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HOUSTON DAILY POST: TUESDAY MORNING MAY r2 1916.
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Houston Texas Tuesday May 2 1916.
THE TEXAS BANKERS.
The State Bankers association will con-
vene In Houston today for a four days' ses-
sion and It goes without saying that the
city's wonted hospitality is extended to dele-
tes and visitors alike. The latchstring of
jvery Houston home hangs on the outside
and a cordial welcome awaits theni in our
midst.
Houston is itself one of the most impor-
tant banking centers of the South and as
such it Is but natural that the banking in-
terests of the State should assemble amid
such congenial surroundings to conduct their
deliberations for the promotion of the gen-
eral interests of the business in which they
are engaged in whose success the common
welfare of all is so Intimately bound up.
The banking interests of Texas have dem-
onstrated their patriotism beyond any ques-
tion of doubt. They realize that the suc-
cessful conduct of their business is de-
pendent upon the prosperity of the people
as a whole among whom and with whom
they do business; hence in all progressive
movements looking to the larger develop-
ment of the State's resources they have been
most prominent ".
In the sessions of the convention many
problems having to do with the common
welfare will come up for consideration. That
wise counsels will govern their deliberations
we may rest assured. In the meantime we
beg of the members of the association to
take enough time from their more serious
duties to get out among the citizens of Hous-
ton and enjoy "the time of their life."
There is something more in life than mere
animal existence. If you are inclined to .doubt
our assertion we beg of you to read every Mon-
day morning the page "which we devote to ex-
pressions! of the city's spiritual teachers relative
to what constitutes true life and living. The Post
believes that there is infinite life within every
human being; and in the" service which it renders
to the public endeavors to encourage its' largest
possible development without exciting" prejudice
against any creed or faith.
MR. HENRY'S ABSENTEEISM.
The Post so generally finds Uself In ac-
cord with the Waco Tribune that it is in-
evitably a feeling of regret that accompanies
its failure to coincide with the Tribune's
view. The Post does not agree with .'the
viaw of the Tribune in respect of the ab-
sence of Representative Henry from Wash-
ington at this time. . .
The Tribune says such absence is in line
with precedent and prerogative. ! " J
But the Tribune overlooks one important
consideration to which precedent ;and prerogative-
do not apply. There is do' prece-
dent within the lifetime of Mr. Henry .when
the country faced such a crisis as it faces
today.
Mr. Henry is one of the most experienced
men of the house of representatives andif
we assume that by reason of his ability and
experience his service is important when
would his presence in Washington be more
necessary than now?.- Neither the president
nor congress has the benefit of his counsel in
the gravest period of the.country's history.
If serious illhess were' keeping" Mr.' Henry
away from his duties in a time like this
there would be no criticism but Mr. Henry
is healthy and able to discharge his public
duties and' yet he ie spending the greater
part of the long session not a few weeks
as the Tribune says away from his public
duty.
It- is quite true that Senator Culberson
has been absent by reason of his impaired
health and every true Texan regrets the
misfortune that has detained him from his
duties. They also rejoice. that his recovery
has been such as to enable him to resume
them. It is conceivable too that the sen-
ator' would be acting rashly to risk Mb health
.'by "undertaking the burden of a campaign
even. If ndt grave public emergency required
Lis presence In Washington:
But Senator Culberson would not desert
his duties at this time to enter a campaign
. for re-election even if he had the strength
of Samson and that is because . of a keen
sense of propriety and public obligation that
Las been a conspicuous feature of his public
career. V
' Now we yield tot the .Tribune's view Just
a little. 'Precedent and prerogative might
- JuBtlfjr Mr. Henry 'in ordinary times in tak-
ing a few weeks' vacation to look after .his
political fences.' But these are not ordinary
times. They are extraordinary times when
the gravest crisis of which the1 human -mind
can conceive confronts the country. '
' If Jlr. Henry be as' wise as. Influential and
as patriotic as' the Tribune thinks he is and
as he claims to be how can he reconcile his
absence from Washington 'with; that .lofty
sense of duty and ' obligation hlcb' we de
mand of senators 'and 'representatives? If
ing oa to the president's ooattaila in an en-
deavor to win the support ef the president's
friends in Texas for another office. V
Of course. The Post has other objections to
Mr. Henry's candidacy which it is frank
enough to. admit but this objection is one of
more consequence because It raises the
question of an official's usefulness.' If a
sense of duty does not prompt Mr. Henry to
remain at his post In such a time as this
what value would he be to the State and the
country in the United States senate?
