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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-30
Amusements.
GRAND OPERA HOUSE.

Tonight at this house will be produced
a new but splendid melOdrama, THE Fast
Mail, by Lincoln j. Carter. The COM
pany carries ten special sets of scenery,
including steamboat race, steamboat
engine room, explosion and transforma-
ton scene, railroad scene, with train
OF fourteen cars, suspension bridge, and
Niagara falls, with genuine cascades and
all its effects. Seats are now selling rap
idly. Fast Mall will hold the boards
until Saturday, including a matinee to-
morrow.
RIsCHE's OPERA HOUSE.
The New York Opera company pro-
duced the beautiful nautical operetta,
"Billee Taylor" TO a fair-sized audience
last night, and gave fine performance
Mr.. Thomas Christie. the tenor, singing
the title role, and making very natural
gardener, and later very good
sailor. Miss Carrie Sweeney sang
a Phoebe bor Faregh the the heroine he ne;
II, brought her an encore with basket of
flowers. Rothesay and Smith as Ben
Barnacle and Eliza, were particularly
funny, and in the scene at the wharf, in
which Smith and Leonard appeared, were
executed some very amusing caperS which
sconxulsed the audience.
Sir Mincing Lane, by old Mr.. Gillow,
DIS d uut bdht Ou llllllS VI Vic
"Belknap Rifles" was the cause for great
laughter. Miss Clara Terry, one of the
leads who was ill Sunday night, took her
part of Arabella to perfection.
The chorus was strong, the orchestra
was in better training and if the company
had sung "Billee Taylor" on Sunday
night the house would have scored
greater success. Tonight Chimes of
Normandy"
BENEFITS CIRCUS
Drew another large audience to their
tent on Avenue c last night.
WASHINGTON THEATRE.
This house opened to a crowd
ed parque and gallery last
night in Horace Cones original drama,
Lucky Ranch, founded on fact and laid
in the states of Kentucky and Southern
California. This is the first drama writ
ten by him, and it has been money win
ner.
TURF THEATRE.
A miscellaneous bill held the audience
in this house last night, and good pro-
grim was given, including good number
of specialtieS,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-30
PERSONAL NOTES.

Howard NJ. Dwyer, of Arkansas Harbor,
in the city.
Editor d. W. Smith, of the Kerrville
News, is in the city.
T. B. Bibbs. prominent Del Rio man,
is among the visitors.
&C. Stoddard, of Palestine, is among
the visitors.
Dan T. Price, of Yoakum, is in town
for the Fair.
j. o. Terrell is among the arrivals.
Gov. L. S. Ross, Miss Ross and Miss
Dorsett. arrived from Austin last night
for the opening of the Fair.
Miss Mamie Maret, of Columbus, Tex,
Is here to attend the Fair, and is stopping
with her aunt, Mrs. John Cayce.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-30

The famo us Zapadorez band of the
Mexican army, sent to the exposition by
President Diaz, did not arrive in time to
participate in the parade this forenoon,
but will make it's first appearance to-
night in grand concert at the Fair
grounds. The music during the day was
furnished by the Spanish students, diff
fereut OrganiZation
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-30
A Free Ride

over the Electric street railway Co.
to the Fair grounds will be given to
every purchaser of Sl.O0 worth of
goods or over, FROM US during the
Fair. Visitors do not fail to see our
Mammoth, China, Glassware empo-
rum, lamps, silverware, brio brac.
General house furnishing articles,
hotel bar supplies.
WAGNER 81 CHABOr.
Commerce, Navarro, Crockett st.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-30

The elite of San Antonio patronizes. Mr..
Bennets show he gives an excellent enter
tainmept and will continue to give two per-
t ,9I1 eacn day aurlCg the fair; they ex
street. The veteran clown and jester Mr..
Peter Conkler still continues his high carni-
val of fun making. The riding is first class
as is also the gymnastic and acre ba tic per
forrnauces. taken all in all 1t Is the best
show for the money tn at ever exhibited un.
der canvas in San Antonio.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-30
A Big Show Indeed.

John RobinSon'S 10 big shows combined,
will positively exhibit at San Antonio on
Wednesday October 18th. Not day
sooner, not day later.
sB Every notice of this show printed in
the columns of this journal, the business
manager of this paper will yOuch for as
being authentic, being in possession of the
papers in which they were originally pub
liShed
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-30
Building Permits.

A. C.. Ayala, stable, Ward l.
G. A. Besse, dwelling. Ward 3.
Mrs. A. c. de San Miguel, gallery, Ward
|, $500.
Geo. Hall, dwelling, Ward 6.
w. M. Whey, dwelling, Ward :.
Jacob Dullnig, stable, Ward l.
G.. II. Mckay, dwelling, Ward :, $209.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-30
Hotel Strike.

