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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-19
NO BLANKS IN THIS COMPETITION.

This is a competition of rather an unusual
nature. 1t is common to offer prizes for the
best story, or picture, or architectural plan,
all the cou petitOrs risking the loss of their
labor and the sue essful one merely selling
his for the amount of the prize. But the
Press Claims Company's offer is something
entirely different, Each person is asked
merely TO help himself, and the one who
helps himself to this best advantage is to be
rewarded for doiny it. The prize is only a
stimulus to do something that would be
well worth doing without it. The architect
whose competitive plan for a club house on a
certain corner is not accept ted has not spent
his labor on something OF very little use to
him. But the person who patent q simple and
useful device in the Press Claims COmpauy's
competition, need not worry If he fail to Sc
cure the prize. He has a substantial result to
show for his work-one tn At will its
value in the market at any time.
The plain man who uses any article in his
daily work ought to know better how to I'M
prove 1t than the mechanical expert who
studies ii only from the theoretical point of
view. Get rid of thu idea that an improve
ment can be too simple TO be worth patenting.
The simpler the better. The person who best
succeeds In combining simplicity and pOpu-
larlty, will get the Press Claims Company's
twenty-five hundred dollars.
The responsibility of this company may be
judged from the fact that its stock is held by
about three hundred of the leading news
papers of the United States.
Address The Press Claims Company,
Wedderburn, managing attorney, 6lS +. ?
N. W, Washington, .C.i
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-19
Tuesday. the First day Of August, 1884

between the hours of s o'clock a. M. and
e O'Clock p. m, at which Election only
property taxpayers of this City can vote,
ito determine whether or not the City of
San Antonio shall be authorized to Dor
row the sum of Two Hundred and Forty
Thousand (S24o, ooo.o o) Dollars and issue
its non.negotiable notes therefor, the
proceeds of said notes to be issued for the
payment of the debt due by the City to
the San Antonio National Bank; that
each of said notes shall be dated August
10th, 1898, and be of the denomination
of Ten Thousand (Io,ooo.oo) Dollars; six
of said notes shall be payable OF or
before one year from their date, and six
of said notes shall be payable on or be-
fore two years from their date, and six of
said notes shall be payable on or before
three years from their date, and six of
said notes shall be payable on OF before
four years from their date.
All of said notes to bear interest at the
rate not exceeding s per cent. per n
num-, interest payable semi. annually,
both interest and principal payable in
San Antonio, Texas.
At said Election those voting in favor
of the issue of said notes shall vote "FOR
THE PROPOSITION" those opposed shall
vote AGAINST THE PROPOSITION"
Said Election to be held at the follow
ing named polling places
WARD No. I. City Hall-Ed. Fro
bose, presiding officer.
WARD No. 2. Cor. Buena Vista and
San Saba Sts.-Otto Solms, presiding
officer.
WARD No. 3. Cor. N. San Saba and
Zavalla Sts.-John Stappenbeck, presid-
ing officer.
WARD No. 4. Convention Hall, Cor.
Houston and N. Flores Sts.-T. P. Nc
Call, presiding officer.
WARD No. S. Alamo Bldg.-Police
Station-W. H. Huston, presiding officer.
WARD No. 6. Cor. Cherry and Daw-
sol Sts, 5oI.-E. Bellinger, presiding
officer.
WARD No. 7. School house, Cor. La
~vacca and Matagorda SITS. - J c. Cumber-
land, presiding officer.
WARD No. s. S. Alamo and Nueva
Sts.-Louis Bergstrom, presiding officer,
In witness whereof, l hereunto set my
hand this nth day of July, A. D. 1898.
GEORGE PASCHAL,
Mayor, City of San Antonio.
Attest
E. r. NORTON,
7-1I.23t Deputy City Clerk.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-19
DESERVING PRAISE.

We desire to say to our citizens. that FOR
years we have been selling DR.. Kings
New Discovery for Consumption. DR..
Kings New Life Pills, Bucklen'S Arnica
Salve and Electric BitterS, and have never
handled remedies that sell as well, or that
have given such universal satisfaction.
We do not hesitate to guarantee them
every time, and we stand ready to refund
the purchase price, if satisfactory results
do not follow their use. These remedies
have won their great popularity purely
on their merits. San Antonio Drug Co. s,
+ Kalteyer & Sons and A. Dreiss drug
store.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-19
NOTICE
To Furniture Dealers.