THE POST AND THE XOEIBLE LETTERS-
The valued Galveston News thinks that
The Post has shut its eyes to the vital facts
of the Koelble letters by which It means
a proper consideration of the circum-
stance that Governor Colquitt sought out-
side influences to gain for him the support
of Texas newspapers published In the Ger-
man language.
The Post has not wilfully overlooked that
feature of the correspondence but merely
failed to place upon It the value which the
News so readily yielded. If the News would
like an expression from The Post on that
part of the sensation The Post does not hesi-
tate to say that Governor Colquitt used poor
judgment in seeking to influence the Ger
man press of Texas through New York agen
cies. The Post does not believe that the
German press of Texas is to be influenced
from that quarter and even if that were
possible no Texas aspirant for office should
yield his dignity to the extent of asking it.
The Post is free to say however that
there are very few candidates for office who
would not seek outside Influence if convinced
that it would be efficacious. It is unfortunate
that this is true but observation compels the
conclusion that the man who is after an
office will go( to unreasonable lengths to at-
tain his objective.
- But The Post is far from assenting to the
Insinuation that Governor Colquitt would en-
ter into any scandalous agreement at home
or abroad to discredit the president of the
United States or the nation He does not
agree with President Wilson in all things;
neither does the News nor The Post. And
neither does Mr Wenry as the latter's rec
ord In congress proves. Such disagreements
are not discreditable to the president nor
are they discreditable to persons or pews-
papers disagreeing with the president.
The News itself has long contended for
freedom of thought and expression as
against the custom of yielding conviction at
any behest whatever and it is rather late
in the day to condemn a public man. who has
insisted upon his difference of opinion in an
outspoken way.
Now that The Post has accommodated the
News and expressed its utter disapproval of
the "former governor's dickering with any out-
side influence whatever The Post cherishes
the hope that the News will be equally can-
did and favor its readers with its View upon
one phase of the subject upon which it has
been silent . Allusion is here made to the
disreputable and contemptible process by
which a gentleman's private letter files were
feloniously raided and his confidential cor-
respondence stolen and sold. . Does the News
approve of that feature of the episode? '
he vers totally at variance with the jresfc-
; WASTE THAT IS PREVENTABLE.
While it is officially reported that the
losses of live stock In the United States from
disease and exposure during the past year are
somewhat under the ten-year average it is
nevertheless a fact that in Texas the loss
(.percentage is high although there Is some
improvement. This Is particularly true of
range cattle and sheep of which the greater
part of the loss is due to exposure.
' There is little excuse for loss of live stock
due to exposure because It Is easily pos
sible to give range cattle and sheep all the
protection they need. In winter wjien fierce
blizzards sweep the open country and the
snows cover such dead vegetation as these
range animals subsist upon the loss. is ex
tremely heavy upon some ranches because 6f
tee jack of provision for shelter and feeding.
The more capable class of stockmen have
long ago learned the folly of permitting such
waste and they have provided shelter or
windbreaks where the range animals may be
sheltered from blizzards and obtain food
Nevertheless there are many thousands of
cattle and ' sheep to die annually because
their owners leave them to the mercy of the
elements.
No well managed ranch of this day lacks
both shelter and food for cattle and sheep
nor does It lack provision for ample water
In times of drouth. And much will be saved
when all engaged in stock raising learn the
needful lesson that it is Inexcusable to lose
stock from exposure to the element.
Possibly the annual losses In Texas ex
pressed in money will approximate $20000-
000'. suppose this loss of a single season or
its equivalent were devoted to providing
storm shelter for the animals and suppose
a part of the area devoted to grazing these
animals were planted in forage for winter
emergency feeding. The exposure loss would
disappear altogether and a substantial sum
would be saved to the owners and added to
the wealth of the State.
