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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-03

AS WAS expected by his friends and
no doubt feared by his enemies, the
most rigid cross-examination of Mr..
Parnell, extending over vast con-
glomeration of events and into the
minutia of Irish movements, has fail
ed to connect the great leader in any
way with the outrages of the Fenian
crowd, or show that he was at any
time responsible for them. On the
con trary this cross-examinatiOn has
elected the fact that at home and in
America his voice and influence has
always opposed violence and that he
had no knowledge OF the murderous
conspiracies which from time to time
were Matched by the more desperate
leaders of the Irish forIorn hope. This
examination will only strengthen the
cause OF the Irish people in the great
citadel of English feeling and SYM
pathy.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-03

HARPER's WEEKLY, for May 4th,
the cen tennial number, is most in
teresting one and very finely illustra-
ted. Among these illustrations is
full page cut of the uniforms of the
participants in the military parade of
April 3Oth. The uniforms of the mill
tary of twenty-five states are depicted
as well as those of the United States
regulars, but no mention is made OF
the Lone Star state. The Belknap
Rifles, of the City of San Antonio,
Texas, after travelling over 1000 miles
to be present, certainly deserved men
ton, and will probably receive it in
some subsequent number. If there
were any of a more soldierly bearing
than the Belknaps, the fact will not
be accepted in this city. We COM
mend this oversight to the notice of
Harper's that they may correct it at
some future date.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-03

UNLESS the press dispatches are
erroneous, there will be no question
of admiralty law arise over the rescue
of the Danmark, and the throw
ing overheard of forty tons of mer-
chandise belonging to the Missouri.
The owners of the Danmark tele-
graphed their agent at New York to
pay, on demand, all charges of the
Missouri owners for lost merchandise,
consequent upon the rescue of the
Danmark's passengers. The own
ers of the Danmark have not rescind-
ed that order, and there is no prob
lematic case to come before the ad-
admiralty courts. The question of in
Identification was mooted by the
LIGHT some time since, but in the
very same issue of this journal which
raised the question it was settled by
a cable dispatch to the associated
press authorizing the Danmark's
American agent to pay all the freight
losses of the Missouri on demand.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-03

Announcements for State and County officers
Ten Dollars in advance.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-03

preferred. If you cannot do this, you
must yield place. 1 will take your
cases into consideration, as l do all
others. will carefully weigh your
qualifications as L weigh all others
and / will consider whether
the public servic can best be entrust-
ed to your hand as an individual or to
the hand of some other man. If the
conclusion is in your favor you get the
office, if it is in favor of some other
applicant he gets it. This is the sub
stance of what Mr.. Harrison has said
so far as he has said anything at all,
and this is the only thing to be said.
Anything outside of this would be
favoritism. The real policy is to
make no distinction as the constitu-
ton makes none. All men are equal
before the law, without regard to race,
color or previous condition of servl-
tude. All men are equally free to APP
ply for positions in the public service
WlIlOuB IeSdlu W law, Soioi VI P'S
vious conditions, and their rejection or
appointment will be decided by indi-
vidual fitness in each case and not by
the color of the hair or skin. This is
the whole case i'm a nutshell. All
democratic sophistry will not change
the plain letter of this fair and equit-
able treatment of the case. The one
thing remaining is TO see that the
political privileges enjoyed by one are
enjoyed by all and this the president
will do. All who vote, at least in ma
tional elections, will be guaranteed the
right to vote as they please and to
have their votes counted as voted. All
who seek office will do so as indvivid-
uals and stand or fall upon their own
merits.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-03

GALVESTON has her cotton mill and
bagging trust; Waco has her WOODEN
mill, and is pushing hard for a cotton
mill; Dallas has entered upon her
manufacturing era some time since;
Laredo is glorying in her smelters,
and her machine shop, and what is
the Alamo City doing? Sitting down
under the shade of her old citadel and
watching the procession go by. 1t Is
pleasant employment, but not as
profitable as some others that might
be substituted for it. Half million
dollars could be, should be, and
would be invested in manufacturing
in this city if the people were alive to
their advantages.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-03

POSTMASTER GENERAL WANNA
MAKER issues an order closing the
departments at Washington to the
clerks and allowing only the watch
men about the premises on Sunday,
whereupon the Ell Paso Tribune says:
"A Saturdays dispatch stated that mail de-
livery at postofices on Sundays would soon
cease. The piOus pOstmss er general, Wanna
maker, will stop your reading letters on the
Sabbath day"
The Tribune has political cross-eye
worse than the man who saw men as
trees walking.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-03

WITH 81 800 good collateral in bank
and guaranteed it does seem that Mr..
Biedenheim should succeed in getting
bail for his unfortunate step son. The
quality of mercy seems to be strained,
and does not drop as in the poets inn
agination, like gentle dews from
heaven.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-03

THE juniors on the Luling Signal
have charge of affairs and give notice
to their subscribers as follows:
"Now that the editor has crossed the border,
we, the Buys in the Office, propose to have our.
say, and we warn everybody to look out for
squalls"
In less than two weeks they will be
squalling for the senior to return.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-11-23
Chinese Floating Gardens.

