San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-01

1t was a rank afternoon and a
group of San Antonians were gathered
in a downtown office swapping ex-
periences when one of them mentioned
n trip TO California and sight OF the
big redwood trees of that state. He
advanced the belief that they were the
biggest trees in the world and was
promptly disputed.
california doesn't know anything
about big trees" said another OF the
group. You ought TO have seen the
trees that used to grow i'll the Brazos
bottoms years ago.
Back in the early days when that
section was all open range l punched
cattle around there for five or six
years. One day the boss decided to
move our cattle up to Kansas City.
When we got TO the banks of the
Brazos we found there was a big
flood and we couldn't wade across as
usual. Suddenly we heard an awful
crash. About half mile down stream
we saw whale of big tree fell
plumb across the stream. Some OF US,
including the boss. loped down to have
looS at it. The boss was tickled
plumb fine when he saw the tree was
! hollow. He allowed Nature had pro-
vidcd us with a bridge.
I'VE had no trouble whatsoever in
persuading them cattle to trot through
that big hollow tree. The Dos; thought
| it would be q good time TO make a
. careful count of the stock. so he sta
toned me and another puncher at the
! far side to count 'em as they ran
out. To our surprise the count fell
short more than three hundro>.. But
| Just then we heard a distant lowing.
/ Imagine our surprise, when we in
vestigated the matter and found that
! them more than three hundred cattle
/ had wondered off into the hollow limb
and got lost. This particular tree,
you understand, wasn't near so big
as thousands of others that were
majestically standing on the banks OF
! that turbulent stream"
Then the party broke up. T.
Judge r. b. Minor last week was
interrogating prospective jurors to
test their qualifications for service.
He had an unusually large number
Of requests to be excused for various
reasons. His patience had become
s0rely tried. Then came the break
ing point.
I'D like to be excused, Your
Homer" came the next request.
For what reason" Judge Minor
inquired.
II can't hear good" the man re-
piled.
what did you say?' whispered
Judge Minor. 49,
II said / couldn't hear good"
You're accepted" the judge said,
waving him aside.
Movie fans have always been OBJ
sessed with the idea that even in the
wilds of Africa and on cannibal isles,
the head hunters rushed through the
sage brush when the boat came in
just to get their monthly copy of the
movie magazine. They imagined the
savages perused it from cover to cover
and knew the weaknesses. hobbys
etc, of each star. Yet the other morn
ing prominent San AntoLian was
breakfasting, and reading his paper
at the same time. His daughter
jumped from The table and said, ooh
has Rudolph Valentino gotten here
YETI? And the man looked over his
| glasses and said. "who, pray tell, is
Rudolph Valentino?' And he wasn't
joking. And daughter didn't think
there was n man in the world that
didn'e know him.
The mayor and commissioners. in
pruning the final budgets last week
were haggling over the question Of dis.
| pensing with the services of man in
II the mayors department. When the
matter was put to vote the mayor
and Commissioner Ray Lambert voted
for the retention. while Commissioners
Wright and Pfeiffer voted to dis.
charge him. Commissioner Rieden
was silent.
How do you vote willie?" the
mayor inquired.
1 well, don't know how to vote, =
the street commissioner said haltingly
but ] guess III vote with the
majority"
He cast his ballot to retain the man