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THE HOUSTON POST:. MONDAY MORNING JANUARY 8 1 923
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HOUSTON TEXAS MONDAY.
...JANUARY 8 1S21
Financial Liability for Lynching
The city of Chicago last week paid to relative of the victims of the
1919 race riots In that city a total of 120000. Claim for $80000 more
- hare been approved and others are pending which will probably brine
the cost of the riot to 1500000.
The payment! are made under an Illinois law making municipalities
liable for reparation to relatives of victims of lynching or riots which
" occur within their Jurisdiction.
s The Dyer bill had a provision making counties liable to a fine of
$10000 for each lynching. That provision aroused much antagonism
to the law. By many it was regarded as unconstitutional and It was
rather generally believed to be something entirely new In the way of
remedies for suppressing mob violence.
As a matter of fact the first to propose the principle of -financial
liability of counties for lyncbings was former Governor James Stephen
Hogg of Texas perhaps the greatest advocate of States' rights Texas
has produced and the Inveterate enemy of lynching and all forms of
mob violence.
The governor made the proposal of holding counties financially lia
ble In a message to the Twenty-third legislature of Texas dated
February 6 1S93 which was called forth by the burning of a victim by
a mob at Paris.
The very first provision In the proposed antl-lynch law was one re
garding financial liability and read as follows:
"That when any person being a prisoner or in a jail or other place of
confinement or under arrest or in official custody or restraint or it held
by or under the authority of any county city or State officer Or is restrained
by virtue of any legal process shall be taken from such place or authority
in violation of law and put to death the county within which such peraon
was so held or confined and from which he may have been so taken shall
be liable to pay a specified large sum to the surviving- husband wife chil-
dren or parents of said person who shall so suffer death.'
Other provisions in the proposed law made the county liable when
any person not a prisoner was mobbed by two or more persons and the
said criminals were not within a specified time indicted and prosecuted
for their crime; making liable persons or corporations which participate
m aid encourage or abet lynching; and making the sheriff Ineligible
to hold office and providing for his removal from office when a pris
oner Is taken from him and put to death by a mob.
Governor Hogg thus made the principle of reparation to the sur-
vivors of mob victims and the liability of counties perfectly clear and
obviously the legislation that has been enacted In other States along
this line and the Dyer bill Itself follow his recommendations to the
Texas legislature closely.
The purpose Is simply to add to the legal and moral force for the
restraint of mob lawlessness the economic force which In such cases.
is perhaps the most powerful of the three.
Financial liability of counties tor lynching would bring directly
home to the taxpayers who are also voters the evil of mob violence. It
would bestir the co-called "better element" in every community to put
a damper on the passions of the reckless the vicious and the blood'
thirsty in times of stress). It would educate public sentiment to the
necessity for making the law supreme because no county would tolerate
conditions that penalized It unnecessarily. '
If that Texas county for Instance which was the scene of seven
lynchlngs last year had paid (10000 for each lynching the mob fever
would have been effectually cooled when the treasurer made his re
port and the tax collector made his demands.
Whether the Dyer law Is ever accepted or not. the Hogg proposals
ought to be incorporated in law in Texas. The legislature could not do
better than go back to Hogg for guidance in framing an effective anti-
lrnch law for this State.
Moderating the Pension Grab
The country is to be congratulated that the time has come at last
when a president dares to veto a bill designed to Increase the pension
graft on the government.
The absolute necessity for economy tn government expenditures no
doubt strongly influenced President Harding in returning unsigned the
Bursum bill which would have Increased the pension outlay by about
$108000000 per year but the president was also prabably conscious of
the fact that the political influence of those who hate been raiding the
treasury for forty years or more has waned to the point where It la not
fatal to antagonize It. For this latter condition as well as for the
president's regard for the financial situation and his courage the coun-
try should be thankful.
The time had surely come when a determined check should be ad
ministered to the pension grabbers. The government's pension system
has been a national scandal for a generation and It has been a reproach
to the country that so little was done to abate the eviL
The government's pension bill has grown steadily since 1S77 until
in 1919 or fifty-four years after the close of the War Between the
States it reached the peak at $222159292.
In 1877 twelve years after the war closed there were 128723 sur-
vivors on the pension rolls and 103381 widows making a total of 232-
104 pensioners drawing a total of $28182821.27.
Twenty years later In 1897 the number of survivors had increased to
733527 and the number of widows to 228522 making a total of 976014
pensioners drawing a total of $139X9717.35 from the government.
