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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-26

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BIG AlLlGATORS.
Some Odd Tales Told by an Old Florid.
Hotel Register.


At the end of chapter on alligators,
in his book Hunting and Fishing in
Florida" Mr.. Charles B. Cory, curator
of the department of ornithology in the
Field Columbian museum, Chicago,
gives an entry which he once saw in
the register Of the Brock house
In the old days, when transportation
was more difficult than ii is at present,
the Brock house was about the end of
civilization, and was "a hours trip
by boat from Jacksonville. 1t was at
that time great resort for sportsmen,
who were attracted there by the fish
ing and shooting to be had in the vi
cinity.
The old register, which extended
back great many years, contained
some queer records, many of them of
doubtful veracity. Among others,
some one had written:
March 10, 1872, killed q large alli-
gator, the largest seen here this year;
the stomach contained boot, piece
of pine wood, fisherman's float, and
some small fish"
Immediately beneath this record was
another, evidently added by some wag:
'March "a, killed a much bigger ALI
gator than the one mentioned above.
The stomach contained gold watch,
$4,000 in government bonds, and a
cord of wood"
On the next page, written in a neat,
unobtrusive style, was inscribed the
following: "Shot the biggest alligator
ever known in Florida; the stomach
contained the remains Of a steam
launch, lot Of old railway iron, and a
quantity of melted ice, proving that il
existed during the glacial epoch"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-26
RAILROAD TIME TABLE.
I. & G. N. RAILROAD.

North bound trains leave for Aus
tin at a. M, 900 a. m. and $50 p.
m.,; and arrives from Laredo at 7:30
p. m.
South bound trains arrive at 8 a. m,
7:15 p. M, and 9:55 p. M; and leave
for Laredo at 9:45 a. m.
n. K. &. L. FROM l. & G. N DEPOT
Trains leave for Waco, st. Louis
and Kansas City at $50 p. M; and
arrive at $50 a. N.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD.
East bound trains arrive from Mex
leo and Eagle Pass at 11:50 a. M;
and leave at 12:10 p. IN. and $50 p. m.
for Houston, Galveston and New Or
leans.
West bound trains arrive from New
Orleans, Houston and Galveston at
1925 a. m. and 4:25 p. m; and leave
for Eagle Pass and Mexico at 4 As d.
IN
st. Louis Limited leaves for Waco,
Fort Worth, Dallas, Kansas City and
st. Louis at TAO p. m.
Arrives from st. Louis, Kansas
City, Dallas, Fort Worth and Waco
at S:45 a. M.
8. A. 4 A. P.-MISSION ROUTE.
Trains leave daily for Cuero, Hous-
ton and Galveston at 8 a. M; for Bee
vile, Corpus Christi and Rockport at
2:25 p. m; and arrive daily from the
former places at 7:05 p. M; and from
the latter at 1:40 p. m. 81.
Kerrville Branch = Mixed train
leaves San Antonio daily except Sun
day at 2:45 p. M; regular passenger
leaves San Antonio Sundays only at
$50 a. m. Mixed train, daily except
Sunday arrives at San Antonio at
1915 a. M; regular passenger train
Sundays only arrives at San Antonio
at $50 p. m.
s. A. &.GULF SHORE.
Train leaves San Antonio for Mar
tinez, Sanders, Atkins, Lavernia and
Sutherland Springs at 8 a. M, daily
except Sunday.
Arrives at San Antonio at p. M,
daily except Sunday.
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=. BROWN

Is going to move from 506h East
Houston street, and will sell his en-
tire stock, at half price for 80 days
only. Now is the time to get bargains
in Clothing, Gents Furnishing Goods,
Hats, Caps, Boots and Shoes, Ladies'
Mems, Misses, Boys, and Chidrens'.
Mems So suits for $500.
Boys 50 suits for $1.00.
Mems 81 Alpine Hats for $1.00.
Mems $3.50 Alpine Hats for Toe.
Misses school shoes, Csc and 75c.
Mems shoes for $1.00.
Ladies' shoes for S1.00.
and everything else in proportion. Re
member the place, 5061b East Houston
street. u. BROWN, Prop.
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ADMINISTRATORS SALE.

In order to wind up the affairs of
this estate, 1 offer for sale at a bar
gain the following improved and IN
improved real estate in this city:
Lot, corner Hays and blackberry
streets 145x1SS feet, two dwellings on
same.
Cottage and two lots, Westfalls ave,
South Heights.
Cottage and two lots, Essex street,
South Heights. ..
Dwelling and large lot, Summit ave
and Howard street, Laurel Heights.
Six lots near Midway, West End,
unimproved.
Seven lots on Burnett and Blaine
streets, unimproved. A bargain to
cash purchaser. j. ]. PEETZ,
Administrator Of the estate Of Chas.
j. Langholz, decd, All Main plaza.
12-27-30t.
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BARBER SHOP ON WHEELS.
THIS Mas Uses Tricycle. to Get Custom
from Farmers.

