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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1896-08-22

Mark Hanna, the advance agent
OF the great Republican campaign
side show, has announced in flaming
posters that he'll pot exhibit his
world-renowned goldbug. Bill Nc
kinley, this trip. In other words
the presidential candidate has de-
cided to stay off the stump because
hes afraid to tackle Mr.. Bryan.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1896-08-22

Until w oQnee0ay morning ~ ~.
The convention accomplished but
little at Wednesday's session.
In the afternoon the Populist
notification COMMITTEES, headed BY
J. Ed. Smith, Of Idaho Falls, was
received. The committee Was loudly
applauded 40 they entered the house.
After Chairman Smith was pre-.
sented to Chairman Reid Mr.. Smith
was then formerly introduced. In
regard to HE mission on the subjec,
of fusion Mr.. Smith said:
ut gives me great pleasure, in this the
greatest hour America has seen N 100
years to again como home to Z convention
Of Democrats. (Cheers) We have wand.
cred Ear and many Of % have fallen by
the wayside, but I feel thankful that
again there 10 prospect Of union Of the
people regardless Of pest political sfilia-
tions and that the prospect grows brighter
every hour" (Applanse.)
Mr.. Smith said that the committee
of which be was the chairman had
been delegated the duty Of appris-
ing the Democratic convention OF
the fact that the Populist oonven-
ton had named . committee to
confer with the Democratic commit.
tss. Mr.. Smith said in closing:
~Tsuaai1G nat this union may extend
asvall (deaalsia1 and peoIoaged cheer,)
A. 49, 49, n.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1896-08-22

IstAe One True Blood Purifier. An druggists. 81.
Prepared only BY G. I. Hood & Co, Lowell Mass.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1896-08-22

-, =. ~.m are easy 70 take. easy
Hoods Pills to operate. So uts.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-09-01

called THE Pygmies," about these peo-
pie, very peculiar. Not the least re-
markable of them is the procedure of
oourtship. The young man who has
made his choice addresses himself to
the parents, who never refuse, but send
the girl into the forest, where, before
day, she conceals herself. The young
man must find her.
If he does not succeed he must re-
nounce all claim to her. The wedding
ceremony of these people is equally
curious. NJ. Quatrefages thus describes
it: "The two parties climb two fex-
ible trees growing near each other,
which an old man then makes to bend
toward each other. When the head of
the man touches that of the girl they
are legally married" Turning from
Asia to Europe, we find a very curious
custom prevailing in Roumania. Among
the peasantry of this country, when a
girl attains a manageable age her
trousseau, which has in the mean
while been carefully woven, spun and
embroidered by her mother and herself,
is placed in painted wooden box.
When young man thinks of asking
to be allowed to pay his attentions to
the girl he is at liberty to open the box,
which is always placed in a convenient
position, and examine the trousseau.
If he is satisfied with the quantity and
quality of the dowry he makes formal
application for the girls hand, but, if
not, he is quite at liberty to retire.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-09-01
Absent-Minded.

The story is told of a famous mathe-
matician that he was frequently guilty
during his courtship of walking the
greater part of mile with the young
lady of his choice without speaking.
One evening she took advantage Of his
Observation-Disclosures to play him trick.
She slipped her hand from his arm and
hurried home a nearer way. He contin-
ued to hold his arm in the same position.
walked up the steps of her fathers
house and rang the bell, when, TO his
establishment, she herself opened the
door. He stared in an incredulous man.
ner and exclaimed: why, S, how
in the world did you get on that side Of
the door?'
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-09-01
CLUBS BEGAN IN ATHENS.
Athenians Had the Same Excuses as Men
of To-Day.

