionally to twice as much as had been
left behind.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-05-16
Mexico's Vanderbilt.

Judge Murat Masterson was at the Le-
land yesterday, direct from the City of
Mexico. With him is Don Luis Huller,
who is the Vanderbilt of Mexico, though
a Vanderbilt would have little standing
in his family, for he prints a golden crest
at the head of his note paper, which has
distinguished such long line of Huller
Dons that the memory of man does not
begin to run back to the first Of them
Don Luis is of the bluest-blOoded Gas
tilians. He lives in a castle at Tacuoa'
the little town but few miles from the
City of Mexico where two other oil
Mexico's wealthiest men live-Antonlo
Escandon and Sebaston Wier. Don HUI
Ter owns and occupies the famous yilla
de Barron. The place is really paiace-
The house has fifty rooms, and is cOn-
struction is on scale of masnlncenc7
equal to anything in Mexico me
grounds alone cost OO,OOO' and the
whole place several times that sum 0Los5
of the interior tinishings were imported
from Europe. and even the stone carvings
for the doorway and the great gateway
into the grounds were imported. Even
with all this magnifcence Tor no,i i.
the owner spends much OF MS linle - :,
FnrOne He is on his way there no" 10
Join his family, -Ch1eag0 Lf'''''''
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-05-16
THE WIFE he WANTED.

She'll confess, William, that your
proposal gives me much pleasure.
would be foolish to pretend that it does
not, yet
He-"Yet whatl What possible OBJ
lection can you have to becoming my
wife2 You know that 1 love you, and
am able to provide for you"
She-"Yes, but fear would be but
a sorry housekeeper.
He-"Why so2"
She (weeping Observation-Disclosures I
have never been to cooking school"
He-"All the better, dearest; all the
better"
She-"All the better2"
He-''Yes. You will stay at home
and attend to the cooking instead of
wanting to go out and lecture on the
culinary art. You are just the kind of
wife want Boston Courier.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-05-16
JOHNSON MISUNDERSTOOD HER.

Mistress of the House (widow)-
'eWell, johnson, of course I'm very sorry
to lose you, at the same time I must con-
graduate you on your good fortune in
having this money left you. Pleasantly
I suppose you'll be looking out for wife
now2"
Johnson-''Well, mum, begin your
pardon, and I'm sure feel highly hon
ored at what you propose, but-er-I
am engaged to a young woman already"
Grip.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-05-16
Latest British emigration returns show

Latest British emigration returns show
that Great Britain continues to be the
European colonizer par excellence. Eng
land has delivered herself of 1914, 225
emigrauts during 1890; Ireland comes
next with 64,972, while scotland-the
land which Pounds empires on peck OF
oatmeal-contributes 1851. This
makes Great Britain's total 254, SOS out
put for 1889 compared with 279, 92s for
1883. Of foreigners making use of Brit
ish ports for embarkation, sS,6Os left
Great Britain in 1889, compared with
113, $50 in 1880. OF the total of all ma
tons, three-fourths selected the United
States as their new home, Scotland send
ing SO large a proportion as II, 59S.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-05-16
Carrier SWALLOWS.

It seems to be quite possible that the
swallow will prove a successful rival to
the carrier pigeon in its peculiar line of
service. The idea of domesticating thii{
little feathered favorite has been takeSl
up in France, the exigencies of war hav
ing suggested the possibility of its use.
fulness. A Frenchman has been experA
menting with the birds for years. Hg
has managed to tame them, and make
them love their cage so that they return
to it after few hours liberty.
The birds spend the winter at their
home, aud do not change their residence
with the change of seasons. On this
point their master says that, if the swal-
lows migrate, he thinks it must be less
on account of the cold than for the want
of their regular food. They live upon
insects. and when these disappear with
the coming of fair weather in the autumn,
the swallows take their leave so as not
TO die of hunger. With food to its Xix
inc provided, the swallow goes abroad IN
January, and returns again to its cote as
freely as it does in July
The speed of these messengers can be
Judged from a single experiment. An
unframed swallow, having its nest on
farm near Roubaix, was caught and
taken in a cage to Paris, where it was set
at liberty. In less than an hour and
half it was back at the farm. 1t had
passed over about two hundred and fifty
kilometers, little more than one hun
bred and fifty-fve miles, in ninety min
utes. 1t is asserted that the trained ones
will do still better, but how much better
they can do will not be known until the
art of training them has been further de-
veloped.
Their great speed and their diminusiye
forms are what especially recommend thsS
swallows for use in war. 1t would neie
be an easy matter to shoot such carriers
on the wing, and they would very likely. I
outfy any trained hawks. u
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-05-16

