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THE SAN ANTONIO DAILY EXPRESS: TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 19, 1907.
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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 S+ates Census Du*
reau, is as follows:
SAN ANTONIO D9.F31
Houston 5^,465
Dallas 4a,573
Galveston 32,613
Fort Worth 26,960
Austin 24,148
Waco 23,162
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A Self-Help industrial College.
Judge Grubbs of Greenville, who
may be called the father of Industrial
education in Texas, does not intend
to weary in well doing. Hi;-s latest
project is the establishment at some
favoring point in the State of a self-
help industrial college, with manufac-
turing enterprises in conjunction
therewith in which technical instruc-
tion may be obtained from practical
demonstration and useful occupation.
The idea is to give to deserving
young men and women employment
by which they may be able to work
out a fairly good English education
while qualifying themselves for the
duties and responsibilities of the work-
day life in the fields of useful en-
deavor. The manufacturing enter-
prises in connection with such a
school need not, of course, be on a
very large or expensive scale—at. least
Btot at the beginning. There are many
Useful and profitable industries that
require but smail capital for their in-
stitution and operation which pay or
may be made to pay good dividends.
It has been demonstrated that fruit
canning factories of moderate cost
are profitable to the owners and op-
erators and of great benefit to the
fiuit and vegetable growers in their
vicinity. The broom factory does not
require a very large outlay of capital
lor its equipment and the turning
lathe and the implements of the car-
penter and joiner, for the shoemaker
or the dressmaker are comparatively
inexpensive. The Express is not in-
formed as to the character of manu-
facturing enterprises Judge Grubbs
contemplates in conjunction with his
industrial college, but it is presumed
he will not overlook tho small indus-
tries which are of so much importance
in the business life of the world.
There are many boys and girls who
would be glad of an opportunity to
attend a school wherein they could
have the advantage of instruction in
* useful occupations as well as in books
and at the same time earn the price
cf their board and tuition as a part
of their practical studies. Whether
the establishment and operation of
euch a self-help institution is practica-
ble is yet to be determined and will
depend largely upon the liberality of
those who may think favorably enougn
of the plan to back with their contri-
butions.
tho coming y^ay calls for a less sum
than was appropriated for the preced-
ing year and the report recommends
a reduction in the tux rate.
Concerning bond issues Mayor Rice
says in his message: "My study and
experience of municipal government
convince me that bond issues are dan-
gerous to a municipality. The main
cause of trouble in the majority of the
cities in the United States is the
fearlessness of debt. The local gov-
ernment, to be successful, must, like
the individual, live within his means,
for otherwise debt and bankruptcy
must follow. It is my observation
that all over this country the tax-
payer is awakening, taking an interest
in his local government, and will de-
mand not only proper management of
his public affairs, but some practical
and beneficial return for what he pays
into the treasury."
It is high time the taxpayer in every
community were awakening to a
proper interest in the local govern-
ment and in the proper administration
of public affairs. He has the right to
demand that the revenue which he
contributes to the support of govern-
ment is honestly and judiciously ex-
pended and that he gets the return
to which he Is entitled in protection
to life and property and in the bene-
fits and comforts which are to be
derived from efficient and progressive
administration.
Municipal government must become
irore and more a matter of business
and less and less a matter of machine
polities as the taxpayers take active
interest in shaping the policies and
in the selection of the men who are
to administer the government.
Railroads and the People.
Municipal Government.
In his recent annual message
Mayor Rice of Houston calls atten-
tion to various beneficial results that
have followed the adoption of the
Commission plan of government.
Commenting on this message and
the results achieved and the Cbmmis-
Bion system the staff correspondent
of the Galveston News says: "It
ehows that a municipality can be
taken from politics and carried along
with the current of progress accord-
ing to the strict business methods
,4 and with the vigilant accounting that
i.i had only in business corporations,
where system and detail bring about
a showing of the exact condition of
tho business and how it can be im-
proved by greater attention to the de-
tails."
It appears from the message and
the accompanying reports that the
Commission during its brief tenure of
office has completely wiped out a
large floating Indebtedness, put the
city on a cash basis, with a comforta-
ble balance in the treasury, has done
a considerable amount of street pav-
ing, has spent more than tlOO.OOO in
the building of new school houses,
has purchased many acres of grounds
for new parks and for permanent im-
provements. All this has been done
without an Issue of bonds or any in-
crease of taxation. The budget for
President Winchell of the Rock Is-
land Railroad says he is not seriously
alarmed by the attitude of the law-
making powers toward the railroads,
the most dangerous feature of which,
he says, is the crop of two-cent pas-
senger laws now being harvested all
over the West, where the density of
population is not sufficient to main-
tain a good service at that price.
