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6 SAN ANTONIO LIGHT AND GAZETTE Founded January 20. 1881. Kraning Daily. Members Associated Press. Sunday Morning. 6 D ROBBINS Publisher TELEPHONE CALLS. Business Office and Circulation Department, both phones 170 Editorial Department, both phones 1359 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. By Carrier or Mall. Daily and Sunday, one year (in advance) $5.00 Daily and Sunday, one month 50c Hunday Edition, one year 2.00 Single Copies, Daily or Sunday 5c Entered at the Postoffice at San Antonio, Texas, as Second-class Matter. The S. C. Beckwith Special Agency, Representatives, New York, Tribune Bldg. Chicago, Tribune Bldg. TO SUBSCRIBERS. It is important when desiring the address of your paper changed to five both old and new addresses. Should deliffry be irregular, please notify the office. Either telephone 176. PUBLISHER’S NOTICE. Subscribers to The Light and Gazette are requested to pay money Co regular authorized collectors only. Do not pay carriers, as errors are sure to result. — -y The Light and Gazette is on sale at hotels and news-stands through out the United States. LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANV PAPER IN SAN ANTONIO This Road is Real; It Means Real Growth bustlers. no automobiles filled with soliciting committees seeking bonus subscriptions, no fuss and feathers. A gen tleman walked into the rooms of the Chamber of Commerce end announced in the most matter of fact way imaginable that he was going to build a road from here to the Rio Grande. That's al] there was to it so it seems when dreams come true the realization is without ostentation. No one thing that could be devised by the city builders Could add greater prestige to the city than this. It means one more step toward the final and permanent commercial supremacy of Pan Antonio in a trade territory greater than all New England. Of course there will always be compe tition there and San Antonio merchants will be obliged, to work hard for the business but they will have an ad vantage that can not be discounted by any other city in Texas. very heaw tonnage is coming out of the Rio Grande Talley these days and this will naturally flow through San lAntonio upon the completion of the road. When through trains are running from northern points into the lower Rio Grande via Brady and San Antonio, it will make this city forever the gateway to Mexico and Southwest Texas by Virtue of the shortness of the journey. Railroad officials are always more or less secret ise; they lave to be so despite the refusal of Vice President Perkins to discuss the extension to Brady, one glance at the map Fhows that the road to San Antonio assures the building of the rest of the line and the completion of the link that gives us another great trunk line to the north and great middle west. A All the work that has been done in the past, although not productive of actual results in the way of railroad buila ing. has given much advertising to the project and has led to the present pleasant denouement. While we are a little two citified to hold a barbecue in celebration of the assurances that the road will be built we can nevertheless rejoice individually and quietly. Mean while make a vow to do all in your power to help swing the big thing. At the investigation of the methods by which the Indians pf Oklahoma dirpose of their lands, it is shown clearly that robbery of th? most bare-faced sort is being practiced Minor heirs owning valuable property have been deeply in debt to the guardians and attorneys after the sale of their lands, the selling agents having absorbed the money received and piled up additional charges. This sort of thing has, apparently, been going on with the knowledge of the pro bate judges charged with the care of these government wards. Representative Campbell of Kansas, a member ot the investigating committee now sitting at Sulphur want? to know whether the methods in vogue may be called graft ing or plain stealing. To the average onlooker it seems very much like robbery. The attorneys do not use a sand bag; they use a contract with which to slug the victim and the results are very satisfactory—to the attorneys. In the fight in the republicarKCommitteemen’s scrap as io whether the convention should be at Comfort or at Boerne it would seem but natural that the leader of the senatorial district should have his way. For a party that preaches harmony and has such nice platforms and pretty planks, there teems to be a queer difference of opinion on minor Subjects. Alaska the