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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-01-30
DALLAS LETTER.

DALLAS, Texas, Jan. 81, 1892,
To San Antonio LIGHT:
We are having glorious weather. Bust
ness is gradually picking up. The streets
present a livelier appearance now than at
any time during the winter. The theatre
house is generally we'll filled. and the
higher the price of tickets, the larger the
audience.
We had planned to see Sara in LA
Tosca" and Fedora" but when we
learned it would cost us 81 per ticket, we
concluded that times were indeed hard,
and we would not get the worth of our
money. We can stand on the corner at
the hotel, and see her divinity as she
passes.
Miss Adele Belgrade, the leading lady
in the Fred Warde company, was, quietly
married to leading actor in the same
company in the church of Incarnation on
Mckinney avenue, while the Warde
troup were here. Rev. Edward Wickens
performed the marriage ceremony.
Mrs. 4. p. Cowen, nee Florence Sher-
wood of Marshall, is in New York study
ing with view of singing in grand opera.
Mrs. Cowen has been feted by the former
actress Mrs. Geo. Gould. This is two of
the elite of Dallas who have gone to New
York within the past year to prepare TO
appear on the stage.
THE Dowager' is to be presented at
the opera house tomorrow night by Miss
Louise Brooks, supported by home talent,
for the benefit of the Girls cooperative
Home.
Jim Lewis. who killed one Hunter in
March last was acquitted. Hunter was
drunk and used ugly words in talking to
Lewis, who was seated on the sidewalk.
Lewis told him to go on, whereupon Hun
ter applied obnoxious epithets to Lewis,
who grabbed a broken shaft and dealt a
heavy blow which caused his death.
Jno. Annelo, of whom we made men
ton in our letter of the 10Th inst, is like
ly TO come clear AT first the clouds hung
heavy, but light has cleaned forth for
the prisoner.
The federal grand jury has returned
indictments against the Rev. Zach Par
ker, whose kind heart went out TO poor
old negro woman, a former slave in
his family, whose husband served in the
federal army The Rev. Parker wanted
the colored woman to get a pension and
fixed the papers up for her. But the
Rev. gentleman was unmindful OF her
later.
Another laundry girl has had hand
crushed in mangle machine. This is
the third person whose hand has been
well nigh ruined by the mangler in laun-
dries.
A little girl on Peabody avenue, on
Chestnut hill, died of scarlet fever within
the week past.
There are so many boys barred
the privilege of attending day school
on account Of being compelled to work
that a move is on foot to start free night
school for the benefit of such as cannot
attend during the day. 1t is good move
and we hope to see IL endorsed by the
school board and city o Incil.
The Dallas News has a society column.
So has the Times Herald. The Fort
Worth Gazette under its new manage
ment has opened column to be devoted
to society news, and now why not the
LIGHT have sewer (?) as the typos call
this department.
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For the LIGHT.
ONLY ApFADED PICTURE.
BY CHAs. A. SMITH.

IT'S only faded picture,
Taken many long years ago,
But to me tits far dearer
Than all this world below.
IT'S picture of my mother,
Who is now in Heaven above,
Where sickness and death is never
known,
But where all is peace and love.
She gave this picture to me,
just while before she died,
And that's WHY to me tits dearer
Than all world beside.
Before she, died, she called me,
And around me put her arm,
And prayed that God would bless me,
And keep me from all harm.
And as we sat beside the bed,
AND watched her quick ming breath,
They said that when the sun went
down
She would be cold in death.
Then ray of sunlight crept in,
And lay across the floor,
And knew that when it faded,
My mother would be no more.
The sun got lower and lower,
And as it sank in the distant west,
/ knew my mothers life was DER,
That her soul had gone TO rest.
So I'll keep this faded picture,
Till I'm laid beneath the sod,
And my soul has gone to meet her,
In that home prepared by God.
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News From Deep Water.
VELAsCo, TEX, Jan. 26, 1892.
Daily LIGHT:

Daily LIGHT:
After some of the most disagreeable
gloomy weather ever known, the sun has
come out and everybody is happy.
Business is picking up, and work has
been resumed on the many buildings be-
ing erected which was stopped during the
cold spell.
Quite number of strangers are coming
in now, and large number is expected
as soon as trains are running.
The fine steamboat Hiawatha is still
running regularly to Columbia connect
ing with the Columbia Tap from Houston.
The steamer "Alice Blair" is being re-
paired aud the Emily Pr is now run
ming TO Galveston. While the Emily has
perhaps the poorest Accommodations for
passengers of any steamboat in the state,
the crew try to make it as pleasant as
pos sible. Capt. Mcfarland and Clerk
Leigh MasterSon are two splendid fellows
well liked by all who know them.
Our big grain elevator will soon be built
and then wheat will be shipped TO all
parts of the world.
The barkentine Stacy Clark, loaded
with 100000 feet of lumber, came in last
week drawing IA feet.
The longShOremen came to the conclu-
sion that they must have good wages and
demanded 40 cents per hour, and now We
laSco has a strike. making us really equal
to San Antonio at last.
The boys had a great time celebrating
the completion of the railroad by firing
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Her Most Interesting Age.

