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tier skin than mine was. The first thing
/ thought was: "Now I'll get . bottls
Of this to take home"
my face, as it got dried of, tho,'
begun to feel hot an kind o. drawn up.
Cousin Sarah was ready and says
'Come on" but I said, feelin' so I
couldn't stand it: s.Do wait till can
wash this stuff off'n my face. Why,
my skin feels as tho twas crackin' open
every time move muscle.n
'Oh," says she, laughin', you'll git
over that in few moments. Come out
in the fresh air.
didn't mOre'n half believe her, but
she hurried me along an didn't give me
no chance to wash my face. Joint jined
us, an says he:
'.By Jimmy! Philury, / never see you
lookin' so ALFRED putty since took
you to ride the time we got into the
brook the spring before we was mar
RED"
ANY woman would feel f1attered by
this, but it didn't prevent my face from
feelin' all cracked up; an once or
twice 1 actually looked into them big
store windows that are as good as
lookin' glass, to see if my face want
cracked open in places; but it want.
After the matinay when we'd got ou'.
doors joint he stared at me, an says
he:
"For the Lord sake, Philury, what In
tunket ais your facet It's all streaked
and speckled."
IL shouldn't WONDER" says I. ats
been crackin' open all the afternoon,
an l think likely it does look bad"
But 1 was afraid, and mortified, too,
as we hurried home, an 1 looked in the
glass in Sarah's room, and AZ should
think as muchr' said to Sarah. Why!
my face was in an awful condition. The
tears run down through that stuff and
washed it off in streaks, an my nose
stood out red an flamin' in the midst
of the queerest lookin' countenance you
ever seei
"There!' says to Sarah, scrubbin'
my face in her bathroom; 'when you
catch me anointin' my face, or allowin'
it to be anointed with any more of your
French dressin', you jest let me know"
Aunt Philura, in Boston Times.
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cried Mr.. Calthorpe, as

rasgedp' cried Mr.. Calthorpe, as
founded.
"Only a few days ago." responded
his son, "and we have been obliged to
allow her to be the first to give you the
glad news. 1t was only delayed be-
cause she could not until last night
muster courage enough to fix the time
for telling YOU.
MIR. Calthorpe looked in amazement
from one to the other.
"But what about the engagement to
Powell?"
THAT was my mistake and Powell's,
poor fellow" said the Colonel. HE
always spoke to me so confidently that
/, like him, fancied his suit was progress
sing favorably when it was making no
progress at an
my dear child" said Mr.. Calthorpe,
embracing his future daughter-in-law,
Il congratulated you before, but ! con-
graduate you again with all my heart.
But it was not fair of you-you sly
rogues!-to play such huge practical
joke upon me. And you, Cuthbert,
you are as bad as the others, for !
would have detected the hoax at once
but for YOU"
81 really had no intention of mislead-
ing you"
"Of course not, of course not. l for
give you, and you. my dear child; but ]
will not forgive Maurice. The fellow
must have been laughing at me all the
time was talking SO seriously to him
this morning."
"You have always something to COM
plain about, SIR" said the unrepentant
son.
.'Of course / have-on principle.
What would life be without griev-
ance?h
He had a substantial ground for CON-
plant when he discovered what he
called the maddest of mad-quixotic con-
ditions which Maurice insisted upon. 1t
was this: that Mabel should be content
with the home he was able to provide
for her, and to live upon what income
he could earn, until such time as he
should have paid off the mortgages on
the Calthorpe estate. From this no per-
suasion of his father or the Colonel
could move him, and they were obliged
to yield the point when they found that
Mabel was as firmly resolved upon it rs
himself. Mr.. Calthorpe, however, east
ly resigned himself to the enjoyment of
his old home, to the privilege of repeat
eddy reminding Maurice of his folly,
while he generously left the manage
ment of the mortgage entirely to his care.
About week after they were united
Mabel rested her hand on Maurice's
arm as he was reading a letter.
..What about Teddy??" she inquired,
anxiously.
'.Arkwood can do nothing for him ex-
cept obtain promise that he will let
his mother know if he should get into
ans difficulty. He sailed again for New
York yesterday"
..Poor Teddy! we owe some of our
trouble to him, Maurice, and we owe to
his misfortune our happiness"
THE END.
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Appropriate Use for Tough Steak.

