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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-07
EMMA EAMES AT HOME.
Simple Domestic Life of the
American Prima Donna.
A New York Reporter Is Pleasantly Sur
prised-The Singers Busy Life-she
Wears Lovely Gowns and En-
trancing Bonnets.

The lady who tears about on a grand
opera stage with her hair down her
back, clad in raiment more gorgeous
than were the brocades and cloths of
gold of old solomon, is very different
creature in real life, says a writer in
the New York Advertiser. She usually
likes beer and cold chicken at mid
night, and rarely calls her husband
such endearing names as Lucia calls
Edgardo or Faust calls Marguerite.
Life is usually very practical affair,
and as full of work as the operate roles
are stepped in sorrows.
Mrs. Emma Eames-Story, the young.
est and most beautiful and most Ameri.
can member of the Metropolitan Opera
company, has an exceptionally lovely
home life.
Mrs. Story has remained a real Amer.
lean girl despite her residence abroad,
and even physically is the type which
Mr.. Gibson delights to picture. Her
fair, red complexion, bright blue eyes
and ripping bronze-brown hair serve
to enhance the high-bred features and
the fearless, proud expression of her
face. Built in heroic mold and ex.
ceedingly tall and magnificently pro.
portioned, with slim feet and tapering
fingers, it is no wonder that Mr.. Story,
who is the son of Julian Story, the
well-known sculptor, thought pretty
Emma Eames the most perfect woman
he had ever met-physically as well as
mentally.
Mrs. Story's home is in London, and
there she entertains great deal when
not singing. She is also very fond OF
riding and adores horses and flowers
Flower cultivation is one of her favor,
tie pastimes, and even when in New
York during the coolest months fra
grant roses nod their gorgeous heads
from tall glasses placed about the
rooms at her hotel. Mrs. Story is an
ardent music lover, and is perfectly
natural, and has spent much time
studying the lives of well-known musi
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over to see his family and the difficult
ties between himself and wife were
temporarily patched up. The husband
promised reformation and Mrs Os-
borne returned here, going directly to
the home of her parents, they having
returned to their farm at Clayton, Hen
bricks county, Ind. Mrs. Osbourne re-
manned there for three months, but
heard nothing of her husband. Then,
with her children, she returned to Cali
fornia, where one of her sisters lived.
At Monterey she met Robert Louis
Stevenson. About this time Mrs. OS-
bourne became very successful as a
writer. While in Paris she wrote a Sc
Ties of articles for st. Nicholas, her
daughter, Belle, who had inherited her
mothers clevCrneSS, illustrating the
work. After Mrs. OsbOurne had been
divorced from her husband six months
she married Mr.. Stevenson. The cere-
mony was performed at Monterey. At
the time of the marriage, it was said
that the parents of the English author
were greatly opposed to the match. He
was an only son and they did not want
him to marry. When TIE newly-made
husband was asked about the report,
he simply said: IN show my wife to
my parents and it will be all right. .
Osbourne disappeared after the second
marriage of his late wife and nothing
has since been heard of him. The par
ents of Mrs. Stevenson are both dead,
Mrs. Vandegrift passing away recent
ly. Her older brother lives at River
side, Cal, and her sisters are located at
Oakland, Monterey and Nebraska City,
Neb. Her eldest sister lives at Dan
vile, Hendricks county. She is the
wife of a bank official of that city.
1t is probable Mrs. Stevenson would
have again become permanent resi-
dent of her native country had the
health of her husband permitted. Mr..
Stevenson gained his greatest pOpu-
larity in the United States and had al
ways a warm spot in his heart for
America. He took up residence in
the South Sea islands partly on account
of his health, and was cOntented to live
there surrounded by his interesting
family. When Mr.. and Mrs. Steven
son first went to Samoa they lived in a
small and uncomfortable house, but
afterward built a two-story building in
the midst of colony of natives. The
novelist would only have native serv-
ants about him. lie said that white
men always grumbled and taught the
boys" as he called his servants, tricks.
1t was Mr.. Stevenson's plan to have his
wife manage the garden and the house
"boys." She also acted in the capacity
of amanuensis to her husband.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-07
TIL. Inhabitants Of a Cheese.

