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The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-04-11
Abolish Perquisites.

The appointment of Genera
Sickles to succeed Sheriff Flack
of New York, is one which vii
give satisfaction to the good PEG
pie of that city. He is out of pol
litics. His record is that of al
honest man and he has been gal.
liant soldier. Under him there is
every reason to believe that the
affairs Of the Office will be honestly
administered. But he comes in
only to fill an unexpired term, and
it is not likely that he will be re-
elected. This successor may be
tempted by the opportunities to
acquire wealth by defrauding the
people, as was his predecessor. AS
the Flack administration of the
sheriff's office showed the memory
of 'Boss" Tweed was too soon for
gotten by the people while poll
ticians cherished his methods.
The surest way to prevent such
outrages by city and county ofic-
ials is to abolish everywhere the
fees of office, and salary the ofic-
lals. Few people who are COM
PEELED to pay costs know the fee
bill, and are unable to say wheth-
er they are oyercharged. Many law
yers are too remiss in the exami-
nation of cost bills, and some few
connive with officials who make
slight oyercharges. Where the Of
ficers are all salaried and compell-
ed to turn all fees into the state,
county or city treasury, the temp
tation to overcharge and the OPP
portunity to defraud without de-
lection are less. The same rule
should apply to officers of the
United States.
District attorneys, where they
are paid any salary at all, are
paid very small salaries, and al
lowed fees for conviction, This is
doubtless upon the principal that
they will work more earnestly to
secure convictions, if pay depends
upon conviction. The man who
accepts the duties of an office is
unfit to discharge them if his zeal
is regulated by his pay. If suf-
fcient salary is attached to the
office of district attorney, good |
men cah DC fouHa Is accept it who
will act from a sense OF duty. I
Then, too, it is not the business
of district attorney to work sim
ply for a conviction. His duty to
protect the state requires that he
should see that every ascused per-
son has fair trial, and all of the
advantages which the law allows
him on trial In some cases, this
is lost sight of in the desire to earn
the fee.
The perquisites of Office are the
greatest temptations of official in
tegrity, and are frequently source
of wrong and imposition upon the
peoples. A. Standard.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-04-11

New ORLEANS, La, April "A
special from Bastrop, La, says:
information was received here
this evening that the Bonydee le-
wee, twelve miles east Of this
place, which protects the richest
part of this parish from overflow,
was broken. As the overflow
water in the Bayou Bartholomew
was almost up to the highestpoint,
at is feared that the lower country
viii be inundated in short while.
Last night the heaviest rain for
years fell here, and all the small
streams are swollen, and several
bridges on the Monroe road we're
washed out.
A yicksburg special says: A
telephone message from Mayors
vile, Miss, just received announ-
ces that the entire town and sur
rounding country has been over
flowed by sudden rise in Steeli
bayou, which has been rising
eighteen inches hourly. The peo
pie are moving out of their resi-
dences and taking refuge in gir
houses. The water is over three
feet deep in the highest levels Of
the town, and Is rising fast. Col
D. Mayer, who received the dis
patch, saws the town has never
been oYerfowed in the memory o.
man. He says a great deal O.
stock win be endangered by thu
sudden rise. Mayorsville is {
place of 300 inhabitants, but near
" all the whites have left tn,
town.
No new creyasses are reported
though the levees were severed,
tested by last nights storm.
CLARENDON, ARK, OVERLOOKED.
HELENA, ARK. April 4-Infor
nation was received here to-da,
to the effect that White river
still rising, and that the town @
Clarendon, Ark, is again over
flowed. The people there are com
PEELED to employ water crafts
get about town.
UNUSUALLY HEAVY RAINS.
New ORLEANS, La, April 4
Dispatches received here repol
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-04-11
Great Chicago.

