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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-05-29
VIM. REUTERS, ALAMO PLAZA,

Is the finest saloon in Texas. Four
teen different societies meet in his
hall. Fine ladies psrlor attached,
where gentlemen are not admitted
unless accompanied by ladies. Best
Of refreshments and polite atten-
ton, 425 If
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STILL IN THE LEAD.

The celebrated getty Beer" man
ufactured by tho San Antonio
Brewing association Why? Be-
cause it is the Purest and Best in
the marker When you try it once,
you are sure to ask for it again.
1 Is If d & S
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Harvard,s New Team Captain.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, May 29.-J.
L. Brewer, class of '96, has been
chosen captain of the Harvard
Athletic team for next year.
Brewer holds the worlds record
in low hurdles, and has been the
champion OF the New Haven team
for three wears.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-05-29
AUTHORIZED COLLECTORS.

The following named are the only su.
thoriZed collectors OF the LIGHT:
w. 7. SCHUMACHER,
II. c. SCHUMACHER.
FRED SMALL.
DAN HATTON,
Subscribers are requested not TO pay
their subscription without taking a re-
ceipt. T.B'JoHNsoN, Mgr.
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j. LoBERT,

The Tailor, next to Commerce street
bridge, will make you a nice fitting sum
mer suit for less money than any first.
class house In town. The finest imported
and domestic goods, latest patterns, and
good work guaranteed. Give him a call.
ID
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-05-29
SHAFRR &

Plumbers, 125 w. Commerce, are
headquarters for Electric Fixtures,
Fans, Chandeliers, etc. Carry the
best stock of Garden Hose in the
"ity ~ II
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WARNING.

The public Is notified to pay no moneys
to any persons OR account Of the LI1HT
except TO our authorized collectors as pub
lished in the paper, unless they hold a
written receipt, or endorsed bill from the
undersigned. L. b. JOHNSON
Manager San Antonio LIGHT.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-05-29
LADIES AT WORK.
Will do Their Share of Entertaining
Visitors.

Will do Their Share of Entertaining
Visitors.
The Ladies' Alamo club made
final arrangements yesterday af-
ternoon for the entertainment Of
the visiting ladies daring the TIP.
A. convention. There will be re-
captions every morning in the Ala
mo clubs hall, the Elk lodge room,
in the Reuter- building, at which
there will be music and refresh
ments.
Committees were also appointed
to meet the ladies at all the hotels
and prominent boarding houses on
Monday morning and escort them
to the Grand opera house, where
the opening services will be held.
Committees were also appointed
to accompany the visitors on sight
seeing or shopping tours while in
the city.
The ladies have been asked by
the T. p A. arrangement commit
tee to assist them in raising a lit
tie more money to complete the
amount,required on entertainment.
To do this they will sell tickets for
the entertainment to be given at
the Fair grounds.
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WE ARE DOING BUSINESS.

Four thousand feet Of garden
hose sold last week. Plenty more
left. ALAMO IRON WORKS. 4 Is tt
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THE HOT SULPHUR WELLS

Are now open for business. Street
every twenty minutes. 322tfI
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hermann Breusing, Notary Public.
Pension certificates adjusted. Many
bars OF experience have made me fami-
kr with the work. Volmachten mach
butschland. Office, San Antonio Daily
kGHT Printing house, 1O4 E. Commerce
lreet.
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have been licensed by the city col
lector. The work Of destruction Of
dogs begins June LIST, Saturday
next.
Fine old whiskey, choice cigars
and cool City beer. G. and B. wyis.
kies a speciality at the Clipper sa-
loon, AUG. ROBIN, Prop. 10 ct
The postoffice flag is at half
mast, in respect to the late Secre-
tary of State Gresham.
-Colson's Players have arranged
for a weeks stand in San Antonio,
at the Grand Opera house. Mr.. G.
H. Colson, manager OF the COM
pany, has arrived.
ALL strangers coming to the
city are respectfully invited to call
with their families at the Buck
horn saloon, opposite Southern no.
tel, to inspect the greatest display
Of horns in the world. ALBERT
FREDERICK, Prop. 529 lot.
"A sick and destitute Mexican
was reported as being at a place
next to Sheehan's saloon on West
Commerce street, yesterday, at the
city health office.
The st. Luke's Guild social at
st. Luke's chapel, takes place to-
night.
The st. Peter Claver school
children are enjoying a picnic
in San Pedro park today.
Mexican money bought 33l
Alamo Plaza. ) 10 I'm
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Or. Miles Pufa Fiits are guaranteed TO- STOP
Headache in9 minutes One cent a dose
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-09-28
WeiEiltY Briclla.

