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THE SAN ANTONIO DAILY EXPRESS: FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 3, 1908,
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POPULATION OF TEXAS CITIES:
The population of the seven largest
cities of Texas on June 1, 1904, as esti-
mated by the United States Census Bu-
reau, Is as follows:
SAN ANTONIO. 59,581
Houston 54,468
Dallas 49,678
Galveston 32,613
Fort Worth 26,960
Austin 24,148
Waco 23,162
The Iowa Idea Wins.
These frequently recurring showers
are fine for the crops and the gar
dens.
San Antonio and Fort Worth are
said to be growing faster than any
other cities in Texas.
The political wiseacres will know
more about the situation after they
hear from tomorrow's conventions
than they now know.
The Sun says the next Governor of
New York will he a Democrat, but it
probably did not have Editor Hearst
ir. mind when the prediction was
made.
Secretary Shaw says the people of
this country need more ?5 bills.
That is quite true, but they would
really prefer bills of a larger de-
nomination.
The total appropriations by the
last Congress amounted to $880,183,-
301, or about $10 per capita, and it
didn't strain the till very much to
produce the money.
It is said the automobile manu-
facturers will put much cheaper
motors on the market next year, and
this may be done, perhaps, without
cheapening the quality.
There is a suggestion that after
Secretary Taft has broken up the
Solid South an effort may be made
by someone else to fracture that Re-
publican solidarity in New England.
If the Russians should adhere to
their resolve not to contribute "a
kopeck to the throne or a soldier to
the army" the mutineers and revolu-
tionists would soon have easy sailing.
Some of Mr. Hearst's enthusiastic
friends appear to think that he will
be given the Democratic nomination
for Governor of New York to aid in
his election by the "Independence"
party.
The sugggestion that Gum-Shoe
Bill Stone of Missouri is to drive the
Eryan band wagon, with Tom Watson
o? Georgia'setting close up behind is
not thought to be particularly pleas-
ing to Col. Henry Watterson, who
had made early application for a
front seat.
Practical experience is said to have
fully demonstrated the superiority of
the all-steel railway passenger coach,
y/hich does not take fire and burn up
■when a wreck occurs, and it is now
Bald they can be built as cheaply as
wooden cars, which they are expect-
ed to replace as fast as the demands
for new equipment will admit.
The "Iowa Idea" scored when Gov
ernor Cummins was renominated,
though the platform declares for
"the reciprocity inaugurated by
Blaine, advocated by McKinley and
lioosevelt and recognized in Republi-
can platforms and legislation," not
for any violent changes in the tariff
system.
Governor Cummins is credited with
the authorship of the Iowa Idea,
which is that the tariff on trust-made
goods which have by artificial re-
straints of trade produced artificially
high prices, to be paid by American
consumers, must be reduced. The
Iowa Idea is that the consumer is en-
titled to some protection as well as
the manufacturer, and that the abuse
of protection must be stopped.
This idea was first promulgated by
the Republican Governor of Iowa in
the midst of a political campaign
after Speaker Henderson had already
been renominated for Congress with
every assurance of his re-election to
Congress and to the Speakership.
The Cummins or Iowa Idea did not
strike Mr. Henderson favorably,
even after it had been endorsed by
the State convention, and conceiving
himself to be out of harmony with
his party on the tariff question, Mr.
Henderson, who was a pronounced
stand-patter, promptly surrendered
the Congressional nomination which
had been given him, and retired to
private life.
Leslie M. Shaw, another Iowa
man, Secretary of the Treasury in
President Roosevelt's Cabinet and
avowed aspirant for the Republican
Presidential nomination, did not fol-
low the example of Mr. Henderson
i:i his manner of testifying his oppo-
sition to the Iowa Idea. He attacked
it on the stump in the State of its
birth and rather sought to create the
impression that he had a sort of com-
mission from President Roosevelt to
do so, although it was promptly de-
nied from the White House that the
Secretary was authorized to speak
for the Administration. Nevertheless
Mr. Shaw continued to take an active
part in the Iowa campaign in a des-
perate effort to defeat Governor Cum-
mins in the convention and he "lost
out," as the politicians express it.
The success of Governor Cummins
puts Mr. Shaw's Presidential aspira-
tions on the shelf. Without the sup-
port of his own State he could hardly
hope for much recognition in a Na-
tional convention when there has
been no stentorian call for him from
any other quarter. Whatever may
be the conditions in other States it
is evident that the stand-patter is
not in high favor in the Hawkeye
State. The paramount issue in the
campaign for the Republican nomi-
nation for Governor was the Iowa
Idea versus the Stand-pat, and the
reciprocity which Mr. Blaine called
"sublimated protection" and which
McKinley and Roosevelt approved,
appears to have been accepted as
the essence of the Iowa Idea, though
it differs somewhat from the defini-
tion previously given.
