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The new North-west., 1897-02-26
CONSULTING THE CLOCK.
Familiar Faces That Are Seldom Over
looked by New Workers.

k0HllllAT uCeS 1nAL Are seldom over.
looked by New Workers.
One Of the popular habits Of the peo-
pie Of New York city is to consult the
clock almost on every occasion when an
opportunity is presented. 1t matters lit
tie whether any special need requires
that consultation or not, the clock will
thus be consulted. Especially is this the
case if particular clock has the repu-
tation Of being a good timekeeper. So
we'll is this known by many storekeep-
ers that they will place clocks i'll their
stores SO situated as to be easily seen by
persons who may be passing along the
adjacent sidewalk. If the clock has a
good reputation, and the pedestrian is
fortunate enough to carry a watch,
comparison is almost sure to be made.
Many times clock with good repu-
tation placed i'll the back part Of store
becomes protection thereof, especially
at night, if near it is located light
strong enough to illuminate it's face and
show the time. A policeman told re-
porter the other day that good clock
thus situated is better than private
watchmaN for a jewelry store, as every
belated passerby is likely to look through
the store to see what time it is, and
would be almost certain to notice any
thing unusual i'll the appearance Of the
place. 1t therefore becomes Indirectly
silent watchnan guarding the premises
against the depredations of burglars and
makes the pedestrians, as it were as
sistants in the work
Church clocks have always had
large number of patrons in the work Of
consultation, and nothing seems to be SO
annoying as to find such a clock mac
tive. When an event Of this character
occurs, especially il the church is located
on or near a busy thoroughfare, the
fact of the clock being stopped, OR that
some defect appears to exist, is often
made the subject of notice i'll the daily
papers. Especially was this the case
when the steeple of old st. Paul's was
recently undergoing renovation, and it
was a joy to many on noticing that the
newly gilded hands of the clock were
again travelling along their accustomed
circuit and the deep toned bell was
ready to strike the hour once more
New York Mail and Express.
The new North-west., 1897-02-26
Tenderness.

Not unto every heart is Gods good gift
OF simple tend erness allowed. We meet
With love in many fashions when we lift
First to our lips life's waters, bittersweet.
Love comes upon us with resistless power
OF curbless passion and with headstrong will.
1t plays around like April's breeze and shower
Or calmly flows, a rapid stream, and still
It comes with the blessadness unto the heart
That welcomes it Alright, or-bitter fate
It wrings the bosom with 50 fierce a smart
That love- we cry is crueer than hate.
Aad then, ah, me! when love has ceased to
bless
Our broken hearts cry out for tenderness.
We long for tenderness like that which hung
About us lying on our mothers breast
A selfish feeling that no pen or tongue
Can praise Alright, since the silence sings its
best;
A love as far removed from passions heat
AS from the chlliness Of its dying fire;
A love to lean on when the falling feet
Begin to totter and the eyes to tire.
In youths bright heyday hottest love we seek,
The reddest rose we grasp; but, when itdies,
God grant that later blossoms, violets meek,
May spring for us beneath lifes autumn
skies;
God grant some loving one be near to bless
Our weary way with simple tenderness!
San Francisco Argonaut.
The new North-west., 1897-02-26
The English Language.

Well begin with box, and the plural is boxes,
But the plural of OK should be oxen not oxes.
Then one fowl Is goose but two are called
geese,
Yet the plural Of mouse sho,lld never be meese.
You may find lone mouse or a whole nest Of
mice,
But the plural Of house Is houses, not hice
If the plural of man is always called men,
Why shouldn't the plural Of pan be called pen9
The COWS in the plural may be COWS or kine
But a bow, il repeated, is never called bine
And the plural Of VOW is vows never vine.
If speak of foot and you show me your feet
And give you boot, would pair be called
beet2
II one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,
Why shouldn't the plural of booth be called
beethp
II the sngular's this and the plural is these.
Should the plural of kiss ever be nicknamed
lSeese?
Then would be that, and three would be
those,
Yet hat in the plural would never be hose
And the plural of cat Is cats, not cose.
We speak of a brother and also Of brethren,
But though we say mother we never say
methren
Fhel. the masculine pronouns are he his and
him,
But imagine the feminine she, shis and SHIN.
So the English, think you all will agree,
Is the queerest language you ever did see.
Commonwealth.
The new North-west., 1897-02-26
THE MAGIC RING.
A Boys First Circus and His Impressio
of Coralie the PeerIesa

