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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-20

wonderfully! I'll tell you, the
world is going to hear Of him some
day, if he lives!" You hear Just
such expressions as this every day,
don't you?-and smile at them a
little, because you have heard
them for the last forty or fifty years,
more or less. Proud teachers trot-
ted out the bright children for in
spection on every possible occasion
when you were callow youngster
just as they do now; and fond
parents never neglected an opportu-
nifty to "show off, Johnny or Mary
for the entertainment of admiring
guests, just as you, with the silver
in your hair and the glasses on your
nose, we; terday showing off
vo :: John Junior, while your
,nds looked on and told you that
he was truly remarkable boy.
What has become of them, / wonder;
those little prodigies that were
going to set the world on fire a
quarter of a century ago? Why
if You begin to investigate, you
will find most of them jogging
along very serenely now, at peace
with themselves and the world.
The boy who delighted and awed a
whole community by making a
real locomotive that would run on
a real track, and who vas morally
certain to become a great inventor
some day, is now selling calico and
ribbon i'll a country town. The
boy who could down the whole
school on arithmetic, and was going
to be a most wonderful mathemati-
clan, drives around the country in a
rusty little phaeton, now, and
writes out prescriptions in the most
unintelligible Latin that ever was
devised by mortal man. The school
boy orator who brought the tears to
your eyes every Friday evening
with his fiery eloquence, and was
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-20

wrought nature gave way and she
dropped work and life together,
some of these practical neighbors
came in and asked the girls what
they intended to do. But, alas !
they didn't know. Sew? Why,
neither one of them could have cut
the simplest garment, and they
could just make straight seams on
the machine. Keep house and
care for the younger children?
They were as ignorant of house
keeping as they were of Sanscrit.
They had not enough education to
teach school. They knew nothing
of type writing, or bookkeeping,
or any other occupation which
might make them independent.
Yet these were the daughters of
working-woma Ole who should
have known all the horrors of cast
ing young girlhood out upon the
world without the ability or the
knowledge to take care of itself.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-20

But there was that dull, plodding
fellow whom you used to consider
the dolt and blockhead of the school,
why he is one of the Supreme
Court Judges now; and the boy
who stood at the foot of the class
the whole session, except when
you secretly prompted him, was
made Minister to Kalamazoo the
other day, and is considered one of
the coming great men. Why is
this, did you ask? Carlyle told the
whole story, in very few words.
The cabbage ripens very rapidly, he
says; much more rapidly than the
oak; but the oak lasts the longer.
1t all depends on whether you are
raising cabbages or oak trees. Don't
be too anxious to "show off, the
precocious children. Hold them
back, instead, lest they mortify you
by getting their full growth before
they are fourteen. Be little more
patient with the slow, the awk-
ward, and the dull. The history
of the world shows that there are
wonderful possibilities in these
children that attract no attention in
the school rooms. l have read
somewhere of an "Old Master Ire
borious," who understood this
great truth, and
FOLLOWED a principle glorious:
He made it rule,
On entering his school,
To his urchins to bow,
AS we'll he knew how,
For there may be some great men
before us,
Said respectful old Master IRE
borious,
Who followed principle glorious. "
JULIA TRUITT BISHOP.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-20

Mrs. Blank says that this Miss
Newcome, that's so popular here
all of a sudden, amt at all what
she ought to be. She says there
dreadful talk about her. back
where she came from, because she
was there last summer and heard
about it. And then to think of
the impudent thing coming here
and putting herself forward like
she does, just because she thinks
nobody knows her! If l were you
l would ut let Nellie go about her
any more; and I'd warn the
preachers family against her. If
there's anything I do hate it is a
wolf in sleeps clothing. Oh, yes,
about Mrs. Blank? Well, she
loves scandal too we'll to suit me.
l think it's my duty to drop her.
There are some things l can't
stand, and gossip's one of 'em."
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-20

