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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-30

All this is equally true of task, an
joy. an idea, vacation.
And it is especially true of the vaca
ton Indeed, perhaps one reason why
the vacation delayed its coming so
long was that people We're so anxious
to arrange it all to their likings, and
many of them were very slow in find
ing out that, if one could not have
three months, a months leisure was a
fine thing; and that even fortnight's
outing gave zest and variety to the
years routine While there were quite
possibilities in week off.
Since they have learned these things,
and perhaps especially. since many of
them have become sufficiently ac-
ouainted with Nature to make it no
longer necessary to spend some days or
weeks in wearing off the strangeness
of her presences, and becoming accus-
toned. in a measure. to her solitudes,
vacation has a far more cheerful sound
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-30

of the children of Augusta, an excur-
sion to Ocean Point. next, Monday, on
the steamer Islander. leaving here at
Gas A. NJ. The money for the excur-
sion wassraised by the business men OF
the city, who wished the ladies to use
it in this way. All thdee. willing to
give food for the lunch for the chill
dren arc requested to leave the same
at Beane's store. on Bridge street. Sat
urday afternoon.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-30
UNDER SUMMERS SWAY.
Thoughts and Suggestions Relative TO the
Vacation Season.

Life has probably not more
problems than of old, but of
some Of the minor ones peo-
pie are doubtless far more conscious.
One of these lesser ones is the question
of recreation,-how to get it in ra-
tional way, and in such form that 1t
shall recreate: how, also. to obtain it
without a disproportionate outlay. in
attention, time and money. 1t does not
need a Franklin to tell some of us that
in our search after pleasure we are
often paying too dear for our whistle,
nor that to our neighbors the diversion
is even more costly. Yet the need of
that which we are so clumsily seeking
is more and more apparent. Said
Helen Hunt Jackson: "Our people are
imaginable" nor did she seem to see,
at that time, very obvious possibilities
of it's betterment in this direction. But
happily. many of the lesser opportu-
mites of their lives have since then
dawned upon the Americans and even
on the New Highlander. Many of them
We're even in sight before the advent of
the ubiquitous wheel.
The broadening and the interfering
of life which has been accomplished by
the vacation, by summer travel, and.
of course, by the wheel, is something
Indeed, it comes about,
in great part. from the less hampered
existence and the freer social inter
course which people of almost all
classes and standards of conduct have
come to allow themselves during the
summer. How is anything but re-
serve and individuality to be expected
from people swathed in furs and fian-
nels? Storm doors and outside win
dows shut out other things than wind
and snow and frost, unless some
special pains be taken to shut these
things in. For great deal of our self
reliance, our independence and thrift
our material and social confluence, We
are doubtless indebted to the necessi-
ties. remembered all the twelve month
of our pitiless winters. And some of
our unlovelier traits have their rise in
like sources. as We cannot doubt. Yet
wisdom itself, Emerson tells US, lis not
to be found among people who dwell
al their ease"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-30

A summer normal institute especially
for teachers of public schools and teach
ers OF Sunday schools has been started
at Lake Anasagunticook, Canton The
sessions open next Tuesday. Prof. F.
II. Butterfield is superintendent.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-30

