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attention of the publishers.
WEEPING AND GOVERNING.
Looking upon the weeping governor of Col-
orado, who was a witness in relation to the
mine strike and riots, the national industrial
commission could see at a glance one powerful
reason for the collapse of government in that
State, says the New York World. When that
gentleman appeared before a legislative com-
mittee last spring to explain his various de-
linquencies he exhibited similar emotion.
Woe doe? not always await a country when
it sees the tears of bearded men. In this in-
stance the spectacle may be accepted as a her-
ald of better things. If these were tears of
contritition due to recognized failure and to a
keen recollection of the women and children
who perished in the blazing pits of Ludlow,
they may not be attributed altogether to weak-
new. At any rate, we hope they were sin-
cere.
In four weeks Colorado is to have a new
chief magistrate, who says he intends to en-
force the law. After all, it is the business of
governors to govern and not to weep.—Beau-
mont Jounal.
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THE REAL SUCCESSFUL MEN.
Beaumont Journal,
Some men have a faculty of making them-
selves noticed by noises of various degrees and
they quite often manage to deceive the public
as to the degree of their importance, but these
are not necessarily successful.
In fact, the old Greek as well as the more
modem philosophers by various round about
ptrobles and illustrations have defined the
Bjen and women of real influence and power
to be of an altogether different brand. They
all agree that the unlauded men and women
who are quietly attending to their own little
tacks, every day contributing something sub-
stantial to industry, prosperity and human
progress, rearing children in habits of honest
labor and right living, and supplying example
that elevates the moral and intellectual levels
of their little communities, are truly success-
ful.
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Should the United States wish to give up its
foreign possessions, and abandon all shipping
and foreign commerce in the event of war, we
could very well do without a navy. This point
was made clear by Admiral Fletcher in the
naval hearing at Washington Wednesday. He
might have added also for the benefit of the
representative who was questioning him that
the United States possesses a powerful and
effective navy there is nothing to prevent an
enemy from landing troops at any point on
onr coast that it might desire under cover of
its naval guns, and establishing a base for
land operations.—Galveston Tribune.
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The holding of fire drills in places where a
great number of people are employed has prov-
en its worth time and again. The saving of
life in case of fire will be more than paid for.
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Galveston telephone operators had their first
fire drill Thursday. The experiment was car-
ried out without the least hitch. The sixty-
employees of the third floor of the telephone
exchange heard the gong, rushed down the
stairs and up again in one minute and 43
seconds.
Leo. M. Frank will hang January 22. He is
quoted as having denounced the mob violence
spirit, which pervaded the court room at
his trial, and declares that his death would
'lay' an indelible stain upon Georgia's name for
justice. It seems to us that Georgia's name
is to be enriched enough by having Frank as
a citizen.
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Explosion in a Pennsylvania coal mine killed
18 victims. Explosions at Christmas time of
fireworks will be the next factor to send more
to the kingdom come.
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Exchange Comment
pro you ever drop a stitch, or * pencil, or
spill a cupful or forget where you left any one
thing that you specially wanted to remember?
Well, yea, of course, but did you never think
that such a thing can happen in a printing of-
fice in ways more certain than anywhere else?
One dot omitted will spoil the sense of a sen-
tence. One figure left out counts for much.
One name misspelled spoils the job, one little
word dropped raises cain. Any error may
cause distress. And the paper gets the blame
every time.—Nacogdoches Sentinel.
And the little error will become a big one
especially at the time that you least expect it,
and all of the explanation that you can do will
not convince the other fellow that it was not
done intentionally.
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two brothers started in life, one with a
college education, the other without. One be-
came a professor in a small college at $1200
a year, raised six kids and a mortgaged home
and died at a ripe age with no hair on his
knot. The other got a recipe for a patent med-
icine with lots of booze in it, became a million-
aire and was carried to the scrap heap in a
black he&rse with six plumes and four yellow
horses. And the band played a quickstep on
its way back. All of which shows that it is
not necessary to have a college education in or-
der to make a patent medicine with booze in
it.—Anderson County Herald.
