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The San Antonio Light
FOUNDED JAN. Z) 1881.
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Published Every Day in the Year.
Evening Daily—Sunday Morning.
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Up north the grip germ is working
overtime.
The sweeping of dust and rubbish
into the public streets still goes mer-
rily on.
Members of the Georgia bartenders’
union have perhaps secured jobs as
water wagon drivers.
A few benches in the bencbless
plazas these beautiful sunny after-
noons would be a welcome improve-
ment.
Science has discovered that mos-
quitoes do not bite frogs. To be im-
mune next summer make a noise
like a frog.
Having demonstrated his ability as
a fistic fighter there is no longer any
good reason why Booth Taikdmgton
should not go to congress. /
having tasted pulqW Tn the City
O f mKaTC') and foundxnhot to her lik-
ing tt’ that Carrie Nation
will soon re "Jim to the land of rye
and bourbon.
A Chicago man is going to make p
trip around the world to study freak
people. This would seem unnecessary
with such a plenty of material for him
to work on right in his home city.
Judge Parker declares that political-
ly he is an "innocent bystander." The
history of what usually happens to
the innocent bystander ought to serve
to make the judge extremely cautious.
In view of the large number of can-
didates it might be well to get ac-
customed to calling it the cauldron
Instead of the political pot when it
comes to telling how hard it’s boiling.
The "Dollar Man" will be around
again next Sunday afternoon. He may
pick out your house as one of those
where he will pay one dollar for a
copy of the Sunday morning San An
tonio Light.
Over 2400 'Chicagoans died during
1907 from overeating declares a phy-
sician of that city. With food prices
as high as they have been this would
seem to be a rather extravagant
method of suicide.
"The devil” savs an Arkansas
preacher "spends his time going up
and down the creek ashing." From
which it will be safe to assume that
he spends the rest of the week like
other fishermen in telling about the
big ones that got away.
The San Antonio Light wants to
know how its readers like the new
magazine section of the Sunday edi-
tion and wants suggestions for im-
provement. The best letters will be
paid for. Read the announcement on
the first page of this paper.
What do you think of the San An-
tonio Light's eight-page magazine sec-
tion which made its initial appearance
Sunday and which will be a regular
feature of the Sunday paper? Write
ycur impressions criticise and make
suggestions for improvement. The
three best letters will be paid for at
one dollar each. Write on only one
side of the paper and not to exceed
150 words.
LYNCHINGS.
Mississippi comes to the front with
the first lynching of the new year.
Brookhaven was tho scene of the
lynching and the victim was a negro
suspected of having shot a policeman
at Oakville a nearby town. The
negro was under arrest and on the
way to jail when a mob formed and
by casting a lasso over his head man-
aged to drag him away from the'police
and shoot him to death. For the year
190* Alabama had the greatest num
ber of lynchings with Mississippi a
close second. Evidently Mississippi
intends to take the lead this year and
leep it
While 190* saw 56 lynchings the
record shows a reduction of 20 per
cent as compared with the year 1906.
Fifty-two of the victims were negroes
and four white men. One case was
that of a negro whose son had jostled
a white woman another was that of
a negro who expressed sympathy with
one of his race who had been killed
by a mob. In one instance when the
mob failed to find the real perpetrator
of a crime satisfaction was obtained
bv shooting to death his wife and son.
And even so trivial a thing as a debt
of three dollars was made the occa-
sion for a lynching.
Alabama had 13 lynchings during
1907. Mississippi had 12 Louisiana
had eight and Georgia six. Florida
and North Carolina both of which
were represented in the list of lynch-
ing for 1906 went through the year
with a clean record but Oklahoma the
youngest state had been a state less
than a month when her people put to
death two men without due process
of law.
CONSULAR BUILDINGS.
Discussing the proposition laid be-
fore congress by the secretary of stat 3
for an appropriation of $1000000 for
the erection and improvement of
United States government buildings
in Oriental cities the Washington
Post upholds the contention that un-
less present conditions are remedied
oru trade interests in the Far East
will suffer because of the disrespect
which our lack of national dignity will
engender among from whom we
seek trade. i
“Our commerce with China and Ja-
pan has already suffered because of
this very thing” says the Post. The
people of tiie United States have clam-
ored widely for years for an in-
crease’d trade with eastern nations a
trade that would compete with that of
Great Britain and France and Ger-
many in cotton stuffs and wheat prod-
ucts and machinery. But the people’s
representatives have pursued a nig-
gardly policy toward the people’s com-
mercial agents in these countries and
the result is that we have lost ■ face”
as the Chinese say. That means we
have lost Oriental esteem and to lose
that means to lose Oriental trade.
"Face” or the apeparance of dignity
prosperity and power is a most im-
portant thing to preserve in one’s re-
lations of whatever nature with all
Eastern peoples.
