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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-04-10
A SAFE INVESTMENT.

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isfactory results. or in case Of failure d re-
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can buy from our advertised druggist bottle
of DR.. Kings New Discovery for COnsump-
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-04-10

Another wave motor, the Invention
of a Lynn, Mass, man, is said TO nave
been successfully tested.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-04-10
WE CAN AND DO

Guarantee Acker's Blood Elixir for it has
been fully demonstrated to the people OF TINS
conntrv that it is superior to all other prepaT-
atiOns for blood diseases. 1t Is positive cure
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pimpl $ 1t purities the whole system and
thoroughly builds up the constitution. Sold
hy Rapland X ShachnCT. ~
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-04-10
WAN EO woman, in every vicinity,
proftabIe business. Liberal pay. All time not
necessary. Give references Address H. II.
Woodward & Co, Baltimore, Md. 2-25-t

History of a man-bawled in in
fancy and bald in old age. - Ex-
change.
A lawyer is never so blind but he
can cite authorities -Glens Falls Re
publican.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-04-10
p1MPLES ON THE FACE

Denote an impure state of the blood and are
looked upon by many with suspicion. Ackers
Blood Elixir will remove all impurities anu
is nothing that will so thoroughly build up the
constitution, purify and strengthen the whole
system. Sold by RAGLAND u SHACKNER. l9)
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-04-10

Iowa farmers last year raised
enough corn to pay off all the farm
mortgages in the State and leave a
balance of 100, 100000 bushels.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-04-10

A ringtailed raccoOn kept by a
Lansing Mich. man as pet, broke
loose the other night, ate up we'd
ding cake, and nearly postponed a
wedding.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-04-10
RAGLAND & SHACKNER .

The commercial value of sawdust is
So a ton, but it has to be kline dried,
baled and shipped to some place
where fuel comes high.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-04-10

Stanley, it will be observed in his
letter, says "Albert Nyanza,o and
albert lake" but never Lake Nyan-
"a. because Nyanza means lake.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-04-10

It is said that French dressmakers
are looking forward to a revival OF
Louis XVI. paniers in order to match
Louis XVI. furniture.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-04-10

.REMEMBER, also. that the payment of
Prizes is GUARANTEED BY FOUR Ma
TIOEAL BANKS of New Orleans, and the
Tickets are signed by the President OF an
Institution, whose chartered rights are recog-
nized in the highest Courts; therefore, beware
of any limitations or anonymous schemes.
ONE DOLLAR is the price of the smallest
part or fraction of ticket ISSUED BY US III
any drawing. Anything in our name ofered
for less than Dollar is a swindle.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-04-10
UNPRECEDENTED ATTRACTION!
v Over a Million Distributed.
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Louisiana State Lottery Company.

Louisiana State Lottery Company.
Incorporated by the Legislature In 1865
for Educational and Charitable purposes,
and it's franchise made a part of the present
State Constitution, in 1879, by an overwhelm-
ing popular vote.
Its MAMMOTH DRAWINGS take place
semi-Annually, June and DeGemberil
and its GRAND SINGLE NUN BEh
MEANINGS take place en- each of the
other ten months in the year, and are all
drawn in public, at the Academy OF Music,
New Orleans, La.
FAMED FOR TWENTY YEARS,
FOR INTEGRITY OF ITS DRAWINGS, AND
PROMPT PAYMENT OF PRIZES,
Attested as follows:
1--WE do hereby certify that we supervise the
arrangements for all the Monthly and Semi
Annual Drawings of The Louisiana State Lot
terry Company, and in person manage ana con
troll the Drawings themselves, and that the
Same are conducted with honesty, fairness,
and in good faith toward all parties, and we
authorize the Company to use this certincate'
with fac-similes of our signatures attached,
In it's advertisements"
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-08-10
Smoking by Proxy.

