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THE SAN ANTONIO DAILY EXPRESS: SATURDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 7, 1907.
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POPULATION OF TEXAS CITIES.
The population of the seven largest
cities of Texas on June 30, 1906, as esti-
mated by the United States Census Bu-
reau, is as follows:
San Antonio 62.711
Houston 58.132
Dallas 62,793
Galveston 34.386
Fort Worth 27,0*6
Austin 25,092
Waco 24,443
Law's Local Interpretation.
The principle of local option ap-
peals to all who believe in local self-
government and who realize tho dif-
ferences of sentiment of dilferiut;
populations.
If a majority of tho people of Dal-
las are opposed to the liquor saloon
and elect to voto out the liquor truf-
fle the people of OalvcBtou huve no
cause of complaint by reason thereof.
Similarly if the people of Galveston
prefer regulation to prohibition,
the people of Dallas are not injured
thereby and should not complain. It
is purely a matter of taste, of local
sentiment, and neither city should at-
tempt to regulate the local alfalrs
of the other. A State law intended
to regulate the liquor traffic through-
out the State may be mere literally
construed in one locality than in an-
other and may be allowed somewhat
more latitude in the South Texas
city than in the North Texas metrop-
olis. No general law exactly fits
the case of each individual com-
munity when it is merely regulative
of local police conditions.
Galveston requires that saloons
shall be closed from 9 a. m. to 4 p.
ni on Sunday. This city admits of
their being open at other hours of
the day. The Baslsin-McGregor law
requires that the saloons be and re-
main closed between the hours of
midnight Saturday night and 5 o'clock
Monday morning and the Times-Her-
nld insists that the law must be en-
forced in Galveston just as it is in
Dallas. Perhaps it would be better
bo as long as there is such a law
on the statute books, but why should
Dallas concern herself about the
police regulations of another city la
which local sentiment is supposed to
'dominate?
It has heretofore been practically
impossible to enforce a rigid Sunday
law In some localities in Texas, while
not at all difficult to do so in some
other localities. The Raskin-Mc-
Gregor law Is a good law and its pro-
visions for regulation of the liquor
traffic ought to be enforced through-
out the State, but a little concession
to local sentiment in regard to some
of its provisions may help along en-
forcement far more than would an
effort to make it obnoxious in minor
particulars where Its general features
■re wholly acceptable and are strictly
Observed.
This is the point of view of the
average citizen, but it may not bs
the view which the saloon man
amenable to the law can afford to
Insist upon. Tho new law is explicit
and the provisions for its enforce-
ment are such that it may not be
violated with impunity. The best
thine for the saloon men would seem
to be, as they are advised by the
wholesale dealers and manufacturers
to abide by the law as it is, for
the Baskin-McGregor law is seem-
ingly the only thing that stands be-
tween them and State prohibition
a* the menace of failure.
For President o! Cattlemen.
There is some comment in cattle
circles as to who will be the next
president of the Cattle Raisers As
sociatlon of Texas and whose elec-
tion will take place at the meeting
of the association in San Antonio
next week. There le an almost unani
mouH sentiment among the member-
ship that Ike T. Pryor should be
continued at the head of affairs, but
It i« quite generally understood that
lie does not care for the office again.
Not that he does not fully appreciate
the honor, but he has performed the
duties Incumbent upon him in a man-
n*r that would reflect credit on a
man who had oo other duties.
Richard Walsh of Paloduro, the
wsll-knowu manager of the Adair
Kaacb, has served the association,
both as a member of the executive
committee and on the official board,
being now first vice president, Is tho
logical man for president, but it Is
said thai his time is so occupied dur-
ing the influx of farmers (o the Pan-
handle with devising ways and means
of entertaining propositions for land
nnd seeing that his live stock Inter-
ests do not suffer that he is averse
to holding the responsibility of the
office.
J. H. P. Dnvls, tho cattleman of
Richmond, who was elected second
vice president at tho Fort Worth
meeting in March, it Is reported is
opposed to making progress too fast
and Is willing for some one who is
more familiar with parliamentary
usages to wield the gavel for a sea-
son.
