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The San Antonio Light
FOUNDED JAN. 20 1881.
MEMBERS ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Published Every Day In the Year
■venlng Dally—Sunday Morning.
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to Pay money to regular authorised col-
lectors only. Do not pay carriers as
errors are sure to result.
Our Great Guest.
SAN ANTONIO is today entertain-
ing one of the really great men
of the country. Dr. Charles W.
Eliot until recently president of Har-
vard University.
In this material age it is good for
us to have an opportunity to do honor
to one who has devoted his life and
his great gifts unstintmgly to the
uplift of the mental and moral na-
tures of men taking no account of
wealth or material advancement for
himself. It brings strikingly to us .he
truth that true greatness and honor
can be attained without wealth and
the power that it carries with it. It
reminds us forcibly that mental and
moral worth are respected and have
their rewards.
In bis short address to the legisla-
ture of Texas yesterday Dr. Eliot
said that education was the highest
function oi government because
therein lay the safety and welfare of
the state. No truer v ord was ever
spoken. Dr. Eliot told the legisla-
tors that it was their duty to nourish
and build up the state university. He
»l>oke of the function of the univer-
sity to train our leaders saying that
with trained rigixwhinking leadens
the state woilj always be safe.
Let us hope that the law-makers
will take to heart the wards of this
wise man. We need broader educa-
tion in Texas. Our educational sys-
tem needs improvement all along the
line.
Welcome to Dr. Eliot in San An-
tonio. His presence among us is cer-
bain to result in good not percepti-
ble possibly in a general sense but
existent junt the same. So large a
force for good cannot be projected in-
to any community no matter for how
short a stay without leaving behind
it an impress without causing rippies
that must spread throughout the en-
tire community.
John W. Gates has found a new di-
version—fighting the Standard Oil
company. John Is a good fighter but
he may find that the Standard thought
of taking boxing lessons first
It Is Not True.
SPEAKING of Margaret Illlngton's
separation from her husband
Frohman In order to quit the
stage for a home life Mrs. Leslie Car-
ter. the actress says:
“Do men appreciate the love of a
little home-staying domestic mouse
as they do that of a brilliant profes-
sional woman? Indeed they do not.
Few men have any appreciation for
the home their wives struggle to pro-
vide for them. They want change.
They den’t want to be confined to
the endless monotony of a home with
just one woman in it. They love the
sparkle of eyes the gleam of wine the
fascination of the variety that comes
and goes. Children are a nuisance.
Daily routine is a bore. The girl who
gives up a brilliant opportunity to
venture in the uncertain realms of
home is taking a risk.' 1
It. isn’t very important what Mrs.
Leslie Carter says or what any other
individual says but it is a fact that
thousands pessimistically view man
and the home life as does she. Yearly
thousands of young men leave the
good old farm for the city for that
"change" Mrs. Carter mentions. Ad-
verse for chorus girts and hundreds
of young women rush to the theater
manager’s office if or Shat “brilliant-
opportunity.” They view man man-
hood home and life as does Mrs. Car-
ter.
Of eourse. Mrs. Carter is all wrong
in her premises. Thanks to God the
vast majority of men do appreciate
the love of the home-staying domes-
tic “mouse!” Thanks be to God the
vast majority of men find no monotony
in a home with just one woman in
it. Neither to them are children nui-
sancos but precious gifts straight
from tlie Almighty. Nor do they lova
the sparkle of a variety of eyes or of
wines or of women but on the con-
trary do love with all their souls
their own wives and their own homes.
Among say 30.000000 American men
there must unavoidably be thousands
of exceptions thousands to whom the
home and decent fatherhood are not
the aim of life but to say that these
exceptions create the general condi-
tion is a gross libel on American man-
hood and character. It is miserable
stuff to spread before our youth in
public prints no matter if a Leslie
Carter or a Queen of England moth-
ers iL
The state seems to have Col. Coop-
er on the hip. The colonel with oth-
ers is on trial for murder in connec-
tion with the killing ot ex-Senator Car-
mack in Nashville some months ago.
