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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26. 190®.
The ma vlth a railroad pass la
CT-ttar the days now.
Denison Is growing in poi>UlatlOg
and her people are prosperous.
When a woman mixes in the.world'b
dijjjornacy there is usually trouble
-fWftlM •
Make a New Year's rcsolvo to keep
calm and do your beat to keep the rec-
ord straight
When ft comes to xenuine merit the
split-log drag leads all other road nab"
Ing contrivances. ; >
The year 1907 can be made the ban-
ner year in Donlson's history. It U
up to the people of Denison.
It Is a whole year before Santa China
comes again and that seems a long
time to many a wen tot.
With all your Christmas celebration
and general Jubilee don't forget the
split-log drag. It does the work.
Indications continue to multiply that
this present session of Congress fa go*
, lng to be one of the warmest In a long
time.
The holiday travel has been heavy
and that Is a pretty good Indlca-
tion that conditions are prosperous
throughout the country.
Senator Forakor is donning his war
paint and tho President Is anything
but a quitter, so there is a good pros-
pect for a beautiful scrap.
Denison needs to bo placed on a
business basis and a commission form
of government will be the means of
doing it if good men are selected to
serve a* commissioners.
This matter of a commission form
of government for Denison should not
be allowed to rest a moment longer
than is actually necessary for the
time at our disposal Is somewhat limit
ed.
In about two weeks now some defi-
nite information should bo forthcom-
ing from Washington as to the loca-
tion of the new federal building and
then the machinery will be set In
motion which will result In Its being
built
The stakes for the new freight, d,e-
pot for the Missouri, Kansas A Texas
have been set. This Is the first atop
toward the construction of the hew
passenger station at the foot of Main
street. If Denison comes through with
fc«r end of the proposition It ought not
to be very long before wqrk is actual-
ly under way on the handsome new
passenger station.
Every man who oven in a slight de-
gree goes into the freight rate situa-
tion and notes what water competi-
tion does f< r places that are In a po-
sition to secure it should be nn ardent
advocate of the improvement of every
interior waterw iy in the country that
i<< susceptible <,f improvement Thoae
•*ho are really in net. Interested in this
matter «i«- ihc producer and the con-
sumer. They are the ones who are
vitally affected and to whom the great-
est benefit accrues.
The government has done too much
work on tli« i'pper Red Hlver to even
consider anything fine hut a continu-
ance^' The work that has been don©
has been effective ho far as it has
gone l/iji p [I1, t |„,.continued or all
t^at has been done will go for naught
A great Klretr-h of territory will be
-inefited by tin reopening of naviga-
tion on thix tiv#• r and It can be dene,
the Herald feels assured, for very
much )e*k than the government has
fpent in Improving rivers of much
less "oris'.quenrie.
added the destruction of the sin
gle line of railway now connecting the
Island with the mainland a disastrous
situation Indeed would havo resulted
Only a few mouths ago fire put the
line out of business for two or three
days and left Galveston isolated. This
Is by far Uxj important a matter to
permit of temporizing or delay. The
Construction of such a causeway as is
needed is going to much time
snd the work shouiJ 1 ■ gotten under
way Just as soon possible. It will
be a necessity Iocs before It Is com-
pleted.
There ha* been indeed a happy
CbrlsUnastide in Denison While mer-
chants In less favored cities have been
complaining of dull trade. Denison
business men have been busy and the
holiday trade has been enormous. The
City Hi remarkably free from destitu-
tion and "dear old Santa Claus' deliv-
eries were perhaps greater than any
preceding periodical visit to this sec-
tion. StOQklngs were generously filled
and h{« path was marked by Joy and
gludness (hat Is found only among a
prosperous and contented people. It
was tudoed a Merry Christmas.
Among the latest government bulle-
tins furnished farmers on the Board
0t Trade mailing list is a very valua-
ble pne treating upon the various
breeds Of dairy cattle, complied by
Henry E. Alvord. former chief of the
daffy division of the Department of
Agtfeulture. This publication is a
wealth of knowledge and should be In
thqrhaiwls of every progressive farmer.
