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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-08-08
RiIIIe,s Misfortune

Last Saturday, Billie Porter, little
colored ooy, who resides with his par
ents in a house in the rear of No SIC
Third street, was in the engine room
of the Turkish bath house and in a
mysterious way, got to 'monkeying"
around the steam boilers and let the
water out, burning him terriably on
the lower limbs. He was taken to his
home and DR.. Lacy was called, but
Mrs. Ayers says he refused to lend
any aid without his fees in advance.
He was discharged and DR.. Rodgers
was sent for and arrived and doctored
the suffering boy, who is now ut his
home in a critical condition and his
l ecovery is douOtf
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-08-08
Two Ways to Express IL.

From Life. u. .gr
The Chicago Girl. Plague take this
Eastern culture!
Her Boston Aunt. What is the mat.
ter my dear?
The Chicago Girl. I've really be-
come interested in Ibsen. think
he's bully: take to transcendental-
ism without any trouble. I'm getting
used to eyeglasses, and dote on
dignity; but l cant't get over saying
"Rats!" instead of merely elevating
my eyebrows.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-08-08
4 Oueen's Message.

Queen Christina, of Spain, upon re-
Ceiving the announcement that the
thousandth baby had been named after
her husband, sent the parents layette.
silver baby service, and a handsome nest
egg, with the graceful message, "To the
thousandth Alfonso, from a woman
whom two Alfonsos have made happy"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-08-08
Pretty Poor Pickings.

Findings are popularity supposed to be-
long to the sweeper, but one of the
street sweepers of Portland observes that
his is a very disappointing job. He has
found only one cent piece and a short
lead pencil during his term of Office and
is Disguised with politics.-Lewiston
journal.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-08-08
For the "GaIIus" Girl to Know,

If the "gallus" girl were somewhat
more observing she would have noticed
that the lords of creation whom she
emulates seldom take their walks abroad
with their suspenders in evidence. If
the "gallus," then the waistcoat and the
coat, young woman. Proprieties must
be Decentralization Commonwealth
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-08-08
Notice TO Uniform Rank Members.

Notice TO Uniform Rank Members.
SIR KNIGHTS The Division has at
last arranged with the lodges for the
use OF the hall for regular meetings,
on the 2ud and 4th Tuesdays of each
month. Our first meeting in our new
armory will be on the 9th inst, and
should be we'll attended, as very i'm
portsnt business will be transacted.
The period of enforced idleness fol-
lowing the fire has passed and it now
becomes your duty to fall in" and
by zeal and activity, place the di-
vision once more in the front, second
to none in the Texas Brigade. Fra.
ternally yours in H. and P.
w. HOLT Captain.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-10-19

told the story, so far as the little ones
Inns and mind can manage to tell it.
He takes the child under his protecting
wing and escorts it to the station in his
precinct. Thence it is sent to Head
quarters. A general alarm is sent out to
every precinct in the city, notifying the
sergeants that a child has been found,
and giving description of the child and
its name, if the child can talk and re-
members it.
At Headquarters Sergeant Harley,
whose room is on the Mulberry street
end of the big white building, takes
charge of the child and enters its name
ON the great blotter, where thousands
of other lost children's names already
stand.
But the little boy or girl needs care
which only q woman can give, so up
stair,yit goes to what is known as the
"Sky Parlor." This is Matron Travis's
own domain. Mre. Travis has been
mother, to more children in the time she
has been at Headquarters than has any
other woman in the city. Delivered into
her care the children are washed and fed,
and calmed by being told that they
"will see mamma soou."
The "Sky Parlor" is a room about
twenty feet square, with bare floor.
There little cots are placed against the
wall on one side, a big round table covered
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-10-19
Forest Destruction and Famine.

