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Preliminary Remarks on
Currency Reform
about high explosives. He moves carefully and he refrains
from picking up any black lumps in the factory, to carry
home, thinking they may be coal.
When we travel through the high explosives factory of
currency reform wc must imitate the caution of the stranger.
We must remember many will tell us the unfamiliar lumps
they will exhibit for our inspection are good fuel. They will |
urge us to take them home and keep ourselves warm. . I
They say a central bank will provide a more elastic cur
rency system, and a more elastic currency system will pre
vent panics. Everybody, of course, wishes panics could
he made impossible, but other nations possessing central
hanks and elastic currency systems are mote familiar with
industrial adversity than is the United States. V
Elasticity has the property of contraction as well as of
pansion. A central bank, controlling the flexibility of cur
rency, might be able to contract the supply at will, aug
menting interest charges to the detriment of everybody.
America’ wants nn currency system that will place in the
hands of financiers the power to regulate prosperity Amer
ica wants its currency diffused, not concentrated.
If Mr. Aidrich desires to attract friendly attention to the
central bank proposal. he must prove two things: (1) The
complete separation of polities from the new currency sys
tem; (2) the elimination of any jßissibility that Wall street
may be able use the bank to control the people's money.
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And n** old Eli Yale with a bid for the limelight. Dr.
Charles* Foster Kent of the Yale divinity school declared
yesflwtday that Isaiah, Ezekiel and Jeremiah were muckrakers
-wn that the old testament stories are myths. Of the Garden
of Eden he has little to say except that it was a niee little
story to tell a simple-minded guileless people. Wonder wha|
will happen to Dr. Charles Foster Kent.
There seems to be a determined little bunch of knockers
working overtime on the fair this year. It may be said
without qualification and without fear of contradiction that
the International fair this year is absolutely the best that
has ever been held. Better and larger exhibits in everv line,
better fireworks, better side shows, better attractions and bet
ter automobile races, and better looking grounds. If we only
have better attendance it will be the crowning achievement
of years. Don’t let the knocker influence you. Boost for the
fair.
Crowds started fairward early today and at noon there was
every prospect of a banner dav.
And now Peary has got to defend himself against the
Sons of the American Revolution for placing the words
•'north pole’’ across the face of the American flag, used in
the Hudson Fulton celebration. No wonder Peary wants to
settle in some quiet spot and find surcease from the troubles
of a weary world.
Ballmger promises to make the ehips fly in Washington.
ISA* 01 ”* t 0 ‘“-I" ,h * hSrk ° ff Pißchot ’ chicf and
skm Mr. Glavis. This see-ns to be the open season for mu-k-
intel Carnegie hero medals raises an
” S R f ° f 50 reespieDt9 ’ B 0 ’oss than
more he T How does it happen! Are Ohioans
“ * “7 tI” men ° f who get only three
medaM Is hfe ln the “Buckeye State” more strenuous,
Tel I ® P fc POrtumt,eß for of daring, than life in
th. T”"' Colorado ’ Pennsylvania, or anv other of
he 46 members of the Union! Or is Ohio's pre-eminence
in awards of cash and credit for valor due to her sons' re
nowned dexterity in wooing all sorts of positions! Who
can teiiT
Starvation for the
Tammany Tiger
~ ' “ ’-The mayor has the bulk
of the administrative control of the city under his undi
vided power of appointment. This, however, is not regarded
as in any sense even a partial victory for Tammanv Hall.
• , ™” any went outside the rank’ of the faithful’and nom
.mated for, mayor a man who has been for years a powerful
opponent of the Tammany kind of politics. Tammany ex
pected nothing from Mr. Gaynor, but planned to feed its
followers from the minor offices. It is the old atorv of a
respectable figurehead who ean stand the limelight, backed
up by a ticket which the politicians arrange to suit them
•elves, because there is no limelight there
It has been suggested that the eity charter be changed
so as to make most of these minor offices appointive, while
the members of the board of estimate, which holds the
financial power of the eity, be elected in rotation for longer
terms, so that each member of the administration will go
before the people practically alone, as the head of his ticket
This would logically produce an administration made up cn
tirely of these “figureheads.” Such a government, even
if it originated in Tammany Hall, would be far above the
present standards.
The people control the conspicuous offices. If politics can
be so.arranged that none but conspicuous officials shall be
•lected, public opinion will bo in complete control
tHURSDAY,
When a nation begins to
reform Its currency, it in
like a stranger inspecting a
high explosive! factory. The
stranger doesn't know much
Tammany has elected its
mayor in New York and lost
all the rest of its ticket to
the fusion forces.
