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HOUSTON TEXAS WEDNESDAY.
.APRIU -lttt
i ; 't The Governor 8 Reply tbJWcst-Texas H
- .Governor NnOs answer to the SweetwmWrttM meeting which ex-
pressed Indignation at his disapproval ot the college end rural school bills
vu in good humor and to the point There was nothing in the vetp of the
college bill to incite the people to anger. The! bill carried only a small
"provision .for the purchase ot ground and in reality there can be no great
rush tor the purchase ot the ground when the creation ot the coll eg itself-
project which will require millions admittedly indefinite both
aa to time and location. i .""t-.-.v-j .
In riew of the near-ecandal which attended the former attempt to locate
this proposed Institution it is wen enougn lo tase ume ana aa wun cu-
Uon and deliberation. . ? . " ': . ' ' ' ' '
Governor Neft admlU the Injustice of denying to West Texas Its propor-
tionate share ot legislative representation. That injustice ought to be reme-
died and the governor signifies his Intention to do all in his power to get
the legislature to reapportion the State upon a fair basis as is required by
the constitution. ; - - :-. Vv.-';' ' i:iile
The rural school bin vetoed by the governor was not a West Texas
measure any more than one involving other sections. Indeed scarcely as
Tmuch.v So whatever criticism the Sweetwater mass meeting vis!tedpon
'that action ot the governor could not possibly have a sectionsl meaning.
Such Injury as may follow the veto will fall to other sections more than to
west Texas. - . .
. The Post does not believe that West Texas has any' tangible grievance
against the governor. Regardless of the governor's complying with the
platform demands relative to the college that institution In reality snt-
fered no material backset. In the very nature ot things the college is some dla-
tanee In the future. It requires even more than money to malm a real col-
lege And The Post believes If the West Texas people will get behind the
movement tor a real survey 01 we ouuc nwwbw nmui mm mo iu
step not only West Texas but all sections of the State; win enjoy more
rapid educational progress than heretofore. ' ' '
The present governor la a sincere friend of both higher and common
school education. Indeed there is no lack ot advocates ot better school
facilities In Texas. The trouble is too many of us who might Impart much
impetus to public school sentiment are conscious of lost motion because so
frequently we must strive with our eyes shut
There Is much reason tb believe that our -normal school development
might have been more effective it it had been in accord with some IntelU-
gently deliberated plan instead of the old way of some smart locality pull-
ing for a college strictly for the material benefijts to accrue to business
interests
' The need ot the survey has been ling apparent and It ought to be
. projected and made by competent persons. Then West Texas would have
a plan and a claim infinitely stronger than the mere sectional demand upon
' which the present claim Is based. '
'" The Post Is In hearty sympathy with the general desire of the people
of West Texas for more attention. West Texas agriculture depends largely
upon irrigation and Irrigation depends upon the conservation of flood
waters. In the northern and western areas of Texas and conservation of
iioOu waters in me ana tcs"us wwuu uip u qwv.uur uwu yivurou
flooded valleys In this section.
-V The people and legislative representatives of this section need to re-
member that West Texas is no longer a barren unpopulated plain. It has
"'progressed wonderfully during the past 20 years and has a still more won-
'derfid future ahead No plea for Justice from that section or any section
should go unheeded and where our aid can help in the advancement of in-
terests ot the West it should not be withheld.
'; But in the meantime the West Texans have no genuine grievance against
'Governor Neff.
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2 Mexico's Dangerous Enemy
u appears from reports coming out of Mexico that President Obregon
' is not only faced with the task of rehabilitating a bankrupt and war-torn
country but also with meeting bolshevik influences whkh are at work to
cause the same sort of trouble in Mexico that they have caused elsewhere.
The new president thus not only has to overcome the conditions of igno-
rance poverty and inefficiency that prevail among a large part ot the
. alexkan population but he is opposed by an active destructive force of out-
side origin.
' . With Mexico seeking to emerge from years of revolution and chaos the
president should make short work of the radical agitators. Strong meas-
urea win he Justifiable in ridding the country ot all the alien disturbers
' and of curbing their domestic dupes. The United States hss set Obregon
' an example in the handling of alien reds by deporting them by the ship
load. Mexico has enough troubles without permitting the agents of the
'murderous Lenine and Trotsky to .remain in the country and add to the
general confusion".
