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THE SAN ANTONIO DAILY EXPRESS: WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 11, 1907,
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POPULATION OF TEXAS CITIE8.
The population of tha seven largest
cltias of Texas on June 30, 1906, as esti-
mated by the United States Census Bu-
reau, Is as follows:
San Antonio ®2'?U
Houston 58,132
Dallaa 52,783
Oalvaston 34,3(6
Fort Worth 27,096
Auatln 25,092
Waco 24,443
The Good Sidewalks Campaign.
That the Mayor and Aldermen are
thoroughly In earnest with respect to
the betterment of the sidewalk con-
ditions in Stan Antonio is not now (o
be doubted; and property owners who
have up to this time been derelict
might just as well make up their
minds to submit to the inevitable.
Hereafter, it Is announced, officers
of the police force will make daily
reports of the condition of the side-
walks on their beats, and these re-
ports will be referred to the Sidewalks
Committee of the City Council and
investigation immediately mado,
where conditions are unsatisfactory,
as to what method may be employed
to Insure betterment,
IT the abutting property is claimed
as a homestead only moral suasion
can be used, but if it is not homestead
property the committee may, on fail-
ure or refusal of the owner to make
the required improrements, have the
work done at the city's expense and
tax the cost against the property.
There are bad sidewalks in numer-
ous places in the business district
where they should not be tolerated
for a day, and in some instances the
necessary repairs could be made at
very slight cost. There are vacant
lots in the heart of the business dis-
^ trict with hardly a semblance of side-
walk between the property line and
the paved street where the homestead
claim, if offered, could not be main-
tained in a court of competent juris-
diction.
In the residence district it. appears
there are house owners who impor-
tune the city authorities for better
crossings without having provided
passable waJka in front of their home-
steads. It has now been determined
by the City Council that all such re-
quests for street crossings will be
given proper attention as soon as the
property owners have provided good
sidewalks on either side of the street
crossings, but not until then, and so
the owners of residence property
ralgfct juat as well get busy with side-
walk Improvement.
It Is economy to have a good side-
walk. It saves a great deal of discom-
fort and it saves the tracking of mud
in the house and the soiling of wear-
in* apparel, and ^ looks so much
more respectable.
be empowered to issue emergency
notes, not to exceed $100,000,000, dur-
ing periods of great, stress, thesa
notes to draw 2 per cent an.i
to be held by the banks as reserve,
and not to run more than six months
except at the discretion of the Secre-
tary of the Treasury with the consent
of the President. Such a measure
of relief, Mr. Clows says would sup-
ply what Is now very much needed
in our currency—an automatic move-
ment at a time when ftiost needed. As
a matter of fact, it being known that
relief would bo always forthcoming
would be a bar against panics occur-
ring in this country, such as the re-
eyt one and tljat of 1873, when
money was almost unobtainable on
any terms. It is not likely that Con-
gress will fail to provide some sort
of currency legislation during the
present session, and it is not improb-
able that the various suggestion.}
from financial and business source3
will receive due consideration, for in
n multitude of counsel there Is wis-
dom, and there is going to be a
multitude of counsel before Congress
gets through with the currency prob-
lem.
Puritan and Chevalier.
Central Bank and Elastic Currency.
Henry Clews, the well-known New
York banker, thinks a central Nation-
al bank, such as Is now being advo-
cated by some financial theorists,
would never be acceptable to the Na-
tional banks now existing, as it would
dlminutizc all of them and would not
be popular with the general public.
The plan of issuing emergency elas-
tic Natlpnal bank currency, which
stems to meet with most favor among
bankers and business men generally,
Mr. Clews thinks, would remove tin
necessity for a central National bank
Which might otherwise exist as a pro-
tection against money panics.
Tbe plan for an elastic currenay
system, as tentatively suggested by
President Roosevelt in his last mes-
sage to Congress, as advised by Sec-
retary Cortelyou, authorizes National
bMlka to Increase their circulation
to be called emergency circulation to
the extent of, say 20 per cent of their
paM BP capital, to be Issued upon ap-
.ptoved savings bank securities, to be
deposited with the Comptroller of the
• CwreBiy and to be taxed to such an
as to compel the speedy re-
IM cancellation of such no,tea
Ike business needs no longer
Ojet for the additional currency.
