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THE SAN ANTONIO DAILY EXPRESS: FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 21, 1906.
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POPULATION OF TEXAS CITIES:
The population of the seven largest
cities of Texas on June 1, 1904, as est-,
mated by the United States Census Bu-
reau, Is as follows!
SAN ANTONIO
Houston
Dallas 49,673
Galveston 32.613
Fort Worth 26,960
Austin 23*162
Waco
The Indian Land Allotment.
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock
and Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
stirred up the Senators quite consid-
erably by the order withdrawing from
allotment nearly four million acres o£
land belonging to the Five Civilized
Tribes in the Indian Territory.
Some of the Senators declare most
vehemently that the cabinet officers
exceeded their authority in suspend-
ing a Federal statute and are appar-
ently very wroth about It, but Secre-
tary Wilson merely says: "I made up
my mind that we had a better propo-
sition for the Indian than to turn his
land into a game preserve."
There was a suggestion some weeks
ago in the public press that the allot-
ment of these lands was not to be for
the best interests of the Indians or
of the Government under the plan pro-
posed and that it might be advisable
to call a halt in the proceedings. Of
course, it would not be proper to sug-
gest even the possibility that, some
land sharks wero to profit by the dis-
posal of valuable lands in a hasty and
improper manner or the indignation
of the venerable Senators would be
unseemly.
Secretaries Wilson and Hitchcock
hove been extremely careful and con-
siderate of the pfiblic welfare in their
departments of the Government and
it is reasonably certain that the mo-
tive in withdrawing the lands tempo-
rarily from allotment was in the high-
est creditable, even though they may
have transcended their authority in
what they regarded as an emregency.
But the Senate committee very
properly pointed out that the tempo-
rary violation of a law was as much
a violation as a permanent one, that
the Secretaries as high officials of
the Government were culpable in sus-
pending a statute for a minute or for
two years. There seems a, growing
tendency to put the official judgment
above the law in the administration of
public office.
It is only a step, and an easy step,
to disregard the written laws when-
ever the official judgment deems such
steps necessary. Such laxtiess in con-
duct begins always in a righteous
cause, as no doubt this is. In order
to accomplish a palpable good the law
is broken, and the ancient argument
of the ends justifying the means is
urged.
you try to put a wee woolly lamb or
two in your pocket?
Of course, you might go down on
Wall street or some other market for
him, for mere stealing is crude, but,
on your honor as a gentleman,
wouldn't you do pretty much as that
poor mother did?
It is a law of our being that the
greater passion conquers the lesser.
Mother love is in the moral woman
stronger rhan the love of honor. To
mother love we owe the preservation
of tho race. And so, though no one
would condone theft, let us be slow
to condemn this woman. Like the
judge who heard her case, we, too,
can find it in our hearts to clear our
throats and move that the next de-
fendant be called. Or, better still, like
the spectators of that unique trial, we
might have the grace to go down in
our pockets for money to help those
poor kids have a sure enough Christ-
mas.
Why, there are cases to match it
right here in San Antonio; we need
not waste our sympathy. A number
of charitably inclined ladies are get-
ting up a really-aml-truly Christmas
tree for the poor children here who
would otherwise have no Christmas.
You can get a hand in It if you want
to. Just send your check to Mrs. J. J.
Stevens or Mrs. James Hall Bell and
you will bring happiness to some neg-
lected child who lacks nil that made
your childhood bright. Well, isn't it
worth doing?
Dr. T. D. Crothers, the head of an
iiiBtitutiou to treat, inebriates in Con-
necticut, breaks out into statistics to
show that whiskey so far from curing
tuberculosis rather predisposes to it.
After a while these scientists will
try to prove that whiskey does not
cure snake bites.
Referring to the reign of lawless-
ness in San Antonio with which the
police force seems unable to cope the
Houston Post asks: "Why don't you
adopt the commission form of govern-
ment and get rid of all such trouble?"
Probably we will in the course of
time.
The Other Side of Christmas.
In man's most joyous seasons there
is an undertone of sadness; as the
poet, Shelley, phrases It, "Our sincer-
est laughter with some pain is
fraught." Even at the glad Christmas
time there is always a reverse to the
story, homes that are sad and hoarts
that grieve. Echoes of it drift into
hearing amid the pauses of the gayety.
But none has just the quality of tho
pathetic as that arrest of a mother a
day or so ago in New York for steal-
ing toys to give her children a visit
of Santa Claus.