l have been in Chicago six
weeks, says writer in the San
Francisco Argonaut. l shall take
a look at it after a while, when
this telling of stupidity produced
by amazement partially wears off.
But l shall not describe it. [ am
not writing hooks just now. If the
Palace hotel, the Flood building,
the new Chronicle building, the
Baldwin, the Nevada block, and all
the palaces on Mob hill were sud
denly lifted up and set down in
the midst of Chicago in one Skght.
they would not be noticed the next
morning unless they were set
down In the middle of the streets
so as to interfere with traffic.
Miles and miles of Flood build
ings, groups of Baldwin theatres,
townfuls of Mob hill palaces, whole
streets of new Chronicle build
ings, innumerable Occidental ho-
tells, all the elegant dry goods
stores of San Francisco merged
into one and then reduplicated till
you are weary. all its restaurants
rolled into one and multiplied I'M
til you are faint; cable cars going
in trains like steam cars with three
conductors on each train; four ele-
vators in group and no use ring
ing, because one or two are con-
stantly ready to carry you up or
bring you down; morning papers,
noon papers, evening papers and
extras at midnight; a hundred
miles of asphalt driveways for
pleasure; innumerable streets so
long and brilliantly lighted that,
standing at any point on one of
them at night, you will see the
parallel rows of lights come to
point in either direction, making
the street look like a long, narrow
granite, marble, brass,
glass, colored crystals, electric
lights, gorgeousness, brilliance,
Iuxuriousness, magnifcence-Chi-
,ago.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-04-11

On recent visit to Iowa, Mr. X. Dalton
of Luray, Russell Co., Kansas, called at
the labratory of Chamberlain s. Co, Des
Moines, to show them his six year old boy,
whose life lad hesn- saEed-by- Chamber-
l,;+,;s C,..-,sere attack of L.,,ut,it - .
ton is certain that it saved his boys life
and is enthusiastic in his praise of the
remedy. He says 1t has an excellent rep
utation in his vicinity; that farmers come
fifteen miles to his store for it and that
many of them, like himself, are never
without it in their homes, For sale by.
J. N. Eddins & Co.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-04-11
MISSION VALLEY
NJ R q 81 ER IFS.

These Nurseries were established at
Mission Valley, Texas, in lao. To
secure better mail and shipping faciii-
ties, we have removed TO the Gulf,
West Texas and Pacific railroad; ten
miles above Victoria and eight miles
from the old location.
We have made the most exhaustiTe
experiments, combined with careful
study,
In Southern Texas Ground for
a Third of a Century.
We have spared neither care nor ex-
pense that could Increase the valHe of
our results 10 the II Re We have
kept up
Large Experimental Grounds
in which to make our tests. in both the
Fruit and Ornamental Departments.
Our tests are, therefore, so complete
and thorough that we are enabled TO
offeI Varieties well adapted to the
wants of our very peculiar climate
I e DduulC ~ NhNh ~
northern trees. We do not propose to
supply trees and plants at lower rate
than other Nurseries, but we do claim
to be able to
Furnish Better Trees
for Texas planting than can be obtained
at any other Nursery in the world.
We have arranged for
Special Express Rates on all Our
Shipments.
Have our own grounds and packing
house Immediately By the station, so
that we can ship by every train, and
have postoffice with daily mail in
our office at the Nursery. so that cor
dependence can be promptly attended
1 to.
We solicit orders by mail or any of
our authorized agents. Catalogues
sent free npon application. A ldre-s
GILBERT ONDERDONk,
Nursery, Victoria County, Texas.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-04-11
UNDER WATER
Arlnsas City Inundated from light
to Fen Feet Intense Excitement.

