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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-08-15
Call for Congressional Conventio,

To the Republicans of the Twelfth Con-
greSsiOnal District:
The call made by Dr. Max Lindner for
Republican Congress iOnal Convention
on the 25th inst, is hereby endorsed on
the part of the organization known as the
Reform Republican party, to the end that
there may be no division among Repub.
licanS in this district in support of Re
publican candidate for Congress.
WIN. HOEFLING, SR..
Chairman 18th Con. Dist.
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NO EXCUSE

For not keeping your milk and
butter, and vegetables, fresh and
cool, when you can get great, big
Cleanable Refrigerator for ten
dollars, at l.. P. PECK & Cos
3 10 Ct
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-08-15
ATTENTION REPUBLICANS
Of the Twelfth Congressional Dis
trict.

A convention of Republican delega tes
for the Twelfth Congressional District is
hereby callei to meet at Convention hall
San Antonio, Texas, on Saturday, the 25th
day Of August, 1894, at 10 a. m, for the
purpose of nominating candidate for
Congress for said District.
M. LINDNER,
Chairman 18th Congressional District
Slot
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Wednesday and Thursday.

Grand bargain sale Of Ladies'
and Children's vests at l.. Wolf
sons. s IA 1t
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DON'T USE A BENCH,

When you can get a complete set
of Dining room chairs for 50 from
l.. p. PECK & Co. 10 ct
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ON THE LOITER.
THE GRAVE DIGGER DANCE At
GOBLIN CAVE.

THE GRAVE DIGGER DAME AZ
GOBLIN CAVE.
II you have ever had occasion to
drive into the cbapparal country
that borders on the cemeteries in
the eastern portion of the city, you
will no doubt have observed a
number of little novels construct
ed partly of dried brush and part
ly out Of tin cans, with roof out
OF the same kind of material. These
are the 'jacals" Of the Mexican
grave diggers Of San Antonio.
There are in all perhaps eleven or
twelve such little novels in this
eighborhood, sheltering as is COM
mon with this class of people, an
average of ten men, women and
children each, making this colony
quite a numerous one. Judging
these people by their pitiable
abodes, their scant furniture and
coarse, common garb. strangers are
won't to imagine them downcast
and morose with neither longing
for nor means Of enjoyment, but in
this they err. The Mexican, serious
and depressed though he seem,
loves the dance, the cock fight and
green table sports, be he ever so
poverty stricken, and hence the
east side grave diggers have their
little "baile" or dance two or three
times a month, their terpsichOrean
rendezvous being the abandoned
soft rock quarry in which is stu
ated "GOblin Cave"
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Goblin Cave" as described in a
previous sketch, is a dingy little
subteranean room or cavity, open
ing into an abandoned quarry
southeast of the National ceme-
terry, in which there lives shriv-
eled, old Mexican dame, who, from
her uncanny appearance, has re-
ceived the quaint appellatiOn of
"the Witch" from which, no doubt,
we also have the name, "Goblin
Cave" The floor of this aban-
doned quarry is smooth and hard,
making it very satisfactory sub
stitute for a waXed floor Of more
luxurious quarters. On the sides
are lodges Of unquarried stone,
which make surprisingly comfort
able seats, and with the star filled
sky for their roof, Goblin Cave"
for a retreat, the bright clear moon
and a mammoth brush bonfire for
light, these unpretentious builders
for the dead, manage to enjoy
themselves hugely enough to war
rant a repetition of the affair be-
fore the moon becomes too mig
gardly with his light.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-09-08
Marks on the Horse.

