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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-01

CHINA FANS, PLATED FANS, OSTRICH PLUME FANS
announced large and attractive display of MILL
weeks but waited with of New Shapes
Hats until now, when everything is in ship
shape Ribbons fured to the breeze ready to
meet competition may upon the highway
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The Struggle of Sea and Land.

We stand on bluff at the seashore.
The surf is undermining it. That deep
cutting into the bank is its work. An
ovcrhanging mass of earth is thrown
down and becomes the toy of the waves,
which reduces it to gravel. This in its
turn becomes ammunition to be hurled
against the shore. Wherever this pro-
cess is going on, the land falls back be-
fore the advancing sea, and considerable
results are evident in a short time. The
Island of Heligoland has been reduced,
within q thousand years, from a consider
able island to a mere rock. The strings
of rocky islands along many coasts are
remnants of destroyed Shorthand. Thus
the land yields with hardly struggle tc
the supremacy of the sea. Loose alluvial
terrains give way in body. The Zuydel
Zee SO came into being five hundred
years ago, and Holland, part of which is
below the level Of the sea, would have
been Likewise overfown if it had moi
been defended by artificial dMes. Sub.
sidences Of ground have also been some
times observed during earthquakes.
In other places the sea gives way.
Rivers carry out masses of detritus anc
deposit them along the shores, causing
the land to advance. BY the operation
of this process Roman ports on the east
ern coast of Italy have been left away in
land, and the whole alluvial districts OF
the upper italian plain have been wrestec
from the ses>-Popular Science Adnthly
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DON'T KNOW ADAM.

As Artemus Ward was once travelling
in the cars, dreading to be bored, and
feeling miserable, man approached him,
sat down and said:
"Did you hear the last thing on Horace
Greeley?"
:Greelcy? Greeley2" said Artemus.
Horace Greeley? Who is heI"
The man was quiet about five minutes.
Pretty soon he said:
"George Francis Train is kicking up a
good deal of a row over in England; do
you think they will put him in bastile2"
Train? Train? George Francis TrainF'
said Artemus, solemn]y. 81 never heard
of him."
This ignorance kept the man quiet for
fifteen minutes; then he said:
"What do you think about General
Grants chances for the Presidency?" Do
YOU think they will run him."
.'Grant? Grantl Hang it, man." said
Artemus, "you appear to know more
strangers than any man ever saw"
The man was furious; he walked up
the car, but at last came back and said {:
"You big ignoramus, did you ever hear
of Adam2"
Artemus looked up and said: "What
was his other name?"
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NUTMEGs AS A MEDICINE.

The medicinal qualities of nutmcgs are
worth q great deal of attention. They
are fragrant in odor, warm and grateful
to the taste and possess decided sedative,
astringent and soporiic properties. In
the following affections they will be found
highly serviceablc: Gastralgia (neuralgla
of the stomach), cholera morbus, fiatulent
cholic, dysentery, cholera infantum and
infantile cholic.
In all cases nutmegs may be prepared
for administration in the following man.
ner: Crate one or more nutmegs into a
very fine powder. For children, give
one-sixth to one-third of a teaspoonful,
according to the age, of this powder,
mixed with a small quantity of milk.
For adults, from half to two teaspoon
fuls may be given in the same way
according to the severity of the case.
Every two hours is generally the best
time to administer this remedy.
Insomnia (sleeplessness) is very often
cffectually relieved by one or two doses
of nutmeg, when much stronger agents
have signally failed.-Courier J0u'maI
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1T WAS SAD.

She was solid, practical woman OF
fifty, with no nonsense in her compost
tion, and he was a grocer's clerk with the
down of youth on his chin and desire
to be funny. She stopped at the door and
inquired:
"Have you any caulihower'"
ats according to what you call a
flower" he promptly replied.
:Have You any caulifower, sir?" ,
Il might call beet call-a-fower. "
She had folded umbrella in her grasp.
She put the end of the staff against his
youthful breast, gave a asudden push, and
he went backward into basket of onions
with shrek of dismay and a long rip
in his shirt bosom.
"Perhaps you can call that" she OBJ
served, as she passed on.
.'Call again, ma'am!" he managed to
say, as he worked out of the basket
Detroit Free Press.
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BROILED MEATS.

