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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-11
PUT A STOP TO PAIN.

Rheumatism, Neuralgia and other
painful Affections are now as easily
cured as they were once hard TO cure.
Science has learned what pain is and
Billiards. Snow Liniment is the result.
Cures sprains, bruises cuts, stiff joints,
and contracted muscles. Penetrates
to the very Bone and relieves almost
from the moment it touches. When a
liniment is needed, you owe it to your
self to get the best. The dealer is au-
thorized this one. Price so cents. Sold
by E. Reuss and G. Schasse's drug
stores. ..H.F ... ~
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-11
Charles Harry Bailey.

Charles Harry Bailey, negro
about 40 years of age, was adjudged
insane in the Probate court yesterday.
A very good rain fell yesterday af-
ternoon south of this city. Rains were
also reported on the coast line of the
Arkansas Pass railway.
"A trolley party under the auspices
of the Presbyterian Westminster lea
que took place over the Edison lines
last night.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-11

Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Christelles are
happy over the arrival of a fine baby
daughter, at their residence on South
street. .
"A wagon of the Alamo Moving
company was wrecked at the Sunset
freight depot yesterday in a run
away by colliding with an express
wagon of Jim Whitaker.
Louis Smalsal, the popular iceman
is rejoicing over the arrival of a fine
new boy in his household.
Albert Arstein, formerly a clerk
for Wolff & Marx, has bought the book
store of Walter Levy, at 125 Main
plaza.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-11
18th Last Day. Louis.

DR.. ]. l. Terry, of Trimble, Tenn. in
speaking. of Chamberlain's Collie, Chol-
era and Diarrhoea Remedy says: 1T
has almost become necessity in this
vicinity" This is the best remedy in
the world for collie, cholera morbus,
dysentry and diarrhoea, and is recog-
nized as a necessity wherever its
great worth and merit become known.
No other remedy is so prompt or ef-
fectual or so pleasant to take. Sold
by all druggists.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-11

Burning, itching skin diseases in
stantly relieved by De Wits Witch
Hazel Salve. unequalled for cuts,
bruises, burns. 1t heals without leav-
ing scar. E Reuss. 104 East Com
merce street.
ROOFING Felt, Pitch and Asphalt
at HENRY PAULY'S. Tel SO. 5-16-tf
The SILVER KING is the finest
gentlemens' resort in the city. tt
Coming, "White knight" Louis.
For school supplies, 60 to the Rock
Store, at "Arnold's," corner Mason and
Olive streets. 9-5-3t$
18th Last Day. Louis.
Edward Code, charged with petty
larceny, was fined $40 in the Thirty
Seventh District court yesterday and
sentenced to one day in the County Jail
for stealing bale of hay.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-11
FELL INTO A FIT.

',Lentz." Tailor, was the architect
who built the suit. II
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-11
During the refiooring of the Hous

During the refiooring of the Hous-
ton street bridge the city carpenter
and the street car company have work
ed so we'll in concert that the public
has not been subjected to the annoy
ance of transferring from one car to
another at this point.
A. Battaglia is suing ]. II. Stahl
for the cancellation of a mechanics
lien amounting to $4056 on a lot on
Main avenue and for injunction re-
straining defendant from disposing Of
any of the notes for the above amount.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-11

Advertise in the Sunday Light.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-11
ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION, SEPT. sth
TO OCT. 23rd

The l. & G.. n. r. r. will sell round
trip excursion tickets to ST. Louis,
No., Tuesday and Thursday OF each
week between September 9th and Oc-
tober Dist at rates Of fare and one
third, tickets limited ten days for re-
turn. d. ]. PRICE, G. p. & T. A.
9-1-tf Palestine, Tex.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-11

Coming, white knight" Louis.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-10
THEY DON'T ATTEND FUNERALS.
HIS LINGUISTIC LIMIT.

He had been a Latin scholar
And had mastered modern Greek.
For a paltry wagered dollar
He learned Hebrew in a week.
Sanskrit and antique PhPnician
Or the scripts of Yucatan
Were as simple as addition
To this language-learned man.
Patois. race recommendations
And the Chinese alphabet
He knew full well-to fifty nations
He could speak their tongue, and
Yet
Finally his learning failed him
And his thought and speech were
of"
For no language gifts awaited him
With the dialect of golf.
Chicago Record.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-10

LOVE IN THE DIVORCE COURT.
Were all life's roses in the dust
And Fortune ceased caressing.
We'd dine with joy upon a crust
If Love but asked blessing"
At least that was the word he said
Ere he of Love was winner;
Welded, he cut the romance dead
And overturned the dinner,
'To Love a loyal servant now,
To death will / adore him;
I'd take a queens crown from my
brow
And cast its gems before him."
AT least that was the word she said
When on Loves throne she sat
him;
Welded, she merely tossed her head
And cast the nairbrush at him,
Atlanta Constitution.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-10
PATRICK AS \ GUIDE.

