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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-04-04
BASEBALL CRANKSl

How are you fixed for the opening
of the baseball season? Get my
prices for club outfits such as mits,
masks, gloves, bats, balls, etc. Can
surprise you on comparison of
prices.
ERNEST J. Confines, Trustee.
3l1 Commerce street. "A 81
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Broke His Arm.

Frank Nelly, an employee in the
electric light station on Villita
street, was caught in a belt about
4 o'clock this morning, and his
right arm was broken and his head
was severely bruised. He was
taken to his home, 9l3 South
Alamo street, where he is resting
easy.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-04-04
City Collectors Report.

City collections during March we're
lower that for the same month In any of
the past ten years, and the occupation
taxes alone amounted to 500 more than
the total of all other collections, The
items are as follows:
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FISHERMEN, ATTENTION.

Secure your tackle for the sum-
mer season, at prices away below
the regular. The largest assort-
ment in town to select from, in
Guiding tarpon outfits.
ERNEST j. CoRTINEs, Trustee,
I'll Commerce street. "A 81
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WANTED

Good private board and rooms in
a select German family by a young
married couple. Address P.O. Box
ll4l. 4 4 2t
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IN g rye

Excitement, overwork and worry are
running the health of thousands of
women. Pure Blood is required 20
feed the nerves, a good appetite and
digestive strength are demanded to
keep the body strong and vigorous,
and to restore the exhausted energies
there must be sound and refreshing
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sPoRTsMEN. ATTENTION.

The chance Of a lifetime to secure
bargains for cash in shotguns,
rifles, pistols, ammunition and
sportsmen's clothing.
ERNEST j. CoRTINEs, Trustee;
3l1 Commerce street. IA &c
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THE SUNSET WOOD CO.'S MIsFoR-
TUNE

To avoid carrying over our
immense stock of wood we will sell
4-foot wood, delivered, at $40 per
cord; stove wood at $500. Phone
81. IA If
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JUDGE NEWTON RESIGNS.
Fayette Camp Appointed Judge of the
Forty-6fth District Court.

Forty-ffth District Court.
1t was reported several days ago
that Judge S. g. Newton, of the
Forty-fifth District court, would
resign. The report is now sub.
stantiated by the fact that he has
gone to Austin to hand in his res
ignation to the governor, effective
Immediately. Private information
received from Austin today states
that Mr.. Fayette Camp has been
appointed Judge Newton's sus-
cessor. Judge Newton's reason for
resigning is attributed to pressing
private business.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-04-04
KEEP IN GOOD HEALTH,

Have your own "Gym." Boxing
gloves, striking bags and gymna-
SUM paraphernalia very cheap for
cash. Compare prices.
ERNEST j. Confines, Trustee
81 Commerce street. "A st
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sAENaERFEsT TICKETS.

Persons in the country contem-
plating coming to the Saengerfest
can have seats reserved by CORE
spending with THOs. GOGGAN &
BROS. 500 If
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Gut flowers for Easter at S. A.
Nursery, 713 n. Flores st. 23t
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..-op -ueo Su,.. soInuloi " u. ~4~OpDeSa
has ca pen'u1spns aIe si1seT uip.x SCUM I'd
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That .tops Neuralgia, DR.. Miles, Pain P1m
Evening star., 1896-07-02
Mai. Mckinley i'm the Shenandoah
Valley.

From the Harrisburg State Republican.
"You are from the great Shenandoah val
ley-from Harrisonburg?" asked the major.
Yes. sir; from the heart Of the valley"
Il rem. .mber your town WELL I was there
as soldier in 1864. 1 thought as a young
man, and still think, that the Shenandoah
valley Is the prettiest place in the country
l have never seen anything to compare
with 1t; and I have seen a good deal of
this country. I remember in $780, after a
campaign In California, 1 crossed the
mountains for home, and, after passing the
desert regions east of the Rockies. we
struck the corn belt in Nebraska, and it
was just one vast corn field from there to
Chicago. Corn was in tassel 1t was q
beautiful sight. But ones eye tires of the
sameness. No; 1 have never seen any
country so pretty as your valley. I have
always wanted to revisit it. but, strange
to say, l have never been there since the
war. At that time had some experience
l shall not forget. The battle at Berryyille
was fought after night. 1t was a short
severe and brilliant affair. The night was
ed to retire. l was an adjutant, and it
became my duty to direct regiment at
some distance from the others to move
stranger in the darkness, 1 knew moth
ing OF that country. When I started on
my mission. some one on the other side
was doing Just what l was. as l could tell
from what l could hear. 1 had not gone
far until l was halted by a sentinel, with
Who comes thar?' The distinct southern
brogue was warning and 1 FASTENED the
other way. Very soon I was stopped, with
Who comes there? and rec oenized
friends. ] gave the countersign, and soon
had the regiment moving"
Evening star., 1896-07-02
The Short Girls ADVANTAGES.