Of course Texas Is not the only State
where iosses from exposure occur and In the
entire country the money equivalent of such
waste is large. In this time when world
events are forcing people to concentrate their
attention upon the necessity of reducing
wastage of every description the losses
among food animals must be considered be-
cause It means a waste of what would other
wise be-a cor?iderable portion of the .na
tion's food supply.
Kven the loss due to disease is largely pre-
ventable bat it requires vigilance Industry
and Intelligence to deal with this phase of
the problem Veterinary science has made
sufficient progress to save multiplied thou
convictions render It Impossible or him to'
be tf service but he claims to be a friend
of t i president.4 Instead of standing by the
? t Ji Wsshhiston he U here awlug-
dent we might strain' a point and say hlsjsanda i. of animals if the owners only knew
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how to apply well known remedies in time..
' "The. time is coming' when the avoidance
of waste is going to be viewed in the United
States as a matter of broad national duty
as well as of indlvdual necessity. The South
especially needs tcr learn the folly of waste
because It Is prevalent in a larger degree In
this section than anywhere 'else.
The increasing . population of the country
will reveal to the people more and more the
need of guarding not only the nation's food
supply but conserving every resource hav
ing to do with the welfare of the nation and
the well being of the individual If we are
to save our high living standards there must
be Intelligent thrift and diligence otherwise
In time the penalty will have to be paid.
THE COTTON SITUATION :
A Post special from Goliad reports cotton
seed very scarce In that section and the de-
mand so great that the prl.ee ranges from
$90 to $100 per ton. As a general proposi-
tion two bales of cotton yield a ton ef seed.
During the season in which cotton seed is
normally marketed the price per ton ranged
around $30. The farmers of the Goliad dis-
trict evidently '.sold themselves short and
are now. in the market paying three times
as much money for that which they unad-
visedly sold only a few months ago in order
to be able to grow another crop of cotton.
As an explanation of the present demand for
cotton seed not only in the Goliad section
but in many sections of the State it is but
fair to state that the recent cold weather
has necessitated extensive replanting.
However it is to be gravely feared that
our farmers have been encouraged by the
relatively good prices received for the small
crop produced In 1915 as compared with the
prices paid for the 1914 crop and a belief in
the re-establishment of normal trade condi
tions through an early termination of the
European war to Increase the acreage
planted to this crop beyond reasonable justi
fication. .
The Southern cotton grower has insisted
upon the government supplying him with full
statistics as to cotton consumption through-
out the world to the end that he may be as
reallably informed as to probable market de-
mands as the cotton manufacturer who has
been kept fully informed by governmental
agencies as to the prospective size of the
crop for any given year for many years past.
These figures are now being furnished him
and the probability of an indicated increase
of acreage throughout the cotton belt the
present year is no doubt due to his analysis
of them as portending a demand at fair
prices for as large a crop as may be pro
duced this season.
These figures show that the total consump
tion of cotton in the United States alone for
March this year was 613625 bales in addi-
tion to 80905 of linters or an aggregate of
694530 bales for the month. The report
shows further that up to the end of March
the total American consumption was nearly
4900000 bales. If the same rate Is main-
tained to the end of the season it will mean
an additional consumption of 2800000 bales
or a total American consumption of 7700000
bales which is considerably more than 50
per cent of the entire crop of 1915: The
rapid rate of increase shown in the American
consumption of cotton is the most significant
and striking evidence of the March report
If home consumption should continue even
in the present ratio it would reach next year
a total of approximately .9000000 bales.
Let us hope that such ratio of home con-
sumption will continue to be maintained but
In indulging such hope let our cotton grow-
ers not ignore the fact that this increased
home consumption is largely due to Euro-
pean orders for the manufactured output of
our mills consequent upon the partial
paralysis of the cotton manufacturing indus-
try In that country a paralysis that will be
relieved upon the cessation of the war and
naturally result in reduced demands for our
own cotton manufactures. '
With this much said it may be reasonably
expected that there are better times ahead
for the Southern cotton grower than he has
experienced in the years of the past if he
will refrain from indulging in extravagant ex-
pectations regarding cotton prices and make
sure of "safety first" by growing plenty of
food and forage crops for his own . home
needs. - '
The Waco Times-Herald' has the audacity o
risk this impertinent inquiry: "Do you(know of
any office that's seeking any Texan?" And just
to think the editor of the Times-Herald has two
States senatorship is laying awake o' nights try
ing to catch them.