\ In event that Congress should tail
nr refuse to provide such elastic qual-
ity to Um currency system Henry
Clowe euggsats that the Government
The organization of the "Southern
Society" in Denver moves the Post
of that city to pay & splendid tribute
to the "Splendid South." The Post
says:
The world owes not n few pages of
its picturesque history to the exploits
of the gallants and cavaliers who
sailed for Virginia in the troubled
days of the Stuart Kings, and the In-
fluence of Southern thought on Ameri-
can life by no means ceased at Ap-
pomattox. The statesmanship of
Washington, and Jefferson, and Cal-
houn, and Patrick Henry is still some-
thing more than a tradition In the
councils of the Nation today, and, he-
hind the loud mouthlngs of many of our
present "reform movements," the finer,
penetrating spirit of Southern ideals
Is Infecting the higher conceptions of
patriotic public service In all the uni-
versities of the country. The crude
Inefficiencies of the reconstruction
period and the overwhelming charac-
ter of the "commercial spirit" that
followed them never did stamp out
the fires of that "perfervid genius of
the Celt" that always Illumined
Southern thought, and the view is at
least tenable that the South, In some
things. Is repeating history by con-
quering her conquerors.
Laying aside the exigencies of par-
tisan politics, the existing antebel-
lum differences with regard to an es-
tablished institution, and happily al-
nacst forgotten, and the postbellum
prejudices which were a natural se-
quence of a prolonged conflict at
arms, the race problem and a few
other tbings that need not be speci-
fied, the sentiment of the North to-
ward the South has ever been of the
kindliest sympathy and cordiality, as
has been evidenced whenever occa-
sion called for expression of that
feeling of kinship which disregards
geographical or imaginary lines, the
North,and South as one.
Never in her affliction has the
South felt the need of appeal to the
North, for her needs have been too
quickly anticipated and too genetr-
ouely supplied, as Memphis, Vickv
burg and other plague-stricken cities
could long ago attest—as Galveston
and other Southern communities
gratefully remember and heartily ap-
preciate. Politics and politicians mac
continue to be successful, as they
have heretofore been, in keeping up
a division that is purely one of polit-
ical sentiment, but otherwise"\ tho
people are as one and the admixture
of the blood of the Puritan "and tlvs
Chevalier has been so general that
most of us are to some extent con-
sanguineous if not, like President
Roosevelt, "about half Southern and
half Northern."
If the South has been in some
things "conqueror," the North hps
done no less in obliterating- prejudices
and winning a Southern welcome that
is as substantial and sincere as that
accorded to the "Southern Society"
in Northern communities
The union barbers of San Antonio
close their shops on Sundays and
tbey insist that the nonunion shops
shall likewise be closed. The objec-
tion urged against closing is that if
patrons of the barber shops cannot
get a shave on Sunday they will be
forced to provide themselves with
I he Implements for self-shaving, and
if they must do their own shaving on
Sunday they will do the same other
days in the week, and after awhile
practically do away with the need for
barber shops.
Chulahoma, Chockchuma, Tullaho-
ma, Tuskahoma, Tishomingo, are all
well known names in Mississippi
where the Choctaw and Chickasaw
Indiana lived before they were trans-
ferred to the Territorial reserve now
comprising the State of Oklahoma,
and the Indiana carried these names
with them to their new home. Tbe
names are as pretty as Oklahoma it-
self. '
Mr. Bryan favorably regards the
suggestion by President Roosevelt
that Congress appropriate a campaign
fund for both political partlea, whlcn
Is Just another Illustration of the
adage that great minds run in the
same channel. Still it |s not probable
that either Mr. Roosevelt or Mr.
Frynn would like to have such a plank
In the platform upon which he hap-
pened to be running for office.
The legislative financial i.rogram of
CongrpRS is now assumed to be to
do nothing as fast as possible until
the holiday adjournment and to re-
sume operations on the same line di-
rectly., after assembling. Like tariff
revision, financial legislation mav
wait until after the Presidential elec-
tion In tho estimation of some of tho
Congressmen.
There Is not so much being said
about the big canal on the Isthmus
these days, but there is believed to
be a great deal more being done. Ac-
cording to reliable testimony tho work
is progressing so favorably that there
is not much room for criticism aud
when people cannot criticise cbcy u<S'
ually keep still.
There are 103 new members of the
House of Representatives of the
Sixtieth Congress, of wHom twelve
have served in a previous Congress.
Of the new members forty-one are Re-
publicans and sixty-two Democrats.
Of the new Democratic members of
the House four are from the new State
of Oklahoma.