When the gates are once opened, how
ever, one cannot of Il surety say what
will next enter 1t is a common reali-
cation that people permit themselves
to do, to see. to hear, to read. in sum-
mer time what would not be allowed to
enter sense nor mind during the
sterner season. Not all the summer by
ways lead to naturalness or refinement
And yet. natures own ways are always
sane and beneficent and in their es-
sence. refining.
1t was to Wordsworth's Lucy, of
course. that Nature said
This child | to myself will take:
She shall be mine, and | will make
a lady of my own
And yet the breathing balm" 1.-The
silence and the calm of mute insensate
things are here still: and beauty
born of murmuring sound will pass, -
if not into the face into the heart of
man or woman, as well here as at
Rydal Mount
1t has dawned upon most of us that
the larger number of things in this
world come must be taken when they
come. not when we think they ought
to come. nor when we think we are
ready for them. Usually. their arrival
doesn't coincide with our reckoning at
all. The opportunity we thought we
ought to have had last year, or the
year before. or maybe ten years ago
is just coming in sight But l hope we
shall not be so foolish as to turn our
backs upon it because it is little over
due 1t won't be likely to wait even
now, for us to make up our minds as
to whether we will use it. Late OF
early, it is now or never, with most of
it's kind.
And the work we We're getting ready
to do, that we thought we were by nc
means prepared to undertake.. yet. OF
the pleasure we were anticipating by
and by, for some people think even a
pleasure has no right to show its face
till the clock has struck twelve-comes
and beckons us now. and will not be
put off, or turned away, unless for good
and all.
And whatever it is, or whenever il
comes, the real success and satisfac-
ton of life are to be won only by ac-
and as it is, not expecting to make oui
terms for it.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-30

1t is truism that only he can know
the value of work who does not know
the contribution which leisure must. in
its turn, make to his task 1t is NOT
only true that one is the complement
other. There is no work which is
worthy of the name, which is more
than an infinitesimal and mechanical
task, which is not furthered and per-
fected by repose. The man or woman
who has discovered work has still an
other discovery to make-he or she
must learn how to rest: and this not
only after the task, but in it.
So much of our best activity is I'M
conscious, or sub-conscious, and GER
tainly so much of our receptivity lies
in states and processes of which we are
happily and healthily unaware, that
we can really work, and live, only
While our faculties are sustained and
stimulated by a thousand unnoticed
agencies, and renewed by both the
momentary and unconscious cessatons
of effort, and by the more deliberate
yet quite as instructive leisures that
come by determination and fore
thought
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-30

Even for people to whom, as yet, the
bicycle makes no appeal-who prefer
with the Chinaman. ito walk on the
ground" there are doubtless agencies
and opportunities within reach that
would change, for a time, the whole
| color and the very texture of life The
vacation that refuses to materialize as
n whole, may be taken, little by little
a great many people are aware of this
faet. and their personalities usually
make other people comfortably con-
scious of it. also. But there are others on
dawned. Why is it. that a woman will
plan and economize perhaps the whole
year through that she may have her
| month at the island or fortnight in
the city a little later, and will let a
thousand lesser opportunities go by,
unimproved? There are people who
would feel themselves defrauded if by
chance they should miss their yearly
| outing, whatever shape they are ac-
| customed to choose for it, who never
think of spending an afternoon in the
woods that they look out on daily, and
have no desire to see a score of lovely
| hooks to which they could be trans
ported in an hour? 1t is the unlocked
for opportunities that give zest to life.
the unexpected encounters that give it
its sparkle and the little pleasures that
| give it its sweetness.
| Joy is the elixir of life, and it comes
in little walls of happiness, marked.
Use Immediately" Many people, how
ever, are 50 much occupied in preserv-
ing the Walls that they have not
stopped to read the labels.
| To what extent the weather and the
bodily and mental conditions it induces.
are responsible for our virtues and our
faults or follies, it is hard to say.
There is a herosm-per diem-which a
cynical observer might connect with a
clear sky and brisk northwest wind.
| There is tolerance hardly to be dis
| sociated from "a spell of soft weather"
1t would be hypercritical to attempt to
say how much of the goodness that is
in the world is stimulated or sustained
in such wise. And perhaps it would
be equally futile to attempt to trace
all the ill-temper, the intolerance. the
Impotence and perversity and folly
OF men and women to a particular con-
dition of the atmosphere, or a wind
shifting to easterly
| But 1t may be Well to remember in
ones association with ones fellows.
that heat begets petulance and contra
diction, and east winds worry, and dog
days inertia That torrid days and
feverish nights and muggy mornings
multiply at wonderful rate the mem
tai and moral bacilli whose outward
manifestations are sharp retorts, i'll
natured criticism. petty neglects and
diseourtesies. and real derelictions from
duty 1t is better not to magnify such
things by overmuch attention to them.
but to "hark back to the days before
them, and anticipate the days that will
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-30

