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SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
Founded 1881.
SAN ANTONIO LIGHT PUB. CO.
Publisher* (Inc.)
MEMBERS ASSOCIATED PRESS.
ELMER E. CLARKE. Manager.
Both telephone*.
Business Office 1359
Editorial Rooms 17®
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
Itaiiy Two Cents
Sunday . Five Cents
Daily and Sunday delivered by
carrier 1 month I -5®
iMiiy and Sunday delivered by
cat Tier 12 months (in ad-
vance) 5 00
DaUy and Sunday by mail 1
month 50
Daily aud Sunday by mall 12
months (in advance) 5.00
Sunday Edition 1 year by car-
rier or mail 2.00
Bunday Edition 6 months by car-
rier or mail 1.00
(Entered at the postofflce at San An-
tonio Texas as second-class matter.)
Persons desiring THE LIGHT de-
livered at their home can secure it by
postal card request or order through
telephone No. 1359. Should delivery
be irregular please make immediate
complaint to the office.
More sprinklers. Less dust.
These are the days when one ap-
preciates the "quiet” life "’neath the
shade of the sheltering palm.”
Will Delphin M. Delmas spring his
Dementia Americana theory in behalf
of the San Francisco gratters?
New Braunfels must feel rather lone-
some today. None of the San Antonio
iVooamen got lost in the woods.
Women shoppers would welcome a
few benches in the shady spots of
Alamo plaza these burning days.
Old residents are making pilgrimages
to the I. & G. N. depot to bld a fond
tdieu to the venerable Noah’s Ark
which is soon to be replaced by a mag-
uficent modern railway station.
WHAT WILL SAN ANTONIO DO?
What of the civic pride of San An-
tonio? From distant El Paso comes
i deti which the business men of the
Uamo City can scarcely afford to let
go unheeded. El Paso wants the nro- ■
posed state exposition of the Texas
Five Million Club and twenty strenu-
ous citizens of that town have pledged
themselves to raise 3100000 to secure
the coveted prize. El Paso's proposi-
tion has already been laid before the
representatives of the Five Million
club.
What will San Antonio do?
It is up to the business men. the
public-spirited citizens the civic or-
ganizations and the people.
There are many reasons why San
Antonio the leading metropolis of the
state should have the exposition. But
Ino reason would be considered valid
without a guarantee of liberal financial
backing.
What will San Antonio do?
WHOLESOME FOOD.
The activity of the health depart-
ment in its crusade on behalf of pure
healthy food is to be commended. A
few days ago several of the slaughter-
ing houses charged with violations of
the health regulations were brought to
time and now It Is the turn of the pro-
duce dealer who is conscienceless
enough to sell or offer for sale decay-
ed sir unwholesome fruit and vege-
tables.
No class of food is more appetizing
or more healthy according to scientific
authorities than fresh fruit and fresa
vegetables and by the same token no
class of food is more disastrous to
health if partaken of in a spoiled or
tainted state.
Most people are sensible enough not
to buy anything that is not strictly
np.to standard but there are some
Vho are ignorant and others who
through a desire to save a few pennies
me content to accept unfit produce
usually for the consumption of others.
The l.calth department has but one
safe course to pursue in attending ta
duty and that is to hold the produce
dealer responsible confiscate all unfit
stock and relentlessly prosecute the
violator of the health regulations.
AMERICANS IN INTERNATIONAL
SPORT THIS YEAR.
Three of the many competitions in
Biitish sport this season having Amer-
icans as participants are already fin-
ished In each the reigning American
champion—the title holder to borrow
a term from classic Pierce Egan—had
crossed the ocean to take part. The
gleanipg. however has been more of
rue than of laurel. Always capricious
the ged of luck has also been ungal-
lant ; his first victim was Miss Harriot
Curtis in the women's golf champion-
ship. This time the course was New-
castle Ireland and that phenomenal
golfing colleen Miss May Hezlet was
the winner. Jay Gould w-on the court
tennis championship in London. At
St. Andrews Eben Marshall Byers was
struck down by “Patterson of Edin-
burgh”
Since the news of Byer's defeat
says the New York Sun our golfers
have been asking for information about
Patterson the striker. There is no
Patterson on the records of the game
since that shoemaker of Edinburgh
who was the partner of William IV. in
a foursome; with his' share of the
wager won by himself and the king he
built a house in the Conongate. The
cable's identification of the present
Patterson does not explain for every-
body golfs in Edinburgh. Is he a de-
scendant of the shojmaker? Or is it
that the public course of the Braids
nurtured the conqueror or of our cham
pion? Had the victor been James
Roob Robert Maxwell A. G. Barry or
H. H. Hilton no gasp of amazement
would have followed the announce-
ment in America. Byers has been a
good and plucky golfer in this country
and better fortunes had been hoped
for him at St. Andrews.
