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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-25
4 New Medicine.

A letter from Port Spain, Trinidad, speaks
of the recently discovered curative qualities
of plant locally known as the Cousin Mahoe,
whose botanic name is the triumfetta semi
triloba. In cases of dyspepsia, indigestion
and liver complaints the therapeutic effects
Of this plant have been simply wonderful
The doctors on the island prescribe it largely,
knowing its valuable properties Chicago
Times
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-25
Clothing in Siam.

The old fashioned Siamese dress is very
simple, and may or may not be very inexpen-
sive. For men and married women the Only
absolutely essential garment is the panung, or
waist cloth, which is u piece of cloth nearly
three yards long and two yards wide. A
native woman belonging to the well-to-do
middle classes would not need to spend more
than $40 per year for clothing -Demorests.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-25
RAILROAD TIME TABLE.
1, d. @. NJ. RAILROAD.


DEPARTURES.
For st. Louis via Iron Noun
tain or NJ, X. & t.. ..5:45 a. m
For St. Louis, via Iron Noun
tain route. .................. 3:5O p. IN
For Laredo. ....-.............'. ll-lO d. m'
ARRIVALS.
From st. Louis, Iron Mountain
and M, K. & T............. l0;55 a. m
From St. Louis, Iron Mountain
and NJ, K. & 7. routes. 1000 p. m.
From Laredo. ................ 1885 p. m
SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD.
THROUGH EXPRESS EAST.
Leave for New Orleans, Houston
and Galveston. . 900 pm. and 9:55 a. m.
ARRIVE FROM THE EAST.
Arrive from New Orleans, Hous-
ton and Galveston 6:40a. m. and 4:lO p. m.
THROUGH WEST.
Leave for San Francisco, Ell
Paso and Eagle Pass. 49,; 4:40?p. m.
Arrive from San Francisco Ell
Paso and Eagle Pass......... 9:25 a. m
THE IS. A. & A. p. r. R.--MiSSiON
ROUTE.
DEPARTURES.
Leaves for Kerrvllie, daily, ex-
Leaves for Galveston, Houston -
and Cuero, daily,
at..... ........... ..... S:45 a. m
Leaves for CorpuSChristi, Rock
port and Beeville daily, eX-
cept Sunday, at.............. las p. m
ARRIVALS.
From Kerrville, daily, except
Sunday, at. ..........,..:..... 9:30 a. m
From Corpus Christi, Rockport
and Beeville, daily, except
Sunday, 1:45 p. m
From Galveston, Houston and
Cuero, daily.
Observation-Disclosures. GAS p. N.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-25
Rough on Birdie.

Birdie McGinnis-My great hobby is art.
do dearly love to paint.
Gilhooly-rm glad to hear that. 1t con-
vinces me that lam an expert physiognomist,
for knew it by the looks of your face for
some time past.-Texas Siftings.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-25
A fortunate Escape.

Mrs. Motherleigh-So dreadful about Cla-
ra's little girl baby. 1t was actually born
with the grip.
Mr.. NJ. (gruflO Lucky kid! Well, it
wasn't born with a Saratoga trunk.-Pitts-
burg Bulletin.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-25
Speaking Correctly.

These are end seats, are they notl" in
quired the dignifed party standing in the
aisle at the theatre. lone of them is an end
seat, sir, p" replied the severely accurate usher,
recently brought on from Boston, as he looked
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-25
Rarbers, Inauence at the Capital.

A great deal depends on the cut of a states
mans hair. The reputation of some is based
on it. The barber has much more to do with
the making of some statesmen than any
pedagogue or philosopher ever had. There is
Mr.. Blank, who dreams in his seat all day,
with his white hair brushed back from an iu-
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-25

Rev. DR.. Burchard is summering in
Saratoga. He is well preserved, hand
some and affable old gentleman. a cor
respondent says that the venerable doc
tor fits well into Saratoga life, and there
is nothing he likes better than to sit
down in the evening to a game Of cards
with some bright young ladies.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-25
The Fruitless Season,

Invalid Wife-Dearest, what have you
in that basket? Something nice for your
poor little wife?
Fond Husband-Yes, my own. have
sold my best saddle horse and bought
you dozen pears and three peaches.
|. W.-You noble, self-sacriicing fell
low! Let me reciprocate. Here are my
diamond earrings. Sell them and buy
the children a watermelon.-Pitt
Bulletin.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-25

at the quesuoner with coIdIy classical ST.
Boston True Flag.
The Portland daily press., 1890-03-25

