Brenham Daily Banner (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 10, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 6, 1912 Page: 4 of 8
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[DAILY BANNER
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SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1912.
jajiplcation made at the Postoffiee in Brenham for
entry as second-class mail matter.
A LESSON TO LYNCHERS.
Lynching should never be tolerated in civil-
ised communities, for mobs of maddened men
acre incapable of passing judgment upon those
inspected of crime. Courts are maintained for
that purpose. It is true the courts of this coun-
try are often perverted and improperly influ-
enced by the power of wealth, and that it is
almost impossible to convict a rich man of a
-crime unless his victim happens to be richer
than he. And if ever the mob is justified in
taking the law $nto its own hands it is when
the courts refuse to convict magnates of wealth,
members of trusts, whose crimes are not
against anyone in particular, but against the
people in general. But^ven the unpunished
crimes of court-favored trusts should not have
to be dealt with by the mob, every good
citizen should aid in the work of stamping out
the damnable lynchings that are a disgrace to
the country.
It has been left to the progressive little city
of Fort Smith, Arkansas, to set an example
which every city and town in the country should
follow. A young negro was in jail charged with
a crime. His guilt had not been proven and
the general opinion was that he was not guilty
of the offense charged, but the mob took him
oat of jail one night and lynched him. The usual
custom in such cases is for the coroner to hold
an inquest and the coroner's jury to render a
verdict to the effect that the victim came to his
death at the hands of parties to the jurors un-
known.
Fort Smith men are noted for their courage
as well as pride in their city. They would not
tolerate any such disgraceful proceedings. They
enforce the laws regardless of who may violate
them. The best citizens of this live little city
immediately organized to aid the courts in the
enforcement of the law. The chief of police
and eleven policemen and the entire detective
force were summarily dismissed and the active
members of the mob were arrested and lodged
in jail charged with murder. The leader, a
wealthy contractor, was among the mob mem-
bers put in jail. -He offered a bond of $20,000
bat his bond was promptly refused and he was
kept in jail to await the action of the courts.
His wealth did not influence the people of Fort
Smith, who accord no more right to the rich
man to commit crime than is accorded to the
poor man. The power of wealth does not make
trials a farce and courts a jest in Fort Smith.
Justice means something in that city, and it has
set an example to lynchers that will impart a
higher respect for the law.
VICTOR HUGO'S EASTER HOPE.
I feel myself the future life. I am like a
forest once cut down; the new shoots, are
stronger and livelier than ever. I am rising,
1 know, toward the sky. The sunshine is on
my head. The earth gives me its generous sap,
but heaven lights me with reflection of un-
known worlds.
You say the soul is nothing but the resultant
«f the bodily powers. Why, then, is my soul
siore luminous when my body powers begin to
Jjg.il? Winter is on my head, but eternal spring
is in my heart. There, I breathe at this hour
ffce fragrance of the lilacs, the violets and the
coses as at twenty years. The nearer I ap-
proach the end, the plainer I hear around me
the immortal symphonies of the worlds which
invite" me It is marvelous, yet simple. It is a
Jairy tale, and it is history.
For half a century I have been writing my
thoughts in prose and verse; history, philoso-"
pby, drama, romance, tradition, satire, ode and
song—I have tried all. But I feel I have not
said the thousandth part of what is in me.
When I go down to the grave I can say, like so
many others, "I have finished my day's work."
Bat I cannot say, "I have finished my life."
My day's work will begip the next morning. The
tomb is not it blind alley; it is a thoroughfare,
it closes on the twilight; it opens with the
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President Taft's talk on economy at this time
may mean business, or it may be a bid for sup-
port for a second term.
HOUSTON'S INHUMANITY.
Houston's humane society is being waked up
by a Colorado humane officer,Nand considering
the constant cruelty permitted in Houston,
there is certainly good reasons for waking it up.
An hour's walk on Houston streets will en-
able one to see drivers brutallv beating poor,
crippled and half-fed horses and mules. A walk
along the wholesale district will show chickens
so badly crowded in coops that they cannot turn
around, and in other places chickens are suffer-
ing for water.