A Boys First Circus and His Impressions
of Coralie the Peerless.
A thud of unseen hoofs first set us
a-quiver; then crash of cymbals a
jangle of bells, hoarse, applauding
roar, and Coralie was in the midst of us,
whirling past 'twixt earth and sky,
now erect, flush, radiant, now crouched
to the flowing name, swung and tossed
and nodded by the naddening dance
music of the band. The mighty whip of
the count in the frock coat marked time
with pistol shots; his warcry, whooping
clear above the music, fired the blood
with passion for splendid deeds, as
Coralie, laughing e2ultantly, crashed
through the paper hoops. We gripped
the red cloth i'll front of us, and our
souls sped round and round with Co
ralie, leaping with her, prone with her,
swung by name or tail with her. 1t was
feats, nor her cream colored horse Of
fairy breed, long tailed, roe footed-an
enchanted prince surely, if ever there
was one-it was her more than mortal
beauty-,lisplayed, too, under condi-
tions never youchsafed to us before
that held US spellbound.
What princess had arms SO dazzling
ly white, Or went delicately clothed in
such pink and spangles? Hitherto we
had known the outward woman as but
drab thing, hourglass shaped, nearly
legless, punched here, CONSTRUCTED there,
slow of movement aud given to depre-
eating, lusty action of limb. Here was
revelation. From henceforth our i'm.
aginations would have to be revised and
corrected up to date. In one of those
swift rushes the mind makes in high
strung moments I saw myself and Co
ralie, close enfolded, pacing the world
together, o'er hill and plain, through
storied cities, past rows of applauding
relations, in my Sunday knickerbock-
CTS, she in her pink and spangles-
Kenneth Grahame in scribner's
The new North-west., 1897-02-26
Slightly Mixed.


"A pound Of tea at one and three
And a pot Of raspberry jam,
Two new laid eggs, dozen pegs
And pound of rashers of ham,"
I'll say it over all the way,
And then I'm sure not to forget,
For if chance to bring things wrong
My mother gets In such pet.
IA pound of tea at one and three
And pot of raspberry jam,
Two new laid eggs, a dozen pegs
And pound Of rashers Of ham,"
There in tho hay the children play.
They're having such jolly funi
III go there, too that's what I'll do,
AS soon as my errands are done.
"a pound of tea at one and three,
A pot of-er-new laid jam,
Two raspberry eggs with a dozen pegs
And pound Of rashers Of ham,"
There's Teddy White a-fiying his kite.
He thinks himself grand, declare.
I'd like to try to fly it sky high
Ever 80 much higher
Than the old church spire,
And 'then-and then-but there
"a pound of three and one at tea,
A pot of new laid jam,
Two dozen eggs, some raspberry pegs
And pound Of rashers of ham,"
Now, here's the shop. Outside I'll stop
And run through my orders again.
haven't forgot-no, ne'er tot.
1t shows Ina pretty cute, that's plain.
ga pound of three at one and tea,
A dozen of raspberry ham,
A pot Of eggs, with a dozen pegs
And a rasher of new laid jam"
Lewiston Journal
The new North-west., 1897-02-26
The Little Boy Who Ran Away.

II IN going now to run away"
Said little Sammy Green one day.
"Then can do just what choose.
I'll never have to black my shoes
Or wash my face or comb my hair.
I'll lind place, know, somewhere
And never have again to fill
That old chip basket-so will.
"Goodby, mammal he said. "Goodbyl" ,
He thought his mother then would cry
She only said "You going, dearP'
And didn't shed single tear.
"There, now,' said Sammy Green, 81 know
She does not care if I do go.
But Bridget does. She'll have to fill
That old chip basket, SO she will"
But Bridget only said "Wel1 boy,
You're off for sure. I wish you joy"
And Sammy's little sister Kate,
Who swung upon the garden gate,
Said anxiously as he passed through,
Tonight whatever will you do
When you can't get no lasses spread
Al supper time on top of bread2''
One block from home and Sammy Green's
Weak little heart was full of fear.
He thought about Red Riding Hood,
The wolf that met her in the wood,
The beanstallS boy who kept so mum
When he heard the giants "Fee. TO, fum,''
OF the dark night and the policeman.
Then poor Sammy homeward ran.
Quick through the alleyway he sped
And crawled in through the old woodshed.
The big chip basket he did fill.
He blacked his shoes up with will.
He washed his face and combed his hair.
He went up to his mothers chair
And kissed her twice, and then he said,
"1d like some lasses top of bread"
drs. s. T. Perry in San Francisco Examiner.
The new North-west., 1897-02-26
The Ideal Wife.
n wife whose love has vanouisbed +

a wife whose love has vanquished doubt and
fear;
In faith and courage mans eternal mate;
OF reason and Of will commensurate;
A loveliness that time will but endear,
Whereof the flower, Unfolding year by year,
A soul more beautiful, with light elate,
Steals sweetness from the winds of adverse
fate,
Like summer lilies, fed with radiance clear:
Mans home and comrade. passionate, pure
and strong;
Among the merry, gay with quip and jest;
To all the sad and lonely, motherhood
The heart of him she loves, to war with
wrong.
He is her strength and she to him is rest,
Revealing, each to each, truth, beauty, good.
Speaker.
The new North-west., 1897-02-26
A Ro,lmanian Folk Song.