But if there be, in the other
world, some peculiarly radiant
crowns laid up for the martyrs who
have received no credit for their
martyrdom, it seems to me that
the lonely and hard working wife of
the self-made great man is entitled
to the brightest crown of all. Self
made, indeed! The patient cheer
fitness that smoothed the way be-
fore him is never taken into account.
The wife who drudged that her
husband might have time for study,
who did heavy work that his leisure
might be undisturbed, who took
upon herself the whole burden of
rearing the children, that he might
make for himself an honored and
illustrious name-she it is whom
shallow lookers-on call common"
and quite beneath him" Away
with such paltry distinctions! Away
with the miserable selfshness ofthe
man who has climbed to a position
in politics or society, using his
wife as a stepping-stone to help
him up, and is at the last ashamed
of her because she is common"
aud quite beneath him" Really
and truly, if men and women were
measured by what they are, if
their truth of motive and earnest
ness of effort counted for anything
might it not seem that the obscure
and ignorant wife who has helped
to make a career for her husband is
worthy of almost as much regard as
that husband himself, who stands
up in the sight of gods and men
and calls himself "self-made"?
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-20

mo, never go about Mrs.
Blank" She said cheerfully to her
neighbor, on whom she was calling.
"She is such dreadful gossip, and
1 just can't stand gossip! Why,
what do you think she said the
other day? She told me that the
Perkinses don't get along together
at all, and live like cats and dogs.
Would you ever have thought it?
And when they are out in public
they are just as nice as piel And
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-20
THE HOME CORNER.
BY JULIA TRUITT BISHOP.
| Written for the LIGHT

Written for the LIGHT
She was playing the role of
Hannah Jane" but it cannot be
said that she found it always at
tractlve or alluring. They had
married when both were young and
Ignorant, he fresh from the cornfeld
and she just out of the kitchen.
One would have said that they
were just suited to one another, and
that they would probably lead a
quiet, humdrum life and go down
to a serene old age, far from the
nadding crowds ignoble strife.
Who would have SUPPOSED that
day, looking on at their self-satisf-
ed ignorance, that he " ould take it
into his head, in the course Of a
year or two, to have a career, and
to begin studying and laboring for
it, Why should crude, uniformed
ambitions have crept into his low
green valley of content to trouble
his dreams? Why could they not
have come before he had linked his
life with another's? But they came,
and from that day they two were
separated in heart and in mind, and
might far better have been separat-
ed in the very truth. While he
toiled over his books, she spent her
self in other toll, that hardened her
hands and dulled her mind, and
left her no fit companion for him.
When, later, he made his brilliant
speeches and achieved his great
triumphs, she, his cook, his nurse,
his household dru lge and maid-of-
all-work had no part nor parcel in
it. Indeed, it is doubtful if she
understood it thoroughly, so far
removed was she from him. And
when he came to be the popular
and petted darling of society, people
whispered to one another Did
you ever see his wife? Oh yes, he
under-married himself dreadfully.
She is quite common and ignorant,
and never goes anywhere. Good
thing, isn't it? Fancy how ashqm-
ed of her he must be-"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-20

The road to eminence and power
from obscure condition ought not to
be made to easy, nor a thing to
much, of course. If rare merit be
the rarest of all rare things, it
ought to pass through some sort of
probation. The temple of honor
ought to be seated upon an eminence
If it be opened through virtue, let
it be remembered, too, that virtue
is never tried but by some difficulty
and some struggle. - Burke.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-20

sure to leave Webster and Sumner
and Sunset Cox very far in the
background, is keeping books for
Burns & O'Grady, and hasn't had
a holiday in FIVE years.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-20

Now what is to become of such
girls as these?-and there are
thousands of them growing up all
over the land in just such help
lessness. The fewest number o.
them will have the good sense and
courage, as we'll as the opportunity,
to set to work and learn something
practical, with which they can sup
port themselves and those depend
ent on them. Of this number,
some may be able to succeed as
we'll as though they had prepared
themselves for a career, but the
majority Of them will be hampered
and annoyed all their lives by their
own inadequacy for the conflict.
As for the others, what becomes of
them?-into what corners are they
drifted, like helpless leaves i'll
December storm? Into loveless
marriages? Into lives of shame,
which have been the only refuge of
thousands of helpless women before
them?
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-20

Have you ever noticed what
helpless girls are being raised by a
great many Woodworking women
There was Mrs. A., for insrance,
who died last month, how she had
struggled, through the years Of her
widowhood. to keep her head above
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-20

and that is the Mother, rich or
poor, who makes a helpless baby
of her daughter, instead of training
her up to a helpful, independent
woman hood.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-20

And after all, who is to blame?
But one person, in all the world;
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-20

