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TECAS BANKERS OUTLINE PROGRESSIVE POLICY
Will Devote Much Time, Energy and
Money to Develop Agricultural In-
terest Throughout the State.
Galveston, Tex.—Selecting May 5, 6
■and 7 as the dates on which the con-
tention of next year is to be held at
(Fort Worth, appointing all standing
committees for the year, and outlining
the policy which is to be pursued un-
der the present administration, the
executive committee of the Texas
Bankers’ Association met in Galveston
iTuesday.
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1 Those present were President Nath-
ian Adams of Dallas, Secretary J. W.
Hoopes of Galveston, L. D. Amsler of
Hempstead, Robert J. Eckhardt of Tay-
iolr, S. M. McAshan of Waco, R. J.
Thomas of Honey Grove, W. C. Dew
K>f Goldthwaite and Ben O. Smith of
[Port Worth. Joe Hirsch of Corpus
iChristi, chairman of the committee on
agriculture, was also present to con-
ifer with the executives.
As a result of the conference with
regard, to the policy of the administra-
tion, the committee decided upon the
promotion of three main projects dur-
ing the present year. The Texas Bank-
ers’ Association will devote an un-
usual amount of energy, time and
irnoney to development of agricultural
interest throughout the state and will
endeavor to establish everywhere a
•closer relationship and better under-
standing between the bankers and the
farmers. With regard to legislative
matters the committee will stand for
the creation of a bonded warehouse
system in Texas to the end that banks
will be enabled to make advances on
stored products as collateral, and will
also advocate the passage of a “rea-
sonable blue sky law” for the avowed
purpose of checking the promotion
of “wildcat development schemes”
through which the bankers feel Texas
investors have been and are being
mulcted by unscrupulous financiers.
MUST MAKE PEACE IN HALF YEAR TO GET LOAN
French Bankers Would Let President
Huerta of Mexico Have $50,000,-
000 Under Hard Conditions.
Mexico City.—War department of-
ficials Tuesday conceded the truth of
the report that General Pedro Ojeda,
who has been leading the federal
forces against the insurgents in So-
nora, had been forced to retreat to
the seaport at Guaymas. Recently it
was reported that General Ojeda had
been successful in driving the rebels
back to their base of supplies at Ortiz.
Under practically prohibitive condi-
tions French bankers have agreed to
lend Huerta $50,000,000, according to
Juan Sanchez Ascona, secretary to the
late President Francisco I. M^adero,
who reached San Antonio Tuesday on
his return from France, where he en-
gaged himself in laying obstacles in
wa” '-iQTuerta’s financial agents.
TKe“^(BBjpu oi tne loan, said Az-
cona, is contingent on two onerous
conditions: First, Huerta must make
peace within six months; if he does
so, he will receive half of the prom-
ised sum, or $25,000,000. Second,
Huerta is not to attempt to borrow
money from any other nation. If both
conditions are fulfilled, according to
the contract detailed by Azcona, Huer-
ta will receive the second half o* the
loan three months after he has re-
ceived the first half.
“Since Huerta has been deserted by
Mondragon and De la Barra and is
surrounded by intrigues and disaf-
fections,” declared Azcona, “it is hard-
ly within human possibility that he
can make peace within six months.
Consequently there is little likelihood
.that he will receive any part of the
loan from the French bankers.”
Azcona displayed a telegram saying
that Huerta had purchased of a well
known New York firm 5,000 carbines
of 30.30 caliber and 5,000,000 rounds
of ammunition to be shipped to the
Mexican federal troops via Vera Cruz.
Train Smashes Auto; Three Hurt.
League City, Tex.—Dragged fully
300 yards when a southbound Inter-
national and Great Northern freight
train struck their automobile at
League City Tuesday, Charles E.
Snider of Houston, Southwestern man-
ager of the Leyhe Piano Company;
Mrs. Snider and Mr. Snider’s son, J.
Crockett Snider, of San Antonio, all
three sustained broken legs and other
severe injuries.
Texas Crop Condition Good.
1 Austin, Tex.—Crop conditions in
Texas are flattering, says R. H. Tay-
lor, connected with the department of
agriculture as organizer and lecturer
of farmers’ institutes. Mr. Taylor’s
work extends from the Red River to
Austin and all through that vast-ter-
ritory.
Harvester Officials Resign.
Aurora, 111.—Officers and directors
of the Independent Harvester Com-
pany at Plano, 111., whose methods of
stock selling are being investigated
by the government, resigned Tuesday
and new officers were elected.
Governor Appoints Bonner to Staff.
