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THE SAN ANTONIO DAILY EXPRE&: THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 24, 1909.
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Tex**, as Second-Class Matter.
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Railroads That Ought to Be Built.
rjveryone UnowR that the hulMlnjr
et a railroad inio nn undeveloped
country meaus an enormous enhance-
ment of land values in that territory.
Of course it amounts to a great deal
wore in nmno nectlong than 1n other*,
much depejodins on tha character of
the land and Itp adaptability to culti-
vation.
In I .ho Inwor Rio G-ranrte Vnllcy
land thatj^oiild have been purchased
lor {2 to $3 an acre—in many cases
for much less—before the advent of
the railroad id now polling nt from $;o
to tfift an acre In it.s wild si ate, while
improved property, under cultivation
and Irrigation—• sells at and above
$100 an acre.
Of course the Irrigation canals
have added largely to the money
value of tha land, but without the
railroad there probably would havo
been no cannls and practically no de-
jVelopment. This enormous enhance-
ment of the value of acreage property
takes no account of the townsltn iu-
ereape In land values at the various
stations along the line of the railroad,
where busy and prosperous little
cities have sprung up In the heart of
what were, before untitled pastures.
The really value of one of these
trjwns, to r-a.v nothing of the improve-
ments, now amounts to more thnn
the sum total value of th%entire pas-
ture which spread over the face of
the earth for a great distance pre-
vious lo ilie coming of the railroad.
The Interstate Commerce Commis,-
g nn figures that the average mile of
railroad Is capitalized at $fif>,000.
I iederlc J. Harkfn has figured that
a low estimate on lands in nn unde-
veloped territory have beer enhanced
In value by the coming of a railroad
m average of $10 an acre for five
miles on each side of the road, and
that on this basis a community get«
direct benefit equal to the cost of
building a railroad through it, to say
nothing of the Indirect benefits con-
ferred Tliis refers, of course, only
to sections of the country remote
from a railroad, where the value of
the land and its products are mini-
mized by the lack of modern trans-
portation facilities for reaching a
market.
Hiere is a wide scope of country
north of Ran Antonio, lying between
the northern terminus of the Aranpns
T'asa Railway and the southern ter
minus of the Frieco that Is virgin ter-
ritory and that Is clamorous for rail-
road facilities There is likewise r.
large scope of rirgin territory south
of Ban Antonio which lacks only mil-
road facilities to mako it a conspicu-
ous part of the garden spos,
at the State. The people residing
and owning property in these sections
realize the need of a railroad and
■taad ready to aid liberally in the con
Btruction of a road whenever the op-
portunity is favorable. But they can
do nothing by themselves. The cities
mnS towns which would be greatly
If>neflted by the building of the rail-
road must take the initiative and
they must provide some part of the
sinews.
Sian Antonio's greatly interested In
B railroad to the south and one to ilie
north that would greatly extend and
Improve her trade territory and that
woujd ojjen up to her new sources cf
commercial development, and San An-
tonio business men ought to take the
Initiative in promoting the construc-
tion of these roads without waiting
longer for someone else to do It.
Two Bites at a Cherrj.
The enterprising little city of
Fi'iiigersvillt) is moving in the mat-
ter of ti commission form of municlpat
government. Under I he law passed
at the last session i f the Legislature
towns of letJs than 10,000 Inhabitants,
whether Incorporated or unincor-
porated, may adopt a commission
form of government, and Pflugers-
vilie, with a population of about R00, I.?
among the first to take advantage of
the new law.
Instead of the antiquated system of
mayor and ward aldermen, Pflttg-
ersville proposes to have a municipal
board of directors consisting of two
Members beside Iho presiding officer,
who is to be known as (lie mayor.
At all meetings of the board two
members will constitute a quorum
and (ho business of municipal admin-
istration will he carried out on busi-
n<ss principles.
Presumably each of the commis-
sioners will be the head of one of ,hn
municipal departments and respons-
'bio for Its conduct. This, at least, 'a
usually In accordance with the com-
mission system. T he mayor, the chief
executive officer, will probably man-
age tho finances, and In addition
thereto probably preside over tho cor-
poration court. Of the other commis-
sioners, one will probably be nt the
department of public works and the
third will look nfter the police and
fire protection. The commission will
be expected to take counsel of each
otber in regard to administration pol-
icies. but to act independently In all
matters of detail pertaining to the ad-
ministration of their several depart-
ments of government.
It is conceivable that tho commis-
sion form of municipal government,
vhich has operated so satisfactorily in
reme other cities of the State, will
fit Pflugersvllle like a glove and
-will meet the essential requirements of
effective and economical administra-
tion, provided the salaries of the com-
missioners are not placed at too high
a figure. But, In one respect Pflug-
ersvllle is starting off badly In thut It
contemplates the double expense of
two elections when one should be
sufficient. At the same time that the
eifclors are deciding whether or not
they will have a commission form of
government they might select the city
efficers. Of course If the majority
should be against, the commission then
the election of the commissioners
would be null and void, and that is all
there would be to It.
