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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-11-18
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Galveston shows. 81 tramps in the
city limits.
After hours hunt not a fox was
Jumped in that Cynthiana fox hunt IN
Kentucky.
Texas, Arkansas and Missouri press
officials meet at Eureka Springs, Ark,
for consultation.
Trade with Canada is not changed by
the visit of the Laurier party.
II is now asserted that President Nc
Kinley will not incorporate the Span
ish correspondence in his message.
Monetary commission will not pre-
sent a plan of reform when Congress
meets. They will not have one ready
October internal revenue receipts are
in advance of those of last October.
Small failures are reported at Dali
las, Georgetown and Taylor.
Mexican shot and killed by an Amer
lean just out of Waco.
The Texas Republicans and Popu-
lists continue to air their splits.
Tom Sweet, for stabbing Cheatam,
near Bryan, is lynched. Both are col
ored.
Hughes, labelled dangerous, is ar
rested at Corpus Christi. He is re-
lated to Belle Starr.
Ellis county records the third high
way robbery this week.
Mohamedans cannot come into the
United States as immigrants, as they
believe in polygamy.
The millionaire Ketcham case pug
zles the authorities of Chicago.
Elaborate demonstrations are in pre-
marathon at Corruna on the arrival Of
Weyler.
Spanish cabinet is afraid to give Gu
ba the control Of the customs, and is
more afraid of American intervention.
Secretary General Congosta Of Cuba
is already making himself unpopular.
NJ. K. & T. officials are in close con-
ference in Dallas with auditors of the
state railway commission.
Austrian emperor remains faithful to
the Dreibund, and so announces to a
Hungarian delegation.
Arthur Blair Moody, a Hartford
swell, is arrested for confidencing New
York friends out of $1,000.
Mexican coast liner Vera Cruz, is
lying at Tampico.
Austin takes the mayoralty contest
as a bon bon with its coffee.
Alabama Lane, the cotton expert
puts cotton crop at 100000 bales or
over.
Williamson county landlords are
warned in the skull and crossbone way
against renting for money.
Cotton rates TO Liverpool from Texas
common points is $1,09.
A Georgia man comes to the front
with an offer to locate the assassin of
Arkansas Clayton.
Boy whipped in an Arkansas school
by a lady teacher submits to her, sets
school house afire and when the princi-
pal attempts to thrash him knocks out
the peda gogue and is in Jail
New York Horse show is well attend
ed by the horse set in spite of the rain.
Secretary Bolt of the American For
eign Mission society drops dead at
Nashville
Striking miners in Norther Illinois
refuse to arbitrate and insist on their
terms.
Knights OF Labor adjourn after cuss-
ing everything that is in sight politi-
eally.
Mexican authorities capture a gang
OF counterfeiters at Juares.
War department orders that field Of
ncers OF the marine corps must march
on foot when required.
Army surgeons are, to have a royal
reception at Kansas City on their
meeting next June.
F1oresville Gin. company establishes
a machine shop in connection.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-11-18
SUED FOR A $50. 900 TIP.

New York, Nov. 1S.-The Journal and
Advertiser says that ]. r. McMurran,
formerly of st. Paul, Mimi, has filed
a suit for $4,000 damages against Ed
win Barbour, formerly Of Virginia and
now a Wall street broker. 1t is alleged
that McMurran arranged with Barbour
that in return for advance information
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-11-18
F, GrOoS ( Co. Bankers.

AND DEALERS IN EXCHANGE
Sight drafts on the principal cities
of the United States and on all EURO
pean countries. Also drafts on MOL
terey, Mexico, payable In Mexian dol
lars. Foreign coin and currency
bought and sold.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-11-18

LOCAL WEATHER FORECAST:
Fair tonight and Friday, warmer.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-11-18

USE THE TELEPHONE
To all points in TEXAS connect
ed with the Long Distance Tele-
phone system. Quick connec-
lions, excellent service and you
do not have to wait for a reply.
Look for the sign of the Blue
Bell.
M. F. THOMAS, Local Manager.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-02-25
BEATING FATHER TIME.
The Mormon Bishop Was Frightened "a,
the Railroad Speed.