'! Above everything else Mexico needs to work and repair the damage of
the last ten years. She can not have prosperity until her raiiroaae ner
' mines and her other industries are functioning again. And Mexico can not
produce if strikes inspired by trouble-breeding red agents are to tie up
transportation and the industries.
V' It is a particularly dangerous thing to agitate labor troubles in Mexico
ml this time. The men who would inflame thl minds of the working peo-
I'ple many ot whom are ignorant are criminals and traitors to Mexico's best
interests. Out of these labor troubles another bloody revolution could easily
spring.
; President Obregon owes it to Mexico to rid the country ot bolshevik
influence and give the people a chance to recuperate. With that menace
removed the chances for continued progress toward a state of domestic
" peace and prosperity are greatly enhanced.
Freight Rates and Values
f I Northern papers are commenting on the story of a fur trapper who
shipped a bundle of furs to market and was presented with a bill for 7
cents the furs lacking that much of bringing freight charges when sold in
the open market The case Is unusual only "because furs occupy compara-
tively small space and their value is high- It is an illustration of how the
tlgh freight rates effect the producer.
It la nothing unusual however in this part of the country for the freight
charges on products to exceed by far the amount the producer receives.
' celvers here of corn from Oklahoma pay almost as much freight on the
' ipmehts as the shipper receives for the product' In the case of hay from
est Texas the freight charge! are said by dealers to frequently exceed
a price of the hay.
TLa mors notorious example of course is the one of cabbage shipments
m the Bin Grande Valley a case with which the public is now familiar.
' grower receives 6 per ton. The freight and Icing charges to Houston
1 Dallas amount to practically $15 per ton or two and halt times the
al cost ot the product The rate to Kansas City is more than $31 per
Vr better theA 0 times the amount the grower receives.
It msy be as contributor to The Post recently suggested that rates
cot too high but that prices of the products are too low. At any rate
U something radically wrong when transportation charges mount up
ts much or to several times the value of the product shipped and It is
'itloa that will have to be remedied if production is to continue.
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Houston's neighboring port of Orange is making a record as an exporter of
-r." Its exportation s are all the more conspicuous by reason ot the fact
I tie export business in lumber is not heavy now and that there is a
1 la general shirr Snt Orasje has established herself ss One of the
set gulf ports and is r :ag ahead despite the shut down in the shlp-
industry' which was a severe blow to the city for a time. Orange
t 9 tame sort of pluck U ; t ctaracterlxes other Texas gnlf ports.
neb' minister cf J
1 ii tb house
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couce that he win Introduce a
1 to stoptni profiteerlngvm
' p shocks Psrls It must-be an
4 thy "to interest New .tori.
' 1 mod object tof"i;
Early Morning Observations
By George MBailsy.
The fact that so many republicans am to be ex
pecting at any moment to be sumnioeed o Wash-
ington and expatriated for four yar in some f or-
eiga embassy awkes being a democrat rather com-
fortable. A aaintly patriot of our party can come
and so with almost positive assurance that theiaeren
ity of his doatestic lite and association U not l be-
disturbed by Mr. Harditut. who is so considerate of
democratic feelings. r;. Tr'H''Vv ? t;i? v W'-1.. 'r
. Another reason why climate is climate up in New
England they are due to have one more hard blissard
between now and the middle of May and -sfter that
they will begin to drop of sunstroke.' ; "!v ; a
If J girt wants to marry money she arould be wise
to marry the intelligent and industrious young man
who can make it and save it. Then she knows she
got it Marrying the no 'count boy with a rich daddy
is drawing a ticktt for the wash tub in middle life.
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; Go to it boys and make it a real building move
meni aomciaing use na'l a minion a wees iur in-
stance VThat would he the stride. 4
. If the "Emperor" Charles isn't careful he is lia-
ble to awake some fine morning and find his seat of
judgment entirely disconnected from his locomotive
machinery.
That Sweetwater indignation meeting was-snappy.
Maybe Sweetwater has a real kick in k.
It must be true that former President Wilson in-
tends to visit London the Utter part of the month.
The cable says "Rooms for a party of eight have been
arranged at a leading hotel." Party of eight ; Evi-
dently the democratic party. v'
The rationing of print paper has ceased in Berlin.
Probably the printing of paper marks has been sus-
pended. If that' has been effected there will be no
shortage of print paper in Germany.