Americanism is the dominant sentiment in this
Republic but in supporting it is it necessary to
encourage the spirit of Knownothingism? Recent
effervescent expressions on the part of knight-
errants of "liberty" seem to indicate its revival.
SOME POSTSCRIPTS.
For timing work the dial of a Swiss stop watch
carries additional marks to indicate at any point
of elapsed time what the corresponding output
per hour would be.
Women can talk more 'than men with less
fatigue according to a German scientist because
their throats are smaller and they tax their lungs
and vocal organs less.
Experts of the United States bureau of stand-
ards have perfected a portable instrument for in-
stantly . indicating the direction from which a
wireless signal comes.
A recently patented eye shade is supported
from the nose like eyeglasses and is reinforced
by a malleable metaUband that permits It to be
fitted to heads of all shapes.
A Japanese newspaper man in Honolulu has
built a typesetting machine with which it is pos-
sible to set the about 5000 characters used by
Chinese and Japanese printers ;
By systemtaic reforestation Java is constantly
increasing its teak forests which now cover
more than 1480000 acres despite the great
amount of timber cut every year.
A boat supported by inflatable pontoons and
driven by bicycle gearing has been invented that
can be folded into a small parcel for carrying as
it weigns out iwenry-cignt pounas.
Horse Dislikes Cigarettes.
(Prom tk Lot Angele Times.) .
A sensitive horse who has a dislike for cigar-
ette smoke attacked Itdirar Akers sued a?.' and
bit aim on the. right hand. Akers was smoking
a cigarette at Sixth and Spring streets near the
horse which was standing at the curb. With an
angry squeal tbe horse seiied Akers by the right
hand. Akers managed to free his hand but not
until the horse's teeth hand torn the flesh from
his fingers. The injured man was treated at the
receiving avospi'.al. .
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Observations of Geo. Bailey
Views and Suggestions Relating to Men and
0 ' Matters of General Interest
GIVE a woman a fire-
less cooker a baby-
less nursery and- an elec-
tric and her husband
will eat two-thirds of his
meals' sitting ton a high
chair as sure as tau are
born. . . " : ' ' '. rC
The Galveston - News
says the best way for a
woman to hold her hus
band under her thumb
is to grab him by the
hair. Does tbe philds- Ls
opher of the News think' in the light of 6000
years that it is necessary to advance any new
suggestion along this line? Men's unfaithful-
ness to man makes countless millions squirm.
The men who control about $500000000 of
banking resources are visiting Houston this week
and Houston is giving them the glad hand and the
warm heart." Betides if they want to plant about
$50000000 in soil that will grow they would do
well to remember that Houston never intentionally
repels legitimate investments k '
Temple is taking a tree Census. Houston ought
to take a census of the number of trees h need's.
If the president finds it difficult to find a man
to succeed Mr. Morgenthau as ambassador to Tur-
key 'we. can encourage' him by reminding him
that Texas has never turned him down yet and
we believe there is among the 500000 democrats
in this State some one who is willing to sacrifice
himself and srve. . .
1 Now that Kansas City has a republican mayor
our. last words to Billy Sunday is get' every cent
they have .. .
A drummer in Galveston says the demand for
modified hoopskirts if heavy. The more the hoop-
skirts are modified the heavier' will be the de-
mand no we take it back. The more extreme
and spreading the horrible things are the greater
will be the demand.
We suppose the Chicago judge who decided that
Bacon wrote Shakespeare holds court in the pack-
ing house district.
If a man swears like a trooper and you learn
that it is because he has left his eyeglasses at
home forty blocks away look sternly and solemnly
at him and then address11 him with those kindly
words of forgiveness "Go and sin no more."
It is said that it costs $75 a day to keep little
Jack Astor. Poor child I He can never survive
such idiotic treatment as that.
The Methodists in annual conference at Sara-
toga Springs N. Y. announce that they will sup-
port Wilson. A Presbyterian president with
Methodism back of ; htm ought to make for na-
tional health happiness and hallelujah.
