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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-02
AS TO JURIES.

The Fort Worth Gazette is after the
jury system and comes to the conclus-
ion that there are serious defects in
the system and that there is an inn
perative demand for better men on
iuries. The Gazette is right. The
verdicts are not satisfactory and there
must be reform in some way and there
doubtless will be. But the assump-
ton that the failure of the system
comes from want of integrity or capa-
bility on the part of the average citi-
zen, IS not correct. The juror as a
rule is both competent and honest
the trouble is that the minority OF
men are not honest.
Take the failure to agree in most
cases-in nearly every case 1T Is occa-
stoned by one or two infamous men
who do not scruple to violate their
oath to carry a political point or be-
friend one of their own class. That a
majority may be wrong must be con-
coded, but the majority Is usually
right, and the voice of the majority
should be allowed to control. Falible
as it is, 1t is the only safe rule. So it
would seem that at least partial
remedy for the shortcoming of the
Jury system, might be found in a law
providing that nine jurors could re-
turn verdict.
Certainly something must be done.
The jury system does not, as now
operated, perform the functions for
which it was designed.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-02
THE LESSON OF EDISON.

France decorated Thomas A. Edi-
son with the Grand Cross of the
Legion of Honor. and that recogni-
ton goes far to educate the world.
The career of Edison is in the nature
of a miracle. Poor, and partially
deaf. without gift of speech or pen,
unaided by influential friends, he
has grown enormously rich, he is
more famous than either the presi-
dent of the United States or of France.
Unlearned, SO far as technical schOl-
arship is concerned, his opinions
have greater weight, than those of
the most highly educated savant.
His inventions have not only enrich
ed himself and his family and friends,
but have added millions to the taxa
BILE value of the entire civilized world.
They have created wealth. 1t is as if
he had laid streets ofgold all over the
face of christendom. Employments
have been given to the poor and the
revenues OF governments have been
increased without the destruction or
modification of any of the materials
of creation. No tale of the Arabian
Nights approaches the achievement
of Edison in improbability.
But the chief good perhaps of Edi-
sons career, allowing even for the in
crease of wealth personal and natio-
nal, is the demonstration that in this
country any honest man by indus
try may make his faculty, what
ever it may be, of profit to
himself, and benefit to his fellows,
and that the way is open to the high
est attitude of distinction.
Edison's advancement is solely the
result of an industrious intellect.
Even a want of character, in his case,
would not have shut him out from
fame and fortune, but his character is
clean as his intellect is incisive.
OF course few are gifted as Edison
is, but there are needs to he supplied
in other fields than the electrical,
with rewards as ample, as those
heaped upon the wizard of Menlo
park.
The inventor of method for elumi-
mating fraudulent ballots will live in
the hearts of his countrymen, and the
successful navigator Of the air will
revolutionize travel and transporta-
ton.
The crying need of the hour, is a
moral Edison who will invent means
of purifying character, so that the
public will demand, and only tolerate
unimpeachable public servants.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-02

THE Scientific American has issued
its Architects and Builders edition
and most valuable contribution it is
to the literature in that line. The
problem of cheap and convenient
homes is LUMINOSITY treated, and this
itself is of vital interest to the most
important class of Americans-the in
dustrious and industrial class. The
mere mechanical execution of the is
sue, with cuts and illustrations is at
tractive, but the matter is exception
ally instructive and useful. The de-
sign for Grant mausoleom may con-
tain a valuable hint for our Alamo
monument.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-02
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.

