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HOUSTON DAILY POST; ' SUNDAY MORNING. DECE3IBEI1 16.1912. V ;t ' :.V:
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Houston Texas. Monday December 16 1312.
TEXAS AS A COTTON MANUFACTUR-
ING STATE.
President Milner of the Agricultural and
Mechanical college says there Is no reason
'avhy the people of Texas should not receive
23 cents a pound or even 'more for their
cotton instead of U or 12 cents. His theory
is that instead of shipping cotton to New
England or abroad to be manufactured we
might manufacture the cotton into finished
products right at our own doors.
This is an old subject of course and there
have been many local movements looking to
the establishment of a great cotton-manufac
luring industry in Texas. Some of these
movements have succeeded fairly well and
some have failed The chief difficulty en-
countered so far is that of procuring the nec-
essary labor and it is going to be the chief
difficulty for some time to come.
In the smaller towns there is of course
a limited amount of labor available for cot-
ton manufacturing but it would seeni that
better progress might be- made by establish-
ing such industries in the smaller towns than
in the cities. That has been the experience
in North Carolina with its large number of
cooperative factories which President M li-
ner suggests for Texas. The smaller towns
have these advantage over the cities: The
land is cheaper both for factory purposes
and housing labor subsistence for the mill
' hands would be much cheaper and condi-
tions might obtain which would approximate-
ly Vnable the operatives to compete with the
mill hands of New England and Europe
This would be impossible in the larger cit-'
leg where land is held at enormous rates
where rents are high and where food prices
are far above those In the smaller towns.
Without knowing exactly the difference be-
tween living conditions in Houston and
those of Fall River we should say that a
cotton mill operative In Houston would have
to receive twice the wages that an-operative
would receive for similar service in Fall
River and at that rate it is doubtful if a
Houston mill could compete successfully
with the Fall River mill. On the other hand
it is doubtful if cotton mill operatives in
Houston could live on the wages paid the
Fall River operatives. .
These are questions that inevitably come
up when considering Texas as a field for
cotton factories. It is true there is a suc-
cessful mill in operation in Dallas but it was
established many . years ago when the land
was cnean. It was found necessary then
to import a iarge portion of the labor. While
the rail! has been running ever sinco the
results hav9 not been such to encourage the
erection of other cotton mills in Dallas.
. The ian suggested by President Mllner
ought to be encouraged for the smaller
towns where the farmers and merchants
could own the mills and possibly secure the
labor to operate them. North Carolina has
become a great cotton manufacturing State
In this way. There is scarcely a village in
the State but what has its cotton mill and
the result has been an expansion of the in-
dustry until North Carolina manufactures
more cotton than it produces. This year
it wlil be necessary to purchase quarter of a
million bales from other States to keep the
mills in operation.
It Is an importasi- circumstance that the
Agricultural and Mechanical college has a
department of textile engineering training
young men so that they can manage the con-
struction and operation of cotton mills. At
present these young men are forced to seek
employment elsewhere since there is no
movement to erect mills in Texas.
If Texas could develop a cotton Industry
to consume a million bales a year as. North
Carolina has or even half that much' it
would add considerably to the prosperity
of thi State and conserve much of the en-
ergy that is now wasted as well as keep at
. home much of the money that is now sent
abroad.
' President Milner'a suggestions are 'worthy
the attention of the progressive men and
commercial bodies of Texas.
CORN NOT GUILTY OF PELLAGRA.
Secretary Wilson's recent announcement
that the corn crop of 1912 was the largest In
the history of this country ha been followed
. by a publication giving the result of several
years' investigation by medical experts ex
ploding the notion that pellagra is a form
of poisoning caused by eating mouldy corn.
. It appears that the New York Pellagra
commission arrived at the' same conclusion
with the London hoapftal authorities that
it is a germ disease conveyed by Insects
probably the buffalo gnat which frequent
running streams as mosquitoes do stagnant
water. The medic- experts in England
have been impressed by the fact that the
study ot pellagra l n Important duty be
cause the disease la prevalent In Great Brit-
ain and a short time ago the first certificate
of death 'from pellagra was Issued from a
London hospital.
