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6 SAN ANTONIO LIGHT AND GAZETTE Founded January 30, IMI. Eren Ing Duly. Members Associated Press. Sunday Morning. G D, ROBBINS... Publisher TELEPHONE CALLS. Rsineos Office end Circulatioa Department, both phonos.lTS iwisi Department, both phenes TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. By Carrier or Mail. p*'Jy sad Sunday, one month •><•••••<•••••••• ••• Ou>«eK Daily or Sunday Sundry KkHtacm. one year 800 f.rMi Sunday, one year (mail only) in ad ranee $6.00 Krtaßod at the Poetoffice st ban Antonio, Trane, as fteoccd-clMc Matter. ____ Ths * C Beckwith Special Are ary, RepresentatirOA Naw York, Tribune Bldg duioago, Tribune Bldg. TO SUBSCRIBERS. It is Important when desiring the address of your paper chanced to give Moth old cid now addresses. Should delivery be irregular, please th* of* re. Either telephone 176. The Lia at and GatMte la on sale at hotels and news stands the united States laRGEST CIRCULAIIDN OF ANY PAPER IK SAN RNTOHIO Is This a Joker In the Charter? here and there in its great length contradictions, inconsistencies and minor er rors. These could not be avoided owing to the haste jwith which the final draft was prepared. Here and there a “joker,” slipped in at the last moment by some subservient Callaghan adherent may be found deftly tucked away where it can be recovered in time of need. No doubt Mr. Callaghan's committee of nine, if it is instructed to tear this charter to pieces, may un cover many of these splinters and knots in the tim bers used in building the new temple. A great hulla baloo can be raised over these disclosures. But nobody who is really a friend to commission government will be deceived by all this. The great object and purpose of the charter is clearly outlined and plain. If ratified in February it will give San Antonio a modern and business-like city govern ment, and all these little mistakes may be corrected in due time. In the last section of the charter, printed in the Light and Gazette yesterday, it is disclosed that the matter of calling the charter election is virtually left to Callaghan. The sentence reads: Section 165 —It shall be the duty of the city council of the city of San Antonio at its first regular meeting in the month of December, 1910, or at a called meeting for that purpose not later than the loth day of December, 1910, to order an election to be held on the first Saturday in the month of February, 1911, for the purpose of submitting the question to the qualified voters of the city of San Antonio, to determine whether or not the city of San Antonio should accept and adopt this charter for the government of the said city. And if for any reason the city council should fail to order the election by the 10th day of December, 1910, then it shall be the duty of the mayor of the city of San Antonio or any two aidermen then in office, to at once order the same, and are hereby vested with the same power and auth ority vested in the city council to carry out the purposes of this section. It was the original intention to provide for the intervention of the governor in calling the election in case Callaghan and his city council failed in their duty. But as it reads now the matter is up to Callag han and it remains to be seen whether the mayor will perform a duty that is mandatory upon him by the very words of the charter. Callaghan has had the effrontery to insult the committee of citizens that once asked him to call an election to vote on this same matter. Will he now disregard this charter law? It does not seem possible that Callaghan’s grip on his aidermen is such,that no two of them could be found to call the charter election in case the mayor and his city council failed. And yet there must have been some purpose in changing that section! Does this appointment of a committee of nine to examine the charter for the mayor preface an an nouncement by Callaghan, based upon the report of the committee, that he will not call the charter election ? The manana mayor is fighting with the desperation of a wounded bear; there is something in those city books that he wants to keep covered lip. But in case he defies the law and tries to avoid the election in this high-handed wav it will be up to the people of San Antonio. Will the people submit? It did not take long to fix the automobile fixer. It in a wonder that the railroads did not run excursions to that joint debate between Congressman Garner and Noah Alien hie republican opponent. When Garner is warmed up in debate he is nothing less than a four ring circus and knows how to make the fur fly. Some railroad official was asleep at