It discusses tho origin, history, charac-
teristics, types and producing records
Of every recognized breed of dairy cat-
tle and is fully illustrated. In the in-
stallment Jttst mailed out are three
more splendid bulletins, "Facts About
Milk," "fbwls; Care and Feeding,"
"Weeds and How to Kill Them." The
Itext Installment to be mailed out will
include the following bulletins: "Op
portunltles In Agriculture," "Modern
Conveniences for the Farm Home,"
The Fecundity of Polaud China and
Duroc Jersey Sows," and some other
publications treating upon the subject
of road Improvement. This feature of
the great work undertaken by the Den-
ison Board of Trade In co-operation
with the government can but result
In ||great good. The educational value
of this plan can not be overestimated
and the expressions heard Indicate
that many are adopting the Improved
methods suggested While this work
of the Bonrd of Trade has no doubti
already been of Incalculable benefit;
future years will show the richest re-
turns in agrlcultsral advancement.
The seeds that aro now being\ sown
will yield a groat harvest in the next
few years.
WITH THE EXCHANGES.
Then another way to stop the car
shortage Is to Improve the waterways
of the country Instead of building bnt-
tleshlps.-'-Fort Worth Record.
That Is also a good way to regulate
freight rates. Points that can secure
water competition cannot afford to
sleep on what Nature has done for
them.
THE COLD, GRAY MORNING AFTER.
GOOD ROADS.
the state. The best Way to go along
all the time is to waste no time com-! „„ ,, : ~ . .
miserating slothful neighbors but to ' « P^O «f f?°°d road" will have
put in all of one's time looking tfter ■«" f solved before a lucrative winter
the progress of home and home town. L'*d" «J \>« "pected by our mer-
chants. Muddy rouds are bars to pros-
—Fort Worth Btar.
With all of which the Herald fully
agrees. The paragraph was written
to bring pointedly before the people of
Denlaon a danger that wan confront-
ing them and as a warning to profit
parity.—McKlnney Courier-Gazette,
Patrons of the rural routes out of
Wills Point have been warned by
Postmaster Pilley that the roads over
which the carriers travel must be kept
in good repair or the routes may be
by the experiences all towns, Denison | discontinued by the postoffice depart,
included, hive had. inent. That the department is in eur-
■ ' nest about this matter and that "no
Many thrifty farmers are buying! fooling" your Uncle Bamuel will
homes in Collin this fall. Owing to 1,0 tolerated it is but necessary to note
tho western crate, land In Collin Ooun her<) «n order from Washington to the
ty has been sold at from $10 to $15 postmaster at Oreenvllle. Texas, or-
less this fall than It has been offered! derlng all six routes at that place dls-
for years. Level headed farmers see i continued after December 31, 1900..
the opportunity to buy this fine land i The order says: "This action Is taken
at these low prices on their own terms' by th" department on account of In-
—some getting ten years at 7 and 8
per cent, In which to pay for It.—Mc-
Klnney . Examiner.
The man whtf buys a farm anywhere
In Texas Just now Is making no mis-
take. The time is fast approaching
tvhen the man who owns a few acres
of Texas soil cai^ look back from his
position of affluence ' and thank his
lucky stars that he had the good
It Is peculiar, hut It Is true Just the
same, that some people manage to get
their greute t happiness by being per-
fectly miserable Terrell Transcript.
If they made no one but themselves
miserable It would not matter so much
but they usually succeed In making
those around them thoroughly unhap-
py. ,
The
matter of « causeway from the
mainland to 'iaii cut on Is receiving the
attention of papers of the state
and of the Texas Kail road Commission
e well This is one of the most seri-
ous propositions eonfrontlng the com-
njerre of th" state today. The South-
west ban had It very forcibly put up
to It what i\ means to havo the pdrt
t Galveston blocked. It has been im-
l*j slble to care ff,r the Immense busi-
ness which has >wired In there d r
tog the past few weeks. If to this |u d
The supporters of Senator Bailey,
as well as his enemies, ure very In-
temperate In denunciation of their op-
ponents. Each thinks all the honesty
and sincerity Is on his side, regardless
of the fact there Is always two sides
to a'question and always room for
honest differences of opinion.—San
Antonio Express.
Intemperate language, criminations
and recriminations, charge and coun-
ter charge intersperse,) with billings-
gate and tommy rot do no good to any
cause nnd thev do not Influence think-
ing men.
