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Houston daily post: Tuesday moenincL October c lcbi L
H0UST0H POST
I ' BY THE-T "'" I 1
HODETOK PRINTING COMPANY. .
M. JOHNSTON President
J. f AUM LK . .. .... .Vic Presides
V -OFFICE OF PUBLICATION. .
No. o-6o4 Tnrrte Street
the JWeace a Houston Tent at
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TrsSCBIPTIONS BY MAIL fa Wdeonw.
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I Year. Months. Months. Month
nd Sunday 48. os tajj $j.sj 5
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ajSTC AGENTS-. B. Throop J. a
M. Gibtoa and C A. Nichols.
x Tunday October 6 1903.
UT tHB RICE RATE.
iml tnifto official" opposes
.Uoa of the Houston freight
aa equalise tion of the rice rate
ound that Hons ton already haa
.tag li the territory which be-
j tt.
uch as the territory referred to
Itrarfly established by thl parti c-
mlsent traffic man" in unison
ier equally "prominent" traffic men
s not orer S per nt of the rice
ting population of the United States
I to see the point.
i may ben account of our obtuav
it In view of the fact that the ter-
rbltrarlly assigned to New Orleans
1 the remaining 95 per cent of the
isumlng population of the country
. e some excuse for not feeling satis-
iX the existing adjustment is either
- logical
it Is reported that the wells at Sour
.w better at night. This may be all
ine or it may be so. It is a fact
that the soft umber shadoys of night
it eucouiagement to gushers.
e black bull presented to President
King Edward is not an Irish bull.
COTTON SITUATION.
ultural department's October
e condition of the cotton crop
Jned the estimates of those
it at about 65 per cent of
Is reason for looking for a
- from now on.
1 room left for hanging
1 that the stories of
hare been coming
the cotton growing
y vera purposely
r taking of spots
Immediate future
Ippartnre from the
heretofore pursued
ibly be made in
its the depart
' .ted there with
"a cOQchatlona
riclttsions be-
I
t-
sny sersileges
sod that is
who
. jsid can afford
and speeds saore
1 shortcomings of
bis class fidicnl-
esidea.f Hi tlnitnl
J dress M aettmg hcr-
?r of soci matoms as
too much V even free
can not era w
1 in all its
await a d
. T j
not ia the least ta accii lti.
sue rsvcacz si taste
t judgment to make 'a public j..
-iy of the Blatters which do not eaM
i edac atma and refinement will not ch
; jw to get over these uncomfortable pt
iottt loss of respect and dignity of wV
4 arc they? We can excuse much in
orant btcaase we must remember the lac
f eaetssBtiy t master the fine art ef sew
jirittiiia. bat we should not' be called upon'1
e apologia far the rudeness of one who ought
te know better who does know better in
tact.
.
' ' I hive been among those who saw est goad
-la the members of the leisure elate. I have
known some of them as delightful tactful and
weO bred. I have met a tew who seemed tike
interlopers in the world of refinement bat they
seemed to lose nothing by their rudeness be-
cSBSf I was forced to confess they had th
power to give pleasure to others the power of
money. Such persons win always have a fol-
lowing of Ssea aad women who have trained
thessseh-es to overlook slights and thrusts which
would wsak sensitive natures miserable. a If
oci knew e millionaire who gloated over the j
-comfort of three relatives who were de- 1
dent 1
. - . .
hu bounty-or chose to think
y were which is the same thing to whom
was often really cruel
- used te enjoy seeing them cringe under
gu sashing he waa peculiarly fitted to be-
and blowing that while they shrunk like
td dog they positively hated him and
i 'for tu death aftener than they said
prayers he could not resist the iadina-
1 make them dance as he expressed it
at man should have represented th
f eortrtesy. H had riches aad all the
s they bring and if he did act choose
rpintte t ethers k should
ttiy wooicii 00
icnemhey
fhsslTH tiltUl
All pnWIIMSat
k and New-
of th truth
r are swne-
e. but H no
lady er her
scorn ef cwery
ted toobbish-
lng luch aa to treogthen tie belief In a
short cropl and high prices it is natural
to suppoaj that thi coming week will wit
ness 1 an active demand among English
operatives for American cotton.
Wits regard to the American spinners
ft is probable that they will but reluctant-
ly enter the market as yet Deprived of
further grounds for anticipating a bumper
crop they will most likely hold on to the
claim that the cotton goods' market is
unsatisfactory as an' excuse for further de-
laying purchases. 9esldes there are tev-
eral powerful gamblers on the bear side
of the market resJy to play Into their
hands t The bull cjque it is understood
haf decided to witldraw Its support from
October cotton. If i'ls be true the crowd
which thrives on a declining market will
have thine? Its owi way unless cheeked
by conservative acton on the part of the
producer.
