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SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
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per month $5 per year; Sunday
per year; always payable in ad
vance.
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC:—Any er-
tOiieous reflection upon the charac-
ter standing or reputation of any
perron firm or corporation which
rosy appear in the columns of The
Dally Light will be gladly correct-
ed upon it being brought to the at-
tention of the management
Pierce is still at large and no kid
napping expedition on tap.
Tyler closes the contract for a gas
franchise condition on f 1.50 gas.
Dallas tried on her baseball clothes
Sunday and found them a goed fiL
That Philippine bank measure is
only a reasonable measure of relief.
The Philippines are entitled to free
trade with the United States. Sure.
Uncle Sam does not want mall
trains so fast that they endanger life.
The legislature will now work over-
time to catch up. They have caught
on.
No necessity for shying any more
castors into the ring anent the Bailey
speech.
Subscribing cold cash to boost your
town is one of the living methods of
the present
That Port Arthur canal makes the
necessary deeds to constitute it a gov-
ernment work.
• Unde Sam is counting all the money
’in the Chicago sub-treasury to see
whether more than the >173000 re-
• ported missing is non-come-atable.
Dallas will endeavor to impose her
charter differences and present one
draft to the legislature only. That
will be amply sufficient to puzzle that
body.
That high license for saloons has
been fought to a finish. High li-
cense is good but it should not be so
high as to prohibit a proper regulation
of the traffic.
The English suffragists have got a
drop on the American wing of the or-
ganization In that they have secured
the support of the British premier for
their contention.
Spooner refused $30000 fees in Jaw
cases that did not concern the govern-
ment while a senator. He deemed
such practice not consistent with his
oath as a senator.
The close of the present session at
a day must soon come at Austin in
the nature of things else there has a
wonderful change come over the spirit
of the legislative dream.
A lecture on the hardships of relig-
ious worship in Russia seems super-
fluous. is there anything in the way
of an assembly of any kind in that
country that is not a hardship?
Even the moral wave reaches Mex-
ico and hits the bull fight a whack.
Not only so but the whack is deliv-
ered officially aud in high quarters.
The world of humanity does move.
Frisco people volunteered by the
thousands to clean the streets of
earthquake and fire debris and on Sun-
day turned in and worked like beav-
ers. The better day saw the better
deed.
Japan has concluded that United
States does not know any better as
to her immigration restrictions and
takes the good will of the president
nar Rested in the San Francisco case
as. evidence that this country means
atoll. Thanks particularly as the
Japanese government has announced
that it will see for itself that no
passports from that country are
gianted laborers.
Tobacco is coming to be a staple of
the state and it will not be long be-
fore these rich valleys in southern
Texas on which the sun smiles so
long and lovingly will be the great-
eat tobacco grounds of the continent.
The soil Is here and the climate is
admirably adapted to the growth of
ibis staple where the moisture and
the eunshin<f are to happily distrib-
uted.
WIDER STREETS NEEDED.
It Is useless to cavil at the efforts of
the city to make its thoroughfares as
wide as possible no matter at what
expanse. Some of the central sections
of the city are past praying for in
tltis direction owing to the solidity of
the structures along them and the
value of these and the land on which
they are built But this widening of
Houston street in that congested block
between Soledad and Flores and be-
yond can be now arranged and could
not be later when that property was
covered by costly structures as it will
be in a very few years. Now 1$ the
only time to carry out the plans for
making that one street of decent width
connecting the east and the west
plazas of uniform width between these
points and the wisdom of the council
in taking up the matter putting it
through and giving the city the benefit
of the increased accommodations for
travel is to be commended. There is
a great deal of this work in tlje old
sections of the city that could be done
today and which it will be found im-
possible to do a few years hence. It
will entail some cost but that must
be borne. Who foreseeing the condi-
tions today would have laid out West
Commerce street and Soledad street
and Losoya street and South Alamo
street and others as they exist today
and yet it is following out that old line
of action to refuse to widen inside
streets when necessary and practicable
as is the case with that Houston street
enlargement. Within ten years the
area of close in business will be large-
ly extended and the money paid for
these street widenings will return to
the assessment rolls a splendid interest
in the way of enhanced values to sav
nothing of the advantage to the traffic
of the city Its safety as well as its
convenience and pleasure.
