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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-03-31

PRESIDENT DIAZ holds that
lack of education is the bane of
his people, and that it may not
continue 50 he has entered upon a
rigid enforcement Of the cOmpul-
sorry school law lately passed by
Mexican congress. Officers have been
appointed whose special duty it is
to see that the law is enforced and
that the children of the mixed blood
particularly are kept in school for
the specified period each year.
There is a decided repugnance to
school attendance on the part of
this class and if the president sue
ceeds in keeping them in the school
traces, he will have his hands full.
If the policy is PERSISTED in it will
| reVOlutiOniZc the Gland of God
and Liberty" within the next quar-
ter Of century.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-03-31

THE Minnesota Legislature is
making a splendid fight against
the coal combine, and is endeavor-
ing to secure the corporation of
the federal authorities under the
provisions of the Sherman anti
trust law. If they succeed the fall
of this year will open in the north
west with free competition in the
sale and production of coal.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-03-31

THE salary butchers of the state
Legislature do not think that a
chief clerk is of any more value to
a department head than one Of the
subordinate clericals. Let them try
it on a while and see whether the
responsibilities of chief-clerk-
ship are not worth cash.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-03-31
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-03-31

THAT $4,000 for a monument to
Gen. Houston is all right, but why
refuse to appropriate anything for
the removal of the remains, that
the monument and the hOnOred
dead may alike rest in the state
grounds Some things look very
peculiar.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-03-31

THE appointment of Indianapo-
lis Morse as consul to Paris proves
that even meannesS has it's reward
at the hands of Grover. This APP
pOintment under the circumstances
is a blot on the page of Growers
official life.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-03-31
TO CORRESPONDENTS.

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.noCld 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 plain hand. Anonymous com 1,
munications will not be noticed. The
LIGHT will not be responsible for the
statements OF its CORRESPONDENTS.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-03-31
IRRIGATION A NECESSITY.

There is but one method by fol-
lowing which the,market gardener
and the small farmer and the fruit
grower in this fertile southwest
can be sure of returns for his labor,
and that is by irrigation. The his
tory of agricultural production in
southwest Texas demonstrates
that the rain fall can not be de-
pended on for sufficient moisture to
insure a full crop more than one
year in three. Not even this pro-
portion has been carried out of late,
and this year threatens to add one
more to the lengthening number
of seasons since this sec
ton of the state was fully
supplied with the necessary mois-
ture. There is not in the mind of
any reasonable person a doubt
about the truth of the above state
ment. There must be return to
the old idea of irrigation under
which the lands in this valley of
the San Antonio We're made so
productive in the period before the
war. \ return to the idea does
not necessarily mean a re-
turn to the method, but it does
mean that either irrigation must
be very generally resOrted to or all
attempts at gardening and fruit
growing must be abandoned. The
alternative is not a distressing
one, for there is in this valley and
in the adjacent ones an abundant
water supply for all irrigation pur-
poses. The conformation of the
surface is sucht hat irrigation ditch
es can be readily filled with
out any resort to expensive works
for elevating the water, and where
this is not 50 the arteSian well can
be made to do duty as the source
of supply. The remarkable fer
tility of this soil and the early ma
turity of its fruits, berries and
vegetables. fit it for becoming the
supply of the whole nOrthland for
early fruits and vegetables. The
increasing facilities for tranSpOrta-
ton and the improved methods of
shipment, in refrigerator cars,
open a market for our early pro-
ducts as far north as Chicago. The
high prices paid for the early vege-
tables and fruits enable the Texas
producer to pay his freightS and
reap a substantial profit. With
the advancing season the coming
factory will take up the products
of the irrigated lands and save
from waStage the later harVeStingS.
L ne new settlers Oh llle gun
coast are entering upon this work.
Some large tracts are being devot-
ed to such culture on the banks of
the lower Nueces and there is just
as promising tieldfor opera
lions here in the valley of the San
Antonio as anywhere else in Texas.
This city alone from year to year
will be the ever improving market
for the products Of its immediate
vicinity and those who engage in
this work understandings, putting
brains as we'll as hands to the work,
will find it richly remunerativc.
IlTIu holds thnt
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-03-31

If THE sold guard" had known
last November that they were
fighting for the enthronement of
the mugwump would they have
battled so desperately? No answer
expected this year.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-03-31

