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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-05-31
TOM GREEN COUNTY.

LIGHT Special.
SAN ANGELO, May 30.-There
will be a summer normal at Cole
man on the oath of June to last I'M
til July %. j. E. Hickman Of
Santa Anna will conductit.
The free use of the grounds oc-
casionally occupied by the base
ball club Of this place has been Sc
cured for them, and they will pro-
coed to make improvements.
There was a senseless scare here
over the fool report that cyclone
was to lay this town low this week
and for several hours the timid
and credulous were on thorns.
Ozona people who are in town
looking over the wool business and
making arrangements, report the
staple wonderfully fine in that
section, but lament the low prices
that are offered.
The San Angelo colored school
has closed after a very successful
term under the management of
Principal johnson.
Business is about holding its
own in this city, but that is not
enough as this is the season when
it Is expected to come to the front
and look over the fence.
Next Sunday will be Children's
Day in the Methodist church and
a very interesting program will be
rendered. The night service will
be exclusively a child's service of
recitation and song.
There have been some extensive
sales Of young sheep and mutton
within the past week, prices for
young sheep running from $1.35
to $3.50 and for muttons from ST.
Is to 1925.
There was a delightful ice cream
supper served by the ladies of the
Baptist church on Thursday even
ing. p roceeds went to the church
organ fund.
Baseball was lively in this place
last Sunday, on the old Post
grounds, and another game is ar
ranged for tomorrow. Warren's
No. and the Printer nine will
Cross bats.
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average American, man or woman.
In rare cases it is met with. AL
ways more frequently in women
than with men, and never except
In those with deep feelings and
kindly hearts. The hard man or
woman, the one who lives more on
the outside than on the inside,
who has, as 1t is termed, thick
epidermis, is not the one who is
capable of such sympathy. 1t is
to the low voiced, soft handed, gen.
tie hearted daughters of the coun-
try that every expression OF this
subtitle kind is alone natural. 1t is
not the concomitant of a rugged ma
ture, and its possessor will be al
ways at a discount in meeting
with the harsher, harder, rougher
children of earth. 1t is not an in
heritance to be coveted for itself,
but for the wonderful power of di-
vinest ministry that it gives to its
possessor.
1t is the supreme gift of the
mother within her home; of the
grown up daughters as they aid
mother to care for the younger
olive branches around the home
table; Of the wife as she ministers
to the fretfulness of her husband
in his masculine irritations; of the
nurse at the bedside of suffering;
of the friend in that hour when
only the closest are admitted to
the presence chamber of q great
bereavement, or a sudden loss, or
a deep distres, or a mortal pain.
1t Is that one quality which the
miserable comforters Of Job lacked
in that season Of his great bereave.
ment and loss, when family and
fortune were torn from him in a |
night and he was left stripped OF
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ings that a thousand have persisted
in short half hour and that a
wholesale slaughter by land and
water has ,declmated that fair and
populous city. While we wait for
the full report Of that disaster,
confident that it will not be as
great as at first reported, the assur-
snces OF active assistance are heard
on every hand.
All these occurrences, and a
thousand instances less notable,
emphasize the truth, that the
American people are ever ready to
express their sympathy for distress
in the active measures Of material
aid. There is no distress cry that
is waited to the shores of the west
ern continent, whether from the
Green Isle or from Turk troubled
Armenia, that does not find re-
Spouse in immediate and active as
slstance. The pockets of the people
of this country have shelled out
more dollars for the distresses of
other peoples, than all the contrib
utions Of all other nations for for
eign relief combined, during the
past half century. The practical
sympathy that takes the form of
material aid to the destitute is a
national characteristic.
While this is true, there is no
doubt that as a people we are def
cient in that more subtitle express
sion OF sympathy that sits in
silence with those upon whom the
hard hand Of distress, or danger, or
loss, or grief, or pain has fallen I'M
til 1t has stunned feeling or
shrouded the heart in despair, I'M
til even the expression of sympa-
thy is undesired. These are the
hardest of all the sons and daugh.
tiers Of affection to minister to, for
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their hearts are so sore that they
cannot even bear allusion to their
griefs. This expression of silent
sympathy, the sympathy of eye
and touch and manner, denotes
the deeper qualities OF feeling out
OF which the divinest sympathies
Of the human heart are evoked.
This is the sympathy that Is so
needed in the home and in the
sick room and by the side of the
truly refined Of earth who are
sore of heart.
This is the sympathy that needs
to be cultivated. 1t is natural to
the mother who, in her ministries
to her little ones, gives expression
to her community Of grief, to her
deep soiicitude, to her maternal
pity, to her sharing in all their lit
tie sorrows, not so much by word
as by loving looks, and tender
motherly touches, and by added
tenderness of manner. Out Of
this manifestation to the children
comes to them as an inheritance
also the same silent, gentle, unob-
trusive gift Of ministry, that is the
greatest of earthly blessings to the
bruised and tender heart, too sore
In its nerves and too acutely sensi-
tive to pain to bear the word OF
coincidence. There is not on earth
a ministry of help so soothing as
this unspoken sympathy, which
though all unspoken is yet all elo-
quent in its expression fof deep
heart feeling.
This lie not the sympathy OF the
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all, as naked as he came forth from