Her husband, who was a laboring
man of small means, had, by dint of
\ self-denial, given her $10 to buy pres-
ents for the youngsters, but some deft
pickpocket stole it before the woman
began her Christmas shopping. Pic-
ture, if you can, the outraged mother-
love, the agony of heart, when she re-
alized that her slender savings were
irrevocably gone, and saw In anticipa-
toln the tearful, reproachful looks of
her disappointed children on Christ-
mas morning. You, sir, who pride
yourself on your unshakable honesty,
1f you came to such a test, with the
counters stacked with toys, miles and
miles of toys, and wealth flashed by
you at every turn, your pockets empty
and those haunting loved eyes looking
unutterable reproach at you, would
The Soldier's Comforts.
John I>. Chambers, Inspector Gen-
eral of National homes for volun-
teers, in his annual report to the Sec-
retary of War, strongly recommends
retention of the canteen feature of
these homes.
Should the beer halls be abolished,
says General Chambers, the money
now spent by the enlisted men in
these places would be diverted to the
neighborhood saloons and dives, and
the profits now devoted to the com-
forts and general welfare of the in-
mates of these homes would be lost to
them and go into the pockets of the
saloon keeper.
General Chambers' observations are
based upon the experience at the army
posts from which Congress a few
years ago banished the post exchango.
The testimony of army officers gen-
erally is that since the post canteen
was abolished it has been far more
difficult to maintain discipline because
so many of the soldiers are drawn
away by the enticentents ot the sa-
loons and dives on the outside, where
there is no restriction upon their in-
clination to indulge to excess, but,
rather, encouragement. Since the abo-
lition of the post canteen there have
been more desertions from the army
ar.rl the soldiers have saved less out
of their pay to send home or to put
aside for tho proverbial rainy day.
Under the post exchange system the
soldiers could get beer or light wines
in moderate quantity in a perfectly
orderly and well conducted place
where no excesses were permitted.
The canteen was managed in the in-
terest of the men and the profits ac-
cruing from tho sales were carefully
husbanded and distributed for the
comfort and welfare of the men. The
complaint against the post canteea
did not aDme from post commanders
or those directly concerned with the
post government and well being of
dwellers therein. It was the mis-
taken zeal of some good prohibition
people, who thought they would be
serving the cause of temperance by
having the canteen abolished. These
same people, it is understood, would
now drive the canteen from the sol-
diers' homos.
What effect the recommendation of
General Chambers will have on Con-
gress yet remains to bo seen. Thus
far the reports and recommendations
of the post commanders and army of-
ficers generally on the post canteen
appear to have no effect whatever.
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Clark expresses the opinion that ship-
pers are as much to blame for tho
present car shortage as are the rail-
roads. He says thousands of cars are
unnecessurily delayed by the failure
of shippers to unload them promptly.
WHAT THE STATE PAPERS SAY
The Texas Cattle Raisers' Associa-
tion says very positively that it thinks
tho railroads are pretty short to have
a car shortage at a time <vhen it will
inflict heavy loss on the cattlemen,
who are their best patrons.
A man was arrested the other day
for racing through the Louvre Art
Gallery on roller skates. He was
doubtless an American tourist trying
to keep up with the man from Cook's,
The Senate has voted a million dol-
lars to Jamestown for the exposition
in 1907. It is safe to say that every
man who came to Jamestown in 1607
expected to get a million dollars.
The difficulty about the unwritten
law is that every man insists on his
right to Interpret it for himself, and
the interpretations will vary so tho
result is a trifle confusing.
Senator Depew has introduced a bill
to change the system of depositories
for public funds. He probably does
not wish the system of depositories of
corppration funds changed.
The judge who sentenced Mrs. An-
gie Birdsong to the penitentiary
showed commendable tenderness In
not consigning her to Sing Sing.
That schcme of a thousand tfomen
to establish an Adamless Eden in
Texas may be accused of being the
rusa of a matrimonial bureau.
Mr. Carnegie says an income tax
would make liars; per contra, if
lying would make incomes, lots of
beggars would be rich.
