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SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS: SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 5, 1911.
&an Antonio Csprm.
OBIIT—J. P. SMART.
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Texas. as Second-class Matter
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BIO CITIES OF TEXAS.
Population 1010.
Ban Antonio 90.014
Dallas 92.104
Houston 7 H,800
Fort Worth 73,312
El Paso 39.279
Galveston 30.918
Austin 29.800
Waco 20.425
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BAJPID TRANSIT.
Among the numerous modern com-
fort* and pleasures that have so
greatly contributed towards the prog-
ress and advancement of the human
raco, perhaps none 13 so eminently
conspicuous as the highly developed
modes of locomotion and transporta-
tion.
The wonderful transformation that
•team and electricity have brought
about have reduced distances, con-
densed time, created a closer and
friendlier Intercourse between the city
and the country, between distant com-
munities, States, countries and conti-
nents, to their mutual social and com-
mercial advancement
When Jules Verne wrote his fa-
mous novel, "Around the World in
Eighty Days," the world looked on it
as a clever piece of fiction worthy
of the fertile and Imaginative brain of
that gifted author. Little was It
dreamed that truth would prove to be
stranger than fiction, that the sup-
posedly Impossible feat would become
a reality in half the time that prophet
•—for such he must have been—even
dared to complete that magical jour-
ney on the wings of fancy.
The greatest benefits are reflected
In the relief the rapid transit facili-
ties have afforded to the large cities.
It has solved In a great measure the
evils of congestion. It has opened
to the toiling masses broad avenues
of escape from the overcrowded cities.
Cheap and rapid transportation made
it possible for them to move to the
suburbs, where they can breathe the
wholesome air and have elbow-room
for their families. The rapid growth
and development of the suburban dis-
tricts are due to rapid transit. The
small tradesman, the mechanic, the
laborer, as well as the office clerk,
is now enabled to acquire a home
within a reasonable distance from his
place of business without loss of rime,
while the benefits derived more than
recompense the nominal coat of trans-
portation.
Of course, there are times and in-
stance* where the service leaves much
to be desired. There are occasions
that give rise to dissatisfaction and
even complaint Like all public util-
ities, the handling of great masses
aften Involves difficult problems, yet
It is gratifying to note that the major-
ity of trafflo officials evince a high
regard for the comfort of their patrons
and are endeavoring to eliminate ob-
jectionable features, to Improve equip-
ment and minimize danger. The time
may not be far distant when publto
conveyances, on land and sea and in
the upper ether, will become as safe
and convenient as money, science and
human Ingenuity can possibly per-
fect it
What Is the difference between the
supporters of a commission form of
government and those opposed to it?
The first will protest an election and
the latter will elect to protest.
By ascending to a height of 4000
feet above the city of Mexico, Gsrros
very likely beat all records for alti-
tude, as the city Itself is something like
8000 feet above sea level.
Trains on some of our railroads have
to be twenty-four hour* late In order
to arrive on schedule time.
Does Mme. Emma Calve walk with
a limp since she subjected her arm to
vaccination in San Francisco?
Will Barney Oldfield really retire
from the racing game, or, like Buffalo
Bill, have annual farewell tours?
Some women of today kiss and make
op, others fear that osculation may tend
to spoil their "make-up."
John P. Smart, Eastern representa-
tive of The San Antonio Express, died
at his home in Plainfield, N. J., yes-
terday morning, after brief illness. F.
G. Huntress Jr., vice president of The
Express Publishing Company, who had
been summoned by telegram, was
among those at his bedside when
death came.
Mr. Smart entered the service of The
Express about a dozen years ago as a
member of the advertisement staff,
and his conspicuous ability in that de-
partment was notable.
About ten years ago Mr. Smart was
placed in charge of the New York of-
fice of The Express, with full charge
of the foreign advertising of the paper
originating there, and the service he
rendered to The Express and to the
advertisers was of the highest value.
He had previously been connected with
other of the larger State dailies and
was well known in Texas as a man
of high character and estimable qual-
ities, which made him popular with all
who knew him.
The death of J. P. Smart will be a
serious loss to his business associates
and to a large circle of warm personal
friends.
SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS TRAIN.
When we finally shuffle off this
mortal coil we may be sorry we didn't
take the coil along to use in estab-
lishing a cable service back to Mother
Earth, and a water supply.
AUTOMOBILE VS. HORSE.
The assertion is often made that the
automobile, the trolley car and the auto
truck are putting the horse out of
business.
