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SAN ANiONlU bXPKfcbb: lUfcSDAY MQKINING. 5cPi biViBfcK 5, 1911.
Snn Antonio €xprcss.
B.v The Express Publishing Company.
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Entered iu the Postoffice at San Antonio, Texas,
as Second-class Matter.
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Eastern office. Brunswick Building. New icr».
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ington. r» C.—Austin Cunningham,
n, Tex. Brloe Hopkins, 111! East Sixtu
Oriskill Hotel Building. Old phone 1SHS.
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ennelds
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Austin Business office H. C. liolcombe, u-
ast Sixth Street. Drlskill Hotel Building. Old
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San Antonio Express Special Newspaper Train
(service inaugurated December 15, 1905) lea res
International & Great Northern depet at 3:20
a. m. for Austin Taylor, Georgetown. Hearne
and Intermediate points. This tralu makes all
railroad connections en route. Arrives Austin
6:20 a. m.; Taylor, 8:35 a. m.; Hearne, 11:20 a in.
This Is the longest run of a newspaper special
train In the entire South, being 102 miles, and
this train is operated solely for the benefit of
The San Antonio Express.
BIO CITIES OF TEXAS—CENSUS 1910.
BAN ANTONIO.. W,til 4 Houston 78,800
Dallas 02,104 Fort Worth 73,312
CIRCULATION BOOKS
OPEN TO ADVERTISERS
gust death rate is something against which
hoards of health, sanitary inspectors and
j virtually the whole forces of city govern-
j ment move. Most significan- of the deaths
of this month in crowded cities is the infant
mortality. After which co ne diseases of
the digestive organs, sunstrokes and the
physical breaking down of those already
racked and worn by disease contracted at
home.
"Save the babies" is the cry of the North-
ern cities in this August calendar of death.
In response to the call, not only city gov-
ernment forces come to attempted rescue,
but perhaps a score of active charities lend
themselves to the torrid heat and crowded
sections of a city, bearing ice, pure milk,
sanitation and posters in a dozen languages,
dialects and languages, telling the people
how to take care of themselves. In spite of
all this, however, August long has been one
of the deadliest months in the Northern
year.
In matter of figures'there were 172 deaths
in this city last month. But in its system
of computing the ratio, the Board of Health
leaves out of its reckonings those deaths
which are so numerous and due to persons
from outside who come here seeking to re-
! cover from hopeless disease already con-
tracted elsewhere. Thirty-two such cases
are recorded out of the total of 172 deaths
for August. Just as an accidental killing
does not show in the accountable death rate,
so these hopeless cases are not chargeable
to the city's sanitary conditions or to its
climatic excellences.
New York had its especially murderous
heated term in which thousands of babies
were sacrificed. Perhaps New York may
take notice of the San Antonio health clear-
ance here presented.
GOOD ROADS AND TOLL TAX.
CsacreH shall make no law • • • abridging
the freedom of speech or of the press.—United
States Constitution.
Now as to Lightfoot and Colquitt—the last
•yllable with one "t" is enough for the
preeent!
Oklahoma, dry as it Is^legally, leaves us to
wonder what she might do with real stimu-
lants to further excesses.
Frank Gotch, Towa plowboy, seems to have
proved to the cultured Russian, at least, that
the professional mat isn't in a gentleman's
game.
President Taft is talking so industriously
against the recall of the judiciary we hope
he is looking forward to bench retirement
Just after the 1912 elec'ions.
When a Kansas City wife threw a cooked
goose at her husband the other day he filed
suit for divorce on the ground that the old
lady had cooked her own goose in the act.
San Antonio had the choice of "vaude-
ville" in two theaters on Sunday afternoon
and evening. As to the pronunciation of the
word, there are fifty-seven varieties avail-
able.
A Chicago saloonkeeper is exhibiting a
$2000 pearl which he says he found in a fine
clam that could have gone with any drink.
Is he trying to boojn the free-lunch end of
his bar?
Acting President Hildebrand of the Bexar
County Highway League says that with 600
pledged members something should start
doing after tonight's meeting at the St. An-
thony. An excellent idea for the called mass
meeting! i
One of the most interesting things we ever
have found in a certain paper printed in Dal-
las is its persistent, consistent, picayune
policy of cutting the San Antonio tempera-
tures from the Government's official daily
weather reports.
We seem to have been mistaken about the
straw hat. Chicago Is proposing Septem-
ber 21 as the date of its official recall. Inci-
dentally, McCutcheon, the Chicago cartoon-
ist, leaves San Antonio in the year-around-
zone of straw hat .usefulness.
