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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-06-19

Of the good things of this
NNNN~S1 life are sorrowfully let
alone on account of Dyspepsia. Acker's
Dyspepsia Tablets will cure Dyspepsia,
Indigestion and Constipation; sold on a
positive guarantee at % and so cents, by
For sale Rsgland & Kennedy. ly
For SALE-5OO pounds type metal
at the LIGHT office. 3-5-tf
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-06-19

Hear the old veteran pianist, Won
Brun, in choice selections, at Gam bri-
nus hall, every night of the week, cor
ner Garden and Market streets. Hall
to rent to private parties, for concerts,
etc. Apply for terms to Mr.. Jarick
Prop. Piano used is from Thos. Cog
gan & Bros. Leave orders for Bra IS
or string music. 6-17-6t
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-06-19
Do NOT SUFFER ANYLoNGER.

Knowing that a cough can be
checked in a day, and the first stages
of consumption broken in a week, we
hereby guarantee Acker's English
Cough Remedy, and will refund the
money to all who buy, take it as per
directions, and do not find our state
ment correct. RAGLAND d Co.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-06-19

Railways are said to consume more
than half the worlds production of
iron, the car wheels required in the
United States alone taking more than
1000, 900 tons.
Several Belgian explorers offer to 60
in search of Stanley, but only by the
Congo route, and with Caravan ac-
companied by a large force of men.
The civil formalities of the marriage
of Miss West and Mr.. Salonson took
place in Paris Yesterday. Lord Lytton
and Count DolssOn were witnesses for
the bride.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-06-19
No Cholera Here,

A gentleman who has arrived in
the city from Corpus Christi reports
that in that city and indeed that sec
ton of the state it is reported that
"cholera is raging in San Antonio"
The LIGHT does not know how such
an absurd rumor could possibly have
got abroad, but it does know that the
statement is false. Not single case
of cholera can be found in the city.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-06-19
An Extra Bargain.

One house and two lots, near Sun
set depot, for $500. Terms easy. APP
ply to HAMBLEToN, HADLEY & Co.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-06-19
ghe Dai1y Eight.
TUESDAY, JUNE, 10,
r. w, McAlIister g. Bro.

have good Sour Krout, Sweet Pickles,
mixed, Vinegar and Salt Pickles,
loose Jellies and Preserves, White
Lime, English Portland and Rosen-
dale Clements, Plaster Paris, Hair, etc.
R-1-tf
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-06-19

The MARKS of premature age may be
efectually obliteTated by using IBucking-
hams Dye for the whiekers. II colors uni
formly, and always gives satisfaction. +3O-tf
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-06-19

The Reputation
OF Ragland & Co.'s City Drug Store,
for accuracy and reliability, coupled
with the polite and courteous atten-
ton which they bestow upon their pa
irons are the factors in their increas-
ing success. 6-1-tf
Smyrna times., 1888-06-27
FOgs, Rain and Snow.

Having now learned how the water
IS drawn into the air, let us see how
and why it comes down again as rain
or snow or dew.
There is a singular thing about this
moisture, which is this, the air will
hold only certain quantity depends
upon the temperature of the air. But
warm air always holds more than cold:
so, however warm the air may be, or
however much moisture it NAV con-
tain as invisible vapor, we have only
to cool it enough and the vapor con-
denses, as we say this is, it becomes
visible, first as fog or mist, and then as
drops of water, such as we see on the
pitcher And the reason we see a
white fog rising at dawn, after the sun
goes down, is only because the water.
which has been eVaporating all day
and going up into the air as invisible
vapor, becomes condensed to for bv
the cooling of the air when the SUMS
heat is withdrawn When the sun
rises, the fog disappears but the
vapor still ascends, and when it reaches
the altitude where the air is ALWAYS
cool, it becomes condensed again as
fog, only it is then called clouds" "
And if it becomes condensed enough to
form in drops of water, they fall, and it
rains" or, perhaps, it SHOWS, for snow
is but frozen rain. st. Nicholas.
Smyrna times., 1888-06-27
A Boom for Spiritualism.

