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It is certainty inexplicable why Chicago
babies should die when they have been fed
on pickles, sausages and beer.
They call the new hats directoire, the
probable reason being that all they should
have put into the skirt and didn’t has been
made into the hats.
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if a fellow is polite we keep wondering
how much he’s going to touch us for.
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It may be better to have loved and lost
than not to have loved at all, but the place
where the diamond used to sparkle has a
pathetically vacant look.
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are deposited?
That is a question which the Republicans
have not been able to answer, despite their
And so I say, "Well, I Will look
All through my clothes again.
But I just know it isn’t there.
And so I look, and then
"Way in my inside pocket
I find the thing, and how
She fairly dances in her glee.
And says, "‘Tell me it now!”
And then you ought to be where you
Could watch me search myself
With every dig into my clothes
Watched over by an elf
Who scarce can wait who vibrates ’twixt
The poles-of sad and glad.
And who a half a dozen times
Asks me, "Now, did you. dad?”
And when at last the search is done
And none are brought to light.
I straighten out my face and say.
“Nope, I forgot tonight ”
She gives her curls a toss and grabs
And gives my hand a pat.
And getting serious all at once
Says, "Man, don’t tell me that!”
Lord bless the comic supplement
With its vile color schemes.
With its impossibilities
That fairly haunt my dreams
Because of it my babes are glad
And cry out in the gloam,
“Hello, daddy, did you brought
A funny paper home?”
And so I do, and then the babe
Sort of squints up at me
And says. "Does you love baby, dad?”,
I say I do, and she
Wiggling back into my arms
With snuggle quick and glad
Says, ’Tell it overnovernover
To you baby, dad!”
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"And if she laughs at them you know
they are all right?”
“No. when she laughs at them I know
they are all wrong.”
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Local Social Notes.
Mr. R. M. Kelso will return from Mex-
ico next Monday.
Miss Annie Letcher of Dallas to th* guest
of Mrs F. G. Oxsheer.
Miss Virginia Van Zandt has returned
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His Don’t Come Home.
‘The man who wrote •Curses, like chick-
ens, come home to roqzt’—”
"Well?"
“Must have had different neighbors from
J. M. LEWIS IN HOUSTON POST.
The Funny Paper.
Before I get a hug o’ nights, »
Before I get a kiss.
Before I get a love at all
I’m always handed this
By one whose eyes would shame the skies.
Whose hair would scare a comb:
“Hello, daddy, did you brought
A funny paper home?”
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"Have you any original ideas aa to how
a nursery should be furnished?”
" have a first-class idea. but I should
hardly like to claim that it is original.”
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“I think all nurseries should be furnished
with babies."
She Doesn’t Tell.
"‘What is you idea of untold agony?”
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Her Part.
"Do you first try your jokes on your
abuse of ourt injunctions are turning to *
the Democratic party as the only hope of ’
positive rellet. They are acting, not as
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Fashions change even in brides. A Kala-
mazoo bride of 17 years, when her husband
complained of her housekeeping, didn't do
as her mother might—a few tears and back
home—she simply thrashed him so merci-
lessly that the neighbors had to rescue him.
THE FORT WORTH RECORD? WEDNESDAY MORXTXG, SEPTEMBER 2. 1908
”A Chicago man has sued another man
i because he caught his wife kissing him.”
“That’s a bluff
'How so 7"
"He just started that suit to keep the
man she kissed from suing him.”
The state convention passed a resolution
asking all Democrats to vote for the school
amendment in November.—Petty Enter-
4? rise
It Democratic platforms are binding on
Democratic officers they should be equally
binding on Democratic voters, hence the
Democrat who votes against the school tax
amendment will not be in position to criti-
cise a member of the legislature who votes
against platform demands.
There is not a road coming into Lockney
that has not been graded out from three
to fifteen miles, but we want the roads in
such a shape that when a man wants to
come to Lockney he may do so from any
part of the county and not be all day at it—
Lockney Beacon.
This is a pleasing variation from the
mournful dirge the Texas press is chanting
about the condition of roads over Texas.
