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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-10
SILENT LEGION
HAUNTS BEXAR
COURTHOUSE
CORRIDORS
Strange Characters Defy
Efforts to Fathom
Their Business.

In the Bexar county courthouse
there is silent legion" the members
of which have always been and will
always remain a puzzle.
They are the ones who each day
occupy the benches in the corridors
or the seats in the empty courtrooms
when the court is not in session.
Who are they? No one knows.
Each morning they gather one by
one, nobody knows from where.
At dusk they depart and no one has
ever found out where they 20.
Always alone, always silent like
lost souls, they sit and think.
RANKS SWELL
Since the redstone edifice of Law
and order and justice was first built
and its corridors equipped with bench
es. according TO officials and officers,
the ranks of the "silent legion" have
swelled until now they number some
two dozen.
Though officers OF the sheriffs OF.
flee and attaches Of the various courts
often wonder about the strange beings,
no one has ever found out the name
of a member of the "lexion" OF
fathomed the depths of their thoughts.
There is about them, it is said, a
something that repels the advance Of
the curious and prevents any en-
croachment on the sanctity of their
silence.
THERE EVERY DAY
A tour of the courthouse on any
week day will reveal the members of
the -legion.-
At one end of the quiet corridor
OF the fourth floor, farthest from the
noises of the street or of the buster
floors beneath, an old man sits.
His weak eyes seem to look back
at yesterday. To look ahead to to-
morrow he sees the end too near at
hand. Occasionally his lips move ST.
lently. He does not look up when
someone, passing him halts for a
moment to scan his dilapidated frame.
Perched on a window sill at tho
other end Of the hall sits a man of
middle age with sharp features and n
cruel mouth. He resembles a hawk
perched on his seat until one sees into
the depth Of his restless eyes.
HER MISSION A MYSTERY.
They are pools of unfathomable sor-
row.
They are but two Of '1egion" who
gather, each different from the other
except for the similarity of their COM
ing and going, and their silence
Recently little mother Joined the
fold Of those who sit and think. She
appeared one morning sitting on the
broad sill of a window in the first
floor court. There she sat throughout
the long day making no move but to
rock the baby from time to time.
What her mission is no one knows.
Perhaps her husband has commi ed
some crime and is in hiding from the
law. Perhaps she expects sooner or
later to see him brought in handcuffed.
Such is the speculation about her.
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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-10
ASK BRIDGE BIDS
ON ALAZAN CREEK

Bids on a new concrete bridge
across Alazan creek on Lakeview ave-
nue. were asked by the city commits
sion Monday afternoon.
Proposals on the bridge and the
paving of East Myrtle street, between
Mccullough and Jones avenues, will
be received until November %.
Two hundred tons of coal was pur-
chased
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-10
Rudy's Ultimatum

Rudolph Valentino says his wife
cannot return to his homo II she in
ssts on becoming a star. In other
words
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
IL you twinkle from nfnr;
But II you remain my wife.
Not n twinkle-cn your life!
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-10
What He faces

There's a member Of Congress
named Upshaw. In due time some
careless printer will put a st" on
the end and that will be the upshot
of the matter.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-10
OMITS WORD.

"Since the enfranchisement of wom-
en- and the realization that marriage is
a mutual covenant, i have been omit
ting the word which demands obed;.
ence in the Presbyterian ceremony"
More congenial homes through rec
ignition of the rights and principles
Of husband and wife and the under
standing that marriage is a mutual
obligation, will result from omission
of the four-letter word, DIR. Hill said.
another part of the ceremony
which was changed for the better,
believe DR.. Hill said, was when the
clause pertaining to endowment of
worldly goods was eliminated.
This formerly read with this ring
l thee wed and with all my worldly
goods 1 thee endow, etc.
"Taken literally, the words had a
meaning which never was adhered to,
and was liable to create false impress
sions as to its actual meaning"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-10
Can't Run Now

Johnny used to be n sprinter
But in running now no lngs;
Here's the reason he's impeded:
He is wearing Oxford bags.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-10
Hurry, Please

Invention Of a "kiss proof" lip
stick is announced. Now we want
to see some good looking girl
demonstrators" sent out to adyer.
tise il.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-10
Misleading Ads

IT bought haircut month ago."
says GJuro. Now I'm going TO need
another pretty soon. But the sign on
the shearing- shop said: Hair Perma-
nently Removed"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-10
"Pay" Perhaps

