San Antonio Daily Light. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 131, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 19, 1888 Page: 7 of 8
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she Jaily gight.
TUESDAY JUNE 19 88
S. & A. P. Railroad.
DKPARTURKB.
Train for Gaivesten leaves San
Antonio 8:30a. tn.
Train for Corpus Christi direct 2:20 p.m.
Train for Kerrville.... 4:30 p.m.
ARRIVALS.
From Galveston 8:30 p. m.
From Corpus Christ! 1:40 p.m.
From Kerrville 11:45 a. in.
Train Time Chancres.
INTERNATIONAL AND GREAT NORTHERN R. R.
North bound train leaves 6:30 a.m
North bound train leaves 4:45 p.m
North bound train arrive 10:50 a.m
North bound train arrive 10:30 p.m
Laredo train leaves 11:15 a.m
Laredo train arrive 4:15 pm
SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD.
East bound train leaves 8:15 a.m
East bound train leaves 4:25 p.m
West bound train arrive 10:45 a.m
Westbound train leaves 11:30 a.m
West bound train arrives 6:15 p.m
DIRECTORY
OF
Reliable Business Houses Worthy
of Your Liberal Patronage.
—I claim to sell cigars at same fig-
ures paid for in New York —I retail
$36 cigars for sc; $65 cigars 3 for 25c;
$95 cigars 2 for 25c and challenge
competition. 2m Sim Hart.
T K 7 C. BREALEY
X x Automical Boot and Shoemaker
Str' c attention paid to the structure of the
fo l. Lasts made to suit and a tit guaranteed.
R. pairs while you wait. No. 243 west Coin-
jierce street.
SCHUCHARD DRUGGIST
San Pedro and Acequia Streets
Drugs Chemicals Medicines Toilet Articles
Soaps Chamois Skins Sponges Brushes Per
turnery etc. Physicians' prescriptions care-
fully compounded.. 4 88
jZj AMBLETON HADLEYr& CO.
Dealers and Agents in Real Estate.
No. 4 Commerce street San Antonio Texas.
DR. G. W. PHILLIPS Dentist.
No. 266 West Commerce Street over
Jesse Bell’s Jewelry Store.
All work guaranteed to be the best 6-2-lm
T X 7OLFSON L.
Y X Dealer in Dry Goods Clothing
Furniture Notions etc. Cor. Acequia street
and Main plaza San Antonio Texas.
B EITEL F. J.
For everything needed in
LUMBER or BUILDING MATERIAL
Yards at the International Railroad depot.
TLLIG & BRO. W. J
1 Fresh Groceries and Country Produce
No 345 Dolorosa street near San Pedro creek.
ASHINGTON THEATRE
Finest and best Variety theatre in the south
Cor. Laredo and w. Commerce street. Open
day and night. C. Shacklett. proprietor.
Bolton jno. h.
Auctioneer and Commission Merchant
Houston street next to the bridge. Consign-
ments solicited.
Artistic printing
In all its Branches
At the Light Job office. No 4 E. Commerce st.
PETRE C. W. ~ .
Does the|Best Dyeing
Scouring of Men’s Clothing in the city at No
420 North Flores street. Call on him. 6m
Phelps c. n.
San Antonio Mattress Factory manufac-
tures all kinds of Mattresses and Spring Beds.
Wholesale and retail.
Office and Factory No. 244 and 248 Austin St.
Quasso. d.
The Southern Tailor
221 Commerce street makes fine suits to
order. He also carries in stock a fine line of
imported goods.
T C. LUM ~
U . First-class Carriage Painting: corner
East Houston and Nacogdoches strsets. Ref-
erences: Carter & Mullally Bergstrom &
Gray and Wells Fargo & Co.
gTEUBENS’ WILLOW WORKS
24 AVE. D NEAR ALAMO PLAZA.
Best works always on hand. Orders on short
notice promptly attended. 2mo.
NTARTIC REFRIGERATOR CO.
Dolorosa street opp. Southern Hotel
Sells the best meat to be had in the city. De-
livery free- Prices resonable. 5-1 tf
Lorenzen wm.
