San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-04-26
AUSTIN LETTER.
AUSTIN. Tex, ApriI % 1906

AOSIlNs le8.i april "A, 1872.
This has been sultry, dreary Sun.
day, with drizzling rain most of the
morning, which kept three-fourths OF
the usual church goers at. home
There was no particular reason why
this should have been, for the rain
amounted only to slight drizzle, but
all the average individual wants is
the merest excuse to turn sunday in
to DAY of slOthful idleness and lazy
lassitude st home, instead of attend
Ing church, where he can get no evil,
even if he imbibe little or no good. 1t
improves any one to hear a good SER
mon, even though he may believe
little of what he hears, for it will set
most any man to thinking, to listen
to 3 sermon as the Rev. Mr.. Lee, of
st. David's Episcopal church, chose
today from the l4th chapter of Job: "If
man die shall he live AGAIN."
This is the grand turning point on
which hangs all our religion and is
moreover q question we will ask our
selves again and again.
The usual crowds are visiting the
dam today, In fact, more seem to be
going out this afternoon than on other
Sundays, for just now the work out
there is very interesting, as the task
of spanning the river bed is now in
progress and if rise were to come
just now, the work, which, all things
being lovely, will have been finished
in six more days, would be set back
perhaps for month or more. The
contractor, who has the sympathy OF
the community at large in his
trou bles, claims that 1t is a clear case
OF the OK in the ditch and is pushing
the work even today.
This morning when the heavy and
threatening skies betoken q town.
pour, two young ladies and society
girls, were seen watching the clouds
20, L hope it will rain, said one, "veg-
citation so needs it, 20, no, not yet,u
replied her companion, emphatically,
mot till our dam can stand rise in
the river"
"tFarmer Shaw" of the Texas Far
mer, spoke at the courthouse yester-
day afternoon. His speech was about
the same as the one Le delivered here
during the meeting of the legislature
and was in his same old style, mostly
anecdotes. He made some good ar.
guments tor the present commission
law, as welt as the present admins
tration and denounced Judge Clark
on all sides, but his speech was moth.
ing extra.
Gov. Hogg says that it is his in
ten tlon to spend two days in week In
his executive Office from now on, of
course devoting the rest of the week
to politics and election eering. No
dou bt he will have cause to change
the plans before the end of the cam
paign and by the time George Clark
gets well after him with his crooked
stick.
Governor Hogg made a far better
speech at Willis Point than even his
friends thought he would. The fact
is the Governor is no snide when it
comes to speaking and the man that
gets the best of him has to get up
early In the morning and stay up
late He seems to have been
Watching most closely the political
market and knows exactly where it
is best to invest to advantage. He
sprung new issues when nobody was
expecting them, and everybody
thought he would make the commits
sion and allen law his main stand
by.
He said he was not going to make
this campaign personal one, and in
this again he showed his wisdom,
for 1t Is said that just as soon as "the
present Incumbent" goes to dealing
at all in things personal the gentle.
man from Waco will spring certain
certificates and declarations on him
setting forth Jim Steve's" private
life and character in a most uninvi-
able light, and thereby make the
latter gentleman's very hairs stand
on end his tongue cleave ito his
No, Hogg says he doesn't care to
make this campaign personal one
at all. It. G.