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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-22
Daniel in the Lyons Den.

Some years ago poor Irishman living
in Virginia came into possession of an oil
painting representing Daniel in the
Lions Den, and as the painting was much
admired Pat thought he would travel
about from town TO town and exhibit and
explain the historical points of his
picture. He stood before an enlightened
audience and explained as follows:
Ladies and gintlemin here is Deniel in
the lyons din, the large sphace bechune
Deniel and the lyon is the din: they call it
the lyons din because it was the lyons
residence altogether. Av course the era
tur to the rare is the lyon himself and the
divil in him is rising at the sight of
Deniel and the fact that he had nothing
to ate at all for tin days, do not same to
make him willing to mind his own bust
ness and lit poor Deniel alone. Thare
sits poor Deniel here, ladies and gintle-
min and there sits the lyon there. The
lyon is not afraid of Deniel, not at all, it
is Deniel that is afraid of the lyon, be-
cause Deniel knows if the lyon was to
bite him he would fale it rale plain. If
Deniel was to escape, the lyon would fale
rale sorry, but Deniel would fale a hape
betther. The longer Deniel remains
the worse it for Deniel and the betther
for the Lyon. If Delisl should escape,
the Lyon would fale lOike one of us whin
the ChrishtmiSh churkey Shud pity away
from the plate on the table and lave moth
ing but the cranberry sauce and the
plate; av coorse he'd be afther taking the
shutting wud him. Now ladies and GIN
tlemin, whin yez preSint yersilves here
chumorrOw avenin, I'll explain how De-
mel escaped and whit down to Uncle I'm
erSon and bought a WATERBURY watch
and gun, for he might mate the same
Lyon again, but not if the time on his
Waterbury watch would prevint, and if it
should not he would have something wud
him to make it pliSent for the Lyon.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-22
The Colony at Suffers Fort.

Most of the labor was done by Indians,
chiefly wild ones, except a few from the
missions, who spoke Spanish. The wild
ones learned Spanish so far as they learned
anything, that being the language of the
country, and everybody had to learn some.
thing of it. The number of men employed
by Suffer may be stated at from 100 to 500
the latter number at harvest time.
Among them were blacksmiths, carpenters,
tanners, gunsmiths, vaqueros, farmers,
gardeners, weavers Ito weave coarse wooden
blankets), hunters, sawyers ito saw lum-
Der by hand, a custom known in England),
sheep herders, trappers and, later, mill
wrights and distiller.-Gen. Bidwell in
Century
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-22

One of the most delicious love letters
that the listener has ever read was inter
cepted the other day by teacher in one of
the public schools. The boy who wrote it
was 10 years old, and the girl presumably
of the same age. Here is the charming
missive:
DEAR EMMA love you and / wish
you would write to me love you and ]
wish l could kiss you. Emma you look so
rosy. l love you, don't you love me?
wish you would write to me. / guess you
love me. don't care if you don't, will
write to you anyway. want you to write
to me and if you have no lead pencil will
give you one and some paper. am so
glad that you love me- Emma, did you
tell that boy that lives beside your house
that you was going to slap my nose?
Emma, could not help but cry when that
boy told me. Emma, l thought you
thought more of me. | have given you
about twenty-five cents worth of candy,
and you don't treat me well, besides give
you some gum"
There is no doubt about the condition OF
that boy. He is in love. He may be only
10 years old, but if he lives to be 100 he will
never be any more in love than he was
when ne penciled this letter.-Boston
Transcript.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-22
QUEER LOOKING CREATURES.
Pierre Lott Describes the Personal APP
,earance of Japanese Women.


