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The Light and Gazette te on sale at hotels and news-stands throughout the United States. m (IRCIMH Cf MY PAPER III SM MUOIMI Just a Joke ■ .—. . — j ( was getting under way in |good shape. It was really in a fair way of being the fun niest thing that’s happened since T. Boosevelt departed for bongos and the new administration roiled up its sleeves, grasped its “driver” and called “Fore!” We refer to that little expedition sent down to Nicaragua to show us that the white house could still start something in the strenuous line and that its operations weren't to be confined to ’possum dinners with Arehie Butts. No, sir! This is a dignified administration, but it's firm and determined to uphold the sacred rights of dead Ameri ' Cans! / It might be mentioned in passing that Nicaragua wasn't peleeted for its part. It merely happened to be the first “goat” that offered itself. So. after several exciting skirmishes with a mud bank, *way went our expedition to Nicaragua. Aha, just like old times! Very strenuous and rough and bluff and gruff and stuff — But to return. So away went our expedition to beat up Kelaya. the Central American disturber. It now looks as though there'd be no chance for the ma lines and bluejackets to finish the program by sternly chas tising Zelaya or anyone else. The revolutionists have already attended to the whole thing. So the administration has got to let the exhibition of strenuosity rest on the merits of that skirmish with the mud bank. IIow annoying to have a good joke on the public fail to work! Maybe Archie Butts will think up another some day When it’s too stormy for golf and he and the administration have nothing to do. * For a baldheaded man. Secretary Knox is singularly prone to indulge in hair pullings with other nations. But then, having no hair to lose may account for his choice of weap ons. $ Lots of fistic encounters attended the campaign in England. Borne excited electors think the way to overthrow the house of lords is with a push in the face. Who’s Being Investigated Anyway? 1 fight’s getting past thej’we I beg to state stage,” and is now nearing the shorter and uglier phase. Anyway, we now know the real inside of that promised! congressional investigation of Ballinger’s office. Ballinger’s press agent bureau— But, wait. Maybe we’d better explain what Ballinger's press agent bureau is. It’s an institution composed of news paper men. big and little, who arc connected with publica tions controlled or influenced by the big money interests — the Rockefellers, Weyerhaeusers, Morgans, Hills, Harrimans. Guggenheims, etc. All these interests are trying to keep Bal linger in office. It is the part of the press agent bureau to i send out from Washington and print in the various papers friendly to the “interests” news ( ?) that is favorable to Ballinger or articles that are attacks on I’inehot. Now. maybe you had an idea when that congressional in- 1 kestigation was announced that at last we were going to; pet a square deal and that the government really was on. the job to look into those ugly charges against Ballinger. ! Not so. Not any more so than we —the people—got a square Real in the way ibe Cunningham coal cases were brought into I a legal investigation. Here is the latest from the Ballinger press agent bureau to prove it: Of course, that investigation is for the purpose of determining these things: 1. Is there any truth in the charges made, at the instigation of Mr. Pinchot’s bureau, and exaggerated and expanded by his journalistic friends, against the conduct of the department of the interior and of the general land office! 2. Is it true that these charges were made be cause the forest bureau had determined to run Sec retary Ballinger out of the administration because he would not submit to the dictation of Pinchot? 3. Is it true that, in order to give the charges the color of truth. Pinchot's bureau spent government Money in assisting in filching letters and records that In the publication thereof, their meaning, distorted by innuendo, another department of the government might be brought under suspicion? Does that sound like au investigation of Ballinger? Or does it sound like an investigation of one Gifford Pinchot and an attempt to furnish an excuse for firing him* What? During a cold wave it is much warmer at a height of 200(1 feet than at the earth’s surface, the weather experts hav< learned. Well, the skyscrapers are gradually being built uj to where steam heat won’t be needed. w- ■ — * — — .1 - Indiana man was forgotten in jail for 104 days. The only bright view of this blunder is that he hnd plenty of unin terrupted time for literary pursuits —that is if he was a tru« Indianian. The