San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-05-01


on this Matching process. They are
philosophers in their way, and patience
on a monument never was patching to
the patience of these fellows in waiting
for something to turn up. They can sit
on a boom, some other fellows boom,
until hair grows on the back OF cast
iron monkey and never warm that boom
a perceptible atom. San Antonio has
some live, wide-awake, warm business
men: men who are a credit to Texas.
blessing to The city and the pioneers Of
every good word and work. without
them she would be conspicuous exam
pie OF arrested development; by their ef-
forts she bids fair to achieve commercial
and industrial success. But there are
silent partners in this concern, men who
are so silent concerning the interests,
growth and progress OF the city that the
shell of the oyster is vocal with speech
compared with them. Men who are
afraid to adventure cent for fear OF
losing great big dollar, men whose
souls are always under their feet, and
those souls so small that II thousand OF
them were put in the hull OF tobacco
seed the listening ear would hear audible
voices crying out ''rooms to let, rooms
to let" When Austin wants to see men
consumed with dry rot, she can find
them at home, or her journals prevari-
cate; but when when she wants an able
bodied example OF few men covered
heart-deep and pocket-high with the
barnacles of inactiOn, San Antonio can
trot out the specimens.
SHEEP dipping does not seem to have
monopoly of the dipping business in
Texas this spring.
EAGLE Pass does not desire that her
patients should be lonesome and so To-
Gates her hospital where the ears Of the
Inmates can hear most noise. How this
noisOme plan suits the patients is not
stated.
The summer normal shows signs of re-
opening, and will doubtless, among other
greater blessings, vegetate a fine crop of
fresh muslins and new summer pants.
The morning Express most charitably
discourses of the alleged inability Of the
Times to pay union prices to its printers.
Other papers in this city pay the union
scale, from the Express down to the
Figaro. The times can do the same, or
it can quit. This is the general rule in
business, and it applies here; If business
don't pay, stop. If the city Democracy
are sufficiently interested in the publica-
ton of that paper to maintain it, let
them putup. The Typographical Union
has waited six years for the Times to get
its office up to Union scale and II that
point is not reached now, when will
it be.
GROVER says Omaha cannot become a
port Of entry. He did it with his little
veto.
AUSTIN calls aloud for comprehensive
system OF sewerage, and a thorough
cleaning of the city, in order that disease
and sickness may be warded off. There
be other cities that should adopt this
capital plan.
The kids of Labor" are now on deck
in San Antoine; their frisky prOpensities
will not be questioned, nor their ability
to develop into first-class buffers.
The human hive grows, the hum in
creases and the quantity Of honey to hum
seems largely on the increase. Less than
half a injury since the bees in the great
industrial hive worked about IA hours a
day, and, as illustrative of the differ
ences between now and then, little
comparison on the basis of cotton-spin-
ming returns is in order. An operative
OF that day, working IA hours, turned out |
from % to 30 yards of sheeting Tor his
days work, 5000 for the year. To-day an
operative In that same mill turns out for |
a days work, 10 hours, 10000 yards a |
year, or about 100 yards a day. The |
wages 80 years ago aggregated for good |
weaver Sl75, they now average S2S5 a |
year. The weaver of that day was paid |
one and fOur-fifths cents yard for |
weaving; the operator Of to- day receives |
less than one cent per yard. The old
rate of wages per yard would enable
him to live dencently on the basis OF |
present production; the present rate is
altogether too low for comfortable exist
ence.
The m ,rning Express has the follow
Ing conundrum-"' Chickens come home
to roost.' Does the Times sabe?" The
quotation Of the Express is somewhat
incomplete.
The wool interests of the country are
being badly wooded over this tariff dis
cussiOn on wool. Congress always does
get in snarl over wool.
Los Angeles, that fruit paradise Of
America, the vast productiveness of
which has been so abundantly de-
monstrated in the Chicago Citrus Fair"
has imported bush fruit from South
America, called the "melon shrub" 1t
is as large as a goose egg, and is per-
petual bearing fruit, the blossoms, green
fruit and ripened fruit appearing at the
same time. The horticulturslists pro-
neunce it a decided acquisition to the
list of Southern California fruits.
CLEvELAND's veto of the bill, turning