The birthplace of the earliest club is
a disputed point, but it is well known
that Numa Pompilius, the second king
of Rome, who died b. c. 673, founded
trade guilds in Rome during his reign,
similar to the guilds of the craftsmen
which play so important part in the
history of the middle ages. At one
time there were so of these guilds in
Rome alone. Later they spread beyond
the metropolis, for the boatmen of the
Seine at Paris and those of the lower
Rhone formed clubs of their own. The
guilds of Rome, however, scarcely an
swer to our idea of a club, says the
Cleveland Recorder. We therefore turn
with greater confidence to Athens.
mated. The old Athenian clubs were
not in all respects similar to those of
modern London and New York, but
there was nevertheless between them
strong affinity. Aristotle, who -four
ished B. c. 3S4, tells us that men of the
same trade and members of a particu-
lar tribe were won't to club together for
business purposes. He goes on to say
that others combined for the sake Of
social intercourse, and adds that these
meet together for the sake of one an
others company, and to offer sacri-
fees; when they meet they both pay
certain honors to the gods, and at the
same time take pleasure and relaxation
among themselves" This would seem
to point to Athens as being the birth
place of the earliest club.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-09-01
SEXTUPLET WINS.
The Big Bicycle Beats the Empire
State Express.
Contest Between Drawn and Steam, In
Which the Former Is Victoriousy-Only
Short Race Owing to an In
tervening Culvert.

The sextupiet bicycle team has ac-
complished the wonderful feat of beat
ing the Empire state express in the
presence of hundreds of spectators, who
looked upon the spectacle with amaze
ment. The riders showed as much
bravado as parachute jumper leaping
from the clouds. Although they had a
trench only four feet wide in which to
speed the pondeTous machine, they kept
it under Roadway for half mile, and
finished four lengths ahead of No. 900.
The train was not, however, under full
Roadway. The cyclists have been riding
the machine since spring in anticipa-
ton of this event. They had practiced
Rt Kirkwood park, where it is smooth
and level, and also in the early morn
ing, on plank roads. In this way they
became accustomed to the humping and
;arring of riding over an uneven sur
face, and William II. BeX, who steered
the machine, had become so expert that
lie could guide it over almost any kind
of road which would permit of pas
sage.
The officers of the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna & Western and the New York
Central railroads were interested in the
experiment, and a section gang spent
several hours leveling up the passage
between tracks two and three feet from
the row of poplar trees opposite the old
baseball grounds in Geddes.
The stretch was not as long as the
men would have liked, it being cut off
10y a culvert and the pumphouse,
through which the wooden brine pipes
PASS. On this account the undertaking
was particularly hazardous, it being
necessary to station a number of men
on either side of the track to catch the
sextuplet as it came up to the mark un-
der Roadway.
Several times in practicing the team
had come very near plunging into the
six-foot trench. On one occasion near
ly all the pedals on one side the ma
chine were smashed. Arrangements
were made whereby the Oswego special
on the Delaware, Lackawanna & West
ern tracks, which came near running
into the sextuplet the other day, came
through little ahead of time, and was
out of the way before the Empire State
ioomed up around the curve.
Here several men were stationed with
white flags. AS soon as the Empire
ehowed around the curve the sextuplet
was pushed off and the men slowly got
under Roadway, rapidly increasing
their speed, however, until the train
came almost abreast of them. Then
they let out at full Roadway and slowly
crept to the front.
The engineer and the passengers of
the train had been informed that a
lace was on, and heads were out of al
most every window. There was great
cheering and excitement all along the
line. A crowd of boys followed and two
or three of them narrowly escaped be-
ing caught under the wheels of the big
machine.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-09-01

Awoman's noblest work is helping baby
into life and health. She is committing a
crime when she helps a sickly baby into the
world. 1t is a crime because it is wholly
within her power to make the baby strong
and healthy. She can do it by the proper
preparation-by taking proper care of her
self during the period of CESSATION. Many
babies die early, or at birth, or are sickly all
their lives because of their mothers ignor-
ance or neglect. Neither is excusable.
Every woman may be strong and well,
and so insure the health OF her baby. If
she will take DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip-
ton during the period of CESSATION, she will
find that she will have none of the discom-
forts incident to this condition, and that
parturition will be free from danger, and
comparatively free from suffering. This
medicine is the greatest remedy in the
world for all the forms of weakness or dis
ease peculiar to women. 1t is the only
medicine of its kind prepared by regu-
larry graduated, experienced and skilled
specialist in the treatment of diseases of
women. 1t is the only medicine in the
world that will make the coming of baby
safe and easy. You can get it at the drug
stores. If you want to know all about it,
address DR.. r. V. Pierce, chief consulting
physician to the Invalids' Hotel and Sur
gical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y.
All those who suffer from biliousness,
headaches, art-burn, fatulence, palpita-
hon of the heart, and generally sluggish
action of the digestive organs should take
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. They are
tiny, sugar coated granules. Forty in a
little vial. One Pellet" is gentle laxa-
tive; two mild cathartic. By druggists.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-09-01
RAILROAD TIME TABLE.
| & q. N. RAILROAD.
NORTH BOUND.

