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18 SAN ANTONIO LIGHT AND GAZETTE _ Founded January 20, 1881. Framing Daily. Members Associated Prods. Sunday Morning. O. D. ROBBINS Publisher TELEPHONE CALLS. Business Office and Circulation Department, both phonos 176 Editorial Department, both phones 1859 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily and Sunday, carrier, 1 month 50 Daily and Sunday, carrier, 1 year •«•••••••••. 6.00 Daily and Sunday, mail, 1 50 Daily and Sunday, mail, 1 year (in advance). 600 Bunday, carrier, 1 year 2.00 Sunday, mail. 1 year 2.00 Single copy, Daily or Sunday. 05 Entered at the Postoffice at San Antonio, Texas, as Second class Matter. The 8. C. Beckwith Special Agency, Representatives, New York, Tribune Bldg. Chicago, Tribune Bldg. TO SUBSCRIBERS. It Is Important whan desiring the address of your paper changed to give both old and new addroosea. Should delivery bo irregular, please notify the office. Either telephone 176. The Light and Gazette io on sale at hotela and news stands through* ent ths United States. URGES! CIRCULATION OF AN! PAPER IN SMI ANTONIO Helping the Small Man "A fine sentiment.” some of our conservative friends will remark, "but tell us precisely what you would do to help the small men make a living.” One way to do it is illustrated by the land system of the state of Victoria, Australia. Victoria is, and has practically the same climate as Texas. It was formerly held back by great land holdings, as Texas is in some parts today. Again, as in the case of Texas, there were plenty of people who needed and wanted homes on the land and a chance to make a living for their families by working for themselves. But in Victoria, as in Texas, the man who most needed the home was least able to get it because he lacked the capital essential to the enterprise. In Victoria it is believed that the purchase and subdi- Vision of land into small farms is just as much the legiti mate function of government as the building of high ways and the maintenance of schools. In the United States we know how "to help the big man make a profit.” We have reduced this process to one of the fine arts of legislation. But other countries can teach us the equally Important lesson of "helping the small man to make a living.” The measure of a country’s greatness is not, and never Was. the size of the profits realized by its big men, but the welfare and happiness of the small men, who make up the masses. Twenty-six trunks, ten horses and five carriages have arrived at Tarrytown, N. J., from Cleveland. Rockefeller with his little porte-monnie (French) will soon arrive and will spend Christ mas there, If the porte-monnie doesn't collapse. Rev. N. Dwight Hills says Roosevelt Is “the only man on earth who can throw double sixes every time.” Won der where Dwight preaches! Talk about cinches! Every time a newspaper roasts him Roosevelt gets $1 per word for his answer. Mrs. King Alfonso won't let Alf ride a flying machine. Afraid some good wing shot will pot him. Washington’s nice little milk trust had just announced a raise in price beyond the reach of the poor, on the ground that cows weren't giving milk, when a prosecuting attorney said a few kind words and the cows went to spouting the lacteal most gloriously. Oklahoma is so hot after the clairvoyants that they can’t even tell at their very best “sittings" whether they’ll be in jail or the Gulf of Mexico tomorrow. Greeting down in effete Boston: "Good morning! Has Prof. James’ ghost used you yet?" Long before she married Chanler, Cavalieri publicly announced that she would not marry for love. The hyme neal altar in a church is no place for a bride like that. She should be put up on an auction block. Maybe if they'll search Ballinger’s hat they'll find this proverb in it: "To possess what is unobtainable to others is a human passion.” e Dickinson —oh. he’s war secretary—says "Taft has exe buted Roosevelt's policies.” Yes sir. executed ’em and turned the remains over to friends of the family! Maybe, too, there’s something in Aldrich's had health. Rhode Island democratic nominee for governor is making B whirlwind campaign as an "insurgent.” Nearly all of the 391 democratic congressional candl dates have been nominated. To James T. Lloyd of Mis- Bouri, chairman of the national democratic congressional committee, properly belongs a large share of the credit for ths high character of the men selected to make the race in the name of democracy. From the moment he took charge of the campaign Mr. Lloyd concentrated his efforts upon seeing that men