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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-28

There will be no suddenness to
the financial legislation OF this
present congress.
Fitzsimmons is the hero of Ell
Paso. If he can punch one OF
those sand storms he will do.
England is not fondling Grover
as she did a few short evenings
ago.
Bayard has suddenly subsidized
into innocuous desuetude. Now let
Grover keep him right there.
The old adage hath ii, that there
is nothing like leather. San An
tonic will find this true when she
puts her cash, very little Of it, and
her brains and her good will into
that shoe factory.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-28

The sewer work goes on now
without any hitch. II there is no
hitch when they are finished and
opened for the refuse of the city, it
will soon be forgotten how the
work itself was enthusiastically
interrupted. 1t is the end of the
work and its efficiency that is going
to concern this city.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-28
RAILROAD TIME TABLE.
/. 81 q. N. RAILROAD.
NORTH pnIrNn


NORTH BOUND.
Leave for Austin aud the North 92O am.
F" $50 pm.
ARRIVE FROM THE NORTH.
Arrive from Austin and North $50 am
us pm
SOUTH BOUND,
Leave for Laredo and Mexico. ..9.45a.m
ARRIVE FROM THE SOUTH.
Arrive from Laredo and Mexico 7.3O pm.
M. X. & T.-FROM /. & G. N. DEPOTI
TRAINS LEAVE DAILY.
Leave for Waco, St. Louis and
Kansas City,. ........ $50 p. m
TRAINS ARRIVE DAILY.
Arrive from Waco, st. Louis
and Kansas City,. SO, $50 a.Sm
SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD.
EAST BOUND.
Leave for Houston, Galveston
ana New orleans. ............ u.20 am.
Leave for Houston, Galveston
and New Orleans. ............ 1000 pm.
ARRIVE FROM THE EAST.
Arrive from New Orleans, Gal
weston and Houston. 7.25a m
Arrive from New o. leans, Gal
weston and Houston, ........ 4.25 p. m.
WEST BOUND.
Leave for Eagle Pass and Mex
tco...,. 1880. ......... AS pm.
Leave for Ell Paso and San
Francisco. .......... 7.5O am.
ARRIVE FROM THE WEST.
Arrive from Mexico and Eagle
Pass: :...::.....,........1 IL. 90 am
Arrive from San Francisco and
Ell Paso ............... $500. 93Opm.
S. A. & A. P. R. EMISSION ROUTE
TRAINS LEAvE.DAILY.
Leave for Cuero, Houston, Gal
weston and Waco. ..... 80. $50 am.
Leave for Beeville, Rockport
and Corpus Cristi. 2.15 pm
TRAINS ARRIVE DAILY.
Arrive from Cuero, Houston,
Galveston and Waco. ........ 6.55 pm.
Arrive from Corpus Cristi, Bee
Vile and Rockport. ........... l.3O pm
LEAVE DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY
Leave Daily. except Sunday, for
Kerrville, Boerne and Comfort 3.45 pm
ARRIVES DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Arrive from KerrviiIe. $3.50. 10 Is a. IN
LEAVE SUNDAY, ONLY.
Leave for Kerrvile ..,........ 900 a. M
ARRIVE SUNDAY ONLY.
Arrive from Kerrvlle, Sunday, 100 p. III
S. A. Sc GULF SHORER. R
DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Leave San Antonio. ...........9 900 a. hi.
Arrive San Antonio....... ..... 2.0) o. m
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-28

Geo. w. Jenkins, editor of the
Santa Maria "Times," Cal, in
speaking OF the various ailments
of children said: "When my chill
dren have Group there is only one
patent medicine that l ever use,
and that is amberlain's Cough
Remedy. 1t possesses some medi-
cal properties that relieve the little
sufferers Immediately. 1t is, in
mo opinion, the best cough medi-
cine in the market" If this reme-
dy is freely given as soon as the
croupy cough appears it will pre-
vent the attack. 1t is also an ide al
remedy for whooping cough There
is no danger in giving it to chill
dren, as it contains nothing injuri-
Gus. For sale by f. Kalteyer, Chas.
Campbell and James Calvin, drug
gists, San Antonio, Texas. t.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-28
DO YOU SEE?

1 can give you perfectly fitted spec
tacles when you need them. / also
insert artificial eyes. learned my
business in London when a boy
and came to this country in 1867.
Many years of study and practice
have made me perfect in my pro.
fession. 1 am now prepared to fill
all prescriptions from oculists and
their patients at prices that sur.
prise and defy competition. No
matter how difficult the prescrip-
ton L guarantee to be exactly as
per prescription or money refund
ed. The finest gold spectscles, 10
KIT, 81; IA KIT, $4.75. The same
with steel frames, $3.50 to $500. l
have been in your midst long
enough for you to know my guar
antee is good. Am no itineraht.
IL 10 If E. HERTZBERG, Optician.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-28
TRUSTEES SALE.

