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aA.\ AN1UM0 fcXPRFSS: SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1912.
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! there when there is assurance of cargo to
j carry away or when freighted with cargo
to be delivered at the port.
By co-operation between the seacoast cities
and the interior cities to be benefited by the
new port in the way of lessened freight
rates it maj be possible to provide suffi-
cient cargo each way to employ a large
number of ocean carriers several months in
the \ear while the ne« seaport is Retting a
start, and as the seaport Jties grow in im-
portance as markets and trade centers ^he
business of the port will increase to such an
extent that the liabor will at all times be
dotted with big and little vessels and great
ocean carriers will be coming up to the
wharves or going out ail the time.
For a time big vessels may dock at some
i of the other ports to take on part cargo and
finish loading where is deeper water until
the whole scheme of development has been
worked out and the facilities of the entire
harbor area are brought into requisition. In
the meantime there must be co-operative
work to give the new port the right kind
of start and to build up the business so that
it will spread out.
There is a fine prospect, but a great deal
yet remains to be done and San Antonio's
part in the promotion is a very important
one.
Texas merchant, if this is a logical argument,
can, by advertising his goods in his imme-
diate zone, increase his trade rather than
lose any part of it as a result of the parcels
1 post law.
Since by increasing his trade territory,
| however, would certainly result in a loss of
trade by local merchants, the argument may
be more specious than logical. At any rate,
it may result in giving the bulk of the busi-
ness to the merchants who are the best busi-
ness men, which will be but conforming to
the law of the survival of the fittest. Noth-
ing except an actual test of the workings
of the new law can enable the people to posi-
tively decide just what the effect will be.
* f
UITH PEXAS LDITO'lS
The Brcwnsvii
editor who, wis)
right side cm* ti.
"vote for Tedd.i.
r.tine! has discovered nn
t>» be sure to get on the
i-e. mlvises Lis readers to
for Tnbet on Wilson.
THE OLD-TIMER
B\ VIXGIE E. ROS.
An Ohio paper says the Buckeyes jollied
the women but did not give them the ballot.
Men were ever flirtatious.
THE HUMAN SIDE.
Leaves have their time to fall and so has
Ojinaga. The only difference is that
Ojinaga falls harder and more frequently.
A news item says the Bull Moose move-
ment in Mississippi is apathetic and the
Little Rock Democrat says it is just so in
Arkansas with the first letter of apathetic
left off.
Under the terms of the proclamation sus-
pending constitutional guaranties in Mex-
ico rebels caught red-handed are subject to
execution. Of course, the rebels may be
expected to retaliate.
Antonio Rojas would better look where he
shoots if he knows what is good for him.
If the United States troops get after him
they may not be hindered in the pursuit by
a too careful looking out for the border line.
Montgomery Advertiser: "A San Antonio
judge, while in Chicago, whipped three
strangers, one of whom was a Montana
sheriff, because .hey made fun of his som- j
brero hat. He didn't propose to have his !
lid taken off by a technicality." No San
Antonio judge ever wears a sombrero that
anyone would laugh at, even in Chicago,
A Milwaukee police officer arrested the
head of a large family for creating a dis-
turbance. After further investigation he be-
came convinced that the man was justified
in raising a disturbance in the disciplining
of his household. Then, when the case came
up, he went into court and asked for the
discharge of his prisoner instead of trving
to make good his charge.
The incident is worth relating as illus-
trative of the human side of the police of-
ficer, the prosecutor and the judge. Too
often the officer who makes an arrest
thinks it is incumbent upon him to assure
a conviction as an endorsement of his act
in making the arrest, and the prosecutor too
often thinks more of his reputation for se-
curing convictions than of the real merits
of the case or of the palliating circumstances
which he might have developed before going
into the trial.
In the case referred to the judge compli-
mented the officer for investigating the case
before presenting it to the court and for
changing from prosecutor to defender when
convinced that his prisoner should go free.
Grand juries indict on ex parte testimony
and hundreds of cases burden the court
dockets that never come to trial or that are
dismissed after being carried on the docket
for ever so long when if there had been
a little investigation to start with they
might have been dismissed at once.
Policemen are for protection, not for
prosecution, and the more human the police-
man the better officer he is.
THE PARCELS POST.
In 1900 there were invested in automo-
biles in this country less than $5,000,000.
In 1910 the figure had been increased to
within a fraction of $250,000,000. In 1899
the capital employed in the manufacture of
automobiles was less than $6,000,000, now it
probably exceeds $200,000,000. And still
the horse has not been put out of busi-
ness, but commands as high a price as ever
before.