Statistics and the experience of buy-
ers do not substantiate this. The faster
and more convenient methods of trans-
portation are doing the work formerly
done by thousands of horses, but
neither the demand nor the price of the
animals have been reduced.
According to the Department of Agri-
culture, the average value of horses per
head increased $.3.49 during the year
ending January 1. This gives the av-
erage value to horses in the United
States of $11.67. Horses are worth
more in Massachusetts and Rhode Is-
land than In any other part of the
country, their average value there being
$148 a head.
Previous to the coming of automo-
biles and trolley cars, as many persons
may remember, $25 would purchase a
good saddle horse in Texas, when $40
and $50 was a good price and when $75
would get a very fine animal. In Jan-
uary of this year 11,114 mora horses
were sold in the St. Louis market than
in January, 1910. Current statistics
show that there are twice as many
horses in the United States today as
there were ten years ago. Notwith-
standing that, the value of horses have
increased 300 per cent.
There is, despite this, a great lack of
horses, especially for the army, not
only in the United States and Canada,
but all over the world. The mounted
police of Canada have felt the shortage,
and the Dominion government is now
taking special steps to meet it. Horses
are as scarce in the West as in the
East. Farmers feel the need of a
greater supply as keenly as it is felt
in the cities. Although the supply, in
reality, has greatly Increased, there is
a constantly unsatisfied demand for
good truck and carriage horses as well
as animals suitable for use on the farm.
This all goes to show the great op-
portunities for profit In Texas for
those engaged in tho raising of good
horses and mules. Every farmer should
raise from one to five each year. The
price for which the animal would sell
at 3 or 4 years of age would realize
a handsome profit for the owner.
There Is no Indication that the demand
will be any less for years to come, so
the farmer who contemplates the rais-
ing of horses need not get uneasy
about a probable drop in price on ac-
count of the Increasing number of au-
tomobiles which are In use, both in
cities and in rural communities.
Explanation of the steady demand
and the increasing prices is not hard
to find. Business expansion In the
United States In the last twenty years
has been greater than at any previous
time in the country's history. Meth-
ods of doing business have also
changed. There I* greater expedition.
Horsepower Is more generally in use,
and this statement has reference to the
employment of the animal as well as
to the employment of all kinds of power
popularly supposed to be measured by
his strength. The trolley, the automo-
bile and auto truck have not really
supplanted the horse in Industrial ac-
tivity. There is no immediate danger
that they will.
Good advice to Texas farmers and
ranchmen is still to raise good horses
and mules. A ready market at a good
profit will be found for years to come.
March 0 will be the seventy-fifth an-
niversary of the fall of the Alamo.
Where Is the monument to commemo-
rate the heroism displayed by the
Texas patriots in that bloody event?
The constantly Increasing demand
for The San Antonio Express in the
territory in which it is without a rival
J and in other territory in which it com-
I petes with other leading dallies of the
State has made it necessary for The
Express to redouble its efforts to cover
the field completely and with the least
possible delay.
The special train service employed
by The Express to meet the demands
of its subscribers has been maintained
at considerable expense, but this ex-
pense has been borne, In part at least,
by subscribers to and readers of The
Express who have so liberally sup-
ported the paper.
This service will be and is being ex-
tended as fast as circumstances will
permit The San Antonio Express
train which carries the morning paper
along the line of the International &
Great Northern Railroad north will
hereafter make an earlier start, leav-
| ing the station here at 3:20 a.m., and
reaching Austin at 6:15 a. m. under the
fast schedule that will be put In force
this morning. The special fast train
runs as far north as Hearne, which is
reached at 11:20 a.m.
This will enable distributers of The
Express to deliver the paper to read-
ers In Austin at 6:15 a.m., so that
subscribers there may have The
Express left at their homes in time to
be read before breakfast, a service
which they will assuredly appreciate.
This arrangement not only serves the
people along the line of tho Interna-
tional & Great Northern early with
copies of the regular edition of The
Express, but provides for connections
which will give the paper the benefit
of fast service and will carry It over
other railroad lines and so cover the
territory north and east as It was not
possible to do before. It also enables
passengers on early San Antonio bound
trains to get and read The Express
on their way to their destination.
The Express is In such demand In
all portions of South and Southwest
Texas as to make Its early delivery a
matter of supreme Importance, and
energies are being bent in that direc-
tion with determined purpose.