The colonel’s lawyers allege that their
client's deep sense of honor was stung
by Carmack's newspaper attacks. The
state in open court charges Cooper
with being an embezzler to the ex-
tent of $100000; that his victims were
widows and orphans with whose es-
titles he had to do proving as the
commonwealth puts it thai Col. Coop-
er had no honor. The issues are be-
ing threshed our in a remarkably sat-
isfying way in this case and the time
honored sentiment that when “two
gentlemen meet to shoot out their dif-
ferences it’s nobody's business" is
rather getting a jolt. Too often in
trials where people of the prominence
of these principals are concerned the
prosecution is more or less a farce but
this judicial probe seems to be the
real thing foreshadowing a proper de-
termination of the affair from the
standpoint of law and order some-
thing necessary to the well being ot
Tennessee.
MISCELLANEOUS MISQUOTATIONS
(Judge.)
"There ic a divinity that Hughes our
ends.
Rough house It as we will.”
—New Y’ork State Politician.
“Count that day lost whose low de-
scending sun
Finds at thy band no fellow-mortal
done.”
—Tammany.
“There Is no terror Teddy in your
threats.” —Congress.
“My gavel’s blows in Congress’ halls
Resounded merrilee
And banged a tune on Teddy’s
stick
That made the big stick flee.”
—Uncle Joev
“A hearse! A hearse! My kingdom
for a hearse!”—W J. Bryan.
An oil well wheresoe'er it be
A source of dollars is to me '
And is nothing more.”
—John D.
“Go denounce the system let the sys-
tem be denounced
And let the man who denounces be
Tom Lawson;
And in his denouncing let him nothing
call
But thieves thieves thieves! Oh for
my remedy!"
“So live that when your term of office
ends.
And perforce must join th’ ex-
Presidents—
to live I say that you can hand your
job
Down to whatso successor you may
choose.
And then go hunt the lion in the
heart
Of darkest Africa. Or if you will.
Go edit magazines. Whate'er you do.
The while you hold the presidential
chair
Do't so that all can plainly see you've
. had
A slashing smashing good old cork-
ing time.’’
—Teddy to Taft.
IF 'TWERE AS IT SOUNDS:
“HE PLANTED HIMSELF IN THE
MIDDLE OF THE WALK AND RE-
MAINED FOR SOME TIME ROOT-
ED TO THE SPOT”
” FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 2«. 1909. fPE fiAN ANTONIO LIGHT. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 26. 190*
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uasmugtou D. C. Feb. 20. 1909.
Dear Dad: From Panama I hav
received a pink-bound pamphlet signe
by a lot of gentlemen with Spanis
names. It's a petition to His Exce
lency Theo. Roosevelt from the mei
chants bankers and business men o
Colon and Panama. A careful ej
amination shows it to be a polite rc
quest to be permitted to exploit th
Americans engaged in digging th
Panama canal. The merchants bank
ers etc. do not like the commissar;
system. They hoped to get rich sell
ing things at high prices to the riel
and foolish Americans. Now the r
and f. Americans are buying gooi
food at cost through their government
It is very hard for the bankers mer
chants and others. But I am
of a friend of mine who proposed t<
organize the Cooperative and Mutua
Order of Down-Trodden Burglars and
Second Story Workers and started his
enterprise with a petition to have locks
abolished and the police force dis-
armed.
The latest converts (?) to the cause
of “forest conservation” are the mem-
bers of the lumber lobby to be found
any nice evening now in the rotunda
of the Willard hotel. There is Chas.
Elliott Defebaugh editor of the Am-
erican Lumberman published in Chi-
cago. and engaged by the National
Lumber Manufacturers association to
head the lobby. With him are Ed
Hines of Chicago J. B. White of St.
Louis Fred Weyerhauser of Min-
neapolis. Victor Beckman of Washing-
ton. and others. These are the gen-
tlemen who are trying to persuade con-
gress to keep a $2 duty on lumber.
Their object (if you believe them) is
to "preserve the American forests."