' Professor Louis Sanborn of the London
School of Tropical Medicine is credited with
having discovered the true nature of pella-
gra his researches having been made In
Italy and In those parts or Great Britain
where It was to be found. Captain Joseph
F. Seller ot the medical corpa of the United
States army was with Professor Sanborn
in his earlier field work and has called the
attention of his colfeagues In this country
to the new theory. ' . " "
It is to be hoped that the truth ot the
new theory will be conclusively demon-
strated as every American ought to feel a
just pride in protecting Indian corn a na-
tive American growth from the knocks to
which it has been so frequently subjected
In recent years by one theorist and another
until the johnny hoecake the sweetest and
healthiest morsel of food that was ever set
before a hungry patriot ha become but a
memory with the oldest inhabitants and only
a tradition with their sons and daughters.
MAIL CARRYING RAILWAYS.
The committee on railway mall pay
which J. Kruttschnitt director of mainte-
nance and operation or the Union and South-
ern Pacific systems is chairman and which
committee represents 214.275 miles of rail-
way In the United States operated by 268
companies appeared Friday before the house
postoffice committee with a petition asking
for a rearrangement of weighing and pay
for transporting mails-
In the statement submitted to the postof
fice committee which is the result of an ex-
haustive investigation extending over a num-
ber of years of returns from the operation
of railway mail routes In the United States
figures are presented which the committee
claims show that the payments to the rail-
ways for the services and facilities fur-
nished by them to the postoffice department
are. and for a long time have been unjustly
low. The statement is in reply to and ap-
pears to effectively answer the conclusion
of the postmaster general submitted In a
report to congress that the basis of pay-
ment could now properly be changed so as
to accomplish a present reduction of about
twenty per cent. It is claimed "that even
upon the insufficient data and erroneous
methods employed by the postmaster-general
in his making estimates of cost to the rail-
ways that are far below the real cost
his own figures and calculations when
properly analyzed and supplemented dem-
onstrate that the mall service has not
been fairly remunerative to the railways.
As an instance of the poorly paid service
it is shown that reports submitted to the
postmaster general by railways operating
2411 mail routes with a total length of 178
710 miles showed that their gross receipts
per car-foot mile (a car-foot mile being a
unit equal to moving one foot in car length
regardless of width or height one mile)
from services rendered on pa&sanger trains
during a specified month were from mail
3.23 mills: from other services 4.35 mills.
Thus it appears that the space on passenger
trains required for the mails is proportion-
ately less than three-quarters as productive
as that devoted to passengers express milk
excess baggage etc. and it is generally ad-
mitted that the returns from the service of
passenger trains is below that of the freight
service.
The committee therefore boldly makes the
claim upon the basis of its exhaustive in-
vestigation that the railway mail pay does
not equal the operating expenses that It
makes necessary leaving nothing for return
upon the value of the property.
As The Post has frequently stated the
American people desire that the railroads
of the country should be made to bear their
Just proportion of the public burdens but
In so doing it Is not held by them necessary
that they should be made to perform a pub-
lic service at a continual loss to themselves;
hence we take it that congress will inquire
into the 'subject of compensation for carry-
ing the mails very thoroughly on its own
account and make appropriation for adequate
pay therefor and especially will take Into
consideration the increased volume of mall
traffic which will result from the Inaugura-
tion of the parcels post on January 1 next
which the railroads will have to make pro-
vision for caring for under existing con-
tracts the weighing for which occurs only
quadrennially.
THE
POSSIBHJTIES OF
HARRIS
COUNTY LAND.
"We must not only devote our energies to
the development of the agricultural possi-
bilities of the Houston territory but we must
strive to lengthen the vision of Houston's
business men that they" too may share with
you the faith you have in this country as an
agricultural section. The faith of Houston's
business men needs to be developed."
The above was the utterance of a well
known citizen of Houston at a luncheon ot
the Real Estate Exchange a short time ago;
and the applause which followed was proof
that the members of that organization agreed
with the speaker.
