San Antonio Daily Light. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 325, Ed. 1 Monday, December 23, 1895 Page: 6 of 8
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MONDAY DECEMBER 23 ’95
REPRESSION OF CRIME.
|BY LADY COOK NEK TENNESSEE CLAFLIN. |
The criminal classes who render
every form of society hideous in
many of Its aspects would soon
die out and be extinguished were
it not that they are permitted to
breed new swarms of human pests
without the slightest restriction.
No sooner have we incarcerated
the sires in vice after it may be
their long and successful career
than we found cho cons continuing
the war upon our persons and
property. The cost of our prisons
and police forms only a part of the
insurance we have to provide on ac-
count of the savages in our midst
whose hands are against every
man. Those who deviate from
honesty are few indeed compared
to those who make fraud and theft
a life profession ; the former may
be reclaid the latter never because
it is their nature to war upon so-
ciety. Often they are the victims
of heredity and philosophically
considered have then perhaps as
little responsibility for their ac-
tions as the dogs that bite. A
wolf is always a wolf an heriditary
criminal will always commit crime
if he can.
Thefts frauds and outrages up
to murder are not the only evils
they inflict on us. They infect the
whole community with immoral
taint. It is impossible for our
young to peruse in the daily papers
the records of their wickedness
without being worse for it to say
nothing of any stronger influence
they may exercise. Tales of
ravishing robbery and murder are
not edifying literature for youthful
minds. At the best these are
likely to absorb some portion of
the immorality thus infiltrated
through them.
Effectual means however are at
hand to prevent our annual crops
of criminals could we only be per-
suaded to adopt them. The most
potent but least palatable would
be to render them incapable of pro-
pagating. Another is to make
human breeding a science and
education another. At present
they both proceed haphazard
whereas they require profound
study and strict method.
We English are unsurpassed in I
the art of breeding the inferior
animals from a salmon to a short- J
horn from a pigeon to a racehorse.
The method is no secret. All un-
derstand it. Healthy animals only
with the best points and free from
hereditary taint are selected. They
are mated carefully and tne
strains are preserved pure from all
deteriorating blood and damaging
conditions. But in the rearing of
the highest animals these salutary
maxims are ignored and many
men of natural affection and intel-
ligence bestow more pains on the
mating of their dogs than on that
of their daughters. Our work-
houses prisons refuges peniten-
tiaries and lunatic asylums bear
sad witness to these inequitable
laws and customs. Into them are
crowded hosts of unhappy women-
thousands of them mere girls—-
victims without redress of man’s
brutality and heartlessness; and
they wear out their pitiful and
cheerless days to the end too many
of them alas I having been dower-
ed with the fatal gift of beauty-
Usually it is the ardent girl of
generous disposition the least
calculating and the most artless
who is lured to her destruction
Nature is strong in her and af-
fection dominates. Her embraces
go with her heart. If society and
the law could be compassionate to
any they should be tender to her.
But both are implacable. She is
appalled by their unrelenting
severity and in her mad terror is
often impelled to destroy the wit-
ness of her wrong doing. But
even should she sdaro her inno-
cent offspring the law still pursues
him. He cannot inherit except by
will and if he dies intestate the
crown seizes all his property.
Owing to their exclusion from
the higher grades of employment
women of the better classess are
given over to useless and frivolous
pursuits. Drees and fashion
amusements and flirtations main-
ly make up the trivial round of
their occupations and act as bars
to all solid intellectual work. Yet
who can blame these gilded butter-
flies of society for being what their
ethers and’ husbands have made
them? A leading London paper
assures us that “Every year wit-
nessess vast increase in the work-
ing population of England coupled
with a growing decrease in the
amount of labor to be disposed of.”
Thus the ranks of the proletriat
are constantly being swollen and
among them their women have to
endure and to suffer most. Their
maternal instincts are frequently
crushed out of them by their vi-
clous and squallid surroundings.
Thousands of Infants are annually (
overlaid smothered by the
mothers who bore them; and eno
child out of every ten dies before '
the end of Its first year.
The evils enumerated are mon-
strous in an age and country like
ours and calls for immediate re-
dress. There must bo no flinching
from any remedial process how-
ever abhorrent it may be to our
preconceived ideas and prejudices
provided some cure can be effected.
Radical diseases require drestic
ireatment and loathsome ex-
crescences must be removed by an
unsparing use of the knife. To
begin with sex privileges and sex
disqualifications shoul be abolish-
ed and a fair field given to all
alike. Let each be permitted to
be and to do whatever he or she is
able. Boys ond girls should be
educated alike and should com-
pete with each other in studies
and sports. What is good for boys
is good for girls. Mothers should
encourage entire confidence be-
tween their daughters and them-
selves aud carefully instruct them
in regard to all that concerns their
future. Nothing should be left to
chance or to prudent instructors.