During his visit the admiral of
the fleet will go to Ottawa to zap
his respects to the governor gen.
eral. Star.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-10
PRESCRIBE ROD
FOR 'BOSSY'
CHILDREN

Complete destruction of the Ameri-
can home is seen by DR.. r. L. Din
widdie, of the city health department,
in the lax methods parents use to con-
troll their children.
within the next generation chill
dren will be bossing their fathers and
mothers, if the parents don't take a
firmer hold on their offspring" DR..
Dinwiddie declared.
Here's the whole problem in n nut
shell, according to DR.. Dinwiddie.
parents should first be taught how
to teach their children"
He believes mothers and fathers
should attend school where expert
advice is given on how to govern chill
dren when they begin to grow up,
"and become hard headed"
ADVICE TO PARENTS.
when l was a boy" Mr.. Dinwid-
die said, children were taught to re-
spect their elders and above all hold n
certain amount of reverence for their
parents.
To-day" he continued, parents
don't demand this. and children arc
beginning to heed their warnings less
and less"
DR.. Dinwiddie declared that par
ents are wont to make threats, few Of
which are carried out.
To those who still believe in put
ting into effect the age old proverb.
"Spare the rod and spoil the child"
DR.. Dinwiddie gives IA little advice.
KEEP PROMISES.
"Never. when angercd at a child,
let your temper get the best of YOU
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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-10
Kind and Color

"Taint always the 'rubc' that
falls for the ruby lips" says Far
mer Drybottom.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-10
Never Again

In the ante-Volstead days as. o.
s." used to mean some Of the same.
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COMPLEXITIES PROBLEM.

Regardless of the amount of "obedi-
cnce" which husbands are supposed to
have expected from their wives in the
past, the new wording in the Episco.
pal form makes only more diff.
cult one of the problems of the ages
that of supremacy in the home. I'm.
der it, things would be on an even
basis in so far as this particular point
is concerned.
use Of obey never was intended
in servile sense, SO far as my under
standing Of the vows are" DR.. Hill
said. INSTEAD, it seems it was intend
ed to place the responsibility for Ger.
tain affairs in the home.
Il think the marriage VOWS, like
everything else. ought to conform to
the conditions and the customs of the
age in which we exist.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-10
DROPPING OBEY
MAKES WIFE
EQUAL
Marriage Becomes $3.50
Partnership, Declares
DR.. P. B. Hill.

Hubby's former privilege of "com.
handing" his wife to do anything
no longer may be enjoyed, even tech.
nically speaking.
Dispensing with the word "obey"
in the new marriage ceremony of the
Episcopal Church places the amount
of obedience due by husband and wife
to each other on 5000, basis, ac-
cording to DIR. p. b. Hill, pastor of
the First Presbyterian Church.
DR.. Hill was the first San Antonio
pastor to use the new form of cere-
mony adopted by the Episcopalians in
their general assembly in New Or.
leans, and did so at the request Of the
bride and bridegroom he united.
DR.. Hill frequently uses the Episco-
pal words in marriage, and for several
years has been using or emitting the
word "obey" from the Presbyterian
ceremony, according to the option Of
the bride and bridegroom.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-10
KEEP PROMISES.

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,e average temperature for San An.
MO yesterday, Nov. 9, was So degrees.
, 1925-07-11
FAST WORK IN THE MOVIES.

Seventy-six hours after the japanese
freighter Raifuku Maru went down, mo-
ton pictures of the tragedy were flashed
on scores of screens.
While the liner was still racing toward
the stricken freighter, wireless messag-
es bombarded the purser and others
aboard the Homeric. 1t was a long
chance-one in a thousand perhaps
that someone aboard might have d mo
ton picture camera. And
When the Homeric reached Quaran-
tine it was found that j. M. Beatty, of
Columbus. Ohio, a passenger, had
caught" the tragedy with baby"
camera. the only one any kind abroad.
He used narrow film instead of the stand
ard size of theatre projection machines.
How to make the change from narrow
to wide film was the problem when the
film was brought ashore in New York.
The neWsreel release had to be out in
28 hours. and only the Eastman Compa-
ny of Rochester could transfer the t.. 5
from baby" to standard size. Negative
in New York: Rochester 400 miles away;
no train leaving for several hours; a
neWsreel edition to be made. Ihe tun
began.
Within thirty minutes an airplane left
New York. In the rear cockpit was s.
H. Mexican (3eWs editor Of In ernation-
al NewsreeD and the film. A terrific
storm covered the CaiskilIs; the baby
film reached the Rochester laboratory at
8p. M, By midnight the transfer was
made; and Mexican, with the negative,
arrived in New York at 9 a. m. When
the Twentieth Century left a few hours
aater she carried hundreds of positive
prints" for theatres as far west as the
Pacific; and in Broadway theatres crowds
were thrilled by seeing the great tragedy
that had occurred, hundreds OF miles out
to sea, only seventy six hours before
Golfers Weekly.
, 1925-07-11

