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THE EASTLAND DISASTER.
THE TIPPING SYSTEM.
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the road to innovations materially increasing
the already burdensome expenses of conduct-
ing the State Government, a circumstance in
Jt appears that the Petrograd prevaricator
2 Soon will be able to take a much needed rest.
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The man who rides a stick of dynamite and
sleeps in a bed of gun-cotton through de liber-
ate choice, always wants the Government to
do more for him than he does for himself.
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Mary Pickford started her movie career with
a nickel. Just suppose she had invested a dol-
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i “For instance,” inquires the Wichita Bea-
Con, “did you ever ask the dentist about the
fellow who says he suffers in silence?”
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perched on the same woodbine.
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Incomplete returns reasonably indicate that
all the proposed amendments to the Constitu-
tion have been defeated by the voters of Texas.
Whether this surmise is correct or otherwise,
the result is one which should convince tinkers
with the Constitution that many voters view
with decided disfavor the policy of patching
। up an outworn document which in a great
I measure has outlived its usefulness. Of'course
it is not true that the entire opposition to the
amendments was due to this circumstance.
With few exceptions the amendments opened
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Moreover, Mr. Bryan should devote his leis-
ure time to locating the Swiss navy which,
when last heard from, was interned in the
Houston ship channel.
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It is never safe to believe a report after it
has traveled two city blocks. Albany Jour-
nal.
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4 Probably the pro-Engiish pres will now
charge that the Eastland was scuttled by Ger-
K tnan sympathizers.
Colonel Roosevelt warns the public; “What
I shall have to say in the future will not be
for sanheads and mollycoddles.” He never 'lid
like Bryan or Hobson.
Humanity as a Foe to Warfare.
(Buffalo News.]
■ . Even war fails in some details of its awful
/ purpose.
It can not stifle the humanity in people,
though the mutilation, the agony and blood-
shed would seem to indicate otherwise.
At Newcastle James Sherliker finds evidence
to the contrary. Sherliker is one of the most
charming of English “occasional visitors.” He
compares favorably with our David Grayson.
W hen he saw English cripples making cripple-
making devices in the .ammunition factories
the incongruities of the circumstances appeal-
ed to his writer-mind. He could not believe
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busines
The Mayor of Nashville believes in thorough
preparedness. He appeared in court with two
pistols in his pockets, probably under the be-
lief that there are cases in which they are-the
most convincing authority.
May 3L in*atse
act of March 3, 1879.
The sob sisters are mobilizing to
k Becker. Late start on a man’s job.
the round of the Russian papers:
H Fragmentary returns indicate that Texas
voters are not enamored of constitutional
amendments increasing public expenditures.
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Morning Glories
Purple, and crystal blue, and ivory.
Faint rose, and royal red, and lavender,
The frailest curved and carven curiously—/
Waker, whAt have we here?
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An Italian torpedo boat destroyer has won
its first victory in shelling and killing a whale
in the Adriatic which it mistook for a subma-
rine. From this it reasonably appears that
Italy has’submarine experts equal to our own.
that men, physically deficient, could make
weapons.to cripple others without some feel-
Tolstoi, I ing of reluctance.
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G A Dublin man has a buzzard which eats live
chickens. So has every city in America and
Europe. “Chickens” should beware of buz-
Touch them! they are not dreams nor mira-
cles ;
Only, turning tide of dark, withdrawn.
Has strewn a. thousand delicate dappled
shells
Along the shores of Daw n.
• —By Nancy Byrne Turner in Everybody’s
Magazine.
father and
grandfather.
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at Auattm. Texaun
| Now that it has been discovered that graft
Existed in Egypt centuries ago, many are won-
dering in what respects its fee system differed
from ours.
E Convoying ammunition ships appears to be
* profitable vacation “pot boiler” for certain
I citizens.
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lournal.
Again the country has been called upon to
witness the tragic, heart-sickening conse-
F quences of another of those disasters, all to
frequent in occurrence, resulting from the
criminal negligence of those to whom the
j. people intrust the safety of their lives. While
in the generality of cases justice to those ap-
phrently responsible for accidents of the nature
of that which occurred to the Eastland in the
t Chicago River, requires a suspension of judg-
ment pending the report of an official inves-
‘ tigation, in the present instance the physical
f facts conclusively show that the hundreds of
B lives lost by the overturning of the steamer
. were sacrificed to the criminal negligence of
I the company operting it and that of its em-
r ployes in charge.