Senator Culberson's idea seems to
be that It is not necessary for the
Government to borrow money at from
2 to 3 per cent when there is a cash
surplus in the treasury of between
J200.000.000 and J300.000.000. But
then some one has observed that Con-
gressmen are not, for the most part,
financiers.
Mr. Bryan has announced that h'J
will not accept a second term of the
Presidency. That means, perhaps,
that if he should be elected President
next year he would never again be a
"logical candidate" and some other
Democrat might have an opportunity
to get Into the running.
The Kansas City Star suggests that
the Connecticut man who has just re-
turned home from the Civil War must
have stopped In Washington to trans-
act business at one of the depar'-
ments; which shows that the Star can
be very sarcastic on occasions.
Among other recommendations of
the proposed incoastal canal it is men-
tioned that while the boats In com-
mission will always be within easy
reach of tbe coast they will bo out of
reach of the guns of a hostile fleet.
The United States stands second
in naval power among the nations,
but first in the efficiency of seame;i
and gunners, and. with Admiral Bob
Evans on deck, ranks the world In the
matter of a naval commander.
It is said Mr. Bryan's present pur-
pose is to remain at home during the
Presidential campaign and to maku
only a minimum number of speeches.
It Is sometimes a bad thing for a can
didate to talk overmuch.
The Baltimore American says it is
better to ask for something you want
than to want for something. It would
he still better to be content with what
you have until you can get what you
want by striving for it.
WHAT THE STATE PAPERS SAY
A Chicago professor says men like
wives who do not ask questions; and
it might be added that women like
husbands who do not neei to be ques-
tioned.
If there be any cotton still left in
the field there is now fine weather
for picking it.
A Little Christmas Llat.
(Wl^h the usual ones to Sir William.)
As some day It may happen, by a popu-
lar request,
I've got a little list,—I've got a little
list \
Of Christmastlde offenders who should
reallv be suppressed,
And who never would be missed—who
never would be missed!
There's the elevator boy with "Merry
Greetings" on his box,
The grocery lad who lingers longer
every time he knocks.
The postman and the Janitor, the barber
and the maid.
The boot black and the waiter and the
porter to be paid—
And the brakeman In the smoker who
sits out the deck for whist—
They'd none of 'em be missed—they'd
none of 'em be missed.
There's the chap who writes It "Xmas"
on a frosted postal card—
And the epigrammatist, I've got him on
tbe list—
The poet of the aiagaslnes, that sempi-
vernal bard.
He never would be missed—ba never
would be missed!
The funny men who write tha rubber-
stfmpy kind of Jokes
About the Christmas stocking and about
the Christmas smokes.
The journalistic Jester who Is busy every
year
On the hardy annual whisker Joke and
others Just as drear—
And modestly I ought to add the Christ-
mas parodist—
I don't think he'd be missed—I'm aura
he'd not ba missed!
-Pock.
Pointed Paragraph*.
"Wise infanta look before they creep.
Men who think they know It all are
never able to prove it.
How a pretty women doea lova_to walk
down the street with a homely man.
When a man quarrels with hla wife
he seldom geta a chance to aay any-
thing.
No, Cordelia, people who pay their mon-
ey at the gate are not given gate re-
ceipts.
Isn't It a shame that the highest praise
a man ever geta comas out at his fun-
eral.—Chicago Newa.
Changes Papera.
The Strawn Enterprise has I ecn dis-
posed of by Eugene Moore, anj he has
purchased the VVeatherford Plain Texan.
Mr. Moore is an experienced' newspaper
man.
♦ * ♦
Sad, But True.
, t he weatnertorn Herald cheerrully an-
nounces tnai "an editor lias to be born."
Ana a good many ot tnem should obey
the oenest ot tno Bible ana De born
again.
♦ ♦ ♦
More Like It.
The Appeal to Reason is like the story
told on the old maid. She rls's to le-
inaik, "I told you si."—Kagl-i Lake Ad-
vertiser.
Why not sav that the Appeal resem-
bles Terrible Teddy nnd be done with it?
♦ ♦ ♦
Are Ready Now.
ray your poll tax ana get reaay to no
the scratcning act next year.—Mclvinney
t:ourier-uazotie.
Although the "scratching act" is un-
avoidably postponea until next year, there
are many who arc just itching to bo at it
already.
♦ ♦ ♦
Certainly Not.