Wishing to wind up the ,es-
tate of the late firm of A.
Kahn, will, in the next few
days, close out the entire
stock. Consisting of Dress
Goods, Surah Silks, Sateens,
Velveteens, Jeans, Cassimeres
Tweeds, Shirtings, Notions,
Jerseys, Shawls, Ladies and
Children's Underwears, Wallis
es, Trunks, Gents and Boys
Clothing, Gents and Boys
Hats, Gents White sShirts,
Gents Colored Shirts, Gents
Flannel Shirts, Gents Furnish
ing Goods, Ladies Shoes,
Children's Shoes, Boys Shoes,
Girls Shoes, Mems Boots and
Shoes, etc., ect. All must go
within the next few days, and
will be sold for I-2 actual
value.
TEnONT Arc;ornno
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-02
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inc each insertion. Local columns 20 cents first
Insertion; 10 cents first week, centsI after first
week. Special rates on 80 and 100 lines running
or 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.
Announcements for State and County officers
ten Dollars in advance.
~An contracts or bills must be approved by
he Secretary and Manager.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-02

THE Galveston News, it seems, took
some pains to irritate the st. Louis
student of storms, Rev. Irl Hicks, and
as consequence, the sand seated city
has succeeded in advertising her
storms and general insecurity very
successfully. If the study of storm
cycles happens to hurt Galveston, it
will do no good to abuse the discover
er. Moral: Don't monkey with the
manipulators of cyclones.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-02

THE money for the new bonds is
said to be in the bank-interest since
July lst, S3,750-and we may reason
ably hope to see many needed i'm
provements speedily inaugurated.
This is the season ofthe year to make
an inviting exhibition Of energy and
with ample means at hand, there is
every incentive for the administra-
ton to show its best ability. Even
those who take no stock in the pow
ers that be are anxious to see i'm
provement, and are willing to forget
their cause of complaint, if only fu.
ture enterprise will atone for past
neglect and apathy.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-02
syrup ofFIgs,

Produced from the laxative and nu-
tricious juice of California figs, COM
bined with the medicinal virtues of
plants known to be most beneficial to
the human system, acts gently on the
kidneys, liver and bowels, etiectually
cleansing the system, dispelling colds
and headaches, and curing habitual
constipation. % 4-l0-tf
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-02
AGENTS FOR THEsLIGHT.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2 1899.

COMMERCE street closed from Casino
to Soledad, is source alike of wonder
and of worry. There was absolutely
no need of all that stoppage and in
convenience. Whose wisdom or folly
was it anyway?
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-02
ONLY $500

VIII buy well established grccrry business
IN good location, near center of city, two sto-
ry brick house, fine cellar, two dwelling nous.
es, vine cellar, stables, etc Situated on cor.
ner lot, with water and gas. Apply early 20
JOHS I. HANBLEToN * Co.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-02

j. w. Hannig Is retiring from the
furniture business. Call on him if
you want any furniture or household
goods cheap. Gil If
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-02
Property Will Go Up rItty Per Cent.
Walla Walla Union.

Port Townsen people are wild over
the idea, belief, phantasy, craze, or
whatever you may term it. that their
town Is to be the center of tremend-
Gus railway system, five miles of which
have been actually graded. They
have never had railroad grade any
where near them before, and don't
know how to act.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-02
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uents, should be address I'd "To the Editor of
ne LIGHT"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-11
PART IV.-CHAPTER


 Hearts bowed with grief, heavy with terror and distress, as were those of Mrs. Willis and Helen, need rest, quiet and comfort. All this was kindly se- cured to them in the home of Mrs. Willis sister, in Boston. The latter was now widow of ample means, and greatly attached to these, her only relatives. Welcoming them to her house at this time, she was at once in- formed of late occurrences at Province town. The engagement of Helen to Henry Crawford had been made under her own eyes, as it were. She now learned from her niece that he had gone to Cuba with Lopez. The news papers had informed her of the dis astrous fate of the expedition. In the whole outlook she saw nothing but sorrow and misfortune to come for these two; and she resolved that, so far as she could control events, their sad path in life should be frightened by whatever wealth, aided by warm affec- tion, could bring to them.
 It was in this comfortable home that, little by little, Mrs. Willis learned the fate of her husband. First came the certainty that the '"Nellie''had left Ha- vana on the second day of Septem- Der. Afterward the report of the char suspicious entertained on the wharf at Boston, rising almost to painful cer- tainty as time went on, that mutiny had ended the long and honorable ca reer of Captain Willis-perhaps that of the vessel. The dreadful truth came out at last. The charred and blackened hulk of vessel, just the size and di- mensions on the water of the bark, was discovered grounded on the low shores of New Providence, remote from any of the inhabited parts. Noth- ing but burned rim remained above the water; brief search discovered some undistin guishable human remains ne ar what had been the cabin. Those who were familiar with marine regis ters, and the comings and goings o1 merchant-vessels, had no doubt that this was all that remained of Captain Willis vessel, nor that he, and perhaps his crow, had perished by some un. known calamity of the ocean. That the destruction had been by fire was all that was certain.
 For this intelligence Mrs. Willis and her daughter were of course prepared. They mourned for the lost husband and father; but they had for weeks been mourning in silence, anticipating such somber certainty as this.
 h the presence of this grief. neither of them had bestowed any further thought upon Louis Hunter, his recent mission from Captain Willis, or his startling announcement of what he had seen on that dreadful night in the old house at Provincetown. They had
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-11

