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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-08
GEN RIVERA SET FREE
That's The Latest Report
From Havana.
SPANISH TRAIN CONVEYING HIM
TO ANOTHER PRISON. CAP
TURED BY INSURGENTS.
Insurgents Also BOmbari A Fort,
And Dynamite A Railroad
Bridge For PaSttime Co
mez Don't Expect Any
American Aid.

Key West, April S.-News was re-
ceived here at a late hour last night
that the Cuban insurgents had made
an attack on the train upon which
General Rivera was being taken from
San Cristobal to Havana. The reports
say that the insurgents We're success
full in their attack and Gen. Rivera
was freed. 1t is impossible at present
to get a confirmation or denial, but
the Cuban sympathiZers here believe
it to be true and accordingly are jubi-
liant.
New York, April S.-A special to the
Journal from Havana says:
\ large insurgent force recently ap-
peared in front of Fort HOelven, pro-
tecting the railway line between Cal
BERN and Remidios and opened fire
with cannon. One of the shells fell
in the middle of the fort, killing seven
men and wounding ten, the rest es-
Gaping. The insurgents then dynamit-
ed the railway bridge over the Mana
quitas river interrupting communica-
ton between the cities. They also
attacked fort No. II, forcing its sur
render, and securing its arms and am
munitiOn,
, The rebel forces under Alex. Rod
rigue and Castillo continue active
in Havana province. They again raid
ed GuineZ Monday and sacked stores
and set the Spanish barracks on fire.
New York, April S.-A special to the
World from Havana says:
An American who has just reached
Havana saw Gen. Gomez, on March
18th, on n sugar estate fifteen miles
southwest of Sagua. The general
spent four days there.
All the force he had was four hun
dred picked men. One league away
was Rodriguez with a Spanish col
umn of 800 men and at San Domingo,
three leagues awey was a body of
1000 Spanish troops.
Il am perfectly safe" Gen. Gomez
while | am here"
The veteran leader was right. They
did not go there until after he had
gone. Then the two Spanish columns
made move on the estate, got con-
fused and fired into each other with
sad effect.
Gen. Gomez looked well. He Suf-
fered from a wound, but was in good
spirits.
An aged Pacifico asked him how old
he was.
Il am only &C." he replied with a
twinkle in his eye, but both you and
me are too old, my friend. to ever real
ize any good out of Cuba. When this
war is over only the soil will be left"
When Gomez went up to the estate
a guest told him he was an Ameri-
can citizen.
You Americans are pretty good peO-
pie" remarked the rebel commander,
but l never expect anything from
you or your government for Cuba.
The Cubans alone have got to win
this fight. The sooner they all see it
the better
Gen. Gomez said it was his plan to
make the island a desert waste and
useless to Spain. That was the only
way to win.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-08
WEDDING IN GEORGETOwN.

Georgetown, Texas, April S.-Spe-
cial.-Mr. Wiley Salure and Miss Eva
Irvine were married at noon Tues
day at the home of the brides parents
before about - intimate friends and
relatives, Rev. l. G.. Putnam, pastor
of the NJ f. church officiating.
Mr.. Salure is head bOokkeeper for
the Bedford Lumber company, and
Miss Irvine is the daughter of Alder
man Geo. Irvine, and very pretty.
They left on the 6 o'clock train for
a tour of North Texas towns.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-08
BLOCKADE POSTPONED.

New York, April S.--A dispatch to
the Herald from st. Petersburg, says:
Just at the moment every one had
made up his mind that all the trouble
in Greece was settled, very unfor-
tunate counterfeit has come in the
postpOnement of the blockade.
To give an idea of the sentiments
oft he people, it has been reported
that England is about to force the
DardanelleS.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-08
JAPANESE PIUMS
Being Captured by American Compan-