the switch. Tnft is blooming out these days into something akin to a reformer. The spirit of the times seems to have reached •'Big Bill” at last. Remember Maine would be a good re publican slogan for tho coming campaign—also Minnesota— also Wisconsin and also a few others. The Dingley tariff made multi millionaires out of cotton mill owners in a decade. It would seem that these men wU> hnd grown rich beyond the dream of avarice would have been satisfied with the Dingley cotton schedule. But greed knows no bounds nnd the average rate of duties col lected on manufactured cotton goods under the Payne-Aldi ich bill is 23 per cent higher than under the Dinglcy bill. For example 8 pieces of 54-inch cotton covert, costing abroad 27 eei>*s per yard, used for ladies’ skirts and children’s suits, .mm ay. It is to be expected that the new commission government charter for San Antonio will show paid $43.34 under the Dingley tariff of 35 per cent, but under the new tax it paid 8 cents per square yard, or $62.88. an in crease of about 30 per cent. An importation of 4 pieces of 54-inch mercerized cotton costing abroad 35 cents plr yard would have paid under the Dingley duty $31.14, but actually paid under the new tariff $41.83, an increase of 34 per cent. Thus this additional extortionate tariff tax on cotton goods will now proceed to make billionaires out of cotton mill mil lionaires. Ballinger in his speech at Denver yesterday declared that when he is forced out of office he will go into the muckrak ing business. He said nothing about resigning which prob ably means that the aforesaid muckraking is in the dim dis tant future when conservation has ceased to be a vital issue, everything having been conserved. But the funny part of the whole thing is that the.dinner at which Ballinger spoke was ‘‘given in his honor.” Dallas is keeping up its homicide record. Good thing that census business was not put off for gnother year. A pop a day reduces the population. Wonder when the mayor will announce his decision about buying a lot of hydrants for the waterworks company. Peo ple are anxious to learn what he has found out. As charity is sdid to begin at home maybe it’s a fine thing after all. Tafi is jockeying for peace with the insurgents by declar ing for revision of the tariff schedules, individually. We nom inate the Aldrich family rubber trust as the first individual. But. for heaven’s sake, revise her down, not up, Bill! Uncle Walt The Poet Philosopher It doesn’t matter what you say, if you do wrong from day to day. Your moral lectures may be sound, with sems of thought they may abound, but when you spring them folks will grin, and say: “Old Nick’s rebuking sin!” Sometimes I see my SAYING AND DOING neighbor do a thing that jars me through and through; and I swell up with virtue’s fire, my heart is filled with noble ire, and to myself I say: ‘‘l trow, I must rebuke my neighbor now! When h? performs some scurvy deed, that makes my moral bosom bleed, it is my duty to protest, and plant some precepts ins his breast!” And while I’m training for the job, an Inner Voice begins to throb, and whisper in । my spirit s ear: ‘‘You’re too blamed virtuous, I fear; it । jars you horribly to see your neighbor rob an apple tree, or I give the melon graft a boost, or lift a chicken from its roost; but you, whom these deeds make so sore, have done the same thing o’er and o’er!” And then I sort 0’ shrivel up, and take a large enameled cup and pour ice water on my head, and leave those moral things unsaid. The man who preaches rebukes about men’s little sins and flukes should have a record snowy white; his deeds should make his words seems right. Copyright, l#lo, by George Mettbew Adama As Others View It A MIGHTY BROADSIDE. The most dramatic incident of the gun firing trials of tho new Brazilian battleships, Minas Geras and Sao Paulo, was the firing of an entire broadside simultaneously, making a terrific discharge, the heaviest broadside ever fired and an event unparalleled in the history of ballistics. • The five turrets of the ship were all trained on the port beam, all the ten guns were given an elevation of seven degrees and loaded with a full charge of 280 pounds of cor dite. The ten 12-inch guns, monster weapons fifty feet long, each discharged a shell of 850 pounds weight, making a total of 8500 pounds ‘‘weight of metal.” At the same time were fired the eleven 4.7 guns mounted on the Sao Paulo’s broadside, ench sending off a projectile weighing forty-five pounds nnd adding 435 pounds to the discharge, making up a total broadside fire amounting to 8095 pounds— a record discharge of destructive projectiles. Thosp