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IH1C SAN ANTONIO DAILY EXPRESS: WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 14, 1909.
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Tonight the bticl
others Interested In a greater San
Aulonio will meet nt the Business
Men's Cltib 1o raise the bonus nn-I
bond Huhsrrlptlcn to secure the Fred-
crieksburg ruilroad. Tliis Is an im-
portant realtor and no man who is
interested in the future of San An-
tonio should fail to be present The
: uni required is comparatively modest
and the value that It will be to the
city is fully assured to be far greater
than the cost. This is a demonstrable
fact, and wholesalers and manufac-
turers here know the truth of it.
The fart that Mr. Nelson, who is
Popular Election of Senators.
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Tbe Income Tax Amendment.
Representative Fayne of New Yorlc
thtoiks the income tax will malts
this a nation of liars, that the
law will be difficult of enforce-
ment, and the tax the hardest
of all to collect. "It is, in a word, a
tax upon incomes oi honest men and
an exemption to tome extent to tiie
rascals," he said.
Possibly this is true, but may not
the same be said as to most other 1
taxes? Comparatively few taxpayers i
will rend'.T their property for taxation
at its full value, regardless of the
practice of their neighbors, and when
It comes to the rendition of personal
property there is not only systematic
dodging, but. such avoidance of tho
tax as does no: deceive the assessor
or any one else
Perhaps no system of taxation that
was ever devised was perfect. Per-
haps there ,'iave always been and al-
ways will be artful djdgers whom tho
tax-gatherer can not persuade to con-
tribute their just share to relief of the
burdens of taxation. Perhaps there
are men who will ever make false re-
turns of their personal or other prop-
erty nnd who would not toll the truth
about their income, but it would not
be the Income tax that made liars of
them. In this, nature or circumstancjs
would ha.'e anticipated the incomo
tax. Laws do lot make people either
fconest or dishonest. I,aws merely
hold them to accounlal ility and pun-
ish them for wrong-doing when they
are detected in it.
The corporation tax amendment to
the tariff bill provides for a sort of
publicity \\ hich is expected to uncover
the facts which might otherwise be
concealed, and the tax-gatherer will
get his toll from '.ho corporations In
spite of all efforts at evasion if the
law works as successfully as its pro-
ponents anticipate. Hut the corpora-
tion net income tax is merely a tem-
porary makeshift for present emerg-
encies. This was confessed by Sena-
tor Aldrich in proposing it as an
nmendrnent to the Senate tariff bill.
It is further emphasized by the sub-
mission of a constitutional amendment
authorizing a general income tax.
It will be a year or more before the
income tax amendment to the consti-
tution will bo ratified by the States, if
It ever is. It will be l'JU before most
trf the State Legislatures will assem-
ble again, unless called in special ses-
sion, and it is not likely that any of
them will bo called in special session
merely to ratify a constitutional
amendment. It will require affirma-
tive action by three-fourths of tho sev-
rral States—either by the Legisla-
tures or by conventions, to adopt the
amendment, so it may bo seen that
'.he opposition of a dozen States would
lefeat it. The Eastern States are un-
derstood to be opposed to the income
tax, and they could muster sufficient
forcc to defeat it, even if all tho West
and South voted for the amendment
Congress has submitted the amend-
ment and it now remaius to be eetn
whether it will be adopted.
to begin work at once, and that if tho
road is not connected for San Antonio
it will be connected for tho North.
Texas trade, makes) this a very im-
portant event in the commercial his-
tory of this city. Besides, If the road
be built for a San Antonio connection,
it will be extended to a northern con-
nection with either the Frisco or
Santa Fc. and will thus make tho
first and most important step In a lino
through San Antonio for tho lower
liio GranJo Valley trade.
Everybody who is a town booster
should be at the meeting tonight in
the Business Men's Club rooms.
Mr. Bryan has reqjested President
Taft to permit tho sovereign voters
of this country to say by their ballots
whether or not they favor tho election
of United States Senntors by popular
vote. Tho constitution provides that
tho Federal Senators shall be chosen
by tho Legislatures of the States and
that tho representatives of tho sev-
eral States In tho highest branch of
the National Legislature shall be ex-
e.ctly etiual—two Senators for tnch
State, regardless of population or
other consideration.
The Representatives in tho popular
branch of Congress aro selected by
popular vote an1 aro apportioned
.'imong the States according to popu-
lation. Thus New York has thirty-
seven Representatives In the lower
House of Congress, while Delaware
has but '>no, but In the Senato IX'la-
ware and Now York have exactly the
same representation, ami so havo all
tho other States, and according to tho
genius of our Government, which is a
federation of States, It must always
be so. But of late years tho wisdom
of tho fathers in providing tho man-
ner of selecting members of tho upper
house of the National Legislature has
THE EMPIRE OF INDIA.
X.-Famine's Ever Dreaded Specter.
SOME LITTLE TEXAS STORIES
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.
TOPICS OF THE TIMES
Calcutta, India, June 13.
