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Optometry Is Latest Profe.
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ther Important
Specializing in the Eye-glass
VIEW POINT
OF WRITERS
»no Discuss i urrent Topics of In-
terest Touching Politics, Sociol-
ogy, Industrial Efforts, Business
Outlook and Matters Generally.
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business is trot large enouj
shipping in carload lots,
ty consumers who would be
to get their country product
om the producer at reduced
, the
and COMFORT STATIONS.
rmer j In European cities comfort sta-
;h to j tions are plentifully supplied, because
and | they are conducive to health, as well
en-1 as to comfort, and as caretakers they
; di- j employ aged persons, or cripples, who,
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In this way a worthy purpose woild
be served and the Postmaster General
should be sustained in an effort to ac-
complish it.
W hether the authority conferred on
st. because of their di:
•ilities, might
otherwise be pensioners or charges
upon the public.
In this country
were not much known
largest cities until comparatively re-
human beluga
beings. When It i<
r®wk with the male brutea uf creation, who i
call them wives Uege lords and masters. [,(!
*«* loMl to Ideali, »o high Ideal*. | th<.m
Thev believe lu good government. They ! qb.
voeld^not fill the jitii tod the poorhouses | the examination
s city, and a calling wh
bear something of the same rel
nuHilcai profession an th
have been inuugnrate<llHHWHHH
the New York Timet. lu the fa«»e of the
most bitter opposition of the regular phy-
slcUns, those who believe that the neat
ureraent of the eyes and the fitting of
glas.se* to the patient i* important enough
« th»v considered an art by Itself, have been
1 J 1 victorious, and the optometrists will seek
•atients with the approval of both Colum
and the State of New York behind
Optometry
4 j the Postmaster General permits him j cent years, though New York now has
| to carry out an order of this kind is a I a large number of them and the num- deV""0™" * ™
deals almost ejitlrelr with
comfort stationsl I ^^iT'de^VS M'theS
r 1 cr0w? wjaili and penitentiaries with are aru1 ..K^f tTm» of -i.,-,-, ^
in even ourl b«» and girl. who have made one false L^, ,0V,^ |h&. It'&Tshow. whX
2""1 . "w| atoe«». affect the eye. an.l how these
uTi. k L 0 rr! :m," 0 associate complaints Influence the eight; hut It doe;
with hardened criminals Mark this, | not prescribe the methodLin which a dU
The postage
press are as I
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rates tor mailing The
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£an Antonto Express Special Newspaper
Train (service Inaugurated December 15,
1805) leaves International & tireat Nvrtti-
•rn Depot at 3:20 a. in. for Austin, Taylor,
Georgetown, Hearno and Intermediate
points. This tralu makes nil railroad con-
nections en route Arrives Austin t!:20
a. m.; Taylor, 8:33 a, m.; Hearne, 11:20
s, m. This Is tiie lougest run of a news-
paper special train in the entire South,
being 182 miles, and this train Is operated
solely for the benefit of The San Antonio
Express.
BIti CITIES OF TK\A8— CKMiSlS 1010.
SAN ANTONIO 9«,«14
Dallas 92,104
Houston 78
Fort Worth 73,:U2
question which must, of course, be set-; ber is increasing steadily.
tied according to law, but if he has ex- j Agitation for the establishment of
ceeded his authority in an effort to
benefit a large class of people, Con-
gress would do better to pass an act
ratifying his order than to rescind it.
COMPROMISING SUITS.
CIRCULATION BOOKS OPEN
TO ADVERTISERS
THE DUST NUISANCE.
Dr. King, City Health Officer, has
determined upon a campaign to allay
the dust evil which has been one of
the chief sources of complaint against
the city by citizens and visitors for the
fx*i few years.'
Dr. King's idea is that other cities
having overcome the dust nuisance
San ^ntonio should be able to do the
game thing, but not without a decided
improvement in the methods employed.
The present inadequate equipment
of the street cleaning department
must, he says, be supplanted by new
and modern machinery so that the
streets in the business districts may
be properly swept and flushed and he
recommends oiling of the thorough-
fares in the residence portftfflPof the
city. It will be much easier, ol course,
to keep the business th«f<Juj>J>f#es
clean and dustless after they have been
paved—and there is a pleasing pros-
pect that a general system of street
paving will soon be inaugurated in
San Antonio—but in the meantime
much desired relief could be had from
modern methods of street cleaning and
the application of an oil surfacing to
the roadways in the residence section.
The modern street cleaning apparatus
will be needed after the streets are
paved and might as well be brought
into requisition now as later.
