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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-14

THE Kerrville Eye was closed to
those coming events which cast their
shadows before when it said:
"The battle of Tippecanoe occurred
on Wednesday, November sth, 1911.
place on November 9th, 1885,"
The Eye had better go wash in the
pool of Sloan and come again seeing.
Patience will effect cure in time.
The Eye will get the sand out ON or
about the latter date mentioned by it,
and like the blind man who ran
against a post, will exclaim: 81 see |!
I see
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-14

THE Castroville Anvil, referring to
the remark of this journal concerning
a pure water supply, emits the follow
ing spark:
"The San Antonio LIGHT says that
city has the purest water In the south
and only one thing would improve it..
1t is inferred from this that the LIGHT
doesn't use sugar"
If the Anvil is familiar with the
policy of the LIGHT, it will under
stand that this journal takes every
thing straight. Politics and pure wa
ter no exceptions.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-14
CAMPAIGN SONGS.
Lift up Your Voices in the Cause"

LET me write the Songs of Nation and
care not who makes it's Laws
The potency of well selected words and
melody is too well known to require further
comment.
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-14
Patents Granted.

Patents Granted.
To citizens of Texas during the past
week:
J. A. Bachman, Austin, door sash.
&C. Echols, Granger, shearing and
punching machine.
E. B. Goelet, Fort Worth, carriage
top.
w. B. Mayfeld, Fort Worth, dent tai
operating chair.
J. OLSON, cotton gin, treasure vault
for cars.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-14

THE Fort Worth Gazette coquetting
with the star-eyed goddess remarks:
"Henry Watterson's speech before
the Harlem club on the Fourth of
July was mastery exposition of, the
fallacies of the protective system"
Henry Watterson's speech after the
defeat Of Cleveland on a free trade
platform next November, will be a
mastery exposition of the failure of
free trade ideas to knock the common
sense out of American voters.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-14
INCH. =. s 5Os co.'s 90 SIS 90 $50 90 s54 90

Legal advertisements 81 90 per inch first in
sertion rs cents per inch each subsequent inser-
ton. Trustees sales 81 90 per inch first inser-
tian, % cents each insertion afterwards.
Reading matter, editorial page, 25 cents per
line each insertion. Local!columns 20 cents first
insertion; 10 cents first week, cents after first
week. Special rates on so and 100 lines running
for q month.
Home advertisements payable on the first of
each month. Transient advertising payable in
advance. Only metal cuts printed.
Special rates given on larger space and Long
time advertisements. Discount given for cash.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-14

BLESSED is the News Journal from
southeast Texas that made no
prophecy concerning the outcome of
the Fort Worth convention. Still more
blessed is the journal that halls from
the sand bar city and has not among
it's files some false prophecy of what
San Antonio will do or attempt to do
in the deep water convention. The
Galveston Tribune is not among the
number of these blessed, for 1t says:
"The deep water convention is in
session at Fort Worth today, Calves
ton being well represented on the
committees. AS was expected the
Arkansas Pass land spectators are
making desperate effort to have the
convention declare in favor of concen-
trating the Texas appropriations at
that point and cutting twenty foot
channel to the nineteen acres of deep
water to be found at that aspiring
port. 1t is not likely, however, that a
few subsidized newspapers and a
handful of spectators will be able to
control the convention, which will
doubtless declare in favor of concen-
tration, but leave the selection of the
port to the wisdom of the board of
government engineers"
What Arkansas Pass did not ask
for and Galveston did would make a
mighty big pile.
THIS is presidential campaign year
and Grover will not veto the river
and harbor bill. He is learning wis
dom by having it pounded into him.
PREPARATIONS for the national edi-
torial convention are completed and
the session will open in this city on
the 2lst of November. By that time
the republican editors will be feeling
in good spirits over HarrisOn's cleo
ton. The convention will be the
| most important body ever assembled
advertise this city than any gathering
ever seen in this historic burg. Pre-
pare for the quill showers.
THE Fort Worth convention dem
onstrated that it takes more than a
one sided, splenetic and awfully biased
government engineer to turn the tide
of commerce away from Arkansas Pass.
Major Earnst's report, one sided and
partial as it is, admits this much
Arkansas Pass is the most convenient
and accessible port for large part of
West Texas; also, the best interests of
Texas require the development of both
Galveston and Arkansas Pass. At the
same time Uuited States Engineer
Earnst does not believe that there is
any probability or even possibility of
securing first-class port at any point
on the gulf out side of Galveston.
Pompeii has been eclipsed by our
own buried cities in the Aztec Valley
of Southern Colorado. A young lady
visiting the buried cities found in
Theoretically sealed room when it was
broken open, a number of small pota-
toes which had been there for centu-
ries. She planted them in Virginia,
and now has a fine crop of potatoes
growing.
THE democracy of the country is
busy figuring out the impossibility of
electing Harrison. The republicans
will do their figuring on the 9Th of
November after Harrison has been
elected and the possibility of this
democratic impOssibility fully aud I'M
mistakably demonstrated,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-14

