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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-09-20

AT the Turner's meeting. Tuesday
night, Ludwig Schultze was elected
member and j. j. Rheiner, q. Neutzel
and Z. G.. Sengg were nominated for
membership. de
The wood dealers say that owing
to good wages now being made by
laborers picking cotton, it is almost
impossible to secure wood choppers.
They predict firewOod will be high
this winter.
Since the reduction in prices, with
a little advertising the San Antonio
laundries have been over run with
work, and calling loudly for more hired
help.
The Jagerlust had prize shoot
ing festival last Sunday. Twelve
prizes were competed for and Hans
Steadmann carried off the first prize.
One of the chile stands on the
plaza, furnishes ACCORDION music every
evening now with their dish OF
tamales and beans.
The little colored Baptist church,
at the corner of Matamoros and San
Saba streets, still keeps up lively
whooping and shouting, till eleven
and twelve o'clock at night.
-Wolfson says trade is booming
and thinks he can not long put OIL
building a third story on his block,
corner of Acequia street and Main
plaza.
-Hambleton, Hadley g. Co. have
lust received from an owner living
north, one of the finest ranches in
Bexar county, which is offered fol
sale at an exceedingly low figure.
There is one of the Grand old
Romans in the Second ward that
makes night hideous with his hand
organ. He plays till twelve and one
o'clock. The police should stop the
nuisance. Otherwise said Roman
will have a big bulldog turned loose
on him some night.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-09-20

The marks OF premature age may be
effectually obliterated by using Bucking'
hams Dye for the whiskers. II colors uni.
formly, and always gives satisfaction. 4-SO-tf
Two six room houses on Government hill,
east front water works, beautiful location
can be bought seperate or together a nne
bargain. SID
No use to send your money away
from home, when you are in need of
any printing. Call around and see the
LIGHT. S-l6-tf
DIR. A. r. Balkan, veterinary
surgeon; office at Bowling d Floods
drug store, corner Houston street and
Avenue c. Leave orders on slate for
calls. S-lS-lm
Washington theatre, admission
1Oc. 7-31-tf e.
Washington theatre, admission
10c. 7-3l-tf
Tin roofing from $3.50 to 500 a
square. Address J. ]. Killing, Alb
North street. 6-6-tf
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-09-20
PRESS POINTS.

Philadelphia Press: Hill Is Demo-
cracy.
Detroit Tribune: The greenback
national convention had seven dele
gates. Exit fiat politics.
Dayton Journal: Cleveland is one of
the encyclopedias who study maxims
and not markets.
Philadelphia Telegraph: Mr.. Spoon
er is physically the smallest man in
senate but he seems to be made up
chiefly of brains and grit.
New York Mail and Express: Every
well-informed politician in this state
knows that the triumph Of Hill in his
state convention yesterday was a hui
initiation of Cleveland.
Toronto World: There has been a
marked falling off in the display of
American flags and American devices
of late, whereas formerly you could
not walk about town on a holiday
without meeting American flags at
every step.
Minnesota Tribune: The New York
republicans have the greatest oppor-
tunity of decade to earn the good
will of the republic. By one strong,
Well-dlIueu DioW tuoy nay liu ohO
country of Cleveland and their State
of Hill.
Brooklyn Times: The saloon-keep-
ers know that Governor Hill, by his
high license vetoes, put about $500 a
year in each of their pockets and
lively sense of gratitude that expects
future favors Of the same kind, will
make every saloon-keeker in the
state an active election agent for Hill.
New York Herald: Can we expect
China to stop travel from Canton to
Hong Kong? No more than we would
permit Spain to prevent emigration
from Jamaica to Key West. Are we
to ask China to control the trade of
Hong Kong-to say what emigrants
shall, or shall not leave? No senator
is so ignorant as not to know that
Hong Kong is as much British port
as Cardiff or Belfast, and that it is
wasting time to trouble China about
immigrants who come from Hong
Kong and no where else.
New York Post Mug: We think
that the state of New York will give
it's electoral vote to Cleveland and
Thurman, in spite of this bad nomina-
ton at Buffalo; but, whatever may be
the consequence, we will not, either
by silence or otherwise, join in under
mining the foundations of social order
by putting Mr.. Hill again in the Gov
ernor's chair. But we shall not
"knife" him. We shall oppose him
openly. If there is any knitting to be
done, let those who owe allegiance
to the democratic party Gas we do not
see to it.
Irish World: Workingmen of Amer
lea, this is your fight! In the struggle
between free trade and protection
you and your families, more even than
Harrison and Morton, will lose or win
the day. We believe you fully appre-
ciate the situation. The Irish World
has confidence in your common sense
and patriotism. The men of the Pine
Tree State have shown by their action
what they think of the sophistries of
Cleveland's letter issued the very day
they went to the polls. Maine leads to-
day; New York and all the progressive
and industrial states will follow in
November
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-09-20
Lunch andlSaIl.

