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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-07-28

The educational life Of the world
grows in practical adaptation of
means to end, that end the rational
evolution of the powers of the in
dividual scholar. San Antonio is
taking her place along with the
moving throng and pushing for
the leadership. This is her saliva
ton and her glory.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-07-28

Lane has no intention of boiling
the track until the convention
rules him off. Galveston Gresham
has not it all his own way by a
large majority. Had Lane the f.
nancial backing that Gresham has
he would unhorse the present rep
resentative OF the Galveston cor
poration and ride himself.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-07-28

Houston whistles itself through
the woods of its Encouragement
and imagines the echo Of its puck
er is the breeze of prosperity blow
ing through the branches over
head. Houston is happy in its
ignorance of what real progress
means, but where ignorance is
bliss knowledge is only blister.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-07-28

San Antonio has had more
leases of life given her already
than the law allows, and she is
only monkeying with the newt
able when she allows her streets
and alleys to be the fostering
ground of filthy garbage that can
not but produce disease even in
this salubrious atmosphere.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-07-28

~ All contracts or bills must be sp-
sroyed by the Secretary and Manager.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-07-28
agglOmeratiOn.

There is not even a fast horse
that goes out to circuit from this
city that does not advertise it and
direct public attention to this cor
ner Of the vineyard. 1t would be a
great gain to the town if some of
her well heeled men would adver-
tise her as we'll as her swift heeled
horses.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-07-28

II coming events had so cast their
shadows before congress as to have
withheld it from any attempted
monkening with the tariff this
session, what happy lot of Demo-
Gratis this country would see, but
this wisdom was denied them and
the end of their troubles will only
come with the end of their suprem.
acy in the national congress. Will
the Republicans who succeed them
be sufficiently wise to meet the
legislative requirements Of the
situation? There is no question Of
this in matters of tariff and rev.
enue, but if it is not so certain that
they will rise to the supreme height
of their present opportunity in reg
ulating immigration and prOvid-
ing for a national arbitration of all
industrial difficulties that involve
the peace Of the country and the
trade of the commercial world.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-07-28

Announcements for State and County
,tdcers ten Dollars In advance.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-07-28

Alert
advertisers
~ dyertise in the DAILY LIGHT
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-07-28

Rancho is not whining over any
delay on the part of the Gulf
Shore people in pushing out the
rails to that flourishing hamlet.
The people out there have every
confidence in the pluck persever-
ance, push, practical sense and
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-07-28

Cleanliness Of city property
should precede all else. Clean
the streets and public ground and
it will be in order to enforce
the ordinances for the removal
of nuisances from private pro-
perties.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-07-28
Furniture
Insurance
Hay, Grain, Feed

Alex. Mason, dealer in Hay
and Grain. Corner Crockett and Bonham
Streets. Telephone 493.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-06-14

CHICAGO HERALD: In Massachu-
sets, where the abolition Of the
death penalty is under consideration,
the case Of Prendergast is being cited
against the advocates of capital pun
ishment. 1t is argued, with reason,
that Mayor Harrisons murderer, il
he had been sentenced to life impris-
onment, would have been taken to
the penitentiary without any more
ado, and society would have been rid
forever Uf dangerous criminals;
whereas, having been condemned to
death, all sorts of influences have
been set to work to save him, and he
may go free altogether. 1t must be
admitted that this line Of argument
is a strong one. Aside from the
moral right of society to inhict the
death penalty, it is pretty certain
that capital punishment does not ex-
ercise much influence in preventing
murders. A death sentence arouses
all the maudlin sentiment in the
community, and hysterical philan.
thropists work night and day to save
the neck of the condemned man. A
sentence Of life imprisonment evokes
no such sympathy, and in nineteen
cases out Of twenty the criminal &C.
cepts his fate, thankful that 1t is no
worse. II capital sentences were al
ways executed, the infection Of the
death penalty would prove power
full deterrent. AS not one In ten is
executed, however, it is a question
whether it would not be better to do
away with the system altogether and
rely upon life imprisonment, which
is pretty sure to be enforced in every
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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-06-14

