San Antonio Daily Light. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 160, Ed. 1 Friday, July 24, 1891 Page: 3 of 8
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gaily ISight.
FRIDAY JULY 24 1891.
IS YOUR WIFE WELL?
THE WOMEN OF AMERICA
ARE THE LARGEST
CONSUMERS OF S. 3. S.
IT NEVER FAILS TO RESTORE
BROKEN DOWN HEALTH
WHEN CAUSED BV
IMPOVERISHED BLOOD
ORTHE CARES OF
THE HOUSEHOLD.
©VER TEN THOUSAND
©F THE BEST WOMEN
©F THE COUNTRY
TESTIFY TO THIS.
Don't fall to send for oar book ••
Mood disease*. Mailed fro*.
•■wr tiraciric Go.. Atlanta Qa.
LITTIE of everything.
free Visiting Cards. How tc
get them inquire of Fred. Small city sub
scription agent of the Daily Light.
J]ave you lost found or wan 1
anything? If so advertise in the Daily
Light and it will be made known.
Wanted—looooo Live Yank-
ees to come to Texas with their capital to
develop the country and push the old moss
backs out.
Ranted —Every Republican
in Texas to subscribe for the Daily or
Weekly San Antonio Light the only
genuine Independent Republican paper in
the south.
£)aily San Antonio Light the
cheapest and best afternoon paper in
Texas. Delivered by mail or carrier
J£nights of Pythias Endown
ment Rank offers the best and safest in
surance. For further particulars ask an;
member of the order or. 7. B. Johnson at
the Light office
LAURELLE OIL.
Prevents tendency to wrinkles or ageing
of the skin. Prevents withering of the
skin or drying up of the flesh. Nature’s
wonder for preserving youth and tresh-
ess 11.00 large bottles at druggists. (1)
ALAMO BREWING
ASSOCIATION.
SAW
Best Pale’
VIENNA
Lager and Bottled Beer.
Orders promptly attended
?rd delivered to any part of
the city free of charge.
TAKE
A p
to All points
NORTH and EAST
Through Trains Carry
Pullman Sleepers
Between Points in Texas and
Chicago St. Louis and Kansas City
■ Close connections in all of the above cities
with fast trains of eastern and northern
lines m akes the M. K. & T. the best line to
NewlYork Boston Montereal & St- Paul.
J. WALDO - Vice-President
andjGen’l Traffic Mgr. Sedalia Mo.
H.P HUGHES GASTON MESLIER
Ase’t Gen’l Paes Agt. Gen’l PassATicket Agt
*~Dallas. Texas. Sedalia Mo.
W. L. LAWSON
Traveling Agent leig « Fort .WorthTex'.
MODERN ALCHEMISTS.
Some of the Remarkable Things
that Recent Discoveries Make
Possible.
From the London Spectator.
It is difficult to watch the singular
inquiry now going on before Mr. Han-
nay—the case known to reporters as
“The Philosopher’s Stone” in which
Mr. Streeter prosecutes a man who as-
sured him that he could multiply gold
by three—without asking oneself the
question why such cases are nowa-
days so infrequent One would have
fancied a priori that they would be
common. They were frequent to-
wards the close of the last'century
“adepts” who offered to make gold
or to sell the elixir of life appearing in
most capitals of Europe; and the
ground for their operations in our
time has been much more carefully
manured. Right through the minds
of the half educated but well-to-do
who form a deep stratum lying above
the fluid “masses” of our modern
society there is a credulity about
science and the possible acquisitions
of man through science which is at
least as wonderful as the readiness
to believe in baseless or impossible
theological propositions. No state-
ment is too wild to be accepted if
only it is made in the name of
science and is supported by some
plausable sentences or some name of
authority and this too even if it in-
volves an a priori impossibility. The
reasoning powers of men have not
been developed like their knowledge
of facts—we know at least one man
of learning who asserts that there
may be a world in which two plus
two make five a thing impossible to
the Deity—and science has attracted
and flred men’s Imaginations until
they have in many cases ceased al-
most to be able to think about the
antecedent probability of any asser
tion said to be scientific. We have
not the remotest doubt that if the
Times announces to morrow that a
method of securing perpetual motion
had been discovered or that the
circle had been squared or that a
new sensiiized paper had revealed
the features of men in Mars or that
Mr. Edison bad invented a perpetual
self-renewing light the statement
would be believed for a week at
least by meu not generally suspected
either of ignorance or ot deflcency in
shrewdness. The telegraph it would
be said would have seemed impos-
sible to our ancestors; and as the
phonograph exists and can repeat
sentences uttered years ago in
their dead speaker’s voice why
should not anything else be dis-
covered in its turn? Despite the pn-
valence of skepticism as to spiritusl
things a materialistic credulity is
rampant and we should have
thought that the old dream about
manufactured gold and the tincture
which kept off death and the sell-
sustaining light would have ap-
pealed to it most powerfully. People
have been accustomed for years to
toe great triumphs ot hygiene and to
the use ot preventives which like
quinine do seem to liberate some
constitutions from liability to ma
larious poison and the notion of an
antiseptic drug which can arrest de-
cay Horn all causes will not strike
all of them as absurd. We do
arrest decay in dead things as for
example when we freeze meat or
embaltp bodies by the Turin method
or Inject preservative fluids into rail
way sleepers: and why not living tis
sues also? If the organism could be
preserved unchanged wby should not
life remain in it at least for wholly
unprecedented periods? There is no
proof of the necessity of death except
universal and unbroken experience
and one morsel of evidence against
it—namely the absence in the case
of all conscious creatures of a
fixed terminal period of life.
