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The herald., 1893-02-26

SIGNING TWO THOUSAND LETTERS A DAY.
the law, must sign SO many letters and
non1inally pass Upon so MANY repcrts4lnd
documents, that his energies are spent in
labor almost entirely clerical. 5
Under such circumstances It is inevitable
that more important duties will be more
or less neglected White other employees
finish their work at 4 o'clock sharp and
hurry yhomeward, the secretary remains till
6 or7, and then takes home with him for
examination and study matters which he
should have attended to during the day,
but which itlwas physically impossible to
reach.
Imagine cabinet officer sitting down to
his desk, as the secretary Of the interior
does every morning, with pigeonholes OPEN
ing before HIM such marks as pensions, /"
railroads." public lands" "Indians," !"
''census," patents" education" Each
Of these titles signifies that vast depart
ment of the government demands his at
tention. The pension Office pays out money
to million pensioners in oil S140,p00, 600
year; the lapd aided railroads 10 paYtfcu-
lar and all railroads in general are under
the inspection of the railroad Office; the
millions Of acres Of pnblic lands, agricnl-
tural and mineral with their surveys, set
Elements and litigation, form responsible
ity delicate from the human and vast from
every other point of view; 81, COO, 900 q year
is tho sum spent upon the Indians, and
theoretically all the survivors of the aborig-
inal American race are under the fostering
care Of the secretary of the interior. The
patent Office is q great department in itself,
and so is the census office But this is not
all The secretary of the interior has charge
of the geological survey of tho great ma
tional parks, Of irrigation of arid lands, of
distribution of funds to agricultural and
mechanical colleges in the states and ter
ritories, of public documents and of certain
hospitals and eleemosynary institutions
He also exercises certain powers and duties
In relation to the territories Of the United
States. And the secretary OF the interior is
mere humani
AS the government expands it is evident
we must increase the ninber of our depart
ments and of their responsible heads or
cabinet officers. Every one OF the present
secretaries is sadly overworkel, A crowd of
people is always waiting to see him. A desk
full Of letters and documents remains TN
touched. Stenographers and secretaries
await the moment when their chief may
have opportunity to dictate letters to them.
Departments assistants have Important mat
teis TO consult with him about, and as he
talks and tries to think tho ovcrworked OIL
cial must perform fho Grudgery of ''sigAing
themail, 30 that the wheels may be kept in
motion. An assistsus passss the sheets and
nnanipsilatss the blotSer, Ehus saving the
secretary o little manual tol. But what is
needed is srbdivisf1t, Of the ever increas-
ing work and responsibility Of government,
so that the men who are supposed to lead
and direct'naay have tiIne to think.
HogEfr GRAVES.
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tour OF the well known departments and
Institutions, .traversed their long corridors
and seen literal acres OF desks and square
rods OF open 1edsers and records, he stum-
bies upon many other government bureaus
In unexpected places. All over the city he
finds big buildings rented by Uncle Sam
end converted into hives for the transac-
ton of his almost infinite business. Scat
tered about each Of the principal depart
lnents are rom three 10 q dozen rented
buildings into xiiich the business Of the
bureau has owf nown aftsf filing the space
originally set apart 4for 1t from cellar to
garret.
10 tell the. truth, the government is rap
idly out8rowing oil Of its quarters and
many ofAss methods. The Capitol isn't big
enough, noswithstan anding the recent build
ing OF million dollar addition in the
shape Of o terrace, end adjacent buildings
are bought cr rented by congress- Thecen-
sus office, which hsslhad at times 1900 ern-
ployess In this city, has occupied half a
dozen buildings, .seSttcred all about The
White House tsn't Zig enough and wilkhave
to be enlarged
The treasury, which was big enough for
ell the offices uiider its cortrof twenty-five
years ego, is now dreadsulIy crowded,
though bureau after bureau has moved ont
and found quarters elsewhere. The con-
gressiona1 or national library, now housed
In the Capitol, is one Of the strangest jun
bles Of literature and rubbish you ever saw,
with books piled afl over the hoofs and I'll.
ing every nook and Granny. The finest
library building in tho world will soon be
ready for It's occupancy.
To descsibe for you oven IN the most gen
eral and rapid way the great variety oi
functions fIled by Roverninent wooh take
pages instead OF coharnns of type. Take, TO,
example, the department Of the ifteerior. 4
has become one Of the most prodigious oi
all the government, bufeaus For quarter
of oentury ~ has been the dump heap into
which everytating that could not be else
where attached has been thrown. The re
suit is that 1t has grown to cumbersome
proportions. II Is unwieidy, and q move
meet is on foot to take many ofits bureaul
and organize them into o new department
to be called the department. Of cofnrnerce
This would mean anew cabinet cfticer, ant
when the Office is crested and flled is in
curnbent will find plenty TO do.
The secretary Of the interior has unde
his direction so many huge governncn
concerns that he can give iittie or no atten
tion to any Of them. Each therefore be
comes ID frict d sort Of independent bureau
non1inally controlled by tho secretary, bu
actually running Wild" The tradition
and Organization Of the department. ar
such that fhe nominal head becomes Ettl
else than a ehtef clerk. Hemust attend t
o1nuehroutlug business In order to fulfil
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A ffew Bulls.

