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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-02
MOVING THE BIG TIGER.
A Task Which Was by No Means
a Pleasant One.
An Old Circus Man Tells What Hap
pened When They Tried 20 Shift
the Royal Bengal from one
Cage to Another.

"Once," said an old circus man to
New York Sun reporter, 1--WE had a
tiger get loose. This was in a menag-
erie, in a fixed location, where we had
been for some time. The cages for the
animals were ranged along on plat
form around a big foored space for
spectators; the show was in building
made for it.
1--WE had a very good collection of
animals, including full-grown royal
Bengal tiger. The tiger cage had got
rather old and we set out to shift the
tiger into a new one. We had the new
cage all ready, and one afternoon after
the show was over and the people had
all gone we brought it in and moved it
up in front of the old cage standing on
the platform, and blocked it up so that
it was on the same level with the other,
and then moved the two cages close to-
gether face to face. The cage doors
didn't swing; they slid up through an
opening in the roof of the cage, and
what we were going to do was to raise
these doors when we got the cages close
together and drive the tiger from one
cage to the other and then shove down
the door of the new cage and put that on
the platform.
"Well, we got the cages up close to-
gether and doors opposite, and a man
on the roof of each cage raised the door
of that cage, and then we began to prod
the tiger, to make him go through the
opening into the other cage. He started
for it and put his paw across the narrow
space between the two cages, but in
stead of putting it over inside the door
way of the other cage he put it against
the first bar on the side of the door and
pushed on it, and pushed the cage away
little bit. That was bad. We ought to
have made the cages fast together, but
we hadn't. We tried to start him along
a little faster, but instead of going
through into the other cage he kept
pushing on that bar and pushing the
other cage away.
''All this time he was getting little
bit further out of the old cage, but not
into the new one. The man on top Of
the old cage tried to shut that door
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-02
SAVED BY A PET GOOSE.
This Much-MaIigned bird Rescues a
Man from Fire.

Henry ]. johnson, who lives near
Choconut Center, was saved by a psf
goose from cremation in his barn re-
Gently, says the New York Press. Mr..
Johnson owns large gray goose that
has been brought up by hand" The
bird has developed a strong attach
ment for it's owner and will leave the
flock to follow him about the farm.
The other day a severe thunderstorm
passed over the place and Mr.. johnson
hurried to the barn to put up the horse.
Suddenly there was.a sharp flash and a
severe crash of thunder directly over
head.
\ member of the family a few mo-
ments afterward CHANGING from a rear
window saw the goose come screaming
from the barn, fly through the rain to
the house and then back again to the
barn. ThiSactiOn was repeated several
times before the family decided to in
vestigate. On entering the barn they
found it filled with smoke. Lightning
had struck rafter, and, passing down
ward, had set fire to some clapboards.
AAS haLlSSs, WHICH IIdu Bulueu COuSIueT-
able Roadway, were extinguished by
prompt action. Mr.. Johnson was found
lying on the floor, unconscious, and in a
few minutes more the structure about
him would have been ablaze. The light
ming stripped the feathers from half a
dozen chickens on an adjacent roost
without injuring the birds. Mr.. John
son will recover.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-02
THIRTEEN sUPERsTITIoUS MEN.
Would Not Go TO Dinner Until the
Fourteenth Guest Appeared.