One of the city reporters of The 'Ban
Antonio f'.'xpress tells l big joke In Mon-
day's edition about a young man who
was robb'd In that city Sunday tilghl
and then went to police headquM'ters and
tuid about it — L\ aide ;.cadei-News.
Of course, that would not be humorous
In (Jvaide.
♦
Why Should They.
M st evil-minded men fear publicity
more than they do the Jail.-Waco Star.
What's the difference? Publicity as
far as they aro concerned may possibly
result In their being Jailed; cu th,i other
hand, their being tu 11 »d will certainly
result In more or less publicity.
♦ ♦ ♦
Not Hurt,
Mows mat sidewalk?—Granger .News.
It Editor Keeacr is referring to tnat
smewaiK on whicn sundry citizens have
stumbled during tne past tew nignts and
narrowly escaped breaking their necks,
no is informed tnat it was not injured in
tne least.
♦ ♦ ♦
Decidedly Easy.
Now that Congress has reassembled it
tv 111 be in order for that appropriation
to be made for making the Trinity Kiver
navlgahlo to Dallas and the flan Antonio
River to tho Alamo City. B j have the
word of Tom Firty Jr. and I'"rr.nk I'ut-
iiatn that tho latter can er.d should be
done. As to the feasibility of the loimer
we are in doubt.—Smiley Reflector.
♦ ♦ ♦
Too True.
For tbe fourth time Roossvelt puts
away a crown and Justifies the claim
made by his admirers that h1 'I n greater
man than Caesar.—Beevilie Bee.
It is a poor comparison, hewever, as
it must be ackrowlelged that Taft is a
little too portly for the role of Brutus,
and just Imagine I.oeb as Antony.
They Are But Just.
The noted Williams robbery case, on
trial in Ban Antonio last week, resulted
In a hung jury, ten being for .umiittal
and two tor conviction. The defendant
was charged with knocking an aged
woman In tho head an-1 robbing her of
He mad<e r confession, substan-
tiating the testimony of the Aomin, hut
as it was made before the new law con-
cerning confessions went Into effect It
was ruled out, and he told another story
at), ut how the woman attacked him and
!■ only struck her in self-defense. Tills
Is an Instance wlr-ro a law seems to have
worked backward. Williams' conlesslon
was published In tho nowsparers at tho
time it was made, and manv of the read-
ing public will fall to understand how
a jury couldi disagree over ills case. How-
ever. the ease wis tried in San Antonio,
where a Jury disagreed on the guilt of
Monk Gibson, ono of the Condit mur-
derers.—Beevilie Bee.
The result reflsots l'ar more credit
than otherwise uron th> fair, Impartial
Jurors ol San Antonio. Thcv try a man
merely upon the merits of the ease, as
shown by the testimony Introduced, and
do not «llcw themselves to be influenced
by that >vhlch has been ruled out by the
court as having no bearing on tho matter.
Still Ahead. * * *
The twin crop in Texas Is raid to be
enormous for 190". Ah, there, Five Mil-
lion Club.—Shermiin Democrat.
Which goes to show that Grand Old
Texas Is still leading in all tilings and
that its godly citizens are snpeiior to
those of any other State or country in
the woi'Id. Why, even the royal iamily
of Fpain Is unable to boa^t of twins.
♦ ♦
Disastrous.
An Oklahoma girl advertised for a hus-
band and cot him. The total expense
for advertising, wedding outfit, etc., was
till. He died within a year, leaving her
an Insurance policy of Sl't.OOO. And yet
some people claim It don't pay to aJ>-
vertlao.—Alba News.
Tills, however, would appear to Indi-
cate that one has to be very careful
about answering advertisements.
Be Merciful.
Editors that make a mash—on them-
selves—are very rare, thank fortune, hut
row and then k: read aftsr one who
can not write three paragraphs without
telling how much better be is thar. others
and how nice he la anyhow. Well, If no
one else will say nice things about a
fellow, maybe lie has to say them.—
Abilene Reporter.
Don't be too har.l upon the poor fel-
low. Possibly he is one of those fditors
who, having paid their bills, low nave no
one to remind tliem that, they are nllve
and1 are therefore forced to do it them-
selves.
♦ ♦
Looks That Way.
In North western, a town in the north-
ern part of Oneida County, ty. Y., J. W.
