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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-04-17
Wealthy-Domestic Trouble-Suicide.

BUTTE, Mont, April III. F.
Kelly, a prominent Mason and one
Of the largest fruit dealers in the
city, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself in the head. Cause,
domestic troubles. Kelly carried
5000 life insurance. Before COM
mitting snicide he wrote IL letters
relating to his affairs.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-04-17
Wants the Charges Aired.

LONDON, April T.-Gen. Booth
has cabled to the Salvation army
headquarters at New York in
structing the officials in charge
there to publish letters in their
possession in regard to charges
made by Ballington Booth against
the general and his administration
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-04-17
John Stetson Is I'll.

BOSTON, Mass, April 17.-John
Stetson, the theatrical manager, is
critically ill with pneumonia at
his home in this city.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-04-17
Rain and Fair Weather,

WASHINGTON, April IT, For
Western Texas: Rain, followed by
fair weather tonight and Saturday,
cooler Saturday morning; winds
shifting to northwesterly.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-04-17
TELEPHONE

Over the Long Distance lines of the
South western Telegraph and Telephone
Company to nearly 1000 subscribers in
the principal cities and towns of Texas.
Toll stations in the Central office, hotels
and other convenient locations.
Ask Central. for stations connected
and rates charged.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-04-17

Ed. III. Cunningham came In
from Sugarland this morning.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-19
ENGLISH MUSIC-HALL SONGS
The More Popular Airs Produced by q
Few Writers.

Tho More Popular Airs Produced by q
Few Writers.
At music halls the songs, or those
with the best chances of being popular,
are written chiefly by only two or three
writer's; and to this fact sometimes
is attributed what must be called their
painful monotony, or, at the least, un-
happy paucity, Of theme. You have the
mother-in-law, and the mother-in-law,
of course, is nuisance and an obstacle.
You have the deceiving husband. You
have the deceived, or deceiving, wife.
Everyone, It seems, Ia busy in doing that
which he pretends not to be doing, yet
which oil the world assumes that he
is certain to do. Along with these out
worn themes, from which one would
fain seek relief in some fresh observa-
ton Of life and of the passing manners
of the day, you have occasionally, If
the hall is popular" rather than fash
ionable, some very broad compliment
to what are called the working classes"
as the base-the inevitable, priceless
base-of society's column; and you
have, in times especially of excitement,
appeals to patriotism, some of which
are sound, but some of which make
one think of NJ. de Ia Rochefoucauld's
remark that there are "few of us who
have not sufficient strength to bear the
misfortunes"-yes, even if those mis-
fortunes be the, wounds of death-"of
other people"
The effect of familiarity and poverty
of theme in the actual songs of the
music halls is minimized, it is true,
to some extent, by the measure of gag"
of fresh and personal matter which the
best comedians of the music hall-and
many who are not the best-allow them
selves to introduce. But, after all, of the
songs of the music hall it has got to
be said. in parting from them, that
the greater part of their comedy is
based on coarseness, and that IL you
can imagine the relation of the sexes
deprived altogether Of it's carnal side,
or, il you will, that carnal side accepted
ohce for all as healthy and above board,
and SO not open toinnuendoo or comment,
the song of the music hall would at a
stroke be deprived of half of its ma
Century.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-19
orsterr BECOMING Rare.

oysters will be II very rare delicacy
in few years." said C. c. Hunt, an oys-
ter man of New York. "For many years
the beds were preserved to large ex-
tent by having an oyster season and
keeping alive the popular idea that oys-
ters were not good except from Septem-
Der to April. This gave four months
during which the oysters were let alone
and allowed to increase. AS a matter
of fact, I think they are a little better
during those four months than at any
other time. This was first discovered
by the seaside hotel men, and oysters
were ser we'd during the summer months.
Theguests demanded bivalves when they
returned to their homes, and now in all
eastern cities the signs of Fresh Oys-
ters' are as numerous in July and Aus
gust as in January and February. The
new demand is being supplied, and at
no time are the beds left undisturbed.
1t is now only question of few years
before the oysters are gone, and all be
cause the summer resort hotel men dis
abused the minds of the people as to
their not being good to eat from April
to September."-N. Y. Sun
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-19
SILVER AND THE NATION.
AL REVENUE.

