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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-10-16
CITY LOCAL NEWS.
-DR. Won KoEHRING, ART.
q ffica o. rec 100 Us rdpn ST Tel

-DR. Won koEHRING, ART.
Office q res. 129 Garden ST., tel. 476. Is tt
DIR. S. BURG, late physician of the
Imperial Hospital of Vienna. Residence
next to old 81 footing hall Tel. 122. Office
Reuter- building Alamo plaza. tel. 494.
. LOANS on furniture without
removal. J. NJ. EMERSON Co. 26 If
Call on F: d r. Simmang for
wines and liquors. Z Stf
Anything in wines, liquors or
cigars, at F. q r. Simmang'. If
Bear in mind that Frank J.
Beitel keeps builders hardware
and lumber at the international
and Great Northern depot.
Those fine down quilts at $4.9S
are for today only. The quantity
is limited. Call early. They will
all be sold. Haas & Oppenheimer.
10 16 3t
-Silurian Water, the best; F. &
R. Simmang, agents. rs If
Our 50 button shoe for ladies
cannot be equalled. Sullivan Shoe
Go. 10 IA If
Mineral Wool in any quantity
at Pauly & Dielmann's, 306 East
Commerce street. 10 I'm
Call today for those black hose
at Ice. They are for one day only.
10 l6 st Haas & Oppeheimer.
The grand Charter Oak stoves,
the World Beaters at Max Scultze,
105 w. Commerce street. 10 8 I'm
-Pauly & Dielmann are agents
for Kellog's celebrated paints; BOG
+. Commerce. 10 I'm
ALAMO CEMENT Co. are head
quarters on st. Louis Fire Brick.
Get their prices before buying else
where. Telephone No. 81. 8 % I'm
Coal stoves from $500 up at
Max Schultze, lO5 w. Commerce
street. 10 I'm
-Sullivan's So calf shoes, in con-
gress or lace, plain or cap toes, the
''Best on Earth" 10 IA If
-Pauly & Dielmann have just
received full line of Paints and
Oil. Call and get prices. 10 8 I'm
Don't forget that today is the
day for those drives at Haas Il
Oppenheimers 10 10 st
BY purchasing your building
materials from reliable house
YOU will run no risk of being de-
ceived. Pauly & Dielmann, own
ers of the Granite Building, are
recognized judges of Building ma
terials and handle the very best
and guarantee all as represented.
10 5 I'm.
Bear in mind that Frank j.
Beitel keeps builders hardware and
lumber at the international and
Great Northern depot. If
-Sheern & Burnett, undertakes,
259 Commerce street. Tel. 10.
-KARL'S CLOVER ROOT, the great
Blood Purifier, gives freshness and clear
ness to the Complexion and cures Consti-
patton, 25c.. SOC.
<-SHILOH'S CURE is sold on guaran-
tee. 1t cures Incipient Consumption. 1t
is the best Cough Cure. Only one cent
dose. 25 cts, so cts. and Sl.OO.
BEST Cord and Stove Wood,
Coal, Hay and Grain, Sunset Wood
Go. Telephone 81. sc If
Breeding, Welsh & Breeding
dentists, Alamo Fire ms. bldg. ly
The finest mixed drinks can be
had only at Cooley's Register
Alamo Plaza. 3 y tt
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-10-16
$3.50 REWARD.

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Oct. l3, 1913.
l hereby offer reward of seven
hundred and fifty dollars for the
murderers of my husband, NJ. Koe-
nigheim. Payment to be made
after arrest and conviction.
1913 I'm MRS. NJ. KOENIGHEIM.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-10-16
A PETTY Theft.

Saturday night Billie Freeman's stable
was entered and fine set Of buggy har-
ness was stolen, and instead, a cheap,
vermont set was left. The detecLiv~s
have been notified of the theft and have
the matter in charge.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-10-16
Bargains in Carpet Department

Bargains in Carpet Department
Smyrna rugs SOC.
Tapestry rugs 6Os.
Brussels rugs 27x65, 81.
Ingram carpets 15e per yard.
Tapestry carpet 55s per yard.
White and fancy mating l4S per
yard, at Haas & Oppenheimer's.
y 10 Is st
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-10-16
Dress Goods and Silks

This truly great department is
our pride Everything that is new,
that Is novel, that is fashionable can he
had here. We show the choicest novel
tie 10 the Greatest ProFusion. Our pat.
tern Suits" are exceptionally attractive.
in Silk we will not enumerate our offer
ings, but i'll that line as usual we lead.
Our evening shades is Silk and wool EN-
braces everything in the line, with many
new suggestions from the centers of
fashion.
CSC ward Chargeable effect IN Serges
and f. ncies'
3711c yard staple shades in Greys, So
inches and very durable a bargain
45c yard all woal SO inches wide, as
sorted patterns, new and staple shades. S
Ssc yard all wool Henrietta, 50 niche
wide, solid coors entirely new shades
and rare offering.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-10-16
CL0AKS AND WRAPS.