Allen NJ. Linn, an old and respected
farmer, died last week in Texas town.
ship, Kalamazoo county, Michigan.
lie was 50 years old. He was a spir-
ltualist, and had said repeatedly that
he would dance at his own funeral.
Before dying he gave directions that
no ceremonies should take place at the
funeral in keeping with the orthodox
or other theories which he had de-
nouEced. The obsequies occurred
sunday in grove in the presence of
a large number of people. A cOrnet
band discOursed lively music, an Ope-
ratio artist sang and children took part
IN the ceremonies. A noted Spir-
itualist gave an address, and his re.
marks so enthused the son of the
deceased that when the music struck
up he began to dance jigs, the steps of
which he declared were known only
to his father, whose spirit he subse-
quently affirmed entered into and tenn
porarily possessed him, so that all his
actions were purely involuntary, and
he knew nothing of what had taken
place. Remembering the dead mans
predictions, the credulous people of
the region are greatly excited over the
occurance, and Spiritualism is Just
now enjoying a decided boom in that
community.
Smyrna times., 1888-06-27
WHOLE NO. l,7l8.
Labor Notes,

One OF the features of the present
condition of the labor field is the steady
ana healthy growth of cooperation.
Most OF the labor papers now have de-
partments devoted entirely to the CO.
operative system. This movement of
course, is but in its infancy here and is
modelled upon that in vogue in
England, where millions of dollars are
invested in it and where its success
was long ago assured. There is a
project on hand to form a national
organization, made up of 100000 mem
oers, formed in local groups of fiftv.
A conversion of the Working Women's
protective Union was held in Boston
last week, and the reports as to the
growth of the cooperative idea were
most tiattering. Within a week tailOrs
OF Chicago, the broom makers of Lon
lsVllle and the glass workers of Masso-
chusetts have formed unions. The lat
ter have built Il new factory at Sand
Wlch and start out under verv favor
able auspices. 1t will have all the
modern improvements and will start in
about two weeks.
1t IS also noticeable that politics
have ceased to figure to anv extent in
Ine affairs of the real labor leaders.
Inc Labor party as a matter of fact. is
so badly broken up that majority of
working men are paying little or no at
tentlon to it. Nor do the seven or
eight men who control the Knights of
Labor now WELD the influence over
the wOrkmen of the United States that
they did. Their mistakes, and those
OF the political tricksters, have, aecor-
ding to all reports, taught the real
working men of the country to act for
themselves and, from such informa-
ton as can be gleand from the best in
formed men on labor matters, working
men are generally quietly strengthen
ing their trades unions, and working
steadily to make up for lost time and
money lost in il-advised strikes, arbi
trating any difficulties that NAV arise
between themselves and their employ
ers, building to have cooperation as a
means to prevent strikes, and gener-
ally doing well. Work is not scarce.
wages are not particularly low, and on
the whole the working men of Amer
lea, like the famous gentleman who
kept hotel. Z" are doing quite we'll"
Besides, it looks as though they would
do better as time rolls on.-NelU York
Mail and Express.
Smyrna times., 1888-06-27
A Question Of Health.
WHAT BAKING POWDER SHALL WE USE

This plain question comes home to
every house keeper. We all desire
pure and wholesome food and, this
cannot be had with the use of impure
or poisonous baking powder. There
can be no longer question that all the
cheaper, lower grades Of baking pow
ders contain either alum, lime or phos-
phatic acid As loath as we NAV be to
admit so much against what may have
been some of our household gods,
there can be no gainsaying the unani-
nous testimony Of the official chemists.
Indeed, analysis seem to find no bak-
ing powder entirely free from some one
OF these Objectionable ingredients ex-
cept the Royal, and that they report
as chemically pure We find some of
the baking powders advertised as pure,
to contain, under the tests of Profess
sors Chandler, Habirshaw and others,
nearly twelve per cent of lime, while
others are made from alum with no
cream Of tartar. This, we presume,
accounts for their lack of Ieavening
power as sometimes complained of by
the cook, and for the bite" taste found
IN the biscuits so frequently complain
ed Of by ourselves.
But aside from the inferiOrity of the
work done by these powders, the ply
slclans assure us that lime and alum
taken into the system in such quanti-
ties as this are injurious, dyspepsia, or
worse evils.
The question naturally arises, why
DO these cheap baking powder makers
use these things? Alum is three cents
pound, lime still cheaper, while
cream OF tartar costs thirty-five or for
ty. The reasons for the chemical puri-
ty OF the Royal Baking Powder were
recently given in the New York Times
IN an interesting description of new
method for refining argols, or crude
cream Of tartar II seems that it is
only under this process that cream of
tartar can be freed from the lime nat
ural to it and rendered chemically
pure; that the patents and plant for
this cost the Royal Baking Powder
Company about half a million dollars,
and that they maintain exclusive CON
troll Of the rights.
Professor McMutrie, late chief chem
lst OF the Department Of Agriculture,
at Washington, d. c., made an exami-
nation of this process, and reported
upon the results attained in the refined
cream Of tartar. The following extract
from his report would seem to answer
the question repeated at the head of
this article, and which is so frequently
propounded by the housekeeper:
:" l have examined the cream of tar
tar used by the Royal Baking Powder
Company in the manufacture of their
baking powder, and find it to be per-
tectly pure and free from lime in any
form. The chemical tests to which l
have submitted the Royal Baking Pow
der prove it perfectly healthful and
free from every deleterious substance.
The Royal Baking Powder is purest in
quality and highest in strength of any
baking powder Of which have knowl-
edge"
Smyrna times., 1888-06-27
Periodicals.

