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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-31

Inc LudtrOn, sclnSH US Sne
Has gen'r ous bursts and noble moods;
At times, her bosom arid waste,
Is water'd by affections floods
THE WORST OF MEN STILL HUMAN
The worst of men, so called, are not
Without humanity They could
Not be, and live Humanity
Is Natures law It's always stood,
And stand il will till crack of doom.
1t is the highest and the best,
The limit of our consciousness,
The measurement of rest.
If of our fellows some show best
Outside, there Others are who keep
Tho best within, and disappoipt
Delightfully."-. These slowly creep
Into esteem with us. They dare
To brave the world, content to seem
Worse than they are, because aware
That Life is real, not dream.
The SO styled scoffers are of these;
Their fame precedes them everywhere:
1t gathers darkness as it grows; .
For no one will invectives spare.
They are condemn d by their own speech
purify less Ddu IMAM Wudt tDty uO-
And judging them by what themselves
Declare, is but their proper due.
The cynic smiles to greet their voice;
Self-calumny is sweet to hear,
Since they alone its authors are,
And have no cause to scandal fear.
Opinion he contemns, derides
As based on nothing save conceit;
Goodness and honor are but names,
The empty prattle of the street
The public do not understand
The cynic or the cynic's ways
Beginning as idealist
He turns In deep distrust, amaze,
| From what to him the world reveals;
He's disarpointod, very sore,
At his malign experience,
Which broods he over moro and more
His brooding thus his discomfort
Embltters, both his hesrt and mind;
TIL, from sympathetic soul,
He turns railer 'gainss lis Kind
But while he snarls and rails and raves
His noblrness remains the same.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-31

Not all our years are prosperous;
Nor trade nor commence ever thrives.
There must be times OF stagnancy,
When almost nothing moves or drives
1t is the same throughout the world.
Trade, like the tides, has ebb and flow;
The seasons Of prosperity
Are dull and bright: they come and 60
We have excess of enterprise
1t is an Anglo-Sa fault
We work TOO hard; we live too fast;
We tire; but yet we will not halt
And as we sow, so shall we reap.
Among the grain are many tares.
The price of all complete success
Is days of toll and anxious cares
The Nation ever onward moves,
Although, at times, its course seems
slow
We reck not Of dependency,
Nor heed misfortune's heaviest blow
Democracy Is in the air,
We breathe it deeply, and grow strong.
The cause of human rights is ours;
And such a cause goes never wrong.
Despite defects, our government
Remains the best the world has seen.
Remembrance of its victories
In peace and war will be kept green.
In the Old World, while men aspire
To independence and self-rule,
America will ever DO
For elder peoples tho Free School,
Where tho oppressed may lessons learn,
BY COPY, that will help them most,
To loyal be unto themselves
And all the Earth's down-trodden host
While proud Columbia scars and shines,
Humanity may be redeem'd
From bonds and bondage of the mind,
As has from early times been droam'd.
So long the present century
Has stood for Progress and Reform,
For what is good, and what is great,
For fruitful sun against the storm,
That tn age to come appears as though
1t must evince decline, decay,
Like gath ring shades that soon succeed
The mellow. golden, glorious day.
ARE THINGS AS THEY SHOULD BEi
But & this teaching strictly true?
Do facts respond to what should be?
Do Fortune and the moral code,
As.we should like to think, agrees
As has been sung, the Press reveals,
Not what is best, but worst in Life,
Its darkness, discord and its ills
To peace. content, preferring strife.
Whatever this the blood or heart,
As grand sensations ever will,
Arouses curiosity,
Or makes the pulses leap and thrill.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-31
RHYMES or The PERIOD.

fcopyright, 1887 by American Press Asso-
ciation-1
THE LESSON OF LIFE.
With each New Year, NOW hopes arise,
However dark the Old has been:
We feel, still smarting from defeat,
A better chancs Is u5bered in.
What's past has past; wen grieve no more
For days and deeds forever fed;
Well greet to-morrow's rising SUI,
And baslx in beams around us shed.
grhs New Year goes; In surn is old;
And all our dreams prove dreams alone
When viii he Year that opes SO bright,
For its ,a;se promises atoneS
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-31

