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The San Antonio Light
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A Blow at Humanity
ov. CAMPBELL mistakes the
2. temper and intelligence of the
V—* people of Texas if he expects
them to swallow his absurd reason for
vetoing the tuberculosis sanitarium
bill.
Whatever may have been his true
motive, the governor is singularly un
fortunate in his selection of an excuse
to present to the public, for it is so
childish, so absurd and altogether so
nonsensical that no reasonable man
can accept it as genuine.
The governor says the sanitarium
rontemplated by the appropriation
would care for only 200 patients an
nually, hence the institution would do
no good. According to the governor's
reasoning—if reasoning it may be call
ed, Texas will never make a start to
ward caring for its consumptives, be
cause it will never be able to provide
an institution large enough at the out
set to accommodate every indigent
consumptive in the state. By the same
token, we ought to close all the in
sane asylums in the state because they
are not caring for all the lunatics.
But the governor's reason shows he
has not considered the matter, because
an Institution with 200 beds would care
for many times that number of con
sumptives in the course of a year. Some
’ would die and some would be cured
and leave the institution, and the doc
tors estimate that 200 beds would ac
commodate 1200 to 1500 patients in a
year, and that would go far toward
caring for the indigent consumptives
In the state.
But why discuss this veto further?
It is too wanton a misuse of power to
merit anything but condemnation. The
governor for some reason known only
to himself has deliberately struck a
blow at humanity.
Fort Worth has been hard hit by
fire, but her pluck and enterprise
will rebuild the burned area better
than it was before.
Gov. Campbell has been forced into
ridiculous attitudes by the necessity
of finding reasons for some of his
recent vetoes, notably in the case of
the tuberculosis sanitarium bill.
Oh, Say Can You See?
__ HE bill to prohibit red, white and
blue tights has been favorably
reported to the house, —News
Item.
All honor now to the members of
the crimes of punishments committee
of the Minnesota house of representa
tives. All honor now to this little
band of patriots, dauntless, daring,
brave and free.
'* Dauntless they stand, Horatio at the
bridge, guarding with unwavering
courage the starry banner of liberty.
Daring, they sally forth, striking
blow on blow, defending the gonfalon
of glory.
Bravely they battle, beating back
the bedizened brazen broilers of a
foe.
Theirs the honor, the homage, for
nestling in their midst, shrinking,
blushing, clinging, conlding, is the
palladium of our liberties —theirs, for
the nonce, for |he nonce, we say—to
love, to shield, to honor, for at least
a day. And what thought the hosts
of gayety frolic and frivol, and flaunt
their legs in wild abandon —flaunt
them, we say, full in the face of the
floating folds of the far-flung flag of
freedom, these patriots dauntless,
daring, brave and free stand firm, e'en
though another sun may see them
The Light’s Editorial and Daily Magazine Page
struck down, trampled under the ad
vancing armies of the Amazons.
Sweeping, swirling, swaying, giddy
and gay, about them dance the daz
zling hosts of a degenerate day. Trip
ping, twinkling nether extremities flft
and flutter to and fro, decked in tri
color tights and trapping, legs and
legs, in row on row. Get thee far
back, gonfalon; haste thee to safer
shelter, emblem of the great republic,
and cloak your blushing purity in the
starry field of blue. And therefore
Be It enacted, That no chorus girl,
or broiler, or ballet dancer, or suchlike,
shall cover her shapely nether ex
tremeties in red and white and blue,
"Hail, banner of freedom, blue and
white and red. Hail, flag of deeds
and destiny, spangled with shimmer
ing stars.” Hail, glorious emblem.
Hail, committee on crime and punish
ments. Minnesota house of representa
tives. Hall not a theater-goer to ask
him if he ever saw red, white and
blue tights. But hail —thrice hall —the
modest, shame-struck patriots, a-tilt
with a stage windmill.
Our flag must be kept unsullied,
our emblem of liberty must be shield
ed, safe. In almost the words of the
immortal Dix, “If any chorus girl at
tempts to haul on the American flag,
bid her leave it off.”
After a short rest the Publicity
league boosters will go at it harder
than ever. The interruption will give
San Antonians a chance to decide how
much they will invest.
