The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-08-18
FROM CARA CROSSING.
The Philosopher from the Top of the Empty
Beer Neg Discants Learnedly on
-,a Many Matters.

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The muddy roads for the past week or SO
have acted as sedative for producers and
loafers. Few wagons have passed here. and
fewer still have been laden. Water melons,
tirewood, corn, coal and sweet potatoes have
quietly rested in the southwest, but are ready
for such splurge when good road exists
that San Antonio will wonder.
The school at Garza's crossing will be
opened, without ceremony, in few weeks,
after being closed for want of breath, or rather
funds, for eight months. The authorities
showed remarkable wisdom in preferring
Austin to Garza's crossing for the location of
the university of Texas. John Herrera, the
third son of Bias Herrera, is chosen as
teacher. 1t is his first school. His knowledge
OF both English and Mexican will greatly
facilitate his work. He is young, ambitious
and enthusiastic, which all teachers ought to
be. There is more sympathy in the inductive
philosophy than any other 1t is like to like,
and the educators of the world have pro-
nounced in favor Of the young teaching the
young. Johns patronymic is a famous one.
Spain possesses no one more prominent name
than that Of Herrera. There was Ferdinand
Herrera Eel Devino), the immortal author of
"ObraS" voluminous Antonio Herrera,
the historian-the celebrated painter, Francis
CO Herrera 1.-THE old) and his no less celebrat-
ed sons, Ell Rubio and Francisco-Sebastiano
Herrera, great architect and sculptor-men
who stand in bold relief from their kind; and
scores of others who have illustriously inter-
twined themselves in the history of Spain and
Mexico since the times of lingo Arista and
Augustine Iturbide. There is bright future,
in bright land, for the young teacher at
Garzas crossing. 1t is in his hands. He has
start.
1t is thought here that there is something
wrong with your only morning paper. You may
conscientiously search creation from the
weather vane on the north pole to the snow
flakes shivering around that of the south be-
fore you will find the same blunders as you
will in the morning Express. The last few
copies of that paper are criterion of how that
slovenly sheet is dished up to the public. A
sample will be taken Of one departmental
one class of news, obtained from one source,
and in a newspaper properly conducted ought
to be pronounced correct by one person be-
fore going to press. Reference is to the "war
in Egypt" But what Garzas crossing has to
do with the imbroglio in Egypt is mystery.
Well, it is news Just as much as the accounts
of the murder OF Jack Harris, the apotheosis
of Oscar Wilde, or the precise number of times
Jumbo diurnally wags his tail.
The Express dishes up the "war in Egypt"
something geographically and typographical
ly unique - belonging country pumpkins,
etiolating large officials, and paralyzing with
uncertainty the city school children. You
have placed before you "Kaffr Ell Down."
'Kaffr- e. Dawar," and "Kaffr Ell Dowar"
Which is right? "Mehalla Junction" is spelt
few lines beneath "Wahalla Junction"
Which is proper! lord Duferin" is squeezed
in, in the same issue, as Lord Duffen,"
which by the rules of progression in future
number will be "Lord Differ" but the most
buttonless comp. on that paper knows that his
lordship is not 'dutfer." Then you have
the "Margns Of Salisbury" new title for his
lordship. A little lass was asked to write
20 u i" and not dot. 1t was given to lad,
and he was asked what it was and he said
gin" tits known why it was printed ''mar
gins" instead of marquis" You have
"Aburkir" in one place and 'Aboukir" in an
other. One of those words never existed, and
a man who cannot read nor write distinguished
it this morning. The same with Arab" and
"Araby." Who is Gen. Sir Robert Machem-
SON."
A short biographical reprint sketch is in
order. When was that ship "Ilepdospes"
launched? And the origin of the name :?
Egad! it is too-too classical to be
classic. The duchess of Connought" would
look better if she were spelt Alright, but the
pronunciation is luckily the same, and that
excuse goes a long way with some folks.
Then you hear Of "Mr. Childress secretary
of state" for war. That's either a blunder or
something worse. Come, now, Mr.. Express,
how comes it that the Earl of North Burne"
is the first lord of the admiralty! Informa-
ton is wanted. 1t may be new do. In the
name of the holy Nicene fathers who is "Lord
Selhorne ?" There is magnificent copy of
the "Peerage of England at the crossing,
but he is not there. The boy Jim said, "Nor
anywhere else," and the babe was right.
Which spelling is correct "Mahmandich
canal" "Mahmoudich canal" "Mahamou-
dich canal" or "Mahamondish canal ?" This
don't matter much, except there may come an
order from there to San Antonio for a few pc
cans, which on reliable information it is
stated don't grow there.
| Many a wagon crosses the Medina with
produce for San Antonio. Perhaps there is an
odd melon that is not just so, sometimes a
sweet potato not quite up to the mark, stray
turnip may be fbrous, a peach too hard, to-
matoes joggled little too much, corn perhaps
slightly musty. cotton leafy, oats inadvertently
rusty, wood knotty, bundles of fodder not
large enough to make two, goats too thin to
be passed of as mutton, chickens too aged,
and coal too sulphurious; but in no case is
there such fraud on the public as the beel-
zebublc foreign news department OF the San
Antonio morning Express-price five cents.