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THE HOUSTON DAILY POST
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Houston Texas Friday February 20 1903
12 PAGESTODAY
OUTBREAK OjF GAMBLING
During the last fewt weeks there has been
an outbreak of gambling especially ou turf
events which has ewept over the entire
country
Of all human follies gambling in the most
demoralizing and In tho find the most bitter
In fruitage yet it Ifj a passion f6 nearly uni-
versal and so virlleV that in one form or an-
other it infects evory race and nearly every
individual It grovs partly out of tho con-
ceit of human klndAthe daring to back ones
Judgment partly nut of the lovr of excite
ment and partly lout of the desire to get
eomething for notihing It is vory close kin
to speculation but thero is a fine lino of
cleavage which tiio wisa will observe Yet
speculation alonj the most conservative
lines is apt to carry tho unwary Into dan-
gerous ventures
And of all the forma of gambling that
which counte upon deceiving the other fel-
low or upon the secret Up is the most fool
Ish because lb ignores in othertt th6 very
diKhoneaty it practices The professional
gambler workfl on the adage that a sucker
is born vorymlnuto and It is his business
to entrap tho sucker who may be de-
scribed as tho man who expects to outwit
thft professional Tho case is not bottorod
by the trick of employing a professional to
beat a srofcsalonal for If tho professionals
be not in league to fleece the outsider tho
one who is employed to flank his antagonist
will not hesitato for a larger gain to victim-
ize his patron
As to games of pure chnnco tho player
should always romomber that tho game Is
fixed against him It may bo conducted hon-
estly as honesty Is understood In sport-
ing ethics but obviously it must on tho
average yield a profit to tho proprietor or
he will soon be out of business Tho whole
gambling fraternity is maintained by tho
outsiders who play tho games and It should
b apparent to the simplest minded that ho
Is feeding the tiger
The immediate loss is the least of tho
evils of gambling The passion Is so pow-
erful that the slightest exorcise soon gives
it mastery of mind and soul
And the groater tho wlnnlngB tho greater
the enslavement
Not one man in a million can bring him-
self to quit when ho is ahead of the game
He must venture again and again in his
Insane confidence In his luck until the
wheel turns against him and all his win-
nings are gone
It need not be argued that a wager on
ones judgment or a hazard on a chance Is
essentially immoral Experleaco proves that
It is demoralising in Its effect on character
and ruinous to buslnes or industry and that
ilmplo fact is sufficient for the wise
I you went to see the meno war at Galves-
ton you were no Jpubt surprised and delighted
at the wonderful celerity and dexterity of the
sailors In keelhauling the capstan and taking a
reef in the port bunglehead Dodgast their ice
scuppers t
HAvt you been to see the warships
Thr Florida fruit crop is all right and It ia
too early for the annual failure of the Delaware
peach crop to acare us Thing might be wOrse
but irt this neck of the woods they could not
bamuch wetter
PosTMAsrra Stiokq li a confirmed office-
holder
F6wi6k merchants will be forced to pay for-
eign claims against Venezuela There may be
smarter men than Castro but if there are they
ire not engaged in the same line of business
IT wont be Balls fault if Houston is left
sitelces
Thomas A Emson says that despite his
numerous inventions he does not yet knew what
electricity is We desire to say for Mr Edisons
enlightenment that electricity is hot stuff
HQuiitoss guntotera should Join the navy
where they can tote a gun right
u
Tk German cruiser Panther teems determined
to enter Lake Maracalbo even if she has to beg
ptrmiikloru
tifit m > Jtntu Wiyu Iu4t the s utk rn
jufteriii ft MStpfticit et w 4jU duoUtlas
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OTJSTON DAILT POST FRIDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 20 I90
SPECIAL PLEADING AGAINST THE CHARTER
Always willing to glvo both sides of a public controversy a full and fair hearing
The Post publishes today a communication A LIttle More Ancient History In opposl
Hon to the pending new Houston city charter
It has been argued that the city limits during the period of 16T0 t6 1674 were five