Austin, Tex.—The governor Tuesday
appointed John S. Bonner of Houston
a member of his personal staff to fill
the vacancy caused by the recent res-
ignation of Colonel John L. Peeler of
Austin. Mr. Bonner will rank as colo-
nel.
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MM IME was, and not so long ago,
■ that Berlin, as capital of the
B kingdom of Prussia, was mere-
ly a second rate continental
city that the average tourist
passed by as unworthy of extended
stay. But now, as the capital of im-
perial Germany and the chief jewel of
the Hohenzollems, Berlin can fling
down the glove of defiance in the face
of Paris, London or St. Petersburg
and claim distinction as a national cap-
ital of the first class, with an atmo-
sphere purely her own and embellish-
ments that make her well worthy of
attention.
Late this month the tourist season
will be in full swing in Berlin, says
the New York Evening Post. The
spring review of the guards is the sig-
nal for the swing of tourist traffic in
the direction of the German capital.
Besides affording the visitor a wonder-
fully colored dramatic spectacle, this
occasion provides first rate opportuni-
ties for studying the German soldier
and the military system which is the
foundation of the German state. The
review is held on the Tempelhofer
field, and is attended by the emperor
and all his staff.
Trappings of the German Soldier.
The German soldier togged out for
dress parade need give the wall to no
man. His American brother is hope-
lessly outclassed. He has unlimited
gold braid; his patent leather boots
are speckless and shining; his uni-
form is gaudy; his plumes are rich;
his helmet gleams with brass. Seen
in the great blocks and squares of
battalions, troops and batteries, he
outshines the most tastefully garbed
musical comedy chorus. Each regi-
ment has something distinctive about
its uniform to distinguish it from ev-
ery other, and many of the uniforms
are individualistic to a degree. The
foot regiments still wear the miter
hat of Frederick the Great’s time that
the British grenadiers wore in the
eighteenth century, without which no
revolutionary novel or drama would
be complete.
The emperor goes to the review in a
carriage, but after he has arrived he
nearly a mile in length, foi'ms a
double avenue, divided by a ilavorite
promenade planted with limel trees.
Here one may see Berlin life/ in all
its aspects. South of this str eet lies
the Friederichstadt, with its parallel
streets, the Behrenstrasse (s^ reet of
finance), the busy Liepziger
and the Wilhelmstrasse, with
ace of the imperial chancel! or and
the British embassy upon it.
strasse,
the pal-
Among
the most important public sqm ires are
the Opernplatz, around or nea ' which
stand the opera house, the royal
library and the university, the Gendar-
menmarkt, with the royal thjeater In
its center and the old anjd new
museums bordering upon it; jthe Par-
iserplatz, with the French embassy at
the Brandenburg gate; the I Konigs-
platz, with the column of vitcrory; the
Reichstagsgebaude and the Bismarck
and Moltke monuments, and i he circu-
lar Belle-Allianceplatz, with the monu-
ment commemorating the (battle of
Waterloo.
Close at hand are all the /principal
hotels ,among them the ^luxurious
Kaiserhof, the Eden, the Ajlden and
many others, all noted for tjheir serv-
ice and modern conveniences. The
German hotel proprietor uses the
American hostelry for a moqel.
Of the numerous bridges, perhaps
the moBt remarkable is the Schlosse-
brucke, built after designs by Schin-
kel, with eight colossal (figures of
marble, representing ideal stages in
the life of a warrior, the) works of
Drake, Wolff and other emijnent sculp-
tors. The Kurfursten or LaQgebrucke,
was built in 1691-1695, and Restored in
1895. It has an equestrian' statue of
the Great Elector. These bridges
span the Spree. Crossing the Land-
wehr canal are the Potsdamer-Vik-
toriabruckle, which carries the traffic
from two converging streets into the
outer Potsdamerstrasse arid the Her-
kulesbrucke, connecting tie Lutzow-
platz with the Tiergarten. |
The buildings of the Royal museum
are divided into the old! and new
museum. The former is ah imposing
edifice situated on the northeast side
of the Lustgarten, facing) the royal
A THRILLING SHOT.
Old Joe was talking, as usual, for
the edification of the company, and
football experiences became the pet
theme, relates Pearson’s Weekly.
“I shall never forget one final,” said
he. “We were drawn—one all—with
about a minute to go, when I got the
ball. Off I went, passing man after
man, till I got within range, and then
I paused. I can hear the crowd shout-
ing now, ‘Shoot, man, shoot.’ Draw-
ing one foot well back I let fly, and
the yell that went up—oh!” with a
sigh of pain.
