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candidate would almost rarely doom aim
to defeat It Is apparent that thli country
li not yet ready to enter the league and
there la no reason why a good capable
man such ai Mr. Holt is should sacrifice
the opportunity to render public service
by emphasising an Issue that is to say
the least temporarily sleeping.
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sitpaioraa aareia ra aieo reserved.
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Heustoa Wdnesjy--..Oeeembi S 1924
Pp9t-Di3pntch Daily 5urvcy
I'VHWF JUBTICB TAFT Attorney Orn
'. era! Stone and numerous Federal
judges are of the ODinion that pro-
BIWUOS enforcement would be made more
efloCtlT by the transfer of the bureau to
the department of justice. Per one thing
. Uiey believe it would result in mote atten-
. Uo to the big bootlegger tod Itis fritter-
mi away of the time of the ooarts on the
' little thirsty offender caught with a bottle
Qi his htp. If the change will do that let
It be made by all means. The abundance
of liquor in the country is evidence enough
that somebody is mating-it on a big scale
nd that few of the "big boys" ire being
Molested in any event the change from
the treasury to the justice department
sjoald hardly result In a poorer enforce-
tent of th. law. Secretary Mellon likely
Would not experience much grief should
til department be deprived of the bureau.
G
RAIN crops in the Importing coun
tries in Europe this year are far be-
low requirements. Canada and Ar-
' " 1 gettlne have suffered partial failures in
' their wheat crops and will not be in a
foaltion to export on such a large scale as
J aeaaL The United States is being looked
j1 -0 as the chief source of supply for bread-
'. Staffs. Buyers of bread in America al-
rsedjr know that the wheat market has ad-
' vaaced. The professions! cheer leaders
. far the republican party who are attribut-
ing the Nation's prosperity to the victory
of the g. o. p. might he gracious enough
tV to admit that the increased demand for
food stuffs from Europe is having som
. thing to do with the better prices for farm
" ; products and the consequent greater pfcs-
verity in America. The g. o. p. of course
1 if always responsible for good crops in the
Y TJnlted States but it osn scarcely be
. 'claimed that it is responsible tar bad crops
ta Germany Russia France and Austria.
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of a
N ORIGINAL "Coolldge for Presi-
dent" advocate has turned up. A
copy of the "Hampshire (Mass.) Ga
sawtte" of November li. Hit containing the
following item has been sent to the White
' ' House: "Clark 4 Parsons' drug store is the
' . ehlef headquarters for most of the repub-
' Scaa politicians these days. It is said that
' many nominations sre started there.
Among these is Lawyer Coolidgs who is
.. planning on running for the common coun-
U. T. G. Spaulding says of him that he
will one day be president" Clearly a case
'-of aome other Coolidgs and if Mr. Spauld-
' tef i after an office be will have to try
aomethtag else. In 1(89 Mr. Coolldge was
Just 17 years of age and he didn't become
lawyer until 1897. "Who's Who" con
' tains the names of seventeen distinguished
i Coolidges snd all were natives of Massa
J chasetts bat thrae the president being one
I the latter. And by the way John Gard
.'aet Coolldge. native of Boston li a great-jroat-grandson
of Tbomaa Jefferson.
' A DMIRAL EBERLE tells Secretary
Wilbur that with each year
ship's life the cost of re-
Aejra Increases. The failure to provide
edaqoate funds for timely repairs has re-
; tnltoa in bringing some of the larger ships
laBgerously Bear to the Junk status. Every
owner of as automobile can understand
t!i' admiral when he mentions growing
fit at keeping old machinery in repair.
'.'either a new ship nor a new automobile ;
r dj many repairs In its early days. But
f -ertenoe has proved that It pays to keep
' 'jrfn good condition from the very start
"tie i things ftert and there left unat-
Jed to soon bring the entire machine
o W State of serious depredation. Had
ro inoney been available for the upkeep
the ehipe pf the nsvy it would not now
"Boeseary to call oa congress for many
looafto pot nearly a score of the navy's
s U serviceable condition. Something
' e learned from the garage mn about
jonomlcal maintenance of ships.
