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The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-04-25

bracing himself, directed the move
ments of the driver. The short distance
of a mile and the steady direction of the
wind enabled him to hit the hay-road at
point so close to the overturned rack
that he caught sight of the top of it
as they were passing some rods distant.
A moment later they had halted and
tied the team, and Dick had pointed
out the spot where his companions were
to dig. Then, utterly overcome, be
threw himself upon the drift and buried
his face in his arms. HIS grief and sus-
pense at that moment werealmost beyond
endurance. He had no idea that the
children could have survived such a fear
full night But five minutes of silent
digging occupied his companions, and at
the end of that time both of them gave
triumphant shout.
They had uncovered the nest, and
cloud of steam rose up from the blankets
Dick was on his feet instantly. A
moment later the three young Jordans
were dragged forth, alive, but stupid
with cold and a drowsiness which would
not have left them alive many hours
longer. Yet they had escaped any serious
frostbite, and dexterous rubbing,
shaking and jouncing restored their cir
culation and their senses. They were
bundled into the sleigh amid robes and
comforters, and, despite the severity of
the weather and the drifting snow, were
taken Immediately toward home, where
their welcome must be imagined.
One of Dicks horses persisted in the
storm, but the other turned up alive and
well the next day at farmers stables
twelve miles south of Gull Lake
Youths Companion.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-04-25
Seerets OF an Ancient Nound.

The discoveries made recently in Sen
tinel Mound, in Cass County, Mo-, indi-
cate that the mound builders who pre-
coded, it is supposed, the Indians in this
country, carried on commerce with dis
tant regions, and were organized into
communities possessing the rudiments of
civilization. At the bottom of the mound.
which is 400 feet in diameter and seventy
SIX feet high, was found a sarcophagus
ten feet long by four feet broad and four
feet high, composed of slabs each weigh
ing ton. Within was the skeleton of a
man in sitting posture facing the east
"a great King, we may suppose, in his
day. The interior of the stone chamber
was lined with wicker-work, which
crumbled into dust when exposed to the
air. Facing the skeleton were two
large earthen bowls of good workmanship.
They would have been empty but for a
bit of dust, the remains it is supposed,
Of food placed in them at the time of the
interment for the use of the departed in the
spirit world. Between the bowls was a
skillfully carved stone pipe of a variety
of stone unknown in that locality. The
artistic sense it disclosed cannot be said,
however, to have been highly developed.
The pipe resen.bled those in use among
the Aztecs, and is wholly unlike those
used by our Indians Near it, at the
feet OF the skeleton, was a ball of stone,
about four and a half inches in diameter,
perforated Tor the insertion, apparently,
of handle. 1t was probably the war
club of the deceased, but no
such weapon has ever been found
before In any Of the mounds in other
parts of the country. About it was a
pile of arrow and spear heads, Indicating
tl1c--,5g-iille natuTe~of the notaSility in
whose honor this immense mound was
raised The arrow heads were OF f,pt.
agate and bone, and were of good work
manship. Some were of ribbon agate,
perforated and polished, and had
evidently been used as ornaments.
Lying at his side were several copper and
stone beads, also small carved bits of
pOrphyry ald sea shells. These were all
perforated, and had evidently been used
to testify to the wearer's wealth and
good taste. An examination of his skull
showed him to have been a man of a
higher type intellectually than the
Indian. The frontal bone was high and
the back of the head was abnormally ex-
banded. Outside the burial chamber
or sarcophagus was pile of ashes and
charred wood, a mark, perhaps, of the
performance of some superstitious rite.
As the stone slabs constituting the
chamber had been brought from dis
lance, it must be assumed that the mound
builders possessed vehicles of some
value. The presence of shells from the
sea, porphyry from Mexico, copper from
Lake Superior and ribbon agate from
Colorado, is an instructive fact. The
dead King had ruled an empire of i'm
mense extent, or, what is more probable,
his people had commercial intercourse
with all parts of our continent.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-04-25
The Young Man Did Not Colin.