all, as naked as he came forth from
the womb OF his mother.
No one can read that lament OF
the patriarch OF w without feeling
that II he had been blessed with
some silent sympsthizer in his
sorrow, when in the chimney cor.
ner he sat and scraped himsel
with a potsherd, there would have
been a different note sounding
through that wonderful poem that
has been the admiration OF the
mind OF all ages. One cannot h clip
but believe that his boils troubled
him less than his laxative friends
who seemed to think that it was
their turn to pour their sermons
upon his devoted head. Job, un.
fortunately, has not been the sole
sufferer from this tendency to
preach to the suffering, instead o.
sitting down silently with them in
their grief and letting the hear
speak through eye and touch.
So as we sit and think of the
hundreds who are suffering this
day, because Of the harshness of
nature, and because of the terrible
sfiiction that has lately fallen up.
on so many fair communities in
this land, we will also remember
that their material wants are not
forgotten by those to whom the
gods of this world have given
goods, and we will be glad that
their material wants are supplied
that food and shelter and medi-
clnes and nurses are provided fol
such as need these things. Thus
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remem bering and bearing our
part in that supply, let us also
remember that to US it is given to
cultivate those deeper sympathies,
those more subtitle expressions, that
finding no voice in word or dollar,
because not needed, are none the
less effective in binding up broken
hearts and pouring balm on
spirits bruised under the hard
heel of the worlds cruelty and un-
feelingness. May all such be
touched gently with the soft hand
Of divinest feeling, the true SYM
patty.
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A CURE FOB MUSCULAR RHRU-
MATIsM,

Mrs. r. l.. Lamson, of Fair.
mount, Illinois, says: "My sister
used Chamb erlain's Pain Balm for
muscular rheumatism and 1t eff.
fected q complete cure. 1 keep il
In the house at all times and have
always found it beneficial for aches
and pains. 1t is the quickest cure
for rheumatism, muscular pains
and lameness / have ever SEEM
For sale by E. Reuss, druggist, San
Antonio, Texas.
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SYMPATHY.