Mayor Gaynor of New York told sixty-
five Pennsylvania farmers who called upon
him that he endorsed their idea of selling
farm goods Erectly to the consumer. We
can't conceive of anything that involves less
political risk in the speaking, or which prom-
ises less of practicability in fact.
SAN ANTONIO'S AUGUST DEATHS.
San Antonio with a death rate of 7.7 in
the 1000 of population for the month of
August, is a striking statement issuing from
the^oard of Health of this city. It should
be observed particularly in Eastern, North-
ern and Western cities which congratulate
themselves that they are well north of the
"torrid South." A little study of the figures
thus presented by San Antonio health au-
thorities, however, might do much to correct
thr idea that this city in summer must rank
six months with the deadly six or eight
weeks of summer as marked beyond the
forty-fifth parallel.
It may be too much that the health de-
partment has taken as a basis a population
of 125,000. We know that these figures will
be questioned in the "State at least. But tak-
ing the population base at a conservative
100,000, only, those ninety-seven deaths from
disease contracted by San Antonians within
San Antonio, the death rate for August is
die fractional .97 in the 1000 of population.
lo New York. Boston. Chicago and a
en other bie citics in the North the Au-
In the midst of a Nation-wide talk on the
subject of good roads it is difficult to get
any general guiding line upon the best meth-
ods for road building and roatf maintenance.
Only a few years ago where macadamized
roads w'ere used in certain sections of coun-
try within comparatively small areas, the
farmer's buggy and his two-horse wagon
were of sole consideration. Where the
farmer might drive on business the villager
and townsman could drive for pleasure.
With the coming of the almost universal
automobile, however, macadam without an
artificial binder material in the nature of
gummy oils grinds into a dust which the
tremendous suction of cushion tires on the
automobile pulls up and out into endless
ruts and holes, involving an endless chain
j of repairers on road work. In city streets,
everywhere that continued automobile traf-
fic exists, the old macadam pavement is dis-
carded. Even with its top dressing of min-
ute particles of granite to a depth of two
inches or more, binder material is absolute-
ly necessary to reasonable durability and
the oil wagons are busy. It seems that
everywhere in thickly settled States conces-
sions must be made to the automobile. At
the best, macadam appears the only feasible
material where any material is possible of
distribution. In considering this material,
even as the gravel pits of glacial drifts have
left the pebbles hard as granites in favored
sections of the country, macadam must be
! in continual state of repair.
Last August in the National Senate a bill
was presented by Cullom of Illinois provid-
! ing for a bond issue of $150,000,000 for the
building of the greatest system of National
roadways in the world. His ideas contem-
plate making Washington, D. C., the hub of
seven radiating National roads, one to ter-
minate at Portland, Maine; one at Buffalo,
N. Y.; one at Seattle, Wash.; one at San
Francisco and one at San Diego in Califor-
nia; one at Austin, Tex., and the other at
Miami, Fla.
These roads as proposed are to be built
at act>ffc cost and thereafter to be maintained
as Nn,onal roads through operation of the
toll system. As encouragement to the pro-
posed system several States that would be
traversed on the extreme west of the- con-
tinent have taken up the idea of picking up
the road at the several eastern boundaries,
building the road to specifications across
the State to the western boundaries, where
the next State at its own expense would put
the road across. New Mexico, Arizona and
California are three Western States promis-
ing something to this end.
However tf is State contribution might
work out in harmony with the Cullem idea,
or however it mTght fail because of Inter-
ested personal and political State antagon-
isms we cannot venture to say. That which
does appeal to us in the Cullom Idea Is the
possibility of putting again into practice the
toll system by which under strict regulation
of the State, capital might venture where po-
litical governments fear or fail to tread.
In a sense broadly narrow or narrowly
broad, the thought of the man who doesn't
use a road is that he should not be taxed to
build or maintain it. In many cities today
a wheel tax is levied upon all vehicles that
wear upon paving. This tax is levied accord-
ing to the tire width of horse trucks, the
idea being that the heavy wagon with the
narrow tire is the greatest destructionist in
street traffic. Every vehicle is subject to
the annual tax in proportion to its wear
upon the public pavements.
Is this not the practical re-establishment
of the principle -bf the old toll road. If It
isn't, what is it?
OKLAHOMA'S RACE WAR.
Oklahoma is a designated Southern State
In relation to her place in the cotton belt.
