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THF SAN ANTONIO DAILY EXPRESS: THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 12,1011.
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BIO CITIES OP TEXAS.
Population 1010.
Fan Antonio 00114
Dallas 02.104
Houston 78.SOO
Fort Worth 78,312
El Paso 30.279
Galveston 36.1H8
Austin 20,880
Waco 26.42ft
CIRCULATION ROOKS
OPEN TO ADVERTISERS
A FAREWELL MESSAGE.
In retiring from the office of chief
executive of the State, Governor Camp-
bell congratulates the people of Texas
upon the favorable financial conditions,
declaring that though his administra-
tion was threatened at the beginning
with a deficit of more than $300,01X1,
every obligation has been met and dis-
charged when due, that the tax burden
is the lightest ever laid upon the
masses of any State of this Republic
for the support of government; that
capital and lanor are at peace and the
people, as a rule, ptosperous, happy and
contented.
The retiring Governor thinks the
people ars cspcciaily to be congratu-
lated on the demonstration of the fact
that the laws can be enforced in Texas,
that legislation during the past four
years has responded to the demands
and the interests of the people, and
he sounds a note of warning against
any future efforts to amend or modify
the enactments during his administra-
tion, which he regards as being about
as near perfection as human ingenuity
could devise.
Regarding the State's financial con-
dition, Qpvernor Campbell says that
at this time the State's bonded indebt-
edness amounts to 53,978,100, all of
which is owned by the permanent
school fund and other permanent funds
of the State's educational and charita-
ble institutions, except $1900 in bonds,
which are in the hands of individuals
or have been lost, and that it should be
a matter of pride and satisfaction to
all the people of the State to know
that every dollar of tne State's compar-
atively small indebtedness, with the
exception noted, is owned by its own
State institutions.
Briefly the Governor summarizes
some of the laws of general interest
enacted during his administration,
among them being laws which make It
a felony to keep a gambling house or
exhibit gambling devices, to bet on
speed exhibitions on race tracks, to
drink intoxicating liquors on railroad
trains, selling liquor in local option ter-
ritory, imposing a tax of $5000 on ex-
press companies engaged in shipping
intoxicating liquors into local option
districts, an occupation tax on persons
or corporations taking orders for the
sale of intoxicating liquors in local op-
tion territory and other laws strength-
ening and making more effective the
local option laws and providing for
more effective regulation of the liquor
traffic.
Other enactments referred to are
those prohibiting gambling in cotton
and other futures, the exhibition of
prize fights or glove contests or any-
thing immoral in moving picture shows,
theaters or other public places, pro-
hibiting ties passes on railroads, pro-
hibiting insolvent corporations from
doing business in Texas and providing
penalties for interference with legisla-
tion by professional lobbyists, prohibit-
ing nepotism and in addition to these
the antitrust legislation which, besides
driving criminal trusts from the State,
has contributed to the public treasury
fi«« amounting to $1,936,680.04.
The bank guaranty law which was
qm of the Governor's pet measures, is
declared to have proven very benefi-
cial to the State banking system and
in no way hurtful to the National banks
Ind impressive figures are presented to
show the rapid development of the
State banking system In the past four
years. The operation of the revenue
laws and the taxing system are re-
viewed at length and with considerable
detail, and while it is not claimed that
th«y are perfect, the Governor believes
them to be equal to the best that obtain
elsewhere, in that they yield sufficient
reenue for the support of government
without Imposing undue burdens upon
the tixpayers or upon enterprise and
Industry.
All the laws enacted by the Legisla-
ting the Campbell administra-
tion <nhel'J ind applauded by the
Govei >nication, the full rtn-
ditio- ior laws, the moral
If a»s made and pro-
, executive direction or influence
or thfat received executive approval, and
in rejewing their operations the Gov-
ernor* makes out a very strong case for
the ^jate, for the Legislature and for
the executive for the four-year term of
the Governor now drawing to a close.
And, ttjuth to say, the laws referred
to have generally proven their efficacy
and have ^een effectively administered.
