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LARGEST CIRCULATION OF
ANY PAPER IN SAN ANTONIO
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1911.
DANGER IN DELAY
The conclusion held by many
deputies of the Mexican Congress
that a postponement of the presi
dential election would only make
matters worse in the republic is
correct, to say the least. Friends
of Mexico will welcome this as
the best bit of news which for
some time has come to them. They
now feel assured that in the re
public south of the Rio Grande
there is at least one quarter in
which reason reigns supreme.
Why the Reyistas petitioned
congress to postpone the election
is so plain that a man, deaf, dumb
and blind, would have no diffi
culty in locating the bug under
the chip. Opportunities were
sought. Just what these were is
hard to determine at this range.
At any rate their purpose can be
gauged easily enough. By pro
tracting the state of anarchy
which now reigns in Mexico it
was hoped to create conditions
which would favor the ascendency
to power of General Reyes. The
action of the Reyistas represents
nothing more than a clever and
pernicious political ruse.
That a postponement of the
election would have made it pos
sible to promote the cause of good
government in Mexico is out of
the question. Political animosity
would have grown more acute
with each day; lawlessness would
have been fostered by every de
ferred hour. If, as the Reyistas
have argued, it is difficult to get
a fair election today, three months
from now it would have been im
possible to get one. Probably
none would have been needed by
that time. A party that will go
to the extreme to which the Rey
istas have already gone would not
be troubled by the formality
which the election of the president
now involves. A coup d’etat and
a military dictatorship would have
been the logical conclusion of the
Reyista program.
General Reyes and his adher
ents should be content with sub
mitting their case to the people of
Mexico. If the majority of them
decide that Bernardo Reyes is the
man they want, Madero, no
doubt will have good sense
enough to see that he is not
wanted. The least which Reyes
can do is to put himself into a
similar frame of mind.
The claim made by the Reyistas
that Madero is not the man who
would make a good president is
rather premature and unimpor
tant at its best. That Madero is
not strong enough to re-establish
MONDAY,
order in the republic i* founded
on theory only. While some of
Madero’s policies arc probably too
far advanced for the Mexico of
today, die very fact that they find
favor with the social stratum
which usually fills the ranks of
insurgent forces, is ample cause
for the assumption that he will
make a good executive by merely
restoring this element to its nor
mal mental level. Under the cir
cumstances the man who will
make the best president in Mex
ico is he who will succeed in once
more restoring peace in the coun
try; all else sinks to second place.
Upon peace alone the welfare of
the republic is founded.
Latin-American politicians must
sooner or later recognize that
candidacy for an office docs not
constitute its possession or a right
to election. They could do no
better than follow in this the ex
ample of the United States. If
the defeated candidates in this
country wanted to start a revolu
tion every time the majority re
jects them things would be in a
pretty pickle. There is at least
one thing which the namc-blown
in-thc-bottlc patriot of Mexico can
learn north of the Rio Grande;
the lesson that peace and prosper
ity result from falling into step
with those who thought they
knew better but were outvoted.
The first defeated presidential
candidate of Mexico who will send
his successful opponent a tele
gram of congratulation and then
go about his business should have
a monument a 'mile high. His
name will go down in history as
the first really great man pro
duced by the Latin-American race.
ECHO ANSWERS: “WHY?”
Why does a boy hate to go to
school ?”
Ask of the faun, the nymph, the
satyr, the elf, the maenad, the bac
chante, the bassarid, the bandar
log or any other wild jungle thing
that wades or swims or walks or
creeps or flies. There be some
wise professional souls who as
sure us that the boy is a savage—
with potentialities. The evidence
is all against them. The poets are
against them. What mournful
bard was it who bewailed the fact
that he was farther off from
Heaven “than when he was a
boy?” The average boy, smudgy
little ruffian, as he appears to the
calloused passerby, is too near
Heaven to take kindly to work,
and work was never yet part of
any racial dream of Paradise. The
Scandinavian warrior reclines in
Valhalla and drinks “skoal” from
the skulls of his fallen enemies,
the fierce Mohammedan finds
himself after a bloody death
transported to blissful realms sur
rounded by houris and other su
pernal delights. It is all surcease
from toil. Work in the mind of
man was never anything else but
a necessary evil, cessation from
the same ever the crown and sum
of things.