Gs%An contracts or bills must be approved by
the Secretary and Manager.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-14

THE stop cat in the fight" as a
Texas bird, is likely to hold over the
popular under-dog by big major
ity
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-14

LET San Antonio citizens give a
hearty welcome to her Denver visitors
who are rendered reception at the
San Antonio Club rooms on next
Monday evening. They are represen-
tative men, and deserve, as our future
commercial associates and neighbors,
all the attention San Antonio can
show them.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-14

Announcements for..state and County officers
Ten Dollars in advance.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-14

THIS is presidential campaign year
and Grover will not veto the river
and harbor bill. He is learning wis
dom by having it pounded into him.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-14

THE democracy of the country is
busy figuring out the impossibility Of
electing Harrison. The republicans
will do their figuring on the 9Th of
November after Harrison has been
elected and the possibility of this
democratic impossibility fully aud I'M
mistakably demonstrated.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-14
ACCOMPLISHMENTS.

All communications.fort this paper should be
accompanied by the name of the author, not
necessarily for publication, but as evidence of
good faith on the part of the writer. Write only
on one side of the paper, in plain hand An
onymous communications will not be noticed.
The LIGHT will not be responsible for the state
ncnt ofits correspondents
All communications for publication, or per-
tanning to the Editorial or Local News Depart
ments, should be addressed "To the Editor of
the LIGHT
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-14

Pompeii has been eclipsed by our
own buried cities in the Aztec Valley
of Southern Colorado. A young lady
visiting the buried cities found in a
Theoretically sealed room when it was
broken open, number of small pota-
toes which had been there for centu-
ries. She planted them in Virginia,
and now has fine crop of potatoes
growing.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-09-12
SHEEP FOR MUTTON.

A Writer Who Thinks There Is More in
Feeding Than in Breeds.
We Americans know very little about
mutton - less than any people who
know what good living means. We
have been badly educated in this mat
ter. American palates have tried to
ape the English taste for mutton. W.
should have been more American, and
had our own standard of excellence in
mutton chop, and for that matter, in
a mutton sheep, too. All these years
we have tried to create demand for
and grow supply of English mutton
sheep. A few men and few localities
have succeeded in growing very ex-
celent specimens of these highly merit
orious breeds of sheep in a small way.
Why? Well, for singular and various
reasons.
In the first place, we have not tried
to learn how the very results sought
for were produced. High-feeding, we
were told, could produce such speci.
mems, and what hlgh-feeding meant
was not fully told. Steady, even
handed feeding and care, that has
created these wondrous sheep in En-
gland, is not an America n character
istic at all. Nor will it pay one man
here and another miles away to grew
such sheep for the prices we get for
mutton. Were whole community on
gagged in the growing of such sheep,
buyers would come in and pay we'll for
the finished beauties, and ship them to
the city markets., or export them to
England.
After all that has been said about
mutton breeds, and the abuse and rep
reservations as to the bad qualities of
Merino sheep for mutton, it is fact that
thoroughbred and grade Merino sheep
furnish by far the larger part of the
mutton eaten in this country. Nor does
it go under its real name in the mar.
kets by any means. Many q city
butcher with a Southdown head on his
block for a sign, sells Merino chops to
his best customers, English as we'll as
American; and all the boasted ability
to detect the Merino stencil goes for q
joke. Merino sheep are not treated
fairly for mutton. They will pay as
wool-growers too we'll to sell for NUT
ton until too old to be first-class. Let
the mutton breeds be kept to the same
age, and would the results be any bet
terP There is more in the handling,
feeding and finishing than in the
breeds.-Farma and TSreside. ~.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-09-12
The Value Of Longevity.