"Great Britain and the other trade
countries have long recognized this
and hence their consuls are housed in
a style in keeping with the greatness
and diguity of the country which they
represent. They are even allowed ex-
pense accounts for the entertaining
of foreign notables in the commercial
world. But the officers of the Ameri-
can consular service are compelled to
do their business entertaining out of
their own salaries; they are allowed
a mere pittance for the maintenance
of a consulate where one has not pre-
viously been erected by the govern-
ment and if they are not content with
the lowly place in which such mean
housings put them they must keep
their position up at their own expense.
The statement or Consul General Den-
by of Shanghai that our government's
failure properly house its agents in
that city has put the government as
well as its agents in a contemptuous
position is probably quite as true of
the consular officers at Hongkong
Niuchwang and Yokohama. Througn-
out the whole of the Orient the im-
portance and general popularity of a
foreign nation depend upon the dignity
surrounding the offices and residences
of its official representatives. The
United States is not too poor to keep
up ns rank with other nations in this
respect.
AND HE DIDN’T GET IT.
(Portland Oregonian.)
“Never have we had before in this
country a man in full chase of the
presidency” says the Nashville Amer-
ican (Dem ) In an editorial in which
it likens Mr. Bryan to a candidate for
sheriff handing out his card to pass-
ersby. But oh indeed wasn’t there
Stephen A. Douglas? No man ever
sought the presidency as he did.
POET-PHYSIOLOGIST.
(London Chronicle.)
Professor Osborne who fills the
chair of physiology In Melbourne has
just issued "The Laboratory and
Other Poems." Here is a specimen of
his muse:
I sometimes think the rose is red
I sometimes think it’s green:
I sometimes think the cauliflower
Is the finest thing I’ve seen;
1 sometimes think the world is round.
I sometimes think it’s flat.
I sometimes think the symbolist
Is talking through his hat
A FIGHT AND A FROLIC.
(New York World.)
While the fleet is on its "frolic" off
Trinidad the "fight” is occurring on
the peaceful banks of the Potomac at
naval headquarters.
TUESDAY JANUARY 7 1908. THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT. Tuesday. January 7 iica.
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Around the World
In Trips Politics
TAFT’S journey has been frequent-
ly alluded to by hostile political
critics as a spectacular play in
the game for making him the next
president of the United States. But
before he undertook it. says the Phil-
adelphia Bulletin he had already. In
his foreign trips made an almost
unique reputation as a traveling mem-
ber of the cabinet. In fact if we take
Root’s journeys to Europe to South
America and to Mexico together with
the president’s to Panama —the only
occasion when a president has glne
far beyond the old border lines of the
United States—the Roosevelt admin-
istration has been peculiarly distin-
guished for this kind of actlvty.f
There was a time when the sight of
a cabinet officer leaving the country
for long journeys would have been re-
garded with disfavor as involving a
neglect of his duty at Washington
and the custom which limited the
travels of a president to the United
States was so fixed that as late as
eight vears ago McKinley Is said to
have taken special care when on or
near the Mexican boundary line not to
cress over 10 the foreign side. Inci-
dentally It maj- be said of Roosevelt
however that when he went to Pan-
ama he was on American territory or
in American jurisdiction inasmuch
as the ship which carried him thither
was legally American soil. But it
may be doubted whether the old pre-
cedent would have disturbed him
much tf he had felt seriously Inclined
to sil to any other point that was not
American.
The assumption that Taft's tour is
part of the plan for working up his
presidential canvass is like the one
which came to he held as to General
Grant’s trip around the world. But In
Grant’s case It did not crop out until
long after he had gone abroad. He
began the journev about two months
after he left the presidency in the
spring of 1877. at this city sailing
with Captain Sereeant'fn the Indiana
of the American lino and was escort-
ed down the river bv an enthusiastic
party of Philadelphia admirers. But
there was little or no thought at that
time that he would be again a presi-
dential candidate and It was not until
the newspapers began to print glow
ing accounts of the demonstrations In
his honor in foreign countries and
especially after he had reached the
for east and held his interview with
Li Hung Chang that the political re-
action against him at the close of his
second term began to be succeeded
to a large extent by a new senH-
mental interest In his personality as a
private citizen.
It was in the midst of this sort of
revival of bls popularity that the
“third term” movement was started
at home and from that time Grant
was treated bv the democrats and
most of the Blaine men as a candi-
date on his travels. His progress
across the countrv from the Pacific
side was utilized by the followers ot
the Conkling-Cameron-Logan combi-
nation for all the political capital that
could be plausibly or decently made
about It. and when he arrived in this
city on the last of his trip on a
December day in 1879. which was vir-
tuallv made a sort of local holiday
the third term boom had been set In
full motion by the Stalwart leaders
although the great reception here was
personal rather than political in its
general character.