* F THE Indiana of India were ia Indo-
" lent oh tho uncivilized Indiana of
North America tho lirlllsh empire would
have upon Its hands today an almshouse
tenanted by nearly a fifth of tho popu-
lation of tho world, or a comatery half
as largo In area an the United States.
Famine 1. not only written large across
the pages of India's history, but also
looms darkly In tho future us the great-
est of her problems. Its specter Is present
evory year, despite elaborate systems of
relief, despite donations made by rich
Indian princes and despite the liberality
with which the world opens Its purse
strings when the Indian peasant Is starv-
ing.
Native politicians contend that the
Kteat obstacle between their country and
Issued. Notwithstanding: this about
1,00(1,000 persons cileo If starvation or
cholera due lo the pollution of water, and
of malarial fever resulting from the un-
usual number of n.csqultoes bred upon
the stagnant water holes. Survivors
whose money was sunk In cattle before
the famine found themselves Impover-
ished. Recently th" relief scheme has
been enlarged to deal with the fodder
famine us well as tho scarcity of fuod
for human beings.
While great strides have been made,
and field work has brcn given sinews of
war from many sources aside from the
United Kingdom and the Indian govern-
ment the famine p-cblem has not been
eliminated. Gradually, but very gradu-
ally the caste prejudices that prevent
relief work front reaching many Hindus,
lire being broken down. The bill country
weavers, who formerly starved rather
than O.It at a relief camp lest partaking
prosperity Is an unjust system of tax- , of "unclean" food should destroy their
utlon, which plucoj loo bug. a burden | craftsmanship, have beeii^ won ovi f,
upon tho people who get their living from
the soil, but famine Is much older than
British dominance, it must also be ad*
mltted that the presence of a European
power with such concomitants of Euro-
pean progress as railway transportation,
postal and telegrnpn service, has greutly
Improved the situation. Upon tho otlior
hand, the natives arc lo be credited with
habits of Industry that have prevented
them from becoming demoralized by re-
lief measures.
Tho ancient Indian adage "the flesh of
son Is worth mere than his love,"
. comes down from times when f.'mlne
been questioned, ard a sentiment has J meant cannibalism. Later, during the
existence of tlie .Mogul empire, relief
Candidates for GoYeroor.
Sir Samuel Chisholm of Scotland
lias been talking to a reporter about
the way women drink intoxicants in
this country. "We've nothing in Glas-
gow like the eating and drinking that
foes on in your hotels," says Sir Sam-
uel. In that city of a million inhab-
itants there are not more than eigh-
teen or twenty hotels, and they ate
merely for tho accommodation of trav-
elers. The townspeople never fco to
them, and drinking as a public func-
tion is unknown, though working wo-
men go more to the public houses
than here To the lessening and loos-
ening of home ties Sir Samuel at-
tributes the increased drinking of in-
toxicants among women, especially
"society women."
Last March we thought Congress
might complete the tariff revision and
adjourn by the first of May. Now, in
July, we are inclined to think—well,
the prediction apparatus is not work-
ing now.
The Bolivians are as mad as hor-
nets over tho award of the Argentine
1-resident in the boundary dispute, but
tbe.v will hardly be foolish enough to
go to war with Peru on account of It.
The Shah of Persia may soon know
how to sympathize with the ex-Sultan
of Turkey and tho former President
of Venezuela.
There are a doztn or more an-
nounced candidates for the nomina-
tion for Governor of Texas by tlie
Democratic primaries of next summer,
and there are nearly as many more
receptive or tentative candidates who
have been "mentioned" in connection
with that office but have not yet an-
nounced.
Among tho candidates who have
made known their wish to occupy tho
executive office and who are already
in tho race are two who were candi-
dates against Thomas M. Campbell in
1906 and one who opposed his reelec-
tion in 100S. Those are O. B. Olqujlt,
for several years Hallroad Commis-
sioner; M. M. Brooks, Associate .fus-
tic* of thi Court of Criminal Appeals,
and H. R. Williams of Hopkins Cotrn-
ty, who was generally referred to in
the last imitate campaign as the "Vil-
lage Blacksmith."
Among the other candidates are At-
torney General Davidson of Galveston
County, Cone Johnson of Smith Coun-
ty, William K. Poindexter of Johnson
County, N. A. Shaw of Bowie County,
W. II. Ftiqua cf Potter County, Sena-
tor If. Bascom Thomas of Hopkins
County, and Thomas Wells of Grayson
County, who in the Thirty-first Legis-
lature wit3 known as "Wells of Bells.'*
In addition to these there are tho
tentative or receptive candidates who
have intimated that they would bo
glad to serve as Governor if called
upon to do so, and who probably
would not require much coaxing to
persuade them to enter tho lists.
Charles H. Mills of Navarro, son of
former United States Senator Mills, Is
c.no who may bo regarded as In tlie
receptive class. If the nomination
should start in his direction ho would
go more than half way to moot it,
provided ho could do so without any
seeming sacrifice of dignity or over-
anxiety.
