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8 SAN ANTONIO LIGHT AND GAZETTE Founded January 20. 18*1. Dinhg Dally. Members Associated Press; Sunday Morning. G D. ROBBINS Publisher _ I — TELEPHONE CALLS. Business Office and Circulation Department. both phones.. 176 Editorial Department, both phones *••>» L——■ —■■■ 1 — ■ - ■ TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. By Carrier or Mall. Dallv and Sunday, one year Un advance) Dalle at d Sunday, one month Edition, .me year - w Single Copies. Dally or Sunday * Entered at the Postnffjco at San Antonio. Texas, as ' Second-class Matter. Lae-Vw The S C. Beckwit n Spe i;Ag ' ’. Representatives. New York. Tribune Bldg. CituKo. Tribune Bldg. TO SUBSCRIBERS. It is impoi lent when desiring the address of your paper cl. i g<d to give both obi and new addresses. Should delivery be irregular, please notify the office. Either .telephone 176. PUBLISHER'S NOTICE. Sub: . libers to The TJght and Gazette are requested to pay ntohey to regular authorized collectors only. Do not pay car riers. as errors are sure to result The bight and Gazette is on sale at hotels and news-stands thioughout the United States. HUT imnOFmPAPERIN SAN ANTONIO Let Every Texan Help • 1 ■■■ v VV »«■ ( every city, town and hamlet in this great state. The Texas Industrial congress represents the first intelligent, forceful attempt to weld the diverse and powerful influences of the state into a unit, a battering ram unit, that will sweep obsta cles aside and help to bring the Lone Star state into its own. Big men are hewing the way for the Texas Industrial eon-' gress—men of big affairs and men of big minds —men big enough to work for the good of the whole state, forgetting petty local differences, party and factional desires. The work of the Industrial congress is not designed to help Dallas or San Antonio, or Fort Worth .or Houston, or Galveston or EI Paso, or any other single community, but to bring to TEXAS great industries, develop the resources of TEXAS and 'bring about the upbuilding of TEXAfJ upon broad, well de veloped lines, finding profitable investment for capital, and then bringing that capital in. During the past few years there has been a tremendous 1 activity in the northwest on both sides of the border. The people of these sections have been working as a body, aided by the individual efforts of their local boards of trade, and the results have been astounding, thousands of acres have been opened to actual wealth producing'settlers, mills aud factories have been built, cities and towns have sprung up in the wilderness and there has been a forward movement that has turned the eyes of the nation upon the northwest.} This has been accomplished because ENTIRE STATES have! marshaled their resources and power and worked hard ami intelligently to spread the story of opportunity for the poor man and the rich man alike. No one has accused Texas of failiug to work, but the work in the past has been of an individual aud scattered character and it is the object of the Industrial congress to bring together al) these great forces as one powerful factor for the general goad. In his announcement of the aims of the Industrial congress, Ike T. Pryor, the chairman, says: I As a business man you arc vitally interested in the growth of Texas, in the growth of your own business. You are interested in having the resources of the state known and developed. Von are interested in having its commercial usages unified and in having legislation that will be helpful and not hurtful of the develop ment to the whole state. The Texas Industrial congress is a strictly non-po litical and non-partisan organization, which will effect a combination of the commercial organizations and business organizations, as well as the business men generally, throughout this state, and is destined to be come a powerful factor in the development of Texas. The list of the organization committee comprises rep rehentative business men from all over the state of ; Texas —bankers, newspaper men, merchants, cattle rais ers, farmers, lumbermen and land men. and loyal Tex ans every one of them. It is proposed to hold an annual congress of such representative men of Texas once a year, discuss the situation in this state, listen to papers by experts de scribing its resources and suggesting methods of de velopment, draw resolutions and petitions to be pre sented to the legislature, and. in short, to embody in one organization such careful representation from all sections as may speak for the state as a whole/and voice in authoritative fashion its material needs. That tells the story of the Industrial congress, and it the duty of every business man in this stare to become member and aid the work of the congress with his money a with his brains. Once more Austin has the Colorado dam “cinehed. Th time, like the last, it will be built. The dam is somethii like a few of our railroad propositions—of a perennial ro bnt lying just at the foot of the unattainable rairiho Should that Chicago grand jury return