Maxim Gorky wants to. collect food for Russian
"intellectuals." Is there any reason why an "intel-
lectual" should not utilise the. shovel and the hoe?
Apparently Russia is not apt to find redemption in in-
tellectual indulgence at this time but in common
sense and hard work.
The Chicago News says there are 3500 restaurants
in Chicago with little evidence of competition so
far as tariffs go. We advise Chicago that the real
competition for the restaurant is the home that is a
going concern.
Kenesaw Mountain fined s man $25 for killing a
robin. Good shot. The culprit said he thought he
was shooting at a blackbird but the robin was prob-
ably killed by a liar.
Michigan officers went into a man's home early in
the morning on a search and found 80 cents in -his
pants pocket. Of course now Wnd then you hear of
a wife who is that careless.
Dr. Frank Crane says the poets not the parsons
save our souls. We do not believe it has ever been
contended that the preachers really save souls. At
least there is no scriptural warrant for such conten-
tion. And with all duerespect to Dr. Frank we do
not believe it would be safe to rely too much upon
the poets for 'salvation.
The buying power of the people who work will
never be equal to the gouging ferocity of the greedy
vampires who would bleed them.
We can tell by the looks of Brigadier Genera!
Sawyer the president's longtime family physician
that Mr. Harding has been a generous feeder on blue
mass and castor oil in his time.
Striking paradoxical as it may seem is merely not
hitting a lick of work.
We fancy that the new State the West Texans are
threatening is in reality only a state of mind.
! It is about time for this country to notify the peo-
ples of Central Europe who are constantly importun-
ing us for help that we fought the war to maketthc
world safe for democracy not monarchy and we ex-
pect them to vote the ticket.
Kramer says a good many men are prohibitionists
of the head and heart but antis as regards their
stomachs. Old Zeb Vance told the North Carolina
women once that his head was pro and his stomach
was anti and that his stomach was eight times the
sue of his head.
.It is' said swindlers bare sold stock in the League
of Nations to gullible people in the foreign districts
of New Orleans. Well well. How did our oil stock
sharps ever manage to let that money get away from
them?
Chicago university will spend $15000000 for new
buildings during the next five years. What-we need
in Texas is real university vision. In the matter of
higher education some of us are inclined to be a
trifle ostealic in the cerebrum. 1
Don't blame big business for unemployment in the
building trades. Just ordinary folks are responsi-
ble for it--the ordinary folks who want more for
material "and labor than the other ordinary folks arc
willing to pay. So the other ordinary folks wait.
A training school for congressmen has been opened
in Washington conducted by the clerk of the house
and he is instructing the unusually large number of
new congressmen how' to operate. He would better
advise them to saw wood and watch their step. About
a hundred of 'em are serving both their first andring to the Bible simultaneously with sin.
last terms.
Governor Miller will not let the Dempsey-Carpen-tier
fight take place is New York. Good boy. And
some way ought to be found to take the money away
from the nuts who are ready to spend a million or so
doQari to see it.
It teems that the health of quites number of peo-
ple is in s bad wsy. Reports show $384391 worth
f French champagne imported fo medicine in 102a
as against $uro in 1919. It wasnt very much it is
true hut they lied to get it just the same.
"Harding Confers With Board Heads " quotha s
New York Evening Post headline. "Board Heads";
Do we: understand our contemporary to mean wooden-
heads? - -
Some Postscripts
" Water passes diametrically through a double action
turbine invented by a Hungarian engineer exerting
its force Of vanes on opposite aides before it is dis-
charged. '"':- ;rC
Mock of Eastern Pennsylvania and Northern New
Jersey will be supplied with electricity en an ex-
tensive scale if a project for darning the Delaware
river is carried out. . . y p
; Finland's miperal deposits; long known but tin-
exploited will be thoroughly studied by sa organiza-
tion recently formed at Heleingfors and surveys will
be made for ; new pnea
British experts have found that X-rays can he
used to-study the effect' of adding different quan-
tities of aluminum to steel and ascertain proportions
needed for sound castings. -
To replace the usual automobile radiator cap an
inventor has eVsigned a device -that can be need as
a funnel or to admit air when a car is running to
aid in' cooling thtrengin.-" -
' Solder Is carried in wire or Strip form through a
new soldering iron the point of which is heated
by electricity to melt just as much solder as re-
quired at the point of its 'Use."'.';':'.' w
Harding and Debs Case
.' ' By Herbert Corey.
