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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-03-29
Their Business Booming.

Probably no one thing has caused such
general revival of trade at Dreiss, Thompson
& Co.'S drug store as their giving away to
their customers of so many free bottles of DR..
Their trade is simply enormous in his very
valuable article from the fact that it always
cures and never disaDpOints. Coughs, Colds
Asthma, Bronchitis, Group, and all throat
diseases quickly cured. You can test it be-
fore buying by getting a trial bottle free,
large size 81. Every bottle warranted.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-03-29
AGENTS FOR THE LIGHT.
FRIDAY, MARCH. 20. 1899.

MATTERS are about played out at
Panama and all that remains is big
ditch and the bleaching bones OF the
thousands who have been inferred
there. The American plan of canal
at Nicaragua will sOOn materialize
and the passage around the Cape be
avoided. Poor Lesseps had good luck
at Suez. none at Panama. He was
operating on the wrong continent.
Better leave America to the Ameri-
cans. Uncle Sam will dig his own
canals.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-03-29
PIMPLES 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 ana
leave the complexion smooth and clear. There
is nothing that will so thoroughly build up the
constitution. purify and strengthen the whole
system. Sold by RAGLAND " SHACKNER. io)
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-03-29
WE CAN AND DO

Guarantee Acker's Blood Elixir for it has
been fully demonstrated TO the people OF TINS
.conntrv that il is superior to all other prcpaI-
atiOns for blood diseases. 1t is positive cure
for syphilitic poisoning. ulcers. eruptiOns and
pimpl s. 1t purifies the whole system and
thoroughly builds up the constitution. Sold
nv Ragland y Shschner. "
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-03-29
SPECIAL BARGAIN 5.

Neat. new rock cottage of five rooms, two
galleries. and cellar, large corner lot, located
north of Arkansas Pass railroad depot. Price
$500; one-half cash. lio
Rock house of seven rooms, two blocks from
opera house. Price, 5000; One.haIf cash, bal
ance two ears, at s per cent interest. l46
HAMBLETON. HADLEY co
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-03-29
A Pleasing Sense

OF health and strength renewed and
of ease and comfort follows the use of
Syrup of Figs, as it acts in harmony
with nature to etfectually cleanse the
system when costive or bilious. For
sale in SOC and Sl.OO bottles by all
leading druggists. 3-11-1m
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-03-29
To the Public.

I have opened a blacksmith and
wheelwright shop at 24S East Com
merce street, and solicit the patronage
of all my friends.
WIN. SCHLICHENMAYER
Late with p. Schiffers, on Austin st.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-03-29
Monday, March 18th,

A. Kahn will sell his Y 1-2cents dark
and light cOlOred crinkle seersucker
at IL cents per yard, and continue
to do so until they are all gone.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-03-29
PEOPLE EVERYWHERE

Confirm our statement when we say that Ack-
er's English Remedy is in every way superior
to any and all other preparations for the
Throat and Lungs. In WhOOping Cough and
Group it is magic and relieves at once. We Of
fer you a sample bottle free. Remember this
Remedy is sold by
AZ RAGLAND & SHACKNER
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-03-29