No one is able ito see life clearly and
to see it whole" who has not the power
both to work and to cease from work
ing. There is so large part of our
existence that is not ours at all, save
as we unconsciously appropriate it
from eXistences around us; and yet.
without such assimilation, life is puny
and hating. To sustain these pro-
cesses, the majority of mankind de-
mand an occasional variety in compan-
ionship, associations, and surround
ings.
One of the things which people have
been slowest to see, is, that it is often
possible to secure this variety of i'm
preston. and indeed of partial environ
mept, by very simple means and with
Il moderate outlay
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-06-13
WAR WITH SPAIN.
What an Army Officer Has to Say
Regarding This Possibility.
The United States Able Easily to Cope
with the Forces of That Country
Would Take Immediate Pos
session of Cuba

Army officers become singularly reti-
cent and decline to express themselves
the instant crisis arises between the
administration and any foreign power;
but enough was gathered the other day
to know that those of the regular army
stationed in New York are not at ell
uneasy as to the outcome ga war with
Spain, or, in fact, with any other power.
One prominent officer of the army
freely discussed the situation on con-
dition that his name should not be used,
as under the circumstances it might
bring him into an argument with the
department at Washington He said:
eff we should go to war with Spain the
United States would have possession of
the island of Cuba in a very few days.
In fact, in my judgment, it would not
require any longer time than was neces-
sary for the feet now assembling in
New York waters to reach Havana with
the necessary forces on board. The
Spanish army on the island would be
between two fires at once, and they
are having about all they wish to do
now to keep the Cuban forces out of
Havana. AS for the Spanish naval
force now in Cuban waters, you, as well
as any other man, can see with half an
eye that it would not count for two
hours against the fleet of Admiral
Bunce now assembling in New York
harbor. No, do not think the war
would be carried by this country be.
yond the confines of Cuba. However,
that might depend upon the amount of
indemnity this country would think
she was entitled to in case the pro-
visions of the protocol of % years ago
were violated. II that document was
strained in any particular it might
cost Spain all of her remaining posses
sions on the western hemisphere. The
only source of danger for a little time
would lie in the chance that Spain
might take it into her head to lombard
one or more of our minor seaports.
With the forces at command for Of
fensive operations everybody is quite
as familiar as any army man. In fact,
the number of volunteers would only be
limited by the call issued by the presi-
dent. We never have depended upon Q
standing army, as you know, and we
would not need any in the case of Spain.
Now, if it were England, the case would
be vastly different"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-06-13
Raines Law Failures.

From the National Liquor Dealer.l
The Raines law is a failure even
as revenue producer. The esti-
mate of Mr., Raines was that the
states share. Of the tax would
amount to more than $3,000,000. 1t
now promises to be about one
third that sum.
On the other hand, the law as a
check upon the liquor traffic is
still more lamentably failure. 1t
is opening the dives and crimi.
nal resorts which the excise boards
had closed. 1t has rendered all
the laws against Sunday liquor
selling ridiculous farce, though
1t war Wanted as a measure sure
to render Sundays "drier" than
ever.
There is only one respect in
which it fulf1lls its promise. 1t
distributes s270,OO0 year among
"the boys" as salaries.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-06-13
THE BEST ROUTE.

The Young Peoples Societies of
Christian Endeavor will hold their
Fifteenth International convention in
the city of Washington, ID. c., July
Sth to 18th, 1896.
Delegates and others attending
from the West and Southwest will
find the Baltimore & Ohio Southwest
ern Railway, in connection with the
Baltimore &Ohio Railroad, the short
est and quickest route to Washing
ton, as well as the most desirable.
The passenger equipment of this line
is second to none, affording every
possible convenience for comfort. two
splendid through trains daily, desig-
mated as the New York Express"
and Royal Blue Flyer" run direct to
Washington. Arrangements have
been perfected for cheap side trips
from Washington to many historic
places in the near vicinity, namely:
Mount Vernon, Harper's Ferry, the
battlefield Of GETTYSBURG, Norfolk,
Hampton Roads, Fortress Monroe,
and other points made prominent
through their connection with the
stirring events in our nations histo-
ry.
G. p. Fegan, travelling passenger
agent, with headquarters at Dallas,
Texas, and G. B. Warfel, assistant
general passenger agent, st. Louis,
Mo-, will gladly communicate with or
call upon you, with full information
covering rates, limits, time Of trains,
etc. 6-S-tf
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-06-13
Get Herweck's best Liquid
Paint, only $l.25 per gallon. 50 IT