HER SECOND PARLIAMENT.
Russia is at it again. There are
symptoms of unrest among that people
that it would be well for the govern-
ment not to disregard. The spirit of
the people is changing. The demand
for a share in the government is not
one to be sidetracked by the bayonets
of the military. Thill second parlia-
ment is better calculated to maintain
its place than the one that preceded It
because its members have had the ex-
perience of that first one to guide
them. The same may be said of the
government. It also has had the les-
sons of that first parliament and the
excesses that followed Its unwise
handling by the Imperialist advisors of
the crown to Instruct It In the dangers
that linger around the throne where
an aroused people are demanding a
voice in their government in the se-
lection of their rulers in the assess-
ment and collection and distribution
cf their revenues in the recognition of
their manhood rights as individuals as
against the suppression of these rights
ana their refusal of recognition by
those in authority. Russia sees a great
gap in the lines of her men who wield-
ed the lash looking over the field of
her governors and police chiefs since
that first douma and the first im-
perial council were called together.
The treatment of the 40000 who raised
their revolutionary cry and attempted
to reach the palace of the emperor on
the adjournment of the douma. teaches
the truth of Russia's teachableness.
There was not the contempt of the
people this time that there was then.
There was not the bloodthirstiness of
the power that creates reigns of terror.
There was a determined and successful
resistance to the purpose of the mob
to reach the imperial palace but there
was no massacre of the Innocents. It
is well that Russia has learned this.
It will be well also that she hears to
the voice of her people as sounded In
the conclusions of the lower house of
her parliament the douma through
which the Irresponsible imperialism of
tyrannical Russia is doomed.
UNITY OF ACTION DOES IT.
Unity of purpose is the one thing
that always successfully meets and
disarms and overthrows that which is
maintained through divided councils.
The city never needed the force of a
wise cohesion in all that she under-
takes more than she needs it today.
It matters not whether it is in the line
of her better government her im-
proved streets her increased hotel and
railroad facilities her enlarged school
accommodations Or whatever else her
people mak undertake. This unity of
purpose and action has never been at
its best estate tn this city. It is grow-
ing to it now but there is room for
great growth indefinite watering and
hooing and pruning and such before
the first fruits of such a unitedness
as would be wise appears. This can
only be done by rational business
methods. Perfect openness and con-
fidence are of the first necessity.
Each must lose self in the whole
and to such extent that the personal
desire for any one thing is so lost in
the personal wish for the best that It
yields Individual preference to gener-
al conclusion that something else is
better. This Is the only spirit that
can successfully grapple with the con-
ditions in this city and better them.
A few men of brains and position com-
ing together with this view can meet
caucus consult arrive at conclusions
and loyal to these go before the people
with them and carry them to an Is-
sue. Mass meetings are ever a fail-
ure. Unless it is an advertisement of
the Conclusions of those who have
canvassed the situation and decided
upon the means of procedure the mass
meeting is a delusion and a snare. The
work of congerss and legislature and
city is done in committee and in exe-
cutive session. The rest is only go-
ing through the motions.
The county council of London has
ncauihed an additional 500 acres for
barks at a cost of $8500000 for pur-
chase and development the annual
cost of maintenance being something
ever half a million. This would be
in this city about $140000 for the
hist cost of the parks and their Im-
provement and $BOOO a year for their
maintenance. San Antonio did not
have to put her hand in her pocket
for her park through the munificent
uubiic spirit of one of her citizens
and she can well afford whatever it
costs to put that park in order and
keep It.
There is nothing so emphasizes the
destitution and starvation conditions
ct China as the reported selling of
children and women for the necessi-
ties of life. In the midst of all this
suffering It Is stated that the offi-
cials do not forward the relief sup-
plies contributed by the home govern-
ment or those furnished from abroad
and that conditions are growing
worse. With 15000000 destitute more
or less and 5000.000 starving the
conditions must be inconceivable.