THIS Mas Uses Tricycle. to Get Custom
from Farmers.
No odder use has been found for the
.bicycle than that to which it has been
PUG by q barber, August Lehman, of
Graresend, Long island, says the New
York Press. Before he learned to ride
a wheel he made a comfortable living
by driving around the scattered villages
Of Long island shaving the farmers who
could not spare time to travel to the
Heighboring towns to be shaved. 1t
occurred to Lehman that a more de-
sirable way Of visiting his patrons than
BY the old horse and buggy could be
found by constructing a tricycle. out
At The plan has worked well. The
kzpber's chair, which is getting to be
. familiar sight on Long island, runs
sa three wheels and in the center of the
asAchine is the saddle on which Leib-
man perches when he pedals abroad on
shaving and hair cutting tours.
Tho advantage of the new outfit is
that 10 costs next to nothing when COM
pared with the expense of keeping a
horse. Before he adopted the tricycle.
system of travel Lehman was forced to
confine his shaving and hair cutting
e8or<s 10 faxmsteads far removed from
tho rcd ana white pole of the village
barber. Nov he boldly rides into the
territory Of his rivals, for the novelty
Of being shaved in a tricycle. BARRIERS
chair has attracted custom from the
sugular shops.
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY

GARDEN SEEDS.
9. L. HUH & Son, Market street.
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WIN. th. nI.p.r want.

Tho vicar of rural parish who had
raxed eloquent ON the subject of for
eign MISSIONS one Sunday was sur
prised on entering tho village shop
during the week to be greeted with
marked coldneas by the worthy dame
who Kept ~ On seeking to know the
cause. the good woman produced a coin
from a drawer, and, throwing it down
before tho vicar, exclaimed: "Imarked
that holy crown and put tin the plate
i.st Sunday, and here il is baclsagain in
my shop. I kRowed well them mig
Gors never got the money"
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ATTENTION K. p.

To members Endowment rank. sec
ton $50: your regular monthly as
sessment and dues are due on the frat
Of each month. and must be paid on or
before the 10TH"
T. b. JOHNSON. Secretary Sec ga.
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SLOAN & SHELLEY

Undertakers and embalmers, 219 st.
Mary's street. Telephone sos. lott
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-07-08

monies and place us under proper in
f1uence. Our worldly reward may per-
haps seem small, and we may not be
paid in money for our severe self-disci-
pline, daily anxiety and the mental
earnestness, in addition to our heavy
routine tasks in the outer world; but
we must expect our reward from the
benediction of our own soul and from
the decision of higher tribunal. So,
then, fellow unfortunates, as we enter
the worlds toll anew, let us begin
right, by throwing off the girdle of ex-
travagance which has led to poverty
and disgrace to ourselves and relatives,
and put on the armor of economy and
thus commence laying stones, step by
step, in the foundation of character,
and be honored by all men and be led
to future prosperity and enjoy eternal
happiness. L. J.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-07-08
~>spoEFRKoM
E7REZ7@sGS&@s~ f.
THE PAUPER'S DRIVE.

There's grim one-horse hearse in a jolly
round trOt,
To the church-yard pauper is going, wOt;
The road it is rough and the hearse has no
springs,
And hark to the dirge which the sad driver
sings:
Rattle his bones over the stones!
He's only pauper, whom nobody owns!
o, where are the mourners? Alas there are
none
He has left not gap in the world now he's
Not tear in the eye of child woman or man;
To the grave with his carcass as fast as you
can!
Rattle his bones over the stones!
He's only pauper, whom nobody owns!
What jolting, and creaking, and splashing
The whip how it cracks, and the wheels how
they spin!
How the dirt right and left Ger the hedges is
hurled!
The pauper at length makes noise in the
world!
Rattle his bones over the stones!
nc OUly pdupoI, WuOu uOUOUy OWuS!
Poor pauper defunct! he has made some ap-
prOach
To gentility, now that he's stretched in a
coach!
He's taking a drive in his carriage at last!
But it will not be long, if he goes on so fast!
Rattle his bones over the stones!
He's only pauper whom nobody owns!
You pumpkins! who stare at your brothers
conveyed
Behold what respects to clOddy is paid!
And be joyful to think, when by death you're
laid low,
You've chance to the grave like gemman
togo.
Rattle his bones over the StOnes
He's only pauper, whom nobody owns!
But truce to this strain; for my soul it is sad,
To think that heart in humanity clad
Should make, like the brutes, such a desolate
end,
And depart from the light without leaving a
friend
Bear softly his bones over the stones
Though a pauper, he is one whom his
Maker yet owns.
Thomas Noel.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-07-08
,Ms. $1.OO per year, in advance
' Six Months so cents.

