Sunday Light. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 49, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 8, 1896 Page: 2 of 8
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THE SUNDAY LIGHT.
The Great Republican Daily of Texas
SANANTONIO LIGHT PUBLISHING CO.
Office No. 101 East Commerce St.
Entered at the Post Office at San Antonio
Texas as Second Class Mall Matter.
OFFICERS LIGHT PUB. CO.
President and Manager T. B. Johnson
Vice President W. 8. Messmer
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Director & Superintendent W.T.Schumacher
Treasurer T. B. Johnson
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will please make complaint to the office.
Subscribers are warned not to pay their
subscription only to our authorized col-
lectors as advertised in this paper.
SUNDAY MARCH 8 1896
LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP.
How much easier to preach than
practice. Had the Light preacher
horded the adomintion of the text
two weeks ago when he jumped
from the wharf at Rockport on to
the deck of the Oriole he would
not have been out of bis pulpit a
week ago nor would he be {hob-
bling around bis room on sticks at
thia time. It is as old as human
observation however that it were
easier to tell a hundred men what
it were best to do than to bo one
of the hundred to do what is told.
None the less is the adominition
wise. Compliance with this plain
law of action or disregard of it
marks all the difference between
the wisdom and the unwisdom of
all our dally thinking and speak-
ing and doing.
To look before we leap Is simply
to put out the or feelers
of the mind and sample the [spot
on which the feet are to light
before they strike terra Qrma. It
is to flash the light of a correct
■ observation a little ahead of any
proposed action and forecast the
probable result. It is that habit
of the mind by which presence of
mind is rendered largely uneces-
sary absence of body being con-
sidered safer. It is or
acquired quality of the*'caculating
intelligence which refuses to
count the chickens that are yet in
the egg basket or even under the
hen fully convinced that there
are addled eggs in every nest. It
is that prudence' of thought and
act which says to itself in every
doubtful case before you do it
don’t.
It is to the interest of every son
and daughter of the great humani-
to study well the lessons of
this text and by a wise practice
of the forethought that it incul-
cates keep itself out of the
thorns and brambles. It is only
in the nursery rhymes gthat men
are found wise enough to “jump
into the bramble bush and scratch
them back again” when they have
been foolish enough to jump into
one and scratch out their pee|>erB.
In actual life such happy accidents
of surgery are impossible. To
look before you leap is as neces-
sary as it is to avoid accidents
keep free from dangers and pre-
vent disasters. It is an insurance
policy against all these and is
more necessary to the ordinary
human than an accident policy is
to the commercial tourist. It is a
groundhog case.
The man who looks before he
leapsis the exact opposite of the
man who goes it blind. The
one is a fatalist of the fool kind;
the other a free agent in whom
choice is a necessary function of
his intelligence. The one man
never knows that a thunderstorm
is coming until the lightning
strikes him and is ready to do it
over again every time and all the
time. The other man hears the
rumbling of heaven’s artillery afar
off and puts up his lightning rod
and seeks shelter. The one man
never gets into a difficulty that he
can avoid ; the other never avoids
a difficulty Into which he can
possibly stumble. The one is the
creator of circumstances; the
other theirvlctlm. The one is right
handed in heart and head and all
else; the other is left handed in
everything.
It is this left handed man who
always gets left. His creditors
are always left in the lurch; his
business ventures are left to the
mercy of circumstances; his horses
are left at the post; hie friends
are left to mourn his impracti-
cableness; bls family if he has
one is left to shift for itself and
if he has none his best girl is left for
the other fellow to marry. He is
on the left hand of his argument
on the left hand of successful
business ventures on the left hand
of politics on the left hand of
comfort and pleasure and popu-
larity on the left hand of all that
is good and desirable and clean
and sweet women and girl babies
included. He is the misfit of
civilization.
The man who does not look be-
fore he leaps is the man who
always puts the wrong foot fore-
most and stumbles over the
threshold of opportunity. He
never opens bis mouth that be
does not put his foot in it. He
never comes near your corns that
he does not step on them. He it
is who always steps on the trails
of the ladies’ gowns at receptions
tramps on their toes in the crush
offers them refreshments on the
wrong side and gets in the left-
banded positions everywhere.