“Well, Joe, did you score?” asked
one impatient listener.
“Score? Gad! It took the missus
fully ten minutes to get the bed rail
from between my toes.”
WILLING TO COMPRO!VH§E.
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Bright Prospects.
A charming young woman walked
info the stationer’s shop in a village
and asked to see some typewriting
paper. After making her selection
she hesitated for a moment. “Do you
make any reduction to clergymen?”
she inquired.
“Yes,” replied the stationer prompt-
ly. “Are you a clergyman’s wife?”
"No-o,” she answered.
“A clergyman’s daughter, probably,”
said the man as he tied up the pack-
age.
“No,” was the young woman’s hesi-
tating answer. “But”—and she leaned
over the counter and spoke in a con-
fidential whisper—“if nothing happens
I shall be engaged to a theological
student as soon as he comes home
from college next term.”—Everybody’s
Magazine.
A SIMPLE ARRANGEMENT.
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Hardly—Does you wife ever bother
you about her new bonnets?
Easy—Not in the least. When she
wants one she simply gets it and ha4
th* hill sent in. ) • ^jL
How to Regulate It.
Knicker—Think the stock exchange
should be regulated?
Bocker—Yes; it should be arranged
for stocks to go up when you buy and
go down when you sell.
Bang—By the way, old fellow, can
you let me have two for a week?
Wang—Sorry, but I’ve only got a
dollar.
Bang—All right—let me have that
for two weeks.
A Leader,
“Mrs. Gluggins seems to be a sort
of general leader in social matters
here.”
“Oh, yes, she is one to whom all
the other ladies look first in social
affairs.”
“Is her husband wealthy?”
“Not so very.”
“Perhaps she comes of a distinguish-
ed family. Ancestors probably came
over on the Mayflower.”
“Oh, no, it isn’t that. You see, she
has gone to Chicago six times to be
operated on in hospitals.”
Epigrammatic.
“That wasn’t a bad epigram on tht.
magistrate’s part,” said the somewhat
educated tramp who had been convict-
ed for vagrancy.
“What did he say?” asked the
tramp’s pal. “Seven days,” came the
reply.
“That ain't no epigram, is it?”'
“I’m sure it is. I once asked a par-
pen what an epigram was, and he said:
“It’s a short sentence that sounds
light, but gives you plenty to think
about.”
Unter den Linden
First Barge Through Canal.
Corpus Christi, Tex. — The first
barge loaded •with freight to be towed
through the intercoastal canal arrived
in port Tuesday from Houston.
mounts his horse an9 at the conclu-
sion of the march past he rides back
into town at the head of his troops,
bands blaring “The Watch on the
Rhine,” chargers prancing, batteries
rumbling and the streets echoing the
tramp of the goosestep, while every
German who has not been out to the
Tempelhofer field lines the Belle-Alli-
ance-strasse and yells “Hock der Kais-
er” until he is black in the face.
The Germans are fond of saying
that Berlin is as gay as Paris nowa-
days, and while French ancestry or
associations may compel you to decry
this boast the fact remains that there
is a great deal of truth in the asser-
tion of gayety. Berlin of today is em-
inently modern. It has been built up
Bince the war of 1870-71 clinched the
Germanic union and laid the founda-
tion of its greatness. Geographically
speaking the situation of the city is
not imposing, but the mathematical
Germans have made the best of things,
and certainly can claim to have built
up a city clean and sightly and regu-
larly planned.
It lies on a flat, sandy plain midway
between the Oder and the Elbe, with
which it is connected by a web of wa-
terways, and it is intersected by the
Spree, a tame stream with not half the
energy or charm of Munich’s Isar. The
oldest part of the city, the Ait-Kolin,
built along the arms of the Spree, to-
gether with that portion lying immedi-
ately west, is the center of business
activity. The westend and the south-
west wards are the residence dis-
tricts, while the northwest is occu-
pied by the academic, scientific and
military institutions. The north is the
seat of the machinery manufactories
and the northeast of the woolen mills.
Widest Avenue in Europe.
The social and official life of the
capital centers around Unter den Lin-
den, which runs from the royal palace
to the Brandenburger Tor. This
street, one of the widest in Europe,
palace. It was built In th 3 reign of
Frederick William III. fro P designs
by Schinkel. Its portico, supported
by eighteen immense Ionic columns,
is reached by a wide flighi of steps.