The President's message on the
Panama Canal was printed in accord-
ance with the simplified spelling
method. Now the Senate has ordered
the reprinting of two thousand copies
of the message in what Senator Kitt-
ridge calls "normal" spelling. In writ-
ing the message the President "dropt"
the ed and substituted a t, whereas,
the Senator thinks he should have
"dropped" the t
The Governor of Texas utis been
notified of the coming visit of the
German cruiser Panther to the port
of Galveston for a stay of eight dayB
during the latter part of January. Our
Cousin Fritz will be welcomed to the
Texas port and Galveston may be de-
pended upon to give him cordial enter-
tainment.
It is very bad for San Antonio to
have the reports go abroad of the
reign of lawlessness in the city, but
that is not half so bad as to have the
lawlessness and to realize the fact
lhat the police force is unable to cope
with it.
It does not help a festering sore to
cover it up and try to conceal it. The
better way Is to turn on the x-ray and
apply the scalpel.
"Times change and men change,"
says Secretary Root solemnly, but the
saddest thing is that change changes,
too.
The Three Troopers,
Into the Devil Tavern
Three booted troopers strode,
From spur to feather spotted and
splash'd
With the mud of a winter road.
In each of their cups they dropn'd a
crust,
And stared at the guests with a frown;
Then drew t heir swords, and roar'd for a
toast
"God send this Crum-well-down!"
A blue smoke rose from their pistol locks'
Their sword blades were still wot;
There were Ions red smears 011 their
Jerkins of bluff,
As tho tablo they overset,
Then into their cups they stlrr'd the
crusts,
And showed their teeth with a frown;
They flashed their swords as they gave
the toast.
"God send this Crum-well-down!"
The gambler dropp'd his dog's-ear'd
cards,
Tho waiting women screamed,
As the light of the fire like stains of
blood
On the wild men's sabers gleam'd.
Then into their cups they splash'd the
crusts,
And cursed the fool of a town,
And leap'd on the table and roar'd a
toast,
"God send this Crum-well-down!"
Till on a sudden fire bells rang,
The troopers sprang to horse;
Tho eldest muttered, between his teeth,
Hot curses—deep and coarse.
In their stirrup cups they flung the
crusts.
And cried as they spurr'd through
town,
With their keen swords drawn and their
pistols cock'd,
"God send this Crum-well-down!"
Away they dashed through Temple Bar,
Their red cloaks flowing free,
Their scabbards clash'd, each back piece
shone—
None liked to touch the three.
The silver cups that held the crusts
They flung to the startled town.
Shouting again, with a blaze of swords,
"God send this Crum-well-down'"
—George Walter Thornbury.
Reflections of a Bachelor.
If a girl hasn't tiny man to write a love
letter to she will write one to another
girl.
A womanrs idea of a good husband Is
one who doesn't forget to tell her how
pretty she looks whenever he comes
home.
- We all have ai> idea that everybody
can fool tlie farmer, but somehow the
farmer keeps on getting all the money.
One bad thing for a girl about stopping
being engaged and getting married is she
stops getting presents from him.
Men have very strong will power to be
able to go on thinking they get more real
happiness out of being married than they
used to.—New York Press.
In One Braid.
"She has grown to be a very beautiful
girl." said .ligley. "Her hair 13 posi-
tively golden."
"Indeed? That's odd," said Kidder.
"I knew her when she was a little girl."
••Well."
"Well, it was merely plaited then."—
Philadelphia Press.
Not Quite so Bad as That.
Thugs and hold-up men have become so
thick in Ban Antonio that even the news-
paper reporters have quit looking for
them, but carry around dishes to hurl
at suspicious-looking people, whom they
may meet on the dark streets.—Brown-
wood Bulletin.
Not quite so bad as that, brother, but
bad enough, the Lord knows.
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Leave the Christmas Spirits Alone.
Got the Christmas spirit and don't
look grouchy, it Is several days before
the bills have to be paid. Enjoy life
while you can.—Palestine Daily Herald,
You're on, partner! There will be
plenty of time for grouchiness after the
New Year. Get the Christmas spirit
now, but leave the Christmas spirits
alone, and you will he better able to
meet the bills when they began to roll in.
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Tell Him "Go Chase Himself."
Life is too short to rent land when, by
a small payment and the usual amount
of labor, you can soon own a farm of
your own. Remember, you will never
«»wn a home If you never make a start.—
Luling Signal.
^ our advice is the best that could be
offered. When you have your "Lares
and Penates," which we presume is the
I^atin for wife and children, sheltered
under your only own fig tree, you can
look any man in the face and tell him
to "go cljrise himself."