miles square as proposed now and during that period a largo debt was contracted
which the same suburban property Is pledged In good faith to help discharge Tho
correspondent combats this argument with the speclouB plea that tho flvemlle in-
corporation was enacted by a republican legislature under the B J Davis regime and
that the succeeding democratic legislature substituted a charter restricting the limits
to three miles square
This Is a very palpable nppeal to prejudice which ought to discount It with all
fairminded persons
But let us take Jt on Its merits
It Is true that there were reckless expenditure under the radical council which
operated on the fivemile area But the fact remains that bonds were Issued upon
the basis of that territory and If th6 present suburban property owners claim ex-
emption from the taxes to pay these bonds they can not deny exemption in equity
to those within the present limits
One proposition is an evasion of what In the other case would be called repudiation
And that ia precisely the complexion of this resistance by suburban property own-
ers to paying their share of a debt put upon their property It la as much their bur-
den as it is theburden of any property within the llmlls of the city but by adroit-
ness in changing the charter after the radical period they left property owners within
tho threemllo area to pay all tho burden placed on a twentyflvftmllo area
It la not true us Implied that the legislature of 1674 upon Its own motion changed
tho boundaries to three miles The legislature does not Initiate such legislation It
comes up from the people of the community and It would be mere guesswork to say
at this late day what motives inspired thoao presenting the new charter but it ia par-
donable to guess that among them were many such as now oppose extension those
who were willing for others to pay municipal expenses while they themsMvtj enjoy
the enhancements of city growth and the comforts of city utilities
But It has been a long time since 1874
Houston was then a country town and If three miles squire was a aroa
at that tlmo It does not seem unreasonable to fix a limit of five miles thirty yoars
later Probably thirty years hence we shall have to make an addition of two 0 five
miles more According to the mossback argument the city limits should not bo ex-
tended eo long as there is an unoccupied foot of ground within the corporation
Lei us see what is the growth In population during th se thirty years Here is an
excerpt from the last city directory
The folio in figures jh < w the number oi nme Apfieiring in each issue 61 6ur Heuston
directory tinte the first publication in tS <
No of
Yesr
t876tP77 v
Namcj
4550
i88ifl6 4705
i8oi8Si 658s
x88i88S r55
18841885 9041
18861887 10115
18871888 6418
18891890 taaoj
Decrease
Inc of
Humes
1 5 3
1 obi
I 4l
ti8
iSj
Xo of
Year Names
jSoot6i U9i
i8 i8 i6iS
94lo45 i ° to
i95to96 ii909
18371898 H > 1S7
1899 J8
1900t oi 16111
19021903 aoaii
IrtO of
Name
1789
ir6
i489
74i
1566
M9
3U9
Beginning with this Issue of the directors are giving the papulation by actual eount the
figures appearing after the names throughout the book indicates the number in each family
outside of those whose names arf enumerated The sum total of these gives Houston a popu-
lation of 58403 The ratio to each name based On this actual remit gave a population of
1036 in 1900 the canv having been made in the spring of that > ear thus showing an in-
crease of 6J67 in less than two > ear
According to the ratio used b directory publishers throughout the country three to cacll
name Houston would hov 1 population of 3x1916 or 87783 This is given merely as a
comparison to other cities that may clilm a large count based on ratio to names and ac-
tual census that we are uos gning
On the basis of 4630 names In 1676 usln the ratio of 3 which Is tho rule
throughout the Unttort States Houston had then a population of 13600 and during
the period of 187074 probably an averse of 10000
Nov by the same ratio it has nearly It not quite 90000
If 0 square miles was a proper basis for a population of l6000 by tho same
ratio tho mileage for a population of 90006 should be nine times as murh or 81 square
miles The proposed extended mileage Is less than onethird of thnt
Or to put It differently In 1874 there were 10000 people on 0 square miles or