of high moral character and recognized integrity were named. "We can win, but only if we present men of proven patriotism and Integrity to the voters,” declared Mr. Lloyd over and over again to the democratic leaders throughout the country. This was practically an ultimatum, because Chairman Lloyd saw to it personally that his wish was carried out. British editors call Teddy "the American Moses.” Prob 6bly because Teddy, early In life, was in the bullrushes. Actress Trixie Frlganza mounted a Chicago aeroplane and it wouldn't budge. One glance at Trixie, as we re member her in San Antonio, would show anybody that she was too much "heavier than air” to fly. Spain, you’re next! People Refuse to Be Buncoed niuivui sucn action wouio be like a meal without bread, or like a duck trying to swim without water. It is quite a proper formality. You don't have to eat the bread and your duck can live with out swimming. Moreover, the more salubrious the en dorsement the more likely its acceptance as a proper for mality and nothing else. Mr. Taft's career as chief executive and his personality are known to the people, who will have their own opinion of them regardless of all convention fulminations. Nothing that a convention could claim could cover up established facts. The Ballinger scandal is still odorous. We all know what sort of men compose Mr. Taft's start of advisers. We all know of his self-confessed weakness and failure in securing redemption of popular party pledges. His denial of federal patronage in order to pun ish honest legislators who defied Cannonism and Aldrich- Ism is matter of history. These are facts. Mr. Taft is J personally responsible for them, and all the convention ■ endorsements that can be fired off between this date and ■J9I2 cannot hide them or mislead the public as to their Iniquity. Moreover, Taft is only an incident and not the issue. That which is stirring the people of this nation is bigger than a Taft bigger than a Roosevelt, bigger than big New York and all its conventions and platforms. While there is no chance of a democratic majority in Texas it is just well for the people to remember the Taft principles SUNDAY, “It is better to help the small man make a living than to help the big man make a profit.” So says Gifford Pin chot. — Of course it's not news to say that New York's progressive convention en dorsed President Taft. A republican convention “ without such action would Democratic Senate Possible to predict a democratic senate. Such a thing is not im possible, however. On March 4, next, the terms of thirty United States senators expire, of whom twenty-four are republicans. Twelve of these are in bad repute, and most of them will not aspire to succeed themselves, and others are in serious trouble, among them being Clark of Wy oming, Dick of Ohio. Kean of New Jersey, Nixon of Ne vada. The senate at present has fifty-nine republicans and thirty-three democrats. Seven of the republicans are progressives. From present Indications the next senate will be anti-republican, forty-five republicans and forty seven progressives and democrats. Champ Clark of Missouri, the man who may succeed Uncle Joe Cannon as speaker if the national house of representatives is democratic, is a man of the common people. He was born in a log cabin and was raised on the farm. He is still old fashioned in a good many things. Last week he was billed to address a meeting in a small town near St. Louis. On the mornlrg of the afternoon he was to speak he sent the following note to the com mittee in charge of his reception: "I wish you would let me know what hour I am to speak and send somebody over to the Laclede hotel in St Louid, to pilot me over. Of course I don't care anything for carriages or automo biles or anything of that sort. I can ride in a street car." Have you heard it?—"Every Little Movement Has a Meaning of Its Own.” Naw! It isn’t Teddy explaining that'Saratoga business; it’s the new song craze for the crazies. Cleveland is booming Brand Whitlock for United States senator vice Standpat Dick. To do up the Dick-Herrick- Foraker-Cox-Harding gang with a man like Toledo’s gol den major would be redeeming Ohio wholesale, sure enough. Pittsburg jurj’ acquitted a thirteen-year-old girl who killed her betrayer. Another terrible blow to the “noble scions" of Pittsburg's high-up families! Gee! What a vaudeville trio Manuel, Mlle. Gaby and Uncle Joe would make, with Joe doing the singing! As Others View It TEXAS AND THE NATIVE OYSTER. We are accustomed to hear the name of Texas mention ed in association with big