MUCH senseless prejudice has been
aroused against certain New York
society which protects little children
from cruelty, but some Of the recent
developments indicate that 1t is at
least a blessing to some babies. 1t
appears that when poor mother is
neglectful of her babe the fact Is
made public, but the society officers
complain that their work among the
rich is never made known. For In
stance, how many New Y orkers heard
of the case of society woman who
was in the habit Of tying her babe to
the chain which controlled her pug
dog, until the society put an end to
the arrangement? Nor does anyone
hear of the society's efforts to put an
end to the traffic in various patent
ed devices used by well-to-do moth
ers and which are designed to help a
baby to jump or to walk. The de-
vices are sold because too many
mothers in New York are only too
glad to get rid OF their babies and
yet win not pay for a competent
nurse. One patented tool was meant
to strap baby in its bed and to pre-.
vent it from kicking the clothes of
by binding the legs together. An
other contrivance was meant to keep
baby's mouth open by force.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-06-14

ment---lf there ID such an institution
might do worse than investigate
the phenomenon. The last flag-tear-
ing episode At St Thomas was the
work of members Of the Queens Own
Rifles Of Toronto. 1t may be remem-
bered that the organization distin-
guished itself at the time of the
Fenian raids by running forty miles
from q red cow which the shivering
sentry mistook for the invading Irish
host. II these timorous militiamen
can be rendered bellicose and blood
thirsty by allopathic doses Of whisky
Lord Aberdeen ought to quarter
them In distillery. The results to
be attained would justify the expense
incurred.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-06-14
Legal Brevitx and Wit,

A refreshing sample Of brevity by
bench and bar occurs In case where
the great Erskine appeared for the
plaintiff, who sought to recover ten
guineas lent to him by his lady love
before they parted to meet in court.
E-skine began by remarking that
when love was over, the laconic style
OF letter-writing was most fitting.
He then read the following letter
from the defendant: "SIR: When
convenient you shall have your ten
guineas. / despise you. CATHARINE
KEELING. SAID Erskine: Il shall
prove the handwriting, and that is
my case" Asked Bancroft, counsel
for the defense: Is that all?"'
AYE" quoth Erskine. "Then 1 de.
spise you," said Bancroft; and Mr..
Justice Butler nonsuited the plaintiff.
After this, one does not much marvel
at this judges notion of Paradise:
playing whist all night, and trying
nisi prius cases all day." Those, by
the by, were the days Of short opin.
ions as well as short speeches.
Taunton would sometimes advise:
"The question is worth trying" Err.
skine once wrote: The action will
lie II the witnesses 40"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-06-14
MIRROR OF MICHIGAN
Live stock Insurance Almost Thing OF
the Past-Heaith Officers to Meet In
Lansing Dishonest Financial Secretary
Disrupts . Lodge.
Live Stock In.urnnce Declines.

Live stock insurance in Michigan is
q failure. Several years ago there
were several, companies OF this class in
the State, but one by one they have
declined away until now only two re-
main, and those are weak and con-
sumptive. Theron f. Giddings, Com
missioner of Insurance, announced
that he would refuse, because of its
unsatisfactory condition, to renew the
license of the Central Michigan Live
Stock Insurance Company, Of Detroit.
and that he would in few days apply
to the proper court for the appoint
ment Of a receiver to wind up the af-
fairs of the Farmers and Horsemen's
Live Stock Insurance Company, OF
Ypsilanti, which has also, in his opin-
ion, outlived its usefulness. With
these two companies disposed of, the
business Of insuring live stock in Mich
igan will be at an end. The Commits
sioner also reused to issue a license to
the American Monitor, fraternal
benefit association, to do business in
the State, for the reason that its arti-
cles OF Incorporation provide for the
transaction OF business not sanctioned
by law.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-06-14