Lieutenant Governor Davidson is
among the number of suggested can-
didates for Governor, and that means
that he is one of the possible candi-
dates and about tho only one from
Southwest Texas, which should be
very much to his advantage if he
should enter tho race, nearly all tho
others being from North or East
Texns. Several months ago there was
a suggestion that Thomas B. Love of
Dallas, the Commissioner of insur-
ance and Banking, was the Adminis-
tration choice for the Gubernatorial
succession, but later there was a hint
that the present Executive was not
averse to another term. William F.
Ramsey, Associate Justice of the
Court of Criminal Appeals, was some
time ago supposed to be the choice of
tho prohibition contingent for Gov-
ernor, with an excellent chance of be-
ing nominated, but of lato he has jot
figured much in the political calcula-
tion for the reason that he has been
keeping so quiet, but he may get busy
after a while if there is a bee in his
bonnet.
There aro others, but up to this
time only a few of the candidates are
showing any activity, and it is yet too
early to say how the list may ntnnd
when tho campaign opens.
Ella Gfnglps appears to be some
Uting else than a lacemaker.
c'oveloped In favor of amending tho
constitution so as to provide for tho
(lection of Senators in tho same man-
ner that Representatives are elected,
and If this sentiment should prevail it
might bo followed, perhaps, by ail
effort to further amend the constitu-
tion In accordance with tho trend of
sentiment against the rigid construc-
tion of State linos to apportion the
representation in the Senate in tho
samo manner as in tho House—ac-
cording to population. It has been con-
tended that once the fundamental law
has been altered or amended there
may bo no end to the efforts ia 'but
direction.
To what extent tho sentiment
throughout the country is favorable
to the election of Federal 'Senators
by direct popular vote Is only conjec-
tural. Several Democratic State con-
ventions in the West and South have
adopted resolutions in favor of tho
proposed change, but without such
debate and consideration as would be
given to a matter of such importance
by a deliberative body with the power
of enactment. Some of tho .States,
notably Oregon and Nebraska, have
adopted a plan of electing Federal
Senators which has practically thj
effect of a constitutional amendment.
In those States the candidates for the
United States slonato aro voted for
directly at the polls and tho legisla-
tors are obliged to carry out tho
wishes of tho majority in tho elec-
tion by joint ballot which tho Federal
constitution provides for. As a result
of that law in Oregon a Democrat was
elected to the United States Senate
by .a Republican Legislature, ho hav-
ing received a plurality of tho votes in
the popular election.
In several of tho Southern States
the candidates for tho United States
Senato aro voted for in the party pri-
maries the same as tho candidates for
State officers, and tho choice of the
voters in tho primary cdoetion be-
comes the choice ot tho members of
tho party of tho Legislature, the nom-
ination being considered binding.
Congress having decided to submit
a sixteenth amendment to tho consti-
tution to the Legislatures of tho sev-
eral States, Mr. Bryan thinks tho time
opportune for submission of the other
amendment suggestion, and perhaps a
popular expression In regard thereto
might be obtained in the elections
next year for members of the Legis-
lature. But the President cannot
submit the question. He could only
recommend that Congress do so.
measures were not systematic. Bullock
c;,rt« or camel truins could not .penetrate
sections offering no forage or water, and
famine meant deonpulutlon where It
struck. In 1770 the tnnilnc In HengnI car-
ried off 10.0011,001. In 1838, according to
estimates believed to be conservative,
N,000.000 of a population of less than 10,-
000.(100 starved In one province.
It was only after India passed to the
crown that tho organization of 1111 ex-
tensive relief sysiem was undertaken.
Since then work to Improve conditions
lias been steady, anil although famine
has by no means been eliminated the
dimensions of disaster resulting from
crop failure have beer, reduced. During
the famine of lv!>0, covering an area of
fiO.OOO square miles with a population of
20,0u0,(:00. there were Issued 32,000,000
rntlons, or ns It Is expressed In India,
that many "units" were relieved. Five
years later Limine \lslted the greater
part of India north of Madras, affecting
a population of approximately 50.000,000.
This time relief work was botched. The
gravity of the situation was nut appre-
ciated till too late and 1,000,000 people
perished.
♦ ♦ ♦
f'lope upon the heeis of this appalling
sacrifice of human lives came the famlno
of 1808-70 In West India. Itajputanft's
parched hills could not be traversed hy
animal-drawn vehicles and thousands
died upon the road with their fuces
toward relief camp.'. Then came cholera
in the wako of famine, and when the
surviving villagers made a heroic rally
upon tho land in tht hope of early rains
tlie next spring. then* was no rain and
again they <lleil by thousands. Locusts
destroyed the fall crop raised by the re-
maining peasantry, torrential rulus came
in the later autumn and fever followed
the flood. It was no. until 1870 that the
situation was relieved While the grim
tragedy of Orissa end Rnjputana was
fresh in memory. B«har. Bengal and the
united provinces differed a partial
failure of rain, and in the Titanic strug-
gle that ensued between famine and re-
lief 300,000.000 daily rations for an Indi-
vidual were distributed.