Patrick-Ye'n know the church
when yees come TO it by the pecul-
lar shape OF its steeple.
Michael-And what kind OF stee-
pie has it?
Patrick-1t hasn't any at all, at
all-Boston Transcript.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-10
A CLEAN SWEEP.

"What has become Of that man
who used to talk so much about
horses?" asked the commercial trav-
eler.
Gone" replied Derringer Dan.
AN the worst of il is, we don't
know where"
Did he leave no trace"
Trace He didn't leave as much
ez hitchin strap. Washington
Star.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-10
USED TO DANGER.

'Wants TO start for the klondike
now? Great Scott, Does he realize
what a hazardous undertaking it
would be?"
''Oh. yes. But his whole life has
been given up 70 hazardous under
takings- He's a baseball umpire"
Chicago Post
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-10
! FuDFor OctoberDayS
THREE THIEVING CHICAGO TRAMPS.

dirty, tattered Weary Willies recently robbed
E. w. Cramer of Chicago of two overcoats, silk
hats, derby, two Prince Albert suits. business
suit pairs of leather shoes six suits of
silk underwear, They carefully shaved themselves
took three baths and left their rags hats and shoes
behind.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-10
TINE GOING TO WASTE.

willie. what does that man
want out there in the hall?'
He's waiting to see you, but he
says there's no hurry"
How long has he been there?"
About half an hour
"Who is he?"
Hes the plumber. He's come
TO do some work you spoke TO him
about the other day. but he says
he'll wait till you're-What are you
hurryin for, ?"-Chicago Trib-
una.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-10
THE CANDID PERSON

Though candor may not be a sign
OF thickness of the skull.
With people. as with tools, the blunt
Are very often dull.
Detroit News.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-10
POSEBUDS.

POSEBUDS.
Gather - rosebudE while you may.
Old Time has never tarrled.
The smooth girl you might kiss today
Tomorrow NAV be married.
New York Press.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-10
THEN AND NOW.

First Scientist-What fools those
old Puritans were for believing in
witches.
Second SCientist-Seems to me
they must have been half crazed
Well. we must hurry or you'll he
late for your lecture on "Hypnotism
and Crime. New York Weekly.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-10
-oT So UNFORTUNATF

NOT SO UNFORTUNATE.
Great heavens, Here is a poor
han sent to Jail for six months for
uealing a loaf of bread. 1t makes
any blood boil. And yet they call
this q free country"
oh, l don't know. If he had done
such a thing on the klondike trail
ae would have been lynched. In
dianapolis Journal.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-10

LOVES PARADOX.
The archery that's practiced by
Dan Cupid on mis- journeys,
Is different from that we see
Displayed at other Journeys.
For when his magic arrows fly
To teach fair maids what bliss Is,
He always makes the truest hits
Whene'er ne makes the Mrs.
Brooklyn Life.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-10
NOT ON DUTY.

This article, How to Keep Well
is not completed?" said the editor
in chief.
No. sir; the editor of the health
column took some lobster last night,
and he hasn't been able to work to-
day." replied his assistant.-Yon-
kers Statesman
A FALL JINGLE.
The frost is on the pumpkin,
The folders in the shock,
Ny moneys spent, due is the rent,
My overcoat's in hook.
New York Telegram.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-10

NOT A REAL BONANZA KING.
Il wasn't a bit surprised when old
Grabber's estate turned out to be-
worth only a million and a half
Mop"
NO, indeed. I never could find
that he had more than one family"
Detroit News.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-10
"GREAT-GREAT-GREAT- GREAT-GRANDPAPA"
DONE (UP).
Pick Me U

DONE CUP.
And when she went and married,
This girl of whom we sing,
She did a very foolish
(Albeit rich Odd thing.
Detroit Journal.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-10

MODERN CHIVALRY.
Awkward Miss with an umbrella)
beg pardon,
Polite Gentleman-Don't mention
il. L have another eye left.-New
York Weekly.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-10
Chicago Inter Ocean.
JUVENILE LOGIC.