But Pflugersvllle sboull not set
an example of extravagance at the
start off bv holding two elections
when one would suffice. That Is not
suggestive of economy and reform, and
Pflugersvllle should not take two
bites at a cherry.
and the corn pone, both of whlih
have been modernised into n sort of
«gg bread that may do vet- well for
people who have never tijjyed a
combination of commeal dumplings
and pot liquor or of corn pone and
turnip greens, with buttermilk on the
side, hut people who are used to good
living want something better than
the sort, of cornbread that. Is made of
bolted meal and that has "sweetnln'"
In It.
Tbe Anti-Tuberculosis Crusade,
FIGHT ON THE FLY
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.
The Johnny Cake and Pone.
The constitutionality of the State
bank deposit guaranty law in Ne-
braska Is to be tested !n the courts.
It its estimated that the law Is con-
fiscatory, taking tho property of one
bank to pay the liabilities of another,
end the court has brfen asked for a
restraining order prohibiting thi
Banking Board from levying an assess-
ment to guarantee bank deposits. It
vould be well if the contention could
be Judicially decided before anjr more
deposit guaranty taws go into effect.
i A Paris aviator is about to attempt
* Journey from the French capital to
Ixmdon by the aerial route, In which
an alrabifc the largest and most pow-
erful yet constructed, will be tested.
Perhaps this Is to be the pioneer In
use regular line of paasenger airships i
which tteJnraooh company is to est to- j
The esteemed Washington Post has
given the only accurate definition of
tli'3 Johnny cake that has come from
any of the newspapers from Virginia
to Texas that have assumed to offer
enlightenment.
'ihe barbarian who asserted that
jthnny cake is made of wheat flour
probably never saw a johnny cake,
and knows as little of its delicious
flavor as he does of the material out
of which it is made, and he ought to
be roasted, hasted and grilled for
offering such a suggestion.
It must be admitted that the es-
teemed Houston Post Is something of
an authority on pot liquor and quite
capable of glvin? a recipe for corn
pone or hoeeake or even for corn frit-
ters, but that paper makes itself ridic-
ulous when it invents or gives cre-
dence to a bit of fiction about the
origin of the cake in connection with
a family by the name of Johnny that
us>ed flour instead of cornmeal in the
manufacture of the incomparable
preparation that Is both bread and
cake and that might .be termed the
refinement of the corn pone. This Is
the Washington Post's explanation of
the material process:
Your johnny cake Is made of water-
ground white corn meal kneaded into
dough with cold water fresh from the
spring. It ts spread on a smooth board
cut from a whlto hickory tree and thor-
oughly seasoned. This Is set before a
fireplace filled with red-hot wood coals
and allowed to toast till as brown as a
berry, when it is turned and toasted on
the other side. Eaten with nice sparerlh
that has been toasted before the same
fire, suspended by a string from the man-
telpiece, the johnny cake Is to pone ae
piankod shad to baked shftd, which Is to
say It Is luxury.
The description Is entirely accurate,
as anyone at all familiar with the
johnny cake must know, and credit-
able to the intelligence and veracity
of the author, but when he attempts
to settle the controversy as to the
identity of the lady who put the kettle
on, he flies wide of the mark and gives
too free play to his own imagination.
The lines he quotes as not only poetry,
hut ecstasy, may he his own or some-
body else's, but they are not the orlg-
Inal. It was:
Polly, put th» kettle on;
Molly keep the kltc.hen warm.
Polly, put the kettle on, we'll all take tea.
There was no more ".T«mny" about
that than there was "Johnny" about
the original of the Johnny cake. It
may be remarked in connection with
this discussion that the Johnny cake
was always prepared for the mornlns
Deal, and that tbe commeal dumpling
The National Association for the
Prevention of Tuberculosis has ise
sued a statement In which it is shown
that more than 45 per cent of those
actively enlisted In the war against
tho white plague are laymen and this
Is considered peculiarly significant
as indicating the great popularity of
the anti-tuberculosis movement.
Twenty-five years ago, when the
campaign against tuberculosa was
started in this country by Dr. Edward
Ii Frudeau even the dr,ctors laughed
at the movement, It is said, but grad-
ually the medical profession realized
the possibilities of an organized fight
against the disease and in 1904 the
association was formed for the study
and prevention of tuberculosis. tVl
that time the percentage of laymen in
the association woe only 12.9 and
very few persons were Interested In
the nntl-tuberoulosi« campaign, while
new, according to recent figures pub-
lished by the National association,
churches, schools, labor unions,
women's clubs, fraternal organiza-
tions and State legislatures. Inter-
esting fully 8,000,000 people, are ah j
allied In the campaign against tuber-
culosis, and In ndditlon to these, lay-
men of all classes of society, and In
every branch of social and industrial
life, are uniting against, this one com-
mon foe.