NV ORLEANS, La, April "A
special from Arkansas City receiv-
ed At late hour last night says
Andher wind and rainstorm ragged
herr Wednesday night. Rain
poured down all night. About ]
O'Clock several strong blasts Of
wind in rapid succession severely
tested the strength of every house
in town and brought their occu-
pants out of their beds. For sew
eral minutes it looked as though
-.he- town would be blown away.
The terrors of a strom in a town
covered by water to depth of
eight to twelve feet can hardly be
Imagined. The Catholic church
was blown from its foundation aud
considerably damaged. The build
ing was flooded to the depth of
eight feet and all furniture and
fixtures badly damaged. The ne
gro church was also blown from
its foundation. Three or four res
licences were treated likewise.
Thursday morning dawned bright
and clear. The river has been
falling all day after rise of q foot
last night. Two government boats
Fl. NJ. Graham and R. NJ. Sheed,
have been busy all day relieving
distressed people on the opposite
side of the river. Capt TolIinger
of the government service has Sc
cured the large compress building
here, and those of the Mississippi
people who want to come he is
having brought over. The barge
is at Offert's landing and is being
loaded with colored families and
their goods. They viii be brought !
up here tomorrow. The build
ing can accommodate several hun
dred people. Capt. TolIinger Of
fered to bring the people at Hunt
ington who are crowded into box
cars. on the platforms and ieyees
over to-day and give them quar-
ters, but they declined for the
present and viii remain where
they are unless another bad spell /
OF weather ss4s-isA- Thara arc t---e
barges lying at Huntington, and
stock is being put aboard In
day or two these barges, together
with several other barges of stock
that have been saved from the
Hood in the Mississippi, will be
taken up the Arkansas river to the
prairies in Arkansas county, where
they viii be kept until the over
flow has subsidized. Capts- Toll
linger and Rider are turning their
attention now almost exclusively
to saving people and their proper
ty, and with the limited means at
their demand they are doing good
service.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-04-11

1t is the greatest delusion in the
world for boy to get the idea
that his life is of no consequence,
and that the character of it will
not be noticed. A manly, truthful
boy will shine like a star in any
community. A boy Ilay possess
as much of noble character as a
man. He may so speak and live
the truth that there shall be nc
discount on his word. And there
are such noble, Christian boys,
and wider and deeper than they
are apt to think is their influence
They are the king boys among
their fellows, having an immense
influence for good, and loved and
respected because of the simple
fact of living the truth.-Child's
Paper.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-04-11
The First Stem.

Perhaps you are run down, can't eat,
can sleep, can't think, can't do anything
to your satisfaction, and you wonder
what ais you. YOu should heed the VAIN
ing, you are taking the first step into
Nervous Prostitution. You n9ed Nerve
Tonic and in Electric Bitters yOuwill find
the exact remedy for restoring your nerv-
GUS system to its normal. healthy condi-
ton. Surprising results follow the use ol
this great Nerve Tonic and Alternative
Your appetite returns, good digestion is
restored, and the Liver and Kidneys re-
sumo h.althy action. Try bottle. Price
soc. at Eddin's & Co.'S Drug Store. (6)
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-04-11
A New Discovery.

You have heard your neighbors talking
about it. You may yourself be one of the
many who know from personal experience
just how good thing it IS. If You have
ever tried it, you are one of its staunch
friends, because the wonderful thing about
it is, that when once given a trial Dr.
Kings New Discovery ever after holds n
place in the house. If yOu have never
used it and should be afflicted with a
cough, cold or any Throat, Lung or Chest
trouble, SECURE bottle at once and give it
f If trial. 1t is guaranteed every time,
or money refunded. Trial bottles free at
]. y. Eddins & Cos Drug Store. 6
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-04-11

The New York papers are vast
ing great deal of space in finding
fault with Wanamaker's new issue
of red two-cent postage stamps,
against which the objection is
urged that they are made of cheap
material and are nasty and gummy.
Wanamaker defends himself by
saying they were made that way
to discourage the deprayed Amer
lean habit of licking stamps.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-04-11
A Peculiar Case.

DR.. b. G. Edmunds, of Elberton,
Ga, writes: "a very peculiar and
strange case of blood poison came
nnder my attention a short time
ago. A gentleman came here from
Athens, Ca, where he had been
bitten on the hand by a vicious
mule that he was breaking to
work. The hand was in a horrible
condition, and the inflammation
was rapidly extending throughout
his entire system. Every knuckle
on his hand was an ulcer that was
deep and sloughing. He stated
to me that he had consulted sever
al physicians, and taken their
medicine without deriving any
benefit. l gave him a course of
Swift's Specific (S.S.S.), and in a
few days he reported to me a
marked improvement, and in one
week from the time he commenced
taking SIS, the hand was healed
up and the poison entirely eradica-
ted from his system. 1t is my
opinion that he would have lost
life had it not been for the health
giving properties contained in
Swift's Specific. He frankly adj
mits himself that SIS. did the
work.
Treatise on Blood and Skin dis
eases mailed free. Swift Specific
Company, Atlanta, Ga.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-04-11