LTHOUdp Hamilton Holt has been
.; ' one ot the foremost advocates
of Ajsrtrloen participation in the
. I 3 Of Katloni It Is said that in his
ci 'z a democrailc nominee for the
r 1 rtaten eenate to succeed Senator
r . ee'be pria not make that demand
. t j cf tte prladpsj planks In his plat
" f r la maltttnc Ot league issue Mr.
i:o:t ta keeping to line wltli the sentiment
r ef te flemocratW eonVentioii of Connecti-
tv 1 1 -1 w!'h the teatlment of the National
C .- convention. itfr Bolt doubt-
' 1 i i incert ta W adroeacy of the
Different Points of View
The. Federal point of view differs wide
ly from the State point of view in the
matter of public expenditures.
The State board of control recommends
for building operations for the biennlum
beginning September 1. 1936. the sum of
JS.OOO.POO. divided among the educational
and eleemosynary institutions which with
few exceptions are ten yesrs behind in
the matter of capacity. The board has not
been able to arrsnge s building budget on
the basis of the State's needs but rather
upon the batii of what the legislature may
be Induced to firsnt.
Now observe how the Federal govern-
ment operates. Secretary Weeks has out-
lined to congress a plan to provide perma-
nent housing facilities at various army
posts tbe estimates for the Texas posts
being an follows: Fort Bliss 11159000;
Brooks Field J2.352.000; Kelly Field 2-
028.000 ; Camp Normoyle 1363000; Fort
Sam Houston $7345000. Total 1J-
012.000.
The board of engineers recommends' for
improvement of Texas harbors and water-
ways for the fiscal year ending June 80
1926 a total of f5.061.T00.
There are pending Texas Federsl build-
ing projects for sites and buildings probably
exceeding 110.000 000 although all these
are likely to be deferred for reasons of
economy.
The Federal view of expenditure as con-
trasted with the State view is however
strikingly shown in these estimates.
Improvement programs In Texas cities
likewise afford a contrast. The municipal
Improvement program for Houston for
next year li stated to be 17000000. not
Including the $3000000 to be expended for
public school buildings. It need not be
doubted that Dallas San Antonio and Fort
Worth are equally ambitious. Probably all
the cities and counties of Texas will spend
in permanent Improvements next year
quite I100.000.no0 if not a great deal more.
It may be that the Federal government
and the municipalities are rather too lav-
ish in the expenditure of the public treas-
ure and In the nse of the public credit.
but it is certain that the State is parsi-
monious In the matter of providing for its
educational and eleemosynary Institutions.
As proof of this it is an undented fact
that no State Institution is measurably dis
charging its full duty in Its appointed field.
The eleemosynary Institutions are not
caring for all the unfortunates for whose
care and treatment they are maintained
for lack ef facilities.
The educational-institutions all sacked
and turning away applicants are not func
tioning up to the pressing needs of the
youth of Teias.
The discouraging thing about It is
there is no prospect that the State will
ever do this. Year by year the disparity
between existing facilities and the increas
ing demand upon them grows. The small
building program suggested by the board
of control can do no more than supply
Just a few more facilities. By the time
these facilities shall have been completed
the growth of the State's population will
have largely Increased the need and the
next legislature will find the usual defi-
ciency of facilities which must go unpro-
vided because of the coat
All of which shows thst the Stste ought
to provide for the expansion of Its institu-
tional needs by some other method than
current revenues.
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Police Court Eye Clinics
It is quite the usual thing to ascribe
automobile accidents to the carelessness
or indifference of the drivers. A study of
such accidents however will show thst to
take such s position is not always alto-
gether fair. For instance drivers of auto-
mobiles figuring in accidents frequently
give conflicting accounts ot how the mis-
haps occurred when each driver bears a
reputation of being reliable in statement
In Richmond Va. tbe possibility not to
ssy the probability that many automobile
smashes result from defective vision of
drivers Is being taken Into consideration
by the police court. Accordingly In con-
nection with the court an eye clinic has
been established. Violators of traffic ordi-
nances and those arrested following colli-
sions have their eyes tested. If the vision
be found defective the driver under arrest
is warned to hsve the defect corrected. If
he Ignores the warning and Is again ar-
rested his fine is doubled and If be per-
sists In ignoring the warning his license
to drive Is taken from him.