Even this feature does not disturb
him very greatly because of his firm
belief that such laws will not be per-
mitted to remain long on the stutute
books, because the courts will come
to the relief of tho railroads and the
public.
Mr. Winchell expresses confidence
in the sound sense of the people as
well as in the judgment of the courts,
but he admits that tho great railroad
managers have been too busy with
their duties in the management of the
great interests under their charge to
take the public as much into their
confidence as it might have been well
to do. He says: "We must do bet-
ter in this respect in the future, must
not drift so far away from the people
and must build up instead of tear
down by distrust of one another. Co-
operation with the Government in
laudable reforms is a good thing, and
btcause railway presidents are willing
to correct whatever mistakes they
iray have made, it is not fair to ridi-
cule them or to say they are pleading
with anyone."
Perhaps Mr. Winchell would not
find his confidence in tho people mis-
placed if the policy he indicates were
carried out. There ought not to be
any hostility to the railroads. No
other sentiment, in fact, toward these
necessary arteries of trade and com-
merce than that of friendliness and
support and hearty co-operation, but
this cannot be so long as the people
are persuaded that tho railroads are
overrunning and trampling upon their
rights, and can only be curbcd by
drastic legislative enactments. The
politicians have done a great deal to-
wards cultivating among the people a
sentiment i>f hostility towards the
railroads and the railroad managers
have depended too much upon their
influence with the lawmaking bodies
and the resort to the courts instead
of making some concessions to public
sentiment and getting more in touch
with the people.
Mr. Yoakum, who has always taken
a very sensible and conservative view
of the situation, thinks there should
be established regulations governing
railroad traffic and that the matter
of determining the best rules and
regulations goveining the movement
of the traffic of the country through
a close alliance between the transpor-
tation companies and the Federal Gov-
ernment is the most Important mat-
ter now before the American people.
"The entire conditions of the traffic
relations of the country to the public
have been changed in the last few
years, and the railroad companies
have been as much a factor in con-
tributing to the present change of
attitude of the public towards the rail
systems as anyone else," says Mr.
Yoakum and this Is a truth which
the railroad men must realize. The
consolidation of short lines into vast
systems covering thousands of miles
and tho operation of these systems
from a distant center have had much
t<> do with the changed relations of
the railroads to the couutry. Mr. Yoa-
kum credits the Administration at
Washington with an earnest and pa-
triotic purpose to solve the problem
Mhich has so excited the railway in-
terests, but he regards the action or
proposed action of some of the State
Legislatures as hurtful to the country
at largo as much as to the railroads.
Whatever may be the views of any
Legislator or citizen with respect to
the regulation of public carriers a
spirit of justice and fairness should
always prevail. The interests af-
fected are too great and too closely
interwoven with the progress and
prosperity of the country to be treated
lightly or with any narrow bias.
If the Japanese havo in Manchuria
such a wonderful new country in
need of men to develop it, why is it
that so many of them want to come
to America, and their Government is
so insistent on getting "rights" for
them here?
Senator Willacy says he doesn't
want tho women of Texas contami-
nated with politics and commerce, if
Senator Willacy doesn't watch out,
he will get himself called "a mean
old thing."
With the Thaw trial nearing the
end the Central American war may
.soon obtain recognition as first page
matter, provided something more ex-
citing does not develop in the mean-
time.
Taft will drop down to Panama and
locate the dam, just as he dropped
down to Cuba and settled the Revolu-
tion. When in doubt "send Taft"
seems to be tho President's formula.
President Roosevelt calls Judge
Taft "Will," and a paragrapher asks
"why not Willie?" I.ater Mr. Roose-
velt may call Judge Taft "Mr. Presi-
dent," but will he?
Of the recently popularized coin-
ages Boston will certainly prefer
Grover Clevland's "sinuous explana-
tion" to Mr. Oliver's "Whangdoodled"
and mollycoddled.
Tho new Douma having split up
into six parties, the facetious para-
grapher of the Washington Post sug-
gests that at least five of them must
be Democratic.
Senator Griggs insists that sheets
in Texas shall be nine feet long. The
Senator will go down in history as the
patron saint of tall men if his bill
shall pass.
The need of fire-escapes for San
Antonio's building is too apparent to
be longer unsupplied. It Is nfmatter
that should be dealt with by city ordi-
nance.
