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The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-14

Secretary Rusk, although not the first
Secretary Of Agriculture to sit in an
American Cabinet, is the first to issue an
annual report. The Washington Star
asserts that at VIII attract general atten-
ton from the fact that it enters with
some minuteness into subjects which
show the real value to tas country of
such department, conducted with skill
at the executive end OF the line and lib
crafty at the Congressional end. It is
ridiculous to claim that the usefulness
Of piece Of governmental machinery
like this one ends with the collection Of
statistics and few general advisory func-
tons. The Secretary proposes to raise
his department from that level. He
wants a national meat inspection law, for
example, which shall enable public Off
GERS to locate the centre of any disease
which breaks o1it among American cattle,
and prevent the shipments Of live and
dead meats unit for consumption. An
other excellent recommendation is that
the forestry interests OF the Government
be given more intelligent attention. As
they are now, there IS absolutely no way
IN which timber thefts ana forest fires
can be prevented; and the loss to the
Government from these sources, as shown
by Chief Fernow's figures on repeated
occasions, is greater every year than the
sost Of fair sunsrvision would BE-"
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-14
WOMAN'S WORLD.
PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR
FEMININE READERS.
A pRErrr DRESS FOR HOUSE wrAn.

PRETTY DRESS FOR HOUSE WEAR.
Now that winter is here women every
where are considering necessary changes
in the wardrobe. Women in cities usually
pay more attention to indoor dress than
women in the country, partly because
they participate less in the household
work; partly because they are more likely
to be seen by callers. There is no reason.
however, why women in the country
should treat the family the whole year
round to nothing but their Oldest and
dingiess clothes. Women arc remem-
bered by their children as they look all
the time at home-not as they are on the
rare occasions when they dress to go out.
Have pretty dress for indoor wear, at
least for the afternoon and evening"
dark terra-cotta wool, or wine color, or a
Scotch check, if you are slender, with
black velvet ribbon for outlining the
basque and for bows. Then, when you
have got it, wear Courier Journal.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-14
PITH AND POINT.

High protsction.-As ealskin overcoat.
The man who eats oleomargarine feeds
on the fat OF the land.
Arithmetic is the sum Of many a small
boys trouble Merchant TraCeier.
Some men can get along on taeir indi-
vidual merits, but the oarsman must al.
ways be IA man with a pull"
\ man doesn't look at a salary as he.
does at wheelbarow. He thinks it
ought to be drawn in advance.
She-..What do you suppose supports
the vast arch Of the heavensa' He
The moonbeams, I guess. "-LorsH Citi-
=el.
The head that wears a crown is too
frequently mentioned. Was there ever.
a head that didn't wear a crown2-
Jrags.
The sentence "Ten dollars or thirty
days" is another proof Of the truth Of the
adsge that time is mOuey.-Pitts6liTgh
Chronicle.
Blobson offers to bet s. that there is
more bark on his dog than on one of the big
redwood tree of California; Burlington
Free Press.
"You don't mean to say he is the lion
Of the seasonl' 'sYes. Why notl' Il
judged from his manners he was more of
bear Puck.
Mr.. DoIeful-"O, feel all used up,
and sick of life. I don't know where to
go. Mrs. D.-''Why not go into the
blue room for awhile, dear?"
Ha, wicked girl, You broke my heart
How could YOU act 50 bad parts
But that, alas is not the worst.
You broke my heart but broke me first.
Time.
"What2 Is the Widow Brown going
to be led to the altar for the third times"
mo. | guess not. She ought to be able
to find. her way there herself by this
time. FiiegeHds Blaetter-
''If were an oyster, sighed the crab,
Il wouldn't know what TO do,
For they're most always being embroiled,
Or getting into a stew
-Netg York Herald =
The blacksmith, however much he may
feel disposed at times to become weary
of his arduoas and grimy employment,
can always find some consolation in the
fact that in it he has sheer thing
Boston Budget
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-14
Grows Attack an Eagle.

