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6 SAN ANTONIO LIGHT AND GAZETTE Founded January 20. 1811. Krening Dally. Member* Associated Prose Sunday Morning O D. ROBBINS ...J Publisher TELEPHONE CALLS. Business Office and Circulation Department, both phone*.. !■« Editorial Department both phones TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. I By Carrier or Mall. Dally and Sunday, one year (in advance) 15.00 Dally and Sunday, one month »0c Sunday Edition, one year 2.00 Single Copies. Dally or Runday 5e Entered at the Postotfice at Ban Antonio, Teras, a* Second-class Matter. The S. C. Beckwith Special Agency. Representatives 'Rejffiw 6 ' New York. Tribune Bldg. Chicago. Tribune Bldg. “ TO SUBSCRIBERS. It 1* Important when desiring the address of your paper changed to give both old and new addresses Should delivery be Irregular, please notify the office. Either telephone 17C. PUBLISHER’S NOTICE. Subscribers to The Light and Gageite are requested to pay money to regular authorized collectors only. Do not pay car riers. as error* are sure to result Th* Light and Gasette I* on sal* at hotela and newa standa throughout the united States. WTMim OFMYPURER IN Sil ANTONIO Poll Tax Money Will Help financing. There is plenty of evidence that the city needs , the money for its every day expenses. The proper collec tion of poll taxes would have a tendency to cut down the city’s overdraft at Sullivan’s and take it out of “hock.” It is unfortunately true that San Antonio is not run on a cash basis, but pledges its taxes for a year ahead in order to secure the money with which to pay its current expenses. In view of this hand to mouth condition of the city treasury it would appear wise to most people to take in every dollar . that is offered at the city collector’s window. Just how many hundreds of dollars have been wasted be cause the eity refused to accept poll taxes when tendered • is not known and probably never will be known, but there is evidence at every hand to indicate that the sum thus re fused would materially aid in the payment of interest on the money which the mayor is forced to borrow every year to run the city departments. 1 While such financiering may be of the accepted political sort, it does not appeal to the business man or the taxpayer ' as being the best. No commercial house or individual would request a creditor to come back in four months to settle a bill when that creditor stood with the money in his hand ready to pay. Scores of people have reported their inability to induce the city to accept the poll taxes now due, from now on there will be no difficulty. It is reported that business is brisk today at the poll tax window in the city collector’s office and that the revenues of the city have been material ly increased. In polities, as in love, the best laid plans go oft astray and this lapsing of poll tax payments is one of them. Lots of people who never cared very much for the poll tax paying privilege will pay now just for the novelty of the thing. . _ Pay your poll tAx berdrd Jun r~SHj escape fhe penalty for' delinquency. You will then be sure of a vote at the next city Selection. How do you feel on this day of the comet! Most people are comatose. * If that Alamo plaza pavement is to last until the Houston street paving is repaired, it is indeed wise to keep the horses off. Everyone will commend the mayor's conservation policy. That heavy shower of last night was the most welcome gift that has come in the way of Southwest Texas for two months or more. It is announced that “the republican party proposes to place a strong ticket in the field to hold the party’s strength. It will have to be a regular Hercules of a ticket to hold the party. It’s strength is terrifying to behold. The Little Red Cart good average San Antonio citizen. He was born on a farm, and laid the foundation for his education in the typical little country school house. Then he was sent to college—and sowed a few wild oats, but was sensible enough not to spend any great length of time at this fqolish occupation. John Smith returned to his home—and In ten years was the leading lawyer at the county seat. ■Here, when he had worked up his practice, to a safe point, he married the sweetheart of hi* school days. And in two more years—the Little Bed Cart. But the owner of the red cart died—after two years of baby life, during which John, junior, was loved as fond fathers and fonder mothers ever will love interesting babies. Whereupon John Smith, leading attorney, began to drink, also to pay undue attention to several giddy young women in his town who did not seem tq feel any very keen pangs because fingers were scornfully pointed at them, or because Mrs. Smith