In the month of April a bamboo raft,
ten to twelve feet long and about half as
broad, is prepared, says the China Re-
siem. The poles are lashed together with
interstices of an inch between each.
Over this q layer of straw an inch thick
is spread, and then a coating two inches
thick of adhesive mud, taken from the
bottom of a canal or pond, which receives
| the seed. The raft is moored to the bank
IN still water, and requires no further at
t~ention. The straw soon gives way and
| the soil also, the roots drawing support
from the water alone. In about twenty
days the raft becomes covered with the
creeper Gpomea reptams), and its stems
and roots are gathered for cooking. In
autumn its small white petals and yellow
stamens, nesting among the round
leaves, present a very pretty appearance.
In some places marshy land is probably
cultivated in this manner. Besides these
floating vegetable gardens there are also
floating rice fields. Upon RATS construc-
ted as above weeds and adherent mud
were placed as a flooring, and when the
| lICG ohooeo NC1C 4Cduy AO1 laAopiaAHiAlS
they were placed in the floating soil,
which, being adhesive and held in place
by weed roots, the plants were maintained
in position throughout the season. The
rice thus planted ripened in from sixty
to seventy in place of one hundred days.
The RATS are cabled to the shore, float
ing OF lakes, pools or sluggish streams.
These floating fields served to avert
famines, whether by drought or food.
When other fields were submerged and
their crops sodden or rotten, these foated
and fourished, and when a drought pre-
JAILED they subsidized with the falling
water and while the soil around was arid
advanced to maturity. Agricultural
t~reatises contain plates representing rows
If extensive rice fields moored to sturdy
trees on the banks of rivers or lakes
which existed formerly in the lacustrine
regions Of the lower Yangstse and Yellow
River.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-11-23
HindoO Women.

On the slopes of the Himalayas, says
a correspondent of the Denver Republican,
in a letter from India, there are many
curious tribes. Some of the tribes near
Darieeling reckon a journey by the num-
Der of guilds of tobacco they chew upon
the way, and some of the most gorgeous
specimens of Hindoo jewelry I have seen
[ saw on the women of the Himalayas.
remember one mountain pink who had
fifty rupees strung around her neck and
whose limbs were loaded down with sill
vcr dollars upon her ears, and her mouth
was covered by a flat, gold nose ring.
Some of these Himalaya tribes have one
wife to four men, and polyandry is COM
mon. In Bombay are the prettiest
women of India. They are the parsees.
With delicate, olive-brown skins, they
are tall and well-shaped, have beautiful
eyes and fine intellectual faces.
They dress in silks of the most delicate
colors, and the dress seems to consist of
one large piece of silk which is wound
around the waist and then carried up
over the body and the top Of the head, so
that the face looks out and the whole
hangs in a beautiful drapery. Many o.
them, I note, have silk stockings, and
slippers to match the color of their dresses,
and they are the brightest and pref
test women I have ever seen.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-11-23
WISE WORDS.

Flatter a fool and you have already
won his friendship.
Busy people are less liable to notice
the wickedness of their neighbors.
When poverty comes in at the cottage
door, true love goes at it with an Ak.
The most refined persons never betray
anxiety for fear it will not be noticed.
A persons success in life depends upon
whether he will learn scchething himself
or depend wholly upon what is taught to
him.
If you want to have a man for your
friend, never get the ill-will of his wife.
Public opinion is made up of the average
preiudices of womankind.
When you compare the number Of
thoughts that comes into a mans head
with the number that goes out of his
mouth, man is discretion itself.
The condition of the world would
be improved if men were to think
less of dishonor of submitting to wrong
and more of the dishonor of doing it.
There is time enough for anything In
the course of the day, if you do but one
thing at once; but there is not time
enough in the year, if you viii do two
thingsaat a time.
Poole are all striving to get up in the
world, but If gravitation was suddenly
removed from the earth, people would
then he n~ravinr for some adhesive ar
rangement to stick them on again.
Things which never make a man
happy develop a power to make him
strong. Strength and not happiness, or
rather only that happiness which comes
by strength, is the end Of human living.
Some people are dependent upon their
training because they are ignorant of
themselves, and the more familiar they
become with trained manners, the less
liable they will be to become acquainted
with their natural ability.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-11-23
Holes Caused by DeeaYina Vegetation.

