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The Light and Gazette is on sale at hotels and news-slands throughout the United States. Brother Taft has effect- D , , .ed a tremendous reform at KciOrmS luit Washington, and we tillers Reform I of soil and drawers of wt ter — back here in the brush who support Washington ought to sit up and take notice. It is the custom in Washington to annually have an army and navy ball. The army and navy people consider these af fairs extraordinarily recherche, fin de siecle, but in the past a lot of the society lions have been sneaking in and using the army and navy dance music, to the mental distress of the army and navy. President Taft put an end to this at the regular shindig last week by using his presidential influence to exclude the society herd and the capital newspajters are giving him columns of favorable comment for the incandescent and soul stirring reform. We give a few excerpts, because the press associations foolishly failed to carry them: The glitter of golden epaulets, the splendor of full dress uniforms, invaded the east room, and the calm democracy of this great chamber made way for the jqorp and pageantry of what might have been Ken.tulles in the full glory of the Napoleonic era. The opalescent chan deliers, the myriad candelabra. tli,e “’ot of reflected color, made the scene one of s’miiSt blinding brilliance. '. • One can almost- fo i the “calm democracy” of that east room, where we cotton and corn raisers used to go to shake the hand of Gr<~.er, making way for a Napoleonic era headed by Bill Taft Says John McLean's paper: It is not in vain that the army and navy reception has gained the reputation of being the most coruseant of the mid-winter events of the white house. It was abundant ly sustained in this pre eminence last night with a dis tinction and grace which never has been surpassed in the annals of the executive mansion. There was a homo geneity in the assemblage —a thorough predominance of army and navy men—which distinguished the event from those which have preceded it. Comparatively few civilians were in attendance. The reception was true to its name, and the military guests were enthusiastic in praise of the president for having effected this reform. We’re for any reform that's “most coruscant,” every time. There's little use in baiting-robber trusts, trying to break the corporation bronchos, and squealing about the aviation of prices, while there’s a single uneoruseanted func tion at Washington that hasn't been cinched up to the very last hole in the social bellyband. And Reformer Taft went farther than exclusion of unwashed democracy. You’d think he’d stop at such a tremendous reformation, wouldn't you! But he didn’t. Listen: “Chaste indeed was the adornment of the mansion."’ ' And having accomplished the task of chastening that man- 1 Bion: In the state dining room another characteristic Taft innovation was carried out. This was the serving of refreshments, including an excellent punch, in accord ance with the plan of the previous events of the sea son. Two reforms, forsooth! Not only punch, but “excellent” punch and seasonable. There's no knowing what is meant by “previous events of the season” in regulating your trips to the bowl of excellent punch, but events have been ptettj considerably numerous in Washington, and putting your dipper into excellent punch under a schedule of just plain Washington events must prove to be ten miles more re formatory, socially, than the old plan of trying to get coruscant on unferinented grape juice. Somehow or other the demagoguery of Jeff Davis, United States senator from Arkansas, does not appeal to the senate as it does to the natives of his own state. Some twenty miles out of Poplar Bluff the “rousing” anti-trust speech of yesterday, when he expressed a willingness t 0 let the Standard Oil pipe line run through Hades rather than through Arkansas, would have evoked wild eheers. And still there are some who wonder why Arkansas is a back number. ♦ Mayor Callaghan's ideas regarding the character of the coliseum, or stadium, that San Antonio ought to build, seem to be extremely sensible. The structure ought to be adapt able to the needs of al) the people and not a building which is capable of service but once or twice a year. The ma jority of the people will uphold the mayor in his determi nation 'o make the new structure fill many needs, and all of them well. ; ♦— It is announced with some show of pride that the pack ers have at last received a hard jolt under the fifth rib. The railroads have increased the rates o u beef products. My, how the trust must squirm. The consumer wil] now get his pot roast much cheaper, will he not? Yes. he will not The lightning has hit Ballinger and he is going to show the public that wTmn he gets to withdrawing land he is ‘.lie best land withdruwer that