l was riding across town an evening or
two ago on a Twenty-third street car
bound toward the North River. It was
raining. and the car was filed with peo-
pie, most of them going to the Grand
Opera House l stood on the rear plat
form, the only other passenger outside
being a tall, broad-shouldered, handsome
young man with a blonde mustache, and
the conductor. At Broadway a spruce
young fellow, nicely dressed, stepped on
the platform and was Just about to push
his way into the crowded car, when the
handsome young man with the blonde
mustache touched him on the shoulder
and said pleasantly: "Stay out here,
please"
"What do you mean, sirl' fercely de-
handed the spruce young fellow, turn
ing around. When he saw the man he
was talking to his face fell, and he seemed
much disconnected. The handsome
young man smiled and replied; "Well,
I'd like to have you in my company for
little while, and beside, if you stay out
here, you will save me the trouble of
making speech in the car" The spruce
young man stayed outside until Seventh
avenue was reached, when he jumped off
the car with grufT Goodnight.
Goodnight, - pleasantly replied he OF
the blonde mustache. I turned to him
then and asked him what he meant He
laughed and said "Oh, if he had g'ne
into the car I would simply have said:
Ladies and gentlemen, look out for your
valuables. This man is a piokpocket-'
He knew what my speech would be, and
he remained outside, you see. The
handsome young man with the blonde
mustache was Sergeant-DetecdveT Thomas
Murray, one of Inspector Byrnes's best
men, and the spruce young man was
thief. -Ne,o York Star.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-04-25
A Horrible Deed Amply Avenged.

A writer in the North China Herald,
describing a visit to Tonquin, says: It
is a long row up the. river to the little
town of Monkay. This is-Or rather
Nas-a>yery peculiar place. 1t was built.
half on each side Of the little stream t 1t
forms the actual frontier of Tc.quin and
China. CThe reasons for using the past
tense will be plain presently The town
had no poor quarter; its streets were
mathematically laid out; its houses were
all of brick and stone, with richly carved
and ornamental lintels and caves; their
inhabitants were all rich. In some way
or other this was the outcome Of the al
lance Of piracy and smuggling.
When the French came they did not
interfere with the town on their side Of
the stream, but on the top OF a sugar
loaf hill three quarters of a mile back
they began to build little fort, and IN
der its guns they laid out ''citadel,"
inside which to locate the barracks, Off
GERS quarters, magazines, etc.
Among the first to be sent there was
civilian official named Haitce. One day
while out with a small party they were
attacked by band of Chinese soldiers.
They fed, some were shot, some escaped.
Haitce only was captured. He was
taken back to a house in the principal
street of the model little town of Monkay,
tied down upon a table and skinned
alive.
Now at this time the famous Colonel
Dugenne was in command of the foreign
legion in Tonquin. Everybody knows
what the foreign legion is-almost the
only force in the world where a sound
man is enlisted instantly without ques-
ton being asked No matter what your
nationality, what your color, what your
past, you are welcome in the foreign
legion. A man may even desert from
the regular French army and re-enlist,
unquesrioned in this heterogeneous force.
In return for hisprelimi airy indulgence,
however, you must put up with many incon-
veniences-the worst climates, the hardest
work, the front line of the attack, the
forlorn hope and the most iron discipline.
Once out of civilized parts, and there is
practically only one punishment in the
foreign legion-the punishment that can
only be awarded once.
To keep such body of men in order
this is perhaps necessary, and the officers
to enforce it must be hard men-men
with bodies of steel and hearts of stone.
And the hardest of them all was Colonel
Dugenne. When the authorities heard
of the outrages 1 have described, they
understood that it was no use to wipe 1t
out with rose water, So they sent Colo
mel Dugenne and his children. He came
and looked at the place 'Burn it, " said
he But it wouldn't burn, being all brick
and stone. elbow it up, said Colonel
Dugenne. And they did-they blew
the whole town literally to bits. Com
pared with Monkay, Pompeii is in good
preservation. You need an alpenstock
to get through the streets. And the
house where Haitice was tortured is now
a hole in the ground twenty feet deep.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-04-25