1t is to be regretted that under various
pretexts the frying-pan still continues to
be the favorite cooking utensil in Ameri-
can kitchens. A piece of meat had al
most as we'll be thrown away as put in a
frying-pan of fat. Gradually people are
learning more intelligent methods OF
cookery, but the change is so slow that
it is discouraging to any one who knows
how much health and life is daily and
hourly sacrificed to barbaric methods OF
cookery. There is no way of cooking
meats so simple and at once so perfect as
broiling. The secret of success lies IN
first soaring efer the meat on the out
side, so as to retain the juices, and after
ward finishing the cooking at less intense
heat. To accomplish this the meat
should be we'll seasoned, slightly busted
with flour, and placed near bright Goals,
then almost constantly turned and cooked
on the other side. After this is done
the gridiron should be lifted up from
the fire and the meat cooked about three
or four inches from the Goals. 1t should
DE u1lcu up uuu LuluCo NiiShS'SA 'iASio
is any disposition to 'blaze up" from fat
or juices dropping in the fire. Before
putting the meat over to cook all
dan1usrs> should be opened, so as to al.
low any smoke from blazing fat to pass up
the chimney. A good; 6eefsteak
will usually take about twelve minutes.Sos
cook properly through, and yet have the
meat red-rare within. A mutton chop
should be cut thick and trimmed of all
fat. 1t will usually take about ten min
utes to cook such chop. Lamb chops
should be we'll done, but are cut thinner
and should be cooked about the same
time as the mutton chops. Ham should
be broiled to show bits of brown over
the slices, but never crisp. A slice OF
calf's liver is one of the most delicious
meats broiled. Dip it in melted butter,
season and dust it with -four and broil it
over clear Goals, and serve it with maitre
d'hotel butter.-NeU York 1rtJune.i
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WHAT WINDOW WANTS.
Suggestions OF the Secretary of tn
Treasury in His Report.

Suggestions OF the Secretary of the
Treasury in His Report.
The Secretary of the Treasury in his an
knual report recommends the repeal of the tax
kn tobacco. which will reduce the surplus
about So, ,OOo,oOO and on alcohol used in the
arts, about $500, 900. NO special plan for
the reduction of customs duties is recon-
mended He urges the repeal of the compul-
= sorry feature of the present Coinage act, and
comn6nds the issue of Treasury notes
kainSt deposits Of silver bullion at the
market price Of silver when deposited, paya-
BILE on del: ind in such quantities of silver
bullion as will equal in value, at the date of
presentation, the number of dollars expressed
au the face Of the notes at the market price
If silver, Oh in gold, at the option of the
Government; OF in silver dollars, at the op-
tion of the holder.
1t would seem, he says, that one of the eff
fective means of preventing the immigration
of the prohibited. classes would be to require
all immigrants before embarkation to obtain
certificates Of character and fitness from our
Consular offices abroad. under regulations to
he prescribed by the Secretary of State.
He thinks the Alien Contract Labor law
has partially failed of its purpose because of
certain inherent defects and the impracti-
cabiity of its administration In some of its
features that call for :adnendDent.
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CENTRAL AMERICAN UNION.
Terms of the Agreement Between the
Five Republics.

President Roberto SaessSa has approved
ti,e treaty forming uni0s of the five Re
pubiies Of Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Honduras,
San Salvador, and Guatemala under the
name OF the United State. Of Central
America.
For the first ten years this union will SIM
ply be an offensive and defensive alliance,
and the President of the Union will have
charge only of tie diplomatic and foreign re-
lations of the FIVE Republics. At the expira-
7 tion of that period the union will be ce-
Aented by the adoption of constitution
which will embrace all political, commercial,
and other relations between the five Repub-
lies snd foreign powers. A common none
tary standard and common tariff laws will he
adopted, but there will be frae trade between
the different Republics, Honduras, Guate-
mala. and Ban Salvador, have already signed
the treaty, aa6.it is understood that Costa
Rica will do the ehrae as soon as Nicaragua
has signed,
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Life in Labrador.