Yet to work we all are doomed
by the primal curse, which some
declare a blessing in disguise, and
angelic Archibald and plain Bill
equally must put their shoulder to
the wheel and banish melancholy
with what grace they may be able
to muster. In spite of it all, how
ever, the boy’s affinity to the skies
cannot be gainsaid. What says
Wordsworth in his mighty ode?
“Our birth Is but a sleep and a for
getting.
The soul that rises In us. our life's
star,
Hath had elsewhere Its setting.
And cotneth from afar.
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness.
But trailing clouds of glory do we
come.
From God, who is our home.
Heaven lies about us in our Infancy.
Shades of the prison-house begin to
close
Upon the growing boy.
But he perceives the light and whence
It flows,
He sees It In his joy.
The youth who further from the east
Must travel still Is nature's priest,
And by the vision splendid
The man at length perceives It die
Is on his way attended.
away
And fade into the light of common
day.”
All of which it uttered in the
fervent hope that the small boy,
reading this, will not be puffed up
with his high descent to the ex
tent of playing “hookey” or scorn
ing the inevitable chores. The
motto of the most royal and most
fortunate boy in all this world, the
Prince of Wales, is “Ich Dien,”
which in plain English means “I
serve.”
Word comes from New York
that the strong financial men of
Wall street are gradually lessen
ing their holdings and preparing
for possible storms. From abroad
stories have come repeatedly that
the French financiers are refusing
to make German loans and that
European bankers generally do
not feel that the outlook is entire-
EUROPEAN UNREST
ly roue-colored. l)*y by day it is
becoming more evident that the
time* are slightly out of joint in
Europe. It i* only a few day*
since the women of France were
parading the highways in a pro
test against the high prices of
food, and there were developed at
that time evidences of serious un
rest in France. Now come the re
ports of food riots in Vienna,
where the cost of many of the
necessaries have become prohibi
tive, and the government has been
importuned in the most vigorous
manner by the people to permit
the importation of meat and oth
er foodstuffs from abroad.
On top of this is the well-known
condition in England where many
thousands of men are unable to
obtain work, and where the gov
ernment, within a month, nar
rowly escaped one of the great
economic crises of its history.
Above all, is the Morocco diffi
culty between France and Ger
many, which, on its face, is not
worth fighting about, but which
may be a pretext for more obscure
reasons for national dissatisfac
tion. It seems incredible that
France and Germany would go to
war for such a thing as Morocco,
but the great war of 1870 between
these two nations was begun for
a cause even less important than
that of Morocco. This was that
the French Emperor demanded of
Germany a promise that no Ger
man prince would ever aspire to
sovereignty in Spain. Germany
declined to make the promise and
war was declared. The underly
ing causes of the strife were real
ly political, and arose from the
determination of Bismarck to
bring about the formation of a
German empire with Prussia as
the dominant factor therein and
to make the King of Prussia the
emperor of Germany. This war
was actually inevitable from the
time that Prussia, after the bat
tles of Mag'enta and Solferino in
formed France that it must ush
Austria no further unless it de
sired to see Prussia taking sides
with Austria. There may be ul
terior political conditions in the
present situation that may cause
trouble, even though the Moroc
co affair is. in itself, not worth
fighting about.