Now, it is said, every day brings
new recruits to the ranks of the
plague fighters and *vejy day sug-
gests new methods for carrying on
the fight, bo the National association
predicts that if the present degree of
Interest be maintained wlthfln five
years everybody In the United States
wll! have been Informed as to ways
and means to prevent and cure tuber-
culosis and concerning the Infectious
nature of the disease. Two things in
particular ore said to be needed,
and for these the National associa-
tion is working industriously. They
are, a more complete registration of
tuberculosis cases and the further
isolation of dangerous advanced cases
of consumption.
Though the results may not be lm
mediately apparent to the average
layman, a great deal of good has al-
ready been accomplished by the So-
ciety for the Study and Prevention
of Tuberculosis, and the good seeds
(town are bearing fruit. Aa the people
become better educated regarding tho
disease and the manner In which it
has been spread they are more care-
ful to take precautions against it, to
avoid tho infection and to promote
clives when the disease haB been con-
tracted. In a few mora years, per-
haps, the dread white plague will nl-
mcst have disappeared from the coun-
try, except for the incurable cases of
long standing.
THE) fight on th® house fly that Is now
being made In tho various cities of
tha country has brought about a com-
plete revolution of sentiment as to that
Insect, When science <-amo to look care-
fully Into his h&blta, Mr. Fly was found
not to be the inoffensive sort of cltlren
he had always been regarded. It had long
been known that he was bothersome, but
he wae found to be a vllllan of the deep-
est dye, killing mora people every yuar
than are killed by all the murderers In
the world. Ha haa bi.cn given a new
name since hie true character haa come
to light, a name which brands him
wheruver he goes- the "typhoid fly." Dr.
I,. C. Howard, the rutted States ento-
mologist, haa selected this mime for him.
He agrees that the term Is a UUla
harsh, as there are other causes of
lyphoid, and says that "manure fly"
would fit him rather better, since his
favorite breeding place Is in horse ma-
nure. Hut for public, use Dr. Howard
thinks "typhoid rly" Is the best name.
♦ ♦ ♦
The evidence ag£jjnut the fly Is complete
and convincing. Many a murderer has
Ktine to the gallows on weaker. Not
long ago 414 flies were caught iu different
parts of tUe country uuil they carried
an overage of u million nnd a quarter
germs to tha fly. It may bo said by the
skeptic that tho fly Is so small ha can
not i-ori-y filth Hut If sj Ate will look
at him through a lilglu RL. red micro-
scope the error o£ such < will
clearly be seen. Under jF0111 fltpWscape
he becomes the most fns»>/ reptwej.aiiva
hniry from tip to toe, S4M In debt inflf-
feront about keeping cJ«Nt waf) gr »
Those 414 files were o»/inrl hand irUlxeg
nerts, so that none or tlj,,] fr„m lOUld b#
laid to Iho account of t)lorit Invitlrn each'
(fly was placed In "Wit city I' bottW
which h td been sterlll-/U„tu ton»ed with'
a known quantity of^ • . lwatsr.
The fly was allowed.*! .,,..round un-
til exhausted, and tJfian ■_ ' "of thi wa-
ter was placed ukler
the genua counteip. A
each fly was kept an*
each were found
6,600,000 -estimated
falls Into the readei
>'• Flbsrop^ and
1y aa record -of
(on
..)> to
that
lliilk
the
The weather hs« been a bit sum-
merish In Ban Antonio for several
weeks, but the atmosphere Is dry and
tho ever-present gulf breeze makes
the days pleasant and the evenings de-
lightfully cool and comfortable, whllb
in the cities of the less favored north
country people are being prostrated
by the heat and dying of sunstroke.
Those who are fortunate enough to
live in Sau Antonio should be very
grateful for the privilege.
Senator Taylor of Tennessee, for-
merly known as Gov. Bob Taylor, In
Tuesday's discussion pleaded for a
tariff for revenue and took a decided
position against "free raw materials."
Here Is another Democrat who ought
to be read out of the party by the free
trade contingent.
These later rains may not do the
card playing by women as a waste
the grass good on the range and fill
tho stockman's heart, with Joy.
Undisturbed.
I never have to dodge the enep-shot men,
Nor hide when tax assessors eome
around;
I never feel at all uneasy when
A bank has been declared to be un-
sound.
No grim directors ever bother me
By purchasing majorities of stock:
I have no million-dollar yacht at sea
To bump a liner or to strike a rook.
I leave my windows opened wide at night.
For I have nothing thieves would ears
to steal;
When stocks are low T am untroubled
quite,
I never lose In any foolish deal.