There is hardly any way of estimat-
ing the amount of damage that is done
by the dust where it is permitted to
fly in clouds and obtrude itself into
the nostrils and lungs of the people
and Into the homes and business
houses which can find no possible
means of screening against it. Not
only is the dust damaging to the goods
ori the shelves and counters of the
merchant and to the furniture and ap-
purtenances of the householder an-1
the wearing apparel of the citizen, but
it is a menace to health and an all
round nuisance that ought to be abat-
ed, no matter what the effort mr.y
cost. It would be in the interest of
economy if a considerable sum of
money were expended in systematic
and well directed efforts to allay the
dust evil.
CHANGES IN THE PARCEL POST.
Whether the opposition of the Sen-
ate Committee on Postoffices to the
contemplated reduction in parcel post
rates and the proposed increase in the
size of packages that may be sent by
parcel post is really due to a well
grounded fear that such a change
would result in a serious loss to the
Government, or to other influences, the
public, of course, has no means of
knowing, but Inasmuch as it is con-
tended by the department that not only
is there no probability'of a loss, but
rather a probability of increased prof-
its, the public will be slow to share
the alarm the committee is manifesting.
Of course, while the parcel post is
in an experimental stage so far as
many details are concerned, and while
it has not settled down to such a basis
as may be expected to come with time,
It cannot be considered a profit-mak-
ing proposition, nor, for that matte;,
should it ever be so considered. Its
purpose should be to serve the inter-
ests of the people, but, of course, it
should be made self-supporting, the
fates being reduced as often as may
be consistent with judicious manage-
ment. If the parcel post is run at a
ton during th* first year it is operated,
In announcing his policy to compro-
mise suits to which the State may be
a party whenever it may be to the in-
terest of the people to do so, Attorney
General Looney declares that "an
amicable settlement of a case out of
court is a great deal better thsn to
fight the case."
It is assumed that the Attorney Gen-
eral meant to imply in this a protec-
tion of the interests of the parties as
well as amicability and the idea is In
accord with what may be called the un-
written law of lawyers. That is, it is
the rule among attorneys who care
more for the interests of their clients
than for ^ee$ which might accrue from
long continued suits which in the end
would be a loss to the winners, that a
t;ood compromise is always most desir-
able and infinitely preferable to liti-
gation that is, at best, of uncertain re-
sults.
Certainly this is a wise policy when
followed by an attorney who is able to
hold his own in a settlement and who
is honest enough to refuse to compro-
mise when by doing so he prejudices
the interests of his clients. A distin-
guished and conscientious jurist once
said it should be the duty of a lawyer
to keep his clients out of Igw suits
rather than to get them into tnetn, an
ideal theory', but impracticable when
men are anxious to rush into suits* re^
gardless of consequences, because if
one lawyer will not accept a bad base
someone less gcrupulous may be em-
ployed. However, without reference to
any particular suit the Attorney Gen-
eral may be engaged in, it may be said
that when a compromise can be made
which will involve no sacrifice of
principle or of a right and will involve
no loss of money to the State, it will
be wise to make it.
It is the policy of some lawyers to
bring suits with no other purpose in
view than a compromise to which they
expect to force the opposing side to
agree. An honorable lawyer will nof
do this, nor should an honorable client
expect it to be done.
In general, the policy announced by
Mr. Looney is a correct one and more
often than otherwise it will result .n
good to all parties to a suit. Certainly
it would be a bad policy for the State
to conduct expensive litigation through
several years when a reasonable com-
promise can be effected.
RED RIVER TO RIO GRANDE
With the completion of the Meridian
Highway from Winnipeg, Canada, to
Laredo, on the Rio Grande, the most
notable undertaking in public road
construction in this country, so far as
distance is concerned, will have been
accomplished, and it seems quite prob-
able that this work will be finished, if
not before the close of this year, at
least during the first half of 1914.
This highway has already been com-
pleted from Winnipeg south to the
north line of Kansas, so It is only nec-
essary for the States of Kansas, Okla-
homa and Texas to do their part in
order that there may be a continuous
highway from Canada to the Mexican
line, passing entirely through the
United States. Already some sections
have been completed in Texas, and
with the awakened interest manifested
in the construction of good roads, It
may be expected that all the work
necessary in Texas will be done
shortly.
The road will follow almost a direct
line, passing through the States of
North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebras-
ka, Kansas and Oklahoma, thence into
Tex«s and ending for the present, at
least, at the Mexican border, though it
Is planned ultimately to construct it
farther south into Mexico and on into
Central America. It will thus be an
international highway, linking together
the principal pplitical divisions of this
continent and facilitating travel for
millions of people,
So far as Texas t» concerned, this
public comfort stations in the city of
Pittsburg led to an investigation of the
number of such conveniences in other
cities and was followed by a municipal
bond issue from the proceeds of which
liberal provision was made for such
conveniences in the Smoky City.