DIR. Adametz, a Swiss scholar, has
been taking the census of the inhabi-
tants of cheese. The microscopic eX-
animation of one ''gramme" of n fresh
Emmenthaler cheese, such as is sold
here under the name of Gruyere, con-
tanned no fewer than 10000 so-called
microbes. This prodigious encamp-
ment, afterseventy days, proved to have
increased to tribe of 100000. Another
sort of cheese contained within a single
"gramme" board and lodging for about
1900, 900 microbes, while in "gramme"
cut from the rind of the same cheese
DR.. Adametz found about 100000 of
these inhabitants A piece of cheese
upon our tables, of few pounds weight,
may consequently contain more microbe
inhabitants than there are human in
habitants in the world.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-07
A Victim of Civility.

DR.. Nathan Schwarzkopf, an Aus.
trian medical man, recently met with
his death in rather a curious manner.
One day,while walking in the street, he
noticed that a mans hat had been
blown off by the wind, and ran to pick
it up. While doing so he received a
blow on the hand from the walking
stick of another pedestrian who was
also trying to stop the hat. This ac-
cident, which appeared slight at the
time, resulted in a suppurating wound,
and ultimately in general scpticaemia,
from which, in spite of timely surgical
treatment, death ensued. The deceased
victim of civility," as he has been
termed, was in the prime of life, being
only forty-three years of age.
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Napoleon,s Cor.lcan Command.

Buonaparte could not be neutral;
babe it. His first step was to resume
his command in the volunteers, and,
under preteXt of inspecting their posts,
to make a journey through the island;
his second was to go through the form
of seeking a reconciliation with PaOli.
In the clubs, among his friends and
subordinates, at the various military
stations, his talk was loud and imperi-
Gus, his manner naughty and assum-
ing. A letter written by him at the
time to Costa, one of the militia lieu
tenants and a thorough COrsican, eX-
plains that the writer is detained from
going to BonifaciO by an order from
the general (PaolD to come to Corte; he
will, however, hasten to the post on
the very next day, and there will be an
end to all disorder and irregularitv.
Greet our friends. and assure them of
my desire to further their interests -
The epistle was written in Italian, but
that fact signifies little in comparison
with the new tone used in speaking
about France: THE enemy has aban-
doned Verdum and Longwy, and re-
crossed the river to return home, but
our people are not asleep" Lucien
added a postscript explaining that he
had sent pamphlet to his dear Costa,
as to a friend, not as a cO-wOrker, for
that he had been unwilling to be-
Both the brothers seem already to have
considered the possibility Of abandon
ing Corsica. -PrOf Sloane, in Century.
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Instinct Stronger Than Reason.

A man on Lake Huron steamer had
the only specimen of black rattlesnake
! have ever met with. 1t was about the
size of an ordinary garter snake and
as vicious as Satan. 1t was confined in
strong box covered with thick plate
glass. When anyone would touch the
glass with his finger the snake would
strike the under 'side opposite the fin
ger as quickly as a stroke of lightning.
The experimenter would always jerk
Rway as suddenly. There was not a
man on board, however muscular and
free from nervousness, who could keep
his finger to the glass when the snake
would strike, although knowing that
lit could not possibly touch him. Strong
men would try it again and again, GER
tain of their ability to endure the test,
but with the same result : Cincinnati
Enquirer, III
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-07
Cyrus Cobb is designing the heroi

Cyrus Cobb is designing the heroic
statue of America, which is for the
arcade of the Cambridge soldiers
monument. A gentleman who has
seen it says the head is the most beau
tiful he has ever seen. Mother Amer
lea" is inserted in the arcade, cOntem-
plating the close of the war of the
rebellion with serene satisfaction, but
with her countenance prevailed by
latent sadness at the thought of the
sacrifice of her patriotic sons of the
north and the desolation of her south
ern children.
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GeorcIa,s Marble OuarrIes.

The marble belt recently discovered
in Georgia is over sixty miles in length,
and the state geologist says that the
stone is susceptible of a high polish.
Some of it is flesh color, tinged with
green, and some of light gray, banded
with black. 1t is thought that it will
be very costly to quarry it.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-07
Oriental UsurPrs.

