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HUMOR AND PHILOSOPHY.
Springs country.
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There is a reason—ask the man.
markets to take freely of our
Under such
balance of trade in our
Judging from the magnificent special edi-
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ers’ union, but it will be impossible for him
to ever retire from the position of esteem
in which he is held by thousands of his
countrymen.
John Mitchel! has formally retired from
the oftice of president of the Mine Work-
When the national reunion of the Elks
convenes in Dallas the people will behold
a herd that will browse with delight upon
the bounding hills of the imperial state.
reader of great ability. Though Miss Down-
ing has not perfected arrangements, she
is outlining a very novl and entertaining
the foreign
products.
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At the present time the prospects were
never better for a heavy crop of fruits and
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So let business prosper
Or be dull and slow.
Let the politicians
Run their three-ring show,
Let the war clouds rumble
And let empires fall
While we watch the terrors
Play ball.
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terpie
However, it is hardly more than natural
that a cold wave should accompany that
Indiana convention.
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For Defense Sake.
If Harry Thaw had dodged the law
And left his past still hazy.
The wrist he’d slap of any chap
Who’d say that he was crazy’.
Strict Utility.
"Does he play any musical instrument?"
"Just the bucksaw."
Schoolboys in their jumpers.
Youngsters scarce of age.
Business men of forty,
Grandsires gray and sage,
Stand around in bunches
Waiting for the call
From the umpire haughty,
"Play ball!"
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Give Them Time.
The ladles of the Edelweiss club have not
by any means abandoned their efforts to
secure a first-class town clock for McKin-
ney, to be placed in the courthouse tower.
Some sweet day that*town clock is going
to tick —McKinney Courier-Gazette.
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Can’t Get Away From It.
The experience of mankind from time
Immemorial has been that, in spite of al!
legislation, it has always required labor and
effort tn make a living in this world.—
Laredo Times.
i visible Sunday from the rostrum;
: know how many could see the preacher.
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Keep the Girls at Home.
Wonder what is going to happen when
one of the big hats strikes the narrow pass-
age on entering a Pullman car?—Denison
Herald.
circumstances the
favor naturally in-
of figures which
vegetables in the) Big
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COUNTRY.
Domestic trade conditions in this coun-
try are not dependent upon the amount of
transactions done with foreign countries,
for it has often been demonstrated that the
. tion of the Big Springs Herald. In which
i this announcement is made, the prospects
for the Big Springs and Howard county
' advancement are not surpassed by any
| other town or locality in Texas.
Alberta Barnett of Boston.
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One Success.
"Perpetual motion is regarded by all
scientists as an impossible dream."
"Is that so?"
"Yes; the patent office will not even con-
sider inventions on that order."
"But you 10 cents there is a patent c n the
gas meter."
Cream one-half cup of butter, graduaally
add one cup of sugar and cream well, add
one-half cup of milk, a small quantity at a
time, beating the mixture thoroughly; then
add two level cups of flour sifted with two
rounding teaspoons of baking powder, then
the whites of four eggs beaten until very
light; flavor with half teasponful of lemon,
one-half teaspoonful of vanilla; beat well,
bake in one deep pan thirty-five minutes or
in two shallow pans for twenty or twenty-
five minutes* owing to the depth of the
pens. If the marshmallow filling is used it
is better to bake the cake in the two pans.
For filling cook two cups of granulated su-
gar and one-half cup of water until it
strings from a fork when* tested; pour over
the well beaten whites of three eggs, beat
well, add one dozen marshmallows to the
egg and sirup while, hot and beat until they
are dissolved; let cool, beating occasionally;
place between layers and on top of cake,
then place the whole marshmallows on the
top so that one marshmalldw may be on
each slice of the cake.
For Her Sake.
"Here is a new invention. Nobody but a
man would have thought of it."
"What is it?" “
"A pocket in a stocking."
which should, be spread for the
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Pert Paragraphs.
Popularity depends upon being all thing,
to all men and tome women
When marriage is a grand, sweet song It
is necessarily a duet—never a solo.
The advent of another fellow soon makes
a young man make up his mind whether he
is really in love or only fooling
it often happens that it is when we don’t
think what we say that we say what we
really mean.
