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The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-09-08
How Mirrors Are Made.

The finest mirrors are still made BY
the process discovered in Venice 800
years ago, though various other methods
are in USE A smooth stone table is coat
cd with tin foil. and strips of glass are
placed along three sides Of it, leaving a
space open at one end and of a size to
admit of the glass to be silvered lying
within the strips. Molten quicksilver is
poured on the tin foil until it is nearly a
quarter Of an inch thick, and the glass
to be made into mirror is slid in at the
open end until 1t lies entirely ON the
quicksilver. One end Of the table Is then
tilted slightly by means of a screw 70
allow the superhuous mercury TO mn off
through groove into vessel placed 70
catch it. Heavy weights are then placed
on the glass, and 1t is left there for.sev-
eral hours.
The amalgam Of tin foil and ou;clr m.
yer which has united by affinity will thar,
be found to be fast to the glass, and th;s
is carefully turned over and placed Ems .nis
downward. The amalgam, though = 70
set, requires several weeks to Sa, =. Is
and 1t is left exposed to the air For A ts
iength'of'time.o edtdshandled. ''A'
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-09-08

Castilian Spaniards and you have the
class comprising the fairest people In the
world. Next to these comes the class OF
good, ordinary, every day whites like our
selves. the French, the Italians OF the
Piedmont states and the unmixed Creoies
OF all Spanish America. Add another
shade and you have the dark Aryans, rep
resented here by the Greeks, Italians or
the south, Spaniards of Andalusia, and II
you want to go farther in that line you
must return to the plaisance.
To say that the satisfaction of each or
these races or sections with the fair Is in
inverse proportion to their intelligence or
pecuniary interest in it would be putting
It little too strong but there certainly Is
feeling of that sort Md a 1ery general
feeling that somebody is going to lose
money unless the next three months Guido
their present promise. 1t seems just now
as If all the adverse forces had struck the
fair at once, heat and drought in many
sections of the United States and Canada,
the worldwide financial depression and
some other forces. But it is too soon to
conjecture on dividends. 1t is an interest
ing fact that every one Of these races or
peoples has some speciality in which it OK
cells all the rest of the world.
VI course the dark Drown AryanS, OF
whom the Hindoos are the leading branch,
excel in many lines of delicate work, and
next to them in that line is the next dark
er section of humanity. In this rank as to
color, however. ore included such people
as the Sandwich islanders and other peo-
pie of the south seas whose native arts are
very limited. Still darker are the Arabs,
Algerians and Egyptians. The Indians
may be said to have color of their own,
especially the Esquimaux, but have
suspicion that the complexion of the last
named is largely artificial and could be
changed by vigorous course of culture,
the bath being made q speciality. And
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-09-08
The Author of "Helen's Babies" Sees a
Rosy Future.

