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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-07-16

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thing was possible. There's Fred
die, look at him how he's dancing
the Jig ~ exclaimed the sallow
woman, and then, with no little
pride, announced that he had
learned a poem which he recites
right well.
OF course, there were calls for
Freddie, but Freddie did not re-
spond. The freCkle face sergantess-
alarms made a dash at him, and
by half persuasion and half by
dragging him got the precious
youngster to come to the front.
After much pleading and threaten
ing scOwls on the part OF his
mother, Freddie mounted the table
and performed by mumbling with
a kind Of hand organ rythm and
lisping pronunciation, all the ver-
ses of COwpers', "JOhn Gilpin's
ride" At last Freddie had flushed.
The women were just de-
lighted, and his sallow mother
was prouder than ever The
conversation naturally shifted to
telling stories about precocious
children, and / can only hope that
the recording angel had deserted
his work to take celestial kind OF
hot sulphur bath at the time that
these good women were telling
their observations, for there is no
more fruitful field, next to relating
school.da incidents, for exaggera-
ton and shameless prevaricatlon
than these motherly stories cited
to show up the precociousness OF
their progeny.
"You gentlemen don't seem to be
enjoying yourself; why don't you
talk some and be entertaining"
said one of the women out of sheer
spite and sarcasm because she could
not get an opportunity to spring a
story that was very dear to her
heart-and when a woman gets
euchred out of putting in her oar
in conversation, you can wager
your spare change that the pace
is pretty hot
90, | enjoyed myself hugely, lis
tening to you ALL" politely re-
sponded the prevaricatiug husband
of the red-headed chair woman OF
the occasion, but as he was sitting
| face to face with his impressively
Corpulent wife, the recording angel,
| suppose, let him off lightly under
the circumstances.
1t was proper for the other hus-
| bands to pass similar remarks, ana
the second gentleman gave as an
excuse for not being more enter
tanning, that he was feeling i'll, Ga
severe attack of ennui, no doubt.
The third husband escaped adding
to the falsehoOds Of the evening by
calling attention to the lateness OF
the day, and the party broke up.
| The woman who was euchred
out of telling her story, has pecu-
liar aversion to going to the baths
in such large parties. The gentle
man who hugely enjoyed himself
listening to the ladies, has so many
pressing engagements on hand that
he can never get off to accompany
his family to the wells, while the
, third husband who was not well
enough to be more entertaining
has one of his spells (of ennui, nc
doubt whenever his wife ap'
proaches him in regard to taking
the family to the baths, and fol
this reason this peculiar gather
, ing has hever repeated its infOrma
Conversations, though the women
: and their children, as well as theil
J busy lords are among the mos
} regular frequenters of this popular
2 resort. LOITERER.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-07-16
FAIR
Wagner e. ChabOt.l
ON THE LOITER.

ATAN INFORMAL CONVERSATIONS.
Three families had gathered
around long table underneath
one of the pecan groves at the
FioU Sulphur Wells ground, in the
cool of the other afternoon. A
very stout and very freCkle faced
woman with very red hair, by COM
mon, unspOken consent, perhaps
on account Of her temper and I'M
pressive cOrpulenCe, acted through
out as toast mistress, chairman or
what ever else you might call 1t,
of the gatherings. A shrlll
voiced little woman who
no doubt some day will also be
very plump. not to say fat, and
whose freckIes and auburn locks
bespoke a very close relationship
with the red-haired woman of the
assembly, act as sergeantess-at-
arms.
The party had just come out Of
the baths aud the chair woman
was unpacking the lunch, for there
is nothing that seems to take the
props from under a persons stOm-
ach so completely as a hearty
swim in the hot water. AS the
eatables were passed around, the
old women laughed and loudly
chatted about this or that. The
Young freckle-faCed sergeantess-at-
arms gave each child a small sand.
which and slice OF cake while the
three husbands, who could not get
in a word, even edge wise, as the
expression goes, had to content
themselves exchanging glances o
cOmmisseratiOn and ordering re
freshments. The little ones, there
were a dozen of them and mostly
girls, were fOOlishing about the
tables dancing and hopping about
first on one foot and then on tn
other, with their mouths choking
full of the dry lunch. Now anC
then some pet would side up t,
its mother, put Its arm around he
neck and gaze so long at the glas
before her, until it got swallow o
two Of the contents, when it wOul
run off to its playmates. The COZ
pulent toast mistress never let tn
conversation lag, and the shri.
voiced sergeantess. alarms wa
continually calling to this or tina
child, not to "do that, dear; that
naughty"
The gathering had pretty tho
oughly discussed, both verbally an
physically, the lunch before then
che woman telling all abOl
own each article was cooked b
her, and then rambling o
into fiat, substahceless stOriC
about kitchen mishaps ar
faithless cooks, until there WI
not thing left to be told, and u
til the men were beginning
grow very, very tired. At tn
crisis a sallow woman of not qui
thirty turned the conversation in
a new channel by calling attentiC
to the fact that the children we
enjoying themselves. The thr
husbands turned around al
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-07-16
Gives Perfect Satisfaction.