Vecy ugly, those poor little japanese
women. prefer to make this brutal state
ment at once, to alternate it later with
mincing prettiness, graceful drollery, ador-
able little hands, and then rice powder,
rose and gold on the lips, all manner of
articles.
Hardly any eyes at all, so little as to be
almost nothing; two narrow Sits, oblique
and diverging, where roll willy or Cabling
eyeballs, as between the barely opened lids
of those cats whom the glare of daylight
makes weary.
Above those little updrawn eyes-but
very far above, highly perched-are out
lined the eyebrows, as fine as pencil! marks
and not at ali oblique, not at all parallel
with the eyes that they accompany so
badly, but straight on the same line. con-
trary to what it has been the custom to
represent in our European pictures when
ever the artist has had to portray a Jap
anese woman.
believe that the particular strangeness
of those little faces of women is entirely
due to that disposition of the eye, which is
general, and also to the development of
the cheek, which is always swollen to
roundness like dolls; moreover, in their
pictures, the artists of the country never
fail to reproduce, exaggerating them even
to improbability, those characteristic signs
of their race
The other features are much more
changeable, varying with individuals, and
especially with social conditions. Among
the common people the lips remain thick,
the nose fat and short; among the nobil-
ity the mouth becomes thinner, the nose
longer and finer, sometimes even curves in
the shape of a slender eagles beak.
There is no country where the feminine
types are so clearly defined between differ
ent castles. Brown peasant women, bronzed
like Indians, we'll balanced on their slim
waists, plump and muscled beneath their
everlasting dresses of blue cottonade; etiol
lated women of the cities, real diminutives
of women, white and wan like sckly Eu-
ropeans, with l know not what of hol-
lowed, of undermined, beneath the flesh,
which is the sign of races that are too old
all these working women Of the great
cities seem to have been worn out, heredi-
tarily worn out before their BIRTH by too
long a continuity of labor, and of tension
of mind over minute trifies.
1t seems as though upon their frail forms
weighed all the WEAKNESS or having con-
stantly produced since centuries those
millions of baubles, those innumerable lit
tie works of eXhausting patience of which
Japan is full. And among the princesses
the refining influence of aristocracy, so far
back does it date, has finished by fashion
ing extraordinary little artificial persons,
with childish hands and busts, whose
painted faces, whittier and pinker than
fresh bonbon, indicate no age Their smile
is far away, like that of ancient idols; their
updrawn eyes have an expression of both
youth and death.-Pierre Lott in Harper's.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-22

Humanity has passed through various
stages. Once the hour of glory belonged
to the Greeks and to the subtle Romans.
who themselves were born of the fall of
nations still more ancient than their own.
Our era commenced with Jesus Christ,
and since then we have agitated vast prob
lens and made marvellous inventions. We
have applied ourselves to the task of rem.
dering life more sweet to mankind, in Gre
ating for him an intelligent and robust
auxiliary. Antiquity had slaves, but we
made them freedmen, and we invented
that admirable slave to our will which
palpitateS with it's multiple and complica-
ted organs, which accomplishes gigantic
undertakings and duties, but which does
not suffer to fill their places, and it is
known as machinery.
The days of orators have passed away;
the gardens of the academies are about to
become cornields, and if Christian had
not interfered the Garden of Olives would
have been turned into casino Rhetoric
and mysticism are old words that are only
used accidentally in America; and whether
Europe likes it or not America represents
the formula Of modern progress. Indeed
Europe feels this so much that she is i'm
itating us, to the great despair of platonic
lovers of the good old days.
Yes, Europe is becoming Americanized.
Henry Haynie in New Orleans Picayune.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-22

good many Things. Iou wrr ne sur.
prised how she can help you.
She will warn you against base fellows
and silly girls. She will prevent you re-
peating some society blunder and foolish
mistake in your attire. She will detect
whether you are losing ground with your
customers or employers and give you word
in season; you had better heed her, too.
She will see tomorrow palmer than you
do yesterday She sees by flashes where
you plod in slow reasoning
There are few of us who do not have occa-
sion to remember the softening, refining
society of some gentle girl friend along our
path; real friend, whose pretty head
stands out along the memory lands, sur.
rounded with halo almost as bright as the
head that is now growing gray at our side
almost, not quite.-New York Weekly.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-22
TRUSTEES SALE.

