San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-01-10
SOME OBSERVATIONS.
For the Light by the Man About
Town.

MI. John Walters, eX-asslStant
postmaster, now with Anheueser
Busch brewing company, put in an
appearance among his old friends
yesterday. During his late trip to
Flatonia and towns in the vicinity,
Mr.. Walters came near being trav-
eler on the Arkansas Pass train that
was wrecked. He was just about to
board the train when business ar
rangement came up that stopped him
and the train moved out of the depot
to its destination. On what slender
thread hangs the destiny of travelling
men. Mr.. Walters holds a RESPONSE
bic position with his new employers
and expresses himself we'll pleased
at his release from the eXacting SER
vice of Uncle Sam.
A portly handsome man, in the
full vigor of manhood bronzed by
the climate of the frontier, greeter
a number of friends at Scholz's gar
den, it was Mr.. Fritz Hartz, the pio-
neer water works man of Eagle Pass.
Mr.. HartZ was on his way to his old
boyhood home, New Braunfels. He
belongs to that race of native German
Texans, who have proven their ell
terprise and ability to build up our
frontier outposts. AS an uuco M
promising republican he eX-
pressed himself disgusted with
the hardness of the....aGministration
in removing the democratic office
holders. Kinney County gave re-
publican majority at the last election
and deserves better treatment, than
to he saddled with a nest of demo-
cratic custom house officers, who roll
in the fairness of republican patron
age. The post office at Eagle Pass is
also in democratic hands.
In the matter of trees for our parks
and squares, some study should be
given to our native forest trees. There
are many varieties that are hardy
and far more suitable and ornamental
than the varieties usually planted.
The Spanish oak that grows in our
mountain valleys is a beautiful tree
and its foliage is almost as brilliant
when touched by frost as the northern
maple. The cotton wood is a noble
tree and fast grower, no tree has
more music in it than the cotton. wood,
Tits leaves culver like the aspen, and
send forth on the softest breeze a con-
tinual symphony. 1t is after the cot
tOn-wood that the Alamo is named,
and no tree could be more appropriate
for the circle now being improved. In
old times a double row of giant cot
4Onwoods lined the Alameda, now
known as East Commerce street,
ahd the first 4th of July bar
tlecue was held under their shade.
Time and the camp fires of the Amer
i9an vandal destroyed the old mon
a fchs of the valley.
Think over the cottonwood, the tree
that has furnished the heroic name OF
tile Alamo. With care and proper
irrigation, in few years we can have
tai graceful trees t. ornament the
ciltcle. In Mexico the cotton wood is
the great park tree and gives n grand
appearance to the alamedos that are
hid pride of Mexican cities.
I(ee has been found on NJ cunt Nc
Cle Hon, California, which is cOmput-
sd DO be so, 600 years old.
Five female sanitary police are now
IS TAD blIshed in Chicago, under the APP
1oilk trent of the commissioner of
lea tn, according to an ordinance of
he city council. The duty of the
lewN female sanitary police is to in
pecE factories and tenements for the
)rot&ction of the health of working
yomk ZEN.
JAW Cooke, whose failure in 1873
the panic, is getting rich
galE, and is pushing the Harris burg
nd Gettysburg road into Washing
on He is growing very gray and
earL n soft, wide-hrimmed hat, but
lis ernect form and martial bearing do
lot indicate that he is seventy years
JOHN w. Bookwalter, one of the
emotBratic senatorial candidates in
)hio. owns the largest cultivated
arms Hin the country. 1t lies on the
ebranska line, south of Beatrice, and
he KItansas City, Wyandotte and
,orth western road runs through it.
t contains nearly 5000 acres, cover
1g twdenty square miles, all under an
xcelIe mt state of cultivation.
A disYpatch has gone forth to the
fleet tlIbat Gov. Philip w. Mckinney,
f Vir~ tnia, has never used profane
,npua be, never smoked, and has
ever 81 CONSUMED more than a half
allon f whisky. But his political
levatio n has been sudden ana pro-
ounced
Bridel port, Conn, ought TO nave the
aim fo|f wideawake policemen, when
safe W, yeighing 500 pounds can be
ken Fl rom a store within stones
1row from the police station and
ragged all over town without inter-
lption.
iuinnLo Mot Necessarily Expensive.