In the meantime no effort is being
spared so to improve The Express in
all its news and general features as
will increase its usefulnes and its pop-
ularity throughout Its entire territory.
SELECT THE BEST SEEDS.
It Is easier to approve the man who
would if he could but couldn't than one
who could if be would but woudn't
Spring planting time is near at hand
and if the farmers of Texas will pay
the attention they should to the proper
selection of the seed which is to be
planted the yield will be increased
very largely on every acre under culti-
vation.
In the past there has not been the
care exercised in the selection of seeds
that good business judgment would dic-
tate. Often the farmers will purchase
without proper investigation. No seed
should be put Into the ground until the
farmer is satisfied from what source
it comes.
The best seeds cost little more than
the worst and the increased yield more
than makes up for the difference. Not
only should the best seeds be planted,
but care should be taken to secure
that variety which is best adapted to
the particular soil and climate. This
is generally an easy matter. There
are in every large city In the State
reliable dealers in seeds who have
made particular study of the soil and
climatic conditions In every section.
The knowledge which cost these deal-
ers thousands of dollars to obtain Is
at the command of every farmer.
The reliable seed dealer gives only
advice which he believes is best, and
this can, in most instances, be depend-
ed upon. The great care that is nec-
essary is to select a reliable Arm.
Valuable assiptance can also be secured
by means of a letter addressed to the
Agricultural and Mechanical College at
College Station, or to the Department
of Agriculture, Wahington, D. C.
Good farmers, however, seldom have
to send away for their seed. By care-
ful selection during harvest time they
are able to save what seed they need.
The seed from the best ears of corn,
the most highly productive cotton and
the best specimens of vegetables should
be saved with care. By that means the
practical farmer soon has a seed which
is not only the best adapted to his
section, but which is the best adapted
to his soil.
In planting new and untried crops the
selection of seed Is of more importance
than cultivation. Without the right
seed the labor wil' be thrown away.
Often poor crops which are charged to
lack of rain or to some insect pest Is
In reality duo to poor seed. The neces-
sity for careful selection of seeds can-
not be made too emphatic.
The rebel army In Mexico should pro-
duce some wonderful Marathon run-
ners.
If some of the Texas legislators
would only back up boasts with deeds.
Another Harbinger.
The gentle spring, they s&y.
Is nearly due,
I know I feel that watt
Rsrchee! Kerchoo! v
THE CARNEGIE
BY FREDERIC J. 1IASKIN.
"C1 ARLY this month the nonmagnetic
yacht, the Carnegie, will arrive at
the Island of Tristan do Cuna, in tho At-
lantic Ocean, a little more than half way
between South America and Africa. This
yacht was built expressly for the purpose
of oceanic magnetic observation in the
great terrestrial nmgno survey of the earth
undertaken by the department of terres-
trial magnetism of the Carnegie Institu*
tlon of Washington, 1>. C. The Carnegie
left Buenos Ayres on February 10 and
bag proceeded across the oeeau in the
course ordered for her, making nautical
observations each day. She will stop at
the island several days to check up the
variations of the compass which have been
observed In the passage. Tristan de Cuna
is a small island, unimportant In itself,
but of scientific value from its situation
and the fact that on it is located one of
the terrestrial magnetic stations which are
lately being established in various parts
of the world.
From Tristan de Cuna tho Carnegie will
proceed to Cape Town, South Africa, where
her staff will be Joined by Dr. Henry M.
W. Edmunds of the Carnegie Institution,
who sailed from New York tho latter part
of February and bv Prof. J. C. Heat lie
of the department or physics of the South
African College, Capo Town, and Prof.
J. S. Morrison of Victoria College,
Stellenbosch, South Africa. The Brit-
ish government has been so Im-
pressed with the importance and
value of a complete terrestrial magno-sur-
vey of the earth that It desires to co-
operate In securing it. These two profes-
sors who are recognized English authori-
ties upon terrestrial maguetisin have been
granted a year's furlough from their re
spectiv© colleges In order that they may
assist with the great work being done.
Under the direction of these English pro.
feasors a large portion of Central Africa
already has been covered by a terrestrial
magnetic survey and a line of terrestrial
magnetic stations extended through the in-
terior from Cape Town almost to Cairo.