The experiment is worth watching. It is
a matter of common knowledge that a
large proportion of the people of this day
hsve defective sight. This Is the bespec-
tacled age. Railway and street car com-
pany authorities have tbe eyes of train-
men rigidly tested. Men with defective
vision are not permitted to operate trains
or cars. There Is a certain amount of
recklessness and nervousness among auto-
mobile drivers that bring accidents but in-
ability to see well doubtless also con-
tributes Isrgely to the accident toll.
If tbe police courts can reduce accidents
by bringing about the improvement of
vision of drivers it is a field of service
they should not neglect
In this glorious land of tht tret the petty
politician leenu to be a necessary evil.
How ess the little flapper who smokes eigar-
Early Morning ObseryatjoiVs
- By Oearge M. Bailey. . .
Mirron i of Wtosjtcn i
y CIlnteTw. Ollkirt V'
They sre killing hogs la Ndrtb. Carolina
which has a semawhst more temperamental
climate than ours and there sre stories ot
siramon ber filtering through the lines that
bring up pleasing reminiscences . But whee
tbey write of backbone stew chitlin's
crackling bread hogjowl and turnips spare-
ribs souk and livorpie why in the mischief
Hon't they do it in poetry instead ef com
monplace prose r
District of Columbia surgeons hsve agreed
on a minimum lee of $500 for operstions.
Considering everything if the cotton farm
era were to fix the price of ttfcir itapla upon
a similar scale raw cotton would bring $j6
a pound and the average man couldn t af
lord to change shirts oftener than twice
year.
A Mitsouri printing concern is threaten
ing to sue the Missouri democratic commit
tee for Jo.ooo due on an unpaid printing
hill ot no. Our Missouri patriots evident
ly run on tje "rash and carry" basii. which
is to say that it we have ro cash we don 1
carry and If dont carry we can get no
cash.
Anyway we prefer our punkin pie tourna
menu to those tiuash tournamenti that New
York is having.
Another why to he happy is to put your
self into Chriitmas and New Year happiness
without evrn thinking of the legislature tha
six weeks away. Sufficient unto the day
the evil tbereof.
"There will be very little 'Be it enacted
n the last session of the ixty-cighth con
Kress says a Washington correspondent
In this session they will work the
exacted" on us.
Be it
The republican National committee reports
a surplus of $J55ooo above their campaign
expenditures. 'If tbey were a courteous and
considerate people the republicans might
donate this surplus to the liquidation of our
deficit of Sjoo.oon but we know their devil
ish depravity. They won't do it.
Jack Warwick steadily opposing a return
of the combination of bustle and short skirt
declares he never met Dolly Varden. Spend
a few evenings in "Barnahy Rudce" lack
She is still youthful and blooming and in
all respects a cute little girl.
The president's message goes before con
gress today. You read it. There is little
floridity in the president's style hut as a
nailhead-hitter he is in a elass by himself
Now a man has appeared on the scene
who predicted in 1889 that Lawyer Coolidge
would be president. ReRardless of the of
fice this man wants we don't believe it. In
ifSo Cal was 17 years old and he didn't
become a lawyer until eight years later.
It Is said Al Smith is preparing to land
on senator Loneiann tor callina him a
Venus." 'There will be lots of reace in the
democratic party some of these days when
all the present generation sleeps six feet
under the turf.
Be the captain of your soul but don't for
get to he the roaster of your appetite too.
in a peat eating month like this.
What Comet ef a Wise Chelae ft ra.
psrsnte nd poaaea
Washington Dee. v-4 hear in WsWr
ton from s source which should W perfect-
ly informed that young Mr. SV Fsrksf Gtt
bert agent general for reparation Payments
under the Dawes plan for ewes Is bis title
la slated far partnership la the kouss ef
Morgan whn he finishes his Joa.in ttv
many. I ougHt to write a -success- piece
about this to shew the young bow to rise In
the world- Well here is the reeiesi First
pick ss your bosses mta who will gWe yea
a big opportunity. I knew this il WW -n
advice to dioese yottt wsnoparents with
.... .?Tt w-
care onii 11 is esaajpiiai r vw '
first boss. Mr. Russell UAngwcll. IS sssis
tant secretary of the trtssury gave him S
chance te he something snore than a privets
secretary. And Mr. Ixmegwell ese to he a
Moraan partner. Then Mr. Andrew D Mel'
Ion. as secretary of the treasury threw all
the responsibility upon the shoulders ef bis
under secretary. Mr. Q'lbart thst tet young
man would take and that was sll 4ht Mm
bit way. If Mr. Lcftngwelt and Mr. Mellow
had been the kind of chiefs thst Secretary
Hunhes Is. the kind that does not delegate
authority the kind that insists on doing
everything personally Mr. Gilbert would
now be a young lawyer struggling for
clients.