It Is said that the chronic state of fear
in which he lives has driven the Car of
Russia insane. The stories told of the
dread and apprehension with which his
mind is filed by the plots Of the revolt
tioniats have been no exaggerations of
the truth. His life from hour to hour is
one Of abject and quabing fear; every
bush is Nihilist and every obscure
Granny of his palace conceals mine. An
autocrat and a despot, he has refused to
modify the tyrannous rule which has
brought these dangers into being. A
representative Government, OF even
smaller concessions, would have quoted
his reign and preserved his reason. The
Chicago Herald thinks it not to be won
dered at that he has gone insane. The
task of maintaining a despotisn when
S~<en monarchies are crumbling would
been too much for a more powerful
than BIS,
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-05-16
BUDGET OF FUN.
SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
Good Substitute For a Brain
"A Young Lady on the Decline
"A Mean Husband-Excep-
lions to Rules, Etc, Etc.


3 Goodnight, goodnight She heard him
speak
These words with manly grace
On parlor sofa dim, and exc
Along the hall ways space;
But when they gained the outer door
His courage seemed TO finch,
For though he said goodnight once more
He didn't bulge an inch
9 Goodnight, goodnight. " Twas very hard
To say that last goodnight
Long shadows swept the garden sward,
The moon kept high and bright.
That it was late seemed really plain
To every sense-yet, no
Except to say goodnight again
He made no break to go.
IT'S late no longer-early now
The hour has grown, and chill;
The dawn creeps Ger the mountains
brow
Goodnight, " he murmurs still.
Good ni'- from window overhead
a voice in accents strange
Remarks-''Young man. its time you said
Good-morning, for change
-,Jud0e
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-05-16

The Supreme Court decides that the
law requiring citizens of Idaho, when
about to register, to swear that they are
not bigamists or polygamists and that
they are not members of any order that
practices or encourages plural marriages,
is constitutional The decision was rem
dered in a suit brought to test the con-
stitutionality of the law, and will greatly
aid in the suppression of Mormonism.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-05-16
EXCEPTIONS TO RULES.

Simson-"AlwaysIbe industrious and
truthful, and you are bound to prosper. :"
Timson-''Yes, I suppose you are
right. You have always lived up to this
principle, 1 believer"
Simson-'I have always endeavored
to-
Timsom-"And you are worth2"
Simson-''My dear sir, you must be
aware that there are exceptions to all
rules. London Tid-Bits.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-05-16

There are four members of the United
States Senate who can never be candi-
dates for the Presidency of this republic
under the constitution because of an
alien birth. Sepatar- Isass-- of Nasa1la-
was uorn IN England; General Mcmillan,
Of Michigan, in Canada; Senator Beck,
of Kentucky, in Scotland, and Senator
Pasco, of Florida, in England. While
it is the exception rather than otherwise
that Senator was born in the STATE he
sectional lines have been
closely observed. OF the northern sena.
tors only two were born in the South
Cullom, of Illinois, and Senator Hawley,
of Connecticut, in North Carolina. Not
one southern Senator is of northern
origin.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-05-16

"Look here, said subscriber as he
walked into the Office, 81 want you to
step my paper"
tsWhat's the reason2"
sThere amt enough news in it. Too
much opinions, and that sort of thing. 5"
In about half an hour another subscrib-
er made his appearance.
I've concluded to stop my paper, :"
said he.
sfYou have2"
Eyes, sir"
''Iim tired of reading about accidents
and suicides, and such things. What I
want is good solid opinions"
And the editor sat down and thought
great ponderous opinions about people in
general. Merchant Traveler.