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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-24
Arguing Il Technicality.

The eagerness with which lawyers
jump at technicalities to help out their
cases. no matter how absurd the techni-
cal point may be. is matter of wonder
ment to laymen. Some illustration of
this tendency Of the legal profession is
given nearly every day in the courts in
a more or less laughable form A few
days ago IA lawyer who was trying in the
supreme court to secure the release on a
writ of habeas corpus of Il man who had
been committed for some misdemeanor
raised the point that the commitment
stated that the crime occurred Sept. IA,
iS9. and that consequently the statute
of limitations freed his client from pun
ishmrut on account of 1t The opposing
lawyer argued in opposition to this view,
and the Judge grayeiy held that the
point could not be sustained. New
W W.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-24
SOMETHING BIG FOR SALE.

Six acres of ground-about thirty lots
west part of the city, finely situated,
overlooking the whole city. Fine dwell
ing of nine rooms, a store house and two
other houses with twelve rooms. Place
all fenced, a number of fruit trees and
otherwise improved. For further par
tlculars. see JOHN T. HAMBLEToN & Co.
9-12-1t.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-24
A Big Rather.

The boss snake is a monster RATHER on
exhibition at }. F. Bottoms store, in
Americas. GA. His snakeship is more than
six feet in length and measures twenty
inches in circumference in the middle,
while his caudal appendage is orna-
mented with fourteen rattles and but
ton. The hideous object was killed in a
sedge field on the Huguenin plantation
by Alfred Fields, colored laborer, who.
after lively fight of several minutes,
knocked him on the head with a fence
rail Mr.. Bolton had the snakes hide
stuffed and hung up in front of his
store.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-24

Shalley's centenary, Aug. A, 1892, is to
be celebrated by the publication of Mr..
F. S. Ellis "Lexic&l Concordance" to
his poems. which is to be printed at the
University Press of Oxford. 1t will be
remembered that Shelley was an ex-
PEELED Oxford student, and thus time
brings about an odd amends The con-
cOrdance is said to be as large as Mrs.
Mary Cowden-Clarke's Shakespeare con-
corlance
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-24
cOrlIanCe
AS the law of Aberdeen required it, a

AS the law of Aberdeen required IL,
cab driver was prosecuted, convicted
and fined five shilli1 gs or three days
imprisonment for smoking a pipe on his
cab, not while drivinga fare, but while
he was standing on the lookout for ona
By the municipal law and regulations
of Aberdeen the smoking of a pipe by a
cab driver is a criminal offense.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-24

The money thus unIawfully made does
not begin TO pay for the time and ex
pense of making these notes. New
York Telegram.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-24
RAILROAD TIME TABLE.
I. d q. N. RAILROAD.

I. d q. N. RAILROAD.
DEPARTURES.
For St. Louis via Iron Noun
tain or NJ, X. & T.......... 5:45 a. m
For st. Louis, via Iron Noun
tain route. .................. $50 p. IN
For Laredo. ....................n- lilo a. m.
ARRIVALS.
From st. Louis, Iron Mountain
and M, K. & T............ .l0;55 a. m
From St. Louis. Iron Mountain
and M, K. & T. routes. 1000 p. m.
From Laredo. Observation-Disclosures. 1885 p. IN
SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD.
THROUGH EXPRESS EAST.
Leave for New Orleans, Houston
aid Galveston. . 900 p. m.and 9:25 a. m.
ARRIVE FROM THE EAST.
Arrive from New Orleans, Hous-
ton and Galveston 6:4Oa. m. and 4:1O pm.
THROUGH WEST.
Leave for San Francisco, Ell
Paso and Eagle Pass. 49,; 4:O9p. m.
Arrive from San Francisco Ell
Paso and Eagle Pass. 9:25 a. m
THE IS. A. g. A. p. r. REMISSION
ROUTE.
DEPARTURES.
Leaves for KerrvlIle, daily, ex-
cept Sunday, at............ 500 p. m
Leaves for Galveston, Houston
and Cuero, daily, except
at. ......... ...... S:45 a. m
Leaves for CorpusChristi,R Rock
port and Beeville daily, ex-
cept Sunday, at.............. las p. m
ARRIVALS.
From Kerrville, daily, except
Sunday, at. $50 a. m
From Corpus Christi, RockpOrt
and Beeville, daily, except
Sunday, at.................... las p. m
From Galveston, Houston and
Cuero, daily.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 6:45 p. m.
MALLORY STEAMSHIP LINE.
Steamers sail and arrive at Galveston
every Wednesday and Saturday morning.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-10-15
HgyRYI. BIOSSAT, Business Manager,

