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alone and think It over calmly and dis
passionately. 1 have found woman
/ can love! I have found a mind
reader who isn't fraud and q humbug!
"a month ago, as you know. would
have put any subject in the world
ahead of the subject of woman. Now
put woman first. Guess the genuine
ness of my cOnversion-the power Of
my convictions-frame that! And re-
member l don't pretend to give any
logical reason for it, simply want it
so. And if you would put mind before
soul-if you would hear of the mys-
terics OF mind reading before you learn
of love. you must read the last Of this
letter first.
81 met her on the street, in crowd.
I got one glance from her eyes. TWAS
enough. followed her home. know
where she lives, and in a home humble
enough to startle a less determined
man of money than am. have no
fear of lowering the dignity of my
position by an alliance with a woman
having face like that. Indeed, the
very poverty of her surroundings gives
me a doubled Essurance-and added
hope. if my face will not win her
there's my fortune! If she is SO cir
self to me-her price may not be be-
yond my power to buy Cool and
cruel? 1t may be. / shouldn't have
the money have if had ever allowed
myself to be less.
II don't know the woman's name. I
have no more idea than you have
whether she's maid or wife or widow
l think don't care.
Il don't know her age. I've seen
faces like hers on girls of sixteen-on
women of thirty. Faces like hers?
Heaven forgive me the rash statement.
As Like hers as the stars are like the
sun, as like as yesterday is to my to-
day.
$50 now-for the mind reading.
Il was tired when began to retrace
my steps from the distant part of the
city to which had followed the
woman. | was more tired still when l
arrived at my hotel. My mind must
have been in very passive and unre-
sisting state when lounged into the
barber shop to be shaved.
BARRIERS, as class, have the reputa-
ton Of being the most talkativc Of
men-temperance orators possibly ex-
cepted think they deserve the rep
utation. But mine was silent-until
he spoke so suddenly as to startle ne.
al am a woman bafer Yn,-SeI<' ba
said suddenly, and with the same man
ner and emphasis that would have
been natural if ! had been putting
my thoughts into spoken language.
Il started violently. His razor turned
little | got 4 slight cut. just enough
to smart. and to show trace of blood.
! would have risen 10 a sitting posture,
but the cool hand on my forehead pre-
vented.
He said, however, that the cut was
trifie. He intiruated that | was in
danger of serious sort. I asked him
what he meant. He lowered his voice
little. and glanced suspiciorsly a.
the occupants OF the various chairs
and at the men who were at work
upon them.
TIE rather a peculiar gift. ne said
slowly. and seemingly watching me
narrowly to see if the expression of
my face indicated doubt. sometimes.
and with some men, can read the
general character of their thoughts
! trust you will pardon me, for the
oosver is a spontaneous rather than
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-13
THE ROMAN CARNIVAL
tn Different Stages from tho Tsetee1sh
Century to tho Present Day.

tn Different Stages from tho T1stee1th
Century to tho Present Day.
It is curious to note how ell writer's
insist upon the carnival as specially
popular festival, for though the people.
OF course, took their part as spectators
and jostled and jested with each other
in struggling mass in the Corso. still
it was eminently feast provided for
them by the aristocracy. The people
had little more to do with the active
part of it than the rank and file of the
Achaans and Trojans had to do with
the Homeric battles. for much money
had to be spent upon it
IN 1899 Sebastiano Pinzoni writes:
''The Roman aristocracy hold high les
tival, and it goes badly with such as
have no money" In 1884 the jousts
which Cardinal Antonio Barberini ar
ranged, with dresses and one thing and
another cost more than $4,000 scudi
Especially in the races for Barbary
horses up the Corso there was always
great emulation among the noblest
houses in Rome, and the mobiles would
hang mp the banners which were the
prizes, in their private chapels. Thus,
from the middle of the seventeenth to
the middle of the eighteenth century,
we find all the most aristocratic names
in Rome on the list of winners.
Near the end of the last century their
interest was on the wane, for Goethe
saws that in 1883 the horse races Were
no longer confined to the aristocracy.
but the middle and lower classes also
took part in them: The great men are
parsimonious; they hold aloof from the
proceedings great contrast with
1861, when, according to Casanova, ''all
that was noblest and most brilliant in
Rome mixed freely with the common
oeople." From which it would seem
that in the SEVENTEEN and eighteenth
centuries the rich spent freely, and
made the real carnival for the poor;
but to-day the positions are reversed,
and the poor spend all the money to
make n carnival of quite different
meut OF speculation plays a prominent
p,s~-t, and the aristocracy. as rule, ig-
more the whole proceeding, though Wis
itors contribute largely toward its ex-
penses by hiring balconies and other
wise taking part in what is to them a
novelty.
As things go at present, It is not
likely to improve; good carnival costs
too much money, and the aristocracy
hold their carnival in their private
houses and palaces The carnival at
Nice, with its battle of flowers. is made
by the rich visitors, and the American
carnival at New Orleans is by no means
festival made by the people.-Gentle-
mans Magazine.
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We found we had the same tastes. Of

