San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-24
SANTONE'S EULOGY.
A New Way Of Telling
the Honest Facts.
HOW FATHER TIME BROUGHT
IT ABtUT.
1t Stands on Its Own Merits in the
Richest Section of Texas-Pro-
gress and Growth, Fruits of
the Efforts of Its People.
Views OF Hal David.

Away back, about the time the
sun first lighted upon the features
of the nineteenth century, Father
Time whetted his scythe, which
bore many hicks, sustained by reap.
ing hard customers during 1900,
inverted his hour glass, tapped his
wings with BETTING gusto, gazed
throughout the precincts of space
with supreme nonchalance, formed
himself in line as the inaugural
procession for the age wherein in.
vention and liberty were to be twin
sovereigns, and swept across the
world.
That Father Time is a great man
no one controverts, and his style of
dress proves that great men have
eccentricities, and it may be noted
that cities might with propriety
consider the idea of adopting Mr..
Time uniform for their fire depart
ments.
OF his origin little is known, al
though it is said that he started out
a poor boy, later worked in tan.
merry, and had married and settled
on a farm, where he was raising a
family, he might have been a Pop
ulist), when ordained dispenser OF
destiny, and whepever patches as
csaa the throns1like this. it tends
to prove that he was an American.
Father Time was the Oldest globe
trotter extant, and x-oficio a
member of the T. P. A., and is in
timately known by Frank G1ice
and others, who called him Pap. "
This brief history of old man
Time is a depression, but it may be
pardoned when it is considered
how essential it is that the rising
youth should escape total ignorance
of him, without whose photo calen-
dars are pretenses, and the potatoes
of the seed pamphlet are watery.
Well, a part of Mr.. Times procla
nation for 1900 was given when he
reached the United States in his
Journey, was to settle the South
western country, and strengthening
: the legions of civilization, laid siege
to the battlements Of nature, and
drove the artless savage close be-
hind the heels of the retreating buff
falo.
The caravans that stretched forth
from the East over mountains and
plain, the rough, dense forests,
across swollen rivers, were COM
posed of the persons whose deeds
have proven it right that man
should be known as the grand mar
shall of human affairs, and
"women" should be legend Of
Goodness and purity, and that ii
is printed in the soul of the babe
before it can stand alone. These
prophets of a Christian life, warmed
by the endorsement of conscience
quickened by the love of dear ones
led by the precepts of righteous
ness, planted the ensign Of the faith
on parapets sprinkled with torture
of fires put to death incense floats
today.
But victory was the echo o
means of dying and anguish o
WIDOWS and orphans, Dut they arr
all clay again, and of their mounds
our gratitude is guardian.
Bright in the history of the grea
State of Texas, respondent in thu
annals Of intrepidity, IS the Chris
tan infancy Of this section of the
state, and all who walked through
her gardens were guided by a hap
y compass.
SEhe paths that led to her rivers
ia rot tern backward the pale
e son. The land Of milk and
s3 appreciation aueltorea hiu3