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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-02-12

1t was "A neat trick A man standing in
a wagon was selling two dollar bills in a
new pocketbook for 81, the pocketbook
thrown in. A few of them went to the as
sistants and few more to genuine buyers,
After three or four of the latter sort had
been sold five dollar bill was put into an
exceptionally fine wallet and offered fol
sale for s.. A man bought it.
Now, you put that in your pocket and
walk across the street before you open it, y
said the vender.
The buyer, stupid fellow, did nothing
of the sort. He opened it at once and OF
course found it empty. Then he raised a
hue and cry.
"Oh, here your money is'" explained the
fakir, with a mirthless laugh. 81 must
have made a mistake. Give me the pocket
book and I'll put it in"
The book was returned.
Now" he continued, sitting down and
taking the bill in his hand "do you SET
thist"
EYES," replied the deceived
"Well, you'll never see it again. Get up
Roxie." And the horse almost ran over a
fat banker who had stopped to see the fun
and the rig disappeared around the corner
for the day. New York Telegram.
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Points on Etiquette for Men.

There are observances needed to give
grace and finish to mans demeanor. One
of these is the prompt removal OF the hat,
not only when meeting an acquaintance on
the street or on coming into the house, but
at other times-in horse car when ten.
dering a seat to lady and when she &C
knowledges the kindness by bow or word,
in an elevator or a hotel corridor when a
woman is present, and when kissing a
woman, be she only ones wife, sister OF
daughter.
There are other things which every man
ought to know-trities, perhaps, but of
consequence in making or marring the
ease of others. Among them are the grace
full customs of rising when lady enters
the room and remaining standing until
she is seated; of opening the door for a
lady and then stepping aside while she en-
tiers or leaves the room.
Among the small but unpleasant man.
nerisms which vex the housewives soul is
the custom hosts have of urging their
guests to take second supply by the as
surance, "There is plenty more where this
came FROM" or '"There is great quantity
here" Every house keeper resents this re-
mark as an implication that there has
sometimes been a scarcity of supplies
Harper's Bazaar.
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Comfort i'm Shoes.

A retired shoe dealer, whom mercenary
considerations no longer deter from giving
advice as to the proper care of shoes" says:
A pair of shoes made of good leather will
last much longer if properly cared for than
when neglected. When shoes are only
blacked the leather soon becomes hard and
dry, the best fitting pair will be uncomfort-
able, and here and there little cracks will
appear, which will soon become chasms.
Every week or two the backing should be
wiped off with a damp cloth, the shoe
should be allowed to dry, and then be
rubbed with the best harness oil
% Every part, including the sole and the
seams, should be oiled, and the oil given a
chance to soak in. The toughest leather
can be made soft in this way, and good
leather will, after this treatment, feel like
kid. The shoe will wear three times as
long and be much more comfortable.-New
York Commercial Advertiser.
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The woodpecker's Store House.

While walking through the Museum Of
Natural History at Central park recently
| saw in one Of the glass cases part of a
cedar telegraph pole thickly perforated
with holes. On inquiry l learned that
these holes had been dug in the pole by the
California woodpecker, for the purpose of
storing acorns for it's winter food. Some
of the acorns may still be seen in the pole,
although most of them had been extracted
before it was cut down.
1t has long been known that these busy
workers store acorns in the bark of stand
ing trees, but the use of telegraph pole
for this purpose is an entirely new selec.
ton, and while perhaps the feathered ger,
try find it very convenient storehouse,
their method of taking possession is de-
cidedly damaging to the telegraph pole.
There is a cousin of this same bird in
Mexico who has discovered that the stalk
of the aloe makes a much better storehouse
than trees or telegraph poles, besides saw
ing him a great deal of labor. The aloe
after Towering dies, but the hollow stalk
remains standing. The flinty texture of
the stalk is easily pierced through to the
central cavity by the woodpecker, who then
thrusts in an acorn, then another and an
other, until the hollow space is filled to the
level of the hole.
He then makes a second opening higher
up and thrusts in more acorns until the
level of that hole is read. So he proceeds
all the way up the stalk until it is COM
pletely filled with acorns. Often aloes
thirty miles distant from the nearest oak
tree have been found stored in this way,
involving a journey for the birds of sixty
miles for each acorn stored.
All this good work is turned to use in
times of famine, when not only the wood
peckers but other birds and even animals
live on this preserved food.-St. Nicholas.
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What LAWYERS Are For.