A Chicago paper tells Of young man
who had just returned from Europe and
was showing bis friends some photographs.
He came to one of the tomb Of Juliet, and
after giving an account Of 1t said, "Juliet's
esophagus is full Of cartis." This would be
degree or two woras for poor Juliet than
cold poison, to say nothing Of its utter i'm
possibility at this Hste date He wound up
with a glowing talk on Venice and the
"Dratic'' sea. A pious old lady Of my ac-
quaintance happened in at Christian En-
deavor meeting, which is always held be-
fore the regular night chnroh service. She
was much Impressed by the young peoples
esxnestness and especially pleased with the
singing. She said: "Oh, / do love 10 hear
'em singi THEY sing with such venoml''
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When Sore Throats were Expensive.

"When first went into the show busi
ness," said a wealthy retired circus man,
"one Of. my chief attractions was pair
of girafies. Gnaffes were novelty in
those days, and these proved to be great
card, but before had Them month
they were both taken with sore throats.
Do you realize what it means for giraffe
to have sore throat? 1t pretty nearly
bankrupted me to provide for their cure. "
New York Sun.
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built up wholly by government rake away
from Washington the public employment
and there woald he litsla left. Every third
family in town diAsss its suppcro from the
government payroll, and tho ether two live
By supplying tlle Fss5its Of the nrst Stand
on ofle Of the rnnin thdfonkhfares Of the
rapitai at s.6 Ii dhe morning and Euu fail
to see The throngs di people ertisItineto their
work which are FreseHt at tfxt hc,ir on the
streets OF dSAer citieA but juHh Two hours
Gter every Sidewalk viii be HtSRversed by
crowds Of lnsn and wetnen nno4ing toward
khe doors ofthe great go8eanment depart
ments.
Five minutes after the streets are al
most deserted. Twenty-ifse {hpndred peo
pie have eoneto thelr, desks n thefreasury
depaftment, nearly 1900 in the pension Of
fce, 1900 Ia the big wdf, state and navy
buitding, q Thousand n the ifitErior depart
I1ent, aafSthcr ShoIeana II the goveapsAent
printina Office, ard, tAd1ssnsis tnore in the
other d6bsttndsfas and bureaus
Tie visitor to Washington finds . con-
vftioing sob}eSt lesson IL the mensaSy Of
~ sHsAfnfAenSs.s Ter Mtet ha hasa anade n
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And He Understood.

Mr.. Longstop (naking an evening CALI
By the way, Miss Quiekstep, did you get
anything nice for Christmas gift?
Miss Quickstep- Indeed I did. I will
show it to you with pleasure. 1t is on the
nantelpiece.
Mr.. Longstop looks in the direction in
dicated and sees a beautiful clock whose
hands point to 1f:eO Chicago Tribune.
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Nm No Hurry.