Sunday School Teacher (after de-
livering homily on loving and re-
specting ones parents)-You always
obey your parents, do you not, chill
dren?
Class Tin unison)-Yes'
Teacher-Now, Jimmie Jones, you
may tell us why you do so.
Jimmie (promptly)-'Cause dey're
bigger'n me, an ! gotter.-Harper
Bazaar.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-10

EVEN MORE EFFECTIVE.
with the aid Of my wheel re-
marked the party who had hitherto
done most % the talking. Il can
cover more ground than by any
other means.
The party who had lost both legs
and arms demanded eKcitedly. did
you ever Try dynamite ?''-Detroit
Journal.
8iOMENTARY ABSENCE OF
MIND.
What r. the name % your type
writer. Gwiliing17'
'Llz-I-f mean the Smlthiagt0n.'
Chicago Tribune.
IN CHICAGO.
"Hc'E an alderman. you know"
Yes. I know ne r.. but ! never
heard anything else q his dlscred-
if."-rhicaRp Post.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-10
FIII.ING 4 WANT

FILLING a WANT.
Il want a dollar, Jones. and I
want IL bad"
All right. Take this counterfeit"
Harlem Life.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-10
ANSWERED.

what are the powers of Eu-
rope?" inquired the very young wo-
man.
The veteran diplomat looked at
her thoughtfully and then replied.
For a long time past they have
been chiefly conversational powers"
Washington Star
The record-union., 1897-04-16
A Munchausen Anniversary.

The German DR.. Dryasdust seems to
be always on the lookout for some eX-
cuse for celebrating a literary centen-
airy. The very latest of these festive
and learned anniversaries, according
to the Munich "Neueste Nachrichten,"
was held in memory of the death of
Baron Munchausen, which occurred on
February -, 1897. Many a reader of
the fictitious adventures of the famous
hero of the 'Munchhausenaid" (Which
was first published in English at OK
ford during the lifetime of this prince
of all laTS) have no conception that
the hero was a real person. Baron
Hieronymus Karl Friedrich Won Mum
chausen was a Hanoverian nobleman.
a subject of cur first three Georges; he
was born in 1920 and died in 1897. He
took service in a Russian cavalry regi-
ment, but retired in old age to his an
cestral estate at BOdenwerder, in Han
over, where he became notorius for
the magnificent lies about his military
adventures with which he used to en-
tertain his neighbors at his hOspitable
board A collection of these stories,
entitled ''Vademecum fur lustige
Leute," was published at Berlin in
1871, with the Baron's permission. The
English. work, Baron Munchausen's
Narrative of His Marvellous Travels
and Campaigns in Russia was an ex-
pansion and Improvement of the Berlin
collection.
The record-union., 1897-04-16
Snake Stories.

Scientists concede that the sea SER
pent is a, possibility. The extent OF the
sea is so vast and so little is really
known of it's inhabitants that varieties
of prehistoric monsters may still exist
in it's depths.
The snake has more back bones or
vertebrae than any other creature; for
serpents, even of the smallest size, COM
monty have more than 100; some of the
largest pythons and boas have over
400.
The story about the rattlesnake
charming birds and small animals has
been repeated so often, and with such
circumstantiality of detail, that the
naturalists concede there is strong
probability of it's truth.
The life of the serpent is sometimes
protracted far beyond period that
would be deemed reasonable. In the
python temples of Western Africa there
are serpents which are known to have
been there a century and half ago.
The serpent is, in Christian art, an
attribute of St. Cecilia, st. Euphemln
and many other saints, being assigned
to them either because they destroyed
the power of Satan or because they
cleared one or another country OF rep
tiles.
There is one species of snake in the
genus Deirodon which feeds exclusively
upon the eggs of small birds. Its teeth
are very small and are soon lost. The
eggs are swallowed whole, and when
passing through the gullet are broken
by a device somewhat similar TO the
eiZZard
The record-union., 1897-04-16

