The Fort Worth Record and Register (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 277, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 19, 1906 Page: 6 of 12
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.H, H. Roger®, Standard Oil, writes a letter say-
ing he never made a dollar out of the Mutual Life.
No wonder he is willing to get out.
The ranks of frowsy bachelors
Eftsoons will have enrolled him;
No use to tell him how to court;
He couldn’t if you told him.
Oh. Judd, you are a wonder
And nobody can dispute it ,
But I’ve a little horn to toot
And right here’s where I toot it.
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trust and preserve the, beast in the Smithsonian
Institution so that future generations may know
what he looked like.
Tou sing of the lad and law
Who in summertime do their sporting
Sitting on the cool green grass
They do the stunt of courting.
Secretary Taft says he may go to the Philippines.
Perhaps he believes in the adage that distance
lends enchantment to the view.
The man who knows not how to court
in any kind of weather
Should not, come for advice to me.
We can not get together.
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Also Dead.
•That man at the other table is very incon-
sistent.*’
"How so?”
“He is abusing the beef embalmers and at the
same time eating Roquefort cheese.”
For the lover’s the hope of the world;
Each young man. I think, should be girled;
A bachelor’s perfiah.
Self-centered apd selfish!
When bachelor banners are furled
Man won’t think so much of himself.
Nor scramble so wildy for pelf;
God bless all the spooners.
The crooners and mooners,
I’m a lover of lovers myself.
Oh, me! for a hammock that swings
Out, out where the dicky-bird sings;
And something with straws in
To coql my warm jaws in—
It’s queer how one longs tor such things-
I would drink to lovee and lov-er
’Way out where the soft breezes purr;
I would drink to their mooning.
Their crooning and spooning.
While the bumper held out, and nbt stir.
Not for Him.
"I thoght you '«aid that lawyer would get my
father's property for me.”
“Didn’t he get tt for you?”
"No; but he got it.”
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Detroit Free Press
"Why is M that women are wh poor arithmetu
Mr mite can’t add a column of tigures to mave her
the bliss we have earned and work for Humanity as did
Buddha or Christ.
Nirvana does not mean annihilation as some people
have interpreted, but as the Master (Christ) taught when
He said, "The Father and I are one."
It tenches the Brotherhood of Man and lays emphasis
upon that as being the next immediate stage of de-
velopment for mankind.
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rHE- rumr wurH MEUUM1»: THURSDAY MORNING, JULY W, 1906.
Sincere Comptiments.
"Rhe says she hears a great many compltments."
"I guess she does: she's
she made the records herseli
His Facher's Face.
"Just like his father."
"I hadn't noticed It."
"He's got his father's face."
"I don't see the slightest resembiamce."
"Well, he's got his face, all right; he trice to
borrow a five every time he meets ana."
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The Spatters.
"I believe you'll marry the first foot who asks
you
“But you can’t be sure about it until you ask
me."
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tollowine traveling representatives are author
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erroneous refieetton upon the character, stand-
reputation of any person, firm or gorporation
may appear in the columns of Th. Recora wCl
aly bofrctea upon its being brought to th. at-
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at the Poatotfice at Fort Worth as second
matter.
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. Tou call gentle Spring your tuneful lyre.
But of you I'm not complaining;
But tell me how to sport and court
' In all this dad-gum raining.
—Ralph H. Spence.
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“Neither can mine. But she's a corker at subtmaetton
— when A comes to money."
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Pertinent to the situation in Fort Worth, where-
in petitioners are asking for street car tranchises
In new bections of the city, la the following prov-
sfon of the Dallas city charter:
No railroad company, street, steam or other
kind. telephone, telegraph. electric light com-
pany, gas company or company of any kind,
or person or Corporation.. shall ever occupy
the streets or highways of the city of Dallas
for any purpose whatever without first ob-
taining the consent of the city council. evi-
denced by ordinance duly enacted, and no
mere acqutescence or other act or omission
of the city counei or city officers shall be held
to confer by estoppel or indirection such rights
as mentioned herein, and the provisions of
this section shall apply to such rights hereto-
fore and now clalmea and any person, firm or
corporation to whom any such rights or fran-
chises as mentioned above have heretofore
been granted or shall be granted shall pay for
such privilege reasonable and just companaa-
Hon, which shall be regulated and changed
from time to time by the city council as in
their opinion may be reasonable and just
Dallas is wrestling with two applications for
new franchises, one for terminals on the Fair
grounds. Which the city owns, and one for double-
Twenty-four.