Ira Trip, a retired coal operator of
Scranton, is one of the few men on record
who enjoys the luxury of smoking by
proxy. Twenty years ago his physician
told him that smoking was prejudicial to
his health, and that he must stop the
practice. Although he was confirmed
smoker, he obeyed the doctors injunction.
Since then he has never smoked cigar
At the same time he has not totally denied
himself his chief luxury. To indulge it
without disobeying the doctors injunction
he employs what might be called his
smoking valet" 1t is the duty of this
man to smoke Havana cigar whenever
Mr.. Trip feels like indu]ging in little
tobacco dissipation and blow the smoke in
his employers face. The latter eagerly
inhales the fragrant cloud and then ex-
hales it through his nostrils and blows it
down through the meshes of his long
white beard. Mr.. Trip declares that he
enjoys this second hand smoke as keenly
as when he did the putting himself. He
often comes to Phiiadelphis and never
travels without his smoking companion
PhilQdeLDhaG Press
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-08-10
The Stars and Stripes Protected Them.

Mrs. M. J. Farrand, of $40 Sewall av-
enue, Asbury Park, says the New York
Tribune, has Union flag which she prizes
not only for it's age-over 100 years-but
also for the service it did her and her hus-
band 30 years ago. The flag foated over
sthe house of the resident United States
minister at Quito, Ecuador, for many
years, new star being sewed on it as each
new State was admitted TO the Union. In
1859, however, a new flag was sent the
minister, so he gave the old one to Camil-
lus Farrand, an American, who, with his
wife, was travelling through South Amer
ica Their voyage promised to be
dangerous one, and the minister believed
that the flag would be great protection
to them. And so it proved. The mount
aims were filed with desperadoes and rob-
bers, but Mr.. Farrand always kept his
flag in full view, using it as saddle
blanket, and none of his party was ever
molested. On reaching Ambato, where he
stayed for some time, he found the in
habitants in great fear of the garrison of
soldiers, who were half starved and about
to sack the town. Mr.. Farrand hoisted
the bit of cloth over his quarters, and
number of the prominent citizens hocked
to it. In few days the soldiers did sack
the town, but all who were under the 1
American flag escaped. In the rest of the
journey Mr. Farrand's party were exposed
to many dangers, but 1e flag carried them
safely through all.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-08-10
AS Sharp as the Lawyer.

An old plasterer is called upon to give
evidence for the plaintiff, Counsel for tbs
defendant tries to bully him.
Your name is John Smith,
Yes
care you the same John Smith that was
sentenced to eight days Imprisonment for
using bad language?"
"No."
"Are you the same John Smith that was
sentenced to couple of years hard labor
for theft ?"
"No, that wasn't me, either"
Then you have never been in prison p
eyes, twice"
"Ah and how long the first timer"
Zone whole afternoon"
"What and the second timer"
"Only one hour"
"And pray, what offense had you COM
mitted to deserve so small punishment %
81 was sent to prison to whitewash
cell to accommodate lawyer who had
cheated one of his clients"
Cross examination collapsed
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-08-10
Some Royal Beds.

Clarence House, the residence of the
Duchess of Edinburgh, is one of the most
comfortable houses in London, and is ia
nous for it's good beds, for the on y daugn-
ter of Alexander II, of Russia, is. IKE
many Muscovite ladies, very particular
about her beds, and will tolerate In her
house none but the very best Even "nen
she was a mere child, and long before her
marriage, she was so particular about Inns
very i'm portant item in domestic com1ofI
that, to insure the sheets being tlgh'Iy
stretched over the mattress, she used 10
have them sewn down, for even the silgne-
est crease or wrinkle would entirely destroy
the repose of this imperial spoilt child 'of
the night. xroot1v
Her Royal Highness used to be gresasls
chaffed about this weakness by memoolo
of our ROYAL family when first she came w
this country, but the Queen VINO - ", nD
very particular about her beds, STUCK uP
for her and, although the shee1s aie r
longer sewn down to the mattress, they arc
composed of the most exquisitely me ,i itnoa
that can BIZ procured, and stretched nne
tight-rope over the most perfect m na";a in
that can be manufactured In Falls, hos
which capital the making OF mattresses art
been brought up to the level OF an III"
Modern Society.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-08-10
Life.