Commercially speaking, the one that was
carried in the hearse was the one that had
made good. The other, however, did more for
mankind by implanting knowledge in the
minds of the young. He enriched the world
and not his pocketbook.
it is reported that Villa and Zapata will
clasp each other in fond embrace in the pres-
ence of the vast multitude assembled to wit-
ness their entrance into the president's pal-
ace. This, of course, will be done for the ef-
fect it will have upon the populace. It will
be remembered that Villa and Carranza also
did a great deal of embracing during the palmy
days of their association and friendly, but the
cement didn't work well—they were seeking
soft places in each other back before! they
reached the city of Mexico.—Denison Herald.
Human nature is the world over; make a
show and lead the people to believe that you
are sincere and the most of them will believe
it.
the chinese always did have a way of go-
ing to extremes in the enforcement of laws.
The president of China now is cutting men's
heads off for grafting. If this sort of thing
becomes fashionable in other places, there is
danger of destroying one of the greatest in-
dustries in the world.—Beaumont Journal.
Especially in our grand and glorious United
States.
..the empty stocking fund from which the
needs of the poor children of Abilene are to
be supplied for Christmas needs your contri-
bution. There should not be a child in Abi-
lene whom Santa Claus fails to visit Christmas,
and there will not be if the people of the city
will respond to the call for help by which the
Abilene Kindergarten Association is to fill the
empty stockings.—Abilene Reporter.
This appeal will certainly be heeded for il
is one that will appeal to those that have seen
the yearning look of less fortunate child upon
Christmas morning as it views the more for-
tunate one with his drum and horn.
just what business Governor Colquitt will
engage in when he relinquishes the governor's
office is the subject of comment in some cir-
cles). It has been our information that he
was going to run for United States Senator
to succeed Senator Culberson. That being
true, it will be about all the business the gov-
ernor can attend to successfully during the
next two years.—Denison Herald.
The time at his disposal seems long to the
average man but if he really wants to gratify
his senatorial aspiration, it will take that time
and longer to do so.
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several anxious inquiriers are informed
that the new tax law does not require a reve-
nue stamp to be placed on proposals of mar-
riage, but Congress will probably attend to
that omission at this session.—Denison Her-
ald.
Proposals of marriage are generally made
in person, a few on paper. We are anxious
to know how the tax would be collected if it
should happen to be placed thereon.
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The knocker will soon stop knocking if he
would find less hearers to his song.
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Dutch City Halls
The kernel of a Dutch town, says the De-
troit Tribune, is its stadhuia, or town hall, for
in the past days of Holland's greatness the
state itaelf was an agglomeration towns, inde-
pendent, self-governing communities, each one
a self-contained commonwealth, providing for
its self-defense, administering its own finances,
with its own legislation, and its own courts of
justice. Collectively the towns formed the as-
sembly of states, but their very independence
was at times a source of weakness, to it miti-
gated against united action in the common in-
terest. From this characteristic of ffie" Dutch
constitution it followed that wealthy munici-
palities lavished the best they had to give of
architecture, sculpture and intefrial decoration
on their town halls, the centers of their civil
life.
Sometimes the importance of the town itself
has declined and diminished in size, but its
stately town hall survives as a monument to
its former commercial importance. Remote
Bolsward and shrunken Franeker are instances
of this, and a more signal example is the grace-
ful st&dhuis of decayed Veere. Bolsward was
once a member of the Hanseatic league; it lies
of the beaten track of tourists in Northern
Friesland, and is well worth a visit on other
counts than its town hall. It has now descend-
ed in the scale of civic importance to being a
small market town, where the pretty covered
carts of the local peasants make a picturesque
medley when all drawn up together on market
days.
The principal street, too narrow for a good
vie wof it, is dominated by the beautiful ren-
naissance stadhuis, constructed like nearly all
Dutch buildings, of red brick with white stone
facings, the brick mellowed by time to a warm
deep tone that contrasts effectively with the
carefully kept stone work. A double flight of
steps leads up to its richly sculptured portal.
The carving is forcible, deeply incised and ex-
pressive. The figures which decorate the front
of the Dutch town hall are generally much the
same, varying only according to the individual
taste and skill of the artist. A justice very
frequently appears above the entrance—at
Bolsward she holds a pair of brass scales, and
is accompanied by faith and charity surround-
ed by children.