Whereas, on the 3Oth day of
July, 1890, w. J. Young did con-
vey unto Theodore Goldsmith,
Trustee for 7. G. Sellew, by Deed
of Trust, recorded in Book Volume
80, Page AS, ct sea-, of the Records
of Bexar County, Texas, the fol-
lowing described land and prem
ises, situated in the City OF San
Antonio, Bexar County, Texas,
and more particularly described
as follows:
In the City of San Antonio and
State of Texas, On the west side of
the San Antonio river, in Lewis
& PaschaPs Addition, and being
Lots Nos. Two and Three in Block
bounded as follows:
Northeast by lot Four, in same
block; northwest by an alley;
southwest by lot One, and south
east by Oakland street, each lot
fronting twenty varas on Oakland
street, and running back between
parallel lines fifty-seven varas, and
being the same property conveyed
to the grantor here by M. f. Lewis
by deed recorded in Volume 6S,
pages 339-341, Bexar County
Records.
And, whereas, said conveyance
was made for the purpose of Sc
curing the payment of one princi-
pal promissory note for the sum of
pxyantu hrna hnnJroJ IolIn,, - -, i
interest thereon, said note signed
by w. J. Young, and bearing date
June 7th, 1890, maturing two years
after date, and is secured by said
deed of trust;
And, whereas, it is provided in
said deed of trust that should the
said w. j. Young fail to pay said
note at maturity, (and the same is
at the option of the holder to mature
upon the default in the payment |
of any installment of INTEREST,",
then or at any time thereafter the
the said Trustee shall, upon de-
mand in writing made by the payee
Of said note or any holder there.
Of, proceed to sell said property as
provided for by the terms of said
deed of trust:
And, whereas, said principal
note is long since due and no in
terest thereon has been paid, and |
said default has happened, and T.
g. Sellew, the payee of said note, |
has requested the trustee named |
in said deed of trust to sell the |
above described premises accord |
ing to the terms of said deed o.
trust, and said trustee refusing to
act, and HI. p. DROUGHT has been |
appointed substitute trustee, as
provided to be done by the terms
II said deed of trust:
Now, therefore, /, H. p.
DROUGHT, substitute trustee as
by virtue of the power
rested in me by said deed of trust,
Ind in accordance with the terms
hereof, will on the 9TH day of jan
larry, 1896 Chat day being the first
Tuesday in the month of January,
1860, between the hours of 10
o'clock a. m. and 4 o'clock p. M, at
he Courthouse door of Bexar coun-
y, Texas, offer the above described
PREMISES and property for sale,
nd sell the same to the highest
bidder for cash, and after the sale
will make to the purchaser there
# good and sufficient deed to the
so sold in the name of w.
|. Young, and receive the purchase
money and apply the same accor-
ling to the terms of said deed of
rust.
Dated this 18th day of December,
895. III. p. DROUGHT,
1928 ct Substitute Trustee.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-28

There is no cessation to the en-
enlargement that this government
gets from all quarters to persist
in her demand for American in
quest into the rights of Great
Britain to the territory which she
claims at the hands of Venezuela.
1t is the right to intervene for the
protection Of the lesser republics
Of this continent that is involved
in this present controversy with
Great Britain.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-28

The insurgents in Cuba under
stand their business. They do not
intend to be caught in a trap and
forced to fight a general battle.
Their one object is to tire out their
enemies, and force them by stress
of climate and death losses Incl
dent to war to withdraw from the
island. 1t is guerrilla warfare and
just the kind that suits the Cuban
temperament. 1t succeeded nearly
a century ago in Spain against the
armed legions Of Napoleon and ii
Is succeeding now against the
forces of Spain.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-28

Our friends on pleasure and also
those on instruction and business
bent, who have selected this city
for their January meeting place,
will find that the skies will not
frown on them, the winds will not
ruffle their feelings and the latch
strings will hang loosely on the
outside.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-28

Kentucky continues to deserve
her old name of "the dark and
bloody ground" Between the feud,
the political caterwauling, the
lovers quarrels, the moonshiner's
raids and the other means by
which breath is shortened and life
snuffed out there is no going back
on the old name of that region.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-28

Kansas tries hard to follow in
the fool footsteps Of South Caro-
lima in the matter of turning the
state into general saloon.
Kansas will find that she will gain
neither dollars, dignity, considera-
ton or credit by taking any such
departure. Her return to republi-
can rule should insure her against
any danger from such cranky
ideas. Kansas should learn wis
dom from her past errors.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-28