The mother is the fittest teacher
of her daughter. How many girls
would have been spared miserable
lives had they been blessed with
sensible mothers? Women should
have the same right to propose to
men as men have to women. It
is the mother who for weary
months will bear her child beneath
her heart and for years will nurse
it in her bosom. Will she desire
an idiot a drunkard a weakling?
No. She longs for a man-child
one who will be tender and wise
and valiant. Woman is a hero-
worshipper and dec ires to produce
heroes. Her Instincts are true
and she will select the bravest and
best of men for her husband. If
left to nature the fittest would
survive. But as things are the
unworthiest increase most rapid-
ly. The ignorant and the im-
provident give the reins to their
passions and threaten to over-
whelm us with the "multiplication
of the unfit.” Even those weighed
down with hereditary or contract-
ed maladies do not stint them-
selves. They marry and are given
in marriage. The prudent and the
wise exercise restraint. If it be
true that labor does not increase
in proportion to the increase of
population legislative measures
will have to be adopted to prevent
the marriage of the unfit. What
has been done from motives of
religion from luxury or choice
may perchance be done again
from necessity. Criminals heredi-
tary paupers profligates and
others afflicted with gross bodily
or mental defects should not be
allowed to marry. Then our pris-
ons workhouses and asylums
would at no great distance of time
be empty. Our Lock Hospitals
would be swept away. Prostitu-
tion would become a forgotten
calling. Pauperism would cease.
Disease would be almost unknown.
Our race would be raised to the
highest pitch of perfection and
excellence. The people who shall
first have the moral courage to do
this will take the lead among the
nations of the world.
Profoundly imbued with this
optimistic creed we gladly seo the
old year die and hopefully wel-
come in the new. The throes of
new births are around us. The air
is full of whispered agonies. The
hearts of men are beginning to
beat in harmony with the pul-
sations of time. There are there-
fore great possibilities in the near
future. Courage my sisters! The
hour of woman’s freedom draws
nigh.
—Geo. W. Jenkins editor of the
Santa Maria “Times” Cal. in
speaking of the various ailments
of children said: “When my chil-
dren have croup there is only one
patent medicine that I ever use
and that is Chamberlain’s Cough
Remedy. It possesses some medi-
cal properties that relieve the little
sufferers Immediately. It is in
mo opinion the best cough medi-
cine in the market.” If this reme-
dy is freely given as soon as the
croupy cough appears It will pre-
vent the attack. It is also an ideal
remedy for whooping cough. There
is no danger in giving it to chil-
dren as it contains nothing injuri-
ous. For sale by F. Kalteyer Chas.
Campbell and James Clavin drug-
gists San Antonio Texas. t
$lO 00 PER MONTH.
New pianos in fancy cases on
monthly payments of $lO.OO at
Thos. Goggan & Bros. 12 18 tf.
PICTURE FRAMING
The finest line and best work at B.
C. Riely’s 120 Com. St 115 tf
Take Your Wife
one of those handsome Pozzoxi Puff Boxes.
They are given free with each box of powder.
Notice of Filing Final Account.
THE STATE OF TEXAS I
County of Bexar. f
County Court In Matter of Probate—To
January Term 1896.
The State of Texas to all persons Inter-
ested In the administration of the estate
of John L. Keller deceased. Otto Staffel
administrator of the estate of John L.
Keller deceased has filed his final ac-
count In the County Court of Bexar
County which will be acted on at the
January term A. D. 1896 of said Court at
the Court House thereof in the City of San
Antonio after this notice shall have been
duly published for twenty (20) days in
feme newspaper published In Bexar
County Texas at which time all persons
interested in said estate may appear and
make objections thereto if they see
proper.
Witness Thad W. Smith. Clerk of the
County Court of Bexar County
[l. s ] and Seal of said Court at my
office in San Antonio this 19th
day of December A. D. 1895.
Issued same day.
Thad W. Smith
Clerk County Court Bexar County.
By K C. Symington Deputy.
Came to hand December 19th 1895 at
11:30 p. m. and publication of the above
Citation ordered made in the San An-
tonio Dally Light.
John P. Campbell
Sheriff Bexar County.
By M. F. Campbell Deputy. 12 21 20t
Notice of Filing Final Account.
THE STATE OF TEXAS 1
County of Bexar. )
County Court In Matters of Probate—
To January Term. 1896.
The State of Texas to all persons inter-
ested In the administration of the estate
of August Dierken deceased.