indictments against Ze;en or eight packers, would beef come down? Not. on your pet photograph of a beefsteak. The present agitation has so seared the cattlemen that they have curtailed shipments, and there is a valid excuse for the top prices. \nd when the supply is again normal the back orders will be so heavy flint the valid excuse is again on the job. It would seem that this beef boycott had a way of working backward and playing into the hands of the men who hold the beef of the world in tiic hollow of their palms. At last one of the "goats" in the sugar trust steal i’ aeutcnced to jail. He will join Morse at Atlanta The men higher np are still at liberty nnd other jail doors are yawn ing for more goats. - *— Judge Buekley is the latest active prohibitionist. He has ruled that no man under the. influence of liquor shall run an automobile. From w*bat has been told where gasoline pilots gather fterc are some people in town who are Experts only when thev have a few tucked away. 1-n't such a stand on the judge's part unconstitutional and an interference with one's sacred rights os guaranteed under that document: But maybe a man's motor car is not his castle after all. ■ , q. ■ ♦ — -—-— — The storage men in this latest investigation into the part they piay in the high cost of living heliev that they are getting g cold deal. They think that charge, -boubl be yet on iee FRIDAY. April 19 will see the first meeting of the Texas Indus trial congress. It will be held in San Antonio, and its importance will extend to: Tn the days of Richard I “ ~ J Croker, when Tammany poli- John s Square Meal ticians swain in the fat of and Lack of Work graft, John A. Dooner, the New York superintendent of buildings, had published over his own signature the follow ing menu for what he considered a square meal. • Three dozen large oysters; eight brook trout, boiled; two portions of picked crab meat; one sirloin steak; three portions of cold asparagus; live baked potatoes; one whole hot'mince pit; one quart and a pint of cham pagne. Times have changed in New York. In the mayor s office sits a man of small body and large head, who holds high ideals concerning the responsibility public officials owe to their employers, the people. Mayor Gaynor was looking over the piy rolls the other day and his eye fell upon the name of John A. Dooner. salary *2OOO per year as foreman of city laborers. Perhaps the mayor had read Dooner s square meal menu and had his doubts about the man's ability to do a square day's ’work. Anyhow, he had Dooner investigated, with the immediate result that Croker’s old friend was fired from office “for lack of work." John will now probably have to look around for a commer cial pursuit and he will have plenty of time to make his menu jibe with the pay enterprising business men offer, to loafers. How manv lemons did the Pullman company have to hand the public in order to cut that 120,009,000. melon for its stockholders’ The melon is in shape of new stock which will be obliged to earn more melons. Looks like a sour year for Pullman patrons. As Others View It MURDER, HERE AND ABROAD. Dr. Audrew D. White, one of the most eminent citizens of cur republic, has investigated the subject, and finds that the number of felonious homicides perpetrated in the United States is 129 per annum per million of inhabitants, whereas the number committed per annum per million in Canada is hut three. . a The two peoples are of the same race. Their systems of government arc almost identical in principle, for the idea on both sides of the dividing line is that the people rule we through a congress and they through a parliament. The laws ire the same, having the common law of England for germ. Thr language and literature, the manners and eustome, the sports and amusements,. the religion itself of the two poo pies—all these are the sa»ne. or very nearly the same. Then why should human life be held so dear in Cann la and so cheap in the United States? The answer is that in Canada it is hazardous to wantonly slay a fellow-man, where as in America it is safer to do murder than to steal a horse. It is not exaggeration to say that as we write this several millions of American citizens, in contempt and defiance of the law. and with absolute inrpunity. arc secretly armed and I ready to become children of Cain on the slightest provoca tion, actual or fancied. And why not? The criminal lawyer is too frequently an unscrupulous lawyer, who glories a thousand times more over a verdict of “not guilty’’ than over an approving con science or a stainless repute. He selects the jury to try his dieut. The judge on the criminal bench is too oft chosen for his polities rather than for his abilities or character. ; Around too many court houses are professional jurymen, henchmen of the political boss of that bailiwick, ready to render any verdict, however infamous, if it be popular. Inde.;-.1. we could name a county in a state of the Ohio , valley, a very ; bloody county, where criminal trials some । years ago were as much political affairs as canvasses for i congress or the legislature. It is a shame, a disgrace, a scandal, an infamy; but the : public conscience appears to be callous to the ignominy. The jury law calls for reform. There should be a nonpartisan judiciary in every state, and the people should be aroused to the living truth that the personal security of every one of them depends on the constant observance and the rigid en forcement of the Jaw.