things. The area of the state, Its growth in population, its principal cities. Its cattle ranches and cattle ranges, are all things of great proportions. In addition, there are its cotton plantations, its fruit farms and its vegetable gardens, the like of which, for size and yield, is seldom to be found. All this without mentioning the prospects of Texas as they are viewed by Its sombrero crowned sons, and leaving out of the discussion anything save a passing reference to the real pride of Texas, her lovely daughters. What could seem more foreign, there fore, to Texas, more incongruous to Texas environment, more out of tune with Texas associations, tastes, aspira tions and ideals, than the oyster? Up in the northeast the oyster has been a social factor for generations. But this is natural. In the northeast the oyster is at home, like the lobster, the clam, the soft shell crab and the periwinkle. He constitutes an Im portant part of the food product of the section. Shipped in the shell, canned or in bulk, he has contributed as much as any other food product to the comfort and the uplift of a free people. In his way he has been to the northeast what the Texas steer has been to the southwest. No attempt has ever been made to cultivate the Texas steer in New England; why should an attempt be made to cultivate the New England oyster in Texas? Yet the attempt has been made, and the consequence of Invading a field that does not belong to it is already be coming apparent. The New England oyster, as might have been expected, was not long In southwestern waters before it had raised the native Texas oyster to a higher plane; so that today the oyster called native in Texas is a very superior bivalve to the oyster that was native to Texas before the New England oyster was introduced in that quarter. It has a harder shell. It has a more dig nified. some say a colder bearing. It is a smoother propo sition. But the middbunan has been meddling with it, sep arating it from its natural juice, substituting Ice water for its natural liquor, and would be doing this down to the present moment if the Texas legislature had had not called a halt. Now all Texas oysters must be sold in their natural juice, and the consequence is a very sharp advance In the price of living. It will be asked at once, why don’t the Texans eat beef instead of oysters? Whj’ don’t they cling to their natural products instead of going after those that are in a sense artificial? These are questions that could be properly an swered only by the Texans themselves. And the prob abilities are that they would be able to give a no more satisfactory answer than can people in all other quarters of the world who try to explain why they have less fond ness for things that are plentiful and cheap than for things that are scarce and dear. The Hall Room Boys SAN ANTONIO LIGHT AND GAZETTE . It is generally conceded the next congress will have a decided democratic ma jority in the house, but up to the present time it has been considered boldness I ALL SORTS | Copyright. 1909. by : Poet Publishing Co. * j By NEWTON NEWKIRK. • DOROTHY NEWKIRK A MARVEL. California Girl the Coming Champion Swimmer of America, Says Expert. Miss Dorothy Newkirk is the com ing swimming girl of America, ac cording to B. Goodwin Seielstad, fa mous college swimmer, who tried out the pretty sixteen-year-old Angeleno girl recently from the Venice pier, a distance of seven-eights of a mile, against a terrific tiderip and in a choppy sea. Miss Dorothy Newkirk is a marvel, and 1 can understand why Annette Kellerman refused a match with her because she had not sufficient time to go into training. In addition to a marvelous physique and an indom itable courage, this charming young girl seems to know the way of the sea as if by Instinct. How to battle every cross current and escape its clutches seems to be an instinct with her. and she does it without loss of effort and in the quickest possible time. We were more than half way to the ' finish when she said: ‘‘l guess I made a mistake in wearing skirt. I have half a notion to drop it and leave you and the skirt both behind." We had to swim away out in a curve to escape being swept into the breakers, and when we landed at Santa Monica she suggested to ms that we swim back, because it was such a long walk. Never in my experience have I seen such endurance and she easily could have made good her offer to swim back. ' Though Miss Newkirk is not a sprln tef, she has mastered the “Australian crawl,” and is the only girl on the coast who has been able to adopt that form of swimming.