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6 SAN ANTONIO LIGHT AND GAZETTE ___ Founded January 20, 1881. Bren nc Daily. Member* Aaaoalated Prada. Sunday Morning. G. D. BOBBINS ..... .. JT. .7.». .PubUaber TSLOFHGXE CALLS Boain era Office and Circulation Department, both phonaa 176 iMHorivl Department, both phones 1358 ~ TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily and Sunday, earner, 1 month •*••• 50 Dally and Sunday, carrier, 1 year 6.00 Dally and Sunday, mail 1 month 60 Dally and Sunday, mail, 1 year (in advance)... 500 Buaday, cairjer. 1 year .-•••• 2.00 Rua day, mail. 1 year 2.00 Single copy, Daily or Sunday 05 Entered at the Poatoffice at San Antonio, Texas, as Second class Matter. The 0. C. Beckwith Special Agency, RepraaenuUrea* New York, Tribune Bldg. Chicago, Tribune Bldg. It is important when deairing the address of your paper changed to ghe both old and new addresses. Should delirery be irregular, pl east notify the office. Either telephone 176, The Light and Gazette is on sale at hotels and news stands through out the United States. URGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN SUN ANTONIO That Senatorial Race change with them. How can any one see the slightest evi dence of astuteness in the manana mayor's "turn down of Senator Real? Let us presume, for the moment, that Callaghan is able to defeat Real. If Callaghan should elect Bee as state sena tor and send Real down to defeat, whom would it alienate from Callaghan? Why. the German-American friends of Real! And it happens that these German-Americans are the very men Callaghan most needs in his fight to defeat the commission government charter. •Real is strong enough to carry the outside counties : Jn the district against Bee. There is no doubt about this and the chances are that Bee himself would admit ft. So it now becomes possible that Real will whip both Bee and Callaghan together. If he does, the manana mayor will be rolled down the hill head over heels, a laughing stock to everybody. After that, earn ing the charter in February and electing the opposition against Callaghan in the May election, will be easy matters. On the other hand, if Callaghan defeats Real it will not strengthen his hands in the least. The whole town knows that the poll tax qualification last year was queer and that hundreds of alien Mexicans were armed with poll tax re ceipts. On that qualification some politicians assert that Callaghan has 2500 votes in his vest pocket. If that vote beats Real it reflects not the least credit on Callaghan. Callaghan had no right to complain of what Real did in passing the commission government charter. In this vote Real was honest and likewise true to his friends, Callaghan included. In fact, whatever may be said of Real no man can question his honesty in his every act in the legisla ture. Real from the beginning held that it was for the people of San Antonio to say whether or not they wanted a com mission charter. When the charter had no clauqp giving the people a chance to vote upon commission government Real would not promise to vote for it. Further than this. Real declined to go to the governor to urge the submis sion of such a charter bill to the special session of the legislature. But whee the charter was so changed that it carried a ratification clause, providing that it should not be a law until approved by the people of San Antonio in a charter election, then, and not until then. Senator Real fought for it. and fought for it honestly, not with duplicity like some of the legislators. In fact. Real deserves more credit than any other one person fot passing the commis sion government charter with the ratification clause. If Callaghan can complain of Real, by reason of this, then it is another proof that when all Is said Callaghan is very small potatoes, so small that it is strange the man has been honored so long! It is to-be doubted that the many friends of Carlos will show any deep appreciation of the mayor's announce ment that he is for Bee. Mr. Bee is making a good fight and this is a hard knock with the election so near. A sort if last minute bomb, too late to deny because the damage 's done in a minute, and cannot be undone in a fortnight. A great many of the poorer Mexican laborers are get ting tired of giving up twenty-five cents a week to the bosses for the “benevolent societies" that are always organ ized just before elections. It is common rumor that these men are told to "come across,” or forget to come back to