A waiter in a Fulton street dining
saloon placed sirloin steak in front OF
a gentleman on Friday. That's the
toughest piece of meat I ever tackled"
exclaimed the man, as he put the Ice
pitcher out of the reach of his right
elbow, sand General Grant made me
eat mule meat off the hind legs in
Vicksburg in 49,"
The man, seeing that it was useless to
try to make an impression on the steak
with the knife, sat back in his chair ex-
hausted. After musing q few moments
he called the waiter and asked if there
was another steak in the place like the
one he had before him. He received an
answer in the affirmative.
bring it right here and two brick
bats with it; reckon I'll try a Honolulu
sandwich"
whats dat sah?"
go along and get me another
steak
The waiter obeyed and the man took
a newspaper from his pocket, wrapped
the steak up in it and went to the
cashiers desk with q check for sixty
cents.
SCOT to catch train, ehP" exclaimed
the cashier; "and haven't time to eat
here, eh?"
"No, replied the man, mot exactly.
You see. l arrived in New York from
New Orleans last week, and the bag
gage smashers knocked the hinges from
my trunk. And 1 am going to replace
them with these steaks, and I'll bet fifty
dollars that when my trunk gets back
to New Orleans there won't be q fiber
of my new patent hinges stretched.
I'll get square with those baggage
smashers even if do lose a square
meal. IN y World.
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All is Not Silver That You Find on o
Widows Farm.

A new discovery, recently made,
while some men were digging q well
near Benton, KY, few days ago, threw
the whole community into fever Of
excitement. When down about twenty
feet, the diggers struck q deposit Of
glistening ore in small pieces about the
size and almost the identical shape of
a butter cracker. A neighbor brought
some of the ore to town yesterday, and
calling on a gentleman who has ac-
quired some reputation as an expert,
laid down a handkerchief full of speci-
mems on the table with the inquiry:
doctor, what's that worth?'
The doctor examined it and replied:
"Pyrites of 'front.' isn't worth
nickle ton" And he placed some of
it on a shovel, held it over the CRATE,
when it quickly disappeared up the
chimney.
THE mischief" growled the old
man, as he comprehended the situa-
ton. There's widow out in Marshall
who has whole well full of it! I've
bought half Of her farm and my son has
married her gal!''
The doctor saws that the old man was
one'of the most completely broken-up
old gentleman tfSt has yet come IN froD
the wilds.-Padueah (Ky.) News.
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Girls Of Other Lands at Work.

The theory that girls exist merely as
lay figures to display fine drapery and
to look pretty, is not entertained among
half-civilized or savage tribes or ma
tons. The eccentric notion still pre-
walls throughout Asia, Africa and in
some parts of Europe and America, that
they are born to labor. In Turkestan
and on the Tartar steppes the Kirghese
Saltannas and their daughters, and
rrincesses in whose veins flow the blood
Of lines of Kings, still milk the sheep,
cows and goats, and perform the mental
offices of the household as the Sanscrit
maidens did six thousand years ago in
the same localities. They cook, take
care of the younger children, make gar
ments, cure the skins of wild fowl with
the feathers on for caps, spin cotton,
weave cloth, and tan leather by means
of sour milk. In this delectable region
the mother wears rich attire, while the
daughter goes in humber weeds like
Cinderella. If there is a piano, the
mother plays on it in the front room of
the tent. while the daughter brews the
koumisS. stews the mutton and broils
the camel chops in the back kitchen.
Similar ideas prevail throughout India,
China and among the native tribes of
Siberia, who have been driven north
ward by aggressive neighbors. The
Tungusian girl gathers the snow, melts
it, makes the tea and the fish soup,
sews, and, being skillful in archery,
helps to keep the larder supplied with
game. The Yacut and Samoyede maid
ems, and all of those who dwell along
the Arctic Ocean, help in summer to
lay up winter supplies, and in winter to
perform all necessary domestic duties.
The theories of the tribes and nations
of Asia and Africa are shared by the
Indians of North and South America,
who compel the young girls to learn
the duties and hardships Of life at an
early age.-San Francisco Chronicle.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-05-11
4 TALE OF WEToMANUC BAY