I merely work along day after day,
Well knowing they will leave me not a
cent!
And always It turns out In Just that way,
Despite my hopeful planning to prevent.
Therefore. I'm never troubled aa the rich
Are troubled by the others In thslr
class:
A bank may fall. T read the headlines
which
The papers print, and ealmly let It pass.
—S. E. Klser In Chicago Record-Herald.
— —■ ■
Pointed Paragraphs.
The umbrella dealer has a lot put by for
a rainy day.
A doctor of divinity should believe In
the faith cure.
There is more or less moonshine In the
astrology buelness.
The winner never has any fault to find
with the ref ,$«f i
Even a eye ~ i
man from a .
Don't forga
tie honest pn
A graft by «
to land soma
ears News.
s decision.
eellar will not protaat a
estle tempest.
at your wife enjoys a lit-
now and then.
other name Is Just aa apt
n behind tha bars.—Cbl-
tnay leave si* million germs
cup!
The house fly Is thoroughly omnivorous.
He will eat anything that be comgs
across, and the morn filth there is the
better It suits him. BreedlnR In manure
by preference, he spends a fair share of
his living days In such surroundings. He
flies direct from the man.uru heaps to
our houses and unto our food, whenever
opportunity presents Itself, and Is always
laden with microscopic particles of filth
and disease. Here again lias Mr. Ply
been "caught with the goods on him,"
us the police say. In the army camps
during the Spanish-American war it was
found that the flies which swarmed
about the latrines would come directly
to the mess tents, the whits limo being
plainly visible on their feet. Iu New
York filth was dyed with red ink and
set In the street, riles soon showed up
In th>3 house with red on their feet.
The most startling and conclusive evi-
dence that, has been brnught against the
fly is that gathered bv Dr. Daniel D.
Jackson in his investigation of the sub-
ject of harbor pollution at New York.
With assistants he went Into the whole
question with great thoroughness, and
his findings are noteworthy. He found
that In the neighborhoods of sewer out-
lets the flies were most numerous, a.nd
that In those same neighborhoods typhoid
fever and other Intestinal diseases were
most prevalent. The number of victims
of these diseases rose and fell with the
coming and passing of the fly tribe.
Daily examinations of captured fiico were
made, and millions of germs were found.
In some Instances the flies were care-
fully washed and completely cleansed of
gorms. They were then released and al-
lowed to swarm over Infected material in
the laboratory. They collected as many
Serms the sei-ond and third time as they
Id the first. In one instance a hundred
thousand typhoid fever germs were found
on a slnglo fly.
♦ ♦ ♦
In New York there are more than 60X1
deaths from typhoid and other Intestinal
diseases during the fly season. It is es-
timated that were the fly effectually
banished It would result in the saving of
SOOO lives a year In that city and the pre.
vent ion of 50,000 cases of slcknaas. Ty-
phoid fever 1= estimated by experts to
cause an annual economic I033 amounting
to $3fi0,000,00i) 111 the United States and
fully J25,000,000 In Canada. It Is also fig-
ured that the American people spend
jtO,000,000 a year for door and window
screens. Net only Is the fly a dissemi-
nator of typhoid, but he likewise com-
municates tuberculosis by carrying It
from tho sputum of tubercular patients
to 0thcr3. nnd carries every form of in-
testinal disease. It is said that, much of
the cholera infantum, tha most, fatal cf
children's diseases, is carried to the lit-
tle victims by the flies.
It has been found, in studying the life
history of the fly, that the female lays
an average of 120 eggs during her life,
and that In favorable localities there are
twelve generations of them In a single
snjson. One writer has figured from this
that the progeny of a single pair of flies
which survived the winter would amount
to several sextllllons. But when It Is
remembered that one sextllllon Is one
thousand million trillion, it will appear
that he has overshot th« mark. If every
egg hatched, and every female fly lived
tc lay 120 eggs, the result would be
Just about what wan estimated But,
figuring that only fifty females would
hatch from the eggs of each fly, the
result would still reai h tbe inconceiv-
able total of 4W( quintllllnn files.
How Impossible It Is that even such
figures obtain la shown when one comes
to figure up tbe bulk that such a num-
ber of flies would make. More than a
hundred files cannot bo contained In a
cubic, lr.oh of space, yet piled that closely
qulntllllon flies would cover lO.OtK)
Bquare miles of territory one foot thick,
and the progeny of .103 pairs of flics
would cover every acre of United States
territory one foot thick. But If each
female fly brought forth only ten other
female files, the total progeny of a pair
of files starting at the beginning of the
Bfiison would be over twenty-six ti'llllou.
Kveri with ten female flies to each gen-
eration, the resultant hulk produced by
it single pair Btartlng in at the beginning
of the season would fill 150 million cubic
feet of space, the equivalent of the ex-
cavations at Panama for the best month
and a halt ever put In by the canal dig-
gers. .