Two years ago Bryan started on bls
tour of the world and his faculty with
his pen as well as with h’s tongue
enabled him to keep himself almost
continual!* in the eve of the publie.
The letters which he wrote for the
newspapers that bought them were
entirely free .of politics and many of
them were well written from a trav-
eler’s point of view. Some of his ad-
dresses especially when he was in
London were admirably phrased in
the spirit of an American observer
and commentator who bad left his pol-
ities at home. Whatever the effect
which he may have intended to pro-
■ duce in this country there wa sno
’ doubt when he returned that the tour
had greatly strengthened him widi
his party.
PLEASANT NEWS.
IP)
7 "A
‘Mamma Mrs. Jones thinks
you are an artist"
“Thinks I'm an artist?"
“Yes; I heard her Mrs.
Torker that you certainty did
osuntl”
Dispatch from Washington—Secretary Taft will practically open his campaign for the nomination January
10 when he will invade Governor Hughes’ bailiwick and address the People's Forum in Cooper’s Union N. Y. city.
❖ GOOD THINGS FROM THE WORLD AT LARGE $
English Wit.
(New York Press.)
The English folk are witty but
have not a keen sense of humor. Most
critics of the Britishers mistake wit
for humor or humor for wit. They
are very wide apart. Here is a sam-
ple of English wit which is not half
bad:
A Frenchman meeting an English
soldier with a Waterloo medal anim*
adverted sneeringly on the govern-
ment for bestoying such a trifle
which he declared did not cost three
francs. “That is true to be sure ’
replied the hero. “1.- did not cost the
English government quite three francs
but it cost the French a Napoleon.”
Bird Returned to Its Ca-e.
(London Evening Standard.)
The Rev. Cecil K. Fardell of Lian-
denny parsonage. Usk Monmouth-
shire writes that some years ago
finding that a caged bullfinch which
he hart placed out of doors every morn-
ing was visited dally by the wild birds
outside he prepared a second vacan*
cage which was promptly occupied
by a splendid wild cock bullfinch.
The bird was frightened one day by a
dog and the cage door being open it
flew away.
Four months later a gentle tap at
the window was hesrd. The bird had
retune’ to capitiv.ly. He again occu-
pied his old cage.
Why the Housekeeper Quit
(New York Sun.)
The housekeeper is missing from a
millionaire establishment up town
and her former employer is bewailing
the departure of such a treasured aid
without in the leist understanding
why one so well paid and so well
treated should ha-’e chosen to leave.
The former housekeeper is explaining
to a few her singular reason for de-
parting.
”1 didn't mind looking after 30 serv-
ants” she has told those who are in
the secret "nor running a house in
which every detail from selecting the
menus to ordering the sash curtains
fell on me. I did think I was called
on to do too much however when the
mistress ot this great house used to
get so lonesome In her grand dining
room that she invited me every day to
come and lunch w.<h her. That was
not a part of my duties as house-
keeper. and I had to go.”
Danger in Second-hand Rugs.
(New York Press.)
Liking for oriental rugs is often
money in the doctor's pocket in the
opinion of a London physician who
says: "Most of the antique Persian
rugs are collected in various bazaars
In the east and when you consider
that the carpets are sometimes laid
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down in frequented places to be walk-
ed on or lent to the beggars or street
venders of the eastern cities you will
see how necessary it is for them to
be thoroughly cleaned. Before I have
an antique rug In my home under all
circumstances do I have it specially
fumigated. In fact I myself would go
so far as to forbid the importation of
eastern fabrics into any occidental
country unless they had previously un-
dergone some purifying process. Many
of the otherwise unacountable out-
breaks of tropical disorders in Paris
New York and London are due to in-
fection from orienial rugs.”
Laughterland.
(Birmingham Age-Herald.)
All aboard for Laugbtyrland—
’Tis a pleasant place .
Where the sun of happiness
Shines in every face
Where the cares of this old world
Quickly are forgot
And there's never any cloud
Any pain or blot!
All aboard for Laughterland
Region of delight!
Can be reafched by any w-ho
Goes about it right.
First you shake your troubles off.
Then begin to smile.
And you’ll get to Laughterland
In a little while.
Children dwell in Laughterland
’Cause they do not know
What makes grown-up people bear
Burdens as they go.
Light hearts seek for Laughterland
Optimists go there—
Guess it is the gladdest place
Mentioned anywhere!
“What became of Cromwell?” The
question is a vexed one. According to
an sneient tradition Cromwell’s bedy
was conveyed away immediately after
his death in obedience to his last or-
ders and was burled in Naseby Field
“wnere he had obtained the greatest
victory and glory." According to an
oth.’r account Mary Lady Fauconberg.