Positively the largest and best select
ion of Light, Medium and extreme Wraps
ever exhibited. We keep up with the
caprices of fashion, and are now show
ing an extensive line of these goods,
everything in the line from an infants to
the finest Sealskin. The prices for this
week are special and it is rare oppor.
tunity.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-10-16
Fire and Water Goods

Will be closed out, come and get
bargains, l49 Navarro street. Five
hundred stoves to close out. 10 Ii 3t*
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-10-16
THE EVIDENCE. OF SUCCESS

department the sales Our Sales Early Fall novelties Fine Dress
offerings the fabrics and styles prices
quality. the ladies Of
no. aud a
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-08-31
Curiosity of Cookery.

The following is copy of the bill
of fare of what is called regular
mandarin supper, given by Sir Charles
Macdonnel at Hong Kong, in 1867, to
the Duke de Penthievre, the Comte
Beauvoir, and some other French
gentlemen: preserved fruits; fish
roe in sweet caramel sauce; almonds
and raisins; shark fms in gelatinous
sauce; cakes Of coagulated blood;
hashed dog, with lotus sauce; birds
nest soup; lily seed soup; whale
nerves. with sweet sauce; Kwai-poh-
Hing ducks; surgeons gills in COM
pote; croquettes Of fish and rat:
sharks fat soup; stewed sea snails,
with tadpoles; sweet dish composed
of fins, fruit, ham. almonds, and es-
sences; lotus and almond soup as des-
sert, with indicated wine and warm
arrack."
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-08-31

and had to be taught; they did not
know how to prepare the melons for
market, and needed instruction in this
particular also. When all this had been
gained it was found that their melons
were too thin-skinned to bear trans
portation, and hundreds of car loads
were lost in making this discovery. A
melon was then found which would bear
the rough and tumble usage of a thou
sand mile journey; special melon trains
were put on all the roads, and in water
melon time special schedules were made
out, in order that these trains might be
hurried through with the least possible
delay and the fruit brought to market
in good condition. OF course, all this
was not done from philanthropic
motive Railroad companies do not
usually undertake enterprises solely
from desire to elevate the condition
of mankind. The hope and expectation
of the railroad men was to build up a
business that would pay them for their
trouble. They have succeeded in build
ing up the business; how well it pays
them is a matter concerning which
they have not taken the public into
their confidence.
While work on a Georgia melon farm
is by no means pressing at most seasons
of the year, when the melons come to
condition fit for shipping there is a
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-08-31
The Feet.

Doctors very strongly recommend
foot baths for those whose feet trouble
them. Walking heats the feet,
standing causes them to swell, and
both are tiresome and exhaustive
when prolonged. There are various
kinds of foot baths, and authorities
differ as to their value. Hot water
enlarges the feet by drawing the
the blood to them; when used they
should be rubbed or exercised be-
fore attempting to put on tight
boot. Mustard and hot water in a
foot bath will side-track a fever if
taken in time, cure nervous head
ache, and induce sleep. Bunions,
corns, and callousness are Natures
protection against bad shoe leather.
Two hot foot baths a week and lit
tie pedicuring will remove the cause
of much discomfort.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-08-31

men who might otherwise be out of
work But the usefulness of the melon
is extended into quarters where its in
fuence is unsupported. The vast bust
ness done by the railroads in the water
melon season enables them to pay more
employees, more brakemen, more con-
ductors, greater number of engineers
and firemen, who, in turn, distribute
their wages among grocery men, and
butchers, and bakers, and tailors, and
shoemakers, and teachers, and preach
ers, and newspa per publishers, and SO
dozens of people who never eat water
melon and who, therefore, regard the
melon as a thing entirely extra
neous to their own sphere, are.
more prosperous because the water
melon is grown. Even the bloated
bondholder and the man who owns
railroad stocks are directly benefited
by the watermelon. The broker in
Wall street, the banker in London, the
capitalist in Hamburg and Bremen,
never think of attributing any por-
ton of their wealth to the watermelon,
but with the money derived partly
from hauling it from the South to the
North the interest On bonds is paid and
dividends on stocks are declared. The
watermelon, therefore, becomes, in one
sense, an international issue, for the
[ London banker drinks champagne be-
cause the people of st. Louis and New
York and Chicago eat watermelon.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-08-31