sects were all over Nun. He seemed
crazy, and have no doubt his mind
was nearly gone with terror and the
pain of the bites.
I could barely keep the tarantuias
from getting above my leggings. Sud-
denly it occurred to me that I might
find safety in one of the trees l knew
that would soon be exhausted if re.
manned among the black beasts, and
that would end it In moment I had
my arms about small tree. | crushed
the insects that chung to my legs
against the bark as dragged and scrams
bled up. A dozen feet from the ground
there was branch from which we had
hung some small game had shot.
pulled myself up on this branch and
got the first moments rest I had had
since the tarantulas first appeared. I
had had no time to think before this,
but now began to ree.ize what had
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-10-15
EAT For SOMEBODY
Questionable Operations Which Will Pay
We'll Those on the inside.

Well Those on the inside.
tits fair question. How much do
Secretary Window, James q. Blaine,
Napoleon Mckinley, Boss Reed and
Matt Quay expect to make out of the
present policy of the United States
Government? Are they On the ground
floor, as usual?
Money is worth to the Wall street
usurers nowadays all the way from one.
quarter to one-half of one per cent. per
day. 1t has been loaned at interest as
high as two hundred per cent per an
mum. Mr. WINDOWS bond purchases for
the purpose of easing" this situation
are made almost without exception OF
the men who are charging two hundred
per cent. for money The money that
they get from the Treasury they dole
out to spectators III Wall street at the
rate of one-half Of one per cent. per day.
How much are the Republican officials
who are on the inside making by the
operation?
Another big swindle is in progress.
In anticipation of the Mckinley bills
enactment the big importers and others
have boon making heavy purchases OF
foreign goods in advance of consump-
ton for the purpose of selling them In
monopolized market. They have
bought under the present tariff. They
| will sell under the Mckinley tariff.
These goods are now in bond, and in
the ordinary course the duties must be
paid soon. The spectators therefore
ask their friends. Window, Blaine, Nc
Kinley, Reed and Quay, to add an
amendment to the Mckinley bill per-
hitting them to postpone the payment
of duties for six months or a year. In
other and palmer words, they ask the
Government to furnish them the CAPT.
tai or credit necessary to carry on big
deal designed to beat the Government
itself out of revenue and to Cypress the
people with high prices How much
are the anchor-casting statesmen going
to make out of this operation?
There is ''fat" in both of these things
for somebody and perhaps for every
body connected with tho corrupt and
wasteful regime now in power at Wash
ington. The question is: How much?-
Chicago Herald.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-10-15
CONGRESSIONAL LYING.
A Habit Calculated to Injure the Morals
of the Nation.

A Habit Calculated to InJure the Morals
of the Nation.
Is lying a National vice OF such pleas
ant :nien thatit merits Government pro-
lection? This question is suggested by
the deliberate Justification OF Repre-
sentative Kennedys speech, which has
been done under authority of the lower
House of Congress The Congressional
Record purports to be verbatim re-
port of the proceedings of Congress;
and, in order that it may be accurate,
efficient stenographers are employed at
big salaries to take down every word
that is uttered during the deliberations
of that body.
And yet the speech which j. pub
lished in the Congressiona' s9ord is
not the speech which M"snnedy de-
livered on the floor OF congress, nor is
it the speech which the shorthand re-
porters tcsk down. Mr.. Kennedy's
speee,4 Sisted mainly in an arraign-
n of Senatorial courtesy" under
which he claimed all sorts of corruption
were cloaked. And yet he now seeks
refuge under a so-called courtesy of
the House, which permits him to pub
fish bare-faced lie in giving to the
world speech he never delivered.
There isn't hairbreadth's difference
between the evils resulting from Sena-
torial courtesy and the lower House
courtesy. The former cloaks corrup-
tiou; the latter is refuge for lies. 1t
is about time that both were abolished
and that all Congressional proceedings
were conducted on a square plan.
La member Of Congress gets w on
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-10-15