Governor' Campbell has been sharply
criticised! and the statutes have been
decried a^id misrepresent to a con-
siderable extent, but the Governor's
showing makes it plain that Texas is
prosperous and well governed and that
it has been clearly demonstrated that
laws can be enforced when there is a
strong impelling force in the executive
office.
Jl'ST A RIGHT TO CROW.
In the hearing before the House
Committee on Naval Affairs Captain
Perry was asked by Mr. Roberts if any
injunction of secrecy had been made
as to what members of the expedition
might say. He replied that members of
his party were not free to write or lec-
ture after their return, except with his
written permission, explaining that they
were paid for their services. Mr. Ma-
con of Arkansas Interjected that Cap-
tain Perry was also paid for his serv-
ices through the salary paid him as a
naval officer. And right then and there
Captain Peary wanted to change the
subject.
EASIEST WAY IS I1EST.
Much has been said in San Antonio
and along the Mexican border, on both
sides, regarding the probability of a
revolution led by Gen. Bernard Reyes
against the government of Mexico.
During the late disturbance which
the "war correspondents" endeavored
to magnify to the proportions of a rev-
olution industrious efforts were made
to connect General Reyes with the
movement and the suggestion was
insinuated in various ways that he was
behind the "uprising."
The purpose was plain enough to
those citizens of the two republics who
are familiar with the popularity of
General Reyes in Mexico and especially
with the strong hold which he has upon
the affections of the army. They real-
ize that "one blast upon his bugle horn
were worth a thousand men" to the
cause of the insurectos, but that blast
was never blown. While some intima-
tions were thrown cut by presumably
interested persons that Reyes was on
his way to Mexico to head the revolt
he was heard from at Paris, where he
was serving his country in a diplomatic
capacity, as a friend and supporter of
President Diaz, who had no confidence
in or sympathy with the so-called rev-
olution in Mexico which was at that
time creating some stir in the col-
umns of the newspapers ever eager for
news that is more or less sensational.
Now comes a citizen of Mexico who
relates that while General Reyes was
en route to his post at the French cap-
ital an offer of almost unlimited finan-
cial support was made to him to return
to Mexico and lead a revolt against the
government, which he refused, saying
he "would never lead an attack of Mex-
ican people against Mexican people."
That was spoken like a man and a pa-
triot.
The American Republic has pointed
the way to rtfotms in government, to
the change of administration without
bloodshed and without serious disturb-
ance of business and industry. It is by
way of the ballot. The people can assert
themselves and overthrow any govern-
ment that is oppressive or distasteful
without destroying life or property and
without arraying the populace against
the military in open arms. It may be
more difficult in Mexico than it is in
the United States, because of our more
democratic system and because of our
longer experience of popular govern-
ment, but the change can be affected
there, when the proper time arrives,
by an appeal to the patriotism and good
sense of the people and by insistance
on a free and unfettered ballot which
would be as likely to seat General
Reyes as anyone else in the presiden-
tial chair if he should be the choice
of the Mexican people.
This section of Texas has a right to
crow.
This right is conferred by the lordly
I rooster and his consorts, who are add-
ing annually thousands of dollars to the
income of the citizens and which will,
| during the next few years, make even
; a better showing because the industry
! has passed the experimental stage and
is being promoted on a Urge scale.
On this point an interesting report
! comes from the progressive little town
i of Weimer Duiirig 1110 the farmers
of that section shipped out more than
$20,000 worth of turkeys. During De-
cember tlone turkeys, chickens, eggs
and butter were shipped to the amount
of S45.CKX. enough to fill many stock-
ings and to make many merry Christ-
mas celtbrations. From that section
duritu' 1910 it is estimated the total
amount of chickens, turkeys, eggs and
butter reached the large sum of
$150,OCO
This sum is equivalent in value to
2000 bales of cotton and the profit real-
ized was more than 3500 bales of cot-
ton wojlu have brought. Yet the
amount of land needed to produce for-
age foi the poultry and the dairy cat-
tle wij not more than one-twentieth of
what v/.'.s devoted to growing cotton.
