San Antonio Sunday Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 332, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 12, 1897 Page: 2 of 10
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The Sunday Light.
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SUNDAY. DECEMBER 12. 1897.
A Cart-Load of Gold
“If you dumped a
cart-load of gold at my
feet it -would not bring
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3 TCj All ■ using the method of
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W VI pk| M restored so many men
•** ■■ ” who had been wrecked
by excesses over-work
or evil habits of youth.
A little book that
makes it all plain may be had without charge
by writing THE ER | E MEDICAL CO.
64 Niagara St. Buffalo N. Y.
No C. O. D. scheme; no patent medicines—-
just the book under plain letter seal.
Home sbi fc
The old song that says there is no
place like home no matter how humble
it is has found an answering echo in
every breast. There is inspiration in
the word; there is comfort in the idea
of rest that it suggests; there is a sense
of security in that which it represents
there is a sacredness in all that it in-
cludes within its pale. What is home
and what is called home may be as far
apart as the antipodes. Home is
more than the four walls within which
we live and move and from which we
go to our work and to which we return
for our meals and lodgings. Home is
-more than the place where father and
mother and sisters and brothers and
wife and children live. We may find
all of these and more and the more of
them there are the less of home may
there lie when we seek it.
Home is a word hard of definition.
Home is an idea hard of realization.
Home is a heaven that is often hard to
find. Home is also at times a hell
that it is impossible to shun. Home is
like self a personality a personal pos-
session. a something with a soul within
its soul case. Home is the centre of
all that of which life is the circumfer-
ence. It is the one spot we leave re-
luctantly to which we return with
alacrity. It is the one place where the
sun shines always and no cloud comes.
Not that there are no clouds in our
home lives but that in proportion to
the cloud does the homeness decrease.
Not that we shun home and deny its
ministries when the clouds drop down
in sombreness but that the* cloudiness
is not the true atmosphere of home
and by so much as it is cloudiness is
not home.
Home is the oue place that we are at
home* in. That is. the one place na-
tive to us. The one place in which
we feel most in our element. The
one place in which we are least tram-
meled. To some men this is anywhere
wife and babies are not. and this man
has no home. Yet perhaps this is not
true for in his business or in his club
or in the poker room he may find those
real essentials that make the home.
But as it was said of those* of old "If
the light that is in you be darkness be-
hold how great is that darkness.” so
it may be said if that home which
should be home to you is not home
how great is your homelessness. The
want of earth is a home. The want of
the state is a home. The want of the
people is a home. The want of the in-
dividual is a home. But an individual
cannot make a home.
As it takes two to make a bargain
so it takes at least two to make a
home. The idea of loneliness of lone-
ness is not compatible with that of
home. Home means yourself and
some other one. That other one may
be a dog or a horse or a cat or some
other human but the being who lives
alone having nothing within that
which is called home and belonging to
it upon which to expend care and af-
fection and sympathy that being has
no home in the true sense. Home is as
incapable of true definition as pleasure
or peace or pain or misery or discom-
fort or satisfaction. We can feel all
these but to say in just what they
consist is not so easy. So we can feel
at home feel that we have a home nt
home that is where we abide but we
cannot give it a clear definition even
to ourselves.
None the less we know that it is
home and we know that it is not a
home by the same instinctive move-
ment of our hearts as we come and go.
Home is a necessity of those who
would be properly trained to live it
is the want of a home that makes chil-
dren vicious in the great majority of
cases. It is the boys who only have
abodes not homes that become vag-
rant and criminal. It is the girls who
only have places# to eat and dress and
sleep in that grow up abandoned and
lose their girlhood lx*fore their dream
of youth is past. Home is the word
so often used so often abused that it
wants to be rescued from the misshap-
en ideas that it has given birth to.
Home to the dependent that is to the
child is the place where it is most
loved and cared for
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home. Wanted because
part of home gone when xou
from it. and which is never to IhBB
that home can lx* until you return.
This it is that gives force to the old
song old in days young in spirit.