From the Young Ladies' Bazaar.
The question was recently discussed
by an artist, an author, and q woman
OF society. The artist said he did not
like to paint the portraits of those
between the age of 25 and 40 years.
Before % the face has an expectancy
which charms. 1t is looking forward
with joyous freshness and hope, and
1t is full of puzzling promises. AT 40
years the character is formed, and
the lines of the countenance are
stronger in the painters study; but
In intervening years the face has lost
its expectancy, is apt to be Indifferent
and has no particular interest.
The author differed; he liked to
study women between the ages OF 80
and 40. They had then the exper-
ience of the world and. the joyousness
of youth. In those years they were
brightest and most interesting.
The society woman thought that 1t
was impossible to give general an
swers TO the question, as Individual
women differ in regard to the most
attractive age. Some are most charm
ing at so years, while others have
passed their prime at 20. AT 30 or
upward the best nature of q woman
will show to every advantage, but
probably the balance OF opinion turns
in favor of from Is TO %.
Taking everything into considera-
ton, the best answer would be that
women are always interesting 10 the
friends who love them.
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Los Angeles herald., 1892-05-12
Lost Land.

A Biddeford man is in queerer pre-
dicament than the Portland old gentle
man whose securities have disappeared,
for he has lost a lot of land. He says
he owns fifty acres in the suburbs OF
Biddeford, which his grandmother left
him, but he can't find it. The boundary
lines haven't been run for generations.
There is some dim record of the original
grant at Alfred, but not clear enough
to enable him to find out just what he
owns He has surveyor at work try
ing to run the lines, bnt each time he
has encroached on land to which others
have clear titles
Now the property is advertised for
taxes and possible solution has pre-
sented itself to the owner. He says that
he is going to let the city sell the land
for taxes, bid it in himself and let the
city find itfor him. The city, he argues.
can't sell anything it can't deliver and
can't deliver anything it can't find -
Bangor lMe.) Commercial.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-05-12
A Sad Case.

There were several brothers. They
are all dead but one. It is curious fact
that they all went insane at certain
age-all but the one now living. They
were all well off in every respect, SO
there was nothing about the condition
of either to undermine the reason. The
living one knew the fatal curse which
had followed the family, and looked for
ward to his fate with GOODNESS akin to
desperation. A year ago, knowing that
the time was near at hand when he
would be of the same age as that at
which the calamity had fallen, he sold
his property, divided the money among
his relatives, wound up his business
which was prosperous, settled with all
those with whom he had had dealings,
and retired to quiet place near where
he had always lived, and there he is now
awaiting his turn to go crazy.
Only few Of his friends knew the
reason for his action and they tried to
dissuade him from the act. An eminent
specialist on such cases made him q
study and told him that he would no
doubt escape the maladyif he would
continue in business, and thereby keep
his mind engrossed. He shook his head,
thanked his friends and the physician,
and retired, saying as he did so, II shall
60 mad" mentioning the year, the
month and almost the day. And he is
nearing the month now. He is an intel
igent and has always been an honest
man. It is a sad case.-Interview in
Chicago Tribune.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-05-12
"a nig psscoyery OF Gold.

Herman Bernhardt, August Eelmann
and Herman Rene, all well known res
idents Of this city, returned on Friday
from prospecting trip in the vicinity
of Cottonwood Springs, about 1875 miles
due east from this place, bringing with
them about 81 900 worth of gold, almost
pure, that they had taken from decom-
posed quartz ledge that they had dis
covered twenty-five miles north of Cot
tonwod Springs. They state that the
ledge is visible for two miles over the
mountains and is rich in gold wherever
it has been tapped. Immediately after
the discovery two df the partners came
to this city to procure supplies and tools
to commence work, and they returned
to the mines Tuesday. Several business
men and about forty prospectors left
also, all headed for the new Ell Dorado.
Since the discovery, which is the rich
est ever known in this section of the
country, there have been several stories
told, and nearly all old miners agree
that the old Pegleg mine, which has been
lost for years and which was reported
as marvelously rich; has now been re.
discovered. The quality of the gold
agrees exactly with that brought in in
large amounts every little while by In
dians, who have been tracked and fol-
lowed, but who would never reveal the
place from which they got their gold,
and they have always struck out in the
direction of Cottonwood Springs. Sew
eral parties are outfitting here for the
new mines.-San Bernardino Cor. San
Francisco Chronicle.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-05-12
HUNTER HIT HIM ON THE HEAD.
A Los Angeles Lawyer on tie
Warpath.
He Canes J. Charles Davis of the
Juch Opera Company.
The Attorney in Turn Knocked Down
by One Of Davts'a Friends-AR Ex-
citing Scene In the Bald
win Hotel.