Fourteenth Guest Appeared
''This matter of superstition always
makes me laugh" said q traveller the
other day when some one spoke of
never liking to do anything on Friday.
81 made a trip of $4,000 miles last sum-
mer with a party of IL others, making
Is in all, and we started on a Friday
and never missed train or boat or a
meal or had an ache or pain among us
the whole time"
Then he told a laughable story, says
an exchange.
SIT had been the custom of the sur
vivors of the old national rifles to meet
each year On the anniversary of our
mastering into service in the war of the
rebellion and enjoy dinner and swap
"reminiscences near and remote. Sew
eral years ago 1 had the boys to my
house and had prepared the very best
dinner knew how'to give. There are
usually 16 or II survivors at such q
gathering, but this time when we were
about to enter the dining-room some
body counted noses and discovered we
were IS all told. Now, those other 12
men were brave and courageous gen.
tlemen, who had faced cannon unflinch-
ingly and were afraid of nothing tangi-
bic, but not a single man of them was
willing to enter that room. At last, after
ahalf-hour's wait, during which my din
nerwas rapidlyapproaching the spoiled
stage, another man came and in we
went. Now, that man who made the
fourteenth in the party and broke the
unlucky spell, according to the 10 other
guests, was Charles Alexander, and be-
fore the dinner YVES concluded he had
to be carried home and in two months
he was dead. All the others are living
yet"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-02
E. NJ. HIGHT, D. D. S.

We call attention to the card of DR.,
E. NJ. Hight. DR.. Hight is a graduate
and a practitioner of dentistry of sew
enteen years experience, and as evil
dence of his standing as a dentist, it
may be said that he has been prOmi-
nent in it's profession for several years,
having beensecretary of the state as
ISOLATION of dentists of Mississippi;
later, a demonstrated in the Louis
vile College of dentistry and associate
editor of the leading Southern Dental
Journal. He can be found at 1l3 Ala
mo street. 5-2-1t
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-02
A REMARKABLY GIFTED MAN.

A REMARKABLY GIFTED MAN.
Business and domestic life revealed
as though seen by the naked eye.
Quite rare are those gifted with
strange and wondrous powers that de-
fy analysis but furnish results. Such
a man is who has been dominated the
oracle of the nineteenth century"
Gifted by nature with rare clairvoyant
powers and occult force, his knowledge
of things pertaining to the future ad-
vantages of his patrons has been pro-
nounced phenomenal. Clairvoyance is
not an acquired accomplishment, but
a scientific, innate faculty, which pro-
jects it's light as star along the path
of it's possessor. When this power
full, persuasive. occult faculty is en-
troned in the brain. its index and in
fluence are in close relationship with
the talent of the medium, enabling him
readily to observe mental intricacies
in solving difficult problems.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-02
PHENOMENA SEEN IN THE STARS
Some Peculinrities Recently Discov-
cred in the Heavenly Rodies

some fecul1nr1t1es Recently DtscOv-
cred in the Heavenly Bodies.
A late circular issued from the Har-
ward college observatory includes in it's
account of the most important recent
discoveries the spectrum of a star
known as Ze'ta Puppis, its remarkable
character being unlike that of anyIoth-
er yet obtained, the continuous spec
trum containing three systems of lines
first, the dark hydrogen lines, such as
are found i'm stars of the first type;
second, two bright bands or lines, which
may be identical with the adjacent lines
in spectra of the fifth type, and, third,
series of very faint lines. But the
most important feature of this spec
trum, says the New York Sun, is a new
element, not found on the earth or III
any other stars, an element which,
though similar to hydrogen, is yet dis
tinctly different from it; Just what it
is or by what name to call it astron-
olners are undecided, the marked
popularity being noted that it pro-
duces vibration systematic rather
than accidental, of Observation-Disclosures
of mfllimeter, and the action of which
can be traced only on a specially-pre-
pared Photographic plate. Another ex-
traordinary discovery noted is new
variable star, in the constellation CruX,
with period of about year.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-02
WONDERFUL MENTAL POWERS.

Don't fail to see him if you are in
terested in the affairs of life. If mar
riage, sickness, deaths, changes, traV-
els, lawsuits, business transactions in
vestments of whatever nature, wills,
deeds, mortgages, last or absent friend
interest you; if you care what you
should do to be successful, where you
should go and whom to avoid; if you
desire to have your domestic troubles
removed; your bitterst enemies con-
verted into staunchest friends; in a
word, whatever may be your troubles,
suspicious or desires, call on this gift
ed man.
He advises you with certainty as
to the proper course to pursue in life.
His descriptions of your friends and
enemies are as real as though they
stood before you. Call and test the
professor to your hearts content, and
you will depart thoroughly satisfied
that there is a marvellous medium and
clairvoyant in your midst. Nothing in
life is too obscure for Prof. Reese to
reveal.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-02
Names of Presidents, Mothers.