“Do they miss me at Home do they
miss me? ’Twould lie an assurance
most dear. To know that this moment
some loved one were saying I wish he
were here.” To the spirit of such a
song home is not a word it is a rest.
The hurry and confusion of our lives
the love of display the dissipations of
society the following of fashions and
fads—these on the part of our women
prevent home being what home should
be. Business cares club comforts
financial speculations the itch for sud-
den wealth the love of adventure the
desire to see the world the fast set
that gets fast hold of old and young—-
these things on the part of men prevent
their homes being what home is intend-
ed to lie. No wife on earth can make
a home for the husband whose deeper
life that is the life to which he is most
attached and from which he derives
the most comfort and pleasure is lived
outside his family abode and not with-
in his family circle. Nor can any man
liorn of woman have a home at home
whose wife is more at home some-
where else than at her home.
The lack of the true home life is
found in every nature that does not en-
joy the fullness of life which only the
true home can foster and develop. It
is a fatal lack. Well regulated affec-
tions are one of the native products of
a true home life and for lack of these
the world is full of unhappiness and
sin. Few girls ever issue from the
doors of a true home to unhappy homes
of their own. The evolution of their
affectional natures has been in the
right direction and there is a life in-
surance against evil in such training
that is not found elsewhere. Men and
women have no right to establish a
so-called home without its essential of
home feeling and care and love and
trust and mutual pleasure as its foun-
dation and corner stone. Much less
have they any right to bring children to
people a home that has no guarantee
of their best affectional development
in it.
It is from loveless hearts from home-
less homes that the ranks of the idle
the vicious the vagrant the cruel the
really wicked are recruited. The jails
and the brothels and the reformatories
are filled with the children of homeless
homes where love is not the ruling
characteristic and the true develop-
ment of the affectional nature is not
made a sacred concern. Could a cen-
sus l>e taken of the unfortunate classes
their early surroundings and close as-
sociations taken a real analysis of
their so called home life given and it
would lx* found that the great stream
of unfortunate life goes out unceasing-
ly from these homes where love Is not
the prevailing spring of action and
where there is not that close commun-
ion of feeling between its members
that alone can constitute a home in any
proper sense.
Take another census that of the chil-
dren of unwedded love. You will find
in these very often some of the divin-
est and sweetest of human characteris-
tics proving that in spite of their un-
fortunate birth and the bar sinister
that society brands them with the
love that was their creation has in a
measure redeemed them from evil and
endowed them with gifts and graces
and tenderness of nature of no ordin-
ary character. If these can be grown
on such a tree what possibilities can-
not be evoked in the culture and work
and development of homes sanctioned
by every law on earth and crowned
witli the love that lays the only foun-
dations upon which a real home can
be erected. The duty of parents
children brothers and sisters and all
inmates of the same abode to make it
home is above all else.
Attention has been directed of late
to the need of some means of prevent-
ing the breeding of criminals by pre-
venting the marriage of those who are
criminally inclined. Could a law lx*
passed preventing the marriage of
those whose marriage idea is that of
bettering their financial or social posi-
tion without a thought of that higher
purpose to develop through a constant
ministry of loving hopefulness more
would lx* accomplished than in any oth-
er way. The legalizing of marriage
where a loveless home is to be a neces
sity or at least a natural result is it-
self a crime. The reformer of the
future will direct his attention to the
destruction of the loveless home. This
accomplished there will be more hope
for the world. Home is either Heav-
en or Hell.
—I write this to let you know what
I would not do: I would not do with-
out Chamberlain’s Pain Balm in my
house. If it cost $5.00 per bottle. It
does all you recommend it to do and
more.—J. R. Wallace Wallaeeville G:k
Chamberlain’s Pain Balm is the best
household liniment in the world and
invaluable for rheumatism lame back
sprains and bruises. Be ready for em-
ergency by buying a bottle at'any
drug store.
AT THE OLD STAND.
RONSE & WAHLBTAB.
Still hold forth. They want to re-
mind you of the fact tnat the HOLI-
DAYS are near at hand and scVcit
jour trade for the OLDEST and BEST
BRANDS of WINES. WHISKIES.