We found we had the same tastes, OF
course. A man in my place would
have been a fool to have allowed it to
be otherwise. Flowers, drives. walks
these came early. Then l ventured
the daring compliment OF jewel or
two. Books-no, not books-in suit
ing my tastes to hers had to forget,
for the time, that had ever known
and loved books
It all took time. It was very gradu-
al. And yet-how events have hurried!
How triumphs have crowded upon one
another!
For we start east tomorrow tOgeth-
er. And l have known her only .
month.
am a rascal? Of course. But not
so great as to merit your serious con-
demnation. 1 have only wronged a
dull and prosaic plodder l have never
seen. shall assist the woman to pro-
cure divorce Then l shall marry
her. You are expected to be properly
astonished when you hear OF my mar
riage, and have q warm welcome for
my wife.
I'm going to try an experiment this
evening. I'll see that you learn the
result later. I'm going in to be shaved.
and I'm going to get into the chair of
the fellow who read my mind and ten
dered so much good advice month
ago. 1 wonder how much he'll know
and what he'll say when he finds what
l have accomplished? l shall not be
surprised to hear him speak the lady's
name, when l haven't said n word. l
know l couldn't keep it out of ny
mind if should try.
Au revoir, Charley. am the happi-
est man in the world, and if I've been
either bad or foolish, you're not to re-
member it when you meet me and my
soon-to-be-wife.
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My dear Charley, (said the letter,
and SO read the gentleman addressed)
/ haven't written to you for q month.
Much may happen in q month. Much
has I've been waiting for two things.
the definite to tell and the leisure to
tell It in. And I have both now,
though the leisure'll be short. leave
tomorrow morning for New York, and
I'm not coming alone.
saw the woman the day after l
wrote you last Curiously enough,
found a fellow who knew her, and so
got an introduction to her in the most
matter-of-fact and conventional way.
That made everything easier than it
would have been otherwise-though
think the end would have been the
same in any event.
/ found the woman untaught. uncul-
tured-as educational methods and
educational ideas go-but with a grace
and charm that must have been burned
into the hearts and minds of many
cline than ours She is the most beau
tiful woman ! ever knew-the most
fascina ting. a beautiful animal"
the man who introduced me called
her. l did not dispute him. How
could l?
found, within week. that she was
uuhappily married. Her husband had
not the taste to appreciate her beauty,
her smiles, the fascination of her con-
versation. Nor had he the leisure.
Possibly she had forgotten. so long ago
as to have planted something of the
same forgctfulness ia his own soul, to
try her smiles and her beauty upon
him l cannot but hope it is so.
l found that her husbands labor.
whatever it may be. was too poorly
paid TO afford her the luxuries and
elegancies for which her very soul
yearned. They saw one another but
seldom They rarely spoke. 4 man
with money. leisure and an unwavcr-
ing viii could hope everything
made progress slowly. Why not?
The great victories are those of siege
not those of the charge Twas an &C
auaintance at frst-no more than that
Then ! WAS her friend her sympathetic
friend. quite Pla,onic. of course. ever
ready to listen to her regrets for q lost
and wasted life.
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lie egtr;ral Lem.

TONY can't understand WIZ you
spPlaud such miserable acting.
Dick do it 10 keep myself awake.
cTe~as Siftings.
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Phenomenal.

Bunker-Hello. old man; 1 hear you
have been up in the Maine woods with
a party on hunting expedition. Did
you have any luck?
Hill should say so! I won fifty
dollars on one jack pot.-Cioak Review.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-13

Sammy-Didyou ever see the Old Man
Of the Sea?
Johnny-No, but know who he is.
He's the father of the mermaids.-Chi-
cago Tribune.
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Early Hours,

City Boarder lat farmhouse)- You
still use candles here?
Mr.. Hayseed-No, stree. In the win
ter we use a lamp. Don't need it in
summer, you know. It's bedtime be-
fore it gifts darE.-N. Y Weekly.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-13

Wont Go Far.-Tom-''I am going
travel. Jack -"How?" Tom ION
my brains" ,jsck-"Well. good by
Tor little time Eureka blade.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-13
Don't Blame Him,

Jones-Robbins gave me thi. cigar.
Brown don't blame him.-Life.
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-08-17
THURSDAY, AUGUST Il, 1898,