♦ ♦ ♦
Inquiry Is a Little Too Previous.
Wonder if the price of poker chips has
advanced in Austin?—Yoakum Herald.
Your Inquiry is a little too previous.
Tho boys are not there yet. Wait until
after Jan. 1, 1907, and we will be able to
answer tho query.
Hold on to Him Like Grim Death.
How would you like to have a friend
who would lend you any amount of
money at any time? Wouldn't you try
and hold his friendship?—Yoakum Her-
ald.
We would not only try to hold his
friendship, but we would hold on to him
like grim death.
History Full of Such Incidents.
A woman and a prelate have been the
undoing of many a great man before the
days of Theodore Roosevelt.—Corpus
Christ! Caller.
\ os, history, ancient and modern, is
full of such incidents as you mention.
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That Will Be Attended to.
San Antonio is preparing to make the
international Fair of 1907 the biggest and
best In the history. In the meantime
ban Antonio should oust every nigger
policeman in the city. They look nasty,
and decent white people do not like the
idea of them in service there.—Louise
News. .
There will be an entire new city admin-
istration in San Antonio by that time.
The little affair you mention will be at-
tended to.
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City Has a Lot to Answer for.
The newspapers of San Antonio are
giving that nigger-robber-ridden city
seme unsavory advertising now. Accord-
ing to its own newspapers that city is
without competent police protection, and
the women are at the mercy of the nigger
thugs and thieves. This is not a pleas-
ant condition for Christmas shoppers to
contemplate, and doubtless will result in
great financial loss to San Antonio. It
is an ill wind, however, that blows no
good, and the people of surrounding
towns will probably do their holiday
shopping in their home towns rather
than to go to San Antonio and risk bo-ng
batted over the head by a nigger robber.
—Rio Grande News.
The city government of San Antonio
has certainly a lot to answer for, and
will have more if it doesn't get a move
on itself pretty quick.
♦ ♦ ♦
Hard on Tobacco Chewers.
Connecticut, says an exchange, has a
cow that chews tobacco. This is simply
nothing. Texas has numberless hogs
who chew tobacco and distribute the
Juice along the sidewalks and in the
street cars to the disgust of decent peo-
ple. While chewing tobacco is not near
so injjurioUs as "sucking" cigarettes, yet
those addicted t" the habit should In-
dulge only when they can expectorate so
that it will not be offensive to the public.
—Corpus CKristl Crony.
This is a hard one on tobacco chewers.
It is to be hoped that they will take the
Crony's advice, as it is correct.
San Antonio Getting a Bad Name.
The frequent highway robberies iu San
Antonio and the apparent inability of
the peace officers to cope with the law-
less elements of that city are putting It
in a very lad light before the rest of tho
world. It's up to somebody in tho Al-
amo City to get a move oil to the end
that the lives and property of her people
be not further Jeopardized. If it keeps
up at this rate it. may becomo necessary
for the law-abiding citizens to string a
few of the thugs and light-fingered gen-
try up to convenient telegraph poles.
This would doubtless have the desired ef-
fect on all concerned.—Hondo Anvil-
Herald.
Tho citizens of San Antonio are law-
abiding, but they will get mad pretty
soon !f tills highway robbery epidemic
doesn't cedse, and somebody is going to
get hurt.
There Are Bills and Bills.
Secretary Shaw bewails the shortage of
sn ail nllls nowadays. Yes. we've noticed
that., and the absence of larger ones, Loo.
—Galveston Tribune.
Wo noticed that, too; long before Mr.
Shaw called Oil us and called our atten-
tion to it.—San Antonio Express.
What seems to trouble most of us is
we havo more bills, both largo and small,
than we want when the first of the
month rolls round. No use to bewail the
shortage of bills.—Del Rio Weekly New?.
When they come in bundles on the first
of the month they aro no longer small
bills. That's the time we would be
pleased to note the absence of any kind
of bills. There are bills and bills.
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Except the Prison Book.
A pocketbook is a prerequisite to a hol-
iday book of any kind.—San Angelo
Standard.
Except the prison book. Even then
somebody else's pocketbook forms in
many cases the prerequisite.
♦ ♦ ♦
How Our Police Might Catch Footpad.
The San Antonio Express is of the opin-
ion that tho man who throws a banana
peel on the sidewalk should be promptly
and severely dealt with. Rsh! That stunt
in San 'tone looks somewhat Sherlock
Holmes to us. Some policeman walking in
his sleep might slip up on one of those
numerous footpads you're complaining of.
