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THE «?AN ANTONIO DAILY EXPRFSS
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FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 5, 1910.
®l)c Dmln-Cxprcss.
Entered in the Poatoffle.' at San Antonio, Texaa,
as Second class Matter.
By Tiie Kxprt'ss Publishing Company.
TELEPHONES.
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BuMneas Office
Editorial Offices
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LOCAL PARTY NOMINATIONS.
Governor Campbell recommends the
| amendment of section 120 of the
' election law relating to the nomination
of candidates by political parties and
LET'S LEARN TO LAUGH.
Every few days there accompanies
the report of a Democratic or Repub-
lican primary a brief paragraph to the
effect that some obscure person of
THE GERMAN ADVANCES
I A Militant and Ambitious Nation
BY FREDEKIC J. llASKIN.
San Antonio h
Music Hungry
AGENTS AND CORItESi'ONDFNTS
New York Office—Room t'<-'S, 150 Nnsxin [
regulations by which county candidates I some place was shot during a quarrel
! may be nominated. j °ver the issues of the campaign.
It is not so nominated in the bond,! The candidates long since ceased to
but, possibly, it might be so arranged settle the difficulty in this manner,
(Street; John P. Smart, manage. j * ' ' ° ~ j , , , ^, ... , ,
m, d. c.—ltobiTt m. Gates, Boom that there would be no necessity for i although they once did so with such |
Washington,
auhTiii,^r'ex11 irorfp wavcricy Brigc . party nominations for county offices.
' '' , In the recent Democratic primary in
Bur«aArmstror^t BoiInok 11 thirtppoth «r«S! ^xar County many Democrats re-
near biutbctb. s a. rt|.es in fb»rgc. ] frained from taking part who would
Laredo, Tex.—Laredo-Cotulla Publicity Bureau, 1
Hamilton lioiei. ,i i cninbe in rbnrge. | have been glad to express their choice
Traveling Agcoti—W. 11. McConnell, " 1 |
payne, c. m. Sever. j as between the candidates for btate
offices, but who did not wish to tie
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A LESSON IN POLITICS.
Theodore Roosevelt is again on one
of his spectacular expeditions, the
purpose of which no one knows. He
is meeting the coal miners and silk
mill workers personally and talking
over the situation with them in their
own parlors, or perhaps in their din-
ing-rooms and kitchens, anyway, he
is talking to them. Theodore Roose-
themselves up by a definite pledge as
to county offices. They preferred to
be free to exercise their choice as to
local officers without any regard to
their party fol'owing. The idea is,
apparently, that it does not make any
startling regularity that politics as a
field of endeavor was about as con-
ducive to longevity as aviation now}
seems to be. Along with the new view- j
point, which resulted in a curtailment
of the consumption of ammunition by
the candidates, there came a greater j
tendency on the part of the mass of
the people to regard the other fellow
charitably.
But even now that charity seems
not to drop like the gentle rain from
heaven. Its quality seems still to be
particular difference what may be the j strained, and sometimes the strain be-!
views of the candidate for Sheriff or monies too severe. Complete and cheer-
Constable or County Surveyor, for ex-j tolerance will come only uith a;
ample, on the tariff, the Federal in-
come tax or free raw materials, but it
is a matter of considerable importance
whether he will make a good officer
and give faithful service.
If the machine controls in the matter
of State nominations in one locality it
may be overcome in another and prac
sense of humor.
It is quite evident that a man can
walk along a sidewalk faster than he
can crawl. Therefore, if someone were
to explain that he was quite sure the
better way is to crawl, and were te>
proceed to crawl with resulting damage
to trousers, cuffs and dignity it would
tically even up on the whole, but if the rather amusing. It could not be
machine controls in the nomination of otherwise. Imagine, if you can, a man
a l<*al ticket and a majority of the crawling along Houston Street in even
voters are so tied up by party pledges ; 'nE clothes and seriously explaining
velt has been so well known as colonel i ,jlat must accept the machine to his friends that he was quite sure |
of the Rough Riders and in politics as tjcke( whether they like it or not there
wieicter of the big stick that not a great
many persons realized before his
triumphal procession through Europe
that he is a scholarly and very well
educated man. He has one distinction,
however, from the scholar. He is
is not much chance of getting from
under the grinding power of the ma-
chine.
