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The San Saba weekly news. (San Saba, Tex.) 18??-1???, 1891-12-25
To summer in Death valley.

]. II. Clery, a lnild-mannered, blond
moustached young man who has been on
United States Signal Officer Connor's
staff in the Rialto building, has left the
city to become a desert-dwelling her
nit. Mr.. Clery goes to California-to
Death valley-and in Death valley he
will dwell six months in solitude abso-
Lutte.
Death valley is in the southwestern
portion of the California desert. A more
utterly desolate spot there is not on
earth. It is the bed of dried sand lake
forty miles long and twenty miles wide
and surrounded by steep hills. There is
absolutely nothing there except sand and
alkali and blistering heat; for Death
valley is said to be the hottest place in
the land. Shade there is none, the sky
never clouds, and the mercury seldom
or never goes below 100 degree. Even
the breezes come like furnace blasts,
laden with soorching bits of sand. If
there is any water to be found in the
valley where once was a great lake far
below the ocean level, it is strongly i'm
pregnated with alkali, and there is not a
living creature in the district save rattle
snakes and scorpions.
Sixty miles from the railway terminus
at Keller the signal service hermit will
journey into this blistering desolation
and set up his tent. Here for six months
or more he will observe the phenomena
of the desert now unknown to man. He
will study the sand blasts, keep record
of the temperature, ascertain the exact
level of the valley below the sea, watch
for rainfall-not drop has fallen, they
say, in twelve years-and tabulate all
these things for the benefit of scientists.
In the same desert, but practically as
far removed from one another as if in
the Sahara, will be three other solitary
investigators. The signal service has
long desired to collect facts concerning
this region unknown and unpeopled, but
has not wished to order any one to IN
dergo the dismal task of exploring it.
The present investigators are volunteers.
Mr.. Clery goes about his task as
cheerfully as if he we're going on sum-
mer outing. He knows nothing of the
details Of the arrangement except that
food will be brought him from Keller.
"And what will you do for wateri"
asked a reporter as Mr.. Clery prepared
Indeed | haven't the slightest idea,
was the reply. 81 suppose they will see
to that for me. "-Ransas City Times.
The San Saba weekly news. (San Saba, Tex.) 18??-1???, 1891-12-25
Influenza and ChiIdren's Growth.

A systematic course of observation of
the growth in weight of the children in
the Deaf Mute Institution at Copen-
hagen has been kept up for seven years.
Among the most striking results is the
fact that the principal increase takes
place in the fall months. Last fall QSs9)
the influenza appeared in Copenhagen
toward the end of November Six of
the professors of the institution were
attacked, while no pronounced cases
were developed among the pupils. At
the same time, for four weeks after the
23d of November, the weight of the boys
increased only two-fiths as rapidly as it
had done in the corresponding weeks of
the previous year, while the girls gained
nothing. 1t is supposed that the vital
force that usually went to increase of
weight was for this occasion used up in
resisting the germs of the disease
Popular Science Monthly.
The San Saba weekly news. (San Saba, Tex.) 18??-1???, 1891-12-25
Rural Argentine.

All the country traversed by the above
railway lines is devoted to pastoral and
agricultural industries, and the landscape,
with the exception of the billy district
of the Sierra de Tandil and the Sierra de
la Ventana, is always the same-bsre
pampa, with stretches of marshes and
small lakes Astounding in wild-fowl. As
for the estancias, towns, villages, and
colonies, when you have seen one you
have seen all, and all are equally I'M
picturesque. The life, too, has become
less fertile in picturesque incidents since
the enclosure of the land with wire
fences, which makes the management of
the herds much simpler, and enables the
estancieros to dispense with the guard of
mounted gauchos, who are now to be
seen only in the very distant interior. AT
present the majority of the population
has no particular character, being COM
posed of italian and French immigrants,
of Basques with red or blue cloth caps,
and few native gauchos with broad
belts consolidated with silver coins, long
ponchos, and wide Oriental trousers like
petticoats, generally black, but some
times striped with brilliant colors.
Nowadays, however, the gaucho is losing
his individuality, abandoning his pecu-
liar costume, and becoming assimilated
in dress and habits with the swarms of
miscellaneous Europeans who have peo-
pied the modern Argentine, and made
the hundreds of colonies and towns that
have sprung into existence within the
past ten years. To visit these young
centres of so-called civilization is no
pleasant task.-HarPsr's Magazine.
The San Saba weekly news. (San Saba, Tex.) 18??-1???, 1891-12-25
SUNSET IN THE F,o.

