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THE SUNDAY LIGHT
SUNDAY. MAY 28 1899.
A BIG DAY.
MASONS WILL DEDICATE CON-
FEDERATE MONUMENT.
The Festivities Anil Exercises Next
Saturday Will be Grand —Judge Rea-
gan Will be Present.
The two lodges of the Masonic order
in this city—Alamo lodge No. 44 and
Anchor lodge No. 424—are making
grand preparations for the cornerstone
laying of the Confederate monument
in Travis park next Saturday after-
noon.
The dedication exercises will take
place at 5:00 o’clock and the Masons
and Confederate veterans as well as
the Daughters of the Confederacy are
striving to make it one of the grand-
est successes of anything of the
kind ever held in the city.
Judge John H. Reagan former post-
master general of the Confederate
cabinet and the only living member of
that famous body will ne present and
address the multitude. Master Ma-
sons from all over the state have been
invited and will participate.
The railroads will give reduced rates
and a iarge out of town attendance is
expected especiaaly from the small
country towns surrounding San Anto-
nio. The reception committees ap-
pointed to meet the Masons at the
trains are as follows:
I. & G. N.— C. M. Stone. Homer Eads.
Nic Peters.
S. A. & A. P. R. R —E. Coady. Wal-
ter Napier C. F. Sleiger.
G. H. & S. A. R. R.—Edwin Cham-
berlain J. M. McMillan J. D. Crus-
ham.
S. A. &G.S. R. R.—L. A. Hell Wm.
Will Geo. R. Hines.
The Masons meet in their lodge
room in the Alamo Insurance building
at 3:30 p. m.. with the following repre-
sentatives of the Most Worshipful
Grand lodge of Texas. A. F. and A. M.
and will proceed to the park to lay the
cornerstone:
W. S. Fly grand master.
T. P. Walsh deputy grand master.
J. E. Webb senior grand warden.
C. A. Keller junior grand warden.
Walter Napier grand treasurer.
F. G. Huntress grand secretary.
D. L. Snodgrass grand chaplain.
W.' P. bobbin grand orator.
R. C. Harn grand marshall.
E. D. Henry grand senior deacon.
U. G. Stroud grand junior deacon.
Arthur Storms grand senior stew-
ard.
Geo. R. Hines grand junior steward.
John T. Hambleton grand pursui-
vant.
C. F. Sliger grand tiler.
F. W. Stevenson grand sword bearer.
The Confederate veterkns and the
Daughters of the Confederacy will es-
cort Judge Reagan to the park.
WHAT HAD BEEN DONE BY
<By the aid of improved machinery
that which at the beginning of the
century was the luxury of the rich is
now the comfort of the poor material
and labor are no longer the sole fac-
tors of production. Assisted by ma-
chinery and tools man’s labor now
converts the raw materials of nature
into the useful necessary and in some
cases even the artistic paraphernalia
of civilization with one-third of the
exertion formerly necessary. Even
Russia the latest competitor in the in-
dustrial field has. with (the aid of
machinery more than doubled since
1861. the individual output of those
employed in her manufactories. In
the course of twenty years (1870-1890)
the number of persons • employed in
the American manufactures has more
than doubled and the value of their
product has nearly trebled. I men-
tion these facts to show the important
part that machinery now plays in
modern Industrial warfare. Few
realize or stop to think how much we
are indebted to the inventor and ma-
chine designer for the comforts lux-
uries and necessities of our daily life.
The loom which weaves our silks cot-
tons and woolens; the harvesting ma-
chines which reap our corn; the ma-
chinery which forms our bricks and
mixes our mortar; the printing ma-
chine which makes the penny daily
possible. Our food clothing furni-
ture. literature all are produced on
machinery which it is practically im-
possible to make or maintain without
the modern machine tool.—H. F. L.
Orcutt in The Engineering Magazine
for June.
MINING METHODS IN SWEDEN.
A prominent feature of the mining
districts of Central Sweden is the great
number of deep gaping ravines and
chasms .the remains of the old-time
open-cast workings with here and
there some of the Old covered winding
gear still about. Another striking
feature is the system of overhead
traveling rods painted red used to
convey power from the water-wheels
the pumping hoisting or other gear.