Jay Gould is the most precocious
court tennis player the world has even
seen and one of the very best as high
in class and more graceful in style
than Eustace H. Miles that paragon of
tennis and apostle of protcid foods
Diet has never worried the winner
who has eaten whatever his mother
has ordered for the day and bis serv-
ices and volleys may not be attributed
tc a nut sauce or to a concentrated
food biscuit
Court tennis is a mediaeval institu-
tion in England. An insular prejudice
that the heaven born amateurs of the
game were to be not only at the courts
of England clubs and country houses
has been shattered. The British popu-
lace loyal to its lords and their pas-
times is inclined to lionize Jay Gqpld.
Meantime the winner is thinking of a
polo match at Paris and in the fall he
enters at Columbia university. He
may be trying for the crew or the
track team whe nnext the British court
tennis championship is on the cards.
BRYAN BOLTER'S FINISH.
From the Evansville (Ind.) Courier.
The Chicago Chronicle no longer ex.
Ist*. The reason assigned for Its dis-
appearance from the newspaper field
was that it had been unprofitable for
some time. When a newspaper after
a fair trial is found to be unprofitable
it is time for its publisher to end its
career and the publisher of the Chron-
icle appears to have been wise to the
fact.
The Chronicle came out twelve
years ago as “the only democratic
newspaper in Chicago” and it made a
hit with the democrats of the Windy
City. When Mr. Bryan was nominated
for president in 1896 the Chronicle
joined the little band of white-souled
"democratic” newspapers that could
not support the nominee on account of
his views on the money question. Four
years later it was opposed to Mr.
Bryan for the same reason. In 1904
it was sore because the democrats
were not In accord with his views on
the money question and took itself out
of the party forever and declared it-
self to be ‘‘the only republican news-
paper In Chicago” The republicans
of the Windy City do not appear to
have appreciated IL
The financial honor of the United
States was a hobby with the Chronicle
from the time of its birth to the day
of its death. Its owner was John K.
W|lsh the central figure in a number
of banks in Chicago and railroad and
mining corporations. Mr. Walsh stood
high in the community. His probity
was his great stock In trade. Sudden-
ly the banks in which he was Inter-
ested were found to be unsound. In
vestlgation showed that they had
been made unsound by the borrowing
of Mr. Walsh for the advancement of
his private enterprises. They were
closed and he was indicted for grave
offenses against depositors. He tried
hard to justify himself but it was of
no use. The people had lost confi-
dence in him. Naturally the newspa-
per he owned lost Its Influence Its
utterances were hollow and uncon-
vincing. Its end is not surprising. In
refusing to support the Chronicle the
people have struck another telling
blow at political hypocrisy.
An Agassiz Anecdote.
On oue occasion a person entered
Professor Agassiz’s room with a pic-
ture which he desired to sell denomi-
nated a "Blrds'-eye View of Cam-
bridge.” The professor contemplated
it for o moment lifted his eyes looked
at the vender of the picture and said
with his characteristic accent: “Well
I thank my God zat I am not a bird.”—
From the Boston Transcript.
|n the Jury Room.
The second day drew to its close
with the twelfth juryman unconvinc-
ed. “Well gentlemen” said the court
officer entering quietly “shall I as
usual order twelve dinners?" "Make
It.” said the foreman "eleven dinners
and a bale of hay.'—Philadelphia In-
quirer.
FRIDAY JUNE 7 1907.
Mr. June Bridegroom comes forward with the observation that he is entirely overlooked by the Society Editor
and that he is fully as impoitant as the beautiful June Bride.
GOOD THINGS FROM THE WORLD AT LARGE
Decline of Classical Studies.
The burning question of thirty
years ago "should girls study Greek?’’
is now shifted to the boys. The clas-
sics are losing that relatively predom-
inant position they once held in edu-
cation. Of course with increased
population more boys study Latin and
Greek than ever before but a smaller
number undertake a serious study of
the classics. Is this a gain?