The frequency of successful train rob-
bling has changed the system of casting
bricks long i'll vogue at mining assay
Offices throughout The west, and the gov
ernment will soon follow the example
set.
Speaking of tho matter, Colonel John
Orolett, formerly mayor at Silver Bow,
but now Of Butte, Mon, said
assay Offices ct Helena are now re-
ceiving larse amounts of gold from the
northern mines, and it nearly all comes
in big bricks foot long, 6 inches wide
and inches deep. I recently saw bar
that weighed nearly $50 pounds, being
worth, at $50 per ounce, over $50, 900.
The bullion is now cast that way to pre-
vent loss III train robberies. 1t would be
almost impossible for road agents to
hide or suddenly carry away such q gil
ant bar as that San Francisco Chron-
ic1e
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-09-28
Mistress of STYLE.

An article in a periodical calls atten-
ton to the degree of M. S.-Mistress
of Style-as that most coveted by all
women, outranking, at least so far as
admiration is concerned, all the A. M. IS.
and PHI D. s. III existence. The statement
leads back to the old query, Do college
girls and other women given to intellec-
tual exercise care for such mundane
matters as looks and clothing? 1t may
safely be asserted that they do. There
may be no definite, outspoken views"
upon the matter, but the principle that
a woman, TO make the most Of her OPP
portunities, be they intellectual Or other
wise, must both look and dress just as
we'll as she can is universal. Mrs. May
Wright Sewall herself wouldn' dream
of facing her national council in last
years bonnet The day of the blue
stockinged and thick umbrellaed reform
er is past. Both philanthropical and col
lege women are nowadays as conspicu-
Gus for grace of body as for grace Of
mind. Chicago Post.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-09-28
WILD FLOWERS.

Oh, beautiful blossoms, pure and sweet
Agleam with dew from the country ways.
To me, at work III city street,
You bring fair visions of bygone days
Glad days, when hid il mist of green
TO watch springs delicate buds unfold,
And all the riches cares, to CLEAN
We're daisy silver and buttorcup gold.
IT'S true You come OF a lowly race,
Nursed by the sunshine, fed hy the showers,
And yet you are heirs to namelesi grace
Which fail 10 find il my dollhouse flowers,
And you breathe on ,ne with your honeyed
lips,
TIN in thought stand on the wind swept
fells,
Where the brown bees hum DER the fcrny dips,
Or ring faint peals on the heather bells
! close my eyes on the crowded street,
shut my ears to the city's roar,
And am ont in the open with flying feet
OF, off 10 your emerald haunts once more!
But the harsh wheels CRATE on the stones be-
low,
And sparrow chirpS Mt the murl<y pane,
And my bright dreams fade i'll an overflow
OF passionate longing and tender pain
E Matheson IN Chambers Journal
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-09-28
Could Not Make Tibet.

Mr.. Wilson relates an amusing story
of an officer who determined to enter
Chinese Tibet by stratagem. This Off
Ger managed to cross the frontier at
night, and so escaped the frontier guard.
Next day, however, while he was jour
neying deeper into Tibet the Tibetan
soldiers overlook him and informed him
that as the country was unsafe, because
of robbers, they would go with him in
order 10 protect him, to which arrange
ment the traveller was compelled to
agree. In few hours they came to o
river, which was crossed by a rope
bridge The Tibetans passed over first,
in order to show that the bridge was
safe, and then the officer got into the
basket and was pulled along by the lib
etans. Suddenly. however, they ceased
pulling and left the Englishman hang
ing in midair above the rushing torrent.
In vain the traveller shouted TO the
Tibetans to pull. They merely smoked
and nodded their heads. The hours pass
ed, and still the officer hung above the
torrent. At last the Tibetans agreed to
pull him back if he would promise to
leave Tibet Immediately. This of
course he was compelled TO do and took
his departure from the fol biddcn land.
Gentleman Magazine.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-09-28
A STATELY OLD MANSION.
The Home of Sarah Orne Jewett, the Nov
elist, mt Berwick, Me.