The results of this overland observation,
together with the oceanic observation made
by the staff of the Carnegie, will be
checked up and properly recorded and re-
ported upon next month. While the
oceanic magnetic survey seems more im-
portant because of its bearing upon navi-
gation, the overland survey is really of
equal value. All the original land sur-
veys of America were made from the com-
pass. The changes In the earth's condi-
tions have caused many discrepancies in
boundaries and directions. The knowledge
of the compass is required in surveying
and exploring, and the effect of the earth's
magnetism upon its direction should be
understood.
If one desires to know the magnetic
forces and what causes the magetic poles
to change, it Is necessary to have a com-
plete magnetic survey of the world, cov-
ering the land as well as the sea. During
the past Fear great progress has been
made in tnis direction. Interior surveys
have been conducted and terrestrial mag-
netic stations established In British North
America, Central North America, the West
Indies. Colombo, Ecuador; British, Dutch
and French Guiana; Africa. Persia, Tur-
key, Asia Minor, Asiatic Russia and China.
The work is still going on after a system-
atic plan which will probably require five
years more to complete.
While not a new science, terrestrial mag-
netism is comparatively an unknown force,
but its value and utility are indisputable,
especially to the mariner. Peregrinus in
the Thirteenth Century understood some-
thing of the magnetic attraction of tho
earth. The Irregularities of the compass
recorded the first voyage of Columbus
were promptly attributed by him to the
magnetic conditions or forces, which vary
of illffpreiit parts of the earth's surface.
While the compass is commonly supposed
to point direct north, it does not really
do so, and the position of the earth's mag-
netic poles in relation to its entire surface
changes frequently. In l(k)0 Dr. William
Gilbert published In London his famous
work, "De Magnete." lie spent £5000 "ex-
amining many matters taken out of the
lofty mountain, of the depths of the sea,
the deepest cavern and the hidden
of
mines.'' in order to discover the true sub-
stance of the earth and its magnetic power.
Tho vastness of the subject and the cost
of its development has heretofore pre-
vented much practical work being done,
although scientists always have had it In
mind. But, to be of value, observations
must he practical and scientific, and only
through the generosity of an American
philanthropist was the establishment of a
properly equipped department of terres-
trial magnetism made possible. Every
nation in the world will benefit by It's
work.
The discrepancies In the nautical charts
of the world and the Impossibility of tak-
ing absolutely correct observation from a
vessel where the presence of steel or Iron
united with the magnetic forces of the
earth in affecting the position of the
needles of the compass resulted In the
building of "the most curious craft afloat,
the absolutely nonmagnetic yacht, the Car-
negie."
In the construction of the Carnegie every
effort was made to avoid the use of steel
or Iron. The vessel Is built of white oak,
yellow pine, Oregon pine and teak wood.
Its fastenings are locust tree nails, cop-
per and bronze bolts and composition
spikes. Its four anchors are of manga-
nese bronze, 11 -Inch hemp cables 120 fath-
oms long being used Instead of anchor
chains. Its sailing power comes from a
brigantine rig Including 12.900 square feet
of sail, with rigging of special Russian
hemp. Its auxiliary power is furnished
by a 150 Indicated horse-power producer
gas engine built practically of nonmag-
netic metal--chiefly bronze, copper and
manganese steel. All the metal work upon
spars, rigging and blocks is of bronze and
funmetal. Her cooking ranges and re-
rigeratlng plant are or bronze and cop-
per and the table cutlery of Mexican silver.
The Carnegie curries two nonmagnetic,
20-foot whaleboats and one 16-foot gig
She 19 the first nonmagnetic vessel ever
built and the first to be equuiped with a
producer gas engine. The construction of
the Carnegie naturally attracted much com-
ment. Facetious newspaper reporters stat-
ed that an expert sailing master had been
turned down because ne possessed an
••Iron" constitution, and that only
"bronzed* seamen would be employed.
After a long trial voyage, however, the ob-
servations taken from the Carnegie proved
that she will accomplish the obects de-
signed for her. The world will profit by
"er discoveries, since most shipwrecks
been caused by compass errors
rought about by s lack of knowledge of
the magnetic current! of the ocean.
The iron on board a vessel generally ef-
fects the compass needle In one of the fol-
lowing ways: First it distorts and al-
ters tne normal position of the needle, in-
troducing the error known as "deviation
of the compass": secondly. It weakens the
components of the earth's magnetic forces
acting upon the compass. These effects
are not constant, but vary from place to
place. They depend somewhat upon the
Ship's course and change with every al-
teration in the course due to variable car-
goes and other causes. To overcome the
banefnl effects of an iron vessel upon the
compass the latter Is "adjusted." That Is,
other pieces of iron end magnets are
placed in the vicinity of the compass In
such a way as to exert an equal and op-
rioslte effect to that of the ship's own
ron and magnetism. But to correctly
make this adjustment It is necessary to
know Just how the compass would point
In a given location upon a vessel with no
iron upon it. This is the point that is be-
ing determined by the Carnegie.
