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The San Antonio Light
FOUNDED JAN. 20 1881.
MEMBERS ASSOCIATED PRESS.
PubUahod Every Day In the Year.
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■Y THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT PUB-
LISHING CO. (Inc.)
►A. O. MUNRO Manager
SHIRLEY W. JOHNS. Managing Editor
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quested to pay money to regular auth-
orized collectors only. Do not pay car-
riers a* errors are sure to result
DRAFTING ROOSEVELT.
Itooeeveit was not able to sidestep
a presidential nomination after all. j
We all thought that when he headed
off a stampede In the republican na-
tional convention he had made good
in his great renunciation act but it
seems not so.
It appears from advices just re-
ceived that the president is the nomi-
nee of a brand new party yclept "The
Roosevelt Second Term League" and
that he has t a democrat howbeit a
I
reformer like himself for a running
mate in the person of Gov. Joseph
Wingate Folk of Missouri.
The headquarters of the "Roosevelt
Second ‘Term League" are at Chicago ।
and the chairman of its national com-
mittee bears the euphonious yet
business-like name Bilger—F. L. Bilger.
That the league means business and
intends to veto the president's plans
for that hunt In Africa by keeping
him in the White House is shown by
the following circular addressed to the
American voters:
“Greeting—The Roosevelt Second
Term League by the votes of the peo-
ple present for your patriotic consid-
eration Its nominees for president and
vice president respectively Theodore
Roosevelt of New York and Joseph W.
Folk governor of Missouri.
"These men have been selected upon
the advice of thousands of loyal citi-
zens in forty-six states of the union.
Their records political and civil are
open and honest and unimpeachable.
Theodore Roosevelt has demonstrated
his valorous and undeviating devotion
to the interests of all the American
people regardless of class or position
or political affiliation or geographical
location and has enshrined himself In
their hearts.
"Governor Folk is the noblest type
in contemporaneous public life. In
his respective executive sphere he has
shown the ability and leonine courage
of the president. Governor Folk's con-
ception of public duty contains no
twilight zone in which the wealthy
criminals who violate our state and
federal statutes can find refuge from
prosecution.
‘That this nonpartisan American
ticket will commend itself to all in-
telligent and decent men who have the
present and future interests of their
country at heart (except those who are
federal office holders or subservient
to federal office holders or who ex-
pect selfish benefit from the success
of either of the old parties) seems
certain.
“W r e urge that local leagues be
formed in September in every voting
district throughout the union especial-
ly in the southern states and the states
of Illinois. lowa. Minnesota. Wisconsin.
Michigan. Indiana. Missouri and New
York. Organizers will be assigned or
The Pure
Food Laws
If all articles put upon the
market were as pure as
w
there would have been no ne-
cessity for Pure Food Laws.
instructions for procedure for organiz-
ing will be sent upon application.
' The management of state and coun-
ty fairs are urged to popularize their
fairs by making arrangements to have
one of our officers make an address
on this subject which Is so vitally and
Intensely interesting to 95 per cent
of the American voters.”
The good old summer time is mere-
ly giving us a few parting shots.
Remember the dates of the greatest
fair on earth Sept. 26 to Oct. 11 in-
clusive.
I
You may think your property is com-
plete but it is not unless there is a
nice smooth cement walk in front of
It
GHOULISH WIT.
An attempt at wit becomes positive-
ly ghoulish when it plays upon the
sorrows of those who have Jost loved
ones or makes a sorry jest out of
misfortune. It Is hard to realize that
there is a newspaper in the United
States that would print the following
clipped from the editorial column of
the Houston Post:
"A New York paper says the
widow of the late Coloned Robert
G. Ingersoll is endeavoring te com-
municate with the spirit of the
great agnostic. We would advise
her to go to Chicago in order to
get the fullest benefit of earthly
propinquity to his final abode.”/
Robert G. Ingersoll is dead and that
fact alone should protect his memory
from coarse jests but to turn a ghou-
lish joke upon the expression of his
widow’s grief and love for him is
positively indecent. Ingersoll was an
agnostic but he had a great tender
soul that was full of compassion for
the unfortunate and while we may re-
gret that he could not believe in the
religion that most of us believe in we
may admire him for his many good
qualities.
When Hearst wanted Gompers to get
into the political game his way it was
all right but when Gompers gets into
the political game his own way. Hearst
cries fraud. Of course what else would
you expect.
Good old Bronchos you deserved to
win.