There is plenty of timber from
which a good president can bo made,
but there is nothing thus far to in-
dicate who It will be. President Pryor
on ths occasion of his re-election last
March, did not assert that this was
tho last year ho would hold the office
and he hns only thus far, stated that
he wants to retire for there are other
capable men who can accomplish
more than he did. This may be true,
but if they are not willing to nerv«
then the only alternative is to re-elect
lilm. The only objection that could
be raised against Ills re-election or
that of Mr. Davis of Richmond, Is
that they are South Texas men and
tho South Texas delegation will rec-
ognize the justice of the North Texas
contingent If they ask for a president,
from the northern part of the State.
The association in the past has
exercised excellent judgment in the
selection of Its officers and to this
fact is attributed the great influonco
it is wielding in its contention for
"square deal" principles, both at
home and abroad.
Suggested Jury Reforms.
In the language of an esteemed
contemporary everything in this
great and glorious country Is decided
by the majority except civil and
criminal cases in the courts and
black-balling in the clubs.
A majority of one electoral vote
in a total of 47G is sufficient to elect
a President of the United States,
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but it requires tho unanimous verdict
of twelve men to decide the guilt
or innoceuce of a prisoner at tho
bar.
There have been from time to time
through a long period of years sug-
gestions as to a reform in the jury
system, sometimes coming from the
judiciary or members of the bar, but
more generally from the laity. The
suggested reform not Infrequently in-
cludes a majority or, at least, less
than a unanimous verdict. Against
this suggestion, however, is told a
story by a juror from his own ex-
perience to the effect that the ob-
stinate eleven men resolved to give
a verdict for damages in a large sum
to a complainant who had fallen into
a coal hole. The twelfth juror had
listened to the arguments of his as-
iociates without saying a word until
they were ready to clinch the.matier
when he resolutely voted no and gave
his reasons therefor.
The twelfth juror was a physician
and he told his associates that re
knew positively and unmistakably
that the injuries complained of could
not have been sustained in the man-
ner alleged and he demonstrated his
conclusions to the complete satisfac-
tion of his associates and so reversed
the previously agreed verdict of tho
eleven. This illustration is offered as
an argument in favor of the unani-
mous verdict, though some of the
jury reform advocates might insist
that, this physician should have been
on the witness stand Instead of in the
jury box.
But it is not the unanimous verdict
so much as the method of selecting
jurors, the challenging system which
permits the defense to arbitrarily re-
fuse a possible juror whose charac-
ter is above reproach and to sub-
stitute for him a man more amenable
to oratorical influence. One who
claims to have had twenty-five years
close observation of court procedure
in Texas, says the weakness of the
jury system lies in the fact that a
jury can seldom be obtained In a
capital case in which the defendant,
if a person of any influence, has not
a friend, lodgemate or sympathizer
who may be worked upon by the de-
fendant's lawyer in a way to prevent
him from doing Justice to the State.
Tho writer referred to advocates
two juries of five trained judges of
law to sit alternately and to be paid
such salaries as would secure men
of good judgment and high character.
Euch Juries, he thinks, would be far
less expensive to the State than
those obtained under the present sys-
tem, would relieve the private citizen
of the annoyance which Jury dutv
now entails and would prevent Jus-
tice from so often going astray.
n pretty good sort of paying property.
The cotton milling industry is some-
what new in Texas and probably does
not pay as well now as it will with
greater experience In conduct an 1
management. If cotton mills pay
good dividends any where else in the
world thero is no reason why they
should not do so in Texas where the
raw material is so easily accessible,
provided such local conditions as In-
clude fuel and water are favorable.
Tho discovery has Just been made
by the Department of Agriculture in
Washington that Ihe ravages of the
green bug In the wheat field this year
were due to the fact that the cold
spring prevented a tiny wasp, the
natural enemy of tho bug, from get-
t'ng out to work early* enough to
wurd off the destruction. This deci-
sion will not likely prevent the farm-
ers from planting wheat in the fall
as heretofore, and about the only
consolation he will have is that ho
will know how to account for the
visitation.
Seventy-one of the seventy-four
counties in Mississippi are dry, and
there Is a prospect that the next
Legislature will pass a law taking in
the remaining wet counties. Both the
candidutes for Governor in the recent
State primaries were Prohibitionists,
and it is believed that the next Legis-
lature will be overwhelmingly for pro-
hibition. Still there is a good deal
cf liquor drunk in Mississippi.
The appointment of a professor of
railroad administration and manage-
ment by the University of Illinois is
an encouraging sign of the times. Re-
cent events indicate that there might
be e possibility of inculcation with
profit of some knowledge of how to
look after the safety of passengers
as well as to cpllect the freight on
the tonnage.