Blount returns to this country
with his eyes very much wider
open than they were when he
reached Honolulu. He under
stands the situation much better
than he did when he ordered the
American flag pulled down, and
he has had a view of the true in
wardness of the reasons that move
CLAUS Spreckels to oppose annex
atiOn,as well as a nearer view of the
surroundings of Queen Lii. Out
of all this has been evolved the
conviction that the provisional
government has come to stay, or
at least until the proposals for an
nexatiOn are accepted by the
Uuited States government. Had
BlOunt's foresight been as good as
his hindsight he would have
spared Americans some mortified
ton.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-08-17

A ship canal from Toledo, Ohio
to Cincinnati is talked about and
has the endorsement of the Cincin-
natl board of trade. The intention
is to utilize the Miami and Maui
NEE rivers and enlarge the present
Miami canal so as to admit the
largest lake craft. This would give
free access into the Mississippi river
of the craft of the lake through the
Ohio river, but the outlet is too far
east to be of great value. The pro-
posed Hennepin canal, from Chica-
90 to Rock Island on the MISSISSIPPI
pi, is much moe feasible and is
only about half the distance be-
tween the lake and the river as the
proposed Toledo scheme.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-08-17
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-08-17
FINE RANCH. A BARGAIN.

$4,000 on easy payment, will buy the
finest and cheapest ranch in Bexar coun
ty, thirteen miles west of San Antonio, on
the Culebra creek. Excellent meadows,
farming and pasture and timber lands, al
fenced, and containing $500 acres If land
with two fine wells of permanent water
and two large tanks well distributed;
thrse dwelling houses, stables and corr ais.
For further information call upou J. V.
Dignowity, over Texas Nationa bank. IT
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-08-17

Gold importations promise to
fall very little behind the mark of
last week during the present one.
All eyes are on Washington, but
it would take Lick telescope to
discover any thing worth noting
in the national capital.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-08-17
,ucKLEN.s AaNJcA saLvE,

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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-08-17

Jerry Simpson mourns over the
loss of mileage to and from the
extra session as he never mOurned
since he was obliged to wear socks,
upon his enterance into national
life at the beehst of a fool cOnsti-
tuency. That ruling took a clean
half years living out of Jerry's
pocket.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-08-17

Ten pound sweet potatoes are a
common growth of the country on
the lower Rio Grande, but they are
no sweeter than the Texas girls
that bloom in that salubrious
country, whose cheeks are kissed
by the breeZes of the Gulf.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-08-17
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-08-17

Gladstone is not going to let up
on radical legislation when that
Home Rule bill goes to the Lords.
He will keep the mill grinding on
some other matters for the reform
of English and Scotch abuse until
he is ready to go before the cOun-
try on another election, the Irish
Home Rule bill being knocked out
in the House of Lords. The old
man is not yet in his dOtage.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-08-17

One Kansas county has a level
headed people. They met in general
convention on religious matters,
pooled their issues, compared notes,
struck an average and employed
one preacher to do the preaching
for the county. They will get bet
ter and cheaper religious service
this way than in splitting up into
factions, each one too weak to sup
port a preacher of ordinary ability.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-08-17

fX All contracts or Kills must be ap-
IroVed by the Secretary and Manager.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-08-17
LATE KILOGRAMS
BOILED DOWN FROM PRIVATE
SPECIAL AND OTHER
SOURCES