The LIGHT has received compli-
mentary tickets for the lunch and
hop to be given by Ada Chapter, or
der of the Eastern Star, on next We'd
nesday at Joske Brothers old store on
Alamo and Losoyo streets. Lunch
from II IN. to p. M, and hop in the
evening. Some of the best ladies of
this city are interested in this affair
and no doubt it will be great sue
cess.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-09-20

In the probate court the will con-
test case is progressing. The bond
and oath of l.. w. Menger, as guar
dian of the estate of Virginia Stucke,
q minor, was approved.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-20
The Spartans and Their Music.

The favorite problem of thinkers and
teachers, since thought began, has been
to find some engine of education which
should reach the character as effectually
rs the ordinary mems of training touch
the unders ,anding; and in the opinion
of many, not men alone, but nations,
music WIS such an engine. at is music, "
said the Spartans, "wh ch distinguishes
the brave man from the coward" A
mans music is the source of his cour-
age. 1t was their music which enabled
Leonidas and his three hundred to con-
quer at Thermopyl@. 1t was music
which taught the Spartan youths how
to de iu the wrestling ring or on the
field of battle. These claims are auda-
cious, surely. Yet, when we consider
how the Tythmical tread of the brave
man differs flom the agitated shamble
of the coward, how music is the art of
human Joy and how joy and repose of
mind are the main elements of manly
fol titude, we shall at any rate admit that
there is strong affinity somewhere; our
only difficulty will be to acknowledge
that music deliberately applied, could
ever be the direct cause of these reputed
results. To achieve the end desired
Spartan boys passed their youth in learn
ing tunes, hymns and songs-this was
their sole mental culture. They were
taught to dance and keep step to the
measure Of the songs as they sang them.
And, grown to manhood, now perfect
warriors, marched into battle with smil-
ing faces, crowned with flowers, calm,
joyful and serene, and intoning their
songs, moved STEADILY into the thickest
of the fight, undisturbed and irresistible.
The banl that leads our armies to the
field of battle nowadays is q scant sur
vival of Spartan practice; yet even in
this music by proxy there are many ele-
ments of incitement to courage.-Nation-
al ReUielr.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-20
SHE HAD A PIECE OF PAPER
STRIKING A LIGHT.
Methods in Vogue Before the Inven-
tion of Friction Matches.

In the days before the invention of
friction matches the difficulty of procur
ing fire was so great that all pains were
taken to prevent the fire on the hearth
from going out. All winter long it was
kept by covering the Goals and brands
with ashes at night. This was one of
the domestic cares of our forefathers,
and Homer alludes to their practice as
common in his day, three thousand
years ago.
But the fire could not be kept with
comfort in the summer, and there would
be times in the winter when the hearth
would become cold. Then some Goals
must be brought from n neighbor's, OF q
new fire must be kindled in the house.
This latter process was usually accom-
plished by means of flint and steel.
Most readers have, no doubt, seen a
spark of fire struck out from horses
shoe hitting a stone in the road, or from
the shoes of a sleigh runner grind
over rocks.
To obtain fire by this method a piece
of steel, such as file or rasp, was struck
with flint or bit of quartz from q
granite ledge, and the spark was caught
in tinder-charred cotton rags. The old
| fint.lock musket, with few grains of
| powder and some tinder in the pan, was
looked upon by our grandmothers as
domestic utensil. Some times, on c ear
day, burning glass-a lent for collect
ing at one point the rays of the sun
was used.
The method of producing fire by rub
bing together two dry sticks is known to
most boys, but it has not been often
adopted by civilized people. 1t belongs
to the ruder conditions of life.
In Thibet Captain William Gill found
practiced moro scientific method than
any of these. Tho natives strike light
by compressed air. The apparatus used
consists of wooden cylinder, two and
a half inches long by three-quarters of
an inch in diameter. This is closed at
one end, the base being about the size OF
quill ren. An air tight piston fits into
this, with large fiat knob at the top.
The other end of the piston is slightly
followed out, and a very small piece of
tinder is placed in the cup thus formed.
To use this the cylinder is held i'll one
hand, the piston inserted, and pushed
about halfway down. A very sharp
blow is then given with the palm of the
hand on the top of the knob. The hand
must at the same time close on the knob,
and instantly withdraw the piston, when
the tinder will be found alight 1t re-
quires skill to use the apparatus, as well
as science to invent it.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-20
The jolly Naval Cadets.