—Fort Worth Star.
He would have to be walking in his
sleep, as you suggest, to do it.
To the Credit of Judas.
Party fealty is right and proper, but
everybody knows that even such good
things as fealty to political leaders and
faithfulness to religious creeds, some-
times result in the very most absurd and
violent fanaticism. No creed that is not
governed by absolute fairness to all par-
ties concerned will meet the requirements
of enlightened human reason. Several
members of the coming Thirtieth Texas
Legislature have stated, unqualifiedly,
that they will support J. W. Bailey for
Senator, because he was nominated in the
primaries. Even on© or two members of
that august body, the Texas Senate,
which is supposed to be composed of men
whose wisdom and conservative State-
craft shall shield the State from the in-
discretions resulting from the youth and
inexperience of the members of the lower
House, have made public statements to
that effect, one especially stating that no
member of the Legislature should vole
against Mr. Bailey unless he wanted to
put himself in the class with Benedict
Arnold and Judas I sea riot! This from i
man who has been preferred by his peo-
ple tc* wear a toga and sit in high places!
When public servants make such extreme
statements as that they are not safe
hands in which to place tho welfare of
the State, and it is to be hoped that such
will always be in the minority. No mat-
ter what a man's political aspirations
may be, if he Is willing 10 toady to a
corrupt creature of any political machine,
and overlook an opportunity to be right,
be is unfit to be preferred to any posi-
tion of public trust.
Now to discuss the Bailey matter calm-
ly and dispassionately. In tho first place,
there is not a fair-minded man in Texas
who did not hear with regret the first
•whisperings of scandal against Joseph W.
Bailey, the man whom they had so often
and so highly honored. Indeed, there are
thousands of people throughout the
United States who are watching his
course today as men watch with bated
breath a mighty ship that seems rushing
upon the breakers, hoping each moment
that'some unforeseen power may avert
the calamity. There is no way in which
Mr. Bailey can be cleared of tho charges
now standing against him, except by a
fair and impartial investigation by the
Texas Legislature, the power that exalted
him to sit in the Senate of tho greatest
Nation on earth, and the only earthly
power that can take It. away.
If such an investigation finds him inno-
cent, then will he be exonerated of all
blame and restored to the respect and
esteem of those who have so long
honored him, and if he is so exonerated
lie should be returned to the United
States Senate. On the other hand the
position he holds is a sacred trust, and
the public, though kind to a good servant,
is an inexorable master to an erring one.
If such investigation should disclose the
fact that he had been guilty of peddling
the influence he naturally has, as United
States Senator, to defeat, the ends of
justice in his own State, then the people
who cast a vote for him in the primary,
before the facts were known, have a right
to expect their Representatives in the
Legislature to act honorably toward their
constituents and elect .1 man to tho
United States Senate against whose char-
acter no evil charge can be sustained, and
they will be called upon In no uncertain
terms to give a complete account of their
stewardship In the premises to their com-
mon master, tho sovereign people of the
State of Texas.
Referring again to the Judas matter;
there are a lot of evidently well meaning
people who are crying that It la due to
the Democratic party to support Bailey,
without ouestlon. Now we have never
heard it Intimated that the Christian, re-
ligion was weakened because Judas was
a traitor, nor is there any history that
the other eleven dosciples refused to ad-
here to Christianity because he was
found guilty. Tho only difference be-
tween Judas Iscarriot and a political
traitor seems to be In favor of Judas—in
that lie confessed and hanged himself.—
Kerrvilie Sun.
Women as Ambassadors.
The decision of the Storers not to en-
gage in a social war with the Presi-
dent is no doubt dictated by a regard for
the Nation's best interests.
A salon at the capital in rivarly of tho
White House would not only serve to
coalesce party opposition, but it would
also inevitably cause diplomatic compli-
cations. Would the representative of a
friendly power who was persona grata
on the Executive tennis court risk com-
promising his official relations by drink-
ing tea with the ex-ambassadress? A
situation might easily arise such as in
France led Thiers to intimate that if
Lady Granville, wife of the British Min-
ister, did not discontinue her incivility to
Mme. Thiers Lord Granville might be re-
called.
The publication of the Roosevelt-Storer
correspondence has elicited various slight-
ing remarks about "ambassadresses."