It is past belief that war should
occur between France and Ger
many, but the money markets are
showing unmistakable signs of
apprehension and the financiers
of the world are regarding the
general situation w.i t h serious
eyes. ,
Boston comes forward with the an
nouncement of the discovery of the
aeroplane bug, a five-Inch, six-legged,
bullet-headed Insect which Intelligent
ly directs its flight to resemble a
monoplane. There are many points of
dissimilarity between this creature
and the better known. If somewhat less
Intelligent, six-foot, two-legged, wood
en-headed auto bug.
A visitor to San Marcos complains
that the street sprinklers are suffer
tng from manana half the time. The
gentleman is evidently from the north
and is easily susceptible to misinfor
mation, or he would know that San
Antonio has a full monopoly of all the
manana In Texas.
Mayoress Ella Wilson of Hunnewell,
Kansas, admits that politics Is not a
woman's game, but nobody expects
Carrie Chapman Catt to be con
vinced.
There is one noticeable difference
between those Biblical lions and the
present day trust octopi: Daniel es
caped the lions.
The Houston man who lost his
watch while gazing at Brooks' comet
would not take kindly to any sugges
tion that his business was looking up.
.♦ » -
It is cynical to say so, but those
wonderful machines for picking cot
ton, now on a stock-selling basis in
North Texas, may prove to be even
better adapted for picking suckers.
WALD STREET LEADERS.
From the New York Press.
Practically all the great Wall
street leaders still alive are growing
very old and retiring. Harriman, H.
H. Rogers and Gates are dead, and
James R. Keene is seriously ilk
James R. Keene may recover his
health, but he is 73, and can never
again be really active. Once he was
the greatest of manipulators and
speculators. John D. Rockefeller cel
ebrated his seventy-second birthday a
few weeks ago, and he pays less and
less attention to business every year.
J. P. Morgan is 74. Thomas F. Ryan
was once a great figure in the "sys
tem,” but he Is ill and wholly retired.
His former Philadelphia associates,
Widener, Elkins and the rest of that
reckless traction crew, are old and
broken down by the terrible smash
up of the New York street railways.
Andrew Carnegie, in his seventy
sixth year, will hardly ever attempt to
"come back.” William Rockefeller Is
70; George F. Baker, who, next to
Morgan, is the biggest of them all.
Is 71, and James Stillman, Jacob H.
Schiff and Henry C. Frick are all
more than 60. Perhaps they have
many years of health and physical
and mental activity ahead of them,
but Frick is now more interested in
Frank Hals than in finance, and Still
man and Schiff spend most of their
time abroad.
Dueue, and It* Cure
MENINGITIS.
There are several forma of mentn
gHIs, eome not so serious as othere.
But thia article should be read care
fully. for at the first suspicion of this
dreadful disease a doctor should be
summoned at once. It Ie eaeentlal to
those In charge of children that they
be able to recognlxe the symptoms as
soon as they appear.
The brain and the oplnal eord are
enveloped In tissues called m»ml>r»nM.
The medical term for them Is "men-
Inges”; hence the name of the dis
ease.
When those "meninges" or mem
branes become inflamed, the abnormal
condition Is likely to spread to the en
veloped brain or spinal eord. When
this happen* the case becomes serious
at once.
Cerebral meningitis occurs In people
of al! ages, though most often found In
children. It Is caused by the bacillus
or germ of consumption, and so a rule
thia form of meningitis Is the conse
quence of some other form of con
sumption—of the lungs, for example.
Another form of cerebral meningitis
—cerebral moans of the brain —mani-
fests itself as a complication of small
pox, typhoid fever, scarlatina and oth
er ailments.
A11 cases Of cerebral meningitis are
accompanied by spasms and a fierce
tightening of the muscles of the neck
and back, so that the body Is some
times highly arched as a result
Cerebral meningitis, when not a
complication of other diseases, mani
fests Itself by a period of Ill-health,
peevishness, complete change of dis
position and irritability. Then it sets
In suddenly with convulsions or with
headache vomiting and fever.
There are few recoveries In either
form of cerebral meningitis. Death is
the rule. In both old and young pa
tients.