The July number of BaJuLand is
here, and the little folks think thew
could better spare the GLORIOUS
Fourth than the visits of their cher
lshed BGbYGRd. The best thing pub
lished for the babies from one TO six
years old. Send cents for a sample
copy to D. LothrOp Company, Boston.
Few events of the war were the cen
ter of as much herOism as the career of
the Confederate ram Albemarle. which
IS the subject of an illustrated narra-
tive in The Century for July. The con-
tributOrs to this well-rounded histori-
cal sketch are Gilbert Elliott. who
built the vessel; Doctor Edgar Holden.
OF Sassacus, the wooden ship which at
tempted to run down the ram in Albe-
marie Sound; Lieutenant Cushing.
who mOdestly describes his gallant at
tack upon the Albemarle with a tor
pedo-bOat; Captain A. F. Warlev.
who commanded the Confederate YES
sci at the time of Cushing's attack and
her destruction. The illustrations will
include number of portraits and in
teresting pictures.
Frank Le8Iie's SUNDAY MAGAZINE for
July, which begins the twenty-fourth
volume, is bright and entertaining
Summer number, full as usual, of in
teresting reading and beautiful illus
tratiOns. Among the profusely illus
trated articles are Ancient Greeks in
Modern Cyprus" by A. L. Rawson
Sunday in the City of the Gar" bv
the Rev. Frederick Hastings "a
Strange Charity-the Sheppard Insane
Asylum, Baltimore" by V. B. Dem
slow and Henry Hudson" by Will
liam Seton. In this number are por-
traits of the Pundita Ramabal Saras-
vati, DIR. Alexander Campbell Macken-
zie, DIR. Valsamaki, Moses Sheppard,
Mary Hewitt, Monseigneur Leon Bou-
land, Bishop Thomas Bowman and the
Rev. B. B. Warfeld, D. D. Macdonald's
story, DR.. Talmage's sermon treats of
Parental Mistakes, and poems and in
cluded by Theodore Martin, Lucy Lar
com, Ruth Alleyn and Adelaide Stout.
These, with the numerous short arti-
cles, art pictures, music and miscel-
lany, make up a very attractive num-
Der.
Smyrna times., 1888-06-27
Wheat Crop of the World.

The total wheat crop of the world is
said to be about 2,OOO,OOO,OOO bushels,
and at least 1,5OO,OOO,OOO bushels are
consumed in the countries in which it
is grown, leaving balance of 500, 600, 900
to supply countries growing no wheat
or growing less than they consume.
Speculation deals only with this bal
ance that goes into general trade, and
the spectators of the world in a single
year will sell or transfer in their pecu-
liar way forty or fifty times 100000, 900
bushels of wheat.
In New York a single day sometimes
witnesses a sale or transfer of 80, ,OOO. 900
bushels of wheat The damage done
by speculation consists in lowering the
price of the whole amount of actual
wheat by this enormous imitation of
paper wheat" not a bushel in a
thousand of which els ever delivered.
Smyrna times., 1888-06-27

Stolen money brought little satisfac.
tiOn to Express-robber Huber, the
trusted agent of the Adams Express
Company, who took money packages
to the value of over $4,000 and has
remained unsupported and undetected
until a short time ago. The money was
no good to him until he began to spend
it, He spent some oft in fitting up
his house luxuriously and in living
extravagantly. A salary of S75 a
month not permitting such indulgences
the display only fastened suspicion on
him. Like another fellow of his kind,
Lawyer Dunn, of New York, who set
his keen wits to the work of living
without labor, and aided a weaker tool
to steal Manhattan Bank Company's
bonds, he only laid himself open to
still harder work. A nine years. sem
tence to hard labor was the Judgment
on Dunn's case. and the Adams Ex-
press Company's embezzler would be
glad enough now to exchange the
plainest of homes at Sunbury for the
quarters where his near future will be
passed.
Smyrna times., 1888-06-27
The Patent Office at Washington.