President McKinley's mothers name
is Nancy; so was that Of the mother of
Abraham Lincoln. Of the other presi-
dents mothers given names there are
four Elizabeths, three Marys, two
Elias, two James, two Annas, and one
each Of Susanna, Nelly, Abigail, Sarah,
Phoebe, Harriet, Sophia, Malvina and
Maria.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-02

Wilkinson, c. r., Court San Antonio,
10, San JacintoN xzfifffi xz xzfiflm
No. 9. r. S. Robinson, c. r. Court
San Jacinto No. 10. VIM. ALT Young,
P. c. r. Financial secretary Alamo
circle, c. of f. SPLIT
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-02
FoREsTERs' OF AMERICA.

Jan Foresters and companions of the
Forest are requested I'd meet at our
lodge room on Soleda4 street this
Sunday evening at 3 o'clock to at
tend the funeral Of RAother p j.
EGcson OF Kansas City Kansas, by
order Of the funeral q -.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-02
HIDDEN THINGS REVEALED.

Buried or hidden treasure, jewels,
wills. bonds, etc, surely and quickly
found.
1t hardly needs repeating that DR..
Reese is the peer of all living mediums
before the public. He takes the pro-
fessional ground that confidence is the
first requisite with his patrons, and all
who consult him have positive assur-
ance that their business is sacredly pri-
vate. 5-1-2t.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-02
BANKRUPT.

stocks we do not buy, except we can get
nice clean goods at a sacrifice. Last
week we received large shipment CT
staple merchandise, which we bought
at
% CENTS ON THE DOLLAR!
and we viii sell the goods for so to 100
rer cent less than was ever known be-
fore.
FOR A COPPER:
Soap; $50 pins; steel crochet hook; "a
hooks and eyes; white and colored
thread; fan; As white buttons; rubber
or fancy hair pin; 2 aluminium hair
pins; corset or shoe laces; one yard
white or black elastic; ribbon; lace;
ruching, etc; black or white tape; en-
broidery silk; key ring; garters; black
ing; penholders; lead pencils; 90
page tablet; pipe; can opener; compo-
sition book; single and double pointed
tacks; crater; baseball prize, ETC., etc:
FOR CENTS:
Necktie; handkerchief; baby bib link;
blueing; "a patent hooks and eyes: II
French whalebones; pocket or fine comb
fancy hair pins 1Oc quality; y safety
pins; aluminium thimble linen thread
200 yard spool cotton, equal to any; q
envelopes; 36 sheets paper; pencil box;
box slate pencils; tin cup; egg beater;
meat fork; pie pan; funnel; doll; 4C
brass taclSs; $50 carpet tacks; 100 fish
hooks; so foot fish line; ply linen col
lar; lace and ribbon in great variety;
and thousands of other articles at
and 2 cents which other concerns sell
at 5 and 10 cents. We would advise
you to come early in order to get choice
of the plums.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-02
DIR. B. S. REESE,

ACKNOWLEDGED. BY THE PEG
PIE OF THE ENTIRE WORLD TO
BE THE GREATEST LIVING ME-
DUN,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-02

AND WHO HAS ASTOUNDED THE
WORLD WITH HIS MARVELLOUS
POWERS,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-02

IS LOCATED AT 1OS SOUTH ALAMO
STREET.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-02
REMEMBER

that Paul Wagner has removed TO
5O651 East custom street, near the
Maverick bank building, with his stock
Of
WALL PAPER,
Toys and notions. SILT
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-02
CHURCH PICNIC.