In so far as the claim that prevailing com-
mercial conditions art unfavorable from a cot-
ton milling standpoint Is concerned there is
not much to It Pom all accounts. Wall
street and kindred ocallUea are about the
only portions of ths country experiencing
real financial stringency just now. De-
prived of the beneft success for the bear
crowd would be to them in their present
position " the " splmers " must ultimately
loosen up and abmdon the tactics they
have been followini for' several Weeks if
they intend to mert the requirements of
trade.
The .way to balk the bears is to avoid
glutting the marks. If the farmers will
continue to let go of the crop by degrees
only they will remlin In command of the
situation. All thinra considered cotton Is
not dear at 14 ents this year and It
should not be parted with on any weaker
basis. This remenbered. there is no rea-
son why for once the profit to be derived
from taking advaitage of existing condi-
tions should not so to the cotton farmers
Instead of to. the gamblers on 'change.
Gin uai. Li-TEta H.us has been appointed
"adviser to the adutant general." This ap-
pointment gives Loner all the work and re-
sponsibility and the adjutant all the glory.
Now Geimakt ha a race problem I The
American negro seens to take the race problem
with him wherever k goes.
THEODORE ROOiEfELT "OCR HERO."
Theodore Rooscelt has been made one
of the heroes of a new American novel
"The Curse of Cage" by N. J. W. Lecate
a rose which heretofore has been blush-
ing unseen.
Although Mr. locate is a hero-worshipper
of the most ironounced type his de-
scription of Mr. loosevelt is unconscious-
ly a doubtful comiiiment In this Instance
it is not a case of idols with clay feet
but the teeth "(learning white and bull
dog-like." the twesty-stx of which made the
younger hero "trenble."
"The Curse of Caste" is dedicated to
VIEW POINT OF A WOMAN
at least have had the decency to withhold in-
tentional misery.
He is getting a ortion of his deserts now in
sickness and bnelitess. As he would not be
obliging and tie lis relatives began to seek
for means of escaie and when they found it
no consideration far him stood in their way. v
We do not als-ay see punishment meted out '
as we wish lowrver so we can not hope
to cause a reforni y pointing out consequences.
We ought to be abe to rouse a sense of shame
or some kindred eeling but I am not even
sure of that Among the criticisms made of
us abroad is ramus and I am afraid that it
it deserved. IncHents like the present one lead
us to that belief.
Not in a thoraund years would you hear a
similar story with the scion of a real family
of gentlemen and aoble women as the offender
against good taste. And she woulJ be the one
from whum conceited opinions might come with
some degree of tderwuce. I am afraid that
the eccentricity of aste that characterizes some
of our prominent women d'jes not spca'.: of
generations of refintd ancestry the generations
said to be necessary for the making of a gen-
tleman. I have a nought would it not be a
good investment of ime to seek to tone down
crudities rather that accentuate them? Whv
cim not refinement be cultivated at home rather
.u.- i hrnt' Uk. .. . r
so many of our really fine women to make
their homes where he conventions are more
binding? Here is t subject that needs as
much if not more attention than international
marriages in which we are all eager to have a
Strenuous Mr. Hogg.
(From the Current Issue.)
Citizen Hogg as thi people now know him
is not without strrngtr and. ii he entered the
krena as a candidate for attorney general would
tnliven the situation Ike any other glasiator
to has in times past worn about his middle
V champion's ample lelt But does ex-Gov-or
Hogg want to tiy for the attorney gtn-
Nhip? W beliepe tot There is a wider
and a broader opportunity in another di-
ltKf 'or the exercise of those abilities for
WV the fecund seed of strife with which
. oeen so liberally endowed. In saying
this j0 no mean w iUparage the re-entry
'jrmot HoS inU politics for while
we distj-f witls him in the main on Texas
question we art not lit0Kther disinclined to
81 " "'"V show when he with visor down
and lance ride fcrth batt)e But"
1 we havy tx Governor Hogg is not look-
ing for thttorney general. That is now
too tame it fci martial sorit
Lp in thl state of Ohi. i.
i r . . - jtic 01 unit is a vinic and
J athletic md.v of mt .j fm.
the name oftM Johnson. Behind this in-
dividual stand pronper -n nrj le a
sonage than M Bryan who ;f he can not be
the democratic Vaminet fot the pid(.nc
would be content. tht party. tut0
cratic and relne . M. Tom Johnson
and Mr. Jim Hogs rauch ke Mmt of
polmeeana. Each rtrong tbe miuef
and each fernU" an erxrvating ace.