Cromwell's daughter was able to con-
vey the body away from its grave in
the abbey and to have it burled in her
husband's house of Newburgh tn
YorksMre where the tomb an impene-
trable marble one is still shown. An-
other corpse was substituted for
Cromwell's in the abbey and it was
this nameless corpse which underwent
the Indignities put upon it in January
4661 when the putative body was
hauled on the gallows at Tyburn to-
gether with Ireton's and Bradshaw’s
while the head was set up on a pol 3
abo'-e Westminster hall.
This head still transfixed by a spike
which was let through the cranium
by means of a specially drilled hole
is now in the possession of Mr. Hor-
ace Wilkinson of Sevenoaks. It is
the head curiously enough of some
one whose body has probably beeu
embalmed for the top of the skull
has been sawed off in order presuma-
bly to admit of the removal of the
brains. The body to which this head
belonged was buried under the gallows
of Tyburn unless which Is probable
the Fauconbergs obtained the body
there and carried it off.
English Pennies Scarce.
(London Mail.)
America is not the only country with
a money stringency. There is a cur-
Oliver Cromwell's Body.
(The Lancet.)
rency difficulty in London. It may not
cal] for such extended reference in the
next king's speech to parliament as
the American problem did in Presi-
dent Roosevelt’s message to corigress
but it is causing considerable trouble
in .he city evertheless.
The New York banks are unable to
pay their depositors in gold currency.
In London the banks are unable to sup
ply their customers with coppers.
There is no difficulty in cashing a
check at any London bank it tbe de-
positor is content with gold and silver
in exchange. But should he demand
any considerable sum in pennies the
agitated cashier will refer him to the
glass-inclosed inner office where the
stern-Tact*; manager will resolutely
refuse to part with more than a grudg-
ing pittance from his precious hoard.
New Zealand’s Windy City.
(London Chronicle.)
Wellington the political capital of
New Zealand is one of the windiest
cities in the world and once a build-
ing there gets “well alight” there is
little chance of saving it. Everybody
in Wellington clutches bis hat on
rounding a street comer to prevent its
being blown into space. A Wellington
man Is always known in Sydney. Mel-
bourne and other cities by holding on
to his hat through force of habit
The State Bank and Tfust Co*
321 East Houston Street. San Antonio Texas.
CAPITAL $lOOOOO
W. T. McCampbell President Aug. Brism Jr. First Vlca-presldsnL
A. J. Bell Second Vice-president. J. H. Halle Cashier.
ALAMO NATIONAL BANK
SAN ANTONIO. TEXA*.
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $«00.000.
SAFE. CONSERVATIVE ACCOMMODATING.
Best Fire and Burglar Proof Vaults In Fire Proof Building.
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SA N ANTONIO
* KERRVILLE
San Antonio
21 Years Ago
(The Light Jan- 7 1887.)
Mr. Bright a guest of Alderman
Lockwood Is robbed ot a pistol and
two razors and Mrs. Alexander's resi-
dence on Avenue C Is robbed of $63.
Duval West goes to Austin to en-
gage in the insurance business and
general regret is expressed by his
friends at the loss the city sustains. It
may be added that “Bud” has returned
to San Antonio since the above news
item was printed and if he leaves
again it will not be to go to Austin.
The Bachelors and Benedicts’ ball
last night was graced by the presence
of a number of well-known people
among them being: Misses Hortie
Jones Kate Jackson Helena Jones
Lottie James Annie Prescott Fannie
Simpson Marie Otis. Nannie Stanley
Lizzie Reed Camilla Howard Ella
Tobin Emma Macon Blanche Eager;
Mesdames Vinton James. Harry Cun-
ningham Louis Berg. Ed Steves Joe
Maddox and Herman Kampmann;
Messrs. Dr. Edie De Rossy Cabell Dr.
Woodbury. Captain Williams. J. M.
Carr J. Hickmann W. Herft Herff
Storey Charlie Green George Samp-
son A. C. Shell Ed Terry. W. Kings-
bury C. Holman Harry Cunningham
John Martin and Vinton James.
General Stanley commander of the
department of Texas goes shooting
with a party of congenial friends.
Joe Gutzeit and Miss Amelia Weyl ’
are licensed to wed. 9
Miss Lottie Lyons editress of the
Del Rio Dot comes to the city for a
business and social visit.
CROOKED BANKERS
TO BE POT ON GRILL
Grand Jury Is Instructed to
Probe Failures in New
York City.
New York Jan. 7.—A special grand
jury to investigate the administration
of banking and other financial institu-
tions in this city has Just been sworn
in. The appointment of this jury was
requested by District Attorney Jerome
as a result of some of the charges of
misconduct on the part of certain
bankers which were made during tho
recent banking troubles in New York.
Justice Dowling instructed the jury
that those who have violated the finan-
cial trust reposed in them should be
held to strict accountability.
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