Three years later Southern India was
in the clutch of fannre. The government
which had been reckless of expense in
the previous attempt to save lives, now
Insisted upon investigations to determine
where relief should be tendered. '1 he re-
sult was a strike of relief workers, and
while red tape waj gone through with
in an honest effort to befriend the starv-
ing without defrauding the taxpayers of
the whole country, starvation andre-
sultant fevers killed more than 6,000,000
persons In Hrltlsh territory, not includ-
ing the unnumbered deaths in native
states. . ..
With the world standing aghast at the
recurrent decimation of India by starva-
tion the first great famine commission
met in 1S7M to formulate upon a working
basis a policy offering relief to the real
sufferers without attempting to givo
general relief to peisons merely poor and
not In need uf actual sustenance. Hie
result was the Provisional 1'amine Code,
published In 1883, laving down the prin-
ciple that the government in endeavor-
ing to save life Is not obliged to main-
tain the rural population at a normal
level of comfort, and that to do so would
be unjust to taxpayers and would en-
courage indolent'^ ^ ^
An Insufficient mensoon In 1BIW caused
famine In areas containing about. .0.000,-
00i> population, and In British territory
alone more than 800.000,000 "units were
relieved. System In Ibis famlno resulted
In great good being accomplished at rea-
sonable cost. Tbe next famine, In 1899-
1900 showed the system to bo In still bet-
ter working order Altogether 1,140,000,000
rations for an Individual for a day were
wild tribesmen are learning that It Is
better to live upon urorthodox food than
to be dead Hindus.
Native states are conducting valuable
relief measures as a result of the ex-
ample of Europeans, but not until Irri-
gation extends Its benefits to a greater
portion of the sun br.ked, deforested nnd
densely populated agricultural country,
or the growth of other native Industries
draws a fair proportion of the people
from the land, will famine, and incidental
pestilence of a dozen varieties, ceaso to
make large periodical reductions of popu-
lation. With more physical stamina the
Indian would less quickly succumb to
hunger or disease, but the race cannot
acquire greater stamina without suffi-
cient nourishment.
♦ ♦ ♦
The frequency of famine In India Is
due to tbe Immensity ot a population
subsisting almost en'iroly hy agriculture
In a country where tt«c tillers of the soil
are too ponr to save against a rainy day,
If a parodontal exnresslon may be used
where saving against a rainless day Is
tho Imperative need. The question Is.
how !nnv the Indian masses become bet-
ter off financially? It Is a large ques-
tion, readily enough answered by the
l.olitlclr.n who says reduce the land
revenue collected by the British govern-
ment to maintain her armies for policing
not only India, but the Asian outposts of
the British empire. It Is difficult for the
dispassionate studen: of Indian affairs
to answer finally.
The Indian politicians say that formerly
war, rapine and the misrule of unbridled
despots caused famine, and that In these
piping times ot peace there should he no
hunger In the land. Tho reply of the
gentlemen responsible for the govern-
ment of India is thai peace has multi-
plied the people. Inula is the foremost
antlraee suicide country In the world.
Religious custom not only sanctions, but
enforces, early marriage. The poorest
agricultural laborers rear the largest
families. There Is practically no Immi-
gration to foreign (ountrles, when the
vastness of the country is considered,
and caste, language and local attach-
ment deter inhabitants of congested dis-
tricts from removing to sections where
there is untenanted lands. Holdings of
land continue to bo subdivided. Agricul-
tural laborers without land aro aa
The Meanest Thief In Texas.
Sherman had prepared for a brilliant
Fourth of July. But this Is what hap-
pened. It Is clipped from the Sherman
Democrat:
That was about the meanest thief that
ever came to Sherman that stole the
flags from store decorations Sunday
right He Is void of honor and has about
iv, much patriotism In his makeup as u
UiBh-er Indian.
♦ ♦ ♦
No Vacation for Twenty Ysars.
The Bell County Democrat Is authority
for the statement that Editor H. B.
Savage of the Belton Evening News has
not taken a vacation for twenty years.
Ho has taken several trips, says tho
Democrat, but they havo all been on
business and not for rest or pleasure.
Now he Is planning to break away from
the cares and tolls of life in the next
few days and hie himself away to the j ent bill embodying a provision for a 5
Rocky Mountains, where he will spend j,or cent ad valorem reduction on all
two weeks according to tlie dictates of merchandise Imported in vessels flying
ills own sweet will. lie thinks he has the United States flatf. Such a scheme,
a vacation due him, arid he Is going If It could bo operated uninterruptedly,
to take it. | would undoubtedly bo highly protective
♦ ♦ j to American shipping. It Is a method.
I however, which other nations importing
j largely from this country could adopt
On tha High Seas.
In his remarks tho other day Jn tha
Senate, 111 connection with oua of th*
nmendments to the pending tariff bill,
Senator Elklns impressively set forth
tho Insignificant status Which American
shipping holds In world trade. The dem-
onstration that I Ills country hag ceased
to play an Important part In the trafflo
of the high sc.is has been nuido many
times over, and it has also been shown
t,\ just what methods the countries that
are now practically monopolizing this
business have succeeded In establishing
such a monopoly. Successive Congresses
have refused to adopt special methods
for restoring American shipping to a
fair relative position In the world's ear-
lylng trade, local and sectional Interests,
apparently, blinding a majority of tho
members of the House to tbe tremendous
importance of the Issue presented.
