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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-06-16

buy and sell at fair prices and
should have the support OF the
people.
Jefferson Jimplecute: Now that
the place for the great battle has
been settled between the celebrat.
ed gladiators OF the fistic arena, and
that the fight Will occur on the
occasion of the Fair, the largest
crowds that ever assembled in
Texas will doubtless visit Dallas
at that time. "It's brutal affair"
but the average man will go far to
see the attraction"
Paris Advocate: The self re-
liant, liberty loving man who be-
lieves he is competent to take care
of himself; the man who does not
NEEDLE with the business OF others ;
the man who believes that moral
reformation should be brought
about by persuasion and not by
force will vote against prohibition.
Galveston News: 1t is under
stood that Congressman Bailey is
for free and unlimited coinage OF
silver, but believes that in case this
should reduce the value Of the sill.
yer dollar, all debts now existing
should be paid in money as valu-
able as that in which they were
contracted. The chief reason why
fiatists are for free silver is because
they fancy it will enable them to
pay their debts with spurious dol
lars. II Mr.. Bailey insists that
these should pay their debts in
the money Of the contract they will
declare him a goldbug and render
IL necessary for him to make for
tall timber.
Laredo Times: The interest at
trscred yesterday by the eighteen
foot stalks of corn sent over by Mr..
Lacoste, proprieter, OF the Nuevo
Laredo bath house, assures US that
such exhibitions are not without
real benefit to our people; we there
fore agree to advertise free in this
way any animal or vegetable pro-
ducts showing especial merit that
may DO Drought to US. The Times
is for advertising Laredo and its
products. Fetch in your samples.
Anything that is production of
Laredo and vicinity gees, with per-
haDS the one exception OF twins.
We would mot exclude them but we
b ave no faciliti - for entertaining
them.
Chicago Inter-Ocean: Let us
consider the situation: Free wool
and ruined wool growers; free wool
and wooden mills running half
time; free wool and lower wages
to such operatives as can find work
in wooden mills; free wool and an
increase OF more than ], 400 per cent
in the amount Of shoddy woven
into stuffs that are sold as "cheap
all wool clothing, made cheap by
repeal OF the wool duties"
San Diego Vidette: An ex-
change says it now appears to be a
fight between Sound money" and
'honest money" Such clap trap
phrases are only used by demago-
CUES to deceive and mislead the
people. All money that bears the
stamp of the government is both
honest and sound. The material
upon which the governments stamp
is placed cuts no figure-a paper
dollar is just as valuable as a gold
or silver dollar; all are sound mon.
ey when authorized by the govern
ment.
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10 che Public In GeneraI.

We wish to notify you that we
are still in business and are hand
ling all kinds Of real estate, i'm
proved and unimproved city prop.
erty, farms and ranches and have
some rare bargains on our books
Call and see US as we are certain
we can satisfy you both as to To-
cation and price, terms, etc.
JOHN II. HAMILTON & Co.
No. l04 East Commerce st. IL 80 Il
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We will sell you hose cheaper
than anybody in the city. II you
don't belieue it, come and we will
convince you. Alamo Iron Works,
city office. 4 70 II
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THE sTORY or 4 SrRIEE.

That strikes do not pay is again made
plain by "a study by the Illinois bureau
of labor statistics Of the coal miners
strike of 1894. Information was obtain-
ed from 276 mines and it appears that
the strike affected 25,207 men and that
the average number of days lost per
man was 724 1t should be stated, how
ever, that the strike occurred during
the dull season, and 1t is estimated that
more than half that time would have
been lost in any event, even if there had
been no labor trouble. An effort to
form an accurate estimate of the num-
Der of days lost on account Of the strike
was made by taking the average num-
Der of days the miners worked during
the six preceding years as a basis for
comparison, with the result that the loss
was fixed at 1876 per man, a total of S46,-
955 days. 1t Is believed that the men
We're earning on an average So per day,
so that the money loss suffered by each
striker was $s7.20, the aggregate being
81, 693,910 Very few of the men, only
3,172 out Of a total of over $4,000, secured
any advantage whatever, a still smaller
number secured an advance in wages,
and nearly 5000 actually had their
wages reduced as a result of the trouble,
the sudden stopping Of work having
brought about serious conditions from
which it was impossible to recover
promptly even when the strike was de-
clared off.
It has cost the workingmen of this
country a great deal Of money to test
the theory that strikes are a remedy for
their wrongs. And the test 50 far has
had very unsatisfactory results.
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Ab0lljna1'ls
"THE QUEEN OF TABLE WATERS.
First in Purity"
BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL.
/" First in Purity"
BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL.
prsmaturely 81 consumption. II healtl