Truck gataeninp, alfalfa and some
othe" crop;, can not be most profitably
raised without irrigation, which often
j necessities the expenditure of large
sums for a plant ard fer ditching the
land. Diversification b> means of the
poultr. pen and the da'rv can be car-
ried on with little expenditure and the
resul'at.t profits will be equally as
large as those coming from truck or
alfalfa farms.
The cxanplc of Meimer is one by
which every community in Texas
should emulate. Until the value of
poultry and the dairy in connection with
farming is realized the Texas farmer
can not hope to attain that prosperity
which is legitimately his.
THE UNDOING
OF MR. UPLIFT
"Wine Dope on Future Events" Argued
by father %*. Son.
Ill LAFAYETTE FARKS
iials of Angelica
I«II, by th» Nn* Y«ti Tiiwu* York HwM fWpwiyX
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A.
jurr-cuTdiifL.
By M.F
For monumental ard unblushing ego-
ism commend us to the renowned ex-
plorer who wanted all the glory for
himself that could possibly be got out
of Arctic explorations, though he was
willing to share the drngers and priva-
tions up to a certain point with others.
Still he seems to have been more dis-
creet than wps that other explorer who
submitted his "proofs" to the Copen-
hagen University and thereby had all
the wind taken out of his sails.
As some of the Solons appear to see
it, the main business of the legislative
session is over as soon as the presiding
officers are elected and all the other
offices filled.
We gather from the proceedings at
Austin that the friendship of the junior
United States Senator from Texas may
be regarded as a valuable political asset
on occasion*-
i6TETBKOF. WII.KY says man's ultimate
* destiny is cither to freeze or to
i starve," gravely announces Mr Pplift,
j giving a tvw sharp turns t-> the valve
I ut the end of the steam radiator in the
vain hope of encouraging a laggard fur-
nace to produce heat.
I "Must have born living in one of these
| Wnshlngton Heights flats when he
dashed that off." grumbles young Mr.
i rplift, thrusting his slippered teet
against the chill bronze of the tne- hanism
I supposed to transmit heat. "All these
I radiators need to make a first-class re-
j fiigerator is a nan underneath t«> catch
tne drip from the icicles."
j "The learned professor was speaking of
i the far distant future," explains Father,
I "when humanity shall begin to suffer
from lack «•! heat."
Well, then," admonishes Bon, "all I
can say is that somebody ought to wako
him out of his nap. U you call flat
dwellers human beings, the time for them
to suffer from the cold is now little old
January, jack Frost's sldepartner."
"A million years from now, according
to the scientists, we shall free/e even on
the equator," continues Father.
"That's nothing,'' counters f^on. "Even
in lflll tenants in the Hat, right over the
furnace room get fuch cold feet that
they can't make a kick to the janitor."
"I,ike all men of science, however,"
consolingly says Father, "this professor
has a remedy for the condition he fears
Ho asserts in the future the air will be
I harnessed to supply heat."
) "Hot air, eh?" queries Son. "We've g<>t
j plenty of that in New York, too, but I
i never saw anybody yet who liked it well
! enough to harness It up and take it home
to tliH flat."
"Of course," Interlock Father, "we
have a great many hot air furnaces now
in homes."
"I've heard 'em called that by chaps
who never had to tend 'em." declares Son.
"Hut believe me, Pop, the hot air you
get out of a ton of coal al $0.50 through
1ST the most thrill- f
ing thing has hap-
pened. Mr Wlnton
has sent rue a box!
of violets and a j
note asking if be
could collie to see
me, and would I let |
him know what aft-
ernoon I would he
d i s e n g a ged. I
wouldn't let any
one know It, but I
tldnk it's simply wonderful that he
should care to call on me, when he can
go and see somebody ns attractive as
Mrs. Dangerfield.
Still, perhnps he has the same scruples
That Brownsville Midwinter Fair
would be a revelation to our friends in
the cold country if they could drop into
the exposition hall and see the displays
of fresh vegetables with which the
Brownsville people are lavishly pro-
vided, not only now, but at all seasons
of the year.
AT T.AST IT WAS WRITTEN."