MAYORS OFFICE.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, July :, 1893.
Sealed proposals will be received at this
office until II o'clock NJ, on the 27th day
of July, for four hundred and eighty
double school desks with separate seats,
as follows:
800 desks aud 10 rears, height of seat IL
inches.
800 desks and 10 rears, height OF seat 10
inches.
100 desks and 10 rears, height of seat IA
inches.
1870 desks and 10 rears, height of seat Is
inches.
Said desks to be delivered and screwed
to the floor, ready for use. A sample of
each desk offered will be required TO be
submitted. A deposit of one hundred
dollars or a certified check to that amount
must accompany each bid for the faithful
. carrying out of the contract if awarded,
and to become forfeited to the use of the
city upon failure to carry out the bid.
The city reserves the right to reject
any and all bids.
GEORGE PAsCHAL,
Attest: Mayor.
E. r NORTON,
Deputy City Clerk. 7S1Ot
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-19
LADIES' Low CUTS.

69e DRIVE, Ladies' oxfords,
worth S1.O0 at other houses.
500 SALE, A whole regiment of
stylish low shoes, ladies' and chill
dren's.
$50 SALE, Remnants of Ladies'
oXfords, $500, 1926 and $3.50
goods. Only small sizes left or
they wouldn't be reduced.
Sl.9Sc DRIVE, To introduce two
late styles which command $3.50
otherwise. JOSKE BROS,
7173t
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-19
PRIZES ON PATENTS.
How to Get Twenty five Hun
dred Dollars for Nothing.
The Winner sas a Clear Gift Of a Small
Fortune, and the Losers Have Patents
hat may Bring them In still More.

Would you like TO make twenty-five hun
dred dollars? If you would, read carefully
"haa follows and you may see a way to dc it.
The Press Claims Company devotes much
attsntion 30 patents. 1t has handled thous .
anas OF applications for inventions, but it
would like TO handle a thousand more. There
s plenty of inventive talent at large in this
country, needing nothing but Encouraged ent
TO produce practical results. That encourage
ment tAe Press Claims Company proposes to
RiYR.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-19
A Pleasant Sur prise.

"A number of the friends of Miss
Ola Devices gathered at her home
on Dwyer avenue last night and
rendered to her a surprise, as she
is about to leave for her fathers
ranch to spend the summer. An
agreeable time was had. Among
those in attendance We're: Misses
Irwin, Little Carl, Hope Cocker,
Messrs. Ernest Black, John Carl,
VIM. Miller, Walter Beckley, Alex
ander and others.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-19
NOT so HARD AS IT SEEMS,

A patent strikes most people as an appall
ingly formidable thing. The idea is that an
inventor must be a natural genius. like Edi
son or Bell; that he must devote years to
delVing in complicated mechanical problems
and thai he must spent a fortune on delicate
experiments before ne can get a new device to
a pateutable degree of perfection. This delu-
sion the company desires TO dispel. 1t desires
TO get into the head of the public a clear CON-
prehension 1.-THE fact that ii is not the great,
complex, and expensive inventions that bring
the best returns to their authors, out the lit
tie, simple, and cheap ones-the things that
seem so absurdly trivial that the average citi-
zen would feel somewhat ashamed of bringing
them to the attention of the Patent Office.
Edison says that the profits he has received
from the patents on all his marvellous inven-
lions have not been sufficient to pay the cost
OF his experiments. But the man who con-
ceived the idea of fastning q bit of rubber
cord to a child's ball, go that ii would come
back 10 the hand when thrown, made a fortune
out of his scheme. The modern sewing-ma-
chine is a miracle of ngenuity-the product of
the toll of hundreds of busy brains through a
hundred aud tifty1years, but the whole bril-
liant result rests upon the simple device of
putting the eye of the needle at the point in
stead of at the other and
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-19
Will Make q Haul,

"NeXt week." said a county Of
fetal to a LIGHT representative
yesterday, "the houses of disrepute
known as designation houses will
be raided by the officers. We have
quite a list of them, and it is our
intention to convict the owners, if
possible. This week is being spend
in hunting up evidence"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-19
Gospel at West End.