ONE result of the coal miners
strike is likely to be the greater use
Of liquid fuel In the industries in
which heat forms an important fac
tor. Owing to the abundance and
cheapness of coal, comparatively lit
tie attention has been given to the
possibilities Of petroleum, tar and
oils of other kinds as fuels. Since
Mr.. McBride's followers laid down
their picks, however, large users of
fuel have been investigating. and the
discovery has been made that liquid
fuel is not only better but cheaper
than coal or wood. In this country
the experiments with oil have been
few and not altogether satisfactory.
But in Europe the results have been
highly profitable. On the Caspian
Sea all the steamships use liquid fuel.
the saving over coal being estimated
at SIS a mile for the larger vessels.
English railways have also used oil
with success, and in Russia petro-
leum is gradually superseding other
fuels Considering the low price of
crude petroleum in this country and
the inexhaustible supply available,
it will be singular il that combustible
shall not soon come into favor as a
fuel. Its small bulk, perfect con-
sumption and economy in the matter
of firemen certainly entitle it to a
trial. Another advantage is the
fact that when properly burned it is
absolutely smokeless.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-06-14
were together, but in 1892 they serara-

ted.
The present aim of the miners Is,
thus, to enforce an increase Of wages
and to effect a general agreement
among all the operators who comre etc
in the same markets. The object is
one that necessarily oommends itself
and ore, too, which the bulk of the
operators regard as just and desirable.
But there are operators who refuse to
bind themselves and these have been
the cause of the failure of the conven-
tion held in Cleveland between the
miners and the well-disposed opera
tors.
The present condition OF affairs in
some OF the mining regions is critical
in the extreme. Armed deputies and
armed miners are confronting one
another, and with the memories of past
scenes of blocdshed between them, but
little is wanting to precipitate other
battles. more bloody and fatal than any
which have preceded the II. Suffering
and want have made the miners des-
rerate, and unless the difficulty is set
tied within short time both sides will
perhaps have grave reasons for regret.
The summary Of the press dispatches
which we have given from week to
week, furnish fairly complete view
of the situate n.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-06-14

CIRCUMsTANTIAL evidence has add
ed another to its long list of suffering
victims. A prisoner serving life
sentence for the murder OF man
some years ago is soon to be liberated
because the man he was found guilty
of numbering is alive and we'll and
has only found out that he had been
murdered. Judges, juries, and wit
nesses should be more careful in sift-
ing circumstantial evidence and less
eager to give confessed murderers the
benefit of legal technicalities.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-06-14

ABOUT once month some Cana
dian patriot gets drunk, and finds it
necessary to work of his enthusiasm
by tearing down the flag over a
United States consulate. 1t would
be interesting to know what ingred-
tents in Canadian whisky produce
this state of mind. Old sea-faring
men are wont to couple rum and true
religion as the two great requisites
for virtuous and happy life, but the
connection between malt whisky and
aggressive patriotism Is not at all
clear. The Canadian war depart
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-06-14
IT Is stated that an American com

1T Is stated that an American COM
mittee has been engaged for five
years 10 preparing a memorial to
the poet Keats, and that "the details
have been kept absolutely secret
even in the United States" This is
overstraining the matter little.
Contributions we're freely requested
In Chicago, as elsewhere, and there
was no secrecy about it. Why should
there have been? Keats, like Brown
ing, is far more read and appreciated
in this, country than in England, and
It was perfectly natural that the me-
mortal should be placed where 1t was
most appropriate--in his own coun-
try, which failed to understand him.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-06-14

A CORRESPONDENT writes to ST.
Louis newspaper inquiring whether
It is lawful to throw into the street
the grass cut from yards. The in
quirer evidently mixed things up.
What he meant to ask was whether
it was lawful to throw into the yard
grass cut from the streets.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-06-14
Record of the Week