Carriage Trimming done in first class
order including repairing and buggy top
renovating all at short notice and cheap. No.
615 East Houston street corner of Avenue E
and Alamo Plaza. 5-2-2 m
OYI.E CHAS'
Keeps the best writing material in the
market. Call and examine at the book store.
No. 407 East Houston street. 5-4-6 mo
ZIEM PAUL
Blacksmith and Horse slioer
Corner of Burleson and Walnut" streets.
Horse shoeing and repairing done at shortest
notice. 5-9-lm
Mahncke Hotel
Corner Houston and St. Mary’s streets.
Ludwig Mahncke Prop’r
Sixty well-furnished and well-ventiLated
rooms with all the latest improvements. Very
comfortable and well-appointed bath rooms.
Busses and baggage tranfers to and from all
trains. Street cars pass the door. Telephone
No. 260. Rates $2.00 a Day.
Good Sample Rooms.
complaint of
thousands suffering from Asthma Con-
sumption Coughs etc. Did you ever try
Acker’s English Remedy? It is the best
preparation known for all Lung Troubles
•old on a positive guarantee at 10c. 50c.
—The household furniture at 308
Third street is to be sold out cheap
at private sale. Call and see It. St
AN IRISH WILD FLOWER.
She fete. I think but a* a wtM flower can.
Through her bright fluttering rag* the dark
tbe cold:
Some furtiMMU star remembering what man
Forget*. bed warmed her little bead with gold.
Above her. boUow eyed long blind to tears
Leaf cloaked a skeleton of stone arose.
Oh castle shadow of a thousand years I
Where you bare fallen Ie this the thing that
grows?
—Sarah M. B. Platt.
A CRACKER SKETCH.
A two room log house with a low di-
lapidated "worm" fence around It. a
ragged honeysuckle vine at one side of
the door which is never closed winter or
summer a few stunted rose bushes bor-
dering the path of white sand that glis-
tened blindingly In the sun of a midsum-
mer day. from the broken gate to the
rickety doorstep.
A traveler drew his horse up at the
gate and. after tho fashion of the coun-
try. shouted. "Hel-lo!” He heard a sonor-
ous growl from within the house as if an
immense ill natured African lion had
been disturbed from an afternoon siesta;
then a slirill. shattered voice commanded
"You. Watch git right back thar” and
tbe great dog immediately retired to his
favorite couch beneath the high uncur-
tained bedstead
A few moments later there protruded
from the open door an enormous corn cob
pipe from which tbe smoke was curling
in a lazy blue column. As the pipe with
it seemed several sections of stem grad
tiaily made itself visible it became evi
dent that the other end disappeared in an
old woman's mouth —a dry expression-
less month surrounded with ever widen-
ing circles of wrinkles as is the center
of a tree which circles took in a long
sharp nose a hooked chin two bright
inquisitive eyes and finally disappeared
under the folds of a cotton handkerchief
bound over snowy hair.
Then tbe handle of the pipe was with
an effort extracted from its accustomed
place between the old cracker mother’s
lips as she called. ”Ole man ole man
here’s sum 'un as wanster see you.”
The pipe Is replaced and the thin col-
umn of blue smoke curls lazily up as the
stranger sits in silence under close scru-
tiny from the eyes above the primitive
pipe as well as from a pair of bright
starry orbs dimly visible through a crack
between two logs of the cabin.
Presently a thick stream of dark yellow
fluid is projected from around a corner of
the building with the force and volume of
a lawn sprinkler a heavy quid of tobacco
is flung out among the stunted rose bushes
and an old man —dwarfed in appearance
with a lean and slender frame yellow skin
thick gray hair locks from which projects
an aquiline nose and peer two ferret like
and furtive eyes —comes slowly slouching
into view. He wears patched and darned
brown jeans clothes and. as it is summer
he does not wear any shoes at all. He
speaks first saying in a breath:
“Good even’ —tollable—light mister.”