Washington' April '1. If . Debs is released from
prison he can (hank Jake Coxey for it. Yon know
Cexey Good Roads Coxey Non-Interest' Bearing
Bonds Coxey Greenback Coxey and good stanch
old friend Coxey.; I'm not' so sure that Coxey is s
socialist. . My impression is that he .sort ot leads
a little party of bis own which boosts for more loose
money and a handcuff oa "tinkers and a few little
things like that . -. . h- '.
Every time I meet him he begins to pull pamphlets
out of his pockets like a conjurer working frantically
with rabbits. He carries them on a sort of a library
system. - The epsmphlet shout non-interest bearing
bonds to be issued by municipalities and cashed by
the Federal gbv?rnment comes out of his . breast
pocket and the. pamphlet about the xcellentquality
of paper money is carried in the pipepocket and his
letter to Judge Gary fits in with his handkerchiefs.
So it may be that Coxey iinl a socialist But he is
a good friend Of .Debs. I
"A Jong "time sgo" said Coxey "I saw v Warren
Harding and asked him to take up Debs' case if he
were elected president. tl .
" 'I will' said Harding.
'Honest now Warren' I said.' - '
" 'Sure said Warrea.." V
Coxey'a like that He's just aa informal in his at-
titude toward Mr. Harding now as he was when
Harding wss in the State senate andTosey .was the
generslissime of the hobo 'army that marched part
way over the grass' from IBassillon Ohm to Wash-
ington. There had been no particular argument on
Debs case as I'understaad from Coxey. He merely
put before Mr. Harding his conviction that Debs had
beea singled out for a little extra rough treatment by
the courts because of his prominence. . .'
"We should all be equal under the law" said
Coxey no matter who we might be. r t Xr :
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After Mr. Harding had been inaugurated 'and 1 the
first mad wave 9! office seekers had swept over the
White House lawn and broken in on George Chris-
tian and the chief clerk of Attorney General JR. M.
Daugherty 1 had perfected S 1 pivot movement com-
bined with a head-lock which he used oa himself
when several thousand intimate friends of Mr. Daugn-
erty used to sit on the office steps in the morning
waiting for him to open up and. Secretary of State
Hughes had disappointed those reporters who' be-
lieved that he has all the warm companionabflity of
an oyster Coxey called again on Mr. Harding.
"What j you going to do about Debs Warren?"
asked the man from Massillpn. -
"I told you I was going to have . the Debs case
looked .into" said Mr. Harding according to Mr.
Coxey. "Don't you think I mean it?"
This conversaion. mind you was not so much be-
tween the pwldent of the United States and one of
the minds tftt do not go along with his as it wss
between two old friends and neighbors back in Ohio
Jake Coxey will probably always look on "the presi-
dent of the United States as Warren Harding who
used to be in the State senate and Mr Harding
probably thinks of General Coxey as a person in
whose presence he can chew tobacco without caus-
ing any abhorrence in the visitor's breast.
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"Sure I know you meant it" said General Coxey
soothingly. "But what you going tp do?"
"I've told Daugherty to lake the matter up" said
the president. "He will probably examine the papers
tomorrow." "
Then Coxey told a little secret. After the social-
ists began their campaign for the pardoning Of Debs
some mighty-brained individual in that party thought
out a wonderful scheme for influencing the president.
It was one of those original inspirations that per-
sons belonging to the minor parties very often have.
-We'll picket the White House lawn" said this
great mind. "Well nalk around and carry banners
and everything. People will take our photograph."
General Coxey said tha: when he saw that he prac-
tically tosf courage. He hid been realising for a
long time he said that Ttiis wc rid is full of damfoola
who ought not to be at- large but when the degree
of folly reached this pinnacled point then he almost
quit.
Hehre said he was the president of the- United
States who was willing to have the case of Debs
examined into. No promise you know. He merely
showed a disposition to... be fair and have justice
done if justice had not been done.- And here were
a lot; of crack-bpiined idiots trying to bluff him.
Anybody who knows Harding knows that when you
begin to swing a club on him you get him riled.
"So I saw Debs" said Coxey and told him about
these mosquito-minded followers' of his. -
- 'Call 'em off. Gene' I said.