The express companies haul poultry and little
calves about the street, cooped up in a way to
inflict torture upon the helpless creatures, but
no action is taken by the humane officers or the
city police. Nobody interferes and the tortured
dumb brutes and fowls seem to have no friends
in Houston. The Colorado agent for the preven-
tion of cruelty to animals certainly went to a
place that needed waking up when he went to
Houston.
JEWISH FEAST OF PASSOVER.
INCORRECT FORMS OF SPEECH.
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The Feast of the Passover, which, which is
observed by the Jewish people, began Monday,
April 1, and ends Monday, April 8, is the first
and greatest of the three annual festivals of
the Jews, instituted by Moses in commemora-
tion of the deliverance of the Israelites from
Egyptian bondage, and celebrated from the
15th to the 21st day of Nisan, both inclusive,
thus falling between March and April, at the
time of the first full moon in the spring.
The first and the last day of the festival are
kept holy and observed by abstaining from all
work, by prayers, hymns, thanksgivings and
other ceremonies, and during the whole pei*iod
the bread is eaten without leaven, whence the
name of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
In the olden times, on the evening of the 14th
day of Nisan, the Passover lamb was killed by
the head of the family. The animal should be
one year old, male, without blemish, and it
should be roasted entire, with unbroken bones,
and consumed entirely in one meal. The blood
was sprinkled on the doorsill in commemoration
of the night preceding the exodus from Egypt,
when the angel went through the country and
slew all the first born, but passed over the house
of the Israelites. The fat pieces were burned
on the altar as a sacrifice, and the family, clad
in traveling garb, gathered to partake of the
roasted lamb, with prayers and hymns.
On account of some uncertainty with respect
to the fixing of the new moon by the Sandhedrin
at Jerusalem, the Jews who lived in foreign
countries in "exile" were ordered to celebrate
all their festivals on two successive days—a
law which is still in force among the orthodox.
At present, however, the Passover feast has
generally the simple character or a hallowed
family feast among the Jews.
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The Galveston News devotes a column of
editorial to the methods of treating the trust
question. The only way to treat the trusts is
to make them obey the law, regardless of their
wealth. The Sherman law has proved itself
ineffectual. The courts have shown themselves
too frail to resist the influences of wealth and
persuasion of able counsel, such as the trusts
employ. Make a law so drastic as to be effective
and so plain that the courts can have no ex-
cuse for construing it in favor of the trusts.
But such a law will never be enacted with a
president in office who is dominated by trust
influences. »
The entire staff of the Roosevelt campaign
committee was left for five hours in their head-
quarters on the twenfy-fourth story of a New
York skyscraper, where the elevator man had
forgotten them. They were way up in the air,
twenty-four stories high, but they got down all
right. The recent election results have put
Teddy himself way up in the air, but he has not
yet come down.
Whenever you hear an unfamiliar word or
pronunciation, refer to your book at the first
opportunity. When you have discovered the
meaning of the word and its proper pronunci-
ation, you have enlarged your vocabulary,
which is an important matter, particularly with
the young.
Take notice of words that are always spelled
the same and are sometimes nouns and some-
times verbs; for instance, "abstract," the verb
is s accented on the last syllable, while
"abstract," a terAi in law, is accented on the
first syllable.
"Acclimate" shoiHd be accented on the sec-
ond syllable, although it is more often placed
on the first. "Lamentable," on the contrary, is
accented on the first syllable.
"Squalor" is given the long sound of a, and
"America" should be pronounced as swelled, and
not "Amurica." If you persist in using "papa"
and "mamma" instead of "father" and "moth-
er," do not add an r to the last syllable. In
using the word "ben" say "bin," not "bensay
"leg-end," not le-gend."
Remember there cannot be "two first;" it is
better to say "first two" or "first three," as the
case may be.
"Now and again" is better for form than
"now and 'then"when first I came to town"
is better ohraseology than "when I first came
to town."
