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THREE LADIES HOLD COMET PARTY
ON ROOF OF APARTMENT HOUSE
Wind Swept Through Kimonas Silk Wraps, Their Teeth
Chattered and They Saw a Beautiful Sight, But Remarks •
Made By Some Rude Men Changed the Experience.
Comet parties are the thing in San
Antonio now. Not only are they sett
ing as a good excuse for hubby, who
mumbles with much dignity as the firs;
pink streak of dawn is outlined on the
eastern aky, ‘ ■ Please excuse me. my
dear. Been out to a comet party,’’.but
they are. in fact, making alarm docks
work overtime and are filling
streets at unholy hours with comet-seers.
The comet swings like a celestial lo
comotive and train of cars on the hori
zon at 4:15 o’clock at least, szy those
who have seen, that is the time to ob
serve it best. It ean readily be seen
that it is the best kind of an excuse to
remain out all night. But it didn't go
this morning—the excuse. Great, scud
black clouds blotted out the stars
and the whole face of the heavens, so
there was no sight of Mr. Halley’s gift
to posterity. One party, however,
thought they had seen the wondrous
sight and gazed and gazed until per- j
plexity was succeeded by a discovery j
that took their breath away—but that
is a story in itself.
There is a fashionable three-story
apartment house on a quiet side street
between Avenue D and Avenue E.
Stairs lead up to the roof. Three tall
ladies of the house yesterday evening j
formed a comet party and, silently, at
4 o'clock this morning, met at the foot
of the roof stairway. Their attire cn-
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The Planet Juggler
CHAPTER VIII.
Stellar Allies.
k P th* little tower room a hurried
conference was had. Wireless commu
nication was also sought with all spe
cialists and astronomers, and the situa
tion was gone over in detail.
Kale was plainly bereft of his nerve.
“Good heavens, gentlemen,’’ he eaid
nervously, after a half hour of grave
conference, “what are you going to
do? Those bodies are hurling them
selves toward the earth at an incom
prehensible speed. When they hit us,
there won’t be a dust speck left of us.
‘And the people don’t know a thing
about Iheir danger.”
The little group of astrouomers and
physicists, however, paid small atten
tion to him. With flushed faces and an
intense, light of determination in their
eyes, they bent over the table, alter
natelv studying the charts of the heav
ens and discussing with crisp vigor
proposed methods. A messenger came
at very frequent intervals from the ad
joining room with" helpful messages
from Europe, and these were eagerly
gone over; while Kale and several
others trod up and doax the narrow
room with heavily knitted brows.
Suddenly Elversou brought down his
list upon the table.
WEDNESDAY,
forced silence and caution. Over their
nightrobes they had thrown silk ki
monas and silk wraps protected their
shoulders. While they had heard tho
I wind, they were not prepared for the
' chilly blast that swept the silk draper
ies about them and caused them to
‘ shiver when they stood together on the
| roof.
“The paper says look to the east,”
, said one of the girls. They are all over
forty, it may be said, parenthetically;
I but they were girls, without any con
tradiction, this morning at their comet
party.
“I—l see-ee it-t-t!” chatteringly ex
claimed the youngest, pointing with
I bare arm. from which the flowing ki
j mona sleeve had dropped, to the east.
, There followed a ehorus of chattering
I exclamations: “So it is!” “Oh, isn’t it
beautiful?”
A bright light was burning on the
horizon with what was aparently two
large balls of fire beneath. The light
J was white and steady.
“One of the 1-light-ts mu-us-ss-t be
the-e even-nin-ug st-t-tar,” said one.
“But wher-ere’s the tail?”
There was a chorus of surprised ejac
ulations. for they had all read that the I
tail looked like a score or so of full
moons. Finally, the youngest said with
a girlish giggle: “It isn't up high
enough to show the tail—just wait,
girls; don’t be impatient, give ths
comet a chance.
They waited.
They kept on waiting.
For half an hour they watched and
speculated. They made up their minds
the wouldn’t climb to the roof again on
a windy night in kimonas and night j
gowns and hair done up in curl papers
for the wind to swat with what they
were willing to designate as icy fingers.
The wind blew through their clothes and
they shivered so thev almost shook them
off.
They waited and the comet grew no
brighter. The wind was whistling a
careless tune and having all sorts of
fun. Not a star was visible in the
great, black vault above them.
“GirHs, ” shivered the youngest,
“that's a f-fine comet, I d-d-don't j
j think! I'm going down and get my'
opera glasses.”
She did. She came back like a white
I ghost and adjusted the glasses. Then
I she screamed.
“What’s the matter?” said the other
! girls, their arms about her.
“Girls,” she whispered, “we’re just
“I think I’ve got it’,’ he said. Every
body bent forward.