Their day is Roomed with the intro-
duction Of the electrical transmission
of 'Power but now they are encountered
here and there across country always
moving backwards and forwards and
always groaning piteously as if aware
of their doom. With regard to the
treatment at the mines by far the
greater portion of the iron ore as
it comes from the mines in Central
Sweden is simply subjected to hand-
picking before sending to market; but
where this does not suffice the prac-
tices usual elsewhere are introduced
such as cobling with or without wash-
ing and picking; systematic screening
and washing with or without crushing
and magnetic separation for the small
staff.—David A. Louis in The Engi-
neering Magazine for June.
FOR RALB
We bare for Mie (in San Antonio) a
Babcock Standard Press for newspa-
per and job work prints full form 5
column 8 pages. 28x42 news; speed
1200 to 1800 an hour. For cash ISW
wm buy same. Addrea*
T. B. JOHNSON.
12-10-tf. Care Daily Light
MACHINE AND HAND WORK.
It is unfair to make comparisons
without duly considering surroundings
and history. The state of the ma-
chine tool art like other industries in
America and Europe has been mainly
shaped by economic conditions. What
those conditions are and how they
have operated ft is beyond the scope
of this article to discuss. It is suf-
ficient to state that in America the
tendency is to reduce all production
to machine operations. In European
countries the tendency is to employ
machinery as an assistant to produc-
tion and to rely on skilful hand labor
to complete and in some cases to pro-
duce outright the highest grade of
work. The consequence is that we
find in 'America the highest skill and
talent devoted to the production of
machinery on which the article is
made and in Europe the highest skill
devoted to the production of the ar-
ticle itself. As far as talent is con-
cerned there is as much on one side of
the Atlantic as on the other; it is
simply progressing on different Unes. —
H. F. L. Orcutt in The Engineering
Magazine for June.
. BUSINESS METHODS IN JAPAN
Japanese engineers seldom specify a
machine to be given dlminsions of a
Certain type and efficiency and to per-
form specified work. They usually
hunt through catalogues until they find
a picture and accompanying descrip-
tion which meets their ideas of what
they need. They then write out a
specification which is a verbatim copy
of the description in the catalogue fre-
quently designating the number of the
page upon which it is to be found. The
maker Is. of course to be the party
publishing the catalogue. Much
trouble has arisen from this practice
as some of the handsomest and most
complete houses in America and Eng-
land which build noth whatever and
a machine with any name other than
that of the publisher of the catalogue
cast on it it is liable to rejection. Cer-
tain European firms—and lest this be
hurled back at me from the old world
let me say here that my attention was
first called to this by an English en-
gineer in Japan—take contract to sup-
ply machines from specified makers.
They let the contracts to bulid these
machines to jobbing shops by whom
they are thus built for a trifling sum
and are worth about what they cost.
The specified maker’s name is cast up-
on the frames of the machines and
the purchaser supposing them to be
from these makers accepts and pays
for them. This has been a common
occurence in times past. The Jap-
anese. however are progressing so rap-
idly in their knowledge of these mat-
ters that this practice is becoming
more and more difficult and less pro-
fitable and will no doubt eventually
die out altogether. The Japanese
government requires with each bill of
goods coming from a specified maker
a certificate from the said maker to
the effect that he made and furnished
the goods purporting to be from him.
—Lamar Lyndon. In The Engineering
Magazine for June.
A. O. IT. W
A special meeting of Milam lodge
No. 2. A. O. U. W. is called for Tues-
day night May 30th at the hall for im.
portant business. By order
* A. A. SPENCE.
Attest. M&ster Workman.
W. H. COWLEY.
Recorder. It
STYLES IT A PROFESSION
Talcott Williams of the Philadelphia
Press in a lecture before the students
of Princeton university on the subject.
“Journalism as a Profession” said
that successful newspaper men rank
seventh among the “professions” in
the remuneration they received—that
is. with the clergymen. As to the ef-
fect on the person’s life it is the most
irregular of work involves Sunday as
well as weekdays and compels a man
to become part of a machine. But it
gives a man an exceptional opportunity
to influence society at it« critical mo-
ments.