greatest joke perpe trated on an unsuspecting public in some years begins to look like a fizzle, just as , Well, it’s out. It's in plain words, too. No diplomatic language. Just cold English. Guess the Conservation of Dignity " may have been a brave, sue cessful knight in the matter of conservation of public do : mains, but he surely was punching large, ragged-edged holes ' in the conservation of Taftian dignity. In a choice between I the two sorts of conservation, - no one could expect Bill Taft to see anything else. Dignity got a solar plexus blow in the selection of a cabi ' net of second class corporation attorneys for the carrying out of Roosevelt policies. Dignity’s teeth were punched out when, at public expense, the president "swung around the circle” apologizing for the Aldrich infamies. Dignity got blaek eyes when a petty department officer had to be dis-! charged to save'Ballinger’s scalp. Dignity was mauled from! toes to topknot when Morgan and a half dozen railroad mag nates were called in to help fix up presidential ideas as to the governmental regulation of railroads. Dignity, disfigured, mutilated, befouled, surely required some conservation, and there being a conflict between public interests and the necessity for honor among thieVes of the public interests, Pinchot was beheaded. Pinehot was to| blame. How could presidential dignity be conserved with a । fearless patriot everlastingly putting tar in the department whitewash? How could discipline be preserved, as Taft well ! says, with honest subordinates passing Taft and his corpora tion cabinet by and squealing to congress—the nation —about government protection of corporation thieves? Your appeal to congress, says Taft to Pinehot, was insub ordination to my cabinet friend who is on trial, and a blow; to my dignity before I could get my lime, water, alum-and salt mixed; and out you go lest there be infection through out the departments and others tell what they know to the public before they let me know what they know. Get out! Pinchot gets, and Taft dignity comes up fat, smiling and comforting—only over in the house, without the acquiescence of which coal lands can’t be stolen and trusts run the nation altogether, Brother Joe Cannon's dignity seems to be need ing conservation pretty considerably. Oklahoma is to vote on woman's suffrage. Oklahoma so far hasn't failed to tackle any subject, no matter how chary the effete east may be of it. They're trying to drive Pinchot to the high timbers he has been trying so strenuously to protest. As Others View If AN ENIEmEBTING EXPERIMENT, A partv of Americans returned from Argentina bring a ; comic tale of how that republic makes the punishment lit the ' crime of anarchism. Following the assassination of Colonel Faison, chief of police at Buenos Ayres last month 4000; persons suspected of being anarchist sympathizers were exiled within a few days, 100 of the more violent agitators; being sent to Argentina's penal colony in Patagonia and ordered to Jive there according to their own ideas of what society should be. This, if true, ought to be a most interesting experiment. | Let the outside world keep hands off, and ten, twenty, or 1 thirty vears hereafter let an expedition be dispatched to the anarchist colony in Patagonia to see what has happened. One guess would be, if any of the party survive, that there will be found a remarkable conversion to the belief in some sys tem of suppressing individualism and differentiating between license and liberty that might is right, and the survival of the strongest in bruin or brawn, will be found embodied in some form of agreement or law by which the assertion of the supremacy of the individual is subordinated to the superior interests of the community as a whole. —Pittsburg Dispatch. PER CAPITA WEALTH. In 1S50 the wealth of the United States was $7,000,000,000, or about $307 to the person. In 1904 these figures had in creased respectively to $107,000,000,000 and $1310. Or in other words, the per capita wealth is over four times greater than it was 50 years ago. But it is not possible that, content ment has increased a particle. This is because the more one has the more he wants to have. Possessions increase one’s desire. But there is another consideration that renders useless this explanation. It is quite probable that a great propor tion of this increase from $7,000,000,000 to $107,000,000,000 has got into the hands of a few, and while the average might figure up $1310, the actual possessions may not have changed j much from what they were in 1850. They have no doubt increased some, but the millionaires and multimillionaires have increased faster. The increase of wealth in the hands of a few is not a sign of health and hope.