Mrs. O'F.-Can have, my husband put
In tai fef slappt1k. me in Che rf1duths
Harsfsrrs a sd sssskse1sG5sftaInIy Tnnt IS assault
and battery.
''Weil I'll cpnehfound in about month
and make The charge"
"WhT not have hfsn,aTested at onces"
ssWeia, you seq, whom he slapped me 7 hit
him in the head With a rollin pin and he's
now in the hospital, and the doctors says
he won't be abte to get out for month
yet."---Li1e's CaieralaS
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Where 1t Camo From.

The Big sister-Tommy, what do you
mean by shifting at Mr. Slopay's overcoat'
The Little Brother-I'th tryin to thmell
th1noke When pa thaw it he thaid the
mutht been FIRE thomewhere. Clothiers'
and Haberdashers' Weekly.
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He wanted Some Experience,

"why did you arrest this MANI" asked
the judge stetnly.
''For practice" returned the policeman
'I'm new on the force and wanted to
learn how, your honor. "--Harper's Bazaar
The herald., 1893-02-26

Some argue that light, the astron-
omer's only basis of search in the un-
fashionable regions of space, expands
and decomposes in its progress, and that
ct best it gives us only very imperfect
data uponswhich to base calculations
The herald., 1893-02-26
She--You will have to work hard if you
win her
The poet--I'll have to work harder II I
E0ntt.--Iiife

Placer county, New, lays claim to a
valuable specimen Of petrifed vegeta-
ton. 1t consists Of two pieces Of rock
which are believed to have been water
melons, as they hsve the exact shape
and appearance Of that fruit.
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A Poets Fancy.

Wife of His Bosom--What atouching de-
scription Of conjugal bliss you have given
In that last novel of yours George, dearl !
wonder where on earth you got it 'FRONT.'
Mannigfaltiges.
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A Great Success.

NJ henr you took the west by storm"
"Weil, / should say 30. Why, the first
time I got on cable car half the men Of
fsred their seats, the other hah tried to pay
my fase, the conductor gave me pass, and
tho moturrnan came in and proposed to
ms. n>aI dfR
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what did he dofy "welI, he tried 30 blow
the foam of glass of water."
A small boys beautdfnl sister saw him
standing on his head on the lawn. II
wouldn't do that # were you, Jimmy"
said she; II wouldn't" 'Wouldn,t9" he
replied "by Jocks, you couldn't. New
York World.
The herald., 1893-02-26

The relative ratios Of the lower case
letters in ordinary work Isl z, 1; k, j. q, K,
8; b,v,7; g,p,w,y 10; c. I, u, IN, ID;
d, l, 20; b, r, 90; o. 4, n, 0, s, 40; 7, 45; .,
90. Total $50
The herald., 1893-02-26

Contraction Of the iron used In con-
structing the great Eiffel tower makes
that famous structure eight inches
shorter in winter thsn 1t is during the
hot summer n,cnths.
The herald., 1893-02-26
Her Only Chance,

A.--Why does Miss Elderly go on the ice
every time there is skatingS
B.-Because that's her only chance to see
q man at her feet.-Texas Siftin&s.
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DIR, HONG Sol.
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a BUSINESS CHANGE.
tmMENSE INTERESTS ikvogyED an
VA cfiAkGE OF ADMINISTRATION.

Uncls sam's Actual Expenditures "A mount
Nto s1o5ooo,ooo q Week.-Mrs. Erausactions
Compared with Those of G.reat corpora-
'eaons--How the business Is Conducted.
Especial Correspondence.l
WASHINGTON, Jan 16.-Six weeks hence
fhe government will change hands," A
how lot of managers viii come in end take
the places of those who dFe now in control
This Is the mightiest business transfer the
world has ever seen. There is.nothing else
pike 1t anywhere ID hewuslds No otherna-
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for Infants and Children.