But Hogg was Bry friold before he was
Johnson friend. Wlnt olmca
rated for the president Ha(g wlnU wh(.
ever Bryan wants. Iii.n it nt in with
Gorman snd Parker iidittastefnl to him if
for no other reason thai n.rL .nj u:n
ar poliucal silk. Hrk w0B like t- sea
Mr. Isevelt and a Urge part of the
tc?v Is Bade up of his public speeches
ob le negro problem. The president of
th United States makes a very melo
dnjsatlc entr Into the volume where a
ten year-old boy a "pickaninny" la being
bullied by an over-grown white ruffian.
The jnvenll black Is In momentary dan-
ger of being "put out of business" by the
wicked white -boy when Mr. Roosevelt
rushes up' and exclaims to the bully "Yon
coward drop that stone!" Then the lit-
tle negro who waa saved explains:
My savior was a peculiar looking man. Hi
form waa athletic his movements quick and
jerky and his face waa a study. He was
young but wore eyeplasaes and a silk hat
turned down collar and clothes that fitted ele-
gantly. His features were rough and his hands
were like those of a giant Although there
was an expression of honest earnest kindness
in hia eyes the bluntness of his note the short-
ness of upper lip which was covered with a
stubby mustache and hia teeth gleaming whit
and bull dog-like under it made me tremble.
He encourages the boys to right it out snd
forms a ring. "All that I can promise you"
he says to Jack "is yoa shall have fair fight
It would do you no good for me to whip him
for you. That you've got to do for yourself.
We all have to fight our way through life."
Later the unknown benefactnr meets Jack at
Harvard and offers him his .fiendship.
"My name is Theodore Roosevelt" he says
straightforwardly.
Whatever my have been the purpose of
the author of this alleged novel the effect
will be only to bring ridicule epoa the
president of the United States. It will
provoke mingled amusement and disgust
among the Intelligent people of this coun-
try both white and blaek.
Tat growing evil of divorce is a growing
evil as Cardinal Gibbons say hot a divorce
would have been the saving of the Kilkenny
cats. The aforesaid cats be it remembered
were tied together and scratched one another
to flinders in an attempt at separation. An in-
dissoluble marriage tie would without doubt
cause some people to hesitate about assum-
ing the marriage tie but doubtless those who
hesitated would be comparatively few. Mar-
riage is a lottery and everyone who buys a
ticket thinks he is a winner until the returns
are in and it is an open question whether it
is not better to divorce animated couples if
not for their own peace then for the peace
of the community at large.
Thi trouble over cotton rates from points on
the Houston East and West Texas railroad
near the Louisiana line has been settled by
reducing the rate from Joaquin to Houston to
offset the rebate paid on cotton from Logans-
port to Shreveport So far so good but what
will happen when Tenaha asks to be equalised
with Joaquin. If Tenaha gets what it must
inevitably call for in the premise it will be
Timpson's turn next to seek relief. Tken
Nacogdoches will follow suit and there you
are.
A Niw Jeisiy man who went over into Mas-
sachusetts was arrested on suspicion and sen-
tenced to ten years in the penitentiary. This
treatment certainly looks unjust even when ap-
plied to a New Jersey man.
Ami so long a time and being fairly cor-
nered the Chronicle yesterday admitted the
charge to be true that it dates up an after-
noon paper and sells U as a morning paper.
Having made this admission there is no use
Texas instruct for Tom Johnson if thst worthy
continues available to his wing of the party
and at any rate to instruct for some one other
than Parker or Gorman. Hogg is the man in
Texas upon whom Mr. Bryan can rely with
the best confidence to carry out hit wishes.
Bailey could not do it and be consistent and
Bailey of all our public men. is the boldest
and most candid fighter. Culberson would not
do it. Hogg will it he can. Now what ia
Hogg's reason for coddling up to the farmer?
Hogg remembers that at the last convention
si Texas democrats to select delegates to the
Nwtional convention he was laid on the shelf
almost ignominiously. Hogg has not forgotten
that. He is not a man who forgets; and a man
who does not forget playt for even eternally.
The Texas voter may put it down as a cer-
tainty that Hogg is setting his plans to con-
trol the convention that will send delegatea
to the National convention. In that undertak-
ing there is room for the display of hia admir-
able figHnng qualities and if Hon. Bill Shaw
shall join him in the fight there will be no
occasion for either of them dying from po-
litical ennui. "
TALK ABOUT THE POST.
The Post it keeping right iu advance of our
onward march for a greater and more pros-
perous Texas. Sealy Newt.
The Post has always been a good paper in
any kindjf an old home and the Review is
sure that the splendid new building will not
turn the heads of The Post m alters. Cleburne
RrAevB. 1
The Houston Post is fully installed in its
new and modern building. Without an excep-
tion The Post is the best equipped paper in
the State and will rank with the leading jour-
nals of the South in the way of first das
equipments. Sun Augustine Daily Visitor
The Houston Post is housed in an elegant
new home and continues to be one of the best
newspapers in the South.-Dmiron Herald.