However, the platform declares:
"We believe that all inequlities in
the tariff schedules, which inevita-
bly arise from changing industrial
and commercial conditions, should
be adjusted from time to time, and
condemn without reserve all assaults
upon the protective system. We fa-
vor such reasonable and timely
changes as will keep the tariff in
harmony with our industrial and com-
mercial progress." That should not
be a difficult platform to stand on.
Russell Sage's enormous wealth
appears to have been dwindling since
his demise. At one time lie was
supposed to be worth over a hundred
million dollars. Then the estimate
■was reduced to $80,000,000 and now
it is said to be not above $60,000,000.
It may be considerably less after the
lawyers get through with it if all the
threatened contests are prosecuted.
Ps 6
When the State Democratic conven-
tion meets one week from next Tues-
day the temporary organization may
afford some basis of calculation of
the strength of the leading candidate.
Kis adherents may be able to organ-
Ire the convention and gain consider-
able prestige thereby. On the other
hand, there may be such combina-
tions as will indicate how the vote
may be distributed on the second bal-
lot, but until then no one can say
■whether Brooks, Bell, Campbell or
Colquitt wili be the nominee for
Governor.
The Election Law As It Is.
Ten years ago Texas, with an ac-
credited population of 2,235,000, gave
the Democratic nominee for Presi-
dent of the United States a plurality
of more than 200,000 of the popular
vote. Four years ago Governor Lan-
ham had a plurality of 203,370.
If the Democratic party has kept
pace with the growth of population
in the State the possible Democratic
vote should be at least 25 per cent
more than it was ten years ago. As
far as heard from the total vote in
the Democratic primaries last week,
divided between four candidates for
Governor, aggregated only a few
thousand more than the Democratic
plurality in a hotly contested State
election.
Perhaps this is not due so much to
the stay at home vote or the falling
off in the predominance of Democrats
as to the failure to hold primary
elections in so many counties which
chose another method of giving ex-
pression to their choice of candidates
for Governor and other State ofTices.
The purpose of the new election
law was assumed to be to secure uni-
formity in the selection of nominees
and of delegates to the State nomi-
nating conventions, but in leaving it
tc the chairman of the county com-
mittee to say whether the choice of
the electors should be expressed iu
a primary election or In mass con-
ventions this purpose appears to
have been in a measure, at least,
defeated. Formerly primaries were
held at irregular intervals through-
out the State, beginning early in the
spring in some counties and delayed
until late in the summer in other
counties. The Terrell election law
provided a uniform date for the hold-
ing of primary elections or conven-
tions but not for a uniform System.
The result of the first experiment
under the new law is not entirely
satisfactory and there is hardly a
question that the next Legislature
will amend the election law in sev-
eral particulars.
At the special session of the Leg-
islature there was an insistent de-
mand from some quarters for a
blanket primary and this seemed to
be so strongly supported by public
sentiment that if it had not been for
the fact that the Legislative session
was called for the sole purpose of
correcting an error in the election
bill a blanket primary amendment
might then have been adopted.
That strenuous efforts will be made
at the next regular session for a
blanket primary law is a foregone
conclusion and it may be popularized
where it is not now popular by some
sort of arrangement which will do
away with the objection that the
blanket primary would give to the
more densely populated sections of
the State a political preponderance
that would be unfair and unjust to
the more sparsely populated sec-
tions.
When the Democratic convention
has been organized and it is seen
how the dual primary election and
Mass convention system has worked
and to what extent the popular ver-
dict has controlled in the selection
of nominees where the contestants
number more than two, the way will
be clearer as to the alterations that
should be made in the election law.
WHAT STATE PAPERS SAY
In the Presidential election of 1876
Samuel J. Tilden received a large ma-
jority of the popular vote and had 181
uncontested votes in the Electoral
College, lacking but one of election.
Rutherford B. Hayes, who received
the next highest popular vote, was
short twenty votes in the Electoral
College, but as the Electoral Com-
mission decided to give him all the
contested delegates he was elected
by a. majority of one vote in the Elec-
tcral College. There may be some
analogy between that celebrated case
and a more recent one that appears
to be equally complicated.