All the negro walters at the Menger
hotel, twenty-five in number. walked out
on strike this morning, on account of
the hotel not acceding to their demand
for 50 per day wages. Other waters were
secured, and their places are now filled.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-30

DIR. Weathers not only does a general
practice, but for years has devoted close
study and attention to diseases of child
rem and defies competition for success.
Telephone rs. 9-27-1m.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-13
CuItiyatin@ the Rose,

Rose cultivation. to the amateur gardner,
is beset with difficulties of two kinds, one
being that of injurious insects and The
other that of the necessity of pruning.
The destruction of the insects that usually
infest the rose can be so surely and easily
accomplished that there is little occasion
for any one to forego rose cultivation on
this account. And yet it is true that with
the mass of the people who plant rose
bushes. and to this extent attempt their
cultivation, the Lime upon line" that has
been written On this subject has al
most failed of any good results. The prep
aration to meet the attacks of insects Is
postponed. and when they come it is ike
"a thief in the night. Unless keeping a
close watch for them. before one is aware
thes have accomplished much mischief,
and then. perhaps, instead of acting
promptly to subdue them, at the most
there is orly haif-formed resolution to
be ready for them another year, and they
are left to do their worst. Perhaps, for a
season or two, some flowers are secured
but sooner or later, In many cases, they are
left prey to the insects.
There is no more sa .isfactory plant than
the rose, and none more easily cared for.
An annual enriching of the soil, winter
protection where needed, destruction of
Injurious insects, and proper pruning con-
stitute the essentials of its cultivation
Well rotted stable manure Or the CONNER
cial phosphates will supply the needed
rutriment. A garden syringe, and some
whale oil soap with which to make solu
ton in water, are pretty much all that are
needed to fight insects with; the soap water
will destroy the green fly and the slug ano
keep at bay the little rose hopper. o.
| thrips. and while used princip alIy against
these insects it will impede the work Of
some others. If the leafroller should ap
pear to be active about the time the bud:
are filing, it can be crushed between the
leaves, looking the bushes over carefully
for this purpose. The correct pruning Of
roses must be baised on the fact that the
flowers are produced ON the wood To keeE
| up a supply of new wood is the point to be
| aimed at, and it must be done systemati
ca,ly every year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-13
The "PrOtitSv at Harvard.

An amusing bit of story comes from
Harvard. and is vouched for genuine. A
western business man, who had all his
life heard of the university, and now that
he had won money and leisure, wished to
see it for himself, writes Arlo Bates in an
exchange, recently went to Cambridge to
visit it. He found one of the faculty who
was willing to show him about, and to-
gether they did the institution with con-
siderable thoroughness.
The visitor was much interested in what
he saw, and asked good many questions
about the number of students, the terms
of admission, and especially about the tx
penses. When he had seen all that there
was to show him, and all his other ques-
tions had been answered, he put the query
which from his air it was evident he con-
sidered of great Importance. and which
showed how impossible it was for him to
conceive of any great enterprise otherwise
than as scheme for making money.
Il am greatly obliged to you, profess
sor," he said, land there's just one thing
more I'd like to ask you. Who get. the
profits of this concern?'
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-13
PRICES NOT HIGHER.
The Democratic Talk to the Contrary is
Directly Opposed by the Facts.

Said Sir James Kitson, president of
the iron and Steel institute of Great
Britain. to d reporter of the New York
Tribune.
I'VE hope while travelling in the United
States to learn much of the labor saving
appliances which are more developed IN
American works than in British, owing to
the fact that American labor Is so much
higher priced than ours"
And now that the lower priced labor Of
B-4tain is to be supplemented by the
labor-saving appliances of America what
should we do, where would our manufac-
turers be, where would our wage earners
in iron be without a protective tariff !?
Sir James is British free trader. Amari-
can free traders may take the questions
which necessarily grow out of his truth
full admission and answer them as best
they can.
They cannot answer them, but by way
of evasion, they affirm that the tariff, and
specially the new tariff, has advanced the
price of goods to dangerous degree. In
truth the new tariff has reduced duties on
most articles In common use. But even
as to articles on which the duty is aj-
vanced there is no present excuse for a
raise in prices. No goods imported un-
der the new tariff regulations have been
put on the market as yet. Whosoevtr
pleads an excuse for higher price on the
thing sold that there now is a higher
duty on it pleads falsely All goods now
in the market were bought under Ole
duties. If merchants increase the price Of
certain articles because henceforth the
duty on them will be higher then in jus
tee they should reduce the price of the
many other articles which henceforth vii
come in at lower duties, or even without
any duty at all.
Very few traders are asking higher
prices under the new tariff. We have no
heard Of one great retail house making al
advance in price Of articles now peculi
arly in demand we note that stoves anc
cast iron vessels of all kinds undergo re
duction of duty, and the grades of sugar
used for preserves either are made duty
free or are subject to a greatly reduced
duty The average expenditures OF a
household cannot be increased for the cur
rent year by the operation of the new
tariff. A year hence they ought to be re
duced as result of the competition which
it is likely TO create between new and en-
larged manufactures.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-13