The object of the Carnegie is to msp out
the magnetic currents and force* of the
ocean for the benefit of the mariners of
the world. From its nonmagnetic con-
struction it Is possible for observers on
board the Carnegie to get accurate ob-
servation for steerlna a more direct course
than was possible before. The work of
the Carnegie Is so arranged that she will
average about a hundred muse * day and
there are few day« so stormy that some
observations cannot be made, owing to the
superior quality of the instruments with
which the yacht is equipped.
Some of these Instruments hsve been spe-
cially designed or invented for use In tnis
great terrestrial magnetic eurvev of the
world. An Important feature of the equip-
ment of the department of terrestrial mag-
netism 1s the special instrument shop,
where new instruments can be manufac-
tured to meet newly developed needs Sev-
eral entirely new Instruments have lately
been constructed or Invented. One of these
Is the colilmatlngr marine compass nsed
upon the CamegK which was designed
by lta commander. W. J. Peters. With
| till compete is used a small htal ends
ADMONITORY.
Here are some of the mottoes on the
wall of the green room in the New The-
ater of New York; they were chosen
by a committee appointed by members
of the company:
The gentleness of all the gods go with
thee. —-Shakespeare.
What's the newest grief?
Fame has only the span of a day-—
But to live in the hearts of a people.
That is worth something. —Oulda.
Produce me your best critic,
And I will criticise his head off.
—George Bernard Shaw.
Be not ashamed to be helped.
—Marcus Aurellus.
Will you see the players well bestowed?
For they are the abstracts and
Brief chornicles of the time.
—Shakespeare.
Come • • • sit by my side,
And let the world slip;
"We shall ne'er be younger.
—Shakespeare.
The license of invention
Some people take is
Monstrous indeed.
—Sheridaji.
"Think less of your rights
And more of your duties."
Quarrel or reprimand,
'Twill soon bo dark,
Up! Mind thine own aim, and
God speed the mark!
—Emerson.
There never will be civilization
"Where comedy is not possible.
—George Meredith.
O wad some pow'r
The glftie gle us
To see ourseTs
As lthers see us.
—Robert Bums.
He either fears his fate too much
Or his deserts are small.
That dares not put it to the touah
To gain or lose it all.
—Graham, Karl Montrose.
The Instrument on which
Wo hlstrions play Is that
Strange tiling, the human heart.
—Oulda.
Thine it la to act well
The allotted part,
To choose It Is another's.
—Eplctetus.
The finances of the State are
thinking men considerable worry. The ac-
tual deficit Is said to be nearly a million
dollars and the State institutions are in a
dilapidated condition. It is said to re-
quire a State ad valorem tax rate of 12
cents to get the State back to sound
financial basis.-—Beaumont Joufwi.
Only the demagogues oppose a higher
tax for the State educational institutions.
The increase in taxes necessary to prop-
erly provide for them would be insignifi-
cant in comparison with the good which
would result. It is a great deal better to
pay for educating children than later on
to pay for keeping the ignorant in peni-
tentiaries as convicts.
In these days and times the local pro-
moter cannot figure from a map a likely
place for the extension of a railroad. The
era of building roads to open up commu-
nities is past and the game now couslsts
in grouping roads already built into sys-
tems and connecting heretofore competing
lines into single management. The game
is not to lav much new rail, but to com-
bine Into "through" routes. After the big
systems get Into grooves there w'H he
something doing in the "feeder line.
Temple Telegram.
Southwest Texas offers especially good
opportunities to the wise Investor In that
way. The indications are that the road to
Brownsville will be well under way by
fall. This Is a road which Is very much
needed.
Parents should never accuse a public
school teacher of undue favoritism. If a
teacher Is kinder to one child than to an-
other It is because that child does not
take advantage of the liberty allowed It,—
l'oakum Times.
The parents who are the quickest to de-
nounce the teacher are generally those who
are unable to manage one or two children
of their own. The teacher who tries to
Instruct the children of an entire neigh-
borhood is certainly entitled to the fullest
sympathy.
Mrs. Nubrlde—I am heartbroken. 1 find
that my husband doesn't resemble my
ideal In the slightest.