CORDIALS. MINERAL WATERS.
FANCY LIQUORS CIGARS. Etc.
They respectfuly ask you to call nnd
inspect their varied stock of "wet
goods” and cigars among which you
will find many useful as well as sub-
statial XMAS and NEW YEAR'S
GIFTS for yourself and friends.
Mail orders solicited. 121 West
Commerce street.
To Cure Constipation Forever
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or !Sc.
It C. C. C. fall to cure druggists refund money.
Fresh And Crisp.
The figure of our sketch in case of
war with Spain or any other nation is
a character that the rank and file of
tin* people may well feel proud of. Gen.
Nelson A. Miles is a natural-liorn sol-
dier. His record for bravery in the
late civil war is without a parallel in
history. In '6l. at the first call of
President Lincoln he responded
promptly in defense of tin* Union and
was mustered into service as captain
of the Twenty-second Massachusetts
infantry. Every old soldier is familiar
with his achievements. He led in
many a hard fight during that struggle.
For gallant and meritorious service he
rapidly rose through every grade and
at the close of the war he wore the
double stars of a major general of vol-
unteers. Ou the re-organization of the
regular army he became a colonel in
the Fortieth infantry. To the fron-
tier and figured in all the Indian cam-
paigns of that section rising gradually
to the rank of major general. Today
he commands the army of the United
States. He is a live soldier wide
awake and knows more about rapid-
firing guns fortifications and smoke-
less powder than any dozen military
men in the country combined. He is
not a graduate of West Point. He did
not originate the idea of his going to
Europe last summer to examine into
the condition of military matters there.
The president and secretary of war
were instrumental in sending him to
witness the Greco-Turkish war.
Neither was the first general in our
army sent abroad to examine into
military conditions. Gen. Winfield
Scott was sent there at the time of the
battle of Wateloo; McClellan was com-
missioned by the government to watch
the developments of the Crimean war:
Gen. Phil. Sheridan took a similar tour
during the Franco-Prussian war and
General Sherman spent a year follow-
ing in investigating the military condi-
tions of Europe.
That Gen. Allies improved his oppor-
tunity and acquired information of
value that may result in the improve-
ment of the American army is a mat-
ter of record. His late trip was a
grand success from start to finish. He
was offered opportunities of rubbing
up against the great generals of the
world. He visited nearly every great
army of Europe and saw more thaiA
400.000 soldiers in the manoeuvres and
in the camps of the different countries.
He inspected the military factories and
investigated the newest things in arms
and ammunition. Gen. Miles is of the
opinion that our army is too small for
our wealth and population. He thinks
the army and navy should grow as the
nation grows. We should have a fixed
ratio for the increase of the army. He
would have a maximum force one
trained soldier for every thousand of
our population and as a minimum
force one to every two thousand. If
we had oue to every thousand this
would give ns : 11 army three times the
size of the jiiesent one. This ratio
sho* • be kept up: the number* of
troops to be determined by the census
to be taken every ten years. It is the
opinion of Gen. Miles that in the event
of war the telephone would cut a great
part in it and steam power would lx*
largely used in moving the troops and
supplies. There would be many im-
proved arms and long range guns and
smokeless powder would be used.
While the principal of warfare would
be the same there would lx* a <-hange
in tactics. Battles would lx* fought at
longer range. Strategy would be more
important than ever. The great wars
of the future would probably be of
shorter duration than those of tin- past.
There would probably be fewer lives
lost. His m-onimendation to the sec-
retary of war have been given to the
public. It is proposed as a fitting tri-
bute to the distinguished major gen-
eral commanding the army that the
grade of lieutenant general be revived
for his benefit and those to follow him
in that office. All the great nations of
the world give their officers much high-
er rank than the United States and
few. have their commanding generals
lx»low the grade of lieutenant general.
MEDALS OF HONOR
Special Wire to Sunday Light.
Washington D. C.. Dec. 11.—Medals
of honor have been* presented to
Michael McCarthy. Walla Walla.
