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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-28
FINE RANCH. A BARGAIN.

$4,000 on easy payments will buy the
finest and cheapest ranch in BeXar coun-
tv, thirteen miles west of San Antonio, on
the Culebra creek Excellent meadows,
farming and pasture and timber lands, al
fenced, and containing $500 acres of land
with two fine wells of permanent water
and two large tanks well distributed;
three dwelling houses, stables and corralS.
For further information call upon J. V.
DignOwitY. over Texas National bank. u
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-28

TIE locality that antagOnizes
the building of the "picket line''
railroad is fighting against the
best interests of the whole south
west, particularly the region be-
tween the Sunset road and the Rio
Grandc. That border railroad would
do more to settle that section, put
an end to cattle theft and brigand-
age and induce settlement than
ten regiments of troops would ac-
complIsh in ten years.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-28

case in the court of public
opinion. The new phase of the
question that is thus presented
shows cOnclusively that the trouble
with the government of Ireland
is in no small measure a relig-
iOus one. The rule of the minor
ity has been perpetuated so long
that the Protestant few imagine
that they have a divine right to
control the Catholic many. This
condition of things is not confined
to Ireland, but crops out in this
country from time to time under
the, agitatiOns of the Puritans,
who seem to have heired all the
bigotry and intolerance of the old
Jerusalem Pharisees. These gen.
try see. the handwriting on the
wall of Irish events and are moved
to murderous sedition in conse-
quence, but without avail.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-28

WHERE does the Star get the
luminous idea that this smelling
committee of twenty-five, is only
to smell at front doors and not at
back ones? That Star will suffer
an eclipse if it suggest such a
thing to the Pecksnifrs who are
running this Sunday business for
bluff.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-28

THE man who changes his poll
tics for pie, and the number in
creases, is held in general contempt.
There is this excuse, however, Gro
yer is SO little of a Democrat that
most any Republican could hold
office under him without straining
a trace.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-28

THE banks of the country offer
relief to the government, but CIeve-
land and Carlisle repudiate the
plans proposed, while at the same
time they do not seem to have any
definite financial policy.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-28
suckLEN's AaNIcA sALvE.

The Best SaIve In the world Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum Fever
Sores, letter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains,
Corns, and all Skin Eruptons, and posi-
lively cures Piles, or no pay required 1t
Is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction,
or money refunded. Price 25 cents per
0ox. For sale by all Druggists.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-28

DOES a mans inability to legally
qualify for a municipal office con-
stitute claim upon said office: To
ask the question is to answer it.
Why then this delay in settling
the vexed question of the city en-
gineership?
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-28
TO CORRESPONDENTS.

All communications for this paper
SHOULD be accompanied by the name OF the
author, not necessary for publication, but
as evidence OF good faith on the part OF
the writer. Write on one side Of the pa
per, In a plain hand. Anonymous com
munications will not be noticed. The
LIGHT will not be responsible for the
statements Of it's CORRESPONDENTS.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-28
CHoIcELors EoR SALE.

Grand View Addition offers the best
and cheapest building and garden lots In
the city. You are sure to double your
money in twelve months. Lots from fifty
to one hundred and fifty dollars. Garden
blocks three miles from postoffice at $l25
an acre and upwards. Call on A. j. May,
over Texas National Bank. 1T
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-28

THERE is a radical difference of
opinion between Cleveland and
Carlisle on the question of finance,
but Carlisle is only the old mans
clerk and the thing will go as the
boss of the business says.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-28

BECAUSE the rains that should
descend and flood out the foulness
of the street cutters are little
backward in coming forward, that
does not excuse the city council for
its negligence in the premises.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-28

THE problem that cOnfrOrts the
democratic party is how to increase
their revenue on a decreased pro-
duction and at the same time de-
crease the tariff on imports. They
have no more idea how it is to be
done that the man in the moon
had of the price of butter, when
the COW jumped over it.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-28

THE money that may be appro-
priated by the council of this city
for sanitary purposes will never
be regretted by the tax payers.
Every dollar thus spent will be
an investment that will return
large interest on the capital.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-28

The Democracy has declared war
ON reprocity, because they have
heretofore antagonizcd it, and
their antagOnism rests on the fact
that it is a Republican measure
for increasing American trade.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-28

STEAM absorption is now spoken
of as the best means of disinfecting
garbage and night soil. San An
tonic will stick to her garbage fur
naces, when she gets them.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-28

THE Belgian Senate endorses the
plan for universal suffrage upon
the basis of a certain educational
and property qualification. This
measure will become law, and the
tranquilization of the kingdom
will follow.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-28

THE City of Mexico is threatened
with a scarcity of water. \ pure
water supply and abundant, with
perfect draining is all that city
needs to make it as healthy as any
large city on the continent, but
wanting these she is at the mercy
of every pestilence and epidemic
that is on the tramp.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-28
DR.. L. V. Weathers,
$50 LOTS FOR SALE.

