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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-10-05
County Surveyor.

The LIGHT is authorized to Announce Mr.
WIN. NJ LOCKE as candidate for reelection
to the office of county surveyor at the APP
preaching November election.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-10-05
FOR DISTRICT CLERK.

The LIGHT is authorized to announce
l CAPT. GEO. DASHIELL as a candidate
for reelection TO the office of District Clerk at
the coming election in November.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-10-05
FOR TAX COLLECTOR

The LIGHT is authorized TO announce as
candidate for reelection, JOHN S. RAMSAY
for the Office of TAX COLLECTOR, OF Bexa
county, Texas at the election in November
1885,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-10-05
CAPITAL PRIZE, 100000.

One Hundred Thousand Tickets at Twenty
Dollars each. Halves $40, Quarters S. Tenths
So, Twenties 81.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-10-05

west OF city. frlce, S0UUO.
We have acres of land all fenced: extra
good house located just outside of the city
limits, can be bought for " nat improvements
cost; terms one-haf cash and monthly pay
ments.
Coal mine, about 500 acres, near thriving
city, leased for 40 years, vein be ween and 3
feet thick, ~ feet from surface. Contract toy
all coal that can he mined al good margin
can be bought cheap on account OF owner 60
ing to Europe.
One of the finest vineyards aud orchards
in the country. Fifteen thousand vines Of
best quality OF grape from three to ten years
old and an orchard of 700 choice fruit tree
such as apple, peach, pear and apricot. Ala
irrigable land and fine improvements on the
place. Call and see photograph of the plaG
and get full particulars.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-10-05
FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY.

The LIGHT is authorized to announce
GEORGE PASCHAL as candidate Tor re
election TO the office of District Attorney.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-10-05

County Superintendent of Public
Instruction.
The LIGHT is authorized to announce r. L.
STANFIELD as a candidate TOR reelection
TO the Office of county superintendent of
public instruction, at the election, November
Grh
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-10-05
GRAND MONTHLY DRAWING

In the Academy of Music. New Orleans, Tues
day, October q, 1888.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-10-05
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
FOR THE LEGISLATURE.
FOR DISTRICT JUDGE.

The LIGHT is authorized to announce Judge
G.. W. NoONAN as candidate for reelection
to the office of District Judge of the 18th
judicial District, at the election in November.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-10-05
SPECIAL BARGAINS.

so acres of miles, south of city, smxS
house good locality. Price SO Co., (5D
A sS1--~ 1900 acres.
&xhlaNA l with good rock house never
M iItEhaA falling water, and fine grass
ElinttGs9A situated on the Culebra and
- HelOtes creeks, about 15 10
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-10-05

so acres of sandy loan land miles south of
the town of Gonzales on Cuero road, fenced
has been cultivated; about one mile
from Guadalupe Tver. This land is very
rich AID is one of the best farms in Texas
Z rice S;jOU.UO lUl
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-10-05

,@EsSA FOR SALE. "A LARGB
I.s..EI story frame house, with rooms
lIiiIT 9x bath room, large nails, galleries
s-f.-klf1tesA A
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-18
Homo Eyaneeliza>ion.

The Unions Boston correspondent de-
scribes a movement undertaken in that city
to promote evangelistic work, and the plan
appears so promising that it may be COM
mended to the careful consideration Of
Christian people Of all denominations in
vnis city and vicinity. 1t is probable that
q good deal more might be accomplished
"a the way Of carrying the gospel to the
multitude, by united work among the
churches The Boston society is unsecta-
rian and so calls to its aid all who feel
moved to enter the field in any kind of
religious work.
The question is often asked, Where are the
workers! That evangelistic society has its
eye on them and is able to call them to any
service to which they may be fitted, whether
to assist in REVIVAL services, in Sunday
schools in mission schools, or in house to
house visitation. On the other hand, there
are good people in every community, and
probably in this, who are willing to work if
they can be set about it. Pastors often make
a good use of them, but there are fields not
included in any special pastoral care which
need to be cultivated. There are outlying
country districts, sparsely settled and de-
prved Of church privileges, which lay
evangelists and Christian workers should
pre-eTnpt and cultivate till such time as or
ganized church work can be attempted. This
is in the line of the Christian alliance work,
which was so ably discussed at Washington
not long ago, ard would do much to promote
practical union among different denomina-
tions. +Springfeld Union.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-18
A Western Tragedy.