To take Il concrete instance,
suppose a manufactures of worst
eds at Bradford, England, makes
a cloth which he sells for 81 per
ward in gold. The duty on that
cloth at present may be 42c per
yard. The cost, therefore, to him
of offering that cloth for sale on
this side of the Atlantic is at
present SLAP per yard in gold.
Under free silver what would
happen? The cloth would still
cost him 81 per yard in gold, but
instead of paying the government
42c in gold or its equivalent, as
at present, he could buy with 21c
enough silver to pay the duty on
his goods.
The result would be that the
Bradford manufactures could sell
his cloth on this side of the At
lantic for SLAP in gold, or $2.S4
in silver, and make a handsome
profit by the transaction. 1T
would be useless for American
manufacturers to attempt to Sc
cure the enactment of protec-
tive tariff bill, even with free
coinage rider, for Mr.. Bryan is
solemnly pledged by his own
statement to oppose protection in
any form in national legislation.
The American manufacturers,
therefore, under free silver, must
be prepared to face a tariff which,
while nOminally a continuation
of the existing tariff, will neces-
state a decrease in duties to prac-
tically one-half of the present
rate in many instances. This, of
course, will mean either still low
er wages for American working.
men or no work at all.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-19
PERSONAL MENTION.

w. T. Gerfers, of Shavano, is in
the city,
Chas. A. r. Campbell is in New
Orleans on a visit.
l.. F. Jerker and wife, of Victoria,
are at the Mahncke.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Cowan have
returned to Lockhart.
Miss E. Henne, of New Braun
fels, is at the Mahncke.
State Comptroller r. w. Finley
came over yesterday from Austin.
JIM. Vesmerovsky, merchant
OF Halletsville, Is at the Mahncke.
Congressman Noonan and Hon.
Charles Ogden left yesterday for
Fredericksburg.
Mrs. Philip Cohen, Of Monterey,
Mex, is in the city and is stopping
at the Mahncke.
Rev. Moody of the Sunset Bap-
fist church left today for Lsmpas-
as, to be gone two weeks.
Thad Bell has returned from q
two weeks trip through the Elev-
enth congressional district.
Mrs. NJ. Weinert and Miss Ger
tie Kempen, OF Dallas, are in the
city and are guests OF the Mahn-
cke.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-19
CHILDREN'S EARS.
How to Keep Them In Healthy Cond
ton.

How to Keep Them In Healthy Condi-
ton.
Defective hearing is a trouble that
many children labor under, caused oc-
casionally by disease, but oftentimes by
lack of proper care of the ear passages.
It is sometimes the case that the dull
ness and inattention of scholar are due
to impaired hearing, and the inability
to hear distinctly gives the poor child
the appearance of being needless and
inattentive. The waxy secretion found
in the ears is natures own remedy of
keeping the ears in healthy condition.
There is frequently, however, an ex-
cess of this wax and occasionally it
happens that, in cleaning the child's
ears, the excess of wax is pushed fur
Their into the ear passages. Repetitions
of this process cause the wax to be-
come packed, causing gradual loss Of
the hearing power. Too much stress
cannot be laid upon the fact that pins
and such articles should not be used
in the care of the ears, as serious in
Jury is liable from the article entering
too far. Glycerine and warm water in
equal parts is a mixture that will dis
solve and remove the wax. Apply gently
with small syringe. Should there be
at any time anything in the nature of
discharges from either ear d physicians
advice should be sought without de-
lay.-Troy Times.
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RELIEF FOR The ARMenlAns.
ImpracticabIlity of the Means Adopted
In This Country.


