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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-21
NOT so RARD As IT SEEMS.

patent strikes most people as an appall
ingly formidable thing. The idea is that an
lnVentor must be a natural genius. like Edi
son or Bel: that he must devote years to
deiving in complicated mechanical problems
and that he mast spent fortune ON delicate
experiments before he can ger a new device to
patentable degree of perfection. This delu-
sion the company desires to dispel. 1t desires
to get into the head of the public clear CON-
prehension of the fact that it is not the great,
complex, and expensive inventions that bring
the best returns to their authors, but 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-
tons 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 child's ball, go that il would come
back TO the hand when thrown, made fortune
out of his scheme. The modern sew ing-ma-
chine is q miracle of ngenuity-the product of
the toll of hundreds of busy brains through
hundred aud fifty years, but the whole bril-
liant result rests upon the simple device of
putting the eye of the needle at the point in
staad nj at tho nthar
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-21
NO BLANKS IN THIS COMPETITION.

This is competition of rather an unusual
nature. 1t is common to offer prizes for the
best story, or picture, or architectural plan,
all the con petitors risking the loss of their
labor and the sue .essful one merely sell ne
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 the best advantage is to be
rewa cded for doinV it. The prize is only q
stimulus to do something that would be
well worth doing without it. The architect
whose competitive plan for club house on q
certain corner is not accepted has not spent
his labor on something of very little use to
him. But the person who patent a simple and
useful device 10 the Press Claims Company's
competition, need not worry If he fail to Sc
cure the prize. He has a substantial result TO
show for his work-one that will command its
value in the market at any time.
The plain man who uses any article In his
daily work ought tOknow better how to I'M
prove 1t than the mechanical expert VINO
studies 1t only from the theoretical point of
view. Get rid of the idea that an improve
ment can be too simple to be worth pRtenting.
The simpler the better. The person who best
succeeds In combining simplicity and popu-
larity, will get the Press Claims Companys
twenty-five hundred dollars.
The responsibility of this company may be
judged from tue 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 attorneys
N W., Washington, ID &C.,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-21

Railroads aS~ asked for % So rate
to- enable Colorado labSrerS to
reach the Missouri river paints~
The Eighth, National Mexican
band is now attached to military
headquarters at City of Mexico.
Mexican nailroad earnings, de-
crime, fall of silver having reduced
Importation Of goods for transport.
Events i'm England do not fndi-
cate that the government rests
easy under French aggression in
Siam.
b. b. Richards, prominent Fort
Worth democratic politician, ar
rested in Cleveland, o., for petty
5heft.
There will be a fight over the
craftsmanship Os the, ways and
means committee now held by
Springer.
The Cara revolutionists will
test the legality of holding them
on one charge in order to eXtradite
them on another.
Young girl of II raped and muir
dered four miles from Ennis. The
fiend was spirited from the mob
and Jailed i'm Fort Worth.
Trouble with the Russian eXhib-
itors at Chicago and the exhibits
are covered. Russia resents the
charge of goods in bond being sold.
The labor war at Weir City,
Kansas results i'm the serious
wounding of four persons, and the
pits are in the hands of the strikers.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-21
NOTICE
To Furniture Dealers.
MAYORS OFFICE,

MAJOR = OtflOE.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, July :, 1898.
Sealed proposals will be received at this
, office until u o'clock NJ, on the 9th day
of July, for four hundred and eighty
. double school desks with separate seats,
as follows:
12O desks aud 10 rears, height of seat ~
inches.
100 desks and 10 rears, height OF seat 10
{ inches
12O desks and 10 rears, height of seat IA
inches.
100 desks and 1O,rears, height of seat Is
(; inches.
Said desks to be delivered and screwed
to the floor, ready for use. A sample of
5 each desk offered will be required TO be
2 submitted. A deposit of one hundred
dollars or certified check to that amount
must accompany each bid for the faithful
carrying out Of the contract IL awarded,
3 and 10 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. rs lot
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-21
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,
f Kalteyer & Sons and A. DreisS drug
store.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-21
S24O,OOO.OO,
Tuesday, the First day Of August, 1884