That's the truth. Readers of The Post al-
ways know where to find it politically and its
newt service it second to none. GainesvUle
Messenger.
Since The Houston Post hat gotten into its
handsome new building it has added one col-
umn to its size and now comes to us an eight-
column instead of seven-column as heretofore.
If The Post continues to improve there is no
telling whsi it will be in time; already it it
by far the best paper published in Texas.
Kountse Sews.
The new Post building is probably one of
the most imposing newspaper offices in the
South. In this respect it is in keeping with
the high character of the publication whose
home it is to be. The Chronicle has enly one
objection to this house wanning business and
that is that it cc les cn our publication day.-
La Porte Chronicle:
The Houston Post which moved - into its
handsome new home last week comet out now
with a better paper than ever. Tbe tire of
the paper has been greatly increased and new
type and latest design of head lines add to the
improvement if any can be made of that
progressive and metropolitan daily which it
one of the best newspapers in the Souths
Corfu Christi CaUerT's.
Three Gotham Candidates.
(From tbe New York Press.)
'Low 'it the logical candidate McClel1aa is
the illogical candidate Devery is the zoological
candidate -
for further controversy and The Post will la
the matter drop not' considering th (Urn
boytnt and groundless claims f this pr SCO-
dons little thing worth further notice.
Sia Taoata thinks there is no. trying
for th America's sop in th near tutor. - This
doubtless means that Sir Tom is watching; snd
praying for th Herreshoffa to die.
. .. 1 . y
That Austria-Hnjigary-Ruaso telegram con
cerning reforms am Turkey doeaot sound tat
much like Then halt not!" as it does like
"Pleas don't"' . '
POMK MST8CRIPTS. : . ' .
It costs $1 a week to feed a hers ia Pre-
toria. Thar i plenty of fertile land ia the
country but very little water.5
The maximum endurance of a thirteen-ineh
gua is 300 firings while th six-inch gun may
be fired upward of so 00 timet without injury.
The "fcouseamiths" are those iron workers
who put together the steel skeleton frames
which are now used in th construction of all
large buildings. ' . . 1
The number of murders per million inhabi-
tants it in England 5.13; in Germany 5.45; in
France n.55! in Austria 134a; in Italy 76.111
and ia Spain 44.70-
Out of the 34 case of smallpox in Chicago
sent to the isolation hospital this year eighty-
nine were asrvaccinated childrea under school
age and fourteen of these died. ..
The new Pcnnsylvsnia railway bridge across
the Delawsre St Trenttn will bring Philadelphia
twenty minute nearer New York. Th total
cost is $3500000.
Th buhi-baxouk shave his head except a
tuft at the crown which is to be used by the
angel to jerk him to paradise if he should be
slain by his intended victim.
The average price of. cotton in New York
was in 189a C cents s pound : in loot 8.96
cents and in 190s 8.7s cents. The speculstive
price this year has ranged near 13 cents.
A small fraction ef an ounce of radium prop-
erly employed would provide a good light suf-
ficient for several rooms and would not re-
quire renewal during the presert century.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
Butter daintily molded and served on a tiny
lettuce leaf is pleasing.
Varnished wood work shonld be washed with
warm water to which some tea has been
added.
To clean a taffeta silk skirt take equal parts
of water and ammonia and rub on with a
brush. v
Scatter salt on a earpet when sweeping and
you will not only find it has a cleansing ef-
fect but it also keeps away moths.
A heaping teaspoon ful of pulverised choc-
olate for each glass of lemonade makes choco-
late lemonade that it a change from the usual
kind.
To prevent cheese becoming moldy wrap it
in a cloth which has been dipped in vinegar
and wrung as dry as possible. Keep in a
cool place.
Epicures declare that there it a natural af-
finity between the flavor of mint and peas
and both French and English cooks usually
add a sprig of mint to every mess of peas.
To clean bamboo furniture scrub it with a
small brush dipped in warm water and salt
at the salt prevents its turning yellow. Treat
Japanese and Indian matting in the same way.
When making jam preface operations by
pouring s few drops of salad oil into the pre-
serving pan and then rubbing the oil over the
bottom with a piece of soft paper. This will
ABOUT MEN AND THINGS
A prosperous looking gentleman standing
before t piece of Third ward prgperty it ac-
costed by a civic improvement promoter. .
"You ought to cut those weeds !"
"No I guess not."
"But I guess yes; they're a disgrace to civili-
sation I"
"Think so?"
"I know it ; such rank masses of vegetation
breed sickness and death. You should cut
them."
"Well I'm not going to do it"
"Well I'll 'see that you do do it!"
"Oh I guess not!"
"Well I guess yet!"
"Perhspt you'll make me cut 'em?"
"That'l what I'll dot"
"Do it now?"