Can there be doubt that Burns and
Keats foresaw the issue of their struggle
against bigotry, or that Cervantes, in
the gloom of his misery, could read
the signs of the dawn presaging sun
burst of posthumous famep Spinoza
and Schiller died at the threshold of
their goal; Pascal, Harvey, Macaulay,
Buckle and Bichat left their inimitable
works half finished; Raphael, Mozart
and Byron died at the verge of a sum-
nit which perhaps no other foot shall
ever approach. Who knows how often,
since the dawn of modern science, the
chill of death has palsied q hand that
had all but lifted the vail of the
Isis temple? Or in how many thou
sand lives time alone would have
solved all discords into harmonies?
An increase of longevity would, in
deed, solve the most vexing riddles OF
existence; it would furnish the secular
Endorsement of Mr.. Mallock's conclu-
sion. It would give the vicissitudes OF
fortune chance to assert their
equalizing tendencies; it would supply
a missing link in the arguments OF that
natural religion that trusts the
equipoise of justice in the apparent
caprices of human fate. The price Of
longevity would redeem the mortgage
of our earthly paradise. Dr.. Feli1 Z.
1 OSWALD, IN Forum. Il.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-09-12
THE SPANISH CORTES.

Customs and Usages Governing Its Pro-
ceedlngs and Etiquette.
The Spaniards are not only good
speakers, but good listeners, and hear
their political opponents with atten-
ton and respect. DR.. H. NJ. Field,
who was present at an exciting de-
bate in the Cortes, says in his ''Old
Spain and New SPAIN" that the men,
bers listened in silent attention, and
only now and then broke out into APP
plause. A touch of a bell brought
them promptly to order.
The speakers seemed to take pride
in outdoing one another in courtesy.
Even when one had been attacked with
asperity, he replied in the blandest
manner, and referred to his assailant
as '''ny personal friend, although my
political opponent.
In the English Parliament precel-
ing speaker is alluded to impersonally.
He is ''the noble lord" Or ''the right
honorable member In the Congress
of the United States, the same rule
prevails, and members speak of ''the
honorable Senator or ''the gentle.
man from Alabama"
But in the Cortes Spanish simplicity
authorizes the members to refer to
each other by name, and the deputies
speak of what Senior Legasta, or Senior
Canovas, or Senior CASTELAR, has said.
In English and American legislative
bodies, q member who wishes to speak,
rises and calls loudly: 'sMr. Speaker!'
or 'sMr. Chairman A dozen men,
bers may be trying at the same mo-
ment to catch the eye of the presiding
officer, who recognizes one of them
and gives him the floor. But when q
member of the Cortes wishes to speak,
he does not have to fight for the floor.
He sends his name to the President, by
whom it is called in it's proper order,
so that he shall have the same oppor-
tunitv as others. = Youths COsnDa,al0ah
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-09-12
tiASTY MARRIAGES.
Why MOst OF Those Contracting Thorn Arc
Doomed to Repent at Leisure.