John Edmundson,a prosperous farmer
living six miles west of Sterling. Kan,
was Sitting in the front room of his house
cleaning and loading his repeating rifle
when by some mischance the weapon
was discharged, the bullet passing up.
ward throug n the ceiling. A heavy fall
in the upper room was heard a second
later and Edmundson, rushing to the
second story, pushing open door against
which was some heavy body, was almost
crazed to find his wife lying on the floor
dead with a bullet hole in her right tenn
ple. The poor woman had been cleaning
the room few moments before the fatal
shot was fired and it was supposed that
she was leaning over brushing a chair
when the rifle ball passed through the
floor and without warning pierced her
head, causing instant death. Kansas
City Times.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-18
What Christianity Does.

"It might be WELL" says President Carter,
Of Williams college, Ito ascertain fairly
whether it has been a wholesome thing
to believe in Christ, as Lord, before declar-
ing Christianity to be a lie. 1t is not
Christian, but recent positivist writer, one
who rejects Christianity, with scorn no
less fine and intense than the quoted agnos-
tic, who nevertheless writes the answer to
that sneer.
"'What needs admitting or rather pro
claiming by agnostics who would be just Is
that the Christian doctrine has power OF
cultivating and developing saintliness which
has had no equal in any other creed OF phil
osophy. When it gets firm hold Of q; prom,
ising subject, ons with a heart and head
strong enoug Oh to grasp its full import and
score. then it strengthens the will, raises
and purities the affections, and finally
achieves conquest over the baser self in
man OF which the result is character none
the less beautiful and soul subduing, because
it is wholly beyond imitation by the less
spiritually endowed"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-18
w. G. T. q. Bulletin.

The W. c. T. o. at Philippopolis, Turkey,
has thirty members.
Melrose CMass.) W. C. T. U. conducts an
afternoon lecture course.
One result Of Dakota's local option law Is
the closing of $50 saloons in Fargo.
Miss Henrietta G. Moore, Of Ohio, is lec-
turing most acceptably to Illinois audiences.
A total abstinence revival under the lead
ership of Bishop Ireland ls in progress In 81
Paul, Minn.
AY. Wet. U, Of 36 members was re-
Gently organized at Geneseo, ILL.,. by Mrs j..
Ellen Fosterj -----
The W. c. T. U. Of Carthage, ILL.,, recently
received bequest OF $1,000 to carry on their
work in Hancock county.
Mrs. Jennie McClurkin is working most
efficiently as state organizer OF w. =. 1.
Unions in West Virginia.
A lady writing from Atlanta, Co., says:
"Our city is drowned in whisky and the pa
pers suppress the facts Systematically.
The International Distillery at Des Moines,
Iowa, which has not been in operation Tor
over year, is preparing to move out OF the
State.
Count Leo Tolstoi, the famous Russian
literateur, has organized and placed himself
Mockar, called the "Society Of the Temper
ate" The members are pledged not to drink
intoxicating liquors of any sort nor to sell or
offer them to any one, but to labor to con-
vince others, especially children, Of the
dangers Of intemperance.
The corner stone Of the W. G. T. U. Build
ing, Los Angeles, Cal, was laid lately with
appropriate ceremonies. The W. c. T. U.
and Juvenile temperance societies participated
in the exercises. Judge VIM. A. Cheney
delivered the principal address. The stone is
Arizona sandstone and bears the words:
sSThe battle is not yours, but Gods Work
upon the building is progressing well and its
completion is matter Of very short time.
The Annual Minutes Of the National ". G.
T. u, Just issued, make the most ample
showing ever yet attained by the society.
Pennsylvania alone has 1851 local unions.
The annual leafet Of thirty eight pages
Suited to enclose in letters) enumerates forty
two separate departments Of work, each one
of these being under the care Of q special
National Superintendent, with an associate
in every State, and she with an associate in
each local union.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-18
PersonaI Hand.to.Hand Work.