What Is life likep Answer me.
Suppose say tree
Whose boughs are broad and tallp
IT'S like q tree. All me!
For wind like autumn's shakes its boughs
And makes the dead leaves fall
The dead leaves fall and fall
But what is life like? Answer me-
Suppose say the sea,
Whose pillows rise and roar2
'Tis like the sea. Ah, mel
For its pillows only rise to fall
In spent waves on the shore
Poor spont waves on the shorei
-R. H. Stoddard in New York Independent
The new North-west., 1897-02-26
School Improvement.

In the Federated Clubs of Illinois the
women are working earnestly to inn
prove the public schools of the state.
With this aim they take up different
phases of school work, i'll the first place
visiting the schools not as critics but as
learners, so as to cooperate with school
teachers in securing improvements that
are needed. Certain members study the
hygienic conditions of the schools Others
make it their duty to watch all school
legislation and to learn something of
the value Of the best new methods of
education,
The new North-west., 1897-02-26
Partisan Parans.

Paris is threatened with Renaissance
of paganism. Several we'll known lite
rateurs, poets and artists have banded
themselves into Il society for the adora-
ton of heather deities. This romantic
revival has already caught the Partisan
fancy. and converts are announced ev-
sry day.
The new North-west., 1897-02-26
Tale of a Vain Little Chick.

A farmyard chick stood by the horse
pond watching a flock of ducklings. Ev-
cry now and then they put their heads
under water and flung their legs up.
'How very ridiculousr' cried the lii
tie chick. .'That isn't the way to get
across Wait bit. I'll show you.
In plunged the little chick, but in
stead of getting to the other side it went
to the bottom. Chicago Record
The new North-west., 1897-02-26
A Paving Engagement.

"What does young Shapeleigh do
Eow?"
"He's old Millyun's homely daugh.
tef's husband. ."-CleyeIand Leader.
The new North-west., 1897-02-26

When using medicine droppers, the
ordinary glass tube with a rubber bulb
fitted on, it is we'll to remember that 60
drops make one teaspoonful.
The new North-west., 1897-02-26

near the outside cut five or six oblique
slots SO that little pieces or wings Of
cardboard will turn up, as shown in the
cut. One end Of these slots may be
quarter of an inch from the edge Of the
disk and the other end may be several
times as far.
An ordinary large sized pin should
now be inserted through the hole in the
disk and fastened on the underside with
wax, SO as to form a pivot on which the
top will spin. Now get an empty spool,
and your top is complete. To spin it
hold the spool lightly in the mouth, in
sert the pin in the other end and blow
briskly. At once the top will begin to
revolve, the action of the air holding
1t tight against the spool without other
support. a... - sss
Now stop blowing suddenly and the
top will drop out Of the spool and con-
tinue to spin merrily on table or on a
piece of glass or OH smooth floor.
Chicago Record.
The new North-west., 1897-02-26
Including Footprints.

Lives of great men all remind us
We can do the same as they,
And, departing, leave behind US
All we cannot take away.
-Philadelphia Record.
The new North-west., 1897-02-26
College Of Montana

CLASSICAL AND SCIENTIFIC COURSES
Normal and Preparatory Courses.
Special courses in Art, Music, Typewrit-
ing, Stenography, bookkeeping and
School of Mines
Department of Engineering and Chemis-
try, including Mathematics, Survey
ing, Mechanical, Civil and Mining
Engineering,
Netallurgy, Mineralogy, Assaying,
General, Analytical and Applied Chem
istry, Blowpipe Analysis, etc.
Open to both sexes on equal terms.
For Terms apply to the President
at DEER LODGE, MONTANA.
The new North-west., 1897-02-26
GE MS IN VERSE.
WILL.