The Memphis Commercial Appeal
says the President has said the last
word on the Brownsville affair Not
on your life. Fornker hasn't started
yet and uhon he begins on the negro
question he will he wor-,e than an old
woman with *oi>r operations to talk
about.*— Houston I',,si,
The Indications ;ir,. Foraker's
feathers have been radly ruffled and
he la looking for trouble. As the Pres.
ident never «ldest«ps there is a pros-
pect of a wm ni time on the banks of
the Potomac,
ere Is nothing that will bring the
good roads problem home to the peo-
ple so quickly as loping rural mall de-
livery, And lr the postal authorities
s:ick to that program It Is going to
result in Rroat road improvement In
many portions of Texas.—Fort Worth
Telegram.
difference manifested by patrons as
to the condition r the roads travers-
ed by the routes." If the patrons of
rural routes\out of Wills Point think
for a moment that Uncle Sam Is Jok-
ing about this matter and continue to
neglect the public roads, they, too,
will likely jfun tip against Just such
an order frdm the postoffice depart-
ment. There is only one thing to do
sense to make profitable irtveatment. jmatter—keep the roads in good
Port Worth Record repair or suffer a discontinuance of
Putting money Into Texas dirt Is | chronic™" •erV,<*'~Wttl8 Polnt
better than putting It in the bank.
Texas lands are bound to enhance lu
value and they cannot run away.
ABOUT DENISON.
Denison U bleating over a newly
born Jersey calf which boasts of two
tails, one In the usual place and an-
anotber between the shoulders. No
files on that calf, and probably never
will be.—Austin Tribune.
That calf with the bifurcated caudal
appendage ts the net result of so much
agitation of the "split-log drag" In the
Denison papers. Nature spilt the calf's
narrative In deference to popular* de-
mand.—Fort Worth Telegram.
HERALD ECHOES.
If the great prosperity which has
been so rampant for several years in
this country should take a backset,
what wlil probably be the result?—
Laredo Times.
A deluge—as the water Is squeezed
frcm the securities and inflated val-
ues.—Denison Herald.
To which allow the Times to add,
that there Is no danger of the news-
paper boys being caught in that kind
of a "squeeie."—Laredo Times.
Denison is one of the most talked
of towns In the whole Southwest and
the reason for It Is that she is doing
things that count for her material ad-
vancement and her future looks bright
with promise.—Denison Herald.
Denison, the last time we were in
It. which was about two months ago,
looked to us like a city. It had out-
grown Its township age. We had not
been there before for several years
and we were amazed at tho wonderful
progress made In that Comparatively
short space of time.—San Antonio Kx.
press.
There nre to-vn -
miles from Denis,
not over a hundred
n that in the past,
passed up proposition* which would
have Insured th-ir future, and they
lost immea .ui-eat.lv hv ao doing. They
see their mistake now, when It Is too
tate.^-Denison Herald.
Quite true. But why talk about, your
neighbors? How many times has
Denison, with lt her civic pride and
enterprise, neglected opportunities for
advancement? Kven Fort Worth
Mlleh set- the pace for the liveliest
towns in the southwest, now and then
dVCflOOks an opportunity to success-
fully inaugurate an enterprise which
a It had be n looke.l afH,r an,j put
tat© operation, would have been of lm.
mouse benefit to the community and
All the literature on the good roads
question nnd all the experiments, cost,
ly as they are< which have been made
In this city, have not resulted In giv-
ing this city a good macadam.—San
Antonio Light.
BLE88ING IN DISGUISE.
It is astonishing but true that what
at first blush seems to be a dire ca-
lamity will often prove In time to be a
blessing in disguise. In the language
of the faithful, It Is a strange divinity
that Bhaiies our ends, and God moves
In mysterious ways His wonders to
perform. The boll weevil la an exam-
ple. Prof. Galloway, the government
doctor, says that as a result of the Im.
proved methods of farming brought
about by the necessity of coping with
the pest larger yields of cottOn have
been secured in seme sections of the
state than ever before.—Cisco Round-
up.