Some time ago the architects of San
Antonio, referring to the needs of this
city, recommended, among other
things, the construction of public com-
fort stations, and the suggestion met
hearty approval from a number of
citizens, but not much has been said
about it since. San Ant«nio voters
have recently authorized a bond issue
of nearly half a million dollars for
permanent civic improvements speci-
fied in the call for the election. Per-
haps none of the money derived from
the sale of the bonds can be used for
any other than the specified purposes,
but with the general fund relieved of
the burden of taking care of the street
paving and other contemplated perma-
nent improvements, current revenues
may be sufficient to provide for a
number of minor improvements, hardly
less important than street paving and
extension of the sewer system, and
among these the public comfort sta-
tions may at least have honorable men-
tion.
The sanitary sewers are hardly
more essential to the preservation of
the public health and general clean-
liness than are some other contribu-
tory efforts, including a thorough
cleaning out of 'the river, and it may
be assumed that ill of thesb will have
merited attention as goon as the work
of" civic improvement has been got
Wflt under; way.
Referring to the insistence of cer-
tain jingoes and interested persons
upon immediate intervention, the St.
Louis Times says: "It seems increas-
ingly clear that President Wilson need
only stick to broad and general prin-
ciples—to the principles underlying
democratic government—and ignore
the pressure which does not come with
a clear title or a high motive, and he
will be able to steer clear of needless
difficulties." He seems to stick, all
right.
Of course Dr. Sun Yat Sen has a
perfect right to back that Chinese rev-
olution if he wants to, but it is hard
to understand how any set of men
could care to follow a man this kind
of weather who has a name with such
a first, syllable.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels says
the battleship fleet of the American
Navy probably will pass through the
Panama Canal next April. The battle-
ship Oregon may go through the canal
at least half a year in advance of that.
We are not quite sure what those
rebels in Southern China are fighting
about, but if it is because President
Yuan Shi Kai will not let them take
off their flannels, we don't blame them
for being mad.
Anyhow, it is some comfort to
Texans who use electric lights to re
fleet that they will not be compelled
to help pay back that $500,000 the oil
people have contributed to the State
Treasury.
It lj5 hoped none of those Texas leg
islators who want to deny the Gov-
ernor the right to appoint a temporary
Senator are influenced by a fear that
he might want to appoint himself,
It is presumed that only men who
are wearing three-for-a-quarter socks
are kicking because Anna Held pays
$5,000 for a pair of stockings.
Perhaps Mr. Henry is proceeding on
the theor> that people who inhabit that
Glass currency structure will not feel
like throwing stones at him.
The St. Louis girl who danced the
tango with a chimpanzee was carrying
the "monkey business" a little too far.
Now the question has arisen as to
w.ho put the balk in Balkans
demand Justice. They
led it last winter at Austin, when
the marital rights bill was before the
Legislature. They nr.. winning victories
In sister t^owraonwealths. Ther camiot
be side-tracked in Texas. Tbffir voices
cannot be stifled. Their aspirations can-
not be Masted or mildewed. The law-
makers of the Thirty-third Legislature,
whvn they renden-d women ineligible to
serve upon'any of the State's Institutional
hoards. Invited a deluge. The prediction
is made that It will come on schedule time
Law Restricts Texas Sportsman.
Austin Statesman: It may be of luterest
to the general public, certainly to men
who love field sports, to know that the
last session of Congress enacted a Federal
name 1b* The law divides the various
States of the Union into sones. Texas is
Included In sons No. 2. This Is tliu none
In which migratory birds pass all, or a
portion, of the winter This law will su-
percede in effect the State game laws.
That Is to say, wherever there Is « con-
flict between the laws of a Slate and this
Federal act the latter will control. I'nder
this new Federal law the open season for
ducks and geese is limited to a period
from October 1 to January ltl This will
give geese and dncks half of January,
February and March protection, where
heretofore there has been no closing sea-
son as to these birds. Halls heretofore
unprotected are under this act subject to
the hunters' marksmanship between Sep-
tember 1 and December 1. Woodcocks are
protected ail of the year except during
the month of December, As this blr<i
visits portions of Texas not earlier than
January, he is practically immune from
the Texas gunman. The season U closed
as to snipe and plover except between Sep-
tember 1 and December 16 Plover annual-
ly pass through Texas before September 1
and do not make their return visit until
March. Heuce, that bird is perpetually
protected so fur as Texas Is concerned,
under this law, certain snipe pass through
Texas In October und do not return until
February. Hence, there will be only a
little October shooting of snipe. Until
September 1, 1I>1S, the following birds are
absolutely protected: Bunfl-talled pigeons,
little brown cranes, whooping cranes, sand-
hill cranes, swans, curlew and all short
birds. A large number of .birde mav not
be shot at all, such aa bobolinks, catbirds,
chickadees, cuckoos, fly-catchers, groa-
beaks, humming birds, klnglnts. martins,
meadow larks, night hawk* (Including bull-
bats*. nuthatches, orlojet, robins, shrikes,
swallows, vlreoa, warblers, waxwlngs.