An Indian entity or money-lender
stands talking to a brother, supremacy
unconscious of the eddying throng
about. These entities are fully six feet
tall, with closely-shaven heads and
nude bodies. Their dress of a few
yards of gauze wound about their
waist, and red sandals, would not lead
one to think that they handle more
money than any other class in the east.
They borrow from the great English
banks without security save that of
their caste name, and lend to the
Eurasian clerks just behind them at
twelve per cent. a month. II a entity
fails, he is driven out of the caste and
becomes pariah. The caste makes up
his losses. Overland Monthly.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-07

Tell your fortune, sir? Cross the
oslm of this wise woman and" Get
Dut! You can't fool me with any lies,
I'm married already. IN. Y. Recorder
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-07

Our dissatisfaction of any other So
luton is the blazing evidence of i'm
mortality.-EmersOn.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-07

Holland was so named by the
Danes from a word signifying "marshy
ground"
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-"An ounce of prevention is wor

IAN ounce Of prevention is worth
a pound of cure, amt it?" said Mean
dering Mike. "Of course it is" re-
piled Flooding Pete. well, OATS de
reason don't accept no job from no.
body. Eff l wus workfn' l might be
tempted ter go on a strike. An den
see de trouble I'd be iny'-Washington
Star.
The advocate., 1895-10-30
American Discipline.

EDITOR ADVoCATE:-As wonderful
examples of discipline, history points
out to US the sentinel of Rome who
stood guard at the gates Of Hercula-
neum unmoVed by the shower of ashes
and even of lava, but periShed at his
post in the terrible eruption of Mount
VesuVius rather than desert his post.
So also it refers us to the fortitude Of
Regulus and of the Roman consul who
unrelentingly put to death his own
son for some slight infraction Of army
rules. But the historian Of the future,
the philosopher and the psychologist
will choose none of these. He will turn
rather to the men of America In this
closing decade Of the nineteenth CEN
tury. He may choose some farmer
as his example and say: "Here is q
specimen, the product Of cuetom and
the training of the times. Here is dis.
cipline for you. There were thousands
Like him at that unhappy day. He
came West and subdued the wilder.
ness. He brsved grssShoppers, cyclones,
halls, drouths and Indian incursions to
gain 16O acres of land which the nation
offered him on condition Of FIVE years
residence and cultivation. He hauled
his products twenty or thirty miles to
market until a syndicate came along
and built q railroad after getting him
to vote them many thousands Of dol
lars worth Of bonds per mile. The
price Of what he bought was decided
The advocate., 1895-10-30
Understands the Situation.

The Kansas City Star, in It's com
ments on a speech recently delivered
by Senator Baker, tells the truth very
plainly in regard to the fellows who
favor the free coinage Of the Ameri-
can product. The Star says:
"No one will seriously propose that
this nation shall open its mints to the
free coinage Of only American silver
The proposition has gained some pop
ularity among Kansas politicians be-
cause 1t is an easy way Of softening
down the free silver sentiment. IL is
the scheme Of the half-hearted fellows
who are against free silver and ars
afraid Of the free silver sentiment, ana
they therefore declare for the coinage
Of American silver, knowing perfectly
well that no such plan will be cOnsid
cred with any earnestness, while az
the same time it makes them seem ID
be not sntagonistic to silver"
The advocate., 1895-10-30
HooQ,S PllI8 patton. 1-S..1 aSc, Der SSSss. Sozs.

tell them that is the way TO be good.
They want to enforce drastic Sunday
laws and say that is the way, though
the law Of the land makes the state
absolutely independent of all sect Ok
creed, that will be made Christian and
moral, They want to enrich manufac.
turers by legislation and have the
people concur In their statement that
the same process enriching the manu-
facturer enrlches the laborer."
The advocate., 1895-10-30
Republication Defined.

The Chicago Chronicle makes use Of
the following language in giving 8
definition Of Republicanism:
Republicans are state socialists.
They want laws enacted and enforced
for the benefit, they say, Of the people,
but they themselves wish to be the
judges Of what is for the benefit Of the
people. They want TO tax them and
tell them that 1t is way to make them
prosperous. They want 10 forbid the
manufacture and sale OF liquors and
The advocate., 1895-10-30
Not for the Gold Standard.