In This Country.
The Armenians are certainly to be
pitied. Just as they are rallying some
what from the massacre and the subse-
quent restitution and Generalization,
there comes q proposition which will
do more than almost anything else to
cut off the sources from which relief
has come, and also bind them more
closely under Turkish tyranny. About
100000 has been collected in this coun-
try and England, which has been ex-
pended chiefly for food and clothing,
but also for implements of labor. 1t is
not large sum, but it has accomplished
marvels in the preservation of life and
in the reviving of hope and courage.
OF late there has arisen feeling that
unless there is hope of altered political
conditions, to continue such charity is
simply to pour water into sieve"
and. the question has arisen, would it
not be better to get the Armenians out
of the country. One of the relief asso-
Citations has taken up the idea, and
calls for million-dollar fund to secure
emigration.
There is something plausible in this,
yet really no more impracticable or per-
nicious scheme could well be proposed.
There are about 100000 Armenians in
the disturbed sections of Turkey. They
are mostly peasants or small tradesmen,
thoroughly welded to their oriental
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work. Misfortune has left them poor,
broken spirited, with little courage for
change. The Turkish government is
bitterly opposed not merely to their
leaving the country, but to their chang
ing residence. To get any appreciable
number away it would be necessary to
overcome the hostility of the Turk and
their own inertia, find a country to take
them to, transport them, provide them
dwellings, tools, and living expenses for
some time, and pay the agents of the
emigration scheme. The cheapest place
would be Persia, but they would be little
if any better off on the whole. Russia
doesn't want them. There is no room
in Europe. How far would the fund go
towards bringing them to and settling
them on this continent?
In fact the scheme is utterly imprac-
ticable. More than that, it is very
nearly criminal. 1t discourages the
only way In which relief can come to
them, and by arousing the jealousy of
the Turkish government makes their
situation more difficult. Rad as their
condition is it is better than it has been,
and the only way to relieve it in the flu
ture is to continue the gifts. A dollar
ofrelief is worth $50 spent in schemes OF
rescue. So long as the missionaries are
on the field, every cent contributed will
be well used. Brown Brothers, of this
city, or the treasurer of the American
board in Boston, will forward all that
is sent.-Harper's Weekly.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-19
Real Estate Transfers.

M I'M. Seay and wife to Thomas
Webb, $500 acres II miles south Of
San Antonio, east of the river;
$4,000.
A. E. Devine to r. F. Blair, lots
3 and 4, block l, on South Flores
street; $1,000.
Oscar Bergstrom to San An
tonic Sewer Pipe Mfg. Co., lots ]
and 4, block Is, o. c. l. 147; 81 and
other considerations.
Marcelino Mendoza to Simon
Serena, lot 10, block o. l. 202, on
South Eleventh street; 5000.
e. II. Strom to Mrs. Mary M.
Tanning, part Of lot s, fronting on
the north line of the tract Of An.
tonic Rios; $500.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-19
SHORT STOPS.

ShOhI SloIS.
What the People Are Saying.
Never before have the people
of this city been so determined
to put aside the local political
combinations as at the present
election.
The fact that the Office holders
combines have raised large slush
funds to control the polls has
startled every good man in the
community. 1t is a fact that
these campaign cOrrupting funds
will cover every voter in the
county at 81 per head?
But it is not a fact that these
funds are only intended for the
vote that can be handled by the
use of money. The great bulk of
the vote cannot be bought or con-
trolled, and it is these voters who
will turn down the combinations.
Our ballot box is to be polluted
with the votes of persons who
have no interest in the manage
ment of our county affairs-nO
concern about our national af-
fairs. In fact, the rights of ev-
cry good citizen is in jeopardy
through the manipulation of the
local bosses.
In the present county cam
paign we are presented with a
full-grOwn, arrogant, shameless
combination that makes no pre-
tense to a decent regard for the
opinions of the people. In other
elections we have seen the seal
of approval from party commit
tees given-now that is all aban-
doned and the daring experiment
made to combine the city hall
and county courthouse in con-
spiracy to secure the success of
the two chief conspirators.
The blanks on the city hall
ticket exposed the understand
ing that had been had by which
Mr.. Thad Smith and Jose Cassi-
ano were to have no opposition,
and that all the power of city
and county patronage should be
used for their benefit.
sHs
Fortunately the Republicans
were not all seduced into acquies-
cence in this unholy alliance, and
put out ticket. Every effort has
been used to pull this ticket
down, but it has become mat
ter of patriotism that it should be
kept in the field.
A return to party nominations
and party politics offers the only
rescue from the present disgrace
full condition of politics in our
city and county. Personal poll
tics have become a nuisance and
a threatened danger to our com
munity. Corruption and extrav-
agance, high taxes and poor pub
lie service are the Legitimate
children of our present local pol
tiles. But the people are deter
mined to strangle the whole
brood at the ballot box.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-19
Boiled Apple Pudding.