Inc AutuoT oVoo "
Rosy Future.
When the people of the United States
celebrate the 500th Columbian anniversary
there will be so many of them that nc
longer will it be said that
Uncle Sam is rich enough
To give us all farm.
Consequently all soil worth tilling will re-
ceive the best possible attention, with the
result that we will be the best fed nation in
the world. All the forests will be gone, SO
lumber will be so scarce that stone, iron,
brick, Stag, etc, will be so largely used In
the construction of houses that fires will be
almost unheard of and insurance companies
will go out of business.
The government will b. much simpler
than now and concern its& with. fewer
and more important affairs; indeH the
idea of government will kpve' disapl cared;
the people will tolerate thing more than
an administration on by iness principles q
such general interests MS are too great OF
complex to be intrusted to private man
agement.
Law will be made for man-not man for
the law-and theology will give place to
Christian practice, each mans faith being
judged by his life instead of his talk. Med
icine will be practiced at police stations
and among outcasts, for respectable people
will have resolved that illness not caused
by accident is disgracefully criminal The
race will therefore be healthier and hap
pier than now, as well as more sensible.
Literature will be much cleaner in the
departments of poetry, fiction and drama,
for the already moribund humbug of pas
sion masquerading as love will have died
of self contempt.
Temperance legislation will be not only
a dead issue, but so long buried that no
one will be able to identify it's grave; prop
er cooking and improved physical habits
will have neutralized the desire for stimu-
lants.
Advantages will be happy, for the law
will put to death any man or woman who
assumes conjugal position without the
proper physical, mental and financial quail
ifications. AS a natural consequence, the
characters for love stories will be selected,
not from overgrown boys and girls, but
from among the men and women longest
married.
Women will dress for health instead of
for show, trusting their healthy faces to do
all necessary keeping up appearances"
The servant question will cease to be a
burning one, for the rage for display will
be outworn, the kitchen stove will give
place to ranges heated by water gas, and
men and children as well as women will
know how to cook. People of means will eat
to live-not live to eat-and all household
labor will be esteemed too honorable and
important to be intrusted to menials
Woman will have equal rights with man,
and will be free to select a husband instead
of waiting for man to ask her hand, al
though in looking backward into litera-
ture and tradition she will wonder whether
she has more rights in this respect than her
Perhaps I am wrong in some of these
prophecies but if so / shan't be here to be
INVITED with it.
JOHN HABBERTON.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-09-08
JOHN HABBERTON.
From the Author of "The Story of Coun
try Town."

II
try Town.
/ think the growth of America in the
next 100 years will be in simplicity.
The decade just closing has been noted
for high pressure, dissipation of energy.
A good many of our customs are worrying,
but in reality they do not pay.
During the next century l believe the
American people will learn the important
lesson that simple and honest living is the
goal to which men should bend their ener-
gies. No nation has learned this lesson as
it should have been learned. The wonderful
Americans will accomplish this result and
distinguish themselves more than ever be-
fore.
Heretofore we have taught that men
should be honest and just for the sake of
religion or for the sake of society," The
truth is, each individual should be honest
and just to benefit himself primarily and
religion and society incidentally.
Many Americans now believe that they
might become rich if they would consent
to become unfair. 1t is not true. Fairness
in all things is the first essential to success
in everything. Men should be honest to
degradation and unhappiness.
The old races of men were cruel in the
name of patriotism and religion The men
who live in 1903, will be just because their
conscience and well being demand it.
The men of the next century will realize
as the men of no previous century realized
that simplicity and honesty are the great
helps in living. Nonsense has been so re-
spectacle in the past that half the people
took off their hats to it, but the coming
man will discard much of that which has
worried us and caused us to neglect those
simple interests ON which our happiness
really depended
Half the things about which we worry
are not of the slightest consequence. The
coming man will know this, and he will
have the greatest regard for the simple
truth, about which there need be no doubt.
So many men have lived and left histories
that no one need go astray
The truth has always been mixed with
nonsense. The men who will celebrate the
fifth American centennial will have sepa-
rated the chaff from the wheat. and no
teacher of nonsense will be encouraged,
even though he claim that his object is to
do good. The great truth then will be that,
while the necessity for simplicity and hon
esty has always been taught, it has never
been insisted upon as its Importance de-
served.
The splendid men of the century just
dswning will know better than we do that
every individual is guaranteed equal rights
in life, liberty and the pursuit of happi-
ness not by constitutions and governments,
but by the Creator, and that no man need
fail because he has failed to accumulate
riches or greatness.
This Is the golden age, and we are the
most wonderful race of men that ever ex-
listed, but in considering our achievements
We do not pay proper attention to our
faults. Future races of Americans will
not neglect this. In the coming days, when
tne WINDS VIII whisper and the birds sing
over our graves, men will talk las. 81 ,,ss.
simism and optimism and more of the Can
did truth with which the interests of the
people are always connected. -
- z. W. HOWE.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-09-08
Youthful DepravIty.