The gold standard papers and che
Associated Press dispatches have been
making an unnecessary amount Of
noise about the action of the recent
Farmers Congress at Atlanta. They
claimed that a gold standard rescIu-
tion had been adopted. After an In.
ternationsl conference resolution had
been voted down the following resolu-
tion was adopted:
Resolved, That we favor the free and nm
limited coinage Of both silver and gold st On
agreed ratio guarded by an import dnty
upon foreign bullion and foreign coin equal 10
the difference between the bullion value and
the coinage value Of the metal ct the date cl
Importation, whenever the bullion value og
the metal 10 less than its coin value
The advocate., 1895-10-30
Why Not Enforce Other Lawsf-

Governor Morrill, has ordered the
Shertffs Of Atchison and LesVenWoFth
counties to prevent a prize dght which
was supposed to take place October "A
on the line between the two counties.
No fighters showed up and there was
no fight. 1t is not unreasonable to
suggest to his excellency that while
he is at 1t it might be a good idea 70
enforce some other laws that are being
violated In those counties.
The advocate., 1895-10-30

Our lawmakers did not seem to take
into account that the President and
Secretary Of the Treasury might join
the conspiracy, as it appears they have
done.
1t will be objected by some that this
plan does not provide for any elias
ITCHY of the volume of currency by
which sudden expansion may be had
to meet cases Of emergency. It has
often been stated and is popularity sup
posed that more currency Is needed at
one time Of the year than at another
time. In my opinion this is a fsllacy
and false argument gotten up as one
reason why private individuals or cor
porations may issue their own bills,
which are nothing more nor less than
certificates of indebtedness, to be used
as money, giving the debtor revenue
on his liabilities For many years the
only way elasticity has been provided
for has been by the possible expansion
and contraction of the volume of ma.
tional bank bills. For at least ten
years / believe the power to issue or
withdraw their bills has not been used
by national banks to meet the pre-
tended need of elasticity in single
instance; whether the bank bills were
In active circulation or In the bank
vaults, they have been counted ss
money and nothing else. Examine
any statement of a national bank, and
it will be found that the banks have
always shown the total amount of their
circulating notes as liabilities, and
whether they have their own bills
or the bills of other banks that they
may have exchanged bills with, they
have counted them as resources the
same as any other money, SO the sup
posed quality Of elasticity may be dis
pensed with entirely and we will not
be one bit worse off than we have been
for years as far as that is concerned. IA
In closing l wish to reassert that the
only real use for gold worth consider
ing is it's use as q commodity in set
Ting balances with foreign countries.
This plan would practically make all
the gold in the country available for
that purpose; besiCes this, it would
make the silver both desirable and
available for the same purpose, thus
supplementing or reinforcing the stock
Of gold.
The advocate., 1895-10-30

Our dollar library Is q good thing 70
put into the hands Of people who Fave
not been reading reform literature. II
goes free with three 81 gnbgcribeEs u
the Advocate.
The advocate., 1895-10-30