The Business Men's club is perfectly
competent to handle the railroad prob-
lem if it receives the co-operation of
the people of San Antonio. ■
Four thousand workingmen celebrat-
ing Labor Day in a peaceful and happy
manner in San Antonio Is an impres-
sive object lesson. It not only demon-
strates the dignity of labor but empha-
sizes the prosperity of the working-
man.
TO MAKE PAPER OUT OF COTTON
STALKS.
(Dallas News.)
It is to be hoped with the fervor
of prayer that the company recently
organized to manufacture paper out
of cotton stalks will succeed and
thrive lustily. Its success would give
value to cotton stalks which are now
valueless and since according to an
estimate the stalks from one season's
crop amounts to from 12000000 to 15-
000000 tons even a very low price
would add no inconsiderable item to
the south's income. But a more cogent
reason than this for hoping that it
may be successful is found in the fact
that unless some substitute for wood
pulp is soon discovered many publica-
tions will be driven out of business
and those that survive will do so only
by being able to enforce a higher price
for their products. In 1906 it required
more than two and a quarter billion
tons of pulp to meet that year's de-
mand for printing paper alone and it
has been estimated that to get that
I pulp the spruce trees on nearly a
: million acres of land were cut. Very
little if anything is being done to
reforest the land thus denuded nor
is it likely that at the present rate of
consumption the best effort at preser-
vation could do more than postpone
। for a few years the day when there
' will be no more wood pulp even at
the present almost prohibitory prices.
Therefore while it may be the
j privilege and duty of publishers to
1 lead the prayer for the success of this
1 new undertaking it is a prayer to
which the people generally may ex-
claim a fervent amen.
THE TEXT-BOOK LAW.
(Guadalupe Gazette.)
If local dealers would refuse to
handle the school books demanded by
the state board a step toward the ab-
olition of this fool law would be taken.
Under the rule adopted a local dealer
has no chance to make a profit and a
thousand to lose money. The only
beneficiary under this law is the book
trust and the grafters who manipulate
the choice of books. It Is the rot-
tenest piece of legislation ever at-
tempted.
LOOK PLEASANT ANYHOW.
(Denison Herald.)
You may as well prepare to buy
new school books tor your children in
conformance with the selections of
the text book commission. It means
that you will have to spend a pretty
penny but it is the law and there is
no way to sidestep it so you might
as well look pleasant.
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 8 1908. THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 8 1808.
THE NEWLYWEDS—THEIR BABY
THE CASUAL CASUIST
It has been asserted by precise ob-
servers that men with the congress-
gaiter diathesis are never known to
commit suicide.
Somewhere down In that pictur-
esque but little known region about
three points off the port beam of Pro-
bandt street where the discussion of
the relative merits of LeConte and
Kiefer pears becomes at time a trifle
acrimonious and where most of tho
thrifty truck-growvrs consider it a
short day's work when they get t-.«
bed at 9 o'clock there emerges every
morning a rather rotund and elderly
gentleman of the congress gaiter
liabu.
His legs "cork" to the knees where
intimacy ceases and divergence be-
gins. but despite the popular impres-
sion that r- Is a barter r.ieuce- cd
the Order of the Knock-Kneed there
is an air of leisurely dignity about him
which sets him apart from the stren
uous activities of the lunch-basket bri-
gade.
As he comes debonairly sauntering
and his cane into the wider
possibilities of South Flores street
one would scarcely suspect judging
from that serene benignity whlcn
pervades his manner and which
comes of a satisfactory breakfast that
his two daughters had hurried along
this same route hours before in tbv
gray of the dawning to their day's
steamy work tn the laundry and that
his withered old wife was at this mo-
ment up to her elbows tn the suds
of the week's family washing.
Ambling up the shady side of the
street in the placid content of th«
consciousness of 65 cents for lunch
In his trousers off-pocket "borrowed'
from his daughter Irene the mangle
queen’s small hoard and the knowl
edge th*t z the wide easy-chair is wait-
ing for him expectantly at the livery
stable his soul is at peace with alt
the world.
He greets with complacent dignity
those of the passers-by whose exist-
ence is justified by his acquaintance.
"Good morning George how'3
BY GEORGE McMANUS
George?” he urbanely salutes the
grocer's clerk getting a bale of John-
son-grass hay out of the wagon.
"What's the good word? Is it hot
enough for you?”
George pauses a hioinvnt with the
hook in the hay to assent with satis
faction that he never “seed er hotte*
day seuce he was born" and he of
the gentle ambulant gait smiles be
nignantiy tolerant as he paces up the
street towards easy Idleness and th-’
morning paper waiting for him. at the
door of the livery stable.