One of the co-workers Of President Finney,
Rev. Elijah Buck lately died. To a CORE.
spondent OF the Evangelist he emphasized
the Importance Of personal, individual work,
and gave the following illustration: when
a young man, college student, no visited a
village in New York, and found only one
individual in the village who made a pro-
fession of religion. 1t was desperate case,
and q man of weaker faith would have given
up the thought of a revival in that town.
He went to the only pious man in that vii
lage and proposed to him to invite the Lord
Jesus Christ to come to that town on the
business Of redemption, and to remain there
until the business was all done up Il
make use of terms which the good
man used in his conversation with
me) The two praying men met and implored
the Redeemer Of men to visit the town in
question. Then they Immediately started
out and visited every house in town, to in
form the people of the fact that Jesus had
been invited and was surely expected that
very day. They prayed in every home, and
found every home actually prepared for their
coming and for the presence Of the divine
Guest. Conviction seemed to have taken
hold upon every individual, and the revival
had already begun. The result need not be
stated 1t was a sweeping work Of grace,
widely extended and deeply seated 1t was
the result Of personal work with the indi-
vidual.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-18
Business Aspect of the Rum Power.


A brief calculation will show the loss to all
lines Of legitimate business through this
damnable traffic in liquid ruin. 1t IS entirely
probable that there is not saloon in any city
whose average sales are less than s. per day.
Even the enormous percentage Of profit when
is made by the saloonist would leave but
narrow margin out Of this average, when the
first cost Of rum, rent, fire. gas, taxes ana
other expenses are taken out. Then the higher
class Of saloons, those in the more fre9uen5
business streets, sell anywhere from Sloo to
$500 worth day. Let US put the average
for all classes OF saloons low enough, and as
sumo that it is $40 per day all around. IN
the city Of Toledo, we are informed at tne
internal revenue Office, there are over SIX
hundred saloons. The amount paid over
their counters, at the above average, IS SbOOV
daily. This is over 81, ,S9S, ,OOO yearly, not
counting illegal Sunday sales. when are
if we make it S2,OOO,COD yearly. Think
of what 81. .O00, ,0G0 year loses to the city and
to all legitimate lines of business, and you
will begin to have a faint idea OF what the
rum traffic costs Toledo, in a business way,
every year. 1t does not do penny's worth
of good to the buyers or to their wives, their
families, and their dependent ones. IL that
much cut off from their necessities and com
forts. If there were not rumhole IN TINS
city. that two millions would be nearly all
spent with the business men in legitimate
lines The men who now pay it out for rum
would then spend it for more and better food,
for better clothing for themselves and their
families for furniture, home comforts, and
luxuries They would dwell in better houses,
would exist on a higher plane. Let the mer-
chants Of the city think Of the value to them.
selves of the added expenditure Of over S6OOo
per day by retail consumers. They can then
begin to realize what loss to themselves is
the rum traffic so long as it exists. And what
is true Of Toledo is true Of any other city or
village in the country in proportion to popu-
lation and number Of saloons. Blade.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-18
Rather Inappropriate.

A New York merchant, who does an
extensive commission business in Cuba,
had been entertaining a wealthy citizen
of Havana for several days. On recent
Saturday the Cuban and his wife were
to sail for home. At the last moment,
the merchant thought it would be the
proper thing to send some flowers to MS
departing friends on board the ship. SO
he hastily despatched an oifice-boy TO TO a
florists to purchase some flowers. "Get
about twenty-five dollars worth, and l
will leave the selection to you," were his
instructions to the boy, after telling why
he wanted the flowers. He then accom-.
panied his friends to the steamer, and
lust as "all ashore" was cried, the Office
boy rushed up the gangplank carrying
two broken columns--one bore the in
scription: ''Wemourn your loss, " and
the other, "Gone to another shore"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-18

A little lad was keeping his sheep one Sun
day morning The bells were ringing for
services at church, and the people were going
over the fields when the little fellow began to
think that he too would like to pray for God.
But what could he saya for he had never
learned a prayer. So he knelt down, and
commenced the alphabet. A, B, G, D, and 50
on to q. A gentleman, happening to passthe
other side of the hedge, heard the lads voice,
and looking through the bushes saw the little
fellow kneeling, with folded hands and closed
eyes, saying A, B, c..
'"What are you doing, my little man!"
The lad looked up.
"Please sir, was praying"
"But what were you saying your letters
for!''
"Why, didn't know any prayer, only
felt that I wanted God to take care OF me
and help me take care Of the sheep; So !
thought, if / said all knew he would put 1t
together and spell what I wanted"
"Bless your heart, my little man. he will,
be will, he will; when the heart speaks right,
the lips can't say wrong"
The prayer that goes to heaven comes from
the heart.-[The Sunday Hour.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-18
Beautiful Colors From Poplar Wood.