Wash. formerly first sergeant troop 11.
First cavalry for the most distinguish-
ed gallantry at Whole Bird Canon. Ida-
ho. .lune 17. 1877 and T. B. Glover.
Boston. Mass. formerly a sergeant
troop B. Second cavalry for most dis-
tinguished gallantry at Mizpah Creek.
Montana. April l<t. 1879 and at Pump-
kin Creek. Montana. February 10. IXBO.
CONCERNS LIEUT. CLAYTON.
Special Wire to Sunday Light.
Washington. D. C. Dec. 11.—First
Lieut. Charles G. Dwyer. Third infan-
try now military attache to the Ameri-
can legation in the City of Mexico lias
lx*en notified that he will soon be re-
lieved from that duty. It is probable
that Second Lieut. Powell Clayton. Jr..
Fifth cavalry now at Fort Sam Hous-
ton. Texas will get the position. .It
will be fortunate for the young man as
his father. General Clayton is the min-
ister. •
ARMY ENGAGER ENT
Special Wire to Sunday I
Washington. D. C„ Dev. 11. The en-
gagement has just been announced of
Miss Crofton youngest daughter of
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Colonel Crofton retired to Lieut. Hen-
ry J. Heunt. of the Sixth infantry.
THE COLONEL'S RETURN.
Colonel Carpenter has returned from
his trip to Fort Brown and has re-as-
sumed command of the garrison reliev-
ing Major Keller who was in tempo-
rary command during his absence.
CLUB DANCE.
The Golden Rod Social club gave a
dance in Schwartz's hall last night
which as usual was well attended and
which was thoroughly enjoyed by the
large number of young people In at-
tendance. The grand march started
promptly at 8:30 and from that time
forth President Nathan Pendleton saw
that everyone had a good time.
SERGEANT MAJOR FOR DUTY.
Chief Clerk Hook in Sergeant Ma-
jor Sorenson's office was sick Friday
and the sergeant major went on duty
although his pass was for five days
which had not expired. The sergeant
major's wife is very ill and his atten-
tion at her bedside is almost necessary.
His many friends deeply sympathize
with him.
GARRISON GOSSIP.
Simon Pendleton has swore off riding
a bicycle to Dreiss hill.
The weekly inspection took place yes-
terday morning at 8:30 o'clock.
A signal detachment of six men left
the post yesterday morning for Leon
Springs to practice signalling.
Prof. E. 8. Morris of the band lias
applied for a furlough to lx*gin Jan-
uary 5. He wants to take a trip to the
Island city.
The officers and ladies of the garri-
son enjoyed a pleasant hop in the post
hop room Friday night. Music was
supplied by the cavalry orchestra.
Capt. Bates and Lieut. Fleming are
the officers of the day and guard re-
spectively today. They will be re-
lieved at guardmount 1 o'clock this af-
ternoon.
Private Brown formerly of troop 11.
Fifth cavalry enlisted at the post Fri-
day and left yesterday morning to
join that organization at Fort Mcln-
tosh Texas.
Lieuts. Craig and Lassiter have
abandoned the other single officers and
have moved in quarters No. 42 next to
Lieut. Wade where they are keeping
houst* as bachelors.
The infantry battalion had calisthen-
ic drill Fritlay morning at 10:30 o'clock
and the cavalry squadron had squad-
ron drill under Capt. Thomas' instruc-
tions out on the old target range on the
Austin road.
—Th re is no medicine in the world
equal to I 'bamberlain's Cough Remedy
tor tlie cure of throat and lung diseas-
es. T his is a fact that has peen prov en
in numberless cases. Here Is a r jmpio
of thousands of letters received: "1
have tried Chamberlain’s Cough reu*e-
dy while suffering from a sever * throat
and found immediate and affective re-
iief. I can unhesitatingly recommend
it.”—Edgar W. Whittemore Editor
Grand Rivers. (Ky.) Herai*' For sale
by all druggists.