The Naval Cadets were brought back
to the Annapolis (Md.) Academy this
year from their annual cruise that the
''hazing" court-martial might begin its
solemn duties, and they were not sorry
to reach shore. It is said that the poor
fellows who were hazed deemed it a
rather pleasant change from the ordin-
ary defeating of soap and candles. The
bill of fare of the ships table may ex-
plain this. First on it comes "salt
horse" By way of explanation, it may
be said that "salt horse" is the acade-
mician term for corned beef the beef
must be four years old before it is en-
titled to be known as "horse." Then
the cadets have "spuds," known to the
civilized world us potatoes; "slush, " o
localism for what the Navy officials pass
milk; excellent bread and duff" Duff,
again, is of three kinds, rice duff, that
is, of course, rice pudding, bread duff
and plum duff. The last is q mass of
odds and ends, called "plum Duff be-
cause the pudding has no plums in it.
Once in while the cook, by mistake,
drops in raisin, and these rare Occas-
ions are made the excuse for jollifica-
ton on the part of the surp. ised cadets.
The man who captures the raisin care
fully places it on the end of his spoon,
and calls out, "Raisin for the table. !"
This call never fails to cause a sudden
stop in the rattle of cutlery, and the ca
diets peer Mt the raisin and then sigh as
they see it disappear into the mouth of
the fortunate discoverer. This about
finishes the bill of fare, if one doesn't
mention beans, which are a rare and
coveted delicacy. At the academy, how
ever the students are well-fed.-NeoO
YORK. Tribune.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-20
Time Wasted with Bad Spelling.

DIR. Gladstone has made elaborate
Investigations in the schools of England
and other countr es to ascertain the time
devoted to teaching spelling. He finds
that 720 hours at least, are lost to each
scho' ar; that an italian child of nine
years will read and spell MS correctly as
English children at thirteen, though the
Italian began his lessons two years later.
1t is about the same with the Germans
and Swedes. This extra time is given
to civics and useful sciences. The illit-
cracy of English speaking nations is
startling. There were 5,658, IA per
sons of ten years and over who reported
themselves illiterate at our census of
1870, 6,239, 958 at the census of 1880.
The nearly illiternte are probably as
m:s1y more. England is worse off than
We are. But the other protestant coun-
tries in Europe have almost none. One
of the causes of this excessive illiteracy
among English speaking peoples is the
badness of English spelling. The re-
form of spelling is patriotic and phil
anthropic reform.-F'0rum.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-20
japanese Railroad Building.

Railroad making is not equally easy in
every country. We have had some
rough experience ON this continent and
in our own section of it. We can the
better sympathize with the japanese,
who seem to have to go through some
tough work in building their roads.
The report of tho japanese Railroad
Bureau for the last year, just publish
ed, reveals some striking facts. OF
course, every one, even with limited
knowledge of geography, knows that
the typographical features of the count
ry are peculiar. Hills and valleys and
rivers abound. One line of 205 miles
in length involves the construction of
16 tunnels, 10000 feet long, and the
bridging of eleven rivers. One of these
rivers has velocity in time of flood of
27 feet per second; in another, such is
the character of the bottom, the brick
piers have to be sunk to depth of
eighty feet. A range of mountains is
crossed at height of 4GS feet. Part
of another line ascends to height of
3,144 feet, and during five months of
the year is completely blocked by the
snow. Picturesque travelling such
railroads should afford. Mail and Er-
DTeSs,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-20
A SagaciOus Mustang.

