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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-01-13
The Wheaton Reception.

Gen. and Mrs. Wheaton were "at
home" to their friends Thursday
evening. The entertainment was
one of those combination affairs
that are so delightful to all the So
ciety people, be they old, young or
middle-aged. There was the recep-
ton, the entertainment in which
the matrons shine, and make life
sweeter by their brilliant CONVEX
sation and womanly gossip; and
also the dance, in which the young
folks revel and declare "there
is nothing like it," Many a
pretty maiden and handsome
youth, that might, while gliding
over the polished floor in the m azy
waltz, in an ecstacy OF delight, de-
clared that surely "life was worth
living"
The decorations of the rooms
were superb, the costumes of the
ladies were exquisite, the refresh
ments were delicious, the music
was enchanting and the whole af-
fair passed off in a most delightful
manner.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-01-13
Caused From a Hernia.

An aged Mexican named Anto-
Mo Martinez, living at No. 125
Buena Vista street, while peddling
bread on the streets yesterday
afternoon about o'clock, sudden
ly dropped to the ground, and was
was unable move. City Physician
Menger was summoned, as were
also the public authorities, and
Martinez was taken to his home.
An examination went to prove
that the man was suffering
intense pain from a hernia. He
was then removed to the City hos
pital where an operation was per-
formed, and he is now resting
easily.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-01-13

DIR. Prices Cream Baking Powder
Worlds Fair Highest Award.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-01-13
PERSONAL MENTION.

r. w. Walston, of Galveston, is
in town.
w. S. Sasson and wife, of Gilmer,
Tex, are at the Maverick.
B. r. Reeves and wife and Mrs.
j. w. Reeves, of Palestine, are in
the city.
John w. Cole, of Goliad, arrived
in the city this morning. He is
stopping at the Maverick.
Mrs. T. E. Brandon, of Little
Rock, is visiting her niece, Mrs. w.
F. Green, I'LL Buena Vista street.
Captain C.P. Miller, of the United
States army, arrived in the city
from Washington, d. c, last
night.
A. b. Taylor, of Minneapolis,
Mimi, arrived in the city this
morning, accompanied by his wife
and three children.
j. NJ. Benish, a prominent men,
Der of the Travellers Protective as
ISOLATION, arrived in the city from
Houston this morning.
Eugene Iglesias, John p. Foley
and Porfirio Benavides,well known
officials of Laredo, are in the city.
They are stopping at the Mahncke.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-01-13
A Masquerade Party.

A most enjoyable time was had
by all those who participated in
the masquerade party given by
the Misses McHenry, of Chestnut
street last evening. The characters
represented were both unique and
original. Among those present
were: Miss Lottie Edgar, SUM-
flower; Mrs. Bryant, bluebell !;
Lulu Bryant, Genl Washington !;
Aleen Young, evening star; Miss
f. Cotton, bugle horn; Miss n.
Duerling, morning star; Miss T.
Duerling, washwoman; Mr.. A.
Schultze, lieutenant; Gus Maya
diem, clown; NJ. Mayes, Louis Nv.
Ed. Black, sailor; E. Edgar, clown /;
c. Menger, Hebrew; j. Bryant,
Irishman.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-01-13
Alleged Train Wreckers.

Porfirio Benavides, sheriff of
Webb county, arrived in the city
from Laredo, last night, with John
White and J. +. r. Blodsworth,
who were arrested and held in
Laredo, charged with an attempt
to wreck a passenger train on the
International and Great Northern,
at Lytle station.
They were brought here on an
attachment to appear before the
grand jury as witnesses in the
wreck of the Sunset special at
Macedonia, in which one man was
killed and two injured. 4 dispatch
from Laredo states it will likely
be developed that these men were
implicated in the wreck.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-01-13
Mr.. d. Brady,
Late Foreman of Pump Construction Depa rtment,
with the Arkansas Pass Railroad, gives
his experience with the
MONTAGUE ~ TREATMENT.


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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-01-13
THE MOST PLEASANT WAY

OF preventing the grippe, colds,
headaches and fevers is to use the
liquid laxative remedy Syrup Of
Figs, whenever the system needs a
gentle, yet effective cleansing. To
be benefited one must get the true
remedy, manufactured by the Cali
fornia Fig Syrup Co. only. For
sale by all druggists in 50f and 81
bottles.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-01-13
r. ]. HoFHEINZ,

Military plaza, will sell you bug
gies and carriages at 25 per cent.
lower than heretofore, at market
price, as he bought out a bankrupt
stock. Call and see him before
buying elsewhere also has in stock
harness and farm wagons and all
kinds of machinery. II 5 If
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-01-13
A Pleasant Card Party.