the nation ever had. In fact, he is going to withdraw so fast and so hard that even the »»abid conservationist will call “enough.” FRIDAY, I When the locomotive was . c cf . , . invented the world remained The Agi ot Might I calm. There was no craze for It’s Here at Last I the new machine. One by l_ - one, as the years went, by, railways adopted the steam horse, and finally the traffic of ; the nations was hauled by steam. But the boom in locomo tives was a slow and sane one. So with the bicycle. The motor ear was slower still. But the flying machine bids fair to burst on the world like a storm. True, some years have passed since the rumors began to be buzzed about that those two silent W right brothers had been seen flying round and round their practice grounds. Some years have passed since Langley perfected his “Theory’ of aerodvnamies,” and was robbed ot his laurel wreath as the conqueror of the air by a niggardly congress and the in ability of the public men of this country to stand ridicule.. Langley's heart has been some years broken, l|ut yet, the swiftness of the development of the flying art lakes one s. । breath away like the swoop of mighty wings. The Wrights. Curtiss, Farman. I’aulhan, Bieriot—the mem ory fails now to recall the full list of those who actually fly i —fly like eagles or condors. It is perfectly’ marvelous to be able to make that state ; ment. No man five years ago would have believed it possi ble. That we can make it calmly shows us to be jaded with; , marvels. We have lost the power of amazement. An association has been formed in Chicago called the Aero! club, with 113 members. They do not mean to study aero dynamics, but to practice a new art. the art for which thei ‘ mind of man has longed since the first human being marked the darting of the bird, the art of flight. They will buy their flying machines in. the open market. . They will hire flying masters and learn the trick. And Chi-, i cago is not the pioneer—she is behind the other great cities iof the world. The air will soon be full of flying men and 1 women. The human mind must adjust itself to a new condi tion. Laws, institutions, modes of life, literature, art, music, the drama, all our multifarious activities called life must ad just themselves to the wonderful new fact that man lias be come a flying animal- And soon in San Antonio will be gathered some of the foremost “men of the air” so that we may see for ourselves the enormous strides made by the conquerors of gravitation. That aviation meet will mark a great event in San Antonio’s history. 4 Secretary Nagle seems to place importance upon the necessity for. and have a high opinion of. the proposed fed eral incorporation law. His chief is not inclined to say much JJiiiwpfospeetivc piece of legislation, leaving i i‘ Jae-a less mighty voice to sound its praises. And yet; some say that the president is not altogether diplomatic. ! He must have been sitting at the knee of Mr. Knox, that arch-diplomat. * The free clinic which rs planned for San Antonio and which has been given such an auspicious beginning, is one of the noblest of charities. It is an institution that this ; city has lung needed and it is to be hoped that the efforts of the people interesting themselves in the project will j meet with the support that is so well deserved. A free j clinic vil] do an untold amount of good and play the Good Samaritan role to hundreds of poor. 'Lot everyone help | when the time comes. —♦ The arrival of another oil well seems to once more point । to the fact that there is a big oil field somewhere near San Antonio, and that it will arrive in due time after, pos- | sibly. many disappointments. As Others View It In the senate a day or two ago Senator Elkins gave this illuminating bit of testimony as to how the Aldrich tariff law was made. The finance committee and its methods were under discussion when Mr. Elkins said: “I never have got anything out of that committee except during the consideration of the tariff, when 1 got a few of the droppings by begging for them Mid by voting for every thing else that was suggested.” In other words. West Virginia got what it wanted by giving Mainland Rhode Island, and other states what they wanted. The republican platform, it will be recalled, promised revision I ased on the difference in the cost of production at home and abroad. As Senator Elkins shows, that wasn’t quite what the country got.