vessels mount, as light guns in addition, six three ponnders on each broadside, which, fired in action, would bring nn the total possible weight of metal fired from the ship to 9013 pounds. —London Illustrated News. SAN ANTONIO LIGHT AND GAZETTE THE HALLROOM BOYS ALL SORTS BY NEWTON NEWKIRK. This column is conducted this week by members of the American Press Humorists’ association. Josh Wise Says; ‘'People who go to th’ seaside fer fresh air git stung; all they find is salt air.” LAURA JEAN LIBBEY ON THE “HOBBLE.” i “Women Wear Hobble Skirts —on Their Consciences.” —Laura Jean Lib bey. Dear All Sorts—l think it fair that you should publicly thank an esteemed contemporary for publishing the above. I am only one mere male man, but I feel sure I am voicing the thoughts of the whole big male world. For 30 years I have been trying to locate my wife’s conscience. Now, on the authority of Laura Jean Libbey, I know where she keeps it. Good luck, old man. FERDINAND BERTHOUD. News to me, Ferdinand, news to me. I have sometimes wondered where a woman keeps her conscience, but I never suspected she tried to conceal it by wearing a hobble skirt. Now, if our friend Laura Jean is right, then you and I must admit, Ferdinand, that a woman ’s conscience is so hampered and bound about and handicapped as to be of* practically no use to her whatever. How can a woman wear a hobble skirt on her conscience and ah the same time possess any peace of mind J Why, she might as well try to have her conscience run an obstacle race as to expect it to act in a free and easy manner all snarl ed up in a hobble skirt. Personally I am not very strong for the hobble skirt, and just between you and me I don’t believe it will be long before our lady friends will wa"x tired of the “hobble* and will get back into the old, comfortable relaxing Mother Hubbard or empire gown. You know as well as I do, Ferdinand, that a wom an eannot make much progress in this world when she is circumscribed by a hobble skirt. If she takes steps longer than six inches she is liable to trip herself up, fall and bump her pretty face. If she forgets she has on a “ hob ble” and beats it for a street car or from a mouse she is liable to bust the prescribed limits of the “hobble,” and then how would she 100k —especially in public? It would be a quick change from a hobble skirt to a sheath gown. No, this hobble skirt fad is not going to last anj’ great while. Thank good ness the American woman has left too much good hard common Sense tettet the hobble skirt retard her forward march towards her rights. You don’t see any suffragettes wearing hobble skirts, do you? No siree! Suffragette does not propose to be held back in the at tainment of her dream. She wants her rights and to get her rights she is will ing to use her lefts, and she knows she cannot get her rights even though she used her rights and lefts so long as she is handicapped by the hobble skirt.’ HIS MEMORY ONLY HALF GOOD. There were introductions all around. The big man stared in a puzzled way at the club guest. “You look like a man I’ve seen somewhere, Mr. Bliflker,” he said. “Your face seems familiar. I fancy you have a double. And a funny thing about it is that I remember I formed a strong prejudice against the man who looks like you—although I’m quite sure we never met.” The little guest softly laughed. “I’m the man,” he answered, “and I know why you formed the prejudice. I pass ed the contribution plate for two years in the church you attended.” “I noticed the black man had some thing up his sleeve that surprised all the fight fans.” “What was that?” “His arm.” | Observant Citizen When asked how she liked school, a little cousin of mine, who took up her studies for the first time last Monday, answered: “Fine, but what I want to know is why my teacher laughed when I asked her how many dimes I ean get for ten cents and if fifteen pennies are a half of two bits?” “In front were at least a dozen chil dren, all playing and having a good time,” said the man with the mustache. “They were waiting for the show to begin at Electric park and were amus ing themselves by battling each other with popcorn boxes, peanut 'shells and the like. In the childish battle there dropped whole wads of popcorn, scat tering under ehairs and getting under foot. “Behind them sat a man and wife and five children, all stairstepping from 2to 7 years of age. One little fellow in particular, clad I in a blue jumper suit, watched the spilling pop corn with interest. Then he suddenly bethought himself that here was a good deal of fine popcorn going to waste. No sooner thought, than he was on his hands and knees scraping it up