"But, uncle, Henry George doesn't
propose to confscate land"
''Oh, yes he does. Don't I read my
papers? The Tribune and the Dispatch
both say that he wants to confiscatc tho
land and rent it out. !"
''But that is all wrong, uncle. He
only proposes to place all taxes on land
values, and you have been voi"ing his
sentiments exactly and suppos you
had been reading some OF his wri ings. !"
ST guess you are mistaken. s. rank.
That is not coz. fsss!tt sl and the papers
say he wants to take our land from US
and divide it up"
swell, uncle, have a copy of Prog
gress and Poverty and ! will convince
you by letting you read it, and here is
copy of his paper, The Standard.
Read those and you will learn that the
whole of the theory in a nutshell is the
placing of all tax on land values and
exempting all Improvements from taxa
ton"
eff / find that what you say is true
then l am with Horny George first, last
and all the time."-F. s. Hammond
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-10-15
ALEXANDRIA, LOUISIANA, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER
the floor OF either house and makes an

the floor Of either house and makes an
ass of himself the fact ought to appear
on the record. The printed Congress
ional record is intended for the use Of
the public, and not for the exclusive
privilege of the Congressman. The
very knowledge that his remarks were
to be reported and printed verbatim
would be an incentive to Congress.
man to behave himself. AS is, he can
indulge in ali sorts of wild speeches on
the floor and then 60 to the public
printers Office with an afterthought
speech and have the Congressional rec.
ord make him say very decorous Things.
The example set by those high in au.
thority always has bad effect on the
masses. If a Congressman is permitted
to lie Under Government patronage the
body of the people are in danger of be.
ing infected with the idea that lying
is respectable. For these very good
reasons we insist that Congress shall
return to the early virtues of the Re-
public and require all of its proceedings
to be accurately and truthfully printed.
ST. Paul Globe.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-10-15
How SILK Is Measured.

The size or substance of silk thread
is usually estimated by deniers. The
ounce troy and the ounce pois de marc
of Lyons, by the latter of which silk is
tested in France and Italy, are equal
in weight, but are differently SUBJ
divided. The ounce troy is divided
into 20 pennyweights of "a grains each,
making $50 grains in the ounce; the
ounce of Lyons, posi- de marc, is divided
into "a drains, which, multiplied by "a,
equals $40 deniers. The denier is, there
fore, one-sixth less than the grain troy.
Che English reel is s1S bouts of "A
inches, and equals 1000 yards. The
French, 400 ellis, or. AIS meters, equals
$40 yards. The standard of silk meas
ure is about 400 yards; that length of a
single filament from China cocoons will
weigh 3 deniers, and from French and
Italian 211. A 10-denier silk will, thsl-
be the combined thread OF fciiGS9r nVe
cocoons. Herald ..fs
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-10-15
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Republican party is cutting
no wisdom teeth. South
west.
For President T. Reed, of Maine;
for President, w. w. Dudley, OF
Indiana; platform, brass and DOODLE
st. Louis Republic.
Idaho is rotten borough admitted
for the purpose of giving to the Repub-
licans two Senators and three electoral
votes. Y. World.
The aged Tennessee farmer who
cut his throat because he could not
live in poverty ought to have been in
Maine when Reed was squandcring his
money.-Atlanta Constitution.
"A wag has said that local, direct
tax is wart on your nose which you
can see; but tariff tax is cancer on
your liver, which you can not see, but
which is consuming your vitals. Chi.
cage Tariff Reformer.
There can be no question what
ever that if National election were to
be held to-day Democracy would swesp
the country like whirlwind. And the
party of the people is gro wing stronger
every day.-Chicago Mail
-Pious John Wanamaker forbade
the circulation of the Kreutzer Sonata
in the mails, but he allows Joe Cannon's
filthy speech to be scattered broadcast
through the same channel. Tolstoi,
however, does not train in the g. o. p
Florida mes-Union.
Pension Commissioner Raum
seems 10th to tell all he knows about
that refrigerator business. Probably
he, too, imagines that 'dignified 81
lence' is all that is necessary these
days to shut the eyes OF the people,
Harrisburg pa Patriot.
In justice to the Administration,
to the Speaker and to the majority in
Congress, there should now be an un'
sparing laying bare of all the facts, in
order that aroused suspicion may wrong
no innocent person. The time has come
to find out all about Raum.-N. Y
World.
Senator Quay owes it to the party
that has given him place and power tx
clear himself of the grave charges thai
now besmirch his character, or else stel
down and out. The Hawkeye is Repub
lican in every fiber, but it believes il
honest Republicanism. = Burlington
Haykeye. h
Republican victory in Wyoming
| one of the newest of the rotten boroughs
was brought about by a bargain will
the Mormons. For certain concession
in the constitution and the laws tn
Mormons gave their support to the Re
publican candidates, thus turning thu
scale in their favor.-Chicago Herald.
| Commissions Raum is loyal 4
the instincts of an office-holder. Hell
not ready to die, and will see hade
frozen over before he will resign. Gen
eral Raum is in pretty good condition
to defy the Administration, because h
has not been whit more thrifty in hi
administration OF public Office tina
the President himself has been.-st
Paul Globe
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-10-15