An excursion Van Raub, May 2,
by the German neraSs *, Johns
church, on the rs, r.
leave at $3.50 a.
turning at p. M
Commerce street
sale by Rev Ulq
Peters. Tickets
dgen % cents.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-02

Here IL is; pianos and furniture
moved. packed, shipped and stored.
Kendall & Rips, 215 z. Houston street.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-02

Some Of the spiders OF the EastIndies
are 50 large that they devour small
birds.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-02

stocks we do not buy, except we can get
nice clean goods at a sacrifice. Last
week ne received a large shipment CT
staple merchandise, which we bought
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-10-22
Still the Calamity HOwls.

For the lack of better material the
professional calamity howler walls that
large amount of Washington's great
revenues from agriculture this season
is going into the Golfers of the eastern
money loaners in the discharge of
mortgages. Estimates are made from
mortgages. Estimates are made that
from 40 to 80 per cent of the mortga
ged Indebtedness of Eastern Washing
ton and Oregon will be wiped out from
this seasons grain crop, and this is
going to take lot of money. This is
to an extent true, but the position of
the agricultural classes when this
great source of drain for interest and
principal is wiped out makes the flu
of the Washington farmer bright and
cheerful one. The lessons taught by
the past few years of depression have
been dearly learned, but they were
necessary in teaching all classes in this
state that wastefulness and unbusi-
nesslke principles were breeders of
financial embarrassments and difficult
ties. Had these lessons been learned
earlier there were no necessity for any
thing but good times across the range.
When farmers live extravagently,
liquidate store bills once year with
high rates of interest charges paid by
merchants, and additional profits
which must necessarily be charged
under such system, tackled onto his
account. When he neglects his out
standing mortgage Indebtedness, and
build up new obligations by purchas-
ing more land from the proceeds of
his crop. When he fails to house his
machinery or sufficiently diversity his
products to raise everything practical
BILE, at least for home use upon his own
premises, and goes on year after year
IN such course the time of reckoning
is sure to come, and its effects fall no
more heavily upon him than upon the
merchant who has leniently carried
his account for long periods, and the
community generally. That such
were the errors which have been elm
mated in the past few years in Eastern
Washington and Oregon is practically
true, and the present season of paying
off morts ages is one of the best evil
dences OF reform needed. Not only
this, but the money sent out of the
state, if needed can be again secured
| for profitable investment in the devel-
opment of industries and the extern
sion of farming operation through ir-
rigating enterprises or otherwise.-W.
G. Trade.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-10-22
Gong out of Business.

1t is practically settled that on Jam
uary 1st, 1898, the Pacific Pine Lum-
Der Co. Of California will cease to exist.
Hanson & Co. have served notice of
their withdrawal from this company
which will take effect on the above
date. The two strong factors remain
ing in tho company are Renton,
Holmes & Co. and Pope & Talbot.
These own and operate the Port Blake
ly, Port Gamble and Port Ludlow mills
on Puget Sound. 1t is hardly probable
that these two. companies will attempt
to perpetuate this organization.
The Pacific Pine Lumber Co. was
organized in 1887 to control the Cali
fornia cargo trade and the trade in
foreign markets. Only for brief
period has it been able to do this,
though its operations have been car
ried along on wide lines, and it has
handled untold millions of the lumber
of this coast. Shortly after its organi-
Eat on there came into the field sever
al strong mill companies that refused
to affiliate in the combination. This
was the first opposition met and it has
grown stronger from year to year and
can be put down as the cause of the
end of the Pacific Pine Lumber Cos.
existence. E. M. Herrick has been
from the first to last the president OF
this organization, and it is due to his
executive ability that it has so long
held together Like all associations
organized to control prices and out
put, it has had to stand the odium of
being trust, and be subject to much
more adverse criticism than it deserv-
ed. There is one feature of its opera
tions not generally appreciated, and
that is the hard work done in pushing
the lumber of this coast into foreign
markets. 1t has ransacked the world
so thoroughly that there are few cor
ners of it where the name OF the Pa
cific Pine Lumber Go. is unknown, or
where the lumber of his coast has not
been Sold The errors OF omission
and commission committed by this or
ganiZatiOn have e-acted-almOst ex-
cllSiVelV-on the mills that copon nocod
it, so the outsider has but little ground
| on which to rest one foot while he
kicks with other. 1t has again DEM
onstrated that the law of supply and
demand may for time be overruled,
but only for a time-W, C. Lumber
man.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-10-22
Currency Reform.