There's something uncanny about nicking
two bosses like that in succession In piec
that afforded enormous opportunities. It is
something like picking the right grandpar
ents which some peopla must hsve an in
stinct for doing. So I wipe out luck as S
factor snd set it down to inetmet. Then
toe. you must have as Mr Gilbert had the
sort of mind and character that mature ear
ly and thus s rare capacity for accomplish.
ment. Ibis comes probably trom noosing
the right grandparents. Then yen msy stand
at j with a partnership m the house ot
Morgan waiting for you and the biggest job
in the world on your hands.
I hsve b'en looking at the test of th
Dawes report snd I find that it is diplo
inatically vague about the job of agent gen
eral for reparation payments Mr. Gilbert's
job probably because If it defined accurst
ly the power the agent might eatrt. no na-
tion would have sinned it. To come out of
its mess Europe had to have a dens ex ma
china. I have to fall back en Latin to sug
gest what I want to suggest. Society will
never improvise a savior of society. All It
ever does is to create a mechanism and
leave a hole in it out of which this deus
just mentioned may emerge. The job of
agent general for reparation payments is the
hole out of which the persons who will have
the say whether or not Europe is to recover
economically mav come forth. One-half the
world will be busy trying to keep the "god
n the machine" from coming out; and the
ther half will be busy trying to make the
hole bigger so that he can arise. But after
all. it is going to depend largely upon Mr
Gilbert himself whether he la equal to his
new opportunities as he was to those which
opened to him in the treasury department.
or not. He stands at th point where all trre
conflicting forces of Europe converge. They
may annul each other and leave him free.
Anyway I hope I've mads K clear just bow
to be a Gilbert.
(Copyright 1014 by Public Ledger Co.)
1 tors will oot read
of the party. A'e
ton b.. Wheeler out ot the party. sup
pose for two reasons: First minorities are
yrt troubled wits -encess membership:
second Wherlrr has never really been in the
democratic party anyway.
In other words England's position is just
this: "Arbitrate international disputes but
don't you murder my nationals."
There Is a big quarrel fn Msine over the
legality of nine-inch lobster but we don't
see why. The returns don't indicate that
any of them voted the democratic ticket
The French snd Germans hold their elec
tions on Sundays but that doesn't mean that
continental politics is any more pious than
ours.
A former Texas shooter has just died in
South Africa leaving a record of 268 lions
to his credit. Our trigger work keeps
to standard at home snd abroad.
up
Aaother reason why wr shall put in next
year not trying to save the country is no
government ever has been satisfactory any
way and maybe it is just as well to keep at
it and put a few hams in the smokehouse.
One contributor writes : "Republicans are
always better dressed and barbtrrd than
drmocrits." They certainly are better bar
bered than democrats in Texas because we
trim them regularly in the grand old State.
In spite of the popularity of hijacking in
Chicago some 60000 Christmas clubbers got
their Christmas money by hard work and
systematic saving.
Now If the Mexican revolutionists do not
give the new government a chance a squad
of electrncutionists might be organized to
operate on them.
Little Lord Fauntleroy
(From the San Franritco Bulletin.')
As it reads of the death of Mrs. Frances
Hodirton Rurnett-Townscnd the middle-
aged generation in whose youth her "Lit-
tle Lord Fauntleroy" had a voirue only
equaled by "After the Ball" and "In Old
Madrid must feel that It is getting on.
Mrs. Burnett wrote a book with a broad
appeal. It aroused the most tender senti-
ments. It held up to the yoonji the per-
fect presentment of the perfect little gen-
tleman one who behaved well at all times
and when he came into deserved good for-
tune was kind to all manner of Jowly peo-
ple. It really was an uplifting book if
any little boy could have lived up to it and
it was not its author's fault that it set a
fashion in "Little Lord Fauntleroy suits"
characterized by broad white collars and
velvtt breeches into which sundry solici-
tous mammas stuffed their struggling young
in the fond hope that it would mould them
into reproductions inside and out of the
little hero of the day.