The conviction OF the Flacks, father and
son, of criminal conspiracy to obtain a
divorce for Flack senior, is rather more than
the public expected in view of the defend
ants prominence In New York city politics
and the pulp which they were supposed to
have in consequence. Their defence was
extremely weak, and the evidence Of their
guilt overwhelming, but such state of facts,
experience has shown, is by no means incom-
patible in New York with disagreement of
the Jury or an aequittal when the defendant
has plenty Of money and influence, as these
defendants did. But 1t was Flack's misfor.
tune to encounter an incorruptible jury
The only thing about the verdict which the
public will disapprove is the recommends
tion to mercy which accompanies 1t. How
that recommendation came about is moi
stated, but probably it was concession
which the majority Of the jury were com
PEELED to make to secure the concurrence Of
minority Of one or two in the general YER
dict. There was certainly no good ground
for it In the facts Of the case. The court
however, is not under obligations to pay any
attention to it, and probably will not. Oh
course all the means Of getting Flack Out
OF his scrape are not yet exhausted. There
VIII be exceptions filed, and all sorts of tech.
nicalities will be worked to get the verdict
overturned and new trial granted.
Flack is yet good ways from State prison,
though he is just now headed in that direc-
ton Now that be is convicted it remains to
be seen whether he will resign his Office of
sheriff, or whether he will remain until the
last techicality is exhausted. and thus afford
the edifying spectacle to the people of the
country of man convicted of felony BY a
jury of his peers assisting in the execution Of
the criminal law in the most populous county
in America.
The Portland daily press., 1890-03-25
CURRENT COM MENT.
THIS PACE WILL NOT KILL
Cambridge Tribune,1

When you are In Boston you must not
drive more than six miles an hour, and if
you are late you must stay late.
YET ANOTHER HARVEST ON THE ICE.
Bangor News.]
The lawyers may be the next to reap
harvest from the Maine ice fields. IL Is
The Portland daily press., 1890-03-25

eSome weeks ago when eight negroes were
taken from the jail at Barnwell, S. c., by
band of lynchers and hanged, there was
great show of indignation amongst the white
people of that region. The Charleston News
and Courier denounced the outrage in vigor-
GUS language and called for the exemplary
punishment Of the men engaged in it. But
nothing has come of all this noise. If the
murderers have been hunted at all they have
been hunted with brass band SO that they
have been able to make good their escape
The grand jury for the county where
the outrage took place has re-
Gently been in session, but they
report that they have been able to find
nothing tangible" to base an indictment
upon. They indulge in some high sounding
phrases about the enormity of such offences
as that at Barnwell, and their readiness to
discharge their duty, however unpleasant
or painful, to God, to humanity and to their
country" butthat is the end of it. Probably
this is the last that will be heard officially of
the Barnwell murders. The jury found
nothing tangible simply because they did not
want to find anything of that kind. Public
sentiment excused the murders and the
jury deferred to public sentiment.
The Portland daily press., 1890-03-25

Our neighbors over the border have been
greatly stirred up for the last few weeks
over proposed reduction in the rate of
stumpage on lumber cut on the public do
main. The columns of editorial comment
and the long debates in the New Brunswick
legislature. have moved the Bangor News to
suggest that Maine ought to lock at hei
stumpage. Tho conditions of things in this
otAse and the Province are slightly different
In the latter, the rate Of stampage was G.
cents per thousand feet in the northern
counties and so cents in the southern, ant
brought in revenue to the Province as fol
lows: 1874 the revenue from stumpage wa
100000; in 1885, $4,000; in 1885, 100000
in 1887, $4,000; in 1888, $9S.0OO and ii
1889. $4,000. The measure which
has been carried by the government in the
Legislature, reducing the stumpage % cents
takes off from $4,000 TO $4,000 each year
This~ft readily appears is quite a serious
matter to state or province and is well worth
serious consideration. The stumpage col
lected in this State, being only $1,000 or 5000
per annum, is not worth while making into
a.State issue. The rate is not exorbitant, ant
those lumbermen who cut on the public do
main are in no danger of having all tbeil
substance eaten up, paying 1t.
The Portland daily press., 1890-03-25