NORTH BOUND.
$50 pm
ARRIVE FROM THE NORTH.
Arrive from Austin and North. $50 an
IT'S I'D
SOUTH BOUND.
Leave for Laredo and Mexico. .9.45 a. m.
ARRIVE FROM THE SOUTH.
Arrive from Laredo and Mexico 7.3o p. N
M. K. & T.-FROM l. & G. N. DEPOT
TRAINS LEAVE DAILY.
Leave for Waco, st. Louis and
Kansas Clty ........ ........ o.oO "
TRAINS ARRIVE DAILY.
Arrive from Waco, St. Louis
and Kansas City,. 900. $50 a. u
SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD
EAST BOUND.
Leave for Houston, Galveston
and New Orleans. ...:....... u.2O Am
Leave for Houston, Galveston
and New Orleans. ............ 1000 . N
ARRIVE FROM THE EAST.
Arrive from New Orleans, Gal
weston and Houston. ......... 7.25 q. NJ.
Arrive from New Orleans, Gal
weston and Houston. Asp 10
WEST BOUND.
Leave for Eagle Pass and Mex
leo. .......... 80. ......... AS pm,
Leave fer Ell Paso and San
Francisco. ........ .......... $50 am
ARRIVE FROM THE WEST
Arrive from Mexico and Eagle
Pass. .....................ll. 90 an,
Arrive from San Francisco and
81 Paso .......... 80. 93Opm,
s. A. & A. P. R. EMISSION ROUTE
TRAINS LEAVE DAILY.
Leave for Cuero, Houston, Gal
weston and Waco. 800 a. III
Leave for Beeville, Rockport
and Corpus Cristi... ......... 2.2S pa
TRAINS ARRIVE DAILY
Arrive from Cuero, Houston,
Galveston and Waco. ...... 705 pm
Arrive from Corpus CristI, Bee
Vile and Rockport. TAO p n
LEAVE DAILY, EXCEPT SATURDAY
Leave Daily, except Saturday, for
Kerrville, Boerne and Comfort 30 II
ARRIVES DAILY, EXCEPT SATURDAY..
Arrive from KerrviIle. ..... $50 . n
LEAVE SATURDAY, ONLY.
Leave for herrvllle ......... 2 90 D. II
ARRIVE SATURDAY ONLY.
Arrive from Kerrville, Saturday, $50 =. n
S. A. & GULF SHORER.
DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Leave San Antonio. .... 500 q. n
Arrive San Antonio. go. LOO p. n
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-09-01
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
Reason why 1t Is Becoming the Univer-
sal Tongue.