A legal application for a patent is
made up of five parts; the petition,
which is the technical term for the ap-
plicatiOn proper; The specification, or
description the oath; the drawing
and the fee. They used to require a
model, also, but now that is dispensed
with, unless specially called for by the
examiner"
Who Is the examiner ?" asked Tom.
The examiner is the officer who
examines your invectiOn, to see wheth-
er it is novel and useful, which it must
be to entitle you to a patent"
The Patent Office" continued the
lawyer, " is in charge of the Commits
siOner of Patents. To help him, he
has an assistant-cOmmissiO and
law-cler. Matters of ordinary routine
are in charge of a chief-clerk. The
examination of applications is intrusted
to twenty-five principal examiners,
each of whom has Il first, a second and
third assistant. Another grade
that OftOurth assistant-was established
III 1882, and there are now tWenty-nine
examining divisions. There is also
Board of Appeals, composed of three
eXaminers-in-chief; an examiner of in
references, and saveral chiefs of divis-
ions, who superintend the copying,
assignment, and issuing of patents, the
publication of the Official Gazette, the
making and photO-lithOgraphing of
drawings, the care of models, the re-
ceipt of fees and other moneys, and so
forth. The whole office contains some
five or six hundred clerks. The ex-
aminers are the representatives of the
Commissioner, to whom he delegates
the work of determining the merits of
the various applications for patents.
The law requires the Commissioner to
issue patent for every invention
which shall be found to be new and
useful OF course, the Commissioner
cannot personally inspect the and de-
eide upon the twenty-five thousand
applications for patents which are
made every year. This is the work of
the examiners, each of whom has
charge of all inventions of a certain
kind. Inventions are classified into
about one hundred and sixty-seven
classes. Each examiner has assigned
to him six or eight classes, which he
subdivides to suit his own convenience.
All applications are distributed among
the examiners, according to the nature
of the inventions. The examiner sees
to it that each application is properly
examined in its turn, and finally, when
satisfied that a case covers nothing
that is not patentable he sends it to
the Issue Division, where patent is
drawn up and duly issued. ."-,St.
Nicholas.
Smyrna times., 1888-06-27
SourrilOus Letters.
THE NEW LAW RELATING TO "DUNs" 4"
AND ANNOYING OR INSULTING
NIISSIVES

Post-office Inspector O'Leary Thurs
day received from Postmaster General
Dickinson a circular copy of the
amended act of Congress, signed by
President Cleveland on last Monday.
in relation to obscene or scurrilous
matter in the mails. Among it's pro-
visions are the following:
And all matter otherwise mailable
by law upon the envelope or outside
cover or wrapper of which, or postal
card, upon which indecent, lewd, las
clvious, obscene, libellous scurrilous or
threatening delneations, epithets.
terms or language, rejecting injurious
ly upon the character or conduct of
another, may be written or printed.
are hereby declared to be nOn-mailable
matter, and shall not be conveyed in
mails, nor delivered from anv post
Office, nor by any letter carrier; and
any person who shall knowingly de-
posit or cause to be deposited, for mail
ing or delivery, anything declared by
this section to be nOn-mailable matter.
and any person who shall knowingly
take the same or cause the same to be
taken from the mails for the purpose of
ANoictOlh5 VI ulSpOSluS Vi lu6 same,
shall be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanOr, and shall, for each and every
offence, be fined not less than 500 nor
more than $4,000, or Imprisonment at
hard labor not less than one year nor
more than 10 Oyears, or both, at the dis
erection of the Court.
Amy postal card or other matter
upon the envelope or outside cover of
which appears anything which re-
fleets injuriOusly upon the person ad-
dressed, or any one else, or upon his
character or conduct, or is plainly cal
culated and intended to iniure his feel
ings or reputation, or bring him into
discredit, or which threatens him, will
be excluded"
Another section declares that any
thing in the nature of an offensive or
threatening dun will likewise be ex-
cluded.
The Inspector said he had received
many complaints of the offensive char
acter of the envelopes marked bad
Debt " which were printed in conspicu-
GUS colors and were sent ouC by a col
lection agency to debtors. -PhHadeI-
phiG LedQer.
Smyrna times., 1888-06-27
CHARACTERISTICS.