The argument against “dead lan-
guage” is that to acquire proficiency
requires much time which could bet-
ter be devoted to modern languages
and the sciences. This we are told
Is a practical age. The average young
man can make more money by let-
ting the ancients be burled with their
effete wisdom while ho masters sci-
ence modem languages economics
and kindred studies. Even in the
professions classics are less esteemed
than formerly. Clergymen may need
♦hem. but many successful ministers
have ceased preaching dogma. The
Institutional church is growing; the
doctrinal preacher is less popular
than the sociologist. The lawyer too
must become more and more a man
of affairs because most litigation has
a commercial aspect. The architect
must have Inspiration rather than
slavish devotion to classical ideas
w-hile the physician must devote years
to investigations and laboratory work.
In which the classics no part.
—Lippincott’s.
Animals as Mechanic*.
It is only within recent years that
men have learned how to make houses
of mud or of similar plastic and hard-
ening substances. The cliff swallow s
skillfully built home is indeed a won-
derful structure especially when we
take into consideration the simple
way in which the bird does the
work. Imagine a boy or a girl try-
ing to make such a structure of mud
and handling the material only by the
aid of pointed pliers. Yet the’ bird
does it. and does It well with her
pointed bill in some cement struc-
tures. especially In railroad embank-
ments you have probably noticed that
the workmen first put in several Iron
rods to increase the strength of the
wall. This Is practically what the
poebe the robin and other birds do
when they mix a liberal supply of
grasses and other plant fibers and
even strings through their concre-
tions of mud.—June St. Nicholas.
• • Child Saving.
In spite of the existenco of many
plague spots where innocent
arc barbarously slain the statistics
set forth by the twelfth census fur-
nish ground for a growing optimism.
Although a larg- percentage of inac-
curacy obtains the figures are suffi-
ciently reliable and comparable to
indicate quite faithfully th-j hopeful
tendency toward child saving. The
tables for the registration area show
that the infantile death rate fell from
205 per 1.000 births in 1890 to 165 In
1900. In the former year cne out of
every five infants died although als
lowance should be made for unrecord-
ed births. In the latter year one out
of every six—a gain of approximately
twenty per cent. For children under
five the gain is even more favorable
thus demonstrating an increasing suc-
cess in bringing children through the
most critical stages of life and in les-
sening the necessary waste. The
thousands that die are not the victims
of the law of natural selection It is
not largely an elimination of the un-
fit. More definitely than ever before
Is ft being established that most chil-
dren enter life with an endowment of
native vitality sufficient to weather
the ordinary conditions of adversity.
The great variations in death rates
after the first few months are due
< largely to postnatal influences to the
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT.
I social and economic environment In
I which the child Is caught from which
it has no appeal and which make or
mar its future. —The Popular Science
j Monthly.
The Index Finger at Indianapolis.
Mr. Roosevelt gravely announces
i that in his opinion as a constitutional
lawyer the hitherto much-neglected
clause in the eighth section of Ar-
ticle 1 empowering Congress to es-
tablish postoffices and post roads con-
tains a grant of Federal authority suf-
ficiently comprehensive to enable reg-
ulators at Washington to dispense al-
together with the once unequally ex-
ercised warrant of the interstate
commerce clause.
In our humble opinion the volumi-
nous document contains nothing else
so important so protentous so preg-
nant in possible changes in future
Roosevelt tan policy and In the form of
American institutions. The announce-
ment of the President’s unqualified
adoption of what we may call the
Farrar doctrine stands forth. In its
uncompromising positiveness from
the immense tangle of antithesis. It
Is in strong contrast with the adroit-
ly balanced phrases the quotable ex-
tracts fit for any future contingency
or political enjergency the perhaps
unconscious numbing of the rhetori-
cal chemistry which combines acids
and alkalis in the exact proportions
required for comfortable neutraliza-
tion. —New York Sun.
Employs Deaf Mutes Only.
Over on the East Side a prosper-
ous merchant engaged In the bot-
tling industry makes a specialty of
employing deaf mutes in his estab-
lishment. These silent hands are re-
ported to be more Industrious than
Is usually the experience with unaf-
flllated labor. On an average the
deaf mute bottler earns higher wages
than his fellow-workman and he is
generally more economical than the
latter. Both in perceptive and recep-
tive faculties the deaf mutes are said
to excel as compared with those not
so handicapped. In point of sobrie-
ty the non-hearing non-speaking
brother is reputed to set an inviable
example.—New York Press.
Old Man Borrow.
Old Man Borrow is everywhere.
Borrowing trouble borrowing care.
Borrowing grief when life is bright
Borrowing gloom when heart* are
light!