Why anost Of Those Contracting Thorn Arc
Doomed to Repent at Leisure.
It might save the high contracting
parties great deal Of future trouble
were ministers not SO speedy in marry
ing any unknown young couple. Who.
being to him entire strangers. present
themselves for that purpose. The
Catholic priests refuse until they know
something Of the position and parents
age Of the would-be bride. Marriage
often proves very serious affair
In about two years u after it
Is contaminated. Nobody knows
how they're going to like any body
until he or. she has kept company with
the other some time and under
variety Of circumstances. You want to
know how the craft will work in foul
weather Us we'll as fair. This court
ship business is very much like the
polish on your boots. 1t wears only in
the sunshine. OF course, the man
must smile and smile and be villain
while he's wooing, and she, too, must
smile and smile and be q villain, too,
or she may not be wooed. There is in
this great deal of rank villiany on
both sides. They are unconscious of
it. But the villainy is there, all the
same. They're acting parts. The
world is full of such performances,
day and evening. Sad, though, and
such parts can't last all their lives.
Thus: Time, candle-light. Place,
front parlor, nicely lit up; things all
slicked up. She, more or less dressed
for company. He, ditto, Can't see
her but two or three times a week.
Stays two or three hours. Both COO.
They seldom cav. The cawing comes
after marriage, when both are eating
crow. Silken sentiment and soft,
soporific songs. He goes home in a
dream of bliss. She, ditto. That's the
way it should be years and years after
they're made one. 1.-The trouble is, they
may never be really made one.
The hasty marriage services by
q minister who knows not but the
groom has another wife, Mrs. Some-
body slowed away somewhere, and
possibly a responsibility or two be-
sides, does not make them one After
death comes judgment. After hasty
marriage comes often the death of this
delusion and the decease of what they
supposed was love for one another.
What is done in such hurry isn't so
easy to be undone, when so often in
after time both parties secretly wish
it could be undone. It's like the
''granny knot" in reef point, easy to
be tied by the ''lubber," but hard to
unite. But go on, children. Lots
more of you will do the same thing.
The fire is burning and hot, and lots of
tender fingers must be burned. y
Star.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-09-12
FLOWING DOWN GLOVER.

A Important Agricultural Topic Practl.
DAILY and Interestingly Discussed. IS
One argument on the question is us
ually summed up as follows: Glover
receives all its nourishment from the
ground; then when it is plowed down,
1t can return only what it took out;
therefore the ground can not be im-
proved" Others say that clover, IN
growing, Is nourished by that which it
extracts from the air as we'll as that
which it gets from the ground, hence
an addition is made to the soil when it
Is ploweq down" In the minds OF
many these are the only possible lines
OF argument, while all are agreed on the
one thing, that better crop is raised
from land whore a growth of clover
had been plowed under.
My position on the question is that
land that can raise a good growth Of
clover is always improved by having
the clover plowed under. I do not say
enriched, for nothing is added to it by
the process. but the soil, of which the
clover is now q returned part, is SIM
ply put into such condition that tho
nourishment which it is able to fur
nish the succeeding crop is now more
easily taken up. Our bodies subsist
partly on vegetables; these vegetables
are entirely from the soil; why not as
well eat the soil? Because, although
it contains all the elements of food
which we derive from the plant, yet
it is not in a condition to be as
simulated by our bodies. Again,
beef-steak is, for us, more nu-
tritious than the vegetables which
were eaten to produce it, only because
it is more readily transformed into the
tissues of the body. just SO with
plowed down clover. It is then vege-
TIED soil. It is the same with ma
nures. When field has been heavily
coated with barnyard manure, good
crop is raised, not because of the
amount of vegetable food that is placed
in the soil. but because it is of such q
kind that it can be taken up easily and
rapidly. This being true, the con-
tinuous practice of blowing down clover
must rapidly impoverish the soil, as
the elements which feed the vegeta-
bles are rapidly taken from the land
j. a. Cutler, IN Ohio Farmer.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-09-12
HOW TO USE MILK.
Principles to Be Regarded In the Case o
Adults as Well as Infants.

