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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-29
A Fight with a Wildcat.

James Maddrah, who raises fancy chickens
and lives alone in his old sawmill near the
lake and boulevard, Winsted, had thrilling
experience with wildcat. For some time
Maddrah has been missing his prize stock,
and suspicion pointed to q pet fox, the prop
erty OF Editor Bail Of The Herald, the depre-
dations Of which have been the theme Of
many = good newspaper story. When Mad
drah heard a thrashing noise in his bennery,
he quickly made his way there en- deshabille,
expecting to find reynard making of with
some Of his favorite duckLngs Instead of a
fox q monster wildcat was surveying the
plump birds through the cracks in the boarded
roosting place.
Maddrah lost no time in collecting hi
thoughts, for in an instant the savage ami
NAL had sprung at his throat, and was claw
ing vigorously at his head and neck. Mad
drah, who Is a powerful man, grasped the
cat by the neck with oIe hand and by the
front paws with the other, and holding it
against one OF the supports of the mill soon
succeeded in choking it into insensibility.
Then taking it by the hind legs lie beat its
brains out on a stone. Maddrah was fright
fully clawed by the savage beast, but it is
thought that the wounds are not dangerous
Maddrah has fought in two wars, and has
been travelling printer twelve years, but
considers this the parrowest escape he ever
had. Waterbury Dispatch.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-29
GIRLS THAT ARE WANTED.

The girls that are wanted are good girls
Good from the heart to the lips:
Pure as the lily is white and pure
From It's heart to its sweet leaf tips
The girls that are wanted are home girls
Girls that are mothers right hand,
That fathers and brothers can trust to,
And the little ones understand.
Girls that are fair on the hearthstone,
And pleasant when nobody sees:
Kind and sweet to their own folks,
Ready and anxious to please.
The girls that are wanted are wise girls,
That know what to do and to say:
That drive with a smile and a soft word
The wrath Of the household away.
The girls that are wanted are girls Of sense,
Whom fashion can never deceive;
Who can follow whatever Is pretty.
And dare what is silly to leave.
The girls that are wanted are careful girls,
Who count what a thing will cost,
! Who use with prudent, generous hand,
But see that nothing is lost
The girls that are wanted are girls with hearts
They are wanted for mothers and wives;
Wanted to cradle in loving arms
The strongest and fraiest lives.
The clever, the witty, the brilliant girl.
There are few who can understand:
But OH for the wise, loving home girls
There's a constant, steady demand.
Washington Hatchet
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-29
Japan, Commercial Bondage.

1t seems that since the treaties entered into
with the great powers in 1858, Japan has
been stripped of her control over her own
commercial affairs This progressive nation
has no power over her own tariff. Japan has
no jurisdiction over single foreigner, each Of
whom must be tried in the consular court OF
his own country Foreigners are also ex-
empted from all taxation Foreign ships pay
no light tonnage nor harbor dues. Thirty
seven millions of japanese are in these essen
tial respects kept in practical subsection to
less than twenty-five hundred foreigners
This humiliating bondage has been character
lied by a foreign official as a bowling
shame"
Escape from the condition that thus con-
fronts Japan is not easy. There arc sixteen
treaty powers whose assent she must get be-
fore one modification of the existing treaty
can be had. Little powers like Portugal and
Peru can block the way towards q more
liberal policy by refusing to assent to any
treaty revision. Great Britain, whose COM
MERGE with Japan is largest, seems unwilling,
for some incomprehensible reason, to take the
lead in the direction of equitable dealing.
Russia and the United States stand ready, as
usual, to do unto others as they would wish
to be done by. Germany, next to Russia,
seems most inclined to favor fair play and do
what simple justice demands Ii France,
which appears non-committal, would join
the four leading powers in sanctoning a
revision Of the old jug-handle treaty,
the smaller powers would doubtless
acquiesce in the decision reached Hold
ing Japan back in it's progress towards
high civilization is not an attitude
which the more civilized nations can afford
to assume. Hence it would seem that If
England, the United States, France and Ger
many, whose commerce with Japan is largest,
would insist upon the emancipation of that
country from commercial thralldom which
is at war with the spirit of the age Japan
would be left free to work out her own COM
mercial salvation. Frank Leslie's Newspaper
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-29
To Purify n Room.