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Cannon Sets
the Writing
— —— — caemtea from the map
de|H»it them In the place to which he once consigned them
in the midst of n sulphurous speech, He charges that there
it n conspiracy on toot is which the so-ea)le<l insurgents are
leaden to deteat every republican who voted for revision
upward as exemplified by the Payne Aldrich bill, and that
these same insurgents are working with W. J. Bryan to this
end. Mr. tlinnou >s tiring broadsides, grape and eannister,
and is not Stopping to swab ont between shots. He is like
the drowning man who tries to throttle the chap who Is
1 trying to yank him ashore, only there seems to be no hero
on the scene yanking Mr. Cannon to solid ground.
The fact is. Cannon sees his finish, and sees it writ large.
He feels that the throne is getting rickety and is about to
be upholatered with n new s|*aker, and that the mighty
Joe, sage of Banville, is likely to be known quite soon as
“exH|>eaker Cannon, who was at one time.” ete.
Mr Cannon is trying in bin sneering wav to make the
country believe that there are only five upright republicans
in the party; in other words, that the insurgents number
but one more than six. But he does not fool tho people, who
are alive to the fact that there is a great and growing
chasm in the republican ranks into which Uncle Joe is
likely to disappear at an early date.
“The president's well wishers,” says the Indianapolis
News, “and he has many of them, including the News, ought
to tell him the truth, and tell it plainly. It is perfectly
elear that whatever mav be the fate of Cannon and Aldrich, 1
the system for whieh they stand is rapidly passing away in
this country. These men belong to another civilization.
They do not represent the people, but only themselves and
the interests. No man who has any of the spirit of progress
in him ran fail to see that thia is so. Cannon and Aldrich
may survive for a time as publie men, but their ideas and
methods are even now passing away.’’
fie careful how you drink corn “liekcr.” San Antonio
doctors, in-session yesterday, advise those not hunting for
pellagra in order to get a day off, to cut it out. Looks like
we are getting so restricted in our articles of diet that pretty
soon we'll have to live on microbe killer as a steady diet
There's bugs in everything these days.
As Others View It
BETTER PARENTS NEEDED.
Failures of the body's nervous machinery, or neuroses, as
the Medical Record phrases it, are on the increase in every
civilized community. Indeed, sneh failure seems to be in
separable from the advance of civilization. As life increases
in complexity and the stress of keeping up with the proces
sion grows, the old system of bodily regulation and control
fails at various points before nature has a chance to brace
it up by the needed structural modifications.
That our nerves and brains as well our bones and mus-
cles and teeth and hair are undergoing evolutionary modifies
tion is manifest. But the process in the former tissues seems
to involve more profound changes than elsewhere in the
1 body. Its results are therefore more striking and its path-
I ology more serious. The increase of nervous instability and
I nervous breakdowns in children is one of the serious prob
lems with the modern physician and educator are
called upon to deal.
A discussion of this important subject took place at the
recent meeting of the British Medical association. Those
peculiar infantile neuroses beginning very early in life,
faulty deglutition, and defective respiration were explained
as due to defective functioning of degenerate nerve centers.
And attention was drawn to the fact that emotional, .per
vous children are those in which moral perversions most
commonly occur and in which the true psychoses usually de
velop. The ideal thing is of course to prevent these ner
vous degeneracies and dry up at the source the long stream
of suffering and crime which springs from them. This is
more of an economic and social than a medieal problem. It
calls for better housing, better feeding, better environment,
and, above all, better parents.— New York Press.
CIGARETTES AND BUSINESS.
The recent drastic action against the cigarette in the
western states is very significant, and.the reason therefor is
well worth the careful consideration of every young man
who has an ambition to do something and make something
in life worth while.
The states of Michigan, Minnesota. Wisconsin. Indiana,
Illinois, Tows, Missouri and Nebraska have all passed rigid
laws prohibiting the manufacture or sale of what are aptly
termed “coffin nails” within their borders.
These drastic laws are passed solely for business reasons.
Employers have found it utterly useless to forbid cigarette
smoking by their employes, as in spite of the prohibition
the victims of the pernicious habit persisted in its indul
gence'in secret and felt that they were at liberty to do so
as much as they pleased on their own time.
That, of course, was their right, and, not being a crime,
could not be forbidden or punished by law. Moral reasons
and preachments did not weigh. But in order to obtain
competent and reliable help employes found it necessary to
do something to put a stop to cigarette smoking, and their
combined influence resulted in the passage of the laws.
Binghampton Republican.
INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL USE?
Young woman customer —I’d like some rice, please. You
have different qualities, haven’t you!