between the hours of 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, 600. oo) Dollars and issue
its nou-ne gotiable 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 on 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 or before
four years from their date.
All of said notes to bear interest at the
rate not exceeding 6 per cent. per an
mum, 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 Hail. 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. E. Cor. Cherry and Daw-
son Sts., SOLE. Bellinger, presiding
officer.
WARD No. 7. School house, Cor. La
Vacca and Matagorda Sts.-J. c. Cumber-
land, presiding officer.
WARD No. s. S. Alamo and Nueva
. Sts.-Louis Bergstrom, presiding officer
In witness whereof, hereunto set my
hand this 18th day of July, A. D. 1895.
GEORGE PASCHAL,
Mayor, City of San Antonio.
Attest:
Err. NORTON,
7-Ir23t Deputy City Clerk.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-21
PRIZES ON PATENTS.
How to Get Twenty five Hun
dred Dollars for Nothing.
tn, Winner has a Clear Gift Of a Small
Fortune, and The Losers Have Patents
that may Bring them In still More.

Would you like to mske twenty-five hun
dred dollars? If you would. read carefully
what follows and you may see way to do it.
The Press Claims Company devotes much
attention TO patents. 1t has handled thous
snds of applications for inventions, but it
would like to handle thousand more. There
plenty of inventive talent at large in this
country needing nothing but encourage nent
to produce practical results. That encourage
ment the Press CIzims Company proposes to
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-21
A TEMPTING OFFER.

To induce people to keep track of Their
bright ideas and sec what there is in them
the Press Claims Company has resolved TO
offer price.
To the person who submits to it the sim.
pliest and most promising invention, from
a commercial point of view, the com pany will
give twenty-five hundred dollars in cash, in
addition to refunding the fees for securing
the patent.
1t will also advertise the invention free o
charge.
This offeri subject to the following con
ditions:
Every competitor must obtain patent fJr
his invention through the company. He
must first apply for a preliminary search,
the cost of which will be five dollars
Sh )lld this scar % show his invention beot
unpatentable, he can withdraw without fur
Their expense. otherwise he will be expected
to complete his aDDpicati and take out a
patent in he regular way, The total expense
including Government and Bureau fees will
be seventy dollars. For this, whether ne
secures the prize or not, the inventor will
have a patent that ought to be a valuable
property to him. This prize will be awarded
by a jury consisting of three reputable patent
attorneys Of Washington. Intending COM
pettors should fill out the folio wing blank
and forward 1t with Their applications:
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-21
GRAND LODGE.
Session of the Herolnes of Jerico-
Proceedings Tuesday.

Proceedings Tuesday.
The Colored Masons, wives and
daughters, have been in SEES
sion here since last Tuesday
at 10 a. M, working under
the jurisdiction of the Grand Court
Heroines of Jericos for the State of
Texas. Mrs. NJ. l.. Ray, of Dallas,
Texas, Grand Ancient Matron, pre-
sided. Much business was attend
ed to, twenty-four delegates We're
present, including a full set of
Grand officers. The address of
the Grand Matron was
ladened with many wise
suggestions and was heartily re-
ceived by all. The subordinate
courts throughout the state, eight
in number) were in a tlourishing
condition, with healthy treasury.
The following grand officers We're
elected for the ensuing court year:
Mrs. Lucy Logwood, Most Ancient
Grand Matron, San Antonio; Mrs.
n. II. Jones, S. G. NJ, Waco,
Texas; Mrs. f. b. Long, J. G. NJ,
Paris, Texas; Mrs. William NJ.
Mcdonald, NJ. w |. j., Forney,
Texas; Mrs. NJ. NJ. Buckner, a. g..
r., Austin, Texas; Miss f. f..
Joshua, a. G. Sec'y, Dallas, Texas;
Mrs. j. r.. Erwin, G. l., San An
tonic; Mrs. G. b. Common, A. G. r.,
Paris, Texas; Prof. w. G. Wilson,
A. G. d., Austin, Texas; Rev. w.
NJ. Common, A. G. d., Paris,
Texas; Rev. c. III. Johnson, a. g..
D., San Antonio, Texas; Mrs. j. b.
Jackson, S. G. A., San Angelo,
Texas; Mrs. DR.. II. Terrell, j. G. A.,
Tyler, Texas; Mrs. f. Bradley, G..
|. G. X, Dallas; Mrs. Kate john
son, G. O. G. X, San Antonio.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-21
GRAND DEPUTIES.