E Stone Virgins, of Canada, is afraid
that, if a clear canal should be cut
through the Isthmus of Panama, the Gulf
Of Mexico would drain into the Pacific,
the Gulf Stream move westward and the
climate of Europe become permanently
colder. BE has written a long letter on
the subject ''Theu we consider, he
says, .that the Isthmus is simply huge
dam, resisting the westward tendency Of
said gulf, may the canal not act as a
small break which may lead to the sweep
ing away of the whole structurel May
not the water-through high east wind,
for example-made a sudden run, and
ultimately attain a force and veloe:ty
which no power could resist, and event
ually carry away the peninsula itselfg"
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Jeweler-''You saw Won want Co...
words engraved on this rinc2r ''--'
Dung Man-''Yes, I want the ,rords
George, to his dearest Alice" engraycoi
on the inside of the ring ~
Is the young lady your sister2n
NO. she S the young lady to whom
I'm engaged ''''''
"Well' i'll were you I would not have
George, to his dearest Alice engraved
on the ring. If Alice goes back on won
you can't use the ring again.
''What would You suggest2n
a would suggest that the words be
George, to his first and only love Yon
see, with that inscription you can use the
ring half a dozen times. have had ex-
perience in such matters myself. y Tsza,
Strings
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-04-25
PITH AND POINT.
"a white lie'-City milk.

"a white ie''-City milk.
A slip of the pen-A young pig.
Think before you act-very saucy to
bigger man than yourself
An exchange speaks of regular
blizzard" The most regular Of them are
irregular-Danscile Breeze.
Poets are born, not made. There's the
rub; if they were made, we could shut up
the mandatory under the nuisance act.
Time
This world has an abundance
OF deceitfuluess and pretense;
Now what we stand in need of
Is squareness and common sense.
-DdnSrile Breeze
Mrs. Kawler-"I suppose Willie is
almost old enough now to eat himself"
Mrs. Stayathome-"No, indeed You
don't suppose he is cannibal, do youl"
laurence american
She Qaughingly)-"Why are you look
ing so intently into my eyesi Are you
looking for the moteln He Seriously
NO; for the beam" Then she
beamed. -LaWrence american.
A Western politician who lost both
his eyes in a railroad accident has failed
to recover damages because, in the jury's
mind, his present inability to read what
the newspapers say Of him must be
viewed in the light of compensation.
Old Gentleman TO little girl on the
horse car)-"How old are you, little
girl2" Little Girl-"Are you the con-
ductorl" Old Gentleman-''Why no;
have nothing to do with the railroad"
''Then am seven years old" -Bg1dLo
Courier
POETS WRITE WRONG.
When poets write
OF ''vciceless night
We feel like saying ''ratsm
Because outdoors
We hear the roars
OF several hundred cats.
-Net0 York Journal
Politician Ito inexperienced Assembly
man)-"You're busy writing, I see.
That's something new for you" In
experienced Assemblyman-"Yes, I'm
engaged in writing my first extempore
speech that 1 shall make two weeks
hence. So you'll excuse me from talk
ino.n
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-04-25
Rising Snhm erged Sims.

Captain Falcon, Chicago diver, was
asked by 4 Herald reporter how vessels
are raised, and he replied:
'AlI sorts O. ways; mostly by COM
pressed air. l have my own method,
which patented. 1t consists of apply
ing barrels wi the air pressed out, which
O. course will raise anything. The way
| cum to it was interestin' 1t was in
the year SO, an party of US went out
to examine, with a view O. raisin' fish
in schooner called The Pirates Bride,
on the coast O. Maine, represented to be
in ten fathoms of water, but had slid off
into twenty-four fathoms before we ar
rived. l descended for the purpose of
fastening a chain to the vessel, and while
on her deck met barrel wi one head,
called in fisherman's parlance a wash
barrel. Wal, jist showed 1t outer my
way, careless like, in the water, and it
happened to light directly over my head,
where the foul air escapes from the he'll
met. In moment it was full of air and
the water displaced, and I was lifted
pretty near up to the surface afore I
could get rid of it. This set me to
thinkin', and says I, IF one bar'IIl lift
me forty bar'ls'll lift a ship So I
thought and thought over the process,
and the principle l arrived at was to in
sert a hose from an air pump into a bar1
where the bunghole IS larger than the
hose and pump away. The water runs
out around the hose, and when it is all
out you stop up the bunghole and there
is your cask full of air. The first vessel
tried Il on was ship from Richmond,
Me, at the breaking out of the war,
which had sunk at Holm's Hole, Wire
yard Sound. We raised her with 400
oil casks, and did it easy. 1 applied for
a patent, and since then have raised all
nv lake vessels nv that nrOcess y
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-04-25
THE ANSWER