A white eye is glass eye.
A white spot in the forehead is q
star.
A white stripe in the face is blaze.
A white face from eye to eye is bald
face. :
A stripe between the nostrils is a
snip.
The first three can't be anywhere ex-
cept on the face and the last must be
on the nose.
A horse has pasterns, not ankles, and
there is no fore shoulder-the shoulder
is in front-nor knee-it is the gam
brel.
White below the pastern joint is a
white pastern and above a white leg.
White around the top of the hoof is a
white coronet.
A horse is never red; it is sorrel, but
there are numerousvariations of sorrel.
Farmers Home Journal.
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that he had roo pounds head rice,
which, at cents. is worth. S2S; 400
pounds of line rice, worth ~ cents,
$40; 200 of No. 2, or brewers rice,
worth X cents, So; total value
OF the cleaned product of the
S10o pounds of rough, SAL. This
makes an average of 1918 per
barrel. Aside from this there was a
considerable quantity of bran and -four,
which is certainly an exceptionally
fine yield from the rice that was con-
sidered valueless, except for feed. The
Japan rice turns out much larger per
cent. OF head rice than does the Hon.
duras, and it commands higher price
In the market. Mr.. Pickett informs us
that the time required to clean it is not
more than two-thirds that of the Hon.
duras or Carolina. The acreage there
abouts will be larger than last season,
and If the experiment proves proper
tionately as successful, it is safe to pre-.
diet that another year viii witness a
large increase in the acreage of Japan
rice.-Crowley la Signal.
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Useful and Pretty.

A stylish and becoming garment
combining the ease of the jacket with
the dignity of the coat. is what IS now
known as the "Lennox" coat. 1t is
closely revered, and completed by a
waistcoat and chemisette, that COM
bines well with any make of overskirt.
Tan-colored cloth is the most popular,
with revers of brown MORE, and waist
coat of chaugeable MORE, in blue OF
brown. have recently seen some very
attractive suits of black serge with
waistcoats of white cloth MORE. The
handsome waistcoat cloths which for
merly could be had only of the inn
porters are now to be found on sale in
all the city stores, and. indeed, in most
of the country shops. They are strong,
heavy fabrics, mostly silk and wool, in
brocades, checks and pin-head dots.
Any other desirable color nay be found
IN, Y. Advertiser.
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-Perfumed carriers are among the
luxurious devices by which the aesthetic
girl shows she is more daintily clad
than most folks. Possibly she has sew
eral pairs, being careful towear yellow
ones with black hosiery and black ones
with tan. These garters are made
from watered ribbon about an inch and
half wide and solid silver buckles if
the garter is linked, or both buckles
and stocking clasps if a supporter is
preferred. The ribbon is doubled over
layer of cotton and sachet powder,
AID the wearer, if very fastidious, may
Eave her name engraved on the silver
buckles, SO if she should lose it there
may be some chance Of its return.
Bridal garters must be made of white
frilled elastic with silver or even jew
eled buckles and knots of real lace.
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SUBSTITUTES FOR MONEY.
Early American Coins Took Odd Shapes
A Notable Collection.

Early American Coins Took Odd Shapes
Notable Collection.
The collection of coins, or more ex-
actly speaking, the articles which have
passed for money in different countries
and in different ages of the world, at
the national museum is complete one
and well repays one for visit. The
earliest American coins are believed to
have been those made by Cortez, by
permission of the Spanish government,
and were issued about the time OF the
death of Columbus, which occurred in
1906. They are of copper, and on the
one side is a representation of the
''Pillars of Hercules" Next in point
of time comes the money for Bermuda,
which was minted in England. These
coins are of copper, of the value of a
shilling and sixpence, and on one face
is the picture of a hog, hence it is
known as the ''hog money" The early
settlers of these islands found so many
of these animals roaming about that
they used it to mark the coin. Only
one sixpence and two shilling pieces of
this money is believed to exist, and
both are owned in Boston. Among the
oddities of the collection is the
s'knife money" of the Chinese, used
about the commencement of the
Christian era. The pieces are
shaped something like razor.
about six inches long, are of copper,
and worth about eight cents. Ring
money" is another curious variety,
which was used by the early Gauls and
Britons. In those days, as there were
no banks and safe deposit companies, it
was the fashion to carry all ones
wealth upon ones person. The amount
was wrought into ornaments of various
designs, but of fixed standard OF
weight, and were frequently made in
two or three parts, which could be
readily separated and used as change.
But coins of the different metals have
not been the only articles which have
been used as money. Salt nodded into
bricks of a fixed size aud weight is
used in countries where this necessity
of life is hard to obtain and far more
valuable to the people than any metal,
no matter how precious. Tea, pressed
into squares, is used very largely in
Siberia, and the price of this com
modify regulates the price of every
thing else. Tobacco was the money in
the Virginia colony, and the New En-
CHAMBERS were so hard upfor something
to use in exchange that corn, Goldfish
and peas served as medium. Good
lead bullets paid many debt in revo-
Iutionary times, though in a number of
the colonies copper had been coined.
The shells which are used as money by
the south sea islanders and in parts 1T
Africa form an important exhibit at
the museum, and the study of the
money of the world as represe- Il
there gives an excellent idea of til =.
gree of civilization which nations have
attained. Philadelphia Ledger.
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COWS AT PASTURE.
Does 1t Pay to Feed Them Grain?-Imme
date Results Are Not All.