Somehow the example of perfectionism
thus depicted did not make so strong an ap-
peal to fathers as it did to mothers. After
seeing their sons is the costume certain
fathers were so unregenerate as to take
them eut and have their curls cut off and
perhaps in extreme cases buy them a plug
of chewing tobacco. Such courses cannot
be approved and only serve to demonstrate
how much better It la to leave the upbring
ing of the young to the feminine side of the
house.
"Little Lord Fauntleroy" was one of the
most successful books of the day. It prob-
Twenty-five Years Ago
From Ths Houston Post Files
W. B. Scott of Temple was a late arrival
at tha Iwlor.
P. D. Peden Jr. won the cup is the tennis
games at the local club.
Members of the Houston Turnverein met
to discuss plans for the children's Christmas
celebration.
Dr. W. H. Harrell lectured to members
f the Spiritual society in Bryan hall. Hi
mhject was: "Is Spiritualism S Religion?"
Local railroad officials discredit the New
York report that the Southern Pacific had
derided to take off the Sunset Limited as
result of an agreement with the Santa Fe.
St. Patrick's branch of the Catholic
Knights of America elected the following of
ficers: F. T. Smith president; E. Browne
ice president ; E. M. Burke recording sec
retary : J. H. Gorman financial secretary!
E. Russell treasurer: J. B. Collins ser-
geant-at-arms; John Burnt sentinel; J. O.
Cirr trustee.
Stats Ha rein twos.
Austin Governor Sayers returned from
hit visit at Waco with Governor. Hogg and
Mr. Kogan.
Waller. The South Texas Baptist college
is progressing nicely. The number of stu-
dents has doubled since October.
fexia. Hon. A. M. Kennedy member
f the legislature from this district was mar
ried to Miss Cordelia Murphy of Little
Rock Ark.
Caldwell Professor E. L Blaekshear
principal of Prairie View Normal addressed
the colored teachers' institute here. He ssld
parents of colored children should teach
them by" precept end example at home to
lead honest useful lives. It will not do he
said for negroes to be continually com-
plaining of their hard lot.
Genual.
Washington. At a caucus ef republicans
David B. Henderson of Iowa wss nominated
for speaker of the house and the rules of
Reed were adopted.
Chicago. Bob Fitzsimmons and his eld
manager. Martin Julian have parted com
pany following an altercation between them
in which Bob slapped the face of ths manager.
Washington. Admiral Dewey made the
surprising statement that he hoped Agn'n-
Mo would not he caught. The best thine
would be to let him escape from the eeutrtry
nd live in secluded Desee somewhere the
dmir.nl thinks.
TEXAS ONE HUNDRED YEA8 AGO.
Jean Laffitte pirate whose fid Pr. James
Long was rndenvoring to secure for the pro-
ject of revolutionising Texas was a most
picturesque character and one whose be-
ginning and end are alike shrouded in mys-
tery. Piracy on the Spanish Msin bsd practical-
ly ended with the SeventeenA century. Fol-
lowing the act of January 1 To8 when con-
gress prohibited the farther.. importation of
slaves into the United Statesi various see
captains found it profitable to engage in
slave smuggling.1 Slaves could be purchased
in Cuba for tjoo a bead snd sohtfesdily In
Louisiana whose plantations wefeoing to
ruin for wtnt of labor fof their eutttvetlon
for a thousand dollars per head
There was a similarity between the slsve
smuggling of too yean age and the liquor
smuggling of today. First the smugglers
were satisfied to purchase the slaves in
Cuba. Then they armed their shins and
kl. Ln j . . . vim . ...r.. hicj aniKU incif niro anil
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Letters From the People
What Faat-Diapetch Readers Say
Legislative Storm Centers.
To The Houston Post-Dispatch :
Dallas Texas Nov. at. Two weeks ago
some of the daily papers carried an Austin
ispatch discussing the subjects most likely
o engage serious legislative attention during
the approaching regular aassion and pre
icting that the Klan issue and highway
matters will afford the paramount attrac
tion. Since then from other sources we
ave had several other guesses. Believing
hat these expressions Indicate a sense of
lively popular interest in the next legislative
output believing further that a lively popu
lar interest before rather than after the
legislative act is favorable to the public wel
fare having in mind that a regular session
ordinarily gives attention to S great number
of smaller matters and close study to some
thing like a doien of larger ones and think
ing that still another guess based on con
siderable investigation might furnish food
for thought to the citizenship at large I
herewith offer a list of ten subjects with
the prediction that each of them will be the
storm center of keen debate before the
regular session sdjourns:
1. A bill stringently regulating the sale
under prescription or otherwise of patent or
proprietary medicines susceptible of use for
beverage purposes.