The coSdgray fog Of the winter d,y
Held sea and land IN thran;
Silent the vessels at anchor lay;
A spell was over all.
The narrow lines of each vessel bouad
Tho limit of their sphere;
Beyond was naught but world Of sund=
A world of doubt and fear.
From the yards the sails bedraggled hung,
Bordered by drops of dew;
Feathery mists, from the halyards flung, /
Like ghossly pennons few; \
While the masthead pierced the misty erayj
And vanished at the spars
The ratlines seen but a step away
Were narrow prison bars.
But sudden golden glamour stole.
As througha tiny seam;
It spread till the glory Lit the whole,
And Hghtened beam to beam.
No shadow fell from the ray Of light;
The wind and sea were still;
Twas then that the red sun sank from sighk
Behind the distant hill
We saw it not as the golden ray
Gave place to tints of rose;
And the nists, no longer cold and gray,
About Us seemed to close.
They closer grew as the rose-light died,
The mists took on their frown,
And the gloom that came from either side
Told that the sun was down.
-FldueI Scott Mines, IN HdrpeT's Weekly
The San Saba weekly news. (San Saba, Tex.) 18??-1???, 1891-12-25
WORDS OF WISDOM.
Death is the unforretahIe

Death is the unforgetable.
We are to ourselves like a closed
book.
Music first; after that, take your
choice.
The beautiful hidden fixtures are the
most lovely.
An hour for yourself, the rest of the
day for others.
You should not fear, nor yet should
you wish for your last day.
How delightful are the beauties of alb
negation-in the retrospect
A good man Is kinder to his enemy
than bad men are to their friends.
Some men are fated TO see no further
than the top round of the treadmill.
The flowers, the grass and the leaves;
what would nature be without theml
No man ever offended his own con-
science but first or last it was revenged
upon him for it.
He who receives a good turn, should
never forget it; he who does not, should
never remember 1t.
All the while thou livest ill, thou hast
the trouble, distraction, inconvenience
of life, but not the sweets and true use
of it.
Transact business with the men of the
world like person in q shower of rain,
staying no longer than is indispensably
necessary.
The San Saba weekly news. (San Saba, Tex.) 18??-1???, 1891-12-25
Forests and Rain.

Among the forestry students there are
some who believe that forests tend to
eaualize the rainfall, making the down.
fall regular through the whole year,
when the land is del-ded of its forest
coverings rain falls more furiously and
then drouths follow. There IS =r0jt titssT;
class who believe that rain falls at all
only because Of forests, and when they
are removed country becomes an arid
waste. The British Government has re-
Gently issued statistics of the meterology
of British Guiana. The country, COM
paratively speaking, may be styled vast
forest; and when we learn that tho
enormous rainfall of S47 is the mean Of
a number of years, and that in the year
1889 as much as 1913. inches fell, it will
be seen that one Of the classes of students
cited may take great comfort. But when
we read further and find that 1t only
took eleven days to pour down this food,
and that for 1854 days out of the 365 the
sun shone steadily and brightly, it will
be difficult to decide which side Of the
forestry argument has the best of it
Net0 York Independent.
The San Saba weekly news. (San Saba, Tex.) 18??-1???, 1891-12-25
TURNING 1T on HER.

He had finished his introductory re-
marks, and was about TO propose, when
i;a41Az.-sal- .lrasal.aAl- rraIlld la
treated Win contempt.
$50 on, Mr.. Sprigger, she said, i'm
patiently tapping her foot on the carpet
as he paused in his remarks.
81 was about to say, Miss Hilder," he
continued, "that l am aware that the
human heart, especially woman's, is a
delicate thing, and I come tonight to
correct wrong impression which you
have been under for some time, think.
To be plain, Miss Hilder, because 1 do
not wish to cause you future suffering,
let me state that 1 have never cared
enough for you to ask you to link your
lot with mine, therefore do not think
that can return the love you bear for
me. My attentions to you have been
prompted purely by friendly feeling,
nothing more. But l trust this will not
mar our friendly relations" he said, tax
ing his hat to go, "for remember, you
will ever have in me a true friend. Be
assured l will always be a nephew to
YOU"
And she was so dumb with surprise
and anger that she didn't say good-by to
him when he bowed himself out.-Bos-
ton Herald.
The San Saba weekly news. (San Saba, Tex.) 18??-1???, 1891-12-25
PITH AND POINT.
Purrs prond-The luxurious Ed.