Almost every Friday an iron gray
| mustang may be seen trotting down
| Sixth avenue in front of o time-worn
delivery wagon. About every sixth
Friday he takes it into his head to stop
between Fourteenth and Twelfth streets,
and his attitude is so stubborn that by
ISLANDERS imagine no human power can
make him progress peaceably. They are
mistaken, however, for suddenly the rat
tie of n chain is heard, and 10 at the
sound the iron gray pr;cks up his ears,
starts, as though in terror, shakes his
head playfully, and the next moment is
Jogging calmly on toward Jefferson
Market.
A horse dealer explained the secret of
the chain to me the other day: ''The
mustangs boss bought him for few
dollars three years ago." he said, ''and
found that he was very balky in harness.
Some days he wouldn't go at oil, and
other days he would go we'll for mile
or two and then suddenly plant himself
in the middle of the road and stand
there like statue for hours. Coaxing
and lashing had no more effect ON him
than they would on dead horse. OF
cour his boss was disgusted and was
about to get rid of him when a neigh
Dor suggested that the brute be dragged
along by main force the next time he
balked.
1.-The boss took his advice, and when
the mustang baked in a day or two he
hitched team of oxen in front of him
by two heavy chains and made them
drag him after them. Sure enough the
plan worked like charm. The rattle
of the chain had wonderful effect
after few days, and, even before the
oxen pulled, the mustang was ready to
follow them. Soon the boss found that
the oxen were unnecessary, and that the
chains alone would cure the worst fit of
baking. So, whenever he drove out in
future he carried chain in the wagon,
and the moment the mustang showed
signs OF baking, he ratified the chain,
and before you could say Jack Robinson
the animal became as gentle rs kitten
and ready to go anywhere. One would
suppose that all balkiness would disap- |
pear after SO many lessons, but it hasn't,
and the boss doesn't dare to drive out |
any day without carrying an old chain
In the wagon with him. ''-Nea0 York Her.
aid.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-20
Peruvian Nhistling Jugs.

The silvadors or musical jugs found
among the burial places of Peru are
most ingenious specimens of handiwork.
A silvio in the William S. Vaux collec-
ton at Philadelphia consists of two
vases, whose bodies are joined one to the
other, with hole or opening between
them. The neck of one of these vases is
closed, with the exception of a small
opening in which a cay pipe is inserted
leading to the body of the whistle.
When liquid is poured into the ep n
necked vase, the air is compressed into
the other, and in escaping through the
narrow opening is forced into tho
whistle, the vibrations producing sounds.
Many of these sounds represent the notes
of birds one in the Clay collection of
Philadelphia, Penn, initiates the robin
or some other member of the thrush
tribe peculiar to Peru.
The closed neck of this double vase is
modelled into representation of bird S
head which is thrush like in character.
Another water vase in the same cOllec
ton representing llama, initiates the
disgusting habit which this amin al pos
sesses of e;ecting its SALIVA when TN
ragged. The kissing sonnd which accom-
panies this action is admirably initiated.
A black tube of earthenware Ornamental
with q grotesque head in low relief, to
which short arms are attached pressing
q three tubed syrinx to its lips, des rves
special mention, as it suggests the evClu-
tion of this instrument from IL single
tube to more complicated forms.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-20
The Nile.