There is need for a Eugene Grubb in
Texas. Mr. Grubb is the well-known Colo-
rado authority on potato culture and has re-
cently toured Europe as an attache of
the United States Department of Agricul-
ture gathering information on the spud
with a view to developing potato culture
in several States west of the Missouri River.
The Union Pacific Railroad has placed Mr.
Grubb in the Western field which it pene-
trates and believes that his co-operation and
advice will greatly increase the output of
potatoes and very materially curtail the de-
mand for foreign potatoes. Potato culture
in Texas needs this same kind of treatment
at the hands of experts, and the railroads
could well afford the expense, as they will
be among the chief beneficiaries, for the
crop must be taken to market.
TORT ARANSAS.
The opening of the new seaport at Aransas
Pass has been duly celebrated with music
and banners and oratory galore, and San An-
tonio, represented by a large delegation from
the Chamber of Commerce, has been there
to manifest her interest in the new port.
A big ocean steamer that draws twenty-five
feet of water and will carry 10,000 bales of
cotton, lay at the dock at Port Aransas—that
is, at that point on Harbor Island, a few
miles from the town of Aransas Pass, with
which the port is connected by a terminal
railroad, about six miles long, and just
across the channel from the town of Port
Aransas on Mustang Island.
A few miles away in opposite directions
lie the smart established cities of Corpus
Christi and Rockport and along the bay front
between are other prospective cities and sea-
ports. The Government has deepened the
channel known as Aransas Pass and the har-
bor to a depth sufficient to accommodate
large ocean carriers, and in time will extend
the jetties and further dredge the harbor so
as to provide greater depth of water and
larger facilities for anchorage for deep sea
craft. It now remains for private or cor-
porate interest* to do the rest.
The port is there and the vessels will be
The operation of the new parcels post law,
which will be inaugurated January I, if
the plans of the Posioffice Department do
not go astray, will be watched with interest
by persons who have discussed the subject
from either side. The system as it has been
provided for by Congress, will be consider-
ably in the nature of an expe.iment, and if
it is found to work satisfactorily it will prob-
ably be enlarged upon and improved by sub-
sequent Congresses.
There has been strong opposition to the
parcels post by country merchants on the
ground that it would be calculated to injure
their business by making mail order business
greater, and Congress appears to have en-
deavored to obviate this result by providing
for a zone system which wiil make the rates
on packages sent a long distance consider-
ably greater than for a short distance, the
effect of which will be to give country mer-
chants as a class greater protection than
they otherwise would have. That is, while
country merchants within a few miles of
Chicago or New York will meet with greater
competition from mail order houses, mer-
chants in Texas and other parts of the coun-
try remote from large trade centers will be
affected to a less degree because the rates
to those sections will afford them more pro-
tection.
A package which will not weigh more than
eleven pounds nor measure more than
seventy-two Inches In length and girth com-
bined, and shall otherwise conform to the
postal regulations, may be sent at a flat rate
of 1 cent an ounce, the weight not exceeding
four ounces, regardless of distance, but
when a parcel exceeds four ounces in weight,
it must be paid for according to weight and
distance as follows:
Each ad-
First ditional Eleven
pound, pound, pounds.
Itural and city delivery 05 ,01 .lfi
BO mile zone 05 .OS ."f>
lW mile zone 06 .04 .40
,'iOO-mile zone..... 07 .05 .57
(>00 mile zone ok .00 .08
1.000-mlle zone 09 .07 .79
1,400 mile zone 10 Oft 1.00
1,800-nil 1** zone 11 .10 1.11
More than 1,800 miles 12 .12 1.32
A Washington paper, commenting on the
provisions of this system of charges, declares
that instead of being an injury to country
merchants, the parcels post may be used
by them advantageously. It is argued that,
with less expense than the big department
stores, the country merchants can afford to
sell in competition with them, and that by
confining his trade to a reasonable zone,
the country merchant will have a great ad-
vantage over the city merchant in his par-
ticular territory. For example, the rate
which would be charged within a zone of 100
miles on a package of eleven pounds will
be only 46 cents, while from Chicago to a
point in Southwest Texas, the same sized
package would cost 79 cents and from New
York it would cost more than a dollar With
this advantage in his favor, a Southwest
Rl'RAL MAIL DELIVERY.
The growth of the rural mail delivery
' service illustrates most forcibly the immense
development of the country in general, and
it testifies most eloquently to the splendid
advancement of the agricultural districts,
but more than all this, it is a deserved rec-
ognition by the Government of the claims
the farming communities have upon the
Nation. For many years the inhabitants of
cities have had the advantage of free mail
delivery, but the same convenience was de-
nied those citizens who, because of their
environments, were in greater need than
any others of it.