Speed was once demonstrated ON a
western road in a fashion to curl the
hair of at least one old Mormon bishop.
The churchman considered it a phenom-
enon and got off the train Us quickly as
he could. He had bullwhacked across
the plains in the early days, and, strange
to say, had never ridden ON a railroad
upon his trip from Green river to San
Francisco. The speed was, therefore, a
revelation to him. He had never before
seen anything SO swift, and he was
scared. About IL miles from Ogden he
asked the conductor for the time of day
and was told that it was 1885. He inn
pressed this time forcibly on his mind.
Now, for a wonder, the western con
nection at Ogden was quickly made,
and after the lapse Of but a few minutes
the San Francisco bound travellers were
on their way Californiaward. Ogden
had been left behind only a few miles,
and the train was whooping along at a
behind time rate Of speed, when the old
bishop, frightened and trembling, dared
to ask the conductor what was the time
of day.
If you have travelled westward, you
know that at Ogden the time changes,
and San Francisco time, one hour ear
lier, is adopted. The conductor had San
Francisco time, and he said:
1T is 7:10-ten minutes after T."
The old bishop, previously haunte
by a dread of impending destruction be-
cause of the horrible rate of speed at
which he was being whirled through
space, rose with q wild cry and made
for the door.
"Lemme OFF, he cried. sit was 80
minutes after Z an hour ago, an we're
goin so fast we are goin faster than
time can count itself. Lemme OFF,
Had he really been going as fast as
the old man had believed, he would
surely have been beaten to bits as he
jumped from the train. As it was, he
was only rolled something like a halt
mile and was carried back TO Ogden ON
a hand car.-Chicago Record.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-02-25
Transyaal Gold.

Of his recent extended study of the
gold of South Africa DR..
Becker says that the Transvaal republic
contains the largest gold deposits in the
world. Within 10 miles of Johannes
burg there is an amount of gold, prac-
tically in sight, estimated to be worth
So, 500, 00e, 900. or nearly as much as
the entire volume of gold coin now in
the world. The gold is extraordinarily
uniform, as Uniform as coal in an or
binary deposit, as shown by shafts
which have been sunk to a depth Of
1900 feet and diamond drillings which
have gone still farther. AT present the
gold is being taken out at the rate of
500, 600, 600 a year.
The most surprising news which DR..
Becker brings is the testimony OF an
American who was formerly Lis assist
ant in the geological survey, and who
is now engaged in mining in the Trans
vaal, where he has made several mil
lions of dollars. The American mining
expert says to his knowledge and belief
the gold deposits, instead of being 80
miles long-the region now IN Sights
practically /, 200 miles long, except that
in the rest of the region later deposits
have come in over the gold. This, how
ever, will not prevent economical min
ing, but viii simply delay it.-Popular
Science News.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-02-25
SPANISH
They Constitute the Real Aristocracy of
the Naughty Nation.

the Naughty Nation.
The real ~aristocracy Of Spain is limited
to the 243 grandees, many of them un-
titled, who enjoy innumerable privi-
leges, including those of remaining
seated and covesed in the presence of
royalty and of access to the sovereign at
all times. Admission to the grandeza is
exceedingly difficult to obtain, for it is
necessary to prove a long line of blue
blooded ancestry, unsullied either ON
the p%aternal or On the maternakside by
mony Of comforting the grandeza-this
and the ceremony of Inducing a peer to
his seat in the house Of lords constitute
the only forms of investiture Of mobiles
that survive in the old worlds termed
an almohada and is exceedingly rare.
Queen Christina has held but two since
her husbands death; there were three
during the reign of King Alfonso XII.
One of the latter was witnessed by a
writer in tie New York Tribune, who
thus describes it:
1T took place in the small ~:rone-
room of the royal palace at Madrid. The
men of grandee rank were at the right
On the king exclaiming, BE seatedi'
they all took their places upon tabourets,
or stools of carved wood, topped with
large purple velvet cushions. Everybody
else, such as the members of the diplo-
matte corps and Of the royal household,
remained standing. Then the doors at
the farther end of the room opened,
and, preceded by a herald and two
chamberlains and accompanied by the
two grandees acting as sponsors, the
postulant for admission to the g~randeza
appeared and approached the throne
'gith three low obeisances. A tabouret,
with purple cushion, having been
brought and placed on the lowest of the
steps leading up to the throne, the king
commanded the candidate to be seated
and thereupon addressed a few compli-
mentary words to him, recalling the
services of his family to the dynasty in
bygone ages. Alfonso concluded his lit
tie speech by extending his hand to be
kissed, at the same time directing him
60 take his place among the peers.
Retiring backward from the royal
presence, thcAAawly fedged grandee was
conducted by his sponsors to the side of
the hall ~occrpied by the ladies of the
grandee ra:k, to whom he made a low
bow, and then to that Of the men, whom
he saluted in the same manner He
thereupon pat his hat upon his head, his
example being instantly followed by ev-
cry granGee present, who all remained
covered until, his stool and cushion hav-
ing been removed from the steps of the
throne and placed beside those of his
peers, he had seated himself thereon.
This brought to a close the acutal cere-
mony of almohada, which was rendered
extraordinarily picturesque by the su-
perb toilets of the women, by the gor-
geous tabards of the royal heralds and
by the brilliant uniforms of the generals,
the court officials, the ministers of state,
and, last, but not least, by those of the
diplomats"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-02-25
How to dispose of Bad Coins.

