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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-12-21
TAKERS OF THE PAVE.
A REPORTERS EXPERIENCE WITH
CHICAGO STREET MERCHANTS.
The Wonderful Instrument Which Even
Newton's Genius Failed to Discover.
The Magic Bean and Its virtues-''Turk-
ish Delight" Confectionery.


The Magic Bean and Its virtues-.Turk-
ish Delight" Confectionery.
81 have here, ladies and gentlemen, an in
genious little instrument, worth it's weigh
in gold. No well regulated family can affort
to be without it. 1t affords comfort to the
DID, pleasure to the middle aged and amuse
ment to the young. Newton, the greatest
philosopher that ever lived, spent days and
nights studying to invent something like it,
but failed. 1t is an inspiration of genius,
gentlemen"-
The speaker was a long haired, greasy
looking faker standing at the corner of Mad
isOn and Market streets In an open tray be-
fore him he had some dozens of the wonder.
full instruments whose powers he was so elo-
quently eulogizing.
His audience addressed as Ladies and gen.
tlemen" consisted of three or four Italian
bootblacks, district messenger boy. tired
grocer's man pushing truck, and two rusty
looking countTymen. The latter were his
most attentive listeners, and on them he
focused the full stream of his eloquence
For the cost of one dime, gentlemen, YOU
can purchase this beautiful little instrument
No more profanity in your house, no more
need to exchange the joys of single bliss for
the cares and anxiety of married misery, no
more weary waiting up nights for some one
to sew buttons on your only pair With
this little instrument you can thread a needle
in Egyptian darkness, sew button on while
you wait and enjoy life while you're young
CAUGHT THE CoUNTRYMEN.
The last sentence caught the countI-ymen
Two brawny arms held forth dimes, and in
return received each a duplicate of the won
derful piece of mechanism which had bafaed
Newton's skill
A few moments later a reporter was trying
to buy out the takers whole stock on q pre-
tense of going into the business. The pat
ent needle threaders, ;" of which he had about
five dozen left. he offered to sell at the rate
of 90 cents a gross.
'You mean a dozen, surelyT
mo, fifty cents a gross; want to get out
of town"
A call at place where the advertisements
said men were wanted to earn $50 week off
capital of IS found little old man whose
eyes twinkled and sparkled like the big dia-
mond which he wore on his hand
Can you singp asked the little old man.
The reporter acknowledged that he
couldn't
"ConjureF'
"a few school boy tricks"
"Captialp said the old man, gleefully.
''This is what you want Hall marked gold
rings-every one stamped-warranted thir.
teen carat, or return money; throw in a half
dollar with every fifth ring; mix 'em up and
there you are, only one dime. Cost you So
cents gross"
"Show me something else"
Here's a patent cement, warranted to
hold house and lot together Take a piece
of plate glass, break into pieces about an
inch square, fasten them with cement, and a
ten-horse power steam engine couldn't pull
them apart without breaking the glass.
Fifty catls a gross. .No2 Well. sunpose You
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-12-21

Miss Spinster Ito bird fancier)-I would
like to get canary bird, sir, that is a fine
singer
Bird Fancier-Yes, madam; now there is as
fine little fellow as | ever saw
Miss Spinster-Fellows Is it masculine, sirl
Bird Fancler-Oh, yes; the males only sing.
Miss Spinster departing in indignation)-
l think it is a perfect Outra2e.-New York
Sun
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-12-21
LIVE TRUE.

Think kindly, and thy thoughts
Shall the worlds famine feed:
Speak truly, and each word Of thine
Shall DO fruitful seed;
Live truly. and thy life shall be
A great and noble deed.
Live true.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-12-21
Chronic Coughs and Colds.

And all diseases of the Throat and Lungs, can
be cured by the use o SCOTS EMULSION. as
il contains the healing virtues of Cod Liver
OIL and Hypophos rhites in their fullest form.
Is a beautiful creamy Emulsion, palatabe as
milk easily digested, and can be taken by the
most delicate Please read: 81 consider Scott e
Emulsion the remedy par-excellence in Tuber'
culous and S rumous Affections, to say NOM
inc of ordinary colds and throat troubles.
W. X. S. CoNNELL, NJ. D., Manchester, D;
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-12-21
yXIAsHINGToN THEATRE,

Finest and best Variety theatre in the south
Cor. Laredo and W. Commerce street. Open
day and night @. SHACKLETT, proprietor.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-02
THE EXCLUSION ACT.