♦ ♦ ♦ '
Ssven different varieties of flies are
found In dwelling houses, langlng from
the one whloh rejoices In tho scientific
name of musi-a domestlca to the plain
bluebottle. Musca dumertiea .stands at
tho top of the list, as ninety-eight out
of every hundred flies belong to his
Ijtamlly. Tt Is upon him that Dr. Ilnwnrd
would forever affix the name "typhoid :
fly " Men rearl with horror of the rav- \
;.age3 of tho tigers of India, and of the
Aanr list Of men and women who fall
.Victims to the cobra's deadly bite. They
symputhise with tho races of men who
hovr not been released front the thrall-
tlom «'t tho mosquito. And yet conserva-
tive snientlsts declare that musca do-
nlcstlca Is a more deadly enemy of man-
kind than mosquitoes and lions and
tlbers and snakes combined. Yet for
generations he has been allowed to dwell
iu man's own home, and when we have
screened him out tt has been because he
was troublesome, and not because lie was
dangerous. Tho microscope was tbe
tgsr.cy that revealed his true character.
That elcanliness is next to godliness
was never hotter exemplified than In the
ca.ue of the fly. He must he horn In
filth. If the female cannot find manure
In which to deposit her eggs, she sin-
gles out Hie next filthiest place she can
find. Old rags form a favorable sub-
stitute for the stable. Waste paper con-
stitutes another Incubator. But it is al-
ways necessary that the eggw be laid
In filth of some character. It Is believed
by the authorities on tha subject that If
approximate cleanliness reigned evnry-
whe re, the flv pest would disappear.
This is proved by experience. In the
mountains nf Virginia there In a little
summer resort around which are built
some thirty cottages. *t Is a, deserted
village from September to June, not a
soul living Ihere during those months.
Whet; the cottage owners move in in
Jure there Is not a fly to be seen, save
the few that follow the horses of the
cottagers up the mountain side for two
miles. But they never become numerous
until more than six weeks after the fly
season reaches its helgnt In the Phenan-
dr.nh Valley below. The first arrivals
of the next summer find no files there,
.ill those of the previous summer having
perished in the rold and for lack of filth.
♦ ♦ ♦
The fly nuisance in the country dts-
triots is a far harder one to handle than
that In the cities, since the farmer with
a dozen head of horses, thirty or forty
cattle and sheep and hogs in proportion,
cannot have the sanitary conditions sur-
rounding him that are possible In oltles.
In 1HW Dr. Howard co-operated with the
Washington health officer In seeing that
tho stables In the business section of tha
city were kept clean. Tha result was a
remarkable falling off in the number of
flies In that section during the summer.
ft Is thought that th« automobile and
motor wagon will ultimately go far to-
ward solving the fly problem In the cities.
It Is reported that In those neighbor-
hoods where the garage has taken the
placy of the livery stablo the fly crop
has shown a corresponding decrease.
Some oitiea have enacted laws relating
to the care and disposition of stable
manure which will, If enforced, go far
toward eliminating the housefly. Public
sent'ment may yet banish the city horse
stable ns It has already hanlshed tha
pigpen, and with tha coming of the
horseless age in the e!tie», files may dis-
appear from the largo centers of popu-
lation
(Copyright, 1909, by Frederic J. Haskin.)
■Vomorrow: "Signing Tariff Bills,"
NOTHING TO DO BUT PLAY
Wf JWH
&
— St. Louis Qlobe-Democrut.
SPIRIT OF THE TEXAS PRESS
FORTY YEARS AGO TODAY.
(San Antonio Dally Express, June tt,
1869.)
We call atentlon to the advertisement
for supplies for the Indians In the In-
dian Territory; 6000 beef cattle, 160,000
pounds of bacon, 1,600,000 pounds of flour
and 130,000 pounds of salt. Texas can
supply It all except, perhaps, the flour.
♦ ♦
Among the arrivals on the coast stage
yesterday were P. Shardln and family,
S. Spears and daughter nnd Bev. Sass-
weier.
♦ ♦ ♦
Peachea are becoming more plentiful
every day In our market. We have seen
baskets full which would tempt the skin
of the artist end make the mouths of the
most fastidious water.
Wo have been presented by Messrs.
Rhodlus & Co. with a can of Llebeg's
beef extract, prepared at the manufac-
tory of Harras & Sclirade, I'llnton, Tex.
This Is the most valuable and condensed
preparation of beef known.
♦ ♦ ♦
Kvory city of anv importance In th«
United States found It necessary t«
pledge Its credit lit order to make public
improvements. Why ahould San Antonio
not do thla?
Chinese Women Ambitious.