DO YOU MEAN BUSINESS.
if so we will be pleased to show you
bargains in business as well as home-
stead properties vacant lots farms
and ranches. Now Is your opportun-
ity and by calling upon or writing us
we think It will be to your advantage.
JOHN T. HAMBLETON & CO.. 104
East Commerce street.
HOLIDAY EXCURSION RATES.
From and to all points on Southern
Pacific Dec. 23. 24. and 25 30 and 31
and January 1 good for return Janu-
uary 3. 1898 at rate of one and one
half fare for the round trip.
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab-
lets. All druggists refund the money
if ft falls to cure: 25c. The genuine
has L. B. Q. on each tablet.
S CANDY
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RE CONSTIPATION
ALL
25c 50c DRUGGISTS
Texas Typewriter H’dq'rs.
A. W. BALDWIN MANAGER
13'2 1-2 Soledad Street San Antoni** Texa>
Machines Cleaned Aligned Repaired Rebuilt Rented
Bought Sold and Exchanged. Ribbons Paper Oil.
Oilers Carbon and Copy Holders for all Machines.
(■JKIBI
Santa Claus is knocking at your door.
He is making his headquarters with us
this year and we would advise you to
COME EARLY
in order to get your choice of our :
Magnificent Stock. Last year we did j
not have enough to supply our custom-1
ers and thousands of people equid not
get in our store on account of the I
crowds
Buy Your Xmas Goods Early
and be sure you buy them at the right }
place. We have goods to please ever.* I
one and
WE CUT THE PRICES
Dolls that others are bragging about
selling so cheap al 25c we sei' al yOe I
and 15c*
Unbreakable Dolls Rag or Rubber. 5
and 10 1
12 inch Dressed Dolls with Shoes and I
stockings 15c
Fine Crying Babies only 40c
Regular 5c China Limb Dolls. 3c
Jointed all Bisque Dolls with Natural
Hair gc
18 inch Dressed Washable D 0115.... 15c
50c Fine Dressed Doll with Shoes and
Stockingsand Kid Gloves 25 c
A 4 Foot Dressed Doll ••••$4.00
This is the Largest ami Heaviest Doll 1
ever brought to San entonio. See it ini
our Show Window this week.
Checker Board and Checkers 5c
Interesting Card Games 5 and 8 C
Fine Xmas Cards | and 2c
Jointed Dolls witli Hood |c
Tin* sooner you come the better se-
lection you get.
The Great Sand 10c Store
202 8. FLORES ST.
to Geo. R. Stumbrrg's.
THE LIVER KEEPS PEOPLE WELL
When the liver Is alugglah all other I
organs are Involved. You suffer from
Constipation Blllouanem Jaundice
Headaches Indigestion Pain In the
back Chills and lom of energy. You
will never know how promptly these
troubles can be cured until you use
Herblne. It cures quickly when oth-
er remedies utterly fall. Regulate*
the liver purifies the blood. Herblne
Is a harmless vegetable remedy that
gives new life and energy almost from
the first dose. Price 75 cents. Free
trial bottles at E. Reuss and C. Schas-
•e. 3-10-lyr
ALEX.SARTOR
Established 1845.
The Old Established and
Relioble Jert.
Has the most Varied Assi rtmen
of
Precious Stones
Silver Novelties.
And the Finest Line oi
Cut Glass
Ir he City.
118 V Commerce St.
Notary Public of BexarCo.
Consular Agent of France.
E.P.CLAUDON
Commissioner for States of New York
Louisiana Kansas and etc.
Office 116 Main Plaza San Antonio Tex
W. G WAGNER?
DEALER IN
Fresh Bset Mutton Pork Sausage Etc. Ele
MARKET—Corner Leal and San Mar
coa atreeta.
Delivery to any part of the city.
BU3IHESS DIRECTORY
HOTELS.
MENGER HOTEL H. D. KAM-
PMANN Proprietor..
TRANSFER LINES.
MERCHANS’ TRANSFER CO. (In-
corporated) 512 Dolorosa street. Tel-
ephone No. 359.
garden~seedS
S. L. HUTH & SON MARKET ST.
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