"Well I'll complain to the proper authorities
and they'll make you do it."
"I think not!"
"Do you consider yourself superior to the
law?"
"There's no law that will make me cut those
weeds I"
"I'll prove that there is."
"Bet you a dollar you don't!"
"I'll take that bet! Now why do you think
you can't be compelled to cut them?"
"Because that duty should devolve upon the
owner."
"Aren't you the owner?"
"No indeed ; and I don't know who is ; but
he aught to cut the weed." u
"BaSr j
"Bahl" " I '
"The price of gat it too high in Houston."
"That's right it't outrageous."
"Just keeps the people poor all the time."
"It certainly does! It's s shame for s man
to be obliged to turn over the greater part of
his salary each month to the rapacious gat
company."
"That'l right; and it't mighty funny if the
city can't do something to stop the extortion."
"It's got to do something! Now left fig-
ure up. You pay how much a month fot
gas?"
"I er er the fact is at our house we. use
wood for fuel and kerosene for lighting pur-
poses so we er don't net gas 'at all"
"Don't eh? Neither de we I Let's go snd
take something."
"What't the narrowest escape yen ever had?"
was ashed of a veteran ef the Yanko-Spanke
war.
"I believe it was in Havana."
"Ha!"
"Yes in a little old side street I stepped
into s linle old store ia search of curios. I
just had time to notice a box in the center
of the store bearing an American trademark
and the word 'Powder in large letters when
the proprietor a little Spaniard startled by
my entrance let go of the match with which
he had been lighting his cigarette and it fell
directly into the box of powder."
."What then?" J
"Then I purchased a package' of cigarettes
snd went about my business."
Didn't the powder explode?
v . 1
"Nope;
you aee it wss face powder."
"Ptha
I" .
A Montana Editor Rebuke.
u They don't have? "magazine sections" or
comic supplements" as auxilarie of the news-
papers in Montana but when a venturesome
person stops his subscription they have their
own peculiar way of reproaching hint Listen
to William Barlow ef the Douglas Budget: - -"Because
this tear-strained truth teller and
saturated symposium . of. seraphic song print
the news it oceationa1 J doughs ofj a short
prevent the jam from sticking if ta stirring
b leas constartt than it ought to bu '
" A spoonful' ofj keJosenej In boiled "starch
keep it from sticking' but do not as enough
to make it smell of the oil.
ANACHRONISMS.
(From th New Yost! Sun.) '
Cooper was writing his Leatherstocklng
Tales.
"I know they're old-fsshioned" h admitted
"thly should have been football trousers I"
Patiently be tried to counterbalance this by
war whoops almost a good as college yells. .
Fulton was exhibiting the model of his steam-
boat .
' ' "And don't you think" he asked "I have
invented a wonderful benefit to mankind?"
"W don't know" replied the carping critics.
"Just think it will make th Staten Island
ferry possible."
Horror stricken by th suggestion he was
tempted to destroy the product of hit genius.
Dante was conducting his trip through In-
ferno. ; " " j y t
"And this" .he exclaimed "Is the Stygian
Lake; the worst of all the torments I"
"But" asked Virgil "where are the people
whose cooks have left?"
Perceiving that he was stumped the poet
began to grind out another canto.
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
(From the New York Press.) "
It is the man who lets hit wife have her
own way that comes the nearest to having his.
A woman can worry even about what clothes
she ought to wear at her own fune-aj.
When a girl is kissing a man against her
will the more she dodges the surer her lips
are to land in exactly the right place.
Nothing make a woman so proud of her hus-
band as to have him use a Biblical quotation
when their minister is dining with them.
Because a man can sit for forty second with-
out talking at the rate of a steam whistle a
woman haa an idea that be is brooding over
black thoughts.
i
A Citizen's Privilege.
(From the New York Press.
A newspaper man went to a merchant ia
Broadway a day or two ago to get him to
vouch for the truth of an article he was
about to publish. "You remember the story"
he said. "Oh yes; very well indeed. Splendid
story wasn't it?" .'First class. Our city ed-
itor would like to have you verify it" The
man jumped up about Toot from hia chair.
"You don't mean to say that you have writ-
ten it for publication?'' he exclaimed. "Why
my goodness. I verify it I I verify nothing. I
don't know anything about it. I never heard
of it before." "But you told me the story."
"I know I did but I won't stand for its pub-
lication. I won't be mixed up with it If
your editor were to come here himself and
ask me about it I'd deny the whole affair. I'll
deny it in court or out of court I hold that
it is a citisen's privilege to deny anything that
goes into a newspaper if the publication is ob-
jectionable to him. You may go ahead and
publish the story if you dare; but you will bear
the responsibility; I will not!"
I
Will Ketcham Catch 'Emt """"
(From the. St Louis Post Dispatch.)
