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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-22
. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

]. d. Oppenheimer to d. and A. OPP
penheimer, 250S $40 acres and a strip
out of the southwest portion of the
George w. Lewis survey 1S9; $500.
Albert Kopplin to ]. p. POss, 1874 1-3
acres of subdivision survey s, on the
Cibolo river; $500.
Mrs. n. e. Childress and w. I. Chill
dress to r. A. Arthur, western portion
og lot 8, block 4, corner of Olive and
Quitman streets; ST. $50.
Estate of c. b. Shepard, deceased,
TO Z. A. Briggs, 100 acres Of the $Ignio
Tejada survey 1856, on the Medina
river, twenty miles southwest of San
Antonio; $3.50.
ID. M. Thomas to Samuel w. Boyn-
ton. lots !, 2, block a. o. C. !. eight, on
Blum street; $3.50.
Sarah Muller to F. f. Muller, lot on
the east side of South Flores street,
~ miles South Of Military Plaza;s5
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THE COTTON MARKET.

New DIRK, Dec. 22.-The cotton mar
ket opened steady with prices 1 point
lower to point higher, and ruled
quiet and embarrassing throughout
the forenoon with fluctuations confin-
ed to the range of three points. At
II o'clock the market was neglected
but steady at about the opening fl
CURES. The selling was checked by a
marked falling off in port receipts, to-
days being estimated at only 10000
bales. Sales to IL o'clock were "a,
600 bales.
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PRIVATE SECRETARY DOWNES.

New York, Dec. pa special 10 the
Herald from Lakewood, New Jersey,
says: -
Mayor-elect Van Wyck, of New York,
has appointed Alfred Downes, a news
paper man, to be his private secretary,
at salary of 5000 a year. Nj:
Downes was born in New Haven, Con-
necticut, 80 years ago. He was
graduate of Yale law school in the
class of "a and is member OF the
Connecticut bar. He went into news
paper work in this city ten years ago.
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UNCLE SANS TARIFF GOES.

BuenOs Ayres, Dec. 22.-The Cham
Der of Deputies has rejected the retail
iatory tarlf against the United States,
which was submitted by the finance
committee, but voted to Increase the
tariff on petroleum three centavOs gold.
The declaration was made in the
Chamber that the tariff should not be
hostile to imports from the United
States; that there is no reason for a
tariff war.
A correspondent in Rio Janeiro says
that it is reported in that city that Vice
President Pereia has escaped from the
prison to which he was sent by Presi-
dent Moraes on the charge that he was
plotting to kill the president and upset
the government
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-22
HURT IN A RACE.

New York, Dec. 22.-Eddie Bald Is
sick in bed as result of the injuries
received when he fell in the Madison
Square garden during the six days2
race His back and groin are severe
ly strained and the chances are thar
his match with Jimmy Michael, which
was to have been one of the features
of the winter bicycling season, will
have to be called off. Bald's physi-
clans tell him he viii be all right af-
ter a short period Of absolute rest.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-22
CHINA AND RUSSIA.
The Dragon Hugs The Siberian Bear
As a Last Result.

AS Last Result.
Pekin, Dec. 22.-The Chinese Gov
eminent has granted Russia permits
sion to winter squadron at Port Ar
thur. Great Britain demands the
port of Quid Pro Quo if the concession
has been made to other powers. 1t
has been suggested that the japanese
and British occupy Wei-HeiWWei
jointly. The situation at Kiao Chau
bay is unchanged. Germany remains
unyielding and the Chinese councils
are divided as to whether 1t should be
peace or war with Germany. China
regards Russia as her only friend and
asks her advice alone. British in
fiuence is nil, having suffered greatly
through the failure of loan negotia-
tions. China is now negotiating q
loan with Russia. The latter de-
mands q dismissal of British railroad
engineers in North China and it is
probable it will be granted. German
drill instructors are to be dismissed
at the expiration of their contracts
and will be replaced by Russians.
Russian officers have already been ap-
pointed to drill the army of North Chi
ma,
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BASEBALL PROFITS.