“First,” turning to the wireless oper
ator, “find out how near the falling
stars are to us.”
Within two minutes, for they had a
direct connection, the nearest observa
tory replied: “Three stars of the third
magnitude are within twenty-five hun
dred thousand miles, and are due to
strike within seventy-two hours; while
about forty other lesser stars are but
three hours behind.”
I “Now, then.” said Elverson enthus
iastically, “call Mars and have her in"
readiness to work with us. and see if .
ean help us in any detail.’*
“v ,urn ' u R to the assembled men: ,
1 ow ’Dat curious discovery made
bj Helmintz. several years ago, of how
to reverse the polarity of attractive ob
jects. I have in preparation a paper
now which outlines my idea that the
universe was originally formed through
operation of tips principle from one
original nebula. I believe that the re-
I versal of terrestrial attraction is elec
| tricdll* possible.
■ “Canopus, in the last twenty-four
hours, has undoubtedly vastly increased
the earth s attractive power by mean's
of a system of tcleo-inductive currents
—else how could we attract so fiercely
YOUM IIfWISI
SHOWS SONE SPEED
Knocks Off 130 Words a Min
ute From Dictation With
out an Error.
A rare exhibition of speed and ac
cruacy ou the typewriter was witnessed
by the pupils of a San \An
tonio business college this morning when
Leslie H. Wilson of Syracuse, N. Y.,
who is only 18 years of age. wrote 130
■words a minute from dictation. He fol
lowed this up by writing 204 words a
minute from familiar matter, a speed
sentence used for the occasion.
Mr. Wilson is here in company with
W. D. M. Simmons, school representa
tive of a typewriter company, and in
company with A. C. Zoeller of this city
called upon Frof. J. B. Franklin to ar
range for the exhibition. *
A feature of Mr. Wilson's perform
ance is that he struck off these words
without the semblance of an error, not
even missing a space. The work was
perfect in every detail. He established
a new record by this performance, for
l is record heretofore was 127 words a
minute dictation and 200 words speed
sentence.
Messrs. Simmons and Wilson left Syr
acuse about two months ago on a tour
of the south and in that time have vis
ited all the principal cities. They ar
rived here this morning from Fort
Worth and tonight they go to Houston.
Mr. Wilson carries his own typewriter
witlf him. It has a blind keyboard.
frozen nin-in-inies; it’s no comet.
Look.”
The opera glass told the truth. It
was the electric arc light on the tower
at Fort Sam Houston and the other
“stars" were also lights at the army
post. It was a very forlorn, chagrined
trio that quietly went down the stairs
to their rooms. But their passing was
not so quiet as to escape the ears of
some young men rooming on the top
floor. As the three tiptoed down the
hall they heard a masculine voice say:
“Stung by a comet! What dye think
of that for patience? Jove, it ’s rich—
an hour looking at an arc light and
didn't know the difference!”
Then the men laughed.
Were the three ladies mad?
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so many stars far larger in size?”
“Very good,” said Bardi; ‘but
how— ’ ’
“Im coming to it.” continued Elver
son imperiously, “ all we need to do is
to apply the Helmnitz reversal theory
upon the earth itself. We have the
huge generating machinery at our serv
ice this minute in this room; and we
have the inductive power also at oar
command practically across the street.
Do you see it?”
“I begin to grasp it—” said Watres,
the astronomer.
“It won’t cost much to apply it,”
said Elverson, touching the messenger
buttons and penciling an order to be
sent to the wave generating plant on
the Jersey coast. “Won't you help me
get enough wirers to rig out the sys
tem?”
Immediately everybody was on his
feet, ready for action.
“Watres,” said Elverson, with a
graceful command of the situation,
“will vou not instruct Mars how to
put this same system in operation?
And Bardi, won't you see that Calcutta
and this office have the proper equip
ment to operate the system?”
Immediately all were busy, and 3
force of one hundred men were started
to work within two hours, and night
SAN ANTONIO LIGHT AND GAZETTE
THOUGHICDMEFS
Till HID UPPED
HIM, SAVS CAMP
Lawyer Relates In Police Court
Sanguinary Encounter on
Soledad Street.
ENTHUSIASTIC SPECTATORS
■
Ben Trevenio Becomes So Rat
tled Driving Auto for the First
Time Knocks Down Horse.
“I thought the tail of Halley’s com
et had struck me.” said L. B. Camp,
a San Antonio lawyer, in describing to
Judge Buckley in the police court this
morning an assault made ou him by
William Mcßae,, a real estate man, on
the afternoon of May 6, on Soledad
street. Mcßae, charged with assault
and battery, entered a plea of guilty
and was fined $5.