failed to recognize them on the street. Is it necessary to put down in cold, unresponsive type that Mrs. Smith was heartbroken. Is there any use trying to de scribe her anguish! Her baby was dead; her husband had de veloped traits of character unbelievable in so good a man; she knew that his law practice was dwindling; she bad signed a mortgage on their home. But she kept the Little Red Cart—and many nights when her husband was absent from home she fell at last into rest less sleep, holding the pitiful remainder of happiness on her knees. At 3 o'clock one morning Lawyer Smith returned to his home. Mrs. Smith had long since ceased waiting for him He stumbled, and fell, but that was not unusual. He cursed, but that was not unusual. Then the curses stopped and all was still. The wife of the man who had fallen into less clean ways crept from her room. There she saw, in a broad shaft of moonlight, her husband, on prayerful knees, holding up the Little Red Cart, in unsteady hands. His lips were moving, mutely at first; but presently she heard the words: “ please help me, Father, for the sake of the lit (le man who used to play with this cart, and for the sake of my wife who bore him.” Mrs. Smith, a radiant happiness on her face, softly went tiptoed back to her room, for she knew that prayer and her vrayer would he answered. WEDNESDAY, The city administration’s plan to accept no poll tax payments until Oct. 1, when these taxes become delin quent June 1, looks like bad This editorial is a state ment of fact—with the ex ception that names are changed, for good reasons. John Smith was, and is, a Socialists Ambitious May 15, demonstrated the fact that the socialist party is go ing to make as determined an effort to elect congressmen this year as they have hitherto done to poll a large tote for their presidential candidate. The recent election in Milwaukee whereby that city passed into the hands of the socialists has encouraged the leaders of the party to foresee possibly congressional victories. They seem to have more than an even chance to replace two old party men in Wisconsin and they are decidedly optimistic concerning their chances in other localities where socialistic sentiment is strong. While there is of course no chance of the party electing enough members of the lower house of congress to have any potent voice in the legislation of the next congress, it will add to the gayety of the nation to see a sprinkling of so cialists added to the nationalist representative from the Philippines, the unionist from Porto Rico, the insurgents, the Cannonites, the representatives who oppose Cannon at home and vote for him in Washington, the democrats, the republican-democrats, including the Tammany hall republi cans. and the mongrel breeds to whom party and principles mean but stepping stones to the public crib. Tonight's the night. When you smell the peach bloom pre pare to fly. The Commerce street widening committee having com plied with all the rules and regulations laid down by the mayor is now waiting for instructions to turn some more flip flaps before it will be possible to eall that bond election. The trouble is that the people in that improvement district do not expect to have the work done by the street depart ment. It is announced that no more automobiles will be allowed on Alamo plazh as the rubber tires of the machines have a tendency to grind aw-ay and disintegrate the new “asphalt” paving. Next thing we know folks will have to put on slip pers when they cross the street or go a la sock foot. Well Houston got those babies after all. As a matter of fact, we didn't need them to swell the census. That was merely a Houston trick. Morning paper says that chances for a battle in Nicaragua are growing brighter. Well, here s hoping. That council resolution to investigate the rates charged by the Southwestern Telephone company has been found. After a long slumber, during which time the public agitation has EJGieted, the resolution has been “discovered” and will be publicly reported. Uncle Walt The Poet Philosopher I, musing, rested on the grass, beneath a bay green tree; I a porker came, like Balaam's ass, and talked a while with me. She was a large and stately sow, of Po- A HOG’S land-ChuMk and lines oj,care were on PROTEST, her brow, her voice* waff IbW 'with p£ih. *“I hear men talk,” said .Mrs. Swine;- “I hear them every day, and they offend these ears of mine, with lots of things they say. If there’s a man so mean he’s barred from social catalogue, atty they desire to hit him hard, they say he is a hog. The selfish brute on trolley car, who us as room for two; the fiend who smokes a rank cigar, and drops it but to chew; the rounder of the gas lit