Just nine years ago today the
whole continent was startled with
the intelligence that the city of
Jamestown, in the Conemaugh
valley. Western Pennsylvania, had
been swept out Of existence by
flood which destroyed $4,000, 900
of public and private property
and swept 5000 human beings into
eternity. These years have not
effaced the impressions that were
made upon the mind and heart Of
the American people IS the tidings
were wired over the land. One
universal wave of sympathy swept
over the country from one end Of
it to the other and in every town
and city the hand of relief was
promptly extended. There was no
north, no south, no east, no west,
but we were all one people facing
q common calamity in which all
distinctions and differences were
forgotten.
During the long days that closed
that first week of uncertainty,
while friends and relatives in al
most every state In the union were
enquiring the fate Of loved ones,
there was no let up to the active
efforts of the people, evidencing
how genuine and how widespread
was that sympathy which great
calamity had evoked. 1t proved
that the heart Of the nation was
not dead, or its compositions steeled
against the sufferings and Attic
tions of strangers, but that down
deep, beneath the surface ripples
of acquisitiveness and speculation,
there flowed deep and resistless
current OF genuine feeling, a feel
ing that did not express itself in
words, but in deeds which clothed |
the naked and fed the hungry and
gave beds to those who were with
out.
1t was the same spirit which
moved the old Quaker as he stood
in crowd in Philadelphia, around
the dead horse Of poor carter that
had just yielded up the ghost, to re-
mark, as some loud expressions Of
sympathy were uttered, "Friend,
how sorry is thee? 1 am sorry
five dollars worth" and suiting the |
action to the word he put five dol
lars into the hand Of the poor fell
low. In few minutes the price
of another horse was made up and |
sympathy became active assis-
lance. This is Of the same chsrac-
ter as the old apostolic teaching
"show me thy faith without thy
works and / will show thee my
faith by my works." There is the
same spirit Of active, practical SYM
pathy seen in the relief that has
gone out to the sufferers in our
own state.
Again the distress cry has gone
up from the sister states Of Mis-
souri,, Iowa, Illinois and Michigan.
The destroyer has spread his wings
on the blast and has ridden the
raging floods, towns by the score
have been inundated, and the tales
OF lives that have been swept away
as in q dream reaches into the
hundreds. Scarcely has the echo
OF the calamity died out of our
ears before they are stunned with
the tidings of the awful destruc-
ton that has overtaken the city OF
st. Louis. The wires flash the It'd i
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-02-17

1t costs about $3.50, 100000 per an
mum for the farmers of this country
to market their crops with horse and
wagon. The Philadelphia Ledger es
Inmates that fully two thirds of this
enormous sum could be saved if the
way to market was over good roads.
The farmers of Pennsylvania would
be saved $12,6 900. These figures
prove the inestimable value of good
roads. In Italy we find farm horses
good and active at 80 years of age,
and farmers there and in France ex-
pect farm wagon to last lifetime.
Two thirds of $3.50, 1000, 900 would pay
for an immense amount of road i'm
provement all over the United States,
and if expended each year with good
judgment would soon make our roads
the best in the world.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-02-17

Did you ever think of it? A great
problem is soon to occupy the minds
of the people of the world. In four
years the sweep of time will carry us
into a new century and the figures
which indicate the century of eighteen
hundred will be exchanged for nine
teen hundred and we must write it
1900. When this time comes can we
abbreviate the year in writing and
printing as we do now in 1896? We wot
not. If we may abbreviate how shall
it be done? How will this look?, 700? or
this, 10. Will John Smiths subscrip-
ton label paid to 1900 be printed on
his paper, John Smith 1 janOO? This
would look as though Mr.. Smith was
hurt somehow and was calculating a
double on all through the year. Did
you ever before think what an incon-
venient time 1900 is going to be in it's
unabbreviated quality? IF so, just con-
slider how lucky your stars are that
you will not be living on this mundane
sphere in 1000!
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-02-17

1t is as foolish to use too much
space as too little.
Words to an advertisement are like
ipecac to a sick man. "Just enough
will strengthen; more will weaken.
In a small advertisement there
should be but one catch line. With
more than one it is apt to resemble a
poorly set display ad.
Never put in an ad. anything which
does not appear convincing to you. If
it will not impress you, how can you
expect it to impress others?
The first requisite of an ad. writer
is that he shall be able to say the
same thing differently, but Away con-
cisely and interestingly, several days
in succession
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-02-17
STEVENSON'S YOUTHFULNESS.