Grocer—Yes, miss—wedding or pudding!—Boston Tran
script.
IN THE WRONG SHOP.
Lady—l yyiuld like you to paint my portrait with mv
hat on.
Painter—Good gracious, madam, you’ll have to go to a
landscape painter for that. —Meggendorfer Blaetter.
Pointed Paragraphs
A woman is known by the company she has sometimes.
Ten to one it’s your own fault if luck is against you.
Much so-called originality is merely undetected imitation.
He's a mean man who will snore in church and keep others
awake. •'
If a man is both bad and worthless there isn’t much hope
for him.
Any one can make predictions, but few ean make them
stay predicted.—Chicago News. ,
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
Theories can stand most any test except an application of
them.
The reason a man doesn’t believe he snores is because his
wife makes so much fuss about it.
A man seems to have an idea he Ims coal bills because
he is a victim of persecution by personal enemies.
When a girl is angry because a man wants to kiss her it’s
a sign she could be astounded if he didn't want to.
i What a woman hates about, the telephone is how her huR-
I band ean tell her over it that he has to work late in the
’ office without her being able to see .how he looks as if. he
j were stealing sheep.—New York Prase.
SAN ANTONIO LIGHT AND GAZBTTB
Speaker Cannon has reach
•d the hair tearing, tummi
and blustering stage. He l
going to gently remove hi
Ctirmira th* mnii Mtn
Little Bobbie's Pa.
BY WILLIAM F. KIRK.
rite n ntory about it. I rote my stnry
quick, beokaua it wssent u long or hard
story to rite. Thin ia nil I rote:
The tbotiaandn looked upward with a
gasp. There was M whir of white wings
4 the wundrus craft vanished into tha
f»g.
Do you think that story ia a goo I
| storyf ned 1 doant sec why thny
I shud kick, sr<l Pu. wen I git paid by
the word. I nin not a money grabber,
I'n aad, like Bwann Tumbo, which also
gits paid by the word. I dident describe
the hat that I wore, or the overcoat I
just got out of hock. Wat in the mat
ter with my story! sod Pa.
Yu sec. si*l Pa, to begin with, I am
not a ary plane feend. It may be that
a ary-plane is a grate thing, but ton
much depends on circumstances. All
Inst week, except one (1) day, the we
ther was fine, but Minter Wright used
to wet his finger & hold it trp in the
•ky. He did that every day last week,
wile countless thousands from Maramo
neck & Portland. Maine & Cohasset
i looked & waited & watched in vain,
tha. Mister Wright wud say, the way
I the wind blows around the wet wart
on my second finger indicates that there
is a big wind- up on Broadway, A the i
way my eyes water shows that the 1
breeze around the Flatiron building is
flight to-day. Back to’ the shed.
That is why T am not so keen for
the ary-plnnes, sed Pa. You see. Pa ]
sed, that if ary-planes is ever going to
carry passengers from place to place,
they must find sum way to disregard
the wind. Good hevinga, Pa sed, if ।
they are going to be at the mercy of
the wind, what chanst wild a ary-plane
have taking paaxengers around Chicago!
Siippoas a num wanted to go from Chi
cago to Now York to sec the Cubs git
ling chased <>nt of the pennant race by
the Giants. & siippoas tharc was jest
time to catch the ary-plane. A the man
wich runs the ary plane shud sniff the j
breeze A say. The breeze from the stock
yards cleerly indicates that we had bet
ter go A sec the Boston Nashunel Leeg
team.
But I think it is wunderful, Ma se<l,
the way Mister Wright’s ary-plano
dipped A rose A curved in majestic
circles.
That is nothing, sed Pa. A house fly
can do that, A a house fly isent afrade
to take a chanst. Did you ewer watch
one (1) of them deer littel inseeks start
from the bald island on mv lied & sail
eleer to the other end of the tabel, cir
cling the sugar bowl & returning safe
1v to said island?
T think it is a shaim the way yon
talk about a hero, sed Ma.
No wonder you think so. sod Pa. You
A Mister Wilbur Wright ought to be
crate friends beckaus both of you are
high fliers.
THE DIARY OF A LOVER
By Wex Jones.
Sic that a New York girl is bring
ing suit ngairNt a man fnr $“000 dam
ages for breach of promise. Man says
he promised to marry girl nn condition
that she would learn to cook. Adds that
she didn't learn to cook, so he refuses
•to become her mea] ticket for life.
That is the proper idea. I shall marry
only a girl who can cook well. Love
thrives on light, biscuits, to say noth
ing of pie.