According to press' reports it is estimated
' that 3700 persons, holding tickets upon which
F were printed the assurance that the Eastland
' was “the biggest, safest and best excursion
E .steamer on the Great Lakes,” had been invei-
r gled aboard the steamer lying at the wharf
L and attached to it by hausers, when the vessel
I turned turtle. It requires neither investigation
nor technical knowledge of boats to convince
I any person that the undisputed physical facts
attendant upon the disaster convicts the own-
B ers, lessees, officers of the steamer and the
. Government’s inspectors of criminal negli-
E gence. The misleading and false assurance
| printed on the tickets is in itself a circum-
; stance most strongly indicating not only that
E the Eastland was unsafe, but those in charge
t of the boat believed that the fact was so gen-
I erally known as to require the adoption of that
I method of allaying public apprehension. Any
' intelligent person knows that safe boats do
- not turn turtle while inactive and moored to a
| wharf. Should the Government fail to run to
| earth and administer severe punishment to
| every person responsible for this deplorable
F tragedy, we shall be treated to another of
' those distressing failures of justice which cm-
g bo'der the lawlessness and encourages the con-
E scienceless mercenary to sacrifice human life
I. to h's insatiable g.ced.
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1 he girl with the curl is satisfied with some
of the young men, but she wonders why they
all stand round street corners.—Bonham Fav-
orite.
* W hy don't you tell 'he cutie of the curl that
they do it to give her the "once over" as she
tacks bv ?
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Raw It by postoffice or express money 9rder..or
draft. If sent otherwise, we will not be responsDie
Golf is to be tried as an insanity cure, which,
to some people, will look a little like fighting
fire with firevDallas Times Herald.
A Houston negro stole two empty milk bot-
tles and was sent to jail for sixty days.—
Brownwood Bulletin.
No man who wastes his talents* stealing
empty bottles has a friend in that town."
«1 the candidate, “and if vour
my grandfather and my great
at the age when “man de lights me not,
woman neither."
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To be a successful clergyman a man must
be buttered on both sides.—Smart Set.
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We were dutifully shocked when women
commenced to ride astride and wear breeches,
but we survived. Now we have the “closer to
nature" women who dance bare-legged on the
grass and our sight is growing dim. Tomor-
row it will bejback to the Garden of Eden"
and we'll just'naturally fall dead. Brenham
Banner- Press.
Don't risk but one eye at a time and prob-
ably your sight will not be so badly impaired
but what you w ilt be able to at least have a
( at the present time with those who tenaciously
cling to the somewhat old-fashioned belief that
what is most needed at this juncture is a re-
duction of public expenses rather than their
marked increase. When to those objections
is added that arising out of the known disin-
clination of many citizens to experiment with
the organic law of the State, the pronounced
opposition, even to the meritorious amend-
ments, need not prove surprising.
There is a sentiment favoring the adoption
of a new Constitution among intelligent rep-
resentative citizens of Texas who believe that
the best way to accomplish that result is to
decline to participate in the work of repairing
the old one. The valuable lesson in the result
of this election as well as those of others in
which citizens have been asked to adopt
amendments to the Constitution, should be
sufficient to convince the most skeptical that
no material changes in the Constitution are
likely to be accomplished short of the adoption
of a new one. If those who have devoted their
time and talents to efforts to amend the Con-
stitution will now direct them to the work of
adopting a new one, there is every reason to
believe that they will succeed in incorporating
in the new instrument whatever of changes
and reforms are meritorious and necessary.
Fencerail Smith says he asked his neighbor.
Bill Hollis when he got back home from a'
fishing trip, if he caught anything. Bill said
that tie did. He caught one of the crowd try-
ing to hog all the "bait." caught his hook on
every snag in the river, disastrously caught the
seat of his overalls on some barbed wire,
caught cold and a few fish.—Mineral Wells
Index.
But what did he catch when he got home?
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TO ADVERTISERS.
In cane of errors or omissions in lexal or other
adrert isementa, the publishers do not hold themselves
liable for damage further than the amount recelved
by them for such advertisement. ______ .
EASTERN AND WESTIRN AGENrS.
Benjamin & Kentnor Co.. 225 Fifth Avenue, New
York City. — .
Benjamin A Kentnor Co., Peoples Gsa Bulldin*. Chl-
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Might Be Worse
This war is getting oversized.
Would me might ban it.
lloweer it still 1s localized
l o but one planet.
— New York World
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The value of advertising space to a newspaper
depends upon the quantity and quality of the
eirculation, which depends on the quantity and
quality of the paper’s service to the people.
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An Oklahoma Road Commissioner has been
shot from ambush, and painfully, but not fat-
ally wounded. We will await developments
to see whether this is a good means of obtain-
ing good roads.—Texarkana Four-States
Press.
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Why is it that a reformed rake can always
get an audience when his brother who has al-
wa} - led a decent hle can t get even a hear-
ing -New York Fvening World.
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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC
Any erroneous reflection upon ths character, stand-
Ing or reputation of any person, firm or corporation
which may appear in the columns of The Austin
American will be gladly corrected upon its bein*
Brought to the attention of the manarement
Readers of The American leaving the city are
reminded that they can have The American sent to
them direct by mail for any period desired—daya,
week! and months. Subscriptions may be given to
newsdealers or sent to The American Circulation De-
partment. Addresses will be changed as often as
desired.