Rev. Robinson, the well known
evangelist, is conducting success
full revival services at the West
End Cumberland Presbyterian
church, holding two meetings
daily, one at 4 p. m. and the other
at $3.50 p. m. The West End Pres
%byterians and Methodist combine,
and are all attending the meet
ings.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-19
A OFFER,

To induce people TO keep track of Their
bright ideas and sec what there is in them
the Press Claims Company has resolved 10
offer a price.
To the person who submits to it the SIM
pliest and most promising invention, from
a commercial point OF view, the company will
give twenty-five hundred dollars in cash, in
addition to rcfunding the fees for securing
the patent.
1t will also advertise the invention free o
charge.
This ofreris subject to the following con
dit!ons:
Every competitor must obtain a patent FIR
his invention through the company. He
must first apply for a preliminary search.
the cost Of which will be five dollars.
Should this search show his invention boot
uupatentable, he can withdraw without fur
Their expense. Otherwise he will be expected
to complete his application and take out a
patent in the regular way. The total expense
including Government aud Bureau fees, will
be seventy dollars. For this, whether he
secures the prize or not, the irventor will
have a patent that ought to be a valuable
property to hun. This prize will be awarded
by a jury consisting of three reputable patent
attorneys Of Washington. Intending com-
petitOrs shOuld I'LL out the folio wing blank.
and forward II with the r applications:
- -, 1898,
81 submit the within described invention
in comp+tition for the Twenty-Five Hundred
Dollar Prize offered by the Press Claims
Company.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-19
FOR SALE OR TO LEASE.

For term of years: Lot l4SXl4S #.
cor. Houston and Ave, r, opp. pOStotfice
For particulars apply to J.. V. D~ignowity
over Texas National Bank.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-19
The Little Things The Most Valuable.

Comparatively few people regard them
sci yes as inventors, but almost everybody
has been struck, at one time or another,
with ideas that seemed calculated to reduce
some of theOlittle frictions OF life. Usually
such ideas are dismissed without further
thought.
why don't the railroad company make it's
car windows so that they can be slid up and
down without breaking the passengers
backs?" exclaims the traveller. "If were
running the road l would make them in such
q way"
what was the man that made this sauce
pan thinking Off" grumbles the cook. "He
never had TO work over a stove or he would
nave known how it ought to have been fixed"
Hang such a collar ~button!" growls the
mar who is late for breakfast. eff were in
the business I'D make buttons that wouldn't
slip out, or break of, or gouge out the back
of my neck"
And then the various sufferer forgot about
their grievarce s and begin to think of m
thing else. If they would sit down at the
next convenient opportunity, put their ideas
about car windows, saucepans, and collar
buttons into practical shape, and then apply
for patents, they might find themselves as IN
dependently wealthy as the man who invent
ed the iron umbrella ring, or the one who
notpntpd the nftapn DuzzIa
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-19
CHINAS

For Sl.00 a yd., any pattern in the
house, extremely fine and varied,
choice, throughout now 35r, 50e,
60, 75s and $3.50.
II st JOSIE BROS.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-19
Call on Woodward

For fine match teams, single drivers, fam
cy SaddlcrS, and reliable family horses;
also all kinds of vehicles. Prices to suit
purchasers. 22S South Flores street.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-19
-SiXty-fve cents,
SiXty-tive cents,
SiXty-tive cents,
Special sale Of Ladies'
Silk and Lisle Vests.
Z II st JOsKE BROS.
Notice.

Notice.
The largest stock of marble and
granite monuments in West Texas,
of the latest patterns on hand, and
for sale at the lowest prices, at
OTTO ZIRKEL'S Marble Yard,
724 and 726 f. Houston st. near
the post office. 49, tt
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-19
LOR PRINTING

In all It's branches done with ~neatness
and dispatch at the San Antonio LIGHT
Job Office.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-19
Wanted.

White cook, apply to J. f. Cav
thOn, corner Park avenue and Nav
Grick streets. II st
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-19
LATE KILOGRAMS
BOILED DOWN FRCM PRIVATE
SPECIAL AND OTHER
SOURCES.