One of the newer States of the Union, how-
ever, and populated in great measure through
the influx of people drawn to if by tW old
United States land lottery system, only the
close details of a National census probably
could declare the proportion of Southern-
bred people to those coming in from the
North.
But as a designated Southern State pro-
ducing' cotton as one of its staple crops,
Oklahoma just now appears in a bad way in
her apparent open warfare against the negro.
Starting with some of the nameless crimes
and attempts at crimes chargeable against
individual blacks, lynch law did not satisfy.
The feeling has grown and spread until the
negro in Oklahoma is in virtual panic. Or
if not in panic, he is in that unsafer position'
of arming himself for his protection—or for
aggressions. There are conflicting reports.
On occasion white men have asserted that
they were fired upon by negroes. Again,
negroes l*Bve charged that they have acted
only in self-defense. Nothing has been
proved, however, and a race war is on.
What is to be the economical outcome in
Oklahoma if the white farmers are to force
out the black labor which in the old South
always has been so nccessary to the harvest-
ing of State crops? On the face of things
there is a condition in Oklahoma that is
foreign to the Cotton States in this old South.
«The negro first, must be understood in all
his shortcomings, failings and lack of rea-
soning powers. He can be handled success-
fully only by the person understanding negro
characteristics, chief of which is the negro's
natural dependency upon the white man".
Here we feel that Oklahoma, with its
mixed population of Northern and Southern
and Western peoples, is failing of under-
standing.
It is taken for granted that for certain
crimes a negro is lynched as readily in New
England as he may be lynched anywhere
in the South. Therefore the Oklahoma ven-
geance that has been meted out to the in-
dividual negro is a question apart from the
present race war. It is becoming a question
of whether Oklahoma as a cotton State
means to put the ban upon the negro? News
of such a nature travels fast among the
blacks. He is not courageous against enmity
of the white man. He is a victim, often, of
his own hallucinations and bogie fears. For
Oklahoma to continue her seeming present
policy of banishing the black man from her
territory, she is attempting something which
heretofore has been unheard of in the cotton
belt. For years farm labor has,been grow-
ing more scarce and wages have been grow-
ing higher. Has Oklahoma a white man so-
lution for a condition which must result in
a farming State if ultimately the black man
shall be driven beyond its borders?
LINES ON TEXAS f ArERS ! LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
A. J. Tippltt, on whose farm a gold mine
has been discovered, isn't anxious to Tippitt
off even to his home town of Alpine.
From Files of The Express
Thirty-five Ago Today—187B.
The frlejuls of Edward Stoke?, the murderer of
.Tim Fisk hHve been successful at last. It if now
announced that lie will he released from prison
on the --d of next October.
like
the
The editor of the Renton City paper don't
McLeary's 'hut. Perhaps it's wlint's under
ha( he most dreads.
♦ ♦ ♦
I.ook out for Indian news from the frontier.
The moon lieing full and poor I<o having a senti-
mental turn of mind will no doubt mate things
lively along the Rio Grande. We look for a rip-
ple in the hair market.
Fresh apples in town. We told the fellow we
were reporting for The Express. That being the
ease, he offered to let Us have one dozen for a
dollar if we would say nothing about 1t. We put
the nickel back iu our pocket a wiser, if not a
happier, man.
♦ ♦ ♦
Fifteen Years Ago Today—tSBfl,
Gen. Wade Hampton, United States Railroad
Commissioner, speut yesterday in the city.
♦ ♦ ♦
Silver agitation 1n this country has driven
American money below par In Canada, savs Prof.
W B. Seeley, who has just returned from there.
♦ ♦ ♦
The new county courthouse will receive Its first
occupants this week. >UI the offices will be in-
stalled therein by the first of October.
♦ ♦ ♦
Receiver Terrell of the Gulf Shore has ap-
pointed N. T. Wilson general freight and pas-
senger agent of that road.
» • »
The National democratic convention at Indian-
apolis nominated Gen. ,lohn M. l'atmer of Illinois
for President and Gen. S. n. Buckner of Ken-
tucky for Vice President.
—. • _
The Cotton Holding Movement.
A committee of Southern Senators and Repre-
sentatives In Congress, sitting In their individual
and personal capacity and not as public officials,
has prepared an address to be Issued to cotton
planters, urging them not to be moved or alarmed
by the "hear movement" that has been started
In New York to depress the price of the South-
ern staple.
The committee, whose address Is signed by
Senators John Sharp Williams of Mississippi ana
R. S. Owen of Oklahoma and Representative A.
8. Burleson of Teias, advises the planters to
hold their cotton for 13 cents, because the crop
as first forecast has been largely cut down
by weather changes and other unfavorable con-
ditions, and even If a 15.000/160-hale crop were
realized It would not supply the world s demand.