The president yesterday signed and
transmitted to congress, with a message
covering all the points, the Chinese ex-
clusion act His brief and graphic re-
cital of the terms of the treaty which
the act forestallS, and the circumstances
which probably led to its rejection by
the Chinese government, is an i'm
portant contribution to the literature of
current politics. 1t comedies the right
of the people to refuse admission to a
class of immigrants alien to our civiliZa-
ton, habits and customs, and whose
barbarOuS economics render their in
dustrial competition at once menace
and an outrage. Between the white
and the ASiatic races there can be no as
similatiOn. If the Chinaman constitutes
an industrial factor at all in the CON-
imunities he has penetrated, it is an
injurious and not a beneficial one.
He is an absOrber, and not a
producer. He contributes nothing to the
welfare of the state or society. He
makes no investments, and creates no
wealth. Beyond the most sordid and
grudging expenditures for subsistence,
every dollar he earns goes back to
China. Industrial desOlatiOn follows in
his pathway. Wherever his evil shadow
falls barrenness reigns. His quarters
the great cities are lazar houses of
disease and crime. Immoral, disSolute
and fOrbidding, his hand is against all
men, and all mems hands are against
him: his breath is cOntagion, and his
presence a menace to the decencies of
civilized life.
We want none of him.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-02
THE COUNTY TICKET.

The Ramsey county Republican con-
ventiOn put up ticket yesterday for
the evident purpose of being knocked
down at the November election. The
weakness of the ticket was the subject
of general discussion last evening, and
a number of the shrewdest Republican
politicians admitted that the nomina-
ton of such ticket by the Republican
party was equivalent to surrender OF
Ramsey county in advance of the cleo
ton. Among the theories advanced in
explanation of the lack OF wisdom in the
construction of the Republican county
ticket, one was that iii his en-
deavOrs to secure a denomination the
incumbent of the Office of register OF
deeds secured control of the convention
by combinations which sacrificed all
hope of party success. Another theory
was that the ticket was constructed
under the manipulations of Mr.. MER-
RAMS managers and that it is to be
used for trading purposes only. What
ever may have been the causes which
led to the nomination of such pecu-
liarly constructed ticket, it is evident
that the Democrats have an open field
in the contest for county officers if they
are only judicious in making their
nominations
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-02
PROBLEM FOR FARMERS.

The great problem that interests the
farmers of Minnesota is cheap trans
portation for their products. They have
been fighting for this for years. Now,
the cost of steel rails has as much to do
with the question as any other one
thing. Steel rails cost in England say
S24 per ton, freight So; natural price in
America, SIT. The duty on the same per
ton is S25; protection price, So. The
difference, therefore. between the actual
value and the cost per ton is S25, which
is collected from the farmer by the rail
road companies when he ships his
grain. But for the tariff, this expense
to the farmer would not exist. The
amount of this tax on the country
per year can be easily ascertained
as follows: The annual produc-
ton of steel rails is about 100000
tons. Total tax, indirectly assessed at
$3.50 per ton, is in round numbers S13,-
100000. The government revenue is
approximately small. The ratio for the
government is 81 per ton; for the steel
rail ring $3.50; nearly all of which the
farmer pays.
1t is only few years ago since gen.
tleman not a member of this steel ring
engaged in their manufacture. He cut
so largely into the trade that the ring
paid him 81, 900, 900 to quit, and he quit.
The high tariff taxes the people di-
rectly to sustain this tariff monopoly, and
then taxes them again as much as they
consume through the indirect medium
of increased cost of transportation.
Does not every intelligent reader be-
lieve that these taxes ought to be
brought down peg or two?
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-02
QUEERED BY QUAY.
The Scheming Senator Cancels
Blaine's Dates in HoosierdOm
and Then ReScinds His Order.

