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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-01
The LapIanders' Bible.

From the Boston Transcript.
The Lapps have the Bible in their
own tongue, aud few stories are more
interesting than the account of its
translation. Over thirty years ago q
series Of religious riots took place in q
number of villages in Lapland, and
among the rioters was one Lars Haet-
ia. During the riots several homi-
cides committed and Lars and some
others of his companions were COM
mitted to prison on charge of muir
der. They were found guilty and
several were hanged, but in consid er-
alton Of his youth Hsetta was
been nearly drowned agree in the
statement that after few moments
of dainful struggle feeling of tran
quillity ensues.
"The suffering il while the resus-
citated person is being brought back
to consciousness. Then it is he often
suffers physical pain and mental
misery. 1t Is q merciful dispensation
of God and nature that when the last
moments of the dying man are at
hand vital forces give out, and the
long -drawn.out gasps for breath
come and go, the apparent sufferer Is
happily in oomatose condition, and
80 passes painlessly into the other
life.n
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-01
Gaming in the Middle Ages
I'M the Westminster Review.

From the westminster Review.
During the Middle ages gaming be-
came q more and more fashionable
form of amusement. and we find in
the records that the vice was greatly
INDUCED in by the clergy. Not only
that, but in the fifteenth century we
read of an abbass being tried by the
eccles tiastical authorities for having
systematically gained in her convent.
She pleaded, 1T is curious to note,
guilty to the fact, but demurred that
neither the law nor the rules of the
sisterhoOd obliged her to abstain
from her favorite pleasure. She was,
however, only aquitted on giving a
q promise that she would game no
m re. In England we find that In the
/ fourteenth century the Lord mayor
| and MayOress gave two dicing enter
tainments, when they,in their high
official capacity, held the tables
| against all corners. The letter day hOl-
ders of those offices will not improb.
ably be surprised to hear this.
Gaming was more extensively car
ried on in that early period In Eng
land, France and Italy, and the dice
were in constant requisition. In the
fourteenth century great flip was
given to gaming by the introduction
into Europe Of playing-cards. The ex-
act date Of the Importation is not
known, but the earliest unquestiop
evidence oftheir European existence
is to be found in the Diary of Ac-
counts of Char bot Poupart, who has
the Treasurer of the household at
Charles VI. of France. The diary i.
for 1892 or 1898, and the entry runs Al
follows: Dome a Jacquelain Gringon
neur, peintre pour trois jeux de cartes
or en- diverses cOulers, ornes d.
plusieurs devises, pour son ebatement
cidquante six soils parisis. This re-
fers to painting, or as it is termed
illuminating" cards, and not Il
their introduction.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-01

AS industrials grow more self re-
strainIng, social laws are made more
restrictive. The law that demands q
more perfect restraint than the gen.
eral selt.restraint of community en-
dorses, is only made to be broken and
does more evil ttan good, for it serves
to bring all law into disrepute. 1t is
all very well to say, "enforce the OBJ
noxIous law and 1t will soon be re-
pesled." Experience does not bear
out this assertion. The obnoxious
law is disregarded, no one seeks to
enforce 1t because it is obnoxious and
thus all law comes to be disregarded
There are altogether too many laws.
upon the statute books. Lawmakers
should consider we'll what measures
of restraint can be successfully and
acceptably enforced, make the law
cover that ground and then it's Ell.
forcement is made certain and practi-
cable.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-01
Old Gem Engravers.

From the London Spectator.
| The tools and processes employed
In ancient times In engraving gems
are virtually the same rs those in use
today. The tools were five in numb Der.
The drill worked by bow was the
| chief. It varied In size. was made
| of bronze, and acted in virtue OF
the emery or corundum powder
mixed with oiD with which its
point was smeared. The drill was
occasionally tubular; in that case it's
crown was sometimes set with small
crystals of corundum. The second
tool was a wire saw, made effective
with the same abrading material.
The wheel or disk of bronze was SIM
flarly employed. A file was also used
not of metal, but of mixture of
emery and rosin, heated together,
and then allowed to solidify by cool
ing.
The fifth tool was a graver made by
mounting in an iron or bronze handle
a crystal or crystalline fragrant of
diamond or of sapphire, or sometimes
q piece of rock crystal. AS rule, in
engraving antique gems, and also
those of the cinque ceDto time, the
tool used was worked by the hand,
the stone to be engraved being
fixed. In more recent days the
reverse arrangement Is followed; and,
in consequence, the touch is less free
and the style more mechanical. The
engraved work and the field of gems
were polished by rubbing them with
fine powders, hematite, or red oxide
of iron, having been generally en-
plOyed for this purpose.
Paste was often legitimately used,
but it naturally suggests the subject
of fraud. The ancients were not
inexpert in this branch of art, if il
may be so called. One might say
that the pair of green glass pillars In
the temple Of the Tyrian Hercules
which the priests declared to. Hero
dOtus to be emerald were q gigantic
imposture; but it is not unlikely that
the historian deceived himself.
Of jewelers. frauds, the chief
was the making of "doub-
let," paste backed with a real stone
of greater hardness, but poor color.
The two materials were joined by an
invisible cement, the line of junction
at the girdle of the gem being con-
cealed by the mounting. The alter
alton and ccentuatiOn of the color of
natural stones, particular of the onyx,
by means of various chemicals, is
comparatively recent invent ton, but
the ancients were adopts in the art of
changing the original hue by means
of strong heat
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-01

