The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-04-19
Wednesday, April 10. ~
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS.

FLOWING artesian wells are being found
alono the Southern Pacific road east OF Fl
Paso.
TuR American Israelite comes to us in deep
mourning over the death of Rev. DIR. Max
Lilienthal, of Cincinnati. He was learned
and good man.
THE Waco Examiner is bound to be pleased
on the tariff question; it applauds Mr.. Upson's
nosi,ion ON the tariff, and Senator Coke's also,
although there is considerable chasm De-
tween the two.
We could almost cry tear over the un-
timely demise of the Galveston DAILY Jour
nal Galveston must be dull, solemn place
since its solitary intellectual beacon light has
been extinguished.
Ia. BILLS has realized his lifelong dream
He has fallen heir to the tripod OF the East
Texas News, and promises to succeed or
"bust." Well, if he don't bust he may Sue
coed, and to prevent his busting he ought to
get himself we'll coopered.
w. ScoTr, secretary of the wool growers
association, publishes call for the re-assem-
bling of the association on the 9TH OF June
next at the merchants exchange in this city
Among the diseases mentioned that threaten
the sheep industry is democratic tariff for rev.
enue only.
Mr.. John F. SLATER, of Norwich, Connec-
ticut. announces his intention of creating a
fund for the education of the colored children
of the South. 1t is to be round million OF
dollars, and to be known as the 'John r. Sla-
ter Fund.- Mr.. Slater thus explains the in
tentons:
"The general object which desire to have
exclusively pursued is the uplifting OF the late
ly emancipated population of the southern
states and their posterity by comforting on them
the blessings of Christian education. Inc
disabilities formerly suffered by these people,
and their singular patience and hdellty IN the
great crisis Of the nation, establish Just CLAIM
on the sympathy and good will OF humane and
patriotic men. cannot but feel compassion
in view of their prevailing ignorance which ex-
lists because of no fault of their own
From cold Yankee land come all warm
hearted benefactions.
CHICAGO is ahead. There is probably less
success in trying to catch up with Chicago
than in any other enterprise. In the matter
of great fires, in moral mania, in horses and
hogs, in men, women and ghosts, and es-
pecially in fast girls, Chicago has long had
the blue ribbon. Now another case OF unpre-
cedentedness has occurred; the spring trade
of St. Louis has failed, has, in fact, been
turned in to Chicago. BY her charms and en-
chantments the trade harmones Of st. Louis
have been destroyed. That city'S old estab-
drumming for Chicago. A recent secret
meeting of the merchants, says the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch, has been held and this is the
DEVELOPMENT. 1t will all come out. 1t is now
about the first duty of the rest Of creation to
unite against Chicago. Either that or man.
kind will be beaten out Of everything.
CONJECTURE ascribes to the late Cornelius
Vanderbilt heavy gambling losses in the New
York City Turf Club as the cause Of his sui
eide. Yet a loss Of $4,000 at the bacara
table was the most considerable that ever oc
CURED there. This wholly fails to reach prob
able cause-it must be searched for at create
depth. Mr.. Vanderbilts better faculties wer,
dormant. There was nothing within scope o
the grosser that he could hold by. nothing
that impaired to life sufficient interest to quail
ify him to live. He was jaded by sencuou
routine and found nothing to erase on men
tally. When sensuous thought has to fee,
upon itself at middle age there comes fam
inc. and the mind must have staff to lean Of
or it may fall. At the base of the cause n,
doubt was the family bitterness; and while h
would not have cared to live he would nc
have found energy to deprive himself of life
but for realizing that the act would be a sum
mons to his brother to come to judgmen
That the suicide Of Cornelius will becom
daily a matter Of graver concern to the brothe
whose selfish life overshadowed, humiliate
and, in all ways, cruelty wronged him. is MOI
philosophical tha an religious likelihood.