Everywhere in the United States"
Father Chiniquy says, "the children of
French Canadians, as soon as they ac-
quire the English language at school,
give up the use of French, except to
speak to their mothers. By this proc
ess the French must rapidly disappear.
It is the same here. A little girl came
to me this morning"-hew was staying in
Montreal-"sent by a parent who had
heard me preach and had promised to
come and see me. She spoke to me in
English for some time, and when said
to her: MATS ne pouvez-vous parler
Francais?' she replied: o mon Dieu,
est-ce que je parle Anglais" There is
a reason for this" the old Frenchman
continued.
81 recently read an article in a maya.
zinc about English the Universal Lam
guage,' but the writer did not know the
true reason. I am in the midst of it,
and 1 know. 1t is because they can ex-
press themselves with greater ease in
English than in French"
And NJ. Chiniquy went on to make the
startling avowal, says the Contempt
rary Review: "When I write a book,
and have written many, write it in
English and then translate it into
French. find it more easy to do it in
that way. Your expressions are more
direct, your syntax more simple and the
sounds of your language are more forci-
BILE. Listen" And springing to his
feet the old man shouted: "Fire!"
There is some sound" he added.
"What can we say in French? 'Feu.' 1t
Is lost. You can say 'ReadyP"-again
in sonorous shout. with US it is
'pret;' there Is no sound. All aboardl'
with us it is 'embarquex,' but you can
not hear It at ten feet. Yes, sir, the
English is bound to become the univer-
sal language"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-09-01
NEW TREASURY NOTE POPULAR
The One Dollar Silver Certificate Being
Taken Up Rapidly.

The treasury department has almost
sprung a sensation on the country in
the issue of the new one dollar silver
certificates. The bill has proved very
popular, and demands for it have come
in from banks in all parts of the coun-
try. The officials have been obliged to
put a limit on the amount that will be
issued for the present TO any one bank,
and the figure is fixed at $500.
There has been a sort of local run
ON the treasury to get the new note,
and, in self-defense, the treasurer has
been obliged to decline to pay them out
except when convenient.
There has been every day since the
notes first came out string of appli-
cants for them, like that at box office
at a popular playhouse. For three
weeks persons whose friends in the
treasury have mentioned to them tho
prospective issue have been writing
with Enclosures of cash asking for an
exchange.
Some of the banks have offered gold
for the new notes, and these have al
WAYS been accommodated to the full
amount offered.
In ali about $4,000 of the notes has
been drawn out in Washington, while
some $4,000 has gone to the country
at large. Over $4,000 was sent away
the other day.
1t is only question of short time
when there will be plenty TO supply
every call.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-09-01
ARE YOU GOING

North or East this Summer? II so, try
the SANTA FE LIMITED a solid vesti.
ule train between Galveston and st.
Louis; no dirt, no dust.
A delightful mountain ride through In
dian Territory, Arkansas and Missouri.
Pullman Buffet Sleepers. Reclining
Chair Cars, (seats free.)
Entire train lighted with Pintch Gas.
For the lowest rates and other informa-
ton, address any SANTA FE representa-
tive, or w. s. KEENAN,,
General Passenger Agent,
Galveston, Texas
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-09-01
Read This Carefully.

At a Bargain: A stone and brick
house, of seven rooms, bath, two
story barn, COW stable, chicken house
water works, lot I4Ox20S feet; situated ON
one Of the highest points around the city:
south exposure. Call and see JOHN T
HAMILTON & Co,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-09-01
ROYAL Relics.

A cambria shirt worn by Louis XVI
on the day before his death realized
$50, and the napkin used at mass on
the morning of his execution $500, at a
recent London sale.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-09-01
COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE.

Curious Customs Practiced In other
Parts of the World.
Some of the customs peculiar to
courtship and marriage among the race
of dwarfs who inhabit the Andaman
island are, according to M. de Quat-
refages. who recently published book
y,.,, i. a a. :. g5yssfs. ....ss.sOj
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-09-01
w. G. WAGNER,
DEALER IN

Fresh Beet, Mutton, Pork, Sausage, Etc.
Market-Cor. Leal and San Marcos
streets.
Delivered to any part Of the city.
New-York tribune., 1896-06-04
REAL ESTATE.
BUSINESS AT THE EXCHANGES.