prematurely Of consumption. II health
may be defined as a capacity for hold
ing on TO life, then, in many cases, the
weaklings are the healthiest.
If such definition is accurate,
women are healthier than men,; their
average Length OF days is greater than
ours. But it is doubtful if gentleman
ians, are healthiest. knew a case OF
a woman who recently died at the age
of los, who was slightly paralyzed. even
as q child, and who was, practically,
completely so for more than seventy
years. Could such one have ever
been described as healthy? 1t is as
hard to say what life Is as to say what
health is, and the way in which unheal-
thy folks are tenacious of life is not the
least Of the marvels-All the Year
Round.
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TnMN REnQRnS.

Massachusetts has a commissioner OF
public deeds, and he has been going
about the State investigating the con-
dition of the town records. He has dis
covered that their condition is not at all
what 1t should be, and he has shown
that there is a large field for a commits
sioner Of public deeds to work in. The
first trouble the commissioner has when
he goes to a town is to find the records.
For instance, upon reaching a town
and inauiring for the town clerk, he
was told that he was three miles from
the town hall, "In the woods" Not in
frequently the condition in the country
towns is like this. Any one who wants
to use the public records has much
trouble to get at them. Sometimes the
only office of the town clerk is his own
kitchen, where all the family live and
where the town records are kept. These
! records have been found in a little tin
der box of cupboard, built into the
chimney, six inches from the stove
pipe. The place was handy and
there was no other convenient spot for
them. Sometimes they are in the at
tic. Sometimes the clerk has only the
I records he has made himself, while the
previous clerk has those made during
his term. Utter absence of care or
method is a frequent trait of the Gus
/ todian of town records upon whose ex-
istence and accuracy depend the trans
mission of property, the settlement Of
4 paupers, the right to a pension, the date
of birth, marriage or death, or some
other important legal and financial
/ question.
/ Connecticut has no commissioner of
deeds, but it undoubtedly has a very
similar condition of town records to
I that which has been found to exist in
Massachusetts by the commissioner of
! deeds Of that State. Something ought
/ to be done in this State to impress upon
/ the keepers Of the town records the i'm
portance of keeping them safely. And
I some instruction in the art of making
/ them accurately would not be amiss.
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A bulletin Just issued by the military
division of the war department, entitled
1.-THE Organized Militia OF the United
States" gives the total organized
strength of the militia by States and
shows in all an aggregate of Hal Of
ficers and men. The entire number of
citizens liable to military duty Is 1885,
053, goodly host to draw upon in time
of trouble. Camps of instruction were
held in thirty States last year, all but
one of which had the services of officers
of the regular army, who were detailed
by the secretary of war for that duty.
The largest regular annual appropria-
ton, 100000, is made by New York; the
smallest, $1,000, by New Mexico.
Arkansas makes no appropriation, and
depends upon it's allotment from the
UnitedStates appropriation and the sub
scription of the members and friends
of the State guard. The States appro-
priating In 1894 100000 or more, besides
New York, were: Pennsylvania 100000
Massachusetts $4,000, California $780,
900, Illinois $4,000, Rhode Island $1o4,-
900, Wisconsin 100000.
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Pigeons and Postal Servfce.