Many animals live double the usual
lives of their own kind. Some one
man must have lived longer than
anybody else; and if so to say he
could have lived twice as long or
have avoided ijeath altogether til
the conditions of life on the planet
altered is not a contradiction in terms
Considering that some men have
health throughout long lives; that
there are healthy places where some
recover as if by magic; and
that certain conditions of hygiene
really have lengthened life we rather
wonder that somebody does not in-
vent and find believers in a true elixir
of the old kind. It would be only so
to speak quinine exalted to the n-th
power. The desire for life
is a passion with many—though we
have a suspicion that it decays slight-
ly as the;centuries roll on and
that we may reach what Mr. Louis
Stevenson describes as the attitude
of mind among the natives of the
Marquesas who prefer when they
can afford it to sleep habitually in
their coffins—and with that and the
scientific credulity generated by such
considerations as we have quoted the
elixir ought to be marketable. It is
not so however in any tempting de-
gree. The discoverers and the quacks
alike shrink from promising even long
protracted life to be secured through a
drug; and as they could hardly be
brought to book for the failure of
their nostrum even our patient sti-
pendiaries declining to wait a gener
atlon or two to test a quack’s good
faith the reason must be that nobody
would believe the promise. That is
curious considering the natural im
pulse of each man to consider that he
will go on Jiving the tendency of cer-
tain forms of insanity to produce the
impression of deathlessness—vide toe
history of religious imposture passim
—and the undoubted fact that in cen-
turies not so far back most intelligent
and even illustrious men thought an
elixir of life among the most possible
of discoveries.
SAN PEDRO SPRINGS PABK
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT.
Finest Resort in the City-
Open at all times to the public and
for picnics an amusements.
GardentMuslc Every Sunday.
KtARMADUKF G ™ le Education for
- ■ ” Young Gentlemen and Hoys.
MILITARY W
— ■ Jbatns Gas Llectnc Light.
APAD f M V Steam Heat. Addrrs» Mar.
MVMULiU I « madake bUkKT MPBIXUS no.
CURES
CHOLERA INFANTUM
AND ALL
AFFECTIONS OF THE BOWELS.
_ „ Oxford La. July 71888.
Gentlemen We have used vour Brodie's Cor-
dial in our family for some time past and are
perfectly satisfied with its effects. Would not
willingly do without it. Respectfully
J. E. Robinson.
SOLD BY ALL DRUCCISTS.
PRICE SOc. and •1.00.
Prepared by I. L. LYONS &. CO.
New Orleans. La
ICUREFSTS!
When I bay cure I do not mean merely tostop them
for a time and thru hive return rg-.in. J n.r n r
•adical cure. 1 have made the disease of FITS EPI
LEPSY or FALLING SICKNESS * Hfe-bmg si it'.y. I
warrant my remedy to cure ths worst cason. Bic wise
others hare failed is no reason for not no 7 rec?' ring a
cure. Bena at once for a and u Free
niy infallible remedy. Give FxpreHs and Port Otare
B. G. ROOT c. 183 Pearl Hi. N. Y
JOHN T. HAMBLETON & CO..
LAND AGENTS
NO 4 E. COMMERCE ST.