The French are pursuing the Mooi'3
in Morocco with an apparent determi-
nation to penetrate the interior and to
occupy a good deal more of the terri-
tory than that lying near the sea-
shore, but they may be hindered by
their Inability to take their warships1
with them. The French havo a big
task on their hands with a "holy
war" in prospect.
Adversity has its uses. A one-
legged man in ETinis had him a hol-
low thigh made and was doing quite
n lucrative business in introducing
whisky to the residents of that local
option precinct until he sold just one
flask too many.
The question of whether marriage
is a failure is again revived in the
suicide of Alvin Mauphin, yoeman in
the United Slates navy, who com-
mitted the deed on being called back
to duty, while he was enjoying his
honeymoon.
President Cabrera of Guatemala
also has accepted the good offices of
Presidents Roosevelt and Diaz >n the
effort to preserve the peace of Cen-
tral America, and now there appears
to be nothing in the way of complete
establishment of the entente cordiale.
When the Government discontinues
a rural free delivery route on ac-
count of bad roads it Is a strong hint
to somebody to get busy with the road
repairing implements. Bad roads are
n great expense to any country that
is afflicted by them.
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When the Texas cotton mill Is able
to declare a 12 per cent dividend U
lccks like the Texas cotton mill Is
Cattle on the range are usually
cheaper where drouth conditions
exist, but the butchers in LaGrange
have discontinued the free delivery
of meats In an effort to curtail ex-
penditures occasioned by the high
price of beef on the hoof.
One of Father's Tasks.
'Bout every fortnight mother says
"I guess I'll wash my hair,"
An' father grow* uneasy
An' shifts around In his chair.
For father knows what's coming soon,
He'll have to climb the stair
And sit till time to go to bed.
Jus' fanning mother's hair.
An' we can hear him telling ma.
"It's dry enough by now;"
An' ma says "No. it's soaking wet,
Keep fanning, anyhow."
An' father's arm gets weary.
An' nt times we hear him swear—
It makes him awful cross when he's
Kep' fanning mother's hair.
Ma keeps on combing all the time,
Pa fans at awful pace;
An' he gets mad when ma sometimes
Waves wet hair In his face.
An' then he kicks and sputters,
But ma seems not to rare,
Pa says it Is her one delight
To make him fan her hair.
Says Pa one day to Ma. "If I
Should die before you do.
An' gn to heaven. 1 would still
He tlilnklnr dear, of you.
An' on the day that you arrived
I'd have a palm leaf there;
Because you'd not bo happy till
You'd made me fan your lialr."
—Detroit Freo Press.
Pointed Paragraphs.
Attend to your own affairs and you
will hove no time to butt Into the af-
fairs of your neighbors.
Men accuse women of being vain, yet
a man seldom misses an opportunity to
look in a mirror.
From th» spinster's point of view, a
n recenary wretch Is a bachelor who mar-
ries a rich widow.
It' a mm is satisfied to make both
ends meet, he is sure to have a wife
who thinks be ought to make them lap
ever.
Friendship may have the true ring,
tut It isn't the kind of ring that Is cal-
culated to satisfy the girl who ia in love.
-Chicago News.
WHAT THE STATE PAPERS SAY
Prosperity.
From all Indications, this full will be a
most prosperous one |n M'-Klnney. -Mi -
Kinney Courier Gazette.
From all indications, this fall will be a
most prosperous one nil over Texas; WfUl
Btreet to the contrary, notwithstanding.
♦ ♦ 4
Plant Trees.
Plant a tree, or flower, that its beauty
or fruit may be enjoyed by you or those
who follow you. The soil of this noble
Commonwealth j-earns to make such
things leap Into vigor, and Mie Grent
(river-will think more of thj no' than
he will of the one of neglect in the mat-
ter. 'I rue. now is not the to plant
the tree, but it i'i the time vlien your
neighbor s trees nnd flowern arc doing
him good and th<y art' restful to your
eye so don't forgot this fall to plant.--
Bonharn Herald.
There's another side to tres-nlantlng.
Trees are foes to dryness. Thin fore tho
more trees, the more nioistuie, The more
moisture, the larger the crnpr. There's
an indirect profit in trees. Plant them.
♦ ♦ ♦
Was No Farmer.