Wbippoorwilla, woodpeckers, wrens and all
periling birds which feed entirely or
chiefly on Insects.
Thn act also prohibits the shooting of
doves. No spring shouting la allowed un-
der this act, nor Is night shooting per-
mitted. Meadowlarks. commonly known as
field larks lu this Stale, are protected, it
Is contended that thev eat insects, atid
therefore are ti protection to the farmer.
In many sections of this State farmers
have found them a nuisance along about
corn-planting time.
It will appear upon casual considera-
tion that this Federal net will relieve tin
Legislature of Texas front passing any
laws relating to the protection of birds
This act will, unquestionably, as It 1*
Intended to do. help the farmer, but It
makes a big gap in He, State rlgliU doc-
trine. Thus, gradually Federal Jurisdic-
tion Is extended from time to ttine, and
will bo until the several States will bear
to the Federal Government about the same
relations that the respective counties bear
to the States. '
Household Words in Texas.
Waco News: Washington Post says that
'business men and working people never
get a chance to learn the laws of the land,
and even were the.v to do so their knowl-
edge probably would he made worthless
ot the next session of the Leglalatnre. The
greatest lawyers In the land do not pretend
to know even one-tenth of the laws. The
courts spend weeks trying to find out the
bearing of laws and amendments passed
by the Stales or by Congress." The Post
In commenting on an Interview reported
from Philadelphia in which Vice President
Marshall, second only to Mr. n»osevelt
among America's must Interviewed, said
that it would be well if American business
nien might forget Congress for the next
ten years—"expressing a thought similar
to that of James J. Hill who suggested
that Congress be abolished altogether for
ten years."
Localllzng this truth to Texas, we may
say business men nor lawyers nor editors,
nor even legislators who make and mar
our laws, know one-twentieth of the mass
of stuff 111 our statute books. Only the
"leading" laws are known to obtain: thn
opaque election law, the heaven-he-merelfu]
antitrust law, the Robert son-Fltzhugh
liquor regulations and, of course, the luter
variants und extensions of this, such as
the Allison bill: and the Sunday law. tit
course all know the criminal statutes re-
lating to the prominent and popular
crimes. We think even the correspondents
would be hard put to It to name twentv
civil- laws of general Importance passed In
the pnst decade, In Texas. But there Is
this difference In Texas In comparison
with some States: publlo-apirited Texans
do not want an opportunity to learn these
better-known laws, or even some of the
lesser, but to forget them. Hut this they
nre not permitted to do. The laws thev
know best may be termed "political" laws
chief among which, In point of political
cause of exercise arid enforcement, la the
anti-trust statnte. Thane statutes are be-
coming indispensable adjuncts to personal
political advancement In Texas, It would
seem. The State's business men and busi-
nesses are hit over the face with them
whenever a change In the political com-
plexion of the State seems tmmlnent They
are office-makers and campaign material.
Texas Is begging hard for n chance to for-
get these laws—which will mean a chance
for Texas.
auld be treated. The healing func-
tion the optometrists are compelled by law
to leave to the regilar oculists, and they
have no authority to do anything but pre-
scribe glasses and advise their patients If
thev mrd other treatment to (0 to an
oculist,
| If one who believes In thla new science
be asked If there really la a tWd for a
I man with such a comparatively narrow
specialty lu optometry, he replies that It
Is of the utmost Importance to a hmn who
has hit sight impaired to go to some<j)c
who haa roally studied the possible oe-
fecta of the eye. Oculists, he will Bay,
have only a few lectures on the fitting of
glasses, and often utake mistakes, while
the ordinary physician knows so little
abont It that he Is quite unreliable. Then
the optometrists assert that they have
made certain distinct advances In the
methods they use. Thus they have done
away with the dlstenston of the pupil by
belladouna or other drugs for purposes of
examination. This method, they say, be-
sides giving the patient much discomfort,
sometlinea brought on glaucoma, and the
fact that a method of examination without
dlstenalon, known as dynamic »ktametr>'«
has been discovered l" alone a diffident'
Justification for the new specialty.
It Is also hedged In by a number of
safeguards. No one under the State law
may set up as an optometrist unless he
baa had at leaat four years of g high
cuds a
require
practica
glasse*
actual \
One (
meetlui
id sur^.
In ph'
I totttru
"MOTHERS' PENSIONS."
an article In the Survey, Kdw
ie, chairman of tbe committee
nsarance of the American Asso
-.abor Legislation, an edito
Pf- th
rork 1
f the
at Newr
optU* and
taring at <
shortly bef
the profess
has wrlttei
rt I
tool of optometry's most
; was Prof. William Hal
recently fatally stricken
lectured on physiological
lychology and bad been lec-
u tub la ok these subjects only
e bo was seized. Another of
s is Dr. A. Jay Cross, who
•reral works on opt
mi.«nomer—
son« for bl
In the n
tem may h
that he d<
[ one oi
decries
>eustons
and adva
establishment
icb. he say*, is
•ome cojrMit'rf
jmarized In the statement
ot regard them as Mpen-
ions" at all, but rather as a modern and
iot at all admirable rarlatlon of the old
pauperisation.