That was thirty-two years after the war and in that year congress
was greatly agitated over the pension robbery but nothing was done
about it. In that year the New York -Sun in an expose of the system
presented statistics showing that while there were only 727.122 actual
sorvivors of the war there were 733517 drawing pensions as survivors.
In addition there were enough widows drawing pensions and demanding
pensions to run the number above 1300000.
Ten years later. In 1907. there were still 679937 invalids and 287434
i widows or a total of 967371 on the rolls and the pension disbursement
' was $138455412.26.
By 1919 the snrvlvors on the rolls had shown a decrease to 313JLL
but the number of widows had grown to 803311 or three times the
- number In 1877. The total number on the rolls In that year was 624437
but the disbursement touched the new high level of $222459.292. Last
year for the first time since 1890 the pensioners numbered less than
600000 but the pension disbursement was $213295314.
The president estimated that had the Bursum Increase been accepted
the precedent would have paved the way for a pension disbursement of
i $50000000000 during the next half century.
The president's veto of the Bursum bill should mark the turning
; point in the government's course relative to pension demands growing
out-of wars previous to the world war. The peak of disbursements
should be considered past.
The country must now turn its attention to further compensation of
the survivors both ablebodled and disabled of the last war. With the
experience of the past forty years fresh in mind it will be a task to
' challenge the best thought and highest patriotism of the nation.
repetition of the old pension raids on a scale commensurate with the
' magnitude of the armies engaged In the last war would bankrupt the
country.
Europe took more than 800.000 bales of the South's cotton In No-
vember the exports being valued at $109387719. This was the basis
' tor some of the prosperity in evidence in the South during the holidays
It the channels of trade with Europe can be kept open the South will
' solve the problem of prosperity. And' the rest of the country will profit
tn the degree that the South prospers.
Early Morning Observations
y George M. Bailey.
J
It would (ratify us if taa president were to
appoint Gus Shaw to the Federal Reserve
boartf. bat surely it would be fiction to appoint
him as a dirt fanner. Gus in his youth was a
lawyer and a good one and later coming late
his inheritance of large possessions ja the rich
Red River Valley be became a planter and
ultimately a planter-banker. But as for being
a dirt farmer we can testify that for forty
years 'at least Gus has never cooed to a gray
mule in a furrow and our guess u be never
did in his life.
We suppose Tyler's sewerage system has
been completely wrecked. The officers poured
6oo quarts of moonshine into the sewers there
the other day
One writer says: "In spite of the doctors
and the germ theory kissing was never so
promiscuous and prevalent as now." Tooth
brWies dentifrices and breath-sweeteners have
simply made human impulses irresistible.
France will use her annv to take what the
Germans haven't got and thus the merry game
goes on. America and Albion will have to wit
and see what they shall see.
We do not believe that either Charlie Chap
lin or the bewitching Pola Negri would have to
marry for the advertising.
France doesn't want even to borrow trouble.
Her plan seems to be to blart off a big chunk
and take it.
The road to the Ruhr is a broad road that
leads to ultimate destruction. Our advice to
La Belle France is to hesitate meditate and
arbitrate.
1UC KJUKX UVW
V H. I. Phillips). t
MtaMwaMMMiaMiaMMMMi
The legislature assembles tomorrow and as
it may decide to enact laws inaugurating hu-
man perfection you would better see the tax
Collector. Don't let the millennium catch you
without a poll tax receipt.
Just 108 years ago today Andrew Jackson
democrat carried New Orleans by a decisive
majority over General Sir Edward Pakenham
the republican candidate and his veterans of
Wellington's Peninsular campaign.
We are not interested in the statement that
Babe Roth reduced his waist line six inches
in iozj. Will he reduce his caput al circumfer
ence six yards in 1913? There's where the
deflation is needed.
Gee those who still have money can get
things cheap in these stirring New Year days.
Why didn't we think of that beforehand ?
There are thirty-seven Gallaghers and one
Shean in Houston but thank the Lord the
Shean is properly Isolated and doesn't sing.
Louisville has elected a woman president of
the board of education. It is not a bad plan
to revive woman's interest in the children. In
many instances it seems to be lagging.
Just to bring the matter a little nearer home
to you. there are Just twenty-four days remain
ing of the poll tax period and three of them
are Sundays. Your citirenship will be just as
important as a rabbit's if you dont amble
around to Bruce Ferguson's office.