The back and side walls of t he portico
are covered with frescoes represent-
ing the world’s progress fr om chaos
to developed and organized rlife- En-
trance is through bronze dc °rs, after
designs by Stuler, weighing ! seven and
one-half tons. On the wal1 of The
grand marble staircase, which rises to
the full height of the buildiW* Kaul-
bach’s cyclus of stereochnpoiic pic-
tures is painted, representing the six
great epochs of human progress from
the confusion of tongues at jhe tower
of Babel and dispersion of nations to
the Reformation. /
The National gallery, which lies be-
tween the museums and tl|e Spree,
contains a number of modern German
paintings. The pictures froih the old
and new museums, as welf ps the
statuary of the Christian ep°ch and
the numismatic collection, hPvd been
placed in the Kaiser Friedrich
museum, and edifice in th^ /Italian
baroque style, surrounded by|K dome.
From Berlin the traveler c*1 easily
visit Hamburg, the most important
commercial city in the world, after
London and New York. Itf collec-
tions of modern art are notBworthy.
Close by is Bremen, which ra:aks next
to Hamburg as a German seai)ort, and
is only forty miles distant, 'j’his city
retains more of its historical1 sta®P
than Hamburg. Both of them were
famous seaports in the days of the
Hanseatic league.
There is almost no limit to *he pos-
sibilities for sightseeing for tfce auto-
mobilist or even the humbl# pedes-
trian. North Germany abounds in pic-
turesque towns and storied 'castles,
and with Berlin for a center <j?ne can
make dozens of interesting excrirsi°ns
He Meant Well.
Doctor—Why don’t you settle your
bill? You said, when I was treating
you, that you could never repay for
for my efforts.
Hardup—I meant it, doctor.
Resourceful.
Widow—Wait; I’ll get you some glue
with which to fasten his wig.
Undertaker—Oh, that’s not neces-
sary. I’ve just used a couple of
tacks!—Punch.
Hardly a Success.
“Did your daughter have a fine wed-
din’, Dennis?”
“Only fair. The presents were
gr-grand, but there was no fight.”
He Hadn't Forgotten How.
“A man stepped on old Mr. Brig-
gins’ corn the other day in a crowded
trolley car, and despite the fact that
Mr. Briggins has been a deacon in the
church for twenty years, he swore like
a trooper.”
“Well, when the time comes for Mr.
Briggins to take the matter up with
the Lord, he will doubtless be for-
given on the ground that no other
riroyoratjv.- go quiok-ly recalls thahab-
its of one’s wild and wicked past.”
A Money Saver.
“Thinks he’s got a scheme for get-
ing rich, eh?”
“Yes, he has invented pneumatic
tires for silver coins, so that a man’s
wife cannot hear them rattle.”
The Mother Tongue.
“Do you realize the power of the.
mother tongue?” asked the young man
who professed interest in literature.
“Yes; and so does father,” replied
the young woman.
Their Haunts.
“Pop, whereabouts are the man-
hunting tribes?”
“They’re about here, sonny, in leap
year.”
A Peace Seeker.
“Where are you going this sum-
mer?”
“Nowhere,” replied Mr. Growcher.
“When everybody else is pushing
through the boardwalk crowds and
trying to listen to four different kinds
of music at once, I am going to stay
home, where it’s nice and quiet.”—
Washington Evening Star.
through the country from the
to the Rhine.
Baltic
In the Hospital Now.
"Biffkins, the bard, stood in the
street yesterday waiting for a thought
to strike him.”
“Well, did a thought st/ike him?”
“No, but an auto did.”
Near-Enjoyment.
“You don’t know what you miss
when you can’t listen to the)‘Honk!’
of your own automobile.”
"I don’t know about that. I’ve got
a pet goose.”
A Danger.
"It is a very serious thing to have
measles in a jail.”
“Why so very serious?”
“Because it makes the inmates
break out.”
Much to Be Dreaded.
“Mrs. Plummer is not what you
would call a fierce old dowager, I
hope?”
“Well, not exactly. Still, I would
hate like the dickens for her to look
at me through her lorgnette.”
Resemblance Impossible.
“Does your son look like you?”
“No,” replied Farmer Corntossel;
“and he never will. No power on
earth could persuade Clyde Corntossel
to wear whiskers and old clothes.”—
Washington Evening Star.
As It Seems to Them.
Little Elsie Westlake—Is New York
near the Atlantic ocean?
Little Dottie Morningside—No; the
Atlantic ocean is near New York.
TOO BAD.
mm
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Gus—I got snubbed by that girl at
the men’s furnishings department. I
asked for a standing collar, and
winked and smiled at her, and—
Tom—Well?
Gus—And got a turn down.
Apprehensive.
"Hamlet Fatt is timorous about ap-
pearing in this town.”