"Castoria is 20 well adapted to children that
Irecommend it as superior to any prescription
known to me- II. A. ARCHER, II. D.,
III So. oxford St., Brooklyn, N. z.
The herald., 1893-02-26

Caxtoria cures Colic, Constipation,
Sour Stomach, Dierrhosa. Eructataon,
gestion,
without injurious medication.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-11-16

fluence. however, is generally exagger-
ated. Most remarkable is the manner
in which Judgment of God" is secured
by the hemp smokers. Those that are
accused continue the smoking of hemp
until the guilty oneis compelled to make
a confession. On the other hand, the
thieves of India use this hemp for the
purpose of pursuing their work. They
secretly make a hole in the house and
fill it with fumes of hemp smoke. This
has its effect on the people of the house,
and when the thieves enter they find
them in the most agreeable humor, in
capable of understanding what is going
on and even welcoming the marauders
with the most pleasant words and ges-
lures. These statements are from the
travels of Won BibTa.
Then the hasheesh smokers frequently
get into a state much resembling hyi,
notism. in which it is possible to place
the members of the body in any posi-
ton and to treat the body as though it
,were all made of joints. The similarity
between hypnotism and the effects ii
hasheesh smoking is so great that DR.. Won
Schrenk- NOtzig of Munich made special
investigation Of this subject. 1t is Wei
known that when person is hypnotizel
a single word or threatening action suf-
fees to throw the subject into spasms of
rage The authority just mentioned has
discovered that in a similar way per-
son under the influence of hasheesh can
be affected. He even discovered that
persons who do not submit to ordinary |
hypnotism can be put into this state
through the chewing or smoking of hash
eesh. The faculty most influenced by this
narcotic is the imagination. The imme-
date present is idealized into the most
beautiful and fantastic forms. Hearing |
is made finer, and the finest strains of
music affect as they never did before
Lelpsic Daheim.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-11-16

down to posterity as the Slayer of the last
British rabbit? What pathetic picture
might be drawn of the last cock pleas
anti Perhaps some Macaulay of the far
distant future may astonish his readers
by his account of what went on in the
rural districts of Great Britain in the
nineteenth century.
He would relate how, owing to the
scantiness of the population, men used to
shoot cartridges and pheasants by the
thousand on ground then and for gener,
ations past the sites of immense towns;
telling how the great garden Of England,
then mapped out into small tenements,
each laboriously and infinitely cult,
waited, with no waste of wood or hedge
row, used in those far away years to be
furiously ridden over by hundreds Of
horsemen in pursuit of an animal long
since extinct in the land and only knoWn
to the curious in old books of natural
history. -NIacmillan's Magazine.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-11-16
How Air Resists a motive.

Experiments made by the scientists
appointed for that purpose by the French
government show that the resistance Of
the atmosphere to the motion of high
speed train often amounts to half the to-
tai resistance which the locomotive must
overcome. Two engines, of which the
resistance was measured repeatedly and
found to be 10 pounds per ton at 81 miles
per hour, were coupled together and
again tried. In the second trial the re-
sistance fell to IA pounds per ton, the
second engine being shielded from at
mospheric resistance by the first. 1t
strikes me that there is an idea for some
inventor half unmasked in this ITEM
ST. Louis Republic.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-11-16
WHY BOOKS ARE CHEAP.
A Machine That Prints and Folds Three
Thousand Every Hour.

Thousand Every Hour.
There are various rumOrs and tales
floating about town among those in the
business concerning some wonderful ma
chinerv over on the west side of the city
in a certain monStrOus bOOkmaking es-
tablishment.
The novel machine is a large web
press similar to the kind newspapers~a
printed on, but arranged to take curved
electrotypes of each page of book i'll
stead Of a single large metal cylinder
casting. There are two cylinders, on
each of which IA pages may be screwed,
and as the long strip of paper goes
through, first one side is printed and theI,
the other, making it possible to print 2SS
pages at every revolution. The strip Of
paper, after being carried over rollers
which dry the ink, is cut, folded and
brought together in the shape of a small
volume, with the edges all trimmed. Ev-
cry time the great'cylinder goes round a
novel is printed, folded and trimmed, and
5000 of these are turned out every hour,
while, if it were necessary, 1000 or 5000
might be the quota.
From the printing press these books
are carried to a little machine that looks
like a sewing machine, and two wire
stitches are taken in the back of each
The stitched volumes are then carried to
the covering machine, where they are put
side to side in long feeding trough. At
the end of this is little compartment
large enough to take book, carried on
an endless chain running over wheels at
each end. Indeed, there are a series of
little compartments on this chain, and
as the chain moves along each one re-
ceives a book. As the book proceeds a
wheel running in a gluepot presses
against its back, smearing it with glue.
A little further along there is pile OF
covers that comes up at just the right
moment, leaving a cover sticking to the
! gluey back of the book,
In this way 80 books can be covered
every minute. Two hundred and fifty
thousand of these paper covered novel;
are thus turned out every two weeks, ant
extra editions of $4,000 or so are otter
worked III besides.-New York CONNER
cial Advertiser.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-11-16
A Sign of Good Breeding.