THE CRADLE OF CO-EDUCATION
Some Prime rfules That Governed the
Girl Graduate a Century Ago.
“It is now about sivty-five years
since for the first time in th? history
of our country young ladies studied the
higher in the. same class-
room with young* men. and publicaly
received the degree of Bachelor of
Arts from Oberlin college the cradle
of co-education” writes Edward A.
Steiner in the June Womans Home
Companion.
“In the year 1841 ‘three women grad-
uated. and were the first young wom-
en to receive a degree in the arts;' and
in 1844 two women applied for admis-
sion to the theological seminary were
admitted and finished the course al-
though they did not receive a degree.
One coveted privilege these young la-
dies were not permitted to enjoy that
of reading essays on commencement
day. The professor of rhetoric was
-their proxy. Such an ardent woman's
rights advocate as Lucy Stone had to
suffer upder this humiliating discrim-
ination. but not without vigorous pro-
test. Her essay was not read by the
professor of rhetoric for simple
reason that it was never written. In
1859 that barrier was broken down by
the pent-up energies of many gener-
ations of irate female students who
here as everywhere obtained their
rights if they wanted them.
“The living of the young ladies must
have been very plain for they paid
only seventy-five cents a week for
board and they paid that by work at
the rate of three cents 'an hour. I
find nowhere a record of class parties
and not a trace of a class picture and
I know that there existed no such
thing as a chocolate-drop. There
were four’women to enter the first
regular freshman class. Though the
frivolities of modern college life were
not permitted love could not be kept
out. and Mary F. Kellogg one of the
four afterward became the wife of
Ex-President Fairchild. The mother
of Dr. Barrows the recently elected
president was also one Of those pio-
neers of co-education and jbe cer-
tainly did not dream that a crisis in
the history of her alma mater she
would give her beloved soon to be the
leader of that noble institution.
THERE IS ONE SIGN
Which the board of health Should place
over every letter box in the city and
that is “DRINK DULLNIG'S MINER-
AL WATER.”
AN AQUATIC DUEL.
Terrible Fiabt in the Water Hetweei
a Courageous Hunter and an
Enraged Cougar.
LawTence C. Doyle of Port Angeles
says the San Francisco Chronicle re-
cently had a terrible fight with an
Olympic mountain cougar which near-
ly cost him his life. In company with
an Indian he went fishing for salmon
in the Elwha river. The big animal sud-
denly appeared at the entrance to a
cave and with a roar crouched to
spring at the Indian.
“I threw my fish spear at him and
the Indian ran for his life” is the way
Doyle starts his story.
“The animal then crouched to spring
at me. I made a lunge with the spear
TRIED TO DROWN HIM.
and drove it into his head and ear. The
long handle was of the strongest wood
and I thought to hold him in the cleft
of the rock. His spring landed me in
the river but he could not loosen the
fish spear.
“First I tried to drown him. When I
tried to push him under he came at
me and I might as well have tried to
stop an express train with my little
finger as to keep him back. He kept
pushing me across the river. Some-
times his lunges would throw me clear
under. At others I had to swim. I sent
the Indian for a gun and from 1:30 till
five o'clock in the afternoon kept up a
battle with the beast. He would spring
into the air and throw me four to five
feet. He woultl double up and try to
clftw the spear pole in two. All the
time he was screeching and screaming
like a cat.
“Toward the end I nearly gave up.
Finally the Indian returned after a 12-
mile trip for a gun. His first shot
wounded the beast in the side and made
his anger something terrible. The sec-
ond carried away the greater part ol
his head. It was an hour before I was
able to walk.”
LOOKED BAD FOR HIM.
Child Saves ■ ■ < afori unale Lawyer
from a Serlom Scrape Use to a
SwspMoaa Woman.