Senator Elklns gave notice that at the
regular session, which will convene In
December, he will Introduce an lndepend-
A Fifteen-Year Old Heroine.
Wharton has a 15-year-old heroine In
Miss Minnie Kato KempCr. While clay-
ing on the edge of tho river, as the
local paper tells It, Charles and Mar-
garet Kemper, about 6 and 7 years old,
children of W. B. Kemper, the sugar mill
man, whose homo Is on the banks of
the river, were swept Into deep water
by the current and came near drowning.
'M ss Minnie Kite Kemper, an older
With them, and seeing the
sister, was ........
danger, plunged out Into the stream nnd
swam out with both children, bringing | terlor districts who have been oppo
them safely to land and out of danger.
Miss Minnie wti fortunately n good
swimmer, though onlv about 15 years old,
and but for her prompt action the child-
ren would have been beyond tlie reach
of help, as the river Is on a rise and
about ten feet deep at tliut point.
Caught Fish as Big As He Is.
Denton has a 14-year-old lad who
caught a catfish with his hands weigh-
ing as much as he does.
In u retaliatory action to an extent
which might l'ully offset the advantages
which American shipping would derive
from It. As our exports to European
countries Invariably exceed our Imports
from those countries, the plan might even
bo made to operate against ratuer than
for American shipping Interests when tho
final balance sheet should be struck.
But In one way or another the sixty-
first Congress must solve the problem of
restoring American mercantile shipping
to participation in tho ocean-carrying
trade. Those congressmen l'rom the )n-
. . sing
ii and every proposition lo employ
such special methods as have been
adopted by Ureal Britain and Germany
In fostering the shipping industries of
those countries should readjust their
point of view and broadi n their patriot-
ism. —BuKluioro American.
Withering Fortunes.
The rich may flaunt their wealth b*-
foie the eyes of tho public, but when tho
assessor appears they aro willing to pose
with only the widow's mito in their
Bert Pryor, seeing the big fish lolling bands. Not all of those possessed, of
great wealth make a show of it, but lovo
of display is a failing gradually acquired
as tbo pockctbook swells.
Over in Now York they assess personal
property. When these assessments are
made peoplo might wonder where tUo re-
puted rich conceal their wealth. What
lias been a mountain in tho eyes of tho
public dwindles to a mole hill when tno
assessor looks upon it. The inquiring
public might conclude that the nabobs
have no use for personal property.
J. Pierpont Morgan is assessed for
$400,000. The master financier, be who
lends millions to governments, builds
great railroads and finances trusts, is as-
sessed for an amount which becomes
small when compared with Morgan fi|-
.- .. „ . . . . . .. . .. | ures as they appear in tlie public print.
I wentieth Centuiy, is vouched foi by tlie 1 geven members of tho Vanderbllt family
In the shallow water, waded In, slipped
up behind him, and placing his fingers
in the fish's gills, started for the shore.
The fish responded easily at first, but
when he was dragged out on the bank
he gave the boy a tussle he will re-
member for some time, hut finally the
boy overpowered the fish and got him
awoy from the water
The fish weighed seventy pounds, and
was tho biggest home-grown fish shown
there this season.
♦ ♦ ♦
Had Never Seen a Street Car.
This story, Incredible ns It may seem
In this enlightened beginning of the
rails News, which says:
Seme young folks from Oklahoma who
live northeast of Antlers near the Seven
Devil Mountains, were visitors to Paris
yesterday. Among the number were two
or three grown persons who had never
ridden on a train until they boarded the
Frisco from Antlers to Paris, and they
as he could ride on a street car.
♦ ♦ ♦ '
Discovers Submerged River.
Jack Smith, in excavating for gravel
on his place north of Brownwood, ac-
ccrding to the Brownwood Bulletin, dis-
President Taft thinks tlie confer-
ence may be ready to report a finished
tariff bill by the end ot' the week, but
the Associated Press reporter thinks
tho hide and lumber schedules will
not be reached before next week, and
that It will then take some tlmo to
dispose of them.
When the city gets its new paving
plant installed asphalt paving will be
so cheap that any high-class residence
district should be able to afford it
Give us the North and South load
and the road to the Rio Grande Valley
and otlicrs will come without coaxing.
Orvllle Wright was a littlo tardy
about making his aeroplane demon-
stration at Fort Myer, und tried the
patience of the spectators to a some-
what exasperation, hut when he rose
in tho air and circled around in the
clouds like a bird they admitted that,
he was master of his machine and had
given them taeir money's worth.
luidi |«"IC'» "" "" "" , got their first glimpse of a street car
I -Wth.jr^r.t automobile here, jt
consumed the visible supply of food.
♦ ♦ ♦
The great need of India—the one hope
of the elimination of the ever present
specter of famine that ptnlks grimly be-
hind the naked pea-ant In the field—Is a
diversification or Industries. How Is It
to be brought aboui7 The 30,000 miles of
railway In the country, the Irrigation
wnrks, in upkeep noc. construction, com-
mercial undertakings and manufactories
backed by European capital, the demand
for laborers t" handle freight at seaports
makes a considerable drafl upon labor,
but how little this :s, proportionally, 1st
plain from the fact that Mi per cent nt
the 300,000.000 people ol India still live in
the country.