les.
Pittsburg, Pa, April S.-The Carne-
gle Steel company has captured the
contract for the first fire proof steel
building ever erected in the empire of
Japan. While the amount of the con-
tract is comparatively 4 small mat
ter, the Importance lies in the fact
that new filed has been opened for
the output of American steel mills.
The building is to cover an immense
area, but owing to the prevalence of
earthquakes in Japan, will be built
but four stories high. 1t will be $50
by 253 feet and is being built by
Matsui & Co, of Toxic, for office and
mercantile purposes. About 1,500 tons
of steel will enter into this structure.
This will be shipped by way of New
York, the first shipment to be loaded
at New York on September list. The
will all be prepared here
ready for erection, no workmen being
sent to Japan.
Philadelphia, Pa, April S.-The JAP
anese government has Just awarded
to A. Il ?. Roberts of this city, the
for 1000 tons of structural
bridge steel, to be delivered in the
form of 1856 steel spans of varying
ength for the Imperial japanese
The Importance of the con-
.ract lies not so much in its magni-
fude as the fact that it was secured
in competition with the largest and
most prominent manufacturers of
structural steel in Europe as we'll as
his country. The contract calls for
he completion of the work in 1897.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-08
TELEPHONE

over the lines of the SOUTHWEST
ERN TELEGRAPH AND TELE-
PHONE COMPANY to many of the
principal cities and towns of
TEXAS
Toll Stations in the Central Office,
Hotels and other convenient locations.
NJ. F. THOMAS, Local Manager.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-08
HOUSTON %: LA GRANGE 8.

Houston. Texas, April S.-Special.-
The second exhibition game between
the Buffalos and the La Grange team
yesterday resulted in a score of 26 to
3 in favor of Houston. Houston got
p hits: La Grange 5.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-08

Mr. w. S. MesSmer. editor and vice
president of the Light Publishing COM
pany left this morning over the I. &
G.. n. railway on an extended visit
to st. Louis, Memphis aud other cas-
tern cities
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BANKS AND B ANKERS.
.--~~~-~-~-~-~)~D~~-.~-~ ~ -.
LOCKWOOD
National Bank.
F. GrOoS & Co., Bankers.
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.
]. S. Lockwood, Pres.
j. Muir, Jr., Cashier.
SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS.

AND DEALERS IN EXCHANGE.
Sight drafts on the principal cities
of the United States and on all Euro
pean countries. Also drafts on Mon
terey, Mexico, payable in Mexican dol
lars. Foreign coin and currency
bought and sold.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-07-01

been the sacrifices in its defense on land
and sea; and as the lad looked and
listened, he felt as if he were standing
on holy ground.
There" she said, gravely, when the
mittens were done, when you wear
these you will show your colors. You
must always show them"
So the little boy wore the patriotic
mittens; for the first time to church,
and after that to school and to play.
He was proud of them, and he never for
got their pictured lesson. Enthusiasm
for freedom and country, fidelity to
truth and duty. love of honor and right
had all been knit into his young life
by his good mothers teachings, as her
needles had knit the flag into his nit
tens.
Years after the war was overland
the little worn-out pair of mittens had
been laid away-the faithful mother
died; but the boy had become man.
The time came, as it happens to every
man of affairs. with the temptations of
the world around him, when it seemed
more profitable to be shrewd and I'M
scrupulous than to be strictly upright.
In his office hung a strange little pic
ture. There, mounted in a neat frame,
behind protecting glass, were the iden-
teal mittens his mother had knit for
him so long ago; the very pair, with the
Stars and Stripes on their backs, that
he had worn in the old days when She
told him he must show his colors.
In the mans heart the boys reverence
for all that was true and noble came up
permost. when he looked on his early
lesson. He was ashamed to do a ques-
tionable thing. The little frayed nit
tens wrought by the fingers of a dead
mother were a monitor to him.
A little while ago he sent the writer
n photograph of them. They are wor-
thy of a place in the paper, for they tell
the story of childhood influence that
became the inspiration of an honorable
and manly life.
In spite of our worst selves, most Of
rs find our best selves bound to God by
some one strong cord of holy prayers.
1t may be a dying sisters last word.
Such memories are more precious than
life. The heart holds them, and they
knit honor into our very being.-Youth's
ConDanion
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and in very few years are producing
excellent crops.
Purchased by the hundred dwarf
pear trees are ineXpensive-from six
to eleven dollars being charged at
the nurseries for two-year-old trees
from three to four feet in height. Care
should be taken in setting the trees to
put the point where the pear and ounce
stock joins two inches at least below
the surface of the ground. Dwarf pear
trees, being small, can be set out in
places where larger trees could not
well grow. a very excellent arrange
ment is to set them in a hedge-row
den. They can be set as closely as
AZ feet apart, provided they have
plenty of space on either side to let in
sunshine and air. A row of these lit
tie trees in full bloom is a sight to be
remembered.
Not all varieties of pears are suited
to the dwarf habit of growth. Those
that do well as standards will not al
ways give satisfaction as dwarfs, but
it is fortunate that some of the very
finest of the standard varieties, as
dwarfs, do as well as the standards, if
not better. Thus among the summer
varieties that give excellent results is
the dwarf form one may mention the
Bartlett and Clapp's Favorite; among
autumn varieties the Seckel antl>D urf44
esse, and among winter varieties that
modest Roman of them ALL the Aniou,
and the Lawrence.
There are other good pears that do
well as dwarfs, but this gives a good
selection for home use. Every spring
before the leaves start let a third of
last seasons growth be cut away, as
severe pruning is essential for heavy
fruiting.
In localities where the winters are
severe, little mulching, at least for the
first season, should be put about the
trees in winter, and remember that
pear trees, as well as all fruit trees, for
that matter, are greatly benefited By a
liberal application of wood ashes to the
soil. Give them other fertilizers, too,
but don't neglect to supply plenty of
potash.
Set out few dwarf pear trees, and
the chances are that you will like them
SO well that you will set out as many
more year from this spring.-N. Y
Tribune.
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DOGGIE's COSTLY MEAL.
1t Costs Its Owner One Hundred
Francs and - Lawsuit.