EX-GGNefnOr StOlne,, OF lSANa, is
dead.
Mobile Register company as
signs.
France presents its ult6matum
to SIAM
Four persons killed by lightning
in Kentucky.
DrOuth in Austria cuts grain
crops severely.
Heavy rains break the drOuth in
Sonora, Mexico.
Revenue cutter Rush seizes two
stealing sealers-
No more trouble in Kansas City
financial circles.
Several sealed bids received for
Austin dam bonds.
Henry Purnell is improving rap
idly at the asylum.
Heavy orders placed by Mexico
for American wheat.
Day, of the Driskill, Austin,
rasps the dam board.
Twelve men drowned by boat
capsizing on the Danube.
Wind, rain and hail do 100000
damage in Cedar Co., Neb.
More trouble effected at the
Litchfield, KS, coal mines.
Two men killed at Fairbault,
Mimi, by a switching train.
Lancaster Brothers give bond at
San Marcos and are released.
Michal Twohey aged 10, drowned
by four Chicago street arabs.
Thirty buildings destroyed in
the London fire loss $7,225,O00.
There is no rising, as reported,
against the missionaries in Corea.
Sam Rosa, of Philadelphia,
parents rich, suicides at Houston
Miss Coulson, aged Is, missing
from Orphans home, Texarkana.
General Rincon sworn in as gov
ernOr of the Federal district, Next
co.
Fermented liquors pay the same
import duties into Mexico as dis
titled.
Two Denver savings banks added
to the list of failures reported yes
terday.
Manuel Flores shot by horse
thieves at Sour Springs, Wilson
county.
Call issued for International Re-
ciprOcity convention at Duluth
Oct. 10.
Pugilistic Corbett's performance
stopped on the Worlds fair
grounds.
Injunction refused at Austin
against lunatic asylum on matter
of sewers.
Taylor q Co., general merchants,
Elgin, assign, with $4,000 debts
and assets.
LOpes McGaugh suicides at In
dianapolis after numbering his
wife's sister.
China refuses to pay indemnity
for the murder of the. Swedish
missionaries.
Limestone pays 3 cents duty per
100 kilos, entering the Mexican
federal district.
Reports of Loans by clergy to
Mexican government are de-
nounced as lies.
Henry GOOden shot with a.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. gun,
near Fort Worth.
AmoskeOg mills, Mass, close
down for August. The monthly
pay roll is $225.OOO.
German financerS meet August
9th to discuss "a Of meeting
outlay of army bill.
Siam acknowledges the justice of
the French claims to indemnity
for losses to French citizens.
Jones, of Nevada, says he can
tie up the senate against silver
repeal till congress adjOurns.
Judge Jenkins, U. S. court, Mil
waukee, indicted as director of the
Plankington bank, will not resign.
Race troubles brewing in Missou-
ri, Just over the Arkansas line
negroes ordered to leave arm them
selves.
First National of Fort Scott
goes under; aud a run on the saw
lngs bank is STAYED off by the 80
days notice.
France will blockade the Me- !
kong river, Siam, unless repara-
ton ic nnndn for tho mnrdnr of In. |
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-19
Tuesday, list day Of August, 1888,
S24O,OOO.OO,

and issue non-negotiable notes therefore,
the proceeds of said notes to be used for
the payment ofthe debt due by the City
of San Antonio to the San Antonio Ma
tional Bank;
Now therefore, l, GEORGE PAsCHAL,
Mayor, of the City of San Antonio, by
virtue of the authority vested in me by
the Charter of this City and above Ordi.
nance, do hereby order an Election to be
held in all the Wards of this City on
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-19
TAIL ORS
Farm and GaraeH Seeds
Edward Persch, 6O4 Market St

San Antonio, Texas. make a speciality
of selling D. Lambeth & Sons Garden Seeds.
Also seed from the following seed growers:
l.. L. May & Co., Mimi. Kansas Seed House,
Kansas; Plant Seed Co., st. Louis, Mo.
and Griswold Seed Co., Nebraska.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-19
Contractors and BWildeyS
AGENCIES

Southern Detective Agency,
A. b. Maness, Office Manager, HE. Hous-
ton st. Telephone 59S. Lost personal prop
erty located. Conduct of suspicious en-
plOyeeS looked after. Evidence in all courts
of law obtained, and all kinds of informal
ton furnished. Communication strictly
private. Damage suits a speciality.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-19
I T ADVERTISING.
[OFFICIAL.]
ELECTION
PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS, the City Council of the City
of San Antonio, on the 10th day of July,
A. D. 1898, passed and approved an Ordi-
nance authorizing the Mayor of this City
to issue his proclamation calling a Spe-
ocial Election to be held in this City, on
Tuesday, list day Of August, 1893,
at which said Election the following pro-
prosition shall be submitted to the prop.
~erty taxpayers:
Shall the City of San Antonio be
authorized to borrow the sum of
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81 submit the within described invention
in competition for the Twenty-Five Hundred
Dollar Prize offered by the Press Claims
COMPANY,
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-11-09
THE MAN WHO IS DOWN
| WILSON Mirror