The contemptuous references of the Bls-
marcks, lather and son. to "harem poli-
ties'' and "petticoat polities'' are recalled.
But what is there in the feminine tem-
perament to prevent the successful exer-
cise of diplomacy? Who was tho Ambas-
sador at Naples in Nelson's day, Lord
or Lady Hamilton? Prince Buelow has
recently advised aspiring young diplo-
mats to take as their model Alclhiades,
against whom the Athenians levelled the
reproach of effeminacy.
Probably the most noted "ainhfl«w-
dress" of modern times was Mme. de
Lleven, wife of the Russian representa-
tive at London. Her services were high-
ly appreciated at St. Petersburg—so much
so that on her recall with her husband
the Czar went out to sea to meet her on
his yacht. Greville regarded her as a
"clever, intriguing, agreeable diplomat-
ess." He found "both her letters and her
conversation full of point," which his-
torians of our own times may allege also
of present-day petticoat diplomacy.
Mme. dc Lieven's downfall came when
she measured her strength with Palmer-
ston in an attempt to defeat the appoint-
ment of Stratford Canning to Russia.
Her references to the Prime Minister as
"a small soul, dull and obstinate." possi-
bly furnish a clue to feminine limitations
in diplomacy. "Above all, not too much
zeal," said Talleyrand, it is a little max-
im which 110 woman who meddled In dip-
lomatic matters seems ever to have
learned.—New York World.
Going Into Partnership With God.
Gems of wisdom still continue to drop
from the oracular lips of young Mr.
Rockefeller. In addressing his Bible class
on Sunday, he announced that "a great
problem in life 1s the selection of a voca-
tion. We should take God into partner-
ship with us, in business."
In John. D. Jr. this is not to be con-
strued as profanation, though ordinarily
speaking, a man could scarcely refer in
such a casual tone to a commercial ar-
rangement between himself and the Deity
without laying himself open to a charge
of sacrilege.
But it must be admitted that in the
case of the Rockefellers the circum-
stances justify the suggestion of the
young Bibliolatrist. Indeed, the arrange-
ment which ho counsels as being ad-
visable seems to actually exist in the case
of his own family. God has put the oil
in the bowels of the earth, and the
Rockefellers develop and market It.
But if you desire to form a partnership
with the Almighty you must go into
something beside oil. The Standard has
all of that cinched. When Mr. Rocke-
feller wisely selected the Creator for a
partner, he took pains to form a close
corporation.—Kansas City Star.
NOTICE THE EXPRESSION ON THEIR FINGERS
TOPICS OF THE TIMES
Speaker Cannon—Every Congressman who Is opposed to having his salary in-
creased will please signify by raising his hand. —Chicago Record-Herald.
THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT.
It Is in the Air and You Must Have
Noticed It,
It's In the air.
(The Christmas spirit is.)
S e the elevator man. Watch him.
Hear him. Stop. Look. Listen.
No longer does he sweep up and down
your floor. No longer does no slam the
door in your face.
Not he.
But with a courtesy, a grace, a respect
and an eagerness to please he holds his
car for you and stops at your floor with
the humility of one eating from the
digits.
No longer does he shout "Full car!"
and "GO-ing up!" or snarl "Hurry up,
th- re!" His voice is lost within him and
will be no more heard (except in mur-
murs about the cold and the goodness
of the morning) until the time comes to
say "Merry Christmas, sir."
It's in the air.
(The Christmas spirit is.)
♦ > ♦-
Mercury, the messenger boy, when
summoned by a pull upon the magic
lever no longer remains Inscrutable in
space until Patience falls off its monu-
ment into a fit. No longer, then, does
I10 suddenly bounce himself into the of-
fice crying "Call!"
Not he.
You pull the lover and almost simul-
taneously a knock Is heard upon the
door. A boy enters, bashful and un-
sophisticated. and you notice with sur-
prise that the wears the uniform of the
A. D. T. service.
Has ho a bold eye?
Or the look of an old one who has seen
life?
Or the appearance of a smoker?
Never!
He takes the message offered, makes a
manly remark about the cold, and opines
that Christmas will soon be here.
For it's In the air.
(The Christmas spirit Is.)
♦ ♦ ♦
No longer does the married man roam
the lanu, haggard, thin and with half
his buttons missing.
Not he.
Ho looks comfortable and sleek and
is buttoned; to tho nine.