From the Kansas City star.
The short girl has many advantages over
the tall one She has to go through life
looking up, and nothing is so becoming 10
eyes as that Her lashes show more and
SO does her hair. There are curves of
check. chin and throat that look their
Irettiest to a man who must glance down
to them.
A small girl is more easily held and more
easily kissed. 1t is nicer to have to lift
her face up by the chin. and it is more
epicurean and satisfactory TO reach down
to upturned lips.
1t is comfortable, when you hold girl
on your knee, to have her head just come
to your shoulder, instead of having 1T hang
over-Surplus, as it were. Everything about
a small girl is likely to be provocation--
the unexpectedly tiny hands, the distrl acting
morsels Of feet, the little head, the little
EcSe.
A small girl can be fascir ating even in a
temper, she can be delicious when she
cries, she can be lovely when she pouts,
and none Of these moods sits we'll on a big
woman. Then too. the man in love is in
clined TO pet names. and he wants to call
his girl "Birdy." whether she weighs 200
or not; yet he is not insensible to the ap-
propriateness OF the title when given to
real little thing.
A man likes to feel big. by comparison at
least. A really large man does not object
to seeming almost a giant beside the girl
or his heart, and 1t Is almost necessary to
the short mans vanity that he shall seem
big to the little creature he is going to
marry.
1t is very fetching to have ones girl say:
..le, Please, dear dear, my neck gets SO tired
means? Well get bit of girl and you
will find out. On the whole, the small
girl has the best of it.
Evening star., 1896-07-02
MAJ. M'KINLEY'S REGIMENT
It Contained an Unusual Array of Distin-
tinguisl Men.
One, Perhaps Two, Presidents of the
United states Were In It's Ranks
md Saw Sharp Service.

No Union regiment in the late war can
beast such an array of men rising to great
distinction in subsequent life as the 2'd
Ohio Infantry. Its original colonel was
William s. Rosecrans Both Rutherford
B. Hayes and Stanley Matthews served
with the rank of lieutenant colonel. Later
Hayes became colonel. William Mckinley,
jr. served in the regiment as first and sec
ond lieutenants. and later as captain. His
commission as second lieutenant was dated
November 3, 1862: that of first lieutenant
March 80. 1863. and captain July 25. 1864.
Ex-President Hayes went in as major at
the organization. June I. 1851. at Camp
Chase. Ohio. On October 2:s of the same
year he became lieutenant colonel. A year
later October - 1864, he went to the rank
of brigadier.
Rosecrans did not take the field with the
regiment. but was made brigadier. The
I'D was one of the first regiments organ
lied in the state The first service per-
formed was a march to Clarksburs, w.
Va, where it arrived late in July, 1861.
The day following the regiment began the
stern business of war by going on a hunt
for guerrillas. operating with Weston as a
base. 1t seems like romance to imagine
such An array of embryo greatness chasing
bushwhackers about the spurs of Rich
mountain in drenching rain storm. There
Evening star., 1896-07-02
ABOUT VENEERS.
There Are Certain Woods Which Can
BE Sawed AS Thin ms Writing Paper.

There Are Certain Woods Which Can
BE Sawed Thin ms Writing Paper.
From Hardwood.
While the finer and thinner veneers Of
costly woods are sliced tangentially from
the side of the log, there are woods that
cannot be cut this way-no amount of boil
ing or steaming rendering 1t possible to cut
them without breaking down the tissues 20
such an extent as to destroy their surfaces
for polshing-while others, becoming dis
colored from steaming or boiling, and be-
ing too hard to be cut otherwise, have to
be sawed. The fine-toothed. thin-gauge cir
cular with flanged center is the favorite
for cutting all ordinary veneers thicker
than thirty to the inch: twenty to the inch
Is the thickness most commonly used for
cabinet work and finishing. but much thin
ner is used in the case of rare and costly
woods. or rare, abnormal or accidental
hgureS, as in the case of burlS. Some
woods have to be cut much thicker, being
unable to bear handling when too thin !;
genuine ebony the only fine, really jet
black wood known, and large enough to be
or any use, will not stand saving much
below one-fourth of inch in thickness
owing to its extreme brittleness or want of
can be cut as thin as writing paper and
still be handled in large sheets. Other
woods there are that will lose their fine
color on exposure to the atmosphere es-
pecially smoky one: these are cut only
when Immediately wanted, and are kept
covered until the finishers can put on a
protective coat Of some preparation.
Evening star., 1896-07-02
CROWDlNG THE TRUTH.