One of the most convincing signs Of
good breeding is respect for other peoples
rights. We all subscribe to that state
ment in theory. Yet how many of us
always remember in any public place,
in the street car or at a hotel table not
to introduce the two subjects that are
inevitably certain to hurt some one pres
ent-religion or politics? Women are
not exempt from dabbling in politics,
though generally professedly ignorant of
public affairs. Sometimes their speeches
apropos of ones favorite politician re-
mind one of the hint conveyed in the as
sertion that the wasp can sting as well
without its head as with it.-Chicago
Mail.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-11-16
Surprised at Clerical Uneasiness.

DR.. Berrian. former rector of Trinity
parish in New York city, was an indif-
ferent preacher, but a fine executive Off
Ger and man of great personal kindh-
ness. Withal he was very simple heart
ed. A country clergyman, half starved
on a salary of $500 year, came to DR..
Berrian asking his influence to get him a
better charge. Dear mel" answered
the good old man. Il don't see why you
young clergymen want to change so
often. Why, l have been here in Trinity
church for 40 years and never have
thought of leaving. San Francisco Ar
gOnaut
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
THE STATE OF TEXAS. /

COUNTY OF BEXAR.
To the Creditors of c. II. Garrison:
You are hereby notified that c. H. Garri-
son, of the county and state aforesaid, on
the Both day of October, 1898, executed a
deed of assignment, conveying to the I'M
derSgned all of his property for the bene-
fit of such of his creditors as will consent
to accept their proportional share of his
estate, and discharge him from their re-
Spective claims, and that the undersigned
accepted said trust and has duly quail
fled as required by law. All creditors
cOnsenting to said assignment, must,
within four months, after the publication
of this notice, make known to the as
signee their consent in writing, and with
in six months from the date of this notice
file their claims, as prescribed by law,
with the undersigned, whose Office and
place of business is at No. los East HouS-
ton street, San Antonio, Texas, which is,
also. his poStoffice address,
Witness my hand and seal, this the Sd
day of November, A. ID. 1898.
1-3.3w II. p. MCCALL.
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The Last English Rabbit.

The game of the world is decreasing,
and as new lands are opened to civiliZa,
ton so it will get less and less. In the
struggle for existence, there will be no
room for the sportsman. His require
ments will grow more modest as time
advances, bur they will not be satisfied.
The last British wolf was killed in Suth-
erlandshire about the year 1900 by a man
named Poison. Who will be handed
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-11-16
French Servants and wealthy shopkeepers.

French Servants and Wealthy ShOpkeepers.
The one extravaganza of dress of the
French servant girl lies in having hel
best gown made by dressmaker instead
of making it herself Hence her corsages
always fit her well, and her plain stuff
costume has a degree of style about il
which she is fully capable of appreciat'
ing. The ladies of the so called bour'
geois set-the wives and daughters Of
rich shopkeepers and manufacturers
very rarely indulge in rich fashionable
toilets. Nine. Boucicaut, the foundress
of the Bon Marche, was worth millions
upon millions. Always arrayed in black
silk or satin of excellent quality, but
made in the plainest possible style, she
looked to the last hour of her life just
what she was-the greatest and richest
shopkeeper in Paris possibly, but still a
shopkeeper, and one that never tried to
look like anything different. When the
daughter of one of these wealthy trades
people marries, her trousseau is usually
very superb, but the famous masters Of
the art of dress are seldom or never
called upon to exert their inventive tall
ents in her half.-Lucy Harper in
Home Journal.