Hcody, SS years eld. diled recently. His
ftirm is covered with clibit stones and
huge boulders, and on these boulders he
had carved th i fac?« of hundreds of
piomlncnt men snd women. Kintis, em-
perors and public men lie around the
Boody farm In profusion anS crowd the
dncrway. It is a eurlof ity spot whleh
many tourists lfcve visited.—Palacios
Times.
With no cflsrespeot to deccdent, it can
certainly be men'loned that he was a
man of hard features.
I
Worth Trying.
When through Orient trains are in
operation from Kansas City to San An-
gelo, the Queen City, unless hamperitd
will bloom and flourish even faster than
In the past. And', when you come to
think about it real • seriously, why
shouldn't £'an Angelo enjoy such rela-
tions with ill of northern Old Mexico as
San Antonio the largest city in the
State now erloyi with southern Old
Mexico? And Sin Angelo wlll!-.San Atl-
gelo Standard.
San Angrdo would do well to emulate
the progress of San Antdnlo. Of course,
there can only be one "largest city of
the Plate," but there are many tliirgs
about commercial, bustling San An-
tonio whieh it will harm no city to ac-
quire.
IN THE JOYOUS CHRISTMAS SEASON.
7/^(5) X? f^eMoxe)
WILD
A suggestion that tho Christmas shopper may profit by: If the thing be
done parly it will not be such a heavy task. Now is the time to do tho Christ-
mas buying.
^ TOPICS OF THE TIMES ^ ^
Senatorial Courteay.
There are some customs which have
come to be accepted as an essential part
of Senatorial courtesy which are really
more deserving of ttk name of Senatorial
nonsense. One of these is the custom of
exchanging cards at the beginning of
every Congress. The new Seantor whose
secretary Is informed regarding the cus-
toms of the Senate orders one hundred
cards engraved and a like number of
small envelopes. His secretary laborious-
ly addresses tbe little envelopes In ills
finest ehlrogrsphy to every other member
of the Senate, the cards are inclosed and
the envelopes deposited In the Senate
postofflce. Then every Senator who re-
ceives a card must promptly return Ills
own to the sender, and. this done. Sena-
tors are supnosed to have made one an-
other's acquaintance and to be on speak-
ing terms when they meet in smoking
room or estaurant.
The consequence of this rather silly
custom, which was Instituted by no one
knows who. although some suspect It was
some Washington stationer. Is that every
Senator's mall during the first few days
of a long session 1s loaded with tiny en-
velopes bearing the meaningless little
pasteboards, and the remarks which the
solons are sometimes heard to make as
they find their desks piled high with such
Inconsequential communications are by no
means complimentary to the senders or
to the man who Invented the custom.
There are, It Is true, a few Senators
who refuse to he governed by this tradi-
tion of the Senate and thus a few secre-
taries are saved from a lot of fuss and
bother, for, strange as It may seem, there
are men who come to the Senate who
take offense If they do not receive this
formal acknowledgment of the cards they
have sent out. As for the custom pro-
moting acquaintance, that is a myth.
Senators do not wait for introductions,
but speak when they find opportune oc-
casions. The scant attention which the
older Senators pay to these formal paste-
boards does not serve to Inform them of
the new Senators' names. Which they have
learned from the newspapers, or which
they can ascertain In a moment by con-
sulting the Congressional Directory. There
may hava been a time when the custom
served a useful purpose, but that day
has passed and there is no reason what-
ever for continuing it. except the diffi-
culty of abandoning a practice once in-
grafted on the upper House of Congress.
Like the flowers which used to encum-
ber Senators' deska at the beginning of a
Congress, many of them purchased by of-
ficeholders who could ill afford them, or
who sought by courtesy to their "Influ-
ence" to Insure promotion, or recogni-
tion of services Illy performed, the cards
should go. and a majority of the Sena-
tors will be truly grateful to the individ-
ual who finds some method of tending the
silly practice.—Washington Poet.
Cannon Stings Cortelyou.
"None but an ass." said Speaker Can-
non on Thursday, "would suggest a bond
isaue to build waterways, when there la
a surplus In the Treasury." These words
were peevishly addressed to the delega-
tion which visited his office In the Capi-
tol to present him a handsome copy of
the reaolutlona adopted by tbe Deep Wa-
terwaya Convention at Memphis In Oc-
tober.
Ruffled as were the tempera of some of
the delegates by this blunt discourtesy,
tbe words flew far enough above their
beada to atlng the President and the Sec-
retary of the Treaaury, If they are at all
aensltlve to What Uncle Cannon may say.