and cramming it into his mouth. “The sight proved too much for a man across the way. ‘lf that kid wants popcorn he’s going to have it,’ said the man. Forthwith, he bought a package, but had it delivered to his small neigh bor. “Well, sir, I wish you had seen the way Little' Boy in Blue and his broth ers and sisters went after that pop corn. It was enough to make the heart glad. Little Boy in Blue didn’t question where it came from. He took the gifts the gods provided and lit into it with a vim and a vigor, which, aided by the efforts of his brothers and sisters, soon made it disappear in fine shape. “And the man who had provided the Lucullian feast sat back and enjoyed it even more than did the small boy.” SANANTONIfI2IYEARSAGO (From The Light, Sept. 23,1889). Col, T. G. Pray was found dead in his room above the Western Union tel graph office on West Commerce street this morning. Death had evidently oc curred several days previous. Recruiting Officer Croffull arrived at the post today with ten recruits from Jefferson barracks. Justice McAllister returned from Ft. Clark today. Lotus lodge, Knights of Pythias, will hold a meeting tonight. The fourth artesian well of the Cry stal Ice company is now down one hun dred feet. Max Ullrich and George Chabot were out on the Medina yesterday afternoon shooting birds. The Barbeck brothers re turned from a hunt last night, bringing two ducks and 47 doves with them. Henry Wagner is suffering from a scalded foot, received a few days ago. Rev. Kypfer of New Braunfels spent Sunday in the city, attended a birth day celebration at Fritz Vogel’s and baptized four children. Sam Maverick has returned to the city, after an absence of several days. Capt. M. Kenedy is in the city from Corpus Christi. Wm. Kerrigan, formerly general su perintendent of the Missouri Pacific, now of Little Rock, Ark., is in San An tonio. L. Mahncke has returned from a trip to- Leon Springs. The Jokers baseball club leads all teams in San Antonio in the number of games won. Of 23 games played the Jokers have lost but 6. The club will meet Thursday night when it will be decided whether to continue throughout the season or disband. Texas Talk NO “BULL BAT.” Here’s Indiana’s paternalistic prescription — progressive legisla tion, if you will—for the preven tion of crime and the reformation of criminals: “The indeterminate sentence law, the jail matron law, the juvenile court law, the contrib utory law, the adult probation law and the county jail supervision act.” That seems to cover about everything unless state playgrounds for deliquents in their second child hood would help some. —Fort Worth Star-Telegram. It doesn’t cover everything—not quite. Nothing in it about the ,lash or the “bull bat.” Texas still leads in prison legislation. SAFETY IN CHAMBERS. The San Antonio street vendors are afraid to “hull their goobers” now for fear of an indictment for playing a shell game.—Austin Statesman. Indictments? Did you say indict ments? Not while Chambers is on the job playing valet to Callaghan. San Antonio has to go to the governor if laws are to be enforced. DOWN AND OUT. The expected has happened— State legislature adopts Yantis res olution to disfranchise the negro. — San Marcos Times. No one seems to want the black vote this year. Terrell has kicked the darky off the back steps of the republican shanty and Yantis and the democrats would put him back where he was “befo’ de war.” GLORY COMING. Ella Wilcox says “the sorriest things in this life will seem grand est in the next.” If Ella is a trua prophetess, Jeff Davis of Arkan sas, R. V. Davidson of Texas and Marion Butler of North Carolina ought to find some consolation in her prediction.—Houston Poet. > One thing sure, there must be a crown for Bascom, especially as he says himself that he was crucified amidst many thieves. EYE TO CENSUS. Waco has passed an ordinance prohibiting children from running automobiles. The classic city is evi dently becoming concerned over the 1920 census prospects. —Fort Worth Record. Waco is humping herself for a 1920 record —no question about it. All that ’s needed is a clear track and a fair match and the auto children of today will do something for their country and city long before that date is reached. BETTER THE KNOCKERS. The live wires of West Texas are at Sanderson this week exchanging ideas on how best to make this sec tion a better one for you to live in and thus contribute to your happi ness. Let’s all help in the work. The kifbckers must be bettered along with the boosters, so don’t begrudge them their little knock ing—they like it.