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TOE HEXIA WEEKLY HERALD
N. P. HOUX, Publisher
MEXIA,
- TEXAS
Milan beef is the best In Italy.
Australia Its -U times larger than tha
British isles.
In three faces out of live the eyes
are out of alignment.
The bone frame of the average
whale weighs about 45 tons.
Actor and
Audience
Relationship Be*
tween Two Is
Most Intimate
I\y E. H.'SOTHERN.
Ihe Aclor.
The American Bible society has sent
men to work among the foreigners
around Indianapolis.
The foundation of the strong-room
of the Dank of England is 66 feet be-
low the level of the street.
From irrigated fruit lands Wash-
ington orchardmen are making from
$1,000 to $2,000 net per acre.
The rice paper upon which the Chi-
nese do such charming drawing is a
thin sheet of the pith of a tree.
The shadow of the next thing you
will have to dodge may be seen swiftly
approaching. It is the motor roller
skate.
Why invest in battleships, asks the
economical citizen, when an Amer-
ican liner can run down and sink an
armored cruiser?
Even with certified milk up to 17
cents a quart, it is hard for the man
who lives in a flat to see just how he
is going to keep a cow.
Of a congregation of over 1,000 at
the First Methodist church of Syra-
cuse, N. Y., only 14 admitted having
been converted after reaching the
age of 21.
African negroes use tooth brushes;
they are fashioned out of the wood of
several kinds of trees. They are
easy to make and cost nothing, no
bristles being used.
Getting a case of rheumatism in a
cold sleeping car and. then suing the
company for damages, however, will
be found to be an exceedingly slow
way of making money.
Andrew Carnegie says the United
States has the worst monetary sys-
tem in the world. Yet some men have
accumulated quite satisfactory wad3
of money under that system.
A steamer loaded with 400,000,000
firecrackers is on its way from Shang-
hai to this country. What has become
of the patriots who were going to
arrange for a safe and sane Fourth of
July this year?
The outlook for crops in India is
poor. This is discouraging to the peo-
ple of that country, who seldom have
a surplus. And it will necessitate
drawing upon the food supplies of the
United States, which always has a
large quantity to spare.
Out of the 105 counties which the
State of Kansas has within its do-
mains at least 50 have Ho paupers.
One-half the county poor farms are
empty, save for the keeper, who draws
his salary and waits for patronage.
There are no saloons in Kansas.
Faces of men and women, hundreds upon hun-
dreds, white patches against backgrounds of shadow,
seen through the glow of the footlights almost as in-
distinctly as in dreams; multitudes of human eyes
gazing with unanimous demand, asking across Ihe
silence for that which will make them all gleam with
excitement or grow dim with tears—such is the pic-
ture which comes into the actor's imagination when
he is asked to speak of his audiences. It is one that
he has seen night after night for many years per-
haps; a vision that has repeated itself over and over
again, with always the same details, the same impressions. And yet it is
always new to him; it never palls upon him, never wearies with monotony.
It may either disappoint or inspire, wound or console him. Though ever
the same, it is eternally changing; and without it the labor of his art is
as useless as a cry for help in the desert.
The relationship of the actor to his public is without parallel in any
of the arts or professions. It is more intimate and at the same time more
wide-reaching. The writer toils in solitude and knows of effects of his
work upon the world only lpng after the achievement, and then only iu
an indefinite manner. The painter limns the thing as he sees it, and
leaves it for the critics to accept or reject at their leisure. The musician
can find joy and recompense in playing for himself alone. The doctor and
the lawyer deal with their clients as individuals, and pass from one iso-
lated case to another.
But the actor's material is mankind in bulk, seated before him. Im-
mediate appreciation is the breath of life to his art. The minister, too,
works in this manner, but he is not limited to the pulpit, and he deals with
fixed congregations, while the units that go to make up the sum of the
actor's audience differ at each performance. Therefore, I hold that the
actor's sphere of personal influence is greater than that of any other pur-
suit to which men devote their lives. I am not speaking now of the worth
of the accomplishment, not glorifying my art to the disparagement of
other callings; for an obscure worker in a slum settlement, a humble
country doctor, or an unknown village preacher may often do more good
in the world than a resplendent, much-heralded theatrical "star." My
claim is only that the actor comes into a personal relationship—distant,
I grant, and also ephemeral—with the most people. Sarah Bernhardt,
for example, is the best known being in .the world to-dav, in my opinion,
because of the millions of men and women who have heard her magic
voice, whose imaginations have been stirred by her eyes and her lips.