wood, threw gasoline on it and touched
a match. When the bodies were burn
ed almost beyond recognition the cave
was filled in with earth.
Daniel c.. Coffman. a teamster, reveal
ed to the police that Lovejoy and Peters
had taken liquor from the cave. He SAID
the men posed as Federal officers and
hired him last Sunday to go TO the cache
and haul the liquor away. -EU8n1ng
World.
, 1925-07-11
EOOTLEGGER BAND
STAYS POACHERS
Bodies of Former Policeman and Chauf-
feur Found in Cave.

Kansas City. Missouri. Patrol man
Burt G. Lovejoy and George Peters for
mer police chauffeur, who according to
police. poached on the liquor cache of
a band of bootleggers in the wild anG
uninhabited Missouri River bottoms here,
have paid for their poaching with their
lives.
A cave from which the two men are
alleged to have stolen corn whiskey and
distributed it in the city yielded up the
mutilated bodies of Lovejoy and Peters
yesterday.
The men disappeared last Tuesday.
They had been killed by blows on the
head and their throat had been cut.
The slayers put their bodies on a pile of
, 1925-07-11
Crop Conditions

In Jamaica and Antigua the sugar crops
have been adversely affected by drought
but in Barbados and Trinidad crops have
turned out better than was anticipated.
The 1923 crop in Barbados was exception
ally good. During that year the quantity
of sug.r exported tr0m the colony was
40, 060- tons, but the fancy mOlaSSes
eQuat. d to sugar was equal 70 another
Is, Col tons making a total OF 62, III tons
valued at II, $40, 57l. According 10 the
estimate OF the Director Of AgrlcuIture,
Barbados, the 1924 sugar crop, lncIudlng
fancy mOlaSses eQuateJ 10 sugar is like
ly to reach 60, 900 tons. The tonnage Of
this years crop in Trinidad is not known,
but il is expected to be much larger than
last years crop OF Al. 6l9 tons. La Brit
ish Guiana the eStlmNteS for the year
1923 were 95, 494 tons of sugar from an
area of 81, 445 arcrps, but results showed
production to be short Of the estimates
by 3,O3S tons, and the area under sugar
cultivation by ], 1888 acres. The reduc-
ton in the acreage under Sugarln BRUSH
Guiana and in the yield in 1923 as com
pared with the previous year was 4,O88
acres and 8.672 tons.
The decrease OF acreage IN British Gull
ana is allflOulHD I6 primarily " the SHUT
age of labor consequent upon the cesSa-
tion of East Indian emigration, but Of
recent years the sugar industry has also
suffered by the diversion TO the diamond
fields Of a number Of the heavier class of
labOrers of the African descent.
The area under cultivation in sugar in
the British West Indies varies according
to the demand as compared with hat of
other tropical products. In Jamaica the
cultivation of the sugar cane and the
manufacture Of It's various products have
been largely superseded by the %cuItiva-
ton of bananas. Quite recently hOWev-
err, British capital has been attracted to
Jamaica tor agricultural development and
has lent encouragement TO an extension
of the cane fields in the colony. Last
year a British company took over a sugar
factory OF 10, OOU tons capacity which had
ceased 10 operate, and an luducement
was offered to liant more canes on the
north side OF the island where The fac
tory is located. In The eastern end of the
island cOcoanut uees and other plants
are being destroyed SO as to bring larger
areas under cane cultivation The ia
malca Sugar Estates, Lid, have largely
, 1925-07-11

Died suddenly of heart failure at 9
O'Clock last night at her residence No. IL
Company Street, MISS CHARLOTTE DE
FELIX. aged 76 years. The funeraI will
take place at 5 O'Clock this afternoon.
, 1925-07-11

The u. S. S. "Grebe" arrived here at
noon yesterday from St. Thomas with
the following passengers:-Lieut and
Mrs. Harry H. Hines. Mrs. Ella Rich.
ardsoD, Mr.. w. w. Palmes, Mrs. Woods
and Director of Education Arthur E.
LiEdborg. The ship sailed on the return
trip at 4 .. m. The last two named re-
turned by her.
The S. S. Catherine is due at Frcderik-
sted on schedule time to-day, having 10
tons of cargo for this island.
st lines of rain was measured at the
Fort this morning.
10 order to meet the public cor venience
as far as possible the postmaster advises
that the New York mail TO go forward
b. the Guiana" will be shut down when
the post Office closes this evening. This
should enable replies to be made to the
mail coming in this afternoon where it is
desirable. The usual mail for the States
by the Catherine" to 90 forward by
the San Juan" from Porto Rico on the
18th will be closed tomorrow at 10 a. m.
as customary.
, 1925-07-11
CONCERT
On the Wharf, Sunday Night
BY THE
Native Brass Band
= =
PR O r NJ

PART |.
March. The Governors Own. Adams
Selection: Bohemian Girl. Arr Al Hayes
Waltz. "Oh How | Miss You To-Night".
............ ...... 49,, Davis
Fox Trot -. Pack Up Your Sins"
And Go To The Devil. Berlin
PART II.
March. Just For Fun. .Simpkins
Serenade Welded Hearts,. Ripley
Fox Trot. ... "Yearning Just For You"
= ...... DAVIS
One Step. 20, Katharina". 49,. Fall
STAR SPANGLED BANNER.
FRED. C. JACKSON,
BGndmdSter.
, 1925-07-11
LOCAL

The U. :. S. Ranger called at this
port yesterday morning and left in the
afternoon for Sc. Thomas.
, 1925-07-11

st lines of rain was measured at the
Fort this morning.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-04-23
Body That Of Woman.
Cult Priestess Jailed
for Burning Sacrifice

Kitchener, Ont.-Anna Reynolds, re-
puted priestess of a cult known as ''the
faith of the holy light" was taken
into custody charged with having pre-
sided over a weird midnight cere-
monial at BluevaIe, Ont, in which ten
hogs were sacrificed as IAN Offering
to devilish spirits"
Constable p. C. 'Whiteside arrested
her on the charge that she was 'in-
sane and dangerous to be at large"
Earl Underwood, who furnished the
hogs and who told authorities he
would do anything ma Reynolds
said to do" was held for questioning.
The woman, a professional nurse,
came from Toronto to the Underwood
farm to attend Mrs. Underwood dur
ing an illness. Underwood's story is
that she ordered him to build a great
pyre of logs. Then she ordered that
ten of the farmers choicest hogs be
trussed upon the pyre. At midnight
the priestess ignited the pyre and as
the blaze mounted she made queer
gestures and uttered strange mean
tations.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-04-23
MAN COMES HOME
ATE BODY WAS
X AS HIS
Corpse Claimed as Father
and Husband ProUes
That of Woman.

New Orleans-The family of Frank
Muller, ST., reported to the police
recently that they were mourning his
death after having buried what they
thought was his body, when he walked
into his home, and hardly had that
mystery been settled when the coro-
ner announced that a body recovered
from the Mississippi river and identi-
fed by one man as his father and by
a wife as her husband was really that
OF a
Frank Muller, Sr., a man of ffty-six
years, had been separated from his
wife for some five years, and when
the body of a man about his age and
bearing papers with the name Frank
Miller was discovered in a gas-flled
room, Muller's son and wife identified
it and gave it burial.
Read of His Funeral.
Muller read of the funeral in the
newspapers and went home to tell the
family he was still alive. The mys-
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-04-23
Mapping Caddy's Head
Used as Golf Tee

Pensacola, Fla.-Use of his head as
a tee sent Johnnie Gates, ~ffteen-year-
old negro caddy at the Pensacola Coun-
try club, to the hospital with a frac-
tured skull.
Play was dull on the curse and
Johnnie was taking a nap. A fellow
caddy. Juggling golf sticks, placed a
ball on his head and after taking a
couple Of healthy swings, drove.
He missed the ball.
Doctors despaired of saving John
MES life.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-04-23

ing. If one would distinguish ones
tailored cloth gown as being Of last
minute creation. be sure to incorpo-
rate large decorative pockets In the
making thereof. In the frock pictured
one observes that the skirt fullness is
achieved through an inverted plat at
the front. This is a method prevail
ing throughout tailordom at present.
Speaking Of cloth street types it is
evident that circular lines are grad
ually coming into favor. The circu-
lar skirt is sewed on to the low waist
line.
AS to suits, the redingote lines vie
with short jacket models. Very smart
il a French version of a mannish red
ingote developed In gray and white
wooden check cloth.
That one touch Of embroidery
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-04-23
SCARF AND TIE MATCH COSTUME;
EMBROIDERED POCKETS POPULAR

MYTH increasing interest French
w c%outuriers are creating smart
tailleurs for their clientele. Particu-
larry are they directing their atten-
ton to the tailored frock this season.
A touch that tells in the effectively
tailored dresses made In Paris" is
the matching scarf and the flowing
necktie. These are not worn as ac-
cessory to the costume, but are an in
trinsic part Of the dress, being made
Of self-material. Smart little flannel
dresses depend entirely on buttons and
a tie Of the cloth for fnesse-and
these are the sort of frocks which
carry Partisan distinction.
There is a fine art written in every
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-04-23
WOMEN NEED SWAMP ROOT

Thousands of women have kidney and
bladder trouble and never suspect it.
Women's' complaints often prove to bt
nothing else but kidney trouble, or the
result of kidney or bladder disease.
If the kidneys are not in a healthy
condition, they may cause the other or
gans to become diseased.
Pain in the back, headache, loss of am,
bition, nervousness, are often times symp-
toms Of kidney trouble.
Don't delay starting treatment. DIR.
Kilmer's Swamp-Root, a physicians pre-
scription, obtained at any drug store,
may be just the remedy needed to over
come such conditions.
Get a medium or large size bottle
Immediately from any drug store.
However, if you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to DR.
Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y, for a
sample bottle. When writing be SURE
and mention this paper.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-04-23

makes the whole frock akin. Is the
sentiment expressed By many Of the
smart cloth modes of the present day.
Embroidery, as used this season, in
terprets not so much dainty hand
stitchery, but rather a handsome type
of machine-wrought landings and indi-
vidual applique effects which impart
a formal aspect Of elegance TO the frock,
coat, tunic or ensemble costume, as the
case may be. The dress trimming coun-
tiers are ~resplendent with intriguing
embroidered motifs and borderings by
the yard, a fact which should espe-
cially appeal to the home dressmaker.
Import costume collections feature a
touch of embroidery here and there on
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-04-23
many HOUSEkEEPERS
! TOO ILL TO WORK
How Many Are Finding Relief from Weakness and
Pain. Mrs. Brandenburg a Notable Case

I took three. I had been treated
by a doctor, but he gave me an iron
tonic and that did not help me- lG
seemed that the tonic did not have In
it what the Vegetable Compound did
That gave me the strength and ambl-
ton / needed and | have gained In
weight. This year before ! started
to clean house / got four bottles of
the Vegetable Compound and am taxi
ing fright along. / tell all my friends
about it and how much good it does
me. They can notice it because have
gained IN weight. / weigh 118 now
and do all my work myself again.
Mrs. EMIL O. BRANDENBURG, 65l
S7th Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Mrs. EarI's Recovery
Horace, Nebraska. I'll had terri
BILE pains and backache, so bad thatI
could hardly move, and / would have
to lie down at times. Tread adver-
tisements of Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound and / was SO
sick that / thought ] would try it. My
husband knew it was good as he knew
a woman it had helped. 1t took all
my pains away and / don't have any
backache now. do my own house
work, take care of a few chickens
and my garden, and have a little girl
| three years old to look out for. ! rec
ommend the Vegetable Compound TO
my friends and | will answer all the
questions / can, if any one writes to
me-" Mrs. ADA EARL Box o.
! Horace, Nebraska.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-04-23
Two Models From Paris.

tailored cloth garments. Revers, col
lars, cuffs. and. pockets, especially car
ry the embroidery note, while indi-
vidual motifs are sometimes judicious-
ly scattered above the hemline.
1t is, however, the embroidered set
on pocket which sounds the leading
decorative note on latess modes.
These pockets range in size from tiny
whimsical motifs to sew on the blouse,
to Imposing designs of such huge di-
mansions, they almost qualify as pan
els. One can buy little applique-em-
broidery pockets, just big enough to
hold a cunning handkerchief. and these
impart a charm to the otherwise strict
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-04-23
One of Them

Dinah was a product of New Or
feans, a big, plump "yaller' gal" who
could cook the finest dinners for
miles around. One day a new butler
appeared upon the scene, and Dinah's
mistress noticed that she took a great
interest in the mar At last her mis-
tress asked:
"Dinah. do you know that new
man?"
Dinah took another long and scru-
tinizing look and then slowly and remi-
n%iscently replied:
well, J. dunno, Miss Alice; but ]
think he was my fust husband!"