The following extract is taken from the
farewell sermon of President Dwight to
the class of 1889 at Yale College:
The life thus moves on delightfully."-
from the child-age to growth and maturity.
The progress is after the same manner in
the years that follow. The young man
who takes his classmates by the hand and
bids them farewell at the end of his uni
versity class has sadness in his. spirit be-
cause he thinks that the most Joyful
season of his life rs closing, and that the
friends and the thoughts and the work in
the future can hardly be what they have
been. But he lives on in his manly career
and silently-as the character grows while
he sleeps and rises in his daily course
the old enjoyments pass into the new
ones the old enjoyments find their places
taken by higher and larger works the old
scenes become pleasant memory, while
those in which the later years have their
satisfaction. The transformation is wrought
by such slow degrees, and in way SO
hidden to the mans view, that he can
scarcely realize it, though he knows it's
reality. He is so different from what he
tAouSAb uluooIl years ago. Ills udlIy lllo
and work and pleasures are so changed
from those of the earlier season, and so
far in their offer of good beyond what ap-
peared to him then to be the happiest
days. AT1 yet how natural he think it
now to BIZ as he is. How concentrated in
his thought he is upon his present life,
and how full and rich it is to him
The morning hours have passed into the
noon and afternoon as easily and gently as
the dawn changed to the morning. There
is, as it were, no consciousness of the
change until it has oeen long accomplished
There is no regret of it, since the mind
becomes ready for the new experience and
happiness as soon as it learns that the old
is no longer offered to supply it's wants.
How striking, also, is this gentle move
ment of life as we think of this change in
another view of it. How the man in all
his essential manhood continues the same
through all the changes We leave be-
hind us only what we do not need only
what belongs to one age or one period;
and thus must pass away when the time
for it's use or it's existence ends.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-08-10
Sustain the Papers.

Carefully ponder the following from the
Lawrence, Kan, Journal:
among all the agencies which render
town famous and important none are
compared in value to good newspaper.
This proposition is so trite that it's truth
is not always recognized. No other repre-
sentative of the city makes such frequent
and extended visits abroad none so cor
rectly expresses the condition of its ma
terial interests. From constant familiarity
with our home paper we do not recognize
as he does the features which strike the
stranger upon his first view. The habitual
reader glances hurriedly over the items
which interest him most. He scans care
fully the advertised firms, especially those
in the same line of business as his own,
and speedily makes up his mind as to the
enterprise of the dealers. If a certain oc-
cupatou and profession is scarcely known
in the local columns of the paper, the
wide awake visitor concludes either that it
is inadequately represented in the place or
what is more often the case, that business
men do not properly sustain the city
papers. Perhaps no department of news
paper is so soon CONSULTED for information
upon the transactions of city as the bust
ness directory. Here are so many doctors,
so many lawyers, so many real estate
dealers, etc. 1t is. or should be. birds
eye view of the business street. 1t should
be the purpose of every man or firm doing
business on the street to maintain card
of this kind in the home papers. This
brings us naturally to another phase of
the subject, which cannot be too often
dwelt upon. A city cannot only be as
sisted in its growth by its papers, but
cities are absolutely builded by them.
Wichita would never have been Wichita
without the Eagle; the Times kept Leav
enworth afoat through its dark days,
while Atchison, however fortunate in
congressional influence. could not have
maintained successful fight against her
rivals but for the powerful advocacy of
the Champion. Other illustrations might
be given showing almost as wildly the
potential agency of living paper in the
evolution of a city from hamlet. But
these organs were supported, not always
worthily, it is true, but at least adequately.
They built up the city while the city built
up them. Together they have grown to
point where the interests of both are re-
garded as Identical
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-08-10
"Sit" or "Set, +"

A writer in the Christian World sends
ap this little rocket - shed light upon
the confusion existing in the minds of
to the US of the two Words, sit" and
"set'-a confusion similar to that which
seems to attend upon the choice of saying
twill" or "shall"
ga man, or woman either, can set hen,
although they cannot sit her; neither can
they set on her, although the old ben
might sit on them by the hour if they
would allow. A man cannot set on the
wash bench but he could set the basin on
it, and neither the basin nor the gram
marians would object He could sit on a
dogs tail if the dog were willing, or he
might set his foot on it But if he should
set on the aforesaid tail, or sit his foot
there, the grammarians as well as the dog
would howl. And yet, strange as it may
seem, the man might set the tail aside and
then sit down and neither be assailed by
the dog nor the grammarians.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-08-10
Homemade Druukards.
Many full grown inebriate in his sober
moments, remembering his childish imi
tation of "manliness" done for fun, has
felt like adapting Hoods lines:
1T was a childish ignorance.
Bit now its little inY