Whereas, Green Stinson. of Wilson County,
State of Texas. d d on the 10th day of No
vember, A. H., 1885. by his certain Deed of
Trust, recorded in Volume X on pages 544, $40,
$40 and 54T of the Records of Wilson county,
State of Texas, convey to the undersigned, II.
Z. Barnard, Trustee, for the purpose of Sc
curing the payment of the debt therein
described, the following lands. tO-wit:
That certain lot, tract, or parcel of land,
lying, situate and being in the county of Will
son and State of Texas, known as Subdivision
No. of the Campbell-Longley Survey in said
County, said Subdivision No. containing
ninety.six 1867 acres Of land. more particularly
described as follows: Beginning at the S. W.
corner of Subdivision No. 2, belonging to
Green Stinson; thence N. "a degrees E. 1910
Varas to the n. E. corner of this subdivision;
thence s. 10 degrees f. 52l varas to the south
east corner of this subdivision: thence S. "A
degrees west 1910 varas to the S. w. corner of
this subdivisions; thence N. Is degrees west
52l varas to the place of beginning. Said Sub
division No. 4 being bounded on the north by
IbdivisiOn No. 2, on the east by Subdivision
No. 6, on the west by Subdivision No. IA and
the Pirtle Subdivision, all being subdivisions
of said Campbell-Longley Survey, in Wilson
County, Texas.
whereas, said debt is now past due, and re-
mains wholly unpaid; and whereas the owner
of said debt has requested me to execute the
said deed of trust according to its terms:
Now, therefore, l, the said H. e. Barnard.
BY virtue of the power in me vested by said
deed of trust, and at the request of the owner
of said promissory notes therein described,
will sell the aforesaid property to the highest
bidder for cash, at public auction, before the
door of the Courthouse of Bexar County,
Texas, between the hours of ten o'clock a. m.
and o'clock p. M, on Tuesday, January 9th,
1891; and after such sale, will, in the name of
Green Stinson. execute TO the purchaser or
purchasers deed to said property.
This Notice of Sale has been duly and legal
ly posted in Wilson County, Texas, as the law
requires for judicial sales.
Done and dated this the 10th day of Deem
Der. A. D., 1890.
l2-I0 cit II. E. BARNARD, Trustee,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-22
redhoG irons without even as mucn as &C.
celebration of the skin.
Revolution in diamond Mining.

A writer on the subjecl of the dimond
supply of the world, which is steadily in
creasing, and which can be regarded as an
index OF how much of its surplus earnings
it can afford TO spend yearly in this partic
ular form of luxury. says that the romance
of diamond mining is all gone. 1t is now
a matter of excavating vast beds of blue
clay by machinery, washing it and sitting
out the diamonds, which, after being
roughly sorted for size, are sold in hulk by
weight. The men who do the work are
mere laborers, and their pay is proportion.
atoly small.-New York Commercial Ad-
rertiser.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-22

81 suppose you meet some queer custom
ers?" recently asked of bright salesman
in one of the large New York book stores
Indeed we do" he retoined, "and my
experience alone would fill book of fun
1t was only the other day that a man
rushed in here in dripping Precipitation,
and with an intense, strained expression
on his face-an expression that gave way
to one of despair as he exclaimed, There, !
knew it. My wife told me to get book
My memory is poor, but | thought could
remember the title About half way here
l felt it slipping, so hurried fast; but it is
no use; it's gone And all ! could do for
him wouldn't bring it back Edward w
BOk's Letter.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-22
me Pulpit and the Stage.

Rev: +. NJ. Shrout, Pastor United
says: 81 feel it my duty to tell what Won
ders DIR. Kings New Discovery has done
for me- My lungs were badly diseased,
and my parishioners thought could live
only few weeks. took five bottles of
DIR. Kings New Discovery and am sound
and well, gaining 20 lbs. In weight"
Folks Combination, writes: AFTER a
thorough trial and convincing evidence,
] am confident DIR. Kings New Discovery
for consumption, beats EN- all, and cures
when everything else fails. The greatest
kindness ] can do my many thousand
friends is to urge them TO try it, Free
trial bottles at DreisS, Thompson e. Co. s
drug store. Regular size SOC and $l.OO,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-22
Mrs. Beecher,s Marriage Vows.

1 have seen much of life and in almost
all of it's wonderfully changing aspects, and
/ am convinced that the joys and the sor.
rows, the crosses and the crowns in mar
ried life are about equally divided between
the husband and the wife. l am confident
that nothing will right all the wrongs and
bring order out of the confusion eminating
from the many disturbing questions that
are constantly arising as the shelter of the
true home ruled over by husband and
wife in all loving confidence, and unitedly.
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher in Ladies'
Home Journal.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-22
No Color Line.