2. A bill further regulating the sale of
liquors under prescription embodying prob
bly a tax on each prescription a civil bond
for the person making such sales prescrtp
tion files open for public inspection any
time providing that no other business can
be carried on In or about the premises whlere
prescription sales arc made and other equal-
ly drastic provisions.
3. A bill amending the Robertson insur-
nee law so ss to permit return of the out-
State insurance companies without penalty.
4. A bill further regulating primary elec
tions.
5. A bill aimed at secret political socie
ties.
6. A bill for substantial amendment of tbe
Jenkins-Mayfield bucketshop law enacted in
iec7- The proponents of this amendment
have done an extensive propaganda but the
friends of the present law declare they will
stand for no change except perhaps a tight
ening of the enforcement features. Ap
parently flgbt surpassing in earnestness
that of looy it imminent. To Texas as an
agricultural State tbe subject is one ef
sweeping importance even were no moral
issue involved.
7. A bill levying a luxury tax en cigar and
cigarette salts.
I. A bill providing for further regulation
ef all intrastate oil and gas pipe tines.
9. A bill increasing to perhaps 5 per cent
tbe production tax on oil and sulphur pro-
viding that One-half the tax shall be re-
funded to the county from whence collected
exempting discovery production from the
tax and bringing under (he law sll other
minerals.
10. A bill adapting Texas laws to Federal
requirements and levying a tax ef perhaps
cents per gallon on gasoline for highway
needs. This latter will almost necessarily
bring about s general inquiry into gasoline
distribution another subject of vital every-
day interest te nearly every Texas family.
R. B. Humhibsy.
with Jean LaltHte a blacksmith in New Or-
leans whose origin Is shrouded in mystery.
Laffitte s man of unusual executive ability.
seeing the profit to be made. Soon brought
all the scattered buccaneers under one ban
ner. He established headquarters st Bara-
laria bay between New Orleans snd Bayou
LaFourche where there were many navig
able channels snd opportunities for conceal-
ment and did a thriving business selling
sometimes as many as 400 slsves in one day.
He eventually became such a thorn in the
side of the American government that Gov-
ernor Claiborne of Louisiana offered a re-'
ward for tbe capture of Laffitte dead or
alive.
Some ef 'Em Make It Honestly.
(From tht Dttroit Nft.) '
Merely because the name ef s man you
never heard erappesrs in a list of big In
Tampering With Trifles
BY JUDD MORTIMER LEWIS.
THE DELUGE.
When Lincoln was a boy he used to go
The day's work done a doien miles or so
To get a book to read by a dim light.
And poring over it night after night
He'd feel regret when Ita last page was done.
Because perhaps before another one
Would come his way weeks and months might be sped.
And 10 he pondered on what he bad read.
And ether men who read the selfsame wsy.
Pondered their books through many a bookless day.
And from such things a race of giants sprung;
Groat men whose deeds through ages shall be sung.
These days are better days. Now presses pour
Unnumbered volumes growing more and more.
They come to us cut ready to ur hands;
And magazines are piled on sidewalk stands.
Now reading-lights are clamped to every bed.
Lights bn each wall and bright lights overhead;
And reading is made easy books made cheap ;
Men read at dawn and read themselves to sleep.
Lands are denuded of their trees to make
Books without strength to keep a man awake.
Books hide the tables cover every wall;
Men read and read nor use their minds at all.
PHILOSOQRIN.
When the midwinter sun shines warm we forget bllxiard forget storm. And
when the blirzard rages then we think of sun-warmed days again. For such a
mind with such a twist a blisxsrd simply don't sxist.
CROSS WORDS.
My Daddy swears to beat the band
And scolds us every minute;
He's doing a Cross-Word puztle and
There's only eross words in it.
Ted Robinson in Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Tis not because the words are cross
That Daddy swears my sweet ;
His temper is a total loss
Because they're obsolete.
Etna Spencer in Neivark Advocate.