What is that you say. dear, you
Twenty-four?
Aren’t skies the same deep blue
As of yore?
Tou are just as sweet to me
At that age as you can be:
Don't think that means "23."
Don't deplore.
Why should poets not say, “Sweet
Twenty-four?
Tour brown eyes look out to greet
Twenty-four
With the same bewitching sheen
That they knew at sweet sixteen.
I Th- only trouble about the plan to lock tip
. voung Thaw in a woony house is the time of the
proposed locking. He should have been there
long ago! 5
Dowie preached Sunday to a handful of follow-
ers. While Vohiva had a big audience. Vollva also
has charge of the Zion cash box.
to about $430,000,000 in our money. The total is di-
vided as tollows:
Individuals ........................................
Firms ................................. 88,576.236
Public corporations............. 145.411,156
Municipalities .......................... 17,114,161
The details furnish an interesting study, showing a
Occasionally the government receives a large windfall
from death duties. I noticed by yesterday's papers that
the will of Sir Charles Tennant of Glasgow had been
filed, which disposes of £2,700,000. The death duties will
be £170,000. Frequently a Mo rich men evade the duties
by transfering their property to their heirs before their
death and thus cheating the government out of Its law-
ful revenue. No less a person than the Duke of West-
minster played this shabby trick, although he was ths
richest man in England and had a great reputation as a
statesman, patriot and philanthropist After his death
it was discovered that he had conveyed to his son and
other children all of his personal property, amounting
to fifty or sixty million of dollars, and although the gov-
ernment went into court to collect the regular death taxes
it was decided that the transfer was legitimate. His ex-
ample In this matter did an infinite amount of harm not
only by suggesting the same method o (evading taxation
to others, but by disturbing the public, faith in men of his
class who are eminent for their integrity.
The Dreyfus case would not down until Justice
was done. Now it will be forgotten.
much greater distribution of wealth than in the United
States, although it is not so great as in France and some
other European countries. The returns show that the
following individuals pay on incomes as follows:
The toast once drunk to the battleship Texas,
the finest ship afloat—when she floats, will have
to be transferred to the Rhode Island now that the
Texas is laid up in the scrap heap. The Rhode
Island appears to have fallen heir to the hoo-doo of
the Texas
One More Unfortunate.
"Jones says he la out for the dust."
“Well, he was getting it when Lpaw him last."
"That so? Much of it?"
“All of it; he was being rolled in Jinx's auto-
mobile."
nojestvensky is to be restored to rank in what is
left of the Russlan navy and put on an advisory
board He will probably advise 'em to keep out of
the way of the Japa
tracking Ervay street. Both improvements seem
to be needed as a matter of public convenience,
and therein lies the difficulty of exacting com-
pensation. People are easily persuaded to grant
valuable concessions in order to obtain a con-
venience, and they do not stop to constder the value
of the concession nor the logical result that one
concession demands another and another until the
concessionaire is so entrenched in the situation
aa to render competition absolutely impracticable
and compensation difficult or impossible of ex-
action. “ ,
In Dallas It is pleaded now that the city should
require only the nominal compensation of it a
year for the Ervay street proposal and look to
the future for getting a real return for the grant
But Commissioner Flanary states the case correctly
in saying:
Tea if you will notice nearly all the fran-
chises now are coming-behind a mask. The
Fair association comes and asks for the ter-
minals because It will benefit them; Ervay
street citizens ask for this because it will give
them better service and help pave their street.
They come before us and if we listen to them
the effect is that we give away all the fran-
chises, Instead of getting what they are worth.
In New Tork they are dying of heat while in
Texas It is not warm enough in the middle of a
E ~Ut.li- campaign to get anybody hot in the collar.
J. M. LEWIS, IN HOUSTON POST.
A Lover.