Industry Is the- powerhouse of a city's opera
tions Put the factories in and the skyscrapers
and bungalows will spring up UVa mushrooms.
The New York Times calls Florida the boot-
leggers paradise and yet the Standard Dic
tionary tells us that Paradise is a place of de
parted spirits. How paradoxical I
Washington reports that there wiH be bo
extra session in the spring and that congress
will take a rest. It will be the nation that will
get the rest.
North Carolina negroes met In Raleigh the
other day and repudiated the G. O. P. as "an
empty skeleton." As old Bob Ingerson would
have said "Let them cover their eyeless sockets
with their fleshless hands and fade forever
from the imaginations of men."
i
There will be the usual inauguration in Aus
tin next week but it will be one of those
serene affairs which will not necessitate a
change of washerwomen at the Mansion.
It Is said that there will be an influx of
former Grecian statesmen to this country pretty
soon but it will make no difference to us-
Well have Xanthull to sweeteu our disposition
for us as usual.
If necessity compels men to IdH the quail for
food we say nothing; if it be love of luxury
or merely test of skill then let the quail work
on the boll weevil and serve humanity nobly.
We take. It that the Texas legislature will
prefer to search for new revenues rather than
try to equalize the tax injustices which present
assessment methods inflict upon the people of
the State.
A Missouri enforcement officer says the way
to put moonshine out of basin ess is to tell the
people how rotten end dangerous h is. We've
been telling that all along aad it looks to as
as if -the publicity merely makes business for
the bootleggers.
The hardware dealers are potting on display the spade the hoe and
the rake. That together with this balmy weather ought to be suffl-
r dent hint to get busy on Uk spring- garden. . v
Our DoaWon is that if the neniteiiriarr
moved from Huntaville that Htmtsville should
be given something equally as good or better.
No the Herrtn victims were not lynched.
for they were not prisoners in custody or ner.
sons charged with crime. They were ordinary
workttgmea foully assassinated.
Another New Year difficulty Is the anti-
swearing resolution reminds us that not more
than half the tilings that make one cuss are
preventable.
Some Postscripts
About $8000000 Is invested in the raising of
silver foxes in captivity in the United States.
and about 500 ranches are engaged in the in
dustry.
During forty-one yesrs of mining Alaska has
produced minerals valued at $460000000 more
than half of which was produced in the last
tea years.
The first State monument erected to Ameri-
can war dead in France that of the State of
Missouri was designed by a woman sculptor
Miss Nancy Coonsman Hahn who lives in St.
Louis.
The crew of .a "Gloucester fishing schooner
harpooned a turtle off Nantucket recently
weighing tjoo pounds. It measured seven feet
In length and ten feet from flipper to1 flipper.
The turtle was a native of the Gulf of Mexico.
Aa avenue of trees connecting the cities of
Winstoa-Salem and High Point is to be planted
by the Women's club of Winston-Salem as' a
memorial to the soldiers of Forsyth county
Kocth Carolina who served is the world war.
Twcnty-FiVe Years Ago
O. Hewe Dumm Reports or the Egyptian
Desert piaoovsrtee
Luxor Egypt Everybody 'seems te be f lad
ing something la the Egyptian desert. Mors
lost articles are being iecoered there than in
a metropolitan city during Christmas shopping.
The other day an explorer found aa obelisk
over there. Aad another ene found the tomb
of an Egyptian king. I have sees both and
how anybody oould have' lost suck articles ia
the first place Is very mystifying to me.
Nothing would seem more difficult to mis
lay or drop than an obelisk. You'd think the
owner would have Jieard it tinkle when it fell.
I know that if I had aa obelisk on my hands
I simply couldn't get rid of it. Yet the ancient
Egyptians were very skilful ia this respectf I
find and could lose a pyramid or a tea-room
tomb as easily as the man of today loses a cuff
link or a telephone number.
The most recent discovery is that of the
tomb of a fellow - named Tutankhamen who
was a king of Egyt fifty centuries ago. Uiftil
they dug it up the other afternoon few people
knew Tutankhamen ever had a tomb. The
fact it had been lost was 'never suspected.
Egyptologists had been digging all around
Tut's place for hundreds of years without find-
ing it. Howard Carter aa American and Lord
Carnavou of England who finally unearthed
the tomb; had been digging thereabout for
eight years. That's a whale of a long time to
dig without finding something. I dug thirty
minutes once for some fish bait and I remem
ber I gave pp in disgust-
Valuables worth $15000000 were found in
King Tut's mortuary parlors when opened
however proving that if a man has talent for
digging there is no place like Egypt in which
to apply it
Even when Carter 'first unearthed the tomb
he didn't know what he had put his foot in.