In those early days he suffered many
lndignities on account of his extreme
youthfulness of appearance and alb
sence of self assertion. He was at
Inverness, = being five or six and
twenty at the time, and had taken
room in hotel. Coming back after
dinner time, he asked the hour Of the
table d'hote, whereupon the landlady
said, in motherly way, ooh, I knew
you wouldn't like to sit in there with
the grown-up people, SO I've had a
place put for you in the bar" There
was frolic in the Royal Hotel, Beth
gate, in the summer OF 1879 Louis
was lunching alone; and the maid,
considering him an eligible quantity,
came and leaned out of the window.
This outrage on the proprieties was
SO singing that Louis at length made
free to ask her, with irony, what she
was doing there. ''Pm looking for
my lad" she replied. ''Is that hep"
asked Stevenson, with keener sar-
casm. "Weel, I've been lookin' for
him a. my life, and I've never seen
him yet," was the response. Louis
was disarmed at once, and wrote her
on the spot some beautiful verses in
beginner" she was kind enough to
say when she had read them. Cent
ara.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-02-17
Free pills.

Send your address to II. E. Buck1en & Co.,
Chicago, and get free sample box of DR..
Kings New Life Pills. A trial will convince
you OF their merits. These pills are easy in
action and are particularly effective in the
cure OF constipation and sick headache. For
malaria and liver troubles they have been
proved invaluable. They are guaranteed to
be perfectly free from every deleterious sub
stance and to be purely vegetable. They do
not weaken by their action, but by giving
tone to stomach and bowels greatly invigor-
ate the System. Regular size Csc per box.
Sold by FL. G. Pierce druggist
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-02-17
Children who Suffer

from scrofulous skin or scalp diseases, ought
to be given DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
who are puny, pale or weak, the discovery"
is tonic which builds up both flesh and
Siies equally to adults. As an appetizing. re-
storative tonic, it sets at work all the pro-
cesses of digestion and nutrition, rouses
every organ into natural action, and brings
back health and strength. In recovering from
grippe or In convalescence from pneumo-
MA feverS, and other wasting diseases IL
speedily and surely invigorates and builds up
the whole system.
For all diseases caused by torpid liver or
impure blood, as Dyspepsia, Billiousness,
Blotches and Eruptions, it gives most perfect
satisfaction.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-02-17
GOOD FARMING.

Mr. Editor While in Coventry a
Jersey Stock Farm, owned by George
Z. Bean & Son, and thought that
short description of it might be Of in
teresG to the readers of the MONITOR.
They have farm Of about two hum
dred acres and cut from so to 100 tons
OF hay every year. They have two
sllos of about 100 tons capacity each,
which they fill mostly with corn. Their
barn was originally 43 by As feet.
Finding this insufficient for their
needs, an addition was put on which
was 36x43 feet, and then in year Or
two another addition Of the same size
was put on the other side of the old
barn. The whole barn is we'll filled.
They usually plant about ten acres of
corn for the silos. They have herd
of 25 fnelooking COWS, the most of
them full blooded Jerseys, and the
others high grade Jerseys. They also
have ONE twelve or fifteen head of
young cattle. The COWS are fed en-
silage twice day, about twenty lbs.
to COW and one feed of hay. For
other feed a mixture Of cotton seed
meal and bran is used. Mr.. Bean said
that this year his COWS would average
him about $40 pounds of butter per
COW. They have a DeLaval separator
and believe in winter dairying. They
have been making a speciality of Jer-
sey stock about four years. We ad-
wise those who visit Coventry and
are interested in such things, to take
a look at the farm and its surround
ings. G.. r. S.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-02-17

There is something pointedly sug-
gestive in the celebrity with which
Great Britain in time of emergency
prepares a feet for action. Within
twenty four hours after neighboring
sovereign makes an expression of I'M
friendly opinion it is announced that
a flying squadron is to be fitted out
for a cruise. And two weeks later
there is ready a powerful fleet The
fact that there may be no call for war
only emphasizes the readiness of Eng
land to resort to her naval weapon,
which is unequaled by any otherpoW-
er on the globe.-Chicago Record.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-02-17
It is a grand thing to get outside Of

1t is grand thing to get outside OF
and be independent of ones circum-
stances. The man who knows not
whether he can be happy, until he
has balanced his bank account, and
estimated the value of his crops, and
insured his new barns, and made his
surroundings all that he could wish to
be, will never be successful in his
search for happiness. But the man
who finds his assurance against trou-
BILE and his chief joy in God, will be
happy in spite of his circumstances.
This is that better part, that should
not be taken away.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-02-17