A man who claimed (»• be a tamer has
»«e?M»nr|,?sf.*?<* ln Galveston lot 'nixing
$1 bills. This is n kind of diversif cation
I nele Sam will not permit. Thi.i man
raised them to $20.—Cuero gtar.
He was no farmer, but just an ordi-
nary phi In, everyday city swindler. If
h« had been a farmer, he woulu have
been too shrewd to be cat ght. But In
tho very first place, if he had been a
a farmer he would not havo gone wrong;
he would have been making more money
out of the soil than he could raising $1
bills to |20. Few farmeis go wrong.
Criminal records prove that.
♦ ♦ ♦
Other Places Better Than Home.
Kx-Govcrnor Taylor announces t hat he
will not return to Kentucky. He evi-
dently takes rio stock in tho "home-com-
ing fad.—Paris News.
Not with prison gates ajar. There are
many others, not, however, In Taylor's
class, who do not sing "Home, sweet
home. 1 here's no place like home."
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Hotel Men Saved.
With cotton soaring away up to 15
cents a pound, sleeping would have been
somewhat costly had that nine-foot bed
sheet law become effective that was In-
troduced in the last Texas Legislature.—
Laredo Times.
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Let's Be Fair.
The majority of people in Texas are
heartily in favor of 2-cent railroad fare,
but such a law would retard develop-
ment of the lines already built in Texas
and would put a quietus on the construc-
tion of new lines. Texas Is not vet ready
for the reduction and the Inquirer is pre-
pared to prove it.—Gonzales Inquirer.
All the people want is a fair deal. Un-
doubtedly a majority think a 2-cent rate
equitable to both sides, but if it can be
proved that railroad development will be
stopped by it, they will forego the re-
duction until such time as the railroads
can afford to grant it. The people do
not want to rob the railroads.
♦ ♦ ♦
Keep Faith With People.
There is not and should not be any-
thing sacred in the so-called second term
Idea; if a public servant is not faithful
and efficient he should not be accorded
a second term. This is the people's gov-
ernment, and they deserve the most faith-
ful and efficient public service, and if
they do not get it those in authority
should be kicked out and others who wiil
be true to the cause of the people should
be installed in their offices. It is as
much the officer's duty to do the things
that ought to be done the first term as
the second or any other term. Beat tho
officeholder if he fails to make good,
whether he be serving his first or second
term. Make efficiency and faithfulness
the test for re-election.—Austin States-
man.
It is not likely the people would re-
elect to a second term an officeholder
who had betrayed them In hlr. first term.
Officeholders know that. The prospect
of a second term keeps the crooked
straight for the first term. The danger
comes in Uhe second term, when the
grafter feels that lie has nothing to lose
and all to gain by dishonesty. Then is
the time ft> watch him extra closely.
♦ ♦ ♦
The Rod and Moral Suasion.
At Sheboygan, Mich., a mother started
to npunk her small son. usipg a shinglo
for 'he purpose, and at the first blow a
dynamite cap the boy had in his hip
pocket exploded, tearing i bole In his
nip and taking off two of his mother's
fingers. This spanking business always
was a dangerous proposition ..nd tins will
i»< a warning to mothers i" carefully
search the hip pockets of their boys be-
fore administering corporal punishment
and thus avoid disasters of this kind.—
Orange Tribune.
Let the jest go and be serious. Did
spanking really ever do any boy good?
Is It not a weak parent who controls his
children by the rod, Solomon to the con-
trary, notwithstanding? Moral suasion
seems to be tho proper way to train
children.
♦ ♦ ♦
No Jealousy Here.
The Brownsville Herald has named that
interesting city the "Metropolis of the
Nile of America " A most applicable
name and one that just fits nrownsvllle,
for iii.it city is destIned to i>« a nu »od-
olis. of which thero can be no possible
doubt.—Corpus ChriMl Call* r.
That is a graceful, most pleasing com-
pliment from one city to another. It
shows there's no jealousy existing be-
tween the two cities. And there should
not be. Both Corpus Christ! and Urowns-
vllle will grew to large cities if they but
grasp their opportunities.
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Want Fewer Legislators.