Forgotten youl Well, if Forgetting
Be thinking through all the longday
How the slow seconds drag since left you,
Days seem years now that you ariaway;
If counting the moments with longing
For the time when III see you agah;
If this is forgetting, you're right, der =
And have forgotten you then.
Forgotten youl Well, if forgetting
Be reading each face that L see,
With eyes that mark never afeature
But yours, as you last looked at me;
Or hearing. through all the strange ha6ble
OF voices. now grave and now gay,
Only your voice, can this be forgetting
Yet l have forgotten, you say.
Forgotten you Well, if forgetting
Belonging with all the full heart
With yearning half pain and half rapture
Fora time when we ne'er more viii part,
With a wild wish to see you, to hear you,
To be held in your arms once again;
If this be forgetting, you're right, dear,
And have forgotten you then
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-04-25

The attempt to carry on a government
on the "boom' plan has come to grief in
the Argentine Republic. With gold at
$40 it viii not take long to bring matters
to head The result viii be to place
the nation in hopeless debt to the Eu-
ropean Dondholders who have been ad-
vaucing money at high rates of usury.
The San Francisco Chroaiele thinks there
is nothing the English bondholder enjoys
50 much as handling the revenues of a
foreign country in order to pay himself
and his associate bankers good round
interest Egypt is in this predicament,
and the ambitious South American Re
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-04-25
WORDS OF WISDOM.

Certain trihing flaws sit as disgrace
fully on a character of elegance, as
ragged button on a court coat.
Conduct is the great profession. Be
havior is the perpetual revealing of us.
What man does tell US what he is.
a noble birth and fortune, though
they make not bad man good, yet they
are a real advantage to worthy one, to
place his virtues in the fairest light.
''If you do not rise early, you can
make progress in nothing" If you do
not set apart your hours of reading, if
you suffer yourself or any one else to
break in upon them, your days will slip
through your hands improbable and
frivolous and unenjoyed by yourself.
Certainly wife and children are a kind
of discipline of humanity; and single
men, though they may be many times
more charitable, because their means are
less exhaust, yet, on the other side, they
are more cruel and hard-hearted good to
make severe inquisitors), because their
tenderness is not so oft called upon.
There are so many tender and holy
emotions flying about in our inward
world, which, like angels, can never as
sumo the body of an outward act; so
many rich and lovely flowers spring up
which bear no seed, that it is happiness
poetry was invented, which receives into
its limbus all these incorporeal spirits, and
III a
In company it is very great fault to
be more forward in setting ones self off,
and talking to show ones parts, than to
learn the worth, and to be truly ac-
quainted with the abilities of other men.
He that makes it his business not to
know, but to be known, is like foolish
brakeman, who makes all the haste he
can to sell off his old stock, but takes no
thought of laying in any new.
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B. - - .a-s---------.s-1.
Rappaaannook, the largest sail
ing vessel ever built in the United
States. has been launched at Bath, Me-,
from the yards Of Arthur sewel. The
Rappahaunock has been constructed
specially for the petroleum trade, which
is now virtually in the hands of
British aud German ship owners. As
soon as she is completed she viii sail for
Philadelphia to load 10000 cases of
refined oil for Hiogo, Japan. She viii
be one Of the finest and handsomest ships
aaoat. She Is modelled for speed, her
lines being fine and yacht-like, and is
fitted with all modern improvements,
steam donkey engine, winch can be
utilized in hosting the sails, patent cap
STAINS, etc.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-04-25

In the opinion Of the Hartford Couralt,
''the enormous increase ofthe death rate
IN the eenters Of civilization in Europe
and the United States, BY reason of the
spread OF the infhenza epidemic, con
tains a pertinent suggestion for tie sur
vivors. It may be regarded as an ex-
am TIe of the way iswhich the implacable
Law Of the survival Of the httest' works
in nature The epidemic went into com
mulifies al eyaF the country and at
tackled thousands q persons. Those who
were in good heal whose constitutions
were vigorous and not impaired by over
indulgence, overwork, dissipation or
sickness. either did not have the disease
At all. or escaped with very slight at
tack. Pew persons who were really in
irst-class physical condition had much
trouble with the grip. There are excep-
tions to this rule, but they only go to
substantiAte its truth f"
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-04-25