diate Results Are Not All.
We have never settled to our salts
faction whether or not it paid to feed
cows grain at pasture. The expert
ments in this line do not settle the
question for they do not take into con-
sideration the fact that all the gain
there may be from feeding grain does
not show itself Immediately. A horse
in training for big race goes through
months of steady preparation; a week s
training does but little good. 1t is the
constant repetition of his work that
hardens his muscles and prepares him
for the final effort.
May it not be so with cows which re-
ceivc little grain while at pasture?
Does not this grain keep them in bet
ter condition and prepare them for a
greater effort at giving large flow of
milk during the winter months or a
summer drought? We are of the opin-
ion that it does and believe that this is
why the experiments, in which one lot
of cows have had grain for ten days
and another lot none, and then the
two lots changed about, have not
shown any material gain from the
grain fed.
Like the week of training for the
racehorse, the short trial of grain does
not prepare the cow for larger flow of
milk 1t takes preparation for all great
efforts and cows that are wanted to
give large and steady flow of milk for
ten or eleven months of each year must
be prepared for it. Suppose that our
experimenters had taken two lots of
cows which had received onlyan ordi-
nary grain ration during the winter,
and which had been given about an
equal quantity of milk, and upon turn
ing to pasture the grain was stopped
entirely to one lot, but fed all summer
to the next. would not the -cowsIyhi ch
received grain give enough more milk
during the summer, fall and winter to
pay profit on the grain fed?-Practical
Farmer.
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FARMER ANDPLANTER.
MANURE FOR THE GARDEN.
Lessons I'm Manuring to Be Learned of the
Truck Gardener.

Lessons I'm Manuring to Be Learned of the
Truck Gardener.
The truck gardener uses home and
commercial fertilizers more freely than
any other class of farmers. One main
essential for good crop of early and
tender vegetables is a highly-fertile
soil. and this fertility must be sustained
throughout the year. We learn more
from these truck gardeners what a
square yard of soil will yield than
from the large general farms. Gener-
ally the garden is situated near good
market, and land is so valuable that
every foot must be utilized. Land is
more valuable than manure in their
case, while on many large farms the
reverse is the case. A good truck gar
dener will make a half dozen acres
support himself and family in comfort,
while many farmer falls behind every
year on a so or 1OO-acre farm The diff
ference, after all, is largely in the
methods pursued by the two men.
The truck farmer teaches us the
value and necessity of intensive farm
ing. Reduce the size of the farm so
that every square yard can be thor
oughly cultivated. 1t improves the
soil as well as increasing the yield.
This is the reason why many small
kitchen gardens of farmers are richer
and more productive than the general
fields. They devote more time to its
cultivation, and incidentally increase
its fertility. Manuring a garden is not
simply applying manure, but is also
stirring up the elements of the soil so
that they can be used as plant food.
The average field is allowed to grow
over with weeds at some time, and
fter the crop is well under way, the
soil can not be fortified or cultivated.
Owing to the absence of air and light
in it, q. great deal of the fertilizing ele-
ments naturally in the ground is lost
to the crop.
In the maket garden there is con-
tinual cropping and an almost uninter-
rupted use of the land. One crop is
gathered and another is Immediately
planted. More manure is used and
plowed and narrowed in. The soil gets
soft, mellow and warm. Weeds are
kept down by the continual cultivation,
and the market gardener can continue
to use this same soil year after year
without its running out. In other
words, this continual cultivation, use
and manuring of the soil is the srrest
way to keep it strong and fertile.
We need plenty of available plant
food in our soil, and it must be put
there literally and in the best form.
But one of the most common things is
to let great deal of this go to waste.
The land is not cultivated sufficiently
to make the food available for the
plants. 1t consequently leaks down
into the subsoil in the course of time
or is washed away. Very often our ap-
parently unfertile soils do not seem to
improve with the heavy application OF
manure; but when they are cultivated
continually, and crops are taken off
and others put in, the land gradually
improves. This is due simply to the
fact that continual cultivation often
fertilizes as much as the manure does.
Cor. American Cultivator.
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,Japan Rice.