There is nothing in all this great
globe that will blow out the light
Of party controversy in these
United States so suddenly as a
little breath of wars alarms. The
people are one in everything that
relates to the defense Of her prin-
ciples and her territory, and that
is no romance.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-28
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2S, '95

All of the republics of this west
ern hemisphere will stand or fall
together. They understand the
situation and that their future
safety from foreign encroachments
is bound up in this bundle of
boundary controversy. They will
stand side by side with the United
States in her declarations.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-28

This breeze from Venezuela that
disturbs the waters of the old and
new world will have the effect of
putting the coast defences of the
United states in the best possible
condition in the shortest practical
BILE time. After that the increase
of our fleet will proceed with dou-
BILE celebrity.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-28

That Venezuela business has
sobered the presidential candi.
dates and knocked in the head
those speculations that week ago
were so prevalent as to favorite
candidates. The dangers and re-
sponsibilities of the presidential
chair under the threatened diff
culties will not be coveted.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-28

There are more lives lost in one
day in Armenia than in a month
in Cuba, and yet John Bulls lion
after flashing his tail in fury
around the streets of Constantine
pie sits down quietly on his
launches and licks his chops
while the butchery goes on. That
British lion is a great beast, as q
roarer.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-28

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1.-The longer one delays to
insure, the greater the danger
that he will die uninsured"
DEvINE & Mccoy,
General Agents,
SIS West Commerce Street,
SAN ANTONIO.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-28

Christmas week, with It's records
Of bio ody feuds, unprovoked MUIR
ders, brutality, bloodshed and
crimes against nature, is horri-
BILE parody upon the spirit and
declarations of the "advent" and
yet there are those in every com.
munity who, while they hold up
their hands in pious horror at the
crimes, declare that this is a chris.
tian nation. Not enough to hurt,
it amt. There is work for every
foreign missionary on home soil,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-28

1t did not take the republicans
in congress long to put that new
tariff bill on its feet. Now it will
rest with a democratic senate and
president to give force to that
measure for the relief of the coun-
try or to defeat it. In any case
the republicans have done their
duty.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-28

The floods in the central valleys
west Of the Mississippi are subsid-
ing, but the winds and the rains
and the devastating gales sweep
the Atlantic seaboard in terrific
manner. San Antonio continues
to rejoice in the blessed sunshine
and in the calm that knows no
storm.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-28

and that without setting on fire
the passions Of antagonistic races
and religions and nstionalities. 1t
will be time to convert the heather
when the home savages are re-
claimed from their savagery and
Christmas church festivities pass
with out bloodshed and murder.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-28
IMPORTANT NOTICE.

DR.. Hathaway & Co., have removed
their Office to 200 Alamo Piazza, over he
Globe Store" where they have undOubt-
eddy the finest offices in the city. DIR. J.
w. Hathaway, the head of the firm of
DR.. Hathaway & Co., is in charge, and all
persons who need medical advice of the
highest skill should not fail to call Con-
sultation free. IL % I'm
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-28

This is Christmas week, but
that is no reason why subscrip-
tions to that cotton mill should
not be increased. There will be
matter there for congratulation
next holiday season if it does not
fail.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-28
$50 "a so $500 sls. 90 $500 s5l.UO

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Special rates given on larger space and long
;me advertisements. Discount given for
sash.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-28

All communications for this paper should be
accompanied by the name OF the author, not
necessary for publication, but as evidence Of
good faith on the part of the writer. Write on
one side of the paper, in plain hand. Anony-
nous Communications Will not be noticed.
The LIeHT will not be responsible for the
statements Of It's correspondents.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-28
RUBBER WEATHER STRIPS

Exclude cold air, with a good heat
ing stove to keep warm, now on
sale at j. G. Tips, lis West Com
merce street. II 81 If
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-28

Congress is doing business at the
old stand.
Lord Dunraven is ON the ground,
but what he is going to grind out
Of his charges is another thing.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-28
TO CORRESPONDENTS.

v-Au contracts or bills must be approved
5y the Secretary or Manager.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-28

No Trouble TO Get Money.
If your security is good. Low in
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-28

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THE LATEST THING OUT.
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SAMPLES AND ESTIMATES
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The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-11-21

broadcloth, ,'kind, courteous, and help
full. In threading my way through
narrow byways in search of some item
of news / have stopped to ask ques-
tions of the denizens thereof and
never vet have found a man so drunk
that he did not manage to claw his hat
off his head while he answered me in
respectful though somewhat tangled
up language.
saints; in business they will crowd and
supplant women, which they have a
perfect right TO do il they use honest
methods. Twice while earning my
living i have been thrown out of good
positions by men, not because they
wanted or could fill the place had,
but through business jealousy and by
underhand methods that would make
a horse thief blush; so i am pre- pared
to admit that there are mean men, bat
they are in the minority. Men are just
as good, just as honorable, as generous
and as worthy of trust and confidence
as women
It is time that this cry of working
women against men be stopped. liza
woman respects herself she will be re-
spected, and this is the testimony Of
those gifted with beauty as well as or
dinary plain people like yours truly.
We find what we look for in this
world; if we look for evil we find IL. IL
for good our search is doubly reward
ed. d.-Womanhood-
The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-11-21