Split infinitives are thought by many writers
to be the most heinous of literary crimes, says
the Ladies World. Beware of introducing them
into your conversation. What is a split infini-
tive? To use a split infinitive is to insert one
or more words between the participle "to" and
the completing word forming the infinitive
mood of any verb, such as "to be," "to go," "to
walk," etc.
A common form of the split infinitive i;j
found in such expressions as "I have to always
stay," which should read: "I have to stay
always." Another very often heard is, "He
seems to occasionally forget," which properly
rendered should read: "He seems to forget
occasionally."
In one of Lord Chesterfield's letters to his
son we find this advice with regard to correct
speech: "Never use favorite words, nor hard
words, but take great care to speak correctly
and grammatically and to pronounce properly."
This advice is as good today as it \^as the day"
it was written and really comprises all the
necessary directions for good and proper
speech.
"Don't," the contraction of "do not," should
never be used with a singular noun or pronoun.
Say he "does not," not "he don't." Do not for-
get the objective form of the first person singu-
lar w-hen a noun and pronoun or two pronouns
follow the verb, that is, do not say, "Mary asked
John and I to go," but "Mary asked John and
me to go." Another example. "Mrs. Jones
told her and I that the marriage had taken
place" should read: "Mrs. Jones told her and
me," etc.
One should "try to go," not "try and go;" one
"ought" to do thus and so, not "had ought."
Say "seldom if ever," not "seldom or never."
One "makes" an experiment, he does not
"try" one. Speak of a "person," not a "party."
Say "I must go," not "I have to go"; say "chil-
dren," not "childurn."" But say "agen," not
"againsay "ofen," not "often;" say "Ar-ab,"
not "A-rab."
'DIXIE" WILL DO THE WORK.
The San Antonio Express seems to be fully
on to the game. It says: "First, the govern-
ment was going to eat up the pork trust alive;
next it was going to*kill the trust before de-
vouring it, ami now it is going to try some other
method of playing politics." The last two words
form a full and exact definition of the farce
known as "the Trial of the Meat Packers." It
ought to be staged to ragtime musics
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The old time farmer plowed, sowed and
reaped at random, trusting to Providence to
pake his crop. The up-to-date farmer does not
leave it all to.Providence, but prepares the eoil
and selects his seeds and sows and reaps in a
sensible, systematic and scientific manner and
gets results.
o
San Antonio has had to give up her state fair
, for want of funds and proper co-operation. San
Antonio's failure is Houston's opportunity. A
great land and industrial exposition ought to be
maintained in one of the important cities in
Southern Texas and Houston is the logical place
for such an exposition.
j Corsicana Sun.
j. An exchange having remarked that the Con-
federate Veterans who are to meet in Macon in
their annual reunion next May are protesting
against a suggestion to eliminate the customary
parade on the ground that they are too feeble
to stand the trip, on which the Denison Herald
commented that despite their bent forms and
the snows of many winters, all that is needed
to quicken the pulse and give elasticity to their
dragging steps i3 the soul-stirring notes of
"Dixie." That's a fact. Many a time have the
old boys trudged through miles of mud through-
out the weary hours of a rainy night, all but
exhausted and some ready to fall in their
tracks, when a band would strike up "Dixie;"
what a change! Hats came 6ff, lungs expanded
and the air was filled with cheers. "Dixie"
stirs the soul, animates the heart, enlivens the
brain <and puts into the feet an irrepressible
impulse to gb up in the air. The boys are not
as young as they once were, but as long as life
lasts they will be ready to respond to the air
of "Dixie."—San Antonio'Express.
None of the "boys" are old when they gather
at the reunion, the time for the parade arrives
and the band strikes up "Dixie." They are
young then and will not give up the annual
parade until the last of their noble band has
answered roll-call on the ether shore.
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Preparations are being made by the San
Antonio and Aransas Pass railroad to ship be-
tween 500 and 600 cars of cucumbers out of its
territory this season.
HOW TO END ILLITERACY.
Atlanta Journal.