Of course, the Home Manufactur-
ers' Association will be well repre-
sented on the excursion tour of the
San Antonio merchants and business
men into the new trade territory
opened up by the extension of the
Gulf Shore Railroad. It would not
be a bad idea to let the new custom-
ers know a good deal about San An-
tonio home manufactures.
Judge Bell's Position.
The lion. C. K. Boll has the credit of
having appealed to no voter's prejudice,
and made his campaign on a high and
worthy piano. In the beginning he was
by far the strongest factor, and each
candidate rocognized this. As a conse-
quence there was a concerted effort to
injure Judge Bill in tii«> eyes <>i the
voters. The cry was therefore started
that he was billed by the trusts and
corporations. TlSt this cry had n<> foun-
dation mattered ftot. Bell was the man
that must be injured in some way, and
as a result the one candidate who has
had-^t clean record throughout his politi-
cal career, and who made the State's
rest laws against trusts, and who lias
stood for the people's rights and re-
sisted with all his power tin- encroach-
nients of trusts and monopolies, was
placed before the voters as the corpora-
tion candidate. By these tactics many
voters were unfairly prejudiced against
lnm:
He received less * aid from the rail-
ways and corporations than any candi-
date in the race. legitimate corpora-
tions that prefer a Governor who will be
fair to all interests alike—protect the
just and enforce the laws against the
unjust—were afraid to aid him in any
way on account of the opposition's
demagogic attacks, and kept "hands off."
Then, again, Bell was attacked as th ■
administration candidate, which preju-
diced those inimical to the present
Democratic government against him and
at the same time prevented those office-
holders who know him and who are his
friends from glvin gliim any more than
a passive allegiance.
Despite all tins, Bell stands forward as
the candidate who received support from
the best citizenship of tin* State—those
who are not misled by appeals to pas-
sion and prejudice—and Bell will have
a strong convention vote. His friends
v,ill stick to him to the last, and late re-
turns will undoubtedly increase his vot-
ing strength.—Houston Chronicle.
The Express is also firmly of th<-
opinion that the supporters of Judg.
Bell have nothing to apologize for and
nothing to condone. He made a clean,
straight-forward, manly race and was
irade the victim of prejudice by charges
wholly untrue. His friends stili believe
that he is the best qualified for the posi-
tion of Governor and will stick to him
to the last.
TOPICS OF THE TIMES.
The New York Sun calls Mr.
Sherman, chairman of the Republi-
can Congressional campaign commit-
tee, "Oneida Jim, pride of the pent-up
lltica and the storage warehouse of
Statesmanship." This is pictur-
esquely laudatory.
At Corpus on the Bay.
(Air, "Mandalay.")
At Corpus Christi on the bdy, looking
eastward to the sea,
There is a winsome little mermaid, who
is thinking now of me,
And the lovely times we had when sit-
ting in the sand
I whispered tender nothings and
squeezed her little hand.
Oh. 1 wish I was in Corpus Christi.
Where the jelly fishes play.
And the waves are big and twisty
At Corpus on the bay.
Oh, her eyes are blue and snappy and
her ways a little bossy.
But she is just a winner every day and
Sundav too.
When she smiles up at you in a fashion
tender and yet saucy,
You may try to keep vour head, but—
it's all over then with you.
Oh. I wish I was in Corpus
And could plunge just like a porpoise
Into the bounding sea.
If a certain mermaid sweet.
In a bathing suit so neat.
Would take the plunge with me.
Of Interest to Women.
As a reaction to the inch-wide brims
seen on all the trimmed French sailors
it is a relief to find the plain mannish
sailor hat made with an unusually wide
brim th'.p year.
The smart hatters are making these
hats of rough, unpressed straw, in either
black or while, with brims fully four
inches wide and crowns about two inches
high. They are trimmed. of course,
only by a band of plain ribbon.
Barbecued Kidneys—Cut the kidneys
into thick slices Melt a little butter
and stir into it a saltspoonful of mustard
and a dash of lemon juice. Dip each
slice of kidney into this, roll in cracker
dust and set aside until this coating stif-
fens. A half hour will be lon£ enough.
Broil on a small gridiron over a clear
fire, turning often, that the kidneys may
not burn. Be sure they are thoroughly
done. Servo very hot.
Indian Cattle Raisers.
The Indians are becoming extensive
cattle raisers, and the Government is
buying a large amount of beef from
them. At the close of the fiscal year
ending today the Government will have
purchased from the Indians for that
year about, a million pounds of beef,
and will have bought from contractors
another million pounds.—Duluth Herald.
Show3 Discrimination.