work. Those who have been in the city employ are used to this sort of robbery for campaign purposes, but the newer ones are sure that they are worthy of their hire without being obliged to contribute out of their meagre earnings for a purpose that does not concern them. They will work under the commission government just as well as under Callaghan and not be obliged to turn part of their wages back to the gang. — * The bath ttfb trust is said to have made a clean up during the recent advance. The coffin trust has also advanced prices so that the cost of dying is keeping pace with the cost of living. .4 Who says that there is no financial reward in the pro fessions these days? The professional ball player is doing quite well; each man on the Athletics team received $2062 for his week's work in the post series. 4 Jamalulu, boss of Sulu, comes to seek a true-blue Lulu; wields a hefty Jolo bolo, sings a strange hi-le-hi-10-10. ped dles pearls to girls with curls, smiles and smiles and so beguiles with his oriental wiles. Uncle Sam coughs up the dough to keep Jamie on the go, gives him guides to hunt up brides, swells his coco till he's loco, stands for all his hoco poco—'cause he’s king of Sulu isles. Wouldn't you. Lew, rule o'er Sulu, boss it on those distant hills, lap up joy to the gills, and be happy as a Jappy if your uncle paid the hills. Team Work for San Antonio was team work and inside play at critical moments., San Antonio is playing a game now—a political game and must make good. It's like this. Three men on bases. The crack hatter up. Two strikes and two balls called. Last half of the ninth. A run would tie. Two runs would mean the pennant. The pitcher deliv ered, the batsman swung, there was the familiar sounding whack, and the ball sped low, std cannon-shot-like, toward the center field fence. But The fielder was there. He made good. He whipped to Second baseman, who snapped to the home plate, and the runner was out. Three out! Game ended'. Team work! When two horses are hitched to a wagon. If the double tree is not at right-angles with the tongue, one of horses is lagging, and the other is doing more than his chare. Team work, pulling together, doing one's full part, is necessary to the happy home. The mother, the father, and the children must each have a fair share of work, and do It. Not only ip the physical work, but in the work that makes for happiness, love, heart-beats, brain-throbs, mus cle-building,-a.nything and everything, there must be good team work. The husband who lets his wife build the fires is lagging. The wife who lets her husband cook breakfast, has kt her end of the double-tree get almost into the spokes of the wheel. The daughter who lets her mother wash the dishes is a drone, and does no good in that team. The nine would get along better without her. and the voter or taxpayer who sits back and lets the 1 )NDAY, TO SUBBCBIBEBS. Callaghan has been look ed upon as the epitome of all that Is shrewd in polities for so many years that it is not easy, to realize that ‘ times change and men Even though the national championship is settled, there is a good lesson for the average citizen to be drawn from the sort of play that won the pennant. It commission league and a few good hustlers do all the work for the commission charter and won't lift a hand to bettor his city is a quitter and deserves nothing better than his own efforts entitle him to; he just hopes to share In the good that will come to all from the work of the few. The city would he better without him. But let's all get together on this business, pull together, do good team work and win out in February and then watch the city grow. In less than two week the big fair opens and it promises to be the best in Texas unless all prophets have gone to the. bad. A . Dallas still'welcomes her visitors In true western style. Two unarmed fair visitors were qhot there Sunday. Dallas is such a metropolitan town- y'know that it's safe to say no such thing would have happened before the census. They counted the living visitors then. *■ ’ 1 And now.the Cubs say that bad umpiring was responsi ble for the loss of the series. Whatever the league, bush or big, the umpire is always .the goat. Uncle Walt The Poet Philosopher If there's anything the matter, anything that's in a plight, let us hold a little ’’congress” and we‘ll surely make it right. We've Adjusted many troubles since the congress fad be gan; we have straightened out the prisons on a highly moral’plan; with THE