—Washington Post. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. A modest man is the rarest work of God. Old age knows a great deal when it is too late to do anything with it. It takes a woman not to cry when she is hurt and to do i it when she isn't. The weather and his liver have the to do with a ' man's point of view. The easiest thing for a young woman and a young man | to fool themselves about is to think they want to get i married.—New York Press. SAN ANTONIO LIGHT AND GAZETTE: THE HALL ROOM BOYSj 9 ALL SORTS i Copyright. 190». by a Post Publishing Co. 1 Hv NEWTON NEWKIRK. ; •Josh Wise Says: “Women primp fer th' same reason that a man unprimps—ter feel comfortable." BY PHONE. The other day a Scranton, Pa., pa tron of the telephone system called up Central and while he was waiting for a busy line, he had nothing better to do. so he sent the girl in the central office to whom he was talking, a cou ple of kisses, over the phone. This gentleman believed the kisses had reached their- destination and thought no more of it, until he was arrested nnd found himself in court, with the young lady to whom he had sent tho kisses as a complainant. The judge asked her if she had received the kisses over the phone and she testi fied that she had. The defeudant ad mitted that he had sent two kisses to her and the judge promptly fined him $5.00 each, for sending two kisses by phone, when they were not asked for and not desired. Take a tip from this and when you give absent treatment in kisses always send -them by wireless and don’t tag them with the name of the shipper. FOR SALE. One first class business horse, perfectly sound nnd fearless, weighs 1050 pounds; can be seen at Shaw’s Stable. E. Tennant, Tel. 159 R 4. ja24-6t. —From an Attleboro (Mass.) paper. There are horses so gentle that a woman or child can drive them, there are horses which are not afraid of the ears and horses that will stand still while an automobile with a siren whis tle going, whisks under their noses, bnt there are only a few “business” horses left. Here is a horse that is strictly onto his job—he has probably taken the correspondence course in stenography, typewriting and general office work and would fill a business position to the satisfaction of the purchaser. SHAME ON YOU. HEN. Dr. 11. W. Wiley, at a pure food hearing in Washington, makes the American hen is in league with the food trusts to increase the cost of liv ing. This is important if true, and if not true it. is a libel on the hen. Dr. Wiley, after careful investiga tion, says he has discovered that the lien of today lays smaller eggs than she used to. He says that a lien can porduce only so much egg substance, and that she lias taken advantage of the fact that small eggs sell for as much per dozen as large ones; there fore instead of laying eggs of gener ous proportions like she used to do, the American hen is now laying twice as many eggs as of yore, but they are mean, little, stingy tightwad eggs with hardly enough white inside the shell to cover the yolk. This is about the last straw. Is there any hope for the future when your own barnyard hens go back on you and begin laying little teehty weenty eggs on the installment pl*u? Post —I'm trying to get a first class chauffeur to run my car. Parker — Can’t you find a good one? Post —No. All the fine ones have made so njueh money that they now own and operate their own machines. —Sunday Maga ; zine. aHSU Ccpjatlit. 1910. by th* Sew Ta* Er«nio< Jouruil fubltihln* Cempuy.r Observant Citizen ••Did you ever, go to bed early in the night in the hope of getting n goo,l Jong sleep and then wake up about t o’clock in the morning and not be able I te go back to sleep again until just a few minutes before the alarm clock - rings at 0 o’clock?’’ asked Observant I Citizen, “Well, I did, and it is an awful ex-i perieiice. The other night I went to | Led about 9 o’clock. Along about 4 I o'clock I found myself awake. I turn ed over and tried to go back to sleep, ■ but just as I was about to doze off' something happened that aroused me again. Along about 5 o’clock I was in a dumber when somebody across the street started to chop kindling for the bieakfast fire. A few moments of quiet followed and I was again dozing off when a heavy wagon passed by. I was determined to get at least a nap be fore daylight, and I guess I had jus. got to sleep when b-r-r-r-ring—off goes the alarm dock and it’s time to get up. “And here I was awake virtually I since 4 o’clock in the morning. I be- । lieve I’ll organize an anti-noise club.