One of Mr.. Gould's attorneys went to
him not long ago to explain that some act of
himself AID his Missouri Pacific board was
illegal and had got the company into trou-
BILE. "Mr Gould" said he, cit seems to
me you should have consulted yoSr legal
advisers before doing this. Any lawyer
would have told you that it was illegal"
Mr.. Gould hung his head a minute and
then raised it and said Eyes, know you
would have advised against it, and that's
the reason didn't consult you. But the
thing is done and it can't be undone, and
now it's for you lawyers to get us out of
the scrape the best way you can. That's
what we keep lawyers for. st. Louis
Globe Democrat.
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THE PIcKPocKET'S ART.
A Deretee Dilstes Upon the Beauties and
Intrlcacies of the Business.

Intricacies of the Business.
There is no class of artists, said re
nowned thief, who in their calling are a.
dexterous as pickpockets. This is due 10
double incentive Not only does your
pickpocket find bait for effort ana eAer
ton in success, but has the added spur VI
| fear of failure. Success means as much
| to a pickpocket as to any man, ana lalIure
| means a great deal more. A vocation III
| which the slightest slip means loss OF I'D
erty. and perhaps of life, will ever be apt
| TO have q degree of expertness In Its FOL
| lowers not present in more reputable and
| safer avenues of trade.
Pickpockets, like poets, are born, not
made, Their nerves must be iron, and yet
as sensitive as instinct. Their hands must
be as complete in make up and accomplish
ment as Herrmann's, and strong as steel
while light as down. Out of the vast army
of humanity who are soldiers of the shad-
ows only one-fourth of per cent. can or
do become pickpockets. These form the
nobility of thieves, and are reverenced by
the burglar, the footpad, the sneak and
the ICON" man as of a higher class than
they. The practice of a pickpocket while
not really at work is as constant as that OF
some famed professor of the viol or harp.
He keeps pace with the procession. No
sooner does some jeweler invent a new fas-
tening for diamond pins OF studs than
these men of finest touch devise the mo-
ton which evades its purpose.
The chief object of a pickpocket, after
certainty, is speed. He cannot daily with
his victim by the hour. What he does is
to be over in flash. Speaking of pins
and studs, there has never been fasten-
ing so complex but the expert thieves
could defeat it in motion. They do in
their bushes as fine work as any Houdin,
and the thief himself could not analyze or
explain its detail. His powers of execution
have gone far beyond his power of percep-
ton or relation.
A pickpocket cOnsults his own nervous
condition constantly. No fine lady ever
has such time with her nerves as this
aristocrat of the outlaws If he does not
feel right he won't work" When he does,
I've known one on the impulse to take
car on some well dressed and wealthy
street, and, seating himself side to the win
dow, survey the shirt front of every would
be passenger as the car came up. The mo-
ment one showed diamond in his linen or
cravat the thief would hurry to the plat
form to get off. He would time his ma
neuvers so as to meet his man on the step
of the car. They would collide.
The thiefs hat-a stiff silk or Derby-is
in his left hand and covers his dexterous
right, which is put forward to protect its
owner in the collision. 1t touches the new
conner right where the diamond sparkles,
and it is still covered by the hat in the
other hand. With an apology the thief
steps out of the way. The whole affair is
the tenth part of second, but as he bows
his regrets he has the diamond in that
mysterious hand of his, and, as have said,
he could not detail the moves by which he
attained it, even if he should try.-Kansas
CITY Star
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AN EXCITING RIDE.
A Ballet Riddled Cab Recalls an Incl
s.,t of the Terrible Draft Riots.