It should be remembered that the I'nlted States
Department of Justice standa ready to pounce
on every attempt to hold cotton for better prices
and already holds for criminal prosecution a
number of Southern dealers who have attempted
to resist a big "bear movement" t" force down
the price of cotton.
It is a question whether or not this action of
Southern Senators and Representative., in oppo-
sition to the Northern bear speculators will be
regarded by the Government officials ns a com-
bination In restraint of trade In violation of tlie
Sherman law and subject them lo criminal prose-
cution New Orleans Picayune
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Male and Female Saints.
When a woman pretends to be a saint, she la
usually modest; she claims no mora than that
•be does not eat aa much as man. or chew to-
bacco, or awear. or care to own a shjtgun, but
when ■ man bccomes a saint, he wants to save
everybody, reduce tax as and railroad rates, and
call aa International peace congress. —Topeks
Capital.
, Must Speak Up.
Because an automobile passenger did not about
arnibg before a train bit him tlx Federal So
pram* Court has denied btm damages Thus the
maxim "Spest up" receives highest Judicial aanc.
,lon —New York World.
What's the OMa? Date Em l>
Hereafter aiiaastnes are to go by fiat freight,
wttlrb. M M asid'sas to say, la sometklaf slower
than aUatass MampHs Commercial Appeal
There is considerable rivalry. between some ot
the markets ol North Texas for the coltou which
the neighboring farmers have to sell and un-
usual iuduicisouts are being offered iu some cases
to attract the shipments. There is a suspicion
of uutair methods due to keeu rivalry indicated
lij the followiu« from the Jtaska News:
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wiietuei- ino pa>iug uiuierlui shun be wood, viU'i-
ncu unci! OS aspuau, uut most, prouauiy it »»"
not be luo laliec. lutt ptau is lu issue oouds lu
pay me city a uut-luuiui ol lbs cost ot puviug,
iuc abutting property iu pay lUe rcmaiuuei.
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ings wilt lucicase ine cuy s snare ol tue cos#,
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process is to go ou uud tue uust uevil is lu be
iouicu uud ousted. Good 1ol' ban ileuilui
The Alpine Uulde reports that during s big
Sturm receutly lightning struck the rauck house
uI Kobert l'arsuns, eight miles froiu Alplue.
"Ills daughter .Uuggle, says tue Uulde, "ban
*Just taken oil her sliuea uud uiuveu tu u little
instance when u bolt ol llguiulug came tlirougn
the lloor like u cauuou shot, learlug a great
jugged hole in the plauks aud burutug the suoes.
instantly an oppressive smell of brluistuue lilled
the house, and windows and doors had to be
tjuickly opened. Allss Maggie was badly shocked
aud has beeu suffering ever aluce with severs
pains lu the head."
Dr. Abbott, the State X'ure Food t'umuilsslouer,
seems to have struck a popular chord lu advislug
that all druggists be Instructed to use common
names Instead of chemical terms lu showlug
the analysis of prescriptions and compositions
sold by them. According to the announced dic-
tum of l)r. Abbott, Instead of "trlchlosmethaue"
"chloroform" must be used, aud he directs thut
alcohol shall be called alcohol and not "ethyllc
hydroldlc." The laymen have been generally lu
favor of some such reform as this for a loug
while,
The Brownsville Herald suggests that Vone of
the greatest advantages of havlug your Job work
done at home Is that proper names used lu It are
generally spelled correctly and. If they are not,
It Is so easy to punish the home printer."
There is something In that, as the house girl
said when she fouud a cat lu the churn.
The "philosopher" of the Victoria Fact says!
"If I thought that any one was Interested I wohld
look up and print the names of the six best pool
players lu town." And probably some, nt least,
of these "six best" would be more or less
chagrined to see their nam* In print In this con-
nection.
The Wills Point Chronicle seems to take seri-
ously the suggestion lhat its editor, C. B. Oil-
more, be glveu the Democratic nomination for
Oovernor next y*ur. Why spoil a good editor
when tbere Is so much other material avallablt
for the making of officeholders?
Brownwood Is all excitement over the esrljr
coming of the circus, and the News advises tha
kids to begin ssvlng their nlckles for the eventa,
as there are to ba two big shows within a week
of each other.
The Corpus Cbrlstt Caller says of this exchange
column that "It's like San Antonio; contains all
surts and a little or everything, spiced up to
the metropolitan taste."