An Ohio poet recently wrote a pathetic
poem about the little red school houses in
that state. When the poem appeared some
heartless Gradgrin went to work and in
vestigated the color of the school houses,
finding that out of 1872 only two were red
But the poet was not entirely annihilated,
for he got of the chustnut that his poem
was read if the school houses weren't
New York Tribune.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-22
How Moving Air Looks.

In photographing projectiles in motion
no results Of any importance are obtained
till the velocity of the shot exceeds that OF
sound. But at higher speeds wave of
compression is found preceding the bullet
in its fight. The shape of this wave is q
hyperboloid of revolution, with the apex
some distance in front of the shot. Behind
the projectile there is conical wave
formed, the angle of which is less the
greater the velocity.-New York Times.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-22
Test of a Rubber Coat.

Rubber coats are often condemned be-
cause they are found damp on the inside
after wearing. A little experimenting will
show that this occurs as often on dry days
as on wet days. A reliable test for coat
is to place it over an empty pail and pour a
gallon Of water on the rubber side. In a
waterproof garment no moisture will ap-
pear on the other side.--New York Com
mercial Advertiser.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-22
Ne Was Rich.

A boy ''sassed" man in Liverpool, En-
gland, and the man cuffed his ears. Two
days later the boy died, and the cuffer be-
ing rich man was sued for $50, 600 dam
ages. 1t took him only one day to secure
evidence that the boy died from being run
over by vehicle on the street.--Detroit
Free Press
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-22
Distresslng.case and AHappy:Cure

Distressing.Case and AHappy.Cure
For over a year, have.had break
ing out on my leg, which troubled
me SO bad could not walk, leg bad
ly swelled, of a purple color, with
eruptions so bad that blood would
Ooze out If bore my weight on it.
/ was recommended to try Clark's
Extract of Flax Papillon) skin Cure,
which L have done. My leg is now
well and can walk two miles on it
without any trouble. Signed, A d.
Hayward. e r-.
Clark's Flax Soap. makes the SKIN
soft and prevents chapping. Skin
Cure S1.00. Soap Is cents. For sale
by F.Kalteyer d Son. (6Iy.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-22

An artificial ivory of creamy whiteness
and great hardness is now made from good
potatoes washed in diluted sulphur;c acid,
then boiled in the same solution until they
become solid and dense; they are finally
washed free from the acid and slowly
dried, and may be dyed. turned and made
useful in many ways.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-22
Young DIan, CO a Prettr Girl Friend.

Young Man, Get Pretty Girl Friend.
The pretty, wise head of a pure hearted
girl friend can help a young man inn
mensely.
Perhaps nothing will ever come of it in
the shape of affianeing, but if you know
such dear, sharp eyed creature, my boy,
just you value her friendship highly.
Be sure you live so as to deserve and
keen her friendship. Then consult her on
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-22
Accounted For.

Mrs Longwedde-Such charming hus-
band as Mrs. Won Pickel has! So tender,
after ten years of marriage!
Mr.. Longwedde-Quite natural. Itwould
make a rhinOceros tender to be kept in hot
water for ten years.-Pittsburg Bulletin.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-22
Exnensiva Economy.

She-You paid 50 for pair of gloves!
could have gone uptown and got the same
thing for So cents.
He-I don't doubt it, But you would
have bought yourself something for ten or
fifteen dollars TO go with them.--Nunsey's
Weekly
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-22
PRESTON,S HEDuAKE.

Judge j. II. McLeary, dex-Att'y Gen'l of
Texas and Past Grand Master of Masons, says:
cit (Hed-Ake) is the best medicine for head
ache 1 ever saw" Cures anyheadache. For
ale by aid riIggists. soc.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-22
ArverysLarge Percentage.