He selected two workmen for his interviews,
one with a deformed limb, another minus the
sight of one eye. "It seems a shame to mek
things as meks cripples,” said the former sor-
rowfull) "Sometimes when J think that one
of my shells might twist a German’s leg same’s
mine, I feel a bit sorry. Whenever I feel that
way I ’ave to ’ave a read at a newspaper about
poisoned gases.”
"Ah don’t mind admittin’," said the one with
a sightless eyes, “that I prays occasionally
that none of my shell-. will ever blow a Ger-
man’s eye out. Understand, Ah’m no less a
Britisher. Simply ’uman. Ah knows wot it is
to lose an eye, see? And Ah can imagine what
it’ll be to lose two. Besides, there’s no ’arm in
prayin’ for your enemies. The Bible says as
ow we should.”
When men with complete anatomical equip-
ment begin to ponder the subject as these poor
unfortunates at Newcastle, war may find a
new and formidable foe humanity.
father and grandfather an I great-grandfather
had been hor-e-thieves, what would vou have
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subrBef’ desiring win Please itself well calculated to render them unpopular I
The opportunities that go astray are usually
those that -trike other people instead of com-
ing to us - New York Times.
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The war on the tipping system, more popu-
larly and expressively designated "the Ameri-
can hold-up” game, which has been going on
since George M. Pullman conceived the bright
and profitable idea of making the traveling
public pay the salaries of his car porters, has
received a newer impetus since the committee
on industrial relations inquired into its work-
ings.
The trouble with the tipping system is the
same as that which afflicts some other purely
American institutions—a disposition to out-
Herod Herod in working the plant for all it
can possibly yield. Tipping has been counte-
nanced and encouraged so long in this country
that the task of uprooting it entirely is diffi-
cult if not wholly impossible of accomplish-
ment. The man in this day who declines to
tip every servant or subordinate employe of
every public and private institution with which
he transacts business is as completely ma-
rooned and ostracised by those whose duty it
is to give him what he pays for as if he were a
penniless tramp existing upon the charity of
the public.
While it is more than probable that the
tipping system will endure as long as appreci-
j ation of attentive service, at the same time it
should prove comparatively easy for the
American public tq put a stop to the Pullman
method of grafting it for the payment of sala-
ries of employes which should be paid by em-
ployers. There are many persons perfectly
willing to reasonably reward a servant for
good service who indignantly and justly resent
supplying the money to discharge the payroll
of an institution in which they have no interest
and with which they have no personal business
I connection. The tipping system should be re-
formed at least to the extent of preventing its
employment as an excuse for wholesale graft-
ing oi the public such as has been practiced
by the Pullman Company for a half century.
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opyright IM'. International News Service.
meeapemmpmsezeme--e-mm
w “things” looked. Fur-
surprised that you seem
ances who commented conventionally upon the
fine weather. This unremitting applause
I amused him. When greeted at the office with
agreed. ")
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W e learn from the Borden County Citizen
that a "Demented Man Exploded a Burn in
Capital.” We extend sympathy, as we have
long been a “burn in the capital" ourself.—Col-
orado Record.
There is a year’s work for this man in Hous-
ton.—Austin Americaa.
For which of us, brother ?—Colorado Rec-
ord.
The demented one.
Now that James Gordon Bennett has en-
tered the war on the side of the allies, Ger-
many should open negotiations with Mr. May,
who massaged Mr. Bennett’s face with a
water-elm club just before the latter estab-
lished his permanent residence in Paris.
nor them circum-tance- I reckon P a’
publican ” Everybody's Magazine.
a somewhat forcible manner to the police sta-
tiou. stopped him and asked:
“Can you read ?”
"Yes," was the reply.
“And have you read the Gospel?”
"Yc, sir.”
"Then you ought to know that we should
not offend our neighbor.”
The policeman looked the Count up and
down, noticing his shabby appearance, and
asked: 1
"C an you read?"
") cs.” said Tolstoi.
"And have y®u read the instructions to the
police ?”
"No.”
' "Very will, then; go and read them first
and then come back and talk to me again.”—
London Letter.
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A Matter of Inheritance
"es, sir," > aic the man who would not vote
for a Republican, even though he was on a re-
form ticket, "I'm a Democrat. ne so was my
In business the one who assumes that the
W rhd i> honest will often do better than the
man who believes it to be peopled with rogues.
New York American
shocked by anything seen or heard, nowadays.
— Navasota Examine r Review.
Such is the entertaining exchange of ideas
which delight gentlemen in the sere and yel-
low leaf, who persist in vain attempts to con-
vince the public that they have not yet arrived
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By Way of Greeting
On the way to the office of his publishers
one crisp fall morning James Whitcomb Riley
met an unusually large number of acquaint
lour best to do mething practical
Be sincere. New York Evening
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