—From the Les Angeles Examiner. Ah there, Dorothy! I am glad to meet you. I have never heard of you, but of course you are a relative of mine and I am proud to belong to the same family that bears your name. Looks like you have Annette Keller man’s goat all right when it comes to the swimming business. Otherwise why didn’t Annette accept your chal lenge for a swimming match? Oh. I know- she said she didn’t have time to go into training, but that's what they all say. When the sports of this country were trying to arrange a match be tween Me and Jack Johnson aftet he had licked the tar out of Jim Jef fries at Reno, I hemmed and hawed and said that I didn’t have time to go into training. Then they all laughed at me, so I don’t think very much of that excuse when Annette Kellerman makes it. There must be some class to you, Dorothy, not only as a swimmist, but also as a sixteen-year-old beauty. However, that is not to be marveled at —-as a rule all the Newkirks arc very handsome. Why did they call you a “college swimmer?” Nothin’ like a college ice are you? I should hate to believe, Dorothy that you are as cold and un feeling as that. Don’t you believe it if anybody telle you that you made a mistake in wear ng a skirt in the water. I have a I hunch (and my hunches are gener ally correct) that you would look far better. Dorothy, in a skirt than any [ thing else I can at the present mo ment thing of to suggest. You,take |my advice and stick to the skirt— then you won't attract so much at tention as you otherwise might. I am sorry you are not a sprinter. However, all us Newkirks cannot be sprinters. Now sprinting is my strong hold. I once ran for congress in the west and you should have seen me go! As a runner for congress I far outclassed the candidate on the other side, but the son-'of-a-gun beat me by $5OO campaign expenses over and above what I spent to be elected. Perhaps you are not aware. Doro thy, that I hold the world's champion ship for the fifty-yard dash. You should have seen that dash. It was done in a green pasture and a red bull was after me. On the level, Dor othy, I don’t know of anything thai : Is so much of a stimulant to a sprin ter as to have a large angry rod bull with two sharp prongs protruding from his forehead and wearing a loud । and defiant snort —I say I don’t know of anything that will so stlpyu late a foot racer to his utmost ef forts as to have an animal of this description right at his very’ heels and Impressing on him at his every Observant Citizen I wad standing on the corner ot Commerce and Alamo streets ye3:er day afternoon, when I observed a ne gro step from a street car backward with a grip in his hands and then things happened. The asphalt pave ment. man and satchel were all one for a tew moments and as the darkey with a grin on his face was brushing the dust from his clothes, anotnsr negro approached him and said: "Say, niggah, whar's you from?'' ••in’ from de country,” exclaimed the ' ictim and as the other coon walk d away trom the scene he laugn ingly remarked: “Ah nebber did seed a country niggah, who nqwed howto get off dem street keers, ’out 'jsltln skinned and dis darkey am no c-jp tion.” ’ * SANANTONIO2I YEARSAGO (From The Light, Oct. 16, 1889.) The large force of workmen at the fair grounds are getting things in shape for the opening ot the Interna tional exposition. E. I. Bowsky, who conducts a oar ber shop on Soledad street, was at tacked by one of his former employes this morning and painfully injured. The assailant is in the county jail on a charge of assault to murder. Albert Devine has gone to the Dal las fair. He will rustle for the Sac Antonio exposition while, there. Ed. Kotula and wife have returned from their three months’ tour ot Europe. The visited Rome, Paris, Germany, the old Poland home and return content with San Antonio. The Turners did not meet last night, because of the lack of a quorum. Herman Laux will be out of his room next week. * The Eighth ward bowling club will hold a meeting tonight. Freddie Kalteyer now owns a new Mail safety bicycle. Issy Cohen and W. Hoefgen will soon open a stationery store on Hous ton street. The Farmers’ Alliance has begun the construction of an alliance store on South Flores street. The Aransas Pass railway is ex pected to reach Laredo next Febru ary. The best driveway out to the fair grounds is out South Flores street to Mitchell street. The mesquite blocks on Commerce street have almost reached the Kamp mann building. Work of filling in the center of Alamo plaza with black dirt is pro gressing very