The Owensboro (Ky.) Messenger tells
this of a prominent lawyer in that city:
His daughter is seven years of age and
walked to t he gate wit h hi m one day last
week. The little girl kissed her hand
to him until he turned the corner. He
returned the salutation each time. That
night when he came home his wife had
an icy stare for him. He wanted to
know the trouble but she only an-
swered: “Nothing." Any question
from him received a short sharp “yes"
or “no.” After supper she called him
into another room and said: “Mr. —> —
Mrs. our next door neighbor was
over to see me this afternoon. She in-
formed me of your conduct when you
.walked down the street throwing kiss
after kiss to her. She said her husband
' was not at home or he would ahoot you.
RETURNED THE SALUTATION.
Will you please invent some plausible
excuse that I can give to my neighbor
to explain away your reprehensible
conduct?” He was up against the knot-
tiest proposition of his life. He thought
long and hard and finally the light
dawned upon him. He rushed frantic-
ally out of the room and returned with
his beloved child in his arms. “Daugh-
ter” he said “please tell your mother
what you and papa were doing after
dinner to-day.” “We were throwing
kisses at each other nntil pap turned
the corner.” So quickly was the pros-
ecution dismissed and in such a con-
vincing manner that the lawyer
swooned away when he thought of his
narrow escape. Suppose the child had
forgotten the occurrence! There would
have been a hot time in town that night.
But there’s a decided coolness now be-
tween the t*vo women.
They Lived on Dog Meat.
News has just reached Seattle Wash.
of the safe arrival nt Dawson of a party
of eight prospectors who set out last
fall from Rampart City for Arctic City
COO miles up the river. They suffered
terrible hardships aud during the last
14 days of the journey they lived on a
single dog and were also compelled to
cut their moccasins into strips and eat
them.
Cotton Crash
One case white Cot-
ton crash worth dou-
ble our Removal Sale
Price Qp
Per yard Db
On Remomi st Ik M 1 it il UH n ll® Bwis
A GREAT SHOE SALE PRICES LOWER THAN EVER
121 c Percales 5c
Over zoco yards finest French
Percales; light medium and dark
designs all new tints and color-
ings stripes dots plaids etc.
a sterling value per yard
5 cts.
TOWELS SPREADS PILLOW-CASES
A triad of uncommon offerings from o u house
furnishing department.
18x30 Hemmed Liuneu Huck towel Qp
value vv
Extra Large $1.25 hemmed ready to use white
Bed Spreads Marseilles and Honey Combed 07 A
Patterns OIL
42x36 aud 45x36 ready made pillow C.
Cases. Removal price
SHEETING
10-4 unbleached sheeting
20c quality. removal price
per yard .
lie
LADIES VESTS
Ladies White Jersey rlbb-
‘d vests crochet edge taped
neck and sleeves. 12%c.
vests removal price >
6c
DEATH AT THL POST.
A COLORED MUSICIAN THE VIC-
TIM.
Retirement Board Has Concluded Its
Labors— Gossip of the Post of Gen-
eral Interest
The board of officers which met at
the Post last Friday for the purpose
of retiring Major A. A. De Loffre has
completed its labors and the Atlanta
officers will leave for their homes
Monday. Friday afternoon the of-
ficers at the Post who were members
of the board took the Atlanta of-
ficers Gen. Carpenter Col. Cleary and
Major Calef for a ride over the city
showing them the many points of in-
terest Including the Alamo and mis-
sions. Captain Robert R. Stevens
the popular Post quartermaster sup-
plied the transportation.
Musician John Jordan company G
Twenty-fifth infantry died in the
Post hospital early yesterday morning
and will be interred thia morning at
8 o’clock with military honors. The
battery and company G Twenty-fifth
infantry will attend with side arms.
Private William C. Thomps»n who
was discharged from the battery Feb-
ruary 23 has re-enlisted in Cleveland
Ohio and is now on his way back here
to join his old command.
Frank C. Harris an old soldier was
re-enlisted at the Post yesterday on
telegraphic authority from the adju-
tant general tor the Twenty-third in-
fantry now in Manila and will be sent
to join his regiment in a few day* via
San Francisco.
On authority from the adjutant gen-
eral Private James Stead will be sent
today tp join his command at Colum-
bus Barracks Ohio from this Post.