A goat appears to be a pretty wise ani-
mal, after all. You will notice that he
merely eats the cans and never touches
the stuff that has .been inside them.—
Topeka Journal.
Fish as Poultry Food.
Consul B. M. Rasmusen writes from
Stavanger that Norway is establishing
her first experimental poultry station.
The poultry industry of Norway has
not received the attention that dairying
has, but it is believed that scientific
experiments will demonstrate that with
proper care and practical methods tlie
hen will prove as profitable as the cow.
The export of butter from the Stavanger
Consular district has trebled since 1902,
while the egg production is barely
enough for home consumption. The
poultry experiment station, which will
commence operations at Stavanger on
October 1, will deal not only with th<
improvement of breeds, hut the cheapen-
ing of poultry food. Grain is largely im-
ported, and It is believgd that a chicken
iood can be prepared from fish, of which
there is such abundance, and if put to
new uses would be of great benefit to
Western Norway. Denmark has estab-
lished five experimental poultry stations
s nee 1902.—United States Daily Consular
Report.
The use of fish as a poultry food
should be made the subject of experi-
n.ent by the people of the Gulf Coast of
Texas. Only a limited amount of fresh
fish can be shipped ard they are hard
to handle. On the other hand, if the
fish can be converted into live chickens
that will bear long shipments and in-
definite keeping, the results might be
most satisfactory.
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An Analysis of the Vote.
It is certain, however, that an analysis
cf the vote, as far as it is ascertainable
ac this writing, reveals the preponder-
ance of no class class vote for either
of the candidates. This is a most grati-
fying fact, for it reveals to the thought-
ful mind that the prejudices which some
cl the candidates attempted to arouse
were not aroused, or that they did not
exist at all. Throughout the State the
vote has been so divided, with reference
to classes and interests, between all the
candidates as to show that no aspirant
was without at least a complimentary
support from all classes.
This will enable the convention to do
its duty, as candidates are dropped, with-
out danger of offending the will of the
people; and, should a candidate of radi-
cal views succeed in securing the nomi-
nation, it will pave the way for the cre-
ation of a platform that will express
the law of the Democratic party in favor
of a conservative administration of pub-
lic affairs in such a way as will best
encourage progress; establish economy
and safety in the business of govern-
ment; protect property rights, inspire
capital with confidence, equalize, within
the authority and meaning of tlie Con-
stitution, the burdens of taxation, main-
tain at the highest standard of excel-
lence the eelemosynary and educational
institutions of the State, and provide the
government with sufficient revenues to
enable it to stand on a cash or surplus
basis.—Fort Worth Star.
When it comes to framing the Demo-
cratic platform, there is every reason to
believe that the good sense of the ma-
jority will keep radical and experimental
issues out and rely on the real needs of
the State to furnish the ground of ap-
peal for popular support.
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A River News Service Needed.
Do not let the fact slip your memory
for an instant that some means of ob-
taining information from up river points
is absolutely essential during the time
when the river is above normal. Re-
ports come in of serious crop losses from
overflow, and the residents of the af-
fected districts are positively without any
means of information as to the condi-
tion of the river. A telephone line would
afford relief if no other means can be
secured, and the matter should be taken
in hand by some capable party who is in
a position to make the proper represen-
tations as to the demand for and the
necessity of some mode of getting au-
thentic information.—Brownsville Herald.
It is a matter of great moment that
the Rio Grande section has no direct
telegraphic or telephonic service in order
to keep residents of the valley informed
as to the movements of the river. One
would think that this information alone
would justify the construction of a line
from Laredo to Brownsville.
"Father" Storey's Triumph.
"The indications are that 'Father'
Storey has been renominated for Rail-
load Commissioner and Hon. W. D.
Williams, author of the Intangible tax
law. has gone down in defeat. Colonel
Storey had powerful backing and the
newspapers of the State, with few ex-
ceptions, championed his cause. Mr.
Williams is of Pantherville, and his
townsman, Judge Charles K. Bell, pushed
him aside. The Bell men did, not tie to
Williams, and the Fort v/orth news-
papers gave him scant support. 1 he
venerable Storey began with Hogg and
may live to be as old as Methuselah.—
Dallas Times-Herald.
To these pious sentiments all loyal
Texans will say "Amen!" A good man
cannot live too long nor prosper too
much.
The Expanding South.
The South is every day expanding. A
new South verily stands before the world
—the South of diversified industry. The
old South is here to stay forever, in every
quality of fine manhood and superb wo-
manhood. But it has, since the downfall
of slavery, built for itself a new habita-
tion in the South of today's business
world. During the first four months of
this year, 230 trust and bank companies,
with an aggregate authorized capital of
$10,000,000. were incorporated.