The world loves a lover. It does;
And it loves the lovoa. dear me suz:
The lovee thinks her lover
is miles up above her. — )
He thinks he’s beneath her. he does:
And the world whizzes round to a tune.
To the love bird's sottissima croon;
Days and nights are spent walking.
And spooning and talking. .
Where waves catch the rays or the moon.
W. E. Curtis in Chicago Record-Herald.
London, July 30.—The income tax returns of Great
Britain and Ireland for 1905 show that nineteen I-
dividuals, 113 firms and 794 corporations report incomes
of more than a quarter of a million dollara Of those
reporting incomes between 3100,000 and 3250.000 there
were 119 individuals. 1.642 firms and 2,540 corporations
Evidently the country is growing in wealth. If the gross
Incomes reported for 1666 be compared with those of
1395. Ten years ago the total gross Incomes of all c la sere
amounted to £657,097,077; last year the total incomes
reported were £>02.766.622. Of this total 6227.746,212
was exempt from taxation for various .reasons: £50.540,-
272 by people who had less than the limit of 6900, where
the tax begins and the balance for other exemptions
made under the law. It is interesting to know that 350,-
000.000 and a little more was exempt because it was
given to charities, hospitals and benevolent societies and
more than 640,000,000 because it waa paid as premiums
on life insurance policies
Individual wealth in Great Britain can be more easily
ascertained than in the United States, because the re-
turns of its eltizene for taxation are believed to be ap-
proximately accurate. The people are used to paying
taxes on their incomes Long years of experience have
made-them accustomed to it and aS a rule they make
honest returns and pay promptly. The present tax is
very large, one shilling for every pound upon incomes
which exceed 2600 in our money.
The total revenue in England and Wales last year
from the income tax was £29,>57,072, or about $145,000.-
000 in our money; from Ireland £1,120.095, from Scot-
land £2,970.657, making total recetpts from that source
for all Great Britain £31,907.926.
This tax is paid by 576,572 persons. firms and corpora-
tions, who report a gross aggregate income for 1905 of
£26.679,239, less lawful exceptions, which is equivalent
Ville acemen were turned loose. It makes s ditter-
MN to the town as well as whose ox is gored.
The alleze BL Louts les trust is now under the
x-ray sf public svestigation. If this thing keeps
Spanish war. There is a death tax in several of our
states, but in none of them is it so high as in England.
Every child or descendant of a child, or father or mother
receiving a legacy over here, is required to pay a tax
of one pound i every hundred pounds, brothers and
sisters and nephews and nieces are required to pay three
pounds in every hundred; uncles and aunts and cousins
five pounds in ovary hundred, and other persons ten
pounds tn every hundred. There is also a rising seal*
in the amount of duty until the legacy reaches £1,00,-
000, when the direct heirs have to pay 9 instead of 1 -
per cent and other indirect or collateral heirs a corres-
ponding sum. For fsfance, if a son or a daughter re-
ceives 2100,000 they have to pay 4 per cent; 6560,000.
6 per cent: 9766,000, 7 per cent and 81,000.000, 9 per
cent. Death duties have been Increasing year by year, as
well as the Income tax Last year the government re-
ceived a revenue of more than 615,000,000 from that
source, or, to be exact, £2,144,999, while ten years ago
the receipts were £2,808,967,
Last year 49,911 estates were settled from which this
revenue was received. There was one estate of more
than 25,600,000. The following table shows the size of
Between the Hartje case In Pittsburg and the
Thaw case in New York there is no dearth of sen-
nationalism these days Notoriety loves a mu-
Honadre so much as death loves a shining mark.
Outline of Theosophy.
Belle Goodwin Fitch In Tomorrow.
Theosophy is not "a" religion but “Religion." Its
motto is, 'There is no religion higher than Truth." An-
cient Wisdom (Theosophy) is the foundation of all re-
ugions.
Theosophy teaches that man is a spirit; that he is Im-
mortal and has always existed; that he is a god in the
making. •
It teaches Reincarnation, the clothing in flesh of the
human spirit again and again tn order that through
experiences only to be so gaimea, the divine possibilities
within the man may be awakened and developed.