Youthful depravity is always
shocking, but it is sometimes anus
ing" remarked a friend to The Man
About Town. II was walking up
North Eighth street about month
ago, when girl not over 10, poorly
clad, ran past me and darted across
the street to meet a boy not two
years her senior. Say, Jimmie, but
youse goin ter ketch h-lwhen youse
gifts home, she yelled at him. 'Wot
fur9' asked Jimmie. 'Mammy's sent
me ter hunt fur youse, and, say, but
she's hot fur youse stayin away.
Youse'll git licked shure, and the
little girl fairly danced in pleasurable
anticipation of Jimmie's troubles
when he met his mother. There was
no pleasure in Jimmie's countenance,
however, and he started home with
the sullen doggedness natural to boys
on these momentous occasions.
Ihad stopped to listen to the above
dialogue and followed close behind
the couple as they went homeward.
What was my surprise to hear the
little girl say to her detected brother:
"Say, Jimmie, I'll square youse.
swiped these Is cents from the old
woman, and now youse can run over
there and get coal all over youse
hands and tell her youse had q job
packing coal for some guy" Jimmie
grabbed the money, ran over to the
coal pile, and the last I saw Of them
they were hurrying home, confident
that Jimmie had been squared.-St.
Louis Republic.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-09-08
HOW TO TREAT A WATCH.
An Old Wssshmaker Gives Advice Worth
Following.

An Ola Watphmaker Gives Advice W ORTIZ
Following.
"Bear In mind" said an old watch
maker the other day, THAT watch Is
In its way, almost as delicate piece Of
mechanism as the human system.
is necessary for man VINO WIS
keep In good health to take MS
regularly, 80 it is necessary 10
watch at regular intervals. You
watch by winding it up. THEE
have a certain hour for winding u
watch and never deviate from IL.
"You can regulate your own ~
II you will only study its pecu
See this little arm? Well, II your
Is running slow, turn that arm
blade of your penlnife q trifie
the letter 81 If it is running ia
It in the opposite direction tow
Don't move the arm more than
ton of an inch, for if that will no
fee your watch needs watchm
care.
"Don't open the inner case OF
watch more than is absolutely nee
Every time you open it dust sw'
upon the works, and it takes yer
dust to put watch out Of order. AZ
cases out of ten, when watch Is brou
to me to be cleaned, can tell with
glass the business the owner OF the wat
follows. I examined watch the othe
day and told my customer that he worke
in wool. He admitted the fact. hi
found some small PARTICLES OF wool int
works Of his watch.
Have chamois case for your watch
or chamois lining in your watch pocket
It preserves the case and keeps 1t IRON
getting scratched. have heard men ga.
that a watch with q channels case VII
keep no better than one without sucl
protection, but that is nonsense.
eff you work near electrical instru
ments or ride on electrical cars. yUl
should have your watch demagnetized
The real cost Of this Is almost nothing
There is machine for the purpose. Yo'
place the watch on the positive side ant
then on the negative. There Is no NOR
work about it than there is in baking
loaf Of bread.
~ have heard men say that 1t was Inn
possible to take sick watch to jewele
without being told that the trouble La.
In broken handspring. But how httl
men who wear watches know abou
mainsprings! Broken mainsprings com
as sort Of epidemic. Don't laugh; In
simply telling you a fact. A year ag
this spring was flooded with watche
the mainsprings of which had snapped
A popularity Of the breaking was tina
each of the 25 or more turns to the sprinl
was severed, apd that the breaks wereil
q straight-line from the center to the cir
conference Of the spring.
"Now let me add few words as sor
of final. The best as well as the cheap
est watch movements in the world ar,
made in England and America. It's al
well enough to talk about Swiss watches
but in point Of accurate time keeping
there never has been made an expensive
Swiss watch that was whit superior Il
good English or American one.
"Wind your watch regularly, regulate
it, study its moods In both hot and colo
weather, keep the inner case closed, gel
it demagnetized and don't call the
matchmaker a robber when he tells you
that the handspring of your watch needs
renewal"
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-09-08