Arrived and the paper carefully di
Rested from first to last page hu
gravely removes his glasses and is
ready to give the buggy-washers the
benefit of his sage advice and sapience
for the rest of the day or to discus<
the larger political issues with the
chance occupants of the “thanky ’
seats in the stable entrance or in the
near-by saloon when some Atascosa
horse-swapper includes him in th-*
invitation as sometimes happens —a
contingency always worth waiting for.
And thus from day to day the busy
activities Of life proceed in their ac-
customed courses.
It’s the wash tub under the big box
alder tree for the wrinkled wife and
mother of a Monday and the balance
of the week it's she the live long day
on her tired knees in the big garden
where the frilly parsley and low-
necked Hubbard squashes petutantly
demand her incessant care.
And it's the gray of the dawn the
quick scant bite and sip and the long
hurried walk for Irene and the trail
slim Callie and the whir of the ra-
pacious mangle all day and the ever-
Increasing piles of the sad disillu-
sioned democracy of clothes growing
in cynical bedragglement on the floor.
But down at the livery stable when)
easy-chair hospitality looks out the
wide doorway upon the busy world
the flat-soled congress gaiters rest in
placid optimism. The Atascosa horse-
swapper and his supposed victim have
each got the best of the trade and
there are drinks coming both ways
to emphasize the victory and the 65
cents is a bank reserve to be aug-
mented by whatever slim Callie may
be induced to dig up on the morrow.
No. Congress-gaiters do not com
mlt suicide. What’s the use when
life is so unwrinkled?
But may one not be permitted to
hope that down in that damp garden
where the bees are busy hi the golden
mustard blossoms all the day and th)
pungent aroma of celery spices
the air that it may be there comes
the compensation of some kindly phi-
losophy which may in some dumb
way console for tired bones and ach-
ing knees? May it not be given to
those who toil from dawn to darn
listening always to the incessant song
the mangle sings to look sometime
outside the squalid dinginess of
vouth so wasted to some fair imagin
Ing. where life Is bright with love
with melody of birds and joy sings
ever and a day? "Q:”
the /?'' ht
Big tutor* t
San Antonio’
21 Years Ago
From The Light Sept. 8. 1887.
A mass meeting will be held tonight
in the council chambeis to cons'der
tho hotel proposition.
John Grey secretary of state and
WHY SUFFER
With Headache Dliousness
Constipation or Malaria
Troubles?
BOND’S LIVER PILLS
WILL RELIEVE YOU.
One la the Dose.
All Druggists *£»c.
Health Officer Rutherford are in <hs
city from Houston.
Dr. Fanning celebrated his thirty-
third anniversary yesterday.
Martin Schiebeh lessee of the Ar-
belter Verein hall bar will leave
shortly lor Califointa and his friends
propose to tender him a rousing en-
teytainment Saturday nlgnt.
Twelve companies of soldiers are
* < W 7 Lips white? Cheeks pale? Blood thin?
/l / I/ * Consult your doctor.
71 Q K I 1 IT fl Bad skin? Weak nerve* ? Losingflesh?
X AO JI A Afl/i. Consult your doctor.
Di.cour.ged?
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him. Do exactly as ne says. the formal** or *ll our modlolnM. Lowell Meee.
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Organic disturbances of the femia
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FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.
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and has positively cured thousands of
women who have been troubled with
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Mr*. Pinkham invites all sick
women to write her for advice.
Rhe has guided thousand* to
health. Address Lynn Mass.
now located at the post. $22000 have
been paid the men and officers during
the last month.
Miss Marie Lacoste and nearly .h*
entire choir of the San Fernando
cathedtal. are taking part in the pro-
duction of the Strauss opera "Merry
War.”
At a meeting of the Mission Hoss
company Wednesday night Ed.
Steves. Jr. T. W. Mullaly Joe Ca«-
siano C. B. Mullaly Otto Grant and
J. S. Quinn were elected as member*.
The Young Friends’ Social club will
hold a meeting next week.
Sept. Bln History. x
1560—Amy Robsart. wife
of the Earl of Leices-
ter murdered by hi*’
order.
1894—The Count of Paris
head of the French
royal family died in
London; born 1838. <
The Count of Paris
was one of the Or-
leans princes who
served on the staff of General Mo
Clellau on the peninsula in 1862.
1900—The city of Galveston devastat-
ed by a hurricane; 7000 death*
•nd a property loss of $25000000.
ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS.
Sun sets 6:17 rise* 5:30; moon »et»
4:04 a. m.; moon'* age 13 day*; at sun-
set the year 5660 of Jewish era begin*.
Count at
Paris.
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