Tariff revision Is the pipe dream
of Massachusetts and the democrats.
The governor of Massachusetts
fresh from an Interview with the
president states that in conversation
<he president expresses himself in
favor of tariff revision and that it is
surelv to come soon. It is more like-
ly that what the president said was
colored in the spectacles of his ex-
cellency the governor. Congress has
been sounded and there is no tariff
revision in sight.
Galveston News says If duty makes
you sick double the dose it will cure.
Is this on the same principle that
if a man is sick on account of a drunk
he is to take a hair of the dog that
bit him for cure or is it only on il-
lustration of the truth of homeopathy
generally disseminated? The best
cure for sore muscles caused by over-
walking or riding is to do it again
and it may be the same with sore
souls after doing duty but it is hard
medicine.
It mav be a little optimistic to as-
sert .that the woman Is going to win
that fight for sufferage in Texas for
this fight has been going on now for
over half a century and is by nc
means at an end. It would be a joke
if Texas so far behind in many
tnings would be among the first to
recognize the justice of this demand
for suffrage being equal and confer
it on the women of the state. It
might be the best eye opener that
the state ever put in its optics.
PRESS PICKINGS.
Springfield Republican: There were
$OOO 000 Bibles sold in the United
State.: last year. Perhaps this ac-
counts for the disintegration of the
democratic party.
• • •
Pilot Grove Record: Poor man! In
•he winter season he must build fires
shovel snow and perform other cold
duties: at the opening of spring he
is expected to make garden and clean
up the yard. But do all the men of
Pilot Grove perform those spring du-
ties expected of them?
» • •
Terrell Transcript: Optimism like
everything else must be intelligent if
it amounts to anything. The optimism
that takes no account of existing evils
and shuts its eyes to conditions that
should warn against the future is
spurious.
• • •
Austin Statesman: With the ad-
vent of Hearstism in Texas will be
awakened all the froth foam folly
fury fallacy foolery and fanaticism of
run-down knocked-out and cast-away
populism. Men of Texas swat it to
Its death before it gets a foothold on
Texas soil.
. • *
Alvin Sun: The legislature is not
' at all bad so we have been told. There
( are some people that want to hit at
everything going but when they have
adjourned it will be seen that the
level heads of the body prevailed. The
more one thinks of it the bigger nui-
sance it seems to be that the people
have to be stirred up by some fellow
that merely wants to be noticed.
• • •
Greenville (La.) Democrat: Won-
der if there are r.ny great corpora-
• ions heavily interested in the mat-
ter of delaying the construction of
the Fanarna canal? Just as soon as
an engineer become: fully acquainted
with the vast work of constructing
tbe canal the engineer throws down
his lob to accept a better paving
one for tome big corporation and
President Roosevelt must hunt up an-
other man to. taka hold and Lain
v.hat his predecessor had spent sev-
eral months in learning. Of course
even change In the chief director'of
the work of constructing the cana.i
SAN ANTONIO DAILY LIGHT SAN ANTONIO. TEXAS THURSDAY MARCH 7 1907.
Bad Blood
In responsible for most of the dis-
eases and aliments that afflict hu-
manity. To rid yourself of it take
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Liquid or tablet*. 100 Dom* |l.
causes more or less delay an<L there
must be large Interests somewhere
willing to pay big salaries to a few
men for a year or two to secure this
delay.
• • •
Kansas Cityq Star; This bill is not
b.sed on the distinction between de-
cencv and indecency. If it were pos-
sible to put offensive persons of any
color In cars separated from the
ct.acbes for well-behaved passengers
u law to accomplish that purpose
would have the unqualified support
of respectable persons. This bill at-
tempts no such impossible thing. It
virtually classes at obnoxious per-
sons who are admittedly decent but
who happen to be black and it class-
es as of the elect persons whose
conduct may be unbearable if they on-
ly cl-.anee to' be white.
• • •
Butler (M 0. Democrat;. There is
the same chance for the improve-
ment of corn by a careful selection
of ears as there if tor improvement
t.f live stock by a careful selection
cf animals; and since it is Increased
weight per acre that is most impor
tant in corn one must know the char-
acter of the ear which will bring thia
result.