New York. Dec. 22.-The annual
meeting of the New York Baseball club
took place yesterday and a dividend of
4 per cent. was declared, the president,
however, being empowered to increase
II if he saw fit. After considering the
matter he decided to make a dividend
of 6 per cent. on $250,000. 1t is said
that the profits of last season were
something like 100000.
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COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS.

~AS ioioWiug cases, dppcdicu AAchb
Bexar county, were decided in the
Fourth Court of Civil appeals this
morning, .-
1874. Mary d. woolley ct al VS., d.
Sullivan & Co., ct al, from Bexar;
affirmed. S..
1910. |. & G. n. Ry. co. VS.. Grin
Davis, motion for rehearing; overrul-
ed.
1916. James Raley ct al. VS.. r. W.
Alright ct al, motion for rehearing;
overruled.
Other motions were decided as fol
lows:
1893. Nellie Perkins ct al. ys. W. B.
Adams e Co., from Medina, motion
for rehearing; overruled.
1494. Mexican Central Ry. Co. ltd.
VS.. Samuel Goodman ct al, from Ell
PasO, motion for rehearing: overruled,
1895. S. A. & A. p. Ry. Co. VS.. f.
B. Choate, from .Karnes. motion for
rehearing; overTuled.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-22
GOT 4 CHINESE JOB.

Stanford University, Cal, Dec. %
DR.. Noah Field Drake, n graduate
student in geology since '93 has been
rendered and has accepted position
in the Tein Tsein university of China
and he will leave for the Orient on
the first of February. He will be
major professor of mining engineering
and geology. DR.. Drake came here
from Cincinnati, Ark.
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A CHICAGO FIRE.

Chicago, ILL.,, Dec. 22.-Fire today de-
stroyed the three-story brick ware
house of 4. II. Andrews, furniture
company. The warehouse was filled
with finished goods, all of which burn
ed. The loss is about 100000 fully
insured.
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A CHIEF JUSTICE SLATED.

New York, Dec. 22.-According TO the
Washington correspondent ! of the
World it has been decided that ]. w.
Mills, of New Haven, Connecticut Will
be made chief justice Of the Supreme
court of New Mexico. His nomina-
ton will not be sent in until after the
holiday recess. ...
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THE MARKETS.

Chicago. ILL.,, Dec. 22.-Cattle: Re
CENTS, $4,000; best firm, others weak.
Texas steers S3@$4.1O.
Sheep: Receipts 10000; market
steady to strong.
ST. Louis. Mo, Dec. 22.-Cattle: Re
ceipts $500; market strong to lOc
higher for Texans. Texas and In
dian Territory steets $3@$4.1O.
Sheep: Receipts, 400; market
steady.
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THINKS IT A GOOD THING.

Washington, d. c., Dec. 22.-Chair-
man Loud, of the House committee on
pOstoffices has been working during
the recess upon the report of the COM
mittee on the Loud bill and has prac-
tically completed it. He believes the
measure will effect a saving of $1O,-
O00O 900 annually and will wipe out an
enormous deficit that confronts the
department during the year.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-22
NAY BE YELLOW JACK.

New York, Dec. 22.-The Ward Line
steamer Saratoga from Mexican ports
via Havana, reached quarantine this
morning with her master, Capt. y, +
Buck, very ill, suffering with a fever
which he contracted while the vessel
was lying at Havana. His condition
is critical. He was sent TO Swinburn
island hospital. The ship will be dis
infected and she will proceed to her
dock ,l.... e.
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CUBAN CONDITIONS BAD.
No Labor-Government Owes EVey'
one-No Food-No Rations.

One-NO FOOd-NO HalIOHs.
New York, Dec. pa dispatch to
the Tribune from Havan says:
While DEGREES from Madrid have
been coming to Havana, the palace
has kept on issuing DEGREES of ban
das". which are meant to aid in the re-
construction. Dubious points in the
DEGREES authorizing the Official quota
ton of the billetes, or paper money,
were cleared up by the supplementary
banda. The experiment has worked
well in the first few days. Billetes
had been quoted for weeks at a maxi
mum of 40 per cent as against gold.
They have risen to A per cent, The
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-22
JOHN 4. DIDN'T GET N,

Boston, Mass, Dec. 22.-Complete
and revised returns from 191 voting
precincts of this city show that Nav
or Josiah Quincy, the Democrats can
didate, was reelected yesterday bv a
plurality Of 400 votes.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-22
PROMINENT PEOPLE SHOT.