It is to be hoped that the successor of Con-
gressman Loud aa chairman of the postof&ce
committee will never be silent in regard to
frauds. He bears the promising name of
Ketcham.
sighted subscriber. Recently s peripatetic physi-
cian here was found guilty of playing the part
of a hypodermic harlot to a poor devil of a
boy who was a victim of the morphine habit
and had been refused a dose of diluted damna-
tion at the drug stores. The fact was duly
recorded in this weekly wad of wit and wis-
dom and we lose a subscriber to the tune of
muttered threats so 'tis said of poisoning our
dog. burning our barn or sending this justly
celebrated intellectual bowling alley up in
smoke. Only the other day another individual
presumably pregnant with his own import-
ance demanded a decree of divorce from this
domestie demulcent and cherubic newspaporial
ncctume because I had said a good word about
a rival in business. And there have been
and will be. others who attempt to thus vent
their spite on the meek and lowly Lucullus
who wobbles at the end of Mr. Faber's magic
wand. To lose a subscriber is but to erase a
name; as well throw' a stone at the man in
the moon or try to scrape a fly-tpeck off the
ceiling of celestial apace at to attempt to "get
even' in that way for either real or fancied
mistreatment on the part of a publisher. Rest
assured good sirs that in the rush of entering
the names of anxious accessions to our mourn-
ers' bench you'll never be missed."
girted 1
OUR SMART CHILDREN
Little Bess What's natural history?
Little Fred I guess that must be the kind
people make when they start a war and kill
each ether.
Sunday School Teacher Willie what part
of the East did the wise man come from?
Willie From either Yale or Harvard. I
dqn't remember which.
Mamma Tommy I heard you had been as
bad as you could be while I was out this after-
noon. What have you to say for yourself?
Tommy Don't believe it mamma; I could
have been twice as worse.
"Johnny" said his mother "I don't wsnt
you to plsy with those bad little boys on the
street any more."
"All right mamma" replied Johnny. "But
you don't care if I fight 'em do you?"
Little five-year-old Nellie't parents were of
the migratory sort having moved four times
within a year says the Chicago News; so one
day when her mother was unable to find the
carpet-aweeper Nellie said reassuringly :
"Don't bother about it mamma; we'll find
it th next time we move."
Mildred wat just three months oldNwhen we
took her to a friend's to thow her off. Thit
lady's little boys four and six years of age
were very much interested in the baby. They
asked many questions such as "Can she eat?"
and "Can she walk?" etc. On discovering that
the had no teeth that ahe slept most of the
time that she could neither talk nor walk Her-
bert the younger boy said somewhat pityingly
"Well when will tit it glivej
A Safe Place..
(From the Chicago Evening Post.)
"1 am between the horns of a dilemma" the
said. '
"Well that would seem to be about the
only place where you .can't get bored" he re-
plied. Of course not being a liberal person she
had not looked at it in that light
Not a New Experleno.
(From the Baltimore American.)
A ear fell from the railroad track near Cov-
ington Ky. and alighted on a residence sixty
feet below. The occupants were startled al-
though they had .been rather accustomed te
hailing street cars . - . .' v
-soffg wmmm
Several capitalists Including . wall .know.
Texas gentlemen propose . th erection of at
least two packing concern to. compete with the
trusts and Fort Worth may possibly secure
one or two more plant to 'boom it up" again
so it can pay for the two it already has e-cured.-Jf'MMrai
WtUt India. ".
This is ungracious and on-Texao.. Further-
more th observation it not . Justified by th
conditions existing in Fort Worth. ' That city's
two packerie are among th most successful
in th United States sad yet they represent
but a fractional part of the city's thrift snd
prosperity. Would It speak' much for the in-
telligenc of th "severs! capitalists including
well known Teas gentlemen" if they proposed
establishing a packing house representing ths
oatlay of a half million . dollars or snore at a
point where two other plant .have not suc-
ceeded? The fact ia that th proposed Indus-
try should it go to Fort Worth wW he at-
tracted there by the success of Armour snd
Swift's respective concerns. It is generally un-
derstood throughout Texas that Mineral Well
derives a livelihood largely from Fort Worth
through "Bib patronage of it as a retort by the
citixens of Fort Worth. However ahould
be a matter of State pride with th Index
and were it down on" the Mexican border; it
should have nothing but the beat wishes for
the development of every community in Texas.
- ..:
No Southern man of the old slave-owning
class believe or says that the negro as he
knows him js inherently vicious.. What th
Southerners claim is that th American negro
has been corrupted by evil teaching and ex-
ample. Invested with th elective franchise at
a time when he waa as unfit for its proper ex-
ercise ss any child; inflamed by wicked ap-
peals to his ignorance and credulity; prompted
to excesses of which he could not even remote-
ly imagine the consequences; demoralised de-
bauched transformed degraded at once the
victim and the tool of every desperate and wit-
principled scoundrel who came along the ne-
gro was betrayed by his false friends into th
ways of vice and the so-called race issue thrust
into the homes of the Southern whites
Waskintton Post.