With such a good start the hope of the
Beacon for good roads to all parts of the
county is in a fair way of realization, and
the prosperity of Lockney will furnish an
example to other and less enterprising com-
munities. Good roads is a business not a
sentimental proposition.
Beware of the multitudinous microbe. It
lurks here, there and everywhere. It finds
a lodgment on everything with which we
may come in contact, and it may find a
lodgment somewhere within our easily de-
ranged systems. Not all microbes are dan-
gerous. however, or else we might find our-
selves overpowered with the numerous ene-
my.—Mansfield Sun.
In the interest of science as well as of
safety, we would like to know if the Mans-
field Sun editor classes the kissing microbe
among the harmless variety.
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Fincher, are not necessarily made or
steel. Some of them wear helmets and
others of them are bougat in pairs at the
shoe store.
Founder of General Federation.
“Jennie June” Croly is the founder of
the General Federation of Women's Clubs,
which dates from 1889—when the first call
was issued for a preliminary meeting by
Mrs. Croly. To her belongs the full credit
for the Idea of making the club movement
a national institution. The invitation had
been sent to ntnety-seven clubs and the
meeting set for the twenty-first anniver-
sary of Sorosis, one of the oldest and most
important of women’s clubs.
Delegates went to New York from Bos-
ton, Bridgeport, Conn., Wichita, Denver,
Knoxville, Fargo, N. D.. Greencastle, Ind.,
Cedar,Rapids, Iowa, Orange. N. J., Wilming-
ton, Delaware.. St. Paul, Worcester. New-
ton. Woburn, Winchester, Melrose, Maiden.
Springfield, in Massachusetts, from San
Francisco, Indianapolis, Philadelphia, Chi-
cago. Buffalo, Pittsburg and from smaller
places in Michigan. Illinois, Wisconsin and
a number of other states. They were all
women of intelligent and genuine person-
ality who had the best good for humanity at
heart.
The exclamation that was made then by
men who saw that gathering of representa-
tive women has been repeated at every state
federation meeting and every biennial con-
vention since: "What charming women!
They move about the platform as if it were
a drawing room."
To the recent biennial convention held
in Boston this summer came some fifteen or
more thousand women from all parts of the
civilized world. In Virginia the state fed-
eration, which has- not been organised a
year, is working as a unit to get a state
library’ commission with good prospects of
success. The Mississippi federation is bend-
ing its energies and that of every one of its
Suv club women toward procuring Letter In-
dustrial and child labor laws.
And in South Carolina the club women
have Introduced the last year three bills
Into their legislature, one providing for a
state library commission, one for the intro-
duction of kindergarten schools as part of
the regular school system, and one for a
state industrial school. The modern wom-
an’s club, however, is not the first feminine
organization. There is record of a "concile
de femmes” organized by the Abbess H1-
trude in May. 1821 A. D.. at Nivelle abbey in
France, and were all ancient history known
many other organisations might come to
light
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pertimemeen takes. --
as to think. Yes, that's quite noticeable
about Mr Harriman.
An Indiana man found a snake in his
trousers leg Didn't know they ever had
such high ambitions.
Probably the sultan to hoping that they
will reduce his wife Us: to one before they
get a chance to begin with the I told you
so game.
The Madam Editor of the Timpson Times
was defeated in her campaign for the elec-
tion of her husband for the legislature.
We sorter regret this.—Gregg County News.
The Madam regrets more her "defeat" in
turning out a batch of good bread because
the "learner” failed to follow instruetions.
—Timpson Times.