As a matter of fact, the most of the
things that men look upon as calami-
ties are but blessings of the highest
order. But the trouble Is. men cannot
see the blessings In them at first
glance. There are a whole lot of peo-
ple in this world who are absolutely
blind anyhow. They have eyes all
right, but about the . only good their
eyes do them Is to indicate when it Is
sun-up and when It Is dark. Take, for
instance, the boll weevil. More than
one planter put' in a cotton crop and
then went away and left It. to shift for
itself, only to find along In the fall that
the boll weevil had, been busier in It
have been ordered discontinued hv the ',,inn he h,m«*'f had, and he Immedl-
because of the condition >tP,y 8pt np n howl bout th<?! cahUntty
^baTls the most fore" I " hich h«" overtaken him. It didn't do
b[e good roads argument that has ever n"y ""rh ,h,n* What he thought was
! ^ tn the neonle llvlne ! R ca'amlty mereiy let bim alone and
TL rS r^ds hbriS e t "ot '« done flilpt To overcome
? °n® T- thai The Herald th" bo ^'H's habits of Industry the
much surprised f'"-mer has been compelled to be J me-,
whnt Industrious himself, and he la
also required to use his powers of per-
ception. with the result that he gets
better cotton If he plants It earlier,
cares for It better and uses due dill-
tlon
Is going to be very
If this action on the part of the gov-
ernment does not result In some p.vid
road work In Hunt County. This
ought also to be an object lesson to
other sections.—Denison Herald.
deal to the
Record.
The farmer owes a great
boll weevil.—Fort Worth
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
An Argument t* the preface to a
County people who are ao very
ferent on the good roads subject.-
Tyler Courier.
It Is not pleasant to be the horrible
example but we mlatake very much
if the action of the government does
not tend to make roads better, not only quarrel.
in Hunt County, but In other conn- j To err Is human—to lie about it Is
ties as well. We feel sure Horn ex- more human. -
preasiona of our people that the rural Is Indeed a busy man who can
route roads will be put. Into permu-1 never find time tb find fault.
nent good condition and the mail ?er-I r.irls are fond df attention; married
vice be restored. In the meantime, | women are fond of contention.
every county in Texas will be wise to a r,ch mM || unable to ofMr
look after the improvement of their , nnythlng better than a poor excuse,
rural route roads.-—Greenville Banner, j The more sunshine there is In some
That Is the proper spirit of brother-1 men's lives the less hay they make,
hood and true humility. Our woes' it's usually the man who hssn't
have not been visited upon us In vain • much money who wants people to
If through our suffering others may think he has a lot.
be benefited. It Is a beautiful sent!- Frosl Is on the pumpkin, the fodder s
ment and almost as virtuous in Its j in the shock, and soon the plumbers
beneficent results as * split-log drag. ijfamiMecJwUl, kgock, knock, knock —
—Fort Worth Record. [Chicago News. ,*
ALL SOBT8.
m®®sxsm
Mr Bont i- tin under the nuto:
My Konnl'! under the car.
WVaVTml to th* . *°m?
lonfuom* ^VaahiriSU.nemar.
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The country grocer was Issuing ln-
sTKctions to his new assistant a lad
of 9 years. "It's only by looking
closely after the trifles," said the pro-
prietor, '"that a profit, can be mads in
these days . of close competition."
"Yesslr," came from the boy. "For
example," continued the grocer, when
you pick the flltjs -out of the sugar
don't throw them away. Put them
.amoug the currants.' —Kansas City
Star.
Jack London, the well known novel-
ist. has a great affection for children.
In San Francisco there are two twin
sisters, littlo girls of 6 years, of whom
Mr. London Is very fond.
On the way to his boat one morning,
Mr. London met one of the twins.
He stooped and shook her hand.
"Good morning, my dear," he said.
"And which of the twins aro you?"
The little girl answered gravely:
"I'm the one what's out walkln'."—
Exchange. i ~
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Jules Dupree, the French artist, who
recently found In Miss Constance
Learning of Wolf, Mont., the Ideal
beauty whom he has set out to search
the world for, was talking about Am-
erica.
"I have been much Impressed In
America." he said, "with the dashing
strength of your baggage handlers, or
baggage smashers, as you justly call
them.
"In Washington, one day, I pointed
out to a baggage smasher, a rather
frail grip sack
"Ts that grip sack strong enough,'
I asked, 'to go In the baggage car?'
" 'I'll see,' « id tho man. 'j
"He lifted the grip high above his
head and threw it cn tho ground with
all his might
"'That,' he ?nid, 'Is what she'll get
In Philadelphia."
"He took It up again, and banged It
against the side of a car four or five
times.