The question then naturally arises: Are
the business men of Houston familiar with
the agricultural possibilities of Harris coun-
ty lands and do they fully realize the Im-
portance of their development? It has been
charged that many of them do not It may
appear at first thought that this Is a mat-
ter of little moment and plays no important
'part in the development of the country con;
tiguous to Houston. It is a matter of the
gravest Importance. Houston is the mecca
Of the homeseeker. It is the center of Im-
migration gravitation. Tbise homeseekers
meet and mingle with thy business men of
Houston while sojournlnwin these parts.. It
is tut natural that tbeyjEeek Information of
the country's resources Vnd possibilities.
The business men o Houston should
familiarize themselves witi the country's ag
ricultural . resources and
they may be able to gk
possibilities that
a quick and de-
claire answer to all Inquiries. It Is discour-
aging to those who are devoting thels-energies
to an exploitation of a country's agri-
cultural possibilities to be confronted with
a spirit of doubt snd pessimism. It. la hurt-
ful and the Influence of those who tare lit-
tle faith has a baneful effect over a country's
development
The soils of Harris county are fertile and
by the adoption of Improved methods ot ag-
riculture and a system of drainage they ean
be made Very productive. They are capable
of wonderful transformations. AIL well In-
formed citizens are bound to admit -.this.
.Then the right thing to do is to te the
truth without hesitation and a shnfg of the
shoulders.
Every one who has taken the trouble to
Investigate the possibilities ot Harris. county
soils has been brought face to face with
the fact that our lands are producing splen-
did staple crops vegetables snd fruits where
proper methods of agriculture have been
followed. Many changes have taken place
In Harris county during the past few years.'
A large portion of the country's most fertile
land has been drained thus enabling the
farmer to rid his farm of the surplus water
which heretofore was a menace to health
as well as to profitable crop production.
The business men of a community as well
ss all other classes otj citizens should appre-
ciate the potent Influence of agriculture la
giving stableness to trade. It Is the very
foundation of a country's prosperity. The
building of cities and the establishment of
Industrial enterprises have nothing behind
them tq enable them to weather the storms
of adversity but agriculture. Let It fall and
all else falls. It Houston's growth Is to be
a permanent growth the lands surrounding
it must be made to produce and the tillers of
the soil a prosperous and contented people.
When we talk about the $45000000 in the
Houston banks we are not including the wealth
deposited in stockings and secreted in mattresses.
Even in this sort of money we are probably ahead
of Atlanta or Birmingham.
New Jersey's crops for 191 1 are valued at $40.-
'000.000 or about as much as three or four Texas
counties make. " 1
Gafry Herrmann wants to do away with the
world' championship series of ball games be-
canse they have a demoralizing effect on the
players. And think of what they do to the
nervous systems of the country.
President Taft will take the White House cow
to Cincinnati with him but Woodrow Wilton got
Taft's White House goat.
The ladies of Chicago are going into the egg
corner breaking business this week. It isn't go-
ing to amount to much in Chicago however be-
cause the people there take it straight and do not
care for eggnog anyway.
"I am enlisted for the war" says George W.
Perkins. George is not to contend for the Nobel
peace prize in 1913 we 'take it.
Senator Shivery of Indiana -coolly smoked a
cigar while having a toe removed. A man who
has been a democrat in Indiana as long as Sen-
ator Shivelylas is apt to posses the nerve and
grit to stand anything.
1 Genera! Dan Sickles is cutting some mighty
funny capers for a man of 87 years. He teems
to be towing bis wild oats at the wrong end of
life.
It is announced that Houston is to be blessed
with four or five more "movies." The town is
hort on "movies." ' but it will have enough of
them by the time -it gets several hundred more.
Los Angelet is going to try the experiment of
assessing and taxing milady's lingerie. Los An-
geles is liable to learn that there are some perils
even greater than dynamite.
A Harvard doctor says there will toon be a new
and permanent cure for gout. We take great
pleasure in sharing this glorious information with
the president of the United States.
The St. Louit Globe-Democrat is greatly
cheered because the democratic party made such a
poor showing in Michigan. As a consolation-extractor
the G.-D. is in a class by itself.
Planning a City.
(From the Indianapolis Newt.)