THE assessed valuation OF Dundee Is
$399,O7o.
THE remains of Ferdinand Loucks,
laborer, were found near Adrian. He
had apparently been murdered.
HEALTH OFFICER WYMAN, of Bay
City, alleges shameful neglect of chill
dren whose lives have been insured by
their PARENTS
FoREPAUGH's gray wolf, which es-
capped at Muskegon, was shot by q
prcsaic farmer, who got SS bounty for
the scalp. He thought the animal was
fox.
AT Hastings Abram Hartell, who
pleaded guilty to the charge OF forgery,
was sentenced to ten years at Jackson.
Asa Tefft, convicted of murder in the
second degree, got thirty years at
Jackson.
J. B. CoLvAN, of Ypsilanti, has a
three-year-old hopeful that thinks the
world of his dad and likes to initiate
him in everything. His latest escap-
ade is to cut all the hair off the back of
his head in imitation of the bald spot
on his fathers Uranium.
CONFIDENCE sharks worked car
load of immigrants on the Chicago and
Grand Trunk railway on the short
change" racket, between Flint and
Swartz Creek, and after gathering
about $500 Jumped the train before the
bold game was discovered.
JOHN SCOTT, a bachelor 50 years old,
hanged himself in the barn of Daniel
Van Allen, his brother-in-law, near
Jonesville. He had been respondent
for nearly year, or since his mother
died. He had been a resident of
Jones lille for thirty-five years.
MASTER WRIT S. MCLAREN, of Lima,
is the proud owner OF heightened hen.
Nearly six weeks ago one fine morning
madam hen few into willow tree and
from there to the four-gabled roof OF
the farmhouse, where in q niche into
which the spring winds had blown
some leaves and twigs, she laid her
first egg. Every day thereafter she
made the same toilsome journey till the
other evening. when by the aid of a
long ladder, man, woman, small boy
and market basket, madam hen and
seventeen lively chicks W. re deposited
in very ordinary looking chicken
coop on terra firma, much to her evil
dent satisfaction.
HARD times have paralyzed the
liquor int. ests OF Bay City. Up to
date only eighty-one saloonists have
taken out licenses, and paid in 500, 500,
against 13y saloons and $40, 1918 last
year.
THE salt block and sawmill of Dol
sen, Chaplin a. Co., at Bay City, built
in 1864, are being torn down to make
room for new lumber sorting yard
There Is no money In salt and the bust
ness in the Saginaw valley is on the
wane. In some instances coal Is being
used for the manufacture Of the article
at blocks where there Is no sawmill to
furnish slabs.
FORTY tons of soft coal is being
taken out of the Corunna mines day.
All the miners have returned TO work
at an advance of ten cents per ton over
their former wages. Contracts have
been secured by the owners of the
mine that will insure employment for
the men all the summer.
PRESIDENT BUMP, Of the old Second
National Bank, of Bay City, now places
the shortage of Charles b. McCloy,
the missing bookkeeper and collection
clerk, at 90, 100, and says the bank Is
fully protected against loss. McCloy
operated through certificates of de-
posit. His whereabouts are unknown.
He was seen to take New York train
in Dotroik
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-06-14

THE authorities of a Rhode Island
town are after a man whose saloon
stands in three towns and two States,
but as all the liquor is in Massachu-
sets while only the consumer is in
Rhode Island there is not likely to be
any serious action taken.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-06-14

HERE is a somewhat paradoxical
remark found in a recent historical
work: "Rain fell heavily all day long
on the battlefield. BY nightfall ten
thousand men had bitten the dust.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-06-14

In rare moment of good sense the
Queen conferred a baronetey on a
man who has done something good in
the world. Sir Isaac Pitman will be
no bigger for his prefix, but title
for once has been wortbily bestowed.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-06-14

A DEvoUT Boston woman who was
recently sick unto death was revived
by street band playing "Ta-ra-ra. 4"
Had the music been that of Wagner
the lady would have died happy, no
Il
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-06-14

THE double" and "triple Uncle
Tom" companies must look to their
laurels Hamlet" was presented in
Chicago the other night with nine
melancholy Danes in the cast.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-06-14
Facts in Few Words.

THE best pearls are perfectly round.
THE stem side OF the orange is not
usually so sweet and juicy as the other
half
THE cabbage is the development of a
common seaweed which grows wild ON
every coast Of Europe.
THERE is at present colored pris-
oner In the Alabama mines who speaks
twelve different languages.
IT Is a rare thing to find in any part
OF China man over 20 years Of age
who cannot read and write.
AN advertisement in a Chicago pa
per, describing a lost dog, states that
the animal has gold-capped tooth.
The Mohammedans teach that Adam
and Eve once lived In tent on what Is
now the site OF the temple at Mecca.
ONE mile of wire such Is is used in
the manufacture OF hair spriugs for
watches w~uld weigh less than half
pound.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-06-14

A MICHIGAN inventor has patent
ed bicycle made of corn husk pulp,
but the manufacturers Of the leading
machines will probably contend that
il doesn't amount to shucks.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-06-14

SEE what a life the gods have
given us, set round with pain and
pleasure! 1t is too strange for sor-
row, it is too strange for joy!
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-06-14

EVERYONE thinks that others
around him might make his work
easier for him. The thought that he
might make the work easier for
Others never enters his head.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-06-14
FIRE ON A TRAIN.
Strikers Make Demonstration In Carter
villc-Troops Called.