The preachers in the denomina-
tional pulpits will tell you that
Peter will open the left hand gate
for these fellows and assign them
a place on the left and that they
will jump into perdition because
they did not learn to look whether
their faces were turned towards
heaven or hades when they leaped.
Of this the Light preacher knows
nothing but of all men in this
world most miserable are those
who do not look before they leap.
The world is full of cripples
because the look was not taken
before the leap. The business
world. Old merchants as well as
younger ones are guilty of the
same folly. They venture out in-
to the unknown regions of invest-
ment and trade not looking care-
fully before they leap and land
on some unforseen rock or stump
or other inequality their ankles
bend under them the ligaments
are strained and away goes an-
other poor fellow on crutches.
There are laws governing trade
laws of supply and demand laws
of selection and advertising laws
that if properly observed and
studied would prevent these dis-
asters in commercial life but
they are not so studied and the
fatal leap is taken into the un-
known with loss and discredi
and bankruptcy as the result.
The political world is full of
failures also. Men with the bee
of political ambition buzzing in
their heads who do not stop
rightly to consider the landing
place upon which their leap is
going to plant them. They do not
make proper allowance between
the facts as presented by friends
and as seen by enemies. They
look only at their feet and not at
their landing place and always
fall short of their calculations.
The state and the nation are alike
full of these abortions. These
men are the bane of all wise
political movements for they are
the despair of all calculation.
Their friends never know that
they will do the right thing; their
enemies more safely calculate that
they will do the wrong one. These
men are only more dangerous
when by accident they land on
their feet.
Had Weyler only looked before
he leaped he would not have pro-
claimed himself the foe of all
civilized methods of warfare and
brought down on his head the
execration of this country and the
recent recognition of congress.
Had Salisbury looked before he
leaped he would not have made
that break in Armenian affairs
and made England tbe laughing
stock of Europe; neither would
he have in his blindness jumped
upon the United States for declar-
ing that arbitration must rule in
Venezuela and then tumbled
bead over heels in landing. Dun-
raven would not have been ex-
pelled from the New York Yacht
club had he looked before he
leaped into that rotten statement
about the Defender. Grover would
not have been smarting under bis
thick skin today had be looked be-
fore be flaunted a flag of reli-
gious contention in the face of ths
nation by making the Presby-
terian church tbe official church
of the country. He did not mean
to turn a somersault but he did
it bad.
It is not expected that oid heads
will ever learn new habits. It is
bard to teach an old dog new
tricks. It is to the young men
and women of this country that
the hope of the nation turns for
every better thing. To these the
Light preacher addresses him-
self. It is within your power to
avoid nine-tenths of the mis-
takes of life by understanding
conditions and forecasting results i
of action. The milestones of the
past are only your guides for the fu-
ture. Avoid hastiness. Take things
deliberately. Do not jump to con-
clusions. Every jump ends in a
jar. Come down gracefully. Like
the man who goes up in a baloon
take your parachute along so that
you can come down gracefully.
Look before you leave your air
ball to where you are likely to
land or you will come to grief.
This teaches the need of careful
observation ; of cool calculation ;
of correct conclusion; of wise
action. Tbe young man or woman
who has boxed this compass has
feelers out at these four cardinal
points will not jump rashly or be
likely to land with a sprained
ankle or a broken bone. These
four —observation calculationcon-
clusion action wisely directed
and employed—will insure that
you do not land in a bramble bush
and scratch out your nor on
a pile of rubbish and start a ten-
don. If you would pass through
the world safely for yourself com-
fortably for your friends annoy-
ingly to your enemies look before
you leap. If you would land square-
lystand upright after you do land
and cover tbe intended distance
look before you leap.
OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS.
MEETING OF THE REFORM REPUB-
LIOAN PARTY.
State Executive Committee.
Waco Texas Feb. 191898.
In pursuance of-the call of Cnairman L.P.