Banking facilities are every day In de-
mand for the increased manufacturing,
mining, farming and lumbering opera-
tions of the Southland. TMe. South has
now more than $200,000,000 invested iu
cotton manufacturing. In 18K0 the total
capital invested in cotton industries in
the South was $21,000,000 only. In man-
ufacturing industries generally the South
has now an investment of $1,250,000,000
as against $257,000,000 for 1SS0.
Expansion is in the Southern air. No
boom or bluster about Southern progress.
It is all solid. It is based on the trans-
formation of the, raw material grown on
Southern soil into the finished manufac-
tured product turned out by factories
flourishing in Southern territory. The
South needs more capital, more labor,
more enterprise; less demagogucry and
less self-depreciation.
By the war we lost slavery, it is true;
but we have, by that gigantic struggle,
gained vastly more than we lost. We
have become a community of manufac-
turers. farmers, artisans and professional
men. instead of being a close corpora-
tion. consisting of aristocratic planters in
control of a vast mass of white inferiori-
ty and black illiteracy. The war brought
emancipation, not alone to the negro, but
to the white man. The brain of the white
man in the South, freed from the impedi-
ment of repressive industrial and eco-
nomic traditions, finds now that free
field which In twenty years multiplies
tenfold the capital invested in Southern
manufactures.—Louisville Herald.
The Death Penalty.
In five States there is no capital pun-
ishment. In the other forty States the
death penalty is the punishment for eight
offenses in Virginia, seven in Louisiana,
six in Missouri and Delaware and only
one, murder in the first degree, in the
majority of the other States. The South-
ern States generally prescribe by law the
death penalty for crimes against women.
In the States where there is no death
penalty the ratio of murders is no higher
than in the other States, according tc
Thomas Speed Mosby. pardon attorney
of Missouri, writing for Harper's Week-
ly. On this basis it is argued that the
death penalty does not discourage mur-
der.
This does not take into account the
most Important factors in crime. Capi-
tal punishment can not be the cause of
either delay in the administration of jus-
tice or acquittals, because the penalty
for murder in the second degree is im-
prisonment for life, and any juryman
who shrinks from voting for death may
favor the same punishment in New York
as in Kansas or Maine.
The eertaintv of punishment tends more
to prevent crime than any printed pro-
visions of the statute book. Whether the
penalty for murder is death or life im-
prisonment is one of the lesser factors
The nature of the population, whether
rural or yrban; the conditions of the
community, the race tendencies and.
more than all. efficiency in enforcing
the law. are more potent. Except Rhode
Island, the States where there are no
legal executions are mainly rural.—New
York World.
" The American Lady."
'fhe home life pf a typical American
lady is the sincerest index of her age.
In it she indelibly expresses herself.
Here It is that she exercises to the max-
imum her potentiality and that her per-
sonality scores. Presumably she is a
wife and mother. Her age? Pouf! A
lady of cleverness nonplusses Time.
She is her son's best girl, her daugh-
ter's chum, a hostess sans reproche. She
rules her home with thrift and skill. Het
husband safely trusts in her, and her
price is above her birth-stone.
Pretence never finds a foothold in a
lady's menage. Display seems to her
well-poised mind not only belittling, but
savage. She never confounds litter with
furnishing or junk with art.
Her house is beautiful, its atmosphere
fine and clear. She Is never too busy tn
listen to her "boy" or advise her "girl"
or read to their father. Young people er.
masse delight in her. She is their ideal
mother and a friend. Laughter is never
hushed in her home. Music is welcomed
and budding merit of whatever sort finds
in her an earnest nnd sympathetic car.—
Lippincott's Magazine.
Pass the Hat for Party's Sake.
The Republican party is passing the
plate. Every loyal partisan has l»ee?i
asked by Representative James S. Sher-
man. chairman of the Congressional
campaign committer, to drop a dollar in
the contribution box to swell the party's
fighting fund.
This plan is unique enough to be ap-
pealing. The man who howled loudest
against the sin of holding up the corpo-
rations and taking from them their ras-
cal counters npw has a chance to make i
his virtue shine in silver. Mr. Roose-
velt wants a Republican House elected I
to back his measures. This fact is to
be pressed home to the people, for the
campaign committee realizes its money-
moving power. The committee members
are wise in their ge neration.