ana Inen heSClnOS HIS OrOer.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Oct. 1T is
authoritatiyely stated this evening by
members of the Indiana state Republi-
can committee, that the national COM
mittee has notified them that, owing to
the demand for Mr.. Blaine in the East,
his appointments for Indiana would be
confined to two speeches instead of five
as at first announced. Chairman Hus-
ton said that he and all the
other members of his committee
were especially pleased and gratified
when the national committee as
signed Mr.. Blaine sufficient time in In
diana for five appointments, and their
chagrin at the cancellation of over half
his time was as general as had been
their earlier qualification.
Mr.. Blaine'S cancelled dates at Evans
vile on the 18th, New Albany the 18th
and Tippecanoe battle-ground the 18th.
will be filled by some speaker of ma
tiOnal reputation. The committee are
vet unable to state who it will be. but
it is thought Senator Sherman, Mai. Nc
Kinley or Gov. Foraker will be asked to
fill these appointments with Gen. A. p.
Hovey and Corp. James Tanner.
The protest of Chairman Huston, of
the state committee, against the cancel
lation of any of Mr.. Blaine's appoint
ments in Indiana evidently received
respectful consideration at the hands of
the national committee, for the follow
ing telegram, received tonight, is IN eff
feet resentment of the notification
limiting Mr.. Blaine's appointments in
Indiana: "He will speak at the five
cities heretofore enumerated" New
York, Oct. 1.
To Hon. John n. Huston, Chairman Re-
publican State Committee: Your dispatch
received. Mr.. Blaine agrees that the origi-
nal appointments in Indiana are to stand
Your programme will be fully carried out by
him.
[Signedl WILLIAM CAssIUs GooDLoE.
= A small delegation of Minnesota Re-
publicans, known as the Lower Mime
Sofa Republican club, will arrive early
tomorrow. accompanied by number
of representative business men from
Duluth. They will be received by Gen.
Harrison later in the day.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-02
PENNSYLVANIA.
Tariff Reform Will Reduce the
Republican Majority One-Half.


New York Star.
William M. Singerly, the millionaire
proprietor of the Philadelphia Record,
and Lewis G. Cassidy, eX-attorney-gen-
eral of Pennsylvania, were together at
the Hoffman house last night. Both
gentlemen, while ardent Democrats,
are conservative when it comes to eX-
pressing an opinion onmatters political.
The views, therefore, which they hold
concerning the situation in their own
state have more than ordinary force.
1.-The Republican managers i'll Penn
sylvania," said Gen. Cassidy, ''know
that the Republican majority in that
stronghold of Republieanism will be
materially reduced at the coming presi-
dental election. think [ am safe in
saying that it will be reduced at least
one-half. That is not prejudiced
view from a partisan standpoint, but
an actual statement of fact as it exists.
The question of tariff reform has at
tracted more attention in Pennsyl-
vania than any issue that has come
before the voters of that state within
the last twenty years. President Cleve-
land defined the question so clearly and
intelligently and courageously that the
first time since the war, making close
investigation Of tariff reform in all it's
bearing"
II agree with Gen. Cassidy's opinion
as to the reduction of the majority
said Mr.. Singerly. ut will be at least
One-half. The Republicans cannot
hope for more than 10000, and, if the
truth were told, they do not expect it,
IAN instance of the hold that tariff
reform has TAKEN" continued Gen.
Cassidy, lis very plainly shown in the
Fifth congressional district. This is a
manufacturing district, and you can
imagine the strength that the protection
element possessed when Alfred G. bar
mer, the Republican candidate, was
elected to the Forty-ninth congress
without a Democrat being put up
against him. So completely has the
attitude of the president on the tariff
issue changed the sentiment in that dis
trict, which is populated with 100000
working people, that there is every
robability-indeed, it is as near GER
tainty as anything can be-that Mr..
Harmer will be defeated at the coming
election and that simply OH tariff issue.
We expect, and the Republicans are
looking for it, to carry the Nineteenth
ward, which has already given 1000
Republican majority. 1t would be folly
to make these predictions were there
not some basis for lhem.
sit looks like change in sentiment"
said he, "when such man as Edward
L. Steele, president of the board of edu-
cation, staunch Republican all his
life, and known as such, comes out
publicly for tariff reform. 1t looks like
a change in sentiment when j. 3.
Rhodes, a retired manufacturer, who
made his money under protective pol
icy, comes out for Cleveland ond Thur
man. 1t looks like change in sentl-
ment when John Thayer, brother of the
presiding judge of our common pleas
court, and always strong Republican,
throws off the yoke he has worn for
BILE tariff policy"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-02
THE TATTOOED MAN.