•out
hnv<
Af t f
ih\
to
St i
K fu
ever
•ugh
calling on a married woman that
about liking a married man
the flowers came I telephoned
\er to Agnes, asking her to come
ee iuy new dinner frock that had
rived. She came for lunch, and
he saw the box and the note she
1 of curiosity. It is the first letter
had from a man, and I feel as
I am at last seeing lite. I told
her It was from Mr Wlnton as carelessly
as possible.
she said, "Isn't it a bore to get notes
like th f." and I said. "Yes. It Is rather,
though it is funny how at first they used
to thrill you." she said she had roeeived
postively hundreds of them and so many
flowers that she was sick of the sight <>f
them She said she supposed I knew what
a desperate flirt Neil Wlnton was.
I began to wish I hadn't asked her
over to see the dinner fr«» k. I said, as
he rather amused me. I thought I would
send him a line telling him he could
come, as I was getting a little tired of
the other men I said I shouldn't wonder
if I changed my mind, though.
After she had gone I sat down and
wrote some rough drafts of a note to
send him. It was dreadfully hard to
write, but at last it was written He
came on Tuesda\ afternoon and Vonsin
Anne sat and talked to him for a while,
but had to go out in a short time I
feir horribly nervous, because I had never
talked to a man alon? before lu a draw-
ing room.
It seems so different In a ballroom, or
a place where there are ever so many
other people around. He came over and
sat beside me on the sofa, and I felt »«s
If 1 should like to climb over the back
of It and run upstairs I would have
given anything to have said something
like Mrs D.mgerfield. He did look so
nice and big, but he had the most supe-
rior smile that irritated me frightfully.
He looked as though he thought he didn't
have to make any effort, and as If I was
amusing him very much. Then 1 began
tQ feel as if I were starting out to play
a game and it was great fun and I didn't
feel In the least shy,somehow.
lie said. You are rather silent, Miss
Angelica. I am afraid you are bored"
I said. "No. indeed; you entertain me
very much." and I smiled at the book-
»ase. He looked surprised, and said,
"Ifeallyrather sarcastically. I said,
"Y<- You are so nice looking, and 1
think you will do to practice on.this aft-
ernoon." He said, "Really?" again, this
time in a fearfully surprised way. "What
do you mean?" I said, "Why, I've never
flirted with anybody, and I would like
to just allttle i'p at school the milv
man I ever talked to was the laundry
man. one of the girls was In love with
him and I wanted to find out why. I
must say he was disappointing. Oh, !
do hope you will be different"
He seemed to think that was funny, but
1 realh was perfectly sincere
We talked a b»t after that, and when I
thought he was feeling most Interested I
got up and said I was so sorry to have
to send him away, but 1 had to dress for
a dinner. He said I hadn't asked his ad-
vice about things as 1 had said I was
going to at the musicals I said I had
decided not to that afternoon. He said,
"I>o you still want to flirt with some
one?" I said that I did, but he wasn't the
one. I said, "You are much too nice to
flirt with You would make n wonderful
"HE CERTAINLY IS GOOD LOOKING."
friend A person one could always rely
on. There is something awfully sort of
good and trustworthy and safe about you.
You have such honest eyes, loo. No, in-
deed. I wouldn't have the heart to flirt
with you."
There was something on his sleeve that
looked like a hair and I took it off for
him. He said, "Thanks," very shortly. I
said, "You're perfectly welcome. Oh, I tn
so sorry I really must send you away."
lie seemed very silent, and finally went.
His smile wasn't a hit superior when he
said good-by and asked when he could
set- me again, and he certainly Is good-
looking.
TEXAS PARAGRAPHS
35 Years Ago Today
£*M>
It is a healthy sign when fne citizens
manifest so much interest in the com-
mission government movement. It in-
dicates civic p'idc and an earnest de-
sire to advance the cause of good gov-
ernment.
Houston has voted bonds for a deep
water channel to the Gulf and for the
construction of a bridge across the
bayou. Houston means to show up bet-
ter in the next decennial census than
she did in the last.
Next to the election of a Speaker of
the House the biggest event of the win-
ter in Austin will be the inaugural ball
which is scheduled for next week.