Though there la a surplus of nearly
UM.MMM la tbe Treaaury. la not Secre-
tary Cortelyou. with tbe approval of tbe
President, now in the act of making "a
bond issue to build a waterway?"
Official Washington should await with
expectancy and explanation of these dou-
ble-hitting words. 1'nclc Cannon is too
old in the ways of Washington to send a
verbal shot at one mark and hit another.
If he didn't mean to hit two birds with
the one stone he has become very much
less exoert a marksman than he has here-
tofore been accounted to be.
This is not the first indication of a
cooling between the Speaker and the Ad-
ministration. His first official visit of
the session at /(lie White House was made
at a time when he must have known that
the President would be busy, and that he
could only send In his card.
His candidacy for the Presidential nom-
ination of his party must be displeasing
to President Roosevelt, and Mr. Speaker
seems not to care if It is. And now. In
effect, he calls President Roosevelt's Sec-
retary of the Treasury an ass. Did he
sting Secretary Cortelyou through sheer
awkwardness, or deliberately and with
malice aforethought?—St. Louis Republic.
Appropriationa for Campaign Funds.
The suggestion made by President
Roosevelt, in his message, that Congress
appropriate money to cover tho cam-
paign expenses of each of the "great
National parties"—a suggestion, by the
way, which meets the hearty approval of
Mr. Bryan—Is not nearly so startling as
it at first seems to be. We seriously
doubt the wisdom of any such plan. Cer-
tainly it ought not to be thought of un-
less there is a provision that no party
shall receive any money from any one In
addition to the amount apnroprlated.
This, however. Is not the President's Idea.
He says that "the stipulation should be
made that no party receiving campaign
funds from the Treasury should accept
ir.ore than a fixed amount from any In-
dividual subscriber or donor." Under
such a rule as this the result would be
that the amount received from Congress
would be simply in addition to the usual
liberal gifts to the campaign committees
—Just so much more graft. If there I* to
he an appropriation for this object there
should be nothing In addition to It. The
restriction should be absolute.
But. as we have said, the suggestion Is
not altogether revolutionary. Indeed, the
tendency has been In this direction for a
long time. Many election and campaign
expenses are paid by the States, coun-
ties and municipalities that were former-
ly paid by party committees, in In-
diana the committees uaed to pay for
printing the ballots, and to meet tne total
expenses of an election. The ballots are
now printed and paid for by the State.
In the old days primaries were a mere
part of the party machinery, and the cost
was defrayed out of the campaign fund.
Now they are very generally ander tha
control of the State or of the county, are
treated as elections are treated, and are
paid for out of the public treesury. Thus,
though there have been no grants to par-
ties on account of campaign funds, we
have voted money to pay for things for-
merly paid for out of campaign funds.
However, there ought to be m. limit to
certain tendenclea, and we think this
should be so here. The State is Inter-
ested In having honest elections and pri-
maries, for on getting these depends the
quality of public service. But when It
comes to the buslnesa of oersuadlng and
Influencing votera, we think the oaae la
different. It la hard to see why the peo-
ple should be taxed to pay for oampalgn
oratory, for uniforming campaign cluha,
for the service of ward and precinct
workers, or for hiring halls. These are
matters with which tbe public authori-
ties have nothing to do. Nation and
State ara interested In seeing that an
honest mult be reached, that tbe men
elected are fairly elected, but neither Is
interested In seeing that one or the other
man be olected. In other words, there
are certain expenses which the public
ought to pay for—and it now mostly does
pay for them-but there are others which
. It ought not to pay for. With the people
I paying for ballots, election officers and
primaries, there ought to he much less
I need for campaign funds than there was
! in the old days. With nroper legal re-
strictions, and a provision requiring the
utmost publicity there would be no need
to tax the people for campaign oratory.—
Indianapolis News.
O
BOSTON'S OPEN MOUTH FAD.
Society Girls See Football Games
With Their Mouths and Eyes.
Th latest type of Boston girl noted Is
tho "open mouthed girl," and this new
type seems to have developed chiefly
among the Back Bay society set.
The aristocratic Boston maiden of to-
day, it would appear, keeps her mouth
open. A glance at illustrations taken at
some of the recent football gtunes at th;3
Stadium shews how general has become
(lie "open mouthed girl "
~Those who have noted the habit say
that the motor car and the strenuous life
on the golf links has brought it all about.