He just stumbled over something while dig-
ging and it was some time before he realised
be had dug up an Egyptian tomb that was not
in any telephone book or business guide.
I visited the tomb yesterday. Believe me.
Slid King Tut was as Ritzy a king as was ever
one up in yeast-cakes and calico wrappers.
in his tomb I found a throne glistening with
precious stones chairs and tables of gold and
ivory and enormous beds and divans carved
cut of ivory and studded with jewels. Tut
was no piker when it came to sleeping equipment
There were beautiful alabaster vases stat
ues gold and silver boxes filled with treas-
ures and some nifty-looking cigarette trays
and things all piled about as if an auction
sale had been in progress when a sandstorm
came up and ruined everything.
A great supply of mummified meats and
poultry was found m one room indicating
that the folks who buried Tut were no mean
providers. The ancient Egyptians always had
the idea a king or queen might be only fool-
ing just to see what kind of a funeral they'd
get and that after the interment they might
get up and go to the ice box to see if there was
anything there for a cold lunch.
The tomb was really a considerable flace.
It had something like u rooms four baths.
and kitchenette and was completely furnished
and equipped for light housekeeping. When
a king died they saw that he had buried all
his possessions ssjth him including 'bis char
iots.
To me this seems like burying a prominent
citizen together with his apartment wardrobe
garage and automobile which is the height of
silliness.
I looked over some of King Tut's clothes
and found two ticket stubs to the Egyptian
Uttle Club a program of the Nile Cabaret
some pictures of chorus girls in the Nineveh
Follies and the address of an early Egytian
bootlegger.
On a large but empty jog I found the in-
scription: "Tekaj Blej Mekel Tekel Salkiw
Tenl Hakhamet Ut" This translated liter
ally means "First prize annual horseshoe
pitching contest Luxor Business Men's Out-
ing." Also was found a huge carving showing
many figures of Egyptian men sitting around
a table looking very bored and some quite help-
less. The inscription read "Alakateh Jamek
Teik Sulheim Siklet Metzaz Ziw Tklu" which
in English u Egypt Rotarians at First Apple
Week Banquet
P. S. I wiD send yon more news later. Re-
gards to Dummer.
(Copyright iosj by Associated Newspapers.)
From a Seat in the Gallery
By Herbert Corey.
Washington D. C Jn- 6. Just for a mo-
ment the peace of this republic took another
totter this week- Then it straightened up
again a danger bad passed. There is no
probability that the .speeches in the house of
representatives will be broadcasted upon a
desperate world.
"And why not?"
"Because we never could agree on the
speaker to be broadcasted" say the congress-
men. One of the new amplifying devices has been
installed in the bouse. Six "lilies" attached to
the ceiling over the speaker's desk shoot sound
waves in as many directions. There are six
microphones at strategic points in the body of
the house. One is in front of the clerk two
others on the desk of the floor leaders and
the others disposed where they will be most
useful. In the front row of the gallery re-
served for members sad their wives sits an
alert young mas at a keyboard. When a mem
ber rises to speak he turns on the microphone
nearest him for only one of th amplifiers
can be used at a time.
If the member is aesr enough one of the
instruments bis voice immediately becomes
clearly audible in the most remote recesses of
the chamber which is one of the worst in the
world acoustically. The amplifier itself is
hooked up to the telephone system so that ar
rangements could be made if desirable to give
a telephone subscriber in Fargo N. Dale long
distance listening to the proceedings in the
house. The speeches of the statesmen might
be broadcasted precisely as was the speech of
President 'Harding to congress not long ago.
The auditory part of the whole show might be
broadcasted for that matter. Owners of radio
sets could tune in to B L A H and hear
everything id the house from the squeak of a
page to the protests of Blanton.
The members seem agreed however that
would be too much. Perhaps no one of them
cares to face the possibility of his distant con
stituents bearing him perform vocally in Wash
ington. Every one of the members how'ver
desired that selected speeches might well be
I broadcasted. The difficulty was to select the
selector.
"You do it" said the members to the com-
pany that has installed the amplifiers. The
company backed away stalling desperately. It
pointed out that it could hardly undertake the
task. Sooner or later it would get Itself ia
trouble. And that members agree that they
could not agree.