Farmers were compelled to travel over
rough roads, through mud, through snow, to
the local postoffices to get their letters and
newspapers, while persons residing within
a stone's throw of the offices, with good
sidewalks, with shelters from storms, were
handed their mail at their very doors. But
sixteen years ago an experiment was made
in rural delivery service. This experiment
began in a small way, but so greatly appre-
ciated has it been, it has grown to immense
proportions, covering the entire country—
east, west, north and south, and wherever
the population is sufficient and the public
roads will admit, farmers are now enjoying
the privileges which are bestowed upon their
brothers in the cities. Beginning with only
eighty-three carriers, the service now em-
braces more than 42,000 and the number is
being constantly multiplied.
Congress, at its last session, took another
advanced step in the encouragement of this
scrvice, passing an appropriation bill which
provides for an increase in pay of about
30,000 men. Those who are now receiving
$1,000 a year will be paid $1,100, beginning
with October 1, which is a righteous admis-
sion of the value of their services. Com-
pelled to travel in all kinds of weather and
under all kinds of circumstances, the rural
mail carriers, with their horses to care for,
have no easy task, and they should be suit-
ably rewarded for their services. With the
introduction of the parcels post system, theii
work will be considerably increased and they
will earn every dollar they receive.
But the Government can afford to pay
these salaries and the class of people di-
rectly benefited by the service deserve all
such conveniences the Government can give
them. The rural delivery is.bringing the
farmer nearer to tows, it is helping to place
farm life upon a higher plane and it is
helping to turn the tide of immigration
from the city back to the country by mak-
ing farm life more attractive.
It Is the duty of every good cilUen to vote as he
; prays, but It isn't absolutely necessary that
be should bet as he prays. In fact, it is n'to-
gether probable that some collar Republican*
j will pray for Taft and bet ou WUson, aud it is
j probable, also, that some former Republicans will
v-'te for the « < ionel and bet on Wilson. As t!.e
situation no* stands, a man would be very short
•^'irbtod to l-e: on anybody evept Wilson. As
ft i i'.avins iiu \ »tin*. Taft will need all the
j prayers he can get aud Teddy will need a great
many neve votes tl«!i be trill pet. In the mean
time, betting on WiUon vtli go right ahead.
— -
"f the eight par. tf.i, hs in its editorial col-
umn* last t!it voi\"iIie!ni View devoted seveu
to l.o >g its h.inie town Such loyalty is ver>
commendable and rYiei>?s n» be appreciated bj
the citizens there, tbrugh »t is by no means an
unusual thing for a l.ovnj ,per to do. It' everj
citizen of a town vas .is gteut a booster as is
the average editor, all the towns would soon
grow to be cities, There Is no town where all
the people boost that is not growing rapidly
But in too many towns the citizens expert all
the boosting to be done by the editors, which
is unjust to the overworked man and a bad
policy besides. In forty-nine cases in fifty the
editor can be counted on to do his full part of
sn^h work, and he should have the support of all
the other citiaeus of his town.
What Matters.
It matters little where I was born,
or if my parents were rich or poor;
Whether they shrank from the cold world's
scorn.
Or walked In the pride of wealth secure;
But whether I live an honest mau,
And hold my Integrity firm In my clutch,
[ tell you, my brother, as plain as I can,
It matters much!
It matters little how long I stay
In a world of sorrow, sin and cure;
Whether in youth I am called away.
Or live till my bones and pate are bare;
Rut whether 1 do the best I can
soften the weight of adversity's touch
On The faded cheek of my fellowmun,
It matters much!
It matters little where be my grave,
On tlie land or on the sea.
By purling brook or 'neatta stormy wave,
It matters little or naught to me;
But whether the Angel of Death coine3 down
And murks my brow with his loving touch.
As one that shall wear the victor's crown,
It matters much!
—New York Observer.
—
From Hies oi the express
Thirty-five Years Afro Today—1877.
Seventeen hundred people witnessed the. game
of baseball between the Boston and Chicago
clubs at Boston last Saturday and they got ro
see oni.v one run, the only one scored being by
the Chicago boys.
♦ ♦ ♦
A dispatch from Cleveland, Ohio, says: "A
cattle plague thought to be spotted fever has
broken out among the cattle in the surrounding
country. Texas catt.l# this year are covered with
ticks of two varieties and the bite Is poisonous
to the blood and many cattle are dying The dls
ease is said to be very Infectious."