—Ohio State Jour nal. SAN ANTONIO LIGHT AND GAZETTE In behalf of his dignity. Taft tired Pinchot. It was bold policy. Moreover, it was a necessity. Pinchot the: hall room ALL SORTS Copyright, 1*0$, by Post Publishing Co, W NEWTON NBWKUK. h Wise says: “People who can't keep up with th’ high cost o’ livin’ are begin nin’ ter think there's somethin' in th’ simple life after all.” “I MET A MAN ” Last Junetime I met a niau who had just bought a home in the suburbs. He backed me into an alley and he said: “Aw, me boy, you will never know what living is until you own your own j home on the outskirts of town—a de ! lightful 15 minutes’ walk through beau- I tifully shaded streets to my little sub urban villa, which nests among the trees —a 10-foot piazza on three sides of the house —large expanse of lawn— southern exposure—open air sleeping । baleony—swell plumbing, steam heat, ' hot and cold folding doors, laundry chute, billiard room in the attic, and all modern conveniences. I tel] you it is great to sit on the piazza smoking perfectos while the birds sing in the trees and the little squirrels hop, skip and jump over the lawn. 1 wish every man could own his own home in the suburbs.” Yesterday I met him again and said: “Well, how is the suburban villa at the end of the line?” He told me to go where the mercury) never gets any nearer to zero than lf>7 ( in the shade. He said: “If we can live through the winter, wo will sell the villa, move baek into town and rent a 2 by 4 apartment with I a kitchen-nit. Night before last I didn’t sleep a wink —T was up all night holding a hot water bottle against the water pipes and in spite of this, the pipes froze in my hands. I have burn ed a ton of coal in the last five days and it is so cold I am obliged to wear my fur coat in the house. T have not been sleeping on the open air baleony. Th<- wife and children and muh for the congested flat.” In November I met a man who since the recent summer had been taking a daily cold bath. He said: “Nothing can equal the tonic effect j of n cold dip all winter. Cook and । Peary have nothing on me. Will I keep it up al] winter? Surest thing yo.1 know—I have gained 15 pounds and foe] finer than silk. Nothing can keep me out of the ice water.” w Yesterday I met him again. Tie had on an overcoat, with hot soapstones in each pocket, Arctic overshoes and fur cap that came clear down to his ears— I asked him how the surf was, but he would not discuss it —-he switched the subject to polities and speculated upon who will be the next governor of Texas. T insisted on knowing if the tonic ef fect of winter Lathing had proved all he claimed for it. hut he shivered and asked me to step around the corner to the nearest exhilarating plant and have a hot toddy on him. Cool weather acts as a deterrent in keeping resolutions-—a cold snap changes a man’s view point tremen dously. The chap who swears he can't got along without a cold bath every morning in July finds that he can omit a cool bath when the temperature is close to freezing and suffer no ’ll ef fects from the omission. He gives the cold bath absent treatment —he fills the bath tub half full of cold water, sticks his finger into it. shivers a few times, pulls the plug, then jumps into his underwear. Tn December I met a man who had contracted the habit of wearing no overcoat. He argued with me half an hour in an effort to convince mo that the overcoat habit is a foolish one be cause, as he explained, it made one Observant Citizen ‘lode Mam’s idea of retrenchment eems to have struck the money order s-partment of the San Antonio postof i,e pretty hard,” said the Observant citizen. “Yesterday 1 had occasion to send a money order. I went into the little corner of the federal building where the department is located and af ter groping around in the dark manag ed to ascertain that no application blanks were on the desks where they are supposed to be. There was a chan delier ot electric lights in the room but I guess the retrenchment idea had the current shut off. I stood around for about half an hour and finally got up to the window and asked the clerk for a blank application. Great shades of extravagance! Bhe actually handed tne out two of them. I finally did get the M. O. and got away but the retrench ment jioliey cost me a lot of faith in I’ncle Samuel, a half hour’s time and a jot of wondbr as to the great cost of those little blank application slips which are guarded so carefully.” “That there should be a different law to govern the whites and the blacks,” said the Observant Citizen, “was never more illustrated than at a recent trial in the county court. I happened to be there when a darky was on trial: This darky had been charged with “assault with intend to do bodily harm.” “Jim,” said the court, “you are here charged with assault with intent to do bodily harm.” “.ledge. I ain’t done nothin’-l;.k dat,” said the.negro. “Nothing like what?” asked the court. “Dat bod’ly harm. I ain’t done dat.” “Well, tell the jury what you did do.” said the court. “Well, jedge, h’it was dis way: We been down by the I. & G. N. deppo— me and a couple other niggers—rollin’ de bones. Up comes Will Johnsin, him runnin’ on Pullman cars ’tween here an' Mexico. I’se jest about t’ make a pass, an’ dis nigger says: ‘Shoot you fer a dime.’ ‘Put your money down,’ says I. He th’ows down a dime an’ I th’ows a seven. ‘iuy money,’ says I. ‘Shoot you for 20 says he. ‘Cover dis,’ says I, laying down two dimes. He puts down a piece of money an’ I th’ows a ’leben. ‘My money,’ says I. ‘All right,’ saj’s he, ‘I'm broke.’ Den I takes up dat las’ piece of money he puts down an,’ Jedge, h’it was a Mexi can 20 cents. Dat dime of his was Mexican, too. I hollers to him to give me good money, but he laffs at me. Den we had a little mixup, but I ain’t done no such thing like bod’ly harm.” “Tell the jury what you did to him,” commanded the court. “Well, jedge, when dat nigger ’fused t’ gimme good coin I jes bus’ hint over de haid wit a plank.” more susceptible to colds, pneumonia and grippe. I met him again. He had on two sweaters and an overcoat, and he told me frankly and without shame that he would take chances on colds, pneumonia and grippe rather than go about slowly freezing to death on his feet. Resolutions made when the mercury is 60 above, are subject to amendment when it roosts at 38. A REALISTIC ENDING. The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year. Of wailing winds and naked woods, and meadows brown and sore. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit’s tread. ; The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrub the jay Tells: “Hi, there! You confound ed city fellers! Ef you think you kin go cavortin’ all over my farm arter j game thout sayin’ nothin’ to me about it. you've got another think coinin’, by ; beck! Now. you hike, er I’ll stick a । load o’ bird shot into y’! Git!” — Puck. Texas Talk OH, YOU JOHNNY. If certain harbors in Texas do not get an appropriation in Ithe present congress for their improve ment, it will not be the fault of Congressman John Garner from this district, who has been doing much able work to. accomplish this much needed work. —Laredo Times. John Garner js always on the job. He may not be the greatest dress-suit after-dinner speaker, but he accom plishes works. BUSTS. i — John Barrett has been decorated by the government of \ enezuela with the Order of the Bust of Oli ver. Mr. Barrett should not grow chesty. Thousands of Texans have been decorated with the Bust of Schlitz, the Bust of Tipperary and the Bust of Anheuser. Barrett is not the only decorated pebble on the newspaper beach. — Dallas Times-Herald. And the bust of Taft whiskey, which is the worst bust of all. SOFT JOB. The Texas farmer, seated on his 16-cent cotton bale and surround ed by his $9 hogs, his- high-priced turkeys, chickens and eggs, watch es with a great deal of compla cence the war being waged by Jaek Frost against the boll weevil and other insects.—Houston Chron icle. Pretty soft, being a farmer these days, but —summer's coming. LAYING. Eggs are 5 cents apiece from cackle to consumer —not via Wall street, as the price would indicate. The hen is doing something for the prosperity of Texas. Can dema gogues make as good showing?— Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Yes, they are laying for the consumer" more consistently than the hen ever did and at a higher price. SAN AMO 21 YEARS AGO (From the Light, Jan. 12, 1889.) J. K. Kruttschnitt, an official of the Southern Pacific Railway company, .s in the citv. An attempt was made last night to burglarize the home of Mr. Deweese on Goliad street. The intruders were discovered and frightened away. The German Lady Benevolent asso ciation, which was organized ten years ago by Dr. Hadra and the late Dr. John Herff. had its annual election of officers last night and the following were chosen for the new year: Presi dent. Mrs. Charles Degen; first vice president, Mrs. B. Staffel; second vice president, Mrs. C. Storbeck; treasurer, Mrs. K. Nentwig; secretary, Miss C. Bossy. There will be some quarter racing at the old fair grounds this afternoon. The Fredericksburg-Llano railroad committee is in the city. The commit tee is composed of Messrs. Miller of Llano and Vanderstucken and Pricss of Fredericksburg. G. H. Carr has gone to San Luis Po tosi to erect a crushing mill for the Santa Rosa mines. NOT ALL GUILTY. “Move inside, gents,” cried the con ductor on the crowded trolley. “Ye're