Goodell dated Fort Worth Feb. 9tb 1898.
Tbe Reform Republican State Executive
committee for tbe State of Texas met at tbe
city ball in Waco at 11:45 a. m. on the 19th of
February. 189tl. In the absence of the chair-
man L. P. Goodell Sam L. Hain treasurer of
the committee being- the only executive
officer present took the chair and called tbe
committee to order.
The roll call showed the following present:
Ist District—Ed Davis Jefferson.
Sth District—H. Wagner. Greenville.
6th District—W. N. Norton Dallas; proxy
for A. M. Cochran Dallas.
.th District—John Gilles Mineola
Htb District—Geo. A. O’Brien Waco; proxy
for A. M. Armstrong.
12th Distriot-S. M. Jones Kosse.
14th District—A. B. Norton proxy for Geo.
F. Poole Orange.
lath District—H. K. Davis proxy for 17th.
16th District—C. B. Peck proxy for Seth B.
Strong.
20th District—T. L. Wren.
24th District.!. B. Johnsonproxy for Wm.
Hoetllng.
25th District—J. P. Newcomb proxy for C.
W. Standart.
27th District—W. H. Harvey. Belton.
Satn'l L. Hain treasurer ex-officio member
of committee.
There beinga majority of all tbe committee
present in person or by proxy it was de-
cided that there was a <4uorutn and the oom
mlttee proceeded to business.
Tbe first business was the eleotlon of a sec-
retary. upon motion Jas. P. Newcomb was
elected permanent secretary of the commit-
tee.
The call of Chairman Goodell was read by
the secretary.
On motion of Maj. Peck it was decided to
adjourn until 2:30 p. tn. and the chairman
was instructed to wire Chairman L.P. Goodell
to inform him that the committee was organ-
ized.
At 2:30 p. tn. the committee met in pursu-
ance of adjournment Mr. 8. L. Hain in the
chair. Roil call disclosed the quorum present.
Maj. C. B. Peck offered the following reso-
lution which was unanimously adopted:
Resolved. That the object of this executive
meeting is for the purpose of calling a state
convention for the selection of delegates to
tbe national republican convention to be
held in tbe city of Bt. Louie on January 16th
1896. and for the transaction of such other
business as may be properly brought be-
fore it; adopted.
Tbe next business in order was tbe gclec-
t ion of time and place for holding the state
convention. After free discussion tbe time
w as ordered to be the first question settled
and the 20th of April 1896 chosen. The place
being next.
Maj. Peck placed Houston in nomination.
Mr. O’Brien placed Waco in nomination.
Mr. Ed. Davis placed Jefferson in nomina
tion.
At this stage of the proceedings Mr. O'Brien
requested the invitation of the mayor of
Waco be read:
Waco Tex. Feb. 18 1896.
Hon. Goodell Chairman Republican State
Executive Committee:
My Dear Sir—ln behalf of the citizens of
Waco 1 beg to extend to yourself and the ex-
ecutive committee an invitation to hold the
next annual republican state convention at
Waco. I assure you of the cordial welcome
of all classes of our community and hope
} our committee will do us the honor to hod
your convention in the Central city. Yours
very truly C. C. McCulloch
Mayor of Waco.
The committee suspended business to listen
to the presentation of the claims of Waco
from a delegation of the Commercial club of
Waco and president of the board of trade.
Mr. R. B. Parrott and Bart Moore were the
spokesmen.
After tbe claims of the several candidates
were fully discussed the ballot was ordered
with the following result: Houston 8; Waco.
5; Jefferson 1.
The one extra vote being the vote of the
chairman.
The following resolution was presented by
H. K. Davis:
Resolved That the methods prescribed bv
the callof the national chairman be compiled
with in electing delegates to the national con-
vention; adopted.
The following resolution was proposed by
T. B. Johnson:
Resolved That we invite the Republican
League clubs of tbe state to attend the re-
publican state convention at Houston on the
20thof April. 1896; adopted.
T. L. Wren offered tbe following:
Resolved That all county conventions shall
be called at least ten days before tbe state
convention; adopted.