Make nice pie crust, and line with it
bowl that has been well buttered,
then fill with sliced apples and sugar
enough to moisten them, and the peel
and juice of one lemon; cover with paste
and pinch the edges together; then tie
the bowl securely in a Toured cloth and
put into rapidly boiling water. Itshould
boil from two hours to two hours and a
half, according to size, and should not
be allowed to stop boiling for one mo-
ment. 1t is very nice served with cream
alone, or with sauce of butter and
sugar.-Ladies' Home Journal.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-19
For OVER FIFTY YEARS

Mrs. winslow's Soothing Syrup has
been used for children teething. 1t
soothes the child, softens the gums,
allays all pain, cures wind collie, and
is the best remedy for dfarrhoea. %
cents a bottle. o 81 1yr-eod
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-19
NOTICE.

The members of the Ladies' Sec
ton of the Turn Verein are re-
quested to meet in Turner hall
Wednesday next at $3.50 p. m.
MRS. l.. H. SCHMITT, Pres.
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Blood pureG Do not pass by this question
with an evasive answer. 1t means much
to your health, your happiness, your use
fitness. II your blood is pure you will
be strong, vigorous, full Of life and ambi-
ton; your nerves will be steady. You
will have little need to fear disease II your
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MISS IDA LUCIAN WOODS.
Late of Memphis, Tenn.

Has opened studio at Vance Apart
ments, 316 e. Houston street. Class
es taught in elocntion, dramatic ex-
preston, Delsarte and art. 10-3-1mo
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Pure

Rich, Red Blood. 1t will overcome that
tired feeling, create an appetite, give
sweet, refreshing sleep and make you
strong. 1t will build you up and enable
you to resist the enervating effects of
warm or changeable weather. Is not this
exactly what you want? Then take
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Licensed to Wed.

HI. E. Jacobson and Helen
Schuwirth.
Cruz Ruiz and Sara Herrera.
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1896.
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
LATEST OFF THE WIRES FROM
OVER THE WORLD.
A Complete BpitOme of the Days Happen
ings, Briefsd and Boiled Down, up
to Time of Going to Press.

mountain outlaw, captured.
Bayard has fixed up the Vene-
zuelan dispute with satisfaction
to the British.
Houpt, sheriff of prize fight no
toriety, Hot Springs, Ark, is dis
covered $4,000 shy in accounts.
Postmaster General Wilson
denounces Bryan as a Populist.
w. A. Veltman, business man
of San Marcos, winged his grand
father-in-law Friday night by
installing him for a burglar.
Leopold, of Italy, brother of
the mad empress, Carlotta, of
Mexico, classes, the Macmillan
epoch in history by comforting on
President Diax the order of Leo
pold.
Chamela, Mexican port on the
Pacific, will have rail connection
with Guadalajara.
Head end collision on Southern
Pacific east of Orange yesterday
kills one emigrant and Injuries
two men.
Judge Walling, of San Anto-
Mo, stumping AtascOsa county
for the POpulists.
Austin had twenty weddings
last week.
acknowledgements federation
finally completed.
Work on deep water at Aran-
sas Pass will be resumed in a
fortnight.
War Secretary Lamont says
the army will need $57,675,63S
for next year. He wants more
coast defenses.
Portuguese bark Venus founder
ed off Skomer island, in a fog Oc-
tober 8; twenty drowned.
Spanish gunboat off Havana
fires on mysterious vessel Satur-
day.
Russian Imperial bank offers
advance prices for large quaint
ties of gold.
Councillor Levy, prominent Ber-
lin lawyer, murdered in bed by
burglars.
Cuban insurgents dynamite a
train near NavajOs.
Havana police discover a plot
to blow up the city.
Anti-American feeling has a
revival in Spain.
Mining town Of Altata, Gulf of
California, has been washed away
in the storm of Sept. IL and Is.
Statue of Emperor Williams
grandmother, Empress Augusta,
unveiled at Coblenz yesterday.
London sold 100000 bales wool
last week.
American institute of Archi-
tects in session this week in
Nashville, Tenn.
Michigan lake steamer Austria
lasia, coal laden, burned in Stur-
gis bay.
Delegations from a dozen
states will visit Canton, Ohio,
this week and keep Major Nc
Kinley busy.
Steamer La GascOgue, with
$500, 900 in gold, arrives at New
York, after very rough trip.
Los Angeles, CAL, had a $780,
900 fire Saturday night.
Kansas will ship 1000 cars of
wheat to Mexico in November and
December.
-Islsei qoJnqo pepuelle ueAda
day in Detroit and made a speech
to newsboys in the afternoon.
Senator Bate, of Tennessee, is
seriously ill in Nashville. Sena-
tor Harris, ill in Memphis, is
much improved.
Watson says he will resume
his stumping this week.
Cuban editor, Trujillo, New
York, takes a pistol from bur-
glar and shoots him.
Mrs. John COckrilFs new hus-
band wounds himself seriously
while cleaning his revolver.
Russian minister of railways
inspected Niagara Falls yester-
day.
Chas. ID. Frazer appointed gen
eral freight and passenger agent
of Rio Grande and Eagle Pass
railway.
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Blood