THOSE who lament that the only
Ochiltree was left in the deal at
Washington are not the republicans
of this state. That lamentatlon
seems to be confined exclusively to
the democracy.
THE house railway commission bill
having come to grief in the senate OF
Texas and the senate bill have been
laid out cold in the house, and the
first of April being at hand, it is IN
order to predict that there will be no
railroad legislation this session that
will materially change the face of
matters in this state.
THE new Arkansas Port and Corpus
Christi improvement company which
filed it's charter at Austin for S5,OOO,-
900 two days since, is company
which has no connection with the
Arkansas Pass improvement company.
1t aims to open the channel from the
pass through Corpus Christi bay to
vessels entering the port and thus
give Corpus Christi the benefit OF the
deep water secured at the pass. 1t is
a big undertaking.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Galveston
News in yesterdays issue of that pa
per says:
"The natural concomitant of the
public school is the free library. lt
Supplements and extends the work OF
the public school by furnishing the
means to pursue an elective course OF
study at will through life. If the in
fiuence of books upon youthful MINDS
were clearly understood, the pubic
library would be only second to the
church and the public school in the
affections of the people. Many states
recognizing the potency of this ln1lu-
ence have made liberal appropriations
for libraries in every public school dis
trict.'
The writer adds some unwelcome
facts concerning the backwardness OF
Texas cities in general and Galveston
in particular in providing library
facilities. This truth holds with more
force against San Antonio than
against any city in the state. The
leading city in population, she
has less facilities for the student IN
the way of libraries than any city in
the state. This want is felt every day
by those who would but cannot con-
suit authorities concerning veXed
questions of a historical, or scientific
or a theological character, as we'll as
by those who have a leizure for read
ing but not the means to purchase
such standard works as they would
gladly familiarize themselves with.
Here is a charity-a benevolence of
the very highest Order-an opening
for the surplus funds of some man OF
means that will bring greater increas Sc
to the intellectual and moral wealth
of this city than any other devise
ment possible. Let some of our
monied men endow good public
library and open it's treasures to the
citizens here without money and
without price and coming genera
ton will arise and call them blessed.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-03-29


FlanneIs, and all styles of white
goods, from one dollar up.
3-23-tf PANCOAST q Son.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-03-29

Turkish and Vapor Baths,
At Zilian's, corner Commerce ana
Alamo streets. 3-l'-i
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-03-29
TO CORRESPONDENTS.

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accompanied by the name of the author, not
necessarily for publication, but as evidence of
good faith on the part of the writer Write only
on one side of the paper, ir plain hand. An
onymous communications vii! not be noticed.
The LIGHT will not be responsible for the state
ment ofits correspondents.
All communications for publication, or per-
tanning to the Editorial.or Local News Depart
aents, should. be addressed ''TO the Editor OF
she LIGHT
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-03-29

THOSE who lament that the only
Ochiltree was left in the deal at
Washington are not the republicans
of this state. That lamentation
seems to be confined exclusively TO
the democracy.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-03-29


THE death of John Bright, the
great free trade champion of Great
Britain, and one of her strongest ad-
vocates for greater liberty to the
people, has at last passed away. He
was a man of broad views and gen.
erous impulses in all that concerned
England and her people, but not
broad enough to include Ireland in
the grasp of his mind and devise for
her as he would have devised for his
own people. The foul blot upon his
record as liberal statesman was his
bitter opposition to Gladstone's
measures for home rule in Ireland and
to Mr.. Bright more than to anyone
in England. was due the reaction
which set in against Ireland, some
two years since, when it seemed quite
certain that dissolution of parlia-
ment was to restore Gladstone to
power. The intimate friends of the
great liberal statesman, now dead,
ndNo dl"d LhalhI"'hON Iii"U ~ o"NSN
later wears his mind was clouded and
that he was not the John Fright,
who, in the prime of his intellectual
manhood, made the force of his lib
eral views and opinions felt from
John O'Goaats to Lands End. Be this
as it may, England loses great man,
and the mantle that covers his NOR
tai part will also shroud his imper-
fections of judgment.
Minister to Japan, Swift is to deliv-
er an grafton in Boston July 4.
The emperor of Austria has given
orders that his sons name shall never
again be spoken in his hearing.
Prof. Herbert futile, of Cornell, is
to deliver the Phi Beta Kappa Grafton
this year at the University of Yer
mont.
Jay Gould started in life with fifty
cents, and at the age of fifty has for
tune variously estimated at from $50,
1000 to $50 900.
George Bancroft, the historian, does
all his literary work before 9 O'CLOCK
in the morning He seldom write!
more than 300 words day.
Grace Greenwood, Ella Wilcox, Mis-
HOlIey Josiah Aliens Wife,, Ros,
Terry Cooke, Kate Field, Celia ThaX
ter and RebeCca Harding Davis ar
quoted as favoring cremation.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-03-29