where Hiram Drew the Line in Lur-
Ing Bcarders to His Summer Resort,
From the Chicago Post
The old man was leaning over a pine table
laboriously making pencil marks on a shee
of white paper
It's derned hard writin' advertisements
Maria." he said at last when you don't
know jes' how
\ on writ one last summer Hiram Can't
you jes' copy it?" she asked.
Twan't no good" he answered shortly.
I've been lookin' the matter up some
since then, an I find left out a hull lot.
Is the old trough down in the five-acre lot
all cleaned out?''
Henry cleaned it this mornin'," she said
All right he returned. bending to his
within easy walkin' distance of the
Amt that a lie, Hiram" she asked,
doubtfully.
Course it amt" he replied promp.1v
1t would be lie If said anything about
swimmin.' but that trough is good for
oathim. Is the windmill workin' all
The boys say it's a little cranky vet. but
.hey We got 1t fixed SOS it works most of
the time"
He went on with the pencil again. and
Few minutes later he read the following
door," ~
Maria shook her head.
Mebbe it's all right she said. but 1t
don't seem so to me- 1 s'pose you put in
somethin about the lawn. too?"
VI course 1 did," he replied II said II
was lovely lawn, an almost ltmitless.
II paint Lawn on board, an stick il IN
IN the old hay field cross the road. Then
SAID. Fish within mile and"
FISH" she exclaimed. There amt any
fishin' within twenty miles of here"
WHO'S talkin' Of fshin'?" he demanded
Il said fish, and know there's fish at Cy
Parker's general store, not more'n a mile
from here. for see box Of sardines there
myself yesterday"
Il spose you've got in somethin' about
fine shade trees?" she said resignedly
''Of course, he answered "and that amt
no lie either for you know there's a hull
grove OF them up the road a ways The
only thing that kinder hurt my conscience
was the cool nights. 1 reckon that was a
straight lie but we've got to lie some il we
go into the summer resort business and
they'll find everything else just as adyer-
tsed."
And. having thus squared himself with
his conscience. he added something about
no mosquitoes. and mailed the advertise
ment to city newspaper.
Evening star., 1896-07-02

1t is Worth While to be Genuine.


The woman who would have a lasting so
cial success must have the full confidence
of the circle in which she moves. To this
end she must be thoroughly sincere and re-
liable 1 know that many Of my readers
will, at first sight, question this judgment.
know that many young women. and older
women with scant social experience, have
in their hearts a strong, and not always
silent conviction that the tact and social
sense of which they hear so much in con-
nection with successful women are only
polite synonyms for steady-going dfsin-
geniousness and insincerity. There are
women, strong in ambition and weak IN
conscience, who are so persuaded or this
that they set out for conquest with such
formula as Never disagree with any per
son of consequence" BE nice to people
who can serve you, whatever you think of
them" such a one can safely be
sighted" You can't afford to know GER
tain people, Talk for effect" The more
you make of yourself, the more others Will
make of you Everybody Is deceitful,
why should you be an exception" When
such women come to grief, as eventually
they always do. they never blame them
selves, but always believe that some other
woman has oVerreached undermined
them There is undoubtedly much dissim-
ulation, much dishonor, much cruel teach-
ing masked in grace and k!ndllness IN the
social world; but the way to outwlt 1t all
so insincere" Why may it not as well be
said ''She is sweet and absolutely stncere
The difference is as between the exquisite
artifices in the mllinerS windows ana the
fragrant moss roses a1Dloom under Gods
sun and dew And it really Involves less
effort to be that which we would pass Tor
than only to seem .iGasr
A woman the undertope of whose life is
sweetly serious. who never knowingly de-
ceives, misrepresents or eXaggerates. who
is scrupulous about appointments and
promises, who never even trferentially
claims aught in the way Of ancestry,
means, influence, scholarship or accom-
plishments that is not susceptible of the
closest demonstration. takes the color out
of all the pretty frauds about her. as the
lovely moss rose we have spoken OF would
humble the cleverest limitations. But not
Immediately, perhaps. The building up OF
an enduring social success Is work OF
time: and its substructure, slowly laid, but
everlasting, Is the confidence of those
about one.
Evening star., 1896-07-02
She Danced on the Turtle. Roc,.