That Russian Captain of sharpshoot-
ers who had the cheek to cut off a
Prince's ear, of course got it in the
neck—it in this case being a ballet.
A medical authority says "people
get cold feet because the heart is
weak." We had supposed the "hands"
had a good deal to do with it.
Yesterday being suspension day at
tho House, the bills not considered
are in danger of being hung up per-
manently.
The Washington Herald has a good
word for the trusts. It says they
"do" the people good.
The Lonely Financier.
There's a lovely, dainty maiden who has
Changed her attitude;
0nc^„I ,Kla.dJy dl<1 the billing while she,
tilled with pleasure, eooeil;
Once it seemed to make her happy to be
tola about my plans,
Onco she thought, my talents greater than
were any other man's.
I was bullish in the market; her old
father was a bear;
I Was long on F. 13. common and Pow-
hattau-Delawji re:
When the evening lamps were lighted she
would nestle at mv side.
While I confidently told her of the profits
we'd divide.
"And your poor, old, foolish father," I
would very gently say,
"We will help him—I'll support him when
his margins fade away;
I have warned him well, mv darling; I
have even begged, indeed.
That he cease his foolish selling, but,
alas, he will not heed."
Thus I talked it over with her in those
days when things were high,
When I gave my broker orders boldly to
go in and buy;
Ah, those happy, happy moments when
my cup of joy was full,
When her pessimistic father was a bear
and I a bull.
On her slim and dainty finger glistened
my engagement ring;
She agreed to have the wedding very
early in the spring.
And we planned a trip to Europe on a
vacht that would be mine
Just as soon as P. B. common rose to
sixty-eight or nine.
She and I no longer linger in the parlor
late at night;
She Is touring with her father—all my
hopes have taken flight;
F. B. common's down to seven; I have
pawned the ring she wore.
And the once obliging brokers do not
know me any more.
—S. E. Kiser.
Reflections of a Bachelor.
Farming is pretty good fun unless you
make your living at it.
A man is apt to get awful lonesome if
hp resolves to keep only good company.
There is nobody you can hate as much
as the fellow who is smarter than you
are.
One of the reasons for a man's being
proud of his brains is that nobody
else Is.
It makes a girl ns mad' to call her a
voung thing at 18 as it does not to when
she is 2S.—New York Press.
WHAT THE STATE PAPERS SAY
Under Marquis of Gooseberry Rules.
Senator Holsey called Col. James
Hayes Quarles a liar yesterday. Colonel
Quarles punched Senator Holsey in the
temple rind Senator Holsey punched
Colonel Quarles in tho breadbasket, just
below tho belt line. Then Senator Holsey
made a speech and after it was all over
Colonel Quarles delivered hhns«*f of an
oration. Senator Holsey made a mis-
take. He should have hit Colonel Quarles
first and then called him a liar. Colonel
Quarles Isn't a John Ij. Sullivan, but
when a gentleman calls him a liar he
strikes out. regardless of consequences.
Senator Holsey is a good fellow, Colonel
Quarks is a good fellow, and good fel-
lows should shako hands and become
friends. If this is out of the question,
then the editor of the Times-Herald in-
vites the gladiators to come to Dallas
and fight in a L'4-foot ring with bare
knuckles, according to the Marquis of
Queensbury rules.—Dallas Times-Herald.
Tffe Times-Herald Is a little bit off on
the rules of prize fighting. Under Lon-
don ring rules tho fight is with bare
knuckles, while Marquis of Queensbury
rules allow gloves. From the size of
Colonel Quarles* hand, and in order that
he might get a square deal, it would be
preferable to have the men fight under
the Marquis of Gooseberry rules. They
may then use feathers, pillows or air
ballooTls.
♦ ♦ ♦
Rather Ambiguous, but True.
If we say something derogatory con-
cerning something that is being done,
remember, we don't mean you unless you
are guilty, and if you are guilty, per-
haps no one will ever know it if you
don't kick up a row about it.—Florence
Vldette.
In other words, if the cap fits you, you
may wear it.
♦ 4-
Cood Jaggers Stock.
Mr. Jaggers of Kentucky, alive and kick-
ing, is the proud and happy ancestor of
fourteen children, 108 grandchildren ami
134 great grandchildren.—El Paso Herald.
That is a case of good Jaggers stock
that almost staggers belief.
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Any Kind Will "Bust" You.
