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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.