Associated Press Dispatches.
SAN Francisco, May l.-A lively
scene took place in the Office OF the
Baldwin hotel last night. The actors
were J. Charles Davis, assistant man
ager of the Juch Opera company, and
Lawyer Hunter OF Los Angeles. The
latter had some claims against the COM
pany, and when he went to attach the
box Office receipts, at Oakland last
evening, he found the theater closed.
He then returned to this city and en-
tered the Office of the Baldwin hotel,
where he found Davis and Charles J i.
Locke, the manager OF the company,
standing at the counter. He ap-
preached them, and there was some
talk between them about the finances
of the company. Davis said that Hunter
had been buying up all the claims he
could f1nd, whereupon the latter not
only called him liar, but hit him on
the head with his cane. Davis fell
against the counter, quite severely in
jured, and Hunter rushed out on Mar.
ket street, pursued by Davis's friends.
He showed fight'and was knocked down
by j. D. Price, a member of the Juch
company. He was soon on his feet and
disappeared. This morning Manager
Locke got warrant for Hunters arrest,
but he has not yet been found.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-05-12
cripples at tho capital.

Strangers in the capital express much
surprise at the number of cripples to be
seen here, and offer various explanations
Of the sight. The majority of manned
citizens are Office holders, who were Grip
pied during the late war. The form in
which they are mostly injured is the loss
of an arm, oftener the left one, as obser-
walton shows. Many have parted with a
leg, and the suppliers of substitutes IN
willow, cork or rubber in Washington
aver that this is one of the best markets
in the country for their profession. Be
sides these injuries received through
violence, there are scores Of people in
the government service who are afflicted
with natural deformities. They are to
be found particularly in the treasury de-
rtment.-Kate Fields Washington.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-05-12
why We Have Lean Years.

Why is it that there have to be leap
years-that all our years are not Of the
same length? 1t arises from the fact
that the year does not consist of an ex-
act number of days. The length of the
day and that of the year are the meas
ures of the motions of the earth. The
globe we live on moves in two ways. It
turns itself around like spinning top,
and at the same time it goes steadily
forward like bullet shot from a gun.
1t turns itself once completely around
in twenty-four of our hours, as shown by
the clock; this amount of time we call q
day. Its forward or onward motion
carries it around the sun in path that
is nearly circle; the time it takes to go
completely around we call year. The
first motion gives us day and night fol-
lowing each other in turn (the word
"day" here having now a different
meaning namely, not twenty-four
hours, but the time of daylight.
The second motion gives US days (that
is, periods of daylight growing gradual
ly longer and then gradually shorter,
one end of the earth turning more to-
ward the sun for half the time and the
other end for the other half; and this
brings US summer and winter and the
seasons. Now the length of the year is
found to be nearly 1854 times the length
of the day of twenty -four hours; that is,
the year is 1855 days long and nearly six
hours more. 1t is these six hours that
give us our leap years, and it is in the
"nearly" that we find the reason for
1900 not being one of their number
Rev. George Macarthur in st. Nicholas.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-05-12
HEARING A SHELL SCREAM.
A Hideous S0und That Tries tie Nerves
OF the New Soldier.