A gray eagle which had its nest in the
Fishkill Mountains, n. Y, has been seen
to alight several times in the asylum
grounds, Fishkill, presumably in search
of prey. A great flock of crows had
chosen that locality as feeding ground
and resting place, and they evidently
looked upon the advent of the eagle as
an intrusion. The crows apparently de-
cided to give the majestic bird to I'M
derstand that it was poaching At any
rate it is fact that dozen or more of
the crows attacked the eagle while it was
soaring over Rogers's fields and put it to
fight.
The battle lasted half an hour or more.
The crows which did not participate
kept circling around and around the COM
batants and cawing necessarily. The
fight was witnessed by several persons who
picked up many blood-stained feathers
from the ground, New .ork Rsrald,
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-14

Unlike most countries, China holds
the suicide in honor, and by her laws ex-
tends to him the most lenient considsra-
ton, having regard in all cases to the
motive which prompted self-sIaughter.
The motive is not unfrequently revenge,
as the Chinese law requires the house
holder on whose premises the dead body
is found not only to provide the funeral
expenses, but to compensate the relatives
Of the deceased. As suicide is thus a
means Of rescuing ones relatives from
poverty, 1t has been made in China fine
an. A curious Development Of It IS the
practice Of offering ones self as sub
stisste for a person under sentence of
death. This vicarious payment of legal
penalties IS, Of course, much appreciated
by rich criminals wEo are enamored of
life
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-14
WORDS OF WISDOM.

Every ultimate fact is only the first Of
new series.
Not to enjoy life, but to employ life,
ought to be our aim and inspiration.
self-love is cup without bottom.
Praise tends to egotism, and generates a
craving for personalities.
Love is the greatest of human affec-
tons, and friendship the noblest and
most refined Improvement of love.
Let US help the fallen still, though
they never pay us, and let us lend, with
out exacting the usury of gratitude.
There is nothing which one regards so
much with an eye of mirth and pity as
innocence, when it has in it dash of
folly.
The more truly and earnestly you
come to do anything, the more clearly
you will see that you cannot do every
thing.
Let fortune do her worst, whatever
she makes US lose, as long as she never
makes us lose our honesty and our indie
pendeney.
The one who will be found in trial
capable of great acts of love is ever the
one who is always doing considerate
small ones.
What is less difficult to awaken than a
self-love which has grown drowsyl
What more difficult to lull to sleep again
than a self-love once awakened.
False happiness renders men stern and
proud, and that happiness is never COM
municated. True happiness renders
them kind and sensible, and that happi-
ness is always shared.
That any one should commit his
thoughts to writing who can neither ar
range nor explain them, nor amuse the
reader, is the part of man unrea-
sonably abusing both his time and his
knowledge.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-14

''Not until you have forgiven me for the
last words spoke that day." Then her
voice dropping to whisper, she added:
"They were not true, John"
His forgiveness was not long withheld.
When, as the ball broke up, he parted
from her at the carriage and turned to
join the friend who had first told of her
presence, the latter said:
Il thought you said you did not wish
to be presented to Miss Loring, Jack"
why should a man want to be pre-
sented to his promised wifel" was the re-
Goaey's Lady's Book.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-14

Miss Mamie Jsdell, dashing Missouri
young woman Of twenty-five years, has
Just been married to Jesse Fovel, of
Calhoun County, H. Mr.. Fovel, who is
seventy-nine years of age, was compelled
to give his bride 500, 600 in securities
and money. Miss Isdeli, who was edu-
Gated in convent, is very beautiful
girl. The groom has grandchildren older
than his new bride.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-14
BOYS EmpIored br Thieves.

"A peculiar feature of the methods Of
gang of thieves broken up by the police
ia New York was that every thief had
his boy or begear. These boys were
taken by the thieves weeks in advance to
country towns where they intended oper-
ating, the boys, under the direction of
the head thieves, in this way gaining
complete knowledge of the location of
ahe banks, the employees and their hab-
its While gaining information the boys
lived by peddling in a small way and beg
ging. They would meet their masters at
a rendezvous, and when the night was
selected for the robbery they would be
used as WATCHERS. 4ls-ease Of failure fhe
thieves would use what money lney ill''
to get away as quickly as possible, leay-
ING the bows to get back rs best they
could by stealing rides on lreisilt Trans
In his wav many of the boys were in
iiured losing leg or an arm. When
80 -. ,,ore low the thieves would make
az - i,oys 90 on the streets and beg, and
80 t5em if they did not bring back as
much as they expected. Some Of the
bovs became more valuable than others,
and frequent quarrels resulted from at
tempts TO steal each others boys.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-14
A Profitable Hole.