THE Gladstone forces are holding
their own. BalfOur can not make
any inroad upon the loyal host
that rallies round the "grand old
man." If Gladstone can hold his
supporters together when the vote
comes on the second reading of the
Home Rule measure he will have
all but won the glorious victory for
which he has been 50 long contend
ing. If he carries that measure on
its second reading with an undi-
minished majority the COnserva-
tiVes can not rally their forces Sc
as to defeat him on its final read
ing. The victory when it comes, if
come it does, will be one of the
grandest victories ever achieved
by the might Of mind in the blood
less arena Of parliamentary ac,
ton.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-03-31

HorSToN strikes "A rsnag in the
endcavor to close the-variety hOus-
cs, albeit they are the lowest Of
their kind in the state.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-03-31

THE effort to boost the Column
bian stamp into popularity is a
fraud. The increased sales of
stamps merely indicates an in
creased postal business. A man
doing land office correspondence
would need the "Blue Lick" of
Kentucky to do his licking bust
ness.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-03-31

TIE Australian ballot law should
be knocked in the head until the
ability to read the names on the
ticket is made an Indispensable
prerequisite to the exercise of the
suffrage. Until this is done the
existing regulation is delusiOn
and a snare.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-03-31

THIS country is enjoying genial
sunshine, bloom and flowers, but
the fearful snow banks that Fare
piled up at the north prevent the
balmy air that is so natural to this
section at this season. For the dis
solution of those frost heaps Texas
devOutly prays.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-03-31

As was to have been expected,
Sam Jones denies the soft impeach-
mpnt Of carrying a pistol in his
hip pocket for the salvation Of a
brother minister. Sam says at is
a great big lie"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-03-31

HOGG thinks he can knock out
the federal courts with a $4,000
appropriation. He may not be
built like Don Quixote but he is
fitting against solid stone walls all
the same.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-03-31

TIE men who, like Eustis,
criticize Cleveland the most un-
mercifully are the very ones who
receive the greatest consideration
at his hands. Grover has a gen
uine respect for the fellow who
cusses him without limit.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-03-31

TIE time to protect game and
fish is before they have been prac-
tically eXterminated.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-03-31

EVEN in Old Mexico and under
the shadow of the halls of the
Montezumas the modern paving
contractor endeavOrs to do his
work so as to beat his contract.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-03-31

BASE BALL season has opened
and the diamond fruit will soon be
in market.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-03-31

What little advice McGaughey
did solicit with reference to his
land sales was dead against the
sale, but Balaam like he spurred
on to his inevitable discontinue.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-03-31

MCGAUGHEY's defense of himself
is like that of the pugilist who,
while protecting his heart from
assault, leaves his head to be
punched.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-03-31

THERE is sanitary work to be
done in San Antonio, and those
whose business it is to attend to it
should be getting around right
lively. Summer is coming.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-03-31

THE railway commissioners
case will be in the courts for two
years, but the railway commission
er'S salaries will be in their pockets.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-03-31

THIS is "GoOd Friday" Lenten
abstinences are about over. The
resurrection morn will soon dawn.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-03-31

Is incompetency valid plea in
a case Xix" McGaughcy'S" If so,
what is the premium put by the
state upon official stupidity? =
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-03-31

THIS legislature thinks that a
boy under II can do no harm with
quail trap he is so young an in
nOcent; but girl two years young
er is a full blown woman to resist
the SeductiOns of the Slickest two
legged devil unhung, and deserving
of everlasting infamy if she does
not make good her womanhoOd
against his wiles. Such legislation
would make the devil jealous of
his own powers of evil.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-03-31

WHEN that bootless inquest into
the right of governors to fill sena-
torial vacancies is settled, no mat
ter when existing, 50 long as there
is no legislature in session, what
will that oddly assorted and dis
iOinted body next take up.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-03-31
FRIDAY, MARCH 81, 1893

\ COMPULSORY school law for
Texas is needed.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-03-31

GROWERS contempt Oft news
paper. men is .besti.read in the light
of his appointments of newspaper
men to office.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-03-31

Announcements for State and County
. ;fcers ten Dollars In advance.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-03-31

THE sugar planters of Louisiana
are not hopeful over the sugar sit
uatiOn. They see the great bene fits
to the home industry from the
bounty system introduced by the
Republican party and would pre-
serve it if they could. The iron has
not yet entered their soul deep
enough as yet to lead them to
make political cause will those
who are their industrial allies, but
this also will come in time and
then may home industries be
built up.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-03-31