Purrs proud-The luxurious cat.
When a man gets in trouble it often
takes round sum to square matters
Statesman.
The dentist may not be man of an
DAASrapSS-A he -S-Oae of pSSD1ireSt ex-
Washington Post.
A boy who is frequently chastised by
his mother and grandmother speaks Of
them as spanking team. Teas
SDtings.
Maud-"George told me last night
was his little duckl' Ethel-"He
probably discovered that you were no
chicken. Life.
1t was a Massachusetts, legislator who
recently objected to certain measure
because sit would land US in a sea of
doubt. "-Eeto York Tribune.
Pussy (savagelO-"I ordered a ham
sandwich twenty minutes ago" Waiter
-"Well, boss, it takes some time to
cook ham. "-HdrPer's Ba1ar.
OF all the gifts of summer,
The one that most I'd prize
Would be some faint foundation
For my next months fishing lies9
Outing.
Somebody asks for a good definition
Of a philosopher. A philosopher is
man who earns 50 a week aud is con-
tented with his income.-SomergRE
Journal.
Her hat cost ten dollars it grieves me to
state,
And She only put one small dime in the
-NetU York. Sun.
De Brush-''I saw a chrome effect in
oil to-day that completely captivated
me-" Palette-"What was it - an
amateur2" De Brush-"No, sardine.~
Neto York Sun.
Customer-''You say this is a real an
tiouel Bric-a-brac Dealer-''It's one Of
the finest pieces of work by one of the
best ancient masters of the present day."
-,Jeceler's Circular.
That wealth and cares unequally
Divided are tits true,
For the man who lacks the wealth for one
Has cares enough for two.
-NetU York. Herald.
The San Saba weekly news. (San Saba, Tex.) 18??-1???, 1891-12-25

The Chinese who are now in Canada,
and who desire to get back to their na-
tive country, are working a shrewd game
on the United States Government, by
which they get free transportation to
China They get themselves smuggied
into the United States, reveals the New
Orleans Delta, and then have some one to
cause them to be arrested for coming
into the country contrary to the Chinese
Exclusion act. OF course the charge is
proTen, and they are sent back, under
provisions Of the act, to China. They
thus beat the Government out Of free
passage home.
The San Saba weekly news. (San Saba, Tex.) 18??-1???, 1891-12-25

According to W. J. J. MCGEE, in the
Forum, everyday experience shows that
foods are not confined to greater rivers.
They affect as vel the smaller ones and
their tributaries, down to mill streams
and even to storm runnels; and the
smaller streams are 50 many that the
aggregate effect of their floods Is large.
Once or Oftener during each decade cry
Of distress comes from Cincinusti, for
the Easements Of business houses built
upon the food plain are inundated, and
the residents OF the city front are driven
from their homes by the prodigious
Goods of the Ohio; once or twice in each
decade East St. Louis and the part of St.
Louis standing on the Mississippi al
tuyium are flooded; from three to five
times in each decade the trans-Mississippi
traffic at Dubuque is stopped because the
aoOd waters submerge the railway tracks
and extinguish the locomotive fires, and
90 year passes without records Of dis
aster in dozens of towns and villages
built on the food plains of smaller
streams. And the food not only works
destruction directly; it sows the germs
of laslarial and enteric disorders by which
human life is shortened.
The San Saba weekly news. (San Saba, Tex.) 18??-1???, 1891-12-25
The Despair Of Burglars.

A new sort of lock, to be applied to
ordinary doors, and capable of resisting
the attack of burglars, has recently been
complication of locks on the doors Of
ordinary houses and rooms is of very
little avail against the professional
burglar, who, wasting no time in trying
10 raise the tumblers and move the bolt,
simply inserts the end of his short iron
lever, or Jimmy" between the door
and its rebate, and forces the whole
affair inward, tearing out tho locks and
bolts on the way. No multiplication Of
tumblers can prevent this; and the only
real protection against such violence, as
applied to wooden door and frame, Is
either heavy piece of furniture moved
up against the door, or q strong shore,
which answers the same purpose, and
will hold the door in place, lock or no
lock, until it is battered in pieces. This
new device, as described IN the american
architect, comprises the combination of
the iron shore with the ordinary lock in
such manner that locking a door sets
door in place. which will resist an
enormous strain. Sn the return of the
proprietor, the unlocking of the door in
the ordinary way shifts the upper end Of
the shore from the door to the frame,
where it presents no obstacle to the open
ing Of the door. The mechanism of the
lock itself need not be very elaborate,
although the picking of the lock would
move both the bolt and the shore, for, if
there are tumblers enough 10 prevent
picking with bit of wire, few burglars
are likely to have the time or tools for
more deliberate operations, and if the
Jimmy" will not force au entrance, they
will probably give up the undertaking.
As the iron bar is not fastened into the
socket at either end, it may be lifted out
in q moment, if not wanted, and put out
of the way.-BostOR Transcript.
The San Saba weekly news. (San Saba, Tex.) 18??-1???, 1891-12-25
Fnel Famine