" 'Sure.' said Gene. 'That's' foolishness. I didn't
know they were doing it.'" '
And when Harding agreed to have the Debs case
examined into Coxey told him of this incident. It
pleased the president. No one can ever get wholly
hardened to the spectacle of strangers carrying ban-
ners under one's window on which one is insulted
in red letters. ' But he just rolled the stogy oxer (0
the other corner of his mouth. 'r-f;
"That's all Jake" said he. 'Good-bfjr
"Good-by Warren" said Coxey. .; -." "
Clothes and Sin . '
By Dr. Frank Crane.' ...
And now comes the Rev. Dr. Wilbur F. Crafts.
reformer and says that the draped human figure is
artistic and the nude is not.
The naked Venuses for which Greece hss been
famous are. aeeordinar rn Wilhtir. bitt mimu nf Wi.
dence. They appeared be declares after Greece had
begun to .decline and had tost her power.
He also charges that there is a direct relation be
tween nudity and lewdness.
This is an example of a very common delusion.
It is that virtue somehow is the child of mystery
and that purity depends upon fog.
There are a vast number pf people whose morality
may be "comprised in the word " Hush I"
As a matter of fact clothes were invented accord
. And ever since that time uncleanness of mind has
always been expressed by clothmg more or less.
Nudity as a scientific fast represents innocence.
I All fishes are nude and no fishes are lewd.
Dogs horses and other animals have no shame and
ao cannentk.
To put trousers on a canary bird would probably
ruin nis -moral cnaracicv.
The fall of man is marked by the advent of the
fig leaf.
. So much for history. Contemporaneity is as- con
clusive. . .
.. The people most covered up are as s rule the lesst
decent. . - ' ' " v - . '
The Turks notoriously given to excesses of sensu-
ality conceal their women in harems snd cover their
faces with .veils. J
.Protection concealment and smotheration never
made -anything clean' any more than sweeping dirt
into the corner of the dining room and throwing s
rug over Jt can be callea proper cleaning up.
You do not insure against blood poison by binding
up a scratched finger but by washing it.- ' .
Uncleanness does not come irom exposure. Un-
cleanness is s germ a moral microbe. - - ' ' '
1 There are three antiseptic remedies that kill it.
One is Intelligence. Morbidity breeds and multi-
plies in Ignorance. T W V ' ;
Another is Openness. All mortality which is just
S covering up is septic. ? ( s
And the third and grestest la IMlism. It is the
Poet who saves our souls not the Parson. The only
real remedy for lust is- Loysl Love. ' i-s
Love is the cleansing fire. We are saved by Beauty
(Copyright :.i9si by Frank Crane.) ' . .
; ' : Mr. 'Marshall's Wine Oselilon. :
lf;Viv'?i from tkm Columbia Rtcord.) J ''
' We applsud ' Thotnss Riley .Marshall for his de-
cision not to write a book about. -his Impressions of
Washington. .Tom Marshall is honest and if he
recorded his real impressions in .a' book it would be
barred from the msilsV. " v : -
t Betting n Sure Thing. f '-... .
Front Iht Xoltda BMi.) .
It is a fall bet that BlUy Sunday saves CiclnnstI
before Overseer Voliva brings about the regenera-
tion of New York. : '
Ju:t a Rhyme or Two
; -.:' ;' Talksmltha. " '
My neighbor Hiram Henry Hicks is fond of talk
ing politics; that is a (heme that makes me sore so
Hiram Henry seems a bore. But I'm the sort of
ssphead wight who always strives to be polite so I
pretend that H. H. Hicks with -all his talk of politics
is holding me entranced' spell-bound ; I do not yswa
or rubber 'round but hang upon his throbbing words
aa though ' they . well 'aught charm the birds.t " But
when H. Henry Hicks rtns dry. and I would talk of (
books or pie or any topic I adore; he looks upon
me as a bore; 'he interrupts and yawns snd sighs snd
hot. tears gather in his eyes and then he reaches
for his hat his narasoL Brass knucks snd gat snd
hastens from my humble shack he can not tesr to
hear me clack. And Hiram Hicks is short of friends;
the people shun him as he -wends along the main
street of. our town; he as a bore has wide renown.