Recruit George W. 'Anderson color-
ed arrived at the Post yesterday and
was assigned to company G Twenty-
fifth infantry. He enlisted at Evans-
ville. Indiana.
Willie Mayweather enlisteJ yester-
day at the Post for the Twenty-fifth
infantry And was assigned to com-
pany G.
Pursuant to telegraphic instructions
from Department of the Gulf head-
quarters. Corporal Harry M. Wes tun.
Second United States volunteer infan-
try. will today be sent to Camp Meade
Middleton Pa. to be mustered out
with his regiment.
—The hay wagon stands on Paschal
square yet remain in the old accustom-
ed place. The adjacent parks are
consequently littered with the straw
and fodder.
READ THIS LIST OF ATTRACTIONS.
We have grouped together Toadies' sandals turned soles patent tips
and plain toes: Dongola Oxfords: Southern buttons lace and button shoes.
Misses' shoes and Sandals in all new styles: Boys’
shoes iu all popular to.s and Mens’ satin calf I.ace g f |
or Congress shoes. The styles too numerous to nL I ■ I
mention: we have about 1800 pairs. These offer- I ■■ ■
ings mean vigorous selling: the $1.75. $2 co and Nil I
$2 50 grades all go at per pair ®
10c Fancy Lawns 5c
200 Pieces fancy printed Lawns
new light and dark colorings
Dresden and floral designs:
value ioc Removal Price per
yard
5 cts.
HANDKERCHIEFS.
Ladies White Lawn scal-
loped embroidered hand-
kerchiefs with neat edges
15c value at
8c
RIBBONS
All our 35 40 and 50c rib-
bons in blocks plaids
stripes and fancy designs
every desirable shade or
tint removal price per yd.
21c
Another link in friendship’s golden
chain has severed another of earth’s
true noblemen has exchanged dark-
ness and sorrow of earthly existence
for the glorious and happy sunlight of
God's perfect day. It is said that he
lives twice who lives the first life well;
and if this be true then Frank Jay
Wise lives again. Last Tuesday af-
ternoon he passed away loved and
mourned by all who knew him. The
memory of a good man is a heritage
his life an example to all who knew
him and we cannot recur too often or
dwell too long upon the many noble
traits of character with which he was
endowed. Though a constant suffer-
er for three long yeans no word of
complaint ever passed his Ups. Ever
considerate and thoughtful of others
as gentle as a woman and with a
warm hearted and sympathetic na-
ture. his life of strict purity rigid in-
tegrity and uncullied honor speaks for
itself. He was a devoted and affec-
tionate husband a good citizen and a
true Christian. He was born Decem-
ber 26th 1865 in Tennessee and moved
from there to Arkansas and about ten
years ago came to San Antonio and
entered the employment of the San
Antonio & Aransas Pass Railway com-
pany. He continued therein until a
short time before his death when he
became too weak from his long suff-
ering. to perform the duties of his
nosition which he had so long held
and so faithfully filled. About four
years ago he was married to Kather-
ine Yost eldest daughter of Captain
Geo. W. Yost who has been to him a
faithful patient loving and devoted
wife. Her many friends mourn sin-
cerely with her in her great loss and
will cherish the memory of her de-
parted husband and strive to emulate
his good example. Let his death be
a forcible reminder that such an hour
will come to each of us when we must
feel that mysterious touch which stills
forever all joys all sorrows all strifes
all conflicts all hopes and all earthly
aspirations. The lesson should not be
lost on us and like him. we should pre-
pare ourselves for the future existence
by practicing in our daily lives
“All that's gentle and kind.
All that’s high and refined.
All that's holy in body and noble in
mind.”
A FRIEND
ZOUAVES’ REORGANIZING
At the meeting of the "Old Guard” of
the Zouaves Friday night it was de-
cided to not disband but to hold to-
gether and to only admit new members
on a ballot. MenfUßK who volun-
teered for the war if they desire to
remain in the company must also be
ballotted on as if they were new mem-
bers. Another meeting will be held
Monday night at which sonje new
members will be elected and officers
will also be chosen then.