street, who’s going to the dogs, the bum, the boozer and the beat — they say these men are hogs. Of many hogs I wot and wist, who live close to my door; I have upon my calling list about a thousand more; and not a porker in the lot would drink or smoke or swear, or come home cross at night and swat the hausfrau with a chair. To say of cheap and worthless men, by greedy passions fired, that they’re like porkers in a pen—it makes a lady tired!” Copyright, 1910, by George Matthew Adams. As Others View It FISHING INDUSTRY REVIVED. The first of a fleet of nine whaling vessels that have been outfitting at New Bedford has sailed in quest of the great mammals whereof the capture was in former years the object of a flourishing New England industry and the means of amassing many substantial fortunes. The pres ent activity in the whale fishery is due to the fact that the sperm oil market is depleted and the price is up to 05 cents a gallon. Then whalebone is in steady demand at very profitable rates, while there is always the possibility of running across a lump of ambergris worth more than its weight in gold. Most of these nine whr.lers will make only short voyages, going to the Hatteras grounds in the North Atlantic; two or three, however, will make extended cruises to the West African coast waters. Nantucket, long the world’s greatest whaling port, em barked in sperm whale fishing as early as 1712, and in 1774, oefore the opening of the war of independence, a fleet of 360 vessels was engaged in it. This fishery reached its climax in 1846, when it occupied a total of 735 vessels, having an aggregate capacity of 233,190 tons. Americans did not go into arctic whale fishing untSl 1848. In the three years following 250 ships obtained cargoes in Bering strait. For various reasons the whaling industry at Nantucket, New Bedford and other of our ports declined until there w-ere few ships visiting the fishing grounds. The spirit of adventure, the courage and the enterprise possessed by the wuaiing masters of former days have not passed away, but in the later generations they have been manifested in"other fields. Now that they have been turned again to the old time channels we have no doubt that even larger success than was achieved in the palmy period of the past will be the reward of the fishers of today. It is gratifying to wit ness a revival of the pursuit. We want our industries to be as diversified as possible, and this has promise of profit.— Christian Science Monitor. Pointed Paragraphs It’s very unlucky to lose $l3 on Friday. A little fault of our own looks like a big vice in others. □Sven a worthless man thinks he’d be able to make good ■as a critic. If .ou would know what a woman doesn’t mean, listen to what she says. No, Alonzo, a helping ’.and and the glad hand are not necessarily the same. After a widow makes up her mind to marry again sho makes up nor face and then gets busy. A man ought to be thankful if his wife declines to ac ce t -.n excuse when he has none to offer. One kind of harmless crank revolves a grindstone with the assistance of a small boy. It isn’t subject t* violent turns. —Chicago News. SAN ANTONIO LIGHT AND GAZETTE The socialist* have fired their opening »hot in the 1910 congressional battle. Their national convention, which convened in Chicago ALL SORTS Copyright, 1SO», by Post Publishing Co. By NEWTON NEWKIRK. Josh Wise Says: “When we begin ter eugolize th* 11 v In’, It’s a sign we’re already resigned ter see ’em dead.’’ WHEN DAD COMES IN. Herbert plays at marbles, ’Lisbeth makes mud pies. Nurse can’t keep the babies elean However, hard she tries. Father spades the garden, and When he comes in to eat Mother hollers at him: “ Besurevouwipevouffket! ” J. T. D. “THEN (Our Daily Discontinued Story.) “Being the handy man about the house,’’ ehirped Bingbitter, when his wife reported trouble with the gas, “I will just,mosey down cellar and find that leak'.’’ Gaily striking a match he passed it along the pipes and found the leak. THE END. ON THE HEADGEAR WARPATH Dear All Sorts —Have you a couple of minutes to spare? Yes? Thank you. Then listen to my tale of woe: The other day my wife started out to buy at hat. I wanted her to have her 1909 model trimmed over, but do you suppose she would listen to reason? No —sho would not. She told me she pro posed to purchase a new bonnet, and when a wife proposes a husband dis poses. Is it not so? Not only that, but she courteously asked me to go along and help her make the selection. I pleaded a pre vious engagement, then she got cross and said: “Sir, put on your hat and come with me!’’ Now-, when my wife npbaks hike that- To me - her. slightest wish is a command, so I went with her. The first millinery shop we went to looked like a haymow. It was full of chanteclers and hens on the nest. I waited three hours on the side while wifie tried to pick out a skypiece. I had nearly gone to sleep beside a mir ror when a handsomely gowned woman who was trying on a hat accidentally tickled me under the chin with a fea ther. Then I suddenly came to and, like anyone who is tickled, I gave the handsome lady a sweet smile. “Sir,” she said, glaring at me, “how dare you flirt with me?” My wife over heard this remark and told me I ought t obe ashamed of myself. She said it was too bad she couldn’t trust me alone a minute without my taking advantage of it to flirt with other women. I didn’t have am opening to say a word in my- own defense, so I sat down on a chair, but I didn’t notice there was a woman's hat on the chair with two hat pins in it. Verily, he who sitteth upon two hatpins shall rise again!, “You have ruined that hat!” shriek ed the milliner. “I am sorry,” I sigh ed, as I painfully drew <ut the hat pins. Finally my wife found a het that suited her and laid it aside. It was only $27.90, marked down from $2B. She said she would leave her old bon net and wear her new hat home. There was so much trimming on it that when she put it on she didn’t notice that the milliner’s pet cat had gone to sleep on top of it. Nobody in the street car seemed to notice the cat on the hat until a lady got on, followed by a bull pup. Then the excitement was intense. The cat arched its back and its tail swole to oreat size. A personal en counter might have been avoided had the cat not spat in the bull pup’s face. Then the bull pup made a wash for the cat on the bat. and presently the ear was filled with hair, howls, fur and yowls. The motorman stopped the car. He thought a fuse had blown out. The bull pup chased the cat up and down the car over the laps of the passengers. I struck at the cat with my umbrella and smashed his hat down over his ' ears of a gentleman sitting across the ' aisle from me. He took this as a per -1 sonal insult and passed me a punch :on the jaw. I struck back at him and hit a woman who was hanging from a strap. In reply she belted me a sting ing blow on the nose w-ith a metal shop ping bag she carried. By this time the bull pup had chased the cat through an onen window. I looked at my wife. She was sobbing. “Why this shower, wife?” 1 asked. “Look at my hat!” she choked. I look ed. “That isn't " hat,’T said; “that’s a wreck.” “O it * a mess!” she wept. “Yes,” I replied, “it isn't worth what you paid for it, is it, dearie?” “I shall never wear it again,” sho said. “ft was overtrimmed.” T returned, and then we journeyed home in silence. HENRY PECK HIS HISTORY. An Indian Territory editor makes this frank remark: “Ten years ago we en tered the newspaper business poor, but honest. We are stiil poor.”—New York Sus. The Wisdom of Epictetus By T. E. Powers Copyejbi, ISOS. XauttaMt-lmuMl-KuaSw Observant Citizen An interesting incident occurred yes terday on a vacant lot near the Sap depot. Tw’o ball nines composed of boys ranging from 10 to 15 years, were playing a elosely contested game. The score was a tie in the seventh inning and one of the two balls with which they were playing ripped and was thrown aside as useless. Another ball ■was thrown out and the batter hit to center field. A fox terrier dog got his eye on it, chased it, and before the boy playing in the field could get it, the dog reached the prize, took it in his mouth and fled. Both nines start ed in pursuit. Closely followed by a mob of yelling youngsters the terrier led the race for several blocks. Final ly a boy who held on to his bat, shied it at the dog, which dropped the ball, and putting his tail between his legs, scampered away. At a little party the other night they were discussing woman suffrage and the discussion became quite heat ed with the women taking the leading part. One of them said: “We believe that a woman should get a man’s wages.” Her husband was sitting near me, and as sho finished he muttered, sotto voce: “Well, judging from my own experience, she does.” SMmomEmfio (From The Light. May 18, 1889). Architect J. Riely Gordon this morn ing <>|K*ned bids for the construction of the house which Dr. S. T. Lowry will build at the corner of Avenue C and I ravig street. Seven bids were submit ted. ranging,from six to ten thousand dollars. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ogllen left this morning for Austin. Eight different picnics are being held today. The Alamo Baptist church Sun day school are at Riverside park, the Jaegerlust Verein are at the Olmos, the Frohsin Singing society at the city brewery grounds, John Beckmann’s turning class at Riverside park, Fannin Castle, K. and L. of G. R„ at Braden park, the eity drummers at Jackson’s gulch, on the Aransas Pass and oth ers. The Jokers and Browns will cross bats at the Oppermann grounds tomor row. a The employes of the Aransas Pass will have a picnic at Riverside park on May 31. Larry Moore, a brakeman, who was shot at Orange. Tex., some time ago, is reported progressing nicely at the Santa Rosa hospital. The bedding in room 49 at the Mahncke hotel was discovered on fire this morning, but was extinguished be fore the building was ignited. Otto Buchel, accompanied by his wife, are in the city from Cuero and arc stopping at the Mahncke. Hon. Barnett Gibbs of Dallas is in the city today. Texas Talk BE CAREFUL. , The Texas health department proposes to conduct an inspection of Texas slaughter houses to deter mine the truth or falsity of the re port to the effect that all choice Texas cattle are shipped to the northern and eastern markets and the cullings left for the people of Texas to eat.—Terrell Transcript. If the board does this it will get in bad with some of these people who jike to eat dirty meat, and there seems to be many of them. AT WORK. A crusade against the house fly has just started in Kansas. Let it also be taken up here in Texas and pushed persistently.—Austin States man. In almost every household in the land the battle against the fly is now going on. It is a relentless fight with tuou sacds of human lives as the winuing stake. RESULTS IN SIGHT. And now San Antonio would be the Houston of Corpus Christi's Galveston. Excellent. Strenuous co-operation will work it out. They’re shoveling dirt at Panama. Let Texas get all that’s coining to it.; —Fort Worth Star-Telegram. The co-operation is excellent and the opposition is strenuous, yet all things come to pass when the people get busy. They are busy. A REASON. The women are making a strong fight for the rights of the laity in the big Methodist conference at Asheville. The bishops address against them did not discomfit them at all. They are out after the goods and will leave no stone un turned to get it. As matters now stand however, the chances are agniust the women. —Yoakum Her ald. Chances are never against the wo men except where celibacy is part of the creed. READY FOR IT. - Texas naturally prefers to in- H]>ect new arrivals before accept ing them. Perhaps after a close in spection of Halley's comet we may decide to amputate its tail and take it in.—Houston Post. Big as it is there is plenty of room for it in Texas and the gases it con tains will be a pleasant relief after the sort we're been having in the cam paign for governor. MAY 18, 1910. Little Stories Fritz Augustus Heinze was surround ed during bis trial by men who believ ed in him and who regard him as one of the great mining men of the coun try. “He should have remained in the mining business,” said one of these friends, “for he is not a great banker. He was tolling us the other night how he happened to go into the banking business. For years he had been swinging big enterprises, borrowing largely from the banks, and one day ce had his bookkeeper figure . out how much lie had paid the banks during ten years. “ ‘The total amount staggered me,’ Mr. Heinze told us, ‘and I decided that the banking business was the best of all, so I decided to be a banker. The other had the same bookkeeper figure out how much I have paid, the lawyers, and now I know the law is the best paying game of all.” WHERE WAS JOHN? A Sau Francisco woman whose hus band had been dead some years went to a medium, who produced the spirit of her dead husband. ‘ ‘ My dear John, ’ ’ said the widow to the spirit, “are you happy now?” “I am/very happy,” John replied. “Happier than you were on earth with me?” she asked. “Yes,” was the answer; “I am far happier now than I was on earth with yon ” . “Tell me, John, what is it like in heaven ? ’’ “Heaven!” said John, “I’m not in heaven!”—Lippincott’s. FAR BETTER AS IT IS. Visitor (in Washington)—Why is it that the capital of the United States can’t support a better baseball club? Resident—My dear sir, it’s providen tial that we haven’t a first class baß team here. If we had, by Georgy there wouldn’t be any business trans acted either in congress or the white house during the entire league season! —Chicago Tribune. NO CHANCES. Photographer—l’ll make you a very pretty picture, ma'am. Fair Sitter—l want it to look just like me. Photographer—Would you mind pay ing in advance? —Cleveland Leader. NO MISTAKE. First Baby—Chanteelcr thought he made the sun rise. Second Baby—Well. I'm dead sure 1 make father rise.—Harper's Bazar. RATTY. The men scorn the mouse that ter rifies the women, but the women rule the men that scorn the mouse.— Life.