OF the American.people are troubled with
most annoying, troublesome and disagreeable
complaint called "Catsrrh." 1t is not neces-
sary to be so troubled. 1t is den onstrated
beyond rquestion that Clarke's Extract of
Flax Papillion) Cstarrh Cure Immediately re-
loves and permanently cures Catarrh. A
Use Clark's Flax Soap for the Skin. Ca
tarrh Cure 81. Soap 10 cents, at Kalteyer Il
Son drug store. ly ~
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-22

Canes, all styles, silver and gold, first
quality heads, snake wood, Malacca, and
Ebony sticks. Finest assortment in
stock. Bell Bros. Commerce street. 1t
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1890-01-31
NOS.
SMILES EIsONx Hs4AEssON.

The farmers ARE bdey preparing
their land for another crop.l5 6tIi 6f{i &
", ~ Married, % WedpesasN The 18th
inst, at, The, resid,nos Of Mr. Willie
Adams, BY Rev. G M Boyd Mr..
Arch, Stubs, Of Robson county, N.
q, to Mrs. Ella III, Hubbard, Of
lBrigbttsyille,. ,Wliie wiah them, 4 long
and happy. life, A, 85 ,Ft. .5, iss. 81
We sympathize with Mr.. T.. n II.
Stafford in the loss ofthis fine buggy
horsesli i6 As,if 4 81 S9$I .8H & q t it,s h
Rev. w. III, Breedcn filled the pul-
pit at Bethel last Sunday morning /;
Rev. Thomas Wise in the afterns1n.
We we're panied t. learn Of the
death Of our old and esteemed friend,
Mr. !, Fl. lIpckabee.
Mr.. 10. 3D. Webster and wife, Of
Stat esvi'ie, M G., 4 are visiting mis- mis-
father, Mr.. M O. Webster.f 8bips
News very scare. More anon.
January ~, f1s9o.sld 9s5 5a Boy.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1890-01-31
KILLED by the Hnitiation.
A MINISTER FATALLY INJURED WHILE
RECEIVING A MASONIC DEGREE,

HUNTINGTON, w. Va. Jan. 49,
Rev. J. w. johnson, pastor Of the Meth.
odist Episcopal church, died at the par.
sonage Sunday from injuries received
on Friday evening last, when. in com.
pany with Rev. w. +. Marshall, he was
passing through the initiation cercmo-
MES OF the Royal Arch degree in the
Huntington chapter ol the Royal Arch
Masons. During the ceremony it seems
that it was necessary that he should de>
scend a vault thirteen feet deep by
means OF rope tackle suspended from
the ceiling above. Two other men had
descended the vault previously, one OF
them being Rev. Mr.. Marshall, After
preparing the tackle, Rev. Mr.. Johnson
started to descend, when the Knot las,
tening the tackle to the lower block
gave way, and Mr.. Johnson Tell to the
Bottom Of the vault. Medical aid was
summoned. and bis injuries seemed te
be, Of painful. though not dangerous
nature. He was removed to his home
and received careful attention. but NJ
gradually sank and died. Elmira IN, Y.
Telegram.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1890-01-31
L,a,v I'm the Family.

y ! ! +,
People are always glad to shift
responsibilityand shirk unpleasant
duties. The growth Of the State
has d@arfed the yery foundation of
the State tle skliaati IN s! InMstIiissR 81 j Rgood
old time when the average Ameri-
can considered himself an all.round
man, able to take care Of himself
and lick anything in sight, every
family had a head In those days
the head OF the family made him
self felt. He taught his youngsters
morals and manners at the flreside,
and kept his eyes vide open. Now
it is different. Tho nominal head
Of the family looks to the State to
keep his boys from carrying pistols,
playing cards, buying cigarettes
and whiskey, and he expects them
to get all their morals and deport-
nent from churches and public
schools. X
The new system is not working
we'll. The State, the church and
the public school cannot entirely
take the place Of the old-fashioned
daddy who held himself responsible
for his children, taught them what
was right, and wore them out with
hickory when they went wrong.
What is wanted is not so much
outside law, but moro law and Or
dor in the family. Men are made
or marred at the fire side. No arti.
ficial daddy with parcel Of statn.
tues, formal fllub-dub and text
books can take the place Of the
natural daddy with his love and
common sense, and big hickory,
When q man makes the right kind
Of laws for his own family and exc
cutes them, he need not bother
himself aboutStatc laws and courts
His boys will never need the legis.
laturo, bench Of Judges, and .
sherilf's posse to keep then. straight
ATLANTA Constitution.