If from this we are to infer that the
“learner" is the defeated husband-candi-
date. our sympathies go out to him in
boundless measure. If this thing of wives
putting their defeated husband-candidates
to baking bread become fashionable it
won't be long until there will not be enough
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“A break in the solid South would be a
great blessing for that prosperous section.” •
says the Baltimore American. Not liking
to be under such tremendous obligations to
our friends of the North and East, we sug-
gest that we first be permitted to do them
the’tavor of breaking up the solid Repub-
lican territory.
of the East the action of Sam Gompers to
„ttracting a great host of laboring men.
ri Arhe thrifty want their bank savings in-
s " sured, and the workers who resent the
No, Wu hasn't offended us. The most
conspicuous of his utterances concerned
how to live to be 200, and we are all so
plumb daffy on that subject that we hang
breathless upon the utterances of ths
oriental wizard
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partimans, but as independents, accepting
Democratic promises in good faith and re-
solved to support the party for the direct
benefits to them that Its platform and Its
candidate offer.
Theas general conditions and tendencies
are coming more and more into view every
gay Mon are beginning to speak out.
Every vantor to the doubtful states returns
persuaded that there is a turn in the Ude.
Kansas and Indiana are regarded as more
inclined to Bryan today than to Taft. HH-
I sola and Ohio are rent by Republican fac-
tions and are conceded to be Democratie
fighting ground The Northwest is imbued
' with die spirit at aggressive reform repre-
these pledges should be impressively re-
minded that, as we won our way to victory
under the banner of tariff reform, so our
insistence upon that principto is the condi-
tion of our retention of the people's trust,
and that fealty to party organisation de-
mands the subordination of individual ad-
vantages and wishes and the putting aside
of petty and Ignoble jealousies and bicker-
ings. Where party principle and party integ-
rity are at stake.”
This was strong and emphatic language.
But read further. When the Wilson-Gor-
era
On the whole the business world has no
fear of the Democratie candidate, and even
a negative or indifferent attitude there is
a tremendous gain.
Among producers and, consumers the
Democratic candidate has grown greatly in
favor. Thoge of Republican inclinations
regard Taft as reactionary In comparison
with Roosevelt. They recognise Bryan at
least as one of the reformers of the age,
and they are inolined to support him as
the surest means of carrying on the policies
popularized by Roosevelt.
In the Middle West the farmers and the
Blasers generally are attracted by the Dem-
ocratie proposal for the guarantee of bank
deposits, and that plank in the platform
is undoubtedly winning thousands of In-
dependent votes. In the populous centers
DEMIOCRATIC PROSPECTS BRIGHTEN.
Developments of the last two weeks are
highly encouraging to Democrats in the
presidential contest. Everywhere Mr. Bryan
is showing a strength surprising to the op-
position.
It was feared at the outset of the cam-
paign that the country would regard him as
an tmpossibmity on account of his two
previous defeats, would consider that while
he had lost nothing he had gained nothing,
and consequently fail the third time. Such
an impression is a serious handicap to any
candidate or cause. for there are thousands
of voters so thoughtless as to cast their
ballots the way they think the election is
going.
But from all quarters the news comes
that Mr. Bryan has made material gains
in popular favor. and nowhere is there any
confident expectation, of Taft's election.
Many Republicans declare they will vote tor
Bryan, no Democrat is heard to oppose him,
and the greet class of Independent voters
are studying the situation with an open
mind.
The anti-Bryan prejudice has disap-
peered.
While some manufacturing concerns are
trsing to frighten their employed with the
threat that Taft means full time and Bryan
means distrees, the effort is not so pro-
nounced as it was in 1898. Many other
concerns are holding aloof and a consider-
able number of manufacturers are openly
supporting Bryan. In the circles of "high
finance" the drift is toward Taft for selfish
reasons, but among the great middle class
of merchants and small dealers who were
so largely arrayed against Bryan in 1898
, .And 1999, he now has many’ardent support-
Now for oysters And let’s hope they'll
cabbage are fresh, keep longer and bring
a higher price than those which are handled
by the commission houses.—Godley Ban-
ner.
If the Johnson county cabbage is so
much superior to the kind being handled
by commission houses, why not get busy
and supply the commission houses as well
as the local markets? Consumers want the
best, and the demand is constantly increas-
ing. Here's an opportunity for Johnson
county farmers to diversify with profit
methods of conducting banking. His state-
ment is that "this guaranteeing of deposits
by all national banks would mean nothing
less than that conservatively managed banks
would have to pay the debts of banks which
have been badly or dishonestly managed.”