Called on Ethel today. She is a fine,
healthy-looking girl, and if appearances
go for anything she must be able to
turn out appetizing and nutritious dish
es. Enquired about this, but find thnt
Ethol's mother does all the cooking.
Asked Ethel if sho could learn to love
me. Said she could try. Asked her if
she could learn to cook like her moth
er. Said she could. Wont ont and bought
her a largo diamond ring.
Went to dinner nt 'Ethel’s last night.
The soup was divine. T felt my heart
throb with affection for the artist that
turned out such a triumph. Told Ethei
so afterward, hut it seems her mother
made the soup. Felt very much de
pressed. Love flits away like Wilbur
Wright, when the leist chill -comes.
Ethel telephoned' me today that she
had made a large cherry pic. Told her
over the ’phone that I felt Hire I was
madly in love with ker and that I would
bo over at dinner time.
Sent Ethel some roses this morning.
In return she sent me a box of beauti
fully preserved dill pickles. Again I
felt my heart beat faster under the
gently influence of Cupid. As I con
sumed the pieklcs I felt that I could
no longer live without my adorable
Ethel,
Went to call on Ethel and was tell
ing her in passionate language how I
had adored her dill pickles, and was
proceedihg to ask her to name the day,
when my eye fell upon a small piece
of paper on the floor.
It was a bill from a delicatessen store
and was for 25 cents worth of dill
pieklcs.
My heart almost stopped beating, but
in some way or another I managed to
stammer out an excuse and to with
draw from the room.
Oh, the falsity of woman. To molt
my heart with dill pickles that came
from a stranger's factory—some huge
place, probably, where pickles without
anuL am turned out by the thousands a
Aji that V PR
emi say wen **
caiiu uuaui Inal
mgm *m
venial ” Wal i»
the matter write
yu, aed Mu. Wat
is so maivclusf *
wal is the icesox
that yure hoam
cuuimtug wax »v
long dclayi d I
1 was walcbing
Mia t c r Wilbur
Wright fly in hie
ary-planc, »ed l’a.
The city editor
tuald me to go A
Observant Citizen
She was a niftily dressed little miss
who wore a winning smile and a heav
ily hanging chignon.
“Five,” she called sweetly as she
entered the elevator in the Gibbs build
ing and backed coyly against the steel
grill work.
“Five,” she called again as the el
evator shot upward.
The ear stopped at the fifth floor and
the attendant slid the door back.
“Fifth floor,” he said.
Two men stepped back to give a
clear exit, but the girl remained stand
ing against the side of the car, appar
ently bent on adjusting a stray lock
of hair before leaving.
“Five,” called the elevator man
again, this time with a show of irrita
tion.
Still no move on the part of the girl.
“Didn’t you want the fifth floor!”
he asked.
“Yes. sir.” She actually blushed as
she answered.
“Well, this is it.' - Aren’t you going
to got off!”
“Please, sir,” she stammered, still
fussing with her hair, “my rat’s fast
on this iron thing. I can’t get away.”
A San Antonio minister, frequently
called out of the eity, had always ar
ranged for some one to stay with his
wife and little girl during his ab
sences. A few weeks ago, however, he
was called away so suddenly that he
had no opportunity to provide a guard
ian.
The wife was very brave during the
early evening, but after dark had
fallen her courage began to fail. Slio
stayed up with her little girt till there
was no excuse for staying longer, and
then took her upstairs to bed.
“Now go to sleep, dearie,” she said.
“Don’t be w*iaid. God will protect
vou. ’ ’
“Yes. mother,” answered the little
girl, “that’ll be all right tonight, but
next time let’s make better arrange
ments.”
second, by machines and operators that
are equally heartless.
Met Ernestine today. She is a small,
fluffy, golden-haired girl. I feel
strangely drawn to her. Wonder if she
can cook?
Called on Ernestine today and had a
very jolly time. Meant to ask her to
submit samples of her cooking, but for
got all about it.
Called on Ernestine several times.
Begin to understand the meaning of
the word “pippin.”
Ernestine and I are to be married I
tomorrow. Suddenly remembered to ask j
her about cooking.
Said she hated it; that- it. made her ;
face red hanging over a stove. Also '
said we would have to live in a hoard- I
ing house.
Told her I couldn’t think of swrh a
thing.
* * * We are living in a board j
ing house.
Noodles, the Novelist.
—
Little Stories
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THE SWEET TOOTH VINDICATED.
Sweetness is to the taste what beauty
is to the eye, affirms Dr. Woods Hutch
inson—Nature's stamp of approval and
vindication of wholesomeness. Sugar,
says this authority, is one of the most
universal flavors of foodstuffs known.