Set pitcher of water in the apartment,
and in few hours it will have absorbed
near.y all the respired gases in the room, the
air Of which will have become purer, but the
water utterly filthy. The colder the water
the greater the capacity to contain these
gases. At the ordinary temperature pail
of water will absorb pint Of carbonic acid
gas and several pints of ammonia The ca
pacity is nearly doubled by reducing the
water tn - ---~-~rature of ice. Hence the
water keep ~ a rom for q while is unfit to
use.-Journal of Health.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-29

10 you romenIper,. no went on, as ne alb
Etractedly drilled hole into the loaf with
the point of a carving knife, show, when 1
rang the bell, you came TO the door with your
sleeves rolled up and your fingers sticky with
dough, and said you thought it was your
little brother who wanted to get in"
eyes"
"Oh, Ethel Hou could youi How could
your
"How could whatG' she responded, as a
guilty look crept into her face.
'How could you make me the victim of
such a blufff'-Merchant Traveller.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-29
The Leo Sisters I'm London Society.

Prior to the Brontes, though hardly equal
in literary rank, were the sisters Sophia and
Harriet Lee, who held distinction in London
authorship during the early part Of the pres
ent century They both wrote novels and
plays, but their best mutual production was
the once popular Canterbury Tales" From
one of these" Kruitzner"-Byron drew the
plan and also the details of his tragedy,
werner" He acknowledged in the preface
his debt to the gifted sisters, who were graft
fed to assist the greatest poet of the age
Rochester Democrat.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-29
Ceylon Tea

: Ceylon began its career as tea growing
country under favorable circumstances. AL
the mythical hallucination about tea cultiva'
tion has exploded, and the disastrous expert
ence of India prevented Ceylon from falling
into any serious errors at the outstart. Sew
eral Assam planters settled in the island and
brought with them knowledge of tea cult
walton and manufacture; so that, when this
is taken into consideration, the success which
has attended Ceylon is not SO much to be
wondered at after all London Grocer.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-29
A Long Shot.

They were sitting around the club room
after q fair day ON the marshes, when up
spoke an old hunter: ~ saw Mr.. NJ make
the longest shot today | ever saw. He shot
from Peach Orchard while the duck was over
Cow Island" Two hundred yards This,
of course, was received with establishment,
which was pictured, open mouthed, on every
face Finally, some one said, rather timidly:
NV ell, did no kill the ducks" Hell, mol"
said the narrator; "he never touched the
duck " The fearful strain was relaxed
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-29
4 Victimized Man,

"Ethel," said Lionel Bertram Jones, as he
dropped his slice of bread in the plate with a
NJ that set the canary in the gilt cage
Overhead chirping merrily. ETHEL, have
something to say TO you"
They had been married only four weeks,
and the time had not yet arrived when she
did all the saying.
do you remember the day on which pro-
posed to your
'..Yes," she replied, II win never forget it. "
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-29
The Place to Buy Clothing.

Customer ito Mr.. IsaacsteinI-The cut of
that suit isn't very fashionable, IsaacStein.
lsaacstein-Va-at, not fashionablel Don'd
keep an agent mid Europe nine months oud
Of dot year choost to pick oud dose front
stylei
Customer "a little broken upl-Is that so!
MT. Issacstein-Qf course dot was so, TO
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-29

wife)-Rebecca, vot dId mr. Jonannisoers
say in dot cable dispatch todayl
Rebecca-He said he choost bought up
everything dot vas fresh and new in Paris
and London and vas now on his way to dine
with the Prince Of Wales
The customer bought the suit.-New York
Sun
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-29
"WAITIN' FUR PAP"