No one who has looked into life
with honest eyes can have failed
to discover that it derives untold
values from the love which wsl-
comes its dawn, attends its growth
and advances step by step and
man love is itself pearl Of great
price. How it enlarges, enriches
and ennobles life! What beneti-
cent ministries it conductsl What
patient heroism and severe self
suppression it inspiresl In a
mother it is faith and hope and
patience and effort and victory. In
young hearts it is Transforming
gladness, and awakening to the
responsibility and to the rapture
of life. In manhood and woman
hood it is the balm of care, a re-
fuge in temptation and source Of
serenity.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-04-11

Don't vote for that man who
runs for Office simply because he
wants to serve his country" But
cast your vote for the man that
runs for Office for the money there
is in it, and will do his best for
the people that he may be able to
get there again, Take away the
salary and the Office will have to
seek the man. and then not find
charlottesville Citizen.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-04-11

that that within the past two days,
unusually heavy rains have fallen
throughout the lower Mississippi
Tensas, Cuachik, and Red River
valleys, generally accompanied by
severe winds.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-04-11

The Standard is human! 1t
helps its friends. When you get
your printing at Dallas you should
get the Dallas newspapers to give
YOU local notices. The Standard
takes very little interest in the
man who does not support the in
stitution that is directly or indirec-
ly supporting him, and his rela-
tives must not grumble if we cut
his obituary Shorts. A. Stan
dard.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-04-11

AS a rule the boys of to-day
never think of learning trades.
They study law or medicine, read
for the ministry, or adopt some
other method of living by their
wits and stunning the drudgery
of manual labor. With the learn
ed professions already over-crowd-
ed beyond all precedent in our
history, increasing hocks and
droyes of young lawyers and ply
sicians are turned loose every year
upon the country. This evil will
continue until parents begin to
teach their children that there is
no occupation more honorable or
gentlemanly than that of the sweat
of their brows. -Hillsboro Refec-
tor.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-04-11

Saws the cultivator: Experience
teaches US that cattle thrive on a
mixed diet. All hay or grain
produce less beef than hay and
grain. The animal structure of
the OK also demands bulk in food,
as well as richness, the feeding of
concentrated food being profitable
only so far as the animal assimi-
lates it -beyond that of sim ply
increasing the manure heap, at a
cost far beyond its value. The OK
has approximately eleven and one
half pounds of stomach with only
two and one half pounds of intes-
tines to each one hundred pounds
of live weight; the sheep has less
stomach and,more intestines, Civ
ing a smaller percentage of diges
tive apparatus, while the pig, fol
every one hundred pounds of live
weight, has only one and one.
third pounds of stomach to sil
pounds of intestines. A steel
would thrive on bulk of straw
and little oil meal, that would
shrink sheep and starve a pig
Pork can be produced from pur'
corn meal, while mutton require
a great variety of food, and bee
cattle would become cloyed AM
diseased by its exclusive use. !
thoughtful attention to these broat
facts will change much middleton
feeding into cheaper meat produc
ton.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-04-11
BuckIen's Arniea saIye.

The Best Salve in the world for Cuts
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum Fever
Sores, letter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains,
Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and posi-
lively cures Piles, or no pay required. 1t
is guaranteed TO give perfect satisfaction
or money refunded. Price - cts per box
For sale by J. N. Eddins . Co., Aug. Il, 'SS
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-04-11

The actual work of collecting
statistics Of population by the cen
sus bureau will begin June 2, and
Superintendent Porter promises
to announce the result by August
/. 1t is thought the count will
show population of 65,OOO,OOO,
of which the colored people will
form less than one-seyenth, or
about 100000.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-04-11

Russia is now turning another
mslady loose on the world, which
is said to be even more disagree
able and dangerous than la grippe
The symptoms are feeling Of
paralysis in the limbs and a ten
dency to lethargic sleep. The new
disease has already spread as fal
west as Italy, and frequently
proves fatal Houston Post.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-04-11
A Plea for the Little Folks.