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AZ iiff'rent mora, rnahlv claim.
Il Nurture IS ~ cood .n6 tu
And ~ and sorrow ana the same
1sfe is rbat ~, Who Iives Il thinks.
no g can 81 - ,s %:
) tn ven assur'd that we are free
Each crowded city mirrors Life;
The daily news Is Hist'ry's page;
II gives In full, with al details,
Thu very spirit Of the age.
The tragic and the comb meet;
In printed columns, hide by side
We read what Human Nature is,
Romance and Poetry are there;
Without or Art or clnssic strain;
The characters Of ancient Greece
And ancient Rome there breathe again.
Not only in the past were born
Heroes and saints Of mighty name;
The present holds them; but, as yet,
We can't appreciates the few,
Who are our neighbors or our friends;
We needs must walt till death or time
Its mystery and magic lends
We ever look to yesterday
For what is grandest, highest, best,
Unconscious that the fair to-day
Sustains the most exalted crest.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-31

so many stl1tOrS hover rOunQ
They form'd AN ardent, signing band.
Tho gossiW named the happy man;
And eachfe sure that he was right
Had it been so, how very sad
Erinta's matrimonial plight
Polygamous had been her lot
With husbands plenty, and to spare,
She had been blessed, or strangely curs'd,
With one for ev'ry work-day wear,
The law of love, or fear of law
Confin d her to a single lord:
Though, had she listen'd to their prayers,
She would have had horde.
The nuptials gilded were, and swell
The crowd that overhowed the church
OF all the look'd for suicides,
Not one repaid the active search
Love, now a-days, RECEIVERS soon.
To try erotic chance again;
Believing that, while women live,
They will supply demands from men.
The happy man was envied much
Perhaps-but only for week;
And ere the honeymoon was out,
Strange curious tongues began to speak
Erinta was sorry shrew
Her husband could not dwell In peace
With her, nor any mortal man:
Her blazing temper would increase
From morn to night, and, at its worst.
Was dangerous to life and limb
He quiet was: SO furious she,
She threaten'd and she frightened him.
He fed at last, by terror seiz'd,
Nor ever ventura to return.
Rather than live with her again,
Ho would, he vow'd. in Sheol burn.
The wits and cynics had their jests-
How tn angel had a devil prov'd.
Expos'd to pure domestic joys,
The peace of home her soul had mov'd
To fierce revolt. If pot a wife,
She would have kept her charm, her
grace;
Remain'd the darling that she was;
She was not of domestic race
The change in her was wholly due,
They said, to wedlock and its woes.
Her poet nature had not warp'd,
Except for weary, humdrum prose.
| A single month had done the i'll,
Mischief, mischance, constraint and strife
Had turn'd the current of her days,
Merely because she was a wife.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-31
THE AUGUST MATRoN.

The August matron, widely known,
Whose praise is on a thousand lips,
You may have seen She fortune owns
And all it brings. Bee like she sips
From every bud, from ey'ry bloom,
From Flora's rarest, choicest sweets.
She gains and keeps, where'er she goes,
A friend of every one she meets
Life seems to watt TO smile, on her
1t never shows the slightest frown,
Each day is rounded out, and full;
Each day to her must wear crown
Nor is she spoil'd, as one might think.
BY these high courtesics of Fate;
She's always simple, kind and true
Amidst her grind, her proud estate.
At least SO say adniring friends.
Whose word and Judgment are esteem d
The matron scarcely has fault;
Or If she has, nobodys dreamd
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-31
DOMESTIC HARMONY.