C. B. Peck offered a resolution fixing a basis
of representation which was amended and
passed as follows:
The basis of representation shall be two
delegates at large for each county and one
delegate for every 250 votes or fraction over
1205 votes cast for Benjamin Harrison in 1892.
The district and county chairmen are in-
structed to call conventions under such re-
strictions as they and their local committees
may determine are necessary to protect the
integrity of the primaries and conventions to
secure a representative delegation.
This resolution was fully oiscussed and In
the vote for aloptlon received but one noga
tlve vote.
Tbe following invitation was read and ac
ceptcd with thanks.
W AC« Tex. Feb. 19. 1896.
The chairman of the state republican exec-
utive committee will please extend to tbe
members thereof an invitation from the
Natatorium company to call this afternoon or
evening and take a plunge in the health giv-
ing waters of Waco. Respectfully.
Geo. K. Marshall Superintendent.
Mr. Newcomb offered a resolution of thanks
to the mayor of Waco to the Commercial
club of Waco board of trade reception com-
mittee of Republican club and press for the
kind courtesies extended to the committee
during their session.
T. It. Johnson ottered a resolution that
the sum of $25 be appropriated for the use of
the secretary to defray printing and postage
expense In publishing and distributing tbe
call for the state convention.
Mai. Pock addressed tbe committee thank-
ing them In behalf of Houston and promts-
Islng a warm welcome to the state conven-
tion.
/At 5 p. m. a motion to adjourn sine die was
Jut and carried. Sam. L. Hain
1 Jas. P. MetrootSß. Chairman.
f Secretary.
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[m man Field Marshal Blucher’s army
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easy shoes that it was enabled by
S quick and forced marches to co-operate with Wellington’s army much sooner than Napoleon figured
® on. They didn’t get tireo. The shoes were substantial and held out. We didn’t sell those shoes
IS] but we do sell ones with the same good qualities.
| For Ladies p or Mi SS es. j
We have received our full a Spring heel school shoes |
stock of spring Footwear g fl Kid Grain and Calf . sizes ।
!ISI The latest styles m Kid and g < fl I 2 to from 75 cents to
Russet Slippers. Lace straps M MW M fl $2 00.
and nullifiers. All widths nj in 9 ' ~ _ . I
nr ;™ W /v Infant s Moccasins and Soft
audpnces - Sole Racks in all light shades. |
Russet and Black Shoes. All prices and i
-- For Men styles from 50 cents up- i
: I
gill For Boys. i
DidRM ‘Wolfson’s” own brand Bal. ।
and Congress $3.00 Shoes. All j
stvle toes. Our leader. „ „ . _.. .
Boy s Satin Calf Lace [
® A full line of Burton and Pack- Shoes Tipped Globe Toe. ■
S / ard- "Correct shape shoes.” Kan- Sizes 12 to 2 $1.25; same ।
S / garoo Cordivan Calf Russet and Shoe for Youths sizes 3to X !
\ / Patent leather for Spring wear 5O W e consider this 5
\ / ss'°°an $6.00. shoe a big bargain.
“Made Jim Feel Good."
To the Daily Light:
Under the above heading the
Express a few days since published
a communication from J. R Davis
the Soledad street colored barber
in which that clever manipulator
of the razzur gave vent to his im-
pressions and feelings resultant of a
visit as a delegate to Messrs. Ogden
and Terrell’s convention at Fred-
ericksburg. In the enthusiasm
and exuberance of hie gratitude at
the unexpected flood In his politi-
cal fortunes a Hood bringing in
its wake recognition from such a
“white gem’men as Hon. C.W. Og-
den and H»n. E. H. Terrell to say
nothing of a free ride epicurean
banquets (a la Fredericksburg)
“excellent rooms and comfortable
beds” Jim fairly flops over but he
never neglects to evidence the
deep-seated gratitude of his race or
his own proud satisfaction and ap-
preciation of the social and politi-
cal honors literally showered upon
him by his philanthropic brothers
in a common cause (the Allison
boom) despite the racial prejudices
and antagonism which have di-
vided the Anglo-Saxon and tbe
Ethiopian from the time of -the
dispersion at the Tower of Babel
up to and including this blessed
moment.