THE record of railway accidents in
Europe and America do not bear out
the oft repeated charge of gross care
lessness on the part of American COM
panies as compared with foreign
lines. When the length of American
lines and the necessity of cheap con-
struction owing to sparse settlement
and light traffic are taken into con
sideration, the showing is decidedly
favorable for the American railway.
There are fewer casualties east of
Cincinnati than in the same area of
European traffic.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-01

IT is the first DUTY of the state to
protect its citizens. The laborer is
more worthy than his mere wages.
The leasing of convict labor to
come into competition with free labor
is crime against labor, against the
laboring man, outside of all consider
atoms of wages, and the state has no
right to perpetrate it.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-01

The Chilli insurgents wage war
upon the government, do not partici-
pate in the election ordered for a sue
cessor to the president whom they re.
pudiate, and then refuse to accept the
newly elected head of the government
because they did not participate in
his election.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-01

"a SAN ANTONIO has been asking for
deep water where it could be secured
soonest and cheapest, particularly
the soonest. Velasco has it and San
Antonio wants speedy connection
with deep water. 1t is not where, but
what.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-01

THOSE who stand within the shad-
ow of the authority that speaks say
that if the amendments pass, August
18th, Hogg will call an extra session
of legislature, otherwise not. Uncle
Daniel says the extra session will be
called next April.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-01

PREFER is having a good time air
ing his whiskers in Texas He is as
harmless here as he could be any
where. 1t is not in his power to hurt
the republicans or help the demo
Gratis of Texas
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-01

=. CANADIAN JOHN wants the buttered
side of the reciprocity bread every
time, or he will have nothing to do
with the bakery. James G.. Blaine
will not take Sans butter to spread
Johns bread, and there will, there
fore, be no reciprocity treaty with
Canada. Paste this in your hat.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-01

BALMACEDA has laid up immense
treasure in London and his heart is
where his treasure is. AS soon as
B4lmaceda's successor is established
see the old man vamouse.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-01

If weather prophet Foster hits 1t
in his prognostic for early frosts then
southwest Texas will be in it as
usual. Cotton ripens here earliest,
and picking will be over soonest.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-01

WATTERsoN has discovered that
Hill is not to be the candidate of the
democracy in 1892. Hill has discov-
cred that Watterson is not the nation
al democratic convention.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-01

OHIO is for free silver, Cleveland is
not, and yet Cleveland is to stump
Ohio. The plat philosopher will
strain gallus straddling that plank.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-01

CAN the Mckinley bill be attacked
in congress without lighting into the
sugar bounty provisions? If not,
what democrat dare attack southern
sugar interests?
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-01

WILLBARGER county harvests
wheat enough this year to give every
Texan q bushel and the county was
not organized or settled ten years
400
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-01
MO EVASION,

Don't forget that we are sticking to
the letter and spirit of our advertise
ment to close our entire stock of sum-
mer dry goods and clothing at and
below cost. 7-30 tt
JOHN K. BERETTA & Co.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-01
SATURDAY, AUGUST l. 1891.

THE moral reformer who insists on
perfect law or no regulation, always
cries for q whole loaf or no bread.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-01

The sub-treasury scheme will find
many advocates among southern and
western democrats in the national
convention, but 1t will be the Tam.
many crowd who will make the plat
form.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-01

TUosE who are at all familiar with
the history of the old reciprocity
treaty between Canada and the
United States are not hungering and
thirsting after a renewal of the ex-
perimant
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-01

AN old Virginia niger driver
could not whip the Ohio democrats
into line this run OF shad.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-01

KANSAS has an alien land law as
we'll as Texas. In Kansas coal, zinc
and lead lands are exempted from the
operations of the law.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-01

THE zeal of that Houston Law and
Order league is either zeal not &C.
eording to knowledge, or the league
is losing its grip.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-01

RUSSIA and france are not polit-
icaIly agresd and it were in vain TO
publish any bans of marriage be.
tween them.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-01
At a Bargain.