1T don't require capital to get mar.
ried when you can get "easy terms
on housefurnishings of the Clover
Installmeht Co. 6-T-tf.
Finest Rye whisky, Daugher-
ty, Mt. Vernon and Old G. and B at
the CRYSTAL saloon.
z-St. Mary's street bridge cement
floor is being repaired.
Lowest prices and longest time on
furniture and house furnishings.
Clover Installment Co. eft.
Tin roofing and cutters, first
class work done. j. Dean & Son,
105' and 100 n. Flores street, corner
w. Commerce. Telephone AL.
69lm
81, 900 reward for any. case of rheu-
matism, Indigestion or constipation,
that DR.. Thurmonds Blood Syrup will
not cure. Sold by F. Kalteyer & Son
and ]. NJ. Pettey.
Those going off for. the sum-
mer should supply themselves
with reading matter. Go to Louis
Bookstore, 52l East Houston street,
next to P. o., for the most COM
plete line Of novels and magazines,
everything up to date. ell tt
To-day was celebrated by the
Roman Catholic church as the
feast Of st. Anthony of Padua, pat
ron saint of the City OF San Anto-
MO.
The lady rope.walker at Linz
burgers Garden every evening at z
o'clock. Free. 6 10 At
TURF EXCHANGE, 203 Alamo
Plaza. Commissions executed on
all racing events.
2 10 If STUBBLEFIELD & Co.
-Catarrh is loathsome disease,
Mayor +. NJ. Oliver, Oak Cliff, Tex,
writes: 1.-TWO bottles of DR.. Thur
mond's Catarrh Cure cured my wife
and son, Frank, of bad cases of ca
tarrh." Sold by +. Kalteyer 4 Son
and ]. NJ. Pettey.
Cots for rent. Clover Installment
Co., 116 and lis W. Houston. 81 If.
The boys all go to Jim Rigby. Ct
Ice cream soda with pure crushed
fruit is delicious. Try it at the Cres-
cent fountain, 4061a f. Houston st.
6-12-3t
There will be high rope walk
ing at Limburger's garden this
evening. A dance will follow.
If you want ice cream for Sunday
leave your order at the Crescent con-
fectionery, 4O61a Z. Houston st, 3t
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-06-13
Shakers and Doctors Talk Together.

In his able work entitled Longevity,
published few years ago, DIR. John
Gardner, of England, predicts that veg
etable agent will yet be found that shall
so retard those changes that bring about
old age as to prolong human life much
beyond its present limit.
Acting, perhaps, upon the impulse pro-
duced by this thought, many eminent
physicians have called from time TO time
upon the Shakers Of Mt. Lebanon TO in
quire of them concerning the secrets OF
medicinal plants, in which these sincere,
simple-minded and God-fearing people are
known to be wise and skillful beyond all
other men.
The Shakers willingly told what they
had learned, and in return received from
their visitors much valuable information
about disease; which they at once made
practical use of. The most important
point was that If genuine and certain
remedy could be found for indigestion and
dyspepsia, and the ailments growing out
of ii, long step would be taken in the
right direction. Old age, said these ply
sicians, begins In a failure of the diges-
tion, and so do most diseases at any and
all periods Of life. The result of these
consultations was the discovery by the
wholly from herbs, and now known as the
Shaker Digestive Cordial. It's action Is
magical and worthy Of its origin.
Where there Is distress after eating,
heartburn, sick headache, bad taste In the
mouth, biliousness, weakness and weari-
ness, cold hands and feet, aversion to
food, nervousness, or any other symptom
of dyspepsia, the Cordial will prove its
curative virtues. Behind 1t is the reputa
tion OF a people who have never de-
ffauded or deceived their fellow men.
In order to test whether this remedy is
adapted to your case, at practically no
cost, you may procure trial bottle for
ten cents Of almost any druggist.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-06-13
Was Assassinated.