The most novel and successful instru-
ment ever used in the postal service is
the homing pigeon. During the Franz
eo-German war, In 1901, the ingen-
ious French adopted this system of
transmission of their correspondence.
The communications were printed and
then photographed ON to thin
films Of collodion. Each pellicle con-
tanned the reproduction of sixteen folio
pages of type, and was 50 light that fif-
ty thousand messages could be carried
by one pigeon. To insure safe transit
! the films We're rolled UP and placed in a
quill which was fastened to one Of the
tail feathers of the pigeon. Upon arri-
val of the messenger at Its destination
the films were unrolled and thrown on a
canvas by means Of an electric lantern,
copied by clerks, and dispatched to
their destination. Later, sensitive pa
per was substituted for canvas, and the
letters were reproduced on it ready for
remaillng.
Another production Of French ingenu-
ity was a balloon postal system with
flfty-seven balloons, Each ascension
cost about one thousand dollars. and.
although Krupp had built several guns
for the German army designed special
~ to bring down these aerial mail cars,
only five OF them were captured They
carried many tons Of mail, as we'll as
ninety-one passengers, during the perl
Z cd Of War.-Postsl Record.
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The existence of this class Of human
vegetables is chiefly due to one Of two
causes. Either they have had the mis-
fortune to be relieved by their progen-
ltors from the necessity of earning their
living, or they have spent the best part
OF their youth in the service of their
country as soldiers, and have been
gratefully cast adrift by their country
to rot while still in the prime Of life.
In either case they are equally objects
of pity. Like the unemployed at the
eastern and other extremitles Of the
town, the west end out-of- workers may
be divided into tive classes-those who
want work and can't get 1t. and those
who won't work as long as they can
help 1t. The latter class are probably
beyond hope: but if we set about it the
right way we might possibly do some
thing for the others, and if we can we
certainly ought to.-London Truth
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A great deal of attention has very
properly been bestowed of late upon
the unemployed, but there is one sec
ton of this class whose claims to con-
sideration have been unaecountabIy
overlooked. I refer to those who are
for the most part arrayed in tall hats
and frock coats, and who hold their
meetings every day in Pail Mall, st.
James street, and the adjacent thor
oughfares. To reflective mind the
condition of this class it pitiable in the
extreme. Able-bodied, decently educa-
ted, and, not unfrequently, fairly intel
ligent, they are CONTAMINATION by
no fault of their own-to an aimless
and Improbable existence, little high
er, while it lasts, than that of cab
bage in market garden, and in its ul-
innate purport a degree lower. mas
much as the cabbage becomes, when it
has reached maturity, a source Of prof
1t to its grower, and of sustenance to
mankind.
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The First Engraving.

1t is a very odd fact that we have no
authenticated portrait Of Cicero. This
will be surprising news to most people,
for more busts and statues are assigned
to him than to any Roman OF them
ALL" excepting the Caesars; but anti
quarian critics reject them all nova
days. They may be true, but there is
no evidence. We may feel a conaforta-
BILE certainty, however, that the famil-
lar face and figure are correct. Cicero
would not be restrained by Incidence or
modesty from sitting as often as he was
asked. Every gentleman who took
pride in his library would have the
great mans bust in its place among
the other authors, for such was the
fashion. There was another fashion Of
the kind much more interesting. We
are used to class engravings among the
modern arts. But the Romans had a
method of inserting the likeness Of a
writer in his book, which, to say the
least, served the purpose Of engraving.
Martial and Seneca and Cicero allude to
! 1t; the invaluable Pliny gives a clear
statement, but he does not seem to have
understood the process. BY some
means or other" says he, Marcus Var
no introduced the portraits of seven
hundred individuals in his numerous
books, as he could not bear the idea
that all trace of their features should
be lost" These illustrations were re-
produced somehow, for mot only did
Varro confer immortality the
authors features" but he also trans
mitted them to all parts of the earth,
so that anywhere 1t might be possible
to see Them Pliny calls this a most
blessed invention" and if it were not
engraving, what could it have been?
. The learned have been inquiring, and
debating for three hundred years, but
they will never agree. Any day, how
ever, Herculaneum may yield some old
papyrus which will decide the ques-
/ tion.-London Standard.
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lsetle ana the 1ul' WhlIe sleeves or rre
Canton Vaud assured as that eontin-
ued care was needed to make them last
as long as This. III fault les scigner
toujours, tou3ours" We used 10 watch
her from our balcony on those delicious
sentember MORNINGS. when existence
was so perfect that Ii seemed sacrilege
TO detlle it with labor. trotting about.
up and down. in ana out, among the
vines, tying up n bunch of cranes here
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pEnHAPs THE WORST 41pP1E.
One Drink Makes some Men Drunk All
Day and Others Crazy.
from the san Francisco Chroniolal