Old Man Borrow’s at the door
Of Mr. Rich and Mr. Poor
Borrowing ache and borrowing pain
Borrowing shadow borrowing rain
Always wants to borrow care —
If you’ve got enough to spare!
—Baltimore Sun.
Bertilllon'* New Invention.
Mr. Bertilllon chief of .the Intel-
ligence department of the Paris de-
tective service who is known as the
inaugurator of the system of crimi-
nals by finger prints has just per-
fected an apparatus which It Is nop-
ed will greatly help in the problem
of the identification of arrested crim-
inals M. Bertilllon has the prison-
er or the body—for tbo system Is al-
so to be used to aid In the identifi-
cation of the dead —photographed ly-
ing full length on a table with the
head slightly raised. The camera in
which is a special combination lens
invented by M. Bertilllon’* assistant
M. Berthlot is placed directly above
the object to be photographed and at
a certain fixed distance. By means
of a ( very delicate apparatus the dis-
tance from the lens to an Imaginary
plane level with a point half way be-
tween the orifice of the ear and the
corner of the eye is measured and
from the distance is reckoned the
scale of the photogiaph—the number
FRIDAY JUNE 7 1907.
of times smiler than the original. The
photograph when used in comparison
with a suspect is placed In an appa-
ratus which is almost the exact re-
verse of the camera. It is placed at
the given distance from the lens and
at the same time a transparent scale
is moved Into focus on the same
plane. Reading on this scale the de-
tective is able to establish the exact
measurement of the features of the
prisoner.—London Times.
Pointed Paragraphs.
Many a married man is a silent
hero.
It’s a pity that poets can't live on
food for reflection.
It isn't always the cheerful man
who does the most cheering.
Music has charms in the country
where the houses are a mile apart.
A man's Idea of a close friend is one
who will loosen up occasionally.
We would never suspect how good
some people are If they didn’t tell
us.
A pawn shop where we could hock
our troubles would fill a long-felt
want.—Chicago News.
Mrs. Siddons at the Bargain Counter.
Mrs. Siddons was buying some ma-
terial to make into a dress when glo-
riously forgetting time and place she
suddenly exclaimed in a fearful voice;
"But will it wash?” making the start-
led shopman who thought he must be
dealing with a dangerous madwoman
drop his wares in a panic.—London
Saturday Review.
San Antonio _
Kerrville
—*ii^——
E. B. CHANDLER
MONEY TO LOAN
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE
102 Crochett Street
. ||a■■■MUMMksn>All IHIMIII II Bl rrn
ALAMO NATIONAL BANK
. SAN ANTONIO TEXAS.
Capital and Surplus $600000
SAFE CONSERVATIVE ACCOMMODATING
Best Fire and Burglar Proof Vault* In Fire Proof Building.
CHAS. ZOLLER. PAUL INGENHUTH. H. R. SCHMELTZER.
President & Gen. Mgr. Vic* Pr**ld*nL ®*c’y w-»d Trea*
MERCHANTS’ TRANSFER COMPANY
(INCORPORATED)
Receiving. Forwarding. Storage Eto. Hauling and Placinn Safe* and
Machinery a Specialty. Both Phone* 3M.
Offioa and Warahoua**: 610 to 614 Dolorosa atraat.
SCRAPS OF
INFORMATION
Fifty fine vessels arc constantly em-
ployed in laying and repairing the sub-
marine cables of the world.
The best microscopes magnify about
16.000 times and make a tiny pile of
flour look like a pile of stones.
The United States has 260.000
school buildings in which 450000
teachers are at work teaching nearly
18000000 children.
The birth rate of both England and
Germany is decreasing. That of Ger-
many Is at present thirty-four a thou-
sand. while England is twenty-eight a
thousand.
At sea level water bolls at 212 de-
grees F.; at a height of 10000 feet
at 193 degrees F. When Darwin
crossed the Andes in 1835 he boiled
potatoes for three hours without mak-
ing them soft.
Laurence Oliphant the celebrated
author and traveler is said to have
introduced the cigarette Into England
about the year 1844. They became
quite common after the Cremean war
owing to their use by the Turkish
officers.
Prince Eugene of Sweden one of the
most democratic royal personages liv-
ing studied art seriously in Paris
where he was known in the artistic
and literary world as “E. Oscarson.”
He is fond of touring Italy and always
has tor a companion some painter or
sculptor friend. He is a painter of
ability devoting most of his time to
landscape work.