A Hideous Sound That Tries tie Nerves
OF the New Soldier.
The talk turned upon personal cour-
age in conversation l had the otEer
day with an aid-de-camp of General
Alexander Hays. The veteran, who had
the name of being the most daring aid
ON Hays staff, said: "You ask me how
felt when first smelled powder, so to
speak. Well, after the lapse of all these
years I'm almost ashamed to tell you. l
was panic stricken, scared out OF my
senses, my courage oozed out OF me In
an instant, and small boy could have
captured me without trouble. This aw-
full experience came after / had been
about year in the army. The reg1-
ment of infantry in which Twas was pre-
pairing to go into camp. We were few
miles outside of Yorktown, which was
in the possession of the Confederates,
but none of us, not even our officers,
realized the proximity Of the enemy.
There were some cattle with the army,
and some how or other some of my COM
rades and were part Of the crowd that
drove the beeves to the place where they
were to be slaughtered.
1--WE formed circle, sort Of bull
ring, and fell to skylarking and firing
our pistols at the cattle as they ran
hither and thither. 1t was all laughter
and shouting. Suddenly, without the
| slightest warning, sound that we had
never heard before rose above the clamor.
1t was sort of whirring howl, lasting q
few seconds only, but long enough to
| strike terror into our hearts. The men
who had been as gay and noisy as school
boys minute before were dumb !!
don't remember how they behaved. My
own affairs kept me busy. felt as If
my boots were nailed to the ground.
They wouldn't move, neither would my
legs-in fact I had lost control of my
body. I was perfectly limp and my
knees sagged out.
''That was the first strange sound, us
of some hideous, deadly bird flying over
head. I hardly realized, mind you, that
the enemy was shelling us. ALI knew
for sure was that somehow my life,
which had enjoyed so much a minute
before, was in danger. WANTED to run,
but my legs wouldn't obey me. Two
shells passed over me before I could
shake off the paralysis. Then I ran as l
never ran before or since, with profess
sional sprinter's speed, to the shelter of
the woods from which our regiment had
only just emerged. A second terror
seized me as / reached the first scatter
ing trees. had selected one, big fell
low, as my refuge, and when I reached
it three other men who were crouched
behind it pushed me violently away,
saying there wasn't room for more.
Shells were still in the air, and with ter
ror pursued my flight. When at last l
fell exhausted upon the ground beyond
the range Of the enemys artillery, I al
most lost consciousness for awhile.
. "Nobody was killed by those shells,
but the 'Rebs' must have laughed to see
us run, and laughed louder yet when
| our cattle ran into their lines as they
! did. felt more or less uncomfortable
always in going into battle afterward,
but never again lost my nerve as did
at my fire baptism before Yorktown
| Pittsburg Dispatch.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-05-12
CONSPIRACY AND LIRHL

Rev. Dr.. ELLIS Sues HIS Former Parrish
ioners for 100000 Damages.
SAN Francisco, May 11.-Rev. DR.. J..
W. Ellis began suit today against Hugh
Fraser and other members Of the San
Francisco presbytery to recover $500, 900
damages. DR.. Ellis was formerly pastor
of the Central Presbyterian tabernacle,
this city, and in March, 81, was
arraigned by the presbytery on charges
of misappropriating funds entrusted to
him for the benefit of the church, and
of deception and falsehood. The case
attracted much interest. It resulted in
/. DR.. Ellis losing his pulpit. and he now
brings suit for damages on the ground
Of conspiracy aud libel.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-05-12
BERRY vINDICATED.

He Dismisses His Libel Suits Against
tho San Diego CnieB.
SAN DIEGO, May lin October, 1891, +,
two libel suits, aggregating $4,000,
were began against the San Diego Daily
Union company by John r. Berry, col
lector of the port of San Diego, on the
ground Of the Union having charged him
with being connected with the publica-
tion of several articles in local paper
which is not now in existence. The two
libel suits we're dismissed today by Mr..
Berry, and the Union will say in the
morning that recently sufficient evi-
dence had been furnished to convince it
that Collector Berry was not the author
of the article that gave offense, and that
he was not member of the company
publishing the paper containing them.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-05-12
A Mirror in your Glove.

Without merely desiring to remind
herself of her good looks woman has
often need of as much looking glass as
she can see her face in.
In the street, at a ball, at theater, in
the shops, all sorts of little disarrange-
nfents may occur, and to set them right
with mirror is an absolute necessity
The very handiest form of portable mir
r0rs is the new mirror glove" A little
fap is buttoned up into the palm of one
glove. When it is let down q small cir
cular mirror is disclosed. New York
Journal.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-05-12
WORLDS FAIR WORKERS.
"A Conference Between Lady Managers
and State Commissioners.

"A Conference Between Lady Managers
and State Commissioners.
SAN FRANCISCO, May ia conference
between the lady managers and the
California worlds fair commissioners
was held today. National Commissioner
Mcdonald paid high tribute to the
work OF the ladies at Chicago. Mrs.
Gordan urged an appropriation of
$4,000 to encourage silk culture
exhibit. Vice. President Phelan said
the board had eet aside $4,000 for the
ladies, but had not given it to them as a
lump sum. The commissioners had
decided that as the legislature had not
provided for board of lady managers,
the commissioners themselves would
have to shoulder all responsibility in
money matters, but the commission
would give the ladies money to carry out
their ideas, if the ideas were good ones.