Senator Mitchell has introduced bill
into the upper House Of Congress to pro
hibit the coming of Chinese into the
United States. whether subjects of the
Chinese Empire or otherwise. Those
who are now within the limits of the
United States, and who may hereafter
leave and attempt to return, are also ex-
ehsded. Suitable penalties for infringe
ments Of the law are provided. The bill
provides that only officials Of the Chinese
Empire shail be entitled to enter the
United States, and they shall first OBJ
tain permission OF and be identified by
thar Government. It is also provided
rlaf any Chinese person who has landed
salawfully in the United States shall be
removed at the cost of the Government.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-04-25

The largest gun in existence has been
sent by Messrs- Krupp to Cronstadt. It
is of east-steel, weighs 235 tons, has a
barrel 40 feet long, diameter of g. feet
. the largest part and a bore OF 49,
inciS r It's range is over II miles, and
it win fire two shots per minute, each
shot costing from s125O to $500. In
a trial of the war monster, the proiectile
II feet long and weighing 1900 pounds,
and propelled by a charge of zoo pounds
of powder-penetrated 19t inches and
went 1872 yards beyond the target.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-04-25

About two years ago salt was dis
covered in the town of Hutchinson,
Kan. To-day there are twelve estab-
ishments il operation, with a combined
output of 1861, 600 barrels of salt per
annum, and much further development
is expected, the field Of operations is so
great and the salt Of such purity.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-04-25

The latest direction IN which British
capitalists have looked for investment in
tins country is toward the big cotton
miH Negotiations are well advanced
for the purchase of three of the biggest
mills in America at cost of $50, OOO,-
600. Two of these mills are in New
England, and the third is in the Middle
States.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-04-25
I'D raE ,rEAN1Ne ~ R1aur-

A little sixth ward boy was saying his
prayers the other night He had recently
graduated from ''Now lay me" to the
Lords Prayer and was not entirely ia
miliar with the words of the latter, al
though developments showed he had
rzastered the meaning, at least TO his
young mind. He got along very well
until he came to the sentence:
Forgive US our trespasses as we for
give those who"
The word had slipped from him,
but after thinking minute he re-
peated the line slowly and finished it
as follows;
Forgive us our trespasses as we for
give those who bunk into US.
Didn't he have the idea?-E7mira
gazette.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-04-25

Arthur Mack, ex-ohief the Shanghai
detective force, asserts that while China
has a population of over $50, 900, 600,
yet the criminal element in proportion to
numbers IS less than ten per cent. Ct what
it is in the Chinese quarter, of San Fran
cisco. He accounts for this by the greater
stringency of the laws for the punish
ment Of crime in China and the greater
certainty in their administration.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-04-25

Little Wilie-s'Is that the papa swan
OF the mamma swami"
Father-"Which do you mean?"
"Why the poor thing that's had the
feathers picked off the top of it's head,
and that isn't allowed to have none of
the biscuit, or nothing.
(sadly-"That's the papa swan, vii
lie. st. Louis Chronicle
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-04-25

First Wife-''My husband had a habit
of going about without a dollar in his
pockets, but broke him of it.
Second Wife-''You did:n
eyes, l did Every time give him
a letter to post put a dollar in the en-
velope, and he is sure to carry it about
for week at least "-Stateman.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-04-25

young Fledgley has been presented
to Miss Debutante, and for the last ten
minutes has been unable TO think of any
thing to say to herr
Miss Debutante (pleasantly)-"And
now let US talk of something else, Mr..
Fledglcy. St PAIL Eye
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-04-25
HE MOVED on.

Palmer-''It's mighty funny, but there
are no less than six people with whom 1
have been talking within week who are
now dead"
Curtleigh-'I haven't the least donbt
of it. Pm sorry I can't stop to listen to
you to-day, but the fact IS Tn not pre-
pared "-B2st0n transcript.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-04-25

Efie Brother-"Do you love my sister
Efie?n
Effie's Steady Compatibility, vii
lie, that is queer question Why do
YOU want to know
Efies Brother-"Shes said last night she
would give dollar to know; and Id
like to scoop it n."-Paek.
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r u3Douy envious; but all miseries and
hl tell to everybody who VIII
lear near me, and you can't imagine how
.iAppy they make everybody | ten them
10, ihey say, you know, that misery
=; w company l don't know how that
- - ou' company loves misery. every