Mr.. Charles Dignowity's resi-
dence, 424 Pine street, was the
scene of much joy last evening, the
event being a card party, partici-
pated in by about thirty people.
The occasion afforded much pleas
ure to those present.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-01-13
Grau Opera Company.

Grau Opera Company.
Sunday-"Boccacio."
Monday-"Dorothy."
Observation-Disclosures Girl"
Wednesday-"Ship Alloy"
MISUNDERSTANDING"
Friday-"Paul Jones'"
Saturday-"Brigand."
Wednesday and Saturday mat
inee.
Comic opera galore! An entire
week of the best class of comic
opera, by a fine company and at
popular prices This is something
that ought to be especially pleas
ing to the patrons of San Antonio's
popular amusement resort, and a
full house at each performance is
probably not too much to expect.
The Galveston News says: ODE
spite the fact that full houses have
greeted the Grau Opera company
at every performance this week,
they drew the largest audience of
the season last evening. All of the
seats on the lower floor were taken
by noon today, and standing room
was in demand at the perform
ance. The first gallery was we'll
filed. The opera was MARTHA"
and it appeared that everybody
wanted to hear it. The tempera-
ture was high, making it uncom-
fortably warm, but fans made it
endurable. The favorite airs of the
ever popular opera were rendered
in the most effective manner, and
recalls were numerous. The APP
plause at times were deafening."
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-01-13
oFF-HAND SNAPS.

wv hDouA 10 W
open his new grocery store.
A dollar and fifty cents is too
much to pay to see a show these
hard times.
Old Home Industry must wake
up. Help each other, and help
yourself.-Advertise.
The patrons of the free soup are
also regular customers of the "free
rolls' at the keno shops.
The candidate who, before an
election promises much, usually
performs little afterwards.
The heirs and beneficiaries of
dead mems estates are often swim
died by the process of law.
The garbage furnace question
may yet develop into some one be-
ing charged with attempt to
bride.
If you want to take a look at
something dead, step into the Of
flee of a real estate man who does
not advertise.
A newspaper that exists on the
crumbs falling from politicians
table, is generally of short life and
full of trouble.
The number of damage suits now
pending against the city, is said to
aggregate more than two hundred
thousand dollars.
The man who is most liberal
with advice allow to run a news
paper" generally pulls his purse
strings the highest.
Were it not for the free advertis-
ing some of our gospel Founders
get from the newspapers, they
would live and die every small
men,"
The loss of one live merchant,
like l.. Wolfson to city, would be
a greater calamity than if cholera
would overtake a thousand moss
backs.
While the city is sleeping on its
rights, our corporations are wide
awake, weaving their little nets
closer and closer around the necks
of the taxpayer.
1t would be better to license and
regulate public evils, such as keno,
craps, lottery, etc, than to see our
officers become deaf and blind dur
ing an election year.
The merchant, who sits on his
counter, growls at his clerks, COM
plains of dull times, and wears
sour face, is generally a nOn-be-
lever in advertising.
Henry Wagner is a papa again.
It's boy, and the mother is doing
nicely. The boys will put a poul-
tice on Henny's feet tonight, and
pull him through alright.
If there is a capitalist who thinks
San Antonio ought to have a big
newspaper like the Globe Demo-
crat or st. Louis Republic, let him
plank down about 100000 spot
cash, and he can get it.
1t would take full-sized sani-
tary cart to haul away the mum Der
of dead resolutions lying around
the vaults of the City hall. That
poor old Castro street bridge has
been laying a corpse now going on
three years. viii Alderman Hice
please take drink of water, and
pray for it's resurrection.
Col. James Barker, the wide
awake, general passenger agent of
the NJ. X. & T. Railway says: "If
the newspapers prosper, the state
will prosper; and when the state
is prosperous, our railroads will al
so prosper; it is therefore our duty
and to our interest, to encourage
and aid in building up the news
papers of the state"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-01-13
CHANCE FOR THE POOR MAN

can sell you 80 acres or more, on
the Medina river, l3 miles from
city, on two railroads, at so to $50
per acre easy payments.
J. A. DAUGHERTY, 104 East Com
merce st. (l2 80 If, no. s.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-01-13

Sheriff Vance is in the city
from Kerr county.
City Marshal Eugene Yglesias,
OF Laredo, is in the city.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-16
THE STORY OF A MIRROR.
IRON the Phlladelphia Times.