• • •
Mexico Ledger: The country news
papers in Missouri are conducted
along business lines and are not run
as adiuncts to politicians or to air
the opinions of factions. The news-
natters of Missouri are not objects of
charity but the proprietors and edi-
tors charge cash and pay cash and
are aiways found among the most ac-
live and liberal supporters of every
public Interest. People subscribe for
newspapers because they are worth
the money.
• • •
Kerrville Sun: There Is more mon-
ey in Angora goats and fine hogs than
there is In any other kind of live
stock and they are less trouble to
grow. Hogs have been shipped from
here the entire winter and have
brought good prices while goats bring
twice a year from the mohair much
money to the owner and they still
have the goats.
• • •
Laredo Times: It Is now being en-
ergetically whispered around the
country that the real cause for the
recent rise In the price of oil was a
protective measure on the part of the
big companies to provide the means to
pay legal expenses of the multiplicity
of ■suits now pending against them by
the national government and many of
the states to recover damages for vio-
lating the anti-trust laws of the coun-
try.
• • •
Nacogdoches Sentinel: A bill has
been introduced in the legislature ap-
propriating $5OOO for the purpose of
erecting a monument over the grave
of Sam Houston at Huntsville. The
gentleman who introduced the bill Is
to be commended for his patriotism
but the sum mentioned is niggardly.
The state ought to expend not less
than double the amount stipulated tor
a monument for Sam Houston and if
that were doubled again it would not
be commensurate with the valiant ser-
vice this great man rendered to Texas
during his life time. In fact Sam
Houston's worth can not be computed
with figures and characters repre-
senting dollars and cents.
There Is nothing nicer packed than
Argo Red Salmon and yet the price
is within the reach of all. 15 cent*
a can.
Uncle Big Stick Samuel—l’ll be jiggered! Wm may be costly but it ain't hall the expense of our present
idea of peace. •
ARE BUT TWO MORE
THAW WITNESSES
Alienists Will be Called Friday-Detective 0 f Mara
and May McKenzie May be Called in Sur-
Rebuttal—No Session of Court Today
Associated Press. #
New York March 7.—A death in
Justice Fitzgerald s family has post-
poned the sessions of the Thaw trial
for a day and court will not sit to-
day.
On Friday when court reconvenes
the defense will call two more alien-
ists probably Dr. Graeme M. Ham-
mond and Dr. Smith E. Jelliffe who
have been in the court room practical-
ly every day since the trial began. Be
fore court adjourned yesterday Mr.
Delmas stated that there would be but
two more witnesses called. The attor-
neys will devote the day forming the
hypothetical question which they will
put to these experts. This question
Mr. Delmas said last night will cover
every fact in the case.
How long it will take Mr. Jerome
to cross-examine these experts no one
can tell. It will depend very largely
on their attitude and their willingness
to 'Rive direct answers. This decis-
ion makes it certain that a number
of the witnesses who have been ex-
pected to testify for the defense will
not be called at least In the presen-
tation of the direct case. Among
these are Roger O’Mara Thaw’s Pitts-
burg detective friend and May McKen-
zie Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw's cho-
rus girl friend. Both may be called
when the defense reaches its sur-re-
buttal but it now seems doubtful it
they will be called even then.
The plans of the defense In regard
to what Mrs. William Thaw the
white haired mother of the defendant
would testify to were changed. It
had been announced that she would
testify as to insanity in her family.
Geo. CAEN s™
MPnmW BOTH PHONES
FENTIMAN'S TRUNKS carry with them besides their contents evi-
dence of being able to withstand all the strain that travel and
the baggage smasher can put upon them. There’s a reason —they
are made to wear. The Alamo Trunk Factory made the Trunks
and the Trunks in turn "made” Fentiman —a success both ways.
The Trunk Factory Opposite the Alamo.