a little more than 1000 people to tho ratio which those who oppose extension Insist
was tho proper area adopted after an unfortunatp experience by a wsp legislature
On tho same basis Houston today should have for comfort for basis of tmatlon and
for hoalthy municipal growth over 90 square miles
Thus the raosback contention Is condemned Out Of Its own mouth for tho frlendft
of progress and falrnesa are asking for only 25 square miles
Finally they say that adjacent territory should not ho annexed without an ap-
proving vote of the Inhabitants That Is done In annexing Incorporated towns abutting
or adjacent but it Is never ddne in annexing unincorporated territory The reapon Is
simple Tho occupants of unincorporated territory would nover vote to come In and
growing cities would simply uplll over their contracted boundaries The groater part of
such suburban property Is Owned by people Residing n the city held for speculation
or rental and the occupants are largely tenants who would naturally follow the sug-
gestion of the landlord and he may always be depended upon to escapo taxation which
la Justly his burden The property Is made valuable by proximity to the city its
tonants are employed by the city and without the city the land would bo fit only for
farming or pasturlngt but he Is willing to reap all th6 advantages while he shuns all
the expenses of city development
It Is a selfish policy
It 1b the policy which would take all and give nothing In return
country town of 10000 as It was In 1874 and which If allowed to prevail now will
greatly hamper her further growth
It Is an unmanly policy It takes something tor nothing It evades the simplest
community requirements It shirks the plain obligations of propertyowning citizen-
ship Its advocates ought to b6 ashamed of It And they will bo after tho charter passes
and they have experienced the sensation of paying the taxes they Justly owe It al-
ways makes a man feel better to do his duly after he has done It
against the whites It will doubtless be by absent
treatment
It mud were asphalt Houstons pavements
would be the talk of the whole country
Ir San Domingo doesnt settle that Clyde mat
ter we may bt able to get the allied powers tp
I6an us that peaceful blockade they used so re-
cently
WoKnta if Editor Charley Mooney has any-
thing to do with the Hearst presidential boom
Tue smooth manner adopted by Mr Slayden
In catling Mr Hull a liar was so politely worded
as to seem almqst a compliment
Nobody In Houston sings the Good Old Sum-
mer Time how except the LeftHand Fishing
club
HcKncRFOH is afr ld that if he doesnt look
ouffor the interests of the tobacco trust it
might spit his life away
A ma frozen to death In Texas Such an
occurrence Is as unusual as a case of chilblains
In the tropics >
The mtttvltU M ini r ilvii h t
its rudni pirmljiion to Mud ia 4 new iub >
icribtr
itetfmj > 2J
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HOUSTON AND THE POST
llrt for dslly piper o < the magnitude of The
Post to be read here
th eH fcn6 h
The Houston Post
terprlse 11 from now on get out an edition
at midnight This edition IU pl ee The P ton
tM
the breakfast table In > ehemei along
on
ill
and It
railway
Houston and Te s Central
about 7J °
Houston
reaeh here 173 miles from
a m RUitl Ruitltr
A Little More Ancient History
To the Editor of The Post p
wrreapOnlaot T A M
In an er to your
limits of Houston were
to that the
permit me say
extended by eharter to five mites square by the
legislature under the adm nlstratton of fc J
Davis atthe instance of the then city council
This was during the darkest da > of reeoft
and carpetbagger1 satin
ttructlon when negroes
in our city council and controlled our legisla
tureThe the enlargement
thin a
The purpose
basis for a large bond
no wis to provide a
they issued the bonds in amount more than
t60oo06 and all that we got out of it was a
market hOusft which was afterwards burned inu
democrat for 90000
rebuilt by the
eharter was
At the time this carpet bag
At t 1S70 no one
talned which was passed
lived In the suburbs now sought to be taken
who had no voice In
in save a few farmet
white people ind democrats
the Scheme they being
ocrats
When Richard Coke was elected governor of
Texas In 1S7I the E J Davis crowd vert
turned out at the points Of bayonets and the
white people of Texas ilter a long night of mis
rule came into power
Among the first acts of the Fourteenth legis-