Anton Adam administrator of the
estate of August Dierken. deceased has
filed his final account in the County Court
of Bexar County which will be acted on
at the January term A. D. 1896 of said
Court at the courthouse thereof in the
City of San Antonio after this notice
shall have been duly published for twenty
(20) days in some newspaper published in
Bexar County Texas at which time all
persons interested in said estate may ap-
pear and make objections thereto if they
see proper.
Witness Thad. W. Smith Clerk of the
County Court of Bexar County
[l. s.] and Seal of said court at my
office In San Antonio this 19th
day of December A. D. 1895.
Issued same day.
Thab. W. Smith
Clerk County Court Bexar County.
By R. C. Symington Deputy.
Came to hand December 19tb 1895 at
11:30 o'clock a. m. and publication of
above citation ordered made in the San
Antonio Daily Light.
Jno. P. Campbell
Sheriff Bexar County.
By M. F. Campbell Deputy.
12-21 20t
Notice of Filing Final Account.
THE STATE OF TEXAS I
County of Bexar. f
County Court in Matters of Probate—To
January term 1896.
The State of Texas to all persons inter-
ested in the administration of the estate
of Maria S. Salinas deceased. Antonio
D. Flores administrator of the estate of
MariaS. Salinas deceased has filed his
final account in the County Court of Bexar
County which will be acted on at the
January term A. D. 1896 of said court
at the courthouse thereof In the city of
San Antonio after this notice shall have
been duly published for twenty (20) days
in some newspaper published in Bexar
County. Texas at which time all persons
interested in said estate may appear and
make objections thereto if they see
proper.
Witness Thad. W. Smith Clerk of
the County Court of Bexar
[l. s.] County and seal of said court
at my office in San Antonio
this 19th day of December A.
D. 1895.
Issued same day.
Thad. W. Smith.
Clerk County Court Bexar County.
By R. C. Symington Deputy.
Came to hand December 19th 1895 at
11:30 o’clock a. m. and publication of
above citation ordered made in the San
Antonio Daily Light.
John P. Campbell
Sheriff Bexar County.
By M. F. Campbell. Deputy. 12 21 20t
TO CONTRACTORS.
Sealed proposals will be received
by the city clerk and opened by the
undersigned at 12 o’clock noon on
December 28th 1895:
For laying 24-incb pipes and ap-
purtenances on Main avenue and
Main plaza for the purpose of car-
rying the waters of the San Pedro
ditch in accordance with plans and
specifications to be seen in the office
of the city engineer.
A deposit of $lOO will be required
deposited with each bid as a guar-
antee that bidder if successful will
enter into contract and give such
bond as may bo required by the
Mayor within five days after notice
that his bid has been accepted
otherwise the deposit to become
forfeited to the city.
The City of San Antonio reserves
the right to reject any 7 or all blds.
Henry Elmendorf
Attest: Mayor.
E. R. Norton Citv Clerk.
l2 21 IQt
A PLEASANT FAMILY RESORT.
Scholz’ Palm Garden. Music
Wednesday Saturday and Sunday
nights. Fine Saloon Restaurant
and Billiard Parlors attached. Po-
lite attention. 4 20 tf
SETTLES IT.
Once in our stores and your
Xmas questions vanish like a mist.
And the prices—that’s a matter
will settle when you call—Come
and try us.
12 21 4t Kypfer & Seng.
Cigar Mads is the GRAND REPUBLIC
HAVANA FILLED.
Recognizing the growing demand for the BEST NICKEL CIGAR. The fallow-
ing is a partial list ef enterprising dealers of this city who handle GRAND
REPUBLIC CIGARS. A fresh supply always on hand.
Charles Abee Paul Broggi F. G. Burge Mrs. F. Brenner A. J. Burg-
er & Bro. B. M. Booker A. Battaglia G. Battaglia California Coffee
House James Clavin J. C. Carl & Sons Henry Callaway F. De Conn*
ick Otto Ewart D. Fernandez John Fest H Glass Gorrell & Kargin
C. Glnble John Kenny Charles Klaus P. H. Langsdorf Little Red
Grocery J. & E. Lamm Zizik & Chapman. Paul Maureaux T. B.
Mumme Charles Mueller R. Maurer F. A. Newton Ed Powdewills &
Co Nick Peters Charles Peper John Pfeiffer J. Pozzi C. Runge J.
A. Subira Paul Sauer L. Spahn F. Suchy & Co. C. A. Salter
L- Stachelhausen Seidel Bros Frank Talerico Chas. Voeste A. Wood*
yard C. M. Mole ken A. Woeltz C. Weber.
E. SEIDENBERG STIEFEL&CO
NEW YORK MANUFACTURERS.
A. B. FRANK CO. Sole Distributors- 4.947
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
OF RELIABLE SAiFaNTONIO FIRMS
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
Hardware Agricultural ImplementsEtc
Elmendorf & Co. 619-621 West Commerce St.