| had Just reached the top Of long,
straight climb on trail leading over a spur
of the Blue ridge, and had dumped down to
get rest before proceeding EDWARDS, when
the bushes on the opposite bank parted to let
the barrel of gun protrude, and at the same
moment voice called out:
"You'un is a dead man if you move a
handn
Some things come so suddenly that you
have no time to get ratified. | looked up to
see the face of boy behind the gun, and in
stead of being frightened | was surprised.
"What are you pointing that gun at me
forF' asked.
I'm hvering you," he replied.
YES, but l don't want to be kivered
What's the fussF'
He followed the gun out of the bushes, eye
ing me like hawk, and sitting down on a
rock on the edge of the other bank, not over
eight feet away, he queried:
Does you'un surrenderp
81 guess | do"
Then you'un keep mighty quiet till pap
comes. He has gone by the other trail"
He was boy of IA, his hair down on his
shoulders, his face pinched and peaked, and
he was excited and trembling.
WHO is your papF presently asked
Lem Marvin"
"And why do you stop me in this fashion,"
"Youun's been looking to shoot pap"
"Bosh! | never even heard of himl
came up from Whittaker's this morning"
"But you must be kivered."
"Whyq
Because don't know and pap does. You
may be him, and you maynt. Pap will tell
If you be him pap will blow yer lead off"
Your pap must be quite blower. Say,
what did some one want to shoot him forf'
"Had a furse."
About whatr'
"a mewl"
"WheuF'
"a right smart ago. He said he'd shoot
pap, and pap wants to get the drop on him"
well, my boy, III wait till your pap ar
rives, and meanwhile you'd better drop the
hammer of that shotgun. 1t smells to me as
if the weapon was loaded with buckshot and
buckshot amt healthy this time O year."
Wont you'un pay me slick?"
mo; could have killed you long ago if
bad wanted to-"
"If you 'un tries to draw ON me shall
shute!" he continued.
THAT'S all right. Now, then, where do
you liveg"
"Over yere," he replied, jerking his thumb
over his shoulder.
'What does your father DOR
Makes some whisky, hunts a bit and
trucks leetle"
How many childrenF'
Five, and I'm the biggest!"
''Well, let's see how much you know. Who
is the presidentY'
"I-I dun forget" he answered after a
minute.
''Who is the governor of this staten
"Pap never dun tole me-"
"Can you read?"
almost. kin tell circus picters"
Ibid you ever see a railroadF'
"Oncst-almost. heard he'un tootn
Ever see a steamboat"
Reckon not.n
''What are you going to do when you grow
upP
do like dad"
"Come down here where I can talk to
you"
'But youun wants to funny me and get
the drop!"
"Nonsensel Put away your old gun and
come down here. Pm not the man your pap
wants TO send to the happy land. I'm going
to have a smoke and talk"
"We'un all smokes, though pap is agin it.
Ibid you ever smoke cigar2"
mo"
"Wel, come and get one"
''lf you'un should try to draw on mel"
he cautioned as he stood up and looked
around.
Come onI Therel tossing my revolver
five feet away. Now, can't draw On VoU
you can bring your gun = you are afraid"
Afraid HIM QeTer see. the time he was
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-29

arraldr' - sara, as ne Ieaned MS gun against
the bank and sat down beside me. When
our cigars were alight he grew more easy
and asked:
Suppose this man your pap is after gets
the drop on him frstf'
Him can't"
But whyi"
"'Cause pap's lightning. Nobody kin git
the drop ON him."
Don't you know it's awful business to
hunt man to his death in this cool wayf'
"Hain't him hunting fur papa Won't him
shoot pap if he kinf'
"You are all wrong. If a man threatens
you the law will take care of him"
1.-The law is too fur away"
He couldn't view the matter in any other
light than TO ''get the DROP" and he had
pretty good defense in saying that the other
| man began it.
"If him didn't cum huntin' fur pap, pap
wouldn't 60 huntin' fur him." he put it.
Taking out newspaper pointed to big
"a" in an advertisement, and asked him
what it was
Dunno"
THAT'S A"
"Who says sol"
81 do"
"Mebbe you don't know"
"Well, everybody else says so. Why don't
| you learn to ready
What furl'
$50 that you will know what's going on
about you"
"Thar's nuthin' ever goes on. Pap says
readin' is all foolin'."
"Do you know how big this country isr
"Whoppin' big, reckon"
"Wouldnt you like to read Of what goes
| on in the other states"
whats the goodl I'd be yere jist the
same all the time, wouldn't lF'
Look at this figure. It's figure 2. Here's
figure 8. Can you add the two of them to-
gether"
81 never dun tried"
"Can't you countr
whats the usei Pap says countin' is all
| foolin, and reckon him knows"
But suppose you wanted to count up some
money!
"Never had any"
| "If you had two bits and gave you two
more how many would you have"
"Wouldn't it be all tharP
eyes, but how muchF'
"Jist the same as befo counted"
couldn't make anything of him in that
line and was about to try another, when We
heard the report of a gun at no great dis
lance.
That's papr exclaimed the boy as be
sprang up. Him is shootin' at the tother.
"Perhaps the tother has downed himr'
"How could he when it was pap's own gun
that went off Mebbe he didn't hit him"
81 hope not"
"Then you un hopes he got pap" he de-
manded.
mo hope nobody is hurt"
He backed away from me in disgust, and
five minutes later mountaineer came down
the trail, looking out of sorts. He looked us
over, took in the situation, and said
Him hain't be, Danny. | jist he'd shot
at he up thar, and durn my hide | made a
clean missI'
"HoI ho! hol" laughed the boy as he threw
down his gun and went off into fit OF jol-
| hty. Made clean miss of he! Never even
| touched he with far shotI"
"Shet, or I'll cuff ye!" replied the father,
and then turning to me, he said:
"Sorry to scare We, stranger, but Danny
didn't know We, ye know"
"No; he didn't seem to. Then I'm not the
man you want to shootp
"You'un can't be"
"And | can go onf'
"Sartin; though the t'other may take We
fur me and ambush ye up thar Better cum
up to the cabin and squat fur a while"
81 guess III go on and chance it."
Then good-by."-M Quad in Detroit
Free Press
|
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-29
WHY WOMEN FADE.