It teaches the Law of Karma, the law under which
rebirths are carried on. the law according to which a
man reaps what he sows, so that the dhoughte, desires
and acts of end life go toward the building of the
character with which the man finds himself endowed
In the next life and toward producing the environment in
this life and In that which is to follow: his mental,
emotional and physical equipment In each new life be-
ing in the beginning what he has made it in the past,
but yet being capable of constant improvement or of
deterioration, according to the way he lives Ms life.
It teaches thought-power, its control and culture, thus
indicating how a man may not only improve his own
faculties and his own moral nature, but may also aid
others.
It teaches that we should kill out all desires of a
selfish nature; that we should desire Truth. Lose. Har-
mony. and spiritual knowledge; that we should do good
without thought or rewara or care for consequences; tha4
we should be indifferent to the world's opinion; that wo
should train the “self" so that It will not be swayed by
pleasure or pain. that It will be well balanced; that we
should feel charity for all, but indifference for our own
intfering; that we should help the animals, who are our
younger brothers, for It is through our aid that they
are finally to begin the human stage of their evolution.
It teaches a definite scheme of evolution through a
chain of globes, some of them physical, some super-
physical, which the advancing utewave visits suecesatve-
ly; there being several such chains of globes in the
Solar System, each occupied by one great scheme of
evolution; the Solar System Itself being the manifesta-
tion of a Great Being, the Logas, God, so that, in Htm.
He, however, great as He is, being but one of many mil-
lions in the vast life of the Supreme Lord of the Great
Universe; and He, the Solar Logos too, constantly evolv-
ing toward a life even greater than His, just as we are
evolving toward the richness that at the end of one evo-
luation toward the riehness and fulness of his Lita It
The American Tobacco company, which io the largest
tobacco company in the world, has Issued a formal notice
to its employes located in every state in the Union that
hereafter it will pay a death benefit to the benefictary
of any person in its service who draws not more than
ISO a week to wages. This notice affects about 116.606
men and women. The notice, a copy of which has been
mailed to each employe, provides as follows:
"Upon proof of the death of any person in the em-
ployment of this company who shall have been con-
tinuously In its service for at least one year preceding
his or her death, and whose wages do not at that date
exceed 950 per week, the American Tobacco company
will donate in cash to the person finally designated by
such employe a sum of money equal to the wages paid to
such dead employe by this company during the last
year of his or her life, not exceeding, however, to any
case, the sum of 6506."
The American Tobacco company has plants located in
the following cities and towns: New York, Baltimore,
Richmond, Danville, Newport News, South Boston, Va.;
Durham, Greenville, Henderson, Oxford. Reeky Moun-
tain. Wison, N. C.; New Orleans. Louisville, Owensboro.
Lexington, Maysville, Ky.; St Louis, Middletown. Cin-
ctnnati, O.; Jermey City, Chicago, Philadelphla, Clarks-
rille, Darlington, Timmonsville. S. C.
In addition to the foregoing the company has sales-
men and other employes in practically every important
ctty in the United states, so that there is hardly a town
at any site in the entire country that does not contain a
number of families who will be benefited by this action.
Factory managers throughout the country have sent
reports to the general offices of the company at Ill
Fifth avenue. New York, since the notice was sent out.
saying that the new proposition has been received with
the greatest enthusiasm among the employea Those
who will be benefited by the company's offer include
every kind of employe; the traveling salesmen, of whom
the company employs several thousand, stenographers,
clerks., bookkeepers, Office boys, mechanics, porters,
truckmen, watchmen and common laborers, as well as
the skilled workmen of various classes.
Mr. J. Fletcher, Jr., comptroller of the American To-
bacco company, whose department has charge of the new
benefit plan, has made the following statement:
"The directors of our company have been carefully
Salvador is pointing with pride to the taet that
a young millionaire was killed in her service the
other day. Why not? A millionaire has more
property interests at stake than a poor man and
the same chance for patriotism.
Therefore you may estimate from these returns that
there are about 760 millionaires tn Great Britain; there
are only six or seven in Ireland and eight or nine in
Scotland.