DOMESTIC HARMONY.
A manly man who seeks the love
OF any woman good and pure,
Is not disposed to cringe and crawl.
To make his acceptation sure
His pride would not permit such course.
Nor dignity nor self-esteem;
And then be knows that, after that,
He never could himself redeem
Ev'n In too fond, too partial eyes.
A slavish admiration she
Nor would nor could endure from him,
In whom she sought affinity. /
Love fails to last that's unreturn'd,
Though passion may, unqualified.
This RACES, rants, and vows by Jove
1t never can be pacifed.
But love that's honest, unalloy'd,
Is not SO wild, SO turbulent.
It does not Waste such nervous force:
Its every word is eloquent
That woman's ceas'd to care for men,
Or marriage, is hyperbole.
She seeks no more, If she has sought,
From self-support herself to free
By matrimonial enterprise.
This is uncertain, as she's found.
Having resolv'd to work herself,
She firmly stands on her own ground.
From her long nuptial feverish dream,
She has awakened thoroughly
She Hymen sees with undimm'd eyes,
She bears herself most worthily.
She breads no more plain spinstership:
She fears not now the name, old maid.
Good sense and reason have come back:
She occupies to-day higher grade
Than hitherto She will advance
Henceforth with strong and steady
strides.
She's loyal to her womanhood
At best. Nor can it be denied
Her power is greater than before,
Her influence widelier felt.
Her noble, her poetic name
Has nearly ceas'd to be misspelt.
II woman's growing more like man,
He's growing more like her as well.
They both will gain by interchange;
By it will work a potent spell.
She'll have more will; he'll have more
heart:
She'll clearer think; he'll deeper feel:
They'll both resemble glove of silk
Outside the hand of flexile steel.
The law of Natures constant change,
Advance, ascension higher, higher;
We ever grow, we ever mount,
While we are conscious to aspire.
No loss of hope, no cause for fear;
We can in Nature wholly trust.
Though cruel she may sometimes seem,
She can nos be but good and just.
THE CARRIERS RECOMPENSE.
So ends my lay, humble song,
without the least pretensc
Or offer of defense,
Beyond the fact, my faith is strong
In all I've pip'd, or sung, or said
| No poet agree:
| My mind and muse are free
| To follow true whereer they're led.
They speak from out their inmost souls,
| Not from authority,
Nor pick propriety,
But as conviction springs and rolls
A Carrier alone am
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-31

.ays or TOLL
Now fast and strong our Country grows
81 The richest land on EARTH
Il but hundred years have sped
,lnce this great Nations birth
( anrlr as we are. we've had our throes,
CIR days Of darkness and OF sun,
ar tron bles. trials. struggles, strifes;
And vet, thus far. we've nobly won
ne future has its iorils. too
BUT we shall face them, as before,
E eth boldncss hope and rugged strength,
Jndaunted TO the very core
FAITH IN OUR COUNTRY.
hs ,e no fears. Our patriot pride
win serve Us in our direst need;
mr. confidence IS in ourselves,
In earnest efforts certain need
Our faith u In the Peoples will;
Onr highest boast that we are freaA
We could not. even II we would,
To King or tyrant bend the knee
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-31
'sHE NUPTIALs.

OF naming It If she were vain
And flattery might have made her so
No spark of vanity appears
Beneath her selfrestraint to grow.
Alas, there - another Side
The sidt that 5 seen by very few;
Whose eyes both keen and critical,
Can mke q broad. unbias d view
The niatron Isl hollow snaHis
She : ~nr,,,a selfish 70 the core
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-31

The matron, selfish as she is,
Has gen 'rous bursts and noble moods;
At times, her bosom arid waste,
Is water'd by affections floods
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-12
II CONGRESS STREET, WEST
rds and photographs hardly want them

cards and photographs hardly want them
to take this course"
1--WE have a great deal of trouble with
packages" continued Mr.. Warning "Peo-
pie are constantly sending packages with
out sufficient postage. Christmas pack
ages sent In this way are liable not to
reach their destinations on time. We
are required to examine each package,
and to see that no written matter is con-
tained therein. If a package contains
written matter Ii must pay fun letter
rates, even If it weighs a ton. We have
a great deal of trouble with newspapers,
too. People general have an idea that any
newspaper can be sent for / cent. This
Is a mistake. The rate for newspapers
is / cent for each four ounces The Sun
day edition of the Morning News calls for
2 cents. People are constantly undertake
ing to send off copies Of the Sundayr pa
per with a 1-cent wrapper, The conse-
quence Is that we hold up the paper here
at the office. We have two blk boxes for
that especial purpose. and they are usu-
ally kept fun of just such matter"
another thing which people
should be careful Of" said Mr.
Waring, us this: No miscella-
neous merchandise of any kind can be
sent abroad by mail. This Is prohibited
by agreement of the international postal
union. If this were permitted dutable
articels might be sent in this manner"
Does the annual Christmas rush in
crease the postoffice receipts at that timer
Mr.. Warning was asked.
''Not a bit" he replied. at gives us
lot of extra work, but there is no percep-
tible Increase in revenue. There Is big
increase In the bulk of the matter handled
and this is what gives us trouble. Pack
ages Of all shapes and sizes are received,
some with the address in one corner and
the postage in the other The letters are
also more difficult to handle because there
are so many odd shapes and sizes. The
ladies' use all sizes and styles of envelopes
and the unassorted mixture is hard for the
clerks to handle very rapidly. The amount
of postage used for Christmas presents
does not seem to count up very much in
our sales. The people who run up our
receipts are the railroads, who buy hun
dreds of dollars worth at a time, and the
big business houses, which also buy in
large quantities. The greatest rush in the
postofiice business Is the first few days of
each month when a tremendous pile OF
mail matter comes in, so much 80 that we
are hardly able to handle it."
People who will carefully address their
packages, placing also the address of the
sender in one corner, and seeing to 1t that
the proper amount OF postage Is on the
package, will save themselves the post
office employees and the intended recipients
of the packages, much trouble and annoy
ance. and insure the delivery of the pack
age
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-12
TO ASK FOR A RE-HEARINc
EA-Poiicemnn Schroeder Wants tn
Explain His TESTIMONY.