The only solution seems to be to form s
broadcasting bloc.
Probably Is True Either Way.
(From tk LoitvUU CourUr-Joumtl.)
The automobile Industry is breaking all rec-
ords for production ia America. Does that
show we're prosperous or why so many of as
areatr
J. A. Friedman has returned from Dallas.
Middling spot cotton wss quoted St f-I
cents per pound.
Co I. W. A. Childress returned from s busi
ness trip to West Texas.
Mrs. Kate Carringtea of New York U th
guest of Mrs. B. F. Weems.
Rev. M. Robertson of Galveston filled th
pulpit at th Westminster Presbyterian church.
Mrs. B. V. Ellis of Paris and Mrs. J. S. For-
trand of Galveston are guests of their sister
Mrs. Cabeen Blake.
Max and Sam Taub arc now associated with
their father J. N. Taub ia business. The name
of the new firm is J. N. Taub ft Sons-
Dr. Rufut C. Burleson of Waco preached at
the First Baptist church telling of his 50
years' of experience as a minister in Texas-
Dr. R. Rutherford and niece Miss Mamie
Card well returned from Waco where they at-
tended the funeral of former Governor U Sul
Ross.
Louis Lilienthal has been appointed by Mayor
Rice to take the scholastic census of Houston
(or 1898. The State per capita appropriation
is $4 5-
Col. W. B. Slossom suggests that Houston
seek to influence congressmen from other
States in behalf of the appropriation for Buf-
falo bayou.
The Citizens' Electric Light company of
Houston went into the hands of a receiver.
Blake Dupree was named to have charge of
the company's affairs.
Stats Hait clings.
Austin. Hon. George W. Smith of Houston
as here today.
Galveston. Congressman Hawley sends word
that H. A. Griffin will be the next postmaster.
Angieton. Sugar cane culture is the absorb
ing topic in this county at this time. Thou-
sands of acres of new land will be put in cane
this spring. .
Bryan. The alumni and former cadets of
the Agricultural and Mechanical college are
organizing a movement to raise $aoooo with
which to erect a monument in memory of the
late Governor Ross.
Austin. Judge John H. Reagan announced
his withdrawal as a candidate for the United
States senate. Unforeseen matters of a pri-
vate nature forced his retirement be said and
not apprehension of defeat
Mount Pleasant Mrs. Annie McLean Moore
of this city is said to be the only woman bank
president in the United States. She is presi-
dent of the First National bank of Mount
Pleasant. She is a daughter of Judge McLean
and a sister of Assistant Prosecutor Jeff McLean.
Gehkbal.
Nashville. Governor "Bob" Taylor an
nounced that circumstances made it impossi
ble for him to become a candidate for United
States senator.
Washington D. C Secretary of State John
Sherman issued an appeal for every town in
the country to contribute to the relief of the
destitute Cubans.
Chicago. William J. Bryan was the princi
pal speaker at the Jackson day dinner attend
ed by 500 prominent democrats here today.
Mayor Carter Harrison presided as toastmas-
ter.
London. The latest type of phonograph was
sent to Windsor castle to procure permanently
the tones of Queen Victoria's voice- The
queen has consented to speak a message into
the records.
The Youth of the World
By Dr. Frank Crane.
More and more we are struck by the youth
of the world by its rawness its immaturity.
by the manifest deciduousness of all its ex
isting institutions ideas and beliefs.
We cannot restrain the feeling that in two or
three centuries from now people are going to
look back on this time with the same sort of
curious amazement that we now look back
upon the customs and notions of the days of
Philip IL of Spain or Elizabeth of England.
There is hardly anything that we have estab
lished anything that we have accepted as ex
cellent or even possible that even a little
criticism cannot show to be entirely absurd.
Think first of the condition of the whole
world. Think of the fifty or so nations of
mankind wasting probably nine-tenths of their
surplus production in getting ready to fight
each other when they might save all that sim
ply by uniting in some sort of a federation sim
ilar to that of the 48 States of America.
And think of the vast passions with which
this state of things is supported and how
universally patriotism is magnified even above
religion and how we look with horror upon a
man who is not willing to give his life to per
petuate this inconceivably ridiculous state of
things.
Think of the institutions by which the mor
al convictions of the race are now cared for
fhism Mahometaniam and Christianity which
for the most part are mere war cries. Think
of the enormous effort wasted in maintaining
rival denominations and in the struggle of
each for precedence and the almost entire
impossibility of inducing all people who feel
rewgion which at bottom ia the enthusiasm for
humanity from coming together and working
tn harmony.