A fine Columbus phaeton buggy; new
only in use short time, can be had at
bargain. Call and See it at Nj. Pigott's,
corner of Houston and Soledad street.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-01

THE wheat trust combine will not
materialize. The alliance never was
successful in engineering more than q
political gas trust.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-01
Health is Wealth!

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no our EASTERN ADVERTISERS.

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TO CORRESPONDENTS


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vu ant ofits carrespondents
Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-08
FOREIGN FLASHES.

A terrific gale in North Wales has
caused great damage to crops.
Emil Treatel, Berlin corn speculator
who recently failed, has committed
suicide.
The vatican has for third time re-
fused to accept Russia's nominees for
vacant bishoprics in Russia.
DR.. Hoist, Prussian magistrate,
while ascending mountain in the Alps,
fell over precipice and was killed.
The American tourist, Carleton Graves,
arrested Saturday last at Mayence,
Germany, on suspicion of being spy,
has been released.
Troops to the number of 10000 have
been ordered to Warsaw. This will
bring the number of Russians on the
Polish frontier up to 100000.
The British bark Fiji, bound from
Hamburg to Melborne has been wrecked
on rocks of Warnambool, Australia, and
thirteen of the crew were drowned.
The Austrian army maneuvers closed
Monday, and the emperor of Germany,
who had been watching them, went to
Munich, accompanied by Chancellor
Caprivi.
The steamer Duarte Castle, in it's
passage from Halifax to Bermuda, en-
countered a severe hurricane. Two sea-
men were washed overheard and
drowned.
The steel works at Bolckow, near
Middlesborough, Yorkshire, are idle,
owing to the absence of orders. Several
thousand workmen are thus thrown out
of employment.
The London board of trade returns for
the month of August, 1891, as compared
with those for the corresponding month
last year, show that imports increased
81, ,426,0O0, and exports, decreased
e., ,251 900.
The international agricultural con-
gress opened at The Hague, Monday.
NJ. Meline was elected president, and
D. +. Salmon, chief of the United
States bureau of animal industry, was
elected vice-president.
Paris Gaulois proposes that the gov
ernment OF France, in concert with the
governments OF other powers interested,
shall send an ultimatum to China in re-
gard to the outrages upon foreigners,
caused by the anti-European riots.
The British steamer Gloucester, from
NOW VI n, AuSubO OO, WulCI las dIIlNSu
at Bristol, had rough voyage. A huge
wave swept her port side cattle sheds
overheard, entailing loss of ffty-one
head of cattle, while the mate was seri-
ously injured.
Shanghai kilograms state that the
powers are forcing China to recognize
the Shanghai armed volunteer body,
which has existed for long time on
sufferance. Chang Jay, governor of
Shang Tung, is dead. He would proba-
bly, have become viceroy if he had lived.
A, A,correspondent writes from San Juan
del Norte that the government of Mic
aragua has issued an order to the gov
ernor of that port not to allow Italian
immigrants to disembark unless their
respectability is officially vouched for.
The correspondent thinks this restric-
tion is in violation of the treaty between
Nicaragua and Italy.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-08
NOT WORTH LIVING.
A Dutch Farm Hands Low
Estimate of Life.
He Suicides Because He Was
Weary of Existence.
A Dynamite Bomb was His Means of
Self-DestructiOn.
He Wanted to Create a Sensation for the
Newspapers and Succeeded "A
Switchman Shot by
Policeman.
Associated Press Dispatches.

SAN FRANcIsco, Sept. IF. L. Carroll
registered at the Prescott house this
morning as VIM. F. DeYoung, of Fresno.
Shortly afterward an explosion which
shook the neighborhood, attracted at
tention to his room, and it was found
that he had committed suicide by ex-
ploding a dynamite bomb. The remains
of the man were scattered all over the
room, and one OF his arms was found in
the street. The windows and plastering
were broken and the furniture damaged.
The deceased had been working on
fruit farms in the vicinity of Fresno.
He told number of persons here that
he intended to take his life, as he wanted
to create sensation for the newspapers,
but in a note which he left giving his
age as Al, and his birthplace as Holland,
he says he committed suicide because
life was not worth living.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-08
HE WANTED TO WED
But She Preferred to Wait
a While.
To Him Life Without a Wife
Was Unendurable.
Therefore He Put an End to This
Mortal Existence.
He First Killed Bis Sweetheart Then
Pumped Himself Full of Lead.
The Desperate Deed of a
Young Doctor.
Associated Press Dispatches.