1t Costs Its Owner One Hundred
Francs and - Lawsuit.
The complainant in a recent law suit
at Narbonne, France, made oath that he
was one day dining on the terrace" or
open air space fronting on the sidewalk,
where French people are wont to take
their meals in summer. He had Just be-
gun to eat his soup when it occurred
TO him to count some money that he
had a short time before received. In
counting it he accidentally let fall
100-franc bank note into his soup
Instantly he fshed II out of the plate
with his fork and sent the soup away;
but the bank note was saturated and
he laid it down on the tablecloth to dry.
He was going on with his meal when
a little gust of wind blew the bill off
the table. Its owner jumped after it,
but a wandering dog which had been
hungrily watching the meal was quick
er than he, and seized it. The taste of
the soup on the paper made it an edible
thing to the animal, and it was swal-
lowed in an instant.
And then the man who owned the bin
was, though bursting with rage, re
duced to the humiliation and insin-
cerity of saying: Good doggie. Come
here, nice doggie," and to the employ
ment of smiles and wneedling ways. in
order TO get near enough to the animal
to read the name engraved on his col
lar, But he succeeded, and when he
had made a note of the name, he as
sisted the good doggie's" rapid de-
parture.
Next he brought a suit against the
man who owned the dog for the resti-
tuition of the 100 francs; and the court
at Narbonne. after hearing the evil
dence and the pleas at great length, de
cided that the owner of the dog must
pay the other man the money.
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never lived. Often ii takes less than
80 steps day, and it will be a month or
more in going mile. 1t is not neces-
sary for it to go any faster, because it
lives in the trees and its food of leaves
ana soft twigs is always within easy
reach. Sloths have three toes on each
foot, and each toe bears a strong hooked
claw. When the sloth moves he sim
ply hooks the claws over limb and
crawls about from tree to tree. In this
position he can sleep hours at time.
When a little sloth is born it uses its
mother for hammock until il is big
enough to climb itself.
The sloth grows to be about two feet
long. Its hair is wiry and coarse and
1t has no tail to speak of. The natives
say that it cannot feel pain, and they
prove what they say by showing how
the sloth will roll itself up and deliber-
ltely fall out of tall tree in order to
save climbing down. Pretty lazy, isn't
it? An uglier, more useless animal
could not well be imagined.-CEicago
Record.
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To stand upon the peak of a ladder at
perhaps the third or fourth story of "a
building, directing the stream of water
at the blazing interior, while the Their
mometer is at about its lowest point, is
not comfortable task. Perhaps an
other stream is playing over your head,
and you stand in an icy spray. Iciclee
hang from every point of your fire
hat, and the rubber coat is frozen to
your back; and the water that is fall
ing about you freezes as fast as it falls
Every movement upon the ladder is
fraught with danger; for it is so Gu
crusted with ice that it is almost i'm
possible to get a solid foothold, and a
misstep would hurl you to the ground,
40 feet below.-Charles T. Hill, in St
Nicholas.
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PATRIOTIC MITTENS.
How They Became the Inspiration of
m HonOrnhIe Life.