On wetomanuc Bay, at the first break of
Each rosy-tipped wave leaped to welcome the
with the oft-murmured story;
Then from crag unto crag the first sunbeams
swift glanced
And over the pillows they merrily danced,
As the day burst I'm gloryr
Along the ledge pathway strobe fisherman
Hugh.
And his sturdy twin boys, with their laughing
AS the sky DER them bending;
And Rachel, the neither. each drew by hand,
AS they bounded adown from the cliff to the
To their staunch boat descending.
Quoth fisherman Hugh: "a right good haul
We shah take in our nets" 20 thou treacher-
Still thy smiling face wearingD
"a And half O. the siller shall go for gown,
The nnttiest one can find in the town,
My lass, for thy fairing."
Rachel drew both her boys in a sudden en-
And pressed fondest kisses on each rudy
face
Faces so like each other.
Now in, little lads, and keep Draw hol-
"Ay, and just as the moon rises over the bay
Well row to thee, mother"
Then homeward she climbed, with the song in
her heart
-Trilling forth at her lips, as she oft paused to
dart
Many a loving glance seward,
Until mere speck in the dim distance grew
The boat Swimming forth with its riotous
crew
Wild sallies borne leeward.
She sang at her knitting-till daylight was
gone,
Still through her deft fingers increasingly on
The scarlet yarn shimmered;
But the snowy white table was spread out for
And the urn Missed welcome, as in at the
door
The first moonbeam glimmered.
All, woe, woe is me- who can tell of the cloud
Unfolding that blithe summer-sea like a
shroud?
OF the tempest outbreaking2
Who can tell how adown meath the slow-ebb
ing deep,
In brave fathers arms, lay his twin boys
asleep,
Without dreams, without waking?
Fifty years passed DER wetomanuc Bay
Yet through Rachers pale fingers from first
dawn of day
The scarlet yarn shimmered:
But ever the table was spread out for four.
And the urn Kissed q welcome as i'm at the
The first moonbeam glimmered.
Fifty long summers she waited I'm vain.
With her whitening hair and her grief-strick-
en- brain,
While the hearth-fre she tended:
Now, cover the Goals, set the table away
The moon rises clear DER Wetomanuc Bay
Rachel's vigil is ended.
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nmidIty, and leaves the first rude as
saults to them. knew the honey-bee
was very fond of the locust blossoms
and that the trees hummed like hive
in the height of their Towering, but 1
did not know that the bumble-bee was
the sapper and miner that went ahead
in this enterprise, till one day placed
myself amid the foliage of a locust and
saw him savagely bite through the
shank of the flower and extract the
nectar. followed by a honey-bee that in
every instance searched for this open
ing and probed long and carefully for
the leavings of his burly purveyor.-
ErchuuUe
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Getting Even.

On Lake Shore train coming into
Detroit the other day was a newly mar
ried couple, the bride appearing to be
about twenty-five ySars old, and the
groom being dapper little chap year
or two younger. A lady who came
aboard at Wyandotte took seat just
ahead, and after few minutes she
heard the pair criticising her bonnet
and cloak and general style. Without
showing the least resentment in her
countenance. she turned around in her
seat and said:
Madam, will you have your son
close the window behind you?'
The ''son" closed his mouth instead,
and the madam" didn't giggle again
for sixteen miles.-Detroit Free Press.
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dued passion throbbing in every tone
and look.
II ought, perhaps, TODD no more than
thank you again and 60; but can not
do that. You said you wished me to
remember you as Lucy; do not think
she would have wished me to go with
out at least trying to let you understand
me fully. We seem both to have been
walking in the dark. and daylight has
come to us. We should not separate
now without thorough clearing up
between us, for we can never have an
other opportunity of speaking, freely to-
gether."
'sWhat can we do?" she asked, be-
traying emotion by the nervous way in
which she rested her hand on the back
of chair.
I'VE can look our position deliber-
ately in the face-you on your part,
on mine, and strive to find out what it
really is. Then we can decide whether
or not it is best for us to say goodbye,
and it may save us some regret after
ward
Il do not think we can do that" she
SASioihiCu. lot Hls SoLu-
posture had the singular effect of COM
pletely upsetting hers; 81 am sure that
l can not. So many things come back
to mel can not be calm, and it is use
less to pretend it.
His pulse bounded; all the sober con-
siderations of their relative positions, of
past doubts and possible future misun-
derstapdings, which he had been making
such mighty effort to lay before her,
vanished from his thought. His only
sttse was that she was standing there
with her bright eyes fixed upon him,
her pale cheeks flushed and lips trem-
bling.
AT least you can answer this" he
cried, "must we part?"
at is as YOU WILL
"As will"
She was in his arms; they kissed.
The past, the future, doubt, fear, friends
the world were all annihilated: there
was for them only that moment of COM
plete joy.
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The baby camel who is now -four
ishing in Central Park, New York, Is
about the size of a colt, with long legs.
and without any hump on its back.
The neck is very short, but will develop
in time. As the mother was born in
the park, the baby camel is true
American.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-05-11