It may tc observed that the aero-
planes, when alighting or flying close
to the earth, manifest a wonderful af-
finity for fences.
The rivalry between legislators
should not be as to who will offer the
most bills, but the best one.
The poll tax payments are rolling in
now and San Antonio is leading rival
Texas cities handsomely.
Snails and Sparks.
When money talks O does not have to
advertise for an audience.
Some seek truth and become fighting
mad when they find It.
It takes two to make a bargain and
sometimes a third party gets It.
Pay as you go may be a good policy,
but It exacts almost a prohibitive pre-
mium.
Eternal envy is the price of success
One man's backbone is merely another's
obstinacy.
The strong erm of the law often falls
to reach the man who has something up
in his sleeve.
Tou ran scarcely expect clean politics
where there arc sweeping denials.
BENJAMIN* AKoi'EIN.
Castles in Spain.
Far from this old sad world of Every
Pay
With Its unceasing tread of changeless
hours,
1 know my castle waits to welcome me
With sentry hopes avvatch upon Its
towers.
Across the troubled sea of Time that
breaks,
In sunny waves against Its basttoned
feet, r
It shelters close within Its harbor walls,
The resting, snowy sails of heart
dreams sweet.
And some day, I, with you, dear, close
beside, r
Shall launch our little shallop from the
beach,
And sail away o'er gray and mist-
crowned waves
Until the sunlight wakens and we reach
That longed-for harbor where forgotten
dreams
Walt quiet-sailed, to welcome us once
more;
The little dream-boats with their cargoes
Bweet,
Kent winging there «o many years bo-
fore.
But still we wait to sight the shallop's
sail,
And live within the world of Every
Day;
And evening shadows fade to morning
gray;
Content to see through mists of driving
rain
The castle watch-flies gleaming far
away.
-Martha Haikeli Clark In Metropolitan
MagatUie.
A MAN OF SCIENCE CAN TELL OS WHA7
t/ILl flAFPTN ill A HILUON YEARS.
one of those kind of furnaces could be
duplicated from a good six-cent cigar,
, with which you get a handsome coupon,
suitable for framing, to say nothing
of the gilt band. These cigar hands
! also make neat thumb rings for husbands
j lo wear to prove that they are married.
: This style of Jewelry ought to become
! quite popular among the thrifty bene-
dicks."
"What, a wonderful thing it is." ex-
patiates Father, "that a man of science
tail tell what will take place on this old
i earth of ours a million or more years
hence! They ' an inform lis how wo can
1 keep warm and what we shall eat."
"I don't kno\V as I object If they get
any fun out of that lino of dope," ob-
serves Son, "but what the bunch I travel
with want to know is what and where
they can drag off the eats the day before
payday. There is also considerable de-
mand among spliced guys to figure out
a scheme to save enough long green to
buy coal when the bin gets empty. When
Doc Wiley ean hand out a recipe, accom-
panied by a chart, showing us how to pry
loose these necessities right now Instead
of in the year Hffl.iW.MO, he'll find busi-
ness picking up with a rush."
"It Is none the less amazing," argues
Father, "to observe with what exact
nicety ttie scientists can estimate, for in-
stance, the speed with which this globe I-.
cooling off. Women as well as men
ought to know more about such phe-
nomena."
"The skirts would rather have the prof-
fessor tell 'em how long they can spend
frizlng their hair before the curling iron
cools off," believes Son. "If Doc ean
tell the married dames bow to make a
pan of biscuits without going near the
kitchen, getting all het by the gas range,
he'll make a double play that will get a
big hand from the ladles."
"It Is h. mvstery to me why people be-
come so immersed in commonplace al-
falrs " sighs Father, "when science holds
out SO many fascinating opportunities for
discussion and the acquirement of wis-
dom." . ,, .
"Tile trouble with most of this scien-
tific' dope Pop." Son concludes, "Is that
it doesn't put ns wise to what's going to
happen until we're a long tlmo dead, and
that won't help gather in the slmoleons
to pay the rent."
(Copyright, li'll, by the New T ork Even-
ing Telegram--New York Herald Com-
pany. All rights reserved.)
Morning in Bethlehem.