Tackletop-Some one gave me a bad
coin yesterday, and | didn't know what
to do with it.
Won Blumer-Couldn't you pass it?
Tackleton--Not for a long time. The
first man / tried it ON was a ticket
clerk, and he refused it with scorn.
Won Blumer-Why didn't you try it
on a chemist? Their profits are 20 great
they're likely to be careless in money
matters.
Tackleton--Oh, / did, but it wasn't
any use. Then l tried to buy a newspa-
per with it, but the boy wouldn't have
it. ! went to buy a drink, but that
wouldn't do. / was almost discouraged,
old man.
Won Blumer--I should say you might
have been. But you finally passed it.
didn't you?
Tackleton (proudly)-Oh. yes!
Won Blumer-On whom?
Tackleton-On q friend Of mine
Boston Traveller.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-02-25
cHIvALRY AND RlMONY.
Time Honcred Notions of Olden Days
Which Don't Stand the Test.

&An1G otA6A Va oAoGA Jay
Which Don't Stand the Test.
We all want to consider the days Of
chivalry as the golden days-never to
be recalled-for womankind. This is by
implication a rank injustice to our own
time.
With all its fine expressions of ardent
devotion to the fair sex and the multi
tude of its exquisite pretensions, chival-
ry was the degradation of the highest
and tenderest human instincts-the YER
liable curse of the course of true love.
Such a statement presents itself to the
romantic believer as a terrible counter
blast, but it is true, nevertheless. The
records of the treasury and the law
courts OF those days, in furnishing the
experience of popular life deeply marked
by the worst shades of modern short
comings, provide the fullest proof.
Chivalry did not make marriages, at
least in the sense of those born of loves
young dream; it entirely ignored all
sexual affections and sold it's victims
with ruthless indifference to all mutu-
Atty.
There were not two parties to its bar
gains. There was only one, who was al
ways the third of the group and the one
interested, not in satisfying the yearn-
ings of the impassioned, but in a pecun-
larry sense of their value. He was the
vender and might be either king or
baron. But whichever he was, he was
the incarnation of INSCRIPTIONS power.
The matrimonial transactions Of chiv-
airy were mercenary. To them there
were no contracting parties" in the
shape of whispering lovers, ardent
SWANS and coy maidens. On the other
hand, there was but sullen indifference
or hatirg compliance. Chivalry canted
about it's faith in women and the purity
of its own motives, because it could not
sing of love, 1t may be said that it sc
canted because it knew it must can't.
1t knew that its marriages had not
been made in heaven and of ethereal
sentiment. They were coarsely bargain
ed for, either in the kings exchequer or
in the open market place. Chivalry knew
itself as a social falsity and the parent
of lust. AS a consequence the Flower
orders have had to give us the nomen-
clature of our love affairs. Chaucer, the
very mirror of the era of chivalry, has
typiied lust with his master hand,
but he has no picture of the gratified
tenderness of longing youth. In his sur
roundings it was not suffered to exist.
These surroundings had nc terms to
enumerate the ardent SWANS and coy
maidens of rusticity. But if the aris-
tocracy can produce no one instance of
the coy maiden, and the rustic sweet
heart remains to mock the dubious
~fiancee. it has a wealth of the arts of
diplomacy, and an inexhaustible list of
the terms of intrigue. Chivalry give ex-
preston to the word ''maitresse, which
may have and had the funniest of mean
ings.-New York Herald.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-02-25
Idaho,s Island wonder.