"It is not known outside of the trade,
and not known to every one in the trade
for that matter, to what we are indebted
for odd but richa and beautiful shades of
yellow, green, orange, brown and red
that are so fashionable and so much ad-
mired in ladies' dress goods, and which
first appeared five or six weeks ago."
said a dry goods dealer.
"What is the secret?' inquired re-
porter.
"There is no secret about it, replied
the dry-goods man; 'no one seems to
have mentioned it, that's all. Those pc
culiar shades are the production of the
common poplar wood in all its varieties.
The young branches and shoots of poplar
trees are used in obtaining the dye. They
are cut up into small pieces and crushed
and brayed in mortars. The pulp they
make is thrown into vats of boiling alum
water. To every three gallons of water
a pound of alum is added, which pro.
portion of the preparation is maintained
to every ten pounds of poplar pulp. The
pulp is boiled half an hour. The boiling
is followed by slow filtration of the
LIQUID. As the filtered fluid cools it
thickens and clears, tn! owing down
resinous substance of greenish-yellow
hue. A second filtering is made when
the liquid has become perfectly clear.
Placed in porcelain vessels, it is left ex-
posed to the air during three dry, fair
DAYS. The light and air oxidize the re-
suit of the two filter;ngs, and leave q
substance of the richest golden tint it is
possible TO imagine. This is the primary
color from which all the other shades
mentioned are produced. 1t is in itself
the dye used for those charming effects
in silks and all fancy dress-goods of one
Golden shade-a shade never made pos
ssiblc by any other dye, although ancient
fabrics show plainly that they. were
tinted by similar dye. The poplar was
undoubtedly known to the ancients as
rich dye wood.
"The various shades of green. brown,
etc., which arc based on this poplar
golden yellow are made by the mixture
Of pigments and dyes, which dyers
know how to combine for producing
the desired results. The colors made
with the poplar base are not only rich
and beautiful but lasting. CAteog'
TrjbnDe
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-18
Chrfs t.lIke Life,

Rev. DR.. E. A. Read of Holyoke in an e1-
cellent sermon from the text: "Then said
Jesus to them again, peace be unto you; as
my Father has sent me, even so send you !"
said Christianity must be personified and
clothed in flesh and blood. Words are the
vehicles of thought and those who scorn
creeds are making a great mistake. But
truth was before the creeds, which were born,
not made. Men believed in Christ absolutely
before they put that belief into words The
life was there, and the life Is what we want.
DR.. Reed said that we wanted no creeds
merely to be spoken trippingly on the tongue.
If he believed in probation after death he
would accept it with feverything that
went with it; but il the Bi-
bic doesn't teach 1t then we
have nothing to do with it. Creeds alone
can never conquer the world, but creeds
founded on the truth Of Christ and e1empli-
fed in holy lives arc resistless Men may
shut their Bibles, but they must see the holy
lives atont them. Thus we see the divine
wisdom in the means Of converting the world.
The wisest text book cannot take the place of
the living teacher. What we want upon earth
is saints. Christianity will gain power and
make progress in proportion to the devoted
ness Of Christians. In closing DR.. Reed em.
phasized the thought that in the text Christ
offers the highest calling possible to man.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-18

ser of liquid intimacy measured out
their whisky in a medicine graduate
glass. This struck O'Donovan as pc.
culiarly weird proceeding, and he looked
at Laffan to see the effect apon him. To
his horror, there was a fly crawling
around on Laffan's eye-ball: O'Donovan
rubbed his eyes, and looked again.
There was the fly wandering around the
iris aud over the pupil, and Laffan calm
ly endured it without winking. O'Dono-
van gazed for moment to make sure,
and then with a yell of terror, dashed
out into the street and sought his board
ing house, where he took to his bed, and
awaited the advent of the del. trem.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-18
RELIGIOUS READING.
The Land of Rest.