srat, brought over 300 car loads into
st. Louis, while probably three times
that quantity altogether arrived in
this city. The stupendous nature of
the business may be guessed at, but not
estimated, by the reflection that every
large city in the North takes and eats
watermelons quite as literally
as the metropolis of the Mis-
sissippi Valley. Some statistician with
a keen nose for exact figures has esti-
mated that at the very least calculation
there are annually raised in the United
States alone 100000 900, 900 watermel-
ons, and when to this immense aggre-
gate are added the immense quantities
produced in Mexico, Central and South
America, in the West India islands, in
South Europe, in Palestine, in Turkey,
in Persia, India and China, to say
nothing of the product of Africa, some
idea of the Importance of the water
melon as a factor in the worlds food
supply may be gained. Watermelon
may not be particularly nourishing-in
fact, scientists tell us that 1t is not
but, as Amateur Scientist Sam Weller.
once remarked in reference to veal
pie," it is very filling for the price,
and, after all, no inconsiderable por-i
ton of the human race regards filling
as of somewhat more consequence than
nourishment.
AS q factor in commerce the water,
melon, however, is by no means de-
spicable. Millions of dollars change
hands in this country every year for;
and in consideration of watermelons.!
Thousands of people make a part or
the whole of their living from the ma
tional prediction for this delicious
fruit. The growers have sometimes
made fortunes, but the growers are not
allowed to monopolize the benefits
arising from it's production. The la
borers who do the actual work on the
watermelon plantations live by means
of the melon, so also do the swarms of
men who perform the labor of harvest4
ing the melons when ripe. After being
forwarded to market, three Or four sets
of people make the whole or part Of
their living out of the melon; restau7
rant keepers and hotel men look to it
to furnish them fair profit, while the
middlemen or dealers also come in for
q share of the modest price that is
demanded of the actual consumer. The
dealers in sweetmeats share in it's BEN
efts, for choice comft is manufactured
from it's rind, while the druggists find
in it's seeds much-used medicine.
Even after its edible portion has all
been consumed, the melon still helps
people to livelihood, for the enor-
nous quantity of rinds accumulated
daily in all portions of a large city dur7
ing the melon season demands extra
garbage carts and these mean extra
drivers and additional employment for
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-08-31
HIS HARD LUCK.


A Valuable Ice Mine that Had Hoodoo In
1t Somewhere.
The man with the negligee shirt
was talking of hard luck, says the
Buffalo Express.
"Its just this way, he said; when
things get to going against you
there's no stopping them Luck and
hard luck run in streaks with every
man, and when things get to coming
your way there's no stopping them
any more than there is when they get
to going against you.
"As an illustration, let me tell you
of an experience ] had. About three
years ago | began to have hard luck.
I lost everything l had one way or
another, and got into all sorts of
trouble. Finally landed in Rich
mond, Va, stone broke, without a
friend to whom could apply for aid
and nothing ahead of me but turn
on the roads as a tramp. [ could get
nothing to do in Richmond, and l,
started out to tramp up North.
"It was as hot as Tophet. tramp.
ed along day after day, sleeping on
the ground and stealing what I had.
to eat, which was not much, let me
assure you. One day / struck Stony
Creek, which is in wild part of the
State. I followed up along the creek
until I reached Stone mountain, and
there I made discovery. I found
an ice mine. 1t was fully an acre in
extent, and the ice was as clear as
crystal. l realized what the find
meant, and after taking my bearings
carefully / made my way back to
Richmond.
at didn't take me long to get some
capitalist interested in it, and we
formed stock company, with me as
President, to work the ice the next
summer. 1t looked as if | had for
tune in my grasp.
early the next summer we started
to work it, but my hard luck came
toddling along and did me up There
wasn't a month that summer when
we didn't have frost, and there was
absolutely no demand for ice. That
left me stranded again in worse shape
than before.
II don't see why" put in the
doubling Thomas, who wore a broad
brimmed straw hat. "Why didn't
you wait aud work it the next sum-
mer?"
Il told you / was in hard luck,
didn't II" asked the man with the
negligee shirt, severely. well, /
was. Although the summer was cold
the winter was so warm that it melt
ed every blamed bit of the ice and
left nothing but pool of water
there, which was of no earthly use to
anybOdV."
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-08-31
The Tower of Silence.