They now talk of making whiskey out
of sawdust. If the article manufactured
out of corn makes the Imbiber "shoot,"
we presume the kind made out of saw-
dust will make him "cut," or maybe
"ripsaw" would deecirbe the probable an-
tics of the too full imbiber of that pecu-
liar article more accurately. It may
have the effect of "busting" the whiskey
trust, however, as well as the man who
"boozes" on it.—Austin Statesman.
Any kind of booze will "bust" the man
addicted to its use.
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After San Antonio, My Boy.
Ten years from today Fort Worth will
be the largest city in Texas. It is this
fact that hurts some of our would-be ri-
vals. They can't understand just how
Fort Worth is doing it.—Fort Worth Tele-
gram.
After San Antonio, my boy! This city
is growing so fast that in ten years we
may have to annex all Bexar County
to give tho metropolis elbow room.
Guard the Boy and the Girl, Too.
No greater mistake can be made by a
parent than to permit the boy to run at
large and at will over the town. There
is dally evidence that such liberty in
time will lead to the jail or at least to
trouble. Keep the boy at home at night
by making the home attractive and in-
teresting for him to remain In doors
after dark and develop his mind and he
will likely make a man of whom the
mother will some day be proud.—Yoakum
Herald.
Guard the boy well and the girl, too!
The Herald's advice is the best that
could be given on the subject. There is
Considerably too much "gallivanting" on
tho streets at night by boys, and girls
as well.
♦ ♦ ♦
Pass the Appropriation Bill.
Texas can endure almost any calam-
ity, but it knows of no sufficient reason
why it should tolerate a Legislature
which threatens to adjourn without pass-
ing a general appropriation bill.—Fort
Worth Star.
The above appears to be all wool and
a yard wide.
The Man Who Advertises.
When a new business man comes to
town who realizes the advantages of an
advertising medium and advertises, and of
course he will get the trade, you can hear
the "old fogies" set back who claim
that it does not pay to advertise and
knock on the man who is really striving
for the building of a better town by giv-
ing right prices on his goods, thereby
drawing trade which would ordinarily
go to the larger towns, and will cuss at
the hard times, never once stopping to
think that the real cause that their busi-
ness is so dull is that they never adver-
tise. "We are with the man, teeth and
toenail, who believes in large salts and
small profits, for ho is a man that is
working for a better town and is not so
piggish that the possession of a dollar
is his only and highest aim In lift-. Trade
with the business that Is advertised for
that is the place and the only place that
you can get real bargains.—Talpa Trib-
une.
Let the old "fogies" kick! Their contin-
ual kicking may have tho effect of wak-
ing them up to tho value of advertising.
♦ ♦ ♦
New Paper for Amarillo.
Chas. Andrews, associate editor of the
Van Alstyne Leader, goes to Amarillo,
where he and Chas. Loving will publish
a newspaper, ttoth are Sherman boys
and splendid fellows. They will succeed.
—Sherman Democrat.
All Sherman boys, especially those in
the "newspaper business, are noted for
their push, intelligence and adaptibillty
to localities. Here's luck to the new ven-
ture!
♦ ♦ ♦
Big Temple Times.
The edition of the Temple Times of
March lo was a whopper. It consisted of
forty-six pages and contained tho Bell
County delinquent tax list. Thirty-four
pages of the issue were devoted to the
latter. It was a big undertaking on the
part of the Times, and reflects great
credit on the composing room of tho
paper—in fact, 011 the entire management.
♦ ♦ ♦
Pauline Should Take the Hint.
No, Pauline, land is not high in this
section, but it will be higher in the near
future, and he who buys now will later
bless the day his business judgment
prompted him to invest in Kockport dirt.
—Rockport Enterprise. ^
Pauline should take the hint and invest
N* TOPICS OF THE TIMES ^
Galveston and Los Angeles.
Will D. Gould of Los Angeles said to
the Washington Post interviewer:
"Los Angeles. I believe, will be one of
the greatest cities in this country. It
will not be so many years before tho
town of San Pedro will be a part of Los
Angeles, and then we shall have one of
the finest harbors on tho Pacific Coast.
This will result in a vast increase In
our trade and will offer splendid oppor-
tunities for competition with the great
trunk lines that cross tho continent.
From Los Angeles to Galveston is the
shortest distance across the continent
under the flag. Shippers from the Orient
can transport their goods by way of Los
Angeles across the continent to Galves-
ton, and there again load them on to
ships and sail to the Atlantic seaboard.