San Francisco, Cal, Dec. 22.-News
has reached this city of the shooting
in Guatemala of sixty prisoners, in
Guiding two men who are well known
over the central part of the American
republic,
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FAIR, AT LEAST.

Washington, d. c., Dec. o.
Weather for Western Texas: Fair
and colder in Southern portion Thurs
day morning with northerly winds.
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LICENSED TO WED.

James Perkins and Nora Orviss.
Frank White and Georgia Cook.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-25

searching for specimens. She tramps
over the hills and along the highways and
byways and thinks a tramp of twenty
four miles just few hours amusement.
She never thinks of riding anywhere un-
less she is in too great hurry to walk.
She is thoroughly familiar with the use OF
the botanical microscope and has pub
lished several pamphlets which have at
tracted universal attention from botan-
lists, upon the microscopic construction
of seeds and plants, and has made excel
lent drawings OF cells and tissues that are
invaluable.
The scientists among the women of this
State are fewer than one would imagine
until they began to search for them.
There are but two women in the United
States who are students of ornithology,
and they grace the Atlantic Coast. The
study of insects has attracted none, and
as for reptiles, of course it was not to be
expected, and l found on inquiry that
there were but three collections of reptiles
in the United States. Apparently the
masculine mind does not take much m ore
kindly to the wriegling creatures than
does the feminine. But l found the only
of the x ray. She has pretty little room
on Sutter street with the woman's touch
showing plainly in the lace curtains over
the door and the hall full OF weird pic
lures of live mems bones.
| Miss FIeishman asked me in and showed
me her machine and how she took the
| photographs of the inner bones. And
then she stood in front OF the machine
and gave me the plates and bade me look
at her ribs and spinal column and lungs
and heart and then she held it up to her
| face and showed me the skull.
''Do you like it?" 1 asked.
| ELECTRICITY is the most fascinating, the
most wonderful thing, that ever was be-
yond mans comprehension. 1t is so in
teresting that when l get to reading and
experimenting 1 forgot everything else."
She pointed to a pile of books-formid-
ble-looking volumes, which show clear
through the bindings that there is very
little paragraphing-an lifted one Of
them to her lap. You don't know how
enjoy it, do not understand why more
women have n OF undertaken it. OF cours
there are difficulties; 80 there are il
everything, but the pleasure of it ont
weighs all else."
s'Of course" she went on, 81 have only
the least bit of knowledge-only jus
begun on the subject. 1t is so vast tha
one gets just bit discouraged at the out
set, and still not any more so than in any
deep study. 1t all looks unfathomable in
the beginning"
There are few women in science, and
yet some way they seemed like grea
number. Perhaps it is because the pres
ence OF one strong mind is felt more
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-25