Think of the importance we attach to the
actions the properties and the ideas of people
of 40 yeaA) of age and over when they wilt
soon be dead anyhow and of the comparatively
rnivial attention we bestow toward the train
ing of children.
Think of. our ugly unaarmonious hodge-
podge of buildings which we call cities where
blooms the very flower of civic life yet where
there is no artistic sense sufficient to curb our
rampant individualism and to build a unified
and harmonious city for the labors and pleas
ures of man.
Think of the hostile camps of labor and cap-
ital of powerful labor unions hating and fight-
ing the very thing that gives them their tools
to work with and the brain to direct them and
of the mediaeval and childish sentiment which
actuates most successful capitalists inducing
them to imitate in a world of modern democ
racy th futile splendors of outgrown times.
Think of the almost insane ideas which gov
ern us ut our treatment of criminals how we
lock them up in prisons punish and debase
them or finally kill them and how we reject
as childish and idle the simple self-evident
conclusion of common sense' that criminals
should be cured and not hurt and that the
welfare of society does not depend upon the
devilish thing called vengeance but upon the
intelligent development of the moral inhibi-
tions among th people. It is enough to make
one ardently wish that the doctrine of reincar-
nation might be true so that he might come
back after several generations and see how
th world had outgrown these glaring and cruel
Immaturities.
(Copyright toaj by Frank Crane.)
Women Just That Contrary.
(Pram Iks MuhviUt TnntJtetan.)
CUmcaceau say be favors a law prohibit-
ing long skirts. We a re agaiast it because that
would tasks ttsat wsag lens
' "JusTa Rhyme oFTwo
y Walt Masen en Cdgar Oust
Li
The Poet .
I read aa ode by Seaooolt-Sage 4t is th
proper thing to read him ; his works Just now
ar all the rage and wild applause th high-
brow feed him. I read that epic to and fro
from right to left and down th middle I
greatly strove its sense to know and still it
was a beastly riddle. "The way this poet
fumes and rants imputing souls to tiger-
lilies" I said in anger to my aunts "must
giv all thoughtful men th will lea. On tin
in ten is fine and grand aad might be written
by a master; If t'other nine you'd understand
you'd have to wear a porous plaster. Lit is
too short to read a bard who balls you up wjth
far-fetched phrases; 111 throw this volume ra-
the yard and Seacook-Sage may go to blazes."
When I am talking to my aunts I tell the truth
as I descry it; but when I go to Culture's
haunts I know the truth and yet deny it That
evening at the Highbrow Club I boosted works
of Seacook-Sag's and said he was a gifted
dub whose fame would thunder down th ages.
I feared they'd think my brow was low if
once 1 started to jaw him they'd say I lacked
th sense te know a first class poet when I
saw him. I wouldn t give ten centa a ton for
all the odes this bard is showing but we are
rabbits every one and follow where the crowd
is going. Walt Mason.
(Copyright" 193. by George Matthew Adams.)
Suoctsa
'See that young man over there? He's
made good. Half a year ago he came over from
Austria with three millions in his pockets and
today he's worth $1000 1"
Some Hole Anyway.
Hewitt This disarmament Idea is calculated
to save a lot of money.
Jewett Yes ; enough to pay for another dis
armament conference.
She Gave Me a Letter to Mall
SV SDGAS A. CUCST.
She gave me a letter to mail ;
I said it should go right away.
Should catch the first post without fail
I vowed there would be no delay
And into my pocket it went
The letter that never was sent
thought of the book she desired.
The shopping she asked me to do
I sent up-a maid whom she hired
I remembered the coal order too.
I remembered to stop for the meat
She wanted that evening to eat
I don't like to brag or to boast.
As a husband I do as I'm told ;
I am sure I remember the most
Of the things that a mind ought to hold.
And the gas bill she hands me today
I even remember to pay.
Weeks after I run through my coat
Through the papers and things I acquire.
And discover a sweetscented note.
Which I promptly consign to the fire I
There ever and always I fail
When she gives me a letter to mail.
(Copyright toaj by Edgar A. Guest.)
Real Danger.
Mr. Hardfax I'm astonished that you with
your record as a big game hunter should be
afraid of a mouse.
Miss Jungeleer That's different Lions and
tigers don't run up one's legs.
A Song of Toll.
Toil toil.