200 elegant lots in Government Heights
Addition. just southeast of Government
grounds, for sale at fifty dollars each. 80
lots in Woodlawn Addition for sale at two
Bank. 42Otf
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-28

IF law justifies cOersiOn, the
Jews had a law "and by this law
he (ChrisD ought to die, because
he being man has made himself
the son of God" Law justi-
fies all the wrongs ever inflicted
upon humanity.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-28

Houston adds to her other no
torious attractions the man who
damns the ladies on general prin-
ciples, and does the damning in
public. Houston is queer.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-28

THE billy goat has found his
haven in the declaration that the
milk of his harem is the best anti
dOte for the cholera bacilli.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-28

THERE is no political littleneSs
divides the present occupants of
the White House from old time
Republicans Grover and some of
the Republican chiefs are warm
personal friends and Mrs. General
Grant and Mrs. Cleveland are very
cordial in their friendships. Be
fore Francis was mistress Of the
White House she had an ardent
admiration for the wife of the
then President, Grant.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-28

TIE Houston Post has Cuney-
phobia, has it bad, and is trying to
vaccinate Cleveland with the virus.
but it will not take.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-28

HoUSToN Posi- says 'Iittle things
are great to little towns" What
an elephant the Post must be to
Houston.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-28

THE rumOred attack upon the
life of Gladstone, in the light of
the Belfast riots, has stirred up the
United Kingdom. There may be
no truth in the Interpretation put
upon the facts as reported, but
those Belfast orangemen would
shoot Jesus Christ, if he stood in
the way of their lust for power.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-28

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS being
dead yet speaketh and more peO-
people hear his voice today, though
dead four hundred years, than
when he was alive and sailing over
the then unknown highway of the
seas. How many who celebrate
his deeds today will be heard from
four centuries hence?
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-28

WHEN the Democrats put that
SNO,OOO,OOO tax on tea and coffee
and sugar they will brew pot of
trouble for themselves.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-28

EVEN the Dallas Times-Herald
finds good word to say for the
anti-DemOcratic mayor of that
city. There are hopes Of the ID. r
II.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-28

FORT WORTH has succeeded in
putting paddock on the Chicago
and Rock Island road and after it
enters Fort Worth it will do no
more road building this year. This
will give the Fort as it's Texas ter
minus a chance to skim the cream
off its traffic for little season.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-28

IT Is neither a crime nor a dis
grace not to be a citizen, but it
may be both to assume the func-
lions of one.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-28

THAT arbitration bill, to adjust
difficulties between employers and
employees, which has just been en-
CROSSED in the House, is move in
the right direction.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-28

TIE legislature are cordially in
Vited to come over and see how
that Sunday law does not work.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-28

THE gold bug has the right of
way over the free trade FLEA and
the silver scarab.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-28

RUNNING the freetrade mill now
is like turning the wheel with the
water that is passed.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-28

WANTED.-SOme one to tell the
truth about that Austrian Consul
ate.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-28

UNCLE SAM has no desire to run
Hawaii, neither does he intend to
be run out Of Hawaii. Sabc.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-28
FRIDAY, APRIL %, 1898.

GOTHAM grows a foot taller over
the naval review.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-28

BUFFALO BAYOU is not the only
rotten thing about the Bayou city.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-28

TIE populists have ceased to
pop up as pleaders for pie under
the Cleveland dynasty.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-28

Announcements for State and County
ulcers ten Dollars in advance.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-28

MONDAY will be the greatest
May day America ever saw since
May days We're kittened.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-28

tE All contracts or hills must be ap-
Sroved by the Secretary and Manager
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-28
FOR SALE.

One lot about 2Ix4o varas with Groom
frame house fronting on Cameron St.
comprising all that part of the Chas. F. Ziegler
estate, not set aside as homestead.
Order of sale granted by the Hon Probate
Court, March %, 1898. Inquire of
CHAS. SCHREINER,
3-30-lm Administer. Ziegler Est.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-28

Mrs. CLEVELAND was slightly
indisposed, owing to the excite
ment and sulphurous fumes of the
naval review, and returned to
Washington. 1t is strange that the
special correspondents did not put
her in her coffin that they might
resuscitate her tomorrow. They
have missed the opportunity of
their lives. AS it is they try to
make out a case of critical illness
where there was a slight nausea.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-28