Women lose their beauty because
colds undermine their life. DIR.
Acker's English Remedy for Con-
sumption is an absolute cure for colds.
Q) RAGLAND 81 Co.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-11-13
LEGAL.

TN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE CoUN-
i ty of Los Angeles, State of California. No
s. .173.
In the mater OF the estate Of Elizabeth VIE
becke deceased.
John Kohlmoos, the Administrator of the es-
tate of Elizabeth Wiebecke, deceased, having
this day rendered and presented for settlement
and filed In this court his final account of his
administration of the estate of said deceased,
and having also accompanied said final account
with a petition OF distribution of the residue of
said estate among the persons euiitied thereto,
1t is ordered that Fridsy, the 22d day Of No
same is hereby appointed for the settlement Of
said final account and it is further ordered that
all persons interested In the said estate of the
said Elizabeth Wiebecke, deceased, be and ap
pear before the Superior Court of the county Of
Los Angeles, at Department of said Court at
the same time and place, to-wit: Friday, the
22d day OF November, 1889, at 10 O'Clock a. m,
then and there to show cause why an order OF
distribution shoald not be made of the residue
of said estate among the heirs OF the said de-
ceased according to law; and
1t is further ordered that the Clerk give notice
of the time of settlement of said final account
tion, by causing notices to be posted in at least
three public places in the CITY of Los Angeles at
least ten days before said day of settlement,
according to law, and that copy OF this order
be published daily for ten days before the 22d
d4y OF November, 1889, in the Los Angeles
DAILY HERALD, q newspaper printed and pub
lished In the said city ap6 county
Dated November sth, 1889,
SyITH, WINoER & SMITH, Attorneys for Admin
traitor. Nc lot
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-11-13
By GEO. E. SEIP, Deputy.
Los Angeles, October 31st, 1889. oc31 3Ot
PROPOSALS FOR THE GRADING
OF MISSION STREET.

Proposals will be received by the under
signed up to 10 o'clock a. m. OF Novemb er -,
A. D 1889, for the grading OF Mission street
from Mission road to the east city line. the
work to be done as follows: A sub-grade is to
be prepared to correspond as nearly as prsc
ticaole to the estab ished grade, by leveling sp
strip forty feet in width in the roadway of
said STREET In the manner of an ordinary turn
pike road, said strip to be given a crown of six
inches in the center. This surface is to be
thoroughly rolled, as in the case of the sub
g. ade of graveled streets in the city of Los An
geles. Upon this is o be placed an eightinch
coat of Arroyo Seco gravel, and thoroughly
rolled. three-inch finishing coat OF hill
gravel is to be app iel to the surface and again
rolled the whole work to be done to the salts
faction of the Street Superintendent. Con-
tractors will bid by the lineal foot. There will
be no cur bipg and no sid dewalks.
A Acertiied check for $50 90 must accompany y
each bid, as a surety that the bidder will enter
into a contract IN conformity with his bid. If
accepted by the Council.
The Council reserves the right to reject any
and all bids.
BY order of the Cou-cil OF the City OF Los
Angeles at its meeiinp of November 4, 1889.
Los Angeles, November 13. 1889
FREEMAN G. TEED.
n13-5t City Clerk.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-11-13
LEGAL.
LEGAL.
NOTICE OF ADMINS TRAITORS
SALE.

VNTHEsUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES
Il county, State of California
In the matter of the estate of Jacob Homme'
deceased.
Notice is hereby given that in pursuance OF
an order of the above entitled Court, made on
the 26th day of nly 1889, in the matter of the
signed will sell at private sac to the highest
bidder, for lawful money of the United States,
and su' ject to confirmation by said Superior
Court on or after the 10th day of November,
1859 ali the right, tit e, interest and estate Of
the said JACOB H0mmel az the time of his
death, and all the right, title and interest that
the said estate has, BY operation oflaw or other
wise acquired. other than or in addition to thst
of said Jacob HOmmel at tn time of his deaf h
in and to all those certain lots of land situste in
the city of Los Angeles, county of Los Angeles.
State Of California and bour ded and described
as follows, t0-wit:
1. Lot four a. of the Fort Hill tract
2. That Ger ain lot particularly described as
8 Chadwick's land on Bloom street; thence
east on the northern, line of Bloom street 2l4
3-10 feet to line of railroad thence in a north
easterly direction to point on the Fl C.Thomss
the H. Q. Thoms tract 295 feet to the NE cor
ner of land sold ]. s. Chadwick; thence at
right anplesi 8. along the east line of said Chad
wick's land to place of beginning on Bloom
street, the same being portion of the Hancock
tract.
8 Also lot described as that portion of the
II, G. Thomas tract lying easterly Of lot ~ T
tract being bounded on the northerly side by
the prolongation easterly of Leroy street; on the
west by lot 27 of the said tract, aud on the
southerly side by the northerly line of the Han
ock tract, and on the east by the erailroad lands,
except a strip of land 25 feet wide on north
side OF said lot. the same being reserved for 6
public road or highway, and being continua
ton of Leroy street.
Terms and conditions of sale, either for all
cash or for one-half cash, balance on deferred
payments not to exceed one year, secured by
note and mortgage.
Bids or offers may be made at any time after
the first publication of this notice and before
making of sale. All bids or offers ust be in writ
ing, and may be left at the law office of Ander
son. Fitz gerald & Anderson, No. 81 Temple
street, Los Angeles city and county and State
or delivered to the undersigned personally.
JACOB HOM@EL, JR.,
Administrator of the estate Of Jacob Hommel
decd.
ANDERSON. FITZGERALD q ANDERSON, Attorneys
for Estate.
Dated November 2, 1850. n3 I'd
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-11-13
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE
UNDER EXECUTION.

GAN GABRIEL VALLEY BANK VS. YOUNG
y Mems Christian Association of Pasadena
sheriff s SALE No. IL 1893.
BY virtue of an execution Issued out OF the
Superior Court of the County of Los Angeles,
State of California. wherein San Ga Nriel Va lev
Bank, plaintiff, and Young Mems Christian
Association of Pasadena, defendant. upon a
jud. menL rendered the Sd day Of October. AID
money of the United States, besides costs and
intere' t, have this day levied upon all the
right, title, claim, and interest of said defend
ant, Young Mems Christian Association of
Pasadena. of, in and to the following described
real estate, to wit:
First parcel of realty Within the cit of Pasa-
ing the west As (fo-ty fve) feet of lot 46 of
H. Bakers subdivision of the south "a of lot 8,
Berry & Elliott Tract Division &C." as per map
of said subdivision of record in the Office OF
the Recorder Of Los Angeles County, California,
in Book of Miscellaneous Records 10, at page
60, together with the rights to bridge over
across the East Is feet of said lot 46 at heigh.
not less than ID feet above the ground and to
perpetually maintain such elevated connection
of bridging.
Second parcel of Iealty-within the rancho
San Pasqual, Los Angeles County, California,
and being Lot five '5) of Shoups Addition to
Olivewood, sccording to map of said tract
(additionaD of record in the Office Of the Re.
corder OF Los Angeles County .ICalifornia, in
Book of Miscellaneous Records IL at page 25.
Public notice is hereby given, that will, on
Fri ay, the 8tn day OF November, A. D. 1889.
at IL o'clock m of that day, in front of the
Court House door of The County of Los Angeles,
on Spring street, sell at public auction, for
cash, lawful money of the United states, all
the right, title, claim and interest of said de
feu dant Y. NJ C. Association of Pasadena of,
in and to The above described property, or so
much thereof as may be necessary to raise
sufficient to satisfy said judgn ent, with interest
and costs, etc, to the highest and best bidder.
Dated this 18th day OF October, 1889.
M. G. AG IRRE,
Sheriff of Los Al geles County.
By A. M. THORNTON.
Under Sheriff.
W. s. WRIGHT, Attorney for Plaintiff.
ocJG yeda At