CONGRESS FAD ’ our irrigation congress we have saved the creeks and ponds, and the bankers held a congress iri the’ interests of bonds; and dry farmers held a congress made the fur and feathers fly. Det us hold a congress often and attend it in a troop, and well have a picture taken in a gay and joyous group, and we'll make some windy speeches, and we'll call each other hons, and we’ll overpower reporters if they do not flee like fawns. And we’ll talk about our waters, and we’ll talk about our wood, and we'll stand up for the Uplift and the fine old Larger Good. Oh, we’ll chase some sinful Peril to Its dark and! noisome den, then we’ll pay our own expenses and’come toddling home again! Copyright, U 10; by Goorgo Matthew Adams. Us Others View It | -BOB" TAYLOR’S SWAY IN' TENNESSEE. There is no irreducible minimum of discord in Bob Taylor’s philosophy. The way the senator played on the jangled heartstrings of the Tennessee democracy until all were pitched to the soothingest strains of harmony suggests musicianly powers of a miraculous order. Is it not a higher culture of that elbow grease which enabled him to extract from embalmed caterwaulings a flow ol campaign music that thrice before irresistibly swept him into the chair Jie is again pointed for? The Tennessee fact makes the Arkansaw fiction look like a mechanic. But a better illustration of the senator’s mastery over the elements of discord is’found by contrasting the peace ful convention proceedings of the traditional fiery south rons with the Kilkenny exhibition put up the same day by their Massachusetts allies in the Hub of sweet reasonable ness. Casting about for a historical parallel or antetype of "Bob” Taylor, whom but Napoleon does the back track take us to? Is it too much to say that the key to the mystery of Napoleon's power as a leader of men. in poli tics as well as war. lies in music? Napoleon, seeing that sentiment rules, the world, also observes that the emo tions which enter into sentiment find their highest ex pression in music. He would have it become a prime factor in legislation, saying that as music of all arts “has the greatest influence over the passions, it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement.” As to music’s moral effect on men. of which we have just had a startling exemplification in the case of the Ten nessee democracy, Napoleon says: "A well-composed song strikes and softens the mind, and produces a greater effect than a moral work, which convinces our reason, but does not warm our feelings nor effect the slightest alteration in our habits.” The campaign song has always had great vogue in America, and more than once the result of a presidential election has turned on the melody that the torchlight pro cessions kept step to, rather than the persuasive voicing* of spellbinders. In recent years, however, the supply has not kept up with the demand in quality. This being the off year, probably accounts for the almost total failure of the crop of inspiring rhyme, the visible supply being wholly local in character. So it is comforting to know that in Tennessee, at any rate, Bob Taylor’s fiddle is to throb and thrill with the harmony that is denied to other parts of the Union. —Washington Post. The Payne-Aldrich tariff may be a work of art. but New York's endorsement of it sounds like one of these hospital bulletins: "The operation was eminently success ful, but —” the patient died. RHYMO THE MONK. SAN ANTONIO LIGHT AND GAZETTE Daysey Mayme She Learns a New Way of Serving Oysters, "Whenever a Man From Home 'comes to New York,” wrote Duysey Muyme Appleton to her sister, “he regards it as his Christian duty to do something to keep me from get ting homesick, and he always suc ceeds, for the places where he takes me are not like any home on the map. Even the orchestra doesn’t play it. "The last Man From Home took mo to a German restaurant on East Four teenth street. He said there was notn ing like it at home, and he was right. "To begin with, at home we serve olives in a cut glass dish, and some times it is the only piece of cut glass fn the house, and that is the reason we always have olives when there is company. But there is no end to the olives at home, and at this German restaurant every one was served with just one—think of that, will you?— just one olive each, and it was setved in a glass with some sort of liquid over it, and you had to drink the li quid before you could get the olive, it was either that or fish for .t. “ ‘What will it do to me?’ I asked the Man From Home, and he replied Not much.’ “There were women there who ate as many olives as if they had been served in a dish and didn’t seem to mind it because the taste was spoiled by the stuff that was poured over them. I wish 1 could tell you how to make it, so you could serve the olives that way when you entertain the preacher and his wife, and then you could have the cut flass dish for something else. "1 can't tell you any more about the dinner because my German is rusty, but afterwards —the Man From Home said he would like to show 1,10 the Push Cart Market on Ludlow street, and 1 thought when we got there that a street fair was in prog ress and they were afraid the dust would spoil the wares, and so tney never swept. "The streets were filled with debris’ of all kinds, and goose feathers and babies—hundreds of them. “The babies rolled in the streets, though It was midnight and no one was afraid they would get run over, and in dark corners of streets. In areaways and halls, young girls were talking to men, and no one seemed to be afraid they might get run over, either. "There was everything for sale on the push carts from a $l5 straight iront for mother to a one-cent snoe tring for father, and women shopped with no fear of getting lost in the aisles; there was no elevator going up when they wanted one going down; no discovery after walking past ten miles of counters that what they wanted was nine miles back, and no girl clerks with the jute on their heads arranged in such amazing de signs that the shopper forgot whether her errand downtown was Brown ing's poems or a dishpan. "There seemed to be miles of tnese push carts (though it was near mid night when every inch seems a foot) and the women who were not buving of the push cart merchants were in meat markets buying geese. "And the babies in the streets never ■cried; perhaps because they knew- no one would notice if they did, and where there is no sympathy there is less grief, a lesson that even a little neglected baby may learn. signs over the doors that I couldn’t read, and that looked as if you would play them on a French horn, and nothing happened from the time we entered the German restau rant till we left the Fireless Cooker they call the subway that reminded me of home." BOSTON BAKED BEANS. Broad hints are wasted on narrow minded people. A kindness is never as long-lived as a grudge Those who live on hope are seldom troubled with obesity. Honeyed words do not always indi cate a sweet disposition. Scratch a sensitive person and you will generally find a selfish one. Books that sell like hot cakes gen erally give one mental dyspepsia. Success generally spoils a man or else makes him too fresh. The trouble with most of us is that we neglect to do tomorrow what we have put off today.—Boston Trans cript. I Observant Citizen 1 "Papa,” asked the small boy on Houston street, "what kind of a dress Is that lady got on?” "That. son," said the father, "is a hobble skirt.” "Hut. papa, she can't walk fast,” said the youngster. “No. nor run either," said pa- "What would happen, papa, if a dog ran after her?” "He'd chew her up in no time.” said "Is mamma going to wear one?” continued the little chap. "Not if I know it,” said pa, with a warning Inflection. "But; papa, she could wear one, couldn't she?” "Yes, son, she could, but she won't If she knows what's good for her.” Pa was evidently a gentlemanly ruler-of the-roost. There was apparently only one pair of trousers in the house and he wore them. The same evening, the boy repeated to his mother what pa had said. The next day mamma went to town. Be fore she got home, pa reached there from the office. ’ He was reading when son yelled: "Oh, papa, look at mamma.” "Mamma” waq attired in the hob blediest hobble that she could buy. Her steps were half a foot long and she wanted to stumble at each one. She marched into the house with head up. "Can't wear a hobble, eh?” she said to hubby. "What’s to prevent me from doing so?” "Nothing, dear,” said hubby. "You look swell.” And this is a true story. SAHAHTONIO2IYEARSA6O (From The Light, Oct. 24. 