It always seems that by some strange per-
verslon of nature that the things that we
don’t want are mostly the kind that we are
habitually getting.
As long as there is a bit of unexplored
territory on the face of the earth fairyland
la not entirely an imposstomity. ~
it some of us did not feel) great pride in
our imperfection, we would have small
chance of ever feeling proud.
Give a man rope enough and he will hang
himself, but give him plenty of water and
he will seldom jump in.
A scolding woman la certainly very try-
ing. but it often happens that she scolds
because she has a husband who isn’t.
The reason why some of us wear such a
haggard and heartbroken look is because
we are striving so hard to do what the ris-
ing generation expects of us
The attitude of th. rinine generation
seems to be that if the earth was not made
for them it would better be made over at
once.
A 12-year-old boy in New York died
while saving his little brother from being
crushed under the wheels of a trolley car.
Carnegie may get a little advertising out
of the Incident by giving the child’s parent,
his mneome tor a couple of hours.
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ne Eiewina tw.ce, eprzsauvutnt: wit
e ieeipt ter ueneriptaost.ana ! K ao * 0.
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Batora lH.Rhodes,R.H.Kingbur-_.----
Tendency to Broaden Shoulders.
There is a notable tendency in some of
the spring models to broaden the shoulders.
This effect is obtained by caps and other
motifs. •
Evidence is also seen that Parisian houses
are’trying to restore the drooping shoulder
of the second empire models. Every ex-
hibit of gowns shows one or more costume®
with the sleeve eut in one with the body of
the coat. As this style is suitable to few
figures only, it will not claim many follow-
ers.
Many New York, London and Paris
houses are showing boleros Some of the
Paris houses, however, have none in their
stocks. This little conceit is a peculiar
favorite with the American woman, being
suitable to the climate and moreover be-
coming. •
Many smart models are seen in the new
skirts. One is built in a most attractive
manner, with half-inch tucks running to
just below the hip line. Around the bottom
run four bias bands of the same width of
the tucks.
Another skirt has eight large box plaits,
the jacket in the back being under one of
the plaits. At the knges a full plaiting ap-
pears peeping from the edge of the bog
plaits. Five deep folds of linen run around
the bottom of the skirt, and the entire ef-
fect is extremely full and graceful.
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been for the benefit of the railroads, as the
increased earnings of the roads for the
first few months afterethe reduced rates
went into operation clearly show. Ths
equalization of freight rates has been the
result of friendly negotiation between the
railroads themselves and the business or-
ganizations. The wiping out of the free
pass abuse has meant a saving of thousands
of dollars to the railroads, and the prompt
collection of claims for overcharges and
the Cemand that the physical properties be
kept in better condition can by no possible
interpretation be regarded as a hardship.
On its very face there has been nothing
in Georgia to justify this period of depres-
sion, and the same is largely if not entirely
true in other states.
We must therefore look further and
deeper to find the cause, and, as usual, we
find the fine Italian hand of the pampered
few into whose control have fallen billions
of dollars. They have long since held ths
issues of life and death, and when they
finally saw an opportunity to demoralize
the country in order to shake off the whole
dynasty of governmental control, they did
not hesitate to do so.
That it was one of the infamies of ths
age cannot be doubted, but that it W\S
done there is still less doubt, and every day
brings confirmation of the fact.
Fortunately for the present and the fu-
ture of the country, two factors are now
at work against them. One is the revival
of prosperity in spite of “their machinations,
and the ether is the fact that their deliber-
ate purpose has been unmasked. The whole
duty of the hour is to bring about a return
of prosperity, but in the meantime it is just
as well to keep in mind just who it was who
contrived this artificial panic for their own
selfish purposes.
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Where Women Excel.
In a spelling contest at Whitesboro the
ladies were spelled down by the men, two
men being on the floor when the last lady
went down. The men of Whitesboro have
something they can boast of for a long time
to come, for it is rare, indeed, that a spell-
ing contest between men and women results
in a victory tor the men— Denison Herald.