Mrs. wise—Then take my advice, my
dear, and try to make your ideal re-
semble your husband.—Uoston vranscrlpt.
35 Years Ago Today
]
(San Antonio Express, March fit, 0R&)
A. Pancoast returned from New Yortt
yesterday.
♦ ♦
T. F. Brady is again upon the street?
after several days of severe Illness.
Gus Duerler, the confectioner, has
flno young cougars, which he Is ra
for the San Pedro Park menagerie.
During the year ending with February
29, 355 new buildings were erected in San
Antonio.
♦ ♦
The grasshoppers are flourishing on
the Western prairies and are already be-
ginning to destroy the sprouting vegeta-
tion.
♦ -e-
Mrs. Matthews of Fleasanton has sent
tho Stock Journal of that place a roast-
ing ear grown about three miles from
there. This beats the world for oarly
corn. San Antonio, with all her irrigat-
ing ditches, extraordinary gardening fa-
cilities and haughty railroad operatlona,
dare not pretend to compete.
CASUAL CAMERA CLICKS.
By A. Snapper.
Two young ladles were overheard the
other day discussing a certain young man
in whom both appeared to be interested.
"Charlie is a very nice fellow,M one of
the girls exclaimed, "but for his stut-
tering."
"Does he always stutter?" questioned
her friend.
"Oh, dear, no," the first replied. "Only
■when he talks."
Two boys were discussing the great
advantages of education, "Strre,M ex-
claimed the older, with a merry twinkle
in his mischievous eyes, "I know the
value of good books. The other even-
ing I spied a pot of Jam 'way up on
the pantry shelf As I could not read it
1 stacked up papa's encyclopedia on the
chair and I got there alright. Them
books surely helped nao."
Collector—See here, my time Is too
"Is vour husband playing bridge?"
"Noi exactly," replied Mrs. Film gilt.
"Some experts have merely Invited him
Into a game to make it harder."—-Wash-
ington Star.
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An Appreciation.
To the Editor of The Express: I want
to thank you for your commendable effort
to revive Interest in tho "Old Time Songs."
The greatest pleasure of my childhood,
that I recall, was hearing my mother sing
the old ballads which had been popular
when she wag very young.
The one I loved best of all the old songs
was a beautiful ballad with a peculiarly
sweet and haunting melody, called "liosa-
lle, the Prairie Flower."
I can recall the last two verses and
chorus, as follows:
ROSALIE, THE PRAIRIE FLOWER.
When the summer ended and the wintry
blast,
O'er the little cottage swept at last.
The angels gently bore her robed in spot-
less white,
To tho golden fields of light.
Tho' we may never see her more,
Gone with the love and J• »y she bore,
Still we know she's blooming in a distant
bower,
Rosalie, the Prairie Flower.
Chorus.
Pure as a lily fair to see.
Pride of that prairie home was she,
Every one who knew her felt the gentle
power,
Of Rosalie, the Prairie Flower.
I will be very grateful to anyone who
can send tbe remainder of this song.
L< >YETTE M ATT 11K WS,
St. Anthony Hotel, March 2, 1911.
From Mexico.
Saltlllo, Mexico, March 1. 191L—To the
Editor of The Express: In your is-
sue of yesterday on page six. In
Voice of the People, you print "Nellie
Gray." Here are a few more that
my mother and grandmother sang. WTio
can furnish the missing words. "Down in
de Cane Brake" and "Way Down de old
High, Ob." other favorites of mine are
"Strike for Victory," "Rest Is In Heaven"
and "Smile When E'er You Can." Also
who knows "Nlcodemua the Slave"?
CHAS. A BAILEY, M. D.
Saltlllo, Mexico.
A FRAGMENT.
De Hbber is up, de sails are set,
De wind blows steady and strong.
Bo glides our boat along.
Way down de rlbher,
Way down de rlbber,
Way down de old hlgh-oh.
STRIKE FOR VICTOR!.
Strike, oh. strike for victory.
Heroes of the Lord.
Hoping In his mercy.
Trusting in his word.
Lift the gospel banner
High above the world;
Let Its folds of beauty ever be unfurled.
Refrain.
Strike, oh. strike for victory, heroes bold.
Strike till the victory you behold.
Strike oh, atrlke for victory; ne'er give
o'er.
Rest then In glory evermore.
What though raging Hons meet us on tbe
way.
We'll keep marching onward to the gates
of day.