First Sergeant 'Robert Schmerbeck
will likely get a commission when the
election takes place.
—Mr. I. N. Rothwell and family and
party left yesterdaj- after-
noon for a . visit to the
Eicholz ranch an" the Guadalupe river
near Comfort for a day’s outing.
Mens' soft bosom negligee shirts made of silk
finised shirtings and
Madras cloth light
designs some less
showy and others
plain. The values
run up to $i 50; we
have about 100
dozen to go at our
removal
APRONS
Gingham kitchen aprons
sold everywhere at 15c. re-
moval price 4
9c
PARASOLS
Ladies 26-inch. high grade
tight role Gloria silk para-
sols all new style handles
value $2.00. removal price
99c
FRANK JAY WISE.
50c Crash Skirts 23c
Ladies’ Linen Crash Skirts
fully worth 50c Removal Sale
Price
23 cts. 1
MENS’ NEGLIGEE SHIRTS
WASH PARTS
Boy’s linen crash duck and
letitm pants pearl button
hip pocket and finished
waj?t bands sizes 3 to 13
25c
ANOTHER WELL.
City Brewery Strikes A Fine Flow of
There was great rejoicing about the
City Brewery yesterday afternoon.
Another big artesian water flow was
struck in a new well which was being
sunk with a flow of three and a half
millions gallons per day according to
the test given it.
As soon as the vein was struck a
charge of dynamite was placed into
the hole and the water shot out in a
great volume and has continued ever
since.
The new well was struck within six
feet of the one recently sunk which
itself discharges three million gallons
of water daily.
The two wells now throw out six
and a half gallons daily and the big
brewery has plenty of fine water for
all uses. . **
PEARSALL POINTERS
Pearsall Texas May 27. —The water-
melon situation at this place is look-
ing a little gloomy owing to the dry
weather. Shipments cannot possib-
ly be made before July 10th.
The following teachers have been-
employed to teach the Pearsall High
school the coming term: Professor
E. C. Bohon principal Miss Bass.
Heinrich Loggins and Lyons assis-
tants.
Miss Ollie Culpepper is visiting
friends at Tehausana.
Miss Bessie Pranghlin is visiting.
Miss Umphreys at Marfa. Texas.
Rev. Gillet attended the closing ex*
ercises of the S. A. Female college at
San Antnio and at Georgetown this
week.
Judge Hudson attended district court
at Cotulla during the week.
Miss Lulu Johnson who was recent-
ly called here from Carrizo Springs on
account of illness of her brother re-
turned to that place yesterday.
W. L. Crawford of Dilly was here
during the week. He says they are
needing rain in his section Of the
country.
UNCLAIMED PACKAGES.
List of unclaimed packages at Paci-
fic Express office for the week ending
May 27: • ..
Barrington & Co. Central Drug
Store. Dubinski Electric Co.. Mrs. M
A. Davis. J. H. Dickson. Alf. Dieck-
man. L. Esparza. N. N. Harrison. Mrs.
C. C. Hallaran. Mrs. J. Hobbs. E.
Levy Moke Millinery Co. Vie Nash.
Miss J. D. Burns R. Oliver. Charles
Pamplo. N. C. Robertson. F. B. Ricks.
Rielly Bros. San Antonio Machine &
Supply Co. Shaefer & Braden. Mrs.
Ed. Sweney. O. D. Hormack. M. A.
Carallero. Mrs. J. T. Preutt.
Charles Schmidt. aged 5 months
died at 295 North Walnut street yes-
terday.
Sank Edwards .colored 'aged'3s.
died yesterday aad the remains were
shipped to Day ton. Tex.. by Under-
takers Sloan & Shelley last night.
—Mr. Frank Sommers expects to re-
turn from his trip to Mexico next
Thursday.
White Pique 14c
Good quality White
Pique narrow and med-
ium welts; 75c value; Re-
moval Price 14a
Per yard IxU
LADIES' WAISTS
Colored lawn batiste and
Grenadnie waists plain
front pleated yoke back.
$l.OO waist
59c
Artesian
Water.
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