A woman whose hobby is psychology once asked me: "What effect
does the concentration of all the minds in the audience have upon you?
It seems to me that the sensation would be overpowering."
My reply was that I experienced a quickening of my mental powers
when on the stage in front of an audience. When I am in a new part,
the conception of which I have not yet fully matured,'my personal crea-
tive joy is heightened, and points occur to me that I had no thought of at
rehearsals. When I am appearing in a familiar role whicfy I have worked
j out in every detail I think more clearly about the work of the company aa
i a whole, and perhaps detect flaws to be remedied.
All this may be due to the influence of .the audience's concentrated
attention; it may be merely the inspiration of being in harness and at
work. ■
Ex-Senator W. A. Clark of Montana
has been on a trip through the west
and says everything is promising for
big crops. That means an ample supply
of food products, a large surplus for
export and lively business for the rail-
roads; also marked accession to the
general prosperity.
Castro of Venezuela, who has been ill, 1
has so far recovered that he is able to j
ride horseback, which he has not done |
for two years past. It is not that sort
of practice to which objection can be i
taken. But it would be better for j
Venezuela if Castro would dismount '
from his political high horse.
Some boys recently convicted of j
throwing stones in Everett, Mass., |
were sentenced to proceed to a com-
modious dump and there throw stones I
for a full half hour under the eye I
of the law. The Solomonic wisdom of I
the sentence seems to have been j
proved by the disgust and weariness in
which the culprits worked out their
punishment.
On the open shelves of the Brook- i
line (Mass.) library only 90 books were I
lost during the past year. If this looks !
like a good many, it must be remem- !
bered that none of the books that dis- !
appeared were worth stealing for their
pecuniary value, and that the total
number of books exposed counts up to
over 150,000. Which simply goes to
show that folks that use public li-
braries are awful careless.
Waste
Imperils
Nation's
Future
By JAMES J. HILL,
Railroad Magnate.
CONGRESS ADJOURNS
Promotion in the public service is
still tlje rule. Mr. John S. Leech, the
new public printer, entered the gov-
ernment printing office as a compos-
itor in 4889, was afterward made
proofreader, and then raised to the
foremanshlp of a division. In 1901 he
became public printer in the Philip-
pines, and after seven years' service
thet* is called home to take charge
of the department in Washington.
How accident sometimes reveals
great opportunities is Bhown by the
story from Winnipeg to the effect that
the falling of a large mass of rocks
and Ice disclosed a great vein of an-
thracite, uf the existence of which no
one had been aware previously. The
landslide unhappily resulted in killing
and injuring several of Jhy .laborers
employed In the work. This result la
to be deplored. The general heneflia
following the discovery, however, will
he great. There is a very stronp: de-
u.ar.'l for anthracite throughout west-
era Canada.
The American of to-day is too waste-
ful. You see it in everything he does.
No, 1 don't mean merely in the luxuries
like dress and jewelry, nor in daily habits.
Americans are wasting the products of
their mines. They are wasting the wood
they cut from their forests as they destroy
them. These forests, though, may be re-
stored. They are wasteful, above all else,
in their source of natural wealth—their
land.
This waste is found everywhere. You
see it in the west as well as in the east.
Look at the situation in New England, for
instance. Some of the land cannot be cultivated, to be sure. It is a rock
on which to build a house in which one may keep cool in the summertime.
But what of the areas that con be farmed? Much of the land is ex-
hausted, abandoned. 1 saw an estimate some time ago that land like this,
with a slope of 35 degrees, would bear 100 plowings. Yet already it is
all used up and gone to waste.
The young man's chances of success in the future, then, would seem
to lie not in expansion, but in internal development.
In less than 20 years the United States will have 130,000,000 peo-
ple. Where are these people, not in some dim, distant age but of this
very generation now growing to manhood, to he employed and how sup-
ported? When the searchlight is thus suddenly turned on we recognize
not a mere speculation, but the grim face of that specter which confronts
the unemployed, tramping hateful streets in hope of food and shelter.
The country needs more workers on the soil. Not to turn the stranger
away, but to direct hiin to the farm instead of the city; not to watch with
fear a possible increase in the birth rate, but to use every means to keep
the boys on the farm and to send youth from the city to swell the depleted
ranks of agricultural industry is the necessary task of a well-advised po-
litical economy and an intelligent patriotism.
At the present rate every acre of public land would disappear within
the next 15 years. . . . Within 20 years we must house and em-
ploy in some fashion 50,000,000 of additional population.