The hostess. an elegantly dressed lady
of 60, with abundant white hair pulled
above eyes still black and bright with a
fire that must once have kindled fame
in many heart, caught the ball of con
versation as it came her way.
In my youth we never heard of this
thing you call mental telegraphy, theo-
sophy, and the like, but every now and
then there took place, as now, occur
rences which puzzled the thoughtful,
though they had no name to give the phe-
nomena But, like most young girls,
was skeptical of all that was not directly
natural when thought of it at all, which
was not often, until had the experience
I am going to tell you Of, which was so
strange that it upset me for some weeks,
which agitation came not so much from
the real shock and fright that l suffered
as from the mysterious circumstances
that attended it.
My own home was a country place
some fifteen miles from a large city,
where / had several families Of relatives,
whom ! visited once or twice year, or
whenever there was to be given any ball
or opera or festivity of SUFFICIENT import
ance for me to desire to attend 1t. ! was
Just II when royal parsonage from
| Europe came across the pond 10 get a
peep at the Yankees, and, though demo-
cratic to the point of being ra0id, every
manly head was uncovered in the coun-
try, every manly throat ached with cheer
ing this parsonage, and every feminine
heart beat high with the hope of having
the royal eye rest for a moment upon the
new gown which was TO DO had at all
hazards if the family dined on potatoes
alone for year TO come,
! There was to be series Of entertain
ments given in honor Of his hiRhness, and
!, like all the rest of the world, must at
tend in all the tinery my fathers ample
means allowed me. From my mothers
side Of the family 7 had inherited some
very tine diamonds, amounting in value TO
over $4,000, and even great deal more
in those days when these gems we're not
SO common, and on this occasion ! leased
my father to let me wear them. had no
mother to tell me that such rich jewelry
was not in the best OF taste on one so
young and an unmarried woman, so when
j started for the city ! carried the dia-
mouds with me. But my maid was an ell
DERBY woman who had also been my nurse
since my motherless babyhood, and
the Jewels were In her care. Tn
fortunately, however, Marian fell
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-16
FORGIVEN.
From the Boston Globe.

Glow oddly things come about" Mrs.
Marshall said, coming into the room
where her sister and two daughters were
busily engaged in the manufacture of two
elaborate evening dresses. Mrs. Mont
gomery has just called and tells me her
brother Harold will be home in time for
Mrs. Grants party.
The knot of blue satin ribbon was sud
denly crushed eat of all shape by the
quick, convulsive grasp of Miss Fife Sci
wyn's fingers, while about that lady's lips
gathered a whiteness and moisture that
threatened a fainting fit.
For a moment the room looked dark
and the voices sounded far away and in-
distiIct-ouly for moment, then she
reused herself bravely, to see that her ag-
itation had been unnoticed and to hear
her niece Carrie saying:
Il never knew Mrs. Montgomery had a
brother"
Probably not" said Mrs. Marshall
He has been in China for-how many
years is it, Efhe?"
Twelve"
For. her very life Fife could not have
5bO+ACLL AuOA 2 Vigil OlAS NOLn WIN NOAl-
Twelve years." cried May. mo won
der you think Carrie and I know nothing
about him. He must be as old as his Sis
ter"
Let me see; he was about % when he
went away" said Mrs. Marshall, mus
lngiy He is not moro than 80. That is
still young for a man"
She looked as she spoke at her pretty
blooming girls of Is and 20, and vaguely
called TO mind the stories she had heard
OF the large fortune Harold Russell had
gathered together during his exile. Then
she gave herself a little mental shake,
thinking:
"Pshaw 1 am not going to turn into a
Maneuy ering mother YETI and, taking a
needle, also engaged in the work of ball
oressmaking.
The Misses Marshall, brightest of
olondes, were TO appear at the coming
IesVVal IN clouds of white tulle with blue
trimmings and the multitudinous skirts,
puls and ruh-es demanded by fashion re
CURED busy stitching for weary hours
beforehand.
Miss Selwyn had also been hidden to
me party, but Aunt Ellie never went
ANYWHERE" the girls said, so there was
no dress preparing for her adornment.
AS her needle went in and out through
Loudly tulle and lustrous satin Efhe Sci
"yu thought:
Coming home! Home to what2 Does
ne Drlng wife from the far-away land OF
ms long so.ourn, or will be choose one here
Snong the fair young girls of his own
country{
Oh, the bitter folly of the past May
dua Carrie are now as light-hearted and
gay as was when Harold Russell and
s.asped hands, with promise TO be all
auu all to each other Only one little
week OF happiness and he left me.
How long was it, A year, two years
Lelofe l knew that he thought me false 70
t'ul, never guessing that it was Kate
oeIrothed husband he saw me greet SO
near.
Poor sister Kate, she never knew the
augulsh her handsome lover caused me.
II Harold Russell loves now IL will be
some brilliant girl, not the faded shadow
" ms old love! Yet-yet--n
., Inc eventful evening came at last and
.ue girls were shut up in their rooms un.
visiting wonderful crimps and otherwise
prsp4rlnR Tor conquest.
an her own room. with the door Sc
cur lSi9asvened, Etfie Selwyn, was, she
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-16