Circulars now being distributed by the National
Conference on City Planning mark an interesting
ttep in the growth of an idea that is compara-
tively new in this country. City planning has
formed the topic for many recent discussions es-
pecially in connection with such proposals at those
that endeavor to look ahead of the growth of a
community and so direct the course and style of
building that the completed work will be more
modern more beautiful and more sanitary than
might otherwise have been the case. Several
citiet have been . acknowledged as the most beau-
tiful in the United States and in this number
Indianapolis bat generally been included. Others
are Detroit Los Angelet and Washington. Bat
whh the exoeption of the National capital these
citiet owe little of the attractiveness they may
possess today to the foresight and sagacity of the
founders. Detroit and Los Angelet. partly devel-
oped into municipalities of charming individual-
ity. Indianapolis while bereft of either lake or
mountain setting wat fortunate in its earlier dayt
to possess the idea that has since been developed
into the Monument as the fixed center of the plat.
In all the discussions of city planning examples
taken have generally been abstract ; few opportun-
ities were offered for direct experimentation. The
National Conference on City Planning with offi-
ce! in Boston has attracted to its rolls a great
number of architects engineers and landscape
workert all of whom are interested in the dem-
onstration of city planning as a feasible practice
and not merely a theory. The circulars just is-
sued are for a proposed ttudy in city planning. Iri"
the beginning it 11 assumed that a certain tract
of land is to be handled. All the conditions are
assumed to be known even to the installation of
public service facilities. Thit hat been done in
order that the competitors may all work from the
same basis. Given the example and an idea as
to how the city in which the supposed tract lies
will grow the architect may go ahead with his
planning.
The idea of the conference which will exhibit
the plant submitted it to develop the idea of city
planning and to make it at widespread over the
United States at possible. Citiet like habitt are
too often allowed just to "grow" and once grown
they are difficult to change. The plat of Indi-
anapolis considered at a whole it much better
than that of many other citiet of the tame site
and yet it it deficient in many particulars. The
National Conference on City Planning emphasizes
one thing at least and that it that it it never too
late for a city to attempt to correct defects and
then to build rightly in the future.
Makes Itself Known.
(From the- Washington Star.) -The
"overwhelming demand" may be obscure in
tome of itt forms but when it refers to retiring
s man from public Ufa it is unmistakable
' Exim Odd Bits of News
The Galveston Tribune has been thinking about
Texas jury verdicts again. What it aayt it that
money may get a man into trouble but it it alto
useful in getting him out.";. f'f
1 . 1 1 II ' 1 ' '
l I In dating checks Thursday it wat possible to.
write u-iJ-ti meaning twelfth day of the twelfth
month of 191a. It will not be possible to write
another such combination of figuret for a century.
And by the way. Friday is Friday; December
lj two supposedly unlucky omens though his-
tory does not in the least tustain the evil repu.a-
tion the combination has acquired El Pato Her-
ald. In the Sulphur Springs Gaxette we note that H.
Bascora Thomas will move to Dallas and prac-
tice law. Aft Vernon Optic Herald. -
We've expected thit announcement for tome
time. Hit political tumble foreshadowed the move
to that havea of defeated candidate! for office. ..
Texat Agricultural and Mechanical college hat
gained 579.5 per cent in attendance during the
past five years. Itt appropriations remain the
same. Itt directors' report indicates that while
the school ranks in numbers with those of other
States. iti equipment is inferior. Mart Htrald.
Thit is one of the reasons why the forthcoming
legislature should forget the existence of the "pro-
hibition issue" and do something. That't all
The Free Lance thinkt it would be a whole-
tome law if it should be made unlawful for any
officer from constable to governor to accept em-
ployment from any corporation for at least two
year after hit term of office has expired either
by serving out the term or resignation. Nowadays
there are very few businesses which are unincor-
porated and the enactment of such a statute as
the Free Lance proposes would further handicap
the poor man to receive political honors in Texas.
In fact the prohibition which the Free Lance
would incorporate into our statute books would all
but have the effect of making vacant all public
offices as it isn't all of us who can afford to
loaf for two years running.
The Redland Herald (Nacogdoches) thinks
congress should pats a law making it a mi sua
of the mails tP tend liquor circulars through them.
We haven't given the suggestion much thought
but offhand we've an idea that our friendt in pro-
hibition territory would be terribly handicapped
and all of our friendt in prohibition territory are
not anti-prohibitionists either.