There is a growing desire on the part of
the young of both sexea in China to chooaa
their own mates. Fathera and mothers are
therefore called upon by the Chineae to
uphold the old rulea. Children, saya the
Chinese board of education, ahould have
nothing to do with a choice in such mat-
ters. However, a very grewsome picture
ts sketched by a native editor of the
miseries that abound in China on account
oi the way in which marriages ore ar-
ranged, and It Is contended that young
people should be allowed to have some
choice.
The board of education also maintains
that "the three obediences" and the "four
vlrtuea" must he extolled. The "three
obediences" are: The daughter must flret
obey her parents, then her hucband, and
than her son. The "four vlrtuea" are:
Chastity, proper language, devotion to
household work, and proper demeanor.
Apparently, if the present trend of
things Is allowed, thea« old rules will be
Ignored. The Chineae assumption that a
woman must not be heard of outside the
door of her own houae la now being criti-
cised by up to date Chinese editors.—Chi-
cago News.
Overlooked.
Japan, England and the United States
are mentioned as element* of a combina-
tion to aecure peace for all the world.
Aumlrable Idea, hut It seams to leave
out Andrew Carnegie. — Philadelphia
SURVIVORS OF THE ALAMO.
"Thermopylae had Its messenger of de-
feat, the Alamo had none," said the his-
torian who chronicled the defense and
fall of the Alamo, the greatest and blood-
iest defense In the world's history of bat-
tle*. We have always accepted the state-
ment that only one Texan escaped from
the Alamo, and that he was allowed to
denart by the defenders, a night or two
before its fall. However, dispatches In
the Times-Herald today from San Antonio
tell of a man over 90 years of ago who
rlaJms to have been one of the immortal
band, revisiting the scene.
There is no reason to doubt the truth
of the statement. In fact in the City of
San Antonio Itself, local historians have
time and again written stories in the
press asserting that there were sevoral
survivors of the Infamous massacre. Tt
is to bo hoped there were, but It is also
to be hoped that they will not become as
numerous In future years as the body
servants of George Washington were thir-
ty yer.rs ago. The latter turned up In
twos and threes In every portion of the
country. If they were reelly body serv-
ants of the father of his country, he
had an nttendant for almost every hair
tn his head and then some
The survivor of the Alamo now in
San Antonio Is welcome to Texas. No
doubt the city's great local historian.
( harlie Barnes, will aee him, and ex-
ploit Ills claims of genuineness. Barnes
knows even; stone In the Alamo, and is
familiar with its history aa probably no
man now living |n Texas. T nfortunatcly
bis writings, on historical subjecta have
not been put In hook form. He Is a
newspaper mnn and moat of his esesys
?w. ,n th* of S*n An-
tonio s dailies —Dalian Times-Herald.
I mmL' —
The Biggest Cracker.
The "kaaabl" torta (we g»t our word
"tar" from torts.) of Hlspsn-Ameriea Is
the biggest regularly made cracker on
earth; bigger than the special matroths
of Manhattan's Jew side, which, how-
ever, are only made for a short period
in the year. It Is made from the kasabl
root and lightly fired in cakes about the
sice of a small parasol.
A cracker for a hat! Buch Indeed Is
sometimes the use made by the Ijitln
peons of the kasabl torta when needing
a temporary sunshade (sombrero). The
torta is always made howl shaped so it
can be balanced on the head without any
particular effort -and providing no wind
Interferes. Rain, however, quickly soaks
and collapses this singular edible head-
gear.—Bakers' Weekly.
Filling the Air With Mugie.
At the same time San Antonio never did
pull off s prize fight where one of the
combatants was slain. Karnes City News.
♦ ♦ ♦
There was great rejoicing In West Tex-
as when It was learned that famous
paintings can he brought intn the United
States free of duty —Menardvllle Messen-
ger.
« ♦- *
Mayor Callaghan of San Antonio an-
nounces that he Is going after the gun
toters and make them disarm. Soma of
the little featherheads now carrying can-
nons around probably need the iron for
ballast to keep from floating "ff like toy
balloons Corpus Christ! Caller.
♦ ♦ ♦
The chief of police of Austin In com-
gany with a miscellaneous lot of Judges,
tate Rangers and other law-enforcing
officials, attended a prize fight In which
one of the fighters was battered to death
by the other. The mayor of Austin says
the chief is "a Christian gentleman." He
may be according to the Austin standard.
—El Paso Times.
City Attorney Hector ref- red to ex-
Governor Bayers as a "falsifier," In the
recent prize fight "whitewash" at Aus-
tin. A Texas Ranger parted the belliger-
ents A Texas Ranger can stop a few
fisticuffs and cock fights in San Antonio,
but he doosn't know when n brutal prize
fight results In a murder. There is none
so blind aa he who will not see.—George-
town Commercial.