EA-Policemnn Schroeder Wants To
Explain His Testimony.
me police commission will be asked In
rev days to reopen the Investigation
which recently resulted In the discharga
or Policeman Schroeder for variances in
MS testimony before the fire commission,
and Acting Mayor Hamilton In regard
to the charge that men and women were
seen going into ana out of the city ex-
change at late hours.
After the discharge Of Policeman sobro-
"er' nothing was given out by the police
commission, except that there vera ,yera
material differences In his testinnonS, s,,f
neient to warrant them in retiring the a.
ficer Inns 'iie ol-
1t Is claimed by Schroeder that an In
justice has been done him in regard 70
matters TO which he testified. With tha
nope OF having the case reopened, he will
state IN his petition to the commission
that MS statement before the fire COM
mission was that he had clos
ca the exchange door twenty times .
ana not that he had seen ner-
sohs entering there so often. The
peutlon' II Is said, viii further state that
schroeder is a German and cannot express
hlmseh distinctly ana clearly at all times
ana Tor that reason was probably misun-
derstood.
Whether or not the case will be reopened
depends largely Upon The view the COM
mlssloners take of the matter. 1t is I'M
derstood they devoted considerabIe time
TO investigating the case, and were thor
oughly satisfied that there was Irregular
lty IN the statements made before them.
While the alleged discrepancies were in
the testimony before the fire commission
ana the acting mayor, and not the police
eo'il lli they were deemed sufficient
to act upon, Notwithstanding the testi-
mony was given outside the police depart
ment.
1t is understood that the request to re-
open the case is not for the purpose OF
hghting the police commission. but simply
20 place the ex-policeman rightly before
or not.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-12
CHRISTMAS IN THE MAILS.
Uncle Sans Regulations to Be More
Strictly Enforced.


People who avail themselves of Uncle
Sans postal service for the delivery of
their Christmas cards and present must
be a little more careful this year than
heretofore.
Postmaster Haines requests the an
nouncement for the benefit of the public
that the postal regulations with re-
gard to the amount of postage, character
of contents of packages and addresses
will be fully enforced this year. Mr.
Haines does not admit 10 any laxity or
irregularity on the part of the postoffice
employees heretofore, but it is to be In
ferred that in the rush of business on pre-
Vious Christmasses the employees have not
not, perhaps, enforced the regulations as
strictly as upon ordinary occasions.
Assistant Postmaster Warning has ad-
dressed letter to Postmaster Haines out
lining the regulations and setting forth
the circumstances under which it will be
necessary to enforce them. A Morning
News reporter called at the postoffice yes
terday and had a talk with Mr.. Warning
on this subject.
THE regulations viii be strictly enforced
this year" he said, land / would be glad
if you would call attention of the public
to the matter in order that trouble and an
ed. People who send out Christmas cards
and packages should see to IL that the
packages are properly addressed. they
have the necessary amount of postage and
that they contain no written matter. other
than the names and address Of the sender
and the addressee. All letters and pack
ages containing written matter. whether
sealed or unsealed are charged for as first
class and all sealed envelopes must also
pay frst-class postage. Many people en-
close Christmas and New Years cards in
1-cent envelopes with some such inscrip-
ton on the back as with love and affec-
ton from auntie,' or something OF that
kind. People who don't want their Christ
mas cards delayed would do well to avoid
this or they can pay the full rate of post
age and enclose what they please. pho
tographs are very commonly sent in ordi-
nary Photographic envelopes, with only n
1-cent stamp. Naturally, for better seeur-
ity, many people seal them by pasting
down the flap of the envelope This calls
for first-class postage. First-class postage
Is also required when anything IS writ
ten on the photograph except the name
and address of the sender, When the fun
amount of postage has not been placed
upon the envelope, 1t Is held and the send
err, II his address appears upon the en-
velope, is notified to come forward and
pay the additlonalk postage required If
the senders address is not given the let
ter is forwarded and the addressee noti-
fed that a certain amount Of postage Il
due. II they come forward and paw NJ
all right. II not, the matter goes 10 the
dead letter Office. People who send out
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-12
FOUGHT WITH A TIN CUP.
Domestic settO Wound Up i'm Mag
isfrnIe,s Omce.