IeoilOShIHS oIIOWeIS I'LL dU IL
tOria and Laredo.
No farther development of sus-
picious cases at Pensacola.
Mexico is in no danger of de-
faulting on her public debt.
Corpus is making every prepara-
ton for that regatta on the 9th.
Washington is advised of West
India hurricane heading that way.
Governor Hogg is at Rockport
and rivals Grover as fisherman.
County commissioners court is
in session at Arkansas court house.
Iowa Republicans nominate
Jackson of Des MOines for governor.
Sections of Val Verde, Pecos and
Crockett counties are still drouthy.
Tarpon fishing is all the rage on
the coast from Corpus to Matagor-
da..
Minister Gray is taking trip
through Mexico for his own pleas
ure.
The circus part of the Worlds
fair seems to be its best drawing
card.
Party of merrymakers drowned
in the river Shannon, Ireland none
saved.
, That Williamson county fight
over county prohibition is de-
ferred.
PecOs river is running bank full,
and a big rise coming down the Rio
Grande.
The reported increase of Mexican
duties on imported manufactures
is denied.
Col. Ropes and secretary have
gone north for the rest of the
heated term.
Gate receipts and concessions to
date have yielded the Worlds fair
over %,6OO,0O0.
Llano boys with an abnormally
sweet tooth raid a candy store, and
are in the soup.
Local premium on currency in
New York is very irregular and at
times disappears.
The Rio Grande has risen seven
feet at Brownsville and is still
coming up rapidly.
Central Mexican and Trans-Na-
tiOnal roads are delayed in their
service by WashOuts,
Hon. John Ireland addresses a
deep water meeting at Corpus
Christi on Friday evening.
The Worlds fair ball in which
all the nations intermingled was
novel and interesting affair.
No new cases of cholera at New
York quarantine, and eighty hours
since the last case developed.
The Hoggies and Populists are
responsible for the burning of
Cleveland in effigy at Jonah.
Col. Charles T. o. Ferrall is
booked for the Democratic nomi-
nation as governor of Virginia.
Net revenue of the Worlds fair
is about $4,000 daily, and increas-
ing while expenses are decreasing.
Customs officers at Langtry have
made a successful raid after SNUG
gled cattle, and rounded up a good
herd.
State Alliance is in session in
Bazette, county seat of Navarro
county, and is entertained by Mrs.
Lease.
A Pennsylvania hOodlum, II
years old, ambushes three COM
rades and kills them with giant
powder.
The people of Coahuila have tele-
graphed Diaz that there is no dis
satisfaction with the federal gov
eminent.
The Mexican federal authorities
will not interfere in the Coahuila
election, unless it is necessary to
preserve order.
Schooner from Charleston, S. c.,
is reported at Philadelphia with
yellow fever on board; report not
likely to be true.
An Indiana editor, at Lawrence
| Vile, sues for $4,000 railway dam
ages, and the suit is contested on
| the ground that as an editor on a
free pass he is barred. He con-
tends that he gives value received
for his pass as an advertiser of the
road.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-08-17

Announcements for State and County
Iticers ten Dollars in advance.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-08-17

The Democratic party stands
before the critics of its own party
charged with fostering the POpu-
list foolishnessness by fusion until
it threatens to sap the strength of
the Democracy. OF this fact there
is not a reasonable doubt, and the
end is not yet. Let Republicans
take note and beware.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-08-17

Ohio banks in the oil regions re-
fuse the Endorsed checks of the
Standard Oil company given to
employees as usual for wages, and
the co mpany has opened it's eyes
to this demonstration of the scar
city of the circulating medium.
With the banks this time there is
no respect of persons or firms.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-08-17

The claim that Behring Sea is an
inland water was not allowed in
the Behring Sea award, but in all
things else the United States Sc
cure what they were contending
for. The provisions for the prOtec-
ton of seals is more than was an
ticipated and puts pOaching out of
all serious question. The eXclu-
sive jurisdiction Of the United
States over Behring Sea is disal-
lowed and the fact established that
it is practically part Of the Pa
cific ocean. England gets her con-
tention in this case but is not at all
satisfied with the restrictions that
are laid on poaching.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-08-17

New York City despairs of hav-
ing her street cleaning done until
a machine is invented that will
not only sweep up the dirt but con-
vey it to some place of deposit.
The street cleaning forces at pres
ent employed do not sweep hard
enough to take up the refuse, and
they scatter it when they shovel it
into carts. What is wanted is
some sort of a carrier that will
take the dirt from the revolving
brushes, on the same plan as a
carpet sweeper, and deposit it in a
closed wagon that will move along
with the sweeper. The cOntrivance
is being experimental upon, but
without results as yet.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-08-17

Kentucky Breckenridge denies
the soft impeachment and will
fight for his sheckels and his fair
name. If he is not guilty it is in
order for him to prove it. If he is a
saint the woman in the case is no
angel. Upon this proposition there
will be no division of public senti-
ment.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-08-17

The craftsmanship of Congress
is not of character to reassure
the country. This is particularly
unfortunate just now, when the
country lacks nothing so much as
she lacks confidence, while at the
same time there is nothing that
she really needs more, whether in
business or in legislation.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-08-17

The man in Texas who has corn
to sell gets a paying price for it as
soon as he reaches market, but the
man with cotton to sell cannot
afford to take the price offered and
pays insurance and storage hoping
for better prices. The argument
in favor of corn planting is a knock
down one.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-08-17

There is no reason under the
sun why the running of the cleo
trio cars in this city should not be
regulated with true clock work
precision. The service is the best
in the state as it is, but this is not
sufficient. This city should have
a perfect service~and it only re-
quires a little intelligent manage
ment to secure it. 1t will pay the
lines as well as add pleasure to
travel to attend to this matter.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-08-17

Houston Post complains that it
does not know where the High
School of that city is to hold forth
this year, and charges that Hous-
ton has the poorest school build
ings of any city in Texas. 1t is
time that a city that boasts
as loudly as Houston does had
some thing better than this to
show in the way of provision for
her school children. A city that
is so far behind the times in mat
tiers of education and amusement
is not in it even a little bit in this
age of Texas development.