Manufacturers employing native labor
are making what st«ms a fair record of
steady growth, but the Indian birth rate
Is from 4." to fifty for ench 1000 persons,
or l.l.oOO.OOO a year, '."hat the diversified
industries are not k'-plng pace with the
growth of the population Is undeniable.
It must further bo borne in mind that
most Orientals are conservatives, that
Indians are especially so and that Hindus
are taught by their religion that . tho
violation of precedent Is an Indignity and
a sacrilege put upon dead ancestors. For
this reason the masses of laborers aro
not by nature seekers and seizors of op-
portunity like Europeans, who readily
cross oceans to fltvt better wages in a
new country.
It Is easy for the Babu, who has been
to an English university, to arraign the
British for respom.iMUty for (amine,
pestilence and poverty In India, but his
arguments, aside from that In which he
charges Oreat Brilnln with supporting
Indian armies not used to police India,
are not entirely convincing. Not all of
the Industrial Ills of the country can
rightly bo charged to a "loaded" land
tax.
(Copyright 1509 by Frederick J. Haskin.)
lira down for $1.1140,000, and Wiidtim Vfln-
derblll Is assessed for $300,000. Hersohal
fortunes seem to wither as rapidly before
the gaze of the assessor as does the
plucked flower beneath a scorching sun.
- Pittsburg leader.
Goat the Fritnd of Man.
Tho problem of clearing off cutoj'er
land 111 Northern Wisconsin has been
greatly simplified by the introduction of
was a novel sight to them and they
Meed and gazed with open-mouthed won-
der at the passing electric motors and [ Angora goats. The" Angora do not pull
autos. One of them wanted to know If j up stumps nor cut down standing timber.
If, could ride In an automobile as cheap bat they clear off brush and young trees.
James 11. Carroll of Alma Center says
that they have enabled him to clear his
land and keep it cleared at a cost of only
$;i an ai re. He puts them into a five-aero
lot, and lets them stay in it till the entire
piece Is clean. They will glrdlo and kill
young trees four and five inches in diam-
eter, and they like brush hotter than
Tomorrow: "Tho Emplr#
XI—Bombay, Queen of Cities.
of India.
It
Song ef the Spendthrift.
For me just a little Is never enough;
I've only one speed—that's tho high.
X can't eat u steak that Is gristly or
tough—
The best, with fresh mushrooms, I buy.
When short, 1 go hungry and tighten
my belt,
Saving up for a provender spree.
Some people may scrimp and may dine on
a shrimp.
But it's plenty or nothing for mo.
When I've a few dollars to hang on some
bells
I don't hold them hack for a mlnuto,
I set a tie such as is worn by tho swells
And then a spark stickpin goes in it.
Tho hunger I feel doesn't teach mo to
save;
Next time just the same it will be.
Some people may stint, but my coin
docs a sprint-
It is plenty or nothing for me.
If ever I have an account at the bank
I'll check it all out In a chunk.
I'll live like a duke or some other of
rank
Till all of my dough has gone plunk.
I'll hand my last five to a drug clerk and
say:
"Some dope for my felo-de-see—
No poison that's cheap; here, the change
you may keep-
It Is plenty or nothing for me."
—Chicago News.
—
Pointed Paragraphs.
The dentist does a wide-open business.
Have vour carpets been massaged yet?
An optimist takes a day off when he
has the toothache.
Tho man In the moon looks like a high
ball when he's full.
A peach of a girl ought to become a
well-preserved woman.
He's a poor musician who Is unable to
play upon your feelings.
It Is said thst some evils are necessary.
Can you think ot one that Is?—Chicago
News.
KEEPING OUT OF DEBT.
Means Self-respect, Self-reliance
and Happiness.
One reason so many folks find the road
of life uncomfortable is the fact that
they're walking barefooted over broken
premises.
There's nothing so heavy to carry, so
disheartening, so weakening", so nerve-
racking aa debt.
If it slopped with tho flattening of tho
pccketbook it would be bad enough; but
It. only begins there.
It weighs on the mind. It places the
victim to a disadvantage In work and
piay. It compromises manhood and wom-
anhood and eats away at character like
a cankcr worm.
The best and biggest vow a voung man
can make is to kaep out of debt.
Thero may come times when he can-
not keen this vow and fulfill his duty to
liis own. Such times are not of frequent
onurrcnce, however, but when they do
ccme, tho debtless man will find it easier
to get credit than It would be if ho had
already exhausted his credit.
To keep out of debt means self-respect
and Belf-rcliance. It means health and
happiness and freedom from that worst
o? ices, worry.—Leigh Mitchell Hodges,
in the North American.
Most Widely Circulated Books.
Tlie most widely circulated book in the
whole world, we are informed by a Paris
contemporary, is a Chinese almanac,
printed in I'ekin at the Imperial Press.