A census bulletin brings the cheering news
that illiteracy has decreased in the United
States from 10.7 percent in 19Q0 to 7.7 per cent
in 1910. This marks appreciable progress, yet
there were in this country more than five and
a half million persons over 10 years old who
could neither read nor write.
It will be interesting to learn, when the cen-
sus reports on this subject are complete, just
where Georgia stands in the national record,
both in respect to her advancement during the
>■ decade and her present percentage of illiteracy.
There will be no occasion for. surprise if in the
latter regard the state makes a comparatively
poor showing, because of its large negro popu-
lation. Ignoring this factor, however, it will
doubtless still appear that our common school
system has a great barrier to hew down before
Georgia takes her due place in the educational
growth and life of the common country.
The fact is Georgia can scarcely hope to at-
tain her rightful prestige in this important par-
ticular until a compulsory school attendance
law is enacted. There are hundreds, and per-
haps thousands,- of white boys and girls in this
state who are receiving no schooling whatso-
ever, simply because of the indifference of their
parents, and from these there will spring
another generation more ignorant still and
more hardened in their resistance to progress.
In his entertaining book, "Where Half the
World Is Waking Up," Mr. Clarence Poe shows
that in Japan 98 children out of every 100 are
in school, and the government, he declares, is
determined that within the next few years there
shall not be found in all the empire a single
child, of those between 6 and 14 years of age,
who is not regularly attending school.
What a commentary is this upon our boasted
western civilization'
Surely the Anglo-Saxons of Georgia will not
do less for their own children and for. the wel-
fare of their own state than those little brown
folk of pagan Japan. It has been truly said
that if a boy's parents are so indifferent to his
future as not to give him a moderate measure gf
schooling, the state itself should step in and see
to it that he is vouchsafed a fighting chance in
life.
SECRET GRIEFS.
J. R. Miller, D. D.
Trouble comes in many forms. It may be a
bitter disappointment which falls upon a young
life when love has not been true, or when char-
acter has proved unworthy, turning the fair
blossoms of hope to dead leaves under the feet.
There are lives that bear the pain and carry
the hidden memories of such a grief through
long years, making them sad at heart even when
walking in sweetest sunshine. Or it may be
the failure of some other hope as when one has
followed a bright dream of ambition for days
and years, finding it only a dream. Or it may
the keener more bitter grief which comes to one
when a friend proves untrue or disgraces him-
self. The anguish which love endures for oth-
ers' sins is among the saddest of earth's
sorrows.
If we knew the inner life of many of the peo-
ple we meet, we would be very gentle with them
and would excuse the things in them that now
seem strange or eccentric to us. They are car-
rying burdens of secret grief.
A MODEL OF EXCELLENCE.
From Galveston News.
The first issue of the Daily Banner came out
on Wednesday afternoon. It was a model of
typographical excellence and contained forty-
eight pages in its first i|^ue. The Banner was
established in 1875 by Colonel John G. Rankin
and was recently sold by him to Messrs. George
A. T. Neu and William M. Cathriner and
Joseph Cathriner, and they are business man-
ager, advertising manager and manager of the
plant, respectively. Frank Eberle, late of
Houston, is the editor.
With the appearance of the Brenham Daily
Banner, Brenham has three newspapers, the
other two being the Brenham Daily Press and
the Volksbote.
SHOWING LOVE FOR CHILDREN.
We have seen little children while running at
play, or perhaps on an errand for their parents,
get a fall and bump a head or skin a finger, and
when they would go to their parents for a kind
word of comfort, they would say: "Well, next
time look where you are going and don't'be so
awkward, go along now and hush." That child
will certainly find out sooner or later that its
parents have little love or sympathy for it, and
it will grow up without any kind feeling toward
that parent. But on the other hand, let the
child come to the parents for advice, and if kind
words are spoken the child will never forget it,
and will always look with respect on that par-
ent.—Ex.
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Eberle, Frank. Brenham Daily Banner (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 10, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 6, 1912, newspaper, April 6, 1912; Brenham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth486438/m1/4/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.