An old farmer in the Granite State one
Sunday morning started to wind up his
great silver watch, and found that the
key was filled with dirt Being unable
to dig the latter cut with a pin the farmer
drilled hole in the key, and with Il
single breath blew all the dust out. Then
he sat down to think, and within a month
had patented that hole. To-day in Lee
banon, N. H., there is a large factory
running by electric power wherein are
manufactured daily thousands and thou
sands of watch-keys of every possiblei
size, shape and design. Each one Of
these keys contains the hole which has
been patented by the farmer The latter
has already made fortune.-Nea0 Hork
Sun.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-14

Sir John Lawes, the greatest authority
IN England on agricultural matters, esti-
mates this years wheat crop in the United
Kingdom at S,7S3, rs quarters, and the
quantity available for consumption, after
deducting two bushels an acre for seed,
at s,o9s. 545 quarters Taking the popu-
lation for the current harvest year at
rather over IS, 600, Ooo, the amount re-
quirsd for consumption, at sixty-five
bushels per head, viii be %, $50, 961
quarters, leaving nearly 10, 600, 900 to be
provided BY wheat in stock and imports.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-14
WINTER APPLES.

What cheer is there shat as half so good
In the snowy waste Of a winter night,
As dancing fire of hickory wood,
And an easy-chair in its mellow light
And pearmain apple, ruddy and sleek,
Or a jennetiug; with freckled cheek
A russell apple is fair to view,
With a tawny tint like an autumn lea
The warmth of a ripened corn-feld's hue
Or golden hint of harvest sheaf;
And the wholesome breath OF finished yel
Is help in winesap's blooming sphere.
They bring You a thought of the orchar
trees,
In bIossomy April and leafy june,
And the sleepy droning of bumble-beeS
In the lazy light of the afternoon,
And tangled clover and bobolinkS
Tiger-lilies and garden pinlls.
If you've somewhere left, with its gable
wide.
A farm house set in an orchard old,
You'll see it all in the winter-tide
At sight of a pippin's green and gold.
Or a pearmain apple, rudy and sleek,
Or a jennetiug with a freckled cheek
Hattie Whitney. in st. Nicholas.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-14

The nieAel-in-tbe-slOt continuance has
been utilized for the sale of postage
stamps. A machine has been invented
which viii produce two-cent stamp
when two pennies are placed in the slot.
There ase also machines so contrived that
large number Of stamps can be obtained
when ten or ifty-ccnt pieces are used.
The inventor of the machine wants the
Government to ADOPT it.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-14

"Do you mean to say, +" he protested to
the young St. Thomas man who had Just
got back, THAT you were III New York
city a whole week and didn't get
robbed?"
That's what say"
Didn't get confdencedl"
''No, sir"
didn't lose your watchl"
mo, sir"
Didn't get buncoedl"
''No, sir
''And got out all rightl"
Il did.
''Well, there's something migL.
strange way back Of it somewhere"
$50 there Is. l hadn't a watch nor
id cent to be robbed of, and got
out on the last car of long freight
train n-Nelo York Sun.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-14
INHopE OF SPRING.
7sve his rest def autumn softly veaves

5ese his rest def autumn softly weaves
A coverlet to wrap the new grave in,
And broiders it with gold and scarlet leaves.
While springs sweet mysteries of bloom
begin
Beneath the mold Ger which the sore heart
grieves
For hopes that persisted, like a flower III
frost
A symbol that each passing season leaves,
To say, That is not dead which seemeth
lost
= I'd, silent lips, which our warm lips have
mo kissed,
lear hands, whose touch can never be for.
gotten,
f iendships that vanish like summer mist,
- We have you and, behold, we have you
A lonesome shadow falls across the door
From each low grave they heap beneath
the sod
Where sleep the ones we miss; but evermore
We have them safe in Paradise, with God.
To me, it often seems that death must be
Like going on a journey, very far,
Across the mountain and the solemn sea,
To dwell in new land where strangers
are.
But if friend is there We loved of old,
Our eager thoughts fly faster than our
feet
And when in ours their loving hands We
hold,
The stranger-land seems full of welcome
sweet.
How fair his grave viii be whea spring comes
back,
And from the mold that hides his face
away,
The violets grow, and every robins track
Is covered by the creeping things of May.
How fair his face viii be when dreams come
And we stand face to face with him, ard
The rapture of joy we never knew
Break in the eyes we miss so constantly.
Sleep well, warm heart, 50 brief time on
earth,
Beneath the dead leaves and the autumn
rain;
That which men count as death, in heaven
is birth;
Flowers die we say, but bloom in spring
again.
The violet, above you, in the mold,
Awaits the resurrection of the year,
And when its leaves, in April days, unfold,
Wen say, He lives with God, who once
was with Us heren
-YIeEs Maqasine.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-14
A LONG ENGAGEMENT.