He's wonderfully bright boy
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-02-28

| Constable Harry Crowder arrested
Henry, Willis and Robert Iefiries to-
day on charge Of sssaulting } axe
Sparks. with intent to murder Viii
lis gave bond ard WAS released but
the Others we're jailed.
Toniaht at the synagogue Rabbi
Chspm an will lecture on the order Of
b nal Bth. The public are invited
to attend.
The Waco Commercial club meets
tonight al the City Hall at s O'Clock.
If you sre Interested in the progress
and growth Of Mace, attend
The Waco Medical Association
meets tonight at 80 o'clock in the
Office rooms of Dr. j c. j. King
Subject of discussion viii be "LsboI
- Normal and Abnormal" Dr.
". H. Wilkes will read the openln
paper.
The Waco Lish: Guards were out
last nigh, uader the command of Capt
A II M'ller preparing for the com
Ing contest with the Baylor cadets on
Decoration day.
Judge Goodrich has granted a TEN
porsry injunction in the suit Of K auff
man, Rluee & Co. vs. j. y. 3oz or e,
al. restraining defendants from en-
forcing an execution, which plaintiff
ayers has been settled
The excursionists FIR he presi mt
ial Inauguration got off in good time
this morning Ii was a Jolly crowl
out for 3 jolly time
Ire north bound Kay. which
Should have reached the city at Is %
O'Clock this morning according to the
late char &c in the time card, was over
two hours late
The Missouri, Kansas and Texas
railway company are having their
yards around he passenger depot laid
In rock, which does away with mud
and slush for the future.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-02-28
SCIENTIFIC MISCELL ANY

A spirit-wii'ing machine, kid
telegraphic typewriter, ooeratei
the spirit through the m ediun, i,S1
product Of an English inventors MI
directed genius.
The new process Of electro silve,,,
using q certain per centage of csdu,
in the solution, gives q more du,,N,
less easily tarnished and che.p.
coating than pure silver.
A portable electric light Tor Us.
night search for wounded soldleuJ
being tried in Berlin. a 81 c,nd
power lamp is operated By stol,,|
battery weighing only II! pounds.
The idea that nervous disorden
hysierical kind have incre ased viii
civilization Is denied by recent irys,
tigators, who fad nowhere else :u,I
violent and epidemic nervous aalI
as are common among the uncul.inI
ed peoples.
From large orb. weaving spidsd
Madagascar Rev. P. Cam bone hua
tsir ed over three miles Of silkss
days. An imperfect winding sppual
has been devised, bu, the d fi5GM
raising land keeping the spiders il
large numbers is likely 70 proven
utilization of the silk,
Micro organisms are found by NJ
Fl. l.. Russell 10 be invariably pre-
ent IN sea-water, even al great dl
lance from shore and TO a dep,h
5000 feet though the numbers are n'
so great as in fresh water. The ba
terra are more numerous in the siu
of the sea- bottom than in the vat
itself, and the forms SO universal
present seem quite peculiar TO II
water and mud.
THE SMALLEST WoMAN.-It is ~
claimed that the most dinlnuu
human being of modern times
Princess Topsze, borne at Baeu
Ayres of French Parents. She is D,
l6 years old, but weighs only
pounds, and her height is about!
inches-ap inch or two less than lhI
of Gen. Tom Thumb. Her vii
measures 2! inches in circumlsreno
Her father, strange to say,w.s a CIV
and her mother tall and robust
man.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-02-28
DRO w N E D.
Body of DR.. w. r. Spalding, OF
Bnsque County, Found In the
BPaZOS River.

News has reached the city that the
BODY Of Dr. w. f. Spalding has been
fund in the Brazos river near Kim
bali, 10 Bosque county, where Dr.
cpalding has resided for many years.
Ga Sunday, February 4, DIR Spald-
ing was missed from his home, aud
for many days his children thought
he had gone to Cleburne to look after
his property in that city. His con.
tinued absence aroused inter
est. diligent inquiry was
made and it was asoer
tanned that he had not gone to Gle
burne. kilograms were then sent to
Morgan and other points where he was
well known, but his Whereabouts could
not be ascertained
Vigorous search was instituted aud
Saturday night his body was found in
the Brazos river,
DR.. Spaldipg was known all ovel
Bosque county, aud had many friends
in this citv. Was the father III law OF
MIR. j. s Fitzhugh, Of Waco, and -
brother Rev. Dr. A. T. Spalding, who
tor many years was the pastor Of the
First Baptist ehurc hof Galveston.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-02-28
GLENNY & CO.
Condition of the Prino;n
ton Markets Cot

