San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-18
SUNDAY SHORT SNAPS.

Keep your business DetOre the peO-
ple-advertlse in the Daily Light.
The fake advertiser is now working
the business men in the name of the
Battle of Flowers. The newspapers
of course are expected to do the chart
ty act.
1t pays to patronize our Home In
| dustries even if it costs a little more,
because it keeps your money at home.
regular city pay day would Gre
| ate a little boom in San Antonio.
An exchange says, Greece is boiling
and Turkey will soon be fried"
Country editors of Texas will eat,
| drink, etc, at Green vile, May 1lth.
The Salado fishing club got rubber
necked last Sunday.
Ex-Folicemen seem to take to the sa-
loon business as naturally as a duck
does to water.
There are people who thinker who
pretend to think-that a newspaper
should never give an account of any
thing that ought not to have happen
ed. Fortunately, for the freedom of
the press and the welfare of society,
there are Others"
The new Chinese minister having ar
rived in Washington, the society pa
| pers no doubt will soon contain full
| accounts of his new silk dresses, pet
| tiCOatS, etc.
Our Gossiper of the Express seems
to have become weary of writing about
the same old subjects all the time.
It's wasting time to talk about seiz-
ing personal property to collect taxes.
| The administration that attempts it
will find lots of trouble on its hands.
The two-dollar a day Legislators
are costing the state of Texas more
| than good men would at ten dollars a
day.
\ newspaper that sells it's advertis
| ing space for less than cost must have
Doodle behind it to keep it's ship from
sinking.
The saving on the water charges for
the new courthouse will almost pay for
the artesian we'll the first year. Just
think of it costing six dollars a day
for water to run the courthouse fOun-
tain alone!
The prosecuting officers should turn
their deaf ear to those "infOrmers" on
fallen women and gamblers. They are
nothing more nor less than blackmail-
erS.
zone Of the magazines has a SYM
postum on What will bring prospect
tyr" Let every man pay his news
paper subscription; that will be step
in the right direction"
The man who enjoys a monopoly is
always greedy and envious of a rivals
success.
Fruits and flowers at the sick bed
are generally all right, and no harm is
DONE but it wouldn't hurt to take
a doctor along to keep the calomel pa
ries.
little prohibition and Sunday law
agitation is needed to wake up the
sleepy saloon men.
San Antonio can hardly afford the
expense of any more special elections.
Let the election of a school board go
over until the next city election and
then the candidates, or tickets. make
| the question one of the campaign is
sues.
1t does not take the average news
paper reader long to discriminate be-
| tween taffy and honest, fair criticism.
"A good advertiser must be a good
| business man."
The evening paper is the paper of
| today; the morning paper is the paper
Of yesterday"
Dry hides on the free list may be
good for the leather dealers but it
deals a hardship to our Texas cattle
men.
Every now and then the minds of the
newspaper-except, perhaps, the man
who is trying to run one"
"A man must be pretty we'll covered
with moss not to be a regular adver-
tiser. A family down IN Florida lost
their child, and failing to find it after
two days, put a tewnty- four cent no
tice in the paper and the next morn
ing they We're surprised to see an al
ligator on the steps where he had dis
groged the child alive and then died
himself"