Those few planters who
with Japan rice last season are well
pleased with the results, and material
increase in the acreage planted will be
the result this year We sometime ago
made statement of the yield of both
rough and clean obtained by Green s.
Shoemaker, showing it to be far in adj
vance of the Honduras A small amount
of this rice was also planted by P. S.
Lowell, and the yield of rough was
fully up to that of Green &
Shoemaker. The bulk of the crop
was sold to the Lake Charles
rice mill, Mr.. Lowell retaining only
twelve sacks of the poorest--that
which had grown along the edge
of the field, and was very badly mixed
with red. This he recently brought to
the mill for the purpose of having it
ground for feed, but Mr.. Pickett, desir-
ing to experiment with the Japan rice,
thought he would try cleaning and see
what it would make. The twelve sacks
weighed 2,lOo pounds in the rough.
When weighing up the output he found
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FlRESiDE FRAGMENTS.

-BananaS and Oranges.-Cut oranges
in half and remove pulp with a spoon;
mix with sliced bananas, and dust with
powdered sugar and nutmeg .-Iome.
Corn Omelette.-Boil six ears of
corn; when cold, CRATE from the cob
and season with salt; beat yolks of five
eggs and add gill of cream, riixing
thoroughly, then stir into the corn
Beat the whites stiff and stir into the
batter as lightly as possible. butter
the frying pan, and when hot stir in
the batter and fry quickly.-Ohid Far
mer.
Use part brown bread in milking
sandwiches, and if these are cut in tri-
angles or other small forms, they will
be the better relished. Celery, hard
boiled eggs, olives, cheese, jelly, spiced
currants, picked cabbage and salads
OF various kinds are excellent. Juicy
fruits are an addition to ones luncheon.
A jar of canned sauce, juicy and acid,
will taste well and quench thirst.
Lemon Sirup-Take the Juice of
twelve fresh lemons CRATE the rind of
six in it remember not to use the white
of rind as it is very bitter, let it stand
over night, then take six pounds of
white sugar and make thick strip.
When it is cool strain the juice into it,
and squeeze as much oil from the grated
rind as will suit the taste. A table
spoon of sirup in goblet of cold water
will make a delicious drink on a hot
day.-Farm. Field and Preside.
1t is time that string beans, as
they are called, should go out of exist
ence, now that tender varieties needing
no ''stringing" have come into use.
These are greatly improved for eating,
IL after the end is broken off they are
sliced in long, thin slices not much
thicker than straws, before cooking.
They will then only nee1 to boil fifteen
or twenty minutes to BE- tender, juicy
and delicious. Try it: it is hint from
the French whose ways of cooking are
daintier than ours.-Farm journal.
Bread Mcringue.-Beat well yoliSs
of four eggs. Add gradually one cup of
granulated sugar, beating all the
while, and the grated rind of a lemon.
Moisten one pint of breld crumbs with
one quart of milk and pour over the
eggs and sugar. Mix well, AMI bake
in a modern oven. Make meringue of
the whites of two eggs, and four table
spoons of powdered sugar, and brown
in quick oven. With cake crumbs use
the yolks of two eggs ald half n cur
of graduated sugar lloasekeeper.
-Huckleberry Shortcake.-0ne quart
hucklebcrries; four cups -four: two cups
milk; two eggs; two tablcspoonfuls but
ter, or one tablespoonful butter and
one tablespoonful cottolene; two tea.
spoonfuls baking powder. Sifs the
salt with the flower and baking pow
der. chop in the shortening, add the
milk and the beaten eggs, and mix
quickly to a light dough. Roll oat two
sheets to fit baking pan, making one
sheet quarter of an inch, the other hall
an inch thick. Lay the thinner in the
creased pan, spread the berries thickly
over it, sprinkle with sugar, and lay or
the upper crust. Bake about twenty
minutes. Harper's Bazar.
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OF the treacherous, long abiding, deceptive
symptoms of kidney complaint. But the
return of regularity is hailed when, with the
aid of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, the wise
disciple of common sense who uses IL per-
ceives a return of regularity. Use the Bit
tiers in malarial, kidney or dyspepsia trouble,
disorder of the bowels, nervousness or de-
bility
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4 TABLE CHINA.
Some of the New Notions That Delight
Housekeepers.