lature of date January 10 1874 was the passage
joint resolution of both
sage of the following
hereis It has been made knovti that the
mayor and aldermen of the clt of Iouston in
Harris Oounty have abused their authority by
contracting unnecessary debts agimt said ctt >
and its Inhabitant by the isuance of the bonds
Of said city and otherwise and contemplate in-
Creasing Mid indebtedness bv the further issu-
ance of Such bonds and by other means there-
fore be it
Resolved by the leeisliture of the State cf
Texas That from and iftr the passage of this
resolution and until thirty diys therea ter or
until otherwise sooner firolded by law all power
vetted in the mayor and aldermen and other of-
ficers of said city by the provisions of an act
entitled An act to Consolidate in tft act and
amend the several acts incorporatms the city
Of Houston in Harris county passed August
> 187O or bv any other law State or municipal
to contract debts against said city or its Inhabi-
tants to issue or sign bonds crip or any other
evidence of indebtedness of or against said city
Or its inhabitants or of delivering to any person
or persons alty of such bonds scrip or Other in-
debtedness now issued or to mike or enter into
any contract whereby any ilctjt may be con
tracted against said city Or its inhabitants for
any purpose Whatsoever be and the fame is
hereby suspended and be it further
Resolved That no act done or to be done by
said mayor and aldermen or Other officers of
said city in contravention of this resolution
shall be ever binding upon said city or any of
Us Inhabitants and be it further
approved by Governor Richard Coke Januaiy 23
1874 and was certified to by George Clark sec-
retary Of stite on same day
These proceedings were had during the ses-
sion of the Fourteenth legislature to which I
respectfully rofer T A M and Messrs Griggs
Hotknis Egan Watkins et al
Hence it appears that the monumental fraud
Of taking in the suburbs of Houston and bond-
ing them for the purpose Of making Improve-
ments within the city is originally laid out
vvas heavily sat down upon by the legislature of
Texas and was not brought about by Hook or
Crook as Griggs et al state that it was
Dd these gentlemen wdsh to fool the public
on this issue Or were they simply ignorant
of the history of our city and State on this
mooted question
And is the present attempted act to take in
the suburbs without their consent and bond
them any less censurable than In the past
And should not the present legislature do as
did
without the given consent of any man liv
tory
It Is the policy which If It had prevailed would have held Houston down to a J tng therein and subject it to the payment of a
Strong hit been reappointed postmaster at
HOustort and this despite the oppositl6n Of Na-
tional Committeeman Hawley Ydtkum Timri
Booker T Washington his written a card of
thanks to the white people of Houston thanking
them for the reception given him at Houston
We dont know which would attract the most
attention in Houston Booker or Teddy Ander-
son Enlirtrisc
Victoria Texis February i8 The enterprise
of The Post in Isuing a midnight editlin la high
ly appreciated by Its hoit of Victoria patrons
It reaches here on the Owl at 6 jo a m and
U distributed promptly so that most ot Its read-
ers receive it before breakfast
Hearne Texas February is Under the new
time card recently inaugurated by the Houston
and Texas Central The Post now reaches Us
ininy readers here before breakfast and many of
Us admirers were very complimentary yesterday
in their remarks about Ihe great Texas daily
Marlin Texas February it The Pott arrlxed
at an early hour this morning and was read by
miltfur braaliMit Tha trtln being lit It tm
ieek h far it reuhe hire but that was
4 wUtr tbu ever koov la th Uatuy ef Uu
Jf
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bond debt of 5000000 in which they had no
part In creating
Will any fair mart support for office any one
0 unjust as to Insist upon perpetuating Such an
outrage
Mr Grigfcs et al say that the city council are
responsible for the measure and not them Not
So tor the city council does not represent and
was not elected by any man or any vote from
thit Sixteen square miles of territory but Mr
Griggs et at were
And it Was the duty of Griggs et 4l to protect
the suburbs from this attempted outrage by the
