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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-05-21
ShI,o,s consumption Cure.

No. !. This is beyond question the most sue
cessfuI Cough Medicine we have ever sold, a
few doses invariably cure the worst cases of
Cough, Group and Bronchitis, while its won
derful success in the cure OF Consumption is
without parallel in the history of medicine
Since its first discovery it has been, sold on a
guarantee, test which no other medicine
can stand. If you have Cough we earnestly
ask you to try it. Price 10 cents, 30 cents and
81. If your Lungs are sore, Chest or Back
lame, use ShiiO's Porous Plaster.
Sold by Kalteyer & Son. 10 ly
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-05-21

FEMALE DISEASES Irregular periods.
painful menstrual discharge. absence Of
regular periods. pain in the back. ctc..ctc.
Use Sawycr's Uterine PaStilcS. Rag
land a Co. sole agents. City drug store,
San Antonio Texas.
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WEuCAN AND DO

Guarantee Acker's B-ood Elixir for il has
demonstrated demo fully TO the people of this
country that it is superior to all other prethr-
atoms for blood diseases. II is positive cure
for syphilltic poisoning, ulcers, eruptions and
pimpl s. L. purfes the wSole system and
thoroughly builds up the constitution. Sold
by RRgland i Co. ~
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Oh,What a Cough,

No.4. Will you heed the warning. The sig
nal perhaps, Of the sure approach Of that
more terrible disease, Consumption. Ask
yourself If you can afford for the sake of
saving 80 cents, to run the risk and do nothing
for it. We know from experience that Shi-
lOh's Cure will cure your cough. It never
fails. This explains why more than a million
bottles were sold the past year, 1t relieves
Group and WhOOpng Cough at once. Mothers
do not be without il. For lame back side or
chest, use ShilOhs Porous Plaster. Sold by
kalteyer X Son. 2-l&ly
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AFamOus Ohio Poet.

B From Texas Strings.
Capt. George w. Cutter, author OF
THE Song of Steam" "E Pluribus
Unum," "Never, Neverw and many
other bold and stirring hymns, was
born in Kentucky, though much OF
his life was spent Ill Cincinnati. He
was a gallant soldier in the Mexican
war, an eloquent and learned bar
rister and most entertaining COM
panion. For charm of conception,
Choiceness of expression and vigorous
language some of his poems will rank
with anything in our language. But
he was a victim to intemperance.
His poems, "Never, Never" and
"E Pluribus Unum," were set to
music during our civil war, and sung
everywhere in the North, with the
most inspiring effect. Probably no
song ever thrilled a nation to
greater extent than that of az Plurl-
bus Unum." | remember once dur
ing the war hearing it sung in Gin
cinnati by choir of 200 voices at
patriotic meeting OF some ten thous-
and persons in a grove, and can never
forget the grand effect on the audi
ance, as each singer, with a flag
raised in his hand, sang with thrill
ing effect the last verse:
Then up with the flag. Let il stream in
the air,
Though our fathers are cold in their
graves:
They had hands that could strike. they
had souls that could dare.
And they were not born to be slaves.
Up! up, with that banner, whcrr'cr it
may call
Our millions shall rally around:
And nation Of fr"rmcn that moment
shall fall.
When its stars Shall..bc trailcd on the
ground.
A few nights atterward | was sent
for to see a person in the station
house in my city. | went, and found
there the author of "E Pluribus
Unium," pale and trembling from the
effects of terrible debauch, covered
with filth and his clothes almost torn
off him. spoke kindly to him, told
MIN how that vast audience, but a
day or two ago, had been inspired to
patriotic duty by his songs. He
clasped his hands to his eyes and eX-
claimed: "Great God. what wreck
have made of myself n'bent over me
and wept like a child, promising by
all that was sacred that he would re-
form.
With the aid of some friends he was
taken out and cared for in a way bis
pitiful condition demanded. New
clothes were obtained, a pleasant
boarding house found, and for few
weeks he was himself again, endeav-
bring to establish himself again in
his profession. But, alas! the chain
Of appetite was too strong-it shortly
dragged him down to his grave.
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Presto "Hed-Ake."

Judge J. II. McLeary, ex-Att'y Gen'l. OF
Texas and Past Grand Master of MasOnS, says:
ache | ever saw" Cures any headache. For
sale by all druggists. SOC.
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DRY GOODS AT YOUR OWN PRICES.