Legal advertisements 81 90 per inch first IN
sertion IS cents per inch each Subsequent nser-
ton. Trustees sales 81 90 per inch first inser-
tan, IS cents each insertion afterwards.
Reading matter, editorial page, IS cents per
line each insertion. Local.cOlumns 20 cents first
asertion 10 cents first week, ) cents after first
week. Special rates on so. and 100 lines running
for month.
Home advertisements payable on the first OF
each month. Transient advertising payable
ADVANCE Only metal cuts printed
Special rates given on. larger space and long
time advertisements. Discount given for cash.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-03-29

Announcements for State and County officers
Ten Dollars in advance.
rTAll contracts or bills must be approved by
the Secretary and Manager.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-01-12

1.-THE cotton planters of the South,
tor, "what cooperation among the farm
ers may accomplish in breaking down a
grasping monopoly. A lutte bagging
trust" attempted to force the planters to
pay exorbitant prices for the jute bag
ging used as a covering for cotton bales.
Experiments have been made with coarse
cotton sheeting, which is much cheaper,
and which is considered satisfactory by
the New York Cotton Exchange and the
Liverpool Cotton Association. Thus the
cheap sheeting will doubtless largely
take the place of artifcially dear jute
bagging."
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-01-12
Wyoming Cattle Men Prospecting.

Thomas Moonlight, the Governor Of
Wyoming Territory, in his annual re-
port to the Secretary of the Interior.
states that the cattle business has begun
to improve from the set back of last year
caused by the over stocking in the Tor
ritory, the low price of meat and the
severe winter. Large cattle companies
are giving place to smaller ones with
the result that the cattle can be cared
for, and the grass is beginning to DO
sufficient for the herds that feed upon
it. The report states that the $3.50. 900
six per cent. bonds issued by the Legis-
lature in 1886 were eagerly purchased
at an average premium of five cent, on
the dollar. The Legislature of 1888
authorized further issue of 500, 900 in
these bonds, which brought premium
of twelve cents on the dollar Tho
first-issue l'nl' run from fifteen to
thirty five Years, and the latter forty
years. The total bonded iudeb to dness
Is now ono por centum Of the entire
assessed valuation Of last year Of
$50, 600, 900. which is the full limit al
lowed by law. But Is tho assessment
Of 1883 is less than that Of 1887, the
issue Of the bonds, the report states,
exceeds the above limit fixed by Con-
gress. The Governor. however, thinks
this will only be temporary, las the in
crease Of population and the higher
prices now being paid for cattle values
will increase and particularly in realty"
New York Graphic.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-01-12
Fishing for Fish.

Sir James Crichton- Browne tells, in
an English magazine, the story Of an
amateur angler who went to fish in q
Scotch stream, provided with the finest
rod and reel that money could buy, the
mos. invisible tackle, and the most i'm
proved fly-hooks. He th-eshed the
water for hours without getting a nib
BILE. and then had the modification Of
seeing an old fisherman near him pull out
the trout by dozens, with nothing but a
bit of stick, string aud hook baited
with worms. The amateur angler looked
on puzzled and disappointed. and then
went up to the old man and asked him /:
What is the meaning of this. How
comes it that /, with the many perfect
appliances, can catch nothing, while
you, with only the clumsiest of tools, are
60 successfully
1.-THE meanin' o't," the old man made
answer, III take to be this, sir: that Pm
fiishin' for fish, an ye're fishin' for
fun
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-01-12
Olden Coaching Slang.

lathe days of old the following Lam
guage was used by coachmen, guards,
'ostlers, boots, etc. all along the coach
ing roads in England: An empty coach
was called q mad woman; asking pas
sengers for money, kicking them; q
passenger not on the bill, 4 shoulder
stick, bit Of fish or a short one; q
passenger who paid shabbily, a scaly
one; not paying at all tipping the
double; q glass Of spirits, a flash of
lightning, drop of short or don't stor
to mix it; white hat, a billy shallow,
kicking horse. a miller; gallopina
horses, springing them; driving near to
anything, feather -edgiug it; a coach, Q
drag; rsins, ribbons; horses, cattle;
whip tool; good coachman, an ar
fist; 9 bad one, a spoon or a lame hand
one just got to work, freshed catched
one.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-01-12
A House OF Cigarettes.