LIST. Prof. w. G. Wilson, ID. Cd;
2nd. Rev. c. H. johnson, ID. G. j.;
3rd. Rev. w. NJ. Conner, d. G. j.;
4th. Hon. Jno. f. Anderson, d. G..
j.; 9Th. Rev. William Clark, d..
G. j.
The Grand Court closed yester-
day at II m. and wound up last
night with a grand reception at
Central park.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-21
SPECIAL NOTICE.

This office is not responsible for the
private bills of any of its employees. And
no such accounts will be recognized or
paid unless accompanied by written or
der from T. b. JOHNSON, Manager.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-21
Tho Little Things the Most Valuable.

Comparatively few people regard them
selves as inventors, but almost everybody
has been struck, at one time or another.
with ideas that seemed calculated to reduce
some of thellittle frictions of life. Usually
such ideas are dismissed without further
thought.
why don't the railroad company make its
car windows so that they can be slid up and
down without breaking the passengers
backs" exclsims the traveller. "If l we're
running the road l would make them in such
a way"
what was the man that made this sauce
pan thinking Off" grumbles the cook. "He
never h I'd to work over stove or he would
nave known how it ought to have been fixed"
Hang such q collar button!" growls the
man who is late for breakfast. "If were in
the business I'd make buttons that wouldn't
slip out, or break off, or gouge out the back
of my neck"
And then the various sufferers forgot about
their grievar c es and besin to think of some
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 ln-
dependently wealthy as the man who invent
ed the iron umbrella ring, or the one who
,N.,ls al
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-21
SPECIALISTS
DIR. Geo. MoeCkel, Occulist.
so Water Street. Office Hoarss 9to 12 a
m. and 3 to 5p.mA
DR.. |. S. McClane, Specialist

Surgeon and Electrician, diseases of wo-
men, CatarSah and diseases of the Eve, Ear,
Throat and hungs~ Office: 2 715, E Houston
Street.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-21
LATE KILOGRAMS
BOILED DOWN FROM PRIVATE
SPECIAL AND OTHER
SOURCES.

OouHys
China will support Siam against
France.
Mexico reports business outlook
Frightening.
Rockdale. and San Angelo report
heavy rains. .
Bi-metalic conference meets in
Kansas City.
Italy wants to denationali2e the
q franc coins.
Grover spent yesterday in doing
nothing, as usual.
One dollar bills raised to tens
circulate in Austin.
Medina river at Bandera the
lowest for 30 years.
Rumored political changes in
Mexico are not true.
Fred Wardley, lineman, shocked
to death at Houston.
Cuero city takes ~ lights from
the electric company.
Cashier of New Orleans mint ar
rested for embeZZlement.
Kansas bank robbers camp at
Cedar creek is abandoned.
A leper from Norway, discovered
at Grand Forks, Nebraska.
Jersey City faith curists de-
nounce the Salvation Army.
American Bar association meets
at Milwaukee Aug. 30 and 81.
Canada will not be effected by
failures in the United States.
Ill-treatment Of journalists in
Belem prison, Mexico, is denied.
Donnelly, consul general at
Nueva Laredo, arrives at his post.
Chicago capitalists open large
furniture factory in City of Mex
leo.
Boy of l3 arrested for attempted
train wrecking in the Indian terri
tory.
British coal operators will COM
mence work in OaXaca within a
year.
Assassination of Bob Rountree,
ranch man of LlanO county, is re-
ported.
England issues special orders. to
the admiral of her fleet in Chinese
waters.
Siam is anxious to know what
England will do to modify French
claims.
Russia's fleet in Chinese waters
ordered to Siam in the interest of
France.
Queen Margaret's birthday cele-
brated at the WOman's building,
Chicago.
Santa Fee pay rolls at Topeka
padded to the tune of $4,000
monthly.
Closing of mines and smelters in
Colorado throws 10000 out of en-
ployment.
Capt. Mckay, of the 3rd Caval-
ry, is to be disciplined. Charges
not specified.
There is great excitement at
Pittsburg, KS, over the occurrence
at Weir City.
German coffee syndicate is send
ing out men and machinery to it's
Mexican lands.
Debate commences on the post
poned financial clauses of the
Home Rule bill.
There is a shortage in the New
Orleans mint, particulars withheld
from the public.
Eckles will aid the National
banks to speedy resumption when
at all practicable.
Minister Boyd, of Siam, absent
on leave, says the war is one of in
trigue by France.
Ex-Congressman Hoar is slated
a United States district attorney
in Massachusetts.
Important treasury department
changes will follow Carlisle's re-
turn from Chicago.
Jeweled skeleton of an Indian
maiden found in Ontario county,
n. Y; very ancient.
The reorganization of the House
committees is the all-abSorbing
theme at Washington.
French gunbOats opposite Bang
kok are causing great alarm, as
is feared.
Colorado, Utah, Montana and
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-21
Insurance. Fire, Life, A6cideRt
Fowler, The Jeweler, 233 East