. R,ue, RiddIed Cab Recalls an Incl
| aept of the Terrible Draft Riots.
While passing the Metropolitan hotel a
| few days ago my attention was attracted
| by an old and dilapidated looking cab that
| stood in the long line of carriages in front
of the hotel waiting for fares. 1t seemed
so out Of place among the twenty or more
well kept vehicles that l was about to ask
the driver, an old man, why he did not
paint it up a little, when he anticipated my
question by saying: 81 suppose you are
wondering how i manage to make u living
with this old cab when l have to compete
with such fine looking vehicles as one sees
on Broadway. l don't know just how |
manage to do it myself, but make fair
living, and somehow or other have al
ways neglected to get it painted.
There is story connected with it, and
If you come this way some time again I'll
tell it to you"
Niblo's had not yet opened its doors, and
offering the old man cigar pressed him
to tell the yarn.
"Do you see those little holes in the
back? Well, they were made by bullets,
and the ride during which the old cab was
riddled was the most exciting one l ever
had in thirty years experience. Ii hap
pened during the draft riots. One morn
ing early / was down near the Battery.
There had been rumors of trouble for sew
eral days, and we expected it every mo
ment.
"a gentleman who came down town told
me that the rioters were out in force at
last, and thinking that my cab, which was
then new, was safer in the stable, started
up Broadway. Near Canal street heard
an awful shouting, and as | reached the
corner saw an army officer running to-
ward Broadway followed by a mob of fully
six hundred men and boys. started to
drive away, but as saw the mob gaining
on him l stopped and shouted to him to
jump into the cab,
"He just reached it in time. AS he
pulled the door shut the leader of the mob
reached the cab and tried to open the door.
l heard the report of a pistol and saw the
pursuer fall with bullet in his brain
Then we started My horse was spirited
one and although he went faster that day
than ever before in his life the mob con-
tinued to keep pace with US. They soon
began to fire at us and in less than five
minutes the rear end looked like sieve
The army officer then took hand in the
pistol practice and the way he dropped the
rioters was caution. Before we reached
Grand street / believe he shot at least ten
men, and seeing that they were only tar
gets they finally stopped and we got away.
"The officer gave me $500 and the ride
had to take was worth every cent of the
sum-"
The old cab driver stopped talking, a
gentleman and lady left the hotel, and
after looking at the we'll kept carriages,
stepped into the bullet riddled cab, gave
the order, "Grand Central depot" and in a
moment the old time vehicle was rafting
up BrOadway.-New York Telegram.
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4 1.nnr SENTENCE Of Six Letters.

Here is a sentence of thirty-twO words
which some ingenious person has con-
structed of the six letters found in the word
IN alden"
Ida, a maiden, a mean man named Ned
Dean and Media, mad dame, made me
mend die and dime, and mind mine in
a dim den in Maine-St. Louis ReDublic.
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FOR sALE--A sAeeAIN

Rock House, four large rooms and
Gitchep, hall thirty feet long, servants
room, bath room, hot and cold water.
pantry wood shed and wash house. Lot
Shrubbery in front yard. Price $500;
sAe-hslf cash. JNO. T. HAMBLEroE a Co.
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~ Bear in mind that Frank j.
Beltel keeps builders hardware and
lumber, at The International and
Great Northern depot. A
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STATE OF LOUISIANA.
10Th. Judicial District Court, Parish
of Lafourche

Succession of Marguerite Carmelite lie
Blanc midOW of MarcelIim Serin. No
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Wildcat Finaneierlng. :