The bounty of nature, originally Law
ished on the coastlands of the Mediter-
rsnean. did not include the blessing OF
extensive coal deposits. In the course OF
the recent phenomenaIly severe winter
that deficiency was sorely felt IN many
inland districts of Spain and Italy, but
especially on the Island of Corsica. The
countrymen of Napoleon are as thrifty as
Scotch farmers; they lay up food sup
plies for years in advance and have even
contrived to obviate the danger of over
population by disccuraging early mar
riages; but they have been unable 10
prevent the destruction of their highland
forests, and are almost resouTceless IN
protecting themselves from frosts which
repeatedly seemed to have elualled the
efforts of full grown Western blizzard.
-Nelo York Yoiee.
The San Saba weekly news. (San Saba, Tex.) 18??-1???, 1891-12-25
A Mysterious Fact About Boats.

"There is something beyond calcula-
ton in the speed of steamboats,, said j.
H. Case, of New York City, who is
steamboat captain, and at present having
headquarters at the Lindell. "Two
boats map be built simultaneously from
the same model, with every effort to
make them precise duplicates as to shape
and machinery, and yet one will in
variably prove faster than the other.
Why this is no man can tell. The Mary
Powell has for fifteen years been the
swifest boat on the Hudson River. Dur
ing all that time she never has been
beaten. Time and again an exact coun-
terpart has been built, with everything
copied as nearly as the best mechanics
and facilities could do it, but none of
these has turned out as good as the
original. Experience has been the same
with yachtsmen. They order copies of
the swiftest craft or combine the supposed
good points of several, and nine times
out of ten are disappointed in the re-
suit. "--St. Louis Sayings.
The San Saba weekly news. (San Saba, Tex.) 18??-1???, 1891-12-25

"Doctor," said the tired looking
caller. g. believe trial of DR.. Kochs
lymph void do me good"
"Your lungs, sir" replied the physi-
clan, "are perfectly sound. You need no
consumption cure"
''But have a tired feeling all the
time"
"a kind of indispositiOn to take any
active exercised"
eyes"
cor any other kind of exercised"
eyes"
"or to do anything like wOrkl"
"Um-yes."
'What you need, sir, is the lymph Of
industry"
~ believe you are right, doctor, said
the caller, rising languidly. "Pll live
on honey for the next thirty days and see
how it goes. - Chicago Tribune.
The San Saba weekly news. (San Saba, Tex.) 18??-1???, 1891-12-25

az once shot a man." began the vic
tim of nerve food, as the train sped on
ward. Nobody started up suddenly.
No one said "What's thatl" in shocked
tone of.voice.
He began again in a louder tone: 'I
once shot man" Still the same OPP
pressive lack of interest.
Then he got desperate. He shouted:
al once killed ten men," No one even
looked round. That wilted him.
Conductor" he said, hcarsely, as he
fled into the chair car, "who in heavens
name are those fiends in the smokerl"
"Those, said the official, 'are chiefly
cowboys from the Texan border. n-St.
Joseph Nelps.
The San Saba weekly news. (San Saba, Tex.) 18??-1???, 1891-12-25
Went Before Stanley.

1t is not generally known that Stanley
was not the man first selected by James
Gordon Bennett to find Livingstone.
When the idea of Herald search expe-
dition occurred to Mr.. Bennett he cast
about for an available man and picked
out a scotchman named Mcpherson or
Mckenzie, or something of that kind
This gentleman set out for the East
Coast of Africa, got as far as Zanzibar
and mysteriously disappeared. What
became of him is profound mystery to
this day.-Detroit Free Press.
The San Saba weekly news. (San Saba, Tex.) 18??-1???, 1891-12-25
Relics of Antiouity.