—Kansas City Star. « :— SENATOR HEYBURN STANDS ALONE. » Had -i speech like that of Senator Heyburn's been made in the senate twenty years ago there would have been an outburst of indignation through the south, and in the north there would have been sympathy with the speaker on the part of many, sorrow at the reopening of old wounds on til? part of more. The north and south understand ea<di other better now. The outbreaks of demagogues no longer cause pain, onh ridicule. That the loyalty of the south to its “lost cause” involves no loss of loyalty to the union has lm-n abundantly proved. No objection now to the return of confederate battle tings. No objection to the gray uniform on the streets < f Washington. Waving the bloody shirt has gone out of fashion. Hev burn is an anachronism. —Syracuse Post-Standard + WILL COME OUT RIGHT IN THE END. In all this agitation over high prices, f ] scarcitv. stock market scares, trust and corporation abuses, graft iirselosnres and pernicious iiiflucncis in polith* ;t (g a , good tiling for the people to occasionally r-fle.-t that these troibles wi'l have their day and pas- awar that “it. will I nil com’ out right in the end.” There is not a chance in a thousand ot any other outcome, although it might with truth be added that w hen the present pr >l.lctus are solved and disposed of, it is als o probable th>i. win be a fresh crop of puzzling questions and issues to < i:_ ige the atten tion of the people of this nation, who will again, no doubt, work out solutions und apply remedies u ith tin- same good sense and judgment that have always been charaeteristie of American citizenship. —Oshkosh Northwestern Pointed Paragraphs "1 he biggest bore is the man whom everything <bores. We can have ideals in abundance till we get a chance to । carry them out. 1 All jou hare to do to make foolish words seem sensible is , to put them in a song. The only kind act one type of men ever does to his wife ' is to let her become his widow. A wife craves romance; a husband comfort The devil keeps his telephone open all the time tor village । gossip. What a man hates is not being wrong in a „ argument, but having to admit it. The Lord gave few women intellect so that man could have a slight chance against them. I A woman's look of agony at a wedding is almost as eon [ vincing as her expression of joy at a lecture ou foreign mis i sious.—New York Press. SAN ANTONIO LIGHT AND GAZETTE BARTER. ALL SORTS Copyright, 1909. bv Post Publishing Co By NEWTON NEWKIRK. Josh Wise Says: “It's when his wife goes away on a visit that man learns self help.” WHAT LUCK! 1 have been a good deal wrought up I over the receipt of the following letter from London: Mr. Newton Newkirk, U. 8. A. Dear Sir: We have the honor to inform you- that a well known mem ber of English royalty recently passed away, anti has made you the sole beneficiary under his will, and has appointed our firm as execu tors. It appears that, this titled personage is related to you, and that you are the only kith or kin he had in the world. His estate is i valued at about 5000 pounds sterl ing, all of which, by the terms of his will, you are entitled to. Now before we proceed to settle up the estate, it will be necessary for you to identify yourself as Newton Newkirk, and forward us an affi davit to that effect. As an evi dence of good faith we must also I ask you to send us the sum of 500 pounds sterling, or its equivalent in United States currency. We might add that there is also a title accompanies this inheritance, that • of a dukedom, accompanied by an English estate of over 1000 acres of valuable land, on which there stands an old English castle. Please let us hear from you at your earliest convenience, so that we may carry out the provisions of the' testa tor's will. Very truly vonrs. BUNCOME & BUNCOME, Solicitors. Messrs. Buncome & Buncome, Solicit ors, London, Eng. Respected Gents: The glad tidings to the effect that I have inherited a fortune of 5000 pounds sterling, a duke dom aud a vast English estate with an ancient castle almost overwhelms me with surprise. I can hardly believe it I is true, und ever and anon I find my ; self burning up matches to keep niy । pipe going. This vast wealth, this un earned increment, coming to me at the | present moment is most, welcome, iu ■ deed, I have been monkeying with the i market of late, and my present patri mony looks somewhat like 30 cents in small change. A fortune of 5000 pounds sterling at this time will enable me to .salt the State Street Bull, and put an other crimp in the Bear's tail. Five thousand pounds! Gee whiz — why, that's almost $25,000. I can now buy a meal ticket and will have enough left over to purchase an automobile, which will give me an air of gasoline wherever I go. As for the 1000 acre estate, I think I will sell all of that for house lots, except say a few acres surrounding the castle. 