Favorite food for the married man.
Dinner on time and breakfast fine, and
plenty for tho married man.
"Why, what is this? A button off?
Where's my needle and thread? Oh, I
know. 1 was making Uncle Marmadtike
something for Christmas"—for the mar-
ried man
"Mrs. Smull has got n Persian lamb
coat. I wish I "had—Oh, well, never
mind!"—for the married man.
For It's in the air.
(The Christmas spirit is.)
♦ 4 ♦
"Willy runs for father's slippers and the
twins slap each other in an argument
as to who shall fetch father his pipe.
Dear father Is so tired.
"Where is the paper? Let dear father
have the paper!
Willy! Run and fetch the hassock for
poor tirerl father to rest his feet.
Who will fetch the cool up tonight for
father?
The twins will!
They fete hup tlie coal together and
then sit around, as good ns gold.
Willy wishes he had a white sweater,
a hockey stick, a pair of skates and a
toboggan cap.
The twins begin to grow wishful, too.
when ma rushes them off to bed, not vet
having made that reference to Mrs.
Smull's Persian coat.
For it'q In the air
(The Christmas spirit is.)
The meat boy feels it.
No longer does he throw ten pounds of
bull beef around So that it shakes the
foundation of the house.
No.
Such nice cuts he brings!
Such prime joints!
Such choice meat!
Instepd of rushing in and rushing out
he dallies awhile, respectfully warms his
hands (It Is so cold outside) and chats
Mrs. So-and-So is a fnnnv woman. So
stingy. Buys such little bits of meat.
Once ph^ came Into th« store and ordered
half a nonnd of nork chops and the boss
said "Huh! Going to have companv?"
Stingy. Awfullv mean and stingy.
Never crives anything at Christmas.
For it's in the air.
(You know what It Is.)
Outhhort calls on Helen and Helen is
ready for him.
(Beaming, bright-eyed little Helen!)
How cold it Is.
(Maneuver No. 1.)
You must be cold, Cuthbert.
(Maneuver No. 2.)
Tt is nice and warm over here 011 the
tete-a-tete.
(No. 3.)
A coy look is No. 4.
The great, clumsy hulk of a Cuthbert
smirks like one who is greatly loved and
sits by Helen ^n the tete-a-tete.
How eold Cuthbert's hands aro! .
(No. 5.)
And vet the weather Is seasonable—so
near Cbri-tmas—Oh, dear I wish I knew-
what time it. was—I wish I bad a watch-
Minnie Gregory has a beautiful gold one,
with such a long chain.
Ah. Cuthbert' Cuthbertl
It's in the air.
(The Christmas spirit is.)
Tho office boy is down at the office
bright arid early, and hope and good will
shine from his countenance.
The stenographic damsel is just as will-
ing to take a long letter at 5:30 as at
10:30.
The bookkeeper porches on his stool
and beameth.
The paner boy beameth.
The milk boy beameth.
Tho barber beameth.
The waiter beameth.
The maid beameth.
-■yfio porter beameth.
The odd-lob man beameth.
F very body beams but father.
And he, the poor old victim (bound,
gagged and delivered"*, smile* like on"
who is sic kand awaits his doom.—New-
York Evening Sun.
An Estimate of Bailey.
Washington—Foker, horses and such—
and Joseph Weldon Bailey is in trouble.
The inclination of everyone who writes
from the press gallery Is to say a word
in his defense. Senator Bailey had ene-
mies in Washington, scores of them.
The weaklings whose pretenses he de-
lighted to puncture are rejoiced at the
complications which hedge about him,
but the dominant tone in Washington is
one of sympathy. The strong men in
Congress without regard to party refuse
to believe that he is guilty of wrong-
doing until the door Is closed to the hope
that he is a victim of circumstances.
Bailey was the Senate's most pictur-
esque performer. The public remembers
him for his exhibitions of temper and
peculiarity of dress. Washington has
not forgotten that during the very time
he is charged with having received fees
from Standard Oil he co-operated In
every legislative step which had for its
purpose the enactment of a rate biH
which accomplished results. It was
Bailey who forced the restrictions 011 tho
courts issuing injunctions. It was Bailey
who came to the defense of LaFolletto
and prevented the Southwestern coal
barons from securing a monopoly of tho
coal fields. It was Bailey who cut tho
ground from under Aldrich in the rate
bill fight. And it's Bailey who said yes-
terday in San Antonio that he had
borrowed money from II. Clay Pierce,
president of the Waters-Pierce Oil Com-
pany, that in so doing ho had nevor con-
sidered that it was anything that people
could object to.