Will.
You will be what you will bel
Let failure find it's false content
In that poor word "environment,
But the spirit scorns 1t and is free.
. masters time, 1t conquers space,
1t cows that boastful trickster Chance
And bids the tyrant Circumstance
Uncrown and I'LL a servants place.
The human will, that force unseen,
The offspring Of deathless soul.
Can hew the way to any goal
Though walls Of granite intervene.
Be not impatient in delay,
But wait as one who understands.
When spirit rises and commands,
Tho gods are ready to obey.
The river seeking for the sea
Confronts the dam and precipice,
Yet knows it cannot fail or miss.
You will be what you will bel
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
The new North-west., 1897-02-26

Salt is good barometer. When it is
damp, rain is probable.
The new North-west., 1897-02-26
WHOLE NO. 124l.
FOR LITTLE FOLKS.
A NEW KIND OF TOP.

IL Is Especially Fitted For Indoor Spin
ming and Is Easily Made.
Top season is almost over, but every
BOY who ever spun top will be inter
ssted in making an entirely new kind
OF top that will spin when you blow
upon it,
Ihls top can be made in Is minutes.
Get piece OF stiff cardboard and cut
from it a circular disk about three inch
es IN diameter. At the very center Of it
make pin hole, and in regular order
The new North-west., 1897-02-26
30 many gods, SO many creeds,

30 many godS, SO many cfeeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
While just the art Of being kind
Il all tha sad world needA
-RlS Vhaalsz Vilepx
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-26
THE TRUE REMEDY.

w. M. Repine. editor Tiskilwa, ILL.,,
Chief" says: I'VE won't keep house
without DIR. Kings New Discovery for
Consumption, Coughs and Colds. Elk
perimented with many others. but
never got the true remedy until we
used DR.. Kings New Discovery. No
other remedy can take its place In our
home, as in 1t we have a certain and
sure cure for Coughs, Colds, Whooping
Coughs, etc" 1t is idle to experiment
with other remedies, even If they are
urged on you as just as good as DR..
Kings New Discovery. They are not
as good. because this remedy has a
record of cures and besides is guaran-
teed. It never fails to satisfy. Trial
bottles freee at F. Kalteyer & Sons
drugstore.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-26
{ CURE FOR MEN.
A Michigan Man Offers to Send His
Discovery Free.
Claims To Be a Benefactor To
Weakened Mankind.

There Is always more or less sus-
picion attached to anything that is Of
fered free but sometimes a man so
overhows with generosity that he can
not rest until his discovery is known
to the world, In order that his fellow
men may profit by what he has dis
covered. 1t is upon this pricipal that
a resident of Kalamazoo, Mich, de-
sires to send free to. mankind a pre-
scription which will cure them of any
form of nervous debility; relieves
them of all the doubt and uncertain
ty which such men are peculiarly liza
bIe to and restores the organs TO nat
ural size and yigOr. AS it costs moth
ing to try tue experiment it would
seem that any man, suffering with the
nervous troubles that usually attack
men who never stopped to realize
what might be the final result. ought
to be deeply interested In remedy
which will restore them 10 health,
strength and yigor, without which
they continue to live an existence Of
untold misery. AS the remedy In
question was the result OF many years
research as to what combination
would be peculiarly effective in restor-
ing to men the strength they need, it
would seem that all men suffering
with any form OF nervous weakness
ought TO write for such a remedy at
once. A request to II. g. Odds, Box
I74S Kalamazoo, Mich, stating that you
are not sending for the prescription
out Of Idle curiosity, but that you wish
to make use Of the medicine by giving
it trial, will be answered promptly
and without evidence as to where In
formation came from
The prescription Is sent free, and al
though some may wonder how Mr..
Odds can afford to give away his dis.
cOvery, there Is no doubt about the
offer being genuine. Cut this out and
send to Mr.. Odds so that he may
know how you sane to write him.
u 81 y 8 Sm
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-26

Craig williams Furniture company
old court house. SoIedad street. 1s-1m
Columbia bicycles, sS5. w. ERoach
If you have ever seen a child in
the agony of Group, you can appreciate
the gratitude of the mothers who know
that One Minute Cough Cure relieves
their little ones as quickly as 1t is adj
ministered. Many homes in this city
are never without it. +. Reuss, log
East Commerce street.
Columbia bicycles, $S5. w. E.Roach
Half and Half on tap. Bull Bros.
saloon IL q tt.
The Alamo City Advance has
changed quarters under its new man.
agement, moving into the first floor
of the commodious colored lodge hall
on East Commerce street
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-26
FREE PILLS.