Epidemic meningitis, also called
spinal meningitis. Is caused by a par
ticular kind of germ. The disease 1s
encountered most frequently in win
ter and spring. Once a case of epi
demic meningitis takes Its hold tn a
community, case after case follows
with alarming rapidity.
The transmitting agent of the germ
Is not known. Some able scientists
deny that it is carried from one to an
other by human beings, as in the case
of typhoid or consumption.
Others declare that the moving
agent is an animal of some sort. Oth
ers again favor the belief that the
germ travels in the water supply or in
the food. Whatever the cause, care
ful isolation and the boiling of all
drinking water for twenty minutes Is a
reasonable and simple safeguard.
It has been stated that a sombre
and depressed state of mind is most
conducive to fatal results, and that for
this reason the mortality rate is great
er among the poor and the ill-pro
vided.
This Is probably true, for diseases
of all kinds are more fatal among
classes that are ill-fed, and therefore,
ill-prepared to resist attack from sick
ness of any kind. In cases of death
from illness, the weaker will always
go first.
When a child displays symptoms of
complete change of character within a
comparatively short time, it woes not
mean always that meningitis Is pres
ent. It may mean that.
If there is any doubt the cheapest
plan is to call in a doctor.
GREEN’S OFFERS OF MARRIAGE.
From the Chicago Record-Herald.
Col. Edward H. R. Green’s quest
of a wife is producing results that
may compeh him to employ a matri
monial secretary. Ho has received
6242 letters from would-be sharers of
the Green millions, though nearly all
assure the colonel that they are indif
ferent to money. A true heart and A
loving husband is what every fem
inine heart craves most, of course,
and Colonel Green has no need of be
coming cynical over such an outpour
ing of offers.
The 1331 letters from foreign coun
tries show how far Colonel Green's
fame has reached, and incidentally re
veal certain national traits. English
ladies assure him that money is no ob
ject; a German girl writes that her
“repute is beyond blemish or re
proach”; a French demoiselle is filled
with admiration for his life as a
colonel and longs to put “a cooling
hand” on his burning brow after the
“scenes of battle.” The colonel’s mil
itary title was won on the bloodless
though perilous fields ot Texas poli
tics, but what difference would that
make?
Cf course, Colonel Green can name
only one girl, and so there must be
many disappointed ones. But while
he refrains from announcing his
choice there will remain hope of in
spiring love for love’s sake only in
many fair bosoms. Now he*sa>s only.
"When I find the right girl I will
marry her if she will have me."
That announcement will be sure to
keep the letter writers busy, but it is
in the right spirit, and we hope the
colonel- will be accepted when he be
comes the wooer instead of the wooed.
Into Water to Escape Rain.
"Why are the hippopotamuses
afraid of getting wet in the rain and
to escape It plunge into the water in
their tank whenever a shower comes
up? 1 have ■never been able to make
that out,” sald’a keeper in the Cen
tral Park menagerie.
"During the recent rainy spell; the
two hippos passed most of the days
in the water, only coming up on the
platform to eat the grass thrown in.
They run from a shower as quickly as
a cat would do. Perhaps the patter
ing rain drops tickle their sensitive
skin to an uncomfortable degree. Or
it may be just an Idiosyncrasy they
could not explain themselves even it
able to talk." —New York Sun.
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Got a Kick Coming.
Some people never hand in an
item of news for publication, but if
we happen to miss an item in which
they are interested they are sure to
hand us a north pole stare that
would freeze the liver of a polar bear.
—Elgin Courier.
fTHE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
Observant Citizen
Take a street car motorman, for ln
■tance. In demonstrating the fact that
no two men perform exactly alike In
executing the same work. While all
■land at the front of the car. handle
the controller, brake and reverse, yet
no two motormen go through the
aeme movements. Some have decid
edly original execution.