PrOf..Loisette'e Memory System is
creating CRATER intrest than ever in
all parts of he country, and persons
wishing to improve their memory
should send for his prospectus free as
Divert sed in another column. 6-1O-tf
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New Goods.

Val Lorrs, the popular tailor has
just received q fine stock of fresh
goods, direct importatiOns. His mot
to is, the best goods, the best fit, and
at the lowest figures. Call and see
him. 2-25-tf
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Observation-Disclosures.

No. 3. Shios Catarrh Remedy, a marvel
Gus cure for Catarrh, Diphthera, Canker
Mouth and Head Ache. With each bottle there
is an ingenious NasaI Injector for the more
successful treatment of these complaints
without extra charge. Price 30 cents Sold
by Kalteyer & Son. 2l3 w
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Latter-Day Prophets.

| ttsbuIg Dispatch.
There was no earthquake at San
Francisco on April IA, the day set by
| the delectable "Doomsealers of the
Pacific coast for that catastrophe.
San Francisco, Oakland, Milwaukee,
Chicago all four doomed to destruc-
ton, are still standing intact. The
lunatics or mischievous charlatans
who took unto themselves the author
ity to prophesy have not explained
why the earthquakes and other ad-
vertised horrors did not arrive on
time. Probably they will arrange a
new schedule. Their dupes, who are
hundreds in number, will swallow
new tales, and demonstrating" stands
fair to become one of the most profit
able industries of California. PrOph-
ecy pays under modern conditions,
whichincludes a collection of plate.
Prophets in this part OF the world
are not so pernicious nuisance.
Their prophetic vision rarely exceeds
the weather, for tomorrow is the day
after that. In a modest way they
compete with the United States
prophets. They may not show more
knowledge of the weather to come
than the signal service men, but then
they never show less. The public
here never takes weather prophecy
calmly and disinterestedly. The day
has passed for comparisons of pre-
dictions and results. 1t is doubt
full if "doom-sealer" fresh
from the Pacific could awake Pitts
burgers to warm interest in the
weather bulletins. A few old proph-
cts used to be found in the woods near
here when natural gas first came into
general use. They foretold the APP
preaching disappearance of Pitts
burg in pit of birthstone and other
combustibles. But the gas kept on;
so did Pittsburg at the old stand.
The only ones to go were the prophets.
1t is not even certain that they have
gone.s Perhaps they are only sleep
ing.
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Bruises, iSOreS, lcaers, Salt RhChilblainsv
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For sale by all druggists, Dreiss, and
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The Warrior-WOmen OF DahOmc

The Warrior-Women OF Dahomcy.
A firm of ROuen, says LIE Courier
du SOir, has received from a traveller,
who is actually at KOtOnOn, letter
containing the following particulars
about the first attack by the Daho-
mans:
"KOTONON, March ), 1S9O.-During
the last days there had been about
fifteen sharpshOOters wounded. Some
thing was expected, but gradually
watchfulness had become rather
weak. The consequence was that the
sentinels were fast asleep at $50 in
the morning, when the Dahomans adj
vanced in snake-like glidings; they
surprised the sentinels and cut Off
their heads. In the same manner the
Waterman of the battery was butch
cred. The artillery quartermaster en-
deavored to defend himself but an
Amazon, IA fine girl of l6) stabbed
him with pOiniard and cut his neck.
The same fate happened to the briga-
der artiticer, also nOn-cOmmissiOn-
ed officer of artillery. Meantime the
alarm had been given, the Senegalese
ritlemen arrived on a run and swept
off the ranks OF the DahOmans. The
Amazon was caught, thrown to the
ground and her neck cut. At the
same moment Mr.. BayOl, the govern
or signaled to the gunbOat Sane, at
anchor just off the battle field. Imme-
diately a hailstOrm of bombs and
HOtchkiss balls rained over the Da-
Romans. The firing was of great pre-
cisiOn, and groups Of ten or twelve
savages were hardly formed when a
bomb was sent bursting among them,
and when the smoke had cleared
nothing could be seen stand
ing up. Despite this, the Da-
Romans displayed an extraOrdin-
airy and obstinate courage. Dur
toward the few frame houses of the
settlement, and reached several times
to the bottom of the outside staircase
of the telegraph office, where they
were shot down close to the muZzle.
Five Europeans and white lady
found themselves shut up in the tele-
graph office. Thep blazed away dur
ing the whole fghC. The clerk of the
telegraph Office fired 120 cartridges
for his share. Finally, the DahO-
mans fled to the underbrush, leaving
from 500 to 600 of their people on the
ground. On our side we had fourteen
dead and fifteen wounded, among
whom were five or six Europeans.
Everyone admits that but for the
gunbOat Sane the Dahomaus would
have succeeded in invading the hous-
es, and would have killed everybody.
They numbered l 1900 to 900 men"
FEMALE DINEA>E~-Ir Irregular periods.
painful menstrual discharge. absence Of
regular periods. pain in the back. rtC..otc.
Use SawyCr'S Uterine PaStilIcS. Rag
land ~ Co. sole agents. City drug store,
San Antonio Texas.
DRY GOODS AT YOUR OWN PRICES,
That is what Mr.. Kahn proposes to do.
beginning Monday, April -, he will begin
10 sell out his entire stock at prices advcr-
tiNCd i'm his regular adj.
Prof. Oisette'e Memory System Is
creating CRATER Unrest than ever in
all parts of he country, and persons
wishing to improve their memory
should send for his prospectus free as
Divert sed in another column. 6-10-tf
The Southern reveille. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1876-1890, 1890-04-18