forehead. In Southampton and East
hampton, Long Island, in Springfield
and Salem women were sentenced to
wear a cleft stick. 1t was in Salem
and Boston equally popular as pun
ishment for men. In 1889 four young
men in Salem stood with their tongues
in cleft sticks for lying and drunken
ness. In Boston many swearers were
gagged.
In the first court records of the
settlement at Boston, the Bay Colony,
appear the frequent sentences of often
ders to be placed in the bilbOes. The
earliest entry is on August 7th, 1852.
1t reads thus: "James Woodward
shall be sett in the bilbowes for being
drunk at the Newetowne" But iron
was more scarce in the new world
than wood, and stocks took the place
of bilboes.
Another popular means of casting
branding and manning. Not only
were ears cut from the head, but both
the ears and nostrils were split, and
letters indicative of various crimes
were burned with red-hot iron upon
the forehead, cheek, shoulder or hand
of the felon. In Maryland and Vir-
ginia sets of branding irons were kept.
R stood for rogue, F for forger or
counterfeiter, T for thief, S L for
seditious libeler, B for blasphemer, etc.
Similar in intent, though of tenn
porary nature, was the forcing of
criminals to wear significant letters
cut out of cloth or paper, or words ex-
pressive of their crime written on
piece of paper. The Scarlet Letter
was not the child of HawthOrne's i'm
agination. A woman blasphemer was
ordered to wear a "Roman B cutt out
of redd cloth and sewed on her vper
garment in sight" Men wore the
letter Y for viciOusness, and D for
drunkenness, "great D made of redd
cloth and sett vpon white CLOTH"
Those who reviled the churches or
neglected church services were set on
a block four feet square wearing
paper inscribed in capital letters with
the words: GA Wanton Gospeller," or
can Open and Obstinate Contemner
of Gods Holy Ordinances Alice
Morse Earle in Chicago Record.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-07-08
Written for The Prison Mirror
MUSICAL CULTURE
Stands Preeminent as a Moral
Refiner.

Glorious deeds have had their great
est incentive from the homely ballads
that gladdened the hearts of our ances-
tors. Few people who are not dis
.tinctIy musical realize the benefits to
society derived from the refining intiu-
ence of music.
Give man musical education, or
at the least, an appreciation of good
music and you have given him an in
centive to higher and purer existence.
No other accomplishment will give
him higher ideals or a keener percep-
7tion of the better and brighter side of
life.
1t requires some musical education
to be able to fully appreciate good mu-
sic. Compositions from the immortal
Wagner are dull and incomprehensible
to the unframed ear, but after one has
heard enough of the great masters mu-
sic to get an understanding of it, he
cannot but feel the grand emotions
depicted in its soul-stirring strains.
Comparatively few, however, may
aspire to the rendition of classic
music, but that should not discourage
us from seeking pleasure in a pursuit
which leads ever onward to greater ef-
forts and to keener sense of enjoy
ment in that which is ever refining,
never degrading. We should do our
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-07-08
WENDELL PHILLIPS AND THE
MINISTER.

A story about Wendell Phillips is as
follows: He was on train going
through Ohio. Some Southern pro-
slavery preachers were aboard. They
had heard of Phillips and his great
oratorical ability, and learning that he
was on the train walked through the
car to see him. Finally one made
bold to sit beside him and speak thus:
$50 you are Wendell Phillips, are
you?"
Eyes, sir"
Engaged in making anti-slavery
speeches?"
Eyes, sir"
"Well, why don't you go South
where they have slavery to make your
speeches
Phillips looked at his interrogation
and said: "You are minister of the
gospel?'
eyes, sir"
Engaged in saving souls from
help
Eyes, sir"
"Well, why don't you 60 to hell to do
your preaching ?"-New York Press.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-07-08

utmost to cultivate and encourage
whatever is beautiful in life; it will
help us to bear its burdens.
I fully believe that music has a more
direct and powerful influence on the
emotions than any other agency, not
even excepting the eloquence of the
gifted orator. Now do not understand
me to mean the thoughts expounded
by him. refer to the agency by which
those thoughts are conveyed to his
hearers. His eloquence and logic will
certainly appeal to our reason; but
clothe the same thoughts in appropri-
ate melody and lyric verse and they
appeal directly to the emotions and
more forcibly impress our inner con-
sciOuSneSs.
Music is said to be the food of love,
and love to be the refining influence
which creates civilization. Does it not
follow, then, that more general culti-
vation of music would have tendency
to decrease crime? l believe that a
large proportion of those who are now
in durance vile would never have been
led into the commission of crime if
their home life was what it might have
been. Increase the pleasures of home
life and you will lessen the tempta-
tions which everywhere greet the un-
happy. A. G.. R.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-07-08
OLD-TIME PUNISHMENT.

