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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-04-29
TURNING THE TABLES.

Nellie Palmer was lying on the lounge in
her pretty bedroom, crying and looking
very unhappy. And yet she had been mar.
ried only six months, and to such mice,
handsome man" as all the young ladies
declared, that surely she ought to have
been happy with him. And SO she had
been, until-until, to tell the truth, Mr..
Bob Palmer, forgetting or seemirg TO for
get that he was n married man, had recent
ly taken to flirting with these very Young
ladies at all the parties in MIDI ton, le. v
ing his wife to take care Of herself. Sure
" it was enough to make any six months
wife cry-especially one so sensitive as Mel
lie.
"Heilol been crying again, l declareW
exclaimed Mr.. Bob Palmer, suddenly ceas-
ing his little whistle as he entered the
room on returning from his Office. What's
the matter now, Nellie? Canary refused
to sing or Nine. Viglini not put flowers
enough in your bonnet|
"Oh, Bobl how can your" sobbed Nellie,
beginning afresh.
Look here, Ellen" said her husband,
sitting down upon the lounge and speak
ing more seriously; Il don't like this at
all. never come home that your eyes are
not red and swollen with crying What
have you to cry about, | should like to
know? It's an insult to me to go SWIVEL.
ing about the house after this fashion, and
mOping away in corners, looking sullen
and miserable, as you did last night at
Mrs. Macklins. Why, people will think
me perfect domestic tyrantW
AZ -aI ball
it, indeed. | do feel so miserable. You
make me so, Bob"
I'll Well, that is richl Perhaps you'll
be good enough to let me know of what
enormity I've been guilty that has turned
you into a modern Niobe"
Nothing really wrong, dear; but, OIL If
you knew how much wife thinks of her
husbands love: and"- Here poor Nellie
broke down again. Mr.. Palmer's eyes
opened very wide
"Whewp' whistled he; "if this isn't
really absurd. So she's jealousp'
Indeed, no, dear Bobl But-but"-she
could hardly speak for the choking in her
throat-"you can't understand the pride
woman takes in having her husband treat
her with affection and respect before every
one, or how it humbles or mortiies her to
be neglected by him, and have other wom-
en- consider themselves rivals-like Isabel
Baden"
Mr.. Bob Palmer laughed outright and
then he grew angry.
You're an absurd little fool, Nellie" he
said. GAS if Isabel Baden were anything
to me beyond Il pleasant and agreeable
young woman to amuse ones self with at
party. Nonsensep
''She don't think So" said NelEe; and
and the others don't think so. They all
think you are getting tired of your wife,
and Isabel fiatters herself that she has cut
me out and is trying.tO let people SEQ it,"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-04-29
AN OLD BEAU.

What if | choose to sit alone
And scan these printed pages,
Or gossip with your chaperone,
Who nearer TO my age is
Than you, whose laughter fills the car
And reaches me as from afar
BY slow and easy stages.
Tic bellies and beaux of '62,
hough doubtless wise and witty,
OF theater parties never knew
Bound for the Quaker City.
And |. relic Of the past,
For deeming them a tribe fast,
No doubt have earned your pity.
Although quite ont OF place seem,
Don't think hat regret it;
Just let me sit in peace and dream
Somehow we CRATE; and yet it
Is not because you seem too gay.
But tina; I'm growing old and gray
And cannot quite forget it.
Fond girl, that flitting by my seat,
Some Joke no doubt intending.
Gives me a smile as bright as sweet,
Her way then onward wendingl
see within her pretty eyes
The image 81 her mother rise,
And just above me bending.
1t brings me back the long ago,
Aud when and where met her
IN all her girlish blush and glow;
All, how ! still regret herl
But she was rich and was Soor,
While time and absence bring re,
never shall forget her,
The youth who in your cushioned chair
A yawn attempts to smother,
No doubt considers you as fair
As once thought your mother;
But you are rich and so is he,
Between yOu need no parting be,
And you may love each other.
=, II. CUrtiSs in New York Sun.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-04-29
Cnz2lSHp1sso