poorwlll creek, and 1t Is poor season when
Hoose doesn't secure deer and skins enough
to keep him and his folks through the sun.
mer He OVID E cow, an old horse, a
!, Ia Il OF chicken 393r three hogs, and sew
eral dogs But MS INST valuable property,
ne says, Is repe9' and two dozen
steel traps.
One day tins me use s cow wander
ed into the woods and staid all night, and
the next morning Hoose shouldered his
I>yiha and vent up the creek in search CT her.
la the course Of an hour Hoose reached
the mout-. of dark glen on the north side
of South mountain. and sat down on q
fallen tree to rest. While he sat he heard
bear believing up the glen. The sound
came nearer and nearer, and Hoose got up
on the log and cooked his rife. In a min
ute big panther came trotting through the
bushes with a squealing cub bear IN It's
mouth. 1t carried the cub as a cat does a
mouse, and 1t didn t seem to be in a great
hurry to get out of the glen.
Close at the panther S heels waddled the
wailing mother bear. She was evidently
afraid to tackle the panther, and the
panther appeared to know it. But pres
entity the panther put the cub on the
ground as if to get better hold on its
neck, when the bear plunged at the panther
and caught it around the body just in front
of its hind legs. Like fash the panther
flung the cub into the air, yanked itself
loose, and pitched into the bear. The
bear knocked the panther to one side, and
a second stroke sent the big cat flying into
the bushes But at this stage of the fight
the cub squealed once more, and the mother
bear, seeming to forget every thing out her
young one, rushed to its rescue, She had
not taken more tnan three or four steps
when the panther sprang at her throat
again. Its aim was true, for it settled the
claws of its forefeet in the bears shoulder
and its teeth IN her neck. The bear strug-
ged hard to shake the panther off, but she
couldn't do it. Soon the panther tore the
bears entrails out with its hind claws, and
then it leaped away and went to smelling
after the cub.
Hose didn't wait any longer after that.
He fred three Winchester bullets into the
panther, killing it. The cub lay dead, the
panther's teeth having crushed the tender
bones in its neck A little way Up the glen
the hunter found the bears nest with a
live cub in it, which he carried home. He
didn't find his cow that day, but two days
later he ran across her rema rs in a gorge
four miles from where he had shot the
panther She had been killed and partly
devoured by panthers, which, he says, are
thicker IN that region than he has known
them to be IN a number of years.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-13
Improving the Farm.

In some respects farms always tend to
depreciate in value. This is especially
true of the personal property that is nee
essary in running them to advantage.
Buildings and fences are always getting
out of repair. If not painted frequently
houses and barns soon get that rundown
look that greatly detracts from the value
of the farm on which they are located.
During the past few years the low prices
of farm products have suspended many
farm improvements, and have even caused
much greater economy in keeping up APP
pearances. AS result IN going through
the country the neatly kept farm that was
once common has become scarce, and in
most cases where farms are kept up the
owner has either exceptlonable ability as
farmer or has other sources of income
than the farm itself
We believe that neatness pays. 1t is
merely paraphrase of the old motto,
what is worth doing at all Is worth do
ing WE'LL Lack Of promptness and vigil
lance on the farm costs more than any
where else. Its In doing work, in Sc
curing crops and in DESTROYING weeds that
little delay enormously increases the labor
necessary We have often seen one weed
of the charlock or wild mustard that a
minutes time would have destroyed allow
ed to seed. and in few years not merely
that field, but every part OF the farm. will
be infested with the pest. The one thing
that the farmer cannot afford to do is to
| try to cultivate more ground than he can
keep free from weeds. If they are once
allowed to get the advantage an enormous
addition to labor of all future cropping is
involved. besides after all is done ma
terial reduction of the crop. Perhaps the
worst effect of the long continued depres
sion in farming is due to the fact that 1t
made farmers careless about weeds, or
even rendered it impossible to keep their
| farms clean.
This era of depression is apparently
passing by. Farmers are generally feel
ing and writing with more of hope,
| though there are many places where the
season has not proven as favorable as If
promised early in the spring. The fact
that grain prices are considerably better
| is at least encouraging. If the farmer, by
reason of bad crops this year, is not
able to get all the advantage he ought
from better prices, he can hope for better
success next time Now. the question for
the farmer to consider is in what direction
| he should direct his efforts. On this point
the most obvious advice is the best. What
the farmer wants is larger crops at lessen
ed cost of production. This gives him
more money, and with money all other
improvements may follow as fast as he
| chooses. Fertilizers, understanding and
improved stock are the improvements that
pay, always taking care to cultivate nc
more land than can be managed In the
best way. This method brings the money.
and the improvements which pride sug
gests, and which look mainly to keep vi
appearances, can well be subordlnated tt
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-13
DIR. GunsauIus to the Small Boy.