The Home of Sarah Orne Jewett, the Now
elist, Mt Berwick, Me.
Iwonder if there is another such house
in New England as the home of Sarah
Orne Jewett, says writer i'll the Boston
Herald. I have seen many stately man.
sions that go back to the days before the
Revolution = one in particular where
General Gage WAS quartered in old Dan
vers, town which is linked by witch
threads to Berwick, and one with gam
brel roof upon which good dame and
her cronies climbed TO be out of reach of
husbandly authority while they drank
tea forbidden TO patriots until the tax
was removed-but I have never seen
living place at once so modern and so
reminiscent of 1880 or days younger
still In its great rooms filled with old
mahogany and warmed by huge tiled
fireplaces it would be easy TO forget that
rhe gundalows, with their high peaked
sails like great birds wings, do not yet
sail down the river from the landing
wharves in fleets Of tens and twenties
TO Portsmouth, with their loads OF pine
plankS and boards to be exchanged for
East Indian rum, tobacco and molasses
or for Russian iron, duck or cordage, or
Tor such priceless old glass and silver
and china as came from unknown ports
and now peep out wonderingly upon
nineteenth century cushions and pic
lures and bric-a-brac, from their deep
set cppboards and shelves.
II found these things here" Miss
Jewctt says, land hope 70 leave them
when I 60 into the unknown. " If one
had ones choice of ancestors, it would
be impossible to pick out better than
those who chose the elaborate cornices,
all carved by hand with infinite pains,
and the high paneling of the parlors,
and the broad window sills, and the
lowered wall paper, still bright and
fresh, though Of pattern on which Ma
RE Antoinette might have set the seal
of her approval when she fitted up the
little Trianon.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-09-28
A GIGANTIC Man.

The great ordnance survey map Of
England, containing over l08, 900 sheets
and costing during the last 20 years
about SO, 1000, 900 year, is nearly COM
pleted The scales vary from 10 to 5
feet to the mile for the towns, through
25 inches, 6 inches, inch, one-quarter
of an inch and one-tenth Of an inch to
the mile. Tho details arc so minute that
"the % and 6 inch maps show every
hedge fence, ditch, wall, building and
even every isolated tree in the country.
The 20 inch map shows i'll color the ma
terial of which every part of building
is constructed. The plans show not only
the exact shape Of every building, but
every porch, area, doorstep, lamppost,
railway and fire plug
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-09-28
uNLucKY TO SAVE FROM DROWNING.
Some Queer superstitions of People the
World Over.


World Over.
1t seems strange that swimmers
should be superstitious, yet it is so, nor
is it alone the small boy who sees his
companion sinking into watery grave
without attempting to rescue him,
whether he sank because he was not an
expert and got beyond his depth, or
whether he was seized with cramps. 1t
seems ridiculous to think of, and no
doubt it will save many superstitious
person from risking his own neck by
being dragged under by the weight and
struggles Of drowning person to know
it is counted unlucky and worse than
madness to try to save the life of
drowning person or to resuscitate him,
as sooner or later no is bound to do you
some mean turn.
1t is another one of those old super
stitions handed down from generation
to generation from our European ances-
tors, and of which no one knows the der
ivation. Traces Of it are found among
the Sioux and other tribes of the Indians
of the west, who seem to have inherited
that belief from their forefathers along
with SO many other quaint things. They
still believe, and it's part of their
creed, that i'll hunting the body of
drowned person you can discover it's
resting place by floating chip of cedar
wood, which will stop, even in the
strongest current, and turn around over
the exact spot.
In Great Britain the belief that you
must not rescue drowning person is
most prevalent in Cornwall and various
parts of Scotland. The French sailor
and the boatman Of the Danube bow tc
the decree, together with the Russians,
and let the people drown.
DR.. Taylor, in his Primitive Gull
ture," declares this lingering fondness
for this old creed is because the water
spirit is angry Mt being despoiled of its
victim, and should the unlucky person
who has dared to Illustrate him trust
himself TO the waters power he will
drown as sure as fate.
The Bohemian fisherman shrinks
from snatching a drowning man from
the waters, fearing tho water demon
will take away his luck III fishing and
drown him before he gets to shore with
the would be victim. In Germany,
when some ono is drowned, they say,
"The river spirit claims his yearly sac
rifice, or, "The Nix has taken him.
The belief is current not alone in
those countries above mentioned, but
the Kamchatkans, rather than help a
man out of the water, would forco him
under, and if he should escape to the
shore no one would dare receive him
into his house or dare to give him food
He is supposed to BIO dead after once
falling into the water.
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The ShcriT7s Ruse.