In my opinion this will prove in time the
sharpest competition the Panama Canal
will have, hut even before that water-
way is finished this means of transpor-
tation will be available."
Subsidence of Manifestation.
The official "vindication" of Senator
Bailey of Texas probably marks the sub-
sidence of a violent political manifesta-
tion that went so far as to regulate the
acquaintance and the social Intercourse
of public men, just as the rules of re-
ligious behavior prescribe certain "don'ts"
for clergymen. As we all know, tho
clergyman Is required to avoid the ap-
pearance of evil. Had men are supposed
to smoke big black cigars and flppancy
goes with cigarettes, therefore the pas-
tor must not smoke. He must not wear
red neckties. It is terrible if he takes
his toddy. He must avoid the theater as
an accursed spot, and so forth. He can't
belong to a club. As the avowed and at-
tested enemy of the devil, he must avoid
all things suggesting friendliness with
the world and the flesh. And the political
manifestation, which Senator Bailey him-
self helped establish, took the same line.
The corporations were assumed to be the
devil and nil connected with them were
part of the devil's works and, therefore,
any person who had Intercourse with
such persons, socially or for business,
thereby was contaminated politically and
could not he a member in good standing
of the anti-devil flock. Thus the so-
called Democratic side was carried into
a political ennt, like religious cant. In
which Pharisaical forms take the place
of substance. Politics, in some parts of
this country, degenerate into espionage
on men's social walk. The mere matter
that such-and-such men were seen talk-
ing together became important and the
whole tissue of things political became
either childish or dlme-novelish. Political
reform writers played the role of Old
Sleuth, the detective, oblivious to the
fact that it was all a form of flouting
the devil instead of really driving the
devil into narrower haunts. And Bailey,
the unreconstructed Jeffersonlnn, who
first won National notoriety as the firce
Texas Congressman who would not wear
a dress suit, was sleuthed, too, and dis-
covered to have a friend and client in a
gentleman connected with the Standard
Oil devil. This friend and client helped
him in some financial transactions, or
something of the sort, and presto! Bailey,
a captain of the holv host and a most
loud psalm-singer, waV accused and chal-
enged and only won after a fierce cam
paign for re-election and vindication.
Now he deelnres that tho Populists must
be rnst out of the Texas Democracy.—
Denver Post.
A Pink Sunbonnet.
Near Old Town, Md.f last Monday a
farmer's daughter discovered a land-
slide in a railroad cut, ran up the track
toward an advancing train, and by
waving her pink sunbonnet prevented
a frightful disaster. As soon as tho
train came to a standstill she disap-
peared. without leaving" her name or
address.
A heroic, romantic incident is 'thus
told, with niggardly regard for details,
by tU'd corespondents of the Metropoli-
tan press. If it were not for the poet of
the Hagerstown Mail, the world would
have ben deprived of the thrill which
it is only too anxious to feel in contem-
plating the conjunction of beauty. hero-
Ism, and the danger of death. The Ha-
gerstown poet, with rapt eye and pro-
creative word, covers the skeleton of this
romance with beauty, and clothes it with
exquisite mystery. After giving in one
sentence his argument, ho strikes the
shords:
"Like an angel overtaken unaware
this woman, one clad for her head In a
pink slat sunbonnet, came forth from tho
chaos about her, emerged Into the light
of day, saved a train from disaster anil
silently faded back into obsurity."
With master hand the poet pictures the
cut; the landslide; the thundering freight
train in charge of Conductor Charles
Cookus and Engineer McKelvey; the 2000
tons of goods and coal aboard; the crew's
ignorance of the danger; and thus im-
petuously to the crisis:
"They came thundering on, rushing tho
heavy train at full speed, and just below
them, near the fallen mass, the figure of
a woman appeared on the brow of the
ledge and the eyes of her looked thought-
fully down. She wore a pink sunbonne:
and was a farmer's daughter. It was in-
stantly her eye caught the obstruction.
With one bound like a haro leaving her
form, she flew to the track, touching
here and there projecting crags with
light, tipping feet. Then running toward
where her keen ear told her a train was
roaring on, she tore from her head her
pink sunbonnet, and waving it as she ran,
cried out: 'Stop, for your lives, stop.'
"The enginemen saw her, and the air
went on. The train groaned with locked
wheels and arrested momentum, but
obeyed, and when it stopped the engine,
snorting with surprise and fear, was look-
ing upon its foe, the mass of rock and the
rock was dumbly looking baek with baf-
fled malevolence on every crevice of it.