by Associated Press 10 The News
NEW N ORLEANS, Feb 2S.-c,
& 60, say: Liverpool dovn 0U!euby
5000 bales. Marke, dpIl sales,
generally in buyers favor + rrctl
futures at 2:30 were 8 Ga Io.sefpool
yesterday. Later all the as,, t' than
recovered, closing slightly be,,a ''e VA
yesterday. ''' than
New Orleans !, opened : points d. ,,
'ovanced 4 }! "a points, with fuc,ua,iios.aa
and at II 30 vas 9 points allow "uas
terday, May selling at $ Sos es'
Discoursging Liverpool spots ~. ,nd ~
lures caus, d the decline at tbs sau ny
ing. Vague rumoFs about the s ,peaI
apparently confirmed by the ros s"lts
in Liverpool futures, caused The I've, ~.
advance soon after. 'p9
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-02-28
TURN OVER A NEW LEAF al,

TURN OVER A NEW LEAF and
get yourself IN good shape BIZ using
the Vegetable Cure for Liquor, Nor :
? bine, Opium, Tobacco and Cocaine
We now have several patients very
much pleased aud benefited by our
treatment. We furnish free baths at
the natatorlum for all our patients
Any inf ormation will be furnished by
Dr. d. c. Jones and DR.. G. l.. Sea
bright Al! communicative strictly
confidential Office l09 South Third
street, Waco. l.. O Box 472. a
cure guaranteed 10 every case,
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-02-28
MCDuffie VS.. Turnjn

By Associated Press TO The New.
WASHINGTON, Feb % 4,
agreeing to conference report On =
diplomatic and consular appron,i,s
bal, the house today procesJsd
the consideration Of the Alsb,u, W.
tested election Case Of DJDuSis W.
Turpiu. The majority beinesh.''s y
Of Turpin sitting as delegate, IA j.
bate WAS limited to three hour,
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-02-28

Fifty ceuts pays for The NE
one month.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-02-28

Betpeen South and North Teas ID
WIZ Eeqant CIIl4IR OARS on Day 1re.~1)
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-02-28
!E Houston s Texas Central
s the Railway Of Texas and FOR TIME AND
| STANDS AT THE HEAD EQUIPMENT

CLASS WAGNER 7HROUGH SLEEPERS REIbhhS
ST LOUIS. ViH HOJSTON DJLLiSs an DENiSoN',
Set'reen Dallas and san Intono. ria HeGrne- Becee "
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-04-19
A StOrk MOnOpOlist.

In Skane, in the southern part oi
Sweden, pair OF storks lived for many
years on the roof of my fathers parson-
age. One spring, pair of young storks
appeared in the place, who, after survey
ing the old nest--probably their parental
home-set about building their habita-
tion on the opposite side of the roof.
When it was finished and the eggs had
been laid, the old female stork returned,
took look at the new -comers, but al.
lowed them to remain in their home in
peace. Her attention was soon occupied
by number of young suitors, who zeal.
ously wooed her, though she rejected all
their offers. Some days later, this PeLe.
lope among birds was rewarded by the
arrival of her old mate.
But then came an end to the truce with
the young birds. That very evening the
old stork, followed by his female com.
panion, flew to the nest of the new.
corners. By violent blows of their beaks
they first put the young male stork TO
flight, and then began to attack the sit.
ting hen. Patiently she suffered all ill
usage and remained upon her eggs. The
assailauts then altered their tactics. One
continued to attack the young mother.
bird, while the other, watching till in
her struggles to evade the blows an egg
became uncovered, instantly pushed it
out OF the nest. Thus, one by one, the
four precious eggs were remorsely sacri-
feed. When all the eggs had been de-
stroyed, the young female stork, after
standing for some time in the courtyard,
looking up to her ruined home as in de.
spair, sadly few away. There was never
any sign of that pair of storks on our
roof again. The old ones had attained
their end; hencelorth they we're the only
storks in that part OF the country, and
were left in sole possession of its food
supply. To the inhabitants of our par.
sonage, whose sympathies for the old
storks were thus rudely shaken, 1t seemed
just retribution that, though the birds
had some eggs that summer, none were
Matched, and thus the old storks had to
return alone to their Southern quarters
that wiuter-a solitary pair. London
Spectator.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-04-19

