San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-09-20

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Dead Sea fruit hangs thick on it's
trees.
The Jockey club and the bicycle
grounds and the base ball park
would all gain by locating their
grounds CONTINUOUSLY. There is
room for all upon the Jockey club
grounds and arrangements for
next years sport-should be made
with reference to this conjunction
The humanitarians of the state
will rejoice in the decision that
Lrenders it impossible for his in
| competency the governor to waste
the school funds of the state in
the purchase of convict farms.
The Republicans are not nearly
so nervous over the situation as
the Democrats are, for the former
have everything to gain and moth
ing to lose in the changes that are
bringing things their way.
Matters with the waterworks
company of this city are coming to
head, and the resolution adopted
by council will throw some light
on the whereabouts Of the head be-
fore the matter is settled.
1t is a wise county that holds a
yearly fair, but it is not always
safe to say that it is only a fool
county that does not hold one.
All the same the fair is good in
vestment everywhere.
When a little town like Bolton
finds it possible and profitable to
hold a successful fair from year to
year it seems rather queer for San
Antonio to throw up the sponge
and go fairless to bed.
Gladstone does not recognize the
lords as representing English SEN
timent and will hold the fort in
spite of the adverse vote on Irish
Home rule in the lords. This dis
gruntles the Tories.
The United States Marine hos
pital service is doing all that it
| possibly can to stamp out the
fever at Brunswick. The situation
is ticklish, but it is not such as to
call for any panic.
The Prince of Wales was not born
out. of due time. He recognizes
the right of Ireland to Home Rule,
and were he invested with the
purple his influence would be be-
hind Gladstone.
1t would be decided gain for
San Antonio sporting circles to
bunch their business, concentrating
| their work at or near the same
point, instead of dividing it into
fragments.
There do seem to be insuperable
| obstacles in the way Of that fair
| ground upon the San Pedro Springs
| park, but there is no reason that
some other location should not be
sought.
Yellow fever is strengthening its
hold on the south Atlantic coast of
| the United States This fact adj
monishes every city in this state to
clean up and keep clean until frost
comes.
This weather gives no encour-
agement to hope that all danger
from either cholera or yellow fever
will be over by the close of the
month. Keep cleaning and keep
| clean.
The COncho Valley fair assOcia-
ton always put up a good fair
This year is no exception; the
premium list is generous one
and the race purses good.
The Corpus Caller says that it is
a pleasure for the little dogs to
bark at a mastiff. What a heap
of fun the Caller must be having
these days.
| Chicago knows when she has q
good thing and is determined tC
hold on to the fair as long as the
frost and the foreigners will permit
| All roads lead to Chicago this
wear, and those who return have
only good words for the Windy city
, and the marvels that they saw
: there.
Rockport capital is going int
grape culture on a large scale
There is more money in an acre o
= grapes than in ten acres of cotton
He is churl and chump VIII
o does not feel glad that Chicago i
: getting in out of the cloud and tn
storm with her big fair venture.
y Brazil is iu the throes of anothe
S Republican revolution and sigh
for the good old days of peace an