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FOUNDED JAN. 20. 1881.
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be Irregular please notify the office. Either telephone 174.
No bears but plenty of deer. And the president says
he is deer-lighted.
Wellman's balloon went up and his ship went_down but
the pole is still doing business at the same old stand.
An advance in the price of chocolate is announced. T 1
girls would rather have it drop; that is chocolate drop.
The bishop ot London wants to see American life as it
is. What another book about America by an Englishman:
No; there has been no change of date. The great Inter-
national fair will open November 9 as originally sched-
uled.
The latest thing in airships is described as being sau-
sage-shaped. Perhaps this is the missing link in aero-
nautics.
Those Japs are resourceful at afty rate. After sizing up
Mr. Taft and measuring the largest of their small rooms
they gave him a lawn party.
Now that the long winter evenings are coming on it
might be well for certain players of the Texas League to
peruse a book'entitled "How to Play Baseball.”
And now science claims that music is intoxicating. It
will be difficult to prove however that fifty cents’ worth
of beer will not - produce a greater effect than $2 worth of
Beethoven symphony. (
The first of a series of remarkable articles on the nossi-
bility of war between this country and Japan will appear
in The San Antonio Light of next Sunday. They are from
the pen of no less distinguished a man than Captain Rich-
mond Pearson Hobson of the United States navy who has
devoted months to a study of the situation and the condi-
tions. You cannot afford to miss reading these articles.
IS IT A HOSTILE EXPEDITION?
A writer in the New York Times professes to reveal the
secret motive of the presidetn in sending battleships to
Jhe Pacific and the Times gives prominence to his opinion
comments Harper s Weekly. He asserts that the great fleet
.outnumbering in ships and excelling in fighting power the
whole Japanese navy is to go to the Pacific to be ready
for war with Japan. This writer states as of his own:
knowledge that Japan is hostile to us; that the conduct of |
its government and its representative at Washington has j
been irritating to the president and the secretary of state;
that It is known in Washington that Japan proposes to take
from us the Philippines; and that therefore the adminis-'
tratlon intends to be prepared to defeat Nippon’s projects.
It is also pointed out that the sailing of the fleet is to be
delayed in order that the battleships may be in first-class
fighting trim. To make ships ready to fire by telephone
is not a necessity of a mere cruise. It is as the Weekly
feared. The notion is spreading that the fleet is going to
the Pacific for any but peaceful purposes and that the
statement that the trip is only for practice is a m>re
pretence. Some people will naturally think that the ad-
ministration has inside information and that a Japanese
attack ijpon the Philippines is nearer than we common
people know. Others will see in the movement an exhibi-
tion of the president’s talent for forcing an issue. All who
know Mr. Roosevelt will recall his frequent assurance
usually made in conversation with diplomats that foreign
nations realize that be is a friend of peace because he is
ready to fight for it In view of the sentiment which is
represented and illustrated by the article in the Times
the proposed expedition assumes wicked proportions. It is
a distinct menace to peace the preservation of which may
( come to depend upon the honorable intentions of the Jap-
anese government which doubtless knows that the Ameri-
can people are not in favor of war with it or with any other
power; and that most Americans'who agree with or who
are convinced by the writer in the Times regard the whole
affair with dissatisfaction if not with apprehension. In
the mean time it would be well for the American people
if any power of indignant protest remains to them to
assert themselves and to refuse to be led into a war or
into the appearance of expecting war.
AN ENGLISHMAN ON AMERICA.
To see ourselves as others see us is sometimes pleas-
ant sometimes just the opposite. During the past few
months as already mentioned on several occasions in
these columns the British press has been paying particu-
lar attention to America and Americans and nothing good
ha* been said about us. The latest Britisher to pay his
respects to America is Arthur Machen who has a long
article in the London Academy and menTOns bls own
vitriolic production as ’’my very inadequate attempt to
depict the horrible body of death decay and wickedness
which is called the United States of America. He claims
to show from “unchallenged reports” that the whole judi-
cial system of this country has fallen into contempt. “That
it is corrupt. That the proceedings in the Thaw trial were
in the highest degree offensive degraded and abominable.
That in Chicago the magistrates are in league with
TUESDAY. OCTOBER 15 1907. THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT. Tuesday. October is 19ot.
thieves. That men who are too poor to bribe the press
and the judiciary are convicted and tortured to death.
That all municipalities are corrupt and depend upon en-
forced bribes from brothels. That children are held in
industrial slavery. That all foods are adulterated. That
the country is overrun with mischievous Impostures mas-
querading as “new religions.”
But there are some things that the nauseating Mr.