GLADSTONE looks on and smiles
serenely at the hostile demOnstra-
lions that are being made by the
Belfast Orangemen. He knows
that they are so greatly in the mi
nority that they cannot prevent
the action of the Irish party in the
support of the Home Rule meas
ure, while their rank PARTISAN
ship and overt acts of armed re-
sistance to law only prejudice their
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-28

SECRETARY CARLISLE, after an
interview with the New York bank
ers, announces that there will be no
issue of bonds. He also intimates
with no little flourish of trumpets
that the financial mule is badly
OverwOrked and that new animal
will be put upon the treadmill. He
will find that it is a condition and
not theory that cOnfrOnts the
country, and that he must increase
revenue to meet expenses. If he
does not do this he is in the soup.
If he attempts it by OvertaXing
sugar and tea he is in the tureen.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-31

ton was one of social position, or per
haps it was only one of wealth; posi-
bly, it was both. At any rate, these
collins in the mound contained an al
most infinite variety of implements
and utensils in stone, copper, earthen-
ware and woven materials. and even
through the earth of which the mound
was composed these relics were fire.
quently to be discovered lying loose.
| was incredulous concerning the
''pygmy" story from the first, and the
measurements made confirmed me in
the belief that these remains were
those of Il race not very different from
the so-called Village Indians of the
southwest in point OF stature.
1t was ghastlv work to unwrap these
stiffened bodies and work over the
crumbling fragments with tape-line
and pencil, but it resulted in finding
that the bones were certainly those of
race of tall men. Other explorers
containing the bodies of children only,
as was shown by the condition of the
teeth and other bones. 1t was APP
parently their custom to bury their
children apart and it may be that the
Tennessee mountaineers have come
upon these segregations of small bones
and mistaken them for the bones of a
pygmy race.
The race affinities of the so-called
pygmies are very doubtful. Several
writer's upon the question find close re-
semblanceS between their habits and
those of the Peruvian Incas, and in
many ways l know that they closely
resembled or perhaps were identical
with the Aztecs and some of the semi
civilized nations of ancient Mexico and
Central America.
In the arts and the manufactures
the pygmies were somewhat behind
the Aztecs, for their pottery is rough
and without glazing, while that of the
Aztecs was in many cases finely en-
ameled. In their ceramic decorations,
too, they were behind. having made
extensive use of a common iron oxide
as a pigment. and this has not kept it's
color well.
One of the common designs upon the
pottery is in the form of well defined
cross, inclosed in figure of circular
outline. 1t is question whether this
has any particular significance. Many
of the vases and pitchers and other
vessels were designed after the human
figure and after some of the common
birds and animals, many of the por-
traits being quite true to life.
They worshiped strange gods, these
''pygmies," the stone graves, the
mounds and the earth all around con-
tanning an endless number of images
in stone and baked earthware. 1t
would seem that, in order to find use
for all these diyinities, every act from
the beginning to the end of their lives
must have been performed under the
auspices of a separate god. To judge
from the expressions of the faces all
ugly enough-there must have been
both angels and devils in the pygmy
religion. These gods came in all sizes,
apparently to suit the depth of re-
ligious conviction or the depth of
pocket of the would-be worshipers;
they are from few inches to nearly or
quite three feet in length.
WILLIAM T. IIGHToy
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-31
ra,e Of unreauited Love.

A touching story OF tender love
comes to us from town not many
miles from this place. says western
exchange. 4 beautiful girl became
engaged to a gallant union officer. At
the close of the war he went to Cali
fornia to seek his fortune. She ig-
nored all advances from scores OF
suitors. and patiently awaited his re-
turn. feeling confidence in his keeping
true love to her. So the years passed
and even few gray hairs began to
show themselves among her brown
tresses, while her friends no longer
pitied but ridicuied her for refusing
all advances from desirable sources
Lately her fidelity was rewarded. The
lover of her girlhood has returned from
California bronzed. bearded, and 2 nil
lionaire. with a wife and twins
A WOMAN in Tanner, ". Va, gave
birth to her twenty-ninth child a few
days ago.
AN Italian committed suicide at
Santa Rosa. Cal. recently because he
had 10 education.
THE happiest negro in Wisconsin
dwells in Madison. He parades the
streets, exhibiting bullfrog with
three eyes-one in the center of its
head.
A FARMER at Stanberry. Mo-. has
enough simple faith in mankind to adj
vertise in the local newspaper for the
recovery of a ten-rallon key of blacl,-
berry brandy, which he lost out of
his wagon on the highway.
An Omaha policeman has been sus-
pended for neglect of duty, but
never was policeman, probably, ever
before suspended for neglect under
such circumstances. AS he pleads. he
entered church, and, becoming inter
ested in the services, remained too
long.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-31
ENGLAND AND FRANCE.
Futile Attempts of the Latter to Destr
the Commerce OF the Former.