An article in leading Russian peril!
odical, the European Messenger, attri-I
butes the present distress in that coun.ryi
the terrible famine, with the inevita-}
bic pestilence following in its wake
very largely although indirectly, to thel
wholesale forest destruction that has
been going on there during the present.
century. So far back as 1880 report
to the Imperial Agricultural Society pref
dicted the present conditions unless the
destruction Of the forests was stopped:
"Our country is fiat" it said, 'tand, de-
nuded of its trees, is accessible to every
wind. The terrible east wind meets
with no obstacle, and destruction fol.
lows in its train. In this wind lies our
fate, perhaps to be encountered IN the
near future" The forest covering the
upper and middle courses Of the great
rivers Volga, Don and Dnieper have. in
many sections, disappeared, and wasted
plains spread in their place. The rivers
grow shallower year by year, and the
Vorskla, once an abundant tributary OF
the Dnieper, and comparable to the
Hudson or Delaware. $50 miles in length,
has completely and permanently dried.
up. Other important rivers are meeting
the same fate, SO thatphysical geography
of large part of the Empire is radically
changing. The rainfall is diminished,
and drought, of course, results in famine.
Eussia's follv and sin are felt by the rest
of the civilized world, for her poverty.
stricken hordes, driven to other couu-,,
tries by famine and persecution, carry
with them ignorance, disease and lower
standards of civilization. The outlook
is depressing. The Russian Government
is now making an effort for forest pre-
servation, but it comes too late to remedy
the vast evils wrought. There is an i'm
pressive warning in this tor US, for here
in America we are wasting our forest
wealth in q most reckless manner.
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also, that the children are not taken to
headquarters until 8 o'clock in the eve.
ming.
So they hit upon the SCENE Of having
the children cared for in this way. Not
to risk the danger of turning the children
adrift on the street whenever the parents
wished to make days excursion them.
selves they would send the children
around to the station house IN the charge
of some friend or relative. The children
were represented as lost and left in
charge of the bluecoats and entered on
the blotter as lost.
The scheme worked for long while,
and Captain Cross's station house, on
Eldridge street, was crowded daily with
lost (2) children. On Decoration Day,
when the scheme was at the height OF its
success, eighty-seven children were en-
tered on the blotter as lost. Sergeant
Judd noticed that a number of children
were brought by the same people twice.
Then he adopted the rule that the person
who brought child to the station house
must care for it for the day. The plan
had the desired effect and somewhat
broke up the practice.
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nothing of their next door neighbor's
children. For this reason many child
has been picked up by policeman, lost
and crying, within few streets of where
its parents live. Cases have occurred,
indeed, where children, unable to tell
their names, have been lost on the same
block on which their parents lived. Some
people move about so much that their
young children have no time to become
acquainted with a neighborhood. and
when, evading the mothers eye, they slip
out into the street, they cannot find the
house out of which they come but few
minutes before, cry because they are lost
and are taken in charge by police OIL
Ger. Many mother, rushing frantically
to the police station, finds there her child
whom she had missed but fifteen min
utes before, and who had not been out
of the house more than half an hour.
The people over on the East Side are
sharp, and are always ready to take adj
vantage of any scheme which will prove
of benefit to themselves. Lately some
of them worked up an idea which does
credit to their shrewdness, however it
may reflect upon their honesty and their
regard for the comfort of their offspring.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-10-19
CURIOUS FACTS.

Flour is $50 a ton IN New Zealand.
We mined O,OOo;000 barrels of sali
in 1891.
Wales has a church for every $50
Welshmen.
There are seyenty-two places called
st. Etiepne in France.
AS rule, the length of the face is the
Iame as the length of the hand.
M. Deibler, the executioner of Paris,
has disposed of 22O of his fellow beings.
In ordinary English writing "z' only
occurs twenty-five times while 'e' &C.
ours a thousand.
Two little islands, Zanzibar and
Pemba, furnish four-ffths of the cloves
consumed by the world.
Connecticut, spelled in an Indian dia
!cct, "Quin- -neh-tuk-gut," signifed
"land on long tidal river
NJ. Garvin, Camden, claims to have
The tallest sunfowe1 stalk in New Jersey.
it is more than eleven feet in height.
There is ten -year-old boy IN Spring
Geld, Mo-, who weighs $50 pounds. and
has two extra fingers and two extra
toes.
A psychologist has learned from a
stage magician that most persons, when
asked to take number less than ten hit
on seven.
It was not until the Council Of Trent,
in 1929, that the intervention of priest
was deemed, in Europe, indispensable to
a marriage.
In Sitka, Alaska, when an Indian wife
has lost her husband by death, she goes
into mourning by,painting the upper half
of her face deep black.
A hundred years ago William Muir
doch illuminated his home with gas
made in an iron kettle, and burnt at the
end of an open iron tube"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-10-19
Bloated Rattlers Of the Staked Plains.