Machen failed to discover during his probe into the affairs
of our terrible body politic. He did not for instance "get
wise" to the fact that there exists in this country an atro-
cious and awful practice known as "stuffing." whereby
the misguided and deluded visiting yokel is filled full of
prodigious misinformation which he at once sets down as
“unchallenged reports.” That it is one of the delights and
privileges of that sort of Americans who hobnob with the
British muckraker to "reveal” to him that the whole gov-
ernment from the President down is rotten. Also he
failed to discover what a fool he was making of himself
while collecting his “unchallenged reports.”
It is altogether probable that Machen's trip through this
country included the New York levee district Niagara
Falls the Chicago stock yards and Frisco's Chinatown
and that most of his discoveries concerning America and
its people arose from the fumes of brandy and soda. Next!
STATE-AIDED IMMIGRATION.
Anent the opinion of Attorney General Bonaparte that
state-aided immigration is unlawful in that it does not
differ from similar aid advanced by individuals the Phila-
delphia Ledger says;
The advantage of immigration solicited by state agents
is that it is likely to divert to the state highly desirable
aliens. The action of several of the southern states on the
immigration question has been generally regarded as a
hopeful solution of the principal problem involved In the
disposal of the eftormous number of aliens coming to the
United States in recent years. 'lt is a question of distribu-
tion. The country ean readily assimilate the new popu-
lation if effective ways and means be provided to direct it
to localities where labor is needed on the farms and in the
construction of public works. The most desirable immi-
grant is the one who by thrift and economy has saved
enough money to pay his own way to our shores. The
lawful efforts of the states to secure for future citizenship
within their jurisdiction all the desirable immigrants pos-
sible by some system of distribution after they arrive in
the country dseerves every encouragement
VARDAMAN AGAIN.
Governor Vardaman of Mississippi has broken loose
again. Even after he had been signally defeated for the
United States senate by John Sharp Williams he has
refused to subside and his latest outbreak is against the
President of the United States whom hd recently desig-
nated as an anarchist and a vain hypocrite who had fooled
the people. In commenting upon Vardaman’s outbreak
the Chattanooga Star says:
'lf President Roosevelt has fooled the people as Gov-
ernor Vardanian announces in his flamboyant interview
he has accomplished more than Governor Vardaman has
ever been able to accomplish. Vardaman is a political
m untebank and he can never succeed into fooling the
people into believing that he Is anything else. One of the
things wheih has endeared President Roosevelt to the
people is the enemies he has made.”
TIDE IS RISING.
(New York Times.)
It will be a curious spectacle that of the President as-
sailed by the extremists of bis own party and sustained
by the representatives of the business interests which
need and seek a reduction of tariff burdens. The tide of
sentiment aroused by the discussion of these phases of the
tariff question is evidently a rising one. It does not look
as if Senator Lodge and his kind will be able to check it
SAME OLD KIND.
(Kansas City Star.)
“I believe tariff revision is inevitable" said Congress-
man Philip Pitt Campbell “but I am opposed to a whole-)
sale cutting of rates." Hooray for Campbell and a reduc-l
tion that falls to reduce.
WHAT THEY ARE SAYING ABOUT US.
“Delaware is the powder-horn of the nation." says the
Norfolk Landmark. And Texas is the blow-gun.”—Bristol
(Va.) Courier.
A Texas man with forty children and a wild western
girl who killed a bobcat with a 32caliber bullet are wait-
ing for rewards.
* • •
A new phase has been injected Into the Cleveland may-
oralty race. Burton’s friends claim he is better looking
than Johnson and ought to haveVhe office. If facial beauty
qualifies a man to hold office we right here nominate J.
Hamilton Lewis for president of the world Texas and all.
—St Louis Times.
• • •
The Georgian has declared Tom Watson a democrat and
proposes to prove It by Texas evidence. Better go far-
ther west for your evidence. Brother Graves. —Chattanooga
Star.
» • •
The Beaumont Enterprise places the total value of the
Texas onion crop at $647271. Tainted money.—Nashville
Tennesseean.
• « •
If Texas continues to oust her undesirable citizens she
may find herself with few of any sort remaining.—St Louis
Times.
He sang of war; in heaps he made men die;
And yet he could not bear to kill a fly;
Ecstatic verse in woman's praise he made
Althought of womankind he was afraid;
With home and its delights he often dealt
As. peacefully a bachelor he dwelt;
To love mankind was constantly his plea.
Yet from his prying neighbors he would flee;
For such as felt not Nature's charms he wept
While to the city streets he strictly kept;
With patriotic eloquence he wrote
But never would he register to vote;
He urged all men the simple life to lead.
And longed for costly things he didn’t need
And the whole world praised to his shameless glee
Not what he was but what he'd hate to be.
—John D. Barry.
THE POET.
GOOD THINGS FROM THE WORLD AT LARGE
The Martyr.
(New York World.)
Old Mame had toured the country in
a gaudy circus cage
Until her eyes were sightless and her
old bones stiff with age;
But she was wise this moth-chewed
bear and when her trainer Pat
Said "Mame old girl we’re going
south” she pronlptly smelled a
rat.