Treasure House h c land, was doing when he was actively interested in helping Geo. W. Perkins examine Alaska, “with view to exploiting it” for the benefit of J. P. Morgan, the Guggenheim brothers et al: Alaska has more gold than California. Alaska has more coal than Pennsylvania. Alaska would make 470 Rhode Islands. Alaska has the only tin mines in the United States. Alaska has 599,446 square mi1e5—383,645,444 ,acres. Alaska has the greatest fishing waters in the world. Alaska is over twice the size of the German empire. Alaska is fourteen times the size of New York state. Alaska has more copper than Michigan and Arizona. Alaska is one-fifth the size of the United States proper. Alaska has paid for itself twenty times over in fish alone. Alaska was purchased for $7,200,000, less than 2 cents an acre. Alaska has paid for itself twenty-five times over in gold and ailver. Alaska is estimated to have half as much coal as all the United States. Alaska has the greatest cattle and sheep ranges under the American flag. Alaska has 4750 miles of general coast line; the entire United States has only 5705. Alaska has the highest mountain under, the American flag—McKinley, 20.300 feet. Alaska is larger than all the states north of the Ohio and Potomac rivers and east of the Mississippi. Alaska is in the same latitudes as Sweden, Norway and Finland; has a much better climate, more arable ground, and is much larger than all three of those countries, which have a total population of 10,030,000- TUESDAY; After all dreams coms true —take that San Anto nio - Brownsville railroad dream for instance. This time there were no cowboy Here are a few amazing facts that show what Rich ard Achilles Ballinger, cus todian of the nation’s pub lift land wnc Aninrr whnn Tin The Democratic Campaign The present republican majority is forty-three. At least eighteen republicans hold their scats by a margin less than 1000 votes. Every local democratic committee has a heavy responsibility. The character of the nominee in every district is supremely important. Democracy cannot challenge the enemy with weak or colorless candidates. The people want absolute as surance that the men they vote for will stand four square when the first real test comes in organizing the next con gress. Democratic, candidates must stand on an equivocal plat form of real tariff revision. The democratic party, through both national and locai or ganizations, must be prepared to shoulder full responsibility for removing tariff burdens from the people. The democrats have a real issue to carry them to victory, and can lose only by failure to grasp its significance. — 4 Any newspaper ought to be ashamed to admit that it had published the news of the coming of the Brownsville road into San Antonio in such a way that no one ever heard of it. That is one of those “beats” better left unsung. It’s the biggest thing .that has happened to San Antonio for years but some never know when news is news until they see it in the other paper. * “What's back of San Diego!” is the topic of a public lecture. As within a week they’ve eaught a rattler, a bob cat and a wolf in San Diego, it’s likely that what’s back of San Diego is some darned fine “African Game Trails.” Standpatters in their little coffins in Kansas declare that insurgency is merely the old-time populism with its whiskers shaved off. All the same, those Kansans know how to vote fearlessly, with or without the alfalfa. Uncle Walt I The Poet Philosopher The day is hot, and people stand and gasp like fishes on dry land. And every fellowman you meet will talk of noth ing but the heat. And people swear, and AN. AUGUST swoon, and sweat and only wish they might DAY forget. And I who’ve lived a hundred years, and sought throughout this vale of tears, all kinds of wisdom, do not care a cent for superheated air. I sit and read a rigmarole of how Matt Henson found the pole. That dauntless man, of swarthy face, the hope and glory of his race, that dauntless man pursued his quest, through snowdrifts reaching to his breast, and froze his feet and ears and nose, and lived on ice and sifted snows; and chilblains caught him when he slept, his tears were frozen when he wept. And when I’ve read a lot of dope about this frosty Ethiope, I always wish that I was rolled in blankets, to keep out the cold. Copyrijht, 1910, by George Matthew 4 As Others View It PROPER VERSUS IDIOTIC LEGISLATION. In “a story without words,” presented on the front cover of “Whittlings,” the unique little publication of the New Hampshire Fire Insurance company, a well groomed horse