—Eagle Pass News. It is said that when a knocker is converted into a‘booster he makes the wire hum. Let the good work go on. (Copyright IMO. Sv the New Tori: Bv«da» Journal Publishing Company.) SEPTEMBER 23, 1910. Little Stories - CAT FIGHTS TWO TURTLES. Minnie, the large maltese cat of Frank Schoenstein of Ridgewood Heights, is deatq and the patrons of his cafe, at the corner of Linden street and Covert avenue, are mourning the loss of their one-time pet. But Minnie died a heroic death, bravely battling with two huge snapping turtles. The turtles were caught by Mr. Schoenstein while on a fishing trip with Herman Reiger, at Baldwin, Long Isl land, on Tuesday of last week. lie brought them home and put them iu an empty barrel in his cellar. On Thurs day night Minnie went into the cellar, climbed into the barrel, and the next morning Mr. Schoenstein found the cat with her jaws locked on one turtle s throat and the other turtle’s jaws in a death grip on the cat’s throat. One tur tle and the cat were dead. Pussie put up a fierce fight, but claws and teeth were of no use against the armor plate of the reptiles, which, with vicious snaps, tore her hide. Time after time she threw herself hissing and spitting upon the armored turtles, and at last, in one of her fierce assaults, she found the reptile’s vulnerable spot. All might have gone well for pussie if she had not had the second snapper to reckon with. With all her tenacity sho clung to her victim, but the other tur tle succeeded in locating her throat, and his powerful jaws snapped together in a death grip upon the cat’s wind pipe.—Brooklyn Eagle. DISEASE DEVILS. One of the lowest castles in India is the Mang, concerning whom a writer says: “Of ail the practices in which the Mangs have a part perhaps the most significant is that which has reference to ceremonies of ‘riddance’ in connec tion with epidemics. Such ceremonies would seem to have been universal at one time or another among all primi tive peoples and are apparently of two different kinds. Either the ‘diseases de vil’ is driven forth by force with much uproar or he is persuaded by methods of kindness and propitiation to remo « his unwelcome presence. The latter method is employed in certain parts of the Deccan and on such occasion the Mangs play an important part. “A male buffalo, purchased by the contributions of the village, is led to the temple of Mar Ai. the goddess spe ciallv associated with epidemic diseases. A Mang woman is then dressed to rep resent the.goddess, red paint is applied to her forehead and the horns and flanks of the buffalo and a procession is formed, headed by the woman and by the buffalo, which is usually led by Manus In front of the buffalo walk seven Mangs, each bearing an earthen ware pot containing a mixture of four intoxicating drugs and seven kinds of gr ?‘The buffalo is cut with a sword and a hole is pierced in one after ano of the jare so that as the procession circumambulates the village its passage is marked by a trial ot blood and of the liquid dropping from the jars, vn reaching once more the temple of the goddess the buffalo is .“den to woman, who all the time isforbidden to k KA»• HARD TO BEAT. “Mv dear sir,” exclaimed the man who is painfully accurate in his use of language, “that sigu in f^\“ f y our shop is improperly punctuated. ‘‘You don’t tell me?” exclaimed the old merchant. “Yes, sir. You have omitted a comma ’ ’ • , “Don’t tell me any more. I can t bear to think pf it. Here I’ve made only two or three paltry thousands out of this business. When I think of the millions I might have made if that comma had been present, I am over whelmed with remorse.” REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. The more you re form people the more they will need ft again. Philosophy is a check that you think is good till you go to cash it. What makes a mother so prinuj of her child i, she wouldn’t be 1* it was anybody else’s. Tell a girl how beautiful she is and she will be likely to believe everything else you tell her. There’s hardly any surprise so pleas ant as when you are expecting visitors for them not to be able to come.—New York Press. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. The best way to understand a women is not to try. If a man is really a dead one he is i*\ H grave condition. Fortunately for most of us, a lot of temptation doesn’t tempt. Telling the aver age man to use his own judgment is poor advice. No, Cordelia, yon can’t travel by mail, even if yon do stamp your feet. After all, women haven't much the best of men. when it comes to indulging in useless talk. The father of triplets is certainly in a position to reai ize that it is the lit tie things that count —Chicago New*.