slowly. S. W. Morris of this city yester day afternoon received the news ot tl>i death of his brother, Joe Moirls, in Canton, Miss. The county commissioners this morning passed an order to pay J 509 to S. P. Maury for the bridge on the San Juan road. jump that if it got up to him 1t would lacerate the clothing and lift him bodily into realms above. Why, do you know, Dorothy, that a man with rheumatism and also with such complaints on the side as sciatica. St. Vitus dance and lumbago can do the most wonderful things in the way of sprinting—if he is only followed closely enough by a red bull. Just what is meant, Dorothy, by the “Australian Crawl"? That's a new one on me. I am familiar with the “Western Union and the Postal Tele graph messenger boy crawl,” hut this imported article from Australia is something I know- nothing about. If you ever come south don’t fail to visit me. Cousin Dorothy, because I would introduce you to my friends here in San Antonio with a good deal of pride, and some day when T was not very busv you and I would run out to Hot Wells and take a sw-im in the pool just to keep up our stroke. Great work by the two Newkirks— Dorothy and Newt, eh? I would show you the sights, too—the Alamo, the missions, and then we'd take a spin around the loop. Thon I would take you out to dinner —we would go to the St. Anthony roof garden and de vour some lobster salad and ice cream, w-ith liver and milk for des sert. One hundred and twenty-three mil lion seven hundred and fifty-four thousand railroad ties, worth $60,321.- 000. were used by United States rail roads last year. Texas Talk I HAIL! DREAM SKIRT. The pretty things that are shown in the Houston show win ■dows cost like blazes and threat en an epidemic of busted pocket books. but. Gee! it's good to see the women in them.—HoiMton Post. Don’t get grouchy over the prlee of a dream skirt, dwell upon its spark ling iridescence and the graceful lines of its clinging drapery. INSURANCE PROBLEM. Chris Haglestein. one cf the wealthy men of San Antonio, was burned to death in bis beautiful home while his wife and chil dren were viewing the circus pa rade. He carried $190,000 on his life and now the investigators are busy. Evidently the insurance ad justors are agitated.—Dallas Daily Times-Herald. Agitated? That's very mild! But the adjusters are not by any means as excited as the insurance companj stockholders. It is quite possible that they will try to give the heirs a big sensation before they hand over any money. ONLY NEED CORN. Mexico is buying Texas corn by the train load. That's an opening. Why not shove along the good work, to Include train loads of fac tory products. Put the big order book to work. —Fort Worth Star- Telegram. Who wants any factory products in tamales? IN HOUSTON ALSO? We admit that the celestial at tributes and appointments of Houston do not t»clude streets paved with gold. We must first get out of the habit of eternally digging up the asphalt and vitri fied brick before we can risk the aurification of our highways.— Houston Post. Perhaps there's a Callaghan in Houston. Digging up asnhalt and putting mud in its place is supposed to be a Mananavllle prlvil«ge, exclu ively. NO EXTRADITION. The gentleman who was recent ly a candidate for president against Diaz has jumped his bond and landed in Texas. Is running for president in Mexico against Diaz an extraditable crime? — Houston Post. Madero will be in no danger in San Antonio if he gets a poll tax receipt—• not until after the ch irter and city elections, anyway iee d t° become an American for that little technicality waived. HOW IT COSTS. With Texas' great educational institutions, the A. & M. college, the University and the Denton In dustrial institute, opening with larger classes than ever before, there is evidence that the next legislature will find something to do in meeting the demands upon it for t>- upkeep of these institu tions.—Beaumont Enterprise. Any editor could have told them that the moment a school of journal ism was. started the expense bills would run up. That name is enough to lead to vast extravagance. POSTAL BANKS? NONE. Texas is growing In every way and along every line. For in stance. the number of banks has increased from 167 to 606 In five years.—El Paso Times. Lots of banks but no sign of any compliance with the postal bank pro visions adopted by congress. What the people can expect from Taft is a cold crust. A RELIEF. “John.” said his wife. “I have lots of things I want to talk to you about.” . “That's good.” answered Mr. Snend ers; “generally you want to talk to me about things you haven't got.”