♦ ♦ ♦
It Is generally reportpd, but not confirmed,
that General Mariscal refuses to deliver the gov-
ernment of the state of Sinaloa to General lluerta,
the recently appointed military governor.
♦ ♦ ♦
New Braunfels. thirty miles distant from S«n
Antonio, is brought very near by the present
railroad arrangement, 'lha fare, to go and re-
turn, Including bus stage and railroad charges.
Is only $r,.50. The traveler leaves San Antonio
at 5 o'clock a. m., takes the stage at New Marlon
and reaches New Braunfels for breakfast.
Fifteen Year* Ago Today—1807.
Charles 0 Klbbe is about the only one of the
railway postal clerks who can aay "it never
touched me," when speaking of the dengue.
♦ ♦
In Menard County Hon, Joseph D. Sa.yers Is
the favorite for Governor nnd Governor Culberson
is the choice for United States Senate.
♦ ♦
The State law prohibiting the selling of rail-
road tickets without a certificate of authority
was tesled in ihe Thirty-seventh District Court
yesterday and the verdict was that the law in
constitutional.
f ♦ ♦
James Simpson, after an ntended stay In
Meiico, has returned to the city.
K. U Hofhelni and Miss Ida Grossenbacher
were quietly married yesterday at the residence
of the bride's parents and left immediately after
for a short stay at the coast.
Explosion of a gasoline stove on Howard Street
called out the fire department.
♦ ♦
At the meeting of the city Council action on
tlie budget was postponed until uctobtr.
The Weithoff Advertiser is umUile to under
stand why McLennan County, which gave Judge
Ramsey a big vote in the recent primaries, voted
by a considerable majority against local option
in the election the other day. There is no mys-
tery about that at all. Judge Knrnsey has »
l.ii'ge number of personal friends and admirers
in McLennan County, and it is but natural that
ihov should vote for him, even though they are
opposed to local option or State-wide prohibition
Colonel McCollum, editor of the XVaco Tribune
has always been un antiprobibitionist, but he
Is a friend to liamsey and supported that geu
tleman in his race for Governor. It is probable
, that many other Democrats were influenced in
the same way. There "as no local option issue
involved in thp gubernatorial race.
The Medina Valley Herald, published in Knip
j pa. is a new paper, the Southwest Texas Farmer
having been merged with it. The Fanner was
published In the same town and by the same
j persons, and was devoted to the interests of the
Farmers' I'nion, The Herald will be published
weekly as a general local newspaper. Edward
Thorp Is editor and ICrnest Thorp publisher.
The West Texas (Del Kloi News urges thai
1.'xns should have tanneries, factories to turn
out leather goods, cotton goods nnd other ar-
ticles, and that Texas people should produce
their own supplies of all kinds. Just why
leather and leather goods should not be pro-
duced In a State that furnishes so many hides,
aud why there are not many cotton mills in a
State that produces more cotton than any other
State instead of sending these raw materials
East to be manufactured, is one of those econo-
mic questions which the laynjun finds It hara
to answer. Texas prairies are covered with a
shrub that makes an excellent tanning material
and cfforls have beeu made to utilize it here, but
as i rule the experiment has resulted In failure.
It is hoped It will not be long until the hides
will be tanned here and the leather converted
into shoes and harness and saddles and other
things, and that Texas will be a seller instead
of a buyer of such goods. When that day coniti
'lexas people will be more prosperous than lliey
.•tie under present conditions.
As an evidence of the value of raising plenty
of feedstuff on farms as well as cotton, this
situation iu the Bio Grande Valley as reported
i by the Donna Dispatch, Is interesting:
i Aftw all. the Bin Grande Valley fanner is in
a whole lot better shape than be was this time
last year. Now he has plenty of feed iur his
stock and prospects for another fine crop of corti
boiween now and Christmas. This time iast
year, while the cotton crop was much better
than at present, many of the fanners had to
^jieiirl a Idg per cent of the proceeds from their
cottou to buy feed for their stock And it isn't
really what you make that keeps the coyote u n
f|om the kitchen; It's what yon save. Tho farm
firs made u little more on cotton last year, out
they are saving a whole lot more on 'feed this
year and the Dispatch rises to maintain that
they are in better shape today than they wre
one year ago.
Vermont's Verdict.
If the Vermont, verdict means anything It
means a Wilson landslide in November.
The Democrats have more than held their own,
and when they can do this in Vermont they can
do it In every Stale in the Fnion. As for Mr.
Roosevelt's Progressive party, on the basis of Its
Vermont showing, It will not poll enough voles
to make It a formidable factor In the election,
but It will poll enough votes to overwhelm the
regular Republican party In disaster.