“l While Observant Citizen was walking ■ .hrough the Southern Pacific passenger 1 station waiting room this morning, he . ; saw Officer Tony Krause ami Station- t 'master Jack McDevitt escorting three! ' suspicious looking men into the smoking I room of that structure. After they were in the room the officers made a ; search of all three and examined the ' papers found in the pockets of the mpn. • i When questioned as to their motive in ' ; going through the clothing of the men, I*!:; master McDevitt said: 'Geer Ktiause and I are determin ed fii it no thieving will be pulled off at the station and when we see any one ; that fails, to look good to us, why, fa merely hook onto the suspect and iii-.l voice him in the smoking room of the I depot. Tn the invoicing proceedings, we ' look over his papers and if they are ' dear, we let the man go, but if they . are not right, we send him down to the city hall.’’ SAN ANTONIO 21 YEARS AGO (From The Light, Feb. 11. 1889). Callaghan was elected in yesterday's! । election by a majority of 1139 over hist I opponent, French. Callaghan and all his; : ticket got in except .Schreiner and New l comb. Callaghan carried Wards 1,2, 3.! ! 5, 7 anil 8. Only in Wards 4 and (> did , French lead. The returns are as follows: Mayor—Callaghan, 3727; French,, i 2588. ’ Collector—Rische, 3420; Schaefer,! I 2883. Recorder—Devine. 2905; Dwyer, j 2331; Adam. 573. Street, commissioner—Russi, 3307; i Campbell, ' 2923. Aldermen-at-large—Lockwood. 3634;' Wulff, 3220; Fest. 3181; Bolton, 3169:' ■ Schreiner. 3043; Gallagher, 3040; Miller. ' 2941; Story, 2397. Ward aidermen: First ward, Guerguiu, 355; Apple-1 I white, 165; Sqcond ward, Connor, 648;' Smith, 377; Third ward, Weber, 47-5; | ) Peters, 377; Fourth ward, Kalteyer, ‘ 531; Newcomb, 437; Fifth ward. Bod j hauwe, 366; Hoefling, 323; Sixth ward, j ' Rogers, 537; Hamilton, 424; Seventh j ward. Reimann. 343; Runge, 324; 1 ; Eighth ward, Sartor, 226; Ryan, 203. ; Tho saloon of Theo. Ahr, on West । Houston street, was broken into last: night and the cash register relieved of j ! $B. The thief was arrested today by I Officer Jim Stevens and a portion of I 1 tho money recovered. Colonel Brackenridge is home from ' New York. Judge J. B. Polley of Floresville is I at the St. Leonard. Secretary Adae of the Board of I Trade has recovered from bis recent ill- Texas Talk * \ .id, SAVING THE WATER Again we have evidence that the ide,"of storing storm water for ir rigation purposes even in the humid sections of Texas is taking l»ld in the minds of the farmers. Thus tes tifies a dispatch from Waco which we printed the other day: “The success which has attended the mak ing of lakes by building dams across ravines and catching rain water has encouraged further in vestments in the same line, and sev eral McLennan county farmers in tend putting money in similar en terprises during the coining sum mer." The seasons are as certain in McLennan county as they are in anv county in Texas, and yet “suc cess has attended the enterprise" there. And it will in nine out of everv ten counties in Texas. The business of farming is now the most uncertain and hazardous that men engage in, but we verily believe that "energy and enterprise can make it the most certain, and a considerable step toward doing that is taken when men store up enough emergency water at least for the garden and orchard. Galveston News. They do tell that in New Mexico and Arizona the dry farmers save the sweat of their brows and drink mescal to con ! serve the water supply, bnt that mai* be carrying it to extremes. AIN'T IT AWFUL. San Antonio is the victim of an epidemic of vice and crime which is nothing short of appalling. The newspaper reports —and they are far from being full and complete — the past few weeks of the devilry being carried on in this city are enough to cause its law abiding citizens, and. in fact, the whole southwest in general, to shudder at the thought of the possible results. In his charge to the grand jury District Judge Dwyer urged the jury to investigate the matter thor inighly, and said that San Antonio needed wide awake and up-to-date peace officers. We sincerely hope that this outburst of crime in our metropolitan city may speedily be stamped out—Bandera Enterprise. Now is the time, brother, for you to do the “holy horror" business, for when Bandera becomes a city—bnt why look so far into the future? BILIOUS. Ptomaine gets a glimpse of its shadow —and remains out in the open for an unrestrained romp on the public health conservation range. Leastwise, rather than have a formal decision declaring the pure food law unconstitutional attor neys for the state prosecuting, an alleged violation of the law’s pro visions tacked a “Not at home sign on the front door—an.-l jim mied out the back way. And just when Texas was becoming accus tomed to de natured food products! Baek to the shadow of ptomaine and the indigestion tablets. What disappointment, this!