Tor a crust of bread
' Till the brain reels blind
And.the hand falls dead;
Thorny way .
For the feet to tread-
But rest some day in the daisies.
Toil toil I
Through the thankless years.
Shake the stars
With a storm of prayers ;
World that smiles
Through a rain of tears
But Rest some day in the daisies!
Toil toil!
'Tis the way of Life :
Breast a sheath
For a cruel knife
That slays its thousands
In the strife
But Rest some day in the daisies I
Frank L. Stanton in Atlanta Constitution
Nature's Gift.
Mr. Pus; Say cul wot d'ye mean by that
Yer 1 us save me a nastv look.
Mr Fog No I didn't give it to you. You
always had it.
Making Him Think.
Mrs. Shsrpe How do you sell your milk?
The Milkman Twelve cents a quart mum.
Mrs. Sharpe Ah then this diluted stuff
must be cheaper.
btvf VNI0 mm aw tywj ww(
Tk ittril at stlf-JKTifics. ..-?
I Wordsworth
jjuuwirmn cm nnnnnnnnnmr r
Regarding the Brooklyn Boys
By Irvln 8. Cobb.
There are several versions of this clsssic
but personally I am pledged to the one favor
ed by Donald Barr who lives over in Eliza
beth New Jersey. In his rendition Barr puts
the narrative in the mouth of a mythical
friend of his named George.
It would seem that George customarily
patronized a certain bar wherein gathered
nightly a group of men whose highest ambi-
tion was to be on their feet when alt the others
were under the table and whose proudest boast
was that they had never been known to "pass
out of the picture." To these reprehensible
ambitions George subscribed. But he was
unique in that even at the climax of inebria
tion he persisted in denying that he was
drunk repeatedly asserting that he was in full
possession of all his faculties and that th ol'
head was still just as clear as a bell.
One night they missed George. Nor did he
come the next evening nor the next nor the
next It waa a month before he reappeared
and. then he was so swathed in bandages so
painfully hopping on crutches that they
swarmed around him with excited questionings.
-mow did I get this way f " said George.
"Well I'll tell you. Y' remember that las'
night I was here? Drlnkin' pretty heavy that
ntgnt out you know how it U with me
When I left the ol' bean was as clear aa a
bell. Actually I might just aa well not a' had
anytnmg. well somehow I knew the Brook
lyn Boys were going to show up that night
I sort of felt It. And when I turned out th
light an' hopped into the el' bed sure enough
there war two of them on on each corner
down by my feet"
"Th Brooklyn Boys?" somebody queried.
"Yeh sure" said George. "You know 'em
don't you? Little men about so high" with
hfs hands h indicated a span of four or five
inches "in bright yellow shirts.
"Well 'as I said there they were two of
I laid still for awhile pretendin I was
asleep an' watched 'em -lookin'. at to and
then at each ether and noddin'' their heads
an' saying; i That's klnb That's th guy'
Ta ckKk tkt rrW-f amdrfrhMi
Than wha art victory ese .
Burgess Bedtime Storict j
Welcome Robin Finds a Ntw Mrwn
BV TBOSSTSnl . BWMBes. '; '" ' i
Mafty tkott wha alwagu knaw. ('- lV!"
A refuga fra Uta ica mi ; .
' Weloamg ztsMevv;
After Welcome Robin had eaten ttXJ 11 . '
could eat so more of the food Farmer Brown's
Boy had spread for him en a feeding shelf is)
the Old Orchard he felt like a new Robin. H
did so. Th Great World appeared a very
different place. Life was very much more V
worth living. He even admired the sparkling.
of the ice covered trees. He no longer felt - .
cold." You see all wist food made heat in his
body and his feathers kept that heat there. S -he
felt quite like himself. Then too it waai-
very pleasant to be with other birds. Ever
since winter had started ia he had lived by
himself down in the cedar swamp.
V.' I ... JIA.I
ao wnen ne naa eaten ait ne couia ne uu . -fly
back to the cedar swamp as he had ex
pected to do. It was so dark and lonely down
there that he couldn't think of going back right
away. Instead he stayed around ia the Ola
Orchard and around Farmer Brown's house. - '.
He was still there when Jolly round rod.
Mr. c.un henn to dron down toward th Par
pie Hills to go to bed and th first of th
Black Shadows began to steal out from tn
Purple Hills. "I can't bear to go back there
to the cedar swamp said Welcome Robin to.
himself. "I just cant bear to do it. If only
I could find a place to spend th night UP
here I would feel ever so much better.