Trouble might be avoided by our Leg-
islature hereafter by the adoption of the
following suggestion of tli3 Henderson
Times: "The next time the legislature
submits the amendment to the Constitu-
tion to provide for an increase of sal-
aries, they had just as well to provide
in tie* amendment to cut dn-rn the num-
ber of Legislators from one-third to one-
half. The people will never entertain
the proposition till this is done." And
when it is done we believe they will
adopt it.—Colorado Citizen.
Taking the Thirtieth Legislature as a
criterion, we certainly could spare a lot
of quantity for quality.
♦ ♦ ♦
Keep Building.
Victoria has more blocks of paved side-
walks than any city of her rizt in Texas.
—Victoria Advocate.
But don't rest on that. Build more—
and then some more.
♦- ♦
Texas' Immensity.
If all the hay raised in Fannin County
this year were made info a single bale
and thrown Into the blue Atlantic, you
could walk on It from New York to Liv-
erpool without getting your feet wet.—
Honey Grove Signal.
Another evidenco of f.he immensity of
Texas. And just to think, Texas docs
almost as foolish a thing as throwing
the hay into the ocean. She sends her
cotton to the North to be manufactured
into cloth and then buys it back at a
profit—to the Northern mill owner.
♦ ♦ ♦
Jalisco, Mex., Times.
The Jalisco Times of Guadalajara,
Mex., has just celebrated its fifth anni-
versary. The paper has been under the
management of Rufe P. March and un-
der editorial charge of Austin C. Brady
almost since its inception. It is clean
and well edited. It is doing splendid
work for the development of the great
State of Jalisco and deserves every bit
of the fine advertising patronage it re-
(elves from the progressive business men
f Guadalajara.
^ TOPICS OF THE TIMES ^ ^
Roosevelt and the Fleet.
Some asseverations are notrd that
President Roosevelt, is sending the. bat-
tleship fleet to the Pacific in irder to
create a situation that will demand his
renomination for President rfxt vear. It
is fair to say in the beginning that no
suggestion of this sort has emanated
from friends of Mr. Roosevelt, though
a few alleged friends are urging Uie ex-
pediency of his becoming a candidate
again. These other suggestions are marl -
by the servitors of that element that
has most bitterly bewailed the efforts
of the Administration to curb tie illegal
practices of predatory wealth.
There* is in such an intimation a deadly
insult to the President, who has. said re-
peatedly that h* does not desire to be
a candidate. There is besides t!lis a dis-
play of profound indifference to the
logic of the situation. How, we should
like to know, could the creation of
strained relations with a foreign Power
advance Roosevelt in the publ'c estima-
tion'' To suppose that it would) is an in-
sult to the popular, intelligence not les3
offensive than is the insinratk n of dou-
ble dealing to the President himself. We
can conceive of nothing quite so likely
to destroy the popularity of Mr. Roose-
velt as a wanton jeopardizing of the
p<»aee of the Nation, and we s ispeet this
suggestion has been advanced for that
purpose
As for the voyage of the fleet to Pa-
cific waters, we have repeatedly pointed
out that it is not a hostile demonstra-
tion toward anyone. There ii no war-
rant in any fact connected with the
movement for any other belief. The fleet
is not going to menace anybody. If it
has any effect upon interna*.tonal poli-
tics it should tend to preserve tha peacv
The presence of the fleet in the Pacific
misrht make the Japanese jingoes— a
small minority of the Japanese pecula-
tion—more cautious in their utterances,
which have been wholly for political pur-
poses at home. Under the circumstances
"we are constrained to helie\e the jour-
nals in the servlee of Wall Street very
much underrate the intelligence of their
readers, or that they have fe>r readers
the people of lowest intelligence in the
country. We are certain r<o other news-
paper constituency oouM be induced to
swallow such monstrous assumptions.—
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Some Boy Mind Reading.
More than 300 years afro they were
cracking jokes at the sehoedboy's ex-
pense. Even Shakespeare takes a fall
oat of him in that picture of the seven
aires of man in which he shows him to
us dragging himself to school under pro-
test. A nian is never old until ho has
lived so long tliat be has entirely for-
gotten what tt Is to be young. When
stteh a wide gulf ej£ years intervenes be-
tween him and his boyhood that he re-
tains no recollection of ft strong e,nough
to give him sympathy with ^he boys of
these days, when there has been such a
flight of time between '»here he now is
and where he once was that the earlier
scenes have faded from his inner sight,
and when he has been a man so dread-
fully long fhat all consciousness of how
it feels to l>e a boy has long been blotted
out of both his heart and mind, that
man is old Indeed. "Whom tha gods love
die young" means only that they die be-
fore the decay of rears has lost them
the remembrance of their vouth, whie"h,
whiJe it remains with them*, renews that
vouth ev$ry dav of their lengthening
lives. With those bel:»va<| of the gods ft
remains to the end, whether the end
comes early *r late.