is portrayed endeavoring to draw the chariot “fire insur ance” along the highway- of “low rates” and sensible con ditions, leading to the good town of Utopia. Attached to the repr of the vehicle, and pulling with might and main iu the Contrary direction, is the jackass “legislation,” which if it have its way, will drag the chariot over the brink of a yawning precipice. The cartoon is a highly suggestive one, and applies very amply to the present underwriting situation in Texas, where the lawmakers have succeeded in placing the insurance and general commercial interests of the com monwealth in wellnigh hopeless confusion. Our country is “not suffering for lack of legislation, nor from present indications is it likely to, the desire for adopt ing new regulations amounting almost to a craze with our public men. If instead of seeking to obtain low insurance rates bv legislative edict, which is as futile as would be an effort to control the tides by the same method, our legislators sought to gain the desired end by reducing the loss ratio, the effort would be crowned with success. The fire waste of the United States is a national disgrace, and in no other coun try of the civilized world, would the conditions that obtain here be tolerated. On the European continent a fire is con sidered a crime, and the man so unfortunate as to have his property burn down has to make clear to the police authori ties his innocence, not only of deliberate purpose but of gross negligence, ere he can collect under his insurance pol icy. In the United States, however, fires arc looked upon as sure and speedy means of realizing upon investments, and unless the circumstances surrounding a fire very strongly in dicate arson, no attention is paid the matter by the authori ties, and the insurant company that suggests too critical in quiry into the nature of a loss, speedily finds itself unpopular with property owners. The result is that fully 50 per cent of our enormous fire loss is attributed to moral hazard; i. e., criminal neglect on the part of the assured. This condition is wholly prevent able, and the adoption and enforcement of a statute, com pelling loss claimants to report in detail the nature of their property destruction to the loeal authorities before insur ance companies were permitted to attempt adjustment, would speedily reduce the number and extent of fires, and permit the granting of indemnity at rates far below those now ruling. Legislation of this nature is highly to be desired, while that of the character in vogue in Texas canot be too severely condemned. —Eastern Underwriter. Pointed Paragraphs The oyster is wise. It never opens its mouth until forced. A man with a sunny disposition seldom has a hot tem per Probably the most popular illustrated paper is the bank note. After giving us a lift the elevetor man is ready to run us down. A woman can’t help admiring a man if he tells her she is good looking. Flattery will open a woman’s heart much quicker than it will a man’s nurse. Better a man who fails in his efforts to do something than one who never tries.—Chicago News. 4» ———.—— REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. Marshmallows or dividends, they just get eaten up. A bald head will go around pluming himself that he isn’t bowleggcd. A wife will stand more fault-finding tlian the cook, be cause she is more used to it. If a woman’s mother comes ta tea on Sunday evening she Iran call it a week-end house party. The trouble with getting your salary raised by any amount is you raise your expenses twice as much. —New York Press The democrats need gain but twenty-two scats in the next house of representa tives to obtain a numerical — majority. SAN ANTONIO LIGHT AND GAZETTE ALL SORTS BY NEWTON NEWKIRK. This column is conducted this week by members of the American Press Humorists ’ association. “In a way Bud Fridemush takes part in th’ good roads movement—he keeps pullin' his feet out o’ th’ mud atween town an’ his place.” x falling—calling— Say. can vou hear it, the call of the Sea? Ringing through mountain, and val ley, and falling And rising and roaring, but calling, still calling Always to me) League on league lies the 'land be tween, Forest and river and waterless waste; But ever the sea-gulls cry, “O haste Over the dusty miles to the green Wide water, where we have been!” Somewhere —anywhere, out of all this Drought and dust, where I blink and choke, Out of the riot and noise and smoke— Only to feel the sea-wind’s kiss To taste the salt of the shimmering spray,— To join in the words of my mother speech, \ And