The mighty wealth of this continent was adequate, with ordinarily
provident handling, for an indefinite increase of the demands upon it.
The inheritors of this wealth have already so far dissipated it that some
prudent care of the residue cannot be postponed without certain disaster.
It is a mathematical fact that within 20 years
under present conditions our wheat crop will not be
sufficient for home consumption and seed, without
leaving a bushel for exports.
If we are to walk safely in the way of wisdom
there is much to He done. There must be, first, a re-
turn to conservative and economic methods and a re-
adjustment of national ideas, such as to place agricul-
ture and its claims to the best intelligence and the
highest ^kill that the country allords in the very
1'orel'ront.
AFTER A LONG AND FRUITLESS
FILIBUSTER.
MUCH WORK HAS BEEN DONE
La Follette Makes a Strenuous At-
tempt to Filibuster Senate into
Submission to Minority.
Washington, June 1.—The first ses-
sion of the Sixtieth Congress ad-
journed shortly before midnight. The
Senate quit business at 11:50 and the
House at 11:52. The second session
will convene Monday, December 7, at
noon.
'Saturday, while the rest of the coun-
try was engaged in strewing flowers
on the graves of its beloved dead,
the Congress of the United States, or
as least the Senate end of it, was
occupied in one of the most bitter
fights that has ever marked the end
of the session. The contest was over
the adoption of the Aldrlch-Vreeland
currency bill which the Republicans
believe will prevent the possibility of
THE FLOOD SITUATION.
The flood situation in North Texas,
while generally improved, is just be-
ginning to be fully understood in all
its awful destruction. The monetary
loss can not be estimated. When one
undedstands that thousands of people
who, a week ago were prosperous, hap-
py, contented and hopeful are today
without employment, food and often
barely enough clothes to hide their
nakedness, the situation begins to Im-
press itself. For hundreds of miles
up and down the Trinity the Brazos
and Red Rivers and smaller streams
crops, stock and improvements are
swept away, and in hundreds of cases
even the houses and all the furniture
and 6lothlng are gone. The calamity
is the greatest that has ever visited
North Texas, Central Texas and Ok-
lahoma. Relief parties, municipalities
and individuals are coming nobly to
the rescue, but it will be months be-
fore normal conditions are restored,
and many families are financially
ruined for life.
PIERCE MUST COME TO TEXAS.
Supreme Court of United States Rules
Against Him.
Washington, June 2.—The Supreme
Court decided yesterday that H. Clay
Pierce would have to go to Texas for
trial on an Indictment returned by u
Grand Jury of Travis County for false
swearing. Pierce Is charged with hav-
ing sworn falsely in testifying that
the Waters-Pierce Ull Company, of
which lie Is the head, was not a part
of the Standard Oil Company.
A requisition for the arrest of Pierce
was Issued by the Governor of Texas
on the Governor of Missouri and was
granted. Hut Pierce fought the extra-
dition on several grounds, among
which, judging from the fact that the
Supreme Court gave it most notice,
was that the Indictment was insuf-
ficient. The lower court decided
against Pierce, and the case was
brought to the Supreme Court of the
United States. It was argued about
two months ago.
H. Clay Pierce, Chairman of the Wa-
ters-Pierce Oil Company, 1b in New
York, where he has lived most of the
tlmo during the last three years, al
though about three months were spent
here for a brief business trip.
On learning of yesterday's decision
of the Federal Supreme Court against
Mr. Pierce he (Pierce) telegraphed
Judge Henry Priest, his counsel in the
habeas corpus proceedings. From ,i
statement made by Judge Priest it Ij
very evident that Pierce does not in-
tend to bo taken to Texas on trial
for false swearing if a further appeal
to the courts can prevent It.
The opinion, which is not lengthy,
is nearly entirely devoted to a dis-
cussion of the question of the suffi-
ciency of the Indictment. Justice
Moody at one point does make rather
slighting allusion to what he terms the
hair-splitting argument of counsel for
Pierce. lie has reference to Joseph
| H. Choate, whose speech before the
j Supreme Court was somewhat dlsap-
J pointing to the lawyers who heard it.
Judge Barclay of St. Louis, who made
the arguments for the State, or rather
for Mr. Creacy, Chief of Police of St.
Louis, against whom the action was
brought, is sustained by the decision
at practically every point, in some
cases almost the identical language
which he used in his argument being
transferred to the opinion.
the recurrence of such a panicky con-
dition as occurred last fall. The bill
was finally passed by a vote of 43 to
22, and is now a law.