Antonio G. Berchelman, of Santa
Rosa Musquiz, Mexico, son of Mrs.
M. A. Berchelman, of this city,
was, it has developed, murdered
by hired assassins In Mexico near
the San Jusn mine, down the shaft
Of which he was thrown. His four
murderers are now in Jail.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-06-13
Sl.oo. Cure Your Oatarrh For ST. oOa

If you suffer with catarrh or COD
in the head one bottle of DR.. Thu
mond's Catarrh Cure is guarantee
to cure you. Sold by +. Kalteyer
Son and j. NJ. Pett6y.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-06-13
The Northue.tern Pine Cut.

Upper Mississippi log owners at Min
neapolis, Mimi, canvassed the pine tim
Der cut of the winter, finding it 5s5, 00O,-
900 feet, 15o.OoO,oOo feet less than a year
ago.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-06-13
SAN ANTONIO.

Deaoonesses' Work Needed-By DR.. G.. ]
Starnes.
From the Cleveland Christian Advocate.
No field presents more forcible
claims.
A city OF more than 10000
souls; largely cosmopolitan; nat.
ural advantages, for health, pros
perity, and christian develop
ment can not be excelled.
Can be improved in every way
by the addition Of trained nurses,
and deaconesses, to provide and
administer, as only the trained
and educated can provide. N
The Worlds Genealogical So
ciety of physicians and surgeons
held there in February Of this
year Endorsed San Antonio as one
of the greatest health resorts in
the world. This endorsement OF
course will increase the already
large number of health.seekers
that visit San Antonio yearly in
search of health. Many come
financially embarrassed some en-
tirely penniless; all in some way
or other need the hand OF charity.
Our Catholic sisters are BRAY
ing the tide zealously.
Our citizens generally are doing
creditable work In this direction
The city is greatly In need Of a
training school for colored females,
as we'll as furnished rooms and
beds, where heslth-seekers and
sick OF the city can be comfortably
provided for.
The cry Is Macedonian and
should not 60 unheeded.
The rush during the past win
ter, from Chicago, st. Louis, Gin
cinnati, Glendale, New Orleans,
Galveston, Houston, and other
towns was great.
The writer was compelled to find
quarters and nurses, which was no
small task.
By making great personal sacri-
fee for repairs, etc., suitable
building in an excellent location
has been secured and partly fur
nished. Neither beds or rooms so
far have been endowed.
Fine lands and excellent water
near the city can be purchased at
reasonable price; and farming and
fruit growing, where the aged, the
orphan, and convalescent could
do light work which would soon
make the institution self-support-
ing.
The enterprise has been greatly
encouraged, and definite shape
promised through the generous
and untiring efforts Of the officers
OF the Woman's Horne Missionary
society, which has succeeded In
securing the promise of Miss Rose
MacLennsn to take charge OF the
San Antonio work, and If possible
make it a success.
Miss MacLennan is highly en-
dorsed, having had considerable
In the deaconess work,
nd her labors will meet a long
!, want among people who will
\reciate Ii.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-06-13
DISSOLUTION SALE.

Great reduction in prices on surries,
phaetons and buggies on account of
dissolution of partnership.
6-9-tf WOODWARD & BRIGGS.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-06-13
DON'T BUY LUMBER

Or other building material until
you have called on ED. STEvEs &
Sons. Yards: East Commerce
street and /. & G. N. depot. 81 tt
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-06-13
LEFT ON THE STEPS.

Lockwood bank, Navarro street,
crocheted slippers and paper cut
ter. Finder please leave at LIGHT
Office. 6103t