As good as me,o
that's the condition of liver, stom-
ach and bowels, when Dr. Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets have done their
work. It's a work that isn't fin
ished when you've stopped taking
them, either. It's lasting. They
cure, as we'll as relieve. And it's
all done so mildly and gently |!
There's none of the violence that
went with the old-time pill. One
tiny, sugar-coated Pellets a gentle
laxative = three to four act as a
,cathartic. Sick Headache, Bilious
Headache, Constipation, 1ndiges-
ton, Bilious Attacks, and all de-
rangements of the stomach and
bowels, are prevented, relieved and
cured. AS a Liver Pill, they're I'M
equaled. They're purely vegetable,
perfectly harmless - the smallest,
cheapest, and easiest to take.
They're the cheapest pill you can
buy, because they're guaranteed to
give satisfaction, or your money is
returned.
You only pay for the good you
get. Can you ask more?
That's the peculiar plan all DR..
Pierce's medicines are sold on.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-04-29
LINES TO A CHILD.

Hetty. Hetty in the orchard,
Reading some enticing story,
While across your face tic sunlight
Fits and streams in all its glory.
Is the story sweet and pretty?
Does it tell Of love and lovers?
All! see your cyelids dropping,
And the smile that DER you hovers.
You may smile now, little Hetty;
Love will bring 20 you romanCes
SwCC:er far than thai you're heading.
While the sunlight on you glances.
Boston Transcript.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-04-29
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-04-29
His Wife.

Artists Friend-I hear you married a
model.
Artist-You Insult me, sir! married
a well known society lady.
Artists F-ieUd-indeed? You surprise
me. l was ted you would lind her a
regular posvY.-WPst Shore.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-06-18
The Value of Platinum.

The market value of platinum is al present nearly equal to that of gold, their respective prices being e4 and e4 3s. Eighteen months ago, says the Electrician, platinum was to be had for about 50 shillings an ounce, and six months ago the price was under e3. Apart from the question of a possible corner" and the ever-increasing de mand for platinum for electrical pur- poses, this 166 per cent. rise in price within eighteen months may be at- tributed in a large measure to the in- creased cost of production at the mines in the Ural mountains, whence we draw our chief supply of the metal. The owners of these mines, owing to their large yield of gold, were able to sell platinum comparatively cheap; the gold, however, is now becoming scarce. ind hence the platinum, which is ctill plentiful, can no longer be sold at SC .ow a figure. Platinum, besides being
 ;sed for the leading-in wires of glow
 amps, is largely used for electrodes in ,lcctro-chemical work, and up to the
 present. TO satisfactory substitute for 1t .as been fonnd So far aS these applica- tions arc concerned"
The St. Johns herald., 1891-06-18
BLUFFEO BY A DUMMY.
Clever Scheme of an Old Timer to Ward
 OlT the Law Eiinions.

Clever Scheme of an Old Timer to Ward
 Of the Law Riinions.
 The Trinidad (Col.) Chronicle relates an incident of Joe Simpson, an old timer, who recently died in that city. Joe owned piece of land near town, on which he one day found a corps of sur veyors running a line. He promptly drove them off with 44-calibcr re- volver. A warrant was sworn out for his arrest, but the deputy sheriff who attempted to serve it was held up by the furious frontiersman, his gun and belt cmptied and himself sent back tc town quicker than he came.
 Anticipating visit from q posse O. men, Simpson took an old suit O. clothes, stuffed it with grass, placed the dummy in chair at the door Of h.. cabin, surmounted the figure with q wide-brimmed sombrcro and arr2nged broom to give the innocent cfiigy the appearance of preparing to send a bullet through any one who might approach Simpson then hid in an adjacent corn field and awaited developments. The posse finally arrived, and, catching sight of the figure in the doorway, held hurried consultation and finally beat q retreat. Simpson was a highly amused spectator of the performance, and the next day he came to town and rave himself uD.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-06-18
BEAUTIES INCREASING.