The United States admits tea and
coffee free of duty. England taxes
them.
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A HEARTS PROBLEM.
BY CHARLES GIBBON.

Author of Robin Gray " For Lack Of Cold 81
"In Honor Bound "For the King"
Queen Of the MeddOtD," Etc.
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So also every new moon is dry moon
or a wet moon-dry if powder-horn
would hang upon the lower limb, wet
if it would not; forgetting the fact that,
as rule, when it is dry in one part of
the continent it is wet in some other
part, and vice versa. When he kills
his hogs in the fall if the pork be very
hard and solid he predicts a severe
winter; if soft and loose, the opposite;
again overlooking the fact that the
kind of food and the temperature of the
fall make the pork hard or make it
soft. So with a hundred other signs,
all the result of hasty and incomplete
observations. In most of the opera
tions of nature there is one or more Sn-
known quantity; to find the exact value
of this unknown factor is not so easy.
The wool of the sheep, the fur Of
animals, the feathers of the fowls, the
husks of the maize, why are they thicker
some seasons than others; what is the
value of the unknown quantity here?
Does it indicate severe winter APP
preaching? Only observations extend
ing over series of years could deter
mine. the point. How much patient OBJ
seryation it takes to settle many of the
facts in the lives of the birds, animals
and insects. Gilbert White was all his
life trying to determine whether or not
swallows passed the winter in a torpid
state in the mud at the bottom of ponds
and marshes. and he died ignorant of
the truth that they did not. Do honey
bees injure the grape and other fruit by
puncturing the skin for the juice? The
most patient watching by many skilled
eyes all over the country has not yet
settled the point. For my o>n part. l
am convinced that they do not. The
honey-bee is not the rough-and-ready
freebooter that the wasp and humble
bee are; sue has somewhat of feminine
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-04-09
Miscellaneous.
To Ny Friends And Enemies.

For reasons best known to myself have this
day discontinued the printing of the Evening
Light for tho Evening Light Printing and Pub
fishing Company, and herewith present to the
good people OF San Antonio the first copy of
the "stN ANTONIO LIGHT" which appears
under the proprietorship of Clifford, johnson
Winter and will be continued in its present
form and style until the new press and ma
terial, which has been ordered, arrives, when it
will be enlarged to seven column paper, and
the new management will at all times endeavor
to make it the best and brightest local paper in
the city; free from all personal bitterness and
old time grudges, with an earnest endeavor TO
merit whatever patronage and good will may
DO extended TO It by n generous public.
Very Respectfully
A w CIFFoRD
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The undersigned have this day formed u CO.
for the purpose of conducting u
printing and publishing business in this city,
I'm the issuing Of the SAN ANTONIO LIGHT,
under the firm name, Clifford, johnson &
Winter
All mail should be addressed to SAN AN
A. W. CLIFFORD,
II. H. JOHNSON,
w. L. WINTER.
San Antonio April 3, 1888.
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DEMOCRATIC leaders advocate the election
of Randall to the Speakership of the House
because he has assured them he will see that
the tariff question is left where it is. They
are aware, apparently, that the conduct Of
Democracy regarding the tariff has worked
much injury to itself, and that any further
action cannot fail to show the fallacy of its
claims, and to hasten its disintegration.
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NOTICE.