Mr. i>evine advo
which, he says,
and «as the discoverer of tho method of RTst*m of poor reli«
examining eyes by dynamic skiametry. Dr. i ^pauperisation.
Frederic A. Woll Is an instructor in prac-
tice) work ami teaches his pupils with a
series of beautiful dissections of the eye.
which took him years of patient labor to
complete, and Charles F. Prentice and Dr.
Louis Welztulller are also on the staff aud
with the other three fought hard at Albany
to get the State's recognition of the new
science.
Last year Colnmbln graduated its first
class in optometry to the number of seven.
This year twenty won their diplomas, and
next rear, if none drop out. twenty-twd
will be the number. However, when a
student has passed hts university evaml-
natlons, ho still has to face a tent by the
State before he can begin to practice." Just
as in medicine or law, the State requires
that Its own schedule of qualifications be
satisfied.
In the entire country thirty-one States
have recognized optometry as a regular
profession. At present those opticians
short, a method
who have been established for years and
have really acquired a good deal of skill
by experience will be permitted to con-
tinue without disturbance and in the same
way oculists will for a time, at any rate,
continue to prescribe glasses. But the new
opticians will lw required to emplov op-
tometrists of their own or to content them-
selves with filling the prescription* of
optometrists, and the cheap stores In which
eyeglasses sre sold at ridiculously lo^v
prtres, and the public can ruin thels. eye-
sight at their own pleasure bv picking out
glasses for themselves will be compelled
to leave this branch of medical scleno to
those who have studied It «nd received
proper licenses to practice.
Chartering Icebergs in Atlantic
$$ VESSELS ENGAGED IN PATROL $$
Final Report of Captain Johnston
A THREE month*' jtam* of "tag" be-
tween vesnela of the 1,'nlted State*
revenue cutter eervlce and the Icebertra of
the North Atlantic steamship lanes, which
haa just been brought to an end,, has re-
sulted In contributionsi of great value to
the mariner's store of knowledge about Ice
movements and their dangers to the great
fleet constantly passing between Europo
und America. The Ice patrol Itself was
.1 dlreet tvault of the tremendous shock
" uropo and America In
liner Titanic, says the
MiffeietJjIyj both Eu
the low. the giant I
Chicago Tribune.
The' vessels engaged In the lee patrol
were the cutters Seneca and Miami, com-
manded by Captains c\ B. .lohnston and
A. s. Gamble respectively. Captain John-
ston was the senior officer In comnapd of
the ice patrol, and In his final report are
conclusions which ongbt to form the basis
of study by all commanders and navigators
»t bteuin vessels In the North Atlantic
shin lanes.
The procedure was for Ihe two vessels fn
take turns In scouring the ocean for Ice
In the waters bounded by the fiftieth and
forty-fourth parallels, north latitude, aud
Ihe fortieth and forty-ninth meridians of
west longitude. All passing vessels re
ported by wireless to the patrol vessels
inly Ice they had eneoontered In those wit
ters. while the vessels In turn transmitted
lo the naval hydrogranblc office at New
York dallv reports of all Ice either seen by
them or reported to them by othet1 vessels.
In a short time practically every berg In
thuse waters had been located, Identified
and 1U general movements ascertained.
Thereafter the task of the patrol vessels
was to cheek up on the known het*g9 a'
frequent lutervals, aud bv observation of
their position* at each sighting, to learn
the rate aud direction of their movemeuts.
It la this secondary phase of the patrol
that yielded the general observations of
greatest permanent value to maritime In
tcreata.
It was found that the Icelwrga were
brought south along the coast
foundland and the Orand Bank? **• what
toclal tnsnrance.
. . -tribute the bur-
dens of Its maintenance equitably upon all
portions of society »ud distribute Its bene
fits not as charity but as something earned
by the worker.—Chicago Inter-Ocean.
THE PERILS OE VACATION.
Great are these perlla, we ar»-h»|ormed
by medical men whose word' lias weight,
and care-free souls about to depurt for
sylvan retreats ought not to be toe* care-
less. The country U by no mean*? as In-
nocent as it look*, and should be ap-
proached with caution If not with abso-
lute suspb«i.»n. T!i»» mioss • overe.l bu.-ker
of romautlc memory and the cow brush-
ing files in the brook may he looked upon
with pleasure, but should never be trusted
too far. Deadly peril may lurk In the
water and the milk may not be pasteur-
ized. Our local health department has
already sent out many warnings, the latest
of which says that medical authorities ar»
Inclined to think that the summer and fall •
may rtud typhoid fever more prevalent
than in recent years. It urges vacationists
to be vaccinated, The Department <»f Agri-
culture likewise ndvises caution aud says
tluit resorters will do well to Insist upon
having their water boiled, Mimfciraklng
the country is hardly an agrtoable task,
but It seems to be necessary at tkis season.