Two months ago the prophets were
busy forecasting the methods by which
the campaign cash was to be raised. The
express companies were to be excluded
from the provisions of the common car-
rier clause of the rate bill, and in grati-
tude thev were to foot most of the cam-
paign hills. The express companies were
put into the law. and this prophecy, and
other prophesies that went by default,
made fools of the prophets.
There will be anxious days at Repub-
lican headquarters in the fet. James
Building. New York, until it is known
whether or not party fealty hay a cash
value. —Chicago Evening Post.
The Return of Mr. Bryan.
Nobody knows better than Mr. Bryan
that by coming home at this time, he will
place himself under fire for almost two
years before the meeting of the Demo-
cratic National Convention, and he knows
that the State conventions that choose
delegates in 190S will not hold them-
selves bound in the least by the prema-
ture declarations of State conventions
held this year. So keenly alive is he to
the danger of challenging opposition aj.
a needlessly early date that he has~pro-
tested against the use of his name at
this time in connection with the next
Democratic nomination, and has gone out
of Ills way to extol the merits of certain
possible rivals for the honor. We are in
a position to testify that it was with
the accent of sincerity that in England,
during the week ending July 7.. Mr. Bryan
expressed the hope that conditions and
circumstances would he such as to clear-
ly point to some man other than himself
as the most available candidate for Pres-
ident on the Democratic ticket. He did
not sav. however, that he should reject
a nomination were It tendered hiin. and
he does not therefore, stand in a posi-
tion analogous to that taken by Mr.
Boosevelt.—Harper s Weekly.
REFORMED ADVANCE MAN.
| Flattery Won Him Sandwiches—How
He Made the Band's Prima
Donna Dig Up.
"The show business, at best, isn't
what it is cracked up to be," said the
reformed advance agent, "but being ten
days ahead of Fluto and his famous
fifty, the big band, you know, is what
one might call the extreme of the limit.
"I spent twenty weeks as the busi-
ness representative of Fluto, the famous
Jtalian bandmaster, and it has always
i been my proud boast that we finally
got back to the Missouri River in tourist
fcleepers.
"Vancouver was our farthest point
north. I carried my advertising matter,
such as billboard printing, and when I
d< parted for Canada with only $16 in
my pocket I thought I had an amount
ample for meeting my expenses until I
should return to Seattle. I had never
been in Canada, save that short strip
traversed by the Michigan Central, and
didn't anticipate the revenue collectors.
"When we crossed the line at Sumas
one of those fellows sighted my adver-
tising matter and promptly tagged me
for $12 custom duty. When 1 got to
Vancouver with $1 remaining l hied me
to a cheap hotel.
"I was forced to stay in Vancouver
one day and part of another. When I
left all I was able to do was square my
hotel bill and walk to the station. 1
left early in the morning and had no
breakfast and had only 5 cents in my
pocket.
"When we got to Sumas, on the return
trip, the brakeman announced that the
train stopped thirty minutes in order to
give the revenue man a chance to ex-
amine everything in sight and some
things not in sight.
" 'Last chance to eat before we get to
Seattle,' said the brakeman, as an after-
thought.
"The lunch stand was in plain view
and I could see a middle aged German
woman of not great beauty standing
near the coffee urn.
* * #
"I strolled into the lunchroom and for-
tunately found only the German woman
present. 'Madame,' I said, 'don't let my
clothes deceive you (you know, l was
well dressed); I want a cup of coffee and
I have only 5 cents.'
'• 'American or English?' she asked.
" 'American.'
" 'All right.'
"She gave me a cup of coffee piping
hot and as I drank it slowly I couldn't
refrain from gazing longingly at the ham
sandwiches and doughnuts, which were
piled in goodly stacks sufficient to make
a hungry man commit burglary.
" 'Pretty lonely around here, isn't it?
Married, widow or single?'
" 'Widow two times.'
" 'No reason why you should remain
long a widow, if I were living up in
♦ his country I think I'd endeavor to in-
terest you.'
"Women, even up the woods, you
know, have a touch of vanity.
" 'I daresay,' said I, 'that you have
the respect of all the men in this com-
munity. A study of your kind eounten
ancc convinces me that everyone is your
friend; in fact. I'll bet there are men up
here that would lay down their lives for
you.'
" 'You bet your life they would,' said
my hostess. Won't you have a sand-
wich?'
"The sandwich tasted good and led to
stronger argument.
" 'Anyone courting you now?'
' 'One, and a good fellow, too/ said
the lady, 'but he is a little slow; he
hasn't popped the question yet.'
" 'Isn't after your money or your lunch
counter, I hope?'
" 'No; he's got plenty of money.*
44 'How are his letters?'