If Mr. Taft In November cannot hold more
than two thirds of the regular Republican vote,
as his followers did in Vermont yesterday, there
Is not the faintest possibility of his election.
If Mr. Roosevelt can gam approximately only a
third of Ihe regular Republican vote there Is
not. the faintest possibility of his election. If
Governor Wilson cau poll the full Democratic
vote while dividing tlio independent vote with
Ihe Progressives his majority In the Electoral
College w ill lie overwhelming.
There is no evidence iu ihe Vermont returns
that the Roosevelt campaign Is regarded as any-
thing bnt an attempt to wrest control of the
regular Republican organization from ihe fol-
lowers of Mr. Taft. While the showing was
creditable, the third-term party made no wide
spread appeal to the Vermont voters as a new
political movement to regenerate American In-
stitutions. Its Strength seems to t,» drawn en-
tirely from Republican sources, 'The Vermont
returns spell Woodrow Wilson's triumphant elec-
tion to the presidency, with William H Taft
and Theodore Roosevelt stoutly contesting for
the honor of finishing third New Vork World
One Meal a Day.
Ail over the world and right close at home
there have been and are numerous Instances of
the breaking of the rule of three meals a day
on the part of some who In feeding solids to the
stomach choose to study its actual necessities
for the continued support of the whole body
rather than to fill It so many times per day in
response to habit or the demands of mere taste,
often without thought of the difficulties pre
sented to the gastric juices or of frequent indi-
gestion and finally confirmed dyspepsia. It
would seem to some of us that there is almost
as mncb excess in eating as In drinking,
In many instances the frequency of the trencher
work is merely a matter of habit that should
be overcome as early in life as possible. Those
who must live by manual labor no doubt must
eat three times each day. but there are many
others who would do much better for the body
on two meals. With rannv (he luncheon habit
is merely an excuse to break through the monot-
ony of so many hours to the day in a routine and
give opportunity to meet and converse with
one's fellows, nnd then, after eating heartily of a
course dinner of sonps. meats, vegetables and
pastry (miscalled a lunch), to return to the men-
tal work at hand or the very light exercise of
easy labor with a sense of heaviness, sleepiness
and indigestion.
All of us know of many Instances of persons
in professional life who thrive on two meals per
day, and one of those rather light. Some <>f us
know of men who eat bnt one square meal" in
each twenty-four hours. In some Instances this
meal Is breakfast; In others, at noon. ( ;ncin-
natl Inquirer.
Hygienic Deductions.
Common soap, says ji pusion physician. Is n
carrier of vlnilet.t disease and a menace to
health. Now we know why the boy with the
dlrliest face Is never tick snd the tramp never
feels a pain.—Illinois Slate Journal.
*
"We. we:., you young fellows will have your
i w,..v S' v'ner »*r later. I suppose; but while I
i wOiiiit the truth of your argument, I think you
j eatry v«»ur point too far."
The president of a great Northwestern rail
; nay systen shook his head and glanced nut
• >f the wiudow «»f the old coach lumbering over
the coast rnntie to Grant's Pass Opposite, e. u
i erly watching his face, a younger official of
j the same system made as if to s|»eak. but the
president went on:
'Ti i most places, yes the younger men a>»-
suredl> iu the shop* where long hours ann
heavy work demand strength; iu designing and
improving, wl-- v tl. young brain rei-hes out
(or rev oil'..is ti :.i,p»ie<l l»y use and custom;
in clv:I ert^.-i „ w • **re daring aud some
times f» lhi>< -v i« i • ,(m1 ; but in the cabs
ahc t-f t; . • «>: liiiw n freight, no!"
"hut rijJir t r< ,s tic acme «>f my argument,
broke la the other. "Where else is m<ipf needed
the firm 1,;. ! ... v- ... n t tv w boyhood,
of couifH- but the v • 'ff ne:vcs • : tl.p man
just at his prih.C. tic qn k eve un'Umuicd, the
mind Kt lt> bes . a I-!, r<- s\\: 'j ' any emer-
gency !:. tin- !!;.•;:• • of •> >"com1V Why, mau
alive, where else hi the w'ho'e r\« em is the per-
fect man so greatly needed V"
The presided atw k l'!s head out of the stage
window, aud craned ahead
"Egad!" lie said wonderingly. "What a road:
Look out. Hill is
The other looked Ahead, the leaders were
lost sight of around a curve tUt stuck out Into
space, while nt the left there were two feet be-
tween the wheels and nothing
"Some class to that," 11 iHis said
As they straightened back again, the third
occupant of the stage, a IuKiher jack, broke into
the conversation, happily unconscious of social
differences.