—Chicago Record-Herald.
A LESSON FROM MARCONI.
William Marconi, who Is distinctly ol
the present age, looked at the sleetrlc chair
In Sing Sing, New York, the other day
and wid that It reminded him of the Six-
teenth Century. Marconi Is right. A ris
vice for the killing of men has no place in
the age of wireless telegraphy, of ad-
vanced surgery, of lmperators and -iero-
planes. Electricity, more than anything
else, has added to the material progress
of this age. It is putting It to a basf use
when It Is employed to take lives which
can never bo restored. ,,
Men, unfortunately, often desert^ ,j>un
lshiuent. They can be punished suoQ.uately
without '
Into a
with
for the benefit of mankind
Sunny Homes, published In Chicago, for a
very handsome complimentary notlee. The
Express will honestly endeavor to deserve
ull they say of It.
During his seven yesrs' service as col-
lector of the port of New York, General
Arthur, recentlv succeeded by Genenil Mcr-
rltt, collected in duties $705,882,836.04.
♦ -e ♦
Our experience this morning after 5
o'clock leads us to the opinion that the
bravest animal in existence Is the fly who
unhesitatingly attacks a creature many
thousand times his own size, no matter
bow many times he Is repulsed.
♦ e ♦
The Ilev. Mr. Richardson having left the
city for a few days there will be no serv*
lees In the cathedral of St. Mark's -today.
The Itev. Mr. Dunn at t»r. Moore's on
Houston Street will attend to sny special
services that may bo desired during Mr.
lilcbordson's absence.
Col. J. T. Thornton has returned from
Ills business tour abroad.
t ♦ ♦ ♦
Francisco Repulveda and Thomas O'Con-
nor of Laredo are visiting the city. We
wish the young gentlemen a pleasant time
while with us.
WHAT EXPRESS FILES
TELL OF YEARS AGO
Thirty-five Years Ago Today—im
Tort Clark, Tex., July 27.-A band of
Mexicans crossed the river last night near
Han Feline and fired about forty shots
MP the house of Jim Thomas, who went
out this morning to look for the trail and
was also fired at six or seven times.
♦ ♦ «•
Corn-fed Teiai steers sold yesterday In
■Kansas City at »2.flO01U5 per hundred,
lexas grass steers sold from $2.2802,TU.
♦ ♦ ♦
.The Dallas Commercial says: "But, oh,
If lievlne had only been nominated,
wonldnt San Antonio hsve rejoiced nnd
been glad I Another bull fight nnd a
whole week of glnddatorlal games would
have been ordered straightway."
♦ ♦ ♦
Tha Express returns thank) to NDell's
Any person knowing the whereabouts of
one fir. W. O. gneed and a Mrs. Adlock
will be kindly remembarad by communi-
cating the Information to the city editor
of this papef. • The parties are supposed
to be In this city or vicinity, "
Fifteen Yearn Agv Today—ISM.
When the news renched Honolulu yester-
day of the annexation by the United Males
of Hawaii there was great rejoicing and
preparations for a celebration to last sdv
ernl days wero Immediately begun.
♦ ♦ ♦
American soldiers In Cuba have a grow-
ing contempt for the Cuban allies. Ho
far. It has been ascertained, onlv seven
Cubans were wounded in all the fighting
around Saul|fgo,
♦ ♦ ♦
In answer to Governor Cnlberson's tele-
gram, Secretary Alger says General I.ee
lias been sent to Miami, Fla., to report on
the condition of the Texas troops and that
If he finds there Is an unusual amount of
sickness there, they will lie removed to
North Carolina.
♦ ♦ ♦
TCach wounded llough Illder was given sri
$.1 bank note yesterday by Instruction of
Colonel Roosevelt for minor expenses nnd
such little luxuries as they may desire.
The Colonel promised to give them more
If they needed It.
♦ ♦ ♦
On his return from his vacation, Mayor
Callaghiin Immediately took up plans for
the building of the Market House. Ho
far $20,000 has been already collected and
this, the Mayor thinks, Is enough to war-
rant an early beginning of the work of
construction.
♦ ♦ ♦
At Altalr, Tex., five convicts ou a convict
farm killed the night guard and made their
escape. Ho far they nave not been recap-
tured.