But “Jim” doubtless uninten-
tionally aggravatingly fails to en-
ter into details. He tells us that:
“The trip was one of the best I’ve
had in many days and the con-
vention was one of the most har-
monious in which it has been my
lot to sit as a delegate. The only
disagreeable feature was the twen-
ty-eight miles’ ride and this was
all amended in the kind and man-
ly treatment we received upon our
arrival; for although it was 12 p.
in. when we got there there was a
magnificent luncheon spread for
us at the hotel before w’e were
shown to our rooms and after the
long ride and palatable luncheon
with such excellent beds as the
hotel in Fredericksburg affords to
say we slept is mild language. I
never felt more like a man than I
did on the next morning while
walking about enjoying the
bracing air and thinking over the
man-like treatment we were re-
ceiving at the hands of our white
friends.”
It will be noted that “Jim” in
the exurbance of his joy omits de-
tails which could not but prove
otherwise than interesting. Who
participated in that reception in
which be was received with such
“kind and manly treatment on his
arrival? Who presided and who
crossed their legs as hosts and
guests under the hospitale mahog-
any when tbe “magnificent lunch-
eon spread for us at the hotel” the
“palatable luncheon” was so heart-
ily enjoyed? Did either Mr. Ggden
or Mr. Terrell preside or was either
present as a participant in what
must have been this “feast of
soul(s) and flow of reason?”
And those “excellent rooms and
comfortable beds.” Did “Jim”
revel in the enjoyment of a room
and the luxury of a bed all to him-
self or did he have a room mate
and bedfellow? If so who divided
the blanket with “Jim” and en-
joyed his sonorous snorings?
“Jim" admits that there was one
disagreeable feature to mar the
pleasures of his otherwise unal-
loyed happiness the twenty-eight
mile ride. Bat were hot the in-
conveniences and discomforts of
the ride compensated for by the
honor of Mr.' Nat. Sulzbacher's
company and his effervescing con-
versations and chest nuttian bon
mots gleaned from the pages of
ancient almanacs and which glis-
ten and sclentUate under his re-
cital like the silvery sheen of a
decayed mackerel? But man is
never satisfied and “Jim” mind-
ful of all the pleasures and honors
looks back upon that twenty-eight
mile ride as the disagreeable night-
mare of an unpleasant dream. Is
it because of the absence of Mr.
Ogden and Mr Ferrell or because
of the presence of Mr. NAt. Sulz-
bacher?
“Jim” should not permit the in-
ner history of his memorable trip
to remain a problem of conjecture.
At his earliest convenience he
should relieve the public mind of
all doubt and anxiety by giving
the details. Let him truthfully
set forth the individual incidents
by giving names. Let him tell
the public who received him at
Fredericksburg; who participated
in and presided at the “magnifi-
cent luncheon” he enjoyed on his
arrival; who were his room mates
and bed fellows; what kid gloved
patrician with raised hat graceful-
ly saluted him as brother on his
appearance on the street and
whether that same patrician has
shown him like courtesies since
his return from Fredericksburg.
By tendering this information
“Jim” would gratify a very gener-
al public curiosity and authori-
tatively affirm or dispel some ru-
mors of questionable combination
and ridiculous alliance.
Olive Branch.
A SERIOUS ALLEGATION.
Jo tbe Dally Light:
Under the leading of “The Sewer
Scandal” the Express in its Wed-
nesday’s issue editorially says:
“It is common gossip on the
street that brick arches are being
laid without keystones other than
cement filling; that brick are re-
jected in one place and accepted in
another and vice versa; that teams
are kept busy all hours of the day
and even at night moving defec-
tive material that it may get lost
in the shuffle and finally get into
the sewer trenches; that twenty-
six-inch sewer mains are being
built out of a single brick ring
faultly at that; that the brick go-
ing into the manholes is of such
character that the cement takes no
hold upon it and it does not make
a water-tight job. These things
are matters of common gossip.