Secretary Fosters explanation of the
new form of treasury statement adopt
ed really confesses to a desperate shift
ing in bookkeeping which has appar-
emily been undertaken in order to con-
ceal the + condition of the treasury
from current understanding and some
OF his makeshifts he supports by APP
peal to a financial morality that if
followed by banks would result tn ;,
run as soon as the people found if
out. Says the Secretary IN former
debt statements tho accrued juteres.
and interest dUe and nnua.d have ar.
peared as current lib little" Rather,
What else in the name Of The English
language can be made of t:iemq Bur
TINS which has appeared in former
statements the Secretary coolly tells
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THE STATE OF LOUISIANA.
10th Judicial District Court, Par
ish of Lafourche.
Marie NaquiH, @ife rs. Taylor Laqayde.
husband. No. 1904,

This ease having been regularly fixed tcr
trial this day. was regularly taken IN and
tried pursuant TO assignment, and thu ian
and the evidence being iD favor of the nlaio-
tin and against the defendant
1t IT,. therefore, ordered adiudged and d.
creed that the plaintiff MIRA. Marie Na0uir.
wife OF lawful aye of Taylor Lag arde, do have
and recover judgment against her said hps-
band, Taylor Lagarde. and that The commun-
ity OF acquets and gains heretofore existing
between her and her said husband be and the
same is hereby forever dissolved, and .hat
the said plaintiff be and she is hereby AZ.
creed and declared to be separated IN proper-
ty from her said husband. Taylor Laear6e
and fully invested with the full, tree and ahh
solute control and management Of her seuars
ate property, and that the said defendant
pay all costs of these proceedings.
Judgment rendered on Aug. 9TH, 1891, and
thus done. read and signed in open Court. At
the Parish and State aforesaid, on this eley-
enth day of August A. D.. 1891.
(SiSnedI TAYLOR BEATTlE.
Jud ge 10Th District.
Filed Aug. 18th. 1891.
tSignedJ p. +. LEGENDRE,
Deputy Clerk.
A true copy Test Clerks Office
Parish of Latoutche, Aug. 18th 1891.
p. +. I.EGENDRE,
Deputy Clerk
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SATURDAY, AUGUST Is 1891
At THE OLD HOME IN IN
DIANA.
August 10, 1891.