An Associated Press dispatch this
morning announces that Chairman
QUAY, of the Republican national COM
mittee, has cancelled three out of five
of Mr.. BLAINE's appointments in
Indiana. This is a confession that Mr..
BLAINE is too heavy a load for Mr..
HARRISON to carry. 1t is confession,
too, of weakness. Drowning men catch
at StrawS. And on the theory that the
blood of the martyr is the seed of the
church, it is argued by Mr.. QUAY that
the sacrifice of BLAINE will give life
and vitality TO HARRISoN'S waning
fortunes.
OF all the public men in the United
States there is not one who can hold a
candle to Mr.. BLAINE in the number
and sinister character of the scandals
that have connected his name with dis
reputable transactions. From Credit
MObilier to the MULLIGAN letters, Mr..
BLAINE, like the leopard, has been COW
cred with spots. The most recent of
the many things alleged against him is
the posthumous charge of CoNKLING,
that he dealt in fraudulent bOuntieS
during the war. and that, in connection
with some lntimateS as shady as him
self, he made patriotism cloak under
which he pillaged the soldier. the army
and the government. A charge so mon
strous could not be fioated over a name
less venerated and respected than Ros-
COE Combines. But that Mr.. CoNK-
LING did make the charge, and COM
mitted his faith in it to writing over
his signature, there is not particle Of
doubt. Mr.. BLAINE'S heSitating and
eVasive reply to a charge he could not
ignore confirms suspicion as to its
truth, and covers his friends and sup
pOrters with shame. Taken in connec-
ton with his open advocacy of trusts"
VIGOROUSLY organized to defraud and
piilage the people, it is not surprising
that the Republican campaign commit
tee has decided to get him out of
the canvass. Although Mr.. HARRISON
is obviously the fgurehead of MIR.
BLAINE in the campaign for the preSi-
dency. the political managers perceive
that BLAINE'S advocacy of HARRISON
is in itself an insurmountable
obstacle to the success of their candi-
date. And yet they are unable to pull
him down outright. He is larger and
stronger than they are; in fact, is the
vitalizing element in the Republi-
can party. Republicanism without
BLAINE is like what the tragedy
of Hamlet" would be with the melan-
choly Dane left out. The enthusiasm,
the vigor. the energy, the supreme and
amazing gall which glOws with hectic
and ephemeral luster in the WORKOUT
frame of Republicanism, owe their in
spiratiOn to him. He has galvanized
the corpse, and, BLAINE withdrawn.
there is no Promethean fire which can
relume its light. And yet, yeritable
old man of the sea, he is strangling at
the throat the vitality he 'injects into
the body. BLAINE stands to the Re-
publican party in the same relation as
does some hideOuS ulcer that eats into
the human body. The surgeons knife
may remove the disease, but the patient
is apt to die from loss of vitality.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-02
BORDER TROUBLES.

1t is an error to ascribe any very Seri-
Gus Importance to the border troubles at
Rio Grande City. 1t seems, from the
dispatches, that they are of the same
nature with those which, for years past,
have existed with more or less intensity
in the little towns along the line. These
villages are regarded as in the nature
of cities of refuge for criminals and
desperadoes, who. when pursued. can
easily step across into foreign territory.
Where such characters abound there is
always a certain degree of lawlessneSs.
Very often the Mexican and American
desperadoes come in conflict, and then
it is reported to be an international dis
turbance on a small scale. The truth
about the matter is, that it would be a
great relief to both governments if these
restless and vicious elements from both
countries would meet and exterminate
each other root and branch. Where
ever they go. they outrage society and
defy the law. Their lives, when not
passed in riot and murder, are spent in
raiding remote ranches or IN pillaging
cattle ranges of the Southwest.
OF course it is the duty of the state
and national authorities Of both coun-
tries to punish these criminals. But
there is an essential ingredient to this
conSummation-yOu must catch your
fish before you eat it.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-02
WOMEN OF THE WORLD.

The wife of a well-known Vienna banker
lately displayed forty toilettes in twenty-one
days at Carlsbad.
Queen Christine of Spain has been aston
ishing the bathers at st. Sebastian with her
feats of swimming.
The Countess De Cotlogou, formerly Miss
George Blake. of Boston, is living in Paris in
the strictest retirement since the recent death
of her husband.
Tillie May Forney has resigned the position
of associate editor of Leisure Hours, in order
to have more leisure hours of her own for her
literary work TOR other periodicals.
1t is said that the Princess OF Wales often
sits in the hall at Sandringham as the night
falls and watches the Goals reddening in the
immense fireplace, for an hour or more, ut
terly obliyious to all sights and sounds around
her.
Mrs. Sarah Head, of Chester, n. H., a
widow eighty-one years of age, moved and
put into her barn this summer one-half ton
of hay. For the last five years she has cut
her own frewOod. and her barn is the best
kept in the neighborhood.
In Cleveland, O., there is a lady who is to-
tally paralyzed by every thunder storm. She
RECEIVERS when the storm ceases Years ago
the house where she lived as girl was shat
tered by lightning and she was paralyzed,
but recovered.
Miss Waterstone, NJ. D., formerly a student
at the London school of Medicine for Women,
has won a certificate from the Psychological
society in the examination of mental dis
eases. This is the first time woman has en-
tered for this examination.
Princess Mary of Cambridge is renowned
for her unapeasable appetite. Some gentle
man recently announced his intention to
offer a couple of canvas-back ducks. "Oh,"
said friend, ''she would make short work of
those. Offer her a couple of wild turkeys"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-02