It is not to preserve their monopoly
in the American forests. Bless you
no. It is to preserve the forests. You
see it works this way: If we con-
sumers pay the lumber trust big
prices for lumber then the lumber
trust can afford to handle the forests
sparingly. See? They won’t burn
and waste and devastate as they have
been doing for 20 years. They will
suddenly reform. And the Consumer
will go on paying the big prices. And
the Canadian supplies will go on un-
tapped. And all will be as lovely as
a lumber trust. See?
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Every member of congress has had
a chance to eat a free meal at the
expense of the lumber trust. Two-
thirds have availed themselves of the
opportunity. The lobby at the Wil-
lard seeking to have the $2 duty on
lumber retained has conducted a gas-
—Tom Lawson.
WHAT EVERY WOMAN KNOWS
trenumfe campaign also. The feeds
were conducted in series. The im-
portant members were fed first and
then the nine-spots. Mr. Defebaugh
was manager for the lumber trust.
Of course I need not tell you that
the talk of a "sea-level canal” is an
outbreak of the railroad lobby opposi-
tion. Senator Kittridge. recently de-
feated and soon to return to private
practice (as distinguished from the
senatorial practice) of the law. is
doing what he can. Foraker —another
down-and-outer —is assisting.
One of the funniest things that
have come to my ears lately is the
row between C. W. Fairbanks and
Senator Jim Hemenway. As you
know Hemenway has always been a
Fairbanks henchman and during the
late campaign he managed the Fair-
banks campaign for securing the vice
presidential nomination. He went td
Chicago opened headquarters and
spent some money. Those bills have
caused the fuss. When they came in
Cousin Charley said he didn't owe
them. He ordered them sent to Hem-
enway. "Dear me” said Charles. “I
wasn’t a candidate. Surelj- there is
some mistake." Then Hemenway up-
spoke. And the purport of his words
was not laudatory. So if you want
’ AT
QT
a Fairbanks testimonial just tap Hem-
enway.
* * *
Spring is here. A flock of cow-
birds lit in Lafayette square the other
day. Some bushes on Capitol Kill
put out yellow flowers. Crocuses
have pushed through on the southern
slopes and violets are sold on the
corner at two bunches for a quarter.
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And mushrooms are 28 cents a half
pound. Are you fond of mushrooms?
Done two minutes in butter with a
little cream added they are delicious.
Sincerely RATH.
Reason Enthroned
Because meats are so tasty they are
consumed in great excess. This leads
to stomach troubles biliousness and
constipation. Revise your diet let re t.
son and not a pampered appetite con-
trol then take a few doses of Cham-
berlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets
and you will soon be well again. Trj'
it. For sale at all druggusts. Samples
free.
Buy magazines cigars soda grapho-
phones. pocket cutlery with Light
want ad coupons here. Louis' Book
Stores.
By F. R. Leet.
MR. SHYGACK. FROM MARS
He Visits the Earth as a Special Correspbndent and Makes Wireless Ob-
A Smile and a Laugh
MOST ANYTHING
Just Between Ourselves
—Nearly all the successful new
plays in New York are off color mor-
ally. Strange. They were all written
by perfect gentlemen.
—Aali Pasha. Turk statesman and
diplomat entered public service at 15.
He tried earnestly but without effect
to introduce reform in Turkey.
—Among the beasts Teddy will find
in South Africa if he wanders at night
is the aardvark a burrowing noctur-
nal. insect-eating mammal.
—Daughter of Hetty Green is to
marry a man named Wilks who has
onlv a few millions. By this time
however. Miss Green doubtless has
learned all those little economies that
will be of value to her in keeping
household expenses within her hus-
band's means.
—Aha. a corner in coffee! Now the
consumer will be ground as well as the
coffee.
—Summer is coming—coming with
its eternal conflict entitled: Vacation
vs. Bank Balance.
—Among mammals only the giraffe
porcupine and armadillo are mute;
they have no vocal cords.
—Some of the phonographs in Rus-
sia have been suppressed by the gov-
ernment. Time for an article on
"Things They Do Better in Russia.”
—Why does every woman in the
congregation constitute herself match-
maker when an unmarried minister
firrives?