Senator Thomas goes back to the
senate from which he was expelled
Either the senate or the people of his
district have made a mistake.
HARD ON THE FARMER.
(Dallas Times-Herald.)
Texas lawmakers are fillibuster
ing against the Cureton bill. Hon.
Davy Neill, president of the State
Farmers’ union, says the farmers de
mand the passage of the Cureton bill.
It is a safe bet of >lOOO to $lO that
99 per cent of the farmers of Texas
never read the Cureton bill, are not
interested in the Cureton bill and are
indifferent as to its fate. Hon. Davy
Neill is the gentleman wh o cham
pioned the destruction of the cotton
exchanges two years ago. He won.
The bulls were exiled and the bear,
took possession of the clover patch.
Result: Price of cotton tumbled from
11 1-2 cents to 8 1-2 cents. Every
time the Hon. Davy wins the men he
presumes to speak for lose or some
legitimate industry is knocked out
of commission.
NOW YOU’RE SHOUTIN’.
(Fort Worth Star-Telegram.)
Every county in Texas should make
some sort of tangible eflfort to secure
homeseekers, new blood, for the work
of intensive development. Every coun
ty in Texas is losing money so long
as its resources are undeveloped or
worked in slip-shod fashion. Keep
Texas growing.
A Smile and a Laugh
MOST ANYTHING
Just Between Ourselves
A Word from Josh Wise.
‘‘A man who
hides his accom
plishments Is
like a miser who
hides his gold.”
Mr. H. Peck: Life is full of contra
dictions.
Mrs. P.: And I say it isn't
The descent of bank robbers upon
Bald Knob, Ark., seems to have made
its hair curl.
Bluff is a good thing, used with dis
cretion, whether you're playing poker,
asking for a job, or trying to win a
girl.
Jack Binns has been given a larger
salary. But look what he had to do
to get it.
T kissed my girl in a taxicab,
No trite and hackneyed lover was I,
To kiss 'neath the stars, below the
blue sky,
In dale or in dawn, with traditional
sigh.
Nor e'en the dark parlor brings me
any balm,
'Neath the mistletoe—bah—eke the
green waving palm.
I wanted to give ail the customs a
jab;
So I kissed my girl in a taxicab.
Yes, a rattling, noisy, fare-eating cab.
Awsy with traditions, my girl and I
said,
As we kissed for five blocks in a hired
taxicab.
As soon as the new crop of garden
seeds gets planted the hens joyfullv
beWin laying again—laying for the
seeds.
One thing about a conceited man—
when people criticise him. fie never
lets it worry him any, like other peo
ple do.
MONDAY, APRIL 5, 1909. TEE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT MONDAY, APRIL 5, 1909.
San Antonio
21 Years Ago
(From The Light April 5, 1888.)
The grand jury inspected the poor
farm yesterday.
The Government Hill Music and
Dramatic club will give an entertain
ment at Muth's garden on April 21.
Miss Mary Braden has left on a visit
to friends in Monterey, Mex.
Miss Lula Hunter has gone to Ala
bama and will spend the summer
there
Theo. Folz, late of Wolfson’s cloth
ing store, is now with Joske’s.
Prof. Guerrero will show the new
magic lantern pictures at the hign
school tomorrow.
The Hugo & Schmeltzer Gun club
has been re-organized and a commit
tee appointed to select groupds on
Government hill.
The Lustig Rolling club held an in
teresting meeting at Mission garden
last night.
The fire companies held their reg
ular monthly meeting last night. Noth
ing of importance developed.
The members of the executive com.
mittee of the Southwestern Immigra
tion association held a meeting last
night and audited the accounts of the
secretary and treasurer.
The Troubadour Social club held a
well attended meeting last night at
the residence of Mr. Moritz on Goliad
street. The constitution and by-laws
were adopted and standing commit
tees appointed.
W. T. Jones, of Austin, and Miss
Johanna Smith, of San Antonio, were
married last night, the Rev. Dr. Bar
bee, of the Camden street Christian
church officiating.
START OF A ROSY RUMOR.—By T. S. Allen.