an Honorable Life.
During the civil war the martial feel
ing of the time excited American chill
dren as well as American men. But in
a country home in the state of Maine
lived little boy who neither owed his
interest in the great conflict to the eX-
ample of a soldier father nor showed it
in military play. The boy was not yet
ten years of age; old enough to thrill
at the beat of drums and the marshal
ing of departing troops, but not old
enough fully to understand the mean
ing of all the commotion.
His father was ineligible for service.
His mother was not strong, but she had
the heart of patriot, and she was de-
voted to the cause OF freedom. Love of
country was to her next to the love Of
God. Her loyalty to its flag was as true
as her faith in her Bible.
Through all those troubled years. this
woman was constant and unwearied in
her efforts to help the union cause. She
picked lint, and her boy helped her,
wondering She made jellies, and her
boy stirred the kettle while she an
swered childish questions about the
terrible times. She talked to him daily
about the honor of the old flag, and
told him that every one in those days
must show his colors or be branded as
a traitor.
What is showing colors,' mother?"
he asked, much awed by her manner.
81 will show you, my son." she said.
Thereupon she began to knit a pair
of white mittens, and upon the back
of each one she fashioned the stars and
stripes, knitting them in, as she went
along, so that they were part of the
wool of the mittens.
Standing by her side the boy watched
her shining needles. She gave him the
history of the flag as she threaded the
rcd, white and blue into her work. She
told him how many and how great had
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-07-01
WATCH YOUR CALVES.
Feed Them Well TO Obtain satisfac-
tory Results QmicklN.

The Calls foot is golden now Calves
which went begging for buyers a few
years ago are now worth ten dollars
almost as soon as they are dropped.
There is a great shortage of feeding
steers all over the corn and grass states.
This shortage is temporarily supplied
by the enormous importations from
every point in the country. 1t is, how
ever, only a shifting of cattle from one
point to another, and there is no addi-
ton made to the cattle stock by such a
movement, except to the extent that
they come from Canada, and even this
is no real addition, for the reason that
the beef from these cattle is supplied
in the United States instead of Canada,
and has no effect whatever on the beef
markets of the world. ANY increase
of cattle stock must come through the
growing of calves, and the farmer has
a dead sure market at profitable price
for his calves for year or two to come
Hence, the calf should be watched not
for the sake of watching and thinking
of the pleasing prospect of good price,
but for the purpose of securing as much
thrifty growth and as coed a form as
possible, for the better the form the
higher the price per pound it will bring,
and the larger the calf the greater num-
Der of pounds there is to sell at price
fixed by the quality. How to feed that
calf to produce the best results is one
of the important questions just now.
Here, as in everything else, it pays to
take lessons from nature. Dame Ma
ture feeds the calf often, feeds the milk
sweet and feeds it warm. The calf that
has bellyful of cold milk in the morn
ing and another at night, with no drink
during the day, and is exposed to the
hot sun, will not bring big price.
Nature feeds the calf a balanced ra-
ton. If it is fed slim-milk that ration
is unbalanced by the withdrawal of the
butter fat, and this must be supplied in
some way. The cheapest substitute for
the first few weeks is jelly made by
boiling oil meal. After the first three
or four weeks oat meal should be sub
stituted gradually, and corn meal as
gradually substituted, in part at least,
for the oats. Corn at 10 cents per bush
ell, and oats at the same price, will
furnish the proper balance at a much
lower rate than butter fat. There are a
thousand little things in connection
with calf growing that can be learned
only by experience, but the man who
observes, thinks, reads and practices
will very soon catch on and become an
expert There is a very solid bottom
under this business nov, and the farm
er that has a strain of native cattle com
bining milk and beef forms is the man
who can fill the demand to the best adj
vantage.-Journal of Agriculture.
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SOME HARD FACTS.