soon burned of. We had just finished
supper, and was sitting at the base of a
tree smoking my pipe, when an enor-
nous tarantula came out of the grass
into the cleared circle. He was posi-
lively the largest specimen | had ever
seen, and as the slanting rays OF the sun
caught him noticed a curious, dull, in
definite, reddish line down his back. l
regretted that / had not the means to
reserve it, but Manuel settled my re-
grets by crushing it with a billet OF
wood It had hardly ceased moving
when another and equally as large one
appeared at the other end of the burned
patch. did not fear them much, as l
wore heavy leather leggings reaching
tony hips.
I've have made bad camp, Manuel"
Isaid; "there seems to be many tarant-
ulas here"
zone place is about as ano5her," he
answered in Spanish; ''they usually go
by twos.n
He appeared more troubled, however,
than his careless answer seemed to in
dicate, and while / killed the second
unwelcome visitor he began to poke
around in the grass with a long branch.
He uncovered several more of the great
spiders and killed them; when he
turned around there we're fully half a
dozen Of them in the clear space. They
fastened on to the dead ones and seemed
to suck their blood.
1--WE must get out of thisp' screamed
the Indian.
AT this moment our remaining mule
began to struggle and kick. He soon
broke his picket rope and disappeared.
Then | became aware of steady
rustling in the grass. More tarantulas
came out.
u have heard it from the Indians, y
cried my guide. ut is devils army.
They say that the people who live in
the dead cities were killed by them, and
that no one can live there now. They
Come by thousands, like the red ants,
and leave nothing alive where they
pass. | thought it was squaw story
We must fight them with fire."
lie seized a flaming brand from the
campfire and yelled to me to do like
wise. lie tried to fire the grass on al
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, s. OF u.s. but where the trees grew it
%ss TOO rank and wet and the fires we
'srsed would not 60.
@eanwhile the spiteful spiders be-
zane more and more numeroas. 1
s.asaed one at least of them at every
w., , took Many of them bit at my
NY lngs and hung there by their fangs.
~ turned our firebrands to crushing
,a s afantulas, but they seemed to
40 aie 'nicker than we could beat them
a.. am oitten!" l heard tho Indian
Sa aeam. passed him my flask. Icould
~, more for him, and dropping
~ ~ SUCK started to run. Every step
o any, srass seemed to bring me in worse
,han beers | tried every direction. but
M.. seemed everywhere. / noticed
Nv as eaey were in the bushes and on
San grass, SO high that my leggings
tonns not protect me, and presently !
s sIl,a myself back at the camp. There
m. cast ~ they could not reach me with.
tec,,aa moing up. The ground was per.
was olack with them. Poor Manuel
ssSNa on one knee and the great in.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-10-15
The Hawaiian Royal Family.