With one of the principals In the Austin
prize fight dead and the investigation of
the officers of the law present, aiding and
abetting the "bout," being concluded, by
giving them s kaisomine coat it would
appear that the entire matter is well
on the road to the hush and oblivion at-
tending "accidental death" where promi-
nent people are present and view the ac-
cident.—Bellvllla Times
Ferhaps the most permanent Injury that
came to Texas as the result of the R. R.
Williams candidacy for Governor last
year is the belief that, race oreated on
the part of aspiring politicians that If
Williams could run such a race almost
any man In the State is good material for
Governor. Henco the unusually large
crop with which Texas will be Inflicted
this year.—Browtiwood Bulletin,
Contrary to the law. Austin "pulled off"
a prise fight In throwing distance of the
Capitol 11 few weeks ago, the result of
which one of the.contestants lost his life,
It was witnessed by many, Including the
mayor, chief of police. Rangers, besides
other officials. An Investigation was
made and every officer was exonerated.
Let a fellow steal a yearling In Texas
and ho is sure to go to the pen, but a
violation of this kind Is squashed.—Lean-
der Record.
In an Interview in The San Antonio
Express, Dr. (1. C. Rankin, of the Texas
Christian Advocate, declares that tho
gubernatorial candidates will havs to thin
out before the primaries ore held and
states In no uncertain terms that the can-
didate who will win must be a Bailey
man and a State-wide prohlbltJontst. In
others words, he must line up with Ran-
kin to win. How a man can be a con-
sistent Bailey man and favor State-wide
prohibition when Bailey opposes State
prohibition the learned political preacher-
editor does not state —Brownwood Bulle-
tin.
Mr. Bryan is doing very little for the
parly which he has thrice led to defeat,
when, at this time, he comes forward and
proclaims free raw material as (he only
sound democratic doctrine.- The people
of this section who saw the fallacy of
free wool and hides, and had to bear the
brunt of the blunder, can never be per-
suaded that Joe Bailey and John Garner
are wrong In Insisting that a duty re-
main on tho products of Texas so long
as a duty remains on the things manu-
factured from these products. No one
doubts the sincerity of Bryan, but a large
majority of the leaders of his own party
know that certain of his teachings will
never do.—Valverde County Herald.
♦ ♦ ♦
There Is nothing tnore disgusting than
a nasty dish of politic*. The State is
preparing one of the worst aver handed
out. The question of prohibition is clean
cut If left to stand or fall on Its merits
or demerits. Joa PHlley for Governor Is
a question that unmixed with other Is-
sues could be decided without nausea.
But mix the two and It becomes perplex-
ing—just whet the antlpros want. Ran-
kin Is the big pro leader, he Is also a
Bailey man. The mixture would settle
down to the worst case of cross-eyedness
possible. The proper thing for the pros
to do is to Ignore Bailey and win prohibi-
tion. The intention is to get up a wrsn-
4le tn the pro camp through Bailey In-
fluence.—Uvalde Press.
TOPICS OF THE TIMES
The effort is going to be mad* In the
next State campaign, which Is practically — ------ j
on now. to so confuse the prohibition the tax taken off all our ctotnes ana
movement and local option Issue that the shoes end hats.—St Louis Republic.
average voter will be up lh the air as to
who really represents the anti-saloon
element in Texas. By close observation
you will early observe that all of the
elements in Texas that are opposed to the
further spread of prohibition will be
shouting for local option, while the pro-
hibitionists. the people who really want
to see the saloon put out of business In
the State, will enlist under the 8tate-
wlders banner. I^jcsl option pretense ts
s "lor.k to disguise the actus! opposition
to prohibition, and you will find the cloak
much In use In the next few months.—
Palestine Herald.
The usefulness of the Texas Ranger Is
pasi and the sooner their services are
dispensed with the better It will be for
. . - - 1 the State at large. There was a day
♦h. llf ..t'ys ,m ne ' Ml<) *hen Texas was sparsely settled, when
the art enthuslaat. Is some arrangement j only a few of the many counties had or-
. iTi.il ®v,ry P*r.son W"1 have a chance gnnlzed governments, when jnsny crlm-
•Jli ijL ^ iHi , . .. t lnals of the older States had come oui
Good Idea, rejoined the huilder. Ill here to escape prosecution, when tne In-
have the walls of my next apartment I dlans were on the war path, that made
house made even thinner."—^Washington 1 the Teaas Ranger an abeolute neoeaslty
' <and tt wae tbe work dene by this fear-
The Trouserette Gown.
Something like 72,000,000 years ago,
our then protoplasmic earth was strug-
gling through what eminent geologists
now are pleased to term the Archaen
period. It isn't on record that fair wom-
an had any part in the development of
that time, but, if she hart, despite the
assurances of our scientists to the con-
trary, the account of what she wore i»
an Interesting bit of history that lies bur-
led in the forgotten archives of the re-
mote past.