tity They hive betrayed the suburbs and upon re-
flection even the people of the city will censure
them For it Is human niture to despise the
traitor even though we may admire the treason
F F Cutw Sn
A Big Texas Paper
New York Journalist
It Is with pleasure I print the following letter
from G J Palmer vice president of the Hous
ton Texas Printing company and business
manager of The Houston Post Its gentlemanly
tone i one to be admired and I rejoice in the
wonderful progrtss of the Texis press where It
holds the leading rank Epitor Journalist
Mr Allan Fotmin Editor Journalist New York
City N Y
The Houston Poit Houston Texas February
6 1903 Dear Sir In the Journalist of Janu
aty 17 an article vety complimentary to the
Montgomery Advertiser appears and I do not
know of any ptper In the South more deserving
0 praise than the Montgomery Advertiser The
record of thit paper is certainly one to be proud
of btit we cin not consistently concede them
the distinction of having published i paper with
more paid advertising in one regular issue than
any othtr piper in the South
Our > of Det mbtr t u t cenuintd
4ij lachu ef paid advertiiluj sad SUr issue
a
t > H
Of November 6 toj e6nt ned 6409 inches
f advertising against 4664 inches the high
witer mark of the Montgomery Advertise
named were pedal edK
Neither Of the issues
contained therein
advertisement
tlon and every
w a seeured by our regular force of solicitors
Your truly O J Ptf
business Manager
SOME POSTSCRIPTS
In some of the Pirlsian cemeteries there are
open vault connected with electrical appliances
0 prevent the burial of persons who may be
only In a trance
The manufacture of glass In Germany has be-
come a thriving industry The number of fae
tories has reached 4 > and they give employment
to about Jooo workmen
A total of 1704 conscript from AlsaceLor
raine have failed to Join the colors and have
beep dectired outlaws In consequence All their
properly reverts to the crown
In a bog on the Island of Zetland Denmark
a votive bronie chariot has been found with the
image 0 a horse ten Inches high in front and
with an inUld gold sun on one side
According to the last Federal census the num-
ber of natives of New York in Chicago was 57
060 and the number of natives of Ohio 31000
Chicago has a large population of New England
ancestry
With th object of diverting the stream Of
emigrants that now travels to America la Ger-
many the Hungarian government proposes to es-
tablish a line of steamers running between
Flume and the United States
The most widely separated points between
which a telegram can be sent are British Lolum
bia and New Zealand A telegram sent from
one to the other would make nearly a circuit of
the globe and would traverse over 10000 miles
in doing so
A movement is on foot in Sioux City Iowa
for the erection of a monument to War Eagle
an Indian chief who was friendly to the early
settler when others were hostile and who was
awarded a medal by the president of the United
States in recognition of his good offices
Mrs Roosevelts Handkerchief
Charleston News and Courier
The piost pronounced display of very bad man-
ners that we have noted in a long lime has been
credited to the account of some of the society
people of Dallas Texas An entertainment has
been givep in that city in the interest of the
local kinderfjarten Mrs Roosevelt the wife
of the president was requested to make a con-
tribution In compliance with this request and
without understanding what was wanted or
whit was In contemplation as an entertainment
as Mrs Henry C Coke of Dallas explained the
other < av she sent a handkerchief to be sold
for the benefit of the kindergarten association
As the story goes the handkerchief is cotton
machine hemstitched and some assert that it
could be duplicated in any itry goods More In
Dallas for 10 cents or three for a quarter A
majority of the people in charge of the enter-
tainment resolved after much heated discus
sion that Mrs Roosevelts gift should be re-
turned to liar after it had been exhibited at so
much per took at the reception
We agice with Mrs Coke that Mrs Roosevelt
did not receive fair play and her gift In aid
of the entertainment at Dallas was far better
than it deserved
There was no reason in the
Rcs olved TVrrthiScso7uYion shall take cf world why she should be asked to make any
fair
feet and be In force from and after in passage Wrt of gift in aid f a Wndergajwn anj