front Of the depot, and Senator Hicks
and little Ben in earnest conversation in
the office. The old senator did not ap-
pear to recognize Keanley.
$50 y"u are the agent, young man, {"
he said. "Allow me TO congratulate you
upon your good judgment in selecting so
efficient an assistant. Now let me in.
troduce my recently engaged private
secretary, who will accompany me when
the special leaves"
The old man laid his hand caressinply
on Ben's shoulder.
"And," spoke Ben, eagerly, ''he says
| shall have the best teacher he can find,
and all the time want to studyl"
Soon the special left to return to
Hamilton, aud with it went little Ben.
"Good-byel Good .byew the cripple
called from the receding parlor car, and
Keanley answered with mechanical
farewell.
Then he sat in the little Office and
stared moodily at the fire for long
time.
chow lonesome il is without him I"
he said, "I loved that little cripple, ]
think"
Then the sounder began to click from
Hamilton, aud the message came:
"Good-by, old fellow. Little Ben. I"
Then Kesuley sat listening to the fall.
ing rain for long time.
Three months later he was surprised
at seeing Senator Hicks and little Ben
ahght from train at the faded station.
"Young man." said the Senator,
abruptly, "hov much of that $40, 900
have you accumulated, hey7'
"a trihe over $780," Keanley an
swered, dejectedly.
"Near enough, near enoughl" jerked
out the old man. "This boy has been
continually talking of you, and-and-I
sometimes change my mind, and-well,
there is girl at my house who seems
anxious to see you"
Aud so it all turned out happily, just
as all stories should.
There is new agent at Lone Mound
station now, and Hal Kcanley is rising
in the lucrative position procured for him
by the old senator.
At the wedding that made Keanley
Senator Hicks's son.ln-law, a young
musical artist, who, though cripple, is
rapidly rising in popular favor, held the
guests almost spellbound by the strains
of violin, that seemed singing song
Of happiness. ss.-Romance.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-04-19
Best Way 10 Get Rll Of Rats.

The best way to get rid of rats aul
mice is not to poison them, but to make
them thoroughly tired of the locality and
so induce them to leave. They are gen.
orally too smart to eat poison, even when
it is prepared for their benefit in the
most seductive fashion, but they are not
SO particular about tartar emetic. When
a little of this is mixed with any favorite
food they will eat as greedny as though
the physic were not there, but in two or
three hours there will be the most dis
couraged lot of rats about the place
that anybody ever saw. TIE tartar will
not kill them, it only makes them deathly
sick. II you put your ear to their holes
you can hear them trying to vomit [;
sometimes they will crawl out aud walk
about like a seasick man, 50 i'll that they
do not seem to care what becomes OF
them. But it disgusts them with the
whole vicinity, aud as soon as they are
able to travel they march of aud you see
them no more. New York News.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-04-19
A Change Of Air In a Sick Room.

A clever doctor has just completed a
wonderful invention, whereby change
of air desirable for any patient may be
brought direct TO the sick room. Bot
tied ozone, condensed Alpine air, or
timed tropical summers; these are the
possibilities the discovery appears to
open up. The poor patient whose means
do not reach the sum necessary for the
physicians prescribed change of air will
perhaps, before long, take half an hours
inhalation four times a day before meals,
or the overwoIked business man, unable
to leave town for holiday, may take his
fresh air into the city with him every
day. However, the invention does not
90 so far just at present. What can be
accomplished is the impre9 nation of Il
sick room with the fragrance OF pine
forests, the health restoring perfume
which delicate persons are sent to
Switzerland to breath. - New York
Times.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-04-19

Chief Justice Fuller, having gone to
his doctors house in Washington recent.
ly in preference to sending for the
physician, found that gentleman absent
and was invited into the library to await
his return. The attendant who ushered
the visitor in was ignorant of the latter's
station, but recognized him as man of
culture and kind impulses. This was
evident from the surprising request that
the Chief Justice should improve the
time by writing love letter for the man
who let him in. Pens, ink, paper and
envelop were proffered, and without
hesitation the favor was granted, the
missive being completed before the ply
sician's return.