ABOUT wnlcn aosoIureIy nothing is
known. In North America there are
one million and half square miles
wholly unexplored- In Africa nearly
seven million square miles; in Austria
liza nearly three million square miles.
while in Asia and the extreme north
and south there are unknown regions
aggregating ten million square miles.
Added TO these are practically bound
less lands, of which SO little is known
that they are to all intents and
purposes unexplored regions. North
America alone, with its two or three
millions of unknown and imperfectly
known regions, offers wide field for
geographical survey. 1t is a curious
fact that there should be in the United
States large tracts of country about
which almost nothing is sknown-tracts
that are surrounded by civilization
and lands that are cultivated by the
most approved methods If. instead Of
massing the population in great CEN
ters, more effort were made to scatter
the people through this unoccupied
territory, it would be better not only
for the country but for the people
theInselvea-N. Y. Ledger
The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-11-21


A well-known Bohemian visited his
friend, Prof. Price, at the latter's la bor-
atory. The professor was examining
a dark-brown substance spread on pa
per.
II say, would you kindly let me
place little bit of this on your tongue!
My taste has become SO vitiated by
tasting all sorts of things"
Certainly" responded the ever ac-
com,nodating Harris, thrusting out his
tongue.
The professor took up little of the
substance under analysis and placed it
on Harris tongue. The latter worked
it round for fully minute. tasting it
much as he would fine confection.
Note any effect?" inquired the pro-
fessor.
mo, none"
at doesn't paralyze or prick your
tongue?"
Not that can detect"
II thought not There is no alka-
lo;ds in it, then How does it taste?''
"Bitter as the dickens?"
"Um-m; all right"
what is it?" inquired Harris.
81 don't know. That's what Tn
trying to find out. Some one has been
poisoning horses with ."-Pearson's
Weekly.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-11-21
CALIFORNIA CONDOR HUNT.
The Art OF Lassoing tho Biggest Amer
lean Bird.

The Art OF Lassoing tho Biggest Amer.
lean Bird.
There they arer' shouted the Mex
lean guide. as we rode up the slope of
q little hill from narrow arroyo down
which we had been riding for several
hours.
There they were, indeed-great
patches of low, long, branching oaks
in the center of little valley, and
over the hills We could see other val
Jeys and moro trees, the latter rare
enough in Lower California to be ap-
preciated when found, We had been
riding all day in the hot sun, and the
sight was refreshing, as Moreno bad
led us into the wilderness with tho
promise Of . California condor hunt,
and this was the very place where we
were to find them. Instead of riding
directly into the valley we gazed at its
eool retreats from the cover of the hill.
then returned to the arroyo, and final
ly reached the very edge of tine grove
through a wash in the hills.
"Now, gentlemen" said Moreno,
you can get plenty of condor here
with a rifle; all you have to do is to
walk Or ride through the oaks and
shoot them; but this is what you call
pot hunting-too easy. Now, when
the condor is very hungry or hot he
comes down to the ground and walks
around. and then is is hard TO catch
him, as he is on the watch, and, il
caught. makes hard fight In this
There were eight in the party. all
well mounted on fast bronchos, that.
in spite of the long ride. were in good
condition The eight were lined up
on the edge of the rood, and with
their leader well in advance, with
reata in hand, moved on. The trees
were low with an extraordinary growth
of long limbs near the ground, so that
there was often just room to ride be-
meath them, while the entire tree
would have spread of several
hundred square feet Ahead ap-
peared a maze of trees. but they
were often several hundred feet apart.
forming little glades into which
the sun poured. 1t was in such a spot.
where a patch of mustard reared its
golden tops 10 the light, that we came
upon the sought-for game We were
walking our horses. drinking in the
beauty of It all. when Moreno gave q
shout, and clapping spurs to his
broucho, sprang forward The rest
closed in and faced for moment q
huge bird that had been feeding upon
the body of sheep. and that, sur
p-ised, started TO run; then beating
the air with its enormous wings, It
raised itself nine or ten feet. when the
whirling reata OF the Mexican fell
over its neck The fighting, strug-
Cling creature tapped heavily 10 the
ground and began a singular dance.
holding up il wiAes and vairly en-
deavoring to throw Oh the rope. Ths,