Has the Nile been diverted? The
river in Egypt is phenomenally low, and
famine is threatened. Sir Samuel
Baker, one of the greatest living author
tiles upon the mysteries of the Dark
Continent, says that the Nile can easily
be diverted about go miles rom the
mouth of the River Athara ("Cream of
the Nile"), which furnishes the rich
slime and much of the water required
for tho fertilization of Egypt. It can
be turned into the Rel Sea Desert.
where it will either be absorbed by the
sand or work its way to the sea. Stan
ley, the famous explorer, has stated
that the King of Uganda who is very
fond of his toddy, would, on waking
from q drunken stupor, divert the Nile
by compelling thousand of his subjects
to drop stones across the Ripon Falls,
where the river energies from Lake Vic
toria Nyanza, and that his father did
contemplate doing this to irrigate por-
ton Of his own territory.
The flow of the Milo has been checked
n number of times during the Christian
era, and once for seven years famine
prevailed in Egypt, caused by the fail
nre of the waters. Indeed, it has been
limited that Joseph, the son of Jacob,
while in prison received some intlma-
ton that the waters had been diverted,
and was thus enabled to interpret Pha
roah's dreams with such accuracy. Pre-
vious Egyl tian famines, as far as their
causes can be traced, have been due to
the rank growth of weeds in the bed of
the stream, forcing the Nile to form
lakes along its borders, and it is sug
gested by some that Stanley has been
lost in one of these; but there have
been threats before to-day of turning
the river away from Egypt, and the Sui
tan, in ars gone by, paid an immense
annual tribute to the Abyssinian king
to prevent such O catastrophe. -Bagti-
more american.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-20
A Modern Hercules.

Philadelphia can boast of a moderr
Hercules in tue person of George Sept
| man, q giant in muscle and stature. HI
stands feet A. inches in his stockings
| measures fifty inches around his chest
and weighs 273 pounds, scarcely al
ounce of which is superfuous flesh
His proportions are admirable, and he
has amazed many an athlete expert by
his displays of strength.
Soptman recently paid short visit to
gymnasium on Arch street and gave
an exhibition of what he could do. The
pupils eyed him curiouslS when he
picked up the 100 pound dumbeIl and
twirled it between his fingers as dude
might do with a bamboo cane.
When he stretched out his arms and
asked all who possibly could do SO to
jump on his back, arms, shoulders and
head, to take ride, eight sturdy and
strong men complied with his request,
and holding on to his ears, hair and col
Jar button, they bore their weight upon
him. He carried them without much
difficulty, and the gymnasts who saw
the performance were almost inclined to
think contemptuously of their own COM
paratively puny physiques.
NOu oaSlSuSu Will tAlS, Tie young
giant went to the strength testing scales
and pulled up the 2,000-pound weight
with ease. He then wrapped two straps
around his shoulder and back, and fas-
tened the ends to $500 pounds of iron,
he calmly raised the weight and took
promenade around the hall with his
load.
AS his last act, instead of wrestling
with Nemean lion, as Hercules, OF
NEUROLOGICAL fame did, he caught hold
of a bear which a friend had ex-
pressly bought and hugged the animal
so hard that it grunted for mercy.
Soptman has yet to perform seven more
difficult tasks, and then he will pose
himself as modern Hercules and the
hero of twelve unparalleled feats of
Philadelphia Record.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-20
Stealing a Trade.

1t is, perhaps, the province of NOR
alists to decide whether one may ''steal
trade without the guilt attached to
the pilfering of property. Possibly the
worthy who declared that physician's 8
fee for q small service may properly be
a large one, because he must charge for
the "know how" of any trade or profes-
sion is sacredly the property of its owner.
The following anecdo.e which may serve
to illustrate one side of the question,
comes from w. II. Dixon's "White Con-
quest"
Ho Ling was a well-to-do Chinaman
in q California town. He one day sent
for q carpenter and asked his price for
setting up ten frame shanties. Ho Ling
supplying him with poles and planks.
lone hundred dollars" was the reply.
"Muchee dollar, muchee dollar !" OBJ
jected Ho Ling.
"No," answered the carpenter, Every
cheap"
"Ten house one hundred dollar, one
house ten dollar? p
eyes" returned the carpenter, not
thinking of his words.
When the carpenter set to work, seven
other moon-faces appeared; sitting on
the ground, each one twiddled his bit of
bamboo cane, chewed his morsel of betel
nut and watched proceedings.
"Goodee buildee-$10!" smirked Ho
Ling, when the first shed was rooted.
"I'll put 'em all up for you in no
time," said the carpenter pocketing his
coin.
"No wantee more house." said Ho
Ling. "Me makee all me makee all 7"
1t was true that the other moon faces,
watching the carpenter with sleepy eyes,
had caught his knack of building. That
craftsman might rage, but lie had no re-
dress. Ho Ling's sheds were not only
built by Mongolian hands, but similar
SNanties we're erected by them at q price
far less than that proposed by the Amer
lean carpenter r.-Dtcon's "IFhite Con-
quest.