She'll haven't anything new to sing
to you tonight, George
He-"Well, give me something of old
then"
She broke into a refrain that was ga
song of the day" seventeen years before.
He lat the close)-"That's very, very
old, Clara
She-''Yes, George; sang that to you
the night we became engaged. Judge.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-14

The last returns Of the central statistic
cal bureau at Stockholm give the popu-
iation of Sweden at the end of 1888 as
4,74s, 257, against 4,717, 1s9 at the end
Of 1856. The rural population amounted
to 3, -Q49, and the urban to $50, POS,
but the latter is increasing steadily. The
number of males was ?. Se1, 104, and of
females, s,447, 153.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-14
THE MoNIED MAN.

Cresus Ito hotel proprietoD-"Can
you accommodate me by cashing a checl,
for $40, OOOl"
Hotel Proprietor-"Ten thousand dol
lars Why, never saw so much money
in my life! However, my porter is
around somewhere, and he will doubt
less be glad to accommodate you. =
Time.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-14

The Salt Lake Tribune says the
scandinavians are rapidly leaving the
Mormon Church. The Scandinavian
Methodists and Lutherans are the eluse
Of it. For two years or so they lave
worked quietly, but most effectullly,
among the Scandinavian saints, and have
cut swath after swath in the ranks of the
church. At the rate they have been
holding revivals and gatherings in the
harvest from the Mormon fields, there
viii only be a corporars guard of
scandinavians left in Salt Lake Israel by
another year. They are being converted
faster to Christianity than the elders can
send over fresh supplies, and when once
converted from Mormonism make ex-
ceIleut citizens.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-14

Bilks-'Come up and hear our new
minister to-day"
NOTES.-The, thanks; 1 heard him
once and have always regretted it."
Bilks-''Why, 1 guess you are mis-
taken"
Nobbs-''Not a bit of it; he is the
minister who married US. "-KearHey En-
terprise.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-14
THE FINAL COUNT.

''There, darling, the last one, said he,
as he started down the steps.
He had nearly reached the gate when
she called him back
''Tye just been counting up" she
said, "and that last kiss we took was the
thirteenth, and that is an awfully un-
lucky number, you know"
When he finally got away the score
was thirty-seven.-TerTe Haute Express.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-14

Patient-''I thought-ouch I thought
your sign said-gee Whit be careful
that you extracted teeth without pain. y
Dentist-''C Certainly, my friend"
Patient-''B ut-wow what do you
call this2"
Dentist-''I am extracting the teeth
and 1 assure you that 1 feel no pain
whatever. "-Ameriea.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-14
suRE no MAKE A SALE.

Miss Passee aged forty)-'I wish to
see bonnet"
AIilliner-''For yourselve, missl"
Miss Passee-"Yes."
AIilliner- Marie, run down stairs and
get me re hats for zee ladies between
eighteen and twenty-five years. Nam
sey's Weekly.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-14

Landlord-''WeI, sir, how did you
find your bed last night?"
Surly Guest-''Find it, Just like
anybody else that didn't know where the
matches were. CROPPED around and
barked my shins. Drat a hotel where
the halls aren't lighted" -Burlington
Ere Pres.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-14

~ think Cora Fibbery is awful She
exaggerates so"
That's so. Are You going down
town nowl"
mo, my head aches as though ten
million knives were running through it.
I'll stay and finish this novel - Time.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-14

Her Husband-"Are you going to the
Smiths garden party. dearl"
His Wife-''No; l never accept invi-
tations from people who don't know me. "
"And you never receive them from
persons who do know you. "-LOnaon
Funny FOLKS.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-14
ANOTHER BROKEN rRIENpsurP.