American citizens will continue to be tho
best dressed, the best fed and the best
housed people of the world.
There will be great advancement in all
the professions in literature, music and the
drama. People will be longer lived. They
will understand much better the nature Of
their wants and the treatment of diseases.
They will be better natured and more con-
ciliatory; consequently there will be less
need of the laws and laws methods. The
whole tendency of the race will be to-
ward comfort, leisure, luxury, cultivation,
simplicity in dress and broader charity In
all social relations The race will be hand
somer, healthier and happier than ever be-
fore in the history of the world
S. G.. BROCK.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-08-26

Our friends, the late enemy the
Clark people, are trying hard to stir
up a racket and keep themselves
before the public, but NJ 'tlo'k's
effort will fall fat The Demo
Gratis of Texas only move when they
have the power to move win
authority. They talk effectively
through the ballot box, and they
don't begin talking eighteen mort H.
before hand. This is an oil year,
Mr.. NJ atlock
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-08-26
The Only Democratic Daily In Gen.
trail Texas.
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sEMl-wEEKlY NEWS

Beginning with Tuesday, August
22nd, THE NEWS, in place of
its weekly, will issue a Semi
Weekly Edition., mailed to our sub
scribers Tuesday and Friday morn
ings of each week The Weekly for
the past five years has been an eight
page paper containing the cream
of the news published in the Daily.
Some time ago it was enlarged to
twelve pages, and under the new
arrangement our subscribers will
get sixteen pages Of matter each
week. The management appreci-
stes the very liberal support which
has been accorded il and makes this
decided improvement in its weekly
edition for the benefit of its friends
without any additional charge. The
SEMI.W News will be sent tc
any address upon the receipt of one
dollar. Address
j. r. BENNETT,
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-08-26
The Defence of the Alamo.

The world furnishes no example
surprising the chiyalric devotion to
duty, to country, to freedom, dis
played by the immortal defenders
of the Alamo. ON the PSI of Feb
ruary, 1896, Santa Anna appeared
before the Alamo, unfurled the red
AAg. and demanded its surrender.
The cannon OF the Alamo dehantly
answered. Santa Anna had a well
equipped and disciplined army of
about 5000. Colonel William b.
Travis, commanding the Alamo,
had, all told, ls3 men. On the
18th Santa Anna opened his bat
teres, and from that day till the
morning of the oh of March his fire
was incessant Travis little com
mand kept their cannon and unerr-
ing rifles hot day and night,
till on the morning of
the 9Th the final assault
was made, and every Texan died at
his post, not one left to tell the
story. Sixteen hundred of Santa
Annals soldiers dead in range Of the
defenders artillery and rifles bore
silent testimony how we'll the
Texans had done their duty. The
bodies of the dead heroes were
gathered by Santa Annals orders
into one common heap and burned.
His own LOCO dead were accorded
decent interment Shortly after
Texas established her independence
at San Jacinto, Juan n Seguln and
General Rusk had the bones OF
these immortal dead and the re.
mains of the Texans butchered at
G oliad carefully gathered and
decently buried.
The motive which aatuated Travis
and his men to defend the Alamo,
which he and they knew could but
end in the sacrifice of his whole
command was the Hottest patriot
ism. Santa Anna, with his inyad.
ing army, had rapidly moved into
Texas breathing vengeance. He
stopped before the Alamo to brush
out of his way the handful of men
garrisoning the fort. Every hours
delay was precious to Texas. There
was no army in the field, only few
scattered detachments here and
there, and time was absolutely es.
sential to the defence of Texas, to
the end that the men might arm
themselves, assemble, and prepare
to repel the invaders. Travis,
Crockett, Bonham, Bowie, and
their noble comrades therefore
determined to hold Santa Anna in
check at any cost as long as posi-.
BILE. From "Texas,' by Ex-Sena-
tor Samuel Bell Maxey, in Harper's
Magazine for September.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-08-26