The richest man m England is the Duke of Westmin-
ster, whose wealth is measured at 6200,000.066. Several
South African diamond kings are supposed to be worth
a great deal more, but they pay taxes both here and in
the Transvaal, and their wealth is almost entirely In-
vested in stocks and bonds. Lord Iveagh is credited with
6100.000.060. the Dukes of Devonshire. Buccleuch. Derby
and Bedford and the Marquis of Bute are supposed to
have from 560,000.060 upward; the Duke of Sutherland,
the Marquis of Cadogan and the Duke of Northumber-
land. 545,006,000 each; Lord Armstrong, Lord Masham
and the Duke of Norfolk, the Duke of Portland, the
Baroness Burdett-Coutts and several others, 626.000.060
each, but there is a much larger number of 4 try rich
men in the United States than in England.
There is, of course, a popular impression that mil-
lionaires ovr here do not pay their share of the taxes,
and the salaried citizen, whose income may be known
exactly by the assessors, and who lx therefore, com-
pelled to pay his full share, is always making com-
plaint concerning ths tax dodger. Human nature is
the same the world over, and if you will compare the
personal tax returns in England and those of other
countries they will doubtless be quite as accurate and
quite as honest—probably more so than the lists that
were recently published In the Chicago papers showing
the amounts upon which the rich men of that elty
were taxed. I do not mean to say that the people of
England are any more honest than the people of Chi-
cago or the United States, but any one familiar with
affairs over here will agree with me that they have
greater respect for the law and for civil authority. A
policeman In England is always obeyed; cases of resist-
ance are exceedingly rare, for, although he may be guilty
at an injustice or hts judgment may be defective, the
average citizen regards him, or rather the authority
he represents, with respect and deference and obeys his
commands.
The same is true in the courts There is greater con-
fidence in judicial dectsions in Great Britain than there
is with us. 1 The number at appeals from the judgments
of a lower court le comparatively small, bath In civil and
in criminal cases and It is not too much to say that,
while there are shystera at the British bar and justice
la often trifled with, the average lawyer in criminal cases
is not working entirely to secure the acquittal of bis
client, but to protect him from injustice. Criminal codes
and practices afe regulated for the purpose at protect-
ing the innocent and puntahing the guilty.
President Roomevet has recently suggested a dl vision
at large estates between the heirs and the public, for
which he was severely orielotmed in several guartera There
was a good deni st alarm for fear he would try to get
a legaqg im law pamed auoh • va had during tko
That is precisely the dtuntlon la For Worth.
We have been generous to the Arlington Heights
people in order to let them get into town. Now
they want extensions to the Booth side to give
patrons there a connection to their property with-
out transfer. Next year they will want to ac-
commodate their patrons in the East and the West
We gave the Traction company grants to the Sum-
mit avenue section and to the Third ward tor the
•convenience of patrons. Now the company wants
to further accommdate South alders and Ninth
warders. Next year a new section will be settled
and extension will be required there. And so it
goes from year to year and soon every street in
the city will b granted to make street car com-
panies rich with no return whatever to the cit-
sens beyond the convenience of transportation.
The right thing to do is to stop right where we
are and deny an franchisee without a specific con-
tract for compensation. It will cause a utue
temporary Inconvenience in some sections. But
street car owners and promoters will not be long in
coming to terms. They are not building for the
public's benefit, but for their own profit. They
are not so simple minded as to attar to pay for
what they can get for nothing, but they are not so
shortsighted as to refuse finally to pay a fair price
for what they want
Let it be definitely declared by a preponderating
referendum vote that Fort Worth demands pay
tor her streets and It will not be long before pay
will be offered. A franchise in Fort Worth is a
good thing and street railway builders know it
better than the people seem to know it
Under the Fort Worth charter a petition for a
franchise must be accepted or rejected precisely as
it is presented, and there is only one wise course
for Fort Worth citizens to pursue with respect to
these pending petitions and that is to reject them
outright.
The Record renews Its ruggestton that public
meetings ought to be held and a campaign organ-
ised to defeat these measures, for without active
opposition the personal friends and beneficiaries
of the extensions will easily vote away the people's
property beyond the possibility of recall.
May each year of all your yearn
Twenty-four
Or a hundred, know of tears
Twenty-four:
Thai will be enough so you.