The trouble arose, it was said, be
cause of a dispute regarding a real
estate deal. Attorney Camp testified
that be was struck unexpectedly, the
blow being such as to daze him for a
few minutes. Camp was struck over
the right eye and an inch gash infliet
'ed. Gus Votaw, a witness, in giving
his testimony, said that while, the mix
up lasted it was better than the Jeffries-
Johnson fight will ever-be.
As the result.of an automobile be
longing to the E. Y. 'White Dye company
running into a vehicle belonging to C.
H. Simpson, 1019 North Natividad
street yesterday afternoon on Main ave
nue, Ben Trevenio, who had charge of
the machine, faeed Judge Buckley in the
police court this morning to answer a
charge of recklessly operating an auto
mobile. The horse attached to the ve
hicle was knocked down.
Battled in Machine.
Trevenio told the court he had just
taken charge of the automobile and.
that it was the first time he had ever op I
erated one. He told the court he be
came “rattled” and that before he I
could stop the auto it had struck thej
vehicle. A fine of $lO was imposed.
Another affidavit is pending against
Trevenio charging him with operating
an automobile before procuring a license
from the city examiner of automobile
drivers. This case was continued.
“I didn’t steal de corn,” testified
Jerry Hunamon, a negro, in giving tes
timony when arraigned before the court
,on a charge of malicious mischief. “1
saw other people taking corn and I
thought there was no harm in it.”
The testimony of E. E. Sadler, a spe
cial officer in tho employ of the South
ern Pacific Railway company, was to
the effect that he taught the negro
crawling from beneath the old freight!
house on Austin street yesterday after
noon, with a pillow slip filled with a
bushel of corn. The special officer
further told the court that for some
time boys had been slipping into the
freight bouse, cutting the sacks and
causing the corn to pour through the!
cracks in the floor to the ground be-'
neath the building. The negro was
fined five dollars.
While standing in the middle of the
street at the intersection of Commerce'
and Alamo streets, Patrolman Peter
Hetzel was struck by a wagon occu
pied by Adolph Buquor. The officer
was not hurt. Buquor faced the court
today on a charge of reckless driving
and fined $5. At the point mentioned
a patrolman is constantly on watch reg
ulating traffic.
A number of persons were fined for
violations of the traffic ordinance.
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and day work was done for thirty
hours, arranging with the observatories
to get very minute reports of the situa
tion and action of the stars which wore
threatening to fall upon the earth and
crush it.
Suddenly, however, the low velocity
waves being used were destroyed in ex
actly the same manner as they were
when Canopus first addressed the earth.
“Hallo Earth,”, came the familiar
call.
“Well.” asked Elverson, going to
the receiver, ‘this is Earth.”
“Are you the individual whom I—
Canopus •— have addressed before?”
asked the voice.
“I am,” replied Elverson.
“Then,” continued the Napoleon of
the universe, “I want to tell you, if
you don’t already know it, that about
seventy stars larger than yourself arc
tumbling in your direction at a pretty
rapid gait, and that in about twelve
of your hours more there will be no
such a thing as the earth, nor any
Mars —no, not even a solar system.
“Indeed?” replied Elverson arcas
tically. “It is most delightfully kind
of you to give us this cheerful infor
mation. You are a paragon of cour
tesy. ’ ’
“I have only this to say to you,”
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AMUSEMENTS
GRAND OPERA HOUSE.
The Grand Opera house has a great
show on this week. The entire pro
gram is far above the average and tho
big audiences are unanimous in their
praise of the performance.
Harvey, the. clog dancer, opens the
show; he is very clever and his work
is of a superior sort.
Following Harvey come Hodges and
Darrell, in songs of their own composi
tion, some of which are “The U. S. A.
for Mine” and “My Little Dandelion.”
This act is sure to become a great fa
vorite before fhe week is past. Both
Mr. Hodges and Miss Darrell wear
beautiful costumes during their act.
Lew Wilson is a “good comedian.”
He makes a favorable impression with
bis songs and typical stories. He is an
interesting entertainer.
Franklin and Paxson in their laugh
able bit of nonsensical absurdity en
titled “The Three O'clock Train,” are
well received.
The pictures are up to the high stand
ard of previous weeks and a big fea
tuie. k
THE ROYAL.
The Royal continues to pack them in
twice each evening fo see the Five
continued the voice violently and
harshly, “that if you want to surren
der on' the terms I first asked you,
there is still time. I can stop the
headlong flight of the stars in one
hour. But if you don’t—look out for
yourself.”
“And I have only this to say to
you,” said Elverson * peremptorily,
“that if you don’t stop them without
our giving in to your terms, you are
going to get a taste of your own medi
cine.”
There was an angry muttering in re
ply, but that was all, and communica
tion stopped.