A deputy sheriff started from the Re-
ceiving hospital with two insane men
who had been committed to the asylum
at Ukiah.
"You had better take some one along
to help you unless you want to have
some trouble suggested one Of the po-
lice surgeons. 1.-TWO men I should think
would be too many for you. -
"Not much. 1t is easier to take two
men than one. I'll show you how do
it."
The deputy led the man who imagined
he was king of England to Que side and
confided to him:
"Your majesty, that man over there, "
indicating the man who thought his
head was an eight day clock, "is as era
~ as a bedbug and is liable to hurt
some of your subjects if he gets loose. 1
want you to help me take care of him
till I can lock him up in the asylum"
"That's an unseemly occupation for
the king of England. Fab! Attendant
to the insane" remarked the disguised
monarch. "But will-do it. ! like ad-
venture. You will take due precaution
to conceal my identity, or your head
will be the price of your carelessness. "
The deputy whispered to the human
clock.
"Do you sec eSat fellow over there?"
indicating the king. well, he's crazy,
and if you don't keep your face toward
him he's liable to stop your hands and
touch off yout alarm Now, / want you
to help me watch him till can land
him in tle asylum. Then you can run
right along
When the deputy left the hospital,
the king and the clock had locked arms
and were hanging to each other desper-
tately. The deputy smoked and read all
the way to Ukiah while the insane mcn
took care of each other.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-09-28
The Miserics of Doing Nothing.

IdlenesS plays many parts. There are
the constitutionally indolent - those
who, like Dr. Johnson, are never phys
ically ready to get up i'll the morning,
but who, like him, are possessed-SIr q
conscience which coWT;a !. : In mem now and
again to face tbel reflection of what they
ave5, e5ttGimmpared with what they might
have, done, and to stand aghast at the
comparison.
There are those whom circumstances
have made idle-riches. absence of mo-
tives for exertion i'll health, real or
fancied indulgent friends, and much
more often by self indulgence. That
idleness is one of the seven deadly sins
gives them no sort Of concern; it is of
the essence of their complaint to have
no feeling of their own infirmity. They
are asleep. They cannot tell their
dreams, for they do not even know that
they are dreaming.
Giving up, neryeless relaxation, has
become a habit, and to them-as to the
immortal Mr. Toots, though from diff
ferent motive-nothing is of any conse-
uuence But whereas it was his own
convenience, his own feelings, his own
comfort that never were of consequence
to the unselfsh Toots, it is precisely
your convenience, your feelings, your
comfort, that are TO the idle man of no
consequence Floating idly about on
1.-THE great Pacific ocean of Incidence, p"
he makes first one compromise, then an
other, with self respect, until he ends
by sacrificing the esteem of his fellow
men on the private altar of his own
sloth. His affairs get first muddled,
then embarrassed, then decaying, then
desperate, and he feebly flatters him
self with an idea of repose, now that all
is gone. Chambers Journal.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-09-28
A NEW ART PROCESS.
Tho Monotype Craze In Paris Is Reaching
Over Here.

