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6 SAN ANTONIO LIGHT AND GAZETTE Founded lannary 13. 1881. Evening Daily Members Associated Press Sunday Morning a D BOBBINS Publisher HLEPHONg CALL*. Business Office and Circulation Department both phones.. 1.« Mltorial Department both lsa ’ TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. By Carrier or Mall. Dally and Bunday, one vear (in advance) Daily and Sunday, one month Bunday Edition, one year * J™ Single Copies. Dally or Sunday.... e® Entered at the Postoffioe at San Antonio, Texas, as Second-class Matter. agWßes. The S C. Beckwith Special Agency, Representatives ”*£&**•' New York, Tribune B'dg Chicago, Tribune Bldg. TO SUBSCRIBERS. It Ie important when desiring tho address of your paper changed to give both old and new addressee Should delivery he Irregular, please notify the office. Either telephone 178- PUBLISHER’S NOTICE, grbeertters to The Light and Gazc-te are requested to pay money to regular authorized collectors only. Do not pay car riers. >a errors are sure to result The Light and Gazette is on sale at hot els and news stands throughout the United States. < LARGEST CIRCULATION EF AhY PAPER IN SIN ANU A New Paving Discovery ' during the next campaign. Our great quarter of a million dollar stieet department is now about to “fix ’ South Flores street. Some years ago real asphalt was laid on that thorough fare from a point near city hall to the Aransas Pass depot Long years of neglect and heavy traffic have worn holes in it and now .Callaghan is going to fix that street, and he proposes to fix it “good and proper” as the boys say. All the holes have been dug out. enlarged with an axe and made as large as circumstances would allow. Sevespl of the city gangs will now proceed to dump into these holey a few shovelsful of crushed rock and spread some adobe mud on top, pass a steam roller over the mass a few times and then anißmnce with some noise and flourish that an other old Hicks street has been made passable. San Antonio has an alleged asphalt plant. The mayor be lieves that the class of pavement it makes is so good that he invested some $30,000 or .$40,000 of the city's money in it and stated that the whole city would be paved with poultice, yet South Flores street will receive no benefit from the city plant. The hombres will be put to hauling rock and dirt with which to make the repairs and the first rain will mane it necessary that the work be done again, making more work for the hombres. When all the holes are filled and the watering cart makes a trip or two the adobe mud will he of such consistency that every passing wagon will pick up a little and take it iO some other part of the town. What a splendid thing it is for the to have sueh a progressive and modern city government! Asphalt repaired with adobe is certainly something of a revolutionary move and marks a step in advance of anything ever attempte I ' bKSny other city in the country. To the utter surprise of everyone, Diaz and Corral were reelected at yesterday's elections in Mexico. Maybe the other candidates will now get out of jail or will receive orders to proceed on foreign missions. Hear ye! Hear ye! Senate Boss Nelson Wilmarth Al drich stands pat on Ms original statement that the govern ment is wasting $300,000,000 a yegr. Senator Beveridge, fretting under Aldrich’s indictment of the republican party on the charge of gross and wanton extravagance, sought to discredit Aldrich’s statement. Jut Aldrich declared he knew wl-.at he was talking about, and that if he could run the government as a business man, “without let or hit* drance from anyone.” he could save the people $300,000,000 b year. Query: Is Aldrich contemplating joining the ranks of the insurgents* It would be interesting to know what the “stand pat” republican editors of the country think >t Aldrich’s statement on republican wastefulness! When the administration announces that there 1s likeiy to be a surplus in the national treasury, surprise is mani fested from coast to coast. Not like the days of long ago when we were boasting to the world about our big bank balance. Why Dr. Ricketts Died behind a legacy for the whole world. The cause of his death was that dread disease, typhus fe ver; but it was not caught in the usual way. Dr. Ricketts went to Mexico because there was typhus there. Just what was the concrete reason for his going would be stated dif-’ ferently by different people. There ere in this land a not very numerous but a very active body of people who would say that Dr. Ricketts! went to Mexico for the purpose of indulging in brutal taste for torturing monkeys. There are others who would say that he was a hero who j dared the most loathsome of deaths for the chance of bene fiting mankind. There are hosts and hosts of us who listen to the pros »nd cons and care little about the matter. But the story is really more dramatic and absorbing than that of the chargo up San Juan hill, or the capture of Port Arthur. Here it is, in briefest. Dr. Ricketts made up his mind that typhus fever is com