The story of the sensational suicide in
Joliet of young lady who was supposed to
have been bounded to death by anonymous
letter writers was published in the papers a
few days ago. The anonymous "fend" had
been pursuing her for more than three years.
ana his devices for torturing her were ex-
ceedingly varied. The anonymous letter
was only one Of them. Sometimes Grape
was tied on to her door, sometimes under
takers were sent to her house to take charge
Of her remains and young men invited to
act of pail bearers. The police exhausted
all their resources, but without definite re-
suit. A cousin Of hers, named White, was
strongly suspected, but sufficient evidence
could not be got to convict him. The
strangest discovery has been made, however,
since the girls death. 1t appears from evil
dence that has been forthcoming since then,
evidence that is said to be conclusive, that the
girls prosecutor was no other than herself I;
that she wrote all the anonymous letters and
concocted all the devices by which she was
tormented. A monomania for notoriety had
made her its victim.
The Portland daily press., 1890-03-25

The hideous possibilities for evil, con-
cealed in the system Of hereditary transmits
sion of titles and powers, were never more
clearly shown than in the case of Viscount
Vaudeville now by the death of his father,
Duke of Manchester, Baron Montague and
Kimbolton. The Viscount has been par
ticularly disreputable member of the British
peerage, after the order Of the Duke of MARI
boro. Like that peer, he married an Ameri-
can lady, but they have been separated for
some time. However, all Of his sins are as
nothing now, and he is peer of the realm, a
member of its highest judicial body. It
would seem that after few more cases of
this kind the Indignation of the English
common people would rise to such heights
that they would sweep the whole pestilential
brood off the face of the earth, for even the
dullest Hodge cannot help, it would seem,
seeing that the exalted nobility is after all
only too human.
The Portland daily press., 1890-03-25

Senator Blair has made few unimpor
tant changes in his educational bill and IN.
troduced 1t in the Senate again. 1t has gore
to the same committee that reported the
original one favorably, and therefore it is
among the possibilities that this substitute
may get before the Senate. The Senators
who a few days ago voted against the original
Dill are not likely, however, to vote differ
emily on another bill which is practically the
same.thing. 1t may be safely asserted, there
fore, that Mr.. Blair's educational scheme is
daad
The Portland daily press., 1890-03-25

1t seems to be pretty well settled that the
clause of the new tariff bill imposing duty
on hides will be stricken out. and hides left
ON the free list, as they have been for the
past twenty years. This is as it should te'
The imposition of duty on hides could en-
ure to the benefit of nobody, except, perhaps
few Western cattle kings, while it would
affect disastrously the tanneries and the
manufacturers of leather goods. Business
has adapted itself to free leather. and this
condition could not be changed without do
ing a great deal Of harm.
The Portland daily press., 1890-03-25


We wish we had time to mention more of
the treasures which the magical words "Open
SesameW reyeal-the poems of Southey, the
Brownings, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Camp
bell. Swinburne, Schiller, Victor Hugo, and
host of other great authors.
for verse-making in the graceful memory
rhymes called ",he Nine Muses." and 1.-THE
Seven. Wonders of the World" They have
also given us several very fine translations.
TO the Wer," from the German, we notice
particularly; while we cannot resist copying
the following, translated by Mrs. Bethany
and Mrs. Gardiner, from the German, by
Paul Fleming:
TO MY SOUL.
''Grieve not with signing
BE still.
S e sa Is tsy guide
My will!
What That thou today wouldst borrow
Who stanrt.a1 e for 9n al
Snaii In 'a Tbi h;gd d,sn let fall
Under Fate's fiat
"e'' 4''e Stand tast
Whater God will
OF good or i'll
Is best"
AuO Woihs VI WHICH, We nave lrleQ thus
poorly to give some idea, will have an esoec-
ial interest to your readers, from the fact
that much of it was done at Little Chebeagne
Island two summers ago; and its talented
editors have many warm friends in Port
land.
What source of inspiration Portland and
It's environs have been and ever will be co
host Of writers! DIR. Joy of Harvard Col
lege, is soon to publish book of which much
was written at Little Chebeague. There
Miss Ripley found quiet in which to trans
late her wonderful French histories while
who can tell what stories the author of Look
ing Backward was inspired to write, by tho
grand sunsets and the lovely views of sea
and shore, at that same Little Paradise"
Island?
Little Chebeague habitues will remember
Edward Bellamy as straight, slight, hand
some young fellow, delighting in explora-
tions of the neighboring Islands. and enjoy
ing Immensely his conversations with the
INHABITANTS. His book, Looking Back
ward" had Just appeare1, but we doubt If
ne dreamed Of the notoriety it would bring
MN, or the discussions. better, even, than
those produced by Robert Elsmere, which
nave followed its appearance. E. IS.
The Portland daily press., 1890-03-25