Some OF the New Notions That Delight
Housekeepers.
There is no part of the household fur
nishing in which the general woman
takes more interest than in her supply
of china. In selecting dinner-set
choose delicate patterns in soft, light
shades, for bold, decided designs and
colors are certain TO lose their attrac
tiveness when frequently seen, and, be-
sides, they will greatly hamper the
choice of flowers for decorative pur-
poses. A decided change has lately
taken place in the designing of dinner
dishes, and it has been on the
side of daintiness and the ar
tistic beauty. The fish-platter has
rounded square ends; and instead of the
monsters of the deep that were once to
be seen on its center, there are now
pretty designs of shells and seawced.
Neat dinner sets of German china con-
tanning one hundred and thirteen pieces
are now offered in tasteful patterns at
prices that bring them within the reach
of people of very moderate means.
There are many small pieces for the
table, which are very effective when
chosen in rich colors or odd designs.
Thus, the olive dish may be of brilliant
red ware, the butter plates in leaf-shape
veined with gold, and the celery dish a
long, low and narrow bowl of sparkling
glass. Such unique adjuncts lead a
touch of originality to the table with
out detracting from the general effect
of quiet refinement.-Del
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The pleasant effect and perfect safety with
which ladies may use the California liquid
laxative Syrup of Figs, under all conditions,
true and genuine article, look for the name
Of the California Fig Syrup Co., printed near
the bottom Of the package.
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"DoN'r you consider Miss Bonby rather
dullf' said one society man. "Well," re-
| piled the other, s'after the manner in which
she cut you this morning can't say that
! do."-Washington Star.
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A KANSAS man who lost five hundred
chickens that were aboard one of the stolen
trains has entered suit in the United States
courts for the value of them. He wants to
recoop, so to speak.-Philadelph Ledger.
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FAIR RIDER ito Cholly, who has just
"taken header from his horse In trying
to Jump the fence)-'I hope you're not
much hurt, Mr.. Goslingl" Cholly (bravely)
-"Not at all; pardon my haste in alighting
to open this gate for your'-Harper's Bar
zar.
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day next week." said Miss Giddey to her
dearest friend. 81 suppose you forgot 1t
when it came around eight or nine years
ago." was Miss Flypp's reply.-Harper's
Bazaar.
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WIFE-'sWhat a singular man you are, to
be sure. Whenever we have company Ihave
to do all the talking. You have absolutely
nothing to say" Husband-"You are mis-
taken, my dear. have plenty to say, but
Star.
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Would Draw the Trade.

what makes you think you are GO
ing to do well with tea-store down in
this out-of-the-way street,
''Why, man, I've got the finest line
Of chromos in the city.r-Judge-
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IT is positively hurtful to use ointment for
skin diseases. Use Glenns Sulphur Soap.
Hills Hair and Whisker Dye, SOC.
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Halls Catarrh Cure
Il a Constitutional Cure. Price &c.

Coon natural rivalry in business Is all
right, but it is carrying things a trife too
far when an undertaken starts in with the
avowed intention of laying his competitors
out.-Buffal0 Courier.
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THREE years undisturbcd possession of {
setter dog will destroy the veracity of tn,
best man in America.-Tcxas Siftings.
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JIILsoS says the possession of dollar.
seems to be taken by some men as relieving
them Of the necessity of talking sense
Buffalo Courier.
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$50 OLD Tightfist is deadl Never did
thing for the benefit of the town, did hep
mo; never before. Buffalo Courier