In many of the larger places the ladles
are voluntarily removing their hats in
i church. It’s Just like a woman to accept a
' suggestion like that rather than interfere
with another’s comfort, and I anticipate a
general "crusade." Not many faces were
prayerful consideration of patriotic people
all over the land Observant citizens have
long been satisfled that something is wrong
with the economic conditions in this coun-
try. They are unable to determine why, in
a country whose resources are productive
of constantly increasing wealth, it is so easy
for the country to be thrown into a state
of apparently abject poverty, and they can-
not be made to believe that such conditions
as revealed by Senator La Follette ean pos-
sibly be brought about. Yet Senator La
Follette produces the figures, and no one
hauhdertaken to deny their authenticity.
It is the fashion nowadays to measure all
national influences by alleged facts and sat-
isfactory figures. Questionable policies are
excused by proudly pointing to •’our mag-
nificent commercial development," plati-
tudes take the place of arguments, and
statesmanship is a quality that is too fre-
quently considered to be of little conse-
quence. The day of Webster, when such a
speech as that delivered by Senator La Fol-
lette would have set the country by the ears,
has passed. It takes a Bailey to attain to
the eloquence which harks back to that day,
and, unfortunately, there are too few like
him. Senator La Follette deals in cold cal-
culations. He demonstrates that the allied
Morgan and Standard Oil banks which en-
gage largely in speculative investments
rather than in commercial banking and are
large promoters in the watered stock busi-
ness, are to be the chief beneficiaries un-
der the provisions of the Aldrich bill. In
this, however, he is but voicing a suspicion
that has always existed.
The most startling feature of his address
is the revelation of the vast extent to which
these interests already control both the
financial and industrial affairs of the coun-
Any man can smile while the pleasures
of the world are being heaped upon him,
but it takes a real man to smie and re-
tain his cheerfulness under risfortune.
The man who does his best at all times will
sooner or later come into the suecess which
crowns the efforts of the true. The leader
of a forlorn hope may lose the battle and
his life may be given up to his country, yet
the memory of his deed will be an inspira-
tion to future generations to perform the
duties God has appointed them to fulfill.
We have known men to slowly succumb to
the ravages of an incurable disease, their
bodies racked by fierce pain, who cheer-
fully bore their misfortunes and left a
bright memory in the hearts of their friends
which caused them to live so that their
going would leave a joy at having been
found faithful.—Teague Tribune.
There’s a whole lot in the way people
view life. The selfish man takes a rosy
view of life so long as things come his way,
and he smiles after the same fashion that
a hyena smiles when he discovers a grave,
but such a man will yowl like a coyote when
adversity overtakes him, and his smile does
not amount to much. The man who makes
the best of the circumstances of life as
they come and don’t think he is the whole
kingpin of the universe is the true philos-
opher.
Another one' of the meat pleasing signs
of the times is the energy with which the
people in many of the towns of the state
are building sidewalk*
Coming Close to it.
It is understood that Walter Wellman
claims the distinction of having discovered
Mr. Fairbanks. Quite likely. We all know
that Mr. Wellman was hunting the North
Pole.—El Paso Times.
(Duncan M. Smith In Nashville American.)
The Only Game.
Clear the deck for action.
Wipe the diamond dry,
Give the rooters notice
That the time is nigh.
Dust the grandstand benches.
Bleachers overhaul.
For the message strident
"Rlay ball!"
Every dingy office
Feels the coming thrill;
Men who wield the hammer,
Men who push the quill.
Men who count their millions,
Men with Incomes small.
Listen for the signal.
"Play ball!"
Observing the Rosy Hue.
It takes a blind Iman to have the blues
in this city now. Anybody that can se is
compelled to be happy at the splendid pros-
pects.—Gainesville Messenger.
tnited States can virtually cease buying
abroad and at the same time increase its
own exports. Expenses can be curbed and
revenue, increased In a manner incompre-
hensible to other nations where different
conamions prevail, and while thia isbeing
done domestic conditions remain tranquil.
The financial flurry of last winter demon-
strated the ability of the United States to
curtail purchases abroad while compelling
Productive Soil.