Onward, pressing onward, ever to the
right
Till we reach the Jordan and our home's
in sight.
MT RUST IN HEAVEN.
My rest is in heaven; my rest is not her%
Then why should I murmur when trials
are near.
Be hushed, my dark spirit, the worst that
can come.
But shortens my Journey and hastens me
home.
Then the angels will come with their
music, will come;
With music, sweet mnsie, to welcome me
home
Is tbe bright gates of crystal tbe shining
ones will stand.
of inflection, also of original design. The
Instruments made in the shopa of the de-
partment. as well as tbose purchased
abroad for the supplies of the numerous
terrestrial magnetic stations, sre all thor-
oughly tested l»efore being used for re-
corded observation. 8pecial nonmagnetic
buildings have been erected in the National
Zoological Park of Washington, D. C- for
the purpose of testing tbeee InstremeaH.
Tomorrow: "Tho Nary "
To bid me a welcome to their own'native
land.
It Is not for me to be seeking my bliss,
Or building my home lu a region like this,
I look for a city that bards have not plied.
I pant for a country by sin uudefilsd.
SMILE WHEN YOU CAN.
Smile when e'er you can.
When things don't go to suit you.
And tho world seems upside down.
Don't waste your time In fretting,
But drive uway the frown.
Since life Is oft perplexing
'Tls much the wisest plan
To drive away all fretting
Aud smile when e're you can.
NI CO DEMITS THE SLAVE.
Nicodemus the slave,
Nlcodemus the slave,
Was of African birth.
He was bought with a pot full of gold.
Then run tell Lizah to hurry up. Pomp,
Meet me at the gum tree, down by the
swamp.
A Goodly List.
To the Editor of The Express: I thank
you for your courteous acknowledgment
of the words of "Nelly Gray," and in ac-
cordance with my promise I beg to i.and
you herewith the words of the following:
old-time ballads:
"The Old Kentucky Home." "The Stiwa-
nee River (Old Folks at Home)." "Nettie
Moore." "Billy Boy," "Roll On, Silverv
Moon," "aNncy Till," "Lily Dale,"
".Memory's Golden Shore," "The blue-
Tailed Fly."
I shall be pleased to send you others as
I may recall them. At one time I was
preparing to publish a collection of these
old songs, as contemplated by Mr. Lomax,
and I have—unfortunately not accessible
new—many old, old song books I collected,
containing a great number of such songs.
What I offer now are from memory, nn<T
it may be they are not always quite erir-
rect or complete, but—"such as I have,
give I thee."
Hoping others may derive as much pleas-
ure in reading, as I have felt in recalling
these songs, I am, Very trulv yours,
A. IT. JACKSON,
801 South Presa Street.
NETTIE MOORE.
In a little white cottage where the trees
were ever ftreen.
And the climbing roses blossomed by *he
door,
I have often sat snd listened to the music
of the birds,
And the gentle voice of charming Nettie
Moore.
Refrain.
Oh. I miss you, Nettle Moore,
And my happiness is o'er,
While a spirit sad around my heart
lias come;
For the busy days are long, and the
nights are lonely now,
Ton ve gone from our little cottage
home.
One early morn in Autumn ere the dew
had left the dawn,
Came a trader up from Louisiana Bay;
He pnve to master money and enshackled
ner with chslns,
And took her off to wear her life ewaj.
Oh, I miss you, Nettle Moor%
And my happiness is o'er,
Though the tsars corns no sort Into
my eyes.
For when weary life Is past, I shaf
meet you once again,
In Heaven, darling, up above the skies,
a am under the impression there were
one or two more stanzas, which I cannot
recall,—A. H. J.)
THE SUWANEH RIVER.
(Also called "The Old Folks at Home.")
'Way down upon the Suwanee River, far,
far awuy,
There's where my heart is turning ever,
There's where the old folks stay.
All up and down the whole creation
Sadly I roam, still longing for the old
plantation,
And for the old folks at home.
Refrain.
All tbe world is sad and dreary.
Everywhere I roam;
Oh. darkles I how my hesrt grow*
weary,
Fsr from ths old folks at home!
All 'round the dear old farm I wandered,
when I was young.
Many the happy hours 1 squandered.
Many the songs I sung.
One little hut among the Uusbea, on* that
I love.
Still fondly to my memory rushes.
No matter where I rove.
When shall I see the bees a hemming, stl
'round the comb!
When shall I hear he banjo summing
D^wn in my good old lit me?