municated through the bites of the body louse, just as ma laria and yellow fever are carried by mosquitoes, the sleep ing sickness by flies, bubonic plague by fleas, and other diseases by other insects and animals. He wanted to know Not for any careless curiosity, but that the disease might be intelligently combated. There Was typhus in Mexico md he took some assistants and went there. Typhus is called “jail fever.” “spotted fever” and by other names, and is a much more dreaded disease than ty phoid. It attacks prisoners and the dwellers in the slums, very seldom intruding into “good society.” There were only two ways open to Dr. Ricketts in his itudy of the disease. He could experiment on human beings »r on animals, Naturally he chose animals. Inasmuch is monkeys are the only animals known to be«capable of tak ng typhus, he obtained a supply o f monkeys and went to rork. In doing Jhis he sacrificed monkeys to the cause ot laving men —poor men, mostly, but men. One of his assistants took a bottle of the loathsome lice MONDAY, Another great public im provement is under way: it is something to which the administration will doubt less “point with pride” Newspapers from Mexico tell us of the death there ot Dr. Ricketts, an American physician. He died in the City of Mexico and leaves with which they were experimenting and held it to a mon key’s flesh so that the lice might bite. This was to deter mine if the parasites really gave the disease. One of them crawled out on his hand and bit. He took typhus and nearly died. It was clear evidence that Ricketts' theory was coi rect. The work went on. Monkeys were “tortured” daily —as seemed necessary. Thp work was finished, and the mystery of typhus laid bare. The dread disease is merely a matter of cleanliness. After this—thanks to Ricketts — when typhus breaks out in a prison, we can go to the mau in charge and point at him the accusing finger, saying “Thou art the man guilty of these men’s deaths. Clean out the vermin and you clean out typhus.” We now stanc. where .ve can face the disease tranquilly, for we know how to fight it and defeat it. It is a victory for human intellect over the world of physical evil. But just at the close of this brilliant work Dr. 'Ricketts took the disease and died. Some will say that he died for the love of his pet vice of torturing animals. But it seems rather difficult for a reasonable mind to take, that view. Sueh minds, we think, will prefer to rate him as a hero and a martyr—in spite of the moukdps. Mayor McCarthy had got only about half way home be fore he learned that he was not “running San Francisco” legardless of the big state of California. Most every state has general laws that make’ it embarrassing for any mayor to be the great “I am all the time. Among the commendations wired Governor Gillett we noticed nothing from his excellency, the governor of Nevada. Next thing to get us all stirred up will probably I>e Mr. Betti's divorce trial at Florence. He names Caruso. Uncle Walt The Poet Philosopher L_ — : — " I ■■ ■— r-—- - — ■ ■ — The nation’s sliding down the path that leads to Ruin's lair, and all of Ruin's dogs of wrath will chew its vitals there; each day wo deeper plunge >n THE NATION’S HOPE. grief; we'll soon have reached the worst; why don't we turn, then, for relief, to \K’il I i n m I? t» .In I axis I*- cnnTTla william Randolph Hurst? It seems we haven't any sense, that we these ills endure; he’s told us oft, in confidence, that he alorfe is pure; he is the bulwark of our hope—our last shield and our first; then let's rely upon the dope of William Randolph Hurst. He offers us the helping hand, he fain wouhNbe our guide; and still we wreck this blooming land, and let all virtue slide; of all that is the country's best we're making Wienerwurst; O let us lean upon the breast of William Randolph Hurst! He stands and waits, serene, sublime, he beckons and he sings! He wears a halo all the time, and he is growing wings! 80 let us quit the course that harms, forsake the things ac curst, and rest, like children, in the arms of William Ran dolph Hurst! Copyright, 1910, by George Matthew Adatns —. As Others View It HOW STATEWIDE HAS FAILED IN TENNESSEE. The speech of Governor Patterson of Tennessee, following his nomination for the governorship, was one of the jnost noteworthy utterances of the year, and what he said of the statewide prohibition question is of especial interest in Texas at the present time. “I regard the introduction of prohibition in the polities of Tennessee,” said, the governor, “as the prolific cause of almost every ill which has befallen the state and the democratic party, and until it is eliminated for some sound and sensible policy, which will meet with the approval of right-thinking and patriotic men, it will continue to be a disturbing factor in our affairs.” Governor Patterson affirms that a fatal mistake was made when the coalition of republicans and a minority of the democratic membership abandoned the rule of consent and substituted the ride of force. The rule of consent law in Tennessee was in