*Tha reports to the weekly pspers concerning
crop conditions In practically all sections of the
■tats ar* more optimistic since the recent rains.
O. H. HGgan has retired from the San Saba
Star and la sacceaded by W. D. Cowan and J. K.
Sector Jr
Some New Laws in New YoriL
From Friday, September 1, In (his State It win
be felony to carry a concealed weapon and mis-
demeanor to own a firearm. A license costltif
»10 will enable you to be armed. But that may
ba more than the old revolver In your trunk Is
worth. To be safe you might throw It sway,
although It Is ressonsbly safe to let It stay In
the trunk, since the police cannot search your
bouse without a warrant and the offense of pos-
session Is a misdemeanor only. But It will go
bard with tbe thug or brawler caught with a
"gun" In bla pocket.
From Friday on, prlseflgbtlaf will b* resumed
after eleven years of paper outlawry. Tbe bouts
cannot last more than ten ronnds and must be
fought with eight-ounce gloves In buildings ssfe-
guarded sgslnst fire snd under the direction of
Uceased clubs which will forfeit $10,000 If these
conditions are violated or If there la a abam
fight
rram Frldsy on. It will be tllegsl to pslnt or
put* an advertisement on the property of an-
other without his consent or to post advertising
on tbe highways. It will be legal for snyone to
remove highway advertising, and tbe good* roads
committee of the Automobile Club hss sppolnfrd
Friday as "Clean-up day," whan all drivers ara
urged to deatroy these offenses wherever found.
Ftem Frldsy on. the slaughter of wild game In
AnMdtoa will lie inaterlslly checked by the virtos!
closing of Its greatest msrket. It will be s gain st
the Isw In this Slate In sell sll game ssve weer,
black decks, mallards and pheasants bred in rap-
rivHy. sad certain steak Imparted from Europe —
Hew Ifffe W«rl&
Conffrrsn shall mak#» no law * * * abrltlK-
Injj Ihr fr«*doni of upwh or of the press.
I nit*><1 Ntatfii t'onfttltullon.
AMERICAN TEXT BOOKS
BY I'BKDKRIC J. HAS KIN.
High Cost of Vegetables.
Run Antonio, Tex., Sept. 4.—[Editor of Tlie
Express.!—Can you inform a newcomer from tlie
North why the prices on produce or garden truck
is three or four times here what it Jh In tue
North? For Instance, cabbage is quoted,in the
St. J/ouIb Kepnl lie at 75c to $1 per hundred
wholesale, here it is $3 to $3.23.
1 have been in Texas a year now and I have
noted the same difference even when Texas cab-
bage was shipped through here and sold In St.
Louis for one-half local rates. The same with
onions, potatoes, et<\ Look it up. get a Northern
paper and compare markets. Have you a produce
trust here? JOHN W. LAWSON.
More Tin Buckets H'antefl.
San Antonio, Tex., Sept. 4.—IKditor of The Ex-
press.)—In compliance with your invitation to
tbe public, I present this communication to you
on matters of public importance: That San An*
tonio needs a payroll; that it may obtain this
payroll only by the encouragement of factories
in this community and that the only way to en-
courage factories is to advertise for factories,
in advertising media reaching tne greatest num-
ber of business men.
Tbe factory payroll Is an all-year-round pay-
roll The tourist payroll lasts four months ana
benefits the few. To advertise exclusive!/ for
tourists is to benefit the few at the expense of
tbe manv. What good be it to have our mag-
nificent hotels filled with millionaire tourists and
our gutters lined with Mexican beggars?
If Han Antonio is to rise above the level of a
tarrying place—a picturesque wintering resoit—
then she must provide her population ^ith the
means of augtenance, which in the case of tn
vast majority, comes only through the providing
of a factory payroll. vv- JJ*
Should DemMid » Receipt.
Ban Antonio, Tex., Sept. 4.—[Editor of The
Ex press. 1—Why is it that Americans who are con-
sidered to be the most practical businesslike peo-
ple in the world are so unbusinesslike in some
things? For instunce, in the matter of giving a
receipt when cash has been paid for something
that is ordered to be sent home. Why should a
merchant fall to give a receipt?
When we came to America Just eighteen years
ago we made our home in Chicago. One of my
first purchases at a leading State Street store
was a set of furs for which 1 paid cash, desir-
ing that the parcel be sent home.