TYPHUs fever is abating in the
City of Mexico, but with a record
Of $50 deaths for February from
that cause alone it is plain that
there is still room for abatement
without making the city Oppress-
lively healthy.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-03-31

THE United States FScnate7 APP
pears to have entered upon an end
less discussion of the right of a
state governor to fill by appoint
ment a senatorial vacancy occur
ring during a session of the state
Legislature, but which the legisla-
ture has left vacant on the adjourn
ment. Coupled with this very
unique controversy are some racy
enquiries as to the methods by
which certain Democratic senators
secured seats at the hands Of Re,
publican legislatures.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-03-31

THERE is no need of tying right
minded men in advance to what is
going to be done. Leave them free
to act as seems best as the Occa-
sionS for action arise. 1t is always
the safest WAY.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-03-31

tw All contracts or b. lis must be APP
>roved by the Secretary and Manager.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-09
A REMARKABLE WOMAN.
How Mrs. Coston GOT Her Signals Adopted
by the American Navy.

One of Washington'S reInarka bic
women is Mrs. Martha j. Coston, now
advanced in years but brilliant in mind
as ever. and able to look back upon a
life full of achievements. Mrs. Cos
ton, says the Illustrated America n. is the
woman who, almost single-handed and
in the face of tremendous difficulties.
brought the Coston signals to their
present perfection. Left a widow at
the age of twenty-ope with three chill
dren and no resources, she set out
bravely to develop an idea which she
found indicated among her husband s
papers. This idea was to furnish
colored signals at night for ships in
the same way that coiored flags were
used BY day. The trouble was to find
the chemicals which would produce
the necessary colors, red, white and
green, in sufficient intensity. Mrs.
Coston worked on this problem for
many months, and after a series of
failures finally succeeded, and the Cos
ton signals were adopted by the Ameri-
can navy and used during our late
war. What they did during that ar
is known to every naval officer, al
though scant Justice has been rendered
to the plucky woman who furnished
them. Admiral Porter took Fort
Fisher by the aid of the Coston signals,
starting the battle at night, as he was
atle to do by this means. His success
broke the back Of the war. 1t was the
Coston signals which saved twenty
.seven lives of men on board the famous
monitor lost off Cape Hatteras.
It is pleasure to hear Mrs. Coston
tell of her adventures in foreign lands,
for she has travelled al over the world
and seen the great people of many ma
ltions. Half the countries of Europe
have adopted the Coston signals, and
whenever she arrives in one of these
icapitals Mrs. CcSton is treated and re-
!ceived as a benefactor of humanity.
| Mrs. CASTOR in her travels through
Europe was received by the pope, by
Queen Victoria, by the French emperor
land Empress Eugenie, by the king and
suueen of Sweden, and by host Of
lesser celebrities.
| Mrs Coston will send a handsome
exhibit of the Coston signals to Chica-
tro under the direction of her son. One
of the most striking features of the eX-
.b;hit viii be the Coston aerial signals,
which are SHOT into the air by pistols,
and can be seen at an immense dis
lance
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-09
CANNOT ACT THE FLUNKEY.
Americans Mako Fools of Themselves
When They Undertake to Be Sncbs.

Americans Mako Fools of Themselves
When They Undertake to Be Snobs.
The fact OF the business is, we Amer
leans do not know how to be snobs,
and when we try to do the turnkey act
we make fools of ourselves, says the
philadelphia Telegraph. When there
is any walking backward or other
sycophantic kco-tooing to be done we
should therefore practice cur steps in
private and learn at least enough to
avoid egregious blunders before appear
ing in public to make an asinine exhi-
bition of our clownish stupidity. We
laugh to scorn the servile fiunkeyism
of our British brethren, but they beat
us at that sort of thing out Of
sight. They are born and brought
up in an atmosphere OF. class distinc-
ton. The line is sharply drawn with
servility on one side and privilege on
the other. A hereditary aristocracy,
with titles, Offices and honors that are
grounded in the history of the coun-
try, naturally and, in a sense, proper
~ commands the homage of heredi-
tary snobocracy To cringe and to
trucllle is the inherited habit of the
lower classes. They are to the man
ner born, and they know how to
crook the pregnant hinges of the knee
without falling on the nose. Fur
ther1nore. there is reason in it, as
thrift follows their fawning. They
find their profit in the obsequ;ous
smile; servility and assiduous humility
are the terms on which they transact
business, and to bend and to bow is
pounds, shillings and pence in the
pocket.
There are no such arguments in favor
Of class feeling and class custom in
this country. and indeed the case here
seems to be pretty much reversed, as it
is the wouldbe aristocrats who are the
toadies with us; the common folk, our
plain people, as President Lincoln
called them, being proverbiaily indie
pendent of temper and manly in be-
havior. There is no pecuniary gain
in American snobbery. and as to hered-
itary sentiment, that is indeed an alb
surdity among shoddyites who are
afraid to inquire as to their grand
fathers, dreading to find them among
the butchers and bakers and candle
stick makers who kept shop in the
back street. II is more than difficult
to account for the rise and progress of
the .ervile habit in our land of equal
ity and independence; but here as
elsewhere there seems to be streak
in human nature which demands salts
faction in snohbish observances, in the
display of a slavish, parasitic spirit
Such being the case, we might as well
recognize the fact; and to that end we
should institute measures for permit
ting snobs to disport themselves de-
Gently and il order. II they must walk
backward and drop on their knee, and
all the rest of it, let all be done prop
srly and in due turnkey fashion.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-09
An Adopted Mink.