from the San Francisco Chroniele.l
Captain Casson of the British bark
Cupica, while at Astoria, on his way
out to sea from Portland, gave q repor-
ter some interesting facts in regard to
the gagus plant and the terrible effects
it has on the natives Of the Gauptil Is
land, where it grows. Captain Casson
is an authority on matters pertaining
to the South Sea Islands, In speaking
of the gagus plant Captain Casson said:
( ut is a species of cactus, and, as !
said, grows only, to my knowledge, on
the Gauptil Island. The island is a
small one, but is we'll populated by ma
tives of the Malay race. In the interi-
or this plant grows wild, hourishing es-
pecially in the red, rocky soil. 1t looks
beautiful when growing, as you may
judge by the bright hues with which 1T
Is spotted. Opium is a potent drug.
but am certain that the extract from
the gagus plant is calculated to do
more damage to the human system,
The natives cut the plant in the early
spring After they have gathered a
sufficient quantity they put 1t in large
bowls and crush 1t with huge stones.
"a grayish sap runs out freely. and
this they collect and drink, after letting
1t ferment, which it does easily. With
in half an hour after inbibing it the
drinker becomes perfectly stupid, and
lies around like log, The spell lasts a
day or more, during which time the ma
tives say they live In paradise. ! have
known sailors to try II, but never twice.
Three years ago had a man In my
crew who was driven crazy by one
drink The first effect Of the liquor Is
to soften the bones and gradually eat
them away. There are natives there,
the victims of gagus, who are indeed
homeless and unable to walk or use
their limbs. Then they begin to with
er away, Until they die in misery and
commissions. Usually two years will
finish the hardest man. The suffer
ings Of the slaves to the drink are ter
ribie.'
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BUTT.