“Hey, Mbmie, I guess vou’ve won him. al’ right. He's lookin' at engage
ment rings’’’
Business is Business, My Dear!
MANY have wondered at the pro
digiously large forms of rep
tilian lite in the carboniferous
ages,” said the professor. “Has it
never occurred to you that these
forms must have evolved to keep
down the giant vegetation? The dan
ger to the frail beginnings of the hu
man race was not from wild beasts,
but from the giant plants, which
would have devoured them.”
Our ship, bound with tourists from
New York to New Orleans for the
Mardi Gras, was passing the maze
of unexplored, almost uncharted is
lands along the south Florida shore.
Presently the professor told us a
story.
Danton was interested In the sponge
business. The supply of sponges had
been virtually exhausted along the
shores of Florida and the West In
dies. Just as the Marshal Niel was
produced from the wild rose, so, Den
ton believed, a giant sponge might
be evolved from the wild marine spe
cies. With this object he went to a
lonely island off the Florida shore
erected a hut, stocked it with sup
plies for a year, and took up his ex
istence there in company with his
setter “Span.’’
Within three months he had suc
ceeded beyond his wildest hopes. He
had evolved a sponge of enormous
dimensions and propagated a large
colony on the south shore of the is
land. To his gratification he discov;
ered that it would answer every pur
pose of commerce.
One thing bad not occurred to him.
The minute forms of life on which
the sponge exists no longer sufficed
to supply the new growth with food.
Had it been less hardy it would have
The Daily Short Story
SPONGE ISLAND.
□y Harcld Carter.
perished. To Denton’s astonishment
it proceeded to effect a change in
its habits. The new sponge became
terrestrial. It sought its food in the
Insect life that abounded a/bove the
surface of the sea. In three months
more a fringe of sponge, so thick and
dense as to 'be almost impermeable,
surrounded the entire coast of the
island. And, day by day, Denton no
ticed that its habitable area was per
coptibly decreasing.
The full meaning of this did not
dawn upon him until one morning
when, scarcely fifty yards from his
Frenzied with horror, Denton seized
an ax and rusted into the growth,
chopping <nd hacking.
hut hg found a straggling section of
sponge, and, in its center, the bones
of some small animal, probably a rac
coon. Then the horror of his position
dawned on him. The sponge, with
its hideous appetite glutted, yet ever
whetted by its new* food, would sweep
over the island, inevitably drawing
him into its embrace.
Standing, he could almost perceive
its stealthy, steady advance as, with
almost human intelligence, it forced
its way toward him.
Frenzied with horror, Denton seized
an ax and rushed into the growth,
chopping and hacking. It closed on
him, sucking at his hands, grasping
him in its slimy and viscid embrace.
Even the severed fragments seemed
to root themselves ‘to the ground.
Denton' escaped with difficulty; and
all over his body were 'blue, circular
bruises, where the sponge had closed
on him.
He packed his things and fled to a
little knoll upon the center of the ’s-
With him swarmed all the ani
mal and reptile life of the island —
raccoons, snakes, harmless in the
presence of this universal enemy.
Denton dropped asleep from exhaus
tion at last, to be awakened by a
shriek of terror and anguish. Then
he heard the dog moaning. It was a
tropical night; when morning dawned
he found the bones of his animal hard
by, where a long arm of sponge had
swept up to the hut door.
After that he remembered , little.
Days and nights rolled by. In which
he seemed to be fighting a living
wall of vampirous growth that hedged
him In. He would start up from sleep
to find a coil wrapped round him, to
hack himself free and retreat, always
retreat, until at last h e had a space,
barely a city lot clear in the center
of the growth. Now it surrounded
him, pressing in closer, closer. That
was the last thing that he remem
bered.
When he recovered consciousness
many weeks later he wag in the in
sane asylum at Taunpa. They told
Psychology and Physiology
Essential In Modern Religion
By Dr. ELWOOD WORCESTER. Preacher and Author.