The darkness of the place threatened to cxtinguish the light; the light did not illuminate the darkness.
 The moans burst forth again; audi blc words were pronounced; the ear of the mortified listener plainly heard them. He shook with fright. but he stayed.
 70, God! have mercy! o, save me from a miserable death! Help! help! o, Christ! have mercy!"
 The stifed cry could only be heard by one near to the house; the words could only have been audible to one crouching close to the window-place, as Burt was, to hear them. The words ended in strangely muff1cd and sub dued shriek, full of agony and terror, but still faint and low.
 Moans, stiAcd breathings, dreadful utterances of pain and rage, came faintly up from the dismal recesses of the old cellar.
 The sailor staggered to his feet and rushed from the spot, holding his hands to his cars.
 The story when told to his comrades In the tavern was at first received with appalled, silence. Then old Mullins uttered an opinion from which none dissented.
 'It's Captain Lobdell and his crew murdering their victims oyer and over again. Butsit beats me to know why the innocent should keep on sufferin' in this way! Must 3 poor fellow, killed by pirates a hundred years ago, keep on bein' killed every night? I hope Pm Christian, but I'll be hanged if I sec the justice of it. Who doesp'
 None of them seemed to. And for two months more the old house was summed, talked about, and by unani- nous consent given over to ghosts and mystery.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-11
The Captains! Money.
A Tale of Buried Treasure. Cuban Reyol,
 and Adventure Upon the Seas.

through this crack in the darkness out side.
 An eager desire to sec what was oc- curing within Ovcrcamc the fears of the sailor. He knclt down by the win- low-place and tried to peer inside. His hat fell off as he leaned forward. but he took no heed of it.
 His eye followed the ray of light, or tried to follow it; but he could make nothing of it. It was like ray of sum- light shining into cavern choked with damps and poisonous exhibitions.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-11
WESTERN JOURNALISM.
fho Hardships Endured by tho PiOneo
 Editor of Colorado.