"Gallantly the brave crew of the train
thanked the angel of the pink sunbonnet,
she who was modestly withdrawing, and
saying: 'Oh. that's all right, T thought
something was wrong.' but none of them
thought to get her name that she might
have, in lack of anything else, even the
slight tribute of having her name at-
tached to this story in which she played
so great a part.
"A woman with such a quick and sav-
ing logic ought at least to have her name
annexed."
Fear not troubadour! The mysterious
beauty of the sunbonnet cannot remain
incognito when the land rings with this
impassioned talc. Feats such jis hers,
chanted by such a bard, will brine re-
sults. Her name sooner or later will be
annexed. And when it is, let the name
of the bard be annexed, too, and let wed-
ding bells ring. Tf the fair unknown does
not wed either the engineer of the fast
freight or the poet of the Hagerstown
Mail there is no fitness of things left in
this world.—Washington Post.
Inspiration of a "Suffragist. "
So fixed is the masculine habit of
scoffing and gibing at women's preten-
sions to "suffrage" and politics that the
"lady candidate" for City Treasurer on
the West Side, who purchased a new
hat under the spur of rivalry, finding
that her competitor—also a woman—was
better dressed than herself, will doubtless
come in for a plentiful share of idle rid-
icule and derision.
This tendency to raillery, It may be
assumed, will not be in the least re-
strained by the mere fact that in this
presumably inadvertent act Miss Far-
row has actually hit upon an expedient
which opens a vista of possibilities to
the "suffragists" wihch is actually daz-
zling. We all know perfectly well that
politicians of the male persuasion are
proverbially sloppy. Where this tendency
is not temperamental It is practiced as
an affectation. Foolish and illogical as
it is, it is held to be effective. The can-
didate who would be dapper If he dared
converts himself Into a "slob." He
eschews fresh linen and natty raiment
as dangerous and makes a pitiable spec-
Powder
Absolutely Pute
SVEztkea delicious, healthful food•
ii pur®, cream of tartar Powder.
A can of Royal Baking Powder contains many
more teaspoons foil of baking powder than a can
of the heavy acid-laden phosphate or alom powders.
tacle of himself by taking on the style
and manners of a slouch.
Vastly wiser, even though merely by
accident or impulse, is this West End
woman candidate who blooms forth in
new millinery to cope with her politic.il
adversary. Now let her rival follow up
this lead with a hat still more affluent.
Transform the canvass into a competi*
tion of millinery. Cut out all of the stu-
pid acerbities with which Mere Man poi-
sons his campaigns to the fatigue of
the voters, and give the public a canvass
of flowers and feathers and silks and
laces, and see what will happen.
We hear some obtuse creature say,
"That would suit the women all right,
but would it cut any ice with the men?"
Would it? Well just try it and Bee.—
Kansas City Star.
Opinions Differ.
The San Angelo News takes issue with
the Bulletin on a statement which ap-
peared in this paper when the Evening
News suspended that it proved "the fu-
tility of attempting to establish a paper
in a field already thoroughly and satis-
factorily covered." There may be ex-
ceptions to the rule, but the general rule
stands good. If the field Is satisfactorily
and thoroughly covered it is very diffi-
cult for a new paper to make any great
inroads upon the one that is well estab-
lished. In the case pictured by the News
where the publisher is content to let well
enough alone and takes life as he finds
it, the paper could hardly be a satisfac-
tory publication to a progressive client-
There is not a paper in Texas that is
giving even a fairly satisfactory service,
that is well managed in the business and
editorial rooms, that could be put out
of business with five times the capital
that is invested in the established pa-
per. Take the city papers like the Dal-
las News, the Houston Post, the San
Antonio Express and the Fort Worth
Record, all money-making morning pa-
pers, and what experienced newspaper
man would attempt to go up against
them? These papers are none of them
above criticism or without enemies, but
they cover their respective fields In as
satisfactory a manner as the patronage
will allow. There is a distinct field in
cities of the sizes in which these papers
are published for evening papers and
once these evening papers become firmly
established they remain as stable as the
morning papers and maintain their places
as leaders, depsite all opposition that
arises. The Houston Chronicle, Dallas
Times-Herald, Fort Worth Telegram and
others could be cited as instances of
that kind. Of course In the larger cities
like St. T/Ouis, Chicago, Cincinnati and
the like, places with a population around
a quarter of a million or more, there is
room for more papers, all leaders in
their special classes. But In only the
larger towns in Texas is there room
for two or more papers and to succeed
these must be divided between the morn-
ing and the evening field. Towns of ten
to fifteen thousand seldom support two
papers for any great length of time,
though while places are on a boom two
daily papers often survive for a time,
even in towns of only a few thousand
people. But with the end of tho boom
almost invariably comes the end of one
and often of both papers in such small
towns.—Brown wood Bulletin.