substantial respects identical with the local option laws of Texas. It had eliminated saloons from every community in the state except Memphis, Nashville, Chattanooga and Lafollettc, where public sentiment was strongly in favor of license, just as local option has eliminated saloons from more than 150 counties in Texas. It was to discipline four cities in Tennessee that the present trouble was started, but Mem phis, Chattanooga and Nashville refused to be disciplined and whereas there is a statewide enactment, the saloons are doing business as usual in the towns mentioned. It is pointed out that whereas under the restrictive laws of the rule of consent period Nashville had 140 licensed saloons, now there are over 300, not one of which is paying a dollar df tax. In Memphis, not the slightest attention has been paid to the new- law and Governor Patterson says illicit selling has spread from the city over the county of Shelby. Governor Patterson declares: “Under a general prohibition law there is now not one dollar of revenue col lected and the consumption of liquor has certainly not de creased. ’ ’ It may be that there are people who are not willing to consider such facts as these in the frenzy of a campaign full of bitterness, but they are facts just the same. Surely thoughtful citizens who retie<»t upon what has beqn 'accom plished in Texas during the past twenty years can not be willing to substitute for the tremendous progress made in the direction of temperance the disorder and faillira which statewide prohibition, so called, has inflicted upon Tennes see. / Statewide has been a success nowhere. It has failed wherever it has been tried. Local option—the system now in vogue in lexas —has destroyed 100 saloons in the United States ’o where statewide has destroyed one. No amount of abuse can obscure that luminous fact. Ihe real friends of temperance can render their cause a real service in the Julv primaries by voting against submis sion. The prohibition leaders have simply gone wild an I unless the people call them down thev mav bring incal culable injury upon Texas.— Houston Post. Letters From the People RIVER OVERFLOW. Editor Light ami Gazette—Sir: Some weeks ago Mr. Lockwood called attention to the subject of old time overflows of the San Antonio river. These letters did not elicit the interest and discussion they deserve I. The question is important to every citizen of San Antonio and vitally important to some. Wh6t the little river has done in the way of freshets it mav do again, but with a difference too vast to be computed. Would it not be'wise to ask our older citizens to discuss the subject through the newspapers? I hear on all sides flint after two or three years of drought we mav look out for a deluge. Can we afford one now? Would not a freshet like that ot 1871 set the city back about twentv-five years? Ask the < hamber of Commerce. As I understand it, there is but slight danger from the river proper; the trouble is with the Olmos creek. This arroyo stays dry two thirds of the time, then gathers its head writers without warning an I rushes into the river bed, causing a sudden inundation which docs the damage to city property. Something ean be doue to prevent this and something should be done at once. -INO. V. SPRING. SAN ANTONIO LIGHT AND GAZETTE Not only this, but a brakeman, from the rear platform of the last car. care lessly tossed a quid of tobacco, from which all the nutriment had been ex tracted, to one side of the track, which quid struck a Jersey bull and angered him so that he chased the train three miles and nearly caught it. too, so there will be no chewing tobacco on the B. Z. & C. R. R. (Bent, Zigzag and Crooked Railroad). If the plasterer who replastered a house at 411 West 71st street, near Co lumbus Ave., New York, about 23 years ago, would call to Mrs. T. C., 120 West 72d street, he will hear some thing to his advantage. The above advertisement is clipped from a New York paper, and a curious reporter with a nose for news visited the address and found the advertiser to be a lady named Mrs. Cate, who told a pathetic story of an unrequited love. Twenty-three years ago, on a sum mer's day, Mrs. Cate decided to have her house plastered, so she sent word to a plastering concern to have a msm come. In reply to her request, a veri table Adonis showed up. He was tail, broad shouldered, handsome anil cour teous, and Mrs. Cate sat by and watch ed him as he worked. She says he had a mop of luxuriant red hair and whis tled merrily as hd plied his trowel. The way he slapped on the plaster, com bined with his sunny disposition, made a big hit with the lady in question, who didn't even ask him his name or address, so that when he gathered up his tools and hade her a cheery good day. it is as though he passed out of her life forever. The more Mrs. Cate thought of that handsome plasterer, the more she felt she could learn to love him, and as the years fled by, one by one, this in growing affection on her part increased unti] she felt she could stand it no longer; so she advertised for