The probabilities of Labrador's becom-
ing a summer resort are not great,
though the few travellers who do reach
its inhospitable coasts report much of in
terest to be found. met one Of tiffeese, these,
John L. McNaughton, of Chicago, last
night. He is just returning from three
months trip through Labrador and the
island of Anticosti, which he says is the
most Providence-forsakcn place he ever
found.
"The island" he said, sis constantly
enveloped by fogs, encircled by sunken
rocks and furious currents, and swept by
high winds. ! was told at Halifax, by
shipping men, that in the last ten years
upward of hundred ships had gone down
off the treacherous shores of Anticosti:
and that fully three thousand lives had
been lost there in that time. The Cana
dians tried to settle it once, but failed,
and now the island is practically unin-
habited, save by few hunters and travel
ers.
"But to my mind" he continued, sit
is far better than Labrador, where the ma
tives are forced to hibernate for about
eight months each year. During that
time the Labradorian lives almost entirely
on the inside of his rough board hovel,
with the winds blowing hurricane about
him. Their dogs, their principal prop
erty, live in an open cellar underneath
the family living rooms, and fight and
howl and raise pandemonium generally.
Without their dogs the natives would be
in bad way, for they have no roads in
Labrador. Not mile of made road ex-
lists in their whole 5000 miles of coast.
But they get along right we'll with their
sleds and dogs. have been told that
they can make ninety to hundred miles
day with the dogs, but that is from ten
to twenty miles better than my expert
ence. The dogs are quarrelsome, vicious
lot of animals when with each other, and
two packs meeting in harness is the sig
nal for a fight, in which the drivers
generally engage with whips and curses,
and if any women are along, their screams
add picturesque variety to the scene, l
can assure you. Summer opens June l,
when the ice breaks up, and then the ma
tives commence their harvest. Cod fish
ing and mackerel fishing are their indus
tries, and they waste no time for the next
three months until September, when the
freezeup comes again and drives them
back into their novels. 1t is dreary
life, but they know no other and l doubt
if they would be contented away from
their rocks and hurricanes and mackerel
nets. ] found them kindly, hospitablc
people, as simple as children about the
ways of the world. ."-Neac York Star.
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RECIPES.

Fried Tripe-Cut one pound of boiled
trips in small pieces: put half cup OF
butter, one cup of vinegar and one onion
minced into a frying-pan; when the
onion turns yellow put in the tripe; sea-
son and cook ten minutes; serve on but
tered toast.
Lemon Sauce-One teacupful of sugar,
one-half teacup of butter, one table
spoonful of -four, all we'll mixed together:
Add also the grated rind of lemon and
a pint of boiling water. Boil five MIN
utes. When ready to serve squeeze into
the sauce the juice of one lemon.
Stewed Lamb With Rice-Cut neck
of lamb in pieces, put it in a stewpan
with butter, chopped onions: sweet herbs
and parsley; brown slightly, season with
salt and pepper, add broth or water
enough to cover it and cook twenty-five
minutes; then to one quart of broth OF
water add a quarter of a pint of rice.
Stew slowly, covered, until rice and
meat are done.
Cranberry Sauce-Wash and scald the
berries, and to every pound of fruit add
three-quarters of a pound of granulated
sugar and half a pint of water; stew
over moderate fire. Cover, but do not
stir the fruit. After they come to boil,
let them boil from five to seven minutes,
and then remove from the fire. If the
sauce is to be kept for some time, put II
up in self sealing jars before it cools.
Apple Rice Pudding-Cook half a
pound of rice in one quart of water,
untilft is tender. Drain of the water,
add one pint of milk, half cup of sugar,
the grated rind of half a lemon, and let
it stay on the fire until the rice is quite
done and has absorbed the milk, then
add the beaten yolks of three eggs; pee
and core six apples, simmer in rich
syrup and water, in which is the grated
rind of half lemon and two or three
cloves. When done through take out
of the syrup, arrange on dish with the
rice around them and pour over them the
syrup.
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HIs PREFERENCE.