Libraries and the Country Boy.
A writer in the New York Evening
Mall opens up an interesting field for
discussion in the following quotation:
I wonder If Mr. Carnegie has ever con-
sidered that country boys and girls need
his libraries as much as the children who
live in the cities? The collection of books
in the 'dees trick" school are rarely
other than those that are needed in the
routine work of the day. Romance, ad-
venture, fiction—the good old classic^—
if there be such books in the district
they are generally private property, and
unattainable by those who need them the
most.
There Is much sound truth In such
reasoning. It offers moreover, oppor-
tunities for philanthropy of the practical
workaday sort.
Mr. Carnegie's chain of libraries
throughout the nation, has been and is.
undoubtedly, a beneficence characterised
by wisdom. In virtually every instance,
however, they represent, in a measure,
assistance to those already partially ablo
to help themselves.
Which recalls the somewhat cynical
scriptural quotation, "To them that hath
shall be given.'7
The boy and girl, whether living in
tho small village or the backwoods "set-
tlement" deserve, in this direction, as
much consideration as their more priv-
ileged kind in the larger cities.
Books—the "classics" mentioned by
The Mail—preform more than a single
function for the youthful mind. They
give, in the first instance, that meed of
of pleasure which is the inalienable pre-
rogative of the short day of childhood.
They have a deeper-lying, a more im-
portant mission. They play almost ns
distinct a role in mental development as
does the school room. They are mould-
ers of character almost as powerful—if
loss perceptible—than the guiding influ-
ences of the fireside.
We speak, with praiseworthy mental
breadth of the equalization of oppor-
tunity. 'it has attained almost the pro-
portions of a fad throughout the nation—
a fad. we hope, of permanent duration
and progressive nature.
Does not the suggestion of The Mail
offer a most equitable and common-sens**
channel for the equilization of opportuni-
ty? Considering the part childhood read-
ing plays in tho subsequent life of that
individual, who can tell to what benefi-
cent proportions the lives of the country
boys and girls may attain if placed upon
the same plane as the boys and gilrs of
the city? Who can measure the amount
of stunted development arising from an
inverse proposition?
The idea is one worth, at least, con-
scientious consideration.—Atlanta Con-
stitution.
His Cute Scheme.
"Of course," said Newliwed, "when-
ever my wife worries herself it worries
me."
"My wife never worries now," said
Elders.
"You're lucky."
"No, merely foxy. I just let her see
that when she worried herself it didn't
worry me at all. and so she stopped it."—
The Catholic Standard and Times.
CLEVER ANECDOTES.
Of Course They Do.
Cousin Elouard—Is it true that your
engagement with M. Licarne, the pedi-
curist, is broken off?
Cousin Hermine— Yes, liiw profession is
so unromantic.
Cousin Kdooard—Oh, but you are mis-
taken; remember that, though pedicurists
deal with feet, so do poets.—Mon Di-
rnanche.
The Invisible Group.
"I called on George Grey Barnard in
Paris last, month." .said a Philadelphian.
"Mr. Barnard is the chief sculptor ol
our new capltol at Harrlsburg, a de-
servedly successful man.
"Whllo we were loosing over various
sketches In the studio, a young French
painter entered.
" 'Have you heard the story about
Garpeau?' the newcomer cried.
"We hadn't heard it. Therefore tho
young man told' it to us.
"Garpeau it seems, was a sculptor of
great talent and great eccentricity. A
rich patron ot the arts commissioned
him to do a life size group representing
Polyphemus the Cyclop crushing tho
youth Acis under a rock.
• "I'uis powerful patron was not to be
offended. Therefore Garpeau accepted
the commission. But he could mako
neither head nor tail of it. It did not
appeal to him. It was a subject in which
he could not take the slightest interest.
a i,d oycry witk or so the rich patron
asked him reproachfully how his group
was si tting on, and Garpeau could only
siiake his nrad. It was embarrassing.
"Weil, one day Garpeau Sent for the
patron.
" 'There is your group,' he said, and ha
pointed to a treat, rough lump of clay
in the corner of the studio-a mere form-
less mass of clay, no more.
" 'My group?' crio'l the patron.