Five Lots in Grand View
At it bargaih. Finest located property
in the city. T. B. Johnson Light Office
WG Wagner
The Marshall Street
BUTCHER
Furnishes the best Beef Mutton and
Pork. Delivery free Try him and you
will be satisfied. ' 6 2 tf
till • »
“YOUR UNCLE’
Is always the same Low Priced Man
in the City.
Solid Gold Stem-wind Watches - f2O up.
Best Filled Case Stem-wind - 15 up.
Sewing Machines at all prices.
Bicycles $2O and $3O.
Guns Pistolsl Valises or anything you
want at the Very Bottom.
To be Convinced just call and see.
J M. Emerson £ Co.
Soledad street San Antonio Texas
M. BERWICK
— DEALER IN —
Paints and Oils
Glass & Wall Paper.
Agent for Geo. W. Pitkin & Co's Zinc
Paste. House graining and painting a
specialty. No. 12 Alamo street.
EASEFFEE
House and Sign
PAINTER
Shop on East Commerce street oppo-
site St. Joseph’s Catholic church. None
but the very best material used and
good honest work at reasonable prices.
Satisfaction warranted every time.
Grand View Addition!
IT IS NOW LON THE! MARKET —ITS LOCATION
Grand View addition 18 situated about two and one-fourth mlite boutheast of tbs
Postoffice which Is new the center of population of the city. It covers a range of hip 1 kills
about two hundred feet above the surrounding country. Consequent) th< ora nsgt is ..way
from it on alleides.
LINES CORNERS AND SUBDIVISIONS.—This fine property was originally survey-
ed in 1846 by Joseph A. Tlvy and the cornets actually established upon the gnurd with wft.
ness trees 10 each one and the bounary lines nearly marked and all of which are clear
identified now; therefore there is absolutely no poslblny of changes in lines made by e> e
new surveyor who may survey there in the future. This Subdivision has been mn l ' «nd
carefully surveyed by W. M. Leek county surveyor and John D. Bullmann surv. yor and
draughten an. The corners of all the blocks are established and all streets are mon men
The streets all run east and west and north and eenth and the avenues ere laid ou. ~„u lit
the contour o.f the hills Jernes avenue connecting East End Additicn with South Height*
and Perk Terrace additions. Each block Is so situated as to get the benefit of the Une view
as well as the prevailing southeast wind.
ADVANTAGES.—On many of these hills fine building stone (the same as that in the
walls ol the Rissions and Alureo) crop out and ctn be cut and quarried with pick axe* in
blocks of suitable sizes for building. This reck hardens as seen as exposed to the
phere and can be Hud in the walls of hou*esat a cost of ONE-TENTH the price ot brick and
is much better building material. The quarry croppings areonh on ceitaln hills confined to
themselves while the soil n the others cannot be surpassed anj where in tbe country being
a sandy chocolate lietu. w hteh duiing rainy weather does not become muddy hence we have
fine hard ground in Grand View during tbe most inclement weather. Being SOI'TH-RABT
of the city on high hills overlook!) g the city end surrounding country a person hardly
needs reflect upon the great advantages this tut divisit n has over < ther j 011 ora of the city;
being the first ridge of bills between San A rtenio and the Gulf the prevailing eouth-ea*l
breeze from the gulf which blows lor nine moth of the year has no inteiruptit n until It
reaches this property; end alter passing over it paeees on tbre ush tbe cometary thence
through the city to the north-west. People coming two or three ticueand miles tor fresh
pure air should see that they get It before others have used it The pievailing south-eaat
breeze carries all the smoke duet impurities and malaria in directly the oppos'te direction
from ibis property. I pen tbe hUheet hil'e. tine wells <1 pure water tai it lira ata depth
of thirty-five feet and as the drainsge is away Deni them on ail sides no seepage' can con
tamlnate the water. Being situated tietween East End on the north and South Haigh’s on
the west the development of any of these fine subdb isions will assist to build up the otuera
Electric cars are now running through South Heights to within a fourth of a mile of Grand
View on the> west while tbe projected car line through East End will run to within a qi arter
of a mile ot Grand View on the north and the projected car line of the P ark Terrace Com-
pany will be but a short distance fr< m Grand View on the Bcuth-west. Immediately to the
east about one mile and upon the property of the owners of Grand View Addition are thg
beautiful picnic grounds known as Lees’ Bend on the Saladowhere is now situated the fines*
lake in Bexar County aurrounded by one of the finest forests ot Giant Mossj flaks E me
Hackberry | Wa nut. Pecan and. cth< r trees to be fourd in the state. This benitilu! ek®
is fed from numerous springs and has tbe Salado creek coursing at all times through it.