.'... 1 i — 1 ■■_■!ssse
J. N. Brown Pre*. Ernest Steves V-Pre*. O. MeerscheidL Cashier.
Alamo National Batxk
•AN ANTONIO. TEXAS
Capital and Surplus Paid In $600000.00
Directors—G. Schmeltzer Geo. C. Vaughan Ernest Steves J. N. Brown
C. C. Gibbs. G. A. C. Halff Wm. Negley Joseph Courand Otto Meerscheidt
gw— ■— .
CHAS. ZOLLER. PAUL INGENHUTH. H. R. BCHMELTZER.
President A Gen. Mgr. Vice President Sec'y and Treaa
MERCHANTS* TRANSFER COMPANY
(INCORPORATED)
Receiving Forwarding Storage Etc- Hauling and Placing Safes and
Machinery a Specialty. Both Phone* 369.
Office and Warehouses: 510 to 514 Dolorosa Street
but Mr. Delmas would not allow her
to do so even after she had asked in
open court to be allowed fo. This
was probably due to the fact that the
defense does not desire to pile up any
more evidence of the taint of Insanity
in Thaw's blood. Mrs. Thaw’s testi-
mony as to the mental condition of
her brother and other member* of her
family could do nothing but tend to
show that the taint in the blood is one
that would perhaps be permanent. The
defense goes on the theory that Thaw
was insane from early in 1903 until
after June 25 1906 but that after
Stanford White the man whom he be-
lieved to be responsible for all his
troubles was dead his mind rapidly
became normal.
The defense has not yet Introduced
testimony to show that Thaw is sane
but may do so by the experts who are
to go on the stand Friday. The only
evidence that has so far been intro-
duced which tends to show that he is
at present sane is Dr. Evans’ testi-
mony that when he saw him in the
Tombs October 3 his condition was
greatly Improved.
Don’t Complain.
If vour chest pains and you are un-
able to sleep because of a cough. Buy
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run. and you won't have any cough.
Get a bottle now and that cough will
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Texas writes: “I can’t say enough for
Ballard’s Horehound Syrup. The re-
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PIANOS ORGANS
Musical Merchandise
VELVET ICE CREAM
Made By
Creamery Dairy Co.
Corner Austin and
Eighth Sts.
We handle enly pure unadulterated
good*. Butter cream and paeturlzed
milk. Vial tore to our Sanitary plant
always welcome.
Spring Cleaning
Will soon start. In looking over
your furniture rugs house fur-
nishing goods etc. you will no
doubt come to the conclusion that
you would in new to take
place of old —would add to that
you already have or exchange the
old for new and pay the differ-
ence. If so consult the "Old Re-
liable”
MAX. KAROTKIN
119-123 Mall) Ave.
Queen Quality
Footwear
Sale Agency I
JOSKE BROS CO.
F. J. Scudder Ed Torrey.
F. J. SCUDDER A CO.
Agent* Germania Fire In*. Co. of New
York.—-We rdpreant leading companies
of the world assets over $80000000.
Fire Marine Tornado Plate Glas*
Office corner Navarro A Crockett Sts.
L HERTZBERG JEWELRY CO
Expert Opticians
Onr doctor who I* a graduate. «xu»
Ines your eyes free 17 year* leading
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story of our suocess *a optician*. W*
know how to fit eras. Come and on*
vince yourself.
HOTEL*
The Menger
San Antonio Tex.
Located opposite the beautiful
Alamo Plaza.
American Plan >3.00 and up.
None better for comfort and
service.
McLEAN 4 MUDGE. Managers
BexarHotel
All Modem Conveniences.
American and European Plan.
Flr*t-cla*s a la Carte Service.
ALFRED SANNER Prop.
MAHNCKE HOTEL
Cor. Houston and St. Mary's Street*.
(Center of City.)
BAN ANTONIO TEXAS.
Rate* $2.00 per day. Modern con-
veniences. Special apartment (en
■ulte.) Large Sample Room*. Culalne
a specialty. L. MAHNCKE Prop.
PLAZA HOTEL
~ Newly furnished. Free bath and •:
i Sample Room.
CHAS. KOCH Proprietor.
j Headquarters for traveling men. :
? NEW BRAUNFELS TEXAS. c
J Rates $2.00 per day.
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