"Comet Pile Remedy is a good
seller and gives perfect satisfac-
ton" Burnes and Jeffries, drug
gists, Charleston Ill. Sold by
James Clavin, druggist, ia West
Commerce street, corner Navarro,
San Antonio, Texas.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-07-16

For a long time this street was
so shamefully neglected that the
complaint became loud and angry,
and now, as if in a spirit of re-
venge, the street force have been
put to work to pile up a bed of
gravel, cobble stone and dirt upon
the street and call it street i'm
provement.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-07-16

This kind of street work that has
been going on in our city for a num-
Der of years is in direct opposition
to every principle of scientific road
building and has proven by expe-
rience to be the worst that can pos
sibly be put on the streets,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-07-16

The street force come along and
clean up the loose gravel and mud,
then comes the street force and
dumps wagon loads of irregular
sized gravel, flint, cobbles and dirt !;
the street roller flattens down this
incongruous mass, and it looks all
right, but within a few days the
street looks like a lava bed, and
then the street force comes along
and hauls away the whole business
again.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-07-16

Now that the city has a rock
crusher that is capable of turning
out a large quantity of crushed
flint gravel, why don't the city use
it, and begin to make its metal
roads in accordance with we'll es'
tablished methods Of road build
ing
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-07-16
SHORT STOPS.
What the People are Saying.

GBY Col. JAS. p. NEwCOMB.
The residents and taxpayers on
North Flores street have a real
grievance against the city admin
istration.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-07-16

DR.. Prices Cream Baking Powder
Worries Fair highest Award
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-09-27
TRYING THE sURFEIT CURE

Prom the New YorS sun
when | was a youngstrr, said Mr..
BoZzle. Il used TO wonder how the con-
fectioners could make any money. IL
always seemed to me that the clerks
would eat so much candy that they
would eat up all the profits.
II remember reading or hearing later
that this was not so: that when new
clerk came into the store the proprietor
would say:
Now, hope you viii eat all the
candies you want; don't hesitate ~
help yourself at any time. aud that the
result was that at the end of the week
she was so sick and tired OF candy that
She hated the sight of il, and didn't
want any more for year
This, / suppose, might be called the
surfeit cure.
After ! had grown up and come 70
have a family ! remembered this and
thought / might turn the idea 20 sd-
vantage. / had four children, and tho
amount of money they spent for zee
cream and candy and soda water was
something awful.
lump enough money u make them
tired of these things ] might in the
long run make a considerable saving.
So set aside p thousand dollars for
that purpose. and one csy ! sad 20 my
oldest child
-Tillie. 7 don't think you and the
children are beginning 70 have the leo
| cream and candy that you ought 20
have ! an afraid you think because
papa isn't very reh that you must
skimp yourselves about those things.
but YOU needn't, you can have al ths
money you want for them Here hf'y
dollars. Now. wish you'd take the
children out and get some see cream
and candy. and whenever that moBeT
l. gone lust let me know, and u give
you more
Well. they used Up that thousand
dollars IN about ten WEEKS. ami az ths
end - that time they were ss hungry
for lee cream and candy az ever.
4 kept Up the supply q money ]
was Ike the gamble -ao keeps %
playing after he has lozi lot, "a the
hope that his luck viii turn.
I thought they tnigh, reach The ssT-
feiting point At snF minute and -
seeunsA too BAD - MAKE a dad ioss *
the money already invested when PR
haps the exp-ndifsrr 81 = fsw dollars
more vsorid seroFaBiisa the desired re-
suit: - hare keps 90
IA; shs children sPp-:s.e fgr -
cream .sa candy seeras scts@iiy 20 ID
crease Isssy Eel Ese ! sns s"oH;
and taAt. Of eoar-r - sOEzsrtnins. itHs
20 SO tEsus hsDVy. bat zseas7Fhi-e ny
hara szrn-d money - aaslisnz away
and I an 5nciinsd 20 thlnA that Toe
surtsi. cure j. aeius3oa. = no.
snAre N y. Scn-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-09-27
FERTILITY OF ALASKA,