The San Antonio Light editorializes under the
caption: "Divided by Dog Biscuit." Evidently
another case of insisting "Love me love my dog."
Wood county went dry Saturday by a majority
of 600. Prohibition has prevailed in Wood county
for a number of years. Cleburne Enterprise.
Wood county it one of the democratic counties
of the State which believes in the right of local
self government and home rule. In the election
of last year when numbers of counties in Texas
which had possessed themselves of the right of
local self government sought to deprive other
counties of the same privilege by forcing State-
wide prohibition upon them Wood county voted
against the proposition though itself in the dry
column. When however a local county elect-
ion was 'held this month it continued itself in
the "dry" column. Now that't a rare enough ex-
ample of the democratic doctrine of the Golden
Rule: Do unto others as you would have others
do unto you.
The Lord loves a cheerful giver but to save
our life we can not get quite enough of the proper
tpirit into our heart to care anything about that
fellow who is always "handing us a packaged-
Fa Verde County Herald.
Same here Austin.
SOME POSTSCRIPTS.
An English church still it using a barrel organ
that has been in constant service since the early
part of the Eighteenth century. .
A handful of air slaked lime sprinkled over a
barrel of potatoes will absorb excess moisture
and keep the tubers firm and mealy.
Experiments in France indicate that mushroom
poisoning can be cured by a serum prepared in a
similar manner to diphtheria antitoxin.
A new German electrical device to enable a
moving train to set a signal makes use of a slight
sinking of a rail as a train passes over it.
A machine with which it it possible to mil
from 1 200 to 1800 laths to walls in a day has
been patented by a Michigan clergyman.
A Pennsylvania college maintains a bituminous
coal mine for instruction in practical at well at
theoretical mining including rescue work.
Though nearly 2000 yeart old a recently dis-
covered Roman mirror made by attaching lead
foil to glass was as effective at when new.
By agreement among several leading nations a
detailed map of the world on a uniform scale of
one inch to about sixteen miles it being made.
A method of hardening gold and tilver by in-
troducing a small amount of titanium as an alloy
hat been patented by a New 'ork corporation.
The "Country Lawyer."
(From the Louisville Courier-Journal.)
The country lawyer is usually regarded lightly
by members of hit profession who practice in
large citiet. His fees are small in comparison
with theirs. Sometimes hit diction is lets per-
fect. He is often not as sleek and well groomed.
Generally tpeaking he knowt at much law at hit
city colleague because he is rarely a specialist.
He taket all sorts of cases like hit friend the
country doctor and digt out the law and the factt
for himself without a corps of assistants. He be-
comes resourceful. He it ready in emergencies.
Generally tpeaking he hat a good sense of humor
whetted to a keen edge by the' rich experience of
practice in the courthouses of a country circuit.
He it alwayt a prominent citizen of his commun-
ity and nearly alwayt he becomes "Judge" au-
tomatically by popular consent although he may
never have tat upon the bench or it dubbed "Col-
onel" or "Major" or "General" if he it a South-
erner. . And despite the fact that his fees are not
large as compared with those of metropolitan
lawyers he usually manages to accumulate a good
deal before he it middleaged.
A Frankfort lawyer of course Frankfort it
not a country town only from the point of view
of dwellers in great citiet announces through an
advertisement in the State Journal -that he hat
purchased a farm at Woodlake and therefore of-
fers for tale "at any old price and on terms to
suit the purchaser" hit town residence three well-
situated town lots a summer home upon Elkhorn
creek and a farm containing 138 acres and situ-
ated within a few hundred yards of four turn-
pikes. A good many New York lawyers accumulate
less in the course of wellpaid practice. And very
few of those who become wealthy have as much
time for fishing and hunting during the years in
which practice and purse are growing.
A Magnanimous view.
(From tht Abilene Reporter.)
"Governor Colquitt will cause to be presented to
the Thirty-third legitlature twenty-eight bills in
an effort to carry out the demands of the demo-
cratic platform. While the Reporter did not sup-
port the governor in his race it knowt when it
has been licked and hopes to tee the coming legis-
lature transact business for the people without
trying to put the governor or anybody else in bad.