J. T. Barnett, of Ell Paso County,
Texas, speaks as follows in the New
York Sun about the great bloated rat
tiers that live in the Staked Plains coun.
try:
What do you :hink of a rattlesnake
that carried string of twenty-three rat
ties aud had head five inches long and
three inches wide at the angles OF the
jaw2 He had fangs about the shape OF
q sickle blade, and they were an inch and
q quarter long. The poison sacs at the
roots of these fangs contained half
thimbleful of venom. The snake thus
equipped measured between six and
seven feet in length, and his skin, when
removed and laid fiat, was foot wide
in the middle. ran across that inter-
esting serpent one nice August day in
the vicinity of the Laguua Sabines, in
Gains County, and as he showed no dis
position to move out of the way shot
him. He was good t5pe of the bloat.
ed rettlesnake of the 5taked Plains, and
was tho most horrible looking specimen
of the serpent family had ever seen or
imagined up to that time. l after"ard
saw many just like him. The rattle
snake of the North is savage enough and
poisonous enough, but his relative of the
Staked Plains is many degrees his supe-
rior in both savagery and venom. This
deadly reptile is terrible enough any
day in the year, but it is not until along
about the middle of August that he
takes on the fullness of his frightfulness,
both physically and morally. It is then
that be becomes pulled up and swollen,
for some reason and from some cause
that no one seems to know, until he gets
to be nearly third more IN girth than
his normal size. This snake Is always
sluggish and slow to move, except when
putting himself in shape to strike, but
in August he simply makes no effort to
move at all with that same exception.
He is absolutely one big, swollen rese-
yoir of venom at this time of the year.
He must be or his bite could not kill an
Apache Indian in less than hour, as one
is known to have done. 1t fact, the
nature of this hideous shake may be i'm
sgined-or might be if you lived down
there-when it is known that it is ter
ror even to the Apache Indians. Any
thing that is worse than an Apache has
got to be the worst thing on earth, IN
the estimation of the Texas plainsmen.
But these Indians utilize the Staked
Plains rattler all the same. They distill
his poison from him and tip their arrow
heads with it, which accounts for the
deadly effect of the Apache arrow on
everything it wounds"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-10-19
Plants by Mail.