The Democrats had decided in a
party conference that they would al-1
low the Republicans to assume the'
responsibility for the parentage of the !
bill and that they would express their j
position by a speech and vote with-j
out resorting to unusual methods to ;
delay the taking of the vote. This '
plan did not suit Senator La Follette, j
the Republican Insurgent from Wiscon-
sin, and he started a filibuster in the
hope of defeating the measure, j
Through some hitch or misunderstand- j
ing, the plan failed and a vote was ,
quickly taken, and a motion to recon-
sider was tabled, following which ad-
journment took place.
Pros Win Easily in Kaufman.
Kaufman: Eight hundred and ten j
votes is the majority for prohibition S
as the result of the election held in j
Kaufman County Saturday. There are j
four small boxes not yet heard from, j
but these will not materially affect j
the total. The total vote was 3502, of
which 2.156 were for prohibition and j
1344 against. In 190G the majority was
744 for prohibition out of a total of
3700 votes cast.
Senator James K. Jones Dead.
Washington: Former United States
Senator James K. Jones of Arkansas
died at his residence here Monday aft-
ornoon, after an illness of a few hours,
aged 09 years. He was one of the
leading Democrats of the Senate from
1SS5 to 1803, and was one of the
strongest supporters of William Jen-
nings Bryan, having acted as of the
Democratic National Committee and
conducted the campaigns of 189G and
1900. Since leaving the Senate in
1905, he has conducted a law practice
in this city and has not actively en-
gaged in politics.
On Friday Senator Jones returned
from a visit to his daughter, Mrs.
Leonard Carrlgan, In Arkansas, and
Sunday night was apparently enjoying
good health. Complaining slightly
Monday morning, he remained in bed,
and at 5:30 in the afternoon died, the
immediate cause of death being heart
failure.
Paul Bruchner, a well known busi-
ness man of Corslcana, and a man
named Curry, a visitor there, were
drowned Sunday morning while fish-
ing in a place known at "Tinkle's
Tank," about a mile north of that
city.
Sherman Again Uses Oil Fuel.
Sherman: The city resumed the use j
of oil as a fuel at the East Street I
pumping station of the waterworks on I
June 1 The changes had all been j
made on the boilers so that the change J
in fuel took place without delay. There j
is a supply of 30,000 gallons of fuel |
oil or more on hand, enough to last i
two weeks, and more assured before
the expiration of that time, so that the
fuel question will not be affected by j
the floods.
Terrific Storm Visits Vernon.
Vernon: A terrific storm struck this
place Sunday evening, uprooting trees,
blowing down houses and ruining
thousands of acres of crops. There
is hardly a house in town that is not
more or less damaged. One house In
West Vernon was demolished and Mrs.
O. B. Dowdy seriously hurt. So far
as can be learned no lives were lost.
Three washouts occurred between this
place and Wichita Falls, and all trains
are indefinitely late.
Horrible Ending of Celebration.
Philadelphia, Pa.: An entire fam-1
ily, consisting of Wm. Eidelman, aged j
38 years, his wife, Elizabeth, aged 37.
and their two children, Anna, aged 17 '
and William, aged 7, of Pensauken, N.
J., were drowned below Riverton, N.'
J., by the capsizing of a small row- f
boat. The family was taking an out-
ing In celebration of the fact that the
father had just cleared off the mort-
gage on their home. All of the bodies
were recovered.
Price and Others Under Arrest.
Washington: Bench warrants charg-
ing Theodore E. Price of New York,
the New York cotton operator; E. S.
Holmes, Jr., former statistician of the
Department of Agriculture; Moses
Maas and Frederick A. Peckham of
New York, with conspiracy have been
sent to New York for the purpose of
causing their arrest and probable re-
turn to this jurisdiction for trial. All
four of the men were indicted here
Friday.
THREE-YEAR-OLD CWItfiE.
Theodore H. Price Is Indicted on Fa-
mous Cotton Leak Charge.
New York, May 30.—Theodore Price,
for many years one of the most prom-
inent operators on the New York cot-
ton market, was indicted by the Fed-
eral Grand Jury yesterday on charges
growing out of the sensational expos-
ure of tin; sale of Government statis-
tics aH to cjitton crop conditions in
advance of the issuance of this in-
formation to the public. The Indict-
ments were not unexpected by Mr.
Price, and he and his atttorneys were
it the Federal Building when the
5rand Jury's report was presented,
ready to give ball.
A second charge against Price is
bribery. It is reported that other per-
sons were indicted with Price.