1t was a plain room with blackboards
and charts and queer-looking instruments
and telescope and q great deal Of light,
into which l was shown.
Miss O. Halloran2" l asked.
She smiled very gravely and bade me be
seated and sat down herself on the edge
of further chair and waited, looking at
me the while with eyes which have grown
used 10 searching into the secrets of the
heavens, and from which 1 dared not
hope to hide any OF mine.
II have always studied astronomy" +"
she said speaking in her grave, sweet
way, that has about it a strong touch of
diffidence II can't say that l began at
such and such a time. l never thought of
beginning. indeed, l never thought about
it at all. l simply went ahead. There are
some minds which grow along one certain
line.
"Wth such there is 10 need to pause and
say, I Will throw all other things aside
and study this one branch. 1t would be
foreign to their natures TO do otherwise.
So it was with me. think that l bsgan
life ana this study at the same time. 1t
might sound absurd to tell OF the thoug hts
and reasonings of a child OF 6, but still
Temen Der them distinctly. l never had
any training in this branch to speak Of
n few rules were taught to me at school,
out the instructor took 50 little interest IN
it himself and made it so unin sting to
me that it would have tended TO discour
age rather than encourage further study
had l not been fixed in my purpose.
at is a marvellous study" she went on.
Sometimes when l look up into the
heavens 1 can scarcely Der that
there is anything else. 1t is so great so
vast, 80 awe-ins piring, that you never be-
come friendly in a familiar way with
those luminaries, they are always wrapped
in the vast infnity."
What a frail little body she was as she
sat and told me of her life-study. A
breath might have blown her away-her
physical being could not have withstood
any shock, and yet there was so much
strength that you inslinctively felt. 1t is
in the sweetness of her mouth and the
calm OF her face and the clearness OF her
eyes.
Il wonder that you ever come back to
eartn,' l said; that you do not keep
your eyes and thoughts up there always.
She smiled. 'If l should happen to be
looking up there and had unfortuna tely
paused in the face of an oncoming train
/ do not think 1 should move. Not that
l would stand there willfully, but !
shouldn't know. 1t is almost impossible
to bring myself back to the realization
hat there is something I must do here.
On, it must be all one can desire to be able
10 do nothing else but work at that which
they love-studving ana searching and
hoping and living in their calling and for
getting everything else. But astronomers
seem strangely withheld from following
their DESIRES"
But" and l did understand, for there
was nothing about the place to suggest
anything but her work or her success.
From the walls the yellow parchment OF
diplomas stared down out of their narrow
frames, and in spite OF the faded ink |
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-25

States of the confederation would be safe
from analogous sencroachments by Prussia
upon their independence Finally the
ouicry became so loud that Emperor Will
liam suggested the policy OF submitting
the rival rights to the regency OF Prince
Adolphus and of Count Lippe to tribu-
nal consisting of the highest judicial au-
thorities of the Empire, presided over for
the occasion by the King OF Saxony. the
senior in point of age of the federal SOW
ereigns
The tribunal has now rendered the ver-
dict, which Is entirely iE favor OF Count
Lippe, who by virtue thereof has become
regent of the principality, the administra-
tor of the vast property OF the reigning
House Of Lippe- Detmold, and the next
heir to the throne, which. in the natural
order of events cannot much longer be
retained by the now septuagenarian and
sdemented Prince. Prince Adolphus was
given twenty-four hours in which to va
cate the position which he had usurped.
The tribunal could not logically come
to anv other conclusion. For if morgan
attic alliances on the part of ancestors had
been pronounced sufficient to disqualify
from the succession to the crown. and had
Count Ernest of Lippe's claims been held
invalid, it would have been equivalent TO
judicial declaration that at least
seven-tenths Sc of the thrones of Ger
many were held wrongfully, first and
foremost that of the Grand Duke OF Baden
(married to the only daughter OF old EN-
peror William and a granduncle, there
fore. of the present Kaiser), whose grand
mother was mere actress, created, after
her morganatic marriage with the Grand
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The DEHTHE(NELL OF N0RGHKATIC MARRIAGES IS S0UnDE