The Saxton bill has passed both branches
of the New York legislature and gone to the
Governor That he will veto it there is no
doubt And unfortunately two thirds Of the
legislature cannot be relied upon to PASS II
over his veto.
The Portland daily press., 1890-03-25

limited that some dealers, in their eagerness
to improve all the chances, NAV have sten.
ped over into fields that do not legally belong
The Portland daily press., 1890-03-25
TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 25.

We do not read anonymous letters and commu-
nIcations. The name and address Of the writer
are in all cases indispensable, not necessarily for
publication but as guarantee Of good faith.
We cannot undertake TO return or preserve
communications that are not used.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-01-09
A SQUIRREL STORY.

Our Little sien and Women.
A pretty red squirrel lived in an old
hollow oak. His door was a round hole
where the bark had broken away so far
from the ground that nothing could get
at him. The sun shone in every morn
ing, so he could see the piles of nuts
packed nicely in the corners, near his bed
of soft leaves. He ought to have been
contented and happy, but he was not.
why" said he, springing from tree
to tree on his way home, should L
work to gather food when 1 might live
in the farmers barn? There is plenty
of corn and often something fresh to be
had. And | am quite tired of these dry
things"
He took out the nuts with which he
had filed his cheek pouches and put
them carefully away, for he was neat
housekeeper, and kept his stores in good
order.
1T is so small, he continued, shaking
out his bushy tail as large as possible;
''and l can have a whole barn to my
self"
So he went to the barn. But he soon
found it was not built for squirrels.
"Oh,' said the farmer. who saw him
sitting on high beam, $50 you are the
fellow that nibbles my corn" And he
fixed box with sweet apple in it.
'Oh," said the squirrel, when he found
the box with the sweet apple it, "the
family are very polite"
He tasted it slowly. How delicious it
was! Again he tasted, when bangl
something fell, and he was a prisoner,
for the box was a trap. 1t was much
smaller than the oak tree, but very soon
he was taken out and put into cage.
He could run miles on wheel that
turned over and over, but he could not
run away from the cage. The farmers
little daughter was very kind to him,
and he grew so tame after time that
she opened the door and let him frisk
about the room.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-01-09
TWO KINDS OF GIRLS

There are two kinds of girls. One is
the kind that appears better abroad
the girls that are good for parties, rides,
visits, balls, etc, and whose chief de-
light is in such things; the other is that
kind which appears best at home-the
girls that are useful and cheerful in the
dining room, the sick-room, and all the
precincts of home. They differ widely
in character.
One is a moth, consuming everything
about her; the other is sunbeam, in
spring life and gladness all along her
pathway Now, it does not necessarily
follow that there shall be two classes of
girls. A slight education will modify
both little and unite their good quail
ties in one.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-01-09
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

PRESBTTERI4N CHURCH-Rev. r. Alex
ander, pastor. Public worship every Sabbath
morning ami evening; sabbath school $50 a. m
young peoples society of Christian endeavCr, Mon
day evenings; general prayer meeting, "Wednesday
syening. Strangers welcome 10 all services
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH-Rev
J. ii. Hollingshead, pastor. sabbath preaching; II
A. M; p. m; young peoples meeting, Monday
evenings; general prayer meeting, thursday eve
lings; mems meeting. Friday evenings; Sabbath
school 80 pm. Strangers cordially invited 10 all
eryices.
UNITED PRESBYTERLdN CHU RCH-ReV
Thomas Balph, pastor. Sabbath school, 10 a. m
public Worship ii a. m; weekly prayer meeting
Friday D. m. monthly prayer meeting, last SatuT-
day of each month, p. m.; wOmanS missionary
slciety last Saturday Of each month, p; M dis
trict prayer meetings first Tuesdays, Wednesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays each month, p m
Young women's prayer meeting, second Saturday
each month at the parsonage, p IN.
AFRICANM. E. CHURCH-Rev.J ). NJ wilkes,
pastor. Sunday service 1879 a. m; p m; oaD-
hath school. 2 80 D. m weekly prayer meeting,
Thursday evenings. Strangers welcome.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-01-09
HOW TO BEGIN LIFE