This argument presupposes that the guar-
antes would inaugurate a system of utter
carelessness, but why should such an idea
be assumed? Bankers even now have a
very accurate idea of what is going on in
other banking houses, and would th* fact
that they were all liable for the losses of
any make them more apt to sit quietly
while careless or dishonest methods wer*
being practiced, they knowing that they
must share a part of the loss thereby in-
curred? It seems scarcely logical. And
furthermore, under the guarantee system
there would be a plan of Inspection and
supervision at least ss thorough as that now
in operation and even greater publicity of
banking operations. Hence, instead of fos-
tering carelessness or rascality, the guar-
antee would lessen it. It k Intended tor
just such control.
Then, as a grand finale to his easily punc-
tured arguments. he takes up the case of
the savings deposits of the country. These
savings throughout the country amount an-
nuanly to $8,500,000,000. "What greater in-
justice," the postmaster general asks, "can
be imagined than that these deposits, sav-
ings from the wages of earners and Indi-
viduals of moderate means, should be taxed
to pay for the losses of mismanaged banks ?”
So to the end he clings to the idea that
banks must, under the new rule, be mis-
managed. That mania aside, it is evident
that Mr. Meyer has lost sight of the fact
that savings'banks are not contemplated in
the guarantee system. They are investment
concerns under state regulation and super-
vision.
But In the bank deposit proposition that
same homely saying which has applied to
so many cases, that the proof of the pudding
is the eating thereof. may be used. And
up in Oklahoma they have eaten from this
bank .deposit pudding. One argument for
the guarantee is that it will make confi-
dence in the banks strong enough to put all
hidden hoarded money in the banks and
thence into the legitimate channels of
trade. In Oklahoma the guarantee system
went Into effect Jan. 4 of this year. In four
months' time 555 banks had availed them-
selves of the provision and 255 had not.
The deposits of those under the provision
had increased 34.237,785.22, and those not
under guarantee had decreased $1,101,-
807.88, making a total increase of bank de-
posits amounting to 33.136,957.38, and this
at a time of financial depression and be-
fore crops had begun to come in.
Amarillo will have a Panhandle fair this
fall. The question is practically settled. It
was settled in a day. Amarillo has reached
a point where it does not take much time
to settle a question lke that of a fair. All
we have to do is to show our people that
we need something and they proceed to
get it. The fair is to be started on a solid
financial basis with a view to making it a
permanent institution.—Daily Panhandle.
Now get busy and collect an exhibit that
will truly show the wonderful rewources of
the Panhandle. Do this and the fellow
with the patent churn, the automatic gate
and all others with things to sell will be
there and exhibit their wares. Texas is big
enough for a half dozen yearly exhibitions
as big as the Fort Worth Livestock Show
and the Dallas Fair, and Amarillo is the
place for one of them.
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his reasons, the perusal of a letter written
to Hon. T. C. Catchings, member of con-
gress from Mississippi, will be most satis-
factory. Aug 27, 1894, he wrote Mr.
Catchings on the subject, and among other
forceful things said:
"I do not claim to be better than the
masses of my party, nor do I wish to avoid
any responsibility which, on account of. the
passage of the law, I ought to bear as a
member of the Democratic organization;
neither will I permit myself to be separated
from my party to such an extent as might
be implied by my veto of tatr legislation,
which, though disappointing, is still charge-
able to Pemocratie effort. But there hre
provisions in this bill which are not in Uns
with honest tariff reform, and it contains
inconsistencies and crudities which ought
not to appear in a tariff law or laws of any
kind. Besides, there were,. as you and I
well know, incidents accompanying the
passage of the bill through congress which
made every sincere reformer unhapppy.
while Influences surrounded it in its latter
stages and interfered with its final con-
struction. which ought not to be recognized
or tolerated in Democratic tariff reform
councils."
In the light of these facte, taken from the
record, will any honest man agree with
Mr. Watterson in his assault upon this peer-
less Democrat, now in his grave?