The courtyard of the great khan and
thp open rooms around It were crowded
with travelers,(fusing from their night's
rest and making ready for the day's
journey. In front of the stables, half
hollowed In the rock beside the Inn, men
were saddling their horses and their
beasts of burden, and there was much
noise and confusion.
nut beyond these, at the end of the
line, there was a deeper grotto In the
rock, -which was used only when the
nearer stalls were full. At the entrance
of this an a ss was tethered, and a man
of middle age stood In the doorway.
The sad shepherd saluted him and told
his name.
"I am Joseph, the carpenter of Nata-
reth," replied the man. "Have you also
seen the angels of whom your brother
shepherds came to tell us?"
"I have seen no angels," answered Am-
mtel, nor have I any brothers among the
shepherds. But I would fain see what
they have seen."
"It Is our first-born son," said Joseph,
"and the Most High has sent him to us.
He is a marvelous child: great things are
foretold of him. You may go In, but
quietly, for the child and Ilia mother
Mary are asleep."
So the sad shepherd went In quietly.
Ills long shadow entered before him, for
the sunrise was flowing into the door of
the grotto. It was made clean and put
In order, and a bed of straw was laid In
the corner on the ground.
The child was asleep, but the mother
was waking, for she had taken him from
the manger into her lap, where her
maiden veil of white was spread to re-
ceive him. And she was singing very
softly aB sho bent over him In happiness
and wonder.
Atnmiei saluted her and kneeled down
to look at the child. He saw nothing
different from other young children. The
mother waited for him to speaJs of an-
gels, as the other shepherds had done.
The and shepherd said nothing, but only
looked, and as he looked his face
chut ged.
"Tou have had great pain and danger
and sorrow for his sake," he »ald gently.
"They are past," she answered, "and
for hla sake I have suffered them
gladly,"—Hanry van £>yke, In florlbnar.
Opening our mines will eliminate the
cost of transportation on Iron, mal, brick,
marble, petroleum and other minerals.
It costs $400 per ear to ship Iron from
Pennsylvania to Texas. Wo have a suf-
ficient variety of minerals in Texas to
supply all our needs, and the develop-
ment of our mineral resources will save
millions of dollars In freight bills an-
nually.
Texas Is bidding for first place as the
home of the watermelon, and Georgia
will have to look well after her laurels.
Aceordlng to government reports, Texas
shipped 2000 carloads of melons in 1910,
which, of course, does not include home
consumption.
The niHnn belt was originally in Cen-
tral and East Texas, but gradually as ir-
rigation and improved agricultural meth-
ods have come into voujue in Texas the
licit has extended westward, until prac-
tically the entire State is in the melon
growing district. The melon crop put
$470,0(H) in the jeans of the Texas farm-
ers this year, and is now considered one
of our staple crops.
HEAL DETECTIVE TODAY
He Eats Bread and Cheese and Onions
and Nurses His Own Baby.
Sherlock Holmes solves his problems
snugly ensconced on the mat in Baker
Street and wrapped up In a dressing
gown. The ordinary detective has to per-
form without even a carpet.
I have only known one detective. He
looked almost as dull as I do, but he
wore a better hat. He also smelt of rum,
a penetrating fluid that does not neces-
sarily promote acute reasoning. The
criminal was In the house opposite to
mine; the solution lay In watching; the
only place of satisfactory vigil was my
garden. For three nights he stood there
watching. It was November and It rained
the misty, soggy rain peculiar to No-
vember, each night The rain fell in a
moist, misty blanket of wetness, and,
catching our only tree, collected there
for a spell and then dropped In big tear-
ful splashes down the detective's neck.
He must have been horribly wet for
three nights and all he saw was (1) the
boy from the oil shop delivering goods;
(2) a cab which delivered a drunken
man In the dead of night to the unsus-
pected house next door; (3) the night
policeman In oilskins trying the latches,
and (4) your servant going to the last
post.
Nothing came of all this. The criminal,
who was t aught for another crime twelve
months after, was arrested by an ordin-
ary constable, with the help of a tab-
man, in fine weather.