size. A few years ago the great CHM
General John A. Dix was born was torn
down and found to contain 100000 of
brick. The chimney of the Darling
house in this town, destroyed about the
same time, was about as large It's
removal provided the house with a
good-sized additional room. Almost
all the seventeenth century houses were
wooden, though about the oldest struc-
ture in New England was built of
stone at Guilford, Conn, in or near
1858. Exeter's oldest, the Darling
house, is about ten or eleven years
younger. Exeter had only three brick
houses dating far back into the eigh-
teenth century, and now has only two.
If they still can be called brick after
being covered with wood and receiving
large wooden extensions. These are the
Peavy house, on the Newmarket road,
and the cid house off Water street
built by Nathaniel Ladd. Both were
erected between 1920 and 1870, the
Peavy house, of which James Gilman
was the builder, replacing an older
structure which had been burned The
very picturesque bennett Gilman
house, a brick structure with gambrel
roof, which stood about where the
Amos Tuck house now stands, was torn
down about sixty years ago. The block
near the Great Bridge is of nineteenth
century origin, having been built by
Major Simeon Folsom about 1913.
Dwelling house architecture first be-
came a really fine art in New England
during the flush times which interviewed
between Wolfe's capture of Quebec in
1859 and the Revolutionary outbreak of
1915. 1t was then that the older of
the stately mansions of Portsmouth
and Newburyport were erected. The
war pretty effectively stopped house
building, but by 1900 prosperity had
returned, and New England ship-own-
ers became very rich. The house
building mania broke out again in the
form of those great, square, three-story
houses of which Exeter has a few and
of which Salem, Newburyport, and
Portsmouth are full The magnates of
1S00-10 disliked gambrel roofs, and
had no patience with hooks and pas
sages. They were plain, downright.
and utilitarian men, and they built
houses as square as themselves, with
no nonsense about them, except per-
haps the usually superfiuous third sto-
The record-union., 1897-04-16
DIAMONDS OF GOLCONDA.
Marco PoIo's Account of Them Reads
Like One of Sinbad's Tales.

In est Nicholas" Noah Brooks is
telling for the children of to-day The
True Story of Marco Polo" In the
April number he quotes the following
account of the diamonds of Golccnda
from the great Venetian travellers mar
rative:
1t is in this kingdom that diamonds
are got; and | viii tell you how. There
are certain lofty mountains in those
parts; and when the winter rains fall,
which are very heavy, the waters come
roaring down the mountains in great
torrents. When the rains are over
and the waters from the mountains
have ceased to flow, they search the
beds of the torrents and find plenty of
diamonds. In summer also there are
plenty to be found in the mountains,
but the heat of the sun is so great
that it is scarcely possible to go thith-
er, nor is there then a drop of water
to be found. Moreover, in those mount
aims great serpents are rife to mar
velous degree, besides other vermin,
and this owing to the great heat. The
serpentS are also the most venomous
in existence, SO that any one going
there runs fearful peril; for many have
been destroyed by these evil reptiles.
Now, among these mountains there
are certain great and deep valleys, to
the bottom of which there is no ac-
cess. Wherefore the men who go in
search Of the diamonds take with them
pieces of flesh, as lean as they can get,
and these they cast into the bottom of
the valley. Now, there are numbers
ftf w Or those
mountains and feed upon the serpents.
When the eagles see the meat thrown
down they pounce upon it and carry
it up to some rocky hill top, where they
begin to rend it. But there are men on
the watch, and as soon as they see
that the eagles have settled they raise
a. loud shouting to drive them away.
And when the eagles are thus fright
ened away the men recover the pieces
of meat and find them full of diamonds
which have stuck to the meat down
in the bottom. For the abundance of
diamonds down there in the depths of
the valleys is astonishing, but nobody
can get down; and if one could it would
be only to be at once devoured by the
serpents which are so rife there
There is also another way of getting
the diamonds. The people go to the
nests of those white eagles. of which
there are many, and find plenty of dia-
monds which the birds have carried
off with the meat that was cast into
the valleys. And when the eagles
themselves are taken diamonds are
found in their stomachs.
So now 1 have told you three differ
ent ways in which these stones are
found. No other country but this
kingdom of Mutfili produces them, but
there they are found both abundantly
and of large size. Those that are
brought to our part of the world are
only the refuse, as it were, of the finer
and larger stones. For the flower of
the diamonds and other large gems, as
well as the largest pearls, are all car
ried to the Great Khan and other
Kings and Princes of those regions; in
truth, they possess all the great treas
ureS of the world
The record-union., 1897-04-16