' ' "' . "' 1 ;
It is said Greece Is hovering on the brink of a
cataclysm. We suppose the Hellenic kingdom is
getting tired of her lonesomeness.
1
Senator JirnmyWadswortrT will have charge of
the Root presidential campaign. It would take a
bigger wad. than. Wadsworth can command .to gtt
Elihu the riomihation and. then he would get the
soporific swat on election day.
" The Georgian tells us that node art is barred
from Decatur street in 'Atlanta. Is-Hhat a scheme
to remedy ithe congestion on Decatur street? ".
The dispatches says that Mr.- Bryan addressed
an audience at Bowie Texas that taxed the
capacity of the ' hall. The audience taxed the
capacity of the hall and Mr. Bryan taxed the
capacity of the auditors. " ut
The people may as well make up their minds
to one thing. -Congress will play politics with
questions of vital import' until actual war begins.
We are very sorry that the Dublin affair re-
sulted in the burning of the postoffice. It was a
sad. day for 4he Irish democracy because it will
not be built in its original splendor soon.
Every young man who works for a' living should
buy an automobile after he has a-home free of
debt a wife baby and a snug sum in the bank.
' Our idea of a married man-with the true per-
spective is one ' with ' four bits who is out of
both bacon and gasoline and who possesses the
perspicacity to bring home the. bacon.
A Texas sheriff is organizing a 'company! of
rough riders. And we can add they will be real
rough riders and- there is no four-flushing about
the sheriff either.
And now apple sharps tell us that there are
more Ben Davis apples produced in the United
neighbors who have an idea that' the United! SUt.M tha? thM variety. This ought to
terrify an intelligent enemy much.'
It is said by the apple sharps that 11100000
barrels of 'Ben Davis apples were produced in the
United States last year.- And we haven't heard
of. a prosecution yet. . '
J WJie it crimes down to brass tacks the young
man of fiber .and quality is not very apt to choose
a cigarette-smoking girl for a wife not if he has
brains enough to grease a gimlet.
It is( absolutely true though it is useless to
console any defeated candidate' with the informa-
tion that the world generally survives. any defeat
that happens at the polls.
Now come; one of the boys over the phone tell-
ing up that the Sir Roger. Casement movement
was pure patriotism.; Of course hyphenated pa-
triotism 1.' e. Pat-riot-ism. " '
Heroism Is His Undoing. '
; (Montclair (!r.J.Ditpafck to New York Sun.) '
i In her annual report Mrs. Nettie H. Patterson
superintenden of 'the Altruist society here said
that the society's officers had been trying to ef-
fect the reformation of a drinking man whose ex-
cesses had impoverished his family. Finally he
was Induced to sign a pledge that he would not
indulge- for a year. . '
To demonstrate td his wife -that he could re-
main steadfast the man according to Mrs. Patter-
son walked twice past a saloon where he was
wont to spend his earnings each time preening
himself on the strength jf his will power. As
he was about t pass the third time he turned to
his wife and said: "Such bravery deserves a
drink" and he went inside and ogt it.
Fox Trot Doesn't Stop Men.
(Mnited (Conn.) DUpatch to New YorkHierali.)
Grabbing a white leghorn from a flock in the
roadway iri front of the farmhouse of Mrs. 'Amy
Hart on Pla't.Hill yesterday a fox started away
with the hen pursued by the dog kept on' the
t remises. The chase became so hot that Rey-
nard dropped the hen Which Mrs. Hart recovered.
It was little the worse for its experience for it
kid a big white egg today as usual.
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1 Modern Religion
v BY D. FRANK CRANE..
They had a religions congress last February
down in Panama where some significant things
Were said: We have got into the rut of think-
ing that churches are droning away at expound-
ing doctrines that are as "lunar politics" to ordi-
nary folk and that preachers and missionaries
are the most unpractical of men.
1 you read Wizard Price's article in the
March eighteenth issue of the Survey you may
change your opinion and realize that the religious
forces are quietly changing1 tactics and arc go-
ing at the conquest of the world in the new
spirit of ' social service which after all is prob-
ably nearer than theological doctrine battling to
the spirit of primitive Christianity.