The town hall very often serves the purpose
of a local museum. The principal official
room has nearly always fine paneling; that of
Bolsward also possesses some unusually good
pewter flagons, and among its treasures are a
fifteenth century illuminated black letter law
book, an official silver chain that once belonged
to the local "Doelen," as the shooting guilds,
or societies of civil volunteers, were called, and
an autograph of the Duke of Alva, said to
be the only one in Holland, a signature to a
letter settling a dispute between Bolsward
and the neighboring seaport of Harlingen,
which had arisen over their respective shares
in the restoration of the dikes after a flood.
Civil marriages are celebrated in the town
halls. First class marriages often take place
in a sumptuous room, decorated in silky glow-
ing Utrecht velvet. Second class marriages
are performed in a humbler apartment of
whitewash and modest benches. Sometimes
the walls of the more important officers are
hung with priceless tapestry. This is the case
at Leiden, where the council chamber has some
very fine seventeenth century Delft tapestry,
and some gorgeous Brussels hangings decorate
another room in the same building. This mag-
nificent town hall dates from the tenth cen-
tury.—Exchange.
A Combine Necessary
A nice question has arisen under the Sher-
man law. Can exporters combine for the
purpose of expediting the sale and delivery of
goods to foreign nations and to meet foreign
competition ? The president of the Chamber of
Commerce of the United States has been in
consultation with President Wilson on this
question. The government held in the case
of coffee importers who were interested in the
Brazilian plan of monopolizing the coffee crop
of Sao Paulo that the importers of such coffee
were subject to the provision of the Sherman
act, but whether the act would apply to ex-
porters of goods manufactured in the United
States and destined to another country is an-
other matter. Just taking snap judgment on
the case, it would seem that where the conse-
quences of the combine fell only upon the citi-
zens or subjects of another country, the Sher-
man law would not apply. At any rate, it was
not the intention of congress at the time of
the passage of the law, to bring the whole
world within its provisions.—Fort Worth Rec-
ord.
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Smile A While
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DECEMBER
Yea, Luella,
It has happened—
Notwithstanding
Counter views,
All the troops
Of occupation
Have deserted
Vera Cruz.
People said
We wouldn't do it
When it came
To making tracks
But we're very
Busy, dearie,
Showing Mexico
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What was thought
Of our intentions
Was not flattering j
At best.
When had any
Land relinquished
Anything it
Had possessed ?
People winked , f
About it, dearie,
Just as we do v j
When the Japs
Say they will
Return to China
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What the Germans
Took—perhaps.
In the course
Of fooling people
We have also
Fooled our own;
Lots of us,
My dear Luella, ;
Were but waiting
To be shown.
Wilson politics,
My dearie,
Are in some
Respects so new
That it isn't
Always easy
To believe
That they are true.
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Sure About It.
"Mrs. Aldan has five children; if there were
seven more, how many children would Mis.
Alden have?"
Several hands wore raised.
"Anna may tell us," said teacher. "How
many children would she have, Anna?"
"Enough."
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More Strategy.
"Call on all the regiments for volunteeri
with red whiskers."
"For what purpose, excellency?"
"To lie on their backs and furnish an imita^
tion of fall foliage as an ambush."
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The Best Place.
Whistler was once taken by a friend to the
home of a newly rich millionaire who had been
gathering a collection of dubious paintings
supposedly by old masters. After Whistler
viewed the collection his friend said:
"Now, Whistler, Mr. Blank wants to make
provision in his will to bequeath these paint-
ings, and he would like a suggestion from you
as to which institution to give them."
Promptly came the answer: "The East End
Institution for the Blind."
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English as She Is Spoken..
"You'll get run in," said a pedestrian to a
wheelman without a light.
"You'll get run into," savagely responded
the cyclist as he knocked the pedestrian down.
"You'll get run in, too!" said a policeman
stepping from behind a tree.
And just then another scorcher came along
without a light, so the policeman ran in two.
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He Might Take Another. -
A hypochondriac from the country was stay-
ing with a friend at the seashore in the hope
of obtaining relief from chronic dyspepsia.
One morning he was walking along the beach
with his host.
"I drank a glassful of salt water fresh from
the sea yesterday, and I think I derived relief
from it," he said. "Do you think I might take
a second?"
"Well," said the host, after a moment's hes-
itation, "I don't think a second would be
missed."
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Down HelV8 Way.
Mexican presidential candidates do their
running after they are elected.—1Toledo Blade.
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