sent to Washington with Colonel Will
lam Forsyth in the interest of the raj
sin growers, have returned from their
mission. General Chapman says that
the committee is more than satisfied
with the results of its work, and that
the proposed tariff legislation would be
of great benefit to the fruit growers.
He said that a comparison of the Nc
Kinley and Dingley bills showed that
the Dingley bill was more favorable
to the fruit grower than the Mckinley
bill.
THE DINGLEY BILL.
Yreka Journal: The Dingley tariff
bill having passed the House, re-
ceiving every Republican vote, five
Democratic votes and one Populist
vote, is now in the hands of the Senate
Committee on Finance. Every state
ment made concerning changes in the
bill by that committee is a guess. Sem
ators Allison, Aldrich and Platt of
Connecticut, who have been going over
the bill as a subcommittee, are not
the kind of men to announce their con-
clusions, even when they have definite
ly arrived at them, to the public before
making their report to their colleagues
on the committee. When the commit
tee decides upon the amendments TO
the bill will be time enough to praise
or to criticise it's work. Until then
your guess is as good as anybody's, if
you must have guess
HATS OFF.
Oakland Enquirer: The women of
Oakland deserve to receive the thanks
d
ihess they show to adopt the rule of
hats off at the theater, though when
you come to observe the difference 1t
makes it is wonder they should ever
have thought of keeping their hats on.
Nine out of ten women look much pref
tier without hats than with them, and
taking a view of the audience as a
whole the difference is immense. The
change is thus justified on esthetic
grounds, to say nothing of the obstruc-
ton of view, concerning which so many
and such Well-founded complaints have
been made.
THE FREE MARKET.
Santa Rosa Democrat: The free mar
ket bill is now a law and growers of
country produce will have an opportu-
nifty to get nearer San Francisco con-
sumers. They can accompany their
shipments to market and sell them on
the water front in a recognized mar
ket center without any charge for rent.
This will involve a change in the habits
of both producers and customers. 1t
is a system that has prevailed from
time immemOrial in Europe and has
obtained to some extent in Eastern
cities, where it seems to have worked
satisfactorily. 1t marks a lower form
of business organization than dealing
through commission merchants. But
a great many wise persons think that
we should be all the better off for a
somewhat lower organization. The or
ganiZation has come to the point OF
swallowing most of the profits.
AN IRIDESCENT DREAM.
Oakland Tribune: The papers all
over the State are having lots of fun
at the expense of San Francisco and
her failure to bring off a carnival. The
San Jose Mercury says:
THE Carnival of the Golden Gate has
turned out to be an iridescent dream,
but it was beautiful while it lasted.
Perhaps next year, when San Francis
co will not have so large an army of
unemployed to provide for, the dream
may be made reality"
The record-union., 1897-04-16
A Black Taffeta Incident.

The other day we received a
sample Of Black Taffeta Silk which
the owners wished to sell to us at
75c yard wholesale.
We found in stock very SINH
lar piece and certainly just as good
quality which we are selling at 69c
yard.
That shows just how good silk
ours is. 1t is 22 inches wide, all
silk and just the thing for dresses
or separate skirts.
The record-union., 1897-04-16
Early New England Architecture.

Hardly twenty houses in all New
England dating back of 100 are yet in
existence. unless in a materially trans
formed condition. At best the most
of them were very rough. box-shaped,
with q door in one side and a high
pitched rocf. to make the snow slide off
easily, and a chimney of prodigious
The record-union., 1897-04-16
A Hint for Spring.

Mrs. Yeast-I wish I could think OF
something to keep my husband nome
at nights.
Mrs. Crimsonbeak-Get him bicy-
Gle.
Mrs. Yeast-That would take him out
more than ever
Mrs. Crimsonbeak - Oh, no, II
wouldn't, My husband got one day be-
fore yesterday, and the doctor says ne
won't be out for a month.-Tid-Bits.
The record-union., 1897-04-16
Wire Door Screens.

In our Furniture Depart
ment may be found Screen
Doors with springs ready to
put up at 81 Is and 81 So.
Some have wire netting pan
els top and bottom, others
only on the upper part OF door.
Wire Screen Netting in
green or drab for doors or
windows at 14c, 18c and Zoe
yard.
The record-union., 1897-04-16

~. Were these worthless to return to
earth they might appreciate the many
modern improvements which have been
introduced in architecture, but they
would be pretty sure to repudiate with
scorn the adornments for which poor
Queen AnEe has been held responsible.
Exeter (N. H) News Letter.