Next Monday the house will vote
on the unconditional repeal of the
silver purchase clause of the Sher.
man law. The question has been
thoroughly discussed by the ablest
men in the house on each side and
has been manfully championed. If
they vote wrong it will not be for
want of information.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-08-26

This is great country, possessing
resources unnumbered and mex.
haustible, and will, without doubt,
pull through this trouble and soon
be in good shape again, either by
the help of proper legislation or in
spite of legislation of an adverse
kind.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-08-26

All bills due The NKws office for
Advet ii sing subscription or press
work are payable alone to
J r. BENNETT,
or to his authorized agent.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-08-26
1t has been well said in the Times

1t has been well said in the Times.
Herald that the national Democratic
party is now on trial Tor Its HE.
We now rise to remark that the
Democratic party iii Texas holds its
life in the hands of Waller > Ba-
ker and it's trusted advisers. The
defeated and desperate faction,
headed by the repudiated candidate
in the last election, will move
heaven and earth to rule OK rum the
Democratic patty in this state.
There must be prompt and wise
me ,ures taken at ouce, measures
adequate to the gravity OF the oc
casion and commensurate wlth the
dignity and aspirations of all true
Texans. If necessary, Reagan,
Dave Culberson, Oran Nj. Roberts,
Tom Brown, Crane, Hogg, Bailey,
Savers, Lsnham, Coke, and other
leaders, should be called into con-
ference aud the plan of the next
campaign arranged. The very lie
Of the Democratic party III Texas
may depend or pronounced and
prompt action. The state is fever
lsh with wild fancles, perplexed
with the subtle vagarles of entfusl-
astic Populists, and the insldlous
and dangerous suggestions OF the
Clark clique, and an official enuncla-
ton of the platform upon which
the party stands should be at least
tentively formulated, to the end
that Argument eyeryw here at the
hustings may be had upon its planks
Times Herald.
To The News t seems the Times
Herald is unduly ex ,ited. Its vivid
imagination magni6es the danger,
and in its fright it makes wild state
ments. The Democratic party,
both state and national, may be on
trial now. 1t has been on trial IN
this nation for over one hundred
wears, and does not now shrink from
its responsibilities. That its life in
this state is in the hands of any one
or any twenty men is not for one
moment believed Its life is in the
people who understand its tenets
and love its principles; patriots who
recognize the preservation of Its
principles as necessary for the per
petuation of republican government
in the world This patriotism of
the masses, this devotion to the
principles of Democracy as enabled
the grand old party of the people to
live through wars, pestllence and
famine, and triumph every time IFS
leaders would permit firm manly
stand for the people to be taken,
and it will live after the owner Of
the illustrious names mentioned,
together with the frightened editor
who penned the above clipping, are
sleeping in their narrow homes.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-08-26

At the request OF mAny OF our
subscribers we will present in our
SEMI WEEKLN News of next Tues
day the reply of Z Tom Cox to
Judge Clark.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-08-26

To our Clark friends; This is a
time of peace. The people spoke
last November. They will speak
again on nation al aft airs in 1926 and
on state affairs in this state in 1894.
Until time for them to speak they
will quietly watch their enemies,
and carefully note whether or not
their instructions have been obeyed
or not. They care nothing for
pow.wows and mass meetings. They
will wait until they can speak with
authority through the ballot box
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-08-26
Waco, Texas.

Gov. Crane in his interview pub.
lished yesterday in this paper voices
the sentiment of the Democrats of
Texas.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-08-26

There is no substantial reason
why Democrats should not unite
against common enemy in the
next state campaign. Clark will
not be in the ring as candidate;
neither will Hogg, and thus will be
eliminated two elements of discord.
And in view of the harm to the
state sure to result from victory
by the Populists, the man who con-
tinually strives to keep alive the
spirit of discord which in the last
campaign caused faction OF the
party to work and vote against the
state nominees of the Democratic
party, is cot a Democrat, at least
in action.