Druggists—Retail.
Kaltbyeh F. & Son n. s. Military Plaza.
Trunks and Valises.
Vogler h. J.. &Co.. 202 West Commerce St.
Furniture Dealers.
Cbaig & Williams. 204 206208 East Houston
street.
Karotkin Max. 105-107 West Houston St.
Furniture Movers.
S. A. Mov. & Storage Co 215 N. Flores. Tel. 847
Breweries.
San Antonio Brewing Association.
Lone Star Brewing Company.
Insurance.
Campbell & Conbov Gross Bank Building.
Lumber and Planing Mills.
Deoener A Karbb Dawson and Chestnut sts.
Hotels.
Mahncke Houston street corner St. Mary’s.
Funeral Directors and Embalmers.
McCormick & Co. 220 St. Mary street.
Saloons.
Billy Shehan 820 West Commerce street.
Stoves Hardware Etc.
Heusinger. A. 406 south side Military Plaza.
IPines and Liquors
Schrader Bros. 203 Alamo plaza.
Store and Saloon Fixtures.
Wagner & McVicar 218 East Houston street.
Umbrella Manufacturing.
Maffi P. G. No. 223 Losoya street.
Transfer Lines.
Merchants’Transfer Co.(lncorporated) 107
North Flores St. Telephone No. 359.
Paints and Seed.
8 L Huth iton No. 502 Market street.
Plumbing and Gas Fitting.
Hbninoer J P 732 W Commerce street.
Guns and Ammunition.
Cortines. Victor H 311 W Commerce street.
Hardware.
Krakaveh Zork & Moye. 114-16 W Cem. St.
Leather and Shoe Findings.
F. W. Stone No. 11l North Flores Streit.
E. Hertzberg
l a Htf Optician'
Cheap for Cash—Four-horse power
steam engine and six-horse power boiler
almost new. Must sell to make room for
larger power. Address this office. 2 19tf
Ice Cold Beer fresh always on tap at
the Crystal Saloon 407 Main plaza tf
Half Price: $450 will buy a brand new
pony cylinder press size 19x21; speed 2500
per hour. Cost price $938. A splen'dd in-
vestment for a joboffice doing blank work
book work or circulars. Address “T. B.
J.” Light office. 1120 it
K. P. Endowment Life
Safe and cheap insurance for
members only.
T. B. Johnson Secretary.
FREE COLUMN
In the Sunday Morning Light
Persons wanting situations as clerks la
borers or other employment are Invited to
use our Sunday morning issue free of charge
space allowed twelve to fifteen words: copy
to be banded In not later than Saturday even-
ing 8 o'clock. Notices of Lost Wants Found.
For Sale etc. charged at rate of one cent a
word. Other business notices in this column
25 cents for three lines each Insertion.
CRAIG & WILLIAMS
Wholesale and Retail
Dealers in
Furniture
Mattings Stoves Baby Carriages Etc.
Prompt Atter tlon to Mail Orders form out-
side points. Quotations lurnishel
on arplkatiom
201-206-208 East Houston Street.
Tel- 533- San Antonio Tex.
PAPER HANGING
And interior decorating a specialty
11 5 tf B. C. Riely.
M. Herweck
— dealer in —
PAINTB AND OILS
Blatt aii Will Pipit-
Agent for Geo. W. PltHa • Ort ■■■ PW
ml Harrison Bros. • Ort MMB Bau
■reining uti Painting a sbmW.
No. iia Alamo Plata.
JOHN A. O’CONNOR
Attormj it Liv.
Room 85 Kampmann Building.
AU baitnMS entrusted to him win be prompt
ly attended to. Collections end foam made
W. Q. WAGNER
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Fmk But. Mitton Port Susigi (
ETC. ETC.
MahxßTP Cor. Leal and Baa Marco
Streets.
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Mun an Bast Commerce street ew-
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ments in nart payment for a high grade Acme
bicycle wnieh we send them on approval No
work done until the bicycle arrives and proves
satisfactory.
Young Ladies °^uuio'terms? ° |
If boys or girls apply they must bo weU recom-
mended. Write for particulars
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More new songs more new pretty
instrumental music than any other
place in the city.
Something New Every Day!
Come down and seethe very latest;
also get a catalogue of our 10 cent
music containing over 5000 vocal
and instrumental pieces. Popular
Mexican j music etc. save
money
M. J- HEWITTS
IOIW Commerce StruL
AUTHORIZED COLLECTORS.
The following named are the only au
thorlzed collectors of the Light:
W. T. Schumacher
H. C.Schumacher
Fred Small.
Dan Hatton
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