♦ ♦ ♦ —'
Hon. A. n. Storey and Miss Zulu Storey
of l,oekharl are stopping at th* Mahncke
for aevcril dayi.
southerly drift was fonnd to vary from
practically nothing to as high as thirty-
two miles a day, depending upon wind and
tide In itt fluctuations. At the Junction of
tho Labrador current, accelerated hy (!»»
flow from the Gulf of Bl. I.awrtmee, and1
th# ttortbwnrd moving gulf ctrerna the
direction of the drift of Icebergs Is
changed from southerly to north auii east.
Tho gulf stream Is more powerful than
the Labrador current, taking along-.In
course whatever Ice may be brought Into
It. This change usually occurs fn April
and May, and those months become tneti
tho period of greatest danger to trans
atlantle liners from lee. The tracks of the
liners hardly touch the Labrador current,
but do lie along the path of the gulf
si ream. The urea of Ihe Ice danger Is at
the same tltne restricted, because bergs
comlne Into the gulf stream do not last
long in the warm water of that current.
Many of the Icebergs In the southward
drift become grounded on Ihe Grand
Ilanks. It Is those which continue south
parallel to und beyond the banks which
threaten the safety of the ocean steamers.
Captain Johnston said that the largest
berg that was encountered was about 400
feet long, 300 feet wide, seventy feet high
out of water. The smallest was 225 feet
long, 100 feet wide and thirty-five feet out
of water.
Captain Johnston estimated the rate of
deterioration of Icebergs floatlus: In the
gulf stream at about 5 per cent a day
Captain Johnston fonnd Ice to be visible
In clear daylight, under most favorable
conditions and from the highest point on
board ship, at a distance of eighteen miles.
From the bridge on clear days lee enn bo
sighted, he aays, at from twelve to fifteen
miles. Fogs exist In the Iceberg regions
from 30 to 60 per cent rtf the time In the
spring months, and Captain Johnston
found that In light fog a berg might bo
seen two miles distant, and in dense fog
only 200 yards distant. Even In daj-tlme,
therefore, considerations of safety (hould
require every commander to run with ex-
treme care when In a fog In the Ice region
In moonlight Icebergs were vlstbh? two
nnd a half miles distant; in starllgnt one
mile with the naked eye and two miles
with glasses. On nights dark aud over-
cast bergs were sighted only at a dlitauce
of half a mile, and then with glasses. It
Is only on dark nights that the Icebergs
loom up iis a dark object; on clear nights
they appear as bright spots In the distance.
At the Titanic Investigation tho lookout
testified that he had not received his reg-
ular glasses for his watch In the crow's
nest. According to Captain Johnston the
use of glasses at night doubles the dis-
tance at which an Iceberg can be sighted,
though officers of the Titanic insisted that
glasses were a hindrance In endcgvorlng to
sight Icebergs.
Equally Interesting nre Captain John-
ston's observations about the KfectlVeness
of searchlights. Captain Johnston found
thft searchlight was of considerable as
■Istance. With It he picked up an Iceberg
at a distance nf three miles on a dimly
moonlight night, and at two tulles after
the moon had set.
He found that while It was useless for
the observer to stand under or behind the
searchlight beam, If the observer stood fif-
teen feet or mere at one side of the beam
the ray was of material assistance. He
alao found that the ray must be contracted
"to a fine point If a nearby Iceberg la to be
seen In the searchlight, as a flaring beam
only blinds the observer. Captain John-
ston, adds, however, that because of the
blinding effect of u searchlight be could
not recommond Its general use for a ve»-
sel under way. The remedv lies rather,
he maintain!, In vessels going so slowly
on dark and foggy nights as to be able to
maneuver within the limit of visibility of
an Iceberg, whether It be 200 yards or two
miles.
During and after the Titanic Investiga-
tion It was maintained that the water In
the, immediate vicinity of an Iceberg Is
always'colder than that of the water more
distant. Captain Johnston denies this ab-
solutely and reports that not until within
a ship s length of icebergs did be ever
find any change In the temperature due to
the presence of the ice. The waters In
which the Icebergs usually are encountered
are of most variable temperatures and
streaky, so that andden changes of tem-
perature are frequently encountered with-
out any Iceberg being wllhln a hundred
miles.
The echo theory Cnptnln Johnston found
equally fallacious. Homo Icebergs give
forth echoes tnd «om# do not. The exist-
ence of the echo, he says, depends upon
whether the berg haa straight, or slanting
sides. Ninety per cent of Captain .1ohn-
ston's attempts to get echoes from bergs
were wholly without reiult.
killing them.
hair and but
that migtii
of mankind i'» ni|
cruel and unnecessary, hut fttfpbV Si
St rapping ji, mail
and burning him ,(». dfntli
a current thut might lie employed
' " 'nor. onlv
.. .pH M,iell
We can lay no claim to real arnu^pji so
long aa we kill people, either deliberately
on the gallows und In the electric chair,
or Illegally by adulterated food and erlinl
nallj negligent railroad management.—
Loh Angeles Examiner.