Don't expect too much of them
1t has taken you forty years, it may
be, to make you what you are,
with all your lessons of experience;
and l will dare say you are a faul-
ty beng at best. Above all, don't
expect judgment in a child, or pa
tience under trials. Sympathize
with them in their mistakes and
troubles, don't ridicule them. Re-
member not to measure a child's
trails by your standard. "As one
whom his mother comforteth, :"
says the inspired writer; and
beautifully does he convey to us
the IeGps faithful love that ought
to be found in every woman's
heart, the unfailing sympathy
with all her children's griefs. Let
the memories of their childhood
be as bright as you can make them.
Grant them every innocent pleas
ure in your power. We have often
felt our temper rise to see how
carelessly their little plans were
thwarted by old persons, when a
little trouble on their part would
have given the child pleasure, the
memory of which would last a
lifetime. Lastly, don't think a
child hopeless, because it betravs
some very bad habits. We have
known children that seemed to
have been born thieves and liars,
SO early did they display these
undesirable traits; yet we have
lived to see those same children
become noble men and women
and ornaments to society. We
must confess they had wise, affec-
-ionate parents. And whatever
else you may be compelled to deny |
your child by your circumstances
n life, give it what it most values,
plenty of love. Exchange.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-04-11
situation at Greenville.

GREENvILLE, MISS, April o.
The levee which has so long beer
in great danger of breaking at Cat
fish point, near the Connolly plan
tation in Boliver county, about
twenty miles by land above Green,
vile, gave way yesterday morn
ing, and from the latest reports
received the crevasse is from 170C
to 1900 feet wide and still increas-
ing. The water reached Green
vile about 3 o'clock this morning,
and up to this writing it has risen
in our streets and is still rising
rapidly. Washington avenue, the
main business street, is now one
sheet of water from the corner of
Poplar street to the railroad track,
and the water is making its wsY
over the sidewalks and into the
cellars of the stores. \ great
many people had to vacate their
residences to seek higher quarters,
on account of the sudden rise. All
bitches and other channels leading
to the southern high portion of
the town are being damned up.
Central avenue will perhaps in a
few days be the only available
piece of land where horses, mules,
cattle, etc, can congregate and be
kept out of the water until the
food falls.
Parties who arrived here to-day
from Greenwood. the greater part
of their journey being made by
skiff, describe situation in the low
lands as a terrible sight to be-
hold. At an astonishing speed
the water is spreading over cult
waited lands and forests of our
planters, many of whom would
have been, at the end of another
week or so, through with their
Houses of all descrip-
tons and fences in long sections
are carried away by the terrific
currents and every conceivable
household object is seen noarIng
down the swamps. Stock and
worldly effects that can be trans
ported have been carried to the
front by those who have not taken
precautionary steps. In the neigh
borhood of Skipworth, inhabited
by colored people. The levee
there presents a terrible sight
which must grow greater in future
f substantial aid and speedy re-
lief does not come. At every step
the colored laborer, his family and
his all are found almost destitute.
For shelter they have nothing but
the canopy of heaven. If 10 as
sistance comes to them many will
die of exposure. Food will soon
be needed, and if not provided
great suffering viii be the conse-
quence. Capt. Rider left this
morning from Skipworth with two
barges to help Capt. Ballinger to
get out the people and stock at
Catfish Point, where assistance is
badly needed
In the vicinity Of Winteryille a
great many cattle are dying from a
disease called hollow horn.
At Mount Landing, seven miles
below Catfish Point, the river fell
two feet to-day. 1t will rise again.
owing to the large break. The
Lake Washington country and the
highest points on the banks of the
beautiful lake are also rapidly
disappearing out of sight, thing
which has not been known since
1854. The outlook is not hopeful
for the planting of the oyerfowed
region before May.