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etizen who deposits his eavings in the bank
shall be denied a guarantee that itisse-
cure and will be returned to him on de-
mand, no matter under what stress the de-
____ mand be made, when the government, the
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Mercury and Venus are in benefic aspect
with the moon “on this 248th day.
A good time to ask favors, especially be-
fore 2 p. m.
Important letters and other writings may
be undertaken with confidence. Be cau-
tious, however, lest haste cause errors.
Dead this day with writers, printers, ad-
vertisers. orators, ministers, lawyers and
any others whose business is that of mak-
ing public announcements, whether oral or
written.
These twenty-four hours are partleularty
favorable for selecting sohools for children
or sending them for the first time.
Hire young persons, male or female,
either for services at home or in businesa.
Travel for health, business or pleasure.
Start before evening if possible.
A good day for household affairs. In the
kitchen those things should prosper es-
pecially that are connected with liquids.
Courtships, engagements and weddings
are under highly auspicious signs.
In the evening there is good omen over
selling, visiting, seeking amusement and
dueling with persons engaged in supplying
the household.
The indications are that November and
February will prove favorable months for
women with this birthdate They must
take heed to their health. The young will
be wooed or married.
Men with this birthdate will do well to
run no risks with money, especially if it
belongs to others. Their business will de-
mand and repay attention.
Children born this day are under signa
that should imbue them with kindness, gen-
erosity and good wit. Girinwill probably be
more active in mind than" body. Boys will
be quick and clever with a practical mind. ,
How can a fellow go to church imbued
with the proper Christian spirit when a
loose plank has flopped up under his chin
and dislocated two teeth just before enter-
ing the edifice? Echo answers. HOW?—
Wolfe City Sun.
The marvel is that he can go to church
at all A doctor's office would offer more
attractions.
+0 Hon. W. L Wilson • letter in which he
said:
"Every true Democrat and every sincere
tariff reformer knows that this bill in its
present form, and as it will be submitted
to the conference, falls far short of the
consummation for which we have long la-
bored. for which we have surfered defeat
without discouragement, which, in its an-
ticipation. gave us a rallying cry in our
day of triumph and which in its promise
of aocomplishment is so interwoven with
Democratic pledge* and Democratic suc-
cess that our abandonment of the cause or
the principles upon which it rests means
party perfidy and party dishonor."
This last sentence took Arthur Pue Gor-
man poet haste to the White House, and
there and then ensued one of the most re-
markable and stormy interviews. It was
my good fortune, by accident, to be present
at this interview. Mr. Gorman was the
leader in the senate. He had assisted in the
emasculation of the Wilson bill. Other
Democrats, professedly for tarittt reform,
did not want the schedules disturbed on ar-
ticles in which their constituents were in-
terested. They were the people to whom
Mr. Cleveland referred in his letter to
Chancey F. Black when he spoke of "Indi-
vidual advantages and wishes and of ig-
noble jealousies and bickerings."
Mr. Gorman told the President that the
I senators and representatives who stood in
the way of tariff reform were angry at
being accused of "party perfidy and party
dishonor." Mr. Cleveland retorted that he
did not care. He said to Mr. Gorman: .
"You. sir, and I were elected on a plat-
form demanding a revision of the tariff to
a revenue basis, and it is our sworn duty
to redeem the pledge of our party made to
the people, and I do not care how mad they
get so that they redeem that pledge.”
But the pledge was not1 redeemed, as
everyone knows. The Wilson-Gorman bill
as it emerged from the conference commit-
tee was a cowardly makeshift, a sham and
A year ago the New York World asked,
"What is a Democrat?" Nobody answered
and now the World comes out with 'Tm It,"
To the Editor of The Record:
Fort Worth, Sept. 1.—In your issue of
Sunday you reproduce an article from
Henry Watterson, written for the New York
World under the caption o* "Henry Watter-
son Scores the New York Press." Had he
been content to "score the New York pres"
I would not have the audacit to say a
word in criticism. I appreciate that I will
be accused of inordinate egotism in presum-
ing to place a lance tn rest against the re-
doubtable Watterson, but after proceeding
to "score the New York press" he proceeds
to score almost everyone else in a manner,
in my judgment not warranted by the facts
of history
Comparing the aristocracy of slavery in
the South with the aristocracy of money
In the East, he says: "The country had
sixty years of this kind of thing (aris-
tocracy of slavery) under a historic Democ-
racy, which forgot the author of its being
and grew so strong and corrupt that it was
able to make its exit from power the signal
for a bloody war."