fhs Hardships Endured by tho Pioneer
 Editor of Colorado.
 When William N. Byers, the Colorado pioneer of journalism, first started in td print the Rocky Mountain News he had q pretty tough time of it, and experiences lively enough to suit Q Ute Indian agent,S says the New York Graphic.
 News was plentiful enough, and 1t waS not generally supposed that the press would make any editorial attacks upon the citizens of Auraria, as Denver was then called; so one day when Byers found fault editorially with the killing of a Mexican by Charles Harrison, gambler, the latters friends, fully armed, gathered about and made an attack upon the log house occupied by the News. The editor and his reporters and type-setters were so surprised at the sud- denness of the attack that they did not have time to make any resistance. Editor Byers was taken captive to Har- rison's saloon, called the "Criterion." The crowd wanted to kill him on the spot, and knives and pistols were fourished in his face. Harrison had once been Mason, and knew that Byers was a member of the fra; ternity; so, under the pretense of taking him into side room to talk, he got him out of the place altogether. {. Byers was plucky enough. for he ran ion his office, and, arming all hands, laid low for the enemy, who came fast enough, and lively combat took place and one man was killed. It was just about this time that Hon. Joseph Wolff, of Boulder, Col, who was a good printer and 8 handy man about an office, arrived from Omaha via a freight train.
 He was dead broke, and he made at once for the News office and asked for the boss. Byers, seated on barrel, was pointed out l to him.
 "Want any hands," asked Joe, leaning against the door.
 ''That depends" said Bycrs, without look ing up.
 Depends on what7" "Can you shoot?'
 "You bet"
 "Win you?"
 "Well, then," said the editor, gett,ug on 1 the barrel, there's rife and there's case ! go to work"
 ''Whatl do frst," asked Wolff, ''kill | somebody or throw in @ easel" | Byers went to the window, leaned well out, looked up and down carefully, and then turning back, said:
 Fl guess you'll have time to throw in 8 1 handful"
 Just about this time the office was in Q | state of siege, and to write and print what
 Byers wrote and printed at that time re- quired a greater amount of moral courage, or what is more commonly called nerve,
 than IS possessed by journalists of the pres
 ent day.
 Many threats were made and moro than
 one combat took place, but the editor came
 out ahead, and always stuck to the para
 graph in lis salutatory, which read: "Our | course is marked out. We will adhere to 1t
 with sreadfast and fixed determination to
 speak, write and publish the truth, and
 nothing but the truth, let it work us veal | or WoeO
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-11
A Two Thousand Dollar Watch.

'"Talking about watches" said Q Cincln- nati jeweler, "the most expensive and com plicated time-piece in the city is owned by Mir. Peter Gibson. It was made to his order in Switzerland and cost one thousand dol lars. He sent an order to the same maker about year ago for another watch to cost two thousand dollars. This watch shows the seconds, minutes, hours, days of the week and month of the year. It registers the phases of the moon, the rising and set ting of the sun, names and periods of the evening and morning stars, eclipses of the sun and moon and Q score of other natural phenomena which can be determined by calculation. Liko the other, the watch is his own design. .,,,v..
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-11

The darkness of the place threatened to cxtinguish the light; the light did not illuminate the darkness.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-11
ABOUT ELECT RICI1Y,
Twenty Questions Answered on a Subject of General Interest

Twenty Questions Answered on a Subject
 of General Interest
 1. How strong current is used to send message over an Atlantic cablea Thirty cells of battery only. Equal to thirty volts.
 conversation hy telephone is daily mann taineda About 75o miles, from Portland, Me-, to Buffalo, N. Y.
 B. What is the fastest time made by an electric railway9 A mile minute by a small experimental car; twenty miles an hour on street railway system. 4. How many miles of submarine cable are there in operation9 Over 0O,OO0 miles, or enough to girdle the earth four times.
 5. What Is the maximum power generated by an electric motorl Seventy five horse power. Experiments indicate that one hundred-horso power will soon be reached.
 6. How is break ill a submarine cable located? By measuring the electricity needed to charge the remaining unbroken part.
 2. How many miles of telegraph wire in operation in the United Statess Over a million, or enough to encircle the globe forty times.
 8. How many messages can be transmit ted over wire at one timea Four by the quadruplex system in daily use.
 9. How is telegraphing from a moving train accomplished? Through circuit
 from the car roof inducing Q circuit in the
 wire on poles along the track.
 10 What are the most widely separated
 points between which it is possible to send
 a telegrama British Columbia and New
 Zealand via America and Europe.
 Il. How many miles of telephone wire Tn operation in the United Statesl More than TO 900, over which 1,055, 900 messages are sent daily. - -..-. 12 What is the greatest candlo power of arc light used in light-house1 Two mill ions, in lighthouse at Houstholm, Den mark. .~
 13. How many persons in tho United States are engaged in business depending solely on electricitylr Estimated, 25O,OO IA. How long does 1t take to transmit g message from San Francisco to Hong Kongl About fifteen minutes. Via New York, Canso, Penzance, Alden, Bombay, Madras, Penang and Singapore. 15. What is the fastest time made by an operator sending messages by Morse systema About forty-two words per min ute. F., 16. How many telephones are in uso in the United States2 About 3OO,O 900. 17. What war vessel has the most con- plete electrical planta United States man l of-war, Chicago. IS. WhaAis the average cost per mile of transatlantic submarine cables About l &1,0OO.
 19. How many miles of electric railway | are there in operation in the United States ! | About 400 miles and much more under con- | struction.
 ! 20. What strength of current is danger. r ous to human life? Five hundred volts, but depending largely on physical condj tiOn.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-11
JOHN cHlNAMAN's woo,NG.
It Frightene d the Pretty Melican Girl
 and tho Suitor Fled.