1 presume this castle is in a somewhat dilapidated .condition, aud it is my wish that you put it into good repair at once, because I shall probably spend a few weks there during the com ing summer. Leave a little “Rough on Rats” around the castle where it will do the most good. Install a new bath room with open plumbing, pipe the cas-j tie with hot and eold speaking tubes | put in a large wine cellar, and install running water, but don’t leave the hydrant turned on. lias the castle a southern exposure? If not. build one on—l am very fussy about having a southern exposure on my castle, and hang the expense! Another thing— does this castle have a mont ? If it I doesn’t it should have, and I author-) ize .you to go ahead and build a moat at once. If my castle doesn't have a; large, airy, comfortable moat by the time J arrive, international complica-) tions between England and the United States may result. I wish you would also forward me. my duke license so that I can look it! over and file it away in my safety de 1 posit vault. I will have to rely on you for information concerning this new title which I have acquired. lu other words, does a duke wear a crown or a stovepipe hat. or merely an English Derby? Do I have to be put through the third degree in order to become a duke, or does King Edward simply slap me on the back and say, “You’re it!” I 'll bet us English dukes will have a rostering time when we get together of an evening at the Sign of the Ilogs head. I suppose since I have been made a duke I ought to have a dukess at. the castle to sort of keep it tidied, up and add an air of royalty to the place. Please pick me out a beautiful English dukess and tell her to possess herself in patience until I arrive. She must be a blonde with pink cheeks aud blue eyes, of about HO pounds net weight, good figure, regal carriage (I will furnish the horses) and she must have a sweet and amiable disposition— no other dukesses need apply for this job. We now come to that little matter ot 500 pounds sterling which you require as an evidence of good faith. Lot me see? Five hundred ]iounds roughly is $2500. I have had a heart to heart talk with my assets since your letter arrived, aud I find that by disposing of al) my personal property (except one suit of clothes and a half used meal ticket) I can raise $7.50. Now would you regard this as very much evidence 1 of good faith. I mignt increase this' amount to $lO by negotiating a loan, but I could not promise sure as to that. Please let me hear bow you feel about this at your earliest convenience. P. B.—Meanwhile kindly keep my title of duke on ice. and if you see any body walking on the grass of my estate, shoo 'em off. “Is he a man to be trusted?” ”Ab solutely. You may even bare a cigar exposed in your rest pocket and he won't reach over aud grab it.”- Ue troll lieu Press • • Ne ve »• Again! Observant Citizen Titis bit of brightness is said to have cropped out in a conversation-between two ipisses not old enough to go to school ‘.‘What njakes a horse act naughty when he sees an auto?” *■ It is this way: Horses -is used to Seoin other horses pull wagons, am! they don t know what to think of 'em goin’ aiding without a horse. Guess if yon saw a pair of pants walkin’ down liie xtieet without a man in 'em von'd be scared, too.' ’ > . • “Next to the man who is never without an umbrella is the man who throws an overcoat over his shoulders without running his arms through the sleeveholes.” remarked Observant Citizen. “Yes. there arc lots of them. They can be seen walking along these spring days with an overcoat thrown over their shoulders as if it was a blanket. Now. if I had an overcoat, which . nave, and didn’t want to wear if, which I don't, I would leave it nt home, which I do. It strikes me that a man who turows an overcoat over his shoulders without running his arm* through the sleoveholes is too lazy to put it on properly. It certainly does look slouchy.” SAN ANTONIO 21 YEARS AGO (From The Light. Feb. 18. 1889). A strong flow of natural gas was struck at the artesian well of -e Crystal ice factory on Avenue B today ami the flame burns brightly. John Johnson, a tall negro, is ar raigned in the police court on a charge of vagrancy. The case is continued. Parties desiring to go to the Paris exposition will find it to their advan tage to join the excursion of the Texas Industrial aud Agricultural association, flie directors of this association are Tims. 11. Abbott, president: Henry Hyder Taylor, secretary; J. J. Olsen Jr., t reasurer. Dr. J. M. Rues of Cuero is in the i- i t y. Leon Michael is in the city from Victoria. Frank E. Galpin. Joseph W. Holmes, John O'Meara and J. W. Carr were sworn in last night as members of the Maverick Rifles. Mrs. Colonel Belknap has returned from a visit to Mexico. A. Allee of Pearsall is in the city and is stopping at the St. Leonard. Henry Deutz, a merchant of Laredo, is in the city. F. G. Morris, a lawyer of Austin, is in the city. At n sjiecial meeting hold after the game yesterday afternoon, officers for the Little Jokers baseball team were elected as follows: Manager. F. G. Huntress: captain. Addison Hayes; sec rotary and treasurer. F. W. Mosebacb. The Jokers defeated the Browns at Muth's garden by a sevre of 5 to 1. Texas Talk THE TEXAS