But whesf I trip along the street I n smiled wpoa by
all I meet..-. This moral then these facts .'afford:
You must be willing to be bored if you would bore
the other toff and talk his blooming whiskers off.
ju:
:nt.
Qive every man thy ear but few thy voice;
Take each .man's censure but reserve the j
''."ment. ' ".:'"": '.'" -Shakesj
Watt Masoss'
(Copyright by George Matthew Adams
THE SILENT MANV - x .
' BY BBOAB A. CUSST. . .. '. .
We never guessed the woes he had . '
Nor how . he suffered when alone . - - ?
r That now and then his heart was sad 1
- To very few was ever known j
.He'd hesr us teU our tales of care '
: i ' And utter 'words of kindly cheer
Yet of the griefs he'd had to bear
No word from him we'd ever hesr.
That he had grieved and he had wept
To us it. never once occurred ; .
Unto himself his hurts he kept - - -
Though many a sympathetic word
He spoke to 'us to soothe our woes; . '
' He'd let as tell our sorrows through
' Yet very seldom did he show '.-
' That he was deep in trouble too.
By chance we learned behind his smile
Aad patient way We'd grown to lov?
- Despair was gnawing all the while;
- - A grief he'd' made no mention of
Was his to carry snd his heart
Wore deeper scars than we had known.
And4till as one who plays a part
He bravely bore his cross- slope.
(Copyright 19J1 by Edgar A. Guest.)
ONE THINGAT A TIME.
"If you could have two wishes come true what
would they be?" said Maud.
"Well I'd wish for s husband" replied her friend.
"That's only one."
"Yes I think I'd save the other until I saw how
he turned out."
. l- SOMETHING INTHE WEATHER
ar rotoES mKins(v ths scntitowh said.
Something in the weather sets me dreaming day by day
Of the music of the summer and the singing of
the bay.
In all the visions dancing glows a boat with fairy
wing - ;
Like a bugeye up from Tilghman s when the shad
begin in spring)
Something in the weather.
- ' Like a song the robins pour
When the snowdrops deck the grasses
On the lawns of Eastern Shore!
Oh there must be something doing with the dogwood
I csn see
Or a plum bloom's going to happen" or they'll light
the Judas tree ;
And I feel the feeling of it every moment now that
flies
There's-s pungy bound for Tangier 'neath the kiss of
Maryland's skies I
Something in the weather
Like a charm of witchery
- That brings the news of Dorset
And of Somerset to me t -
Just a breath of old St Mary's and the year' has
turned to rose.
And I'm basking where the myrtle marks the old
St Inigoes;
And there's Bronte's in all its beauty where the
ancient Maryland still ; -
Keeps its state of rosy memory on the immemorial
hill I
Something in the weather
Like a flock of ships thst play
In the sunshine of my fancy
On the blue leagues of the bay I
WASTE NOtTvVANT NOT.
. Mrs. Pester Titus Wadde may be stingy but he's
good to his fsaily. I never see him out in his car
without his baby. '
Her Husband That's to save the price of a horn.
All he has to do is to pinch the kid and he lets
out a howl.
BOATSONG.
SV CASOLYK at. fSWIS SARATOGA TEXAS. '
Sing ho my comrades .off we shove
On the broad bayou's breasC "
And warm and sweet and close above
The cheek of night is pressed.
Oh white the winding- trail of star
Through cloudy vails-that blow
And bright skimming ripples art
' Upon the broad bayou.
How smooth and clean the oars cut in
t ... The placid water clear.
And hung with strings of glittering gems 4
They once sgain appear.
Oh silver shot our wake is given
In foamy froth to. flow ;
And the wind leaning out 'of heaven
Would kiss us ss we go.
The crowding trees reach slender hands
As we go skimming past
But every flying moment spans
Us further than the last.
"The craven shadows lesp and toss
To seize our pulsing oars.
Through mantles of gray curling moss
Thst curtain the sliding shores
- Sing -comrades sing for echo clesr
Repeats with sweet refrain.
Answering back with sharpest ear
Again and once sgain..
And strange moths our companions are .
Sweet flower spirits white
That follow close and follow far
' Through .the enchanted night'
Oh bright and round the moon doth rise
From screen of fretted shade r
And dose and sweeter tender-wise
The cheek of night Is laid.
So sing my comrades youth snd joy
Sing with os ss we go
' And singing starlight beckons us ' '
Adown the broad bayou.