—Gas man's pocket was picked in
Chicago and now he knows how the
folks feel who use gas meters.
—lt turns out that the tobacco
trust has absorbed 250 concerns. On
the other hand the consumer con-
tinues to absorb the nicotine.
—See where a 17-year-old hen died.
Alas ’tis feared she is survived by a
good deal of her output in '■old stor-
age.
—Project started to give Roosevelt
citizenship of Rome for his generosity
in connection with the earthquake suf-
LA GRIPPE
Pi >aenl« follows La Grippo
b< ever follows tho use of
FOIEY'S
It stops the Cough and heals the lungs
Prevents Pneumonia and Consumption.
Mi. G. Vachbk of 157 Osgood St.. Chieato
vritas: "My wife had la grippe And it left hei
with a very had coash on her langs which
Mom'S Hon Ki AKO Tab cured completely-*
FOR SALE BY BfIXAR DRUG CO.
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IN NEW YOKK.
THE HIGHEST CLASS OF . - ' -'CiA
ACCOMMODATIONS _' »1
AT MOOEHATE aA * A»I
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. • • ’ •'XL' Rooms *n<l ■
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MARTISIQVK BES-B
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?•*>>-- TERNATIONAL KEPI TATION.B
WILLIAM TAYLOR * SOM l 1 ■
Alm proprietor* of the SU Peele Hotel |
cervations in His Notebook.
ferers. It should be stated that this
does not necessarily include citizen-
ship of Messina.
—Eskimo boy attending Columbia
university wants to return to his
native land and use his knowledge to
Columbus the north pole.
THE LIGHT’S DAILY PUZZLE
From out the heart hath sped.
When on the street that horrid boy
Vpset you with his sled.
ANSWER TO YESTERDAY'S PUZZLE
Upside down at foot of trees.
F.GROOS& CO. Bankers
(UNINCORPORATED.)
K CONSERVATIVE BANKING BUSINESS TRANSACTED.
Corner Commerce and Navarro
!E< B Chandler!
? MONEY TO LOAN :
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: Rea. Estate For Sale :
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•I 0 2 EAST CROCKETT STREET!
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THE STATE BANK 6? TROST CO.
321 E. Houston Street San Antonio. Texas
ill Handle All Your Business
Promptly and Cheerfully
W. T. McCampbell. Pres. j. H. Haile. Cashier
ALAMO NATIONAL BANK
SAN ANTONIO. TEXAS
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS 1600.000.00
Safe Conservative. Accommodating
Both Fire and Burglar Proof Vaults in Fire Proof Building
(From The Light February 26. 1888.1
.According to arrangements ths.
meeting of the citizen's interested in
baseball took place yesterday after-
noon. and temporary organization was
effected with Peter Shields as presi-
dent; George W. Russ vice-president;
W. L. LtKbhock secretary and J. J.
Stevens treasurer. The directors are
as follows: A. Belknap H. B. An-
drews J. R Gordon Ed Steves Jr.
and J. J. Dickenson.
Fire Chief Duerler who returned'
home this morning was given a sur-
prise when in responding tn an alarm
of fire from Alamo plaza he found
the entire fire department in full uni-
form and t'he music playing. B. J.
Mauermann on behalf of the fire de-
partment in a neat address pre-
sented to the fire chief a sliver trum- |
pct.
A horse attached to a buggy belong-
ing to Dr. Shropshire became fright-
ened this morning and ran away <ml-
liding with a Mght express wagon on
Houston street-
Hon. A. W. Houston chairman ot
the. Twenty-eighth senatorial district
executive committee has called a
mass meeting of democrats for March
20 in order to take steps to secure 1
the deniocruttc state convention for
San Antonin.
Tom Dunbar w r as injured this morn-
ing in a fall from his wagon.
A collision took plhce between two
street cars at the corner of Main ave-
nue and Ronrana street at 3 o'clock
yesterday afternoon. Both cars were
crowded but no one. injured.
Not more than one-quarter of the
sugar consumed in the United States
is produced within its borders.
DISASTER.
How quick the thrill of mortal joy
San Antonio
21 Years Ago
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