If a horse falls in the street, men
raise him up. II a man stumbles on
LIES path way men are TOO apt tc
spurn him and let him lie. Those who
have done wrong and rcpented often
complain that the world IS cold and
merciless. 1t may not seem so to
those Of Us who have not received the
golden mintage Of life. who have net
been under the worlds ban and dis
pleasure; but bitter experience is more
able to testify Of these things than we
are. Speaking to criminal who had
served a sentence in one Of our State
prisons, 1 asked him how he did.
& | was guilty. | bore the penalty
Of my crime; but" SAID he, "men
avoid me. If | sinncd, l suffered.
But men are not satisfied to restore ne
again to their confidence"
\ jail-bird - The title is the
mans doom all too often. He may
have given years Of repentance for the
mad impulse of a moment, but an
outcast once an outcast forever in this
life.
It is difficult to make prison punish
ment reiormatory but if difficult, it is
not impossible. And charity has no
better, more needed work to give a
man returning to society from fclon's
cell every chance.
Many Of our criminals are made so
because we partly demand they shall
be criminals. We say: You are a
dog, i pariah in whom have no con-
tidcncc, for whom no respect. Actions
say this. And when a man has no
reputation left to live and act for,
he is apt to slide down We deprive
him Of handspring in his morality.
It is well to be wise in treating the
man who is down, but oh, don't be
over prudent. There is charity
which hesitates to relieve until tie
opportunity is lost.
% stand here for the third time to
be sentenced because no man has given
me a chance since | first fell"
So said an apparently hardened
criminal to the judgeo a State Superior
Court.
That man and every other like him,
must have a chance. Give it to him,
to use if he but do so, to abuse if still
unref0rmed but have it he must, ere
our duty to God and man is complete.
And when nearing the goal Of lies
journey, we look back upon the way
our feet have trodden, oar greatest
satisfaction will hover around the
place and time where and when W.
helped the man who was down.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-11-09
a Tar Heel Editor Abroad.

The GOLD LEAF takes pleasure at
all times i'll noting the success OF it's
friends at home or abroad. And 50 we
are pleased to see that Henry Elount,
editor OF the Wilson Mirror, is winning
fresh laurcls in the lecture field in the
Southwest. We expected nothing less
Of orr friend when he decided to place
himself in the hands Of manager for
the purpose OF giving Il series Of lectures
this TALL and winter The following from
the Fort Smith, Arkansas, Times, will
be read with interest by Mr.. Blounts
many friends and admirers. 1t says:
For many days the literary loving
people OF Fort Smith have looked for
ward with eager anticipation to the
night when Hcry B.oUHt, the South )
brilliant lecturer, would hold the boards
a the Grand, and when last night, the
time, came, the opera house contained a
cultured and brilliant audience to listen
to the golden words OF elOquence as they
fell from the lips that at times We're al
most inspired with fire, pathos and
humOr.
Henry BIount, rs Il lecturer is new to
the people oi this section, but Judging
from the welcome he received and the
attention held for nearly two hours last
night, he vii! always prove i iavurite
whenever hc shall be pleased to again
visit Fort Smith.
Mr.. Blount is q natural orator, Il
natural humOrist and natural pleaser
OF the people, and his. lecture, 'Beyond
the Alp Lies Italy," is Il &c n sparkling
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-11-09

tasted OF the tree OF knowledge Of good
and evil and have become aware OF THEN.
nakedness. The supplies which cover The
mere necessities OF life are the mere fig
leaves. The masses viii never be salts
fed until their wants are supplied with
the fullneSS Of modern civiiizatiOn'
How Will the strong meet thpseisSue5 ?
For the first time in any threatened
revolution the people have full political
power.
Will the fortunate and powerful know
their opportunity or lose it?
Will we DO our dutE-He who are called
to authority-or will We fight one an
other?
\ policeman and 81 fireman got into
an ;t!tercation the other day at a fire
and fought one another while the house
burned down. Some one else did their
work. And the next day they had to
stand before the tribunal and give a
reason for their existence.