"There's somethin' on both sides," he said,
"but in the hills, when a man's needed for A
ticklish job. they hunt up an old-timer. They
know !'*
The president looked keenly at the speaker,
enjoying this succinct abetting of his own be-
lief.
"Yes,' lie said. I think they do, and so do I.
It's custom, and habit, and the good knowledge
of long use. It's the confidence of well-trodden
ground. When I come West, my private car I*
always attached to a good mogul with Fog-
garty in the cab. lie's fifty seven, and grizzled,
and as steady as a rock. He could run an engine
in his sleep, he is so used to it: and I think
he'd do by instinct the best thing iu any crisis.
I hope he'll last as long as I do."
The younger man smiled.
"Keep Foggarty." he said, "for private con-
sumption, but get in line of progress. Cut out
the antiques and put In new stuff:''
"That will put out of business for the rest
of their days two hundred and sixty-eight of the
best engineers in America, for we have In our
system just that number over your proposed
age-limit."
"I have no sentiment," returned the other.
"With me it's the system, and nothing but the
systen.."
That's verv good, my boy. hut you forget
that with me It has been the system, and nothing
but the system, for forty years. I'm an antique
myself. We're bound to go that line in the
long
The sentence was jerked unfinished from the
speaker s mouth. With a grotesque tilting of
his silk hat. he went hard against the back of
the ancient seat. From the front seat the young
man and the lumber jack shot to their knees on
the floor. There came a lurch, a great creak
ing, a roaring jangle from the bells on the lead-
ers. and the rock wall on the right began to
merge its diagonal seams nnd fissures into a
rushing blur.
Out of the melee of sounds there came a voicg
cutting through with a cool calmness, deep and
caressing.
"Whoa, boys! Whoa, boys: Whoa, Pete!
Steady, boys: Whoa!"
The young man on the floor opened his mouth
and stared at the president, and Ihe blood
slowly drained out of both faces.
"Runaway!" Jerked the former. "They're run-
ning :"
The cold wind shrieked in at the swaying
window. The old coach staggered drunkenly.
Its railed top now grazing the flying wall, again
leaning far out over the edge. The president
caught one sickening glimpse of a soft, white
floor in the canon below, its belying assurance
betrayed by the spike-like tops of pines and
one tall needle of rock.
A grim line settled about the younger man's
lips. He struggled up, clutching the door; but
the old latch had been sprung by that first
lurch, and held. Silently he grasped a hol<!
and looked ahead.
Like a ribbon running down s turning spool
the smooth, white road ran down around fb*
< • iff. Here and there it straightened a bit. and
be could scp the leaders, a splendid pair of rangy
duns with dapples on their gaunt hips, running
with flattened cars and stretched necks.
In a maxe he heard the roar of mingled sounds,
the ex j ti 11 c pound of the hoofs, the turmoil ot
the belN the creaking of the crazy old stage
the wild squeal of the brake, and through it
all the deep, caressing voice of the driver talk-
in c t«» bis horses;
"Wlioa. hoys! Steady! Steady thar! Pete"
Pete: Whoa. Pete:"
Then suddenly there lumped into his con-
sriousness the voice of tne lumber-jack on the
f" r. It "ns broken and in jerks, but this is
what it said:
"It's Hicks on the—box—old-timer. Drove
forty year."
old-timer: Drove forty year!
Hillls gathered his scattered wits, and strove
to focus his dilated eyes on the network of
lines, four of them, that ran tautly up to the
box.
There he caught swaying glimpses of a figure
In a red flannel shirt, «•= It swung from side to
side, one booted foot braced on the foot-bar,
one on the brake, its naked arms brown as
leather under the rolled-up sleeves, the muscles
slipping and rising with every lurch. Heavily he
got his eyes up to the face a lean face, brown
as th« arms, peaked and .sharp with sun and
wind, under ragged gray hair that blew back.
And he saw there flicks, old-timer: saw the
set of the lean jaw. the eagle look of the eyes,
the whole man bent to the moment: saw habit
In the grip of the knotted hands on the lines,
assurance and confidence and instinct in such
skilful handling of each pregnant moment as is
rarely given one to witness,
lie did not know that he saw all this at the
time. Hp recalled it afterward. And then, sud-
denly as it had all begun, like a shot one sound
left the rest-the high, shrill scream of the
brake. The red-shirted figure lurched perilously,
regained itself and straightened, lust as the
stage plunged forward upon the heels of the
w heelers.