In order to have familiar and home
like institutions in the new land, some
English punishments were everywhere
promptly established in old New Eng.
land, and, as simple of accomplish
ment, whipping.post was at once set
up in every fort and little settlement.
There was broad latitude in the crimes,
offenses and even annoyances that
were expiated under the lash of the
colonial magistrates of the seven.
teenth century. Shooting fowl on Sun
day, stealing ccTn, striking parents,
desertion of wife, selling rum to the
Indians, deriding the magistrates, TAX
ing false toll, lying, swearing, scandal
bearing, sleeping on the Lords day,
pocket-picking, ''inveagling to mar
riage,' name-calling, perjury, counter
feiting, forging, vagrancy, swindling,
engrossing, attending quaker meeting,
hourse coursing and many others ap-
pear on the list. The usual number of
strokes given in civil cases was ten.
Military discipline inclined to "forty
stripes save one," and even rose in the
army during the French and Indian
wars to 1000, and even to 1900 stripes,
which, if we'll laid on, certainly must
have proved fatal to the culprit The
cato -nine-tails was the usual instru.
ment for scOurging, but occasionally
birch rod, or bundle of rods, or
single lash is specified Women suf-
fered whippings as we'll as the men,
and often on the naked back. The
punishment was sometimes varied by
whipping at the cart-taiI. The often
der was tied to cart and thus slowly
led and whipped through the town.
The whipping-post kept its hold in
systems of public control till the end
of the eighteenth century, and, in fact,
in isolated cases, till 1880: but it is not
now a means of punishment in any
state except Delaware and Maryland,
and there the whippings are not done
in public.
A close companion of the whipping
post was the stocks, mortifying, but
not painful punishment. A pair of
stocks was seen in colonial days in
every Virginia, Maryland and New
England town, and in many New
York, Pennsylvania and Carolina set
Elements. The offenders who were
punished by setting in the stocks were
usually not vicious and hardened
criminals, but small scamps or public
nuisances, or those who had COM
mitted violations of moral, social or
ethical duties. Drunkards, petty
thieves, slanderers, liars, swearers,
sabbath breakers, brawlers, scolds, were
frequently set in the stocks. The SEN
tence usually was executed on lecture
day or market day, that as many
spectators as possible might behold
and beware. 4
1t seems scarcely necessary to de.
scribe the stocks, when pictures of
them are so common. The confining
part consisted Of two heavy timbers;
the upper could be raised from the
lower. In both timbers two semi
circular holes, several inches in diam.
eter, were cut, which, when in place,
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-07-08
Written for The Prison Mirror.
ECONOMY AND EXTRAVAGANCE.

These are perhaps the two principal
factors that help to make up the foun-
dation of what person has been, and
what he intends to be in the future.
Did you ever stop to think what prom
inence in the worlds population self
might be if one had only joined the
ranks of economy in the days of time
gone by? Instead of being among the
shining lights in the realms of virtue
and gentle breeding, and an honor to
the social world and future prosperity,
he remains ignorant and misguided
by the felonious hand of extravaganza
and finally led to poverty and crime.
Poverty has always been contrib.
utory factor in criminal annals. This
poverty may be real or merely compar-
ative; the results are the same. But
then not trying to solve the wrongs we
may have done in the past, and while
we are shut up within narrow scope
of masonry, and we look out upon na-
ture's expanded plains or ponder on
the infinite oceans, we must grow
thoughtful and silent and decide which
course we expect to take in the future
freedom we may inherit at different
intervals of time.
In every individual soul there are
possibilities of a perfect man, and
economy must be the principal feature
in order to gain what we term
moral character and true citizenship.
OF course as we go out into the world,
it is very true that we will find it a
very unpleasant task at first to face
100000 people in the United States.
We can scarcely raise our eyes or make
move without being noticed by the
more fortunate ones. The social posi-
tion that we may participate in, our
strength of character and momentary
discipline render us an object of the
utmost attention and interest. Our
acts and habits are even magnifed into
Importance as associated with our pO-
sition in the change of life. Thus it
places us in a very sad stream of life
and in many cases we will often wish
that we might lose ourself in some
barren desert never to arise again.
But, fellow-unfortunates, this must
not be the case; we must accustom our
selves to all these discomforts, and
while we are trying to be men, to "be
born again." and to occupy the same
positions that we lost through extrav.
agance, we must hope for the cooper
alton of every individual and go on
improving our minds-minds which
perhaps are @olian harps from whose
silvery chords the hand of economy
may hereafter sweep wonderful har-
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-07-08

There is no open door to the temple
of success. Every one makes his own
door, which closes behind him to all
Others.-Marden.
The youth who starts out by being
afraid to speak what he thinks will
usually end by being afraid to think
what he wishes.-Marden.
1t is with narrow-souled people as
with narrow-necked botttles-the less
they have in them the more noise they
make in pouring it out.-Pope.