No receipt was tendered me and when I re-
quested that one be giveu me it seemed that 1
had asked for something unheard of in the mer-
cantile world. I persisted, however, and finally
was given a receipt for my money. Not long
after that it became customary In all the large
State Street stores to give a receipt unasked.
Now that we have moved to the charming City
of San Antonio my first experience In making
purchases of dry goods has been exactly the
same as my first experience In Chicago. It seems
to be an unheard of thing for a customer to ask
for a rtceipt for her money when goods are to
be sent home.
Would the merchant making his deposits in
the best bank in the country do so without his
bank's receipt? Hardly. Why, then, shouldn't
he give his customer a receipt for money paid
into his hands? Mistakes are made in deliveries.
A whole department store may burn in a night,
including the goods paid for and not delivered.
W.here would tbe customer stand in such a sltua-
tlAi? BRITISH WOMAN.
Hunting Ont ot 8«mob.
San Antonio, Tex., Sept. 4.—[Editor of The
Express.] - May the uudersigned be permitted to
call attention to th© violation of the Texas game
laws as far as tbe San Antonio district is con-
cerned t As a whole, it seems, the State game
laws have been respected fairly well as applied
to small game, such as doves and quail, but un-
doubtedly has been and Is being violated by
unscrupulous persons. There is a fraction of
people who shoot game at any time of the year,
even during \ reeding time, and who catch fish
unlawfully with nets or dynamite.
Our State yaine laws undoubtedly have done
much good to preserve game in Texas, and it is
also true that whilst the yearly opening season
for dove hunting Is rather late and at a time
when doves have migrated to other lands—there
to be popped away for the frying-pan the
game law. as It Is, should be more universally
respected throughout Texas. Once in while in
camp, during a hunting trip, necessity may al-
low the killing of a few doves for the frying-
pan. but the wholesale shooting of this fine game
bird out of hunting season infringes upon tbe
rights of those respecting the game laws and
should be strictly prohibited. R. MENUER.
Brad's Bit o 'Verse
(Copyright, 1911, by W. D. Mong.)
Tbe kuocker drifted luto tuwu on grievous mis-
chief bent; he took his tongs and hammer down
and lit tlie Job he went. "Oh, yes, lliis climate's
pretty fair, aud I enjoy the breete; but there's
a (In mi mess in the air that's bound to brlttg'dis-
ecse. I'm going Into business here, but things
look mighty glum; it seems to me most plain and
clear tills town Is ou the bum; the taxes are too
awful high; yours growing too blamed fast;
there'll be a panic by and by—these good times
cannot last" And so the kneker settled down,
and filled our souls with gloom; he nearly
wrecked the good old town with tales of woe and
doom; no enterprise that came our way looked
good to that old bloat; bis hammer sounded
night and day—he nearly got our goat; a hun-
dred boosters good and strong were kept upoa
the rack to neutralize his doleful song, his wail-
lngs dour and black; until nt last we raised a
purse and took our flintlocks down aud ordered
him to taks his hearse unto a rival town. They
say that all men have a right to life and liberty;
hut when I view the hammer's blight I beg to
disagree; the gibbet and the guillotine, soft eggs
snd flinty rocks are coming to tbe —'n. I
who nothing does but knocks.
Thanks to the Reporter*
Tin world at large is blissfully ifncraot «(ffe|
extent to which many prominent citizens are In.
debted to the reporters who Interview them on
live Issues. The prominent citizen will Indulge
iu a flight of words that. If printed as he uttered
them, would make him tbe laughing stock of all
who read them and awaken a desire in the breast
of the Interviewed one to shed the scribe's gore
in large quantities, says the Las vegas Optic.
When a reporter secures an interview he does
not, save in very rare instances, write out what
was told him in the exact words used. He pol-
ishes up and trims off tbe ragged edges. *s it
were, and presents to readers a finished product.
The interviewed one. if he has the saving grace
Of common sense. Is always grateful for the
changes made and considers himself the report-
er's debtor.
The Baltimore Evening Sun presents this mat-
ter so lucidly and appositely that we are fain
to quote it and stamp It as entirely correct. The
Sun uses the actual remarks of a nuin besought
for a pronoundamento upon the school question
to point Its moral and adorn its tale tbns.
"bon't talk to me about no Van Sickle. Tbe
scholars in the schools today don't learn half
what they nsed to learn. When I went to school
tilings were different. Today they waste their
time on knltthf. mud pies an' such damn mon-
key business 1 heerd tbe other day that they
don't learn the children spelliif at all no more.
I'ui in favor of cuttin' out that fancy stuff an*
givin' '#di somettia' food an' strong. Tell 'em
I'm against it."