The stranger "lights” and enters the
house which after the glaring semi-path
outside looks as cool and gloomy as a
grotto There he came face to face with
the girl of the starry eyes who indeed
appears perhaps from the contrast with
her homely surroundings a rare vision of
girlish loveliness.
As the stranger bowed she smiled bash-
fully and said "Good mawnin’” though
it is late in the afternoon but no one
‘makes him acquainted.”
The young lady whom the mother calls
“Soonie” brings him directly a drink of
cool spring water in a small long handled
gourd which is white and as light as cork
and which seems to impart an agreeable
flavor and sweetness to the water; but as
the weary traveler meets Soonie’s hand in
taking the gourd and her eyes while drink-
ing. it may be that the virtue did not all
lie in the gourd
The mother sits beside the doorway
knitting smoking and . gazing down the
lonely sandy road as she has done every
day these last fifty years Along that
road she tells the stranger her old
man brought her to this home the day
they were married—only he wasn’t an old
man then but one of the finest boys in
the country; along that road her only son
Benny marched away to “jine Guv’nor
Brown." but he never came back; along
that road later on came one division of
Sherman's conquering hosts as they swept
over the already desolated country on to
the sea. and along that road some day In
the near future she will be carried in a
rough pine box on a jolting ox cart up
to tie burying ground at New Prospect
church and laid to rest. Old man Stubbs
with similar thoughts perhaps sits near
her industriously chewing a new tobacco
cud and spitting with deadly precision at
the lazy flies basking in the sun oq the
doorstep and asking at intervals like
minute guns
"And what did you say your name mout
be mister?" though the guest had not as
yet mentioned it.
• And you are from—where mister?*
failing to use the name after obtaining it.
"And what mout be your business
mister?’' dinging still to his favorite title.
"And be you a Yankee mister?”
While gratifying his host’s curiosity
tbe visitor glances curiously about the
room on his own account. About the
open fireplaoe. at which tho family cook
Ing is done are ranged the only cooking
vessels known in erackerdom—an oven to
bake bread a frying pan In which they
spoil about all meats a deep pot to bo’l
“greens" and a coffee pot in which they
compound a black decoction strong and
bitter and which they drink enormously
unassisted with either sugar or milk:
strings of red pepper hang in long fee-
toons from the rafters overhead along
with home raised hams ears of popcorn
and bags of nn known contents; on pegs
about the walls hang the entire ward-
robes of all the family. Two tall beds fill
the rear of the cabin and under one of
these Watch is growling at the stranger’s
voice and sleepily scratching fleas.
Soonie is preparing supper frequently
casting expectant glancai up the sandy
road.
It is Saturday afternoon and her sweet-
heart will soon come whistling merrily
from among the pines arrayed in a suit
of new clothes with white shirt and red
necktie and his pockets filled with pea-
nuts and stick candy
She is radiant in a new speckled calico
dress with flowers in her hair and a knot
of red ribbon at her throat that beauti-
fully matches her cheeks. The old road
brings no sad memories to her but calls
up sweet dreams of future happiness.
Supper comes at sundown —a feast of
crisp fried meat hard biscuits and bitter
black coffee Even these were palatable
however after a long day’s ride through
those desolate pine wilds and Mr. Stubbs'
invitation to "set up and eat hearty" was
cheerfully accepted by the traveler.
Soonie’s beau came in during suppier a
fuzzy (faced. silly looking young fellow
who went quite off his head at the sight
of the stranger and could only giggle and
look more foolish than ever.
In Soonie’s eyes however he was evi-
dently a very precious piece of humanity
though she cast many pleasant looks to-
ward the guest.
As soon as the supper things were
cleared away Mrs. Stubbs "fixed the
beds. ” and instructing the traveler to lie
"along with the old man” she and Soonie
left the room.
"You kin sleep in here with me” said
the old man rubbing his bare feet on the
floor and tumbling into bed with only so
much preparation as a hog might take
and was soon snoring frightfully; this
effectually banished sleep so far as our
traveler was concerned. In a few mo-
ments the ladies came back into the room
and Mrs Stubbs turned in.