The stock and bond law needs amending in our
judgment and tltere are many other things that
the legislature needs to give attention to with
politics left out" '
Wife Hitched to Plow Given Divorce.
(Lisbon O Telegram w Chief Record-Herald.)
After telling the court how her husband Jacob
Zimmerman had hitched her to a plow as tbe .
"of f -horse" with her brother Emma Zimmerman
was granted a divorce by Judge Moore. The court
added that he never had felt more genuine pleas-
ure in signing a decree in hit life.
Although subjected to hardships and abate Mrs;
Zimmerman who was only j years old still has
the bloom of health in her cheeks. 6he told on
the stand how her husband had abused her and
her baby and then forced her and her brother
Walter Yeager into the harness and hitched them
to the plow. They were driven over the fields
like a team of oxen pulling the big shear the
said.
Three witnesses were called to substantiate the
charge but their examination wat cut short by
Judge Moore who remarked that be wat thor-
oughly conversant with the factt at be had sen-
tenced the husband to serve three months in the
workhouse following bit conviction on a charge
of cruelty growing out of the plowing case.
The Zimmerraana were married in New Cum-
berland W. Va. in 1909.
Broke Rule to Rave Life.
(New York Ttlerram to tht Baltimore Sun.)
Dr. Harry M. Biffar a graduate of the College
of Physicians and Surgeons Baltimore is - no
longer house physician at the Flushing Hospital
where he officiated for the last three months.
According to Dr. Biffar the trouble arose over
an operation latt Wednesday. Mitt Elizabeth
Miller superintendent of the hospital wat absent
and he was left alone with the night nurse. At
10:30 o'clock s maternity case wat admitted to
the institution. Dr. Biffar said it wat an emerg-
ency case and he decided upon an immediate op-
eration. A hospital rule prohibits the use of an
instrument necessary to the operation except upon
the permission of the superintendent. Dr. Biffar
tayt he was forced to choose between violating
the rule or losing the life of the mother and her
unborn babe. The operation wat successful and
mother and child bfth live. The next day Dr.
Biffar declares the board of trustees dismissed
him.
According to the hospital trustees Dr. Biffar
had violated rules frequently.
Killed In Air byTurklsh Bullets.
(Vienna Cablegram to tht New York World.)
Pester Lloyd publishes an interesting report con-
cerning the death of a war aviator Dr. Jules
Constantin formerly an attittant of a famous
Paris surgeon. Dr. Doyen. t
Constantin wat engaged by the Bulgarian army
and had received for wonderful bravery a medal
from tbe hand of Czar Ferdinand.
He wat engaged to throw bombs from a biplane
on the Turkish army. On hit latt flight he left
Surma a small village before Chatalja lines and
rapidly disappeared from view. When hit ma-
chine descended hit comradet found him lying
dead on the ground with a wound in hit breast
and the wings of bis biplane were bored with
shot.
Hit baragraph showed that he had tailed at a
height of nearly 4000 feet over the Turkish fort
where he photographed the landscape and there
he had evidently been thot but had had strength
to guide his apparatus toward the Bulgarian camp.
In hit dead hand he ttill held the helm.
Acid-Filled Golf BallNearly Blinds Finder.
(New York Telegram to Philadelphia Inquirer.)
A golf ball nearly caused the loss of sight of
young Walter McMahon Thursday when it ex-
ploded and squirted a quantity of acid in his face.
The ball wat one of the maket which hat a tiny
sack of liquid at itt center. . McMahon picked it
up in a golf course in Orange Thursday. It was
well worn and Walter being of a curious turn of.
mind proceeded to rip it open with his knife to
examine its interior.
The sharp point of hit knife slipped through
the outer coating. There was a sharp explosion
like that made by a cap pistol and the next in-
stant a tiny stream of liquid sprayed the boy't
face. Instinctively he shut hit eyes. It wat that
act that saved hit tight.
-sii?:as
- Sculptor Chops Tickets.
'(Boston Telegram to the New York Tribune.)
Behind the iron bars of a ticket window at the
Park street subwty station demure Bessie Paeff
chops off the tickets daily to patrons who never
suspect that the it one of Boston's best young
sculptors and hat won prizet.