One-half of our real foods taste swee*
or sweetish —that is, they contain sugar
in sonic form. About one-third taste
salty; not more than one-tenth taste
cither bitter or sour. The experience of
millions of years, reaching far beyond
even our arboreal ancestors, has taught
us beyond possibility of forgetting that,
while there are hundreds of things that
taste salty which have no food value
and scores of things that taste bitter
that not only have no food value, but
are even poisonous; and thousands of
things, like leaves and sawdust and
cocoanut matting, which have no food
value at all until advertised as break
fast foods, there are comparatively few
things that taste sweet which are not
real food. A very few of these sweet
tasting things, while real foods, are al
so poisonous, but these we soon learn
to detect and beware of,—Current Lit
erature.
TOOK HIM FOR A GHOBT.
Some year.ago Frapk A. Munsey hir
ed a private secretary. Speaker Reed
dropped in to call on Mr. Munsey, who
was an old friend of his. The secretary
said that Mr. Munsey was engaged.
“All right,” said Reed. “I'M wait.”
At the end of half an hour Munsey’s
door opened and the publisher appear
ed, showing his ealler out.
Seeing the speaker he grasped his
hand and dragged him into his office.
An hour later when Reed had gone, Mr.
Munsey called his secretary.
“Look here, Block,” he said, “whit
do you mean by letting Speaker Reed
wait unannounced half an hour!”
“Wa-wa-wath that Mr. Reed!”
‘‘lt certainly was.”
‘Why, J thought it wath the Rev. Dr.
•John Hall,” said the secretary.
“Dr, Hall-has been dead two years,”
answered Munsey severely.
‘‘l known it,” replied the secretary
‘‘thath why I though it wath tho very
peculiar. ’ ’ —Success.
SAILOR’S EMBROIDERED MAP.
A. Henry Peterson, of the local office
of the United States shipping commis
sioner's department, has hanging on his
office wall a map of Alaska, which is
something of a curiosity. Like most
sailors of the old school. Peterson is a
handy man with the needle, and in the
spare time at his disposal it took him
ten months to make the map. It is all
of silk embroidery, and nearly five
hundred ykeins of silk thread were used
in its manufacture. The different divi
sions of country are done in different
colored .silks, and ail the names are
worked in. The map is complete in de
tail.—Seattle Post Intelligencer.
NOVEMBER 11, ItM.
Texa/ Talk
Dairy products, including con
deused tnilk and cheese, arc advanc
ing all over the country. Prices
of hay, grains and all feed stuffs
are high and tend to rise. It is
impossible to supply the demand
even at the increased prices. Farm
land in an irrigated country is one
of the soundest investments any
man can make at this time. It will
never be worth less and its value
will almost certainly multiply
many times within the next few
years.—El Paso Herald.
If it keeps on we'll have to have
cows that produce the milk ready con
densed. The present method entails
waste.
' MAY BE OTHER WAY.
Anyway the penitentiary inves
tigation in going to detract a good
deal from the prohibition issue' In
the campaign next summer.—r Au
stin Tribune.
There are some who Helieve and
hope that the prohibition issue will
smother the penitentiary issues.
SAN ANTONIO 21 YEARS AGO.
(From The Light Nov. 11, 1888.)
Bob Purdy, a Han Antonio boy. but
now of Dallas, is in the city to ses
the faiV.
Col. Leigh Chalmers, examiner of the
department of justice, Washington, D.
C., is stopping in San Antonio.
The San Antonio fair will open to
morrow. Everything is in readiness
Bnd the exposition will be in full blast «
the first day.
The commercial representatives will
celebrate their day at the fair with *
great street parade.
J. T. Boyle, chief clerk in the Sap
freight office, will leave in a few days
for Laredo.
Mr. Collins ran his steamboat on ths ,
river yesterday for the benefit of the J
public.
Martin Rilling gave a party last
night in honor of having attained hi*
majority.
T. P. McCall, elected sheriff at the
recent election, will qualify Saturday
morning. ,
The ladies’ last leap year ball of th*
season will take place next Saturday
night at the Casino hall.
NEARLY THE SAME.
“So he said I was a polished gentl»
man, did he!”
“Well, yes; it was the same thing. 1
suppose.’*
“Ah! Wiat were the exact words!”
low ” ’"'d y ° U " s,i I’P* r - v
THE GAS BILL WENT DOWN.
“ I 'nustn't see you any more.” she said
So p a declared tonight.”
The youthful swain, to strict obediene*
bred,
Straightway put out the light. _