The rich soil of Collin county is adapted
to the growth of anything. Some of the
early settlers state that it will even grow
down on a wagon togue or hair on the bald-
est pate.— cina Record.
from Howard county he will tell you that
the soil and climate here are so vecullarly
adapted to such culture that a full failure
1 has never been recorded in the known his-
; tory of the country.—Big Springs Herald.
Local Social Notes.
ers J. T. Blake is entertaining Mrs 8 8.
Hall of Dallas.
The Sana Panel club will give a dance
at Imperial hall tonight.
Miss Lucille Pendleton of Temple is the
guest of Miss Edna Pendleton.
Mrs. Willamette B. Dapiels has as her
guest Mrs. E. W Armstrong of Mississippi.
The Friday Bridge club will be enter-
tained by Mrs. C. L. Stephens this afternoon.
Miss Elisabeth Mallard will return home
tomorrow from a month's visit in Ada.
Okla.
Mrs R. G. Flowers will be hostess for to-
day’s meeting of the Current Literature
elub.
Mr. and Mrs. Junius Smith of Temple,
Okla., who have been the guests d Mr.
and Mrs. W. T. Camp, have returned home.
Miss Freda Downing, who will direct the
kindergarten benefit to be given April S3,
has secured for the programme Miss Leta
creases, making it possible to draw freely
in foreign exchange should this country’s
commerce or industry demand relief.
The foreign trade showing for the month
of February discloses a shrinkage in im-
ports from $123,000,000, the record of the
like month In 1907, to $79,125,000, while
exports showed a gain in the corresponding ;
periods, the figures being $159, 517.221 for
February, 1907, and $169,867,762 in the
same month this year, a gain of over 380,-
000,000. To be able to curtail imports by
almost 141.000,000 and increase exports by
over 1*0.000.000 1, a feat worthy of going
on record. The showing for eight months
of the fiscal year ending with February dis-
closes the astounding fact that the excess of
exports over imports reached over a half
billion dollars, the exact figures being $520.-
889,742, and constituting a record breaking
array in the trade records of the country.
In producing the grand total of export,
whose excess over imports rose to the etu-
--n~.e fieuree nr more than a half billion
* dollars, agriculture and manufactures con-
tributed almoat equal amounts.
While it is pointed ot that less than the
normal amount of rofits have accrued to
manufacturers in these exports, due to the
fact that a large proportion of them have
been "dumping" sales made for the pur-
pose of getting rid of accumulated stocks, it
is nevertheless true that industrial depres-
sion will sooner reach its limit under such
a course, leaving mill owners free to sooner
resume operations in mills and factories.
Surplus stocks having disappeared across
the water, the demand of home consump-
tion will soon force a resumption of in-
dustrial operations. On the other hand,
farm products have not been "dumped" on
the foreign market. Good prices have pre-
vailed, throughout the period of financial
depression, and including two-thirds of the
fiscal year mentioned.
' Timpson should fall in line.—Madam Ed-
i itor in Timpson Times.
Madam Editor evidently sings in the
choir, and if she does that as well as she
edits a newspaper department there can
. be no trouble in the choir meetings.
agencies at work were very human and
very immediate. They were the revengeful
mn of wealth, including the ninety-odd
magnates who practically control the $17,-
000,000,000 invested in American railroads
and several billions more invested in allied
industries, who cold-bloodedly determined
to make a last desperate stand against the
regulation and control which has been slow-
ly and painfully built* up around them by
the people after so many previous years of
fruitlees effort.
It is possible to follow their. footprints
over every inch of the ground they have
traveled. At every stage of the proceedings
they have resented and resisted the efforts
to restrain them. When the interstate com-
merce oommission was created twenty odd
years ago they fought the measure with re-
lentless zeal, and even succeeded in so
emasculating the law that the commission
was all but powerless. For years they were
able to continue their course practically
undisturbed. The commission might issue
its rulings, but it had no way of enforcing
them.
The situation grew so grave, the rights
of the people were so frequently outraged
or Ignored, that there came an earnest and
urgent demand that the power and author-
ity of the interstate commerce commission
should be extended and that it should be
able to make its control of the railroads
really effective
Surely, the history of that struggle has
not been forgotten, for it was one of the
bitterest and most determined stands that
organized wealth ever made against the
righteous demands of the people.