"1t Is most remarkable thing" said
a New York brio O. brac dealer who had
just returned from Europe, whittier be
went partly for business and partly for
pleasure. 'Tt is truly wonderful how
intelligent men will sometimes set about
doing some utterly preposterous thing,
and devote months and even years to it
l saw as fine an example of it in Eng
land as ever heard OF. A man named
A. Conick. who is cigarette manufac-
turer in Plymouth, has just completed
remarkable piece of work that he says
has taken him eight months to do, and
guess it ha.
"AHd what doyou suppose this grand
effort of human brain and figures may
BET 1t is nothing more than minia-
ture of Mount Edgcombe house, the
residence of an English nobleman Of
that name, and it is made entirely Of
cigarettes. He says he has put ten
thousand of them together to make the
toy, aud probably ho has, for it is two
and half feet long and foot and
half high. 1t is made of cigarettes Of
three colors, white. green and pink,
and all sizes from quarter of an inch
high to six or seven inches It is very
ingenious and pretty, but what Q thing
to occupy an immortal soul for eight
monthsr'-[Mail and Express.
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The Crusade Against Arab SIav.-,

The Crusade Against Arab SIayer
Car dinal Laviegerie's crusade ayai,.,
the African slave trade is already n,o
ducing good fruit. The war spa;,,.
the Arab slave stealers in Central Ali
ca has begun in earnest. Twentv.,i,
white men, with several hundred nsti,.
allies, will soon take the field au.i,..
this Arabian traffic in human flesh tn.
missionaries in Africa have taken aida.
with the lead ers of this humane now.
ment and are using voice and influsnc.
to rally tho natives against the Arab.
There is no doubt that we'll organized
movement will follow and that in . N.
tie while slave trading in Africa will b.
an extremely dangerous business. But
the campaign against the Arabs with,
no means be mere boy play. The Arab,
are we'll stockaded and armed, and Il
will require some hard fighting to oct
them out. The greatest difficulty Tia
white commanders find is that the M.
tives do not fight we'll under fire. The,
lack the courage for this kind Of wr.
fare, and soon fly before the bullets Of
the enemy. Even at tho critical mo.
msnt when the whites have been sluo.t
sure of capturing earthworks, the NJ
tives have given way and all the advau.
tage has been lost. That the campaign
is to be an earnest and prolonged one d
indicated by the fact that the wAits
leaders have telegraphed to London for
two or three cannon and large supply
of ammunition. The crusade il q noble
one, and the lsaders In it will have tn,
moral support and active sympathy
of the civilized world. -IDetroit In.
Press.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-01-12
A GlOve.Sellers Advertising.

A Partisan glovc-seller was arrested
recently for being too cntcrprising. Hs
had his name and address stamped in
bold characters on the inside of each
glove, SO that when worn for any per-
iod over half an hour the legend was
transferred to the hand of the wesrer.
For some time many of his lady custom.
ers were thus CONVEX ted into al vertis-
ing mediums, as the ink only wore on
at the expiration of q number of weeks.
What the mans object was is incon-
ceivable, as he must have known that
his scheme could only serve TO ipiure
him-lChicago News.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-01-12

Boston is reckoned the best market OF
any city in the country for Florida
oranges. Last season over $50, 600 boxes
we're shipped there, aud the number in
creases each season. The Boston dealers
consulted with the board of health dur
ing the prevalence of yellow fever to
ascertain what the chances were of the
fruit from Florida being interfered with
in case it was sent here. They were in
formed by the health officials that No
restrictions would be placed on its dis
tribution in Boston, as it was not deemed
probable that oranges would convey yell
low fever.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-01-12
Antiquity OF the Onion.