The speeding vehicle that btars her
down town, to the theater or to some
other of the varied pleasures mapped out
for her day's Itinerary is looked upon
grcHtly as the chief offender.
The swish of the rushing .vind on the
pretty face has caused the cheeks to
glow and the eyes to sparkle and those
cherry ripe lip*^ to part company. Grad-
ual'v tho gleaming white teeth peep
through the aperture, for the dainty nos-
tiils cannot drink in the requisite
amount of ozone to supply tho call to the
lungs of such a healthy body.
The habit of the open mouth thus ac-
quirer gulns an impetus on the golf links.
The littl^ hall flies before her stroke and
she watches Its progress breathlessly.
Will it come up to her expectations?
Unconsciously her lips are opened with
the interest that her play has aroused.
Then she forgets to close them again—
and Hi j breathing, both through nostrils
ami the mouth, continues till she has
formed th^j open morth habit, which
seems to he growing each lay more tnd
more conspicuous.
Some of the sterner t;ex have even gone
so far as to ass rt that the open mouthed
girl snores at nlgnt. "Just look around
at the girls on the stand," said a well
known Harvard graduate, who was at-
tending tho Darthmouth gam® at the
StacHum, to a number of male frlenda
who accompanied him. "Note tho open
no utlis. Some of them are seeing tha
game with their throats, rather than
with their eyes. They can't seem to get
Interested n a thing without allowing
their lips to part, end I would be willing
to wager any number of ha's that tho
girl over there, who Is so nusv display-
ing the colors of the old colic go, snores
like a trooper In her sleop."^-Bostc.u Post.
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JOSEPH PULITZER, EDITOR.
Some of the Characteristics of a
Great Figure In Journalism.
He has been and Is one of the mOBt
prodigious workers the world has known.
Last April, when the heads of depart-
ments were gathered to celebrate his
sixtieth birthday, Mr. Pulitzer sent one
of Ills remarkable cables—this man, who
came to America as an emigrant, know-
ing not a Word of the language, has be-
come one of the great masters of Eng-
lish—in which he announced his retire-
ment from active direction of his news-
papers. Every paper in New York print-
ed this announcement except one—the
World. His editors knew he could no
more give up work than he could live
without breathing. Mr. Pulitzer was fur-
Ioub over his employes refusing to take
his announcement seriously, but he waa
very careful not to Inquire who was re-
sponsible. He has a remarkable faculty
for appearing densely ignorant about
things he does not want to know.
He Is not only a worker, but a worker
who Is driven on and on by an Idea, a
fundamental thing he believes In. The
fame and the wealth he has won were
not the objective, but merely Incidental
rewards. For nothing could be more mis-
leading than to epitomize the career of
Joseph Pulitzer from the viewpoint of
personal achievement. That he came
from Budapest, Hungary, where he was
born in 1847, and In early manhood began
as a reporter at meager wages on the
Westliche Post, a German newspaper pub-
lished In St. Louis; that he was frugal
and Inspired sufficient confidence In St.
Louis financial quarters to obtain such
loans as enabled him snpedily to become
managing editor and part proprietor of
the newspaper; that In 1871 he bought
the moribund St. Louis Post and St.
Louis Dispatch, combining them as the
St. Louis Post-Dispatch snd making that
newspaper a potent factor In- public af-
fairs In the West; that In 1SSS he bourht
the New Tork World and made It one of
the moat successful and most powesful
newspapety In this country—all these
things lose their real significance unless
there Is presented an outline of what he
accomplished with his aewspaoers. To-
day the World, with Its combined morn-
ing and evening circulation of upwards of
800.000 coplaa on week days and nearly
6(0.000 on Sundays, Is enjoying the great-
eat financial proaperlty and power Tt has
ever known. Beeldes his achievement
in Sharing with the late James Gordon
Bennett the honor of being the father
of the modern metropolitan newspaper,
he originated newspaper Illustration as it
is done today, and also tha color comic
auMtoment and the short, snappy ed-
itorial.—Broadway Magaslne.
THE RETORT COURTEOUS.
If the actions of the next Congress are
in any way to resemble those of the im-
mortal Thirtieth, on Thanksgiving Day
the citizens of grand old Texas will he
able to be thankful that they were af-
forded an opportunity to be thankful be-
fore all cause for thanks had been lost.—
San Antonio Express.