Springfield, Ill : The situation in
Williamson County with rioting coal
miners was such that Gov. Altgeld
wired Col. Kelly M. Smith, commander
OF the Fourth infantry at Greenup, to
at once send companies G Of Carbon
dale, ID OF Belleville, and M of Marion
to Carterville and report for duty to
Sheriff Dowell. Ordnance and sup
plies from here were sent by special
train for Cartervi'le. The order for
placing troops was done in response to
kilograms from sheriff Dowell, who
wired that regular trains were being
fired into that great danger was imrz-
nent, and that nothing but the State
troops would stop bloodshed. ~
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-06-14

Miss POLLARD has decided to ele-
vate journalism instead OF the stage.
Sympathy may now be placed where
1t justly belongs. ~
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-06-14

OHIO stands at the head in having
the greatest number OF divorced men
and women-a fact which rather
takes the sting out of the sneers at
Chicago divorces
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-06-14

THE Dubuque e. Wisconsin Bridge
Company was organized at Dubuque,
Iowa. The object is to construct Q
high bridge from Eagle Point to the
Wisconsin shore.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-06-14
United War on Smallpox.

The Sta.e Board of Health is making
preparations for the second annual
conference Of health officers 10 be held
in Ann Arbor. Consumption, typhoid
fever and smallpox will be discussed.
DR.. F. G. Novy, of the university, and
Dr. H. B. Baker, of the Stae board,
will read papers on tuberculosis. One
afternoon will be devoted to smallpox,
Dr. George Dock, of the university,
di. cussing the Relations of VAGINA,
yarioloid and variola
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-06-14

THEY say that money does not
bring happiness. This is an expert
ment, however, which every one
wishes to try for himself.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-06-14

ELKIN FARMER, 11+9 Park avenue,
New York City, retired from business,
has dropped 81, 900 to two clever swim
dlers, Dudley Il Spaulding, on mining
stock bunco scheme. The police OF
New York and Chicago are at work on
the case. D
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-06-14

A MAN who ran away from Denver
recently was engaged to six women.
Strange as it may appear, Lillian
Russell was not one of them, either.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-06-14
UNDER THE MUZzLEs OF RIFLES.
Miners at Clark's Station Stop n Train
~ While the Soldiers Look On.

Washington, Ind.-At dusk this
evening freight No. 81, consisting Of
cars loaded with coal, was held up at
Clark's Station under the very muzzle5
OF the rifles of two companies OF militia
and Calling gun, and the miners re-
fused to allow the train to proceed.
The troops could do nothing. because
no official was present to give them au-
thority. The miners knew this and
were very obstinate. Deputy Sheriff
Ray Hill was dispatched to the scene.
Terre Haute, Ind.-The strikers at
Shelburn have burned five cars of coal
captured from the Evansville and
Terre Haute Railroad freight train
and also burned the cars. The militia
came up to the burning cars on their
march to Alum Cave. The troops
completely surrounded the mining
town of Alum Cave this afternoon,
but found it practically deserted.
Many arrests of leaders were made.
A detachment OF the troops Is guard
ing the bridges tonight, as there are
fears that they may be fired by the
strikers.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-06-14

FIVE bandits robbed Texas bank
OF 800 the other day. Can Will
lam Dalton prove an alibi? Where
was he?
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-06-14

A GOOD sewing machine is supposed
to do the work OF twelve women.
Firs, thing you know it will be want
ing to vote.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-06-14

UNDERTAKEN will soon be an obso-
lete word. What was once known as
an undertaken is now funeral d.
rector