1t is reported by those in close
touch with President Mckinley that
his forthcoming message will not con-
tain any extended illusions to or re-
concentrations for currency reform.
This is believed to be the plan of wis
dom at the present time, for while
there is no doubt room for consider
able reform of our financial methods,
the subject is one that should be ap-
preached carefully and be given am
pie time efor consideration. 1t is not
probable that any bill that would sat
isfy the various business interests
of the country could be passed at the
next session OF congress, and the pre-
cipitation of the subject upon con-
gress at the coming session would take
valuable time which might well be
devoted to other subjects which will
demand attention. The Hawaiian
annexation, the Nicaragua canal, Gu
ban situation, a national bankruptcy
law and several other innportrnt
measures should be disposed of at as
early date as possible.
The country is on the up grade un-
der the beneficial workings of the
Dingley law, and there is every reason
to believe that the improvement will
continue, and while We are doing we'll
enough there is no good reason for
stirring up congress and the country
with debate on the currency. Our
financial system can be improved, but
the effort should not lie undertaken
until the best methods can be decided
upon after careful consideration by
the anlest minds in the country
Ledger.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-10-22
Government Finances.

Secretary Gage, in Il recent inter-
view made the following encouraging
statement as to government finances.
Notwithstanding the disadvantages
incident to the necessary delay in en-
acting the new tariff, the revenues of
the government are ample. The gold
reserve in the treasury increases daily,
and things brings with it improve
ment in the general situation. He
adds, "In fact, there is more gold now
in the treasury than is necessary to
sustain the contemplated reserve"
This is very delightful change from
the apprehension of depleted gold
reserve, which hung over the treasury
during the second Cleveland admins
tratlon. There was nothing which so
alarmed Mr.. Cleveland as the haunted
presence Of the "endless chain." He
was in mortal terror all the time lest
some combination of speculators or
some foreign enemy should set that
chain to work emptying the treasury
of its gold. Mr.. Gage shows no fear
whatever OF anything of that kind,
and it is to be hoped that we have
heard the last OF it. except as remi-
niscence of an administration which
cost this country billions of dollars
during its four disastrous years.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-10-22
How The Sea Became Salt.

1t is concluded from investigation
into the character and affinities of the
organic forms of past geological ages
that the waters of the ocean must
have been salt from very early geo.
logical times. It however, by no
means follows that they were as salt
as the seas of our own time, and there
are good reasons for believing that
they were really not so. There are
two ways by which the salinity of the
ocean wates in early geological time
may be reasonably assumed. In the
first place, supposing the primeval
waters were saturated with acid gases,
which were held in suspension in the
vapor surrounding the incandeseent
globe, their sallnity would be readily
accounted for. In the second place,
the salinity may have resulted that by
which the salt lakes of the present day
have been formed; but from whatever
cause there is good ground for believ-
ing that chlorine largely prevailed in
the waters of the primeval ocean, as
by far the greater proportion of the
salts were chlorides, and chlorine is
but very slightly represented in the
river waters Of the present day. When
the great envelope of vapor which sur
rounded the incandescent globe began
to condense upon its cooling surface,
the resulting waters, though contain
ing acids, were destitute of saline in
gradients. The process of salinifica-
ton, so Professor Edward Hill assures
us, began with the first streams which
entered the seas from the bordering
uplands, and this process carried on
throughout the long ages preceding
the Silurian period, brought the waters
to condition suited to sustain the
life of forms of inhabitants represen-
tatives of those which inhabit the
oceans in our own time. These long
ages may be assumed to include not
only Archean and Azoic periods, but
that during which the first crust was
in course of formation over the incan-
descent globe.