The interview appears In the paper next day,
done into English by the reporter as follows:
"No one can deny that the present imbroglio
Is dlsorganlizna the schools and diminishing the
efficiency of the teachers. Reports I have re-
ceived from parents convince me that the experi-
ments attempted by Mr. Van Sickle have failed
to Improve tbe system or to benefit the pupils.
Whatever the demerits of the old curriculum. It
at leant laid a firm foundation and gave the
pupil a working knowledge of th« fundamental
branches. Tbe new curriculum does not accom-
pllsk this. 1 believe a change In th* office oT
evperlntendent would be to the advantage of tie
teloele."—Wichita i Kan.) Beacon.
But They Didn't
Tex a a problWOoulsts are accnaed of attempt-
ing to gerrymander the Lone Star State; by any
procedure available they propose to make tMr
— take water.—Brooklyn Tlaaa
The great development in the publication n!
school books in America is in keeping with the
educational progress of the country. While the
school book publishers claim that their work baa
greatly aided the advance of education, the edu-
cators are quick to claim tbe enormous harvest
which publishers have reaped as their profit. No
doubt both are right, for the fact remains th.it
the publication of text-books has come to repre-
sent an enormous Industry which Is becoming
each day more distinct from any other line ol
publication.
To the cfedit of tbe publishers It must be ad-
mitted that tbe American school books, like
American school furniture, arc as a whole far
superior in all respects to those issued by an.T
other nation. The illustrations and decorations
outclass even those of the French, who a few
years ago were the lenders in this industry.
According to careful investigations, the average
cost of tbe text-books used in the common echoolt
reaches $1.15 per capita, which, for the 38,000.000
school children in tbe country, involves an annual
expenditure of over $20,000,000. This Includes
only the elementary schools In which the cheaper
kinds of lext-books are >;«ed. The amount apenl
for text-books In the higher wihools, colleges and
universities is proportionally frealer.
Free text-books caused much discussion before
their final adoption in many of tbe States. There
were many arguments against such a provision,
although its economic advantage has now become
fully established. Under the free system, the
State secures all books at the lowest wholesale #
price, whereas when they were purchased by the
parents individually, there was in most cases a
considerable middleman's profit. Tbe merchants
who formerly sold text-books were, of course,
among those whdt objected most strenuously to
their provision by the State. The actual cost of
equipping all the children with all the books
needed for the school curriculum Is lAuch less
than was formerly expended by the parents, who
provided part of the children with part of the
books they needed A material advantage is that
tlie work of the school is not held back because
some of the students have to wait until their
books are bought. When the cost of the school
book is paid by public money, the expense of edu-
cating the Nation is more evenly distributed
among ail the taxpayers, whether they have chll-
dren or not:, which seems a fairer arrangement.
Many of the States have, at different times,
given consideration to printing their own text-
books by their own printing plant. For several
years California did this. For a number of rea-
sons, however, the plan has ^een abandoned in
that State, as it has been found possible to secure
a better text-hook for tbe same amount of money
than the State could produce, taking Into consid-
eration the cost, of supplying a board of editors
and writers to prepare tbe subject matter of the
books.
While many sensational stories are told of Ihc
corrupt methods used by publishers to secure
tbe adoption of their book by a school boaid,
there is another side to the question which 13
seldom considered. That is (be enormous ex-
pense entailed to the publishers by the introdw •
tion of a new set of books. It has been 4be cus-
torn for publishers to distribute sample books
freely among school boards aud teachers. These
books were produced at some expense and their
free distribution involved a large outlay? Not- ^
withstanding this, it has been found that 1 he
persons to whom these books were given, fre-
quently sold them after they had been officially
adopted by the school authorities. By this
means the free distribution of books involved not
only their own cost, but tbe additional loss caused
by their sale. The abuse In the sale of Introduc-
tion books is causing a number of publishers lo
curtail the number distributed for this purpose.
There is no other class of books so expensive
In their first cost as text-books. A certain well
l'nown geography, now extensively used th^ougn-
< ut the world, called for an expenditure of $20/K)0
before a single copy could be produced. Tbe
maps and illustrations were all new aud the most
accurate that could be secured. While millions
of copies of this book have been issued within
the last ten years, the first cost was speculative,
though tbe returns have more than justified It.
J be expense of producing a new scientific hook
is even 'greater than the books in the elementary
schools and with most of these the number of
sales is not likely to reach the million line. If
a book of this kind is not well rec°.ved. It in-
volves a heavy loss to the publisher especially if
as s generally the case, it contains new and orig-
inal illustrations.