When the rush it on she maket change while
evolving ideat fos statues and when the rush is
off she works out the ideas roughly with model-
ling ttickt and a little plat of clay under the
counter. At night she works in her studio at
home one room of a little flat. Morningt are
spent at the Art School of the Museum of Fine
Arts where tbe instructors regard her at one of
the most promising pupils.
Miss Marlon Cleveland ModeC
(Boston Telegram to the New York Tribune.)
Miss Marion Cleveland daughter of ex-President
Cleveland inspired the latest painting of
Eric Pape of Boston. Mr. Pape planned the pan-
tomime "Flowert of the Sea" which wat the fea-
ture of the Titanic memorial fete on the groundt
of John Hayt Hammond at Gloucester last sum-
mer. Mist Marion Cleveland wat the "Spirit of the
Sea" in thit pantomime. Her sister Mist Either
Cleveland was one of the "Waves." Mr. Pane's
painting "S.'O. S." it bated on that pantomime.
He loaned the picture for exhibition in the Cen-
tury Theater New York.
Luxury for Cornell Beys.
(Ithaca N. Y. Telegram to New York Tribune.)
A traveling restaurant by which Carnell students
sitting in their rooms at night may order a lunch-
eon over the telephone and have it brought to
them hot it the latest scheme devised by youths
who are working their way through college. f
S. B. Jacobton and Victor Stern of Brooklyn
are the promotors of the scheme and eight others
do the waiting. The idea has made a hit.
One Good Turn.
(From tht Dallas Times-Herald.)
One good turn that the negro pugilist Jack
Johnson hat unintentionally done the nation by
hit marriage . to a white girl hat been to cryttal-
ize tbe sentiment in every corner of America
against miscegenation.
Tbe Northern States that have been loose in
their marriage laws during yeart gone by have
become thoroughly aroused over the actions of
thit black brute and a young white woman who
must be considered insane by a public that wants
to be charitable.
Even in congress we have an eclio o'f the John-
son episode br- the offering of a bill by Repre-
sentative Roddenbcrry which would prohibit mar-
riages between blacks and whites. Congress hat
no right to enact such a law according to the
Fort Worth Record but that publication teet much
that is hopeful in Mr. Roddenberry's resolution'
It will serve to more fully arouse the nation
against the violation' of one of the most sacred
laws of society and decency.
States that will continue to uphold their loose
marriage lawt after this ditpicable Johnson affair
only give sanction to miscegenation and -all the
demoralization thit crime meant.
; Feminine ftrategy.
' (From tht Kansas City Journal.)
A Caney man received several letters threaten-
ing his l;fe in ease he was teen on the streets at
nigh - A a consequence he didn't venture out
aft'r sundown. Postoffice Inspectors discovered
lUt the letter! had been written by the man't
own wife. It at a way she devised of keeping
him home nights.
Tampering WitlTrifle
-:l ' Bv J mat Moanatza Vwtt. .v:
; oyFAlTH.
I de believe in Santa Ciautl
I haven't even hid no cause
To disbelieve in him by jingll
Or think he wa no such fhng. V
This time o' yeirle'l everywhefcl-
He't in the sunthk an the air"
He's in the bird-toWs an' the bit.
He whispers from tie live-oak. trs
From morn in' dawnHIl day geta iim 1
I've simply got to blpve in him.
He's in the song thchildren ting
He't in their little htds (hat cling;
My babies blieve in hp an' they
Aint growed so very r away
From heaven as theif tar old dad
With all the heaped upears he's had)
And because they beli. I know
That dear old Santa CUs is so.
I gotta b'lieve in all thehings
That little children do "V jings t
Believe in fairies gnome an' sprites
An' witches ridin' througkhe nights; '
An' b'lieve that letters wten to
01' Santa Claus will go through
An' get to him before it'timo
For him to load hit tied a climb
On top of all the dollt an' 1V1
For little girls an' little Ws
So't he can aoothe the wildjnrest
Of little folks that loves hi best.
SMILE I
The world has donned
Its glad rags now I
To wear 'til Chirstmaa
Anyhow.