The edition consists of 8,000,000 copies,
which are sent into the provinces, and so
great Is the Interest taken by the Chinese
in tlie publication, so high the confl-
denco reposed in the Information con-
tained. that of the S,000,000 copies not one
comes back to the printers. Nothing ap-
proaching these figures is attained b>
anv publication in the Western world.
The work which attains the widest cir-
culation In Europe and America is the
Hlble, and next to the Bible In popularity
comes "Don Quixote,'* and then "uncle
Tom's Cabin." This is difficult of accept-
ation today, nit hough fifty years ago the
claim of "Uncle Tom" would not have
been questioned. The fifth In order of
merit belongs, according to the Munich
News, to an alphnhet book, published at
Kssen b.v Baedeker, which has run
through 1200 editions.—london Globe.
FORTY YEARS AGO TODAY.
(San Antonio Daily Express, July 14, 18G9)
The regular semi-annual election of of-
ficers of tlie Casino Association came off
Monday night, resulting In the election
nt the incumbents: President, Julius
Berends, Vice Presid ent 11. Klocke, Hook-
keeper F. Groos, Cashier W. Schunke,
Secretary C. dwonslU Directors A. Notte,
J. Ileutze, managing committee. Messrs
Wulf, Zork, Hoerner, Piper and Staffel.
♦ ♦ ♦
We learn today that arrangements are
to be perfected In a day or two to cross
the Clbolo, Guadalupe and San Marcos
with boats nnd bring us a mail. The
Austin route has 'ieen opened and a
stage left here this morning for the
capital.
♦ ♦ ♦
The first mail received for ten days was
received yesterday from New Braunfels
from the New Braunfels Zletrfng. We
learn that the mills of Messrs. Landa
end Koester are greatly injured, and
Mr. Thomas Schwab is mentioned as
losing a large number of sheep. The
woolen factory through the efforts of
the workmen did not suffer very much.
Mr. Albert Stowe has placed upon our
table the first ripened ear of coin of
the season. Mr. Stowe is a real liv«
Yankee, who has tamed a piece of prairie
land and made It bloom with every va-
riety of produce and fruit, and aftel
a dozen years experience claims that
West Texas Is the garden spot of the
world, minus only muscle and brain to
make It so Indeed.
<^v
Russian's Odd Wager.
A man named Duhoroff has Just won a
highly original wager at Keif. He had
undertaken to appear dally during eight
days In the street employing each time a
different mode of locomotion.
Me commenced by running down the
steps of his dwelling and along the
boulevard on his hands. The following
day no hopped through the town on one
leg.
Stilts, a skipping rope, roller skates and
a bath chair all followed In turn. One
day he was conducted through the prin-
cipal thoroughfares by a small boy who
led him on a strong.
The finest of his exploits was un-
doubtedly yesterday's performance, when,
turning successive somersaults In the
air for nearly a mile, he arrived amidst
enthusiastic cheers at the cafe, where
his friends were waiting to bestow the
prise upon him.—8t. Petersburg Corres-
pondent London Evening Standard.
ccvered a submerged or underground grass. Their wool is valuable, and they
river carrying an abundance of the purert ' thcy # *ot
water at a depth of twenty-seven feet, j For lo those many years the goat has
The bed is from sixteen to twenty feet been a favorite butt of the comic ear-
.. ia. i, toonlst, who has shaken with laughter
wide. Mr. Smith says it is strange that ] wh)]p ,Irp|t,Ung h|m in thp act of ch(,w_
th's underground river flows northwest ! ing up a tin can or devouring tlie family
Instead of southeast, which latter dlrec- j wash us It liung on the lftie. The goat
... ,, , ,.. .. many have dono these things when he
tlon would be in line with the current of j W.(S j-orcrtj man to live In tho envlr-
the bayou: ens of populous cities. Tho goat loves
Mr. Smith has examined the stratum 1 freedom. His natural home Is on*4ha
of tho river bod very closely and is edge of the wilderness. Evidently It pilys
thoroughly convinced as to tho direction | to put him where ho belongs.—Milwaukee
in which it flows. He sajs the wash- Wisconsin.
sand slopes toward tho flow and that
there can be no mistake. He is enthus-
iastic over the find and would be glad
t.' have an experiment mndo with a view
of getting pure water for the city reser-
voir.
Octogenarian Woman Fire Fighter.
A venerable grandmother, S5 years of
age. drawing bucket after bucket of
water from a well sixty feet deep and
keeping an almost steady stream of
weter on a fire In a barn until tho
flames were extinguished is the remark-
able story which an Ablleno woman
writes to home folks from Lavemla,
where she Is visiting, says the Abilene
Reporter. The heroine is Mrs. J. T.
Montgomery, mother of Mrs. R. E. Car-
ter of Abilene.