When the sunshine does break through.
Will appreciate the blue—
Evermore.
A Dallas man was hurt riding on a Belton hose
ct A man who Itves In Dallas should under-
stand that Belton is too fast company for him.
May Write a Few.
"Jinx says he’s made a resolution not to tell an
untruth all summer.”
"S’pose he can keep it?"
"Sure! His wife is going to be away until
October."
considering this proposition for several months They
have legrned that the employee at the company are pay- %
ink thousands of dellara every year for Industrial in-
surance- The premiums or assessments of this type of in-
surance are paid in weekly installments and make a more
or less werious drain upon 'the resouree of employes
drawing small or moderate wages. After due considera-
ton the company devised this plan to relieve Ate em-
ployes from the expense of carrying any insurance of this
kind. Of coune we hope that those of our employee
who can afford to do so will carry insurance additional
to our bounty.
“The plan of the paying of the benefit la made as
simple as possible. There is absolutely no red tape of
any kind connected with it. No employe will be called
upon to contribute, directly orndirectly, a single penny
to the fund out of which the benefit win be paid. There
will be no document to be drawn np and signed. All
that the employe will have to do will be to give to the
cashier of the branch or office at or from which he is
employed the name of the beneficiary to whom the
bounty k to be paid. The bounty is not attachable, nor
will it be turned over to his heirs or assigns of the
beneficiary. The reason for this is that the bounty does
not belong to the insured, but to the company, and can
be delivered only to such person as the employe
destgnates by his own free will. In other words. It will
be impossible for anyone other than the person named
by the employe to collect the money.
"We expect that the expense of establishing this
bounty or benefit system will be large, but we believe
that it will be money well invested. It will certahly
greatly benefit our employes, and we believe that it will
have a tendency to keep in our employ the very best close
of working people."
So tar as known, this is the first Instance in which a
corporation has engaged itself to pay death benefits out
of its own treasury.
Other corporations have helped their employee organ-
ise mutual benefit soclettes, and have contributed funds
to that end. Some have sold stock to their employes and
have put into operation dividend plans of one kind or
another, but this is, it is believed, the only case on record
In which a bounty has been granted voluntarily and
freely without payment at any kind on the part of its
employes.
THE RICH DRONES. ~
Toung Joseph Neau Patterson, heir to the
Medin millions accumulated in the Chicago Tri-
bune. lately turned Socialist, made this statement
to Milwaukee the other day:
I am a drone. For the past five months I
have not done a lick of world There is the
point. Some people have been producing
wealth which I have consumed. I can put that
better. Some working people have been de-
priving themselves of the wealth which they
have produced in order that I might live in
’ idleness and luxury.
He takes no thought of (he exceptional genius
• which enabled his grandfather to accumulate these
millions. His phlosophy completely ignores the
element of human nature which the present system
at society recognizes by encouraging talent through
the rewards at wealth. It all men were paid an
equal wage for their labors of whatever sort, there
would be nb Incentive to extraordinary effort and
the race would make little progress in the practical
affairs of life. If men may not excel in achieve-
ment and riches they will not try to excel at all.
And if a man may not be permitted to provide
forthia owrn he will have no motive for saving but
" wm spend as he lives, which is the highway of ex-
travagance and dissipation leading directly to
mental and moral degeneracy.
Greed is another thing, which is to be restrained
and compelled to moderate its excesses, and the
entail of enormous fortunes is a growing peril
But the cure is not the denial of all rewards ant
—-me confiscation of all accumulation.
। The normal man does his best because he sees
the prospect of gain, and he accumulates because
he has the laudable desire to leave his family well
provided. If the law permits him to practice ex-
. tortion. the law should be so altered as to require
tair dealing; and if his accumulation becomes a
menace by inheritance the government may be
com petted to set up limitations. But Socialist
philosophy would wither all talent and arrest all
aerelopment by denying to ambition the things
which alone inspire its effort.
The only sound thought found in young Patter-
•on's statement is the one which he was not con-
sclous’ot presenting, and that is the reminder that
the idleness and dissipation of the rich drones are
persuading men that wealth is a erime. The real
truth is that it is the abuse of wealth and not wealth
itself which is wrong.