POOR GRAMMAR BUT WHAT THE USE
John Baptiste Lafarge is deat '
At one hundred years and ot;
He lived to reach a ripe oldge
But that war all he done. ;
THE MAIL BOX.
A Palestine correspondent wants tnon if we
will devote a part of our column f rc now until
Christmas to suggestions of proper kt to give
children and one't gentlemen and lady tends. Our
space it "valuable but we are willit to tpare
enough of it to say that there areme first
class books of poems by our first wift husband
on the market.
FOR HIS ENTERTAINMEN1 C
"What't daughter doing?"
"Making shrimp salad."
"I didn't know we bad any shrimtfn the
house?" 1
"We haven't but there is one going tsll on
her thit evening."
. SAVED THE TRIP. '
"That Greek didn't go home to fight 1 his
country eh?"
"No he didn't have to. He thinks be 0 his
full duty right here."
"How could he?"
"He walloped two Turks who conduct ug
emporium on the next block." i
"OH. ISLES OFGREECE ETC"
The war in Greece goes on and war
In grease begins to sputter ;
The government it out to scotch
The trust that't cornered butter.
WHY NOT TRY IT?
The Christmas wheeze
Of Christmas trees
And jolly wreaths of holly I
Will only be . .
'Twixt you and me -i
The rankest kind of folly '
And uieless quite.
Unlets ere night '.
You start out .and not stopping
Spread ill your mun I
Out into one i
Grand splifge of Christmas ihopping '
OF COURSE NOT. J
This thing is rue we're telling you
Jutt ponder Vhen you read it; '
' The world don offer credit till
It's certain ym don't need it j
A CeIeTrATION. i
"Where are you ging in such a hurry f" '
"Going to help Jim celebrate hit golden wed.
ding."
"Why I- didn't knm he was married I"
"He itn't but he it joing to marry an heireai
tonight." !
nu j nr. i IMC
Now it the time of Chrtmat cheer
1! i-A
For now do we receiv the check
For the Chrittmat versewe wrote last year for
next year's magazla
By heck 1 ;
T. K. Htdrk in Chicago New. I
i
And now is the time we b;kle down - f
And write a gingery rel;irt thing
Some magazine editor will irn down about next
Fourth of July .
By jing ! (
WHERE WE 1INE.
The pumpkin pie is at t'best
And gone is every pes! fly ;
Leave it to ut to do thtest
And watch us while wwat the pie.
OVERDOINGt". '
With anti-otculation . '
Extending far its rt
It may caute consternoa
When wavelets kitt J beach. -
Kw3fj Telegram.
It's inch a bad example
- The more it's done thnsre
' The fishing smacks will . irom
' To come and hug the Ire.
The inquisitive subscriber of Whon asks : "Is
Judd Lewis a dyed-in-the-wool derat?" 'We
make it a rule not to discuss the atical predi
lections of our astociatet but weiant to tell
this friend that Judd has no wool Wak of.
Houston Post. - I
The above information in ' regard! our poet
Judd is entirely too vague and The rror begs
to enlighten the "inquisitive Whartonbtcriber"
further. Judd Lewit' politics it an unlhrn Quan-
tity and he it sot recorded tt having at all
but the last time she saw tht poaj he s sitting
in his poetry boudoir busily engaged concoct-
ing one of his charming poena which t all de-
light to read and seemed tatirely nbnscious
that the top of hit head the tUce "whade wool
ought to grow" wat being useA . ka rink
for several gay and festive flies hat hadathered
for amusement but this skatingrink atlt were
-was ornamented with be.uiul goldk hued
fringe that curled bewitchingly ground js ears
in a way that would have made hany a Traight
IT ?1 "?y bi been
-ayca dui 11 urn not iook at til
roxidith to
The Mirror The Free Lance
fort lock
Hutht You'll have folks as
of our hair and then where'll
'' 'v- Two Enthusiasts.
V
' (From tht Fort Worth Rt
loionei ueorge Harvey and Cc
iel George
Bailey are as enthusiastic about Wil
hadn't been walloped by htm and tht
as if one
eV hadn't
walloped mm and we are just
about that kind of a democrat
ithusiastM
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