Henry lake is a beautiful body of wa
ter with an area OF about Al square
miles and is 81 lated on the dome Of
the continent in a depression in the
Rocky mountains near Targees pass,
Idaho. Henry lake is Of no consequence
itself, but it is the home" Of a most
wonderful floating island, which is seen
first on one side OF the lake and then on
the other. The island is about 800 feet
in diameter and has for its basis a mat
of roots and decayed vegetation suffi-
cient to support large trees and a dense
growth of underbrush. The edges of
this floating island are thin, of course,
but near the center it is several feet
thick and of sufficient strength to sup
port a good sized summer hotel, if some
one could be found that would care to
make such a venture. There is a good
sized willow thicket near the center of
the island, and scattered around among
them are several dwarf pines and asp
ems. These trees catch the breeze which
is continually blowing over this highly
situated lake, and, acting as sails on a
boat, move the 800 foot island hither
and thither over the 40 square miles of
water at their will. Old mountaineers
who are well used to all kinds Of queer
things declare that the floating island
of Henry lake is the most wonderful
thing to be seen in the mountain regions
of the United States. st. Louis Re-
public.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-02-25

The indicative leech is now practi-
cally a thing Of the past. The falling
off in the demand for leeches by the
medical profession is quite astonishing,
as may be judged from the fact that in
the year 1916 the two largest hospitals
in London called for about 80, 600 of
them, whereas now these institutions
order only so or 100 lseches at irregular
and infrequent intervals.
We are informed by well known leech
importers that the trade in leeches has
been subject to such fierce competition
that the price has been brought down
almost to nil. The quotation for a sin.
gle hundred leeches at the present mo-
ment is fixed at a rate which is little
more than half what the great hospitals
paid for their leech supplies
in 1916.
At that time the importation Of
leeches was carried ON by means of sail
ing boats plying to and from Smyrna;
but, owing to the difficulties of transfer
and the irregular arrival of the boats,
many attempts were made to conserve
and breed leeches in England. One en-
serprising man established three ponds
ION his own" at the top of Brixton hill
and used to dispose of many thousands
of leeches weekly. His successors, how
ever-onr informants-have a gross an
nual output of only 40, 900, not a 1.-THE
Of the business done half q century g
Assuredly the leech has seen his best
days. With the old regime, when cup
ping and bleeding were the sheet an
chors of surgery, the leech all but disap-
peared. So constant was his employ
ment in medieval times that his name
furnished a synonym for the medical
profession, and the doctor came to be
known impolitely as "the leech," per-
haps a subtle ~allusion to the rapacity for
fees which characterized the profession
in those times.
At present the Hungarian speckled
leech is most in request. II is unsafe to
use the leeches found i'll 0 Of our
ponds in England, for the .ite is dam
gerous, often giving rise to blood poison
ing.-Household Words.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-02-25

ible Servant.
apply for thsu
r." said the u
d in the doCgvy
Fanted one"
hat we want" vi
The last ma 7
Ry a bill presentz
lal.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-02-25
THE FROZEN BREEZE.
a Strange Phenomenon Observed by a
Lover of Nature.

n strange InenOInenOn observed Dy n
Lover of Nature.
Did you ever see a frozen breeze? You
might have seen one if you had gone
with me into the country one winter
morning.
This was the way it came to be frozen:
All night long the air had been laden
with mist. Over the fields, in the hol.
lows, all through the woods, even ON
top of the hills, the fog hung heavily.
All that time the wind blew steadily,
but not fiercely, from some northern
quarter.
At nightfell the mercury fell below
the freezing point, SO that this mist, as
it drifted through the trees, was frozen
upon their branches and twigs. The
elms, the oaks and the other l~eaf1ess
trees took their ice coating quite evenly,
but the thick, impenetrable masses of
the needles of the pine trees were COW
cred noticeably only upon the sides to.
ward the north or northwest, from which
the wind came. The strong, steady
breeze bent the branches to leeward,
while it was icing them, and when the
wind went down in the morning they
all remained just there, leaning to the
southwark, iced aud frozen to immova-
bility, but looking just as if the wind
were still steadily blowing.
Even in the afternoon, when the rain
began to fall and the wind came from
quite another quarter, that north wind
Of the night before still remained white
and frozen over the piny woods, the
pale, rigid corpse of athing nee keenly
alive.-Listenor in Country.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-02-25
A Pertinent Rejoinder.