Most »circus folks will tell you that
the animals can speak
And Mame was no exception for she
licked the trainer’s cheek.
While tears ran down her wrinkled
nose and wild sobs wrenched
her throat.
“Oh Pat” she cried “don’t tell me
that I’ve got to be the goat!”
The trainer wiped his moistened eyes
and turned his face away.
But Mame the bear persisted—she
was bound to have her say:
“My poor dear mother met the end
that they have planned for me.
They shot her in Wyoming—she was
handcuffed to a tree!
“And then that crowd from Washing-
ton went out again next year;
My sick old dad was doctored up
and Pat his fate was clear.
‘Old man’ they said ‘go westward.
Well they chained him to a
stake
And he was shot ’mid loud applause
—I thought my heart would
break.
“Oh Patsy can’t you save me from
this most ignoble end?
In this my time of trouble won’t you
be my good true friend?
Or must you let them smuggle me to
some wild lonely spot.
There to await the hunters and my
hour of being shot?”
The sympathetic trainer brushed
away another tear;
“I'm sorry but it’s got to be” he
whispered in her ear.
"Some bear must be a martyr to the
presidential aim
So when he sees you beat the air and
snap and growl. Die game!”
Centipede Gave Her Eight Aces.
(New York Herald.)
According to Capt- Thompsen mas-
ter of the Bradford one of the fleet
of the United Fruit company which
beithed at pier 1 North river yester-
i day morning from Jamaica a big
centipede nearly broke up an inter-
esting pinochle game last Friday
| evening and incidentally changed the
bad luck in which Mrs. Thompsen
had played.
With Vivian Mollad. a resident of
Port Antonio and Mr. Tanner the
j chief engineer the Thompsons sat
around the captain’s table and Mrs.
! Thompsen seemed destined to be bad-
Ily beaten. Suddenly from above a
I centipede dropped to the center of the
table and the players scattered with-
I out ceremony. Capt. Thompson
sought a big stick and the deadly
। "bilg" was killed.
The blow however scattered the
cards and when the hands were
picked up Mrs. Thompsen melded
eight aces and the game went to her
without question.
Revenge of House Martins
(Chicago News.)
Two house martins built their nests
against an attic window of a farm to
which the birds had come for several
successive years. Last spring how
ever before they arrived an enter-
prising sparrow took up her abode tn
: dne of the nests. Shortly after this
' the martins returned as usual and
I one dav the farm people noticed that
the hole of the nest which the spar-
row occupied had been blocked up.
I Next morning a boy climbed up to
THE RIVAL SERENADERS.
ascertain the meaning and not find-
ing any outlet broke away part of the
nest to find the poor sparrow dead
on her eggs. The house martins had
walled her up for daring to take pos-
session of their house.
Suicide Left $2 “for Gas.”
(Philadelphia Ledger.)
“Dear George please find inclosed
$2 for the gas I have used to end
my life'
“Good-by.”
This was the brief note Herman
Oberer 63 years old wrote to his
friend George Neef proprietor of a
lodging house at 426 George street
before he turned on the gas there In
his room there on Tuesday.
As exactly 1200 cubic feet of gas
had been consumed. Deputy Coroner
Megonigal estimated that this would
cost $1.20 leaving a balance of 80c.
for Neef.
“Oberer was one of the most
thoughtful and careful men I ever
knew” Neef told Coroner Jermon at
the Inquest yesterday. “He could not
endure being in debt. He never al-
lowed a bill to go unpaid or a favor
unacknowledged.
“His father had set down this prin-
ciple as a rule of life for him to fol-
low and he did. He had a comfort-
able income. He desired to return
to Germany but as he had made some
Investments in silver mines he was
afraid that if he left this country he
would lose*them. This was what
worried him and probably led to his
suicide.”
How.
(New York Sun.)
Tis the time when politicians
Keep in touch.
And opinions of the humble
Count for much.
How does Jones of Painted Crossing
Rate the trust?
And would Smith of Pumpkin Siding
See it bust?
If a word they chanced to utter.
Or a sound.
Swift it travels like a current
Through the ground.
So this world Is hung »n earring
Mid the spheres
Firm attached unto a million
Statesmen's ears.
Artificial Limbs for Animal*.
(London Dally Mail.)
Walking along a country lane at
Stanstead Abbots. Hertfordshire a
correspondent met a large sheep dog
with a wooden leg. The animal yas
apparently suffering no inconven-
ience. Accompanying the dog were
two ladies and they explained that the
animal whose name is Bobs met with
an accident about four years ago. and
it became necessary to amputate the
leg.
"This is not the first artificial limb
that we have made for dumb animals
by any means” said the manager of
the Smithfield firm yesterday. “Only
the other day we made a wooden fore
leg for the dog ot a well known Lon-
don journalist and just before that a
wooden hind leg for a celebrated Al-
derney cow.