him—ob ject matrimony. Where is this red haired plasterer anyhow? Why docs he not show up and make Mrs. Cate happy? Possibly he is not as handsome now as he was 23 years ago; also it may be that he hasn’t as much red hair as he had then. It would not be at all surprising if his fiery mop had been gnawed off by the relentless tooth of time. However that may be, it is his duty, if his eye meets these lines, to come back to Mrs. Cate and give her an opportunity to look him over. You cannot tell what you may ac quire by taking ’em off—it might b” grippe, it might be pneumonia* while you might not suffer from anything worse than a cold in the'head; but it you want to be on the safe side, leave ’em on. Now and then when a hot day has ar rived, I have been tempted to take mine off, but my better judgment has told me to leave ’em on, an<Ll?m glad 1 have done so. Those who have taken 'em off, are sorry they didn’t leave 'em on. and some of those who have taken ’em off, have put ’em on again. The summer is so far gone now that I think the better plan is to not take ’em off at all—if I were you. I. would leave ’em on until fall, then yon won’t have to take ’em off—you will need 'em on. and you ean keep right on keeping 'em on all winter. Then, when next summer comes, you can take 'em off—if it is warm enough; if not proceed to keep ’em on. as you have done so far this summer. i ALL SORTS i Copyright. ’.909 by Post Publishing Co By NEWTON NEWKIRK. ; TOBACCO CHEWING BARRED. There is a dinky little railroad down in West Virginia which is 17 miles long, but it is just as wide as any other rail road. There is one train of mixed rreight and passenger ears passes over this road twice each day. A rule has recently been issued by the president forbidding any of the road to chew tobacco while the train is in motion. This will be a great hardship on the employes, all of whom have-been in the habit of chewing to bacco, but this vile habit has led to re grettable results. One day when the engine stopped nt a watering tank, a farmer came rushing down along the track from the direc tion the train had come and when he got to the engine, he pulled the eng> neer from the cab and gave him a good vigorous thrashing. After the engineer had been nearly hammered to a pulp by the farmer, the engineer's curiosity got. the better of him and he asked the farmer why the chastisement. There- , upon the farmer explained to the engi neer that while he was peacefully hoe ing corn beside the track, the engineer, on the day before, with unerring -pre cision had expectorated in his eye. PLASTERER WANTED. Oh you Beau Bnunmel plasterer! SEASONABLE ADVICE Dear Newt—May 1 take 'cm off? New Braunfels. EDDY. No, Eddv. mv advice is for you to eave ’em on. We have had a very iackward and diffident spring this car and the All Sorts’ policy has been o revise all those who contemplate aking 'em off. to leave ’em on. Bettor keep 'em on. JULY JINGLES Willie Winkle had two bits, he bougl a craeker loud; Now Willie does not live at home, li roosts up in a cloud. Coldfeeto the Monk. Observant Citizen The nerviest man in San Antonio comes from Houston. He breezed into a barber shop on Houston street and told the boss lie had just come in on the train. Some one had stolen his grip, which contained his shaving set, he explained, and could he borrow a razor and a cup. He was a clean cut, well dressed young chap, so he was ac commodated. He shaved himself leis urely, and ttok a fresh towel to wash his face and hands. Then he daintily anointed his hair and face with co logne and finished off witn a liberal sprinkling of talcum powder. Finally, as he started for the door after fin ishing ope.rations, he inquired of the astounded proprietor, “Say. Kiddo, have you gqt the makin's?” The bar ber regretted that he did hot have the makin's, and the youth departed, call ing back, “If you ever comr to Hous ton look me up.” SANANTOfiIO2IYEARSAGO (From the Light June 27, 1889.) The twenty-seventh annual commence ment exercises at St. Mary's college occurred this morning. An excellent program was carried out. Messrs. Otto Wahrmund and Otto Move have returned from Fredericks burg- G. Giorda is putting the finishing touches on one of the finest brick stores in the second ward, corner of Concho and Matamoras streets. The new organ of the First Presby rian church has been installed. Prof. Steinfeldt xyll probably officiate next Sunday. There will be a meeting of the nr rangement committees of the.republi can club tonight. Patrick Fields has returned from Her manns Springs, Mex., much improved in health. It is estimated there will be forty thousand people at the fair grounds at the jockey meet on July 4. Sheriff D. A. T. Walton is in the city from Beeville. To date 781 dog licenses have been issued. The Little Joker Baseball club will hold a speii.nl meeting at 8 o’clock to night. The uniforms for the members of the Musical union band have arrived in the city. Memorial exercises will be held by the Belknap' rifles tomorrow night at the armorv. General Smith's family left todav for