"Why I have borrowed hundreds of
thousands of dollars from Mr. Pierce,"
he said, "and I told people time and
again that I had many such transactions
with Mr. Pierce."
Whether Bailey be guilty as charged
by his political enemies, or Innocent of
all wrongdoing as contended by himself,
the developments of recent months aro
nothing short of tragic. Should Texas
re-elect her senior Senator there is yet
more of tragedy in the public distrust
of Bailey than in the shuffling off of
Burton through conviction of crime. For
Burton, even with honesty and applica-
tion could never have made a good sena-
torial average, while Bailey already fia I
attained the foremost rank among tho
public men of the nation. For Bailey
there was a future which Ayould have
placed him in a class with Benton and
Calhoun and Clay.
Should subsequent developments vindi-
cate him in his contention, yet he will
have lost more through public distrust
than he can reclaim in years of con-
scientious public service. The public has
just begun to place the proper estimate
on Senator Bailey's abilities. Missouri
had just begun to know him as Texas
knew him; Illinois had Just begun to un-
derstand him as did his Senate col-
leagues.
Texas applauded the daring utterances
of Its young Congressman and late in the
matured Senator. But while the crowd
applauded there were many who resented
the manner and methods of the man.
Bailey had apparently done less to tio
men to him than^any man in public life
who must depena solely 011 the people for
support. Aldrich does not have to pla-
cate the masses nor does Dryden nor
Dean. If certain interests win these
Senators win. that is all there is to their
campaigns. The Tammany machine can
send men to the lower house of Congress,
and the protected interests keep John
Dalzell there, but there is no political
machine in T« xas and no corporation in-
fluence which counts except adversity.
Bailey's attitude before his own people
is the same as his attitude in Congress.
He even seemed to enjoy the opposi-
tion of offending some people. As leader
of the House minority there were always
a score, or more of overshadowed Demo-
cratic politicians barking and snapping at
his heels. As a leader he was a falluie
for this reason. During his Congressional
career his contempt for inferior men has
grown in him. Some of Bailey's col-
leagues regard him as an egotist. I do
not. He has absolute confidence In him-
self. He has splendid powers of analysis
and has learned accurately to gauge the
mental equipments of his associates.
Bailey knows quite as well as does tho
gallery that he Is better equipped for a
Senator than is Latimer of South Caro-
lina or Sutherland of Utah.
Spooner and Jtnox place perhaps ful'y
as high an estimate on their own ability
as does Bailey on his, but they do not
carry their self confidence on continuous
display. In all things Bailey has been
more frank and candid than a majority
of his colleagues. He was unwilling to
forego the pleasure of speaking his mind
in order to become the leader of his part}'
in the Senate. Perhaps one-third of the
Democrats In the Senate personally dis-
like him. He has obscured some and cut
the pride of others. A few felt that he
has patronized them. The strong men iu
the Senate on both sides the chamber are
liailey's friends.—Kansas City Star.
Washington Day by Day.
Washington—They have a. new way of
pronouncing Bellamy Storer s fust name
up at the Capitol. They call him "Blame-
me" Storer now.
Some Orange County politicians came
through the city today, and one of them
told a story about Assemblyman W.
George Hastings, of Newburg, who repre-
sents former Governor odell s district.
Hastings had to make a speech at a
labor picnic during the campaign and
he was hard put to it for the right kind
of a topic to talk on. He wrote several
speeches, but finally decided he would
talk to the labor men on that ever-green
proposition, "Own Your Own Home," fig-
uring that that was eminently safe from
any political angle that might be applied
to it.
After he got back from the meeting his
mother said: MI>id you make a speech,
George?"
"Yes, mother."
"What was the topic?"
" 'Own Your Own Home.' M
"Excellent," exclaimed his mother—"ex-
cellent, especially coming from you who
live in a flat."
John Thomas Brady got in tonight from
St. Louis. John Thomas stopped a little
while in Pittsburg on his way here.
• f heard some of them guvs out there
talking about getting a coat-of-arms," he
said. "Now, take it from mo that the
only right thing for most of this business
bunch in the way of a ooat-of-arms would
be a set of burglar's tools properly dis-
played."—New York World.
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