Approved January iO 1874
Three daya after this Joint resolution was en-
acted the legislature provided and passed a new
charter for the city of Houston which by ar-
ticle 2 section 1 of same the limits of Hie city
of Houston were fixed at three miles square
and have remained as thus fired
And article jo section 50 of said charter Is
as follows
That the provisions of the joint resolution
of the legislature entitled A joint resolution
suspending the powers of the mayor and alder-
men and other officers of the city of Houston
in Harris county In certain cases enumerated
herein approved January 10 1874 shall not ap-
ply to the mayor and aldermen and officers
named appointed or elected under this act
This charter act Was signed by Guy M Bryan
Speaker of the house of representatives and R
Where and particularly in a community which
she has never visited and in which she can feel
no e recia interest She was asked to make a
Contribution to the Dallas fair because she hap-
pens to be the wife of the president of the
United State and she assumed doubtless that it
was tint the intrinsic value of the gift she made
but Ihe gift itself that would be of interest to
the Dallas people If the beggars felt otherwise
they ought to have stated in their letter reques-
ts a contribution that no contribution would be
received unless it was worth so much It is not
an evidence of the best breeding to value a gift
according to the price marked on the tag The
Texam ought to have told the lady huw much
they would expect her gift to be worth in dollars
and cents
Holding Us Up
li Hubbard president of the senate and was j rrnjy County Press
leading editorial in The Houston Post of
the 27th ult the editor comments on the economy
of the municipal government of the city and
especially of the unity of the city council This
shows what can he done under an economical
administration Jn the mayors report he shows
that the debt has been reduced by more than
onehalf besides the current expenses of the
city have been met Now if Houston can make
such a showing why can not any county do the
Same It our couqty officials will look to the
public good and not run the county to any extra
expense to favor any person or persons but get
work done where it is the cheapest with all
things considered it will be a saving Then
look at things in a practical way Let out
jobs on public work only whtre it will he bene-
ficial to the public good and then only for what
it is reatly worth What a county needs Is
work done for the good of the county regard-
less of what benefit it may be to any single in
dividual Economy but not policy Is what
the Fourteenth legislaturespew it out of county oficial needs t0 00 ftJr every
moulh
their
Js it not an indefensible outrage to even at-
tempt to take in sixteen square miles of terrl
A Married Mans Musings
On the sea of matrimony wrecks are caused
by wives instead of waves
The very men who have never tried it have
the most to say against matrimony writes an
indignant woman Quite true The Others
darent
The kindesthearted old bachelor cant help
gloating a little on cold nights when he thinks
of his many married friends who are walking
the fl6or
Solomon was the wisest man that
but a fellow cant help wondering
noon When woman who has played euchre for
three hours and a quarter and quarreled with her
best friendt over a 39cent prize comes off vic
torious she realize for the first time just how
Joan of Arc must hive felt
Made His Mark
Wills Point Chronicle
Honort even Our office devil whom we
have christened Rats for short engaged In
friendly dispute with a grocery boy named Nib
sey the other day During the progress of
tampering With ftffl
US J 7i Libit
i V AA AAiV NVVSA AAMW
NOT SUPPOSED TO KNOW
We are camped where the river Areas
Glides down to an alien tea
Where the blistering sun of noonday
Pricks the shade of a tropic tree
Clear limned on the quivering
roaowiv
Or dark on the gliddering tldei h
Where the dead from the
aultans
Stare back at us open eyed
fourth
For the choleras up above us
And the choleras down below
And the buzzards ride the corses
Where the turgid waters flowj
And Were blasting us out a roadway
That our wagons may draw supphu
From cholerastruck Iligaii
To the fort Where the Moro dies
And the Moro dead drift silent
Where white men build their road