One of the Alleged Effects of AthletIcIsm
 Among the Fair Sex in Europe.
 The English people, and particularly English women, are greatly disturbed at the statement recently made by an American writer that there are very few pretty girls in Europe. This writer re- gently made an extensive tour in the old world, and in writing of his experiences made the daring and positive assertion that ''one seldom sees a pretty girl in Europe, and, if one does, she is sure to be an American" And he further cru ely declared that the only pretty girls in England were the chambermaids at the hotels. These statements, particu- larly the latter one, were widely circu- lated, and evoked great indignation and warm denials, but withal they have caused some discussion in London as to whether beauty is really on the decline in England. The well-known painter, Ford Madox Brown, has warmly es- pouscd the cause of the libeled fair ones, and he tells the Pall Mall Gazette that, from his experience and wide observa- tion, he is sure ''there are more pretty girls to be seen than there used to be and that young women are taller and more handsome than formerly" He attributes this to their living more ac- tive lives and taking much more exer- else in the open air,
The St. Johns herald., 1891-06-18
AMERICANS GOOD FELLOWS.
Impressions of Q French Tourist In This
 Country.


 Generally speaking," writes a French tourist in America, S. C. de Sois- sons, to the Boston Transcript, ''the average American is good fellow; he helps you with advice and gives you the benefit of his experience; he is kind and humane. The proof of this have seen at accidents many times in the streets. If there is some trouble with street ear, if it is derailed, all the passengers jump out and help to push the car, as- sist the conductor in every way possible. This is really very remarkable fact, and it is a great credit to the American people, indicating the development of feeling.
 II have seen the same accidents in Paris, when tho poor horses have fallen on the slippery pavements. Do you think that any passenger jumped out or helped the conductor to raise the horse? Not at all. The passengers remained calmly seated in the omnibus and the passers-by looked on laughingly and made jokes about that which was not funny at all.
 ''1he humane feelings are more de- veloped among the masses of your pop ulation. Is this due to higher degree of civilization? l don't know. Is it due to the virtue of primitive nations? I it is kind, that show of feeling, and feeling, as our grand orator, Mirabeau, has said, is the best part of us."
The St. Johns herald., 1891-06-18
SURPRISING BEeoARY.
he Great Work Zone by Count Rumford
 in Bavaria.

he Great WOrk Zone by Count RumfOrd
 in Bavaria.
 The Churchman, in connection with ne discussion of General Booths scheme or the relief of the unfortunate and :iminal classes in England, prints a cry interesting article on the great york which Count Rumford, the Amer ean citizen, accomplished in abolishing >eggary in Bavaria one hundred years go. Count Rumford's achievements re we'll worth recalling at this time, -hen so much attention is being given General Booths plans in England. fter the Count had made the soldiers the standing army in Bavaria useful iembers of society in time of peace by lal1ing the garrisons permanent, the arious industries for the soldiers to en- age in for pay, he began to reform the aggars, and the story of his success in lat undertaking is most entertaining ne.
 Munich was practically at the mercy f mendicants, and the task which Jcunt Runford set for himself was: 1nc COu1plCCS SAC11 pdIAOA LII ldupCI- sm from Bavaria. 2. The improvement # the condition of the pauper class to degree which they themselves must ppreciate. 8. A complete removal of he causes of pauperism which then ,xisted. 4. The restoration of the )aupers to the State as virtuOus and worthy citizens. Those who had lived y begging were made to engage in in- iustry and those unable to work were imported without begging. The people ound that there was no way to live without toll, and the center of the new ;ystem was the military work-house, so ,alled because the new industrial power vas used in the manufacture of army clothing and supplies, and because it finally passed under the control of the War Department. There was school ;or children in connection with the work-house, and out of school hours the little ones were taught to work, md the teaching was accompanied by the use of so much tact that work be- ,ane delight. And so the pauperisIn which for generations had fed on in- 1olence and ignorance was abolished in a whole country and with it the crime which goes hand in hand with wretch 2ilnoSS and misery
The St. Johns herald., 1891-06-18
4 Seven Coincidence.