— Buffalo Express. (Copyrkht. 1910. S’ the New Tortr Brenini Journal Publishing Oorapany.) OCTOBER IC., 1910. Little Stories PARENTS STILL GROWING OIA Paul Morton, the president of the Equitable Life, was speaking to a gathering of Insurance men on the humor of application blanks. "In filling out a blank recently a man in Ohio put after the ‘age of father, if living,’ 120 years, and after 'age of mother, if living,’ 110 years. The agent was a little surprised and started an investigation of his ow i. In answer to inquiries the applicant said that both father and mother hid died several years before, but 'if liv ing' would be at the ages given."— Judge. FOUND A WAY. "Pedro, I owe about 3000 francs.” said a Parisian grocer to his shop man. "Yes. sir." "1 have 2000 francs in the safe, but the shop is empty. I think it is tne right moment to fail.” "That's just what I think." "But I want a plausible pretext for my creditors. You have plenty of brains; think the matter over tonight and tomorrow morning.” The clerk promised to think it carefully over. On entering the shop next morning the grocer found the safe open, the money gone, and in its place a note, which ran as fol lows; "I have taken the 2000 francs, and am off to America. It is the best excuse you can give to your creditors."—The Argonaut. THANKSGIVING. Alan had played the entire day with Little Brother without an impatient word. After saying his customary prayer that night his mother suggest ed that he add, “I thank God I was not impatient |Uth Little Brother to day.” This he did with much fervency, after which he remarked that there were some other things he would like to thank God for and forthwith he closed his eyes and said: “I thank God I offered my candy to father before taking any myself. “I thank God I offered my candy to Little Brother before taking any my self. "And I thank God there was some left." —Lippincott's. » WHEN THE PUDDEN’ PULLED. Farmer Hodge was of the good, old fashioned school, and ha always gave a feast to his hands atfWiarvest time. It was harvest time, and the feast was about to commence. Giles was the oldest hand, and the hostess, with beaming cordiality, mo tioned him to the seat by her right hand. But Giles remained silently un responslv e. "Come.” said the hostess, "don't be bashful, Mr. Giles" —he was just Giles on ordinary occasoins—“you're a right to the place of honor, you know.” Giles deliberated a moment, then spoke. _ . "Thank you, kindly. Mrs. Hodge, he said, "but if it's all tthe same to you. I'd rather sit opposite this pud den'!”—Answers. NO INSULT INTENDED. “Haven't we met before?” inquired the inquisitive, bent-nozed man in the day coach. "I hope not,” replied the short-hair ed man. who was sharing his seat. "You hope not!” ejacuiatorily re peated the first speaker. "Do you mean that. sir. for an insult?” "1 intend it for just the reverse of an insult, my friend,” responded the man witn the cropped hair, "and I think you will appreciate my senti ment a’nd feel like thanking me for giving it eZiression when I tell you that this is the first day in thirty years that I have been out of the staters prison."— Chicago Daily News. SEEKING NEW FIELDS. At a meeting of a state medical so ciety the secretary read a letter from the consul of one of our far-away possessions urging the need of a resi dent physician in his district. In tie moment of silence that followed the reading a young man in the hall arose and said modestly: “I wish vou would put me down for that place, sir. It sounds good to me. My practice hire died last night.”—Success Magazine It's an ill wind that blows out y«ur last match. POINTED PARY GRAPHS. It's a pity tint more sermons a-e not as deep as th«y are long. It's awfully hart for a little womu to impress peoph with her dignity. Under certain cir cumstances a worn- 1 an will admit any thing—except her age. The trouble with most people is that they waste tod much time explain ing things. Some women jump at conclusions because they want to see how the story is going to end. The man who has a good reputation may not be able to realize the fun he might have if he didn’t. — Chicago News. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR A man can love a girl just because he oughtn't to. Most anyb ol y could get rich if it really made tromle for him. Before he is mir ried a man thitks he has troubles; if terward he knouS. One way to |et along in the wosd is not to be an htr to much money. What a man lik«s about family life S how important hi thinks he is in it.— New York Press.