Because of the risk involved many publishers
wtH not undertake the production of a text-book
unless a guarantee sale of several thousand copies
is given. This U another opportunity for graft,
if tb« author happens to be engaged In educa-
nonai work. For example, a school superinten-
dent in i.hlcago once wrote a spelling book. It
was not especially meritorious and its pnbllca-
rJw2inWl,s i°nl? "8e('up®rt by r guaranteed sale of
riO.OM copies iu that city. Owing to his official
position the superintendent was able to secure
these although It was afterwards proved that
Us book was inferior to others already upon
the market at less cost.
• Senator Duling of New York has lately iutro-
dmejl into the Legislature of tbat State a bill
providing that no school officer or employe
shall have or receive any royalty or profit for
!!..* °^n.1,,so .h-v "«y fund or perquisites arising
tl,p nu opt I on of any book or publication
VnrJ *te ,tmy '"'h001 111 the city of flew
lork or throughout the State." H is said that
°o?V;rr n r(iPI1,t ?f sc,100,w secured the sale
of . opies of his own work at an expend!-
ce!*« rinr? ,'f *1,KMKX>- Two subordinate, offi-
H. •« Su 1P yoar «ep1,' ed th« expendI-
ture of .>..0.000 lor books they edited. That school
»li<! J8*»aii'e a position always to push the
sale ui their own books in Indisputable, and the
two examples quoted Indicate the need for some
restriction, although such a bill will undoubtedly
tend to work against educators In practical work
who after all should be best fitted to prepare
text-bonks for the schools which the.v direct.
it Is sometimes staled that greater abuses re-
garding the adoption of certnin test-books eilst
In colleges than In the public schools, hs each
instructor Is generally privileged to select his
mISJ "Jf" 1 hn" «8 advantages In the
higher educational institutions, as It permits the
Introduction of a large variety of book. „ d ?u
the long run, merit wins. ' u
It is fairly dt^aonstruted that the publishers'
profit on a textbook seldom exceeds 10 or 15
per cent. The author's royslty ranges from # to
12 per ccl.t, excepting in special conlrscts, snd
the expenses of Illustrates are vert heavv It
fh! m«r?ir,ti,deail,t11.01'" ,0 P|>0e a text-book upon
the market than It docs a popular novel, notwith-
standing the fad that the text-book I, never sd-
>r,r„ Jr, , >«pcr. llut the free distrlbu-
tion foi introduction purposes is at least ten times
as great as that of novels for reviewing, mid
the advertising done in the educational Journals
is often quite as expensive as that in the uews-
paper. The production of a text-book Is also
more expensive because Its binding must be made
substantial enough to stand hard usatre. When
the retail selling price of a book Is 60 cents it la
generally furnished to the retailer at to. Out of
this small sum must come the cost of composition,
the paper and other materials used in the bind-
ing. tbe illustrations, the author's royaltv and
the publisher's profit. It Is only by the sale of
enormous quantities that profit Is possible, and
this is the chief reason why there would be little
saving If each State published its own books.
There Is said to he a dlstinet falling off In the
number of text-books used, iu proportion to the
growth of the schools. The reason for this is
that individual teachers supply so much of their
own work. For instance, few teachers In arith-
metic now furnish the children with a hook con-
taining problems to l»e worked out. Instead, the
different divisions of arithmetic are illustrated
by examples within the comprehension of the
child. A number of tea< hepi in different parts of
the country during tlie pent year have been baa-
ing arithmetical problem# en the process of con-
struction of the Tannin* Oanal. The number of
tons excavated a day, the number of cubic feet of
cement 'aid. tbe time consumed, all form subjects
for examples in arithmetic vastly more interesting
to the children than those contained in the aver-
age text-book.
—— -o——
New Cure far Neuritis.
A Philadelphia policeman, nsmed William Sem.
bert, who for s/long time had been sffllcted
with neuritis, until a pension had been nsked for
blm sud he v.as about to be retired from the
force, was standing In an open door ou August 21
watching s thunderstorm, when a bolt of light-
ning came slons and knocked him dvwn. stoo-
nlng but not kllliug hiiiK When lie cime to be
discovered lo his great Joy thst Ills neuritis was
gone He Is Si years of sge. Is not this a sig-
nificant hint to physicians? Neuritis Is s stub-
born mslsdy. W.,uld not electric IrMtmnt be
• awrtble eiiirUwstl-hlt Late Tstecrsm.
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