Nor is there any reference to woman
in all that has been written of the
world's growth through the Cambrian,
the Trlasslc, the Cretaceous, the Quar-
ternary and their intermediate perioda.
It was not until the hlstorlo period waa
well under way that woman began to
figure in the evolution of things material.
Then, according to Scripture, wo had
Mother Eve, ana. from the time that she
proudly gowned herself in hem first mod-
est fig leaf, the subject o^remlnine at-
tire has besn an important one.
In some of the Asiatic countries, wom-
en orlglnaliy wore trousers, and do still.
But, as time progressed, the majority of
the fair sex took to skirts. These were
made In various patterns, but when the
designers ran out of ideas, they resur-
rected a style of quondam popularity,
and women flocked to the modiste and
the bargain coiyiter. Thus the return
to the empire and the dlrectoire and
now—horrors! The very latest, sisters,
is the trouserette gewn, in which you
may be as much of a man as your broth-
er. Yes, there's an independent place for
each fair nether limb, and the garment,
while abundantly flowing, to bo sure,
looks, for all the world, like, the real
masculine article.
This trouserette gown comes highly rec-
ommended by the New York "ladies' "
tailors, who assure us that "it will be-
come as popular In Fifth Avenue and
Newport as tha paving stones." If It
does, bachelor quarters In these two
places of fashionable rendezvous will be
at a premium. The tailors admit that
the trouserette will cause a* sensation—
at first We don't doubt it. So did the
sheath gown, which terved one good pur-
pose, at least, as will its sensational suo-
cessor. It gave employment to the de-
signers, the mills and tho dressmaker,
not to mention the shapely models who
pesed In the department stores, and pro-
vided the theatrical managers with a
new kind of attraction. But our mothers,
our wives and our sisters didn't take to
the sheath gown, so we shall not worry
ourselves about the trouserette.—Wash-
ington Post.
Wood Pulp and Clothes.
Senator Bailey's explanation of his
vote against free wood pulp is received
with assurances of the most distinguished
consideration by members of the news-
paper piofession. His preference "to taka
the tax off the newspaper man's clothes
and shoes and hats before I take It off
his printing paper ' is appreciated.
The individual newspaper man would
be mighty glad to get rid of the tariff
tax on the overcoat which protects htm
from winter's biting winds and on the
hat whloh shelters his head from the
burning sun of summer. But the news-
paper profession Is nothing if not altru-
istic. It is^always working few: others
end sets the public good high above Its
own. It. much prefers that Its many
readers should get the benefit of any tax
reduction that may be possible as long
as the star of Aldrich reigns in the as-
cendant. It wants free pulp and. inci-
dentally. cheap print paper In order that
It may spread knowledge abroad in most
copious abundance and at the lowest
price.
But In order to do the greatest good
to the greatest number the newspaper
press w II cheerfully accent, the tax on
puln If h'r. Bailey will give bond with
good security to do something to Aldrich
and the Finance Committee that will
make them take the tax off the clothes,
shoes and hats of the millions of people
who look to the newspaper as their un-
failing guide, philosopher and friend.
It is feared that Senator Bailey is not
free to undertake tbe contract. Lumber
and pulp appear to b s in a close alliance,
offensive and defensive, against any
trouble that may threaten In the confer-
ence. and Mr. Bailey is the champion of
the Southern lumber for more reasons
than one. In 6tandir.g against reduction
of the lumber tax Mr. Bailey Is inci-
dentally a friend of the Texas ports of
Galveston and Houston, for aa long as
the North and South railroads can get
lumber for return freight they can make
easy rates for haullns wheat, bacon, corn
and other Western produce to the Gulf
ports. ' • ,
Thus do the ripples of a tariff dicker
widen out. from the eenter. But if Sen-
ator Bailey would let the lumber tax
and the pulp tax go hang together, a|(d
every Democratic Senator would emulate
his example with respect to local Inter-
ests, the better the chances would be to
The Printer's Children.
The case of the musical man who
named his four daughters after the eight
notes of the tonic sol-fa scale Is matched
by that of the provincial printer wtio
named his children from the type fonts
he used—Ruby, Pearl, Diamond. The
first two are no uncommon names for
girls, only Ruby happened to be a boy.
He followed in his father s footsteps, and
afterward became a printer's manager
In London.- London Chronicle.
less body of men that mnterlslly assisted
in placing Texas in the enviable position
she now occupies. But, as before stated,
this necessity la something of the past
and thla arm of the law Is nq longer
needed. Some of the best and most fear-
lesr peace officers In the State ire now
serving as Sheriffs and pollee offlcera
and there la every reason to believe that
they are fully able to cope with any law-
ljsanesa that might occur.-Corpna Christ*
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