To be sure one brother from Cuba deliverer hia
"The tourist who comes to me hoping to learn
something about the political industrial or com-
mercial conditions of Cuba will be badly (disap-
pointed. I- don't know anything about the fruit
situation or the sugar situation in Cuba. These
things are none of my business. My business is'
to know nothing Mit Jesus Christ and Him cruci-
fied." : v " .. . ; r
But the " general tone of the . congress was
against him. "It is especially timely to emphasise
the social gospel in South America now" said
Professor William Adams Brown.' x
Professjor Eduardo Monteverde of Montevideo
declared "This is the age of applied Christian-
ity." And Bishop Lambuth of the Methodist
Episcopal church stated that "social service opens
a new avenue of approach"
Reports indicated that Christian workers were
applying themselves to the most intensely prac-
tical problems of "the people throughout Latin
America. .
Industrial education is being carried on by mis-
sions in Mexico Brazil Chili Peru and Bolivia.
The Friends Presbyterians and Episcopalians are
pushing industrial farms and schools in Mexico.
A farmer-preacher in Brasil is teaching the use
of American farm machinery and scientific meth-
ods so that one Brazilian farmer will be able to
do the work which formerly took five. ' -
The South American Missionary society teaches
farming gardening carpentry and weaving in its
schools in Chili.
A diploma from the Methodist commercial
school in Buenos Ayres is accepted by the govern-
ment. A vigorous little missionary woman in Maya-
guez Porto Rico has a social settlement and is
organizing the first move ever made in Porto Rico
against prostitution.
A missionary preacher in Panama has got to-
gether a number of the West Indian negroes
who having -been laid off from work on the
canal were -rapidly drifting to starvation and
crime and established a colony of 300 familes
and built up a prosperous agricultural community
on a tract of land tie obtained from the Panama
government east of Gatun Lake.
The Y. M. C. A. everywhere is doing such work
as maintaining employment bureaus securing work
for immigrants encouraging banks and training
boys for business.
The missionaries are attacking tuberculosis
teaching the use of the tooth brush feeding half-
starved children so they can go to school show-
ing the authorities they ought to let the little
ones play in the public parks and teaching the
little ones to play; they have cooking schools
sewing schools and typewriting schools ; they -are
fighting flies and. mosquitoes; they have come
down out of the temple and are grappling with the
real needs of the people.
Dr. Grenfell of Labrador condensed the modern
missionary program into a sentence:
"When you set out to commend your gospel to
one who doesn't want it there is oniy one way
to go about it do something for them that they'll
understand."
Something is going to happen if this keeps up.
When the world awakes to realize that heaven
life means fuller life health education and jus-
tice instead of. some last century's quarrel over
dogma then we shall have a new heaven and
when we get a new heaven we shall have a new
earth.' -
' (Copyright J916 by Frank Crane.)
A LateCrowned King.
(From tkt Wilmington Del. Star.)
At one of New York's finest gallaries' Blake-
lock's splendid paintings have been viewed daily
by eager crowds. Among them came the artist's
aged wife journeying from her little mountain
cabin. To her the suffering in which the pic-
tures were conceived has been too poignant for
her to grasp their beauty they bad been the
thin crumbling wall between her little ones and
the cold and their glory was tear-dimmed. Not
so Blakelock. ' He spoke with no bitterness of
the people who had beaten him down to the last
farthing while knowing that his work was of rare
merit and that its purchase was certain gain tp
them who had driven him' to madness by their
refusal to let him earn food for his family.
The night that Blakelock left a rich man's door
with a few miserable dollars received for a price-
less work must have been a dark one for the
parsimonious connoisseur.
Blakelock is back at the Middletown State hos-
pital pitifully happy over his trip to Nw York.
At the exhibition of his paintings they are secur-
ing enough money to build a home for his wife
for his daughter who paints and who is ill and
his son who was born the night he went insane.
They will honor him to the full now and we are
glad but "we like to thinktoo that his memories
of the dreadful past are so faded and blended to-
gether that they have lost their power to torment
him. Else how.could'he forgive as he does his
own people who received him not?
Why Not the Facts?
(From the Fort Worth Record.) .
Former State Senator Senter is editor of the
Waco Morning News.- The News says: "It is true
that when Mr. Colquitt was governor he made
more or less effort to take . exclusive control of
the Mexican question." But it isn't true. Mr.