'Where?'
" 'There,' said Garpeau, impatiently.
'There, to be sure. Don't you see tha
rock?'
" 'But where is the youth, Acis?'
" 'Under the rock, of course,' saiu
Garpeau. 'Crushed. Invisible.'
" 'But the Cyclop Polyphemus? Where
is he?'
" 'Gone off about his business,' said
Garpeau. 'You don't suppose he'd be
hanging around1, do you, after commit-
ting a crime like that?' "
First Downward Step.
A photographer was urging Charles
Frohman, the famous manager, to sic
for his photograph for the Easter num-
ber of a popular weekly; but this, as
usual, Mr. Frohman refused to do.
The photographer, a fluent, persuasive
chap, advanced reason after reason why
the other should break his rule and sit.
"Those reasons sound well," Air. Froh-
man said, "but behind them I seem to
see an ulterior and selfish motive lurk-
ing. it is like the harrowing story that
the lawyer came home and told his wife.
" 'Sad case In court today," he began.
"'What was it?' ihe lady asked.
" 'Case of shoplifting. Beautiful, re-
fined woman, educated and wealthy, was
caught stealing things in shops like a
common thief.
"The Judge was greatly moved. He
said:
'Madam, how did you begin this sort
of thing?'
" 'Jrlus, ilr, she answered, weeping, I
began by picking' my husband's pockets
at night after he was in bed asleep. That
whs the first step, and after it my fall
was easy.' '
A Slight Error.
A newspaper correspondent was talk-
ing about Father Bernard Vaughan of
Bin don.
"Though father Vaughan's congrega-
tion," he said, "is one of the most fash-
ionable in the world, the good priest la
always on the side of the poor.
"lie calls the poor God's pet children,
and I once heard him In an address tell
the rich that they were responsible for
the poor's taults—the drinking and so
on—saying that the poverty or the poor
wasn't the result of their drinking, but
their drinking was the result of their
poverty. , ,
"He declared that the tlch.» In their
indifferent and careless cruelty towards
the poor, reminded him of a certain sur-
geon. ,
"This surgeon, lecturing a class of
students, said:
"" "I was so excited at my first opera-
tion that I made a mistake.'
" 'A serious one, sir?' asked a student.
" 'Oh, no," Ihe surgeon answered. 'X
only took off the wrong leg.' "
What Gab Will Do.
"District Attorney Jerome of New York
was talking at a dinner about the power
of speech.
"S-'peeeh. talk," he said', "if it is fast
and fluent and earnest enough, will
achieve miracles, turn black white, do
anything. , ■
"A woman went to buy an Easter bon-
net the other dn>\ The salesman, get-
ling his tongue slightly twisted, brought
out a handsome bonnet, and said rapid-
ly and excitedly:
" 'A great bargain, madam. The last
one left. They have all gone off liko
hot cakes. And no wonder! Formerly
ten dollars, now offered' for fifteen."
" Til take It,' the woman, much im-
pressed, said hastily."
The Golf Cadtly.
"The golf caddy," said a Southern
journalist, as he chewed a sprig of mint,
'"Is a mw type This lad Is independent,
witty, altogether without reverence.
"On John D. Roe'cefelier's visit to Bon
Air. he tried a little golf one afternoon
in the neighborhood of Augusta.
"On a rather difficult shot Mr. Rocke-
feller struck too low with his iron, and
as the dirt flew he said1 to his caddy:
" 'What have I hit?'
"The boy answered with a harsh
laugh:
" 'Georgia, boss.
Conried's Compliment.
An actor told the other dav a graceful
story about Heinrich Conrled
"At a reception, he said, the loss or
the various ser.ses was discussed, and a
voune woman, a. grand opera singer of
considerable beauty, said to Mr. Con-
ri ed *
" 'Which would you rather be, dieaf or
''"Smiling and bowing gallantly, the
great manager answered:
" 'Deaf, madam, when I am looking at
you, and blind wlien I hear you sing.
Down Below.
Hicks—Well, it's all over with old Chln-
ner. now.
Wicks—Very charitable of you to say
that. _ ,
Uteks—Charitable? The man's dead.
Wicks—Yes, and some people firmly be-
lieve that It's all under with him now.—
The Catholic Standard and Times.
Only a Slight Shift.
"No man named Beppo shall marry the
daughter of I'atrlc Mulrooney."
"Well father, what do you want?"
"Bet him change his name to O'Beep
an' I'll talk with him."—Louisville Cour-
ier-Journal.
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