hear what the breakers say To the shingle and shell and sands oi the beach, And the whitecaps, shouting, each to each, Across the bay! Oh! to be one with the waves this night-— To join with their long ranks, hand in hand. Tn a desperate charge on the rocks and sand, With spears of silvery spume to smite, And to part and meet in the wild re treat, And the shuddering splash of the rush ashore, The dash of the shivering shale, and the roar Through the shelving shallows —then back to the sweet Deep, shining Sea once more! Calling—calling— Hark, how it rises, the call of the Sea; Over the distance, still rising and fall ing, Loud and soft—low and long—calling, still calling Always, to me! TED ROBINSON, Cleveland Leader; Sav, little boy, with the red-ripe cheeks, What says your heart when the eebool-time calls? Lit,gers it not where the play-time speaks, Slrinking away from the lore-grimed halls? Say. little boy, doos yoir top lament? What say yon? ba*, and your gloves and tops? Weeping, they mourn o’er the days they’ve epjnt Playing with vou and the other boys, Eh, little boy? Ah. little boy! ’tis a busy world, But there’s a time and a place for play. Off to the school in a trice you’re whirled, But vacation time, it will came some day— Eh, little boy? Say, little boy, dry your dirfkpiing eyes! Sunshine were joyless were’t not tor the rain; Work while vou may, and the school time flies. But work—and anon you may play again. There, little boy! —Henry Edward Warner, New York City. The man looked up from his work and paused. For some minutes he stood motionless. Then he paused again. The man whs working bv the day. BILL ROSE JR., Cleveland. “THEN IT HAPPENED.” (Our Daily Discontinued Story.) “Believe me, I am all the stuff with the ladies,” gushed Hennery Henken nius, as he meandered up the ball room to the prettiest peach on the promen ade. “Better steer clear of her,” whisper ed one of Hennery’s few male friends. ‘ ‘ That big mug over in the corner there is her beau.” “Pooh, pooh,” . 'responded Hen nery. * Leaning over the fair maid in ques tion, Hennery bellowed in her ear, ,to-’ wit. as follows: “Lady Bird, you look awful good to me. Let’s trot to a se cluded corner, Hcnev Bunch, and hold hands a while.” “Huh?” yelled the Big Mug. loom ing over Hennery like a mountain over an ant hill. (The end.) Josh Wise Says: SUMMER INLAND. SAY, LITTLE BOY! Say, liU'e bov! EXPLAINED. The Uni jama A New Hot Weather Garment for Men, Exhibited at the Chicago Fashion Show. Observant Citizen “There was a chap on the car the other evening scribbling on the back of an envelope. Just in front of him sat a girl, whose hair stuck out back of her a distance of more than a foot —and that’s a fact. Alternately he gazed at that hair and then at his en velope. I couldn’t resist reading what he wrote. This is it: “ ‘A maiden who came from Sinclair, Said: “ ’Tis plain that I need some more hair.” So she grabbed up a mat And she fashioned a “rat,” And the chappies all snickered “Ah, there!” ’ ” SM ONIO 21 YEARS AGO (From The Light, August 16, 1889.) Joseph Maurer and his son, William, both hack drivers, wero seized with cramps after breakfast, and Dr. Von Koehring announces That the sudden illness of father and son is caused by arsenic poisoning, which was placed in their food. The attending physician states that both men will recover on ac count of having immediate medical at tention. Ludwig Mahncke is raising castor beans. John Evans, clerk in the Sunset freight office, returns to his duties af ter a lingering illness. F. J. Wa: J leaves in a few days to finish his law studies at the University of Virginia. The work of improving Commerce street, is making good headway. Undertakers are having dull times now. All school houses in the city are be ing repaired. The International & Great North ern is doing a heavy freight business. The street cars will be running over the new track en Alamo plaza in a few days. J. S. and U'.na Craven are granted a license to wed. The opening of Market street into Alamo should be accomplished in a hurry, owing to Commerce street being blocked -while improvements are under way. The city council takes up the charges of Aiderman Bolton, of alleged short age of the city finances as charged by that aiderman and published in The Light, and appoint Adolph M. Cohen to count the cash. The application of Chris Kiel for a receiver for the Aransas Pass comes up before Judge King and is postponed for a few days. An enjoyable social party is given at the home of C. L. Lowdav on Macon street and is largely attended. FOLLY. One