And a corse grins bitter greeting
And goes with its croaking load
But another and yet another
Bobs down to the open sea
And were blasting a highway
Where white men should not be
And Smith of the tenth thlrsteholdnj
Drank deep from the Argos tide
And still do the dead ride by us
All blackened and festereyed
But Smith of the tenth cares nothing
For he sleeps In the tropic shade
In a restful sleep and dreamless
With his soul in the grim parade
When the road we are blastings bullded
And we with our war applies
Have won to the forts up yomrsr
Where the unbreeched Moro dies
And our Krags bark rapid greeting
And Some of us gasp and fall
We will storm each wall and take it
But what is the good at all
We true we have taught a lesson
But where can it be applied
And what does the prestige wm ui
Of mangling a mangy hide
Tis true we have won by conquest
The isles of the Southern seas
From a foe whose greatest weakness
Was the holding of such as these
But why should a soldier question
And why should he whisper Why
On the banks of the turgid Arg06
Grim grinning the dead go t > y
And cholera waits above uS
And cholera waits below
But why should a soldier question
lie isnt supposed to know
Eight habitues of a Chicago saloon were ttV
bed and locked up in the refrigerator over nljlt
They showed great presence of mind all tar4ca
the ordeal and kept perfectly cool
Within two hours the other morning M Regit
the French editor fought three duels to tie
death no one was injured
It is said that burglars who robbed a Ne
Vork woman of her diamonds missed a purs
containing 500 they ought to have her ir <
rested on suspicion
After his first meal in a New York betrj
house n man leaped in frenzy from a fourth
story window he probably wasnt tiled to
prunes
The price of diamonds has gone up J per test
A few more raises in rrlce will result la tit
diamond being classed with anthracite s a pre-
cious stone
Susan B Anthony is 83 years of age V < i
dont like to hurry her but if she doesatnwtJ
well hae to begin referring to her as aa 04
maid
tried to commit suicide reetatfr
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Mary Rooney
by jumping from a Long Island ferry bcU I
eommltt
tie Annie Rooney never thought of
so rash a deed though she drove others to It
A New York letter carrier recently turned l
black and then died He was evidently
deavoring to make himself eligible for a
em postmastership
FIXED IT
He planned for church on Sunday
But it rained
He planned to plow on Monday
But it rained
Oh he planned a thing or two
Evry day the whole week through
Something great that he would do
But it rained I
Then his mind evolved a eeheme
And it rained
He evolved it in a dream
And it rained
He got him a big umbrell
And sOme rubber boots as well
Since that time no rain hat feu
Then it stopped
John D Rockefell lffer million gig
for a healthy stomach If J > h toffl ei
much about tue
we wouldnt care so
Lockharl Post fll
amount H M
John can have ours for that
take us at an encumbrance
The Houston school board U g A
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have done if his Wives mothers had all insisted Houston heretofore his not bee incl
on being taken to the matinee the same after
fooiish and finicky Fort Worth
The propriety of draping Venn I <
through any finicky < 2
considered weather down tH
been having some mighty cold
way of lite
How doe this last spell of ho
new spring suit and patent leatner
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It didnt strike no such mess llie
You must think
duds In our wardrobe
a fairy godmother
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railroads all M UV
thit affair of honor Nibsey managed to chew 1 ir ni nubile roads i
off our devil i
car In affixing both severed 11directUT oi
member the phytielan managed to sew them n to it from every
on the wrong side of the heV and now m ITAZ prosperity eUWaeo
fiithful boy it letthdnded in his hearing It
is a source Of much joy to us however that
6Ur devil managed to secure a goodly portion of
Nibseys right thumb
Votes Expedite Business
Buffalo Ifxpreis
The ether day it took the house of renre
KivtA tJ hours 0 reecl a claim of
jpq On FMlay m pension bills were passed
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A recent geological survey
Lake in Oregon procla ins the 1 arUt
spits
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