When a Parsee dies the body is
wrapped in white, and the mourners,
as they 60 to the burial place, are
clothed in white. Two by two they
walk behind the white-robed corpse
as it is carried to the tower Of ST.
lence," which is it's final resting place.
This is a large stone tower, on which
the body is placed and left to be
eaten by the vultures. There are
five such towers in Bombay, and the
big birds constantly hover about
them in large numbers. They are
treated as if they were sacred birds.
'"Is this form of burial good one
from a sanitary standpoint" was
asked of a Parsee. 1--WE believe it is.
Cremation is doubtless the best from
this standpoint, but in India the
people are SO poor and fuel is so
scarce that the Hindus are not able
to practice cremation universally.
Moreover, the Parsee believes it is
better to be eaten by birds than by
worms Burial in a grave is repul-
siye to u.s."
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-08-31

ample field for the exercise of his
talent in the proclivity of the colored
man of the South for watermelon steal
ing, but where watermelons are so
abundant and so cheap, the theft of a
melon from field is regarded as
scarcely more criminal than the alb
straction of drink of water from a
neighbours spring. Every year thou
sands upon thousands of samples little
too ripe for shipping are left to rot in
the fields, and when this is the case,
for an owner to object to the abstrac
ton of few melons would be regarded
as churlish in the extreme. The pri-
vate grower who has only a small patch
for his own use will watch it with a
shotgun, but the watermelon farmer
has an abundance of which the
loss of few specimens would not be
missed and could easily be spared.
Africa's sons, then, may rejoice In the
fruit of their native land, for, by all
accounts, the watermelon originated in
Africa, and to the present day it is
confidently affirmed by travellers that
the largest and finest melons in the
world are still grown in the heart OF
the Dark Continent. Both to African
and Caucasian, however, the taste for
watermelon is natural rather than &C
quired. Men must get used to oysters;
the taste for tobacco is acquired only
by long, and sometimes disagreeable.
practice; the love of the Goldfish OF New
foundland, of the Holsters of Massa-
chusetts Bay, and the vipers of the
Apennines must be cultivated, but all
human beings take naturally to the
watermelon, and, it must be added, al
most as naturally to the. stealing as to
the eating. A prominent authority on
the subject, dealing with it in epicurean
fashion, says that the best way to
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-08-31
,UIT OF THE VINE,
WATERMELON AS A FACTOR
IN CIVILIZATION.
Played by the Melon in Southern De-
s,,cnt - How the Railroads Have
I'D the Melon Observation-Disclosures of
sapory Fruit.
Product of the South.

he watermelon as factor in civil
on is not usually considered of prime
kortance, but that some credit Is due
| product of the sunny skies and
|dy soils of the tropical climes, there
10 question. Commonly supposed as
Eoned only to gladden. the heart and
$sfv as we'll as disorder the digestive
karatus of the African fellow-citizen
the Caucasian small boy, it never
Hess has wider range of usefulness
assisting to solve the economic
khem in the Southern States. In
respect it of course must share the
ry with the humble and ofttimes de-
Bed goober or peanut, which from an
'asional and chance product has
sn to a position of grave Importance.
1 from commercial standpoint, the
fermelon outranks both the goober of
hnessee and the gator skin of Florida
/ holds it's own even when placed in
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-08-31
Queer Matrimonial Methods.