II is suggested that newspapers
should be printed in white letters on
black paper. instead Of white paper
printed in black letters as now. The
change is one 10 be desired, as white
letters on a black ground possess srea.-
or contrast and distinctncss, and are
consequently easier on the eyes. The
change will give at first an odd APP
pcarancc Go printed matter. hut the
merit Of il viii eventually result in IFS
general adoption, and in time the
black letter will be as rare as the
white letter now is. Sign painters re-
cognize the superiority Of the white
letters, as is evidenced by the numer-
Gus white leiiered signs now TO be
seen on the streets and in the shops.
The change would be comparatively in
and as black is cheaper than
white paper, a saving could be eject
ed. With our newspapers thus printed,
Oh cars and in dinly lighted
places would be not only practicable
but casy.-1R0conda Stamford
The Southern reveille. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1876-1890, 1890-04-18

Given a general insincerity Of mind
for several generations, you williccr-
tainly find the Talker established in
the place Of honor; and the Doer.
hidden in the obscure crowd, with
activity lamed, or working sorroWful-
ly forward on paths unworthy oflhim.
All men are devoutly PROSTATE iyor-
shipping the eloquent talker; an \ no
man knows what a scandalous idol
he is.
Probably there is not in natui e a
more distracted phantasm than Your
commonplace eloquent speaker, al he
is found on platforms, in parliamehts,
on Kentucky stumps, at tavern din
ners, in windy, empty, insinccre times
like ours.
The excellent stump orator." as ur
admiring Yankee friends define h I'M,
-he who in any set OF circumstan ses
can start forth, mount upon his stump,
place in parliament or other rea ly
elevation, aud pour forth his "exceIloni
speech" in such manner as poor windy
mortaIs round him shall cry @bravbv
to,-he is not an artist / can much aId-
mirc, as matters gol Alas, be is in
general merely the Wihdiest mortal bf
them all and is admired for being
so into the bargain. Not windy
blockhead there who kept silent but Is
better Off than this excellent stump OF
ator. For this reason, were there NO
other: the silent one suspects, perhaps
partly admits, that he is kind OF
blockhead; from which salutary self
knowledge the stump orator is del |
barrcd-Carlgle.
The Southern reveille. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1876-1890, 1890-04-18