Mir. Simeon Duck, of Victoria, Brit ish Columbia, is seventh son of a sew enth son. In 1867 he left London on the seventh day of the seventh month, and arrived in this country on the seventh day of the following month at seven o'clock in the morning. When seeking election to the British Columbia Parlia- ment he was elected by majority of seven votes. On the following election he was defeated by the same mythical number. Mir. Duck declares the above true in every particular.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-06-18
A GAMBLER's sUPERSTITIoNs

Ee Smokes Good Cigars When Losing
 and Poor Ones When Winning.
 There is a well-known sport, whose face is standing portrait in the gallery Of Chestnut street habitues, who is particularly heralded among his brethren of chance by the brands O. cigars he smokes, says the Phila- delphia Inquirer. If he wins heavily on the track all his friends know ii by the terrific smell of the vile tobacco in his smokers. If he is loser they are aware of it by the delicate perfume of the curling smoke of the wreaths oi a fragrant Havana. What induces the follower of the goddess of chance to thus contrarily denote bis financial con- dition never could be learned until a week ago, when the quality of his cigar was so execrable as to call forth protest from his comrades, and then he said:
 ''It's my only superstition, boys. If win and should smoke a good cigal lucl1'd go back on me so hard the next day I'd be in the poor-house in week. But if am q loser never very heavy, understand, and light two or three Conchas, dye see? I'll call the turn on bad luck. When I'm playing in great form then's when I draw on cigars made from cabbages. It's my expert ence that bad cigars and good luck are friends and Havanas travel in the wake of the losing sport
The St. Johns herald., 1891-06-18
AN INTERESTING FIND.
Historic Tablets Recently Unearthed in
 Upper Egypt.

According to the Washington Star ceived information, not yet printed or made public in this country, of the re- cent discovery at Tel-el-Amaria, in upper Egypt, of number of tablets re- lating to the history of Jerusalem and dating back six hundred years earlier than any records hitherto known. When it is understood that these tablets of stone are letters passed between the King of Jerusalem and the Pharaoh of Egypt four hundred years before the birth of David, who was the father of Solomon, some notion will be formed of their extreme interest. Several of the letters were addressed to the ruler of Egypt by the King of Jerusa- lem, Abdi-Taba. The cities of Pales- tine were at that time tributary to Egypt, and in one of the letters the writer says: 'The Iabiri people arc conquering the cities of the King"-i. G., the cities tributary to the Pharaoh ''therefore the King may turn his face to his subjects and send troops. If the troops arrive this year the countries of the King, my Lord, may be saved, but if no troops arrive the countries of the King, my Lord, will exist no longer" This tremendous find" at Tel-el- Amaria includes two hundred tablets, largely of Babylonian coneiform script, which is thus discovered for the first time to have been in use at so early a period in Egypt and Palestine. Many of the other tablets are dispatches of about the same date from projects of other cities of Palestine to the Pharaoh. Some of the inscriptions are in an un- known language, which no one has so far been able to translate. Solomon himself would have looked upon these tablets as remote antiquities.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-06-18
A 1WO-TWENTY GAIT.
It Was Great Record Once. but Would
 Be Slow Now.