But now it's little joy
To know I'm farther off from Heaven
Than when Twas boy"
But what shall we say of the father
whose habits provoke evil imitation in his
child, and set him the first example of
shame2 Here is what one such father
overheard one day, in his own home, and,
we are happy to say, it cured him.
81 say, Jim, let's play"
'tWell, what will we play?'
"Why, you keep bar and I'll be papa,
and come in and get a glass of brandy"
Bob and Jimmy soon fixed up bar by
laying planks across the corner of the
fence, and furnished it in a few minutes
with some old bottles and two broken
glasses, and then getting the cook to give
them an old jug that had once been used
for molasses, and filing it with water,
they began business.
.'Good morning, Mr.. Glidden p said
Bob, as he marched up to the bar.
Good morning good morning glad to
see you out such fine morning. What
will you have to-day7
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-08-10
According to st. John.

lnquiring Lad-"Father, what is Horn
of Plonty?"
Prohibition Father-"A Cornucopia, my
boy"
/. LAND what is Horn of Poverty9'
P. FITS horn of whisky "-Pitts-
burg Bulletin.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-08-10

The Sugar Bosol says "every farmer
within 200 miles of the coast of the Gulf
OF Mexico should Immediately make prep
arations to plant tropical sugar cane, even
though small patch, and have to crush
it in the smallest mills and evaporate in
the primitive open kettle.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-08-10
The Leidesdorff Estate.
CONTEST OVER LARGE FORTUNE-AN IN
TERESTING LITIGATION.

| CONTEST OVER A LARGE FORTUNE-AN IN
TEREsTING LITIGATION.
Three of the San Francisco Leidesdorff
heirs, Solomon, Daniel and Isaac Ulmer,
are in Cleveland, O., and three Leidesdorffs
are in New York city. Daniel said, after
| reading the San Francisco telegram
s'These statements are substantially cor
rect, as far as they 60, but the amount is
greatly under estimated. Instead of $4O,-
1000, 800, 100000 would be. nearer
right. The business part of San Francisco,
upon which the government and all the
large business blocks are located, is in
volved also all of the Leidesdorff street,
and the largest part of the business center
of Sacramento. We have lived in this
city since 1870. My brother made the
first trip to Europe on account of this mat
ter in 1881, and he left here again May 6
last, and we have received word from him
that he was authorized to act in this coun-
try on behalf of the European heirs. An
San Francisco for three years, and my
brother has so far spent some $4,000. We
can produce the most positive and convinc-
ing evidence that my grand uncle, Leides-
dorff, was born in Hungary, and we can
utterly ulSpTOfo Guo StOTy VI VIC ucSIO
woman of st. Croix, West Indies, that she
was Leidesdorff's mother. We know it to
be fact that he died bachelor, and that
when Folsom, who is now dead, went to
the West Indies she told him that she be-
lieved Liedesdorff to be her son, but she
never made any positive statement. On
that statement he bought from her a quit
claim, and all the property now held under
deed from Folsom we can prove to be
fraudulent.
eve intend to bring suit at once, and
think our case is clear one. can still
remember when was little boy in Hun
gary used to hear my parents talk about
Leidesdorff, though he left for Mexico
many years ago. and emigrated to Califor-
MIA in 1914. He was one of the pioneers of
the land of gold, and bought the property
now involved about the time when the
United States first came in possession of it,
He was born in Azzeo, my birthplace, and
we can prove it by records and other testi-
mony. don't understand what is meant
in the dispatch about Florence and the
Blythe claims. but the rest is clear to me-"
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-08-10

He Looked Pleasant: Mr.. Lenz (photo-
grapher)-I have not, for long time, had
SO good a sitter as you are. The express
sion is exactly right. How did you gain
such control over the facial muscles7 Are
you an actor?' Mr. Rhodster-"No, sir"
Mr.. Lenz-"Well, Welt Perhaps you are
a bicyclist? p Mr.. Rhodster-esYe am"
Mr.. Lenz-"Ah, that explains it 1t
comes from riding the machine on stone
pavements and trying to look as though
you enjoyed it."-Pack.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-08-10

Would-be Purchaser-"How much for
this picture Artist-"The price Is
$4,000" "Why, man alive you expect to
be paid for your work as If you had been
dead four or five hundred years.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-08
TOPICS.