Soonie and John Henry were now left
alone before the great fireplace she stand-
ing on one side of the hearth nervously
toying with a china cup and saucer of
gaudy pattern her only treasure except a
flaring chromo of "Joseph and His Breth-
ren” which hung on the wall while he
chewed vigorously and expectorated freely
to the imminent risk of injuring her Sun
day dress. How silly and frightened he
looked as Soonie seating herself began
idly picking at her frock blushing viv-
idly and left the opening of even
ing’s exercises entirely with him.
"Saw a mighty big chicken fight up ter
the store this even’n’ huh huh” said he.
“Did you he-he; which whupped?” said
she.
The ice was broken and when the trav
eler again looked toward them their chairs
were hopelessly jammed and all outlines
were confused.
It may have-been that the presence of
the handsome and well dressed stranger
prompted John Henry to unusual boldness
to-night; at any rate he was soon telling
his love in true backwoods heroics. If he
was bashful and awkward she was coy
and shy. Perhaps she too was thinking
of the traveler and comparing his easy
unstudied grace with'John Henry’s heavy
lumbering manner. She held back and
hesitated long before putting her promise
into words.
“Oh Soonie” he finally blurted out “if
you likes me. and don’t likes to say so.
just squoze my hand."
This appeal was probably irresistible
for the next moment there was quite a
reciprocity in the hugging line between
them—quite unanimous in fact. Her
heavy masses of auburn hair hung over
his shoulders and her bangs were all
mussed up with his carroty forelocks
while the red ribbon at her throat and his
flaming necktie were iadistinguishably
mingled.
The fire burned slowly out and was not
replenished but Henry staid until the
traveler with many sad memories tug-
ging at his own heart drew the cover
over his head and slept despite the snor-
ing of his strange aid bed fellow.
When he awoke the next morning the
entire family had been long up. The old
man was out feeding the stock; Mrs.
Stubbs sat in the doorway smoking and
looking down the lonely road thinking
perhaps of that fair brave hearted boy
who so long ago went out that way to
“jine Guv’ner Brown.” as the smoke
curled blue and lazily from her pipe;
Soonie was making bread at a table a few
feet from the bedside.
“Good mawnin’” she said with a smile
on her ripe red lips which looked sweet
and tempting until he thought of John
Henry’s tobacco stained mouth and shud
dered.
“You’d better be gtttin’ up” she said
“breakfas’ is most ready.”
Get up! It certainly was time to get
up. but how was that to be done with a
blooming and bright eyed young lady
looking calmly on at a distance of six feet.
How he suffered as the time flew onward
and sho loitered about the table and
would not go away nor turn her back upon
him. The biscuits were all made and she
began to set the table calling him a “lazy
boy.” and again telling him it was time
“to git up an’ wash.”
A year later the traveler returned that
way
Half a mile up the road he stopped at a
new one roomed cabin and in the doorway
sat Soonie with a cob pipe tn her mouth
and she was alternately knitting and rock-
ing a white haired baby. In the piny
woods all the children have white hair. A
doff inside tbe house omowlad
MISSODBI PACIFIC RAILWAY SYSTEM
INTERNATIONAL AND GREAT NORTHERN R. R. DIVISION
SOLID TBADTS
With all modern imorovementi through between
Galveston aid st Louis Sao Antonio anfl St Louis
VIA TEXARKANA. VIA DENISON.
Without change of care of aay description and only one change to
Chicago Cincinnati Louisville Baltimore Wash-
ington Philadelphia New York Boston
And other pricipal cities
NORTH AND EAST.
MTTrain leaving San Antonio at 8:00 a. m. has Pullman Hotel Car via Benleon through
toSt. Louie. Tralna leavinx San Antonio at 4:30 p. m. has Pullman Palace Sleeplag Care via
Denieon through to Kassas City connecting at Denison with Through Sleeper to St. Loula
For full Information tickets etc. call on
J. S. MACNAMARA W. C- RICSBY
Ticket Agent 235 Commerce St. Kampmann Building. Ticket Agent I. & N. Depot
H. P. HUGHES B. W. McCULLOUGH
P. A. Houston Tex. G. P. AT. A M DaUae Texas.
-as quicxiy silenced. Soonie recognized
the traveler and called her husband.