Hon. Carroll D. Wright has contrib
|uted to the controversy as to whether
poverty is usually the cause of drink,
|or vice versa, these words:
''I have looked into a thousand
homes of the working people of Eu-
rope; 1 do not know how many in
this country. 1 have tried to find the
best and the worst. And while, as I
|say, / am aware that the worst exist,
and as bad as under any system or as
bad as in any age, have never had to
look beyond the inmates to find the
cause; and in every case, so far as my
observation goes, drunkenness was at
the bottom of the misery, and not the
industrial system or the industrial
conditions surrounding the men and
their families
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-02-17

Blot out as far as possible all the dis
agreeables of life; they will come, but
they will only grow larger when you
remember them, land constant thought
of the acts of meanness makes you
more familiar with them. Obliterate
everything disagreeable from yester-
day, start out with clean sheet for
to-day, and write upon it for sweet
memorY's sake only those things
which are lovely and lovable.-Er-
change.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-02-17

The man who is thinking of borrow
ing money to go into business with
should just now recall that it was do
ing business on borrowed capital that
precipitated the panic of 1898. It was
said to be caused in the first place by
the embarrassment of Barring Bros
bank in London. But it was not. When
the Barring failure occurred, the banks
of America got scared and refused to
lend their shaky customers any more
money. Then the business of the
shaky customers went to pieces with
crash and the country found out
how many such people there were.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-02-17
NEEDLES OF ART AND NATURE.

The microscope in the hands of a
painstaking German scientist has
shown that nature has things down to
much timer point than man. This
scientist looked long and patiently at
the point of a needle, which goes to
show how thorough is the search that
German scientists are making to
know the world about them.
Ordinarily much would not be ex-
pected to be found on the point OF a
needle, but the German scientist has
found there world of unexpected
things.
He found that the needle point, in
stead of being smooth and round and
sharp as everybody has supposed, is
clumsy, rough and blunt. Under the
microscope it looked like the end of
croWbar. This was one of the finest
cambria needles.
The wasp can give points to the
best needle makers, for his singing
needle has not only delicate taper
ing end that no artificial product can
equal, but it is barbed for a long part
of its length with other points that
are invisible to the naked eye, but
quite perceptibIe in the epidermis. A
beautiful harpoon is this sting of the
wasp, and it seems that here in this
sting with which nature has armed this
insect is a veritable arsenal which
will make man and all other insects
regard the wasp with the respect born
of fear.
The thorn of the rose, on the other
hand, has none of the barbs that
make the sting of the wasp SO for
midable. It is, however, corrugated
throughout it's whole length with
minute channels.
The pinhead under the microscope
is even more blunt and clumsy than
the needle point. 1t seems that it is
impossible for man to put perfect
point on any instrument. This is ac-
counted for by the unevenness of the
grain of iron and steel, for the finest
steel under the microscope seems to
be mass of molecules of differing
sizes and densities.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-02-17

1t is said that the Prince of Wales
has advised Lord Dunraven to keep
we'll in mind in whatsoever he may do
further in the matter of the unlucky
yacht races, the Importance of pro-
noting good feeling between the
peoples of Great Britain and of this
country, as well as among the yachts
men merely Of the two countries. 1t
is pity-for Dunraven-that the
stubborn lord did not take advice Of
the cooler headed prince before he
immersed himself in so much-and
such very hot-water. He may pos
sibly ''make up'' with the New York
yaehtsmen, but for the present it is
hard to see any discreet way of going
about it. He can never regain the
confidence or respect of the American
public
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-02-17

If you would increase your happi-
ness and prolong your life, forget
your neighbours faults. Forget all the
slender you have ever heard. For
get the temptations. Forget the
fault finding and give little thought
to the cause that provoked it. For
get the peculiarities of your friends
and only remember the good points
which make you fond of them. For
get all personal quarrels or histories
you may have heard by accident, and
which, If repeated, would seem
thousand times worse than they are.