81 always try to make as many
friends as possible" said the woman
who gossips.
"Of course, . replied Miss Cayenne.
'sf one had no friends, how could one
discuss their private affairs?"-Wash-
ington Star.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-02-25

IT suppose there were some bright
things said at Mrs. Lionuntcr's literary
dinner party last night
"A few"
who got Off the most intercsting?"
"The brtler-when he remarked that
dinner was ready. Illustrated Bits.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-02-25

Raphael is said to have conceived, in
dreams, the ideas OF some of his great
est pictures.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-02-25

The sound Of thunder may be heard
FOR 30 o. % miles; with the ear to the
ground. much farther. Lightning is re-
6ected for 100 to 200 miles.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-07-31
TO MUSTER OUT THE MILITIA
Number Of the Military Companies
TO BE Reduced.

Pierre, July 24.-The adjutant gen
erals Office yesterday issued n circular
stating hat il was the purpose of the
commander in chief of the state mill
tia to reduce the number of compa-
MES of militia in the state to twelve,
eight of which are 10 be stationed
east of the Missouri river, and four in
the Black Hills country. AS there is
now nine organized companies east
of the river. IL will be necessary 10
muster one of these out of the service.
Colonel Foster the military secretary,
will make II special inspection of the
companies of the state late in the fail,
md the inspection will determine
which of the companies will be mus
tered out. This inspection may result
in more than one company being
mustered out, ms there are now several
applications on file for permission TO
organize new companies, n where
the reports of inspection are not sat
isfactory the companies may be com
PEELED to give way to new organiza-
tons.
A general order has been issued by
the adiutant general requiring all Of
ficers having in their custody public
property to make returns thereof not
later than September I next, and To
invoice and ship to the arsenal at
Pierre all unscrviceablc property for
action Of the board OF inspection now
in session.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-07-31
FEDERATION OF LABOR
ORGANIZED AT yANKTON
Federation Starts With a Good
Membership and Strong
Official List.
MR.. KEEFE GETS NO DAMAGES
Arc Ballots Written in German Vai'd
yotes---Mrs. w. III. Price, For
merIy OF Sioux City.
Dies Suddenly.

yankton. July ga federation or
l,hor has been organized here and OF
fcers for the ensuing six months
elected. The officers are: PRESIDENT
Chas. Kaucher; vice president, ohas.
Frenzy: secretary, Chas. Rivoia; treas
urer, j. C. Palmer; guide, ii. G. tier
burg: guardian of records, Gerald
smith: board of trustees, w. +. Slmp-
son Chas. Kaucher and James RAN
poUon. The federation starts with
sixty-fye members.
w. p. Keefe of Sioux City, a promi-
nent man in racing circles and owner
of the pacing horse Judge West, which
broke a bone in his leg at last years
state fair here during a race, has been
ia Yankton endeavoring to recover
damages from the local state fair asso-
citation, claiming bad track where the
accident occurred. The fair manage
ment hold that they are in no way re-
sponsible for the accident and will pay
nothing. -.
An Interesting question is brought
up in a contest in which leading Iank"
ton lawyers are attorneys at Parkston,
where Herbert Bares contests >. G.
Harding's election as school treasurer.
At the election 90 votes were cast, OF
which Harding received AZ, Bares 40,
which were counted, and three written
in German, which were not counted.
Had they been counted Bares would
have a majority. The question is
whether to count the votes written IN
German.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-07-31

Behind them marched with an easy
swing $500 United States regulars, the
largest number ever seen together III
the west since the war.
Every branch of the service was rep.
resented, including eight troops oil
cavalry.
Governors of the states with Their
stats followed and then came the IL
linois National Guard, 1000 strong, UNI
der the command of Governor Tan
ner. Knights Templar and knights OF
Pythias followed TO the number OF l.
500, and the zeal was brought up by
1900 Chicago mail carriers and 3,2oU
uniformed members of various civic
societies.
1t was over two hours in passing the
reviewing stand. The pageant was
supplemented by the finest marine dls-
play ever seen on Lake Michigan rms
evening a public reception viii be ten
dered at the coliseum to Mrs. Logan
and other distinguished guests TO be
preceded by a Gorgeous display oil hre-
works at coliseum gardens.