Such men will rcne * their youth today
HELTER-SKELTER.
(Ml A10NU
along)
-St. Louis RepubMo.
in thinking of how thejy used to feel on
the first day of a new school year. Can
we ever forget it? We may have had
later, and greater, and more enduring
sorrows, but a. sharp r pain can not flash
into the human heart and mind than
that which comes to him who, after
months of riotous freedom from books,
is brought suddenly to a consciousness
that it is the day of freedom's death.
Sent to bed the night before with the.
wholly superfluous reminder that the
next day would begin the school year,
the slepp which had dispeled his gloom
would last until the sunshine coining in
at the window would bring him his day
of sorrows. Not however, unti after
the glorv of sun ami sky. the rustling
green of the tre? tops, an l the many
voices of naturo on a fine day, had
moved him to a momentary forgetful-
ncss. After one brief moment of drink-
ing in 6-uch a scene as the preliminary
ol another day of freedom in field, for-
est and stream, cho sudden realization of
the awful change coming1 ever his life
would smite hint with a more crushing
force. Who that has ever felt this has
forgotten it, and who that has not for-
gotten it will fail to know somewhat of
the epidemic of heartache which will
sweep over this broad land today?
Even for the city-bred hoy the end
ef the vacation term is a great sorrow.
He may not know what the fulness of
life in vacation time is, and ought to be.
There Is no prairie at his back door,
stretching so far away to meet th-5
distant horizon that ho can see no end
to it. The air is not heavy with the
odor of wild flowers and melodious with
the music of many hi e ls. What is worse. #
and much worse, if his natural boyish'
exuberance finds expression in any of
the manif >ld forms of Juvenile activity,
he is told to "stop." Tno ancient maid-
en lady who *'S in constant dread of
her windows being broken by a flying
ball makes it uncomfortable for him.
The policeman on the beat is too often
too willing to oppress the helpless at
the demand of the man who Is so old
that he has forgotten that he ever was
young, probably because, in accumu-
lating that money which makes him a
power with the policeman, he has also
accumulated those qualities which make
him detestable to the boys. Even tho
little girls on roller skates are now un-
der police surveillance, so what can there
be left to the boys in this or any other
great town:' None the less will th?
school bells of this sad morning sound
in all of their ears as so many funeral
knells. Even though citv streets be as
a prison to youth in vacation time, they
offer freedom from books and tho dud
routine of school work. Shakespeare's
figure of the schoolboy will be proved a
million times tctfay. and if you are not
vet oldl you will know bow the boys feel
about It.—St. Louis Globs-D^mocrat.
The Man and the Whistle.
In the days of the old cable cars tho
c* nduetor's whistle was the torture of
the possenr^na. The conductor, with
fiendish Jelight, wouid pick out a plac^
on tho running footboard next to son«e
hypersensitive passenger and then siu-
*.al to the motorman with all the shrill-
nes his whistle was capable of. There
an* fewer cars of that kind now, but
enough of them are left to give the cor.
ductors still some opporturUy of doing
the maximum Injtiry to "nerves" Inuhe
minimum timo
Did anybody complain? Certainly, a
few. 8ome men swore out loud and oth-
ers UlUed excitedly at home and got
laughed at for their energy. But as for
an orranised resistance to the nuteanca
there was none. Tho whistle lived out
its appointed time.
Now it is to disappear forever on the
South Side lines. That is partly due to
the fact of the change in car equipment,
«ut the death bWw has been given be
cause of the oonfusion between conduc*
tors' whistles and policemen's whistles
since the new system of traffic signals
oi downtown street corners wtffc intro-
duced.
The passengers' ears are to be relieved,
but it isn't because they rose in theli
own defense or because any St. George
came alori/j to kill the dragon. It is
soleiy as an incident to progress on other
lines
All of which serves to point the state-
men* so often made that Americans are
the mc.sc long-suffering people on earth
It stead of beins an overwrought people,
in a constant state of semi-hysterical ex-
citement on public issues, as the dema-
£ 'Rues of the conseivative and reaction-
ary types are now trying to make us he-
iievv, we tie actually, as a rule, too
meek and humble in these matters. A
slight permanent Increase in ohstreper-
ousr ess would be useful.—Chicago Rec-
ord-Herald.