That seems to be all there Is in being
a detective. You wait around the corner
and get wet. Or perhaps you get your
head punched. Detection played in this
manner has no rooms In Baker Street
nor a good friend Watson. There Is not
even a. dressing gown, an old violin or
the dear lad Billy. The detective, after
getting wet while successfully watching,
usually performs unobstrusively. H>
taps his quarry on the shoulders. "You
are Mr. Blank'."' he suggests. Admitted
There Is a little matter Mr. Blank may
help the detective to adjust if he does
not mind, and Mr. Blank says "With
pleasure." They therefore step around
the corner. That is the end no curtain,
no cheers, no limelight and no hero wor-
ship, All the detective gets apart from
his pay Is lumbago.
The detective of real life fats bread
and cheese and onions, lives in a little
house and nurses his own baby; enJov3
the same misery as we all do when-our
"Our Tom" sells from 50 to 75 papers
every morning. If it wasn't for Tom
public spirit would die out and in these
election times wo would forget that there
was any hope for a railroad.
♦ ♦ ♦
We have been asked time and again
why we do not publish the proceedings of
the recorder's court. Our reason is that
they are not fit to publish in a decent
paper. We do not even visit the record-
er.; court in looking up items.
♦ ♦ ♦
Salon Stewart Ely has been spending
a few days In San Antonio. We and
Salon were schooimates together. He
seems to have been doing well In *rlo
In the practice of law and to have gain-
ed the confidence of the people. They
arc going to run him for county attorney,
so we learn, and we trust he may be
honored with the office.
4- ♦ ♦
(San Antonio Daily Express, Jan. 12, 1876.)
We observe a sentry box near the gate
of the yard of the Alamo. It reminds
us of an old sentry box that used to
stand near the same place during the
war, and which the then boys of our
present ward No. 3 took great delight in
pelting with stones to the utter disgust
and provocation of an old Irishman who
stood guard at night.
feet are wet. Knowing this,
then give him real credit for sticking to
for sticklm
mal condlt.
and occasionally succeeding despite the
a doleful task under dismal conditions
sp:
most depressing odds.—George Edgar in
the London Outlook
THE NEGRO IN THE SOUTH
Young Southern White Men Are Taking
Interest in His Welfare.
One of the leading white men of the
South, tn outlining three factors which he
thought should he considered In dealing
with the race problem, named the negro
himself as one or them. His Idea was
that the negro ought to he brought more
and more Into consultation on matters
touching his own welfare. This spirit is
growing in the South. It has had sev-
eral concrete manifestations in Virginia
within thp Inst five years. Another Indi-
cation of the hroa.i, liberal spirit of the
young Southern white man toward the
negro is shown in Ms willingness tn en.
gage in work which has for Its primary
aim negro uplift and advancement. Soma
of our best educated and most resource-
ful Southern white men are engaged in
educational efforts which deal exclusively
with negro education. The negro la thus
better understood. His strivings, ambi-
tions ami economic and moral condition
are viewed with a clearer perspective and
in truer proportion.
The spirit in f.ivor of better educational
advantages for the negro In the South is
growing. There are hundreds of whlta
men who want the negro to have bettei
schoolhouses, longer terms, better teach-
ers, better sanitary conditions and ada-
ciuate equipments. Some of these speak
out boldly in the Interest of negro edu-
cational betterment; others work in a
ciulet way to the same end. The spirit
of toleration is further shown hy the
young Southern white man's Interest in
the material advancement of the negro,
lie wants the negro to become an eco-
nomic factor In the community where be
lives, in most of the speeches to negro
audiences the Idea of home getting, thrift
and wise Investment is emphasized.—J. M.
oandy in the Southern Workman.
Goldberg's Cartoon
IS "THIS \ o
THE PERFUME
COUNTER ?
vwe setu
' M
FOOLISH QUCSTIONS-i
TIMELY TEXAS TOPICS
All we hope is that after we are dead
nobody will take our photograph and
have a crayon portrait made from it.—
Austin Tribune.
Wouldn't It be a blow to Mr. Colquitt
If Governor Tom should sign a $25,000
appropriation bill for the attorney gen-
eial's department before he leaves the
office?—Austin Tribune.