One hour later as Elverson was
hastily taking his luncheon in his of
fice report came from tho plant that
the wiring was ready to be inspected
and tested. Without waiting to finish
the lunch, Elverson seized his overcoat
and hat and sought the elevator shaft
to descend to the surface. He hastened
to the sub-basement, where whirred the
huge converters and other appliances.
Two hours were consumed minutely in
specting the system which had been rig
ged up merely from rude pencil drafts,
although very intricate work was re
quired.
Hastening back to his office he
sought Calcutta on the wireless ays-
Gaffney Girls. Geo. L. Wade & Co. and
3»hr,>de and Chapelie. This clever com
bination of artists, together with the
entertaining motion pictures of the
American fleet in Japan, go to mako
up one of the real smart shows seen in
the Royal this season and well worth
one’s while.
The Royal with the only modern ap
paratus of the kind in the southwest, is
the coolest theater in the city and one
of the best shows in town, all in the
sam? breath..
Iced water distributed in the thea
ter during the performance. Fans giv
en each patron, assist materially in the
comfort of everyone. Matinees at
three.
THE STAR.
Remarkably large audiences attended
the vaudeville performances at the Star
last evening ah<l the management as
serts that many of the regular patrons
have voted it tho best bill of the sea
son. Certainly if applause and laugh
ter is a barometer of the feelings of
an audience, the acts are being thor
oughly appreciated. San Antonians are
so aceustoined to seeing three vaudeville
acts of merit and moving pictures of
class for 10c at the Star, that they lose
sight of the fact that the Star classes
with any house asking double the price
and is considered by the vaudeville
performers and those who travel from
। state to state, as the peer, if not the
• superior, of any 10c vaudeville theater
A Thrilling. Story. o£ the
Coming of the Great Comet
tern. Calcutta had immediately been
instructed to duplicate the New York 1
plans of induction-charging the earth
on its hemisphere side. He questioned
them closely and was finally satisfied.
“Everything’s all ready at Calcut
ta,” said Elverson enthusiastically, as
he closed communication with' the
plants on the other side of the earth,
and turned to Bardi, who was in the
office with him.
“Now, operator, get the observator
ies to report, and, John, get an ‘O.
K.’ on the preparations in Jersey at
the generators and from the plant,”
When all was ready Elverson per
sonally inspected the switch connec
tions in the office. In a few moments
a full “all ready” was given from the
mechanical offices. The observatories
told that the nearest stars were now
but thirty hours off, and said that
other stars, in addition to the Jour or
five score which were already near,
were being drawn out of their orbits.
Then Elverson, in full confidence of
success, himself connected the high
voltage currents which were, by supe
rior magnetizing power, to reverse me
unnatural attraction which Canopus had
given to the earth.
Having done this, he took some rc
freshments and retired to an ante-;
MAT 11, 1010.
in the south. Tho Star manager's mot
to is Well merited—cool, clean, classy.
WACO TO BE SITEOF
HEBREW_UNIVERSITY
Special Dispatch.
Waco, Tex., May 11. —Losing tho
Texas Christian university by a decis
ion of tho board at Dallas last night,
this city was partly reconciled by iho
announcement this morning it will gain
the Texas Hebrew university, ‘ which
will be the only one of tho kind in
the south. The eity accepted the of.
fer and will donate a site and raise 3
bonus' It is reported the Texas Chris
tian site will be bought by another de
nomination iu the near future, but de
tails are lacking. . ‘
chiefsdTscuss
THE “THIRD DEGREE”
i
Birmingham, Ala,, May 11.—The
“third degree” was the Subject of dis
cussion at the morning session of the
International Association of Police
Chiefs of the United States and Can
ada. A number of papers will be pre
sented during the day on subjects per
taining to the operation of police "de
partments.
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room for a rest. He did not wake up
until a messenger sought him, four
hours later, with the welcome news
that the onrush of planets was actual
ly being halted, and that his colleagues
had made public the danger, which was
now practically past, because of the
alarm which had begun to be felt at
tho approach of so many stars.
“I knew it would work,” replied El
verson simply to the newspaper men
who came in large uumbers to inter
view him, about the scientific stroke'
he had accomplished. “We are a
match for Canopus. He is working
alone, very probably, without public,
support in his greedy aim. He will
fail, and it is our business to make
him fail.”
The next month's journey was fair
ly uneventful. The stars 'which had
come so perilously near receded rapid
ly. and finally assumed their wonted
places. But Elverson was so pleased
with the success of his induction re
versal method that he decided to keep
it connected and partially at work all
the time, to avoid collision of any
sort.
The manufacture of rattan furniture
is beginning to attract attention iu the
Philippines.