J''"y ! ? THE POOR FISH.
' The GuyPeeuIjac'fish the sardine.
The Girl-How so? ;vV:;J
The Guy Well his Idea of twins is s whole school
snd he loses his eyes in the sea and opens them up
again in a can.' ''-. ; 1 ...
Ifs tome Pip Dream. V
t - ' ' frvm r lh 6ttimor$ ' Stn.) ' l
Most of the theories. designed to save the world
grow out of the assumption thst all Would be well
if the little fellow could .boss the big fellows' '
? - V'&sret- Mp;wltltl:Tow'v; i i
' 1 . ' From Buffalo Btrut.) ..S
We take back all we ever said about California
snd her native sons. California movts men have
sgreed to bar Clara Hsmoa's pictures. . ' j
s.. . No. Use Hs Leses Again
'Prom tkt Wattling! tm Poit.) ' ' '
Now that Gp's d'Annnnilo -is married he csn wst
anofi.'-r f 't f r r-idewce.- g
hi ft
5f.
"Now" said she as she pre-
pared . to Issd the way
"you are to do Just as
I do"
Burgees Bedtime Stories
.;;v:--'Out '.In. the Oriat WorldC'f v " J : .
; St thosstos w. susoass.' .'" : ''" I
CU Croat Worii calU and too or latt
ait tack fibty lo meet kit fat.'
''.;...!-.-' . '... Mrs. Bear.
Vpt in sD the Green Forest is there a wiser or
better mother than Mrs. Bear. No one knows better y J.
than she the dangers of the Great World nor the im-
portance of - learning esrly in life all those things
which a bear should know who would live to a good -
old age. So after allowing the twin cubs Boxer and : v
Woof-Woof to play around the entrance si their ..
home under the great windfall for a few days; she -took
them for their first walk in the Green Forest ' ' : .
"Now" she said as she prepared to lead the way' .
"yon are to do just as J do. You are. to follow right .
at my heels and the one who turns aside for any-
thing without my permission will be spanked. Do "
you understand?. ;dv'- r.. ? .
. - Yes'm" replied 'Boxer snd Woof-Woof meekly.
- My my my bow excited they . were es Mother
Bear .led the way out from under the windfall I . This f
was Jo be a great ; a ' wedderf ul adventure. ; They 9
tingled all over. They were actually going out to see .
something of the. Crest World ' ' . . V ''
' The first thing Mother Bear did was to sit up and
carefully test the wind) with her nOse. Boxer sat up
and did exactly the same thing. Woof-Woof sat up" -and
did exactly the same thing. The Merry Little
Breeses tickled their noses with many scents. Mother -Bear
knew what each one wss but of course the .-
them; All they.
knew was that they
smelted good. . .
Mother Bear cock-.
ed her ears forward
and listened. Boxer'.
cocked his ears for-
w s r d. and- listened.
Woof-Woof. cocked .
her ears forward and - -
listened. Mother Besr '
looked this wsy and .
looked- that wsy. '
Boxer looked this wsy . ;'
and looked that way.'
Woof-Woof looked
this wsy and looked
that way v
"These are the
things you must si-
ways . do whenever ( :. -.
you start out in the -Great
World" ex-'
plained Mother Bear in her deep grumbly rumbry
voice. "You must learn to know the meaning of
every scent thst reaches your 'nose of every sound
thst reaches your ears of everything you see for - s
only by such knowledge can you keep out of danger. .
But you must never trust your ears or your eyes only..
Your nose is more to be trusted than either ears or
eyes or both ears and eyes; but always use all
three." ... .;
"Yes'm" replied Boxer snd Woof-Woof.
Then Mother Besr started Off among Ithe greet .'
trees shuffling along and swinging her head from
side to side. Right st her heels' shuffled "Boxer
swinging his head from side to side and right at his
heels shuffled Woof-Woof swinging her head from " ' .
side to side. Whatever Mother Bear did the twins
did They did it because Mother Besr did it : They ; .
were keeping their promise. And little as they were
shey felt very big and important for now at last -they
were out in the Great World. " .