1t Is not to be supposed, declares tho
New York Independent, that so en-
phatic a vegetable as the onion would
be without history. 1t was formerly
q custom in Bohemia. and may be still,
for anything know to the contrary, to
hang onions on the walls Of the rooms
OF houses. The people did this, think
ing that the onions would draw to them.
selves the diseases that might other.
wise attack the persons living in the
house. Garlic was honorei by the Be-.
hemians, too, for on the evening of all
festival days. the people gave some
garlic to the house dog, the cock and
the gander. The Bohemians said that
garlic would make all three of these
animals very brave.
Egypt was the land where the onion
was in its glory. There was it religious.
ly respected because it was thought to
be made like the world. The Garth, in
the vivid imagin alton of the Egyptian,
was tunicated bulb, of which layer AZ
ter layer could be peeled off after the
manner in which q person takes of coat
after coat of an onion. Onions were
forbidden to the Egyptiaa priests al
though the Egyptian laborers ate large
quantities of this vegetable. Herodo.
tus says that in his time there was an
on the great pyramid, stat
ing that 1900 talents had been paid for
the onions radishes and garlic that the
workmen had eaten, while they were
erecting tho structure One would
think such an inscription rather an
original ornament to building in these
days.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-01-12
One Exaggeration Suggests Another.

One ExaggeratiOn Suggests Another.
A traveller once with great serious
ness related to large company that hs
had travelled through all the world, and
had seen at least one curiosity which
had never been mentioned by any
author.
This wonder, according to his asssr-
ton. was cabbage-plant so large that
under one single leaf fifty armed horse.
mon in battle array could station them
selves and perform their evolutionA
No one who heard this exaggerstion
deemed it worthy OF refutation; but one
said, with the utmost composure and
coolnocs, that he, too, had been some
what Of a traveller, and had been as fer
as Japan, where, to his establishment
he had seen moie than three hundred
coppersmiths at work upon an immense
cau'dron, and that FIVE hundred msp
were to be employed to smooth and
polish it. ''For what purpose, then,
would they wish to use this monstrous
cauldronF asked the first traveller
sneeringly. '.For cooking the cabbage
plants, sir. such IS you were telling ~
about just now" was the answer.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-01-12

N. ]. Colman, Commissioner of Agri-
culture, has charge of the arrangements
for the display of American agricultural
products at the Paris Exposition next
spring. A large sum of money was ap-
propriated by the general Government
to defray the expenses of the entire dis
play, and of the total amount $50, 900
was set apart for the agricultural in
terests,
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-01-12

teeth, and we have veritable dragon
in all that the term implies. Their
wings seemed like huge pieces of psrch-
ment stretched from long, attenuated
fingers. These creatures were known as
Pteraudores, and in America were
found ranging from pigeons in size to
the gigantic creatures described.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-01-12
A NOiseless, SmOkeless Locomotive.

A novel locomotive engine has been
on exhibition at Palmyra, Wis. Except
the noise of its wheels moving upon iron
rails il is noiseless and smokeless. The
steam after use in the engine is con
densed in a new manner, and the water
at the boiling point is reused All tho
wheels of this locomotive are drive
wheels, being 50 arranged as to give them
easy control of the car on curves and on
uneven tracks.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-01-12

Statistics have just been published on
accidents brought about by avalanches
in the Tyrol of Switzerland Last year
fifty-three people were killed. The
value of the cattle buried by avalsnches
is estimated at upward of $4,000, while
the total amount of property destroyed
figures at $l35, 900.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-01-12

The Austrian Consul at Yokohoma,
Japan, reports great difference in com
mercial morality between the merchants
of China and Japan. The japanese. he
says, are neither enterprising nor up
right, but the Cinnamon are solid and
trustworthy In every respect.
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9be Deeklp Hlessenaer
Published Weekly
AT
st Martinsville, L a.
BY
EASTlN 4 BIENVENU.
EASTIN l. BIEnvEMu.

A new device of the Patriotic League
of France is to engrave on monuments
the figures 1s70-lS-, the blank being
the date of the War of Revenge, which
is left TO the imagination.