It is not often that such rational words
concerning conditions in th South are given
expression to by a Northern paper. It is un-
fortunately infrequent that there is evidenced
such an intelligent and sympathetic knowledge
of the burden of the white man ef the South.
The Washington Post's statement of the case
is a very severe arraignment of the North.
However -the South it not disposed to quarrel
with the North. It does not even admit there
is such a thing as a "race problem." The ne-
gro hat become a creature peculiarly indigenous
to this toil. It will not be long before the ef-
fects of his "betrayal by false friends" shall
have passed away. There does not exist the
enmity between the whites and blacks that long-
distance observers would have the world be-
lieve. The better class of negroes are good
substantial citiiens and the whites are keenly
interested in his moral and industrial advance-
ment Gratuitous arbitration is not desired.
There is a demand at the Fort Worth stock
yards for hogs. It is a permanent demand.
The plants for packing pork are there. They
are to remain there and to depend on the
Texas farmers for the hogs to be butchered and
packed. They can consume all the hogs the
Texas fanners can raise. They now pay and
must continue to pay th highest prices for
marketable hogs. Exekangt.
The implied advice in the foregoing should
TAMPERING
(By j; M. Lewis.)
BUILDING BLOCKS.
My there's lots of laughter
Just in building blocks; .
Peals of hsppy laughter
Now your castle rocks I
Now it goes a-tumblel
Baby mustn't frown !
Mustn't mustn't cry dear
When
your
bouse
fall '
down f ' t
Baby you must learnit.
Learn the lesson old.
Learn when summer days are sped
Comes the winter's cold;
Learn the higher up you build-
Baby mustn't frown;
When your hope collapse dear
When
your
house .
falls
down I
When your house falls down dear
Laugh and holler "Bang!"
Don't you be discouraged dear
Don't your wee head hang;
Laugh the louder for the bump-
Laughing beats a frown-
Laugh and start all over
When
your
house
falls
down 1
Building blocks is jolly-
Building castles tall-
It's such fun to joggle them '
And to see them fail I
So you mustn't worry dear
Mustn't mustn't frown.
Mustn't mustn't cry dear
When
your
bouse
falls
down I
THE HEROIC DEED.
"The man who seeks to make me his wife
will have to perform tome heroic deed be-
fore I become hia." ...
"Marry you? Why certainly he will."
KEEP AWAY. .
In any thriving hustling
And enterprising town.
Where they're not putting houses up
They're tearing houses down;
So if you'd like a quiet life
A nice still perch to roost on
' Seek some town that don't advertise
Don't come here; this it Houston I
driving him to it.
"Aren't you afraid that after we are married
you'll get tired of me?" ." '' .'.
"Never!"
"Sometimes when I'm cross or petulant I
fear you will get tired of me."
"No I won't ever."
"Sometimes perhaps when jneals are late
you'll get tired of me iron't you?"
"Aw you make " me tired I You know I
won't" - -
-" j - . ' J
I DOWN THE LINE. :" ' '
."When J was s little boy I wanted to grow
up and. hi a janitor! ;'
our exchanges
have th tmawdUta eonaldsratloa ef
farmer ia Texas whe'la not already raising
porkers. Ifogt 'slwsys fctrassh av sea mm
of revenue . These ia ao seller fos4er sVaai
than alfalfe Vary littl sere or atasaaten it
required la th railing ef begs and they re-
quir no" delieaU. nourishment If yen have)
pigs In ths pen you hsv a bank account at
hand. ' ;
. - .-
Her are tart cheery songs coming fret
warm glad hearts to glvt warmth and gladawsl
to ths hearts of ethers:
With cotton at 11 cents) plenty ef sera
hay and "roughness" in the cribs the meltttss
barrel full of home made ribbon cane Teases
the poultry yard full of chickens snd turkey
and store accounts snd taxes paid the thrifty
farmers of Lavaca county are in pretty fas
condition thank yousHaUeltvitle Herali.
t If you want to liv where rustic reigns as
preme' where nature has done hej; level kt .
where
citizenship is
second natora just
move aa
mmav Texas smell th sweets of her magnolia
blossoms fanned by her caan sephvre snd Uve
neighbor to the handsomest snd bravest J)
and the prettiest women in the world. AW era
Herali. . ..
If it's "made in Texas." always giv al
th preference jrou possibly can. Mon Cwe
ly NrH.