From the Bosten Tr"hs.ript
a good deal of interesting informa-
ton concerning Alaska, its climate.
lands. natural resources and industries
is contained in report lately sub
mitted to the house of representatives
from the committee on agriculture.
The climate of many of the regions
there is less severe than might be in
ferred from the latitude in which
they lie In Europe, between the
same parallels of latitude, there Is
population of twenty millions. There
are vast stretches of Alaskan terri
tory in which the climatic con-
ditions are much more favorable
than would be supposed by those
who take account merely of their geo.
graphical situation. There are extern
sive areas of land. both in the south
and in the north. that are suitable for
agriculture, and there is a bill before
congress for the erection of agricul-
tural experiment stations within these
areas.
In letter about Alaska, recently
written for the information of con-
gress by Mai. Powell. late of the Unit
ed States geological survey, there are
some interesting statements in support
of others recently made in official re-
ports. Maj. Powell gives the area of
tillable land in southeastern Alaska as
fifteen hundred square miles. tract
larger than the state of Rhode Island;
and he makes an estimate that along
the shores of Cook inlet. the peninsula
and adjacent islands, including the
Aleutian isles, there are five thousand
additional square miles capable OF sue
cessful cultivation.
Apart from the statements made in
Mai. Powell's letter there is reason to
believe that upon large section of the
mainland south of the Yukon river the
harder grains and vegetables can be
raised to advantage. In the upper re-
gions of the country also there are
arabic tracts of land; and the author
ity of Prof. Dawson, of the Cana
dian geological survey, is given for the
statement that in the angle formed by
the eastern boundary of northern
Alaska and the northern boundary Of
British Columbia a population OF one
million could be sustained by agricul'
ture alone
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-09-27
.ou,,nv prpun11cAN TICKET.
REPUBLICAN STATE PLATFORM.

po-onirn,ing tho Republican national plat
form of lSa2. a., .~+ort ,atriot-
ism, OF our party is ln l;seI gu. VA srjeIs
tJeir widows and orphans, VII De lIoeraIiA
cared for and we denOunce their cruel IN. ~
deIiherate betrayal by the present Delnoo h'4O
administration. -, pn,h1icon
,,r;,,o Of nrof ection and believe That tafln
law Sbouli protect the products Oh Iiie iSi III
ss well as of he factory. .or HI
Third. The American people FAVOR pi
rnefallism and the republican party a,.d
tbe 17sf of both gold and silver as stanois1ru
,none,- with such restrictions anu, u.doi
sI,ch provisions. 10 be determined pF iePisIIa,
tion as will secure the maintehance VI ~
narity of w ,ues of the Two metals, anu ' IA
Inc ,urchaSing and debt paying power vi tu I
ttaIlar her of gold, silver or paper, shall
he al an times equal. The interests OF 'n t
rroducers of the country, its farmers anu its
working men, demand that the mines oe DP ?,n
ed TO the coinage of the silver Vi Ilc lily iS =
of the United states tuu tna' ;,oiortations of
enacta law levying tax on importations ol
foreign silver sufficient 10 luliy protect INC
products of our own mines. Lie
Fourth We favor national ard stare IeSls-
lation fer the encou1 agemeht OF Irtisalio1l'
FIFTH. We denounce the present state al,
,,inistration for us violation Of the laws ana
conierupt of the courts. the corruption anu
tncnmDetencv of its officials, us cross MI,
,nn5aGement of the state institutions, anu
Tor the discredit il has brought upon me
+rcod nap,e of the state. And we pledge the
Republican party and the nominees OF thiS
convention to a faithful and economical as
charge of all official duties ana 10 d S,t .f
Observance and an honest enforcement % the
laws and to obedience TO Tue ihahuale9 Vi 'he
courts. -, ; 81;
sixth: To the maintenance Of these primer
ples we invite tie support OF all patriotic
citizens.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-09-27
TEE "CHILTERN aUNDREDS,"