Than
Instead he flew down on a clothes pest
and from that studied that shed.
I would be right on hand to ful my stomach the
very first thing in the morning. Those cedar
berries down in the swamp are still covered
with ice. ilp here there is plenty of food and
no ice. I am almost sure Farmer Brown'a Boy
will put out more food. There is a cedar tree
over back of the house and perhaps I can
spend the night in that I am sure that will
be better than going way back t that swamp:.
I believe 111 go over and see if it will do."
So Welcome Robin started to fly from tg-e
Old Orchard over to the cedar tree back of I
Farmer Rrnwn'a house. It took him nast a I
long open wood shed at the back of the house i
An idea came to him which quite took his f
breath away. Peshaps he could stay in that I
shed I He suddenly changed his mind about V
flyinr over to that cedar tree. Instead he I
flew down on a clothes post and from that I
he studied the shed. It was open on the side I
toward him and he could see neat piles ot
wood in it The.mor he looked the better he
liked the idea. No one was about He flevrj
down on the snow just in front of th shed'
and took a hasty look inside.
back to the ' post. Again
another look. It certainly
and comfortable inside that
flew to the post once more.
make up his mind to fly inside
didn't quite dare do it
He looked over toward the Purple Hills.
Jolly round red Mr. Sun was just disappear-
ing behind them. The Black Shadows were al-
ready half way across to the Old Orchard
Already it - was dark in the Green Forest. '
Hooty the Owl would be out hunting very
soon. Welcome Robin knew then that he
didn't dare go back to the swamp. He would
have to spend the night in that cedar tree
back of the house or else in the shed.
Til do itl" said he at last He flew down
just within the shed. He looked hastily this
way and that way to make sure that no one
saw him. Then he flew up to a rafter just
under the roof. It was very comfortable In
there. In five minutes Welcome Robin way-
fast asleep with his head tucked under his -wing.
(Copyright toaj by T. W. Burgess.
The next story: "Welcome's Retreat Is
Discovered."
They he flewl
he flew down fori
looked very cozy 1
shed. Back he 1
He couldn't quite 1
that shed. He I
Then all of a sudden I made a spring at them.
But they got away. . .one hopped over th tran-
som and one oozed out through the keyhole.
"Well I said to myself that settles 'em for
tonight. An' I got back In bed.
"D'ye know I hadn't been there a minute
when I looked around and saw there in the
middle of the floor seven of those Brooklyn
Boys all lookin' up at m and noddin' among
themselves and savin': That's the guy ther
that's him.'
"Wen I jumped out of ben Itke a flash but
they were too quick for me- They all scooted
under the door over the door through th
keyhole an' everywheres.
"Well I thought then I was sure finished
for a while. But I'd no sooner got back .in -
oeo wnen 1 nearu a souna ana 1 looaca arosqia
and there waa sixty Brooklyn Boys I I knew
the nn to aomethinsr hr reasaii thevU look
up at me and then nod among themselves an k .
1.: . rrk.. t.i .n it Tn.-t.k
that's him.' -
"All this time 'understand the ol' bead
was clear as a bell. I knew perfectly well
what I was doing. 1 '
"So I jumped right at them because that'i
the best way to get rid of the Brooklyn Boys'
y'know. But they all got away every single
one and I got back in bed again thinkin I Was
safe now for sure. Well dylraow whet?Vc
"What?" asked somebody.
"Why I hadnt but barely got bade in bed
when I looked down and there on the floor was .
35000 Brooklyn Boys I And this time each v
one bad a little musket over hi shoulder. Well "
the leader he lines them all np and waved bis
sword up toward me in the bed and yelled tS
'That's bim boys! That's the guy np there I' '
"Then he yelled: 'Ready I....
"Then he yelled t 'Aiml....' ' v.- At
"Well now aa I said all this tun the el;
bean was workln' beautifully. . I saw Just-what
they wss up to and before that Brooklyn Boy i-
that bad th sword could yeu 'Fire I I'd &
jumped clean out of bed and through the win-
dow. . T ; - :.;.r :
George paused and wetted his threat with y
an appropriate liquid. . s
"Of course" he added "my room It on th
third floor an' I got sort 0' banged np S yo
fellas notice. But just think what might have'
happened If I'd been drank and couldn't a'
mad that jump in timlB : . J. ?
(Copyright 193 by. McNattght SyadtostsXnt.
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