half the world lives on the taffy the other half bands out. Cy Warman. Texas Talk JUST AN ENDORSEMENT. Bishop Mouzon of the Methodist church may make his home in San Antonio. The San Antonio Light and Gazette is now bragging that it has four resident bishops. The Alamo City probably needs these divines more than any other com munity in Texas. —Dallas Times- Herald. Everything any good comes to San Antonio. The good attracts the good. The fact that four bishops live here is an endorsement of what we are saying. LEGISLATURES IN JULY. Having met quite a number of the Texas legislators in the winter time who then appeared to be rea sonable and fairly sane, we have come to the conclusion that it is a mistake to convoke legislatures in July.—Houston Post. It is taking a chance, but then the growing coolness between the execu tive mansion and the legislative halls may bring a suggestion of winter time before adjournment. WAR CLOUDS. San Antonio wants a commission government, but her political lead ers fear it will not be the best thing for her—or them. This state of affairs existed in Austin prior to April, 1909, but it hasn’t been bothering us much since.—Austin Tribune. Our troubles have only begun. The mayor is at the coast, in a quiet, se cluded spot, hatching devices to trap the job for life. The real fight for a commission government is just com ing on. ' SETTLED RIGHT NOW. It seems that there is not going to be any serious disagreement over the matter of submission. A major- • ity of democrats have voted for it, and the party in power stands In structed to submit the amendment to a vote of the people. Of course in the vote upon this question all qualified voters of all parties will have a right to take part. —Galves- ton News. And of course submission will fail. The republican vote is solidly anti while the democratic party has been captur ed by the pros. A PROBLEM. Now for four years of legislative rest and political rest under Col quitt. Heaven knows, we need it. —Corpus Christi Caller. But not even heaven can say that we will get it. AUGUST 16, 1910. By T K. POWER* Little Stories THE VACATIONER’S VADE-MECUM Reno—A western resort much affect ed by the eastern smart set and by sports and athletes from all over the world. Scenery cosmetic and peroxidic. A delightful spot to rusticate and rid oneself of physical afflictions and en cumbrances. The most extreme cases cured in six months—some in 15 rounds. No place for children. Leavenworth —A breezy, mid-west resort of increasing popularity with bankers, trust presidents and frenzied financiers. Hotel de Barz, erected by the federal government for the accom modation of the super-acquisitive, the finest institution of its kind west of Atlanta. Special suites reserved for long-term parties. Pittsburg—The site of the famous councilmanic immunity baths. This popular resort "is sometimes designated as Hen-With-the-Lid-Off. Visitors dur ing the coming season will be afforded the rare spectacle of witnessing the ad justment of the lid into place. New York—A stratified, gilded city, situated just east of the United St<c«, and populated by deportations of the European surplus. Send for F. Hopkin son Smith’s dainty prochure: “The Polite New Yorker—Where is it?” Atlantic City—The home of a famous board walk peach, famed for its ex quisite coloring, bloOih and curves. Scenery ranging from Sylph-like to beefy. The celebrated outdoor art gal lery is viewed by hundreds of thous ands of inland critics annually—Smart INDECISION. The young politician was as obliging as possible, but there was a limit to his possibilities. When the reporter asked him whatt his wife would wear at the mayor’s reception, he assumed a confi dential air. ‘‘l’ll tell you just as much as I know myself,” he said, night she told me she would wear white; this morning at breakfast she said she'd decided on her rose-colored gown, and when I said good by to her she had spread a gray one beside the rose-col ored on one chair, and her black lace beside the white on another, and was taking something else out of the closet. If her hair hadn’t caught on a hook as she turned round I might have been able to tell you more.”—Youth’s Com panion. MELTED HIS NERVE. The pretty girl stood in front of the ice cream parlor and read the big red sign with sparkling eyes. “James,” she coaxed, “I feel as though I should be treated to three chocolate sodas, two plates of ice cream and a vanilla sundae. Wilt thou?” And James wilted. He had only ohe lone dime in his pocket, and he wilted like a linen collar on a July day.— Chicago New*.