In New Providence and other islands
Of the Bahama group are numerous So
called s'banana holes" ranging in size
from that of a pint cup to that of a large
cistern. Professor c. S. Dolley, who has
lately studied these holes, fnos that they
cannot have had the same origin as pot
holes, and do not appear to have been cut
out by the waves, and he can only ac-
count for them as an effect of the action
of decaying vegetation. Large quanti-
ties of leaves and other vegetable matter
are found in the holes, and it is probable
that the soft calcareous rock has been dis
solved by the fermentation products and
washed away,-Trenton (N. J.) ITus
american.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-11-23
SELECT SETTINGS.

A lady at Wallula, W. T., has a rose
bush that stands seventeen feet high.
| Two Egyptian Princes, sons Of the
Khediye, are being educated at Vienna.
The atmospheric pressure upon the
body of a moderate sized man is fifteen
tons.
Philadelphia Hibernia Fire Engine
Company, still in existence, was orga-
nized in 1852.
The nightmare is going out. At least
that is the opinion of the Bomba Qndla)
Surgeon-G General.
A plain gold ring was found by a
Washington IN. CO. man imbedded IN
large block of ice.
It is calculated that during a London
season the average amount spent in flow
ers daily is S25, 900.
The Brown-Sequard elixir of life IS
said TO be an old and established remedy
amongthe Ute Indians.
Undertakes are complaining that the
growing popularity Of private funerals is
making sad inroads on their e~xcheqlers.
In the United States there are about
400 miles of electric railway in opera
ton, and many more under construction.
An important industry of Paris is the
manufacture of toy soldiers from sardine
and other tins that have been thrown
away.
One hundred boxes Of grapes to the
acre is not an unusual yieldin California.
They are worth about $3.50. The cost of
raising is about $55.
Ho Yen Chong, a native of China, and
8 graduate of the Columbia Law School,
New York, has been admitted to practice
in the courts of the Hawaiian Islands.
In 1891 the Cafe Richie in Paris will
celebrate its centennial. It has always
been the headquarters of all who were
famous in political, literary or artistic
circles.
A woman in the railroad depot at
Toledo, Ohio, saw a mouse and jumped
through a window with such vigor that
she broke two ribs and an ankle. The
other ten women simply tainted away.
According to a Michigan contemporary,
"when a certain old lady of Lenawee
County dresses for a State occasion she
!, puts on a calico gown which was built
~thirty-seven years ago and cost eighteen
cents a yard"
An Illinois farmer shelled out a head of
wheat and kept track of results, and the
yield was three pecks. But for the dry
season he thinks the yield would have
been greater. This shows what nature
can do when she feels like trying.
There is a lady in Milwaukee who is
the mother of nine children. Not one Of
them was named until it was twelve years
old. They were simply called by their
nicknames and their numbers %"one,'
"'two," etc. When they were twelve
years old each one chose his own name
and was batized.
The fires used in blowing WsRetian
glass are made of wood, coal being use
less on account of its generating too much
smoke and gas, which prevent the deli
cate ornaments used in decorating the
various objects from adhering. Orna-
ments and vases made by coal or gas alone
would soon seperate into their various
parts.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-11-23
THE FARM AND GARDEN.
"A HEATED Hay Mnw.

When the NOW is found to be heating
some recommend making deep holes near
together in the NOW by thrusting a sharp
ened pole from the top downward and
putting a few handfuls of salt into each
cavity. The safest method, however,
is to remove the hay to some scaffold,
which will bring it to the air, and the
sooner it is done the better. If there is
not barn room to put it on q scaffold
pitch it into the rack and stack it out of
doors a few days if the weather is dry.
II the stack is well made and the top is
covered with hay caps it will stand heavy
rain storms with but little injury. After
remaining in the stack a few days 1t can
be returned to the NOW again when the
suni is shining, and will give no further
trouble.-Stocbnaa.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-11-23
Tile Wife of the French President.

Nine. Carnot, the wife of the Pres
ident Of the French Republic, says a
correspondent of the Mail and Express,
is an extremely handsome as well as an
extremely agreeable and talented woman.
l saw her in public the other night with
the President, and although she was sur
rounded by many young and beautiful
women, she did not suffer by contrast.
Mime. Carnot assists in her husbands
policy of propitiating almost every one
she meets, and she has been especially
gracious to American women who have
visited Paris this year. Nine. Carnot is
not much given to pomp or show, but she
has nevertheless conducted those social
entertainments that the Parisians insist
that their President shall furnish with a
tact and ability that has increased her
husbands popularity as well as her own.
Now and then it is a dinner that is to be
given, periodically a reception and on
stated occasions there are grand balls,
and on all these occasions heretofore
both the President and his wife have SO
acquitted themselves that even Paris has
found no reason to complain.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-11-23
Projection FOR YOUNG PLANTS.