Here is an extract from an article that
appeared recently in the Albany Journal,
that has a commons sense ring to it.
Let those who are commencing life
place a small amount of their earnings
at interest with small annual additions,
and they will find they will have no
mean security against the winter of age.
They will also find themselves under OBJ
legations to no man, that they will new
er have to ask "favOrs'' of their friends,
that they will never be placed in posi-
ton to be boosted along by their rich
relatives, and that when they may wish
to start in business it won't be on the
money that miserly old uncle has
squeezed. And all through life they
will have the satisfaction of a manly in
dependence they could have in no other
way.
IF the duty of life in this respect,
was understood, how much misery would
be banished from the hearts Of strug
Cling humanity AlmshOuses and
prisons would be less crowded, an eleva-
ted influence would be exerted over the
masses, a new impetus given to educa-
ton, and mankind in general raised to
a higher state of existence, for money
uselessly and foolishly spent becomes
the root of all evil.
1--WE live in deeds, not years.
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
He most lives
Who thinks most feels the OLDEST, acts the best.'
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-01-09
A HIDEOUS PROCESSION.

James Runciman in Contemporary Review.
Before me pass a tremendous pro-
cession of the lost. can stop its march
when choose and fix on any individual
in the ranks, so that you can hardly
name single fact concerning drink
which does not recall to me fellow
creature who has passed into the place
of wrecked lives and slain souls. The
more think about it the more plainly
see that if we are to make any useful
fight against drink we must stop the
preachee- preachee; we must drop loud
execrations of the people whose exist
ence the State fosters; we must get hold
of men who know what drinking means
and let them come heart to heart with the
victims who are blindly trampling on
to ruin for want of guide and friend.
My hideous procession of the damned is
always there to importune me. gath
cred the dolorous recruits who form the
procession when | was dwelling in
strange, darkened ways, and l know
that only the magnetism of the human
soul could ever have saved one of them.
If any one fancies that Gothenburg sys-
TENS, or lectures, or little tiresome
tracts, or stuffy yarns about "Joe Tomp-
kin's Temperance Turkey" or ELUSIVE
harangues by half-educated buffoons
will ever do any good, he must run
along the procession with me. and L
reckon he may learn something. The
comic personages who deal with the
subject are cruelty useless; the very NO.
tion of making jokes in presence of such
a mighty living terror seems desolaring
to the mind; could not joke over the
pest of drink, for l had as lief dance
hornpipe to the blare of the last trumpet.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-01-09

THERE is some chance that the Cronin
case may yet result in the just punish
ment of the real authors of the foul and
cowardly murder which revealed to the
whole country the true character of the
Irish revolutionary societies working in
secret in the very heart of American
cities. The States Attorney said the
other day that considerable evidence had
been secured against persons not yet
brought to trial for completely in the
murder, and that they might be indicted
soon
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-01-09
WILL MONEY WIN?
Pittsburgh Dispatch.

Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The Senatorial question in Ohio is
steadily approaching the day of settle
ment. 1t is singular feature Of this
contest that while the respectable Dem
ocrats of the STATE are earnestly protest.
ing against the choice of men whose
sole recommendation is their big bank
accounts, the general tenor of the reports
is that the election lies only between the
millionaires, with the chances strongly
in favor of the success of Brice's over
powering barrel.
Hardly any stronger way Of putting
the objections to the candidates whose
only qualification is their wealth could
be imagined than that taken by the
protest Of the Cleveland Democrats. 1t
is timely to protest against making the
recent Democratic victory ''the means
of reinforcing the already powerful
array of.railroad magnates and money
kings in the Uuited States Senate" 1t
is true to say that from such betrayal
may be expected the 'well-deseryed ven
geance that will remit the party to defeat
for an indefinite period to come"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-01-09

ACCORDING to the Bellaire Democrat
rain and snow fell during 1889 as fol-
lows: January, rain 5 days, snow 10
days; February, rain 5 days, snow IA
days; March, rain 9 days, snow 10 days;
April, rain Is days, snow 3 days; May,
rain IA days; June, rain % days; July,
rain Is days; August, rain 8 days; Sep
tember, rain 13 days; October, rain 10
days, snow days; November, rain 16
days, snow days; December, rain 16
days, snow l day.