John Henry came slowly into view from
behind the house ejected a shower of to-
bacco juico upon a flower bed threw a
well worn “chaw” among the straggling
rose bushes and said all in one breath:
“Goodeven’—tollable—light mister. ” —
Louis Calvert in Detroit Free Press.
II aril aval Soft Water.
All cooks do not understand the dif-
ferent effects produced by hard and soft
water in cooking meat and vegetables.
Peas and beans cooked in hard water con-
taining lime or gypsum will not boil
tender because these substances harden
vegetable caseine. Many vegetables as
onions boil nearly tasteless in soft water
because ail the flavor is boiled out. The
addition of salt often checks this as in
the case of onions causing the vegetables
to retain the peculiar flavoring princi-
ples besides such nutritious matter as
might be lost in soft water. For ex-
tracting the juice of meat to make a
broth or soup soft water unsalted and
cold at first is the best for it much more
readily penetrates the tissue; but for boil-
ing where the juices should be retained
hard water or soft water salted is prefer-
able and the meat should be put in while
the water is boiling so as to seal up the
pores at once.—Journal of Chemistry.
STRANGE CEREMONIES.
QUEER FORMS OF WORSHIP OB-
SERVED IN ARIZONA.
Christianity and Barbarism Strangely
Mingled In the Mountain Regions.
Practices of the Descendants of a Band
of Spanish Adventurers.
Tradition says that in 1571 a few Jesuit
padres and Spanish adventurers pusl.vJ
their way northward through Mexico as
far as the Santa Rita mountains which
are located In what is now known as
southern Arizona. On the western slope
of this great range just beneath the
shadow of Old Baldy a majestic peak
which rises to the height of 10.500 feet
the settlement of Tumacaeori was formed
and the mission of San Jose erected.
The present inhabitants of the Santa
Ritas are the descendants of the Spanish
adventurers with a strong Intermixture
of Indian blood and the principal settle
ment in the mountains is at Greaterville
They are ignorant and superstitious and
while they are nominally Catholics their
ideas are so crude and they have forgot
ten or changed so much of the teacliings
cf the old padres that they can hardly be
considered a Christian people. There is
no church in the mountains and a priest
bas not been among the people for more
than a hundred years yet they keep track
ef many of the holy days and church
feasts which they observe very devoutly
.n spite of the fact that most of the cere-
monies are conducted after their own
strange fashion.
Every year Semana Santa (Holy Week)
Is observed at Greaterville in the most fan
tastlc manner and people gather there
from all parts of the mountains. A large
adobe hut is put in order and prepared for
the occasion. Every devout person brings
to the improvised chapel such holy pic
tores crucifixes wax candles and arti-
ficial flowers as they may possess and
with these the room Is ornamented. An
altar is made of empty boxes piled in the
shape of a pyramid and covered with plain
cotton cloth. The images and candles
are ranged around this altar and a large
crucifix or picture of the Holy Saviour
surmounts the whole. No work Is done
during Holy Week and the people give
themselves up entirely to their devotions
which are kept up without ceasing both
day and night.
As there are no priests to officiate there
can be no regular service in the chapel
and the only order observed seems to be
that the older people lead in praying or
chanting and the younger ones follow
suit. The prayers are short and very far
between so the principal service Is the
almost incessant chant Men. women
and children sing in unison accompanied
by a rude band consisting of a voilon
accordion and guitar The people have
good voices and the chanting is in a low
and melodious tone A strangely weird
and striking effect is produced as the sad
sweet music from the little chapel floats
up the lonely gulch and is softly echoed
among the nigged cliffs.