From the Chicago Intcr-Ocean
In front of restaurant on tie east side
OF State street near Hopkins Theater
for the last few days large sea turtle has
been eking out miserable existence In a
shallow tub of muddy water
Besides being a guarantee that the res
taurant proprietor Is ready to provide
patrons with genuine turtle soup, the
decrepit reptile furnishes rare diversion
to pedestrians, who crowd around the tub
at ell hours of the day and look on in
open-mouthed wonder
occasionally some man pokes the door
creature with his cane to see if 1t ia still
alive. The turtle makes a feeble effort to
bite the cane. and then, with a gasp. sub
SIDES In the dirty water again, as If long
ing for the day when its misery would ne
ended in the soup kettle.
Last evening ragged little girl. whose
scfcoiing In the streets had not taught
her to entertain any sympathy for SO
m iserable creature as turtle an
preached the crowd which was standing
around the tub With her was another
little girl with an accordion hanging by
strap from her shoulder
The moment the girls saw the turtle the
one with the wind instrument struck I'D a
weird air. while the other girl, to the de-
light of the crowd, stepped into the tub
and onto the back Of tine animal In the
water. moment 'ater she was dancing
on the hard shell OF the restaurant keep
er's soup sign.
The turtle was too weak to make the
slightest resistance, and. accompanied by
the howls of the crowd and the wheczy
accordion. the girl continued to dance
Until at last one Of the walters from the
inside came out and stopped the proceed
lngs by picking the dancer I'D and placing
her on the sidewalk.
Evening star., 1896-07-02

Sus, johanna. Pa Dispatch to New York Press.
On Elk mountain, Susquehanna county. a
few miles from the jefferson branch of the
Erie railroad. there is an extraordinary lot
of Wild honey. The hive is located ill a
rift, which penetrates the rock probably to
the depth of 16O feet. The orifice is thirty
feet long and seventeen feet wide The rift
was discovered TO be the abiding place of a
huge swarm of bees, which flies IN q close
co,umn, one foot in diameter
Many persons have tried to get to the
honey stored by the bees, but were in
variably driven back. One man. three years
ago, nearly lost his life in the attempt.
Others have built a scaffold 125 feet high
in the hope of reaching place whence
they vainly tried to run tube into the
hoard of sweets and extract a little With
in four years the bees have added probably
not less than fifteen feet of honey to their
treasure. 1t is thought that there are sew
erai tons of honey in the rock
A man named Duncan, who lives In a.
cabin not far from the spot, each summer
obtains from the rock. by the suns heat.
more than enough for his family. All
through that region. the second highest
point in Pennsylvania. wild honey Is found
in cracks of rocks.
Evening star., 1896-07-02
A Scotch congregation.
From the Westminster Review.

fr"m thc NeStuilStef hes sle".
Listen to a Scottish congregation singing
French or ''St. }Kilda" and you have
heard struck the keynote Of Scottish re-
ligion The soft, m9lodious roll Of the or
gan is not there, nor the painfully accurate
notes of the strictlS hfgh-class choir Yet
there is sublimity ani'a grandeur in those
old psalm tunes of Scotland that breathe
of the mountain ana sea. They are part
of Scotland's heritage Of the best that the
past can give-not the best because of the
artistic arrangement of notes and SYM
phonies, but best because of the inspiring
soul of music that floats with every paean
through the peaceful village church.
There is a vein of sadness in them. too.
through which love strikes on the harp of
song a chord of glorious beauty. They are
the soul of the lands religion-a religion
that might be described as Calvinism plus
a generous amount of human sympathy
With the rising generation, however, a
marked change is visible.
AS Calvinism passes away the human
and moral elements seem to increase Even
clergymen bear testimony that while lit
erature of anything but religious char
acter forms the bulk of Sabbath reading
yet 1t was generally admitted that there
was less swearing and rowdy language in
use than formerly and fewer nasty habits
in the field or farm yard"
Evening star., 1896-07-02
IF WE HAD CUBA.
What the Island Would he Worth to
American Commerce.