OI MS prOuucCB were USCeEmlueU IN
like manner. He provided all food, yet
went himself hslf.fed. When he
raised the best of earth's fruits, he re-
ceived the poorest as his share. Fash.
ions Votaries adorned themselves In
brilliant garments made from his fax
and silk and wool, while he in tatters
and rags pursued his unceasing tasks.
But tithe Of the wealth was In his
hands, yet he paid the bulk Of the
taxes. Place and power were provided
by him, yet he had no share In them.
In dark days, after stern necessity or
thoughtless imprudence had involved
him in the meshes Of debt, he worked
increasingly to raise interest. Finally
the efforts all proved unsvsiling.
The mortgage on his farm was fore.
closed. The land was put up
for sale almost always at a time Of
lowest depression in prices. For
pittance the farm went to others
frequently the lender himself-the
farm was sold for q song, that farm
which cost him so much toll, anxiety,
priVstion; that farm, associated with
SO many hallOwed memories and tender
recollections- gone; and he turned
again upon the world with not one foot
Of earth upon which to rest his head
and price set upon even tho spot
needed to lay him In his last long
sleep. Yet such was the respect for
law, under the form Of which all this
was done, such was the discipline i'm
posed by the schools, the press and the
customs Of the times, that he scarcely
murmured at his lot, but with reslgns.
tion bowed Submissively to it all, like
an Oriental fstalist who believed that
such events had been foreordsined by
God and was unavoidable. An untu.
tored savage might have dug up the
hstchet and made daring and desper-
ate war upon all the elements Of So
ciety that robbed him of life ''for you
take my life when you take that
whereon l live" The wild beasts
would have defended their dens and
lsirs to the last, but so disciplined were
these men that no thought Of such a
course entered their minds. Worse
than this, to many 1t never occurred
that there could be any better state Of
society. Those who asserted that
there could be were hooted and de-
rided by the very wanderers who were
made Vsgsbonds by the prevailing
economic system. The men who were
hunted from their farms and homes
by the Sheriff and the other officers Of
the law oftimes voted to maintain that
system and against any
change. Those around were likewise
unmoved, and cared nothing for the
wrongs inflicted on others. Such was
The discipline of that strange period"
1t may be added that these reflec-
lions arose at seeing one of the very
best farms In Russell county sold under
mortgage few days ago for 81, 1,15O-
IN improved farm Of 100 acres, with
house, orchard, fence, well and wind.
mill. The victim who was plucked by
he hsrpies of the times knows enough,
however, to favor q change and so
7oted in 1890.
j. G. RUPPENTHAL, JR.
The advocate., 1895-10-30

klQuB OF mOuoys Au4D WOAAN SVVn Az
suit in withdrawing nearly all the gold
In the country from circulation, max
ing serious contraction Of the cur
rency with great danger Of panic.
In connection with my plan concern
ing gold, would have the government
accept silver bullion In exchange for
legal tenders, in the same way as they
would with gold, after Congress had
established such legal price for silver
as could be maintained without "mak-
ing this the dumping ground for for
eign silver" say so, 80, 100 or ITO cents
per ounce, aud since the price is to be es-
tsblished arbitrarily, 1 would not split
q grain into small fractions for the sake
of making a dollar buy exactly as
much silver as it did fifty years ago or
making the dollars worth Of silver
weigh exactly the same as the Spanish
milled dollar Of hundred years ago.
/ would make the price some even
figures per ounce without regard to the
crime of 1873; believe that if the legal
price should be established at $1.0O per
ounce the foreign price would quickly
advance to so near the price that the
differaence would not pay freight and
insurance in transporting across the
ocean the silver bullion and the gold to
exchange for it. I am confident there
would be no foreign silver dumped in
my yard. The parity would maintain
itself and Cleveland and Carlisle would
not have to lay awake nights on account
of 1t. We could issue legal tender dol
lar for every ounce of silver on hand less
the amount already issued as cer-
tiflcates against it. This would con.
vert into several millions Of money the
seigniorage which the'government now
has and which is at present not worth
cent to anybody. AS to the coinage
Of silver dollars and small change for
convenience, let the sizes be the same
as now; it would not make the slight
est difference to anybody whether the
dollar contained one dollars worth of
silver or fifty cents worth Of silver, it
would 60 for dollar, and that is all
that anybody would want of it.
Finally I would exchange all the out
side paper currency, including national
bank bills, for the same kind of legal
tender paper currency. This in itself
would make a contraction of about
tWo-thirds of the amount of national
bank bills In active circulation, but
that would not be serious matter at
all because the amount of national
bank bills outstanding is much smaller
than most people imagine, and If at
any time it was found that more cur
rency could be pro6tSbly used the
holders Of bonds could surrender q
part and take currency in exchange.
l believe a large part of the national
banks would wish to exchange a part |
of their bonds for currency at once
rather than reduce the amount Of their
available money.
This plan would have paper in circu-
lstion without corresponding bullion
in the treasury. But every one knows
the government has for years hoated a
large paper circulation, even subject to
redemption with comparatively small
amount of coin on hand to redeem