Beyond the valley lying low,
Through which our feet some day shall 60
Beyond the hills so purple haze,
That stretches far beyond our gaze,-
There is place, so happily blest,
Which here we call The Land OF Rest.
A land with hills and valleys fair,
And many Of our loved are there;
So silently, and one by one
They went the lonesome journey on;
All, with white hands upon their breast,
Went out into The Land Of Rest.
I long that happy bourne to see,
l long to know how it will be
When first these eyes Of mine behold
The land Of which the prophets told.
OF my inheritance possessed,
When shall reach The Land Of Rest!
o blessed land! o time so slowl
Not with reluctance I shall go,
But on my lips happy song.
That it, the day looked for so long,
Has come to take me to that blest-
That peeceful land, The Land Of Rest.
-[Helen A. Manvill, in Good Housekeeping.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-18
The Black Bottle.

The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph tells the follow
ing true story, that would ftly adorn q
temperance Lecture Happening into q
millinery store, the reporter noticed a lady
who was buying hat for her little girl.
The child made herself sociable with him,
and remarked, prattling artlessly: 1--WE dot
lots o. money now"
Where did you get 1t, my little girlF
"Papa broke de bottle"
This called for some explanation on the
mothers part, and she finally related how
her Incorporate husband had been reformed
five years before, at the time their oldest boy
died. This is the tale she told, beginning
as the story of many reformed life has be-
gun-at loved ones death-bed:
The little fellow slowly turned his eyes
toward his father and said: Pm going to
to come. This is Christmas morning, papa;
please let me see what Santa Claus put In my
stocking.
My husband went to the mantel and took
down the little stocking. 1t was empty. He
stood still and stared at it for minute, and
God only knows the agony of his heart in
that short time. He turned to speak, but
our boy would not have heard him had the
poor mans breaking heart allowed him ut
terance. Our boy was dead!
The day before New Years my husband
called for the whisky bottle May God for:
give my feelings at that minute, for wished
that he, too, was dead. 1obeyed him me-
chanically.
To my surprise he took the bottle in his
hands, and, pouring the whisky on the
ground. said: II will drink no more; and the
money I would spend for whisky we will put
in this bottle, and all enjoy the contents" {"
You can imagine how happy I was! he
had sworn of many times before, but J
knew he was in earnest this time. We made
calculation, and estimated that whisky cost
him five dollars week.
Well, it was decided to put five dollars
week In the bottle, for five years, come what
would. The time was out last New Years
Day, and the big black bottle was broken
and it contained one thousand dollars. But
this was not all. We saved enough in that
time, outside Of the bottle, to buy little
home
"But are you not afraid, in breaking the
bottle, your husband will break his resolu
tionP
ssNo; because we have started another
bottle-bank," said the lady, with happy
smile. =,
The husband is Macon mechanic, well
known, and enjoys the respect and esteem
of all. He says he never knew how muct
genuine pleasure there was at home witt
his loved ones until he got sober enough tx
appreciate it, and to fill instead OF empty
the fat black bottle.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-18
A Journalists Glass Eye.

Dir. William NJ. Laffan, of the New
York San, has a glass eye, says the Jour
ualist. It is q very accurate match to
the other, and is hardly noticeable. One
evening in the long ago, when O'Donovan,
the sculptor, and Laffsn were both gay
Young Bohemians, they met for the first
time, and finding each other charming
companions, with similar tastes for
art and literature, they proceeded to
drink to better acquaintance. One drink
followed another until, at one bar where
they stopped for night,cap, the dispen.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-18
The Origin Of q Phrase.

lit is difficult to account for the
origin of great many phrases incurrent
use," remarked McSwilligen, COR even
to see their relevancy.
eyes" replied Squildig.
"Now there's that expression, 'on its
last legs, meaning something about to
end. Its approp iateness is very doubt
full. For instance, kangaroo is nearly
always on its last legs, but where can you
find more striking example of vitalitya"
-Pittsbury Chronicle.