For reasons best known 20 ourselves, we
have this day withdrawn from the Evening
Light Printing and Publishing Company, and
we will not he responsible for any debts in
CURED hereafter, by or in the name OF said
Evening Light Printing and Publishing Com
pany. A. w. CLIFFORD,
T. B JOHNSON.
San Antonio. Texas. April 9 1881
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THE shapowy outlines of the Guiteau skele-
ton once more appear: Scovile is writing
book. The paralyzing news comes from
Washington and is supplemented with the
statement that the work is to be inflicted on
us this summer.
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undertaking.

THE marriage of Miss Catherine HAPPINESS,
a society belle and heiress, with Charles PAT
ten, a wealthy banker, may be attributed to
the actor Salvini's unequalled counterfeit of
love and jealousy in the role of Othello as por-
trayed at the grand opera house in Cleveland.
Mr.. Patterns suit for her hand had met with
objections by her parents, but they continued
to associate. One day last week they went to
the opera house and sat breathlessly through
the performance till the final scene Of revenge
and death was about to be produced. Then
they quilted the building. They took train
to Pittsburgh and, arriving, summoned a
clergyman and were married. Salvinis act
ing had overcome Miss HARNESS. resolution
to obey her parents,
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Entered at postonice at San Antonio, Texas,
ae second-cAss matter.
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THE California Legislature recognizes the
value of the silk industry. 1t has given So, 500
to the Ladies' Silk association of that State
and established a bureau for the collection
and dissemination of intelligence regarding
silk culture. The example it has set may be
followed by Texas with good results. In
some portions of our State we have all the
advantages OF soil and climate to which Cali
fornia can lay claim, and with proper encour-
agement we may make the silk industry one
of our principal sources Of income.
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"SAN ANTONIO" says the Houston Post,
sis very anxious for frst-class hotel and a
good boarding house. There is not better
opening for this class OF BUSINESS in the entire
South"
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To the Evening Light will receive the SAN
ANTONIO LIGHT until the expiration of the
time paid, and our city agent, d. +. johnson,
Is authorized to give new receipts TO that
effect to those who desire them
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ADVERTISING RATES:
ONE PRICE-NO DEVIATION.

InyQiven number Of inchcs time pei IhchsI W
inches times the price of upper ccnton
inch,s times inch, . per cent on. 1000,
inches, mos. u 90 q inches mos 'D'o"
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San Antonio, April 3, 1888.
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]. c. BREEDING & SON,
A CHIT ECTS.
Room No. 8, upstairs, in Telephone building,
southwest corner of Soledad and
Houston streets.
PATENT TIN ROOFING PLATES.

PATENT TIN ROOFING PLATES.
The best in use. Manufactured by the Ma
tional Sheet Metal Roofing company, Nash
vile, Tennessee. II makes the best roof and
Is very ornamental. The plates are of differ
ent sizes and may be of any grade of tin de-
sired. Expansion and contraction from heat
and cold does not effect this roofing. Farmers
can use IL as readily shingles. II is fire-proof
and ornamental. IL is very popular where IL
has been introduced Call and see samples and
the agent in the Telephone building, southwest
corner of Soledad and Houston streets room
No. 8. upstairs. J. q: BREEDING g. SON,
3-l3-lm Architects.
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MONDAY, APRIL ., 1888.

THE order Of things has been reversed in
New York by the entering of suit against
Rebecca Mclean FOR breach Of promise to a
Prussian named Barwick, damages being laid
at $4,000.
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ONE Of the queerest things Of the day is the
shape the prohibition movement has assumed
in Georgia. Not long ago the Legislature of
that State passed law allowing every county
to vote no license. Since then large number
of counties, notorious on account of disturb
ances, have adopted prohibition by enormous
majorities while the quiet and orderly counties
have manifested little interest in the matter.
Were our information to end here we might
think the adoption Of the prohibitory law was
the result of combined efforts on the part Of
good citizens determined to put stop to the
offensive conduct of the neighbors to whom
their county was indebted for its bad reputa-
ton, but it appears that sudden revision (
feeling has occurred among men long not, d
for being hard drinkers and that the law was
carried by their votes. The cause Of their
sudden conversion is mystery.