—Fort Worth Star Telegram. Take calomel. A tenth grain every lalf hour for ten hours will cure you inless the complaint is ingrown. PESSIMISTIC. That the number of poll tax re ceipts in the state is growing may not mean that the non-citizens who live, here are growing more honest with themselves. It should be re membered that outsiders who have been used to being citizens at homo have been coming to Texas by the 11ainlimd.—Beaumont Enterprise. What's the use of always looking on he dark side of everything? Keep on he sunny side and grin. FEBRUARY 11. 1910. Ijttle Stories STEERAGE MYTHS. > Wo haw heard much hue and cry these days against steerage and third cabin conditions on ocean liners. Steaui- Iship companies have been accused of herding steerage passengers in noisome holds, where revolting, unsanitary con diiions arc said to obtain. They have been accused of crowding thirdcabm* passengers into poorly ventilated rooms —crowding these cells beyond capacity >1 lil rhe inmates were sickened. Truly tlrese are horrible tales. But are they tr'ic? Hearsay is a pleasant companion that invents delectable tales for idle tongaes. Hearsay has not been fair to the steamship lines. It was with a certain morbid curiosity that I set out to ex amine the steerage and third-cabin con 'ditions of one of the most prominent steamship lines. I went there to see 'something unpleasant —and, well, I was unore than agreeably surprised. It was • the Hambiirg-Amerifan line that I vis ited. Certainly, if any of the revolting 'conditions that our friend Hearsay has 'connected with the steamship lines real ly do obtain, they are in nowise eon inected with the boats of the Hamburg i American. In order to fully appreciate •vliat rhe steerage and the third-cabin |mean to those who travel in them, we have to consider just what coiuli Ition oL these people was in the loeali (ties from which they emigrated. i The difference the home life ''of these people and the comforts and i leauhness which they enjoy on ship board is tremendous. When you consi der the cheapness of the trip in the (third cabin, you marvel that the dif ifereuce between eost of travel in tLe (first cab ; n and the third cabin is so (great, for it is well-nigh impossible 'that more money could buy much more i-omt'ort.* The Hamburg-American line [has put America within the reach of lliundreds of thousands of souls who I were living in wretched squalor in En- I rope. Clarence Richard Linder, m Leslie’s. FRESHMAN AT SIXTY-NINE. ( The university at Berkeley has a new 'freshman student, Joshua D. Baker, who Idesires to begin to learn at the insti tution at the age of 69 years. Baker received his entrance slip Monday, and has already started to work in the classroom and laboratory. । He has as his major subject bee r.ais ' ing and keeping, with particular refer ence to the fermentatiou of honey, as 'he believes that he has discovered a way of pickling honey by that method 'Baker, who lives at West Berkeley, while in college, has been successful in !raising bees at Selina, Fresno county. Baker believes that no one is too o'd |to learn, and has told friends that he 'will be able to hold his own with his 'fellow students 40 years younger. When |it comes down to straight book learn ing he declared that his mind was as active as over, and that the younger men bad better look to tbeir laurels. Baker thinks that the experience be has gained through life will give him a Handicap which their book learning cannot overcome. He will spend most of his time m the physiological laboratory and in the building of the department of entomol ogy, where Ralph Benton, the bee ex pert, holds forth.—San Francisco Cal.. Hank Stubbs—They say Jed Mar tin 's closed up his well 'cuz he’s afeared o’ typhoid. Bige Miller—Yaas, .Ted says he’s goin’ to let “well enough alone" ez long ez his eider hoi's cut.—Boston Herald. Blbhbs- The suffragettes believe in the equality of woman, don’t they? Siobbs —Not at all; they believe in the superiority of woman.—Philadelphia Record. Stude (preparing for junior week) — No. I don't want to learn any fancy dances; I want something stable, lik' the two-step. Instructor—How about the barn daneef —Cornell Widow. ,POINTED PARAGRAPHS. If mistakes were crimes, most of : would be in jail. A man never rc । spccts a woman who doesn'.t respect her self. ; You'll never know : what people think of you by wdiat they sav. Most of us are gen : erous to a fault —if . it happens to be a fault—if it happens ( to be a fault of our 1 own. Molehills are foundations »• po n । which real estate ' dealers build uioun : tains. | Men's best deeds jean lie aWUnited to | the influence of wom en: also their worst. All 'flesh is grass. Perhaps that is why a fat person reminds one of a load of bay. She is truly a mis guided woman who drinks in order to share her husband’s loads. Many a woman can't see any good in her own husbaifd or any bad in the busbands of other* women. The girl who jilts । a young man never forgives him if ho I goes away and mar ( ries a handsome girl. । “Why don't old I bachelors marry?” ' asks an exchange. That's easy; the • women they • won't . have them, and the women they could get they don’t want. — C h i cago News