Jaspar-Curry is the architect of his
own fortune Is he not? Jumpuppe-
Yes; and when he built it he did not
provide it with any exits.-Puck.
He had no reel when he went off
To fish for fishes game.
But when he came home late at night
He had one just the same.
Detroit Free Press.
She-I'm afraid that 1t is not me that
you're after, but that 1t is my money
you want. He-How foolish in you to
say that. You know very well I can't
get your money without first getting
you,-Boston Transcript
Jones-My wife went down town on
Wednesday and spent all she had ex-
eept / cent. Smith, she does as we'll
as that on Wednesday. what would she
DO on a bargain day? Jones--Get it
charged. Buffalo Express.
Pat--I tell you, Mike, astronomy is a
great thing. Why, by it you can tell
when there will be an eclipse, to the
very hour and minute Mike-Oh, faith,
an that's nothin'. You can look in the
almanac an see that.-Truth.
Where is your mamma? Little
Daughter fink she has gone to Mrs.
De Fashions A o'clock tea. did she
say sop No, but heard her say she
wished Mrs, De Fashion was In Halifax,
an she went out about 5.'-New York
Weekly
The Ease of it-George (nervously)--
I'd like the best in the world, Kitty, to
marry you, but don't know how to pro-
pose. Kitty promptly and practically
That's all right, George. You've fin
ished with me; now go to papa.-Detroit
Free Press.
Young America-Did Thomas Jeffer-
son write all Of the Declaration him
self? Patriotic Parent-Yes, my son;
he wrote every word of it with his own
pen. Young America-Why didn't he
hire a stenographer and typewriter
New York World.
81 see,'' said Mrs. Jones, ''that a Del
aware man has been catching an albino
! trout with white eyes and red flesh.
That's mighty queer" oh" said Mr.
Jones composedly, you can catch most
anything if you have the right kind of
. bait and enough of it.''-New York Re-
corder.
Father" said Johnny Ironside, chow
big a fish did you ever catch?' IT
/ caught a catfish once, Johnny" replied
Deacon Ironside, that weighed" The
good man stopped short, looked fixedly
at his youngest son, and resumed in an
altered tone: John, this is Sunday
Jackson Citizen.
A Happy Thought.-She Con the even
I ing of the wedding dayton! Harry,
. just look what a large piece of wedding
} cake has been left! What ever shall we
do with it? He-I tell you what, my
dear. I'll send it to the night watch
man at our works, then shall be sure
he won't sleep to-night,-Staatsanz
+ ger.
! Police Inspector--It was very lucky OF
you, a'am, to have set upon the bur
I glar and so ably captured him, but
need you have injured him to the ex-
tent of necessitating his removal to a
: hospital? Lady-How did I know it wa:
a burglar2 I'd been waiting up for three
hours for my husband. 1 thought it was
B he-Comic Cuts.
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may be used whenever desired, but this
is not a dress to set off with gems, and
SO the buttons will be in better taste il
of some inexpensive sort. This skirt is
plain and has a pinked white silk frill
on the inside. Above it there is a. sim
pie blouse waist, full all around, that 1t
may hang over the rather wide but
plain belt, The stock collar shows ro-
settle trimming at the sides. There Is
no limit to the number of materials that
will serve for this model, but white
flannel or serge for skirt, and wash or
swivel silk for the waist will be a wise
choice.
In planning more elaborate and
bright colored dresses it is desirable to-
have "a color scheme" to the dress, only
be sure, if a mistake is made in any di-
rection, that it comes from having lots
more color than scheme" Women are
talking to delicate colors for dressy
wear, white, pearl, delicate cream, pale
green, invisible blue giving a softened
effect to what a little while ago was
blaze Of brilliant tints. The new mo-
ton IS a relief, and for the present
weather seems more becoming In
plaids, however, there is no let-up of
brillianoy, as is seen from stylish
plaid silk In which violet, green, rose
and black are combined, being worn
with a black satin skirt, the black
stripe in the plaid being satin. Proof
is thus afforded that the one garment
goes only with the other, so there's no
chance in it for economical shifts about
FLORETTE.
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ration, but II /. not good taste, on The
contrary is vulgar and taWdry even II
the most stylish dressers by adopting 1t
lead ordinary folk to wish to oondoRe
the fault, Dresses that are entirely
free from such extravaganza are far
preferable, and wearers OF them may
content themselves by knowing that
simplicity Is often at its best when sur
rounded by that which is highly
wrought on the house dress shone
here place may be found for fancy
button or two, for ornamental buttons
are now in such faddish favor that they
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guinea a weeS,' She was an excellent
judge Of q cow, and shot accurately
with a gun, Her chief food was milk,
and she was fond of Milton, Pope and
Shakespeare, This admirable female
also performed neatly on the flutevio
lin, harpsichord and bass viol, She
could cover easily forty miles a day,
and when a gentleman at the New
Bath treated her rudely she said that
"she had a good mind to have knocked
him down"
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An Answer for Fair.

Il viii be yours she said; "but yor
must promise me to become q worker
for the church,
"Heavens!--"
The look Of happiness faded from
his eyes.
t could never bring myself to eat leg
cream and oyster stew, and"
Convulsive sobs shook his frame.
II promised mother / would never
gambler
From that night they never me
again.
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Major John writes in the United Ser
vice Magazine that while he was en-
ployed between Port Said and Kantara
lie saw the waters of the Lake Menzaleh
s'driven beyond the horizon by a vio-
Dent wind, so that the natives walked
about where the day before they were
fishing. This convinced him that he
had seen exactly what happened when
ahe Israelites passed dryshod through
the Red Sea.
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