1889). "The World” shows at the Grand opera house tonight. Ludwig Mahncke is ill at his home. A card party took place last night at the residence of the Misses Cary on Burleson street It Is expected that the Lockhart branch of»the Sap will open to traf fic Nov. 1. The Eighth Ward Bowling club held a meeting at Peltzer’s last night. The christening of one of Leonardo Garza's children took place last night. The police have received their new helmets. They were sold to the city by Herman Harms for $2.50 each. Capt. Sam Maverick, with his usi*d liberality, subscribes $5OO to the asy lum fund Charles Wittier, the artistic tailor, will celebrate his twenty-seventh an niversary tonight with a big roast tur key and refreshments. Lee McCowan, formerly stage con tractor between Bandera and San An tonlo, has been appointed postmaster at Rockport. He is well known in San Antonio. A pr'ze bowling contest was held at the Casino bowling alley last night. The winners were Otto Guenther, Gus Glesecke, Ernest Steves, Hugo Gries ehbeck, Paul Wagner and Louis Dreiss. ~ Police Officer Ludwig shot at a negro on Acequia street at 1 o’clock this morning, causing the nego to stop. The man was taken to the sta tion. identified and released, it ap pearing that he was merely in a hurry to reach home, when the officer saw him and opened fire. Superintendent Van Vleck of the Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio went east in his special car this morn ing. after a few hours spent in San Antonio Ed. Atkins is in the city from Fort Worth STRICTLY TRUTHFUL. They had had a good day on the moors and the conversation after din ner turned naturally on bags and shooting in general and in particular. "Wa-al." said the American visitor. “1 reckon I ain’t done myself justice today. Why, I was out gunning once at home and I brought down 99 birds with one shot.” "Oh. come now,” chuckled his host, good-naturedly; "why not make it 100 at once?” "What, sir!” exclaimed George Washington 11, "do you think I'd per jure my soul for one bird?”—London Onlooker. Texas Talk TERRELL'S BOAST. Mr. J. O. Tetrol is telling the people that Colquitt haz stolen the republican platform and is run ning for governor on it. It’ that is the case, and as Colquitt is as sure of election as Mr. J. O. Ter rell Is of defeat, why should the republicans waste their time vot ing tor Mr. Terrell, whose proud est boast used to be that he was a democrat? — Corpus Christi Herald. In the Colquitt platform there may be some planks that even Hie repub licans would not claim. LIKE A GENTLEMIN. San Antonio officials htve had a man put In jail because,he per jured himself In order to narry a Baredo girl. Shocking. Those San Antonio officers eitht- have never seen the Laredo gills, or are absolutely destitute of *>pre ciation and sentiment. Aman who wouldn't perjure hifiself like a gentleman lor a Laredcgiri should be electrocuted. —Latdo Times. Just why is a man who himself a gentleman and a mattwho tells a Ue “no gentleman?” Y STUDY THE TYPES. — Our advice to those TurkiSJ women who are demanding mod ern educations is that they come to Texas and read our newspa pers.—Dallas News. Let the Turkish women come tc San Antonio for the International fait and look at the Turkish dancjtig ini the sideshows if they are seeking a : really modern education. CACKLING GEESE. In its hilarious delusion that it Is doing sometning modern In or ganizing a company of boy scouts. San Antonio seems to entirely overlook the little juvenile army of a century or so ago who charged upon a flock of geese and put them all to flight except one stury gander who thought to show them fight.—Laredo Times. Cackling geese do not worry San Antonio, although there are a lot of them since that census. COLD NERVE. ,A party of Dallas citizens re cently automobiled to San An tonio, entered one of the leading hotels of the Alamo city and registered themselves as from the "metropolis of Texas.” That San Antonio people are long-suffering is shown in the fact that the Dal las party escaped with their lives. •—Terrell Transcript. It was the nerve that saved them, for San Antonio has great respect for the man who holds up his end against odds. ADMITS IT. As Colonel Bushick suggests, no doubt the editor of The Herald would oe a proper person to pass on the moral fitness 01 those side shows at the San Antonio fair; but what has this to do with Col. Bushick’s Oriental dancers using only their feet, and why beg the question at issue by “talking snop?”—Corpus How could any one edit a paper in jolly Corpus and not be fit to pass on a sideshow? WISCONSIN MANNERS. Sheriff Mike Madden of Wis consin is a brave man. With a posse of brave men he ambushed a woman, a girl and shot her in the back. The story of John Dietz is a twentieth century trag edy. In Texas Sheriff Mike Mad den tvould serve just one term and no longer.