Houston Street. Sterling silver and plat
ed ware, watches, clocks, jewelry and Opti-
cal goods, at prices never before offered in
Texas. We want your trade.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-21

in competition for the Twenty-Five Hundred
Dollar Prize offered by the Press Claims
Company.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-21
CITY ADVERTISING.
[OFFICIAL.l
ELECTION
PROCLEWFTION.

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
ito issue his proclamation calling Spe-
.cial Election to be held in this City, on
Tuesday, Ist day Of August, 1893,
at which said Election the following pro-
.prosition shall be submitted to the prop.
serty taxpayers;
Shall the City of San Antonio be
authorized to borrow the sum of
S24O.OOO.OO,
aud issue non negotiable notes therefore,
the proceeds of said notes to be used for
the payment of the debt due by the City
of San Antonio to the San Antonio Ma
tional Bank;
Now therefore, I, 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, 1893-07-21
DEFECTIVE AGENCIES

Southern Detective Agency,
A. B. Maness, Office Manager, ia E. Hous
ton st. Telephone 5S3. Lost personal prop
erty located. Conduct of suspicious en-
plOyees looked after. Evidence in all courts
of law obtained, and all kinds of informa-
ton furnished. Communication strictly
private. mage suits a speciality.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-04-24

few inches or remains frozen longer
than day or two nj time. From such
soils tho residue Of tho costly nitrates
supplied In manure for the summer crop
very readily leach away unless thcrc arc
growing plants TO tako thom mp. Hardy
plants like crimson clover grow well
(oxcopt for . few days after each "cold
waye'O during tho winter and may no
utilized aa pasturago, or, n left until
spring, will furnish n good crop Of hay
or green manure in timc TO vacato tho
land for corn or 'cotton. Crimson clover
Is better than rod clover for mixing with
rye or barley for winterpasturc.
This clover should be sown In tho fur
rows Of tho cotton or cornhold when tho
crops arc cultivated for tho last timc.
Tho seed may also be proftably sown in
the spring upon tho winter wheat, oats
or rye sown tho fall before. When tho
cereal crop Is mown, tho clover win soon
talo possession Of tho stubblo and fur
nish q crop "a valuable. or more so. than
tho ono first cut. Crimson clover will
catch ON stubblo land by merely harrow
ing tho soil with heavy harrow, such
as the Getaway, Acmo or Disk, or even
upon tho stubblo land without any cult.
walton. Tho limo when winter grain is
usually harvested In this latitudo-lune
lis too late for sowing crimson clover.
Cow peas will then giyo better results.
A Kent county DELI correspondent OF
Tho Country Gentleman writes, "Crim-
son clover is an annual doing vastly bet
ter sown In August TO grow in tho full
aud spring and ready for cutting either
for hay or onsilago, or 10 be- plowod un.
der as manure tho ist Of May following,
than ia any other way that II can bC
treated, Us IL does not do well sown in
the spring in this climate" Thorburn
says, Crimson clover sown late in sum
mor furnishes a nearly green fodder tho
following season. is largely sown In Nir
ginia 20 pounds TO the acre" Hendcr,
son Of New York says; "Whcn single
crop Is required either alone or with
Italian rye grass this is one Of the best
cloyors. II makes good hay and Is ox
collcnt for feeding green, the yield being
immense, and after cutting II begins tC
grow again and continues until freezing
weather. 1t can bo sown In the fall fol
early spring cutting, but is generally
sown in tho spring for cutting in July
II is suitable TO all soils, but to light and
chally soils more especially, on which II
outyields by far the ordinary red clover
and is earlier than that variety by two OF
three weeks. Sow, If alone, ii poundi
Dor acre"
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