Three rabbit hunters have discovered
o rock-hewn tomb of unknown antiquity
near East Union, Ohio. They were dig
ging for a rabbit at the time. About
four feet below the surface they uucov-
cred q curiously- shaped stone covered
with peculiar characteristics, and found
it to be a slab of granite three feet square,
and covered with rude engravings of
arrows, fishes, hearts and human heads.
The rock was of quality not found
in the vicinity. It was about seven and
a half inches thick, and on the under
side was rude cut of the sun, with a
tomahawk and pipe engraved more
deeply in the center of it.
Curious as was this slab, the chamber
whose entrance it sealed was more so.
Through the three-foot square opening
men found their way with ladder and
lantern into a cubical room ten feet high
by ten square, cut into the solid sand
stone rock which forms the strata of the
hill. It was perfectly dry, and the walls
were hewn with the incest precision and
indicate high order of workmanship.
It took but a few moments to see that
it was tomb. A number of arrow
heads and a stone pestle and mortar were
on the foor. Near by were the remains
of fire. On the northwest corner, in a
sitting position, was a human skeleton in
a good state of preservation, with circlets
of copper about the neck, wrists and
ankles.
The locality is in the midst of a fine
farming country that has been settled
many years, and in which, hitherto, no
remains of prehistoric races have been
found. There is no possibility of the
tomb being a fraud, for such work could
not have been done without discovery.
Crowds are visiting the place daily, in
GLIDING professors from Wooster Uni
versity and others.-Ns1O YORK Nal and
ErDrsss,
The San Saba weekly news. (San Saba, Tex.) 18??-1???, 1891-12-25

An old man in Manchester, England,
goes by the name of Gagadig Gigadab.
His original name was John Smith, but
many yeas ago he bagan to brood over
the possibilities of mistaken identity
involved in such common name. At
last what he feared so much actually
happened. One day thepspers recorded
the capture of an accountant in a bank
for embezzlement, and through some
blunder Of the reporter. the identity of
the embezzier was confused with the sub
jet Of this paragraph. who was also
bank accountant. Then aud there he
determined to assume name like unto
no other ever borne By mortal man. And
in Gagndig Gigadab most people will
agree that he has done so.
The San Saba weekly news. (San Saba, Tex.) 18??-1???, 1891-12-25
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
rrrrrrNa AWAY wooLEN pREssEs.

PUTTING AWAY NeObhN OhHSoH-'-
At this season of the year, when wool
en- goods are about to be laid aside for
the summer, the following advice Is
good: Use soap bark for cleansing wool
en- dress goods. Soak ten cents worth
over night in pail of warm-not hot
water In the morning strain and add
two-thirds of it to the water in which
the goods are to be washed, and, if very
much soiled, teaspoonful of ammonia
also. Pour the rest of the water in which
the soap bark was soaked into the rims
ing water, wiring well and hang out of
doors where they will dry rapidly. When
nearly dry iron on the wrong side. The
soap bark not only cleanses, but gives
little body to the material, such as new
goods have-Ness York Journal.
The San Saba weekly news. (San Saba, Tex.) 18??-1???, 1891-12-25
A DILEMMA.

The Captain-"Colonel waxem will
be banqueted after his wedding tonight,
and l am to respond to the toast. None
but the brave deserve the fair What
the deuce shall l sayln
The Alajor-"I hardly know how to adj
wise you. After you've seen the bride,
you'll have to turn your speech into an
argument to prove either that Waxem
isn't brave or that he isn't getting his
deserts. "-Rate Fields Washington.
The San Saba weekly news. (San Saba, Tex.) 18??-1???, 1891-12-25

"I suppose, " said she, glancing at the
clock, ''that like other boys you fought
many battles at school, and that when
you were once in a fight you stayed in it
till you won"
''No," said he, candidly, 81 used to
get out of fights as quickly as possible. +"
"Well, now" she observed, with an
other glance at The clock, al should
think you would have been g slayer"
"No, l wasn't"
The San Saba weekly news. (San Saba, Tex.) 18??-1???, 1891-12-25
IL WE COULD Know.

Whittier do our footsteps tendf
More and more we yarn to know,
As lifs's shadows longer grow,
And the evening hours descend,
And before US lies the end.
When the door shall open wide,
And behind US softly close.
What to our expectant eyes
win the future life disclose'
Shall we see morning break,
Fair and fragrant and serene.
Seeming like the blessed dream
OF some unforgotten eve.
Shall we walk in gladness on,
Under smiling skies OF blue,
Through an ever-deepening dawn,
+ Into wide fields, fresh and new,
Meeting those who came before,
Knowing each familiar look
And each well remembered tone,
Though 50 many years had flown,
Since each others hands we took,
Saying farewells Ger and Ger.
Shall we talk of earthly days,
Speaking low, with bated breath,
ofthe awful mystery
Of our human life, and death;
Shall we wonder to recall,
How our hearts were prone to fear,
How we scarcely dared to hope.
In any heaven, so fair, so near?
All il we could only know,
As the shadows deeper grow,
Whittier cur swift footsteps tend,
As they surely near the endl
katherine S. Mason, in Boston Cotrie