The above Is a little late for publica-
tion, but all the same It is good reading
now. The Thirtieth v.as dominated, to a
great extent, by the Governor, and was
In a regulating mood. They wanted to
regulate most everything, even to length
of bed sheets. But Texas is growing
wiser as the years pass, and her people
will surely be more careful in their selec-
tion of the next body of lawmakers.—
Fort Worth Star.
The Cuero Record is now occupying Its
new two-story brick building, with an-
nex press room and electrlo power plant
in the rear. The Record Is sn enterpris-
ing little paper and well merits the suc-
cess which appears to be crowning Its
efforts—San Antonio Express.
Thanks, brother, we are doing our besi
and the good peoole of DeWitt are
showing their appreciation.—Cuero Rec-
ord.
The Nelll estimate of the cotton crop of
the United States for this season Is 11.-
395,000 bales, about two million bales
less than last season. The, yield In Texas
and Oklahoma is estimated at less than
3,000,000 hales, the falling off In Texas
being greater than elsewhere.—San An-
tonio Express.
That looks favorable for the advo-
cates of 15-cent cotton. — Floresvllla
Chronicle.
While you are all talking about your
Crowded Corpus Christi. Busy Browns-
ville. Hustling Houston. Saintly San An-
tonio. Winning Waco. Doughty Dallas.
Frisky Fort Worth, what is the matter
with Luscious Laredo with lier two-pound
grape fruit, oranges to beat the hand, and
train upon train load of succulent Ber-
mudas?—la redo Times.
Waco praises tbe Brazos, and Wash-
ington dams It.—Waco Times-Herald.
Which goes to show that the Democracy
of Texas would still prefer that certain
things in Grand Old Texas shouk"
damned by a Republican admtnlstr
rather than be praised by It.—San
tonlo Express.
And thus has the naughty Express pro-
faned a cute and Innocent little pun.—
Austin Statesman.
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utd be
■t ration
in An-
Don't let us forget to make tbe Red
Men's annual celebration of Washington's
birthday one of the grandest events ever
pulled off in Teredo, the acknowledged
gateway for the commerce and travel
between the two great Republics.—La-
redo Times.
Sure, you ought to! George was cer-
tainly a "good Indian."—San Antonio
Exoress.
Probably so. but don't forget while the
subject is up, that Laredo has just got
hundreds of them—Laredo Times.
Mrs. Anns M. Bradley spent a quiet
Thanksgiving. So did Arthur Brown.
He could not help himself.—Dallaa Times
Herald.
After perusing the testimony In the
case, however, we are not so sure of Ar-
thur.—San Antonio Express.
Perhaps men are permitted to give
thanks, st rare Intervals. In that land of
tropical heat.—Dallas Times-Herald.
Oklahoma Is now proposing to trans-
form the unwritten Into a written law.
Grand Old Texas has more written laws
which It would be glad to dispense with
than Oklahoma haa disappointed Repub-
licans.— Ban Antonio Express.
It does seem that Texas has several
hundred laws that could be dispensed
with and then have enough left for the
protection of life, liberty and oroperty In
the Sta'te. But we venture to predict
right now that when the next Legislature
convenes the members will have at least
500 new bills "cut and dried." ready to be
chucked Into the legislative mill. 'Twas
ever thus and ever will be as long as msn
are elected to make our laws who aro
building for themselves Instead of the
State.—Fort Worth Star.
ME8SAGE TOO LONO.
But One Morning Papor In Now York
Printed It In Pull.
But one morning newapaper in the city
of New Tork printed Prealdent Roose-
velt's message In full. It has been the
Immemorial practice of New Tork news-,
papers, with, in recent years three ex-
ceptions, we believe, to print Presidents'
messages without abridgement. /
What does it mean? Jt means, first
of all. that the message waa too long.
The President used 80.000 words ot our
good English speech In making his rec-
ommendations t* Congress. In full the
document would have occupied four pages
of newspaper space. The managers of
the New fork newspapers thought that
one pegs was about all that they and
their readers oeuld stand. Their decision
wee no doubt wise and senslbls. Only
a very small fraction of 1 per cent of tbe
newspaper-reading public would have had
the time or tha patience to read tha
measage from beginning to end. it waa
too long.—New Tork Times.
■ ' ■ ————
Ho Know tho My.
"Tour bay that went away," remark-
ed a neighbor, "will be comln' home soma
of tbSs times."
"I wouldn't be a mite surprised to sea
him any day," responded Paw Hoptoad,
"now that the harvestln' Is all dene."—
Kansas City Journal.
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