From the Forum.
II we could go to the island and trade
with the same freedom with which we can
go to Louisiana we could make all the
gains. by investment and commerce, which
the island offers to industry and enterprise
provided that either Spain or a local gov
erninent would give the necessary secur-
ity. and we should give the necessary Sc
curity, and we should have no share in
political struggles there. It may be that
the proviso Is not satisfied, or soon will not
be- Here Is case. then, which illustrates
the fact that states are often forced to
extend their jurisdiction whether they
want to do so or not. Civilized states are
forced to supercede the local jurisdiction
OF uncivilized or half-civilized states, in
order to police the territory and establish
the necessary guarantee of industry and
commerce 1t Is idle to set up absolute doc
which would justify a group of population
III spoiling a part of the earth's surface
Tor themselves and everybody else.
me Island OF Cuba may fall into an
afChy. II II does the civilized world may
look to the United States to take the juris-
dicuon and establish order and security
tnere; we might be compelled to do it. It
roSIi1l, mouui however De great burden, and
possipiy 1atal calamity to us. Probably
any proposition that England should take
IL would call out a burst of lingo passion
AGAINST which all reasoning would be pow
eriess; We ought to pray that England
would take it. She would govern it we'll
ana everybody would have free access to-
II Ior the purposes of private interest, while
our government would be free from ali
GGornphcatlons with the politics of the is
land If we take the jurisdiction of the
lSiand sna we shall find ourselves in political
aiemma, each horn Of which is as disas-
trous as the ether Either we must govern
!! ~ as subject province. or we must admit
ctafn u
states. e'p "
Our system is unfit for the government
oi .. supJect provinces. They have no place
IN II. ihey would become seats of cor
luption. which would react on our own
pody polite. If We admitted the island as
a a, state "a or group of states We should have
ie ;e. l, heIp govern us. The prospect of add
ing 10 the present Senate a number of Gu
is pan senators. either native or carpet-ba
IS ole whose terrors it is not unnecessary
10 unfold. Nevertheless, it appears there
IS large party which would not listen to
1ree trade with the island while any other
Ea-lon has the jurisdiction of it, but who
are ready to grab 1t at any cost, and to
take free trade with it, provided that thsy
can get the political burdens, too
Evening star., 1896-07-02
Levce Built by Pumping.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
Lieut.. Roche Of the United States En-
gineer Corps, who was in charge OF the
levee district below New Orleans has been
trying a plan of building levees with hy-
draulic pump at a point sixty miles below
the city. If the experiment is the complete
success that is claimed for it, it would re-
duce the cost of levee construction to
minimum, and save the people Of the lower
Mississippi valley hundreds OF thousands
of dollars annually.
The idea is not altogether new. but the
difficulty was in holding the mixture Of
water and river mud thrown up on the
shore by the dredge. This has finally been
overcome by means of plank1ng, which
keeps the mixture within limited terri
tory The planking leaked at first. but the
use of willows stopped the leaks. and the
experiment is now success.
The levees in Lieut.. Roche's district are
being built not by manual labor, as all
have heretofore been constructed, but by
the mammoth steam dredge Ram. The old
system was Objectionable. not only because
it cost a great deal, although 1t has fallen
10 per cent in cost during the last ten
years, but also because the levees. being
made Of dirt and not pounded down-this
has been found impracticable-is not COM
pact solid enough, and yields readily to
the pressure of the river. Lieut.. Roche
tried the system Of building levee by
pumping the water and mud from the Mis-
sissippi, and now announces that 1t Is a
success. Levees can undoubtedly be built
in this way. for there is the Plaquemines
levee to show for It, and can be built more
quickly. 1t is more solid and substantial
than the levees built by hand, the soil be-
ing so compact that the crayfish, the bane
of the Louisiana planters, cannot penetrate
it. and this alone, Lieut.. Roche thinks will
make the mud levees extremely popular
The matter of cost Is not thoroughly salts
factory as yet. The new pump-built levee
costs about the same as one constructed
with scrapers or wheelbarrows. but this is
not intended for levee building. but for
dredging. A much cheaper boat can be
built which will do the levee work far more
satisfactorily and will reduce the cost one
half. When this is DONE the levee-building
machine will do all the levee work along
the Mississippi. and get rid Of the thous-
ands of laoorers and convicts who now do
the work u