This is a triple-barrel expression of the
spirit thst makes for th tether progress ef -aa
already great State. The miserable whin
is always discouraging. It is disheartening
when dark clouds are hovering near and when .
th tua shines from a cloudlet ski; it is roa'
inal Th trio of papers quoted are the Usxt
that give encouragement to the mesahea sad
to the fanner and serve te enrich the frasH
of earnest endeavor. Cat out the three aa '
graphs snd when the fast freight throws yea
best milker into the ditch or a hawk.nsakas
a raid 00" your hen read and take heart
' ".-.'".
It is time" thst th North should recognise
the bravery and splendid character of General
Robert E Lee. In enlisting his heart and hand
with the South he did only what any othet '
honest courageous man should have dee 4
There should be ao bitterness ia th snsaseriet
of th unfortunate unnatural strife. Ciwad
Island (Neb.) Democrat.
There is extraordinary aignificance in the
foregoing paragraph constitutinsx as it dees a
loving tribute to s Southern warrior by a
Northern paper. It has reference te the plac-
ing of a statue of Robert E. Lee in Statuary
hall at Washington by the State of Virgin.
When th idea was first proposed it met with
bitter opposition by rabid papers in th North
and West but when it developed that ee
great could not be called upon to
that th matter rested entirely with the
monweahh of Virginia the vituperative
were succeeded by surly silence Th Grand
Island Democrat doea not furnish the only a
stance of a Northern paper crying oat fat
shame" to H neighbors but its broad-minded
ness and genuine American spirit is net the
lets notable.
Justification. "lillfln
(From the Baltimore AmerkasY .
To the minds of the majority of the tuttstig
Jersey justice was strangely blinded when it
punished the Newark woman who threw pseoaa
of coal at an organ grinder for rJ"Tg la
playing worn-out ragtime tunes. Unless In-
deed for the waste of good coal in a bad
cause.
WITH TRIFLES
"Yes?"
"Yes. Then when I got s little older
thought I'd like to be s trust magnate."
"Yes?"
"Yet Then a little farther on I
I'd like to J president"
"Yes?"
-yes. 1 sen I wanted to be a
a conductor; a porter; a street sweeper."
"Poor man! What is your ambition now?"
"My ambition now is to borrow two-bits te
pay for supper and a bed."
"Sorry; but I can't do anything for you." f
IN THE STILLY NIGHT.
Oft in the stilly night
When tlumber't chain has bound hisa
He hears a cry of fright
Disturb the darkness round him; 1
The cries and fears of childish yean f
All laws for ' slumber scorning
Cause him to rise and rub his eyes fT
And walk that kid till morning. ' ':'
Sometime in the sweet-bye-and-bye when
uur Hip tunics hi wncn wcaiu ana tame ant
social position are ours; when the battle' ef
life has been fought and we are crowned with
victory and a big bank account the editor
of thia paper it going to march fearlessly tat
some grocery store with his check book in hand
and buy a ham. It it a hope long cherished -and
we confidently expect some day to realise -it
Center Daily Newt.
"Ah well for us all tome sweet hope Use
deeply buried from human eyes." We trust ia
the future McLendon may bear a ham to bis
home away. But 'fwe lived near him we knew
each night would find our tmoke house door
locked tight
There it nothing oa earth can smooth the '
wrinkles from man's disposition quicker and
more completely than a whole-toateo telf-eecri.
(icing woman. She it the sunshine of life and
a pleasure to look upon. On the other hand
let one of "the fair creatures" be endowed-
with a cranky pouty obstinate nature and h
will put innumerable irremovable kinks fa) a
man's disposition even though it be mad fc
Doner iron. riraiiois Mont tor.
Married twice eh?
The cock that crows the loudest
lwy I
ing-hln
roosts on the lowest limbs He is a dunsvh
chicken you msv be sure. The blooded niti
cock perches high and hit keen vision catches
the first gleams of the coming day while hia
claritin voice greets the riling morn. Make the
application kind reader and keep your eye oa
the D-R. Tyler Democrat-Reporter.
Easy to see you don't believe in crowing 1
1 '.'r
Particularly Interesting. Iff
(From the New York Herald.) '!.
American readers are particularly interested
in one point embraced in the cabled summary
of Mr. Balfour's pamphlet that in which be -deals
with the effect of protection in develop- '
ing combinations and declares that th British
manufacturer tan not compete with trusts that
are able to sell abroad at lower price than are
charged for the' same' articles at home s . J
It it true that exaction of excessive datiea
is in effect the filching of money from heat
consumers to be distributed among aurmfao
hirers In effect the payment of export betsa-
ties. If the prosperity of s country sad the
welfare of iu people were to be judged only
by the volume of its exports then aa Meal
condition could be reached by taxing the popu-
lation to th verge of starvation so that the '
manufacturers could supply god t tonka
consumer! at lest than cost-
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