Colquitt did not make more or less effort to take
control of the Mexican problem. Former Senator
Senterf is a very intelligent man. He is a reader
of the newspapers and well posted on current
event's. 1 Mexican raiders crossed the river and
made existence hell for Texans. They ran off
live stock ; they looted houses and stores ; they
destroyed property and they threatened the lives
of American settlers. Mr. Colquitt appealed to
the Federal government for regulars. The war
uepanmciu ignored me appeal war department
officials ignored the governor and they ridiculed
the claim that soldiers were needed on the border
for the protection of life and property. Colquitt
sent the rangers to the Rio Grande. A mere hand-
ful of men could not beat back the advancing
tide of outlaws and cutthroats. ' Then Colquitt
sent the National Guard. . All this was done in
response to frenzied appeals from citizen of
Texas who demanded protection and were entitled
to it ' Colquitt retiree! and Ferguson became gov-
ernor. Mexican raiders continued their depreda-
tions. Then the war department reversed itself
and large detachments of regular soldiers were'
sent to Texas to patrol the Rio Grande. These
are the facts in the case and why deny: them?
The truth of history should be told..
: - ' i New Worlds. 'U;"'' ''f
(Ellen Key.) 1 .
Every child is a new world a world into which
not even the tendered love can; wholly penetrate.
However openly the clear eyes meet ours' how-
ever .confidingly1 the soft hand is laid in ours
this 'tender being will perhaps one day deplore
the suffering of his childhood because we treated
his according to the assumption that children are
replicas - not originals ; not new wonderful per-
sonalities. It is true the child in certain measure
it a repetition of the child nature of all timet
but at the same time and this in a far higher
degree an absolutely new synthesis of soul quali-
ties with new possibilities for sorrow and joy
strength and weakness .
Some Time With )udd LewL
t
i '
Ik r: I
Wherein He Tampers With Trifles and DIs.
.penses Both Wisdom and Wit '
THE Bankers I they
are here today 'and
before they can get away
we rise to welcome them.
We're glad to have them
in our town bedadl
We're glad to t '. know
they're oifttown and
hope that they will set-
tle down and make them-
selves at home a while;
for. them we wear qur
broadest smile for them
we wear our Palm Beach
suits for them we've
polished up our boots for them we wear a'bouton-
nierc and our lid cocked above our ear. We rise
upon our hind legs and we welcome them to beat
the band I For . them the city's fairest blooms
for them May's faint and sweet perfumes for
them the flags above our Streets . for them all
kinds of fancy eats for them our ordinances all ."tt
have been made subject to recall. If they care to
jaywalk they may and if they put dull care away
and if they paint the old town red and they for-
get to go to bed and cut up' didos fer a spell
nobody in this town will tell. We Vant them to
transact their biz and get out in the town which
is the fairest town in this areat State'; the town
which .has set such a gait that other cities have '
in irir rinwn in brass tarlr and hit the ffrit- to -
keep within a mile of where our skyline" sticks jpi
up in the air. And then ere they go home again
we have a spacious rosewood den and have rare
pictures on the wall and we'd like them to; come
and call and. sit down in our easy chairs and leave '
us samples of their wares.. When men of;other
callings come to vail they always leave us some '
of the stuff that they deal in ao we think the
1 1 .1 1 j . :i xi 1. j...Aj 4 1
Banners snouiu nui so uiiui iucj uc uivppcu
in' and left about -as much as we can heft of the.. .
stuff that's their stock in trade. We want some -of
what they have made to hold in our two hands'
and feel to make their visit seem more real. ;:V
" .-'.'
; .. LOVE'S OFFERING. '
'Twas Marjorie who found -the bloom .
At the faint dawning of the day;
And when I woke its rich perfume "
' Prom where it on my pillow lay
Came to me and ythrough air the gloom
Of the new morning all the room
Seemed palpitant with the perfume;
Such is her loving way ." .
' ' ' '". .t .-;' -
Such is- her loving way with me .
"With the first faintest streaks of dawn : .
While dew is still on grass and tree (
' And ere- the night is fairly gone' v -She
with the lovelight in her eyes - : ; ; '.