Chicago consumed 1881 900 barrels of beer
last year, nearly two barrels for every man,
woman and child in that city. The proper
ton in New York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia
and st. Louis was two barrels per head,
while the %guz2lers of milwaukee, digeste1 an
average of four barrels each. These Stats
tics prove that the residents beer their bur
dens with great fortitudc.
The latest addition of the "United States
Despensatory" gives 1900 remedies for the
ills of the flesh, yet the doctors manage TO
pull their pestiles or poor humanity with per.
sistent regularity.
The Calling gun company's factory in Eng
land can turn out 1000 machine guns a year.
This will enable John Bull to inject 1.-The
forces of civilization into the heather in
Africa and India.
A Kansas enthusiast sent a ten foot broom
to Harrison with a request to use it diligently
where it will do the most good. If it had
been used on the 3 per cent a month sharks
now iourishing in the state it would effect
more good in an hour than it will in Wash
ington In a year.
Base ball is sprouting in every direction.
The great vault of the national treasury is
now stored with $50 ,U0) silver dollars.
This explains the vaultlng of Office seekers.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-08
Prayer for Busy Men.

Dean Gardner's first audience, yesterday at
IL :05 O'clock, IN a room on the first floor of the
Union National bank building, reached by
the stairway near the alley on Twelfth
street, must have satisfied the originator of
the downtown busy mems meetings. About
thirty persons, mostly young men whose ages
ranged between twenty-one and twenty-five,
with two ~gray-haired men and a fair sprInkl-
ing Of those in the t~hirties, followed the
speaker in the informal lenten devotions.
The animus of the gatherings was
in sympathy with the utterances
of Saint Paul on self control, and it will be
the cndeavor of the dean to teach self abne-
cation and government. "Of course" said
he. 'the field of Lent furnishes rest from
worldly pursuits and calm contemplation of
the inner man, and brief as these fifteen min
ute services will be, l hope that they will at
least be colored by the season Of Lent. The
meetings will begin promptly at five minutes
after l2 aud close at twenty minutes after
that hour" So much interest was apparent
tnat it has been determined to place 100 chairs
in the room. The gatherings will occur
daily.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-08

STAR-CHAMBEn meetings are not pop
ular and very seldom ~justiiable. But
we can see no improperly in a private
conference of councilmen and city
officials to talk over informally measures
or projects that are likely to draw out n
d~isagreeable personal controversy and
engender enmities when conducted III
public. 1t often happens that men in
public life are crippled in their private
business affairs by reason of
an outspoken expression concerning
parties aud their projects, which nee
~essarily require a comparison of views
before final action IS decided on. A
private conference tends to throw light
on a project without subjecting men to
needless censure and animosity. There
is a marked difference between a star
chamber session of the council, as such,
and a private and unofficial conference
of councllmen.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-08
Who Wrote the Letter?

A reporter dropped into the ivory type
headquarters at 2e0 North Sixteenth street,
yesterday, to investigate the truthfulness
of the insinuations made in an anonymous
letter to Chief Seavey that an immoral bust
ness was being carried on there. The men
in charge were found to be very gentlemanly
and were conducting an artistic business, as
legitimate as photography or oil painting.
A student was found taking lessons
in the art ana the list of the names of the
patrons included some of the most prominent
families in the city. The alleged "immoral"
pictures were found to be photographs of
well known actresses that were co.ored ac-
cording to the process used. The gentlemen
IN charge say that they use these because
they are the most available and afford an OPP
portunity for a better display of colors. The
gentlemen are very indignant over the letter
published and if they can find out who wrote
it they say that they will prosecute her for
criminal libel. The pictures were shownt to
Chief Seavey and he said he could see moth
ing Immoral" about them.