Every possible pressure was brought to
bear to defeat or to minimize these ad-
ditional powers, but, In the end the will of
the people prevailed, and a competent au-
thority was placed between the common
carriers and the general publio.
So it has been at every juncture when
an effort has been made to place a whole-
some restraint upon the constantly growing
power of the great railroad magnates.
They have exhausted every resource to re-
tain their old privileges and immunities.
It is conceded by the railroads them-
selves that the actual orders of the com-
mission. the actual laws adopted by con-
gress. have not worked any hardship upon
the common carriers, but they resented the
mere audacity of assuming that they could
or should be restrained, and the approach
of a presidential election offered a fair
mark for them to concentrate their protest
and retaliation upon They felt that if they
could create universal disaster and depres-
sion, could demoralize labor by throwing
thousands of workmen out of employment
and paralyzing the machinery of produc-
tion and transportation, they would be able
to awaken a blind and unreasoning resent-
ment on the part of the voters and could
thus compass the defeat of the man who,
as chief executive of the nation had given
the impulse to regulation and control of
corporations or the candidate whom he
might support; they would be able to shake
themselves free from the trammels which
had been woven around them and could
return to their old-time practices of secret
rebates and discriminations and unlimited
stock watering.
What mattered it to them that thousands
would differ in the meantime? They
looked upon the victims as coldly, and re-
morselessly as Standard Oil, in th forma-
tive period of its giant growth, looked upon
the independent concern which had been
marked for destruction. There was no
question of conscience in it, and there were
no considerations of humanity to give them
qualms whin they deemed it necessary to
shake the foundations of business and na-
tional credit in order to wipe out the ac-
cumulated restraints of years.
Today the men who pretend that they
cannot find the money with which to meet
current” expenses and make needed Im-
provements are able to find the money with
which to buy up the stocks which they
have deliberately depressed. The condi-
tion of the country. was, at bottom, too
sound to remain long in subjection, and
stocks and bonds are reviving—under the
influence of the purchases of those who
have created this artificial depression.
Not only may all this be accepted as true,
as weare toid by those who speak with
authority, but the facts are almost self-
evident. If the federal government has
done nothing which should legitimately
produce depression, this is equally true of
the states. In Georgia, for instance, the
most tireless critics have not been able to
put their finger on a drastic or destruetive
act of the legislature or order of the rail-
road cmmission. Such adjustments of
passenger rates as have been made hav
THE GILLETTE TYPE.
The execution Monday morning in Au-
burn prison of Chester Gillette closed the
last chapter in one of those peculiar cases
which have puzzled students of human na- j
ture. Gillette kille his sweetheart when
he found that her persistent demands that ,
he should share with her the results of their j
infatuation by marrying her, were inter-
fering with his social aspirations in another
direction. The murder was a vicious one ;
and was accomplished with all of the di-
abolical cunning of a fiend. This is true,
because Gillette lured the girl to her doom
through her trust in him which refused to
recognize his black character until he raised
his arm to strike the stunning blow.