It Frightene d the Pretty Melican Girl
 and tho Suitor Fled. |,
 As pretty young typewriter sat at her desk near an office window looking out on Broad street the other day, working rapidly with her nimble fingers, she felt the con- sciousness of strange eyes upon her, says the Atlanta Constitution, and raised her own only to meet those of Chinaman. The Chinaman was gazing at her most intently.
 The young lady went on with her work, thinking the strange little figure would de- part, but it moved not, neither did 1t speak for some minutes. After gazing at her i'm tently, the figure glided noiselessly into the office and said to one of the clerks: "Meli- can gal muchee ikee Chinee."
 The "Melican gal" referred to flushed didn't fancy being 1lkened to those ladies with small feet and queer faces that disport themselves upon fans and banners. The clerk started to say that he could see nO re- semblance, but the Celestial had departed as noiselessly as he had come in.
 The next day and the next the yellow man in blue clothes stood silently at the window and gazed at the pretty little girl. who grew more and more nervous at this dumb admiration.
 One morning she found on her desk a package uncannily interesting. It was wrapped in Chinese gift cloth of golden tissue embroidered in Chinese figures. Re. moving thls the girl discovered box of papier mache, wrought in wondrous designs of beasts and birds, a regular illustrated de. urium tremens of box. Lifting the lid re- vealed thin, white paper, with "Melican girl" written upon it. Beneath this lay a wealth of sweets, nuts, candies and dates, prepared in such way as only the Chinese can, all upside down in surprising sort of way, with strup in balls that made you won- der how they were fixed, and all sorts of conglomerations going to make 8 sweet harmony. t-.s-. -- -
 The girl mistrusted these enticing things, which goes to prove she was timid enough for Chinese wife, if fear could make her resist the seductive bonbon SO enticing to the female youth of America. But she said she couldn't and she wouldn't touch the stun, and so the other employees, first in economy and presently in joy, ate the wholo box full.
 The Chinaman and the boxes came regu. larly for several days. The young lady would not touch them, but her comrades enjoyed the gifts too well to doubt them.
 The last visit was few days ago. He en- tered the office in a garb the mikado might have envied, so richly was it embossed and embroidered with things that swam and crawled and flew. In his hand he held g lighted yellow candle that the Chinese use as an hour-glass. Placing it before the startled girl at the typewriter, he said, sol emnly:
 "Mally while light burn."
 The girl in mortal terror of being cs- poused by some compelling celestial right snatched the candle and blew it out; and then the Chinaman, showing for the first time some human emotion, left her presence with 8 face one degree more passionless and solemn. This was the end of Chinese couftship. The girl has never seen him since.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-11
A Definition of Larceny.

A Washington lawyer, with a coal.ttack skin and deep bass voice, recently sad in the trial of case: 'tDe crime ob lah..eny consists in de talxin' ob ting I'm whar 'tis an' putin ob it whah 'taint. De intent, gemmen ob de jury" he went on, with the most solemn earnestness, Jam what makes de crime. Foh instance, yoh looks into iep and yoh sees horse; yoh says to yoh'se'f, Oats a nice horse, I'd ike to hab dat horse. , 'Taint lahceny yit. Yoh goes into the field, an yoh puts yoh ham on the bridle. 'Taint lahceny yit. Yoh leads dat horse out into de road. 'Taint lahceny yit. But de fus' ting you knows you say to yoh' sci, rse gwine ter keep dat horse foh myself an de. privede ownah ob him. Den it's lahcenv.'
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