The world does not envy, but rather applauds,
the man who makes money by honorable effort
and uses it for something more than selfish enjoy-
ment and dissolute dissipation. But unless we can
establish a different code of money-getting and a
nobler art of money-using. It is all too plain that
we shall presently be confronted with a mad move-
ment to dissipate all wealth and to destroy every
incentive which has made for progress and comfort
’ end enlightenment.
The warring Central Americans are about to
sign a treaty of peace on the high seas. May be
they will be heir seas over before they sign it
SMB a=oap ON SAU. .
The Recore can be found at the news stands and
betel renane rooms as fouows:
In New York: At the Astor House Reading Room.
KI Broadway; at the Hotel Marlborough Reading
Room, Thirty-btxth and Broadway; at the Hotel SL
Denis Reading Room Keventh and Badway. also at
the Hotel Normandle and Empire Hotel, also at
Metal Inca. 256 West Thirty-eighth street
in New Orleana, La.; At the St. Charies Hotel news
stand.
In Chicago: At the Palme Housr news stara ana
at the Great Northern Hotel news staud
In Hot Sprines, Ark.: At the C H Weaver Com-
poor news stand
In Denver, Colo.: At Kendrick Book A Stationery
Cos., and at L Weinteti'*
In Atlanta. Ga: At the Piedmont Hotel
in BL Lotto, Mo.: At the Southern Hotel news
•land and Unite Depot news stand.
Is Salt Lals ct. Utah: At Mra L Lavtns news
■tend.
In Oakland, tW: At X. W Westley's news stand.
JUST A CLOVER BLOSSOM.
Yesterday at the dockyards a passing foot-
man stooped and picked a blossom of red clover,
trifollum pretense, and made the rounds of the
commission houses, proudly exhibiting the pink-
red blossom amid its wharls of tri-cleft leaves.
They brought to many a man born above the line
remembrances of happy childhood days when the
bees were thick among the blossoming clover,
while the lazy kine filled themselves with the
succulent herbage.
To many the blossom had no significance more
than that of a strange genus of plant Ufa They
had been born and nurtured in Texas, and Texas
is not at present the habitant of the red clover.
Why is this? Can It be true that the fertile
soils of Texas, containing In their virgin matrices
all of humus, nitrogen, silica, and potash that goes
to supply abundance of proper food for plants are
deficient in the sustenance that causes Northern
fields to yield lush returns of clover, which In
turn sustains all animal life at its best, and perish-
ing under the plow of the husbandman, re-
fertilises the fields whereon It grew and flourished
in beneficence?
Ask most any Texas farmer why he does not
grow clover and he will tell you with an uplift of
eyebrow that la like a sneer at your intelligence,
that clover cannot be successfully grown in Texas.
Yet before us lies a elover blossom plucked from
a two-year-old stock grown in Fort Worth under
adverse conditions. Th 16 is a case where the old
adage of "the proof of the pudding," etc., comes in.
This particular clover blossom was plucked from
a stock growing on the north side of the horse
barns in a bed of gravel. It has received the full
rays of the hot afternoon suns of Texas for two
years. That it survives is some proof that the
Texas farmer who is unacquainted with elover
should make its acquaintance.
In various places in the stockyards one may
find red clover in fine growth and getting ready
to bloom. The seed was brought there by con-
signments of cattle from the North. It flourishes
under adverse cireumstances, without a proper
seed bed, with no prior preparation of the soil,
and with only such moisture as the rainfall at
Fort Worth may afford. What might it not do
under proper cultivation?
Consult almost any of. the so-called authorities
in agrostology, or the science of growing grass and
he will tell you that the south line of Kansas is
the limit of the growth of clover; yet in Van
Zandt county in Texas can be seen acres of self-
sown trifollum. repens, the common white elover
If white clover can acclimate Itself in Van Zandt
county and flourish, why not In other countlee In
Texas where conditions of soil and rainfall are
not dissimilar?
Just a red clover blossom plucked in the open
at Fort Worth! Here is an opportunity for Texas
farmers of the progressive sort to put on their
thinking caps.
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