Is pure and you keep it so. Now is the
time to see that your blood is pure, and to
give it richness and vitality and the life
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THE SALOON IN POLITICS.

thing for prohibitionists and 9th
er fanatics to attack-they con-
veniently lay all the crime com
mitted by cold blooded criminals
TO the liquor traffic.
Yet about this season of the
year, before the frosts of Novem-
Der touch the leaves of the forest
and blight the blossoms in our
gardens, and all the harvests of
the fields are garnered, the sa-
loon becomes the center of poll
ties.
But two weeks remain of the
greatest political canvass that
has agitated the country for
years. In the liquor saloon the
wOr of words will be waged hot
and heavy until the Bird of No
vember, when the American SOW
ereign will step up to the ballot
box and put stop to it all.
The saloon man is the greatest
man in business today-after the
3rd of November he will be kick
ed out as an Outcast-shunned
as moral leper, avoided as one
unfit for the association of Chris
tian people.
The legislature will begin to
regulate, restrict and harrass
his business. The pulpit will
thunder with denunciation of the
liquor traffic. Local option elec-
tons will be held to confiscate
his property and destroy his vo-
cation.
Free traders in congress will
attehpt to add to his tax in or
der to replenish the national
treasury, rather than lay a tax
on foreign goods and produc-
tons.
Free silverites will try to make
good the loss and panic caused by
a deprecated currency, if they
succeed, by doubling the occupa-
ton tax of the saloon man.
The retail liquor dealer is the
beast of burden upon whose back
is thrown all the shortcomings
of unwise craftsmanship.
What is your duty? AS pa
triotic men you should cast your
lot on the side of honest money.
Prove by your acts that you
have no part in any scheme that
will bring dishonor upon your
country.
Be careful to select from all
the candidates men above fanati-
cism; men who will be fair and
honest and treat you with that
consideration that you deserve.
In selecting your congress
man vote for the man who you
have known, and in whose integ-
rity you have perfect confidence.
-
In selecting members of the
legislature be careful to know
their views, but do not make
the fatal mistake of voting for
some chuckle-headed lawyer who
promises you to stand by your
interests. A man lacking in brains
is the most dangerous represen-
tative you can have-a man who
lacks brains is unfit to make laws
for you.
Men who seek out the saloon
man to get his vote are generally
unworthy of your confidence.
The best men are the best repre-
sentatives and can be most
trusted.
Remember, that in choosing
your county officers, that you
should chose men who will not
use their offices or influence to
injure your business. Men elect
ed to Office have two years in
which to forget your favors
The candidate who patronizes
the saloon during an election
campaign considers that he has
paid for all he has received and
is under no further obligations
to the saloon man.
Slayden has the 'blues" so
bad that it is suggested to utilize
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-"Politics," said Uncle Eben, makes
strange bedfellows. But hit am allus
de same OIL fight ez ter which is gwineter
Git all de kivvers.' Washington Star.
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