SPIRIT. The interest being taken by the. children of Texas in the Hogg memorial monument movement is gratifying aud very encouraging. The amount received during the past week will average about $75 per day. and the management has only begun to send out their ad vertising literature. But the novel ty of the idea of a monumen* built by the children of the state is taking hold and seems to apppeal strongly to every one. One old Swede said: “I am nnt a Texan, but my children are. and they are building the monumo ” —Austin Statesman. It's good to know of this illustration of the n-ady adoption of the state as “home” by the new settl«ri<- It's a sign of the new that is so rap idly coming to the for-. WHAT IS IT? What is to prevent-the govern ments of the United States and Mexico going to work at'compnri tivejy a moderate cost, r.nd secur ing a nine foot depth in the Rio Grande from Laredo all tlie way down to.tlie gulf of Mexico.? The:.! is no calculating the amount of transportation that awaits the securing of tjiis depth.—Laredo Times. We don't know what is to prevent it. but we'll give our word to the Oniontown editor that we haven't used our influence to hold it up. Let them get together and do it. We don't care. STEPS. Steps are being taken, the |>ublic is informed by the press dis patches, to rid the various county jails over the state of their insane by making room for them in the asylums of Texas. It is gratifying at any rate to know that steps arc being taken; possibly the desired end will be reached after while.— Terrell Transcript. If the “steps” are long enough the “desired end” will be reached soriie time, perhaps. The steps ought to be made with seven league boots and taken fast. ALL BUT PACE. Houston has contracted for a big auditorium and Sau Antonio has about completed plans for a combination stadium-anditorium. Texas is growing and the demand for honsing great gatherings is be ing met with diligent speed. Let Texas top the list in all things flat make for progress, nrosperity and peace.—Fort Worth Star-Telegram. In progress and prosperity Texas has long ago topped the list, but with a guliernatorial race on the peace thing has small chance for a look-in. FEBRUARY 18. 1010. Little Stories i Senator Depew tells a story lon nim | self which has had a good deal of vogue/ ) in the senate lobby this week. ] “When I was a very young man,” 1 he said, “ I went out. to make a political speech with some older men one night. They wanted something red hot, and I handed it out. “But after 1 got home I wor ried. 1 had roasted the other side aw fully. I lay awake wondering if it | wouhln't react and injure our side more than the opposition. . “Then I bethought of some personal ! allusions 1 had made. I got a good deal excited and slept very little. In I the morning I hurried down to see whether the papers had roasted me. • “The meeting was reported all over 1 , the front page. I plunged into: it, i shivering iq nervousness. But I needn't ~ have worried. What it said about my . speech was in the last two lines: “ ‘A young man named Depew also s|K>ke.’ ” . • 4 j -I. I'ierpont Morgan was educated at , the famous University of Gottingen. Discussing the German universities, Mr. ; Morgan said: j “A great many young American stu dents finish up in Germany. They have i quite a reputation there. A great Ger.a man biologist once said to me: ’ “ ‘1 think we shall have to exclude , your young compatriots from our ; schools. They no sooner come here than | they begin to cheat, t ‘‘('heat?' said I, alarmed. ‘How , so?' >; “ ‘Why. said the biologist, ‘they li only pay tuition for one. but they learn enough for three or four/ ” The old darky had driven his fare to the hotel and was now demanding a dollar for his service. ‘‘What? protested the passenger, “n dollar for that distance? Whv, it | isn't half a mile as the crow flics!” “Dat's true, boss,” rethrned Nam । bo. with an appealing smile, “but ye I see. suh. dat old crow he ain't got ) free wives an’ ten ehilluns to stippoht,' i not to mention de keep foh de boss.” Ldna May or Mrs Oscar Lewisnlin tells a quaint little story. “J was n patroness,” she said, ‘‘of some amateur theatricals given by chiL // i. dreu at a party in Belgrave squat* । During the first act, as I wandered about behind the scenes, I came upon a little girl seated all alone in a dark corner. « - “ ‘Why are you left out, my dearf’ I asked. ‘Aren’t you playing, too? ’ . < ‘‘ Ob ' rse left out,’ said the child. • I 'se the babv waiting to be bomed.’ ” A traveler for a firm of wine mer chants gives n terrible account of the intense cold in Sweden: “In Hapnrnnda. the day before 1 left. 1 attended a )terformairee at the theater It was a tragedy. Everybody wept; but it was so terribly cold tn«t the tears of the spectators in the upper ga ‘-ru-s tell like hailstones among th* j occupants of the pit.”