Looks for where some new blossom lies t
Fairest of all 'neath springtime's skies '": 11
To mark the winter gone. " '-
v -..'. '. ' "
And when she finds a blossom fair . "
. A blossom still all dewy-wet '
A blossom white beyond compare . '
In greenery so deftly set 4 '
That it seems like a jewel white !
Born of the dew and stars and night '
And of the dawning's perfumed light . "
She bends that bloom to get. .'. 1 -
..- .'. ' - V-'-tw-. i
She bends that bloom to get to bring '
. It to me with a loving smile
With all the sweetness of the spring
Rich with the dawning summer's wile ; '
And I awake to find it there
On pillow or on bedside chair
As pure as love is and as fair
To rhake the day worth while. .. . y
;"v - ' ' '' '' '
.k&AX ISH KAISER.- y -
Since ing the following verses aenti in by
a contributor with an Irish name. we are force's
to the conclusion that the rebellion in Dublin is -
merely a bit : of Irish strategy designed to lull . I
the kaiser into a false sense of security or. that
the Irish writer of it it laboring under a mis-
take. Personally we are neutral. We don't
care who lambasts the fillih' out of the Turks:
just so it is done :- .
Whin the war is over Laddie just take a tip
' from me . ' ' m
There'll be no German submarines a-divin' thru
the sea ;
ror tne vateriana 01 ivaiser mil tn guy we re n
gom to lick. t . .
Will have a brand new Kaiser an'.th' tame will '
be a Mick; .
We'll change the song "Die Wacht Am Rhein
into an Irish reel y
An' make the Dutchman dance k If 'tis so In-
clined we feel ' ' 1
For the police force in Berlin will he Micks from v.
County Clare - '
Whin we put an Irish Kaiser in the palace over '
there. '
Shure in every German parkway youll find a
sweet colleen
An' th' fields of wavin sauerkraut well plant
with shamocks green ;'
No liverwurst or sausage whin the Dutchman .
drinks his suds.
He will get corned beef and cabbage an good ;
vould Irish spuds
The heathen's guns and gat bombs well throw tm
all away .
An' make' em use shtlalaht or bricks of Irish
clay; . -
They'll wear no iron crosses shure 'tis shamrocks
they will wear -Whin
we put an Irish Kaiser in the palace over .
there. : ?j -''
1 Just to prove our neutrality if some of our
German friends will write us a brace of verses as
well as those are written telling how "We'll plant f
limburger cheeses where the shamrocks now arev
grown" we'll give them an equal amount of.
space. ; " . ' '
YOU'VE GO TO HAND IT TO THEM. .
A newa item says that a Northern man hat
"invented a house for a bird with a removable ;
bottom." We have always admired Yankee in- '
genuify.
OUGHT TO BE AN "OUTPUT" TO" THEM.''
The Boston Globe relates that California's out- ! '
put of raisins is "three . times that of Spain.
Such facts help us to appreciate the size of this-h
country which two or three kinds of folks say if
not worth defending. Buffalo Enquirer r. ' ' ;
And besides think of all the prunes I Boston '
Globe. ;
He was thinking of them when he mentioned '
those "two or three kinds of folks." ' ' j
a .
Interference With Commerce.
(From Cose and Comment.) j '
A commecrial traveler had been summoned . at
a witness in a case at court his employers having
sued a delinquent customer and the lawyer for
the defense was cross-examining him. -1
"You travel for Jobson & Co. do you?" asked
the attorney.
"Yes sir." '
. "How long have you been doing it?" - i
"About ten years . ; :.v
' "Been traveling all that time hav youf "
"Well no sir" said the witnesi making a
hasty mental calculation "not exactly traveling.
I have put in about four years of hat time wait-
ing at railway stations and junctions for traiat."
: a Man not Afraid to Do Right'
iv1 (From the Homilfon Herald.) '
We understand the Bartenders' Union of Waco v
is lining up solidly for Bob Henry for the senate i
The bartenders and those directly interested iti -the
sale of liquor don't like Colnuitt Wa.. h
signed too many bills while governor that inter-. J
fered with their husiness; but many of the lead- ' I
mg anus 01 tne state m well .as pros are lining
up for Colquitt because they like a man who is '
not afraid to do right. -. . J
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