A convenient way they have in
Holland and Batavia of tying the
matrimonial knot when the lady is
in one country and the gentleman in
the other. For the Hollanders are
such a thrifty, Industrious people
that they like not to lose time even
over the most solemn services. The
marriage is affected by procuration.
The watches of the two parties-the
one say in Amsterdam and the other
in Batavia-are regulated to accord,
or the difference in longitude allowed
for. Then at the same instant Of
time the marriage ceremony is per-
formed in both places, and the thing
is done.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-08-31

day or two at least; peanuts ana - sweet xe11
as today, but the watermelon sa a is lm to
p peach market in proper condition must St
once. A watermelon stati ioaa " nr e
south 5 putin r seenea Teams are continually
. rIs{ ee and departing, the wagons l
a 1adep almost to breaking with the DARK dark
gree green s lrur' shining with perspiration
saeiH loading ad the melons into the isst aars
that n s.aI Melons 10 and fragments OF rlnd
ne F'ee ap1es y revefs in watermelon; the
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-08-31
TOO LARGE A PLUG.

eniov a watermelon is. first, to steal it:
secondly, to put it in the spring until
dinner time, thirdly, to take it out,
break it open by pounding it on a rock
and eat only the heart, one watermelon
being deemed a moderate portion for
one man.
Extent of the Business.
IF this were the case and such usage
so far as eating we're to prevail in the
sections to which the watermelon is
shipped. the business would certainly
increase to far greater proportions than
at present. Even now, when 1t is as
vet only in its infancy, the watermelon
business is something enormous. Dur
inc the. season of last year one road
alone, according to the Globe-Demo-
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-08-31

ed by accident, but by the most in
gent and assiduous effort on the
of the railroad companies, which
f practically created the water
Pm business Before the days of
foads there were, of course, water
pms. There perhaps never has been
PIE when there were not water1nel-
for according to the best biblical
mentators the melons" which the
eIltes lamented in the wilderness.
aylng been one of the choicest and
regretted products of Egypt, were
ermelons. Some of the earliest
ptlan paintings represent the vine
Pll bearing, and in one capital work
fehlstoric Egyptian art group of
ply colored natives is represented
ed IN circle, while one Of the
Der distributes slices from a large
n which was unquestionably
fmelon. Ancient. however, as the
fmelon undoubtedly is, it assumed
prominence as a factor in civiliza-
Only within the last few years, and
the railroad system of the South
penetrated every neighborhoOd.
question considered by the railroad
When they came to contemplate the
Frmelon as possibility was to bring
|elous tropical dainty and it's possible
umers into juxtaposition. Thou
upon thousands of watermelons
annually grown and wasted in the
heS OF the South while the people
ew York. Boston. Chicago, Buffalo
o1her Northern cities were actually
erlng and thirsting after water
h' Their children were CRYING
a'ermelon. The sick among them
gu slice of watermelon in June
n received the mournful answer:
time OF watermelons is not vet.
'ne astute railroad mind it was
mat II ways and means could be
eo 10 bring the melon to the con-
at the time the consumer wanted
40 While the melon was still fresh.
Iorinous business could be built up.
5ong course of experiments.
let 1' at no little loss and expense.
,. noo5em was finally solved, and the
mGlon trade of to-day is some
colossal in its proportions. The
a4'ies IN the way seemed at first
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-08-31

pickaninnies have watermelon and to
spare, for watermelon about we'll
known melon station is almost as free
as water; the train hands eat water
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-08-31

parison with so important an
|cle of commerce as the turpentine
North Carolina or the fisheries
be- the coast.
bis pre-eminence has not been at
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-08-31

good deal more haste manifested than
IS observable at any other season. Cot
ton in the boil does not spoil by little
waiting: sugar cane can be delayed
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-08-31

almost insuperable. The Georgians
and Floridans and other Southerners
VINO raised the melon were unfamiliar
with the best methods of cultiyating it,
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-09
KILLED BY A COMPATRIOT.
A Game OF Cards Ends In a Row and an
Italian Is Slain.

WATERBURY,, Conn, Feb. 9.-Tomssso
Valetto, an Italian, aged 3s years, a baker
by occupation, received a stiletto wound
last night, from the effects OF which he
died in ten minutes.
About half past six o'clock the victim
and half dozen other Italians were en-
gagged in a game OF cards In a saloon az
No. " Canal street, kept by Pete Morello
During the game row arose from some
cause, which has not yet been ascertained.
Valetto and Franga Beppo became in.
volved in personal quarrel, when the
latter drew his stiletto and plunged II
into Valetto's body. The wound was OF a
frightful nature and the wounded man
lived but ten minutes.
In the confusion Beppo made his escape
and 1t is not known in which direction h
mas gone. AS usual in such cases hi
countrymen are not Inclined TO give the
authorities any assistance.
The police OF Bridgeport, New Haven
and other cities have been asked TO keep
lookout for him. Valetto leaves widow.
Beppo was a hod carrier.