1t was early recognized that the Con-
ventiOn was made conspicuous, when
compared with all previous National
Conventions of the Republican party.
by the absence of great men, of states
men of distinguished character and
ability such as they who had shaped
the proceedings of its long line of pre-
decessors from 1856 to 1884. The lead,
ers who are controlling are, with the
rarest exception, not great men nor
eminent statesmen, but shrewd, prac-
tical politicians. Another of its distin-
gushing characteristics is that there
has been presented to it no aspirant for
the nomination who it seemed to intel
ligent observers would certainly defeat
all the others. There were not even
two leading aspirants, as has generally
been the case, of whom it could conf
IDENTIFY be thought that one or the other
would succeed. Still another charac.
teristic of the Convention is that no
matter who its candidate is to be, its
first best found choice is Mr.. Blaine
1t is his spirit that has brooded over il
from the beginning, his influence
which has prevented concentration
upon any particular leader, for the
hope of his friends and admirers has
steadfastly been and apparently still is
that something might arise at some
state of the proceedings that would
render the call upon him to assume the
leadership of his party as its candidate
a necessity.
Smyrna times., 1888-06-27
Feeding Hogs for Fat or Lean.

The experiments conducted by Prof.
W. A. Henry, at the Wisconsin Agri-
cultural Experiment Station, last year.
IL feeding hogs, have excited much in
terest. The character of the growth
was found to be largely influenced by
that of the food. Regarding these ex-
periments Prof Henry writes to us :
| am repeating the experiment in diff
terent forms, and have cOnfiImatorv
evidence that the composition of the
body of the hog can be very consid-
erably affected by the kind of food
given. Do not try to show that we
can produce carcasses fat and lean at
will for the table, because the mOdifi-
cations by feeding have in reality a
very narrow range. If we can modify
the form slightly in one generation by
the way we feed, it is natural to CON
clude that in few generations we can
very materially affect the form and
constitution of an animal by proper or
improper feeding. The hog being 8
greedy animal and easily satisfied
when enough food issupplied, has been
greatly abused, especially here at the
West in the great corn district The
sermon l wish preached from the text
| have given is one in breeding rather
than producing lean meat as against
fat for the table, though we certainly
can increase the lean by proper feed
ing to degree worthy of cOnsidera-
tion, and its flavor is also capable of
being improved. Witness the Irish
and Southern bacon in comparison
with that of Illinois. ."-Americrn Aqri-
cuJturist for July.
Smyrna times., 1888-06-27
Fight With Burglars in the Dark.

VIM. Perkins, the merchant of Tenn
pleville renowned for selling the cheap
est goods on the Peninsula, had a fight
in the dark with burglar the latter
part of last week. Mr.. Perkins is a
bachelor and sleeps in the store build
ing. Late at night he heard a noise
like the fall of broken glass. He arose
and went on a search. He discovered
a shutter open and a window glass
broken out. He thought at first it was
dog left in the store and was making
his escape, but concluded he would in
vestigate further Mr.. Perkins peered
about the room with a tallOw dip in
one hand and hickory stick in the
other. Soon he discovered the form of
a man hiding under the counter.
Without ceremony he began to belabor
him with the hickory The tallow dip
was eXtinguished and the two had it in
the dark. Mr.. Perkins is an old man,
upwards of 20, but with the aid of the
hickory, he got the best of the burglar.
The last seen of the latter was an effort
to jump through the broken window
where he hung for a short time. While
suspended in the window the old gen.
tleman was not idle in the use of the
hickory. Next morning under the
window about SO in pennies were found.
The loss in cash and small articles was
about $40. The beating Mr.. Perkins
gave him was fully worth the loss
CentfeUiHe Record.
Smyrna times., 1888-06-27
Should Teach a Lesson.

The Portland Oregonian relates that
Monday evening, as three young
women were passing the corner Of
Third and Taylor streets, a hackman
asked them to take a ride. One of
them told him to drive around the cor
ner and draw up to the sidewalk. He
did so, and alighted to open the door
of his hack, when two of the young
women seized him, and the other, TAX
ing his whip from the socket, proceed
ed to lay it on over his head and shoul-
ders with great vigor. After receiving
a small taste of what he richly deserv-
ed he managed to escape, and, jumping
on his hack, drove off, leaving his whip
as a trophy in the hands of the young
women"
Smyrna times., 1888-06-27

The editor of a Missouri paper, hav-
ing been accused by contemporary of
receiving $5 for booming the candidacy
of justice of the peace, says No
more malevOlent lie was ever Kissed
from the lips of fiend, or coined and
minted in the realms of darkness. We
hurl it back in the teeth of the vile
TRAITOR who uttered it."-LincOLn Jour
nal.