every chorus the voice she knew so well
joining her own.
Nobody else noticed it, but with each
verse these voices, so estranged, grew
stronger, clearer, more jubilant, till with
the last one the spirit seized them all
and deafening chorGa of the company
closed the song.
They drifted away, broke up into
couples and groups, while Harold Rus
sell, affecting to turn over some music,
said in low voice:
Can we indeed be as in aud lang syne,
Ef1e! Can you forgive mel''
For answer she slowly turned the ring
upon her finger until he recognized the
devise he had chosen for her twelve
years ago.
Mamma" May Marshall whispered,
do you see Aunt Fife dancing with Mr..
Russell? l do not see one young couple so
handsome and MISUNDERSTANDING as
they are"
A sudden memory flashed over Mrs.
Marshall.
The last time Eflle wore that violet
silk she thought, she danced with
Harold Russell, and the next thing we
heard of him he was on his way to China.
l renem Der now, Effie soon after began
to withdraw from society. wonder"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-16
A Florida "oake Walk.n
Gilbert Parker in New York Independer

Gilbert Parker in New York Independent.
/ tried hard to see a cake walk at
Green Springs, in Florida, one evening,
but had TO decline upon dance at the
ST. Elmo hotel. But it came TO me at
Jacksonville. ! learned there what was
meant by talking the cake" l saw a
negro ball the high spirits of i'll The
negro loves dancing; he responds to the
music, he dances with every muscle; he
invents variations, and withal he Is de-
corous and pronounced. This was hotel
walters ball with cake walk thrown
in Vas. ties, vast smiles, rich dresses,
and all the vauities, jealousies and by
play of white folks" ball room; and
so ceremoniousl Somehow it all had, in
spite of its hilarity, a touch Of pathos.
May be IL was 70 see fine figure, with a
really good, well-htting gown, turn on
you, and you saw thick lips,
black face and big, melancholy
eyes. 1t was such a masquerade;
they would be more in place with.a loose
cotton gown and red handkerchief for
collar pinned with brass brooch. One
did not feel il so much with the men. And
one sees in the south very handsome,
vain, imperious negroes. There was one
at the Magnolia Springs hotel that good
home for the idler, who was positively
distinguished in manner as In face and
form-and not in the least at your beck
and call Az the cake-walk where my
yachting friend and / were asked to be
judges there was one called by his back
ers Handsome" And as Handsome and
his "coon LADY, walked TO the music, au
militaire, the onlookers cried 'Yeth,
they you are, Handsome! Youth gwine TO
git there, sub Keep you step, Handsome,
you Rwine grab dat cake. For de Lord,
Handsome, you lady got the best heel
and-toe in de walk !"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-16