Ahead was a sharper turn. The wheelers, hith-
erto obeying against, all odds, leaped forward,
and fate poised Its finger, waiting.
It was then that Hlllis saw the weathered arm
fly to a hip, saw a gun whip out, and heard its
vicious crack. Hicks was shooting his horses:
Pete, the near leader, lunged down and slid,
but the pare was no more affected than if s drop
of rain had fallen. The mighty impetus carried
them on.
One. two. three shots followed rapidly. Ths
remaining lender stumbled, but thundered on;
the off wheeler fell, kicking frightfully. They
were slowing. The young railroad man. cling-
ing in the window, was dumb and aghast.
The eld driver aimed once more, got art emptj
click. 1'iid threw away the gun. Dragging th*
two fallen horses, pushed by the brakeless stage,
heavy and cumbrous, the others wet for the
curve. It was sharp, and the blue sky of the
morning showed across it.
Calmly old Hicks slid from the box Into the
struggling mass. He did it easily, as if bj in-
stinct. The xian In the window gasped.
The rest was> too swift and tragic to grasp. He
only knew that the leaders had lurched loose
from the scoring tongue, whipping a broken
chain; that there was a flash of red behind the
wheelers; that the sky-bounded curve was draw-
ing up; that there was one moment when a
mix-up of dun horses and bay staggered on the
edge, to struggle with a neigh or two of terror
before they went dragging (xver, leaving the
ha if-wrecked vehicle with one wheel whirling
in space.
Hicks went over with his horses. He had first,
very thoughtfully, slashed the one fastened trace.
Half an hour later the three men stood beside
the heap below.
"He was an old-timer, all right!" said the
lumber-Jack regretfully. "That's an old trick in
the mountains, shootin* the horses, and it 'most
always works. Would have this time if the
brake had held. Tt was a ticklish job, old boy,"
lie finished, ng he spread a blanket from his
turkey, fallen from the boot, over the limp,
gray-haired figure, and unwound a line from
the left hand; "and you was Johnny-on-the-spot.
We'll have to walk In to town, gents!"
Early the next morning the president's private
car went south from Grant's Pass.
"Sir" said the younger man, very gravely,
after breakfast. "I recede from my argument
There is something in use and familiarity aud
loner service, after all- in habit. Instinct, if you
will. By all means, let us keep our old-timers!"
(Cop)right by the Frank A. Munsey Company.!
I
Current Comment
Democratic Campaign Text-hook.
The Democratic campaign text-book for 1912
makes its appearance with a promptness which
is highly creditable to the efficiency of its editors
and compilers, and equally commendable is the
conscientious thoroughness of the work in ail
respects. The book contains 482 pages, and the
information embodied in it makes it a most
valuable manual and work of ready reference
for editors, platform speakers and all others
upon whom devolves the duty of placing the
great issues which the Democracy represents
before the public, while to Ihe voters the book
offers a comprehensive array of arguments, facts
and statistics nowhere else accessible in so con-
venient a form.
Issued by the Democratic National and con-
gressional committees and sold at the nominal
figure of 25 cents a copy, the work is assured
of a Nationwide distribution, and will be a
potent factor of strength for the Democracy in
the National battle against special privilege.
Brooklyn Times,
Insurance Risks.
At a recent session of life insurance agents
held in Chicago there was a little psychology in-
jected into their discussions of the best risks
in human life. The net results of discussion
was the decision that among the religious those
of the Jewish faith are the best risks. As to
the occupations among women the startling con-
clusion was reached that the housewife Is almost
the poorest risk In the world. Only chorus girls
nnd house servants were mentioned :is poorer
risks. One of the speakers stated that, strange
as tt may seem, religion plays an Important part
in the estimating of the degrees of risk on in-
surance policies and the Jew is the best risk be-
cause there is less of excitement in his religion
and it is more conducive to natural living than
any other. New Orleans Picayune,
Good Roads.
A dispatch to the Atlanta Constitution from
Americas, Gh.. tells that an 800-acre plantation
near that place sold at auction brought an
average of $64.50 per acre, some portions selling
as high as $75 an acre, and adds: "The farm
before public road improvements were Inau-
gurated In Sumpter County sold for $12 per
acre."
The Constitution in its editorial comment on
the Incident says a like advance In price has
been noted in respect to other lands sold In
the same county, and further declares that these
conditions "apply to every county iu the State
that has seen the wisdom of pursuing a syste-
matic highway improvement policy."
Here we have a concrete illustration of the
relation 4jf good roads to Improved land values,
that should stir the land owners everywhere to
become active and enthusiastic in the cause of
highway improvement.