TOO tHRlFTY.
It may be donhted whether Mr. Carne-
gie's admiration for the traditional Scot- ^
tlsh virtue of thrift will go so far as to
approve the attitude of the thrifty cltlsens
of Perry,^Okla. Oi\.petition from the elti-
seus and Officers of tnis city of ,1,1 popu-
lation, Mr. Carnegie was induced to donate
$10,060' for a public library there. When
the bulkllrii; was erected, however, the
City Council prepared to move In with the
Intention of making It the city hall t»ud
establishing therein not onlv the council
chamber but the offlees of the Mayor,
clerk, police Judge and other municipal
officers, and, moreover, renting some space .
that was left for commercial purposes. A \
library association that had been mainly
Instrumental in securing the gift applied to
court for a restraining order and the Hu-
preme Court of Oklahoma has Just granted
a perpetual Injunction agahist the econom-
ical rerryltes.
The Laird seems to have been too gen-
erous to Perry and the trouble was that il
was overcome b,v the munificence of the
gift. It may not have been exactly cast-
ing pearls before swine, but it did savor of
wishers becoming horses. &tlU, the need
for a llbrarv lu Perry Is oJjjvl^U/s.— PlttJ*
burg Dinputch. .rrul o,
AN EVER STEADYING iNftti.tNCE.
Woman In these times Is fWHWBg i
larger measure of publicity thaa('t|ic ju-
dicious, either In her own sex or to tho
other, deem It wise that she shouljf'iave
Publicity Is the word used, uot recogni-
tion. With reference to her and to her
affairs the ordinary rules of dlscrlmlna
tlon are frequently Ignored and she Is
described, criticised or ridiculed collec.
tlvely rather than Individually. In I be
treatment she Is too often accorded, the
specific Is lost In the general. If Infer
euce were drawn from the common recital
of incidents to which she la related as ■'
person, the result would he the bringing
of unmerited reflection upon an entire sex.
Nothing could be more unjust, more ab-
surd.
Amid all the tumult of Ihe hour, where.
In fact, Is the average womanV Where
she has alwaya been. Her sphere, her em-
ployment, her vocations, her duties are un-
affected by the world's unrest. Her Inter-
ests, as from the beginning of history, run
parallel with her affectlona. Her concern
for education, culture, social advancement,
political enfranchisement, may have been
sharpened In these later years, but by rea-
son of this her concern for the conserva-
tion of ber dignity has not been dulled.
This Is but u passing, aa well ns an un-
worthy furore over woman, aa such. A»
such, woman In tlio average wields no
lesser power for good today than she ha»
nt any time In the past. Spinster, wife
or mother, she Is a steadying and exalting
~ "
Science Monitor.
Influence In ihe world's affaire.'—Christian
PURISM IN SPEECH.
Leila Hprague Learned appear* lu de-
fense of purism In speech =111 the Atlantic,
usiurlng us that we "need a br a
Drydeu to erect danger signals along the
rocky road of speech as warnings to ihose
who think if safer lo sin with the elect
{authors of renown} than to be rlghltoua
with the purist." She thinks we are drift
lug rather far when such an authority as
T'rof. Carpenter of Columbia defends "It
Is ine" fts an idiomatic colloquial expres-
sion "used without hesitation by tho mass
of the people and shunned only by the fas-
tldlous," nnd sees no rensoti why we should
condemn absolutely th* plural pronoun In
such sentences as: "Everyone here inky ask
me any question* they choose." Prof.
Lounebury, too, that doughty apostle of
liberalism In speech, comes In for' gentle
reproof, aud the author culls front his
book, "Tho Standard of Usttge," cerium
expressions wli'ch she "presumes" fo cor-
rect: "The process Is liable (likely) to take
place In tho future." "How lame It would
have been to have used (fo uie), etc."
"Snch a deslrnblo (so desirable a) result."
"The opposition to new forms Is apt (like-
ly) to assume, etc." Prof. Lounshtlry will
not be dismayed; he lias long kuotvn that
the purists bore him a grudge both for
precept and example. He Is one pf tho,.e
merry, Irresponsible souls who prefer to
sin with the great and do bo with a clear
conscience. He won't ndmlt that language
can bo made as exact ns srlthmetlc, nnd lit
nlways vulues spontaneity abo^a gc'cufaef
He wants speech to bo abovs all (itrt ap t
expressive, and If the grammarians 9t>J#rd.
so much the worse for them. Moreover he
knows the best of authors fcave not Wi.i
above their occasional slips. The tuoral 1m
obvious; correctness enn be purchased at
too greal a price, ns some of liie gram
inarlans slinw us wlteu tlicf wrile. -Chloi
go ltecord-lioruld.
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