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# SHORT SNAPPERS. The "Razor bee" opens at Austin tomorrow. Has the good government club frazzled out? It may require an X rays to discover the missing sinking fund. The Mexican small-pox brick should be taken off the free list. Peters said either I or the other fellow has lied. Now, which was it. Monterey brick has proved to be a fraud. Make Mr. Gray a present of one of the best and tell him to git. The Sifter says: "It was a most heroic act to marry a mother-in-law." The A. P. A.'s claim between 400 and 600 active members in San Antonio. It takes brains, independence and back-bone to make a grand-juryman. As the summer approaches there will be an advance in rates for water and ice. What has our vice-mayor been doing all this time, the sewer muddle has been going on? A premium will be paid by the LIGHT to the candidate who first publishes his announcement. The San Angelo Standard says, it has invested in a new office towel and the devil is happy. A vote of want of confidence has been taken by the people about the sewers and other things. It is too bad that we got mixed up with the sewers in the late election, said an Elmendorf man. To cut down the big fees of the officers,-means ruin and defeat of the democratic party in Texas. The big tourist hotel is a popular fad, but a big market house is a public necessity in San Antonio. What has become of all the money put into the contribution box at the Alamo to build a monument? At Palestine, the home of Pap Reagan, they have a turn table to keep the cows out of the court-house. The sewers would have been well built and nearly finished if Mayor Elmendorf had not fallen in love with Hindry. Can't the city suspend Mr. Gray's salary during the injunction trial. Gray has got us into this muddle. "His word is as good as his bond is an old chestnut in this fast age. The per centage is only about one in a thousand. It is strongly hinted that the city will not be able to collect one dollar from the bondsmen of the sewer contract. Its the people who have to suffer, not the mayor and alderman, if the court decides in favor of the sewer contractor. The Big Six has so demoralized the democratic party in Bexar county they can't even support a democratic newspaper. The failure of the Maverick bank dissipated the $10,000 donation for an Alamo monument, but we need no monument but the Alamo. A man has no right to appeal to the public to support "home industries" so long as he persists in voting the democratic free trade ticket. Should the contractor's forfeit or throw up their contract, on the sewers, you can bet your loose change they will not lose much on the deal. It is too much money to pay Mr. Gray, $450 per month, to play peek-a-boo with Engineer Pancoast. No wonder our sewers are a failure. Several of the Houston contingent go to Austin tomorrow as delegates,-while several who voted for Noonan, are tacked on as "alternates." He swore Peters to tell the truth before the investigating committee, but omitted to swear the other fellows; what Peters testified to goes. Mayor Elmendorf was greatly enamored with Hindry because he woore a dirty shirt and a paper collar. The people are paying for our mayor's love-sickness. If the water company is violating its contract, as alleged, in over charging the private consumer-does it not become the duty of mayor and council to look into the matter. "Atchison Globe: "Every time a woman gets a letter from a country relative, she has to go the rounds of the dry goods stores