Chatterer the Red Squirrel -saw them start out 1
and he chuckled ss he watched those two funny little '
cubs do exactly as Mother Bear did. He followed
along in the tree tops jumping from tree to tree
but taking the greatest care to make no noise i He .
was fairly aching for achance to scare those cubs;
buf as long ss Mother Bear wss with them he dfdaV ' '
dare try. ' J' ' y V f . .i -
Mother Bear stopped snd sniffed at an old'log . -Then
she went on. Boxer stopped and solemnly -V i
sniffed st that old log. Then he went on. Woofi -
Woof stopped and sniffed at thst old log. Then she .
went on. And so st last they came to a place where .
the earth was soft snd where grew certain roots of
which Mrs. Bear is very fond.
(Copyright to by T. W. Burgess.) - '.
The next story: "The Twins Climb a Tree."
Twenty-Five Years Ago . -A
From The Houston Post Vilas. s 0' -
AratL 6 1896 iw HOUSTOir. 1 - ?
E. M. Taliaferro is visiting in Velasco this week
Colonel Walter D. Bettis of Orange is a guest in
the. city.
The entire democrstic ticket was elected todsy
wfth the exception of O'Brien for recorder. .
Dr. H. L. Hastings of Boston delivered his fs-
mous sddress on "The Mistakes of Moses at the -
Central Christian church this evening.
Editorial : The election over Houston expects every V'
new-made officer to do his duty snd make a record.
This will be s matter of some Interest a couple of.
years hence to gentlemen who like their positions j-iy-
Pupils of the Incarnate Word' Academy gave a de- ';
lightful entertainment on Easter Monday. In the .
program were Misses Bins S. Clemons R. Mela- :
nerny F. Tourmy E. Parker N. Burnett Vincent ife
and others. .
The elegant residence of Mr and Mrs. S. W. Dick ...
was thrown open snd beautifully sdorned for a re-.-.--'
ception in honor of Mr. Dick's sisthr Mrs. Ckunent
Rush Harris snd niece Miss LiUie Msy Smith of
Virginia. Little Misses Cora Shearn and Nellie Haj- '
ris dressed in white chiffon received the guests at
the door. 1 . . ' . J t
Well known Houston musicians who assisted in the '
Easter concert at the Church of the Annunciation ere . -Misses'
Bessie Hughes 'Estelle Burgheim Annie C 1
Reel Mesdames R. A. Giraud A. Hume G. W Bur-
kitt R. E.' Bering T. O'Leary C Grunewald VO
CarT snd Messrs. Robert Adair J. A. Giraud W. C -Timmins.
Colonel P. H. Galligher C. Grunewald v
Theo Heyck H. D. Burke; W E. Kendall and others.
v ' 8TATB HAPPEN INGS.
Galveston. Mayor Hancock of Austin is s guest .'
in the city. ; c - . .. -;' a . . '
Sabine Pass. A depth of s feet of water has
been sttained over the bar. . 1 .1
Alvio The newly bujlt Episcopal church here is '
to be called Grace church snd. will be consecrated
by Bishop Kinsolving on April io. ' j
t Ssn Antonio. The Contract for the Confederate t
monument to he placed in the City' Park at Dallas '
hss been let Oo Frank Teich of this city. It will be '
built of the celebrated Tekh granite from near
Llano. -1 1 v-i ' 1.1 1 . s " ' . 1
; general- ' j.:. t
" New York. Ex-President ' Harrison and 1
Mary L. Dimmick were married here today.
Washington. Houston has been decided on as the
bank deserve city and the commission will be issued
Mrs
Back to the Farm.
V":
;'.t '.y V(From Ikt Honty Grow Signal.) ; :
The ' "back-o-the-fsrm" movement is coming no
matter' how low cottoo goe's-V' Ws of the towns can
stand paper-sack living fairly welf' so long as we csn
get the sack.: But when the grocer says no more
sacks without the :coin :ths' frail bach to the farm
looks mighty good even though it IsnVblsekberry
time- and- the poke salad crops is 4 failure.
:T" The Itawial Paradox. '
(From Iko MianafolU tfeu-t.)
lVnm.il r KMVlntf Mim aIa.Iiab U .
- ; t - .'"i"v. iHD i mi .
men continue to wear mors clothes thsn women. '
V - -' v. : ' 1 '
f . There Is Resson. :
From Ikt Day to News)'
' Lenine snd Trotsky do not rr4 to
s'tOut ffvol'i'ions tw'lp- ' t'l'y i-! !-.ti
but
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