Government is full OF ''make-be-
lieves" One Of the actions in the Eng
lish system is that member of parlia.
ment cannot resign his seat. But az
though he is not allowed to resign he
may nevertheless retire from parila-
ment at his pleasure. He asks to be
appointed steward of the Chatern
Hundreds. 1t is the theory OF the Brit
ISL constitution that when member
OF parliament accepts Office under the
crown, he must obtain the consent OF
his constituents. Thus his seat is
vacated: and he must be elected again
after his appointment If he wishes to
accept the new Office.
a member who wishes TO retire from
parliament applies for his nominal OF
fee of stewards of the Chiltern Hun
dredA is appointed. thereby vaeates his
seat, and then immediately resigns his
Stewardship, so that the situation Il
vacant for the next member who wishes
to retire. How the custom grew mp u
explained In the Quarterly Review.
4 crown steward Is custodian OF one
Of the Mauors. Hundreds or Honors De-
longing 20 the royal denesne. HE
raanors were Anglo-Saxon townships,
and "Hundredsr were collections OF
townships within given shire. Inc
abuses perpetrated by these stewards
led 10 the reduction of their NUMBERS
until finally, under Charles II, nearly
all the stewardships were abolished
One OF the few crown stewardships
which survived was that OF the three
| Hundreds OF Chiltern, in the county ci
| Bucks Through this region pass TIE
| Chiltern hills. From the earliest Nor
man times this property has been II
the hand Of the lord and king
| In 1880 the ingenious constitution -
/ Action which is noted above came u C
4 practice. In that year the stewardship
| Of the Chiltern Hundreds was conferreo
upon Mr.. John Pitt, NJ P, solely 'hs'
he might vscate bis seat IL has oee1
constantly in use Cor that purpose ese'
| since and The s;es sr1iships OF the
other crown uaano-s have been apPiiec
in the same way a. various times
i. is q Disputed question Hhesass va
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-09-27
FACTS ABOUT WAGES.

The Democrats and Populists are
eternally bowling that protection bene
fits the employer and Tot the wages of
the employee. The first important item
in the list of specified industries report
ed by the census of manufactures is
agriculture implements. In 1880 there
was 80, $50 people employed in this in
dustry, and in 1890 IL, 534. The wages
paid in 1880 amounted to SIS, 359, $40,
and in 1890 $21, ST. 61. This shows
that the average wages in 1880 Were
1888 per year, and in 1890 S512, a diff
ference in favor of the employees of 1924
each, gain during the decade of Sl2 a
a year, or an average of 81 month.
In that line of manufactures the wage
worser could not say that protection
benefited the employer only.
As it may be said that this was only
one instance, we quote from the figures
of all industries. In 1880 there were
>, i32, $50 employees drawing in wages
$94S, 953, 795, and in 1890, Ana, 6222,
drawing in wages s., 295, PIG, 529, or, in
1880, the average was 1886 per year. and
in 1890 it was 1854. an increase OF S13S
for the ten years. These facts give the
lie To all that free traders claim. If any
further illustration were needed compare
free trade Europe, even the English
speaking portion of it, with the wages IN
vogue here and the result should settle
the question with the wage-earners.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-09-27
COLOR AT THE FAR NORTH.