—Dallas Times- Herald. No. he would not serve out his term—scarcely — certainly npt in southwest Texas. (Copjdtkt 1410. to Xt* Twk Brenln* Jeerwl FuN!*hn CWupu-j OCTOBER 24, 1010. Little Stories THE UPLIFT MOVEMENT. ,When he left the house Saturday morning Burton yanked at the door as if he would pull it off its hinges. When hp couldn’t open it he started to grumble until his wife came to his assistance. "What'n blueblazes is the matter with this door?” he grumbled, givinf it another powerful yank without be> ing able to open it. .. The trouble with you, John dear,’, the wife ventured, “is that you ar* always down on everything—down th the mouth, down on the world. Let me try it” “With a gentle tug upward on tlfe knob she easily opened the door. John was about to sputter out a sarcastic remark when the force ot his wife's logic sank in his thick skull. “I get it!" he exclaimed. “I get the lesson.” That afternoon when hie wife visit ed his office she saw over his desk a little motto with the words. “Me fog the Uplift.”—Youngstown Telegram* FAR FROM UPRIGHT. Reilly and Coran were “having lit out.” They had been deadly enemies for years, but neither had offered to lay hands on the other up to now, both of them somewhat afraid of tha issue. Before they commenced it was stipulated that it was to be a fair "stand-up” fight, and -with that they started. Coran had it all his way from the beginning; he kept knock ing Reilly down and down again, unit! that worthy was about sick of it. He turned to the bystanders and said, ’’Sure, an' wasn’t it to be a fair, stand up fight?” "It was.” returned an onlooker. “An' 'ow, ttyin,. can he be expectin’ ■ne ter foight 'im fairly if he do be inqckin’ me down all the time?”— deals. FAIR EXCHANGE. The military maneuvers. All aftcr non the attackers had attacked, md th defenders defended, with conspic uop lack of Incident or bravery. <)p erttons were beginning to drag hor ribl when the white flag went up. T c officer in command of the at tackfH stared in amazement. "Afiag of truce!” he exclaimed. “Wh» do they want?” Thtsergeant major Endeavored ( to cover p « smile. “Th. say, sir," he reported, “that, as it’S‘ea time, they’d like to ex changei couple o' privates for a can of milk —if you oan afford it!" —Anvers. CAREGIE and THE COP. watchman on duty in the state, war n d navy building in Wash ington whifesembles very closely An drew Candie, and every morning Sergeant QStis. of the white house police force has something to say to the watchn n about Carnegie and Carnegie's nney. One morng just before the presi dent left Wa,j n gton for his summer vacation Curt sa w the watchman go ing on his wt to his post across the street and sat O ut: “You blaste bondholder! Why don't you com across with some of ” the money yj are hoarding up? There are plen; of people who need it. and I am onsf them.” "What's that. asked the watch- , man, turning to U rtis very suddenly. it was then h a t Curtis, much abashed saw tha( e had been talking to the real Carney—Popular Maga zine. FOR MECHANIC, PURPOSES. The wet orator l%ed from the al together serious. "This provision th ijquor may be sold under the prohilj on act for me dicinal scientific or echanical pur poses reminds me ©the old story about the man who Wit into a drug store in a dry state aj asked for a gallon of whiskey. ” 'I can’t sell you a non of whis key unless you want it lr medicinal, scientific or mechanic purposes,' said the druggist. “ ‘AU right. I want it,r mechani cal purposes,’ said the i n with the jug. “ ’What sort of mecl^j ca i pur poses?’ “The customer plumpedhe money down on the bar. "'A ham-raising.’ he a jd.”— st. Louis Post-Dispatch. Golden gr. speng glittering rm The new w^ an |s aH right—at t, age Some men rather go tq aw than to heaven There are lot o f ideal husbandsj n novels. Is it worth w v t it costs a man to 8 popular? A gray day is pay day that fails I materialize. Charity begins n home, and usually k ends right there, too. If a man speaks of auburn locks when a girl has red hair she knows he has poetry in his soul. A fool man appre ciates the nonsense of a pretty woman more than he does the sense of a home ly one. Love may be but a girl in love is never stone blind if there is a diamond mgagement ring i» Sght. It is said that tw( cm play at anj 8 a "ne, but as a mat ter of fact one oi th • m is merely thinting that he can. A voman is so anxiois to relate the bad dieam she had that sl> can hardly wait ujtii her hus band gts through saying gace at the break last table. —. Jiwg, P-ARAG I