Outside of the chapel a scene is con
stantly being enacted which differs widely
from the devotions within. Here are
gathered a number of young men and
boys clad in fantastic garments and wear
ing hideous masks. The masks are gen
erally made from sheepskins with the
wool on the outside. The holes for the
mouth nose and eyes are burned with hot
-ZM. which gives them a -—
ooncai appearance and each head is orna-
mented with horns or antlers. These peo-
ple are called “Judeas.” It is their duty
to laugh and scoff at the devotions and to
jeer at those who profess to believe. They
enter the chapel from time to time with-
out bowing before the altar and while on
the inside amuse themselves by pinching
or otherwise annoying those at prayer.
If their pranks become too annoying the
person praying makes the sign of the
cross and the annoyer must then turn
away his face and apparently tremble
with fear.
At night the “Judeas” build great bon-
fires and dance and howl around them
from dark until daylight. They rush
around the blazing pile and jump through
the flames trying to show which one pos-
sesses the most devilish instincts They
are not representing devils it is true; but
they believe that all are inhabitants of
the infernal regions and that properly to
Impersonate the character there must be
an utter disregard for fire.
During the week an effigy of the Saviour
is taken from the altar in the chapel and
after being regularly crucified Is laid away
In a sepulcher prepared for the occasion.
The devout ones chant and pray and show
every evidence that they have some faint
idea of the solemnity with which the death
upon the cross should be commemorated.
Meanwhile the “Judeas" are jubilant and
howl and dance around their fires tn
greater glee than ever.
On Easter morn every one assembles In
front of the chapel; the men form in line
and the women gather around the sepul-
cher The men bring with them any kind
of firearms they may have and in the line
will be found all sorts of guns and pistols.
At a given signal the emgy is taken up
and returned to its place on the altar; and
volley after volley is fired by the men to
announce the fact that “Christ has risen
from the dead.”
Then comes the climax. The “Judeas”
who have been scoffing and deriding dur-
ing the week while all of the devout
were praying are going to receive the
punishment which has been In store for
them. Their masks are thrown aside and
they are divested of all clothing above
their waists. They immediately set up a
wailing and make every outward demon-
stration of despair. A double row of
children young men and young women
is now formed and between these lines
the offenders must run the gauntlet.
Each girl and child is dressed to represent
an angel and all are armed with switches
and leathern thongs while only the girls
carry lighted candles in their left hands.
As the offenders run up and down between
these lines they are unmercifully beaten
upon their naked backs until the blood
gushes out and the flesh is laid bare.
There are many instances in the mount-
ains of the southwest and of northern Mex-
ico where similar punishments have been
so severe that death resulted After the
“Judeas” have been punished sufficiently
they are allowed to wash themselves and
go before the altar where they pray and
are forgiven for their misdoings.—New
Fork Sun.
Clockwork in Photograph Printing.
An interesting development in photo-
graphy is in the use of clockwork in print-
ing from negatives. By tills means a
continuous web of sensitized paper is
drawn at suitable intervals under a nega
tive exposed to a source of light. After
printing the paper is drawn still by the
mechanism through “washer” “toner”
“fixer” successively and appears
finally as a series of finished pictures
ready for mounting and all alike in ex-
posure color and tone.—San Francisco
Chronicle.
The Rose to Blame.
Aprysexie is the name Dr. Guye. of
Amsterdam chooses for inattentiveness
and he quite singularly finds that the
nose is a cause of it. A dull boy became
quick to learn after certain tumors had
been taken from tbe nose and a man who
had been troubled with vertigo and buzz-
ing in the ears for twelve years found
mental labor easy after a like operation.
In a third case a medical student was sim-
ilarly relieved. Dr Guye supposes that
these nasal troubles affect the brain by
preventing the cerebral lymph from circu-
lating freely —Frank Leslie's.
Bunnih’i Ruby Mine*.
King Theebaw’s revenue from the
famous ruby mines of Burmah. it is said
did not average 150.000 rupees annually
All precautions which were practicable
were taken to prevent smuggling and
stoues of the value of 2000 rupees were
royal perquisites but they were generally
secreted or broken up by the finders. The
English have stopped all work at the
mines since they conquered Burmah.—
Boaton Budget.
[To hi Continued.]
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