and new-school, election, original sin,
total dcprayiiy, regeneration aud free
agency?
In the days Of Calvin and Luther
and John Knox these things were dis
cassed in every household with as
much vigor and earnesiness rs we dis
cuss politics now. Everybody lad n
filth and could defend it-yes, die for
il. But now we join a church because
our fathers did. We like the forms Of
worship that we were brought up In.
The faith is not the thing. A Presby-
tcrian man marries a Methodist girl
and she quits her church and goes 20
his without the slightest sacrifice Of
filth or conscience,and she does right.
While she was a Methodist she was
supposed to believe in falling from
grace. When she became a Presbytc-
rian she was supposed 70 believe the
contrary. But tho fact is she didn't
believe anything about it. She cared
nothing about il, but she did care for
and did believe all that was necessary.
"Ye believe in God-believe also in
me" was creed enough. Love God and
love your neighbor was duty enough.
A creed can be nursed into fanaticism,
but love TO God and love to man can
nof.-BW Arp IN Home and Farm.
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"Put those in the members boxl
es, said an old man, staggering up
to the window II the House post
Office the other day with an immense
bundle Of pamphlets. 'sPut book
in every box. Be sure you don't
miss any"
"What are they ~ asked the
young man at the window. awe
can't take it unless il is something
that the members are likely 10
want.
"Wan't2 Why, man. they must
have it. just let me tell you wlssI
ID is.p He leaned forward>2nd
whispered something Ia tha young
mans ear and then stepped back
eyes, sir, the brain iii a trea.
tise on the development 81 IL.
brain. Why, Dan, the reputation
Of the nation depends on their hav
ing it at once
The clerk tapped his forehead
With his finger and laid the bundl,
aside tor distribution Woshinoto,
Star.
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Devils lake is a body Of brackish
water Of uncertain size, according to
the weather, but covering about POO
square miles'on an average, and having
an outlet by a marshy stream to tho
Cheyenne river only in wet seasons.
Though the water is too salt for a
stranger TO drink, yet Il aboundcd with
fish in its natural state; and even now
in the dead of winter ono may see
groups Of wiry old squaws on the ice
-four feet thick working the dip seine
and bringing out at each haul two or
three pickerel. These freeze solid in a
few minutes, after which they are
handled like stones. To sec the poor
old creatures kneeling on the margin
Of the holes they have cut through the
ice, and with one arm, bare nearly to
the shoulder, thrust under the edge Of
the ice 10 spread the seinc-thc ther-
mometer from zero to 80 bclow-is a
novel sight TO the tourist.
The lake in one place is almost cut
in two by a sort Of peninsula, with a
spoon-shaped extremity running out
into the lake; and there the Indians
in old times used to make their great
buffalo drive. Stampeded by mounted
men, the animals fed TO the lake and
were gradually concentrated on this
peninsula; the hunters then advanced
by boat or along the land and shot
them down at leisure. AT length the
white mam5roke in; the great Turtle
mountain buffalo raids began for
seventy miles IN line the prairie the
next summer was Golgotha-whitcn-
ed with buffalo skeletons-and oId set
tiers still tell of the @big money! made
by gathering their bones. In five short
years every buffalo was gone, and the
Indians had TO starve, fight or emil
CRATE. They fought and were whip
ped part emigrated, and the rest are
ClayioR-Ledger.
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/" DIR. Pyll. you have earned my
lasting gratitude. Without your
skillful, untiring care / should new
er have recovered. We are indebt-
ed TO you, o so deeply :"
The beautiful young convalescent,
pale but never more lovely, was sit
ting up for the first time. She lean
ed back in her easy chair and looked
with ardent gratitude at the young
physician who had called to make
his last professional visit.
"Don't speak Of it in that way,
Miss Winnie" he replied. "In
your happy recovery feel more
than repaid for the exercise of my
highest skill.n
"But," rej,'ined Winnie, with a
gay smile "there must be fee
besides, and yon need not fear t.
make it n large one"
The young physician moved for
ward on his chair.
81 fear if I should include in my
Dlil one item that-that occurs Ia
me, Miss Winnie, il would be thought
exorbitant," he said. with d voice
that trembled and a chin that show
ed singular tendency TO wabble
IL hardly.think it possible, doc
tor" she said, "that you can ask
too great compensation for your
winnie Grecnupl" exclaimed the
young man, hoarsely. talk not To
me Of fees | want something in
finitely more valuable than sordid
dollars and cents. I--I-I-Win-
ME, may ask your father"
Certainly, Dr. Pyll," said Miss
Greenup, haughtily. ''Papa Is the
one to present the accounts to, 81
course. lie always settles the bills.
Good morning, sir. F"
In his Office down town few
minutes later young DR.. Pyll might
have been seen making out, with a
most determined expression Of coun.
tenance, a doctor bill that will
simply paralyze papa Greenup when
he sees Chicago Tribune.
The Southern reveille. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1876-1890, 1890-04-18