Minneapolis. Ed Dreiss is in Fredericksburg. The funeral of P&lice Officer Lock mar, who.died suddenly yesterday morn ing at his home, occurred this morn ing- William Gaynor is the ninety fifth mayor of New York. Thomas Willett was the first mayor in 1665. (Coerrtrtt, 1(10. br tba Nev X.rk Brenls* Joumil PuWUMM That special session! If it proves as sensational in reality as the poli ticians prediet, it will make us be lieve a volcano has occurred in our capital and earthquake shocks felt throughout the state. Keep cool, friends; we’ll pull through all right. —Gonzales Enquirer. Now why didn’t the editor say midst instead of capital. “Volcano in our midst” would read as if the misery were real. Mercedes takes the prize for the first bale. Iler enterprising and en thusiastic people deserve credit for their get-up and go-at-it-iveness. Brownsville shipped the first bale from its vicinity on the same train, but the Mercedes people, by secur ing a man with their bale aud em ploying an automobile, beat us to the exchange by live minutes. Here is a lesson for Brownsville.— Brownsville Herald. It ought to be a pretty race next vear when both are on their toes. The Bexar county democratic ex ecutive edmmittee refused to follow the state committee's advice to put voters in the primaries under oath. This country is hardly ready for such radical party action. Voters are timid anyway, especially since Terrell got his iniquitous law in force. —Guadalupe Gazette. Always take a dilemmp by the horns. It's safest. Otherwise, ignore it en tirely. Another Texas man has dropped the pistol he was carrying and made business for the undertaker. When will men stop carrying pis tols? —Beaumont Enterprise. When men stop making pistols. Dalias, Houston and San Antonio are abuut neck and neck when it comes to population. Each city claims to have a few over 100,000 persons. Suppose the census should fall short of this estimate about. 15 per cent? —Corpus Christi Herald. In which case, having a little more “neck,” San Antonio would win by a nose. The of England’s favorite 1 dog was Caesar, on who«e collar is en graved the words, “I am Caesar. 1 be long to the king.” The senate ushers want to see Lori i mer's seat chdck. Texas Talk SCARED. IN 1911. IGNORED. DATE FIXED. TWO LOSERS. .TUNE 27, 1910. Little Stories ANDORRA’S PARLIAMENT.”. The parliamentary procedure of An dorra—the tiny independent state which lies sandwiched in between France an-l Spain—is of the uainqtiest kind. Parlia ment (having been called for a certain day, the honorable members arrive in groupes on horses or mules, shod witn the usual Andorran foot-gear, white corded sandals. The Cast de la, Valias serves at the same time for palace, par liament and prison, not to mention sta bles for the members’ steeds. After stabling the animals on the ground floor the members ascend to the half for de liberations. change their sandals fori shoes, and put on the official costume—* a long blnck sort of robe and n huga three-eornered hat. These, when not in use, hang in a row'on pegs at the bot tom of the hall. * The next proceeding is mass in the chapel, tiny and bare, dedicated to the Holy Ghost; then comes a meal served/ on an oaken table without cloth, and eaten off antique pewter plates. Be tween every two members stands a huge porron, and each drinks in turn out of this pitcher. In this home of archaicism everything is done (accord ing to tradition; even the daily menu is the same today as it was centuries ago. The members receive no emolu ments, but they are liberally fed and lodged in six bed rooms, one for each parroquia, on the second floor. Each loom contains two oak bedsteads with comfortable feather beds and pillows, linen sheets and warm wool rugs; a pewter basin and a huge pewter pot of water flanked by a lump of soap in a pewter dish, with four straw-seate* chairs, complete the furniture. Two illustrissimes sleep in each bed. Sup per is taken at 8 p. m., after which the president presides at evening prayers. Then the members disrobe, hang their garments each on its accustomed peg, and troop off en masse to bed. —Wide World Magazine. ' ry HE’S A REGULAR YANKEE. Telephone girls are used to being j called up to give the correct time of i day; to being called down by the man j in a hurry for reporting that the num ber he calls does not answer when he is “sure” some one is awaiting beside tile phone at the other end for his sig nal, but a Malden telephone girl han one on them all when it comes to being ;r. bureau of information. Last Sunday 1 this call came to the Malden switch board: “Say, operator, my wife has gone i away and left me to cook the Sunday dinner. I have got along right except for the spinach, but that’s got my goat, and I can’t even find a recipe book. How do you cook the blamed stuff?” It wasn’t exactly telephone business, but he got the directions. Out in Mat uen there is some woman who is “X -(tolling the‘virtues of her husband as a 1 cook, and the recipient of the praise | isn’t saying much.—Boston Journal. The ocean is growing salter evary ■ year.