According to Bergen County New
Jersey) correspondent Of the Country
Gentleman, plants can easily be sent by
mail. He says: 81 have had plarts sent
from New York to North Carolina, aud
days journey by mail car from the
depot, and have had no difficulty or loss!
Caulifower plants, cabbage, celery, tea
roses, and asparagus and rhubarb roots,i
have all been procured through the
mails without the least loss. The florists
aud plant growers understand how TO-
pack them safely for transit, even to the
farthest corner of the Northwest. Damp
moss, not wet, is raped around the roots,
and the plants are wrapped in air.proof
paper, then in stout wrapping paper.
When they, are received, the package is
undone aud the papers removed. The
roots will be found to have made some
growth in the transit, and the bundle,,
undisturbed, is to be put in q thin pud-
die of clay and water, or 1t may be:
buried in the ground, and the soil at the
roots watered. In this way, If kept in
the shade, they will stay some time until
set out in the soil. They will grow
right along as well as if they had couel
direct from the garden, and think bet
ter, because they have become sonnewhatl
hardened by the change, and make a
safer start when they do grew. The
check to them is moderated by the rel
movaI from the ground and the delay Of
planting. It is surprising what vitality
there is in a root. Some weeks ago q
threw bundle of quack grass roots on
fence, where they hung in the sun ALL
through the recent hot dry spell. Tho
rain which fell since then moistened the
roots and to-day I Noticed new growth Of
grass leaves seven inches long. These
must have been growing all through the
time when thought the roots were DEAD!
One underground stem of the quack had
grown directly through root Of raspi;
berry nearly one inch thick"
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understandable expression OF SADNESS on
her face.
The benevolent gentleman laid aside
bis bass-viol stood up, took of his
glasses, and his deep, rich voice completed
the full measure of the melody.
After the quartette followed a few
moments of general conversation, during
which, after embracing the young girl
pianist, who Immediately left the room,
the principal songstress walked to the
window.
She leaned out as if to breathe the fresh
air, and her profile was sharply relieved
against the bright light behind her, In
the young man at the table, who seemed
preparing to read what he had written.
The lady leaned from the window,
gently tanning herself as she looked now
at the sky, now at the dark landscape.
Leland imagined he could distinguish
her gentle breathing above the sound OF
her fan and leaning eagerly forward for
better view, he caused the leaves to
rustic slightly. ,
She started at the sound, then remained
immovable, and the fixed position OF her
head showed that her gaze was fastened
upon the oak in which he was concealed.
He felt the full awkwardncss Of his
position, but could not judge whether or
not he was visible to her; but, under the
danger of her fixed regard, he passed the
most painful moments of his life.
She turned into the room and said, in
q calm voice, few words which brought
three or fou1 of her friends to the win
dow; and among them Leland recognized
the elderly gentleman with the violin.
The moment was trying one. He
could do nothing but lie sill in his leafy
retreat-silent and immovable as statue.
The conduct Of those at the window
went far to reassure him, for their eyes
wandered over the gloom, with evident
uncertainty, convincing him he was but
suspected-not discovered.
But they exchanged animated observa.
tions, to which the party most interested
lent an attentive ear.
Suddenly strong voice, which be rec
ognized as belonging to him of the violin,
rose over them all in the pleasing order.
Loosen the dog!"
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their parents or guardians; the remain
der was sent to institutions. Of these
lost children 3034 belonged in New
York, and sixty-two were the chlldfen
of people from out of town who had
come into the city tor a days business
or pleasure.
Summer is the time when children play
in the streets more than they do at any
other season of the year. Consequently
more of them succeeded in getting them.
selves lost in the months Of July, August
and September than at any other period.
Children Of the poorer class OF people
make up the largest number OF the lost
ones, although once in while Little
Loru Tauntleroy, with shining hair and
elegant clothing, wanders away from his
nurse while she is receiving the attentions
of some admirer and is picked uo by the
nolice. Most of the lost children are
found on the east side OF the city, where
people of many nationalities are crowded
together. The reason for this lies, rer-
hans. in the fact that each gathered
nationality forms community by itself,
and the children, being kept within the
community of which their parents are
members, 90 not become familiar with
the surrounding streets. Consequently
when they stray few blocks away they
are as hopelessly lost as though they were
set down in the middle of strange city.
Then, too, in these busy, crowded
neighborhoods many do not know their
next door neighbors by sight, to say
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-10-19
An Emotion Indicator.

The behavior of criminals, it is found,
may be studied in way likely to prove
useful in medicine by means OF the
plethysmograph. This is new iustru-
ment for measuring the slightest increase
in the flow of blood in the arm. In
most instances, when O criminal re-
ceives sentence, the flow of blood dimin-
ishes, but the sight OF a glass of wine
restores it. Brain effort increases the
dow. In front of loaded pisto! an
average man is greatly affected, but the
circulation of hardened muSiere is
little influenced. The instrument, in
short, eiicits involuntary testimony of
the physical and nervous state OF crlm'
iDal. Trenton IN. j. American.
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Irrigation by Ice Banks.