There may be some excuse for compas-
sion upon the man,who kills another in the
heat of passion or under the smart of a
great wrong, but it is Incomprehensible ;
that kindly feelings should be cultivated |
toward the Gillette type. And it is a dis- |
tinct type, as many recurring cases go to
prove. It is a type that is absolutely des-
picable, even though it must be confessed
to be incomprehensible. It presents the
strange contradiction of a man being willing
to commit a murder in order to prevent
unfavorable criticism of his conduct. It re-
veals the essence of selfishness combined
with cruelty. It Indicates the possession
of a conscience oversensitive as to personal
reputation but utterly dead as regards
moral responsibility. It prompts its pos-
sessor to lure his victim to a lonely spot
and kill her without remorse in order that
no breath of reproach may be uttered
against his good name. Gillette killed Grace
Brown because she endangered the good
opinion which other girls entertained toward
him, and, of course, he lied about it. Mo-
tive and circumstances outweighed his de-
ceits, however, and the jury sent him to his
death It was quite natural that his last
utterances should be an admonition for the
better conduct of young men. These
butchers of girls are always long on super-
ficial rectitude, but they are woefully short
•Mi moral balance. Theodore Durant went
to Sunday school regularly in the church
in whose belfry he had* hidden the bodies
of the girls he had killed, and when at last
they hanged him in California he seemed
to think that heaven would be a bettr place
after he got there. Albert Franz sizzled in
an ehectric chair in Ohio simply because he
felt constrained to entice Bessie Litt! out
and shoot her and then burn up the horse
and buggy in which they rode, to blot out
the blood stains, because she threatened to
interfere with his mission work by compell-
ing him to marry her, and other cases just as
pre nqunced are not lacking It is a peculiar
typ, this Gillette type, and its study affords
one of the most interesting yet grewsome
and disgusting subjects—criminal depravity
She ‘Sort MVorth Recor
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"#nrered at th postotnce at Fort woth ••
Those boy® who set fire to a car of pow-
der in the railroad yards at Shawnee, Okla.,
to determine the quality of the powder,
ust have received their hunch on such a
procedure from that Waco anti-Ba lley
meeting
try. He shows that ninety-seven men may 1
be regarded as the real owners of the coun-
try. In his speech as printed in the Con-
gressional Record, he gives In detail the
connections of each of these men from
presidencies to directorships in concerns,
and he takes the trouble to substantiate
his showings conclusively. Every widely
used commodity in this country is under
the control of one of this group. J. P. Mor-
gan controls fifty-four large financial con-
cerns, W K. Vanderbilt seventy-three, F.
‘w. Vanderbilt fifty-eight, and even Chaun-
cey Depew looks after sixty-four. The rec-
ords show beyond the possibility of dispute
that sixty-two of these men out of the nine-
ty-seven, divided between the Morgan and
the Standard Oil groups, dominate abso-
lutely the commercial interests of the coun-
try. As a matter of convenience, and for
the further purpose of deception, one man
allowed to dominate a group, as Duke
in tobacco, McCormick in harvesters and
Harriman In railroads, and at the head of
all of ther stand Rockefeller and Morgan.
The National City bank of New York,
which is owned by the Standard Oil crowd,
has twenty-three directors, and the Na-
tional Bank of Commerce, the Morgan con-
cern, has thirty-nine directors, and these
are the men who hold directorships in 1,007
companies, which control the big transpor-
tation, insurance and commercial corpora-
tions. The Standard Oil bank receives de-
posits from 1,071 smaller banks located all
over the country, and another bank in the
same group receives deposits from 1,802
country banks, while the Morgan bank re-
ceives deposits from 2,767 banks in va-
rious parts of the country. This shows
their firm grasp upon the financial situa-
tion in the country, and so insidiously have
these men delegated power to themselyes
where possible and usurped It where other
means have failed, that they are now in a
position to actually control all of the im-
portant affairs of the country.
And the Aldrich bill is primarily designed
to Increase these powers by placing a gov-
ernment sanction upon a certain line of se-
curities which otherwise might find a hard
time in securing a standing in the specula-
tive market. Senator Bailey discerned the
design in the original bill and weakened its
pernicious powers by the substitution of his
amendment to the measure, and Senator
La Follette has laid bare the design which
was recognized in his wonderful speech.
The regret is that it cannot be studied in
detail by every patriotic citizen of the coun-
try.
On this ninety-fourth day Mercury and
Uranus are both in benefic aspect with the
moon. Their influence extends over trav-
elers, writings and transactions between
those of opposite sexes. The period is par-
ticularly favorable before 7ap. m.
Travel, whether it be, for ealth, pleasure
or business, bids fair to have a happy out-
come. Removals of residence or businesa
are under good signs.
The aspect is bright for the affixing of
signatures to writings and for written com-
munications of import.
Dealings with Women are likely to be sat-
isfactory this day.
Ar unexpected voyage will he offered to
the woman with her birthdate today. The
outcome promises well. )
Change, that will probably lead to suc-
cess, will come to the man with today as his
birth date. His health is threatened by
undue indulgence in social pleasure. He
will do well to avoid certain doubtful com-
pany into which he will be thrown during
the summer.
The girl born today will be very quick and
clever, but too fond of pleasure and society.
Fortune in employment is promised for
the boy born today. He will be Inclined to
dissipate before he reaches manhood.
