San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-06-02

spent III DullulnB tnem VIRTUE many u
ship carpenters home. The rivalry in
speed and sumpTuous furnishing has be-
come a craze among the young million
aires, and a life on the ocean wave has
become more than song with them.
Uncle Sam may catch the spirit of build
ing ships himself some day.
TIE Bell Telephone company has won
its hello" suit against the National
Telephone company for infringement Of
patent.
If COMPTROLLER SWANS enemies can
find no more serious charge against his
official management than that he en-
plOyed an efficient lady clerk and paid
her good wages, his reputation will not
seriously suffer. The attempt of the
male clerks in the state department, TO
boycott the ladies seeking employment,
and also those persons who are known to
favor the employment of women as de-
partment clerks, when they come up for
office, is as unmanly as it is ungenerous.
The average democratic clerk, however,
has but little spare manhood when it
comes to a question OF office, as the his
tory of all department service album
dainty proves. A clerkship in the state
house should depend on the ability and
efficiency of the clerk, and not on his
werth rs a rustler at the polls or In
packing primary, or managing con-
ventiOD.
The Austin Optic having swallowed
its unabridged, gets badly mixed in try
ing to bring the big words up again. Its
"amaphrodite" of Monday last was q
revelation to the philologist.
MUNICIPAL "olarin' up" time seems to
have come in New York and Cincn-
natl; and there be more cities than these
in which the axe might be laid at the
root of the tree Of official corruption
without causing a general cry of"wood-
man spare that tree!"
THE present drouth in Texas is some
thing remarkable. In many sections of
the state there was n very slight rain
fall during the fall and winter months,
and this spring heavy rains Were nat
urally looked for. In many places this
expectation has been disappointed.
The spring rains did not materlalize and
the cry of blighting drouth is heard in
nearly every section of the state.
How far a system of irrigation, in the
low lands along the streams, might
obviate this tendency to excessive
drOuth remains undemOnstrated. To
the farmer these long dry seasons mean
distress and eventual disaster.
The Paris News declares that the
boom Of that city is coward and up
ward" ls the great boaster going up
up the spout where the woOdbine
twineth?
The Austin Dispatch insinuates very
broadly that the Statesman furnishes its
afternoon dispatches to the Optic, there.
by getting the drop on the Call, which
pays $50 per month for the franchise.
What saith the Associated Press scrip
lures concerning these things.
OLEoMARGARINE has been a god-send to
this doOless congress. To tackle coin
age and currency and the tariff, requires
opinions and is not safe anyway. Pitch
ing into bogus butter is another matter,
and the oily ease with which the aver
age congressman glides into this oleag-
nous matter suggests his familiarity
with slippery things. 1t has certainly
been safety valve for the congressional
gas works.
GERONIMO is routed daily but he comes
up smiling after each round with fresh
scalp lock in his belt.
The Evening Paper expected for some
weeks past put in an appearance last
evening. Jas. p. Newcomb hoists the
flag to the mast head as editor, and DR..
Lindner assumes the management of its
D"oi"Ooo' II 10 piaihiy pilhlcus neat,
large type, six column sheet and with
Mr.. Newcomb as chief quill driver. there
can be no uncertainty concerning ITS
political utterances. The Light ex-
tends cordial greeting to its new re-
publican confrere. and wishes all neces-
sary power to its elbow.
Fort WORTH turns its attention from
railroad building long enough to demur
against the oversight of the city coun-
Gil in not providing park for the COM
fort of the little ones during the heated
season. San Antonio extends cordial
invite to Fort Worth neighbors to come
down here and cool themselves under
the refreshing shade and by the ripping
brooks of her parks and other leafy re-
treats.
THERE are few present and pressing
issues before the state this campaign
that will relegate the old war horse is
sues to back seat. Not that they will
be altogether forgotten, for the princi-
Piles Of old issues crop out in the new;
but the campaign won't be fought on the
1865 issue. Those who have no dead
open and shut interest in the live issues
that concern the masses are very liable
to sit on the fence and see the procession
go by.
The cry already comes from some
democratic editor we'll yersed in the