His Majesty Kalakaua, elected in
1874, receives salary of $25, 900 year,
and, with perquisites, about 100000
Queen Kapiolani is ladylike and
amiable, and has escaped the blighting
scandal, but she gets no salary.
The Princess Lilioukalani, otherwise
Mrs. John Dominis, is the heir ap-
parent. She is fine looking, has a turn
for politics and gets $4,000 year.
The young Princess Kaiulani is at
schooIin. England with an annual al
lowance of $4,000.
His Majesty's suave and tactful Cham
berlain, Colonel Macfarlane, gets a
salary of $4,000, and earns it, too. -
Washington Star.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-10-15

happened. 1t seemed more like night
down and almost fell off my branch at
the horrid sight below me- My In
dian was now fairly on the ground. !
could not see him for the poisonous
things that covered him. but the irreg-
ular black mass, wriggled and squirmed
like wounded snake, and 1 knew
he was not yet out of his agony On
every side were moro tarantulas hum
grily searching for more victims.
Their crushed fellows were al
most torn to pieces, so fierce were
they in their hunger. They were all
enormous, some of them as big as tur-
tics, ard when the sun struck them |
could see the red line that distinguished
them from the non-gregarious species
that are familiar in other places. They
crawled over one another in their de-
sire to find something into which to
sink their fangs. Poor Manuel's with
ing body was the objective point of most
of them. They fought fiercely for a
spot of flesh where they could strike,
and every movement of the still living
man seemed to make them the more
fierce.
1t did not take me as long to notice
all this as it does to describe it, and
soon saw that / was not yet safe from
the horri BILE fate that had oyertaken my
guide.
Tho insects began to crawl up the
tree, though not in any considerable
numbers at first. | brushed them down
with a small branch, and those that
were hurt at all were Immediately set
| upon by their fellows where they fell.
MY recital of these things may seem
tame, but l have no pen to describe the
awful horror of it all. There were
about two hours of daylight left me. J.
knew this, and wondered what l could
do in the dark Then l remembered
reading that snakes or centipedes would
not cross hair rope, and | thought that
perhaps the same rule might apply to
| tarantulas. 5ta,
The game was swinging from the
branch by a horsehair RATA. and it took
me y very few minutes to cut the rab-
bits loose and wind the rope about the
trunk Just below me- Pretty soon more
of the big spiders came up. Manuel
was quiet now at last and they wanted
another victim.
My hair rope did some good. They
could not swarm over it in such mum
bers that l could not sweep them back
with my branch.
How long / stayed there fighting the
insects back do not know, but the ligh
was fading when l noticed commotior
among the tarantulas. At the same
time observed number of blue-blacl
wasps darting about / recognized then
as belonging to the Hymenoptera fam
| lily and realized that they were the ia
rantula hawks of which had read. In
ten minutes the four or five wasps hac
become hundreds. and five minutes
later there was not tarantula to be
seen, except the numerous dead ones a
the foot of the tree.
Manuel's body, swollen and discoloret
by the venom of the spiders, stared a
me. / waited an hour and then cam
down.
1t took me eight days to reach Ne
vada, and on the way / did not see
single tarantula.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-10-15
"CUTE.'
..etfuIly Dedicated to tho young
H'P Lady of the Period.

.ur nsdicated to tho Young
Bs'P' Lady of the Period.
wbere'er 1 go, by night or day,
NV heart is in despair,
BECAUSE this wCrd Of usage gets
BY far too large share.
A house is "cute,n bonnet 100
RIB IN or a gown;
And y .s,crday heard that u
Is ast the cutest' town
!. Girl is "eute' and so is he
On whom she deigns to smile.
NJ .cu.e,, mustache his cute white
hands
Her tender heart beguile.
rivers cute" mountain 'oo'
4 leaping waterfall;
nut think Of it, a picnic Is
,The cutest thing Of all"
.,os, since lips Of old and young
Go on this sound repeat
1wialy yearn to cast it out
among owords obsolete"
INIT II the things you call $50 cute"
shonld "cute'' one day become,
Now don't you think the world would 90
exceedingly hum-drumf
Clara j. Denton, in America.