HIS POINT OF VIEW.
This Artist and His Wife and the
Other Woman all Agree.
Ferdinand Earle Jr., the artist, who is
tho son of the late Gen. Ferdinand Earle,
during his lifetime one of the owners of
the Hotel Netherlands, and prominent in
financial circles, will come down from
his country place outside of Monroe,
Orange County, N. Y., Wednesday to hid
god-speed for all time to his wife ami
son, who are to sail on the Holland-
American Line steamer Ryndam. With
Mr. Earle will come to say good-bye also
the woman who has been staying with
her brother and mother as a guest at
the Earle home for the last ten days,
and whom Mr. Earle will wed as soon as
his wife shall have been granted a di-
vorce. Mr. Earle s&ys that he is acting
on his convictions in this instance. Con-
ditions over which he and his wife have
lost all control make them happier apart.
This has bean agreed between them. The
woman whom he intends to wed has
been living in his home for several days
entirely by his wife's consent, and all
will part the best of friends, says Mr.
Earle.
The artist maintains that his scheme
of life is one designed to insure happi-
ness, lie also says he is a socialist, t
that his determination to part with
wife and wed another woman under con*
ditions of mutual agreement all around
was not evolved from the teachings of
socialism, but from his own Inception of
a man's duty to himself. He is not a
believer in free love, says the artist,
but in th^ freedom of love when the
dictates of that passion run counter to
the formal precepts laid down by society.
A reporter saw Mr. Earle and his wife
at their home on the Earle estate, a mile
outside of Monroe, tonight and both of
them told the story of how they had
agreed to separate. The woman who is
to be the second Mrs. Earle after the art-
ist's present wife has obtained the di-
vorce, both have arranged for, was pres-
ent but took no part in the conversation.
Mr. Earle did not seem surprised
when asked to give the facts concerning
the gossip that has been filling the mouth
of the village since last Friday. He said
that he would rather have the ,story of
the incident appear in his- version, if it
had to be nubl'shed at all.
He then told the story, as follows:
"Less than ten years ago, when I was
studying art in Paris, 1 married a
Frenchwoman. She was very dear to
me; she is yet, but in another way. I
had all that 1 seemed to need—my art,
a wife, plenty to live on. We were very
happy.
"We came over here to live several
years ago, out here in the country, where
we could be alone and undisturbed. We
were still happy and more so yet when a
son was born to us. But soon something
began to arise between us. I cannot ex-
plain. Call it Incompatibility of temper,
conflict of ideals, what you may. Those
things cannot be explained. Maybe I was
cruel; who knows?
"But the coming of the child that was
part of each of us made it doubly hard
to take the logical step.
"Constantly I believed more and more
that a man and a women are in torment
when they are not affinities.
"A few months ago I went to Europe
to attend the deathbed of a brother. On
the steamer I met a young woman who
lives in Bethlehem, Pa. She was a So-
cialist like myself. Like me, she believed
not in free love, but the freedom of
love when it opposes tho dictates of
social proprieties.
"This voung woman and I saw much of
each other in France. We became at-
tached. We realized that our marriage
had been foreordained before our births
and was to continue forever.
"When this knowledge came to us I
Went to my wife's father in France and
told him tho whole situation. I said that
I wanted to send his daughter home
to him, for both of us realised that we
were not suited to one another. 1 told
him that 1 did so in all kindness, both to
her and to myself. He saw my point of
view. We consulted a lawyer he recom-
mended, and the divorce was arranged.
When I left France he gave me an al-
most fatherly farewell. .
did this thing without the knowl-
edge of my wife. When I returned I told
ber of the step I had taken, and alter *
while she was pursuaded that it was for
the best. Then the woman who was my
real affinity came up here to mefet my
wife.
"She came not as an interloper, but as
a friend. She came perfectly ready to
renounce me if my wife insisted upon it.
Her mother came with her and later her
brother, who has stayed with us sine®
the mother's return to Bethlehem.—
New York Dispatch in Washington Post.
CANDY Foir""H ELLO G~IRLS."
Telephone Patrons Reward Them for
Early Morning Calls.