When I was playing w th mv brother,
banpy was I;
Ob' fak- me to my k'nd old mothei*—
There ici me live and die!
THE OLD KENTUCKY HOMU.
Oh. de sun shines bright on ths old Kela-
tucky Home—
'Tls summeh. de dahkles ah gey;
De cohn top's ripe, sn' de meddehs ah In
bloom, j
Whlls' de blbds makes muste all 4s lay.
Oh. weep no moah mah lady,
Oh, weep no moah today,
We will sing one song foh de old Kaln-
tucky home,
Foh de old Kaintucky home fah awajr.
We will hunt no moah foh de possum an'
de coon
By de meddeh, de bill an' de shoah;
we will sing no moah by de glimmeh oh
de moon
On de buiuch by de little cabin doah.
Oh, weep no moah, eto.
De hald mus' bow, an' de back will have
toh ben'
Wha' eveli de dahkey may go;
A few moah days, an do trouble all will en'
In de flel's whan de sugah-cane grow.
Oh, weep no moah, etc.
Oh! de day goes by like a shado' o'eh ds
beaht—
'Tls sorrow, where all was delight;
De time has come when de dahkeys has to
paht—
Den, my ole Kaintucky home—Good nlghtl
Oh, weep no moah, etc.
A few moah days foh to tote d« weary load,
No matteh—'till nevah be light;
A few moah days till we totteh on de road.
Den, my ole Kaintucky home—good night.
A LITTLE OEM.
I would be very glad If some one could
f;lve mo the remaining stanzas of the fol-
owing:
I stand on memory's golden shore,
And muse and dream this autumn night,
Of friends and forms that never more,
Shall bless on earth my weary sight.
I reach in vain to grasp tho hands
That beckon from the farther side,
Where gleam the shining silver sands.
Where murmurs soft the silvery tide,
I stand on memory's golden shors*
I tread life's weary rounds alone;
The dear departed come no more,
The all of life I loved is gone.
ROLL ON, SILVER MOON.
As I strayed from my cot at the close of
the day,
'Mid the ravishing beauties of June,
'Neath the Jessamine shade I espied a fair
maid,
And she plaintively sighed to the moon;
Refrain.
Boll on, silver moon, guide the trave'er
his way,
While the nightingale's aong is in tune;
But I never, never more with my tr^e
love shall stray
By thy sofe silver light, gentle moon.
Like the hart on the mountain my loves
was brave,
So noble, so manly and clever;
bo kind and sincere—and he loved me fnll
dear—
Oh! Edwin, thine equal was never.
His Ions grave Til seek out, and till morn-
ing appears,
I will weep o'er my lover so brave:
The cold sod I'll embrace, and I'll bathe
with my tears
The flowers that bloom o'er his grave.
LILT DALE.
"Twrs a calm, still night, and the moon's
pale light
Shoue soft o'er hill and val^
When friends mute with grief stood sround
the death bed
Of my dear lost Lily Dale.
Refrain.
Oh, Lily! sweet Lily! dear Lily Dale!
Now the wild flowers wavs o'er thy little
green grave,
'Neath the trees In the foreet vale.
"I go," said she, "to the land of rest.
And ere my strength shall fall,
I would tell you where, near my own loved
home,
Ton must lay poor Lily Dale.
•"Neath the chestnut trees, where the wild
flowers wave.
And the rill ripples forth through the vale.
Where the wild birds warbls their songs
in the spring.
Ton must lay poor Lily Dale."
(I think there la another stansa lacking,
which I do not recall.)
THE BLUE-TAILED FLY.
If yon should go in de eummeh-tlme
Toh Souf Cahlina's sultry ellme,
An' In dose shades yoh chance foh toh il*»
Yo' soon fin' out ds blue-tall' fly.
Jhn-crack-cohn. I don' cyahj
Jim-crack-cohn, I don* cyahf
Jim-crack-cohn, an* I donr
Ol' Mahateh'a gone away.
When I was young, I use' foh toh wait
At Mahateh'a table, pase dat plate,
Han* dat bottle when him dry—
An' breah away de blue-tall' fly.
Jim-crack-cohn, etc.
(Am not sure whether this Is eomplete.1
There sre several other atansaa. one of
which is recalled which ran something llkt
this:
Mv ole masse oromised me,
when he died he'd set me free
Now he's deed snd gone to hell,
Aad left me dl«glnr In dls sams ole weft.
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