There were two people in Justice Wick
hams Office yesterday, bleeding rather
profusely from the effects Of fight. Max
Cohen. an umbrella repairer, was one of
the parties. and Dollie Brooks. an aged
colored woman, was the other.
The fight had just come to finish and
the participants went to Justice Wickham
to place the whole thing before him. He
had no time to argue the question, as the
fighters were determined to make the JUS
tice listen to their story. Both Max and
Doile were excited and were importunate
In getting warrants. Each wanted the
other arrested. The justice did not know
what to do for awhile, but finally solved
the problem on the principle first come,
first served" The woman was inside the
door first and therefore got a warrant
against Cohen by priority When arrested
by officer Kiley, he was taken to Jail
Before leaving, however, Cohen explain
ed the trouble to the justice. The woman
was nurse employed at his house to care
for his children. Something occurred
which he did not fancy and the attention
Of the woman was called to 1t in an en-
phatic manner. This was resented and
Cohen then told her to leave the house,
which she declined to do without her
wages. To enforce his orders, Cohen
struck the woman on the head. inhicting a
severe cash. and the woman grabbed a
tin cup and returned the attack, using the
cup as sort of weapon.
Shortly after going 70 Jail Cohen man.
aged to get bond and was released. No
sooner than released, he went to Justice
Nathans and swore out a warrant against
the old negro woman. She was arrested
by an officer and in default Of bond lodg-
ed in Jail to await an examination.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-12
OCEAN FREIGHTs.

Cotton-Market easy; rates quoted are
per 100 pounds: Boston, per bale. 81 o..
New York per bale, $1.00; PHILADELPHIA
per bale, $1.O0; Baltimore, per bale 81 .00.
Direct-Barcelona SIC; Genoa. SAC: Reval
soc; Bremen, Acc; Liverpool, 4ic; Havre
4Sc; Hamburg, 45c Gothenburg, sec: TrI,
este, 5Sc; Rotterdam, 45c; Antwerp 45c.
Client. SOC. Via New York-Liverpool. Acc /;
Bremen, 45c; Amsterdam, 45c; Hamburg
40c, St Petersburg, 6Oc; Manchester. Soc:
Havre zoe; Gothenburg, soc.
Lumber-By Sail-Freights are firm al
ruling rates Foreign business Is more
or less nominal. The rates from this ana
nearby Georgia ports are quoted al s4O0GI
45O for a range-incuding Baltimore and
Portland, Me. Railroad ties, base A feet
to Baltimore 12c; to Philadelphia. 1sc; to
New York, 13lzc. Timber rates, 50cG$1 90
higher than lumber rates. ITO the West
Indies and Wlndward. nominal; to Rosa
rio, $l2.00d13.00; 10 Buenos Ayres and
Montevideo, $l0.OOQu.0O; TO Rio Janeiro,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-12
TURPENTINE IN DEMAND.
BUYERS FIRMLY BIDDING 3O1s
CENTS FOn THE OFFERINGS.

The ROsin Market Firm at the Re-
cent Advance in PaIes and NIedi-
um Grades-COttOn Market Quiet
and Unchanged With Light Sales.
The Wholesale Markets Steady and
Fairly Active-MarINets by TeIe-
graph.
Savannah, Dec. 1.-THE feature of the
day in the leading markets was the strong
request for spirits turpentine. Early in
the day 9O1ac was bid for the offerings.
The rosin market remained firm and I'M
changed, with a fair amount of sales re-
ported. The cotton market was unchang-
ed. with the tone quiet and sales limited.
The wholesale markets were steady and
unchanged, with a fair movement in all
departments The following resume of the
different markets, both local and tele-
graphic, will show the tone and the quo
tations at the close to-day: