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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-09
Ruth'S Suspension

* GORGE HERMAN RUTH relies the sympathy
y of the baseball public in his protest against Mil
~ Ter Higgins action in filming and suspending him.
But his declaration that he would never play again
under Higgins management indicated that the big
player is trying to live up to his title, Babe"
Ever since he attained fame, Ruth has been a
spoiled boy. He the best batsman the game has
ever and of the most colorful figures but he
had to be in the imeght to be at his best He thought
little of the rules and regulations governing players In
brief Ruth was infante enough to consider himself
greater than the game This his great folly Base
ball could get along without Ruth, but Ruth cannot get
along without baseball.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-09
Remembrance Roads

I'm ENGLAND the other day road of remem-
| brance" was dedicated.
It was lined with trees, each planted in mem
DRY of some local man who had died in the war.
Remembrance roads that keep alive the ideals for
which the heroes of the fought fill needed place.
In time of peace these ideals need their champions
as well as in time of war.
Whatever helps keep these ideals in mind is an
aid in this direction.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-09

How long can you hold your
breath?
At a recent convention of tuber
culosis experts, one of the speak
ers called attention to an old test
of health. This doctor said: BUS
mess men and others who have not
the ability to hold their breath for
at least thirty seconds after taking
a deep breath, should go and see a
doctor at once"
1t is surprising how little atten-
ton we give the breathing. For
years 1 have preached the i'm
portance of deep breathing. There
cannot be proper assimilation of
food without an abundance Of
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-09
ONCE LOVERS
Why Jealousy Is An Admission of Weakness
Or Inferiority.
By J. j. MUNDY
Copyright 1875 International Feature Service. Ineorporat

You are jealods Of some other
man or woman and yet you can
picture to yourself many ways
in which you are superior to your
supposed rival.
Did you ever think that your con-
fessed jealousy is a proof that you
feel a weakness in some way when
this person is around?
You do not feel jealous Of an in
ferior.
The person who has outrun you
has something you do not possess.
1t may not be ability but at any
rate the one who is getting ahead
where you would like to shine, at
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-09
WAYSIDE WISDOM
What Is the Future Bringing?
By S. E. KISER

The torture the dyspeptic, feels
Is something that shall disappear,
For science will concoct our meals
Correctly in some future year.
Diseases will be put to rout
And youth will linger with US
long;
Who doubts that evils will decrease,
That crime will end and war will
cease,
That righteousness will follow
wrong?
Great things the future has in store,
Things that we cannot now fore.
see;
There is no limit any more
To be applied to what may be.
But one thing may be truly said,
Whatever progress may be made:
It's mighty good to be alive
And young in 1925,
To see the charms that are dis
played.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-09

least knows how to use n lesser
ability to greater advantage.
Perhaps you are just too indolent
TO make the necessary effort.
You are always trying to get by
with as little personal effort as
possible and this laziness is the
cause Of your jealous pangs.
You want to get something for
nothing.
Perhaps if you would put forth
the concentrated effort to get TO
the top you might out-distance all
in the field.
Instead you feel the sharp sting
Of a jealous disposition.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-09

The future may be bringing things
Undreamed Of now by you and
me;
The humblest worker may have
wings
In 1915 A. d.
Instead of riding forth on wheels
And dreading punctures by the
way,
The lover and his lady love
May learn ere long to float above
The clouds that make a gloomy
day.
Great things are coming. Who can
doubt
That further progress will be
made
Soon grandma will be soaring out
Above the landscape, unafraid.
The little boys will fly to school;
Commuters, ceasing to pay fare,
Will kiss their lovely wives good-by
And read their papers as they fly
Across a suburb here and there.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-09
Wasted Letters

tn R. FRANK VIZETELEY estimates that 100000,
| j 900 a year would be saved if publishers Of
- America would omit the silent letters from words
in the English language This calculation includes the
cost of paper ink postage, printing and composing and
the wear and tear machinery. By establishing the
language on phonetic foundation the photographer
contends that the silence of the unsounded letters
be made golden indeed.
But why pick the printed word, when all the
world knows the terrific cost of the useless spoken
words? Wise legislation has been talked to death by
foolish legislators Many marriage has been ruined by
loquacity. Dr. Vizetely's estimate of S10O,O0OOOO to
be saved on letters is tfle against the value of the
infinite amount of time wasted by unnecessary speech
Nine out of ten words spoken in a lifetime I'M
necessary-and the tenth is often of doubtful worth.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-09
YE TOWNE GOSSIP .,Kc:s:

UNTIL I got home:
THAT WHEN | smiled.
ON MY faces left side.
MY FACES right side.
DIDN'T SMILE at all.
ALTHOUGH I was sure.
THAT ALL the time.
MY FACES left side.
WAS BEING dragged over.
-
TIL THE front of my face.
HAD APPROACHED a position.
BELOW MY right ear.
AND WHEN ! reached home.
IN A taxicab.
=
AND SAID to the driver.
you MAY keep the change
] COULD only say it.
WITH HALE Of my mouth.
AND HE gave me the change.
AND ANYWAY.
WHAT I want to say.
is ! don't think it's right.
FOR ANY dentist.
TO TURN a man loose.
UNTIL HE has fixed it.
so THAT the mans face.
is RIGHT in the middle.
OF THE front Of his head.
IN THE same position.
AND THE came condition.
AS WHEN he came in.
THANK you.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-09

1t is a clever aphorism expressing
the doctrine of perseverance. "a
few years ago very few people knew
what an aphorism is bue the cross
word puzzle craze has enlightened
the whole country
Going day and night is the true
secret Of success. 1t is likewise the
secret Of happiness, which is the
very height Of success. Plod on, plod
ever! Let the Nurmis laughingly
pass you by. You will never see
the same Nurmi running past you
whom you saw running past you
fifteen years before.
Going day and nigh. is also the
secret Of ambition-it's very main
spring. Only those are truly ambi-
tious who are willing To go day and
nigh. in the same direction. 1t Is
easy to desire something. But am
bition is infinitely more than de-
sire. It is the Willingness 10 90 DAY
and night toward steadfast goal.
The laggard will say. But I must
rest. ! must Sleep" True, the fesl
is weak even though the spirit be
willing. And our bodies must rest
and must sleep. Put the mind never
tires. The more you think, the more
you want to think. And it is only
the thinker who accomplishcs.
The laggard mistakes the wear
iress Of the flesI for the WEAKNESS
Of the mind. Many a man, worrying
his soul over the condition Of his
business affairs or his finances or
his legal or social or domestic en-
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-09

The worlds first subway was
built by the pouched rat of Central
America. This queer rodent digs
long tunnels. which run along about
a foot below the surface Of the
ground. The rat does its excayat-
ing in searching for the tender roots
Of plants. By this constant bur-
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-09
FREAKS OF NATURE
Pouched Rat.

rowing, the creature undermines
large area of ground during n sea-
son. Furthermore, it digs a large
subterranean chamber for itself,
connecting with the tunnels. An
automobile or wagon passing over the
home of a pouched rat might easily
crash down into tho rats parlor.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-09
Bucolic Press

Decreasing passenger traffic be-
tween Hawaii and Far East would
make upholstery unpaying PROPOSE
ton were it not for cherries.
&Honolulu Oh. j. Nippy Mil
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-09

A TOOTH I'd had.
FOR QUITE some time.
SEEMED TO make up it's MIND:
1T HAD done as much.
AS 1T ought to do:
AND THE other night.
1T STARTED TO ache.
AND KEPT it UP.
AND DAWN came on.
AND BREAKFAST time.
AND STILL it achcd.
AND I went downtown.
TO MY dentist friend.
AND HE took a needle.
AND WHENEVER he found.
4 NICE soft place.
HE DROVE it in.
AND FINALLY.
ONE SIDE Of my face.
WAS PARALYZED.
FROM WHATEVER it was.
HE SHOT into me.
AND FIRST thing l knew.
MY TOOTH was out.
AND 4 few minutes after.
HE TURNED me loose.
WITH ONE side Of my face.
NOT WORKING at all.
AND met n woman.
KNEW quite well.
AND bowed and smiled.
AND ! didn't know.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-09

corned beef hash is awarded the crown.
In contest between scores of professional and
amateur American cooks before United States Senator
Royal S. Copeland and two women experts corned beet
hash was declared the most deectable and the best
cooked dish. Corned beef and cabbage was close
runnerup but had to take second place, with fiet de
sole and chicken fricassee in third and fourth places
AS preliminary to the contest more than five
thousand recipes had been submitted to the judges
appointed by the United States Restaurant Association
and from these fifteen selected The judges tasted
of each of the dishes cooked and their decision was
based appearance and aroma, as well as taste and
flavor.
The standard dishes cooked in the contest had pre-
viousy been voted the most popular in citywide ballot
of restaurant patrons.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-09
Daily Good Deed

Don't growl If a child picks your
flowers occasionally. Children and
flowers 90 together, as Gods best
handiWork.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-09
Something to Think About
The Camel and the Mind.
By BRUNO LESSING

Engagements. imagines that he is
thinking. He merely keeps on re-
volving an endless rigmarole OF
debts and credits, which is very
fatiguing. But it is not really think
ing. 1t is hardly ever constructive.
1t is, usually nothing more than sell
fish calculation.
But thinking, real thinking, upon
all sorts of fine and interesting and
important and uplifting subjects,
never wearies. II is thinking alone
which carries you along the road to
success.
You mind is your camel. Do not
worry how slowly it travels. But
keep it going day and night.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-09

The Persian poet Sadi in his
famous Gulistan. which means Rose
Garden, says something like this:
"Ush tur ahista mirawad shah
wa roz."
We do not vouch for the accuracy
Of this quotation because our knowl-
edge Of Persian is quite limited, be-
ing largely confined to rugs. But the
translation of this passage, accord
ing to a famous oriental scholar, is
worthy of attention:
THE camel goes slowly but goes
day and night
There you have a bit Of oriental
philosophy worth thinking about
even if you do not recognize it in
the original.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-09
Hash Wins the Grown

|" HE popular vote that corned beef and cabbage IS
the best American dish is rudely overthrow, and
Il corned beef hash is awarded the crown.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-07-23
Duty of Literature

That the world is "seething with
scoundrels of both sexes" is true. HUI
man nature Is imperfect, and therefore
1t would be s,sange to see on earth
none but the righteous. To believe
that it Is the duty of literature to dig
out "pearls" from the heap of scoun-
drels is to reject literature itself. Fic-
ton is called artistic because it draws
life as it actually is. Its aim is absO-
lutte and honest truth. To narrow it's
function to the special task of digging
for ''pearls" is just as deadly for 1t
as If you were to make Levitan paint
tree and ordered him not to include
the dirty bark nor the yellow leaves.
From the Life and Letters of Anton
Tchekkov." by S. S. Kobeliansky and
Philip Tomlinson.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-07-23
NelO Proposition to
I Make Desert Useful

The suggestion was made recently
chat the Sahara might become the
greatest power-station in the world by
Che utilization of the heat of it's count.
less miles of burning sand.
This is new idea in the way OF
making the desert useful but when we
iemember how electrical power is OBJ
tafned from water, as in the case of
Niagara, and even from the wind, this
latest suggestion cannot be dismissed
4s impractlcable.
I 1t Is certainly unlikely that the
deserts of the world will be permitted
to remain indefinitely as they are at
present. New territory is constantly
being opened up in the search for new
sources of food and raw materials, the
latest development in this direction be-
ing a plan for making the French pos
sessions in the Sudan into great
cotton growing and cattle-raising coun-
Try. .~.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-07-23

come prematurefy old from the drudg.
cry of the days labor-bringing up ba-
bies, tending gardens. making mats
and pottery. Their dress consists of
a fringe of hemp-fiber; or, where the
white mans influence has penetrated,
of skirt of calico, called ..lava-iava."
The figures on the imported cloth &C.
casionally suggest new designs for or
naments or pottery made by a native
artist, who adapts them to his own
best needs BY the help of sling
thrown over her shoulder, a young
mother from the island of Malatta car
ries with ease her sturdy, healthy ba-
bies, one on each hip. Though un-
clothed. they wear necklaces and ank-
lets. Children are usually carried In
this fashion until. they are three or old
er, despite their weight. Like the men,
woman prepares for the delights of
smoking in some chance hour of rest
by tucking her clay pipe and perhaps
her tobacco and matchbox into the
pocket formed by her tight armlet.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-07-23
Dilemma the Result
of Higher Education

A visitor to Farmer Hayseed's farm
was greatly astOnished to see the poor
old fellow hobbling around on pair
of clutches. Having rendered his re-
grets at seeing him thus, the visitor
inquired as to how the accident hap
pened.
WELL" replied old Hayseed, 'it's
like this, sent my boys to college and
had one trained as a lawyer and the
other as a DOCTOR Here he shifted
his crutch.
You should be very proud Of Them
answered the stranger, wondering
what this information might have to do
with the farmers disabled leg.
II don't know about that, said the
aged agriculturist; sit looks as though
1t was a-goin' to break up the family.
I got run into by motor, and one Of
'em wants to cure me and the other
wants me to go lame so that he can
sue the car owner for damages"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-07-23
Brifoin's Constitution

The constitution of Great Britain,
many of whose principles form the
foundations of about every free con-
stitufion in the world. is an accumu-
lation >of statutes. customs and de-
cisiuns The Magma Charta. granted
in 1915 by King John, Smay be regard
ed as starting point. Other salient
features are the Petition of Rights
and the Declaration of Rights, the Ha-
beas Corpus act, the Act of Settlement,
the franchise laws, the practices and
customs respecting the responsibility
Of government The sovereign would
accept or decline gifts of small value
or Of no political significance, accord
ing to his own wish or judgment; but
a gift of very considerable value would
not be accepted without the advice
and consent of the ministry.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-07-23
Cedars of Lebanon
Famed for Centuries

The cedar of Lebanon is native il
Syria, Asia, Palestine and the island
Of Cyprus 1t usually grows in the
mountains at elevations of 1000 and
6,4OO feet above SEA level. These trees
famous from early times in sacred
and profane writings, are large, orna-
mental evergreens with widespread.
ing branches. They are noted for the
size of their trunks rather than for
their height as many people suppose.
Until the outbreak of the World
war one of the original groves men
toned in the Bible was still stand
ing at the head Of Kedisha valley
near the ancient Lebanon. This last
remnant of the cedar forests so often
referred to in the Old Testament was
visited by the English botanist Hook
er in 1860.
He found about 375 trees growing
in nine groups. Five Of the oldest
trees measured thirty feet or over
around the girth. Hooker estimated
them to be about $500 years old.
Some Of the younger trees were esti-
mated at 100 years
Many of these survivals Of antiquity
were destroyed during the great war
In ancient days the white gum which
oozes from the trunks and branches
OF these cedars was used for embalm-
1ng.-Pathfinder Magazine.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-07-23

trance, and his one Question ;,
you a preacher" Long AGO IS Are
Greeley, with his usual wb, So Horace
angelic ast smile, stood at that pot ue and
You can't come In be sue,
claimed the guard. mere! ex,
why not?" queried Greeley IA,
. Because you are cIerrym "utaOly.
Ihe HI / am" blurteS a"a an
ley. 'eu out Gree.
e, Excuse me, sir" stammera0 ),
guard, come right in" the
III was not prejudice apaf,st -,
men that caused Stephen Girs" ,ersy'
make that law, but rather hi ,u to
mat the boys should not be con uesire
Dy denominational controvers, FUSED
tnat Non their entrance into "a. and
lie they may adopt such r.,, svtlVe
fenets as their matured reason 'slOus
enable them to prefer"-Ca,l nm, may
day In American Mutual Magazine aOili'
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-07-23
Lotin America

France, Spain, Italy and Portugal
are known as Latin countries, because
they were Influenced by the Roman
civilization and language more than
the other countries of Europe. They
speak what are known as the Romance
languages. Since South and Central
America were settled chiefly by the
Spanish and Portuguese, they are
called Latin America. Rumania, the
french part of Belgium and the Ital-
fan and French parts of Switzerland
were also affected by ancient Rome
In the same manner as the other coun-
tries named.-Exchange
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-07-23
Explaining the Boo,f.r.

One thing l can't understand :.
marked Jones to his neighbor, Sm,, -
as they walked home one eyenin. 60 si
what has happened TO all the hooS.. y
that used 10 infest this town" sm,s
laughed. That's easy to explain" i ~.
replied, Its like this. All the hoo. Ne
ers who haven't sold their real est 1a,
have bought some" ''a'e
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-07-23
Gold Beating Done as
If Was Centuries Ac<

For 80 centuries gold leaf has been
made In one way AID the yellow metal
that Is used on store windows and
eface doors is identical with that which
auded the throne of Pharaoh.
Small crumbs of gold placed be-
ssyeen layers Of parchment, called gold
tsaters' skins, were beaten intermin-
silly with mallets. AS the gold spread
upder the blows I. --as cut, put be-
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-07-23
When Greeley Proved
He Was No Minister

Most people know Girard college, if
they know 1t at all, for its stringent
rule that no clergyman shall ever en-
ter its gate. Whenever the institution
Is open a guard stands at that en-
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-07-23

tween more skins and 1aboriousiy bext
en- again for days and weeks until of-
grain Of the precious metal, weighing
about one five-hundredth of an ounce.
became an almost impalpable sheet OF
40 square inches. The cost of the
labor greatly outweighed the cost Of
the gold, says the New York Herald
Tribune.
Electro-chemistry has now entered
the field and new process recently
Invented promises to make gold leaf
far less expensive. Upon ribbon OF
thin silver film of gold is electrically
deposited from solution Of gold and
potassium cyanide. The silver ribbon
with the gold on it's upper side, is thee
laid upon a celluloid band and I'm
mersed In q BAT, OF r,..-, SGD. This
eats away - .:cf is later
recovered, and r.-.>.e :, che gold leaf on
the celluloid band. There 1t is washed
in alcohol and the warm air from cleo
trio fans blows the gold leaf from the
celluloid and slides it between pro-
tecting leaves Of paper.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-07-23
Women of Solomon
/. ds Fade Early

In their " me women of the
Solomon islai. . :, e slender and grace
full. However they are like certain
flowers, they blossom early and very
soon fade. They marry sometimes be-
fore they are in their teens and be-
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-07-23

Red Double-lip Mason rubbers,
8 dozen ............. %
Improved Mason rubbers, 8 doz. %
Economy lids, doz %
Mason lids, doz. ....... %
Ball Ideal glass tops, doz. $500. 1s
Improved Mason glass top, doz. 1s
Parowax, ID. .......... 1s
Best pure cider vinegar, gal. s.. SO
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-07-23
Picking Time

Why right filling and crocs There
bers and previous and have the
will need also dill weed best vinegar fruit and
3-gaL crooks,
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1925-07-03
Ancient Spy System Foreign to
America, Declares Cong. Celler

fingerprinted cards Of Identification
with photographs affixed. We are
told that the honest citizen can get
his card for 81. The crook, however,
as the system is worked in South
America, can not get one; without a
card, we are told, he can not get en-
ployment. 1t seems to me that under
these circumstances he would rob all
the more diligently, because he could
lot get means of subsistence by
work"
In answer to the claim that the reg
istration system would prevent snug
Cling or "bootlegging" of aliens, Con-
gresham Celler says these advo-
Gates are enthusiastically misguid-
ed"
"Registration of aliens has always
been utterly foreign to u.s." said Mr..
Celler. at would give rise to an es-
pionage that would be as remorseless
as it would be cruel. 1t would be
barking back to the European spy
system.
"We have had sad experiences with
previous attempts to register aliens.
1t was the enforcement of the alien
and sedition laws by the Federalist
party under President Adams, bacl,
in 1900, that swept the federalists
from power and gave rise to the Dem
ocratic-Republican party and the con-
sequent election of Thomas Jeffer-
SON."
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1925-07-03
Jap PrOpagandists
Opposed by Unions

San Francisco, Cal-The state fed
GRAFTON of labor appropriated $3.50 to
aid the California joint immigration
committee in its campaign against
the propaganda to modify the exclu
sion feature of the immigration act
so as to meet the demands of Japan.
The immigration committee func-
tions for four state organizations
the state federation of labor, the
state grange, the American legion
and the native sons of the golden
west.
The committee is showing that the
protest made by Japan and the
friends of that nation in this country
is based largely on a misconception
of the facts and the reason which
induced action by congress.