Price is charged with conspiracy to
lefraud. He was released In $5000
oall. Following the announcement
that he hud been Indicted, Mr. Price
gave out a statement. He said that
while an indictment was of course an
extremely disagreeable experience to
undergo, It was an accusation and not
i proof, and he Is aware that the Gov-
ernment has considered it necessary
to take this action before the matter
became outlawed on June 3 or there-
about. He feels no doubt whatever
of the Issue.
The original "cotton leak" charges
made some three years ago were based
on the statement of Van Riper, the
bucket shop operator, and a self-con-
fessed participant and beneficitry with
others of the alleged "cotton leak,"
and who conducted his account with
Messrs Hubbard Brothers & Company,
and not with Mr. Price.
B
fiH
Williams for Governor.
Sulphur Springs: Hon. R. R. Wil-
liams of Cumby, in this county, who
has announced as a candidate for Gov-
srnor, was born In the State of Ark-
ansas sixty-eight years ago. He came
to TcxaB in 1SC6, settling in Hopkins
County, engaging In the occupation of
i mechanic, where he has resided since
that time. He served in the Confed*
arate Army, making a gallant soldier.
Ho attained the rank of Captain. He
has served his precinct as Justice of
the Peace and as County Commission-
er, making a good officer. He .was
a member of the Legislature. He Is
a man of very pronounced convictions,
bold and fearless, and not afraid to
assert himself under any circum-
stances. He Is a practicing lawyer at
Cumby, and has had a liberal share
of patronage for several years.
IS
Perishes to Save Team.
Denison: Harry Stockbridge, a ne-
gro, aged 17 years, an employe of
the Davis livery stable in 'this city,
met death in the quicksands near War-
ner Junction, four nulcs north of here,
Friday morning. He had driven a
telegraph lineman to that point and
stopped a few minutes before starting
back. He noticed that the horses
were sinking In the sand and got out
of the carriage to assist them.. In
some manner he got under the horses
and sank out of sight before assist-
ance eo.uKl reach him. When the
body was taken out an hour later the
heart was still beating, but the boy
died about fifteen minutes later. Th^
horses were saved.
m*.
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A cyclone struck twelve miles west
of Duncan, Ok., Friday evening, de-
stroyed barns and houses and killed
considerable stock, but no people were
killed, as most all were provided with
storm cellars. Crops were damaged
greatly.
Cyclone near Fort Worth.
Fort Worth: A small cyclone orlg-
t
►
Inated three to fife miles northwest of
tha city Friday afternoon, but as fai-
ns can be learned the damage was not
great.. A sheep herder named Mc-
Donald sustained a broken leg and sev-
eral sheep In a herd, -which was In
the path of the storm, were killed.
Marlon Sansom says the storm origi-
nated In his pasture near Saginaw,
and was In the form of a black funnel
cloud.
New Railway Is Building.
Weatherfard: The Estacado and
Gulf Is the name of the new railroad
now being built from McCauley, on
the Orient, to Roby, the county site !
of Fisher County, a distance of about
twelve miles. The line Is being built j
by J. T. Butts of this city and his
brother,%\V. A. Butts of New York,
who is President of the concern. The
work of grading is nearly completed
nnd the laying of steel will begin In n
few weeks.
Pritchett Swept by Flames.
Gilmer: Pritchett, a small town on
the Cotton Belt, six miles south of
Gilmer, was totally destroyed by flre
Sunday night. The postofllce, four
general stores, a drug store and 'the
Woodmen's and Yoemen's lodge hall
were destroyed. The total losses will
foot up to at least $20,000, with Insur-
ance on about one-third of the value,
'the entire business portion of tb !
town was burifed.
Driven from Farms.
Weatherford: Reports from the
Clear Fork of the Trinity In this coun-
ty tell of much loss of wheat and oat
crops that were ready for the harvest,
much of the wheat promising a yield
of twenty-five bushels to the acre. In
the worst flooded district farmers have
abandoned all Idea of making a crop
this year and are leaving their farms
In search of work to sustain their
families.
All a Family Affair.
Fort Worth: J. D. Hopkins, his wlfo
and stepdaughter were arrested Fri-
day for engaging In a shooting affray.
Hopkins says ho and his wife were
quarrelling, and he drew his revolver
and dropped it on the floor. His step-
daughter, agod sixteen years, seized
the weapon and shoWHopklns In the
shoulder. Hopkins is charged with
aggravated assault and Uie girl vrith
assault to murder.
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