On farm near Lewiston, Me, is a
curious pet and a strange adoption.
One day one of the dogs around the
farm brought il baby mink, its eyes
hardly opea; helpless creature, so
inoffensive that the dog would not
harm it. At that time the family cat
was nursing litter of kittens, and the
little girl of the house put the mink in
with the kittens. The cat made few
objections, but finally accepted the
addition to her family and cared for
the stranger. When the mink and kit
tens all had their eyes open, they
formed an exceedingly happy family.
The mink played as gleefully as the
rest, and the mother Get was just as
anxious for its safety as for any Of her
offspring.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-09
THE PACIFIC SQUADRON.
Chief Cause of the Numerous De-
sertiOns of Seamen.
Stringent Restrictions Render Service 1t
Mare Island So Unbeafabie That Com
petent Men Are Hard to
Retain.

Capt. Ludlow's requisition to the sec
rotary of the navy for men for the
Behring sea feet and the desertion by
| the dozens of sailors from north bound
vessels in Puget sound have attracted
considerable attention in marine cir
cles to the fact that enEstments in the
United States naval: service are be-
coming beautifully less every day.
Not only is the Behring sea feet hav-
ing hard. time getting men, hut the
news has leaked out that the whole
Pacific squadron is short of seamen,
and that there exists spirit Of discen-
tent amepg those that are enlisted
which almost borders on mutiny.
A San Francisco Call reporter inter
viewed dozen or more seamen from
the navy yard separately, and as these
mems statements, with the exception
of two, agreed in every particular, it
might be well for the secretary of the
navy to investigate the cause of some Of
the mems complaints.
"Why do men of the Pacific squad
ron desert?" was asked of seaman of
the United States steamer Alliance.
He answered: For the simple rea-
son that the restrictions placed on the
men of the Pacific squadron arc more
stringent than at any other naval sta
ton of the Uaited States. A sailor is
allowed absolutely no privileges at all
when on duty at Mare island. Unlike
the British navy yard at Esquimalt, or
evewthe yards On the Atlantic coast of
the United States, Mare island is bound
up with lot Of rules apd red tape
which makes sailor a slave in every
sense of the word every hour Of the
twentE-four Vessels of the Pacific
squadron, especially those on local
coast and Betring Sea duty, appear to
be commanded after the fashiop.of the
Mare island navy yard Fines are i'm
posed for the least incivilfty and
breach of discipline, and no other time
save that allotted for shore leave is
given to seahhen during which they
might call their souls their own.
80 degenerated has become the
naval service of the Pacific coast
through the enforcement of trif1ing
and aggravating rules at the navy
yard and also on board of vessels of
the Pacific squadron that good men
will no longer sign to serve here. The
consequence is every greephorn that
comes along is picked up, and the aver
age crew of a naval vessel on a Pa
cific station consists of the scum of all
nationalities. Naval seamen dread
duty at Mare island about as much as
they do life in a prison. Nearly all the
time of the men stationed at the yard
is spent in bowling and scraping around
officers and working on senseless jobs,
sometimes of very mental ature."
Several of the late crew of the The
tbs, men from the Omaha and few
Of the Monterey's crew told stories al
most Identical with that of the Alli-
ance man. Perhaps it is not the fear
of northern voyage alone which
makes men desert the United States
navy and renders the present scarcity
of sailors SO obvious.