Of course, good roads make the adjacent lands
more valuable for the simple reason that the
lands thereby become accessible t'» markets ann
transportation facilities. There is no mystery
about the increase in price; it comes a a:, en-
tirely logical consequence. A farm roi< hed py
good roads Is more valuable because it is more
desirable as a place of residence, a t: rrfore
more in demand; but the chief re?,* fvr the
Increase is because crops can be haulpd 'f mar
ket. or the shipping point, at greifly reduced
cost and in much shorter time. Nashville B anner.
Sad.
"I loved a lovely hi-nde Inst year,"
The soulful lover sljjhod.
"Her golden locks to me were dear,
But one sad day she dyed."
Cincinnati Inquirer,
Not Worth Bothering About.
Roosevelt sr.vk licit (Jenrpo Ki'i'il Williams U
for him and (.curve Fred says lio l*"'t, but It
may be n mere difference of opinion, of course,
and thnt is not north quarreling about. Indian-
apolis Kew«.
Paving With Brick and Wood
A growing disposition is now apparent t«
make less of the first cost of pavement for
streets arid highways generally, »a(] more of
the permanency of the improvements. It has
been established to the satisfaction of taxpayers
tiiid tin-levying bodies, It wonld seem, that road-
building is an art, and that there Is neither sense
nor saving in regarding it any longer as a mere
laborer's job. The experience of these later years
with motor vehicles, rubber-tired ana of great
speed and weight, and with the new problems
that they have presented In friction »nd unction,
has convinced not only those who construct high-
ways, but, more important still, those who pay
for them, that something mora than a food sur-
face is necessary to permanency.
It is interesting that consideration of all the
facts bom of this later experience should be
lending road-builders back to the block system
of pavement. The block system, it should be
said, includes brick paving. Whether the block
he slone. brick or wood, the advantage of em-
ploying it consists in the fact tiat It offers
more tliati a surface to the grinding of th« pass-
ing vehicle, and In the additional and equally
important fact that It may readily, if Injured,
be removed and replaced. Of the three, brick and
wood seem to hold the preference, on the score
of endurance, cleanliness, noiseiessness and econ-
omy.
liotli wood and brick paving fell into disrepute
in the past through u^. fault whatever of the
block principle. They failed because the first
essential to block paving a proper foundation
was neglected. Originally the cedar block pave-
ment was laid on planks; when the plankg de-
cayed the blocks sank, and iu time disappeared
In the mud. Poor workmanship characterized
jnncii of the brick paving a few -."irs ago. In-
sufficient provision being made for the founda-
tion. I.atterly. however, the foundations laid
fur both brick and wood, when laid ns they
suoiiid be, are solid pavements In themselves,
Skilfully laid, the concrete foundation forms
what amounts to an arch over the clay bed of the
roadway, and is perfectly competent to bear the
weight of traffic. When this concrete arch Is
laid with brick or stojie, a pavement Is obtained
that may be trusted to resist pressure, friction
•iu-1 siic'ton alike, and to wear Indefinitely.
Hut the all-important thing Is that the paving
shall he carried on under honest nud efficient,
supervision and by skillful workmen. If so,
the first cost should not be the main considera-
tion. fgr the taxpayer will lie paying for some
thing that will last, not for something that will
have to be done over again a few years hence.—
Christian Science Monitor.
Death and the Incurable Invalid,
A woman who is a helpless Invalid has started
a discussion in New Vork by writing a letter
asking that a law be enacted that will permit
physicians to put to death persons who are in-
curably afflicted and who desire to end their
misery.
The debate 11s to the rightfulness of such a
practice is an academic one. As long as the word
of Hod is believed by so large a proportion i-i
men and women to view the taking of human life
as a sin, it is not likely to receive serious sup-
port. Public policy, too, must set Its face against
such a proposal, because It would open up a
new way to commit crime without fear of pun-
ishment. Moreover, the "Incurable" Invalid nt
today not Infrequently becomes the well persiri
of tomorrow. The physician Is not Infallible and
the laboratory of nature contains specifics of
which he Is still ignorant.
But how many Incurable Invalids long for
death? Who does not know nieu and women so
afflicted whose lives are an inspiration to those
who come in contact with them, whose cheerful-
ness in pain and whoae resignation tinder th«
heavy hand of disease are a constant Incentive
to those in good health to make better use of
their good fortune?
The right to put to death is too great a power
to lodge 111 any physician's bands, and the mem-
bers of the profession would be the first to pro-
test against accepting such a reapnualbiltty,—
Baltimore Herald
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