The Most worthless Part OF the World.
Our few weeks cruise leads me to
believe that Labrador is the most worth
less part Of the whole world. It is
scarcely worth visiting even as Gu
riosity in sterility and desolation. In
the 1000 miles Of coast tho total num-
bcr Of resident human beings viii not
exceed 5000 souls. The peninsula has
an area Of 100000 acres and just
one human beingto about $1,000 acres.
That there arc 100 acres capable Of
cultivation within this mighty cxpansc
has been disproyed by the efforts Of
Jcsnits and other missionaries, and by
all settlers who have been lurcd upon
these shores to starve. II is possible
that during two or three months Of
the summer, 10000 fishermen may be
found of Labrador.
They have no interest here whatev-
or, save to come and grab and go.
There are not enough standing trees
in Labrador available for building tim
bcr to pay for lighting fire in a single
saw mill. All the frantic efforts OF the
government to discover mineral de-
posits have been unavailing.
What then does Labrador possess ?
An unmeasured reach Of stone aud ice,
covered here and there with moss; oc-
casionally patches of stunted spruce (;
oftener for hundreds Of miles Scared
and blackened by burned spruce
stumps, between which fiinty rocks
project like cruel spears with impas-
sable rivers plowing in ungovernable
torrents through hideous gorges; 1000
whites utterly unable to leave their
prisonment or better their condition,
living half the year like beasts al d the
other half little better 1000 Ia lians
subsisting on salt fish and raw, with
occasionally a bit Of musty flour or
meal; 5000 or 1000 Esquimaux dogs; az
number Of wolves, seals and FISH,. Any
land so Ciod-forsakcn that the govern
ment possessing il can not survey 1t or
procure any form of statistics il YER
liable cast-away indeed. From tie loss
in commercial expeditions, aud the
wreckagc of vessels along the coasts,
since Labrador was discovered, il
would be safe calculation that or ev-
cry dollar in value Of fish or fur lecur-
ed for the past four hundred years, an
equal or creator actual loss by some
body has been sustained. And when
the additional frightful loss Of life has
been taken into account, the inczprcs-
sible worthlesmess Of the entire pen
insula may be 70 some extent clpcciy-
ed.-C0r. Springfield Republicans
The Southern reveille. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1876-1890, 1890-04-18
Character Revealed BY the COuntenance

Character Revealed by the COuntenance
A gentleman who has made a study
of photography asserts that its chief
interest to him lies in the unconscious
revelation OF character in a photo
grIphed face. "lf a man have any
noble or mean trait latent in his ma
ture, unknown 20 the world, il comes
out in his photograph"
This only illustrates truth that is
as Old as mankind: that,as the years go
by, the character of mau writes itself
indelibly upon his face.
Not only the actions, whether mean
or noble, but tho secret thoughts which
are never put into deeds-tho sensual
Imagination. the cruel purpose, the
lofty hope. the kind feeling, all these
record themselves upon the features.
The sin which we welcomed as a
pleasant guest in youth may be hate
ful to us in middle age, but we can
never again make it a stranger to us.
Some look or mark in our faces be-
trays 10 n keen observer that we were
once familiar with it.
How many men have rushed from
one occupation to another, from home
10 home, from country to country, TO
escape some vice or habit which had
grown loathsomc to them Alas, they
could not travel away from them
selves. II is IN youth that we must
shut the door If we would keep that
inner chamber Youths
Companion.
The Southern reveille. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1876-1890, 1890-04-18

The most gigantic specimen Of the
famous dragon tree of the Canary Is
lands still stands, but dead as mum
my, near Oratava, on the island Of
Tcnerifc. This monster has been full
Iy described by hundreds Of globe
tourists during the past fifty years.
Some Of these writers have set down
a. rivaling in age the pyramids Of f.
gypt and the burial mounds Of the
Mississippi valley.
Measurements, taken at the begin
ming Of the fifteenth century, 4OOycars
before IIumboldrs visit, show that the
tree did not porceptibIy increase In
size during the intervening centuries.
How long must have been the time
required, If four centuries Of vigorous
growth did not add one foot to the gi-
ants circumference, for II to have
grown to Titan As feet in circumfcr-
cnce?
No wonder that the great humboldt
did not even make provision for a
doubt when he calmly says: Il would
consider It at least 10000 years DID,
Er