BLooMNeToN, H., Sept. 7.-Dr.
Charles E. Ballard, of saybrook, ILL.,,
and Miss Bertha Ison, of Baker City,
Oregon, daughter of the late Judge Ison
of that place, were found dead this
morning. DIR. Ballard was young
physician. He came to this city last
Friday, and had ever since been i'm
portuning Miss Ison, who came here
with her mother to attend college, to
marry him. She thought much of him,
but begged him to postpone the event
until after her education was completed.
This morning he appeared at the
house, and had an interview with Miss
Ison in the parlor. While talking with
her he pulled out revolver and shot
her twice, once through the head, and
once in the heart, producing instant
death. The doctor then shot himself
five times, dying in few moments.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-08
SHOULD BE CHANGED.
Delay in Mail Leaving San Francisco
for Los Angeles.

for Los Angeles.
The Southern Pacifc's schedule for
southern trains, which went into effect
about two months ago, has created no
little dissatisfaction among the mer-
chants of this city who have southern
connections, says the San Francisco
Chronicle of Sunday.
Under the old arrangement it was
possible to receive the Los Angeles mail
in this city and answer it in time to
catch the outgoing train for the south.
though little time was left to be lost
Then the last train for the south left
this city at O'Clock in the afternoon.
The Los Angeles express, then as now,
reached here at IL :15 in the morning,
and by 1890 O'Clock the mail had been
assorted over by the postoffice authori-
ties and was on its way to it's final des-
tination. The down town merchants
thus received their southern mail by
o'clock or little later, and had time to
answer it before the mail for the south
closed at the postoffice, which was at
3 80 O'Clock
Inquiry at the postoffice seems to bear
out the merchants statements. Under
the new schedule the mail for the south
accumulates late in the afternoon and
lies there over night, causing a delay
that should be speedily remedied, say
the postal authorities.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-08
A FLOOD MAKER.
The Bad Reputation Given to Salton
Sea.

The Bad Reputation Given to Salton
Sea.
II see that Redlands was flooded
again on Saturday." said Express Mes
senger Hewitt yesterday to a HERALD
reporter. "It's all on account of that
inland lake the HERALD discovered out
at Salton. returned from there yes
terday. Do you know what the evapo-
ration is there now? No? Well, it is
exactly one-eighth Of an inch every
twenty-four hours. That is from sur
face between seventy and seventy-five
miles long and thirty miles wide. One
inch to an acre represents 100 tons, and
so one-eighth of an inch evaporation
from the extent of water mentioned
would mean that from each acre
twelve and one-half tons of water are
absorbed each day into the atmosphere.
All that enormous amount of water is
carried westward by the winds from the
gulf, until on the crest of the interven-
ing mountains it meets the cooler
breezes from the Pacific, and the result
Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-08
TO IMPROVE COOKING RE
CEIPTS.
Useful Information From Some Cele-
brated Adopts in Cooking.


Asa matter of useful information it
may be stated that whenever a cooking
receipt calls for baking powder the
Royal should be used. The receipt
will be found to work better and surer,
and the bread, biscuit. rolls, cakes,
dumplings, crusts, puddings, crullers or
whatever made, will be produced
sweeter, lighter, finer favored, more
dainty, palatable and wholesome. Be
sides, the Royal" will go further or
has greater leavening power, and is
therefore more economical than any
other power.
Many receipts as published still call
for cream of tartar and soda, the cid
fashioned way of raising. Modern
cooking and expert cooks do not sane
tion this old way. In all such receipts
the Royal Baking Powder should be
substituted without fail.
The greatest adopts in the culinary art
are particular to use the Royal only,
and the authors of the most popular
cook books and the teachers of the sue
cessful cooking schools, with whom the
best results are imperative, are careful
to impress their readers and pupils with
the Importance of its exclusive employ
ment. Marion Harland, whose "Com-
mon Sense" cook book is authority in
hundleds of thousands of American
homes, says she regards the Royal
Baking Powder as the best; since its
introduction into my kitchen 1 have
used no other" Miss Parloa, the most
widely known OF our public lecturers
upon the culinary art, says "The Royal
Baking Powder is as good as any can be
use it with great satisfaction" Mrs.
Rorer, principal of the Philadelphia
Cooking School, and a well known
public lecturer. has announced from the
platform "the Royal is the best,'' and
the chef of Delmonico's New York
famous restaurant says he finds the
Royal Baking Powder superior to all
others, and recommends it highly.
The Royal Baking Powder is the
greatest help to perfect cooking oi
modern times, and every receipt requir.
ing raising ingredient should EN-
| body it.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-08
Appraisers Suspended.

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. Z. = Alter a
lengthy conference today between Dis
trict Attorney Graham, City Treasurer
Wright and Auditor General Mccain
mant, in regard to the alleged derelic-
ton OF the five mercantile appraisers,
Patton, Crawford, Hunter, Houseman
and Bell, McCammant notified those
persons that they were suspended from
Office, pending examination of the
charges made against them. City Treas
nrer Wright, endorsed on a letter, that
he believed the order should be one of
dismissal, not suspension, basing his
belief on evidence in his possession.