Miss Efie Ancee Gust engaged
"What do you think Edwin said last
night. That if he had to choose either
me or million dollars, he wouldn' even
look at the million"
Miss May Tour Still walting)-
"Dear, loyal fellow suppose he didn't
like to risk the temptation. Time.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-14
Nor A coMpLErE sErARAr1oN.

Mother Johnny, I don't want you
to play with that little Brownjones boy
any longer; do you heart"
Johnny-"Yes'm."
"Now, don't let me hear of you dis
obeying me-
Nom, but I may fight him, mayn't I,
if want tol"-Punch.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-14

Mrs. Badger-''You must have a nice
kind of a mother If she lets you fight in
II street like this and get black eye 3"
: "1ittle Johnny--'I was fighting with
your boy, ma'am, and he's got two black
eyes. n-Meio Yort Sun.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-14
HARDLY SATISFACTORY.

Guest (angrily)-"Coufound your
awkwardnessl You've split half that soup
down my back"
Waiter at restaurant (heartily)-
Don't mind it, sir. I'll bring some
more. Bless you, there's plenty of soup. "
--Ckicqgo Tribune.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-14
eyes y


Mr.. Bully Ragg-''Now, sir, you have
stated under oath, that this man had the
appearances of a gentleman. VIII you be
good enough to tell the jury how gen
tleman looks, in your estimation2"
Down-trodden Witness-''Well, era
gentleman -like-er-"
Mr.. Bully Ragg-''I don't want any of
your ers, sir; and remember that you are
on oath. Can you see anybody in this
court room who looks like gentle
mani"
Witness with sudden asperity)-"I
can if you'll stand out of the way.
You're not transparent Puck.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-14

Cremation is coming more and more
into vogue in Germany, in spite of the
expense and certain legal difficulties
which render its performance in some
parts almost an impossibility. At Gotha
no fewer than one hundred bodies have
been eromated during the present year
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-14

"Myw quoth Mr. Jones. "Paris
when full accommodates four millions of
people"
''Humph'' said Mrs. Jones. "That's
four million times more accommodating
than you are when full. "-Hunsey's
Weekly.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-14

"Jones," said Smythe, as he watched
a couple strolling near, THAT is a first
love affair
"How do you know"
~ just heard her make him promise
not to smoke or drink - Time.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-14

''What's the matter with the beef
stelk?" asked the landlady.
81 don't know" replied the new
boarder; "but I have horrible suspi-
cion that the COW was affected with gen
eraI ossifcation.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-14

Gazzam Initiating passer-by)-"That
young man shines a good deal in soci-
ETY."
Dolly-s'Ahl Who is hep
Gazzam-''Don't know his name; but
he's bootblack. "-Nunsey's Weekly.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-14
ms NARROW ESCAPE.

Emna-''No, George, it cannot be.
" Zd F1p, (Bitterly) Ny QSse-
z. I'd nv pc sill not accept PISS IN
for his son-in-law." =
George QranticalIy)-'.Say not so.
cannot give thee up. My heart will
break -
Purse proud father enters the room
without observing them. Throws him
self into chair and groans aloud)-
Bankruptcy Ruin Every dollar
swept away"
George Sweeping himself away at
these words)-'Farewen, then Emma,
since you discard me. (But he says to
himself-Mighty narrow escape, that. "
-T'e1as .Sit;iHgs.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-14
A STRONG RESEMBLANCE.

Milkman-'I want some cream paper.
Stationer-''Her sir, is what you
want, think 1t looks very much like
the cream you've been furnishing me
very thin and very white "-Puck.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-14

club, how far is it to the daypol"
ne asked of a lad on Jefferson avenue
yesterday.
'paypo is French, isn't itln queried
the boy in reply,
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-14

The American nation uses more soaI,
per eapss than any other on the globe.
Where the English uses four pounds per
head we use five and half. No other
nation uses over three pounds to our five.
Italy useg least of ali, and Russia beats
her Oily by a few ounces.