44 'He writes often, but he doesn't seem
to have the right words. I like plenty
of love.'
" 'Quite naturally. You are a woman
who would be loved. You are a woman
that a man couldn't help loving. Merce-
nary motives are cast to the four winds
when a man courts a woman like you.'
# * *
"Well, I ate another sandwich and
drank another cup of coffee, the conver-
sation resolving itself into a philosoph-
ical discussion of love, its cause and ef-
fect.
"It was just about five minutes before
train time when 1 remembered a hit of
verse that I once heard in a play. It ran
something like this
"if I were King, ah. love, if I were King,
What tributary nations would I bring
To stoop before your scepter and to
swear
Allegiance to your lips and eyes and hair.
Beneath your feet what treasures I
would fling;
The stars should be your pearls upon a
string,
The world a ruby for your finger ring,
And you should have the sun and moon
to wear
If 1 were King!
"Let these wild thoughts and wilder
words take wing.
Deep in the woods I hear a shepherd
sing
A simple ballad to a Sylvan air
Of love that ever finds your face more
fair.
I could not give you any godlier thing
If I were King!"
" 'Say,' said the old lady, 'I want you
to write that down for me. That's bully.
I'm going to send it to that fellow of
mine. That's just the sort of stuff he
needs.' ' *
And while I wrote the verses my sen-
timental hostess of more than average
age was putting up a lunch for me fit
for the gods—that is, fit for the gods if
they were up in the Northwest, ahead of
a band and broke."
Tcuching the Prime Donna for Five.
"I shall always look back to old Frisco
with a considerable degree of fondness,"
said the Reformed Advance Agent, "for
I was broke and hungry when I landed
there. Of course, that was my usual
condition, but there was a particularly
happy incident in connection with our
Frisco engagement. We were billed for
a week, and I preceded the band by one
day, our No. 2 man having gone ten days
ahead and perfected preliminary arrange-
m< nts.
"It so happened that we found a place
to sleep, but we were installed in a hotel
with no dining room attached, and we
were taking our meals a la carte when-
ever possible.
"Salaries were two weeks back, and on
the second day of our engagement I
gave up my last 23 cents for a breakfast
of ham and eggs. I had been conducting
the usual big front. That was always
my failing.
"On this occasion I dined with our stel-
lar soprano, a tall, sweet singer, whose
top notes were wonders, although their
ascendancy was not always free from
a ripuing effect, with which the critics
occasionally found fault.
"The soprano had gambled with 35
cents' worth of food and paid her bill
I observed that l»pr small purse was
empty, but she was unconcerned. Watch-
ing her chance—for there were other
guests in the room—she dived down deep
ami extracted a wad of money from the
region of the shoe tops. 1 distinetlv
saw two $20 bills and a $10. I wis
amazed, for I hadn't dreamed that there
was that much money in the entire or-
ganization.
"I immediately tried to borrow $."», and
v/as met with a flat refusal, though she
smiled cunningly.
"That evening I felt the need of a
square meal and struck our first cornet
toi a dollar. 'Just gave the soprano the
last one I had,' he answered.
" 'What for?' I gasped.
44 'She said she was hungry/
"I susp*cted a deep plot, and, without
disclosing any information to the cornet
player, sought the prima donna.
" 'As to that little matter this morn-
ing,' | began, 'do you think it would be
consistent witli your business policy 10
advance the five, as per my request?'
" 'You don't need any money. Aren't
you the advance manager of this baud?'
" 'I plead guilty and crave the leniency
of the court. I am also hungry and
haven't a kopec.'
* ♦ *
"She looked at me with a sort of doubt-
ful expression. /
" 'Madam,' I said, with all the empha-
sis of the tank villain in the third act of
'Nettie, the Newsgirl,' 'why did you bor-
row a dollar from Fernandez, the first
co'-net ?'
"The prima donna hesitated with the
juicy sirloin with which she had been
fi'S'Slng, and turned pale.
'I suspect,' said I. a great light east-
ing its ravs over my hitherto befuddled
mind, 'that someone in this organization
is playing the double cross. As you are
the only woman with the band, I hope
my insinuations strike home.'
"The boldness of my charge discon-
certed the soprano, who immediately
wilted and got confidential.
'Don't get foolish, now.' she said.
'I'll admit that 1 borrowed a dollar from
Fernandez. I also confess that I have $50
concealed on my person. This is my
first season with a band, and I supposed
that "stalling" the management was one
of the first principles of the business. I
borrowed that dollar in an effort to divert
suspicion, if anyone in this bunch knew
1 had that much money I'd stand in im-
minent peril of being a victim of high-
way robbers.'