To THE SENTINEL.-Once more L
look upon the familiar scenes of my
early life, few are they now. The
house in which l grew up has been
destroyed by fire, the cherry trees
from which l have gathered baskets
full of pretty and luscious cherries,
the orchard OF peach and apple trees
in which | have so often picked the
rich fruit, where I have made and
drank SO many cups of that best of
all drinks,-sweet cider-harmless
and invigorating, prohibitionists to the
CONTRARY, Notwithstanding the big old
Walnut tree whose nuts | annually
saved for service in the long winter
nights, and the old Maple sugar tree.
four feet in diameter, from which.
time and again | have caught the
water which my mother manufactured
into molasses, are all gone, all re
moved forever. But, in the old spring,
is the same buckeye wood trough that
was placed there so years ago, to
catch the coll water as it flowed
from the earth, and the same brass
kettle of 80 gallons capacity, that was
purchased to boil apple butter so
years ago lies in the shed in the back
yard.
But all else how changed, The
images that rise up in my memory be-
fore my face, are the faces of those
who lie in the cemetery near by, who
have removed to distant homes, or
who have given their lives as a sacri-
flee to the Government, in the cruel
war a few years ago.
After the hottest night that I think,
that l ever experienced, had been pas
sed in New Orleans, on August 2rd l
left that city at 7:45 A. NJ, on theeL &
n. RAILROAD. The ride during the day
along the Gulf coast was PLEASANT, the
atmosphere being considerably cooled
by a falling rain.p.If one could Judge
by the number of signs for Restaui
rants, boarding and eating houses, the
people on that coast, did no thing but
eat.
Passing Moblle> the view changed
and the ride through the Pine woods,
which had been barked for the purpose
OF collecting turpentine, was monoto-
nous and uninteresting. Montgomery
was reached at night fall where we
had apoorsupperfor a good seventy-ive
cents. During the night l tried to OBJ
tain a little sleep, myself an compa-
MONS. Mr.. Alpha and sons of Frank
lin La. thought hat it would be cooler,
and more comfortable, of a hot night,
II the ordinary car than it would be
shut mp in a berth on a Pullman, so we
avoided the Pullman.
If any one doubts that sleep can be
had or a car, let him pass a night in
one.
Here is a fellow six feet long doubl-
ed like Mr.. Thomas cat on a / feet
bench. sleeping as soundly as an opos-
sum that had been cracked over the
head. Here is another, with feet above
head swaging away as innocent as a
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tho country sis eliminated" The only
thing worse than the factis the reason
ing which the Secretary advances In
support of it. thus: /
If accrued interest may be charged
as a liability against cash then Wltn
equal propriety, accrued salaries al
be so charged, or, in ike manner, the
accrued liability for the construction
of public buildings OF for the improve
meEt of rivers and harbOrs.
"Accrued interest is a fixed sum 1t
is known !; salaries and public build
ings accounts vary from payroll to
payroll. A. man who offers the two
kinds of items as the same discredits
his intelligence oil his honesty. SINH
lar is the reasoning that the 8 per cent
redemption fund, which belongs to the
national banks, shall be covered into
the treasury. First the money for IN
terest due and unpaid is not to De
counted as owing money that De-
| longs to the national banks, that can
not under any circumstances belong to
the government is seized by it and
turned into it's fund for swelling pur-
poses-to make the people think that
the government has money that it has
not. The treason is that the banks,
the owners of this money will only de-
mand it under certain conditions, to-
wit, as they retire circulation /; there
fore it shall be counted as belonging to
the Government This is like a pawn
broker counting unredeemed pledges
as his own. Add to that the certainty
of the pledges being redeemed, and the
likeness is complete.
Next ''the item of outstanding check
and drafts, which rarely ever falls be-
low S., 00O, 900" Actually the checks
sent IL t pay debts are not to be
counted as a liability, because this
being a big country there are about
pO ,UUU,UUU WOIJil Vi UucSC OuG dii IlS
time! In the same way the Secretary
proposes to treat the disbursing officers
accounts and the postal revenue ac-
counts. By this means it is hoped,
doubtless. to make a showing. And it
will be a showing . One not worth the
paper it is printed on. This sort Of
thing may be fine speculation, but it
is poor inanciering and is a demora-
lizing thing for the Treasury of the
United States to engage in it. Let it
be added that Secretary Fosters state
ment that the banks would loan nine
tenths Of such assumptions is an &C
cusatiOn that will be resented. If any
banks are doing that kind of business
-cOunting their outstanding balances
as cash and loaning on them, the de-
positors would like to know which
they are. Secretary Fosters new po-
sition is a dangerous and demoralizing
one.
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Mt. Carmel Convent. 1hibndaux La.

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Whereas Felix p. SEWN of the Parish of
Orleans has made application to be appointed
adminlstrator of the aforesaid estate.
Nov. therefore, ali persons are hAr ebv
warned ana notified to file their oppositions
in writing to the said application with the
clerk of the said Court at his office in the
tow OF Ihibodaux, ten days after the first
publication hereof otherwise the said .appli-
cant will be confirmed and appointed as such
administrator in accordance with law.
~ Witness my hand and seal of office
(~~) j. w. kNOBLOCH.
Clerk Of SAID Court.
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FISHING TRIP ON GRAND
LAKE.
By .sR''

Il say, boys, Rs lusger has Just
come in from across The lake, and is
anchored in Little Bayou it won't be
needed for three or four days, so wnat
is to prevent our going over to Cypress
Island and having a good time fishing
at the Pass ''just the thing let's co.
Such vas the propo sition and answer
made by a quartette of boys sitting in
a room chatting one morning in the