Some of our contemporaries seem to
take for granted that better roads"
necessarily implies paved roads, rolled
by wagon tires at least six inches wide
and that it is a choice between such
roads and nothing worthy the name of
road improvement. This we consider
a mistaken and somewhat unfortunate
view of the situation. If we are to have
nothing better than wind work till the
general construction of paved roads
becomes a possibility in country dis
tricts the present generation will not
live to see better average country roads
than we have now. No one understands
better than the farmers themselves that
they are not to build hard roads, partic-
ularly in districts remote from rock
and gravel supplies, and capitalists are
not likely to do the work for them.
The utilization of convict labor on the
roads should result in considerable
increase in hard-road mileage, but such
increase would be comparatively slow
and its effect upon the general traffic
Of the country hardly noticeable for
many years. In the meantime we
should make better use of the means at
hand. AS we remarked some time since,
with a properly adjusted cash system in
force and the improved road machinery
now available, we should have much
better earth roads. and at no greater
cost to the people than now.-Agricul-
tural Epitomist.
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FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
A CURIOUS THING,

Sunbeam came to my house one day
is there any place here for shadows to
hide?
They tell me that shadows are cold and
gray;
But before can catch them they run away.
If 1 find one, I'll cheer him up, he cried.
He searched about through the greas
big house,
"A GEAR little fellow, warm and bright,
In closets, in corners, in mammals hair,
In grandpa's face, and oh, everywhere
But wherever he went it was only light
Now Love looked into my house that day
could Hate in here be hiding his head?
They tell me that Hate is ugly and bad
perhaps, II we found him, we'd make him
glad.
Oh please may look and try?" he said.
Love met Sunbeam hunting about
Have you found your shadows. friend
Sunbeam?''-"Nay,
Not l." said Sunbeam; they don't live
here"
''Nor Hate" said Love; for this house is
Let's look for place to abide Away"
Sweetheart Lucy came running in.
Bright a robin just out of bed
Sunbeam sprang to her eyes so brown;
Love in her warm heart nestled down
We've the incest place in the world!"
they said.
Now the curious thing, which haven't
told,
Is something I never could quite make
For never a shadow can show his head,
And Hate, l think, must be really dead
When my little Lucy is playing about
William J. Long, in Youths Companion.
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had ring, something like the ac-

companying cut, made of one-fourth
inch iron, SIX inches wide. l attached
a short piece of trace chain to each side
of the ring where holes are shown,
crossed the chains over the animals
nose, and fastened them to opposite
horns close to the head, making the
chain as tight as the animal can stand
it without pain. When the animal put
his nose against the fence the chain
rolls or presses to one side, giving the
animal instant pain in the nose. One
or two attempts to throw the fence
after this ring is on will satisfy him,
and he will stay where he is putt. W.
Mccoy, in Farm and Fireside.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-07-01
Won will have

toundergo the operation of ovariotomy,
the cutting out of the ovary.
Yes, you will recover, at least hope
you will; but you will never be quite
the same woman again. Congestion of
the ovaries is fatal to health. If you
have any such symptoms be advised
in time take medicine of specific
powers! You can find none better
than Lydia Z. Pinkhams Vegetable
Compound, prepared especially to meet
the needs of woman's sexual system.
You can get it at any good druggists.
Following we publish letter from
a woman in Milwaukee, which relates
how she was cured of ovarian trouble:
Dear Mrs Pinkham:-I suffered with
congestion Of the ovaries and infamma-
ton of the womb. had been troubled
with suppressed and painful menstrual
ton from a girl. The doctors told me
the ovaries would have to be removed.
| took treatment two years to escape
an operation, but still remained in mis-
era BILE health in both body and mind. ex-
pecting to part with my reason each
coming month. After using one bottle
of Lydia f. Pinkham's Vegetable Con-
pound and package of Sanative Wash
was very much relieved. | continued
to use your remedies until cured, The
last nine months have been passed in
perfect good health. This, know, I owe
entirely to the Vegetable Compound.
My gratitude is great, indeed, to the
one to whom so many women owe their
health ard happiness. "-MRs. F. NJ.
KNAPP, 500 Wentworth Ave, Milwau.
kee, Wis.