West Virginia. With an exceptionally
strong state ticket in the field and the
growth of protective sentiment in the
state, caused by rapid development of
mining and manufacturing industries,
it is possible that the Republicans may
give the Democrats hard fight in West
Virginia. On the other hand, the Dem
ocrats have a better show of winning
Michigan and California than the Re-
publicans have of capturing West Vir-
ginia. Thus we may view the situation
from every standpoint, and still the
fact remains that the Democratic party
occupies an impregnable position, and
cannot be dislodged from power, even
by the free use of Doodle, which seems
to be the main stock of Republican
ammunition.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-02
RED WING RIPPLES.
Highwaymen Notwithstanding
School Life-Death's Doings.


Special TO the Globe.
RED WING, Oct. 10. w. Fisk, of st.
Paul, one of the Duluth, Red Wing 81
Southern railroad contractors, was
stopped by two highwaymen last even
ing while coming to this city. They de-
manded his money and he gave them s..
Making a feint to take out his wallet in
which he carried a large sum, he
knocked both men down, jumped into
his buggy and escaped. Two shots
were fired after him. There is no clue
to the desperadoeS.
Rev. A. A. Dahlberg, who has had
charge of the Swedish NJ. E. church of
this city during the past three years,
has been transferred to Rockford, ILL.,,
and has been succeeded by Rev. J. o.
Aten, of Galway, Ill. Rev. Plato T.
Jones will be installed as pastor of tho
Presbyterian church tomorrow. Rev.
Dr.. Turner, Rev. j. q. Johnson, DR.. g.
Hobart and Rev. E. Tucker WILL attend
the M. E. conference, which will be held
at Winona this week.
The fall term of the Red Wing semi
nary opened this morning with about
thirty students in attendance. Opening
exercises were held to-day, and adj
dresses were made by Prof. o. S. Me-
land, Rev. o. Hansen, Prof. III. III.
Bergland, Prof. c. r. Hill, Prof. G. o.
Brohough and Rev. /. Eisteinsen, Min
neapolis.
Mrs. Amalia Henderson, wife of A.
G. Henderson, died at their home on
Fourth street, at o'clock this morning,
after long and painful illness, aged
thirty years. The funeral will take
place tomorrow afternoon. Services
will be held at the house at 80 o'clock,
Prof. o. S. Meland officiating, and at st.
Peters Norwegian Lutheran church at
2 p. M, Rev. J. Eisteinsen, of Minneap-
oils, officiating.
Henry p. Hickman. recently of Mil
waukee, died at the home of his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. NJ. Hickman, in this
city yesterday morning from intlamma-
ton of the liver. The funeral will take
place at 9 O'Clock tomorrow afternoon
from the German Lutheran church.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-02
NO ENTHUSIASM.

Mr.. MERRIAM's managers are realiz-
ing the difficulty in awaking popular
enthusiasm over bought nomination.
What was intended to be the opening
gun of the campaign turned out TO be
direful explosion, and the same bad
luck has been following the MERRIAM
canvass ever since. 1t had been ar
ranged at very considerable expense to
give the Republican candidate for gov
ernor a tremendous blowout on his re-
turn home from New York. The dismal
fiZZle it turned out to be is part of the
history of the state campaign. Out of
nearly 5000 members of Republican
clubs in this city just 141 turned out in
the procession. The next move on the
part of the MERRIAM managers was to
shove their candidate out into the cOun-
try towns, with the hope of klndling a
little enthusiasm among the Repub-
licans in the interior of the state and
along the border.
But it doesn't work. The people will
not enthuse. They can not and will.
not throw up their hats and shout them
selves hoarSe over candidate for
gubernatOrial honors whose only recon-
mendation for Office is his check book.