Principles to Be Regarded In the Case Of
Adults rs Well as Infants.
Milk is a food that should not be
taken in copious draughts like beer,
or other fluids, which differ from it
chemically. If we consider the use Of
milk in infancy-the physiological in
gestion, that is, of tive find that the
sucking babe imbibes little by the
natural food provided for it. Each
small mouthful is secured by effort,
and slowly presented to the gastric
mucous surface for the primal
digestive stages. It is thus reg
ularly and gradually reduced
to curd, and the stomach is
not oppressed with lump of half
coagulated milk. The same principle
should be regarded in the case of the
adult. Milk should be slowly taken
in mouthfuls, at short intervals, and
thus it is rightly dealt with by the
gastric juice. If milk be taken after
other food, it is almost sure to burden
the stomach, and to cause dis
comfort and prolonged indigestion, and
this for the obvious reason that
there is insufficient digestive agency
to dispose of it. And, the better
the quality of the milk, the more Sc
we're the discomfort will be under these
conditions.
Milk is insufficiently used in making
simple buildings of such farinaceous
foods as rice, tapioca and sago. Dis
taste for these are engendered very
often, I believe, because the milk is
stinted in making them, or poor,
skinned milk is used. Abundance of
new milk should be employed, and
moro milk or cream should be
added when they are taken.
In Scottish households this matter is
we'll understood, and distinct pud-
ding-plate, like q small soup-plate, is
used for this course. The dry messes
commonly served as milky buildings in
England are exactly fitted to create dis
gust for what should be a most excel
ent and delicious part of wholesome
dinner for both children and adults
Popular Science Monthly.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-09-12
AN ERROR CORRECTED.

1t Is the Liver, and Not the Heart, Which
Rules the Destinies of Men.
The average American liver is al
ways mora or less out of order There
are all manner of remedies for regulat-
ing ivers, and yet the country is full of
unregulatedo livers that refuse to run
on schedule time.
The liver affects the intellectual
parts of man. It is the liver, and not
the heart, that is really the seat of
sentiment, of love, of chivalry, and of
NIL coed and evil emotions. The con-
dition of a mans liver colors and af-
fects all his acts. A man may have
ever so warm heart, and it may be in
the right place, but let his liver be out
of order and he will kick the first
harmless yellow dog he meets.
We often hear of man harboring
malice in his heart. The statement is
not correct. All malice resides in the
liver. Nine men in ten have malicious
livers. All murderers have damaged
and disabled livers. This is a fact that
will soon be heralded abroad by the
medical profession, and then the day
will come when instead of the monot-
onous insanity plea, the lawyer for the
defense will claim that the deed was
done while the prisoner was laboring
under a fit of temporary arrangement
of the liver. If Solomon had lived in
these unhealthy times, instead of
speaking as he did about the heart, he
would have said: ''The liver of man
is deceitful above all things, and des-
perately overcharged with bile.''
When the preacher draws gloomy
pictures of woe, it is his liver that is
out of order. When the philosopher
predicts calamities and disasters that
are about to fall on the people, it is the
hinges of his liver that need oiling.
When our old friend Taxpayer" writes
letter to the local paper in which he
blasphemes monopolies, and demon.
strates that the country is misgoverned
and is going to the demnition chow.
vows" old Taxpayer means well, but
the lappels of his liver are turned the
wrong way. When politician gets or
his feet in the House of Representa-
tives and denounces the policy of the
opposition as criminal and hurtful tx
the best interests of the people, y his
liver is III need of repairs. When {
man gets cranky and rails at fate, OF
refuses to pay his dog-tax, we should
not judge him harshly; his liver may
have got jammed in among some O
his other organs.
When science shall have so far adj
va;lced that the liver of man will be
under control, then, and not till then
will the millennium dawn Ieras SIT
naQs.