'But why,' I asked, 'were you so in-
discreet ns to let me see that money this
morning?'
" 'Why, I though you had plenty of it
The man ahead of the band ought to
have money.'
'Madam,' I said, 'be not deceived.
Figuring the calendar as a basis, I am
ten days ahead of the band, but getting
down to a condition of finance, the band
is about two weeks ahead of me. Do I
get th it five?'
" 'Why, certainly, old chap/ said the
soprano, biting her lips as she fished out
a greenback and handed it over the
table. 'I'd do anything for you.'
"And do you know," added the Re-
formed Advance Ae:ent, "that woman
worried me about that $•'» until we. got
to Hannibal, Mo., and then threatened
to put tlie case in the hands of an at-
torney if I didn't come through. People
in the show business are so selfish!"
•
The Heart of Youth.
Yellow-hammer's rat-tat-too on the or-
chard bough;
That's the sound that used to break
through my morning dreams;
Heigho! heart of youth! when I hear it
now
Back again my boyhood comes; very
near it secnis.
Through the prismy dews of morn I am
out again;
Rat-tat-too! that's the lure; straight
my foot it leads;
Down the garden path I leap—through
the pasture lane;
Heigho! heart of youth! Joy alone it
heeds.
There he is (rat-tat-too!) yonder on the
limb!
Cap of red upon his head drumming in
the day.
(Five white eggs are hidden deep in a
hollow dim!)
Heigho! heart of youth! Can't you hear
him play?
Yellow-hammer, you and I in the long
ago
Cronies were; (rat-tat-too down the
morning tossed!)
Here's a hail across the years—how they
fleetly flow!—
Heigho! heart of youth! never wholly
lost!
—Clinton Seollard, The Bohemian for
August.
Wanted Stuffed Owl.
"Have you a stuffed owl here," was a
question that sent a clammy feeling down
the back of Clerk Gregory-at the Grand
Pacific Hotel yesterday. He thought of
cranks, bombs and such things as ho
glanced around the screened cashier's
desk, but when he saw a stylishly-dressed
young woman smiling at him he recovered
and in a dulcet tone replied: "We have
not now, but might get you one.'
The woman said she was Mrs. George
Blair and resided at H350 Parnell Avenue,
and that about twenty years ago a pet
owl belonging to her family had escaped
through an open wlpdow and had been
mourned by the neighborhood. Recently
a friend saw a paragraph in a local
paper, she said, which stated that an
owl had been shot by a clerk on the
roof of the Grand Pacific Hotel. She
thought possibly it might have been the
long-lost bird. , ,
"If you have a stuffed owl here, she
said, "I will buy it, for we did love Dick
and want him with us now, even if ho
is stuffed."
Clerk Gregory made a search of the
'hotel, questioned the older employes and
patrons, but could find no stuffed bird.
Druggist Diamond, who has been in busi-
ness in the hotel for more than twenty
years, said he never heard of anything
being shot on the hotel roof. Manager
Whipple knew nothing of any such trag-
edy and Mrs. Blair was satisfied the
newspaper story was wroag. As she left
the hotel she said she would gladly pay
a handsome reward for the return of the
family pet. alive, dead or even stuffed.—
Chicago Chronicle.
A Seismologist by Chance,
Had it not been for chance, Professor
Milne, the famous seismologist, might
never have taken up the study of earth-
quakes at all. He was 20 years of age
when Cyrus W. Field, the founder of the
Atlantic Cable Comply, sent to the
Royal School of Mines, London, /or a
young man to go out to Japan. The
present professor was the man selected.
"When can you start? On Tuesday?"
asked Field. The student replied that
the time was too short to get his things
together, as it was then Friday. "Look
here, young man," said Field, "it only
took six days to make the world, and if a
whole world can be made in that time
vour few things can be got together in
ies.s. Leave a note with my secretary
as you go out as to what salary you
want." On the Tuesday the young man
was on his way to Japan.—Kansas City
Journal.
—
The Pleasure Marred.
"Now, Horace," said the little boy's
mother, who had Just moved to the
country from the crowded city, "why
don't you run over and play in that field
over there?"
It can't be very nice over there, re-
plied the little boy, "I don't see any
Kccp-off-the-grass' signs there."—Phila-
delphia Press.
GRAND PRIZE
(The highest honor)
Awarded to
DELICIOUS
At the
ST. LOUIS
EXPOSITION.
hr sala by all representative grown.
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