Some of them are more than this
for they are founded on statements
made by the inspectors in the em-
ploy of the city.”
The allegations set forth by the
Express are but a repetition of the
charges which have been made in
the press of the city almost since
the inception of the sewer work
bat are they not sufficiently start-
ling and specific as reiterated by
the Express to suggest inquiry
and demand investigation? The
Issue involved aside from the ex-
penditure of a half million dollars
or more is one of transcendent
moment to the taxpayers and citi-
zens of San Antonio for it vitally
affects the health and lives of the
residents of the city. Timo and
aeatn it has been urged and proof
tendered that in these were being
used rotten content inferior brick
and condemned pipo in the con-
struction of the work. But the
authorities with a blind faith and
inexplicable obstinacy have per-
mitted the work to proceed with-
out protest and without interfer-
ence. Subserviently acquiescing
in the demands of the contractors
and foolishly submitting to the
childish caprices and prejudices of
the city engineer the maVor and
council have drifted as thesurront
swept them without
ent thought for the Surest
or tbe city of the
John Keufncr one of the city’s
Inspectors was shamefully and
summarily dismissed without the
shadow of cause his sole offense
being an honest intelligent and
conscientious discharge of his
duties. Upon a tramped up
charge he was suspended for call-
ing the attention of the mayor and
and city engineer to the use of de-
fective material in the sewers. He
was assured of reinstatement by
the mayor if an investigation
should vindicate him. An inves-
tigation was held and John
Knefner was vindicated; but he
has never been reinstated. City
Engineer Pancoast declared that
he should not be despite the may-
or’s promise; and subsequent
events have demonstrated that
the engineer’s dictum is more
potent than the mayor’s promises.
The charges universally prefer-
red and specifically voiced in the
quoted paragraph from the Ex-
press are certainly of a sufficient
gravity to call for investigation—-
an investigation which shall in-
vestigate. Better abandon what
has been done and charge the
money which has already been ex-
pended to “profit and loss” than
to proceed with a work which in
the end will prove a curse instead
of a blessing for the city would be
infinitely better off with no sewers
than with a defective system
emitting mephitic vapors and
posioning the air with deadly
gasses.
As a condition precedent to any
investigation the mains already
laid should be submitted to a
thorough and exhaustive test.
West End Soverign.
SUNDAY MUSINGS.
It has cost $8720 to run the back
tax collecting business and not a
cent has been collected more than
would have come in through the
regular channels—the collector’s
office.
Eighteen months has passed and
not a delinquent has been made to
come to time other than what
would have been paid through the
regular channel.
The cash collections for the year
will be sixty thousand more than
last year and still we owe the Ala-
mo national bank.
For the year past up to March
firstthe city collector has collected
and turned over to the treasurer
nearly $423000; about $12000 more
than the entire collections for last
year and we still have a little due
bill at the Alamo National bank
of about six thousand dollars.
City Collector Umecheid has col-
lected and turned over to the treas-
urer $7738.88 for February but
the city employee can’t get a'smell
of this until that little due bill at
the Alamo bank is provided for.
FOR SALE EXCHANGE OR RENT.
Also Private Board at 702 E. Cincinnati Ave
Cor Calaveras St. one of the most desirable
nlaoes in the beautiful educational suburb of
5\ est End. San Antonio Tex. Overlooks two-
tblrds of the city. Main build nit thirty-«irht
by fltty-six feer two stories nig-h and has
galleries above and below on throe slues
Wil take small cash payment and give time
on balance or exchange for other citror
ranch property.
ownc r 01 h *‘ Preroises or of
William Will at Light office where picture
and plan of house may be seen.
We also have in charge for sale or rent
other desirable West End property.
•181 m P. de L. Hilmahd.
—Paper Noveus— 2.ooo titles.
Beet authors 500—50? reduced to
25«. Stop on your way to post-
office. Louis’ book store 521
Houston street. 3 5 jJ
— Veterinary Surgeon
FIN U. S. Army. Teleplttoß
Advice free to poor
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