breakin’ the rules standin’ on the plat form here.” “Some o’ them ain’t, piped up a lit tle man. “They’re standin' on my feet.” —Catholic Standard and Times. JANUARY 13, 1910. Little Stories ANCIENT HINDU TEMPLE. The Boroboedoer unearthed by Sir Stamford Raffles when the English ruled in Java was built by the Hin dus in the eighth century, and is by far the finest example of their work in the island. Standing on a hill in the mid dle of the valley, this imposing edi fice, covering nearly ten acres, rises to a height of upward of 100 feet above the summit of the hill. It consists of a series of stone ter races built on top of each other in diminishing magnitude so as to leave circumscribing galleries and crowned 4 by a vast cupola; entrance to the gal leries is gained by four stairways—• north, south, east and west —which run from the ground straight up to the Mg top terraces, in the middle of whi.-h stands the erowning cupola, surround ed by numerous smaller latticework ? cupolas, and front which one nmy step aside into any of the intermediate galleries. The whole is built of stone, showing an immense amount of carving, and though there is no genuine inside to the temple, many of the galleries arc covered in. innumerable images of Buddalt occupying niches or prominent positions on the walls, and the side’ of the galleries were paved with bas reliefs, indicating the glorification of this god and other incidents in his history. When cue considers that them are several miles of bas-reliefs alone, the work expended on the pyramids of Egypt pales into insignificance before this stupendous undertaking.—Shan ghai Mercury. RATS IN ENGLAND. The presenca of eats on the French office staff, writes a correspondent, might have led to trouble in the old days, when it is quite possible that a detachment of rats formed part of the army. An old military dlstionary tells us that rats were sometimes used in war for the purpose of firing pow der magazines by means of lighted matches tied to their tails. We can not offhaud recall any historical in stance of this, but presumably it did occur, seeing that Marshal Vauban laid down special rules fer counteracting it. Anyhow, the dodge is as old as Samp son, who, you may recall, used foxes in a similar way for a somewhat simi lar purpose. As to that royal rat catcher, we may add that he had a special official liv ery. According to Pennant's “Brit ish Zoology.” it consisted of a scarlet costume, embroidered with yellow worsted, in which were figures of mice destroying wheat sheaves. By the way, rats were not the only animals honored with a special catcher. Leicester, for instance, used to pay a yearly salary of 1 pound 11 shilling 6 pence to its municipal mole catcher. —London Chronicle. THE NEW JERUSALEM. The first memorial which strikes the eyes of a traveler when he arrives sit Jerusalem, says a French visitor who has recently returned V 1 Paris, is the new church of the Germans on Mount Zion. It is built on land given by Abdul Hamid to the German emperor. Its architecture and vast proportions arc admired by all who see the building. The church will be served by German Benedictines, and it is to be consecrated next year, it is said, in the presence of Prince Ethel, representing the kaiser. After ward the prince will take part in the opening of tho sanitarium, also Ger man. which is near by. At the other extremity of the town near the Da mascus gate. German buildings ann increasing. The hospice and ho«tel rv arc finished. An orphanage, witji chapel, is in contemplation. This wijll be under the charge of the Lazarisns of Cologne, whose funds have cou+rill uted millions of marks for charitablk purposes in the Holy Land. Tn shorl, it is Germany which holds the st* - premaey in Jerusalem and that sm premac-,' is not hidden. — Londoto Globe. ‘ ] QUAKER MEDITA-1 TIONS. Of course a woman shoujd share ner troubles with her husband. It helps him to forget his. Blobbs— ‘ ‘ Clothes don’t make the wom an. either.” Slobbs —‘ 4 No, on the stage it seems to be quite the reverse.” GLOBE SIGHTS. Everybody wants a little more than you are willing to give. Attending to your own business is about the most effective method of reform. The average man seems to think it les sens his dignity* to admit the most com mon fact. When a little girl docs not care for the boys, ever notice how proud her moth er is of her? When we are final ly sent to the insane, asylum, either air ships or the Panama canal will be respoto sible. At a coming meet ing of the Lancaster Literary society, Daysey Mayme Ap pleton wifi talk on “The Microbes in My Powder ” As her powder rag always looks like tho rag that is used to wipe the piano logs, her paper.is bound to be interesting.—At chison Globa