A Kansas City Man Recently spent tho
nit'lit at the home o£ a physician in a
small Kansas town. He occupied tho
doctor's room in which there was a tele-
phone. About 6 o'clock in the morning
ho was awakened by a prolonged ringing
of the telephone bell. He wasn't in tha
best of humor when he finally answered
the call.
"Hello! What in thunder do you want?"
A feminine voice replied:
"My, but you're sleeping soundly this
morning! Come! It's lime to get up."
"Time to get lip!" yelled the Kansas
City m m, thoroughly exasperated. "Mad-
am, I'll pet up whenever I please!
Ii that plain enough for you?"
Then he went back to bed.
But his head hadn't been on the pillow
very long when the bell started again
and kept up a noise that brought him
back to the telephone again with the last
shreds of his temper gone.
"Well, what do you want, now?" he
roared.
"Tumble out now and get busy with the
davtime," the *ame voice replied. "And
don't let me have to call you again. Must,
have been taking laudanum the way you
are sleeping this morning. Shake your-
srli and come out of it."
It was inore than the Kansas City man
could stand. He dropped the receiver,
went into his host's room and gave him a
shake that awakened him.
"Here!" he cried. "Oct up! There s
an Insomnia patient on the line and she s
lonesome and wants company. Go and
prescribe something for her or I II have
to do It myself."
The doctor went to the phone.
"That you, central?" he said. "O, u 11
right; thanks. Yes. Yes, quite right. I
was sleeping In the hext room and dldn t
hear the bell. Much obliged. Yes, friend
of mine. O. he'll get over it. All up
now. And, O. yes, tomorrows pay day,
isn't it, central? Well, you'll get that
candy all right. Goodbye.
It was a new industry the Kansas ( ity
man had discovered. A number of the
residents have to arise early for various
reasons and they keep the central girl
supplied with candy for calling them up.—
Kansas City Star.
DO0TORS MISTAKES
Are said often to bn burled six feet under
ground. But many times women call on
their family physicians, suffering, as they
Imagi ne, one from dyspepsia, another from
heart disease, another from liver or kid-
ney disease, another from nervous prog,
tratlon, another with pain here and there,
and In this way they present alike to
themselves and their easy-going or over-
busy doctor, separate diseases, lor which
he, assuming them to be such, prescribes
his pills and potions. In reality, they are
aJI only tympumt caused by some uterine
disease. The'W»Mlcian,'*norant of t)ie
cause of suffe'nhjfTW'ps upjtivtraatment.
until Urge bills are lira
patient gets no better
wrong treatment, but p .
nrriper iTiydlcinelilff T)r Plarra'*!
Prescription directed to tJis camfJifQuM
havjTnfci r^i vjgmqv*'"c
by dispelling all tnoso distressing symp-
toms, and instituting comfort Instead cf
prolonged misery, it has been well aatt,
that"a disease known Is half cured." .
Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription It A
scientific medicine, carefully devised by
an experienced and skillful physielan,
stem,
icinal
experienced and skillful physl
fnd adapted to woman's delicate sy
t is made of native American medi
suCTgm.
AS a pov
jpowerful Invigorating tonic "F«c
vorlte Prescription" Imparts strength to
the whole system and to the'organs dis-
tinctly feminine ln particular. For over-
worked, "worn-out," run-down," debili-
tated teachers, milliners, dressmakers,
seamstresses, "shop-girls," house-keepers,
nurslngmothers, and feeble women gen-
erally, I)r. Pierce's Favorite Prescription
Is the greatest earthly boon, being on-
equaled as an appetizing cordial and re-
storative tonic.
As a soothing and strengthening nerv-
ine "B'avorlte Pres
.and ii
duing
nervous exhaustion, nervous prostration!
lasms. 8t. Vitus'!
itresslng, nervous
symptoms commonly attendant npon
functional and organic disease of th«
uterus. It Induces refreshing sleep and
relieves mental anxiety and despondency.
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets invigoraw
stomach, ltver and bowels. One to
Favorite Prescription " Is tineqnaled
Is Invaluable in allaying and sub-
I nervous excitability, Irritability,
... eras exhaustion, nervous prostration,
neuralgia, hysteria, spasms. St. Vitus'!
dance, and other distressing, nervous
symptoms commonly attendant npon
i
the s
three
adeia. Vaey to take aa candy.
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