“Stage fright at his age? Why, he’s
been on the boards for years.”
“But this is the first time he was
ever billed for two nights in one
place.”
At the Matinee.
Enthusiast—Oh, don’t you love a
good play?
Modern Girl—Yes, indeed. It adds
much to the scenic effect and cos-
tumes.—Life.
Wortham has voted a 50c tax for
the maintenance of the schools there.
* * *
In the local option election at Elgin.
637 votes were cast, 347 for prohibition
and 290 against prohibition, the pros
Winning.
* * *
The foundations are building for the
cotton seed oil mill at Garland. A
$1,200 corporation has been chartered
by the farmers of the community and
will erect a cotton gin to be run with
the new season.
* * *
The city cuoncil of Mt. Vernon has.
ordered an election for the purpose
of voting $16,000 of school bonds for
a ward school building. The election
will be held July 15.
* * *
Through efforts of the Progressive
club of Antlers, Okla., petitions are
being circulated over the county for
a bond issue to build three bridges
across the Kiamichi river that will cost
near $10,000 each.
* * *
The first negro baby born in Cottle
county made its appearance near Pa-
ducah, a few days ago. The picka-
niny created considerable excitement
in the community. The constable of
the precinct was called upon to chris-
ten the infant. It was christened
‘Cottle Johnson.”
* * *
■The plans and specifications fos-
Sherman’s new $50,000 hospital have
just been completed and bids will be-
advertised for its construction. It will
contain forty rooms, besides a base-
ment, operating rooms, etc., and will
be fireproof and modern in every re-
spect.
* * «
The Haskell bond issue for the ex.
tension of the city waterworks has
been approved, by the attorney
eral, and Mayor T. C. Cahill "sS
that the city has had two or tf
offers for the bonds at a premj
He states that it is expected to bl
the work of laying the mains for
extension by the first of July.
* * *
For the purpose of erecting a new
vocational high school El Paso’s school
board will ask the city council for the-
issuance of $400,000 in bonds. Of this
sum $300,000 will be devoted to the.
new high school and the remainder
to additions to grade schools in th®.
outlying districts of the city.
* V *
Explosion of gasoline in the grocery
department of Griffith’s three-story
brick department store caused a fire,
loss at San Marcos estimated at $75,-
00. Lockhart’s fire department re
sponded to call for aid with a chem-,
ical engine and five men made the 2C ‘
-Jmil&s-Xiin in 26 minutes
The bridge of the Fort Worth and-
Denver railroad across the Canadian,
river at Amarillo, went out under one
of the heaviest rises ever recorded*
dut to flood condition higher up.
stream.
It has just come to light that dur-
ing thgrecent sinking of an.-art?
well on Ole refinery property of the
Pierce-Fordyce Oil Association at Tex-
as City gas was struck at a depth of
800 feet. The pressure was sufficient
to force mud 40 feet into the air.
* * *
_ At a special meeting of the commis-
sioners of Webb county, it was decid-
ed ^ to appropriate $2-5,000 for the
building of a first-class road from
Laredo to the county line, a distance
of 37 miles, to form a connection^
with the proposed highway from thij
city to San Antonio. The money wijL
be secured by loan and the work wifiL
be done under the supervision of a gov^
ernment engineer.
*
Dallas will welcome the cotton grow-
ers of the entire South to the great
meeting of the Southern States Cotton
Corporation July 10-11.
* * *
The old saw anent killing a negro by
shooting him in the heel, was exem-
plified in San Antonio a few days ago*
when Pink Taylor, a negro, received
a bullet from a .45 calibre revolver
in the heel. The wound proved fatal.
Another negro was shot in the head
at Paris on the same day, with no ap-
parent serious results.
* * *
“Make the Republicans work,” iu.
the slogan adopted by the Democratic
leaders of the senate in .charge of the,
tariff legislation, who predict that t|
senate would vote on the bill by Ai
1.
* * •
The supreme court has ruled in favor,
of the state of Minnesota regarding!
the legislature and the commission
to prescribe a passenger rate of 2c
per mile and a maximum freight rate,
provided always those rates are not
confiscatory.
* • *
The commissioners of Dallas county
have ordered the submission at the
general election on July 19 of a prop-
osition for the county to issue $80,-
000 in bonds for the repaving of the
Dallas-Oak Cliff viaduct.
“Is a prairie dog subject to a dog
tax?” That is the question that is
agitating the mind' of the tax collec-
tor of Fort Worth. The query was
directed to the collector by an owner
of a prairie dog, who would ease his
mind upon the subject.
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