One motorman. asy. may have a
custom of allowing hie car,to run on
six or seven points or even on nine to
within a dosen feet of a perenn de
siring to board the car. before he be
gins to apply the brake. Another will
have hla brake partially set and the
throwing off of the power promptly
■tops the car. Another will begin
•lowing down half a block before the
car Is finally brought to a stop.
Rome motormen will be found to be
constantly ringing the gong, othere
will tap It occasionally when under
full speed and others only before a
street crossing Is reached But a case
came under my observation recently
that fnr originality was extremely
humorous.
I was In the first seat In the car. No
•ne was on the front platform and the
motorman. to all appearances, was
sincere In what he did and I l>elleve
unconscious of the Incident. Shortly
after I had boarded the car I heard
the voice of the motormnn. saying,
"Whoa. whoa, whoa.'” The words
were uttered softly but Indicating he
desired the car to stop. He was ap
plying the brake to make a stop for
a person standing at the corner. When
two bells were given, the brake was
released, the power thrown on and the
motorman rather briskly exclaimed,
"Gid ep.” A« the car continued on its
route, the motorman never failed to
his car in stopping and "Gid
ep” Hl starting.
An unearthly scream rent the mid
night air. A woman awoke, fright
ened, from her dreams and plunged
beneath the cover, though the night
was hot and stifling. Across the hall
a man gave vent to an oath, sprang
from his bed and clutched his re
volver.
Again came the weird, horrible
scream and the man clutched his
weapon more firmly and threw up the
window. Again and again the scream
was repeated and the woman under
the bed covering trembled and went
into hysterics while the man at the
window cocked his revolver and the
oaths fell from his Ups thick and
fast.
Bang! Bang! Bang! The shots rang
out loud and clear. The neighbors
came running from the houses and a
sleepy policeman loosened his revolver
in Its scabbard, gripped his club and
sprinted in the direction of the sound
as fast as his weight would permit
Arriving at the scene the officer
found a man clad in his nightie danc
ing like a maniac upon the lawn and
waving a smoking revolver in his
hand:
"I got him.” he yelled. "He has
made my life one long nightmare. I
have been laying for him, and. con
found him, I got him at last.”
“Gimme that gun,” gruffly com-
Poems Worth Preserving
OTBB TMB BtTBB.
By Bassy AssaUa Woodbury Mast.
Two Maaaachuaelts towns claim ths
honor of having produced Nancy Amelia
Woodbury Prloat. who was born In 1334,
In Royulston. though her parents soon
afterwards removed to Wlehendon,
where the poetess spent moel of her
life, and died In 1370. Thin, her beet
known uuein, wee fl ret published In the
Springfield Republican in 1367. and ac
quired an Immediate and wide circula
tion. aa an llluatratloo —according to a
commentator—“of the doctrine of the
aurvlval of the fltteat.” Mlaa Priest, in
1*46. married Lieutenant A. C. Wake
field. Her poems were published the year
after her death.
Over the river they beckon to me.
Loved onee who've croaaod to the far-
ther side:
The gleam of their anowy robea I see.
But their volcea are lost in the dash-
ing Ude.
There's one with ringlets of aunny gold.
And eyea the reflection of heaven'a
own blue;
He crossed in the twilight gray and
cold.
And the pale mist hid him from mor
tal view.
We saw not the amrela who met him
there.
The sates of the city we eould not see;
Over the river, over the river
My brother stands waiting to wel
come me.
Over the river the boatman pule
Carried another, the houaenold pet:
Her brown curls waved in the gentle
gale.
Darling Minnie! I see her yet.
Sho cronsed on her bonom her dimpled
hands.
And fearlessly entered the phantom
bark; „
We felt It glide from the silver
sands.
And ull our sunshine grew strangely
dark;
We know she la aafe on the farther aide.
Where all the ransomed and angels
be;
Over the river, the mystic river.
My childhood's Idol la waiting for me.
For none return from those quiet
shores.
Who cross with the boatman cold and
pale:
We hear the dip of the golden oars.