'"That Is what she'll get in Chi-
cago,' he went, on.
"He tossed it high In the air and
on Its descent Jumped on It, breaking
the lock open this time, so that the
contents were scattered over the plat-
form.
" 'Aud that's what she'll get In Slottx
City,' he concluded. 'You'd better take
her In the Pullman with you. bosB, If
you're going farther than Sioux City."'
•—New Orleans States.
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Dr. Stephen H. Roblln, pastor of
the Columbus Avenue Unlversallst
Church. Boston, was calling on an old
ladv, one of his parishioners, before
going away on his summer vacation,
when his church Is always closed. The
old lady evidently does not believe In
ministerial vacations, for she said:
'^Doctor, remember satan never takes
a vacation." "My dear madam," an-
swered the doctor, "I never did believe
In Imitating satan."—Kansas City
Star. V
• * •
It Is related of General Sterling
Price that iie once stopped at a hum-
ble cabin in Missouri and asked for
supper. The good wife of the house
was thrown Into a flutter of excite-
ment over entertaining her distin-
guished guest, and profuse with apolo-
gies for not very tempting menu, con-
sisting of corn dodgers, boiled collards
nnd wheat coffee sweetened with sor.
ghum. The hungry officer ate heart-
ily of the coarse food, but not relish-
ing the oversweet coffee, passed his
cup saying: "Not quite so much mo-
lasses, please." "The idee!" gasped
the loyal hostess. "Catch me sklmpin*
yoyr sweetln'!"—as she tilted the mo-
lasses Jug upward while amber ropes
of "sweetenln'" overflowed cup and
saucer and threatened disaster to the
spotless homespun cloth. "Why,"
(enthusiastically) "that coffee would
be none too good for General Price If
'twas all molasses!"—Kansas City
8tar.
• •
A boy walked into a drug store last
night and asked the clerk for a piece
of candy.
"I ain't got any money," he said,
"but my mother's an awful good cus-
tomer here and I do all the buying."
"What does she buy?" the clerk ask-
ed.
"Postage stamps. She buys four or
five every day. Yestiddy I got twen-
ty-two cents' worth for her."
The clerk handed the boy a stick of
candy. "You certainly are a good
customer," he said.—Kansas City
Star.
• • •
D. H. Morris, the president of the
Automobile Club of America, has on
hla handsome Long Island estate one
of tho finest chicken farms In the
world.
At a dinner in New York Mr. Morris,
In response to some compliments on
tho success of his farm and on his
knowledge of chickens, said with a
laugh:
"And yet I was Ignorant of chickens
a few years a^ti—as a farmer on his
first visit to New York was ignorant
of city ways.
" 'Everything was fine,' this farmer
said, when he got back home from
New York. 'Everything was fine ex-
cept the light burning in my room all
night long—a thing I ain't used to,
and I couldn't sleep on account of It.'
"'Well. HI, why didn't you blow It
put?' said his wife.
"'Blow It out? How could I?' said
the farmer. 'The blame thlttg Was In-
side a bottle.' "—Exchange.
• * *
Tho Rev. Frederick B. Brldgman,
the noted and successful missionary
to the Zulus, was talking In Philadel-
phia about missionary work. "Much
depends upon the character of the
people one work* among," he said,
"and I can sympathise a little with
the1 missionary who returned heme
from China in a despondent mood. A
Chinese convert stole this mission-
ary's watch and then came back to
him the next morning to learn how
to wind It up ."-Kansas City Star. "
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HEEALDS DAILY BTOBY
HUNCHBACK
Douglas
(Copyright
In the year 1805 there landed in Lon-
don from New Zealand a hunchback
named George Melville, aged twenty-
four. He was not only a hunchback,
but there was a cast In one eye, he
was almost bald, and bis voice was aa
harsh aa a raven's.
IIow Melville became possessed of a
large sum of money was another mat-
ter that was never fully explained. His
arrival In London was one of the most
brasen things a man ever did. He had
a dozen forged letters, and, giving out
that ha waa Immensely wealthy, he
rented a Urge house and Installed him-
self and began to mingle in society.
He was called "delightfully eccentric,"
his gross Ignorance was termed "pic-
turesque," and inside of a month he
bad the run of three or four clubs and
had been taken up by society.