I'm happier that e'er before
And now whate'er befalls me
I'fl not use cross words any more
Just look what Ems calls met
Ted Robinson in Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Don't be a poor untutored loon
And feel so darn delicious
To fit a rhyme she'd just ss seen t
Have called you something vicious.
lake Falslaf in Akron Times.
We hope well never sever hear
If ever it befalls us
That Ema gets upon her ear
At us the things she calls us.
BLIND BABIES.
Births Recorded Boys : C. and R. Blind.
40I Fsssen street 1. Louis Clobt-Dtn-wot.
'
If they see and are blind then they aren't.
are they?
IMPROVING THEIR APPEARANCE.
A brick is the scrubbing brush ordinarily
used in Indis in giving an elephant a bath
Louisville CourierJournal.
And in Ireland In giving Orangemen a
massage.
AN EASY MARK.
Many a man regards himself ss parson
of accomplishments because he has thrown
snowballs at the top of Pike's Peak on the
?ourtb of July. Jak FaUtaff i Akron
Times.
We'd prefer throwing snowballs st the
bottor-. of Pike's Peak. We'd come nearer
hitting it.
COW IN A BEDROOM.
Hull England A cow forced It war
intO a bnilfte rlimkJ Iba ..-J
- - maira ana
.... ... I j r ... . . .rJBV
luimra oenruom. ingnieoinv Mra.In)i r
ivin ana ser tittle daughter sato hysterics.
Cablegram. ".'"!'
Probably the men had converted her pas-.
ture into a golf links and left her s place
to sleep. ' . y . .
.AINJT NATURE WONDERFUL)
We are indebted to George Pawkins a
thoughtful snd discerning gentlemen for a 1 '
sparkling testimonial In behalf ef Ben Davis i
cider. Mr. Hawkins says the Bea Davis as- !: -'
pie is not what ft used te be and ft last .' '
if so much sweetness ess be extracted from
its tough hide. "While the light holds sea
to burn the vilest linnsr wsy tetum."
lack Warwick i Toledo BeoV
Cider from Ben Davis apples) How for
orangeade from esege oranges
JACK WARWICK CALLS 'KM tutftl
The country elub's deserted; new '
None visit it; who doesll ' '
Find members are tt horn at work 1
Upon s crosswords puxsle . j ; C y
PLATINUM POINTS. . vvrV .0
The republican surplus would a trifle more thaa nav .at . j ' 1
t won't -- ucn DOT i
Has Mabel Norroand grows sedate and turned from what she's stfjverr forV'She
hasn't done a thing of late to ask to be forgiven for. ' ' ;'; . 1
We do not quite understand why a matter of slightly more than hslf of the ..11' s -rioters
and murderer have been set free from Leavenworth. It would be m J3e? ! V
injustice to free all of them. 1 - "7 . -
"Ding's" cartoon in the Smith's Comlngest newspaper Mondav mornlnheii Al
poor creatures which had been skinned te furnish furs for mother snd the tbUdm wss
incomplete It did not show father. " "? J
If the defeated candidstes for mayor bad stayed" out ss we because ofenr frWdlw ' -feeling
for them advised them to do they would always have bsd sort of utlsfactsrw
feeling that they might hsve woe had they staved In No- tb.- .IT. LTf'S.'1"'
the tost of the election snd the know thst they never stood a chance. T f 4 '
Sunday saw us enjoying such perfection of climate na rwundlngs as emtio only "' '
r. on the day of November beneath a Texas sky. At Mi-smsr she SauS . '
t of R. S. Sterlings we plucked and ate fine atrawbarrlea. ftM-.M4 -J3V'.
plucked a eape jasmine to wear on our lapeL The young ladies wanted W to ee irwira-
mlng with them but we have so much form to get sunburned that we gratefully deeJisei ; k
On the drive ; home we saw a roup of colored bojrs by ths Wedslds hoe"w i
melon. R. S. has had prepared the most perfect garden we have ever seen 'he melsttfl
u upP bein? "ndr blofut w01- In "Wo" o csrrots a number of edibls ma.
Ubles will be raised. It Is planned 'to rsise oriae watermelon in . .2 L1
Any melon weighing less tba. ninety pounds Will be thrown back in Urger taelo's wilr
occur
home
7. aZT'ZJT "T T!! ' W l tuf a and flavor '
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