Futile Attempts OF the Latter to Destroy
the Commerce of the Former.
The whole maritime energies of the
French republic after the battle of the
1st of June in 1894. and of the French
empire after the battle of Trafal gar,
were directed to the subjugation of
England through the destruction of
her commerce. The command of the
sea was not disputed. British fleets
and British cruisers We're, if possible,
to be avoided. The first principle of
naval warfare was sacrificed to an Ill
terror object.
Capt Mahan, in his recent work, has
conclusively shown that in thus acting
the French government singularly
failed TO attain the object which it
had in view. British commerce, in
deed, suffered numerous losses at the
hands of French ships and French
privateers throughout the war, but
its steady ebb and flow was never
seriously affected by these means. The
number Of British merchant vessels
captured during the twenty-one years
u793-1S14) amounted to eleven thou
sand: the average number of ships en-
tering and clearing the ports of Great
Britain, exclusive Of the coasting trade.
amounted annually to over twenty-one
thousand. From these and other con-
siderations Capt. Mahan draws the
conclusion that the direct loss to the
nation by the operation of hostile
cruisers did not exceed two and one
half per cent. of the commerce of the
empire, and that this loss was partially
made good by the prize ships and mer-
chandise taken by its own naval YES
sells and privateers.
1t should be further observed that
the total number of vessels belonging
to the British empire rose from 1851
in 1875 to 22,051 in 1905 and 23,703 in
1910. What was the result of the war
to our opponent? Before the revolu-
ton, Admiral de la Reveillere asserts
that the foreign commerce of France
equaled that of England. The revolu-
tionary war had not been long in
progress before the French directory
was constrained to admit Gn 1799) that
mot single merchant ship is on the
sea carrying the French flag.
The history of the great war estab-
lished beyond contrayention the prin-
ciple that no serious interruption to
commerce is possible by the naval
forces of power which has not first
obtained the command of the sea. 1t
illustrates the fallacy of the idea that
England can be reduced to scarcity
while the relative strength of the two
navies remains as it is now. On this
point Admiral de la Reveillere is again
worth quoting: "S'imagin que nous
pourrons suffisamment bloquer les cotes
anglaises pour reduire lie pays la
famine est une idee qui ne
penetrera jamais dams une tete saline"
In any future war in which the Brit
ish empire may become involved British
commerce will undoubtedly suffer
losses: their number and extent will
depend OH the strength and efficiency
OF the British navy; but it is only in
the case OF that strength being n flowed
to fall to point which will leave the
command of the sea in doubt that Brit
ISL commerce can be seriously inter
rupted.-Lord Brassey, in Nineteenth
Century.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-31
lONDOI.ENCE.

The members of Wichita lodge No 90. |.
o. o. f., have passed the following reso!u-
lions concerning the death of Mrs. j. L.
Etter:
Whereas, The dark angel Of death tns
served his summons, and has taken away
to better cline, the wife of our worthy
vice grand. j +. Etter, thus depriving
him of the kind advice and loving COM
panionship OF the dearest earthly friend.
Resolved, That the members of Wichita
lodge No 93, l. o. O. f. offer to our
esteemed bro her our deepest sympathy.
Resolved That II copy of these resolu-
;ious be sent to orr brother, one to the
daily press and one inserted in the minutes
of the lodge. FRANK DUNKIN,
G.. l.. STANSELL.
WILLIAM SKINNER,
Committee
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-31
1911
Tie Missouri Pacific Railway company

The Missouri Pacific Railway company
has placed in its train service the most eie-
CANT reclining chair cars that ever appear
ed in the equipment OF any llne westot the
Mississippi river. These cars now run
daily between Wichita and st. Louis aud
Wichita and Denver. They are modes of
beauty and comfort. The chairs are spa
cious-easiiy adjusted and comfortable aud
of the very latest design. Every Car IS
equipped with the celebrated Pintsch gas
light system whereby passengers can read
as well as by daylight; also doing ava
with the obnoxious odor emanating from
oil lamps. Cars are heated by steam from
the engine thus afiordiDg an even temper
AZURE throughout he Cur as well as avoid
ing the dangers experienced In the old chr
stove system. IL you contemplate going
east or west, try the Missouri Pacific rail
way. St. Louis fast express leaves W ichita
daily at LIS u. III arrives IL St. Louis at
7:15 next morning. Denver express leaves
WItLita at 500 y. n. daily. lUo u