A very cheap and effective protector for
young plants may be made of the collar
for pipe tiles, which can be bought at
nearly all factories of drain tiles. The
collars are in sections, about the same in
length as ordinary pipe tile, with grooves
partly separating the individual collars.
When broken apart the collars are each
about four inches long and two or three
inches in diameter. One of these is set
around each plant and pressed slightly
into the ground, so as to exclude cold
winds, cutworms, bugs and other enc
mics. The collars are practically indie
stl uctible, and with reasonable care q
supply viii last for years. Where they
cannot be obtained a very good substitute
is made by melting the bottoms from the
tin can in which vegetables and fruit are
sold, and using the can in the manner as
above.-American Agricuztmrist.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-11-23
Turkish Oppression.
american,

The large number of Turks who are
not Mohammedans, says a New York
World correspondent, cannot enter the
army if they would, but they have never
theless to pay an exemption tax amount-
ing to S1.50 a year per male person, and
this tax is levied on the baby boy a year
old as we'll as on the old man of seventy
FIVE. When a poor Armenian, Greek or
Hebrew happens to have a family of six
or eight boys his expenses are materially
increased, and the number of these for
eigners in Turkey is so large that this
species of tax income amounts to a great
deal. Scattered about the hills of Con-
stantinople are barracks which look like
palaces and which are probably built
with this tax.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-11-23
Periodical Incendiarisrn.

The prevalence of incendiarism hs..
been found to vary with the season. II
the four years ending with 1886 there
were more criminal fires in January thar
in February, an increase in the number
through March, April and May, q falling
off in June, further increase until Noyem.
Der, and a falling off again in December,
The number showed a remarkable regu.
larity for The first half Of the year, while
in the second half il was much greater
but much more fuctuating. In farming
districts incendiarism was most frequent
d busy periods, especially at harvest.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-11-23
FALL PIGS.

Many find it profitable to let the sows
AVE two litter of pigs, one in the spring,
reasonably early, so that by pushing along
they can be ready for market early in tbs
fall, and those farrowed in the fall can be
kept growing during the winter and fat
tened after clover gets high enough to
furnish good feed, says a writer in the
Republic. After the weather gets cool
in the fall, and after settled weather be-
gins in the spring, and when grass has
made a good start to grow are the best
tunes for fattening hogs, and SO far as
possible the breeding should be timed so
that the sows will farrow in the right
season. Pigs in the fall should come
early enough to give them time to make
a good start to grow before cold, freez-
ing weather sets in. Your pigs are easily
stunted, and a little exposure to severe
cold will often stop their growing. In
order to be profitable hogs must make a
good growth from birth to maturity.
At the start one of the most important
items with fall pigs is to provide them
with a dry, warm, comfortable shelter.
To attempt to keep them warm by feed
ing corr will increase the cost so as to
leave little if any margin of profit. With
stock of all kinds animal heat can be
maintained much more economically by
providing shelter than by feeding corn.
Some corn will be necessary, unless the
shelter provided is considerably above
the average. Corn is Dne of the very
best materials that can be used to good
advantage all winter. At the same time
it should not be depended upon entirely.
The pigs will make a better growth at
q less cost and keep in better health if a
good variety of food is furnished. Wheat
bran, ground oats, and barley will add
to the value of the ration and are much
better for the development Of bone and
muscle than corn, and this is often quite
an item. It is possible to feed too much
corn, keeping ever the growing pigs so
fat they will not make as good a growth
as they should. The development of
bone and muscle is fully as important as
fat. Glover hay should be relished by
the growing pigs as well by the breeding
stock. Artichokes and small, unmarked
able potatoes will add to the variety.
A sufficient quantity should be sup
piled to keep them in a good, thrifty con-
dition. No reliable rules as to quantity
can be given. The best plan is to be
guided by the condition Of the hoes
After cool weather sets in corn can bT
made the principal food, using the other
materials to make up a good variety.
Let them run out whenever the eondi-
ton of the weather will admit, but they
should have access to shelter all the time.
Growing pigs need plenty Of op%portuni-
ty to exercise, and will thrive better if
confined in a close pen. Keep their
quarters clean, use plenty Of bedding,
and change it every few days to prevent
it becoming foul. Filth breeds disease,
and it is very important with hogs, as
with other stock, to keep them in good
health.