probably Henry Watterson is the only
man, living or dead, with the temerity to
have penned these words. James G. Blaine,
as rampant a partisan as. everTived, and
who never entertained or expressed any
sympathy with the South, had the candor
and frankness to say of the South, that
“after sixty years of unbroken and undis-
puted control of the government the smell
of smoke was not found on its garment*.’’
The live jackass also proceeds to kick
the dead lion in the following words:
"Had Mr. Cleveland stood firmly by the
platform on which he was elected in 1892
the Democrats might be in power today,
with a tariff for revenue only settled long
ago, the industries of the country adjusted
to it and everybody satisfied."
This utterance must surprise every per-
son at all familiar with the views of Mr.
Cleveland on the matter of a revision and
reduction of the tariff. The world has not
forgotten and will not forget his unique ac-
tion in devoting an entire message on the '
assembling of congress Dec. 6, 1887, wholly
to this subject This illustrates his sincerity
and earnestness beyond controversy.
In his letter of acceptance of th* nomi-
nation for President, written Sept. 28, 1892,
he says:
"Taritt reform is still our purpose.
Though we oppose the theory that tariff
laws may be passed having for their object
the granting of discriminating and unfair
governmental aid to private venture*, we
wage no exterminating war against any
American interests."
In his inaugural address March 4, 1893,
he says:
"The people of the United States have de-
creed that on this day the control of the
government in its legislative and executive
branches shall be given to a political party
pledged, in the most positive terms, to the
accomplishment of tariff reform.
"The agents they have chosen to carry
out their purposes are bound by their
promises, not less than by the command of
their masters, to devote themselves unre-
mittingly to this servke."
That he strove unremittingly to redeem
the promise made and command given is
known of all men. That he was not sus-
tained by his own party, which wanted to
revise the tariff only where it did not affect
their own constituency and local interests,
j is known of all men.
In a message to congress Dec. 4, 1893.
he said:
“After a hard struggle tariff reform is
before us. Nothing so important claims our
attention, and nothing so clearly presents
Itself as bot an opportunity and a duty.
An opportunity to deserve the gratitude of
our fellow citizens and a duty Imposed upon
us by our oft repeated professions and by
the emphatic mandate of the people."
April 18. 1894, while the Wilson bill was
still pending. Mr. Cleveland. In a letter writ-
ten bn Chauncey F. Black, president of the
National Association of Demoeratio Clubs,
said:
“All who are charged, on behalf of the
Democratic party, with the redemption of
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j Some 'Back Talk
i-
If Navarro county convicts were worked
on the public roads for the next twelve
months the net results would be worth
thousands of dollars. It would not only
save countless thousands to the farmers
whoquse them, but it would also enhance
the value of lands beyond computation.
Why not try it? It has been tried in other
sections of the country and has passed the
i theoretical or experimental stage, but has
been found entirely practicable and very
profitable. Put the convicts on the public
highways.— Dawson Herald.
With Colonel Ike Standifer and Colonel
Louis J Wortham, both of whom have so
long and eloquently pleaded for better
roads, in the next legislature, there is hope
for a road law which will enable the coun-
ties to utilize convict labor in road build-
ings to the very best advantage.
Mrs. W. B. Harrison has returned from
a visit in Sulphur, Okla.
Mrs. B. E. Green is visiting her father
on his ranch near Quanah.
Mrs. James Harrison will return from
Canada Tuesday, Sept 16.
Mrs. W. O. Heffernan is now in Denver,
where she wil spend three weeks.
Mrs. Olive Edrington Scott will return
from Atlantic City. N. J.. Sept 15.