Single small boys, boys in squads, and
forty-fve in a body from the Waits Mis-
sion, No. A State street, crowded into
Central Music Hail Sunday night. There
were | 900 or more youngsters. some with
clean countenances, many with solled
features, but all intent on hearing DR..
Gunsaulus' sermon.
Every seat was filed by 7:45 o'clock and
there were present fewer of those whom
Mrs. Frank Leslie denominates ''the better
classes of America. In a few weeks more
the Music Hall Sunday night gatherings
will be composed almost wholly of those
for whom the gospel-m lettings were started
= the people who Tyr etson OF wearing poor
clothes, or Discrimination to travel any
great distance to hear the gospel preached,
do not attend church. The singing last
night by the quartet was, as usual, excel
lent, although possibly trife too profound
for the main body of the listeners. ''Re-
turn to the Lord" and Let not your heart
be troubled were the selections of the
choir, and after the sermon Mr.. Walter
Emerson gave the bass solo, Rocked in
the Cradle of the Deep.
The congregational singing was led by
an athletic and enthusiastic young man,
and was participated in and enjoyed by
everybody. "Stand Up for Jesus and
The Old. Old Story were the numbers.
For his Scripture reading Dr. Gunsaulus
chose the story in the first chapter of John,
of the convincing of Nathaniel in his pref
udice of the Messiahship of Christ. The
basis of the sermon was the often-repeated
inquiry of the skeptical Nathaniel found in
the forty-sixth verse of the chapter:
Can there any good thing come out of
Nazareth?
Nathaniel" said the clergyman, rep
resents d man whose prejudices are look
ing through large ideas; large Intellectual
ly, but small morally. He was expecting a
political Messiah, one whose success should
be sudden and great.
Continued DR.. Gunraulus MANY peo-
pie do not look for truth unless it comes
with a boom Truth never enters the
world with brass band. It comes in
silence"
He went on to describe Nazareth as be-
ing the abode of plain people; a cross
roads town, with no heroes, no great men,
and no pedigrees. Truth always comes
by way of Nazareth. The aristocracy may
live without, but you cannot exclude God
Almighty from Nazareth. Poor men, born
in poverty, surrounded by limitations, and
obliged to develop their souls are the ones
who become great. This is the trouble
with city life. Men cannot be alone with
themselves. One who is born in luxury
dissipates his personality. The rich young
man is to be pitied. Greatness cannot be
developed behind lace curtains and upon
velvet carpets. From the back street, the
country towns, come the men who do the
greatest good to the city and the common
wealth. Nazareth is the reserve power Of
the world The poor boy in his poverty
| marks IN mower -
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-13
L. S. ST. P. gu.
These Letters are the Initials of the
New Line through Wyoming and
Idaho to the Pacific Northwest

This line is composed of the
Chicago, ST. Paul, Minneapolis &
Omaha and Union Pacific Rail-
ways, and reaches more Far
Western Cities than any other line
as follows:
Haley, Boise City, Lewiston,
Moscow and principal Idaho
points.
Walla Walla, Colfax, Farming
ton, Rockford, Spokane Falls and
numerous Washington points.
Baker City, Pendleton, Portland
and principal Oregon points.
Ogden and Salt Lake City, the
largest points in Utah.
San Francisco, Los Angeles and
all California points from Mt.
Shasta to San Diego.
And this line also reaches Butte,
Anaconda and many other points
in Montana.
Also note that by this line
accommodations are furnished in
Pullman Family Sleeping Cars at
very low rates to holders of
second-class tickets going to
Washington, Oregon and Califor-
MIA.
When you get ready to go
West, before deciding upon your
route, call on agents of c., St. P.
M. & O. Rv., who will cheerfully
furnish rates and information
about through car service over
the LAKE Superior, St. Paul G.
Union Pacific Line" and connec
tons, or for pamphlets and map
address
T. w. TEASDALE.
Gen'l PassengerAgent, St. Paul.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-13

worn to the onick. is worthy. of honor
She is honored by the few, and it depends
on herself whether the world also, honor
her. If every woman whose duty binds
her to the kitchen would magnify her of
fee by herself, believing in the import
ance and dignity of her work, it would
not be long before others would aeknowl-
edge it. A grander result would be the
change from useless discomfort TO life OF
conscious usefulness, better work and a
greater sum of human happiness. The
quickened spirit, moreover, might find a
way to taste of other springs of JOY and
satisfaction. Who knows2