Askany of the nimrodsschool children and o d timers where Let s’l «i d ai d picnic grc tica
are and you will find out at once that it is only three and one half miles a little south of easx
from tbe Postoflice. The streets in this addition are ell sixty feet wide tbe avenues eighty
feet wide and there arc' no lots less than fifty feet front by a depth ot one bundled end s(i feet
TITLES.— This Grant was made by the State of Texas in IMS to George W. paschal »n<>
in 1847 sold by him to Gidoon Lee and in ISWby Lee sold to thepresent owners which sti.w
a simple clear and perfect claim of title. P'ull warranty dstdsc iven to purchasers.
PRICES.—The prices of these lots at the start will be from fifty to one hundred an©
fifty dollars each with right of owners to change the price at any time.
TERMS.—The terms will be one-third cash the balance In one and two years with eight
per cent. Interest on dele rred paj roents. — ZL—-
t¥*"For further paiticulars and Information call on d LJZ
J. VTdTUNOWITY General Mgr.
Cid 'Post office Building opvJMenger Hotel whoiaill be pleased purcba«H-T»
over > Kpcitj »i any time.
THE INTERNATIONAL ROUTE.
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fIH ‘ )KTKf ' T ' UTICKBBT AND BUST KOFTIiTO ALL POINT*.
the direct line to
MEXICO VIA LAREDO.
The “CANNON BALL” Train for Bt.Louis Resumed. Pullman
Buffet Bleepers without change between
SAN ANTONIO AND ST. LOUIS
Train leaving San Antonio at «00 p. in. has throngh Sleepier for St. Louis via Iron Mouig
Uin Route; Also for Kansas City via Denison.
Train leaving San Antonio at 9:55 a. m.! ha* sleeper to Laredo connecting-*t Larecic • Ik
Mexican National R. R. fcrClty of Mexico.
drains ueav'ng San Autom. at s:li a. m. make* through connections for
Mt-rnphis St. Louis and beyond. ]
w c. RIGSBY Ticket Agent • C. M. STONE.
Old Post Office Building. Alamo Plaza. Ticket Agent I. A.G. N. Depot s *
2HOMER EADS Traveling Freight Agent.
Old Pott Office Building Alai»o;Plaza
J. « GALBRAITH D. J. PRICK
Traffic Manaobh Palestine. Tex. Ab.F.«TA„ Paiest'ne 1»>
“SUNSET ROUTE’’
G.HI S.fi.Ry.lScutherii Pacific Co. Atlantic Syslcn?
( The Quiches and Best Route for Passengers and Fielghtto New Orleans New York
amd all points East. Also to Mexico. California and Points West.
EAST burND: An.cnio daiij’at 9:25 ». no. and 9p. nj. Arrive
from East at 7;CO a.'.m. and 4-10 p. m.
WEST BOUND: I eaves at 4:40 p. m. and arrives at 8:65 a. m.
PULLMAN BUFFET CARS»ON ALL THROUGH TRAINS'
FRBIOHTDBPARTMBNT. I TICKKT DEPARTMENT
Thr-mgh rates quoted and bills of lading | For Rates. Routes and Tickets apply t
given by J. McMILLAN I GEO. F. LL’FTON Ticket Agent
Commercial Agent. I “No trouble to answer questions.”
Freigth and Ticket Offices 209 Alamo Plaza next to Grand Opera House
J. KRHTTBCHNITT W. G. VAN VLECK E. G. BLEKER
General Manager. Gen. Sup. Gen. Frt. and Pass. Agt.
G. ERAL OFFICE HOUSTON ’EXAS.
HEALTH SEEKERS AND TOURISTS!
THEXCOUNTRY BETWEEN
San Antonio & Kerrville
1000 TO 2000 FEET ABOVE THE SEA.
Beautiful Mountain Scenery Clear Running Streams Rich Valley
Lande and with a CLIMATE pronounced by all to be the fmeeti «
in the world. Consumption and kindred diseases are
here cured without medjcine.
»
The Gulf Coast around Corpus C>hti Aransas Harbor and Rockport.
Offers* superior attractions to tbe Tourists and Sportsmen. Every Person
desiring a new location and a summer home should first inspect the country
on and tributary tothe Aransas Pass Railway. Maps ai d other informatics
on application to
K. W.'Andrews Milton Everett.
G. P. A„ SanfAntoruo Ticket Agent San Antonio D*> 0
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