It Was Great Record Once. but Would
 Be Slow Now.
 It is now moro than thirty-one years since trotting horse made record Cf 2;2o or better in harness, says the Onc- ha World-Herald. The distinguished animal which performed the feat was the mare Flora Temple, andshc trotteG her mile October 15, 1859. That event made Flora Temple the talk of the country, and most persons predicted that her record would never be beaten. Yet since then three hundred and seven tv-five other trotters have beat the 2:20 record, and each year tho number greatly increases. In 1890 it was in creased over e5 per cent, the number for the year being ninety-ona. This wonderful increase in speed of our rae ing horses is one of the evidences of the marvellous perfection of modern meth oGS. 1t is impossible to read history of the turf even for single year with ont being struck by the great advance, here as elsewhere. What seemed a impossibility thirty years ago was ac- conpiislled by nearly ore hundred young horses last year. In view of this great increase iii average speed of cur racers, who shall say that the record of Q mile in 2:0Ss4 by Maud s. will long remain the bcSto
The St. Johns herald., 1891-06-18
AN AZTEC SACRIFICE.
Specimen Scene in Mexico in the Days oi
 the MOntezumas.

Specimen Scene in Mexico in the Days oi
 the MOntezumas.
 Fifty-two years constituted the Aztec cycle, says the Detroit Free Press. To this cycle was added a complement of thirteen days, intended to make the solar and civil years agree. It was be- lieved that the world would come to an end on the last night of a cycle, and that the gods, if merciful, would light their fires on the distant mountains. If the world did not come to an end the Aztecs congratulated themselves that 1t would survive another cycle, and the thirteen complementary days were passed with feasts, sacrifices and bac- chanalS.
 In the temple of Huitzilipochtli there was to be a gladiatorial combat, whict was nothing less than sacrifice. The six ministers of the ceremony were at hand. Topiltzin, the chief among them, clad in a crimson vestment, with a crown of vari-colored feathers, was per forming the duties that preceded sac rifce to the god, and the others, with white robes bordered with black, their faces hideous with somber pigment and mouths painted white, assisted him. A crowd filled the stone walls of the tenn pie to witness the spectacle. surging with impatience about the temalcatl tor round stone platform, eight feet high) where the combat was to take place.
 The victim, prisoner of war, is brought in. Armed with only short spear and shield, he is placed upon the temalcatl, tied by one foot and con- fronted by an Aztec warrior, fully armed. The flat nostrils of the victim are distended, his black eyes burn with desperation; his coarse, black hair struggles about his face, and his thick purple lips quiver as he views the we'll armed soldier before him.
 At word they fall to the fray. The spears clash, and they fight like de- mons-the victim with the desperation of certain death, the soldier to uphold his valor among his comrades.
 Suddenly, realizing how unequal the contest, and that his fate is sealed, whatever the outcome of that battle, the prisoner throws away his shield and spear, and presents his breast to the soldiers weapon. A pause, blow, and the victim falls heavily to the stone.
 Tn trice the priests, with frenzied shouts, and hair streaming about their demoniacal faces, are upon the temal- catl, and have borne the dying man to block of green jasper, on whose convex surface they throw him. This is the sacrifcial stone, and Topiltzin, who now takes the name of the god to whom he sacrifices, opens the breast of his vic tim, tears out his heart and offers it, still palpitating, to the sun.
 Then the bleeding trophy is placed in the hollow mouth of the idol of Huit- zilipochti, and the lips of the statue daubed with blood. The dead man is decapitated and his head deposited in the Tzompatli, an ossuary where the skulls of sacrificed prisoners of war are set into the walls; the soldier claims the body for his own, and bears it away for the delectation of himself and his an- thropophagical comrades.
 The Aztec annals that come down to us are glutted with scenes like this. ;,
The St. Johns herald., 1891-06-18
The Solar Record.

At precisely twelve o'clock every day the Naval Observatory at Washington telegraphs the time all over the country. The instruments of the Western Union arc in the room where the computations are made, and just three and a half minutes before noon, operating ceases in telegraph offices all over the country, at great loss and Inconvenience some times. The wires are then put in un, broken connection with Washington. A note of warning is sent in advance, and at the second when the observer notes the passage of the sun over the seventy-ifth meridian. the electric cur rent flashes the news all over the coun- try, ard thousands of cloclzS-seven thousand in New York City alone, it is said-arc daily regulated by this record Af solar time