''Poor?" said Jones, to a young man
who was complaining of his lack of
worldly goods. "Of course. But think
of the great men who have come to the
city worth fifty cents and died worth
millions"
Yes" answered the wise young man,
"but / would rather come to the city
worth millions and die worth fifty cents. !"
Lite.
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about the hill itself, but there's a queer
story connected with it"
Stranger-"What is that"
Driver-''A young lady and gentleman
went out for walk on this hill; they
ascended higher and higher and-and
never came back again.
Stranger-"Dear me! What, then, be-
came of the unhappy pair"
Driver--"They went down on the
other side"
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SHE TELLS HIM THE SECRET.
An Editors Experience.

Major Sidney Herbert. a well-known Journalist IN
agricultural circles, writes Apri. 1sth 1899: Some
five years ago wrote letter stating that swifts
Specific had cured me of severe rheumatism. Since
that time l have had no return of the rheumatic
troubles, although frequently exposed to the infu'
ences that produced former attacks. Several Of my
friends had similar experience and are firm in their
conviction that S. S. s. brought a permanent cure.
The searching power of this medicine is shown in
the fact that It developed scrofuous taint that was
conspicuous In nv blood over thirty years ago. and
has removed the last trace Of 1t. have also tested
S. S. s. as tonic after severe attack OF malariaI
fever, which kept me in bed for three months and
am convinced that its curative and strengtheMne
nronerties irsured INV recovery from that Illness as
was In very low condition Of health.
SIDNEY HERBERT, Atlanta, Ga.
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Ar, ACCOMPLISHED SERVANT.

..Wh&t do you wish"' asked the ger
want who answcicd tbs ging at the do'ar.
.'Baron dc Veaumine1."
"What 10 you wish to sec him forE
1T is IL relation 10 Il promissory
note"
1.-The Baron went out OF town yester-
day."
Nov, that is too bad; 1lwanted to pay
him the amount owe him."
But" added the servant, "he re-
turned this morning. ."-French'Jaks>
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HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
DESTROYING yERMIN.

The Pharmaceutical JaGrnal points out
that for killing rats, mice and other
small animals, the more dangerous
poisons, such as arsenic, strychnil1e, ETC.,
are not at all necessary. A comparatively
inert substance, sulphate of bariurl, is an
active poison to such creatures-although
its precise action is difficult to explain,
seeing that it is extremely insoluble.
Powdered and mixed with lard or fat, it
is readily partaken of by small animals,
and will soon destroy them.
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TURNED THE CLOCK FORWARD.

Employer-''What do you mean by
coming to dinner at this time of day2 I
told you not to come till the shade of the
barn touched the box, and here you are
at 10 O'clock"
O'Kelly-"Shure, sur, an the shade
touches ther box"
.Idon't see how that can be?"
81 moved ther box, yer honor"
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Deafness Can't be Cured

By local applications, as they cannot
the diseased portion Of the ear. There rs Is Oh on
stitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by
an infiamed condition Of the mucous lining OF
the Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets in
famed you have rumb!ing sound or imper,
Deafness is the result, and unless the infam;;
NATION can be taken out and this tube restored
to its normal condition, hearing will be de-
stroyed forever, nine cases ont OF ten are ar
famed condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case of Deafness Caused by Catarrh) that we
cannot cure by taking Halls Catarrh Cure.
Send for circula g, free.
F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, q.
w- Sold by Druggists. 75c.
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WANTED OCCUPATION.

"Here's philosopher who says that
no thoroughly occupied person is ever
miserable, Bill" observed a tramp to his
companion, laying downa newspaper in
which he had been carrying sandwich.
"Well, he's right" said the other.
eff Icould be occupied for week by a
select party of square meals, / think
should forget my misery. ."-Harper's b.
zdr
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BRAwN AND BRAIN.

Miss Swift-"George has been waiting
on me for the last two years, and we are
to be married when he leaves college.
He is the most muscular man in his
class"
Miss Jersey Hytes-'I -'Indeed He waited
on me at the Profile House last summer,
and / noticed that he was unusually agile
with his tray."-Tinae.
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NO VOICE UNDER THE SOFA.

Ada-"How is it that Lena is so popu-
lar with the young men, Fanny Why,
she's as homely as parrot"
Fanny-"Yes; Lena is very homcly;
but you see, Ada, she has no little
brother. Time.
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THE TIME FOR ACTION,

''Say, mister" said small boy, as he
climbed the fence to meet the wagon that
came numbering up the road what nave
you got in that wagon"
Shingles"
Fur this house,"
Yep"
"Come on, Jimmy. Get the blankets
and the buffalo robes, and the side meat
out of the wood shed. We may rs well
start West now. ."-iMerchant Ttacelr.
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AN EXCEPTION WANTED.