We catch a sleam of the snowy mH;
And io! they have passed from our
yearning heart;
They cross the stream and are gone
for aye,
We may not sunder the veil apart
That hides from our vision the gates
of day;
W’e only know that their barka no more
May sail with us o'er life's stormy
sea;
Yet somewhere, I know, on the unseen
shore,
They watch, and beckon, and wait for
me.
And I sit and think when the nnset’i
gold
Is flushing river and hill and shore,
I shall one day stand by the water cold
And list for the sound of the boat
man's oar; ■ .
I shall watch for a gleam of the flap
ping sail,
I shall hear the boat aa It gaina the
strand.
I shall pass from sight with the boat
man pale,
To the better shore of the spirit land,
I shall know the loved who have gone
before.
And joyfully sweet will the meeting
be.
When over the river, the peaceful river.
The Angel of Death shall carry me.
manded the officer, "and what does all
this mean?”
”1 killed him,” said the man in the
night clothes. "There he is over there
In the corner of the fence.”
The officer strode over in the direc
tion indicated and with a grunt of dis
gust, kicked the body of the cat out
Into the moonlight
IT WAS ONLY A DREAM
SEPT. 18, 1911.
The Poet PMoBophriH
Copyright. 1*16. hr Ueo Matthaw ]■
1 used to work for Mr. KhM ..
farmer who had lota of rocka. I I fi
my cou <M Li
ENCOURAGEMENT break of
and tolled llm/tll
the dusk waa gray. And whrlMhe
evening meal was o'er I had IMde
chore after chore; I had to teW ■
million eowa. and milk about a nwrion
rows And never once did Mr. Knoi
remark Io me: ’’Well done, old Bol!”
Ha never cheered my dismal dawa by
handing out a word of pralae. Whal
wonder, then, that In my Ire. X Mi
hla house and barn on fire, land
■wiped • wagon-load of atraw, land
carried off hla mother'-law? I Arent
to work for Mr. Deana, and allowed
his corn and hoed hla beanie, and
when I came In from my tmil, all
plastered o'er with aweat and noil, he
always had eome kindly wowfl; he
called me a looloo, peach amd bird.
And so my labor was delight and
though fagged out and night
I trotted blithely out ot dod«ra and
gaily did a million chorea If till em
ployers only knew how much food a
word of pralae will do. tha'aullen
workmen that we see woulM go ta
their little atunts with glee. I
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ASTOR'S SEARCH FOR PARSON.
From the Boaton Poet. /
It waa. of coune, ceirtala' that,
eomewhere, sometime. Jlohn Jacob
Aator would find a person legally
qualified and financially j willing to
unite him In wedlock wits the woman
who has consented to be his second
bride. /
Yet the fact is wholesome that a
number of clergymen declined; and
that the quest had to ko into the
bypaths of the ministry.' It has for
warded a needed sentlnient against
our scandalous laxity in divorces.
To condemn Astor because fie is
rich is unfair. But It -is not unfair
to censure the contempt of law which
he shows in disregarding the court’s
prohibition of his remaJrrlage. Nor »■
It unjust thst the willingness of the
lady to profit by that oontempt should
be criticised.
Society has no greater safeguard
than public opinion! When publia
opinion rises to itss best level there
will be less license} among society’s
conspicuous members.
OUR NATIONAD /
From the Chicago Post. )
There are 20,000,000 Th the
United States.
Within a short time several of them
have married middle-aged men with
fortunes of from $10,000,X00 to 3250,-
000,000. Strike an average and say
that each girl married for $50,000,000.
Multiply that by 20,000,000 and you
open a new and unthought of avenue
of national wealth. If the value of
our girls is added to our national re
sources we need no tariff to provide
national revenue.
The pity Is that our young men can
not bring even a fair price in the
matrimonial market. I
Let us have a commission to figure
some way of getting nioney for them.