however, to his Apostolic Majesty, the
Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire at
Vienna. The Napoleonic wars swept he
majority of these small states away, and
the treaty OF Vienna set its seal to their
disappearance. 1t was felt, however. that
they required some sort of compensation
for the loss of their dominions.
Accordingly they and their lineal des-
cendanis were invested with numb Der of
extraord nary privileges, such as are en-
ioyed by the mem bers of actually reigning
houses, and conspicuous among which
was the right to contract morganatic mar
riages. These unions as stated above, are
entirely out of keeping with the demo
cratic spirit of the present age, and are not
appropriate to the conditions of modern
life. They are no longer tolerated by
French law, which regards all marriages as
equally binding upon both parties, the fall
ure of Mile. de Clinchamps to assume the
title of her husband, the late Due a 'Au-
male, who has bequeathed the bulk OF his
enormous fortune to her son, being en-
tlrely due to private agreement between
them. The King OF Saxony and his fellow
judges, constituting as they do court,
the supremacy OF which Is acknowledged
by Emperor William and by all the sover-
eien families and states of Germany, have
now adopted the sensible French view
and declared that left handed marriages
can no longer be regarded as bar to sue
cession of the throne, ergo that they were
lust as valid as binding and as complete
| as ordinary matrimonial alliances. This
Is equivalent to the deathkneli OF the
mor,apatic marriage system
Ex-ATTAcHx.
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Duke OF the day, first of ell Baroness
Geyer and then Countess of Hoch berg.
Indeed there is a question whether if
Emperor Williams argument had been
admitted his own children could have
been permitted to succeed to the throne
of Prussia.
Morganatic marriages are regarded by
many in this country in the light of some
thing immoral. This is far from being
the case. The position of morganatic
wife is perfectly respectable. Her union
receives the sanction and the blessing
OF the church, and the only way in
which it differs from an ordinary mar
riage is that the left instead of the right
hand is given before the altar, and that
as stated above the rights of the inferior
OF two contracting parties are limited.
Indeed, the word "morganatic," derived
from the Scandinavian verb, "morgyan"
Ito llmit), implies as much.
The people who until now have been
permitted to contract morganatic mar
riages and to assign so altogether unjust
status to their wives and to their
children have been not only the princes
and princesses of the now rejgning houses
of Germany, Italy, Austria, Russia, Dem
marx, Spain and Portugal, but also the
m EN- bers of what are known as the medi-
atized families of Central Europe. These
figure in part II of the Almanach de
Gotha. The heads of these houses, some
OF them dukes, some princes, others
merely marquises and counts (such as
for instance Count Pappen helm, who
married Miss Wheeler of PhIladel-
phia), formerly enjoyed the rank and
power Of petty soyereigns. Vassals.
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the regency, as well as the eventual sue
cession to the throne. This right, warmly
indorsed by the Parliament of Lippe, by
the municipality of Detmold, by the en-
tire population of the principality, as
well as by all the non- Prussian states OF
the German empire, was con tested by En-
peror William and by Prince Adolphus
on the ground that Prince Ernest was de-
barred from the prerogatlves which he
would otherwise have enjoyed by reason
of his being descended from great-great-
grandfather, who instead OF marrying a
woman OF his own rank had contracted
what is known as a morganatic alliance.
1t would be only in the event of Count
Lippe, his sons, his brothers and his
nephews. all alike descended from this
non -princely ancestress being placed out
of running, that the infinitely more dis
tanlly related families OF Schaumburg
Lippe' would have any rights to the
succession. Prince Adolphus, | may add
is merely the younger of five sons of the
reigning Prince of Schaum burg Lippe.
Fortunately for Count Ernest Lippe the
high handed ana arbitrary proceedings at
Deimold, and particularly the indignities
TO which he had been subjected by Prince
Adolphus at the funeral, excited so much
indignation throughout all the other nom
Prussian States that Emperor William
became very seriously alarmed, all the
more as he himself was held responsible
for the whole affair, his brother-in-iaw
being looked upon merely as an instru-
ment in his hands The Bavarian ard
Wurtem berg newspapers were quick to
point out that If such things were toler-
ated at Detmold none Of the sovereign
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Little by little the sovereign houses OF
the Old World are being divested of those
medieval and anachronic pIerogatives
that were all very well when people were
willing TO admit the extravagant claims
of mundane royalty to cousinship with
the Almighty, but which are thoroughly
out OF keeping with the enlightened and
progressive spirit of the present age. One
of the most preposterous OF all these ex-
traordinary privileges has been that OF
morganatic marriage, a form OF matri-
monial alliance but little understood here
in the United States. Based upon The
principle that an ordinary union was inn
possible between the mem ber of reign
ing family and a person OF minor rank
belonging either to the nobility or to the
people, it has been considered binding
only on the inferior of the two parties,
but not on the superior, who, ecclesiasti-
caily and legally, has been held free to
contract another union without first get
ting rid OF the morganatic partner.
The latter has been debarred from shar-
ing the social status, title or privileges of
the more high born OF the two, and the
issue of the union has been usually sub
Jected to similar disadvantages. OF
course the existence of an institution of
this character i'm piled a sort Of obligation
upon members of sovereign or media
tized houses not to contract any but NOR
ganatic marriages with people of lower
grade OF society, and this has no doubt
suf1ced to prevent many union between
American horesses and impecuniohs
German princes.
Morganatic marriages may be consid-
cred to nave had their day, for it is their