Pastor Ito the country couple he has
just married-"Marriage gives you each
certain duties. The husband must pro-
tect his wife, but the wife must follow
him everywhere"
Fat Wife (weighs 200 pounds-frowns
anxiouslD-"Oh, sir, can't that be
changed! My husband IS a letter-car-
rier. y Wasp.
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PRACTISING.

Mr.. Bilks-'' Harry, what the deuce
do you take such long walks for! I
should think you were getting in prac-
tice for six days go-as-you-please."
Harry-''You see, we have got new
baby down to our house, and am get
ting in trim. ."-Kearney Enterprise.
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NOT so BAD AS THAT.

Mrs. Portable is raining fear
fully outside. Hadn't you better stay
and take supper with us, Mr.. Smith,"
Smith-"Oh, no, Mrs. PORTABLE; the
weather can't be as bad as that. t."-Te1as
Sutiags.
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wEEPS FOR JOY.

Fond Mamma-''Oh, uncle, you should
see our darling baby when play the
piano! He just listens by the hour, and
when I cease playing the nurse has to
take him away, he cries so awfully."
Cynical Unclc-''Perhaps-aw-my,
dear, he-aw-weeps for-aw-joy~-
Ne,cs Letter.
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A QUEER STORY.

Stranger driving past the foot Of a
mountain, to driyer)-"Anything remark
,ble about this mouptain3"
Driyer-"Tbers is nothing peculiar
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GROSSLY LITERAL.

$50 Jones has gone the way of all
mankind?"
:sYes," said friend. "a brick fell
on his head and killed him."
"You know death loves shining
mark"
"True. Jones was very bald. -
Merchant Trarelr.
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STILL IN FORCE.

Young (but high-priceO Physician
'sYes, medical science mas made great
strides in the last decade. The old and
nonsensical practice of bleeding patients,
for instance, has been entirely done away
with and"-
Patient with groan)-''Not by a
long shot, it hasn't. ."-La'erence -4meri-
can.
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Oregon, the Paradise Of Farmers.
Mild, equable climate, certain and abundant
try in the world. Full Information free. Ad-
dress Oregon Im'igrat'n Board. Portland. Ore.
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Millions of women use Dobbins's Electric
Soap daily, and say it is the best and cheapest;
If they arc right, you ought to use It,, II
of YOUR grocer and try IL next Monday.
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q Tnkn. n,ntn A.,..nIa

" Later unto AmicolG
Came pale Jace preacher, teaching
Peace and progress to the natires,
Hooed and acon by Uanita.
She no51er to make his calling,
Whispered to him natures secret
Told him Of the herbs 50 potent r
For tile healing and the sacing."
<ExTRAcT FROM POEM OF "CANITA."
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Rheumatism

According 10 receEt Investigations Is caused by eH-
cessive tactic acid in the blood. This acid attacks
the ibrous tissues particularly In the joints, and
causes the local manifestations Of the disease pains
md aches In the back and shoulders, and in the
Joints at the knees ankles, hips and wrists. Thou
sands Of people have found in Hoods Sarsaparlla
a positive and permanent cure for rheumatism
This medicine, by its purifying and vitalizIng ac-
ton, neutraIizes the acidity Of the blood and also
strengthens the whole body.
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BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.

The Dipper-No Voice Under the
Sofa-Not so Bad as That
Brawn and Brain,
Etc, Etc.
Twas an evening in December,
and we stood there all alone,
And you pointed to the heavens,
Where the ieweled dipper shone,
And you told ne to remember
When saw those bright stars shine.
That as long as the dipper hung there
So long you would be mine.
Again it is December
And l am all alone:
And of late I've lost the interest
once had in stars, | own.
But somehow the idea strikes ME,
As watch that starry group.
Since you wed my rival yesterday,
That dipper's in the soup:
Toledo Blade
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Mile. Rosa BoNHEUR has a tiny pet
mon 1ey, which is her almost constant com
panion.