Lack Of irrigation is regarded by 4.
Podolsky as the principa! cause OF last
years famine in southern Russia. In
this region ordinary irrigation WORKS are
impracticable, and snow irrigation, as
prscticed in some parts of Siberia, is adj
vised. In winter the inhabitants pile
up snow Oh suitable hill-tops, covering,
it with pine branches, straw, dIn!; or.
even earth and sand, and the water from
these banks is led in summer by ditcnes
10 the cultivated fields. For Southern
Russia-where rain supplies about half
the necessary moisture it is estimated
hat an acre of wheat would ue irrigated
" 5000 cubic feet of the compressed
4ou.-Trenton IN. J.) American. ..J
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tor, with o conyulsive- smile. And do
you know, my DEAR" he added. the con-
temptibie idea which has haunted me
since I received this Infamous letter.
for believe that infamy is contagious"
You have conceived the idea Of watrh-
ing our interview" said Cora, in tone
of indolent raillery.
Yes" assented her husband; there
behind that portiere-as in a theater;
but. thank God, ] have been able to re-
sist this base intention. If ever allow
myself to play SO mean part, should
wish Mt least to do it with your knowledge
and consent"
And do You ask me to consent to it?'
asked Cora.
"My dear wife" said the Senator, in
sad and almost supplicating tone, i am
an old fool-an overgrown child-but l
feel that this miserable letter is going to
poison nv life. I shall no longer have
an hour of pence and confidence. Do you
wonder at me? l am an honorable man,
but have learned that all men are not
like myself There are some things
which to me seem as impossible as walk
ing on my head, yet see others doing
these things every day. What can soy
how Gun tell you? After reading this
perfdious letter thought how you had
delayed coming to me, and I could not
help recollecting that your intimacy with
Eugene has greatly increased of late"
Without doubt. said Cora. i am
very fond of him"
Il remembered also your being with
him that night in the snuggery, during
the grand party. When I swoke you had
both an air of mystery. What mysteries
could there be between you two?"
You shall know it at the proper time. ;"
Finally, swear to you that 1 suspect
neither of you. neither suspect you Of
wronging me-of disgracing me-or Of
soiling my name-God in heaven help
me!
But if you two should love each other,
even while respecting my homer; if you
love each other and confess it-if you
two, even at my side, in my heart-if you.
my wife, my nephew, should be calculat-
ing with i'm patient eyes the progress of
my old age-planning your projects for
the future, and smiling at my approach
ing death-postponing your happiness
only for my tomb-you may think your
selves guiltless! But no, no; this would
be shamefulp'
ITO BE CONTINUED
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with a piece of oilcloth stands in the
middle of the room, and on one side ls
an old secretary. Ranged along another
side of the room are half dozen big
chairs such as are seen about police
stations.
The children are kept here for two
days. If not called for In that time
they are turned over to the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Children or
to some similar institution.
Last year no fewer than 3137 children
were found by the police, lost in this
city. OF these 5096 were restored to
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WORDS OF WISDON.

Inexperience is the mother OF SELL
conceit.
There is always good time coming
for the good.
Praise and doubt are never found to-
gether in any heart.
No man is any stronger than the weak
spot in bis character.
The sin you look at will soon make
you pick it up and carry it.
The reason some men remain honest ls
because they are watched too close.
If we had no suffering in this life NOS
body could understand what love means
You now and then meet folks who
have all kinds OF sense except common
sense. ~
It is never hard to do the right thing.
1t is in deciding to do it that the tug
comes. II
Perhaps all men can not be successfully
but every one can make up his mind that
be will deserve to be. 81
Aim to happy FIVE minutes o. time,
and you will be surprised to find how
easy it will come to rejoice all day. :
The man who makes the right kind
of prayer for q corn crop il the one
who does all he can to keep down tha
weeds with plow and hoe. q
The most tired people in the world are
chose who do NOT half work. There is
plenty of scripture to show that one way
to get more rest Is to do more work. -
Rams Horn. 4
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The LARGEST Sailing Snip.

The largest sailing ship in the world,
the Roanoke, has reached New York
from Bath, Me. She is 335 feet long,
49 feet in breadth and 29 feet deep.
With four masts she has spread OF
10000 square yards of canvas. She
registers S4OO tons gross and 2530 tons
net. She is to ply between New York
City and San Francisco, under COM
mand of J. P. Hamilton, of Brooklyn.