The family at the old homestead con-
sisted of Grandma Montgomery, her
wic'owed daughter and the latter's two
smo 11 children, and the only other per-
son present was their guest, Mrs. Car-
•vr. The latter discovered a blazo shoot-
ing out of the barn roof and gave the
alarm, after which she gathered up a
number of buckets and run to the well
followed by her mother and sister and
the children. Grandma Montgomery
gtnbbed tho draw-bucket after Mrs. Car-
ter had drawn It up full onee and hasten-
ed to the barn with it. From that timo
on Mrs. Montgomery presided at the well,
while the others carried the water slio
drew. With wonderful nerve and almost
superhuman strength the aged woman
lairly jerked tho water out of the well,
which is sixty feet deep nnd standing
less than halt full. 8o rapidly did sho
keep tlie buckets of water coming to
the top that tho carriers were kept on
thO run and they kept an almost steady
stream on the blaze. Fortunately, how-
ever. this did not necessarily last long,
ns such heroic efforts were bound to
conquer, and did conquer In a short time.
The fire was extinguished with but little
damage to the barn and none to the
contents.
♦ ♦ ♦
Bees Hatch From Beebrtad.
The Paris News insists there Is no
nature faking in this story:
J. W. Mullins, with his neighbor, Bill
Reed, while out in the woods hunting
dmcovered two bee trees on Pine Creek.
They cut them down and one was found
to contain a good deal of honoy while
the other was nearly full of bread and
comb. This he concluded to carry home
In ■■ sack and let his wife stew it up to
make beeswax. When he reached home
he threw it down on the gallery. In
u few minutes young bees commenced
hatching out and crawling from the sack.
It happened that they were just ready
tf. hatch when he cut down the tree. They
began crawling out of the sack so thick
he concluded to hive them and took the
sack out to a beegum in the yard to
put them In. He noticed that some of
the bees showed a disinclination to crawl
it.t> the gum and he discovered a wad
ot them about as big ns his hand down
on the ground. He took a stick and
rcrtlched among them and pulled them
apart and discovered thst they were
bi 'led around the queen bee. He raked
her out of the, mass and placed her
r.gainst the gum, and when she crawled
up the side all of the others followed
after her. Mr. Reed now has a good
cclr.r.v of bees that were hatched from
tho bread and they are In a thrifty coti-
Citlcn. He hived the colony of old bees
Tho Widow's Mite.
There Is something very closely ap-
proaching pathos In tho offer ot 1 per
cent of her local revenues by tho Island
nt St. Vincent, annually and uncondi-
tionally, for an indeterminate period, to
the general maintenance l'unds ot Ilia
British navy. That Canada, Australia
and New Zealand should each proposo'to
furnish a dreadnought for th. defenso
of the empire was to bo expected ,by
anyone who had observed tho attitudo
of these nominal dependencies toward tno
mother country during the Boer wan but
here is little St. Vlnoent also offering
to do what she can. Evidently tho Brit-
ish supremacy on tlie sea is lo bo main-
tained, if loyalty and sacrifice on tha
part of tho colonies can assure it. For.
beyond question, the other British islands
in the West Indies feel the same as pOor
hurricane und earthquake racked St. Vin-
cent does. St. Vincent, with the offer of
u yearly sum that Is well-nigh ridicu-
lous, may provoke a smile with the un-
thinking, but sho unconsciously expresses
the feeling which is strong throughout
the Empire, and with which every hostile
power must reckon when figuring on tha
cost of going to war with the mother
country.—Manchester Union.
when he removed the bread from the
tree, and lie now has two colonies of
bees.
♦ ♦ ♦
Separated fcr Fifty-six Years.
Says the Yoakum Herald:
Johnnie AYilson, living near CheapsidOi
Gonzales County, and his brother, Hugh
M. V'llson of Arkansas, who have been
visiting friends and old acquaintances in
the city, left tills afternoon for Thomas-
ton, where thcy expect to spend some
time visiting among relatives before re-
turning to their respective homes. Thcy
are both very aged men, one SI and ths
other 78 yca(s of age, and up to a few
day? ago fifty-six yeais had elapspd slnea
thev have had the ple asure of seeing and
talking together. When they hade eaoti
other a fond gocd-by in the pincy woods
of Arkansas more than half a century
ago they were In the prime of life and
pov.- they are white haired and stooped
Willi age.
<r>
Pastor's 50,000-Mile Drive.
At this morning's service In the Union
Church at Nefsvillo, the Rev. Dr. E, J,
Fogel announced his resignation a« Das-
tor of the Reformed Congregation at thai
^ Dr. Fogel has served the Jordan charge
which includes three churches beBldej
Union, for forty-two years and J«1J
months, and during this time he calcu-
lates that he has driven 60,000 miles In
attending to the needs of the Union
church alone. He has baptized over 804
children, confirmed 900, officiated at 64J
funerals, and preached over UOO sermon,
at thi. one church.—Allcntown Correpon-
dent Philadelphia Press.
White Mole Caught
Cecil Nallor of Stockeross, Newbury,
has captured a pure white mole In a trap,
This Is one of the rarely recorded In-
dances of true albinism ln> the mole.
Few animal, are more subject to varia-
tions of color. There arc reference In
lb. zoological archives to such bu«> as
light brown, orange, apricot, buff, cream
and amber, but very seldom to albitM
specimen..-London Dally Mail.
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