lighting tops lifted $50 feet over all. At
her stem was a foaming wave that piled
twelve feet and spread far on either side.
Added to the grandeur impaired by her
immensely was the realization of her re-
sistless power The ship would fash by
in four or five seconds On the tug was
CONSERVATION. To Jump would be as fatal
as to remain. The captain worked his
wheel, and the engineer stood by his
lever Ratio dropped his camera and
grabbed life preserver. The deckhand
made fast a doorway. IL was at this mo-
ment that LANCE took the picture.
The Oregon was about 100 yards
away" he says, land seemed to be COM
ing like a cannon ball. When the danger
flashed upon me l was holding my camera,
and / wavered with fright for moment.
Then as / looked upon the awe-inspiring
magnifcence Of the mass of steel above
and in front Of me and the indescribable
beauty of the white, dazzling and foaming
wave that glistened in the sun, there
flashed on me an exalting and thrilling
sense of the sublimity and glory of the
scene Every thought, feeling and action
was instant. My Judgment told me to
drop my camera ana rush for life pre-
server, but my professional and artistic
instincts triumphed, and there came a
determination 10 get that picture il IL
was my last. | steadied my nerves mo-
ment, glanced into the finder and clicked
the shutter Then, with the camera
under one arm, / ran to a stranchion and
grasped it, The next moment there was
a strange noise of rushing water that wet
the deck and violent whirling and pitch
ing of the tug in foaming sea-"
The tug had just cleared the stem aud
struck the feather of the Oregon few
feet from the stern. The great wave
threw the tug off like a cork. The tug
had escaped collision by the fraction of a
second, and the ships side flashing by
within ten or twelve feet.
The negative Of the feather will long be
one of MIR. Lange's choicest treasures and
a memento Of the most thrilling moment
of his life
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-16

IL is said that owing 70 the close intermar-
rying Of the Rothschllds there is no one OF
the rising generation Of the family who Is
considered capable OF succeeding 10 the man
aRement Of the vast wealth now controlled by
this house whose total fortune Is estimated
by competent authorities as being over e.
20 l,OOOO0J
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-16

Willis-Youd hardly call that a speaking
likeness OF Chauncey Depew.
Wallace-No. II must have been taken be-
fore dinner.-Puck.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-02-15
WALKING A MILE IN A CHAIR.

WALKING A MILE IN A CHAIR.
zone of the best exercises for re-
SEPARATION and circulation is five min
utes of slow breathing-ten respira-
tions to the minute. This is child's
play for the ordinary man, because
abdominal breathing is natural to him;
but, as almost every woman is handi-
capped by her clothing, which compels
her ia breathe in tina. chest, aha gat8
dizzy and has to quit after the fourth
or fifth inhalation. It is much easier
to reduce fat man than fat woman,
because the moment she begins to ex-
ercise she finds that her wind is gone.
It is true that the man has the advant-
age over her in bodily strength, but he
also has certain control of and de-
finite support from muscles about the
IONS, abdomen, waist and chest that ir-
rational dress and indolent habits of
life have rendered aabby in woman.
To show the difference in the elastic
strength of the two, place a boy and q
girl, below the corset age, on an exer-
cising rug, and with the same amount
of instruction they can kick equally
high, the freedom with which the hip
muscles play being the same. In
adult age there is no comparisons; the
man, having had nothing to restrict
muscular development, can reach as
high with his feet as with his arms; it
is the exceptional woman who has suf-
fcient muscular strength to raise her
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-02-15
r ABDOMINAL EXERCISE. :

ABDOMINAL EXERCISE. &sla
an wants, above all things, proper and
abundant nourishment. The diet will
depend upon many things-her needs,
the condition of her system and her
tastes. What may suit one may injure
another. The first thing is, no liquid
foods that is to say, there must be a
gradual elimination Of fluids, with q
corresponding supply of juices from
the digestive system, superinduced by
proper exercise. All starch foods and
sugars must be cut off at once. I have
seen instances where q dessert of ice
cream and cake at q dinner would add
q pound to the weight the next day.
The patient must know herself. She
must find out Just what foods are flesh
producing and just what exercises are
hesh-reducing and take them in small
and large quantities, respectively.
Briefly, arm movements with light
dunn bbells, apparatus, oars and the
wand, or taken empty handed, will re-
move superfuous flesh from the should
ers and arms. I know nothing more
effectual for getting rid Of the fat
about the abdomen and keeping the
digestive organs in a healthy state OF
activity than lying on the back and in
venting exercises for the legs.
ITO wit: Raise and lower the knees
to the chest, alternately and together;
raise the arms and endeGvor to reach
the hands with the feet, raise the hands
and feet alternately, try to get upon
the feet without turning the body,
stiffen the leg and revolve it at the hip
joint. These are all SO excellent that
II taken Eve or ten minutes night and
..noEning,s when the clothing has been
removed, they will keep q woman well,
make her strong and prevent her from
getting fat. Ny advice is, on rising,
to go into another room after throwing
open the bedroom windows, lie on the
floor and go through these or similar
exercises long enough to rouse the
body, produce heat and perspiration