The sales yesterday at the auction rooms were
confined to four under foreclosure proceedings al
sbe broadway Real Estate Saesroom ana TWO py
order of executors at the Liberty Street EXCHANGE
There was also an offering at the latter room py
r. v Hatnett & Co. Of tract OF eighty acres III
broadway ard Odell-ave., fonkers, WITHIN sTi ,N
distance of the property known as Greystone. ne
crowd was large. but the biddlng was uuii' anu '
property withdrawn. ~ ID v
At the Broadway Real Estate Salesrooin' n V
Harnett & Co sold, in foreclosure. southern bouie
ward, west side. 322s1 feet north OF Ireh'o"'-
ss 70x25xSOx27 a., to j. Schwarz for s3lN - W.
One-hundred and thirty -second-st. three-s''tS
brick dwelling lot l6Sx99.l1 10 the painiih A v
Pancoast for S. 600: also in similar proceeuinss'
2s2 West Twenty-n.nth-st. three-story or'k pY o1
ing No 2S4 a two-story brick building ana Nos. -So
and 23S a six-story brick factory, ali on p'''
747ibxlOs9 to A. Cary for S0.s'O oe,, , ,o
w W Fogg scld in foreclosure. Nos ~ anu bni,S SV
Front-st t.yo four-story brick buildings 10. Sl.,2
x73Sx37 Sx7Os. to the plantn. Randolph "usse"
heimer, for so 635. , y 11ar,o.. g.
Ar the Liberty Street Exchange. X. v hSrnet q
Co sold. at executors sale. No l4o W eSi rOi
fourth-st a four-story DrownStone oWel"iss, 4eo
"a xslco5 &c j. Boehmke for s3l $50 also NO ov
Madison, ST. a four-stOry brick teneinehi-house' V'
s2y529 10 ] Kennedy for &i.lO. =, ooo
I Rleecker & Son sold at executor sdie, NJ 200
Seoond-ave a three-story brownstOne dweiIihS' lOt
lIx5O TO Bruno Schventer for s0.Sel - -
Al private contract Charles Buck mas sol9 tme
second one of his row Of unfinished private u"eII-
fngs No 2S9 West Seventy secondst. S5NcVNlVz' LOT
sos 800.
New-York tribune., 1896-06-04
1880
5000

schae.er Emil. to John W Cornish, lots 81 to 3S.
block SlS ana oIs pah 1 70 o. ssd am Ward demand 1880
sar,a rronerfv 2S 900
The st Joseph's Institute for the Improved In
struction Of Deaf Mutes TO the Emigrant IN
dusrial Savings Bank. unnamed street ne F.
80 II wide map Of Union Hill Farm at foru-
ham runs from lot 10 said map TO road from =, ooo
West Farms. year 4"'oo'
Bliss Ephalet W. and wife TO Title guarantee
and Trust Company Nos p and - West olst- y, ono
William + Camilla Mary a sheldon $, nm
Washington ave, 100 ~ Of 1SWh ST. years. oWV
Cregan Cornella W and Annie A. 10 Sarah II
Coley Ewood and Hillside ss at centre inter mn
lines. years "'o'V
Decker Charles y. and wife TO Charles Hart
Honest l6Ith-st. 30 Fl OF Ilnton-aVe' y 49,
mortgages years WV
Ehrenreich Berman and Moses, to Alfred y
Rcadlestcn and William L Skidmore. trustees. 10 ~,
etc n li5h-st 80 II Of Lenox-ave year 2"V"
Campbell Madison-ave los II n Of >o,h-s'. o oo>
/, man William. ana wife 10 Judson Todd. ,-o.o
100 ist 50 Il W Of Park-ayc mortgages year o'""
Mara. Michael Denis Parringon No 40 West 70,
Osborn. William F. Lewis w Minford. 4itl- o,o
ST. 4s 10 Il . of 6thavc. ............... oV"
Pollock John j. Francis J Heilmann. = llith- oDo
i25 Of 2i-ave years. ...-. o'o'V
Werfrlman George II. and wife 10 the Enigra'N
Industrial savings Bank Madison lave. cor n osso
l3Jl-st. year "''
Worarth william and wife the Institution for
tho Savings OF Merchants Clerks Courtlandt- ~,
ave ljsth-si. years. .............'' IN"
New-York tribune., 1896-06-04
BOARD AND ROoMs

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elevated r.ea
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rooms. with ~ without h,ari
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small ''D. rooms. fsbl~ lncsc.il,i. s.rvic.
efcucrr
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priyate house: one or two haari.rs
New-York tribune., 1896-06-04
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