He determined to marry. Perhaps
he fell In love, perhaps not. At any
rote, he selected the daughter of a
member of parliament and made love
to her so fast that she was swept oft
her feet and gave him her hand.
A certain widow not yet thirty years
of age had set her cap for Melville,
and when she had made sure that she
had lost him she determined on re-
venge. She had a cousin who was an
officer in a certain regiment then sta-
tioned lu Englaud, uud she knew he
had served In Now Zealand. She went
to him for information, and the cat
was soon out of the bag. Captain Bur-
ton bad read and beard of the million-
aire hunchback, but owing to illness
had not met blin. He had never met
any one of that name, but when asked
to set his memory at work he recalled
a certain incident Ten years previous
while on a hunting expedition on the
Ashley river, on the east coast of New
Zealand, be had trouble with a squat-
ter and his son. The latter was a
hunchback and had shot at bim.
The captain had little Idea that the
millionaire and the squatter's son were
one and the same, but be took his
chances that they were. He threw
himself In the way of the man and at
once identitied him, both by bis voice
and his deformity. Forty years ago
New Zealand was a long way off
from England. There was no cable,
few steamships, aud letters took
months to go and come. Their Idea
was to expose the man at once. The
captain mads up his mind to bluff him
down In bis own bouse. He would
either compel bim to leave London or
expose bim. The officer did not figure
that the hunchback would attempt to
strike back, but went almost at once
and secured an Interview. He was
graciously received, and he felt that
be bad made no mistake In the Identi-
fication. The boy of fifteen who had
bcild a rifle within ten feet of his head,
finger on the trigger and eyes blazing,
had simply fceaaejEen years older and
changed his d|ki
lonable clothing.
itisrr dress for fash-
THE RURAL MAIL SERVICE.
The growth of the rural mail ser-
vice has been phenomenal in this
country since its establishment a very
few years ago. The importance of
the service has grown along with its
extension until now no populous com-
munity Is considered up to date unless
its inhabitants are afforded a daily
mail service. The advantages of the
service have been recounted a thou-
sand times, but it is a question wheth-
er those enjoying them fully realize
them. Only In the event of their dis-
continuance would a sense of their
full value to the farmer be felt They
eliminate distance; they afford daily
papers and periodicals with the latest
market quotations and enable the far-
mer to get the best prices for his pro-
ducts at all times. In short, they
make rural life attractive, profitable
and enviable.
The annual report of Fourth Assist-
ant Postmaster General DeOraw
shows that ten years ago there were
eighty-three rural mall carriers; there
was an appropriation of $40,000 for
the service, and the expenditures were
less than $15,000. In June, 1906, there
were 35,000 carriers; there had been
appropriated $25,828,300, and then
there was an expenditure of $24,7^5,-
256 for the service. There are bow
39,166 carriers and an estimate for an
appropriation of $29,675,000 has been
made. The report points out that the
conditions under which the rural car-
rier lives makes bis expenses heavier
than In other branches of the service,
and a substantial Increase in the pay
of rural carriers Is recommended.
That It should be allowed few will
deny. The rural carrier has many
things peculiar to his own occupation
with which to contend about which
city carriers know nothing.
Theoretically, the rural carrier has
good roads over which to travel and
his rounds ahould be made without
personal discomfiture. But as a mat-
ter of fact the roads along some of
the routes which these faithful ser-
vants of the people travel are mere
memories of a track once trodden,
with now and then a new mud hole
thrown In by way of diversification.
It Is true that incidental to the estab-
llshment of rural mail service a great
improvement In country roads has
been made. It has developed a pride
for good roads In many localities
which has resulted In splendid high-
ways, and a corresponding Increase In
tangible values on adjacent real es-
tate. in many sections of the country
the local authorities have expended
many thousand dollars in road im-
provement*. and the good work still
goes on.