Frederick Wilbert Stokes, who was .
membe of the first Peary Relief expe-
dition, gives a new idea Of the charms
Of arctic landscapes in paper on
"Color at the Far North, which he has
written for the Century. Despite the
desolation, he found, from an artistic
standpoint, a land OF beauty, with seas
and skies Of surprising loneliness The
intensity and brilliance of color Inn
press the beholder as something super
natural. Our sojourn was from the
middle of July, through August, and
few days of September "a period
when the polar ATTITUDES are teeming
with animal, insect and plant life. OF
this brief period only am l qualified to
speak; but from the accounts given by
those who have passed through the
long, dreaded night season, the phe-
pomena occurring in the heavens are
most beautiful. The chief popularity
of color at the north, so far as my
short experience tells me. Is that there
nre no semitones, the general effect be-
ing either very black or just the oppo-T
site, intensely brilliant and rich in
color. In fact, O summers midnight at
the north has all the brilliance OF our
brightest noon, with the added inten-
sity and richness of our most vivid sun
sets, while noon, when the sun Is OBJ
scured by threatening masses OF storm
clouds, is black. Indeed, 1t is the true
land of ''impressionism.
I remember one brilliant morning
when the measureless ether over
head, hue of exquisite blue, re-
peated itself in perfect mirror Of the
sea. Far away on the otherwise clear
cat horizon line of pure white Ice
shimmered its light up through pink
ish yellow stratum of mist, which
bathed In delicate greenish blue an
enormous iceberg that strongly re-
sembled TN ancient cathedral. In the
afternoon the sky, threatening black,
overhung vast contorted sheet OF
white and pink, composed Of ice-foe
and colossal bergs looming up above
its mass at intervals, with deep black
patches Of water, the whole carrying
tie eve to the horiaon--a tapering
band OF deep rich blue merging into
the sky. In the immediate foreground
of the iee-fioe, near the waters edge,
were shallow pools of delicate blues,
puppies end greens.
OF the wealth Of color In flower,
lichen and moss; Of its curious riches
as manifested In insect. she'll and ami
NAL life, and Of its wonderful thinning
skill as shown on the great inland ice,
Ice cap and glacier, l have neither
purpose nor pen TO write. This new
world Of color awaits the one who can
truly describe it. In ell these color
effects at the north there lies wizard
like power of enchantment-s dis
| tinctive uncanniness that, basilisk-
like, both attracts and repels. Great
natures pitilessness broods over il
with force and penetration possibly
not equaled, and surely not surpassed,
in any other quarter of our globe. II
| is q land of beautiful and awesomc
/ dreams
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-09-27
TIE LAND OF INFIDELS.

From the London Times.
At a recent meeting of the Royal
Geographical society DR.. q. s. Robert
son read paper on "Kairistan"-a
country which up to few years ago
was entirely unknown and unexplored,
and still remains one of these few in
habited regions of the world which are
only partially understood. The whole
district, he said, was known by the
name of Kafristan, which literally
meant ''the land of the infidel," just as
Hindoostan meant 1.-The land of the
Hindoo" and Afghanistan 1.-The land OF
the Afghan" Before his own visit to
Kafiristan, with one single exception
no European had ever penetrated into
those remote valleys. The exception
was Lockharts mission, which in Sep
TENDER. 1885, crossed from Ohitral into
the upper part of the Bashgul valley.
remained there q few days, and then
withdrew into Chitral by another road.
The actual amount of country DR..
Robertson was able to explore was not
of any great extent. Tribal jealousies
were so great and his position was
oftentimes SO difficult that it was fire.
quently question, not of his being
able to get on, but of his being able to
maintain himself in the katir country
at all. Kafiristan consisted of an ir-
regular series of main valleys. for the
most part deep, narrow and tortuous,
into which varying number of still
more difficult, narrower, and deeper
valleys, ravines, and glens poured their
torrent water.
The physique of the Kafirs was mag
nificent of its kind. They were light
built men, who almost always seemed
to be in hard training. The most strik-
| ing mental peculiarities of kafirs were
their extreme cupidity, their extraor-
binary jealousy of one another, and the
intensity of their intertribal hatred.
They were by no means simple in char
acter; they could intrigue, concoct
secret plots, and then carry them out
! with the secrecy and subtlety of the
average oriental. The religion of the
| Kairs was idolatry, with traces also
| of ancestor-worship. There was moth
ing in the shape OF prayers; the sub
! stitutes were religious dances, sacred
songs and sacrifices. The katirs were
brave, independent people, who had
! maintained themselves for centuries
| against hordes of enemies. not only
by reason of the extraordinary Difficult
ties their country presented, but by
valor and magnificent fighting powers.
They were entitled to the respect
everyone must feel for real men, who
would fight TO the death before they
| a.cao+aJ Tho voL,e Of the STRANGER.