E venture to say that the time has come when THE
■ ■ I CHURCH MUST ENTER MORE DEEPLY INTO
THE PERSONAL LIVES OF PEOPLE AND MAKE
A FREER USE OF THE MEANS OF MODERN
SCIENCE AND THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST PLACED AT HER
DISPOSAL IF SHE IS TO CONTINUE EVEN TO HOLD
HER OWN.
THE TEACHINGS OF MODERN PSYCHOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGY
AS TO THE ESSENTIAL UNITY OF HUMAN NATURE AND THE
MUTUAL RELATIONS OF MIND AND BODY HAVE SUNK SO DEEP
INTO THE POPULAR CONSCIENCE THAT THE CHURCH CAN NO
LONGER ADDRESS MEN AS DISEMBODIED SPIRITS, AND NO
SCHEME OF SALVATION CAUSES THE HEART TO BEAT WITH
HOPE WHICH DOES NOT INCLUDE THE WHOLE MAN AND WHICH
FOES NOT BEGIN NOW.
Importance of
Maintaining Foreign Trade*
By GUSTAV H. SCHWAB of the New York Chamber of Commerce.
CHE time has gone by when the manufacturers of this country
can afford to regard the matter of export to foreign coun
tries as an expedient emergency in times when home trade
is dull. The manufacturers have begun to realize that,
though they may get'into foreign markets with their astute business
methods and their up to date goods, that is not ALL they have to do.
They have to take very good care to RETAIN those markets and to
see that they are not allowed to go into other hands, as has been too
often the case. It has too often been the habit of the manufacturer
here to send out his goods and seize hold of foreign fields as EMER
GENCY DUMPING GROUNDS, letting the trade SLIDE again
so soon as home trade pulled up. While home trade remained good he
did not bother about exporting, but times became slack again; there
came another slump, and the manufacturer cast his eyes over the seas
egain. ,
BUT HE FINDS WHAT HE MUST HAVE KNOWN WAS IN
EVITABLE IF HE HAD ONLY STOPPED TO THINK—NAMELY, THAT
THE FIELD HE HAD FORMERLY SECURED AND LET GO HAS
SINCE GONE INTO THE HANDS OF THE BRITISHER OR THE
GERMAN, AND ONCE YOU LET A FOREIGN MARKET GO IT IS
NOT PICKED UP AGAIN IN A DAY OR IN A YEAR.
The manufacturers have been guilty of A SHORTSIGHTED
POLICY, and they are beginning to realize, I think, that they have
been shortsighted. They have begun to see that, even in this vast
territory of ours, there come occasions when IT IS EXPEDIENT
TO HAVE OTHER OUTLETS and to maintain them.
him, after his recovery, how he bad
been picked up, raving, on the sea
shore, by a party of fishermen. Soll
ture and overstudy had driven him
mad, the doctors claimed.
Denton believes that the sponge,
having exhausted all other supplies
of food and spent its effort before
SC o CURES
• 0.0. OLD SORES
If an old sore existed simply because the flesh was diseased at that
particular spot, it would be an easy matter to apply some remedy directly
to the place that would kill the germs; or the diseased flesh might be
removed by a surgical operation and a cure effected. But the very fact
that old sores resist every form of local or external treatment, and even
return after being cut away, shows that back of them is a morbid cause
which must be removed before a cure can result. Just as long as the
pollution continues in the blood, the ulcer remains an open cesspool for the
deposit of impurities which the circulation throws off. S. 8. 8. cures Old Sores
by purifying the blood. It removes every trace of impurity and taint from
the circulation, and thus completely does away with the cause. When
S S.S. has cleansed the blood, the sore begins to heal, and it is not a
surface cure, but the healing process begins at the bottom; soon the dis
charge ceases, the inflammation leaves, and the place fills in with firm,
healthy flesh. Under the plirifying and tonic effects of S. S. 8. the system
is built up, and these whose health has been impaired by the drain and
worry of an old sore will be doubly benefited by its use. Book on Sores
and Ulcers and any medical advice free to all who write.
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it reached him, turned cannml and
devoured itself.
The California promotion committee
will run an excursion to the Alaska-
Yukon-Pacific exposition June 15, 1909.
after which the members will exploit
the fair to encourage attendance.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GA