It Is said that if the Republicans of
Rhode Island cannot agree upon a suc-
cessor Mr. A id rich my come back to the
Senate, it will be generally honed that
the Rhode Island Republicans will agree.
—Beaumont Enterprise.
There are miles and miles of sidewalks
in this town and in front of many lots
there are no shade trees Suppose every
property owner decides on an individual
"city beautiful" campaign for the early
spring?—Denison Herald.
A California minister was asked to re-
sign by his congregation because he had
gone out and worked to help support
his family. Which goes to show that
while he might have been a failure as a
pastor and could not make manly men
or womanly women of his congregation
he remained a man—the noblest work of
God.—Beaumont Journal.
The acceptance of South Texas as a
safe commercial orange and fig field
has within the past rew years raised
the average market value of thousands
of acres of coast country land from $10
to and even $100 per acre. It Is re-
liably reported that the freeze of Jan-
uary 2nd and 3rd of this year did not
affect the trees of the citrus fruit va-
riety in the least.—Cuero Record.
The recent freeee was the hardest one
In years, and one of the severest pos-
sible tests on the orange trees. Young
and tender trees generally were severely
damaged, but trees that had a growth
of four years and upward were not
damaged In the least. This is en-
couraging and we can see In this a fu-
ture for this immediate vicinity which
will mean a complete revolution in ag-
riculture-with the orange in the lead.
Plant Satsuma oranges.—San Diego Cir-
cuit News.
The promoters of the Beeville to Eagh
Pass Railroad have at last pitched their
camp at jCotulIa, and are at work on the
bonus through the country which the
road will pass. They are working down
the Nueces Valley and are meeting with
success. The land owners realize the
great value of transportation and are
willing to pay for it. The route now
mapped out follows the Nueces Valley
from Cotulla to Oakville, and when the
road is built one of the richest sections
of Texas will be opened up.—Cotulla
Record.
Homeseekers from the frozen North
continue to come in by the tralnload and
settle up the South Texas coast coun-
try, which means a developed farming
country and a better basis for the up-
building of our towns and cities. Many
flourishing now towns like Klngsvllle
and Bishop are springing up in between
Corpus Christi and Brownsville. They
are not rivals, but neighbors of Corpus,
with reciprocal Interests. Corpus should
be the Jobbing point and banking center
fur this section. These mutual Interests
will be best subserved by larger use of
our new channel over our municipal
wharf and the resultant cheapening of
incoming and outgoing freight.—Corpus
Christi Caller.
O —
OPERATION TO CURE TRUANCY
Surgeons Hope to Alter Boys' Ten-
dency to Run Away.
Twelve-year-old Arden Pennett wag
cured of an Inordinate desire to run away
from home by an operation performed
on Ills brain hy eurgeons In the Children'!
Hospital. At least this is the hopeful and
confident view of the surgeons and the
boy's mother, who believe that th»
strange phantom which possessed the
boy, causing him to repeatedly leave
home in quest of something Inexplicable
and mysterious, was due to the pressure
of bone resulting from a growth due to
a fall when ha was 2 years old.
This pressure Is believed to have af-
fected certain cells of the brain, causing
the hoy to have an abnormal desire to
leave the family fireside. The youth
came out of the operation successfully
and when he recovers ho Is expected to
be Just as normal as any other child and
to have as much love for his home and
brothers and sisters, father and mother,
as any healthy boy should.
, "It was ten years ago that the chill
fell and cut his head, said the mother
yesterday after the operation had left her
In hopes i to her boy's future.
"Apparently the fall had 110 had ef-
fects, but about two years ago-or may-
be not so long as that—he began to run
away. He always came back when we
didn't find him and he never was dissat-
isfied with his home or unhappv In It.
So we began to wonder about that fall,
and his teacher helped us watch him
closely to see how things went along.
There Just didn't seem tn he any other
explanation for his wanderings except
that his brain was In some way affected
by the bruise on his forehead. Ko we
brought him here and the doctors agreed
with us that an operation might prove
our theories correct.-Loi Angeles Hell-
aid,
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