Send your address to H. f. Bucklen
& 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 affective in the cure of
Constipation and Sick Headaches. For
Malaria and Liver Troubles they have
been proved invaluable. They are
guaranteed to be perfectly free from
every deleterious substance end to be
purely vegetable. They do not weaken
by their action. but by giving tone to
the stomach and bowels. greatly invig-
crate the system. Regular size 25c per
box. Sold by F. Kalteyer & Son. 4
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-26
MUSCULAR RHEUMATISM
PROMPTLY RELIEVED.

Mr.. ]. K. Holton. a well known fur
dealer of Oxford. Pa, says he some
times suffers with muscular rheuma-
tism, and while having one of the most
painful attacks, he called in w. ]. T.
Browns drug store, and Thrown ad-
vised him to try Chamberlain's Pain
Balm. he did so. and it gave him i'm
mediate relief. Pain Balm is also rec
commended for rheumatism by Mr.. E.
W. Wheeler, of Luthers Mills. Pa, who
has used 1t and found 1t to be an ex-
cellent remedy. If troubled with rheu-
matism give 1t a trial. 1t is certain
to relieve the pain as soon as applied
and it's continued use will effect a cure
For sale at 25 and so cents a bottle by
all druggists.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-26
About Spider wehs.

Rightly considered, spiders web is g
. most curious as well as a most beauti
ful thing, says an exchange. When we
were children the majority of us sup
posed that the spiders web was pulled
out Of his mouth and that the little in
sect had large reel of the stuff in his
stomach and that he could almost in
stantly add feet, yards or rods to the
roll. The facts are that spiders have
a regular spinning machine-a set Of
tiny tubes at the far end of the body
and that the threads are nothing
more or less than a white, sticky fluid
which hardens as soon as it comes in
contact with the air. The spider does
not really and truly spin" but begins
thread by pressing his "spinnaret"
against some object to which the liquid
sticks. He then moves away, and by
constantly ejecting the fluid and allow.
ing it to harden forms,his ropes or won
derful geometrical nets.--N. Y. Jour
nal.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-26
SHORT SNAPS.

Because n man is an A. Z. 4. or
that his wife is n good Catholic, should
be no bar 10 his making a good police
man.
Mr.. Lewy's sudden conversion is
likened unto that of st. Paul
Some sinners become so open and
bold in defiance of law, it makes them
squeal with rage when an officer
dares to do his duty.
A tourist hotel without the tourists
to occupy it, will be costly luxury
as well as a big monument to the
Business Mems club.
When the grand jury and district at
tOrney complete the publication Of the
San Pedro district, they should then
| turn their attention to some of the
evil things on the east side
Why don't the Business Mems club
advertise the advantages of San Anto-
MO in the local press and buy copies
of the papers for distribution in the
west and the north.
Variety theatres can be properly
conducted, and that's what the Off
GERS are trying to do. Let the green
rooms, and bad characters be kept out
of the general audience, and prohibit
the entrance of all minors and drunk
en- men.
| When 16-year-old boy steals his
mothers chickens and spends the mon
ey on a so-called variety sOubrette,
and then lands in jail, a charge upon
the taxpayers, you cannot blame the
officers in doing their duty by enforc-
ing the law.
| When young boys are allowed to loaf
around saloons and play cards and
shoot dice for drinks and money you
cannot blame the officers for calling n
halt.
| Mr.. Levy, like the old free horse,
has been ridden almost to death, con-
Sequently he balkS and will go no fur
ther. His liberality has evidently
been imposed upon.
|
The grand jury ferrets out evil, finds
the indictments, and the district attor-
ney is only the executive officer, whose
| duty 1t is to enforce the orders re-
ceived.
| A grand jury with back bone will
not be dictated to. and it is within
their power to refuse to lend counte-
nance to any prosecutions, that hook
like spite work or persecution.
Prohibit minors and drunken men
from entering variety theatre or q
gambling house, clean out the skin
games" and there would be- but little
left of the evil to complain of.
San Anotnio does not favor stump
tuary laws, but fair minded people
will not object to a reasonable amount
of decent regulation.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-26
BUCK WILL ENTERTAIN.

During the Cattlemen's convention
and the Ticket agents excursion to
this city, Col. Buck Hice will give an
exhibition of his wild west show gran
der and better even than the splendid
performance he gave a year or two
ago at the Jockey club grounds. He
will also give balloon ascensions and
an athletic meeting. These pro
grams are now being arranged
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-26

Mr.. Lewy's sudden conversion
unto that of st. Paul.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-26

Many cases of Grippe" have late
ly been cured by One Minute Cough
Cure. This preparation seems espec-
tally adapted to the cure of this dis
ease. 1t acts quickly thus preventing
serious complications and bad effects
In which this disease often leaves the
patient F. Reuss. 106 East Commerce
street.