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Paddock have re-
turned from a trip to Mackinac. WIs.
The Arcadians will not meet Thursday
owing to the City Federation meeting.
Misses Madge Hosmer and Bess Womb-
well will return from Colorado next week.
Miss Lucy Quarrels left yesterday for New
York, and from there will sail for England.
Miss Martha Cantey will leave the last
of the week for Washington, where she will
enter school.
Miss Audrey Shelton will leave next Tues-
day for a three weeks’ visit in St. Louls
and Mobile, Al*.
Mrs. V. A. Lecand and Miss Lorena
Murphy are the guests of Mrs. Rowell, 100
St. Louis avenue.
Mrs. W. J. Btnyon. who has been visiting
her son, Mr. H. L Binyon. In Chicago, re-
turned home yesterday.
Mrs. Walter T. Maddox left yesterday feg
a few weeks’ visit with her daughter. Mra
w. E. Billheimer, in Little Rock.
Mrs James Liston Sr. and daughter. Miss
Nellie Liston, and Miss Verna McGrath have
returned from a trip through Mexico.
Misses Elsie Lofton and Mildred Welling-
ton will leave today for Thurber, where
they will be the guests of Mrs. Dan Shaugh-
nessy.
Mrs. Vertner Hayes, Mrs. Mosher. Mrs.
E. B. Hayes and Mrs. Peyton Hunter, all
of Dallas, are the guests of Mrs. George
B. Johnson.
The parliamentary law class of th* Wom-
an’s Shakespeare club will meet Friday
afternoon at 4 o'clock at the residence of
Mrs. S, L. Blount, 709 West Leuda street.
Mrs. George Thompson and son, George,
will leave Thursday for New York and
Boston, and before returning Mrs. Thomp-
son will place her son in th* academy a*
Andover, Mas*.
rented by Roosevelt and Bryan, and there
is good reason to believe that it will decline
to accept Taft. Conditions in th* East are
not yet quits so encouraging, but they are
improving, to say the least, and th* cam-
paign is young yet
The day of his nomination Mr. Bryan was
scarcely more than a possibility; today he
is a decided probability, and if loyal Dem-
ocrats will furnish the money to carry th*
gospel into doubting regions he will be al-
most a certainty.
arguments against ths bank guarantee
plank of the Denver platform They have
in all cases argued beside the point and
have offered, in deference to the universal
demana of th* American people for some
guarantee of th* safety of their bank de-
posits. a thing which in the last analysis
looks more radical than that which they
oppose In the Democratic platform. The
Republicans advocate a government savings
bank. The Republican Barings bank prop-
osition bears about the same relation to the
Democratic guarantee plank that govern-
ment ownership of railroads does to govern-
ment supervision and control through the
interstats commerce law.
Taft has net yet framed a reply to Bryan's
Topeka speech, In which he so strongly and
lucidly argued the guarantee ptoposition,
but Postmaster General Meyer, after a con-
terence at Hot Springs, has been giving
utterance to a number of arguments against
the Democratic plan, which, crude and ab-
surd as they are, represent about the gen-
eral run of Arguments against ths Demo-
cratic measure.
The Democratic plank requires that na-
tional banks “establish a guarantee fund
for the prompt payment of the depositors
of any- insolvent national bank under an
equitable system which shall be available to
all state banking institutions wishing to
make use of IL” in this Mr. Meyer sees all
manner of calamitous results He asserts
that "the guaranteeing proposition compels
the banks to pay unknown sums for future
losses to an unknown amount, and subject
to unknown risks, over which they have
no control." It is simply because future
risks and losses are indeterminate quanti-
ties that there must be protection against
them. If the banker knew just what the
losses and risks would be he could be pre-
pared for them. As a matter of fact, most
at the bank failures tn the country have
resulted from panlee and runs on the bank.
Everybody is seized with terror at the same
time, and in the attempt of each to get
his money before some other fellow gets
his the bank to erippled.
But Mr. Meyer seems to think that the
guarantee would result in wildcat business
methods and loose If not actually dishonest
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