On the recommendation of the com-
missary general of the army the field
rations of the troops serving in Alas
ka will be 16 ounces of bacon or. when
desired 16 ounces of salt pork or 22
ounces of salt beef; 24 ounces of fresh
vegetables instead of 16 ounces; 3 2-5
ounces of desiccated vegetables in-
stead of 2 2-5 ounces and 8-25 ounce of
candles instead of 6-25 ounce.
The oldest living human being of
authentic record is Mrs. Mary Wood of
Hillsboro Ore. a few miles west of
Portland. Mrs. Wood is 120 years old.
She was born in Knoxville Tenn. May
20. 1787. which the records at Knox-
ville still show. When she was 65
years old she rode the entire distance
across the continent from her old
home in Tennessee to her present
home in Oregon.
General Kuroki’s Ultimatum.
(From the Washington Post.)
General Kuroki authorized the state-
ment that Japan has no intention of
making war on the United States. And
he was the more certain of it after
coming here and looking us over.
Decline* With Thanks.
(From the Washington Star.)
Senator Knox refuses to grow excit-
ed over the efforts to present him with
a presidential boom. Almost any re-
publican of reasonable prominence and
good character can have one If he de-
sires it.
Human Curiosity.
(Catholic Standard and Times.)
“I never saw such a rubberneck”
sneered Mrs. Gabble. “Just because
the doctor stopped at our house yes-
terday she immediately wanted to
know what was the matter.”
“Yes” replied Mrs. Naylor: “I won-
der how she’d like the rest of us to
be that curious about her. You know
the doctor stopped at her house to-
day. too."
"You don’t say? I wonder what’s
the matter there?”
Two Tongue*.
When there is any great ado
The Frenchman says "Cherchez la
femme!”
With much less breath and wear and
tear
Of vocal chords we say “Ahem!’
In case of accident ring up
either phone 2323 for our White
Ambulance.
Pearci-Rcblnsan Undertaking Co
AMERICAN DISTRICT
TELEGRAPH CO.
Office with Western Union Telegrapl
Company.
Both Phones. 105 and 200.
We Do All Kinds of Messenger Work
Call for and deliver -Western Unlot
messages. Deliver special stamp let-
ters for the postofflce. We gather in
ads for The Dally Light.
JERRY NEWTON Mgr.
i; The Oldest and Best House in j
San Autouio
For Teas Coffees Spices \
Faking Powder and
Extracis is
| HOLLAND’S j
5 227 West Commerce Street ?
—Both Phones 311—
5 "Holland’s Blend” is King of Cof- j
•; fees. Three pounds for $l.OO.
SPRING
Ideas In COMBS. BRACELETS
WAIST PINS. BELT BUCKLES
and PINS are now ready for your
inspection. No such variety of
desirable lines of JEWELRY.
WATCHES. SILVERWARE etc.
in Texas and always at reasona-
ble prices quality considered.
The Bell Jewelry Co.
Wholesale and Retail Jeweler*.
227 West Commerce St.
£ New arrival of 3000 pair of |
? HAMILTON-ERGWN SHOES AND \
LOW QUARTERS
? for Men Women and Children. The >
i latest designs shapes and styles ?
? In Vici Calf Patent Leather and j
£ Gun Metal.
£ Boy*’ Shoes from $1.50 up.
; Children’s Suocs from 60c up. <
£ Ladies’ Shoes from $1.15 Up. £
Men’s Shoes from $1.75 up.
E. BROWN
506 East Houston Street.
E.
JEWELRY CO.
Our doctor who ds a graduate ex-
amines your eyes free. 27 years
leading op- nlo tells
ticians 1 n the story of
San Anto-' so ® / our success
as opticians. We know how to fit
eyes. Come and convince yourself.
z Expert
Opticians
m—■————wn————
F. J. Scudder Ed Torrey
F. J. SCUDDER & CO.
Agents Germania Fire In*. Co. of New
York. We represent leading companies
of the world assets over $80000000.
Fire Marine Tornado Plate Glass.
Office corner Navarro & Crockett Sts.
I
Both 146 Phones
The
ICE
4 <
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I That the Southern fee ?
Company sells is made;:
i from pure Distilled Artesian <
£ Water.
; Ful. Weight—Prompt Delivery.:
■IZWi'
HOTELS
The Meager
San Antonio Tex.
Located opposite the beautiful
Alamo Plaza.
American Plan £3.06 and up.
None better for comfort and
service.
McLEAN 4 MUDOE Managers
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