“Not a week passes without a peg
dog or cat being brought to us for the
insertion of a glass eye and for a
time we had in our care a race horse
belonging to Mr. McCalmont which
having put its shoulder out of joint
had to live for a time with the limb in
a plaster cast until the tissues had re-
gained their normal strength and the
anlipal could walk about without arti-
ficial aid.”
February 30 1904.
(New York Pres*.)
Did you ever hear of a February
30? The Marine Journal says: On
a ship voyaging across the Pacific
ocean at the end of February 1904
a leap year an inquisitive passenger
found a menu dated February 30. At
first he thought he had come across
a typographical error but had to
change his opinion. The dinner was
given on the Siberia while crossing
from Yokohama to San Francisco. A
day is gained between Japan and
America and as the event happened
on this occasion at the end of Feb-
ruary leap year the date of February
30 was right.
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Zly lllici col with us on or before Cct. 5.
I// See that your savings draw Interest. x
/O WEST TEXAS BAKK& TRUST 0. •
x Capital and SurplusS22sooo.oo
I ¥ rr* C T TEXAS BANK & TRUST CO
IA/ j-1 X | -CAPITAL and SURPLUS $225000.00-
rV 1 all branches of banking
Geo. C. Saur Pree. W. T. Eldridge VloPre*. W. R. King. 2d Vice-Pre*.
A. H. Piper Cashier
THE CITY NATIONAL BANK
Depository San Antonio School Board. Depository Twenty-fourth Bena
torial District State of Texas. Depository United State* Gov-
ernment. Solicits your account.
ALAMO NATIONAL BANK
BAN ANTONIO. TEXAS.
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $600000.
SAFE CONSERVATIVE ACCOMMODATING.
Best Fire and Burglar Proof Vault* In Fire Proof Building.
CHAS ZOLLEft PAUL INGENHUTH H. R. SCHMELTZER.
Pres and Gen. Mgr. Vice-president. Bec’y and Trea*.
MERCHANTS 9 TRANSFER COMPANY
(Incorporated.)
receiving Forwarding storage etc. hauling and placing
SAFES AND MACHINERY A SPECIALTY. BOTH PHONES 359.
OFFICE AND WAREHOUSES: 510 to 514 DOLOROSA ST.
E* B* Chandler
MONEY TO LOAN
Real Estate For Sale
102 EAST CROCKETT STREET
SAN ANTONIO
KERRVILLE
: SCRAPS OF :
• INFORMATION :
A priest has been arrested at Agin-
court on the Franco-Belgian frontier
for smuggling. His luggage was full
o feigars and when he was stripped
he was found to be wearing arpuni
his body a layer of tobacco and ci-
gars over an inch in thickness. The
man was clothed in tobacco and 2000
cigars were taken from the layer.
Today there are fewer saloons in
the thirteen southern states than in
Greater New York and only a few-
more than in the city of Chicago. In
New York there are 30000 places
where liquor is sold in Chicago 29000.
In New York state the estimated pop-
ulation in 1905 was 8160000 and the
government issued in the state that
year 34080 “special tax stamps” to
persons desiring to engage in the
manufacture and sale of liquor. The
thirteen Southern states with 23500-
000 people secured in 1906 less than
30000 stamps.
After being ten years in the making
there has just been deposited in the
government standard weights and
measures strong room a new standard
yard measure. It is made of ninety
parts of platinum and ten of iridium
which when combined are not upset 1
by either heat or cold. After the elab-
orate marking it was submitted to a
number of tests coming through all
with high honors. Every year ot the
next ten years it will be examined and
if it varies by the millionth part of an
inch it will be consigned to the rub-
bish heap otherwise it will become a
standard.
The Grand Duke Constantine cous-
in of the czar who has h'ad some ex-
perience behind the footlights will
soon make his re-entry according to
reports of St Petersburg which have
been published in Vienna. Some
years ago he translated “Hamlet” in-
to the Russian in collaboration with
his wife and when the work was fin-
ished he surprised his friends by ap-
pearing in the character of the Prlnco
of Denmark. The reports say that
"Quo Vadis” has been translated and
prepared for the stage by the grand
duke and that he will be seen in the
part of the hero Vlcinius.
One of tha earliest and most confi-
dent attempts to establish a universal
language on the lines of the modern
Esperanto was that of Sir Thomas
Urquhart who in 1653 issued his "in-
troduction to a universal language
which for variety of diction in each
part of speech surmounteth all the
languages of the world.” An expect-
ant public was bidden to look out for
subsequent volumes but they never
arrived. Bishop Wilkins who flour-
ished about the same period had his
own ideas about a universal language
but they did not materialize. He was
an optimist of the first degree and
was firmly convinced that it would bo
possible to communicate with the
moon by means of flying machines.
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