An effective departure in art is the
new monotype that is beginning to find
its way to America from Paris, where
it has enjoyed for some months yio-
lent popularity The process was discov-
cred by Hubert Herkimer. The artistic
folk of Paris were quick to see its pos
sibiities, and the fame thereof flew
like wildfre through the inhammable
painters quarters. Monotype parties
have been one of the latest fads of these
appreciative people. Artists infected
with the craze and their curious friends
gather in some accessible studio in ar
dent groups to turn out these pictures.
The excitement lies III the fact that no
one can foresee quite how they will turn
out; the pleasure, not i'll the novelty,
though that, of course, contributes to
it, but mostly in the potent truth That
in no other way can the same effects Of
light and shade be obtained.
To produce the monotype the artist
paints his study upon zinc plate,
which is put through press. AS the
name implies, only one impression is
produced Those that are done in one
color are the most successful as yet,
though some of the two color attempts
are very charming. The subtlety Of GER
tain delicate effects, as, for instance,
sunlight on water, is rendered by this
new phase of art in truly marvellous
manner Although the cordiality Of
Paris may not be expected perhaps, in
America for the monotype, there can be
ne doubt that they will be warmly re-
ceived here when they are once at home
in our art exhibits, and when, too, the
public has learned to understand them,
sufficiently to appreciate the fact that
a favorite study, produced in this way,
will not be found duplicated i'll neigh
boris drawing ROOM This is now the
fear of the careless art patron who seems
to have some hazy idea Of ctchings in
his mind.
The practical wife of an artist who
has lately returned from Paris with the
monotypc fever raging III his blood COM
plains rueiully, "Why, my husband
took the c!otieaWllnn"r Away from the
maids for Il lrcss 10 ,"oGncc those pic
turesw She sailed Wiz! Il womans su-
periority Us she added: me said they
could have il back again Itwouid take
at least three hours To remove that oily
paint with turponiine every time they
used it. Wiki !, sisl:. 81 lave bought
a new wringar. " So t!!c:c Is Il sordid
side even TO such gems of art us this
wife displays with pride that must
soften if it doesn't etfacu the domestic
Inconvenience.
The aesthetic side is Venetian scenes
in brown, an old stone bridge i'll gray,
mountain peaks and seascape i'll blue
and cluster of picturesque willows in
green. Who could mind the loss of one
wringer after feasting the eyes on such
exquisite shading, particularly if it isn't
her wringer?-New York Times.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-09-28
All weathers Suited DIR. johnson.

DR.. Johnson stoutly poohpoohed the
notion of the effect of weather on the
mind. "To temperance, he wrote,
every day is bright, and every hour is
propitious to diligence. Johnson, how
ever, was little given to ana!yze the in
fluences of nature, or any other infiu-
ences, upon himself. And it may we'll
be that this disposition on his part was
in the spirit of the stoics and in def
ance of his own feelings, to which he
disdained to give way. 1t seemed to
him sorry thing that "a being en-
dowed with reason" should resign his
powers to the influences of the air and
live in dependence on the weather and
tho wind. Temple Bar.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-09-28
Caffeine.

Caffeine, the active principle Of coffee,
was discovered by Runge in 1920. In a
pure state it takes thc form of long silky
needles. In ordinary coffee it is present
to the extent Of about per cent, but
Java coffee contains /. 4, and Marti-
nique has as much as G. l. 1t is said by
some chemists that caffeine in its essen
tialities is identical with theine, the ac-
tive principle Of tea Claus affirms that
the inferior qualities of tea contain more
caffeine than the best commercial grades.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-09-28

Money makes heap Of difference In
the world" said the misanthrope.
"Of course it does. Still, man can
always choose his associations. -
ooh, dent know about that. Here
am with such limited means that I
can't be on speaking terms with even the
telephone company. Washington
Star.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-09-28
THE SARGASSO SEA.
A Wonderful Region In the Atlantic
Which No Man Has Explored

Wonderful Region In the Atlantic
Which No Man Has Explored.
The surface of the Sargasso sea seems
like perfect meadow of seaweed. 1t is
supposed that this enormous mass of
gulf weed may have been partly grown
at the bottom of the shallor- err l arts of
the sea and partly torn from the shores
of Florida and the Bahama islands by
the force of the gulf stream. 1t is then !
swept around by the same agency into
the Sargasso sea, where it lives AMI |
propagates, floating freely in midoceanl
And the store is ever incre1 ;iiss;,Ig' both
by addition and propaoe.,. so that the
meadow grows. wore and more compact,
and no .gu6t at the inner parts extends
u g considerable depth below the sur
D5dUce:
= Nor is this all, for at least two-thirds
of all the infinite flotsam which the gulf
stream carries along with it in its course
sooner or later finds a resting place in
the Sargasso sea. Here may be seen
huge trunks of trees torn from the for
ests of Brazil by the waters of the Anna
ION and foated down far out to sea until
they were caught and swept along by the
current logwood from Honduras, orange
trees from Florida, canoes and boats from
the islands, STAYED in, broken and bottom
upward wrecks and remains of all sorts
reaped from the rich harvest of the At
lantic; whole keels or skeletons of ruin
ed ships. so covered with barnacles,
shells and weeds that the original out
line is entirely lost to view, and here
and there derelict ship, transformed
from a floating terror of the deep into q
mystery put out of reach Of man i'll a
museum OF unexplained enigmas.-
Chambers Journal