It Is one of the prime requirements
of the department that the roads over
which the rural carriers trgvei must
be kept In good repair bj the com-
munities through which they pas*;
and* the geperal endeavor on the part
that the so can
MellvlUe also recognized the ot «
This the Utter had not counted on
gave not the least slg,, howeveT
captain had plenty of moral a
and as soon as he could bring it .<
he boldly charged MellvlUe with
an impostor. His charges were i
with smiles. Instead of being off?
ed, the hunchback said that he v
only too gUd that the officer had co
to him. If there was ths
doubt In the mind of any one t
aoubt must be set at rest He 'wo
welcome the fullest and closest Im
tlgatlon. If Captain Barton would
ut a certain hour next day, a birth
tlflcate, title deeds to lands, letv
from prominent people, and so fa
and so forth, would be pUcsd bef
him. The New ZeaUnder would
have preeent a banker and two pr
Inent merchants to vouch for hlml
his faro ft hems. J
What we are the most cerialn of
the very thing we can be tripped]
on. Let the man who has lived at 1
Blank street be told that tke num|
Is 268 and that the other will bet
10 to 1 and be can be bluffed out.
Is too sure to bo sure. The too sj
witness U spoiling cases In court
ery day In the year. The captain
sure and not sure, and the result
that he was soon wishing be had
meddled with the case. He had m
his charge, however, and must
through with the affair. He was at 1
house at the appointed hour and tl
found two respectable leokiug men
were Introduced to him as the
chants spoken of. On the table
many papers, and tho hunchback
plained tbat the banker was expe
every moment. While the four wo
it was only natural that the
should be passed around. All
talkative and friendly, and all dr
Then one of the merchants began]
talk about an adventure he had
with the natives of New Zealand,
captain was following him clod
When all at once he lost tho run of
remark^). Then the room began I
dance around with him. Then whq
began to turn In his bead, and he
consciousness.
The wine had been drugged. It
two days later when the cuptaln tx\
In the hospital, but it was a full i
before he recovered his speech
could tell his story. The drug act«_,
paralyse bis tongue, and Its effects i
not pass awsy for long weeks. r
police'were put ou the trail of
hunchback, but his bouse had '
closed and be had disappeared,
weeks later his misshapen body
washed ashore In the Bristol char
and It had been robbed and the pock
turned inside out He had confe
ates, and when the game was up
he was a fugitive be was probi
thrown overboard from some steamd
M. QUAr
of the farmers has been to con
with the requirements.
It is a lamentable fact, ho\
that small attention has been pkid
this requirement In other sections.!
Texas the roads are woefully deflcj
In those elements of permane
which insure a continuation of
mall service, and there Is no tel|
when some of the communities
going to wake up and find that
only way to get their mall Is to J
foot" across the country and fete
themselves. The Texas roads,
rule, nre not good. They receive IB
or no attention, and good roads dol
grow—they must be made. The ir
office department has Its eye on
condition of the roads in this stj
and something Is going to be d^
If It is not road improvement. It
be abandonment of the rural
routes. Residents along rural rolj
may make up their minds to
Already the government has
menced the work of abandoning
as routes, and It Is not tho part of!
tlce to counsel any false sense oB
curity about other routes. The fr
era are in front of a condition, an
Is up to them to work out their a
tlon. It is a sad commentary on
state that Just now as the eyes of
whole country are upon her with!
boasted opportunities, her devfl
ments and her wealth, that the
ernment Is abandoning rural rc
because df the condition of the ro
Other people know how easy It
make apd maintain good roads '
they once get at It. But the poU
to get at It. Right now Is the
to set about to save your rural
(route.—Fort Worth Record.
, Elaborate Process.
^Knlcker—Why did you tie
string around your finger°
Boeker—To remind me to forgo
waiter.—New York Sun.
ACROSS A TABLE FOR TWC
SHE. ,
If 2 were but a country lass
And you a country lad.
1 wonder if the looking
Would tem to make us saar
I wonder If I'd be a frlslit
And if your Sunday trousers mi«n
Be barney at the knees;
I wonder if you'd « y them ther
And come with hayseeds in your "
Make mine au Sratln Pl^"-^
I wonder what they d ««y *ho n
Tbo chance to see us pa" -iaA
U you were but a country 144
And 1 a country las*.
HK.
if you Wefe but a country l s*
And I a country lad. -lwel
You'd have no clsret ,fa yoffi *
To help to make >'£!' / */utd' tie f
Upon your piatena^M * wid
And pwople rtlght T "
Were not worth , fa
But there *ouM be no ^
No waiter to be "PPf,that!
Vou hu.t not thought *
I'll In) $« to the bud
For what has come t® l
I wish t were a eoiin r> !*
^ yoU *£ord-He
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