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And now isn’t grand ol Hunt county
blossoming like a rose. The corn is grow-
ing to beat the band, the small grain is
humping, the truck and garden products
are flourishing, the cotton land is prepared
and much of it planted, and it la only the
first of April. Verily, this country and its
prospects must look good even to men with
the grip complicated with bilious fever.
Great is Hunt county. All its people need
is half a chance and they will make good.—
Greenville Herald. ..
Every county in Texas is a grand county.
All that is required is to have some grand
and industrious people to develop th
grandeur to the fullest extent. What is
being done in Hunt county can be done in
nearly every other county in the state.
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There is an effort being made to have a
race track made south of town. With the
many fine horses we are getting in this
county there is great need for a track, and
we believe there is hardly a business man
in Quanah who will not gladly contribute
from $1 to $2 monthly to such an enter-
prise.—Quanah Tribune-Chief.
Every endeavor should be made to en-
courage the production of good horses in
Texas. There is money in good horses of
all kinds, and if the good people of Quanah
fall for the time to secure a race track they
wil find that a furrow in a broad field is
a mighty good place in which to develop a
valuable horse.
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We reproduce in another column today
an editorial irom me Philadelphia North
American, one of the strongest and beat
informed newspapers in ‘he country. I
which the responsibiuity »«r ‘ha
on th. on. hand, placed where it belnE%.
and at the seme time it la ahown that the
thirteen leading railroad, of the country
«rn.d • net profit of $14,000,000 last year
over the year before. r
Every ratr-minded observer of the busi.
ness conditions which have prevailed ever
since the financlal stringeney of laat faU
began not only realizes that the depressim
was national and international m its acope,
but every day brings additional confirma-
tion of the charge awhteh has been freely
made in authoritative quarters that these
disasters were deliberately brought about
by the stiff-necked oligarchy of wealth as
a desperate means to regain the unlimited
pdwer to plunder which they once ensoxed.
It was a monstrous and Inhuman thing
to do. but sentimental considerations, the
public welfare and the right of labor to
earn an honest living have never yet stood
in the way of these predatory leaders, and
It is too much to” expect that they have
changed their nature now.
Reason itself points to some such ex-
planation of the widespread depression
which has visited the whole country, and
merely by the process of elimination the
guilt could be fixed upon the favored few
who had It in their power to create this
disaster.
We know that there was nothing In the
productive and industrial conditions of the
country to warrant this depression Prices
were high and labor found abundant em-
ployment at remunerative wages. The
mines, the forests and the fields had yielded
a product which had never had a parallel
In the history of the country. The rail-
roads and the factories were ungble to meet
the demands upon their facilities. On every
hand we saw an energetic and progressive
people at the high tide of their prosperity.
Could the It ws of nature suddenly reverse
themselves to turn this prosperity Into de-
pression, this activity into stagnation? Were
the needs and demands of consumers un-
expectedly satisfied in a night ? Did some
occult power suddenly blast us with the
evil eye?
Close Investigation has shown that there
was nothing mysterious about it. The
One of the greatest little nuisances that
we know of is the practice of some of our
, friends who come to church with tooth-
I picks in their mouths and during the ser-
mon are contnuany reminding everyone
present by the peculiar noise they make
that they are yet engaged in picking their
teeth We hope it is a pleasure to them,
for we have never gotten much but. annoy-
ance out of it.—Itasca item.
Might overcome the nuisance by holding
services before dinner.
Oklahoma bankers have declared in favor
of death for bank robbers. It is a good
move and one that should have neither
qualllcations nor restrictions.
It is rather in th. nature of a mtafortune
that the notable speech of Senator La Fol-
lette of Wisconsin In connection with the
Aldrich bUl should hav. escaped th. wide
dissemination in the newspapers_of the
country which it deserves. Notwithstanding
the speech required all of the available time
to be found in three days session of con-
gress. It was given no especial prominence,
yet it was loaded with facta and figures
that are astonishing in their import and
appalling in their revelattons.
" The printing of the speech in full in the
Congressional Record gives thome who are
ao fortunate as to peruse that much ma-
ligned publication an opportunity to study
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