It is well enough, perhaps, for the
State Ho designate the manner
in which State officers shall be
chiefly interested in the ui fairs of this chosen, whether by convention or
day. Without perspective and means by primary) but in behalf of
for comparison we cannot say that any-, ]oca] self-government may it not
thing which exists today is right or be suggested that the county
wrong, bad or good, nor why it is should be left free to settle the matter
wrong nor what should be done to
change it. The gathering of this in-
formation as to what has been done is
rather a large task, because humanity
has been piling up painful experience
for a great many years.
But most of those who gather it have
a most unfortunate way of stopping
somewhere along the roadside and de-
lighting the mind's eye with a bit of
Egyptian or Roman scenery and for-
getting the present.
of choosing its local officers in its
own way without having them mixed
up with State politics?
Is it either necessary or advisable
to have party nominations for local
officers in the administration where
there is no party question involved?
The young woman who captured a
burglar probably had never thought of
becoming a heroine in that role. It
was one of those fortuitous happenings
Armed with his! that just happen, but that, neverthe-
enormous fund of information gathered . 'ess> indicates coolness and courage.
through acquaintance with history and j A great many visitors from San An-
philosophy, Theodore Roosevelt talks j tonio will go out to the military camp
he had the better way. Why not apply
the same principles to politics? The1
incongruities of its mistaken theories, ■
the palpable appeals to narrow preju-1
dices, the introduction of impossible
and irrelevant ideas are in the last |
analysis very funny. And when the
people take them up seriously in an
attempt to solve the various and seri-
ous National issues they are in very
much the position of the man whose
trousers, cuffs and dignity are suffer-
ing.
After all, the world is growing bet-
ter. The only remarkable thing is that
the man who crawls insists upon
crawling ten or twelve blocks when it
ought to be evident to him after the
first block that he isn't making much
progress. Men who crawl, however,
have an unenlightening way of look-
ing down and don't readily notice that
those who are walking get along faster.
That is why they think the fellow who
walked cheated when they find him at
the end of the course.
The saving sense of humor seems
to the people. The difference between I at Leon Springs as soon as enough ! to save very few. However, humor
John Smith talking to the people and j ra'n ^as fallen '° 'ay the dust. There ; js no easy thing to acquire. It is
is jfopejhat this may be before the j the sum and substance of atl knowl.
edge and all philosophy. It is chiefly
Theodore Roosevelt talking to the peo-
ple is that Roosevelt gathers more in-
formation from what they say.
This has been his modus operandi
through all his political career. He
has been forever avoiding the other
leaders and the organization to go di-
rectly to the people. He is powerful
today because
end of the week.
SAFER AIR FLIGHTS.
Another aeronaut of international
note has lost his life through an acci-
dent to his machine. High up in the
air something broke and the air craft
a sense of proportion. If one hasn't
a good sense of proportion he would
be likely to mistake a Cartoon for
second-rate art work For centuries
the world has been striving toward a
sense of humor. It is today dragging
he is close to the people. | cras'led 10 ,he ground and buried him | along prejudices, jealousies, petty
beneath the ruins
This air navigator had made many
daring and successful flights and had
won distinction in several aviation
fields. It was not carelessness or in-
| experience that caused the disaster nor
" '"7 ' r, ' . ,... , ., j"any fault of his own. He was caught
They wonder what the public will think i b
„ . , ,f „ ,. , in a squall high up in the air and his
of some speech, borne ot them find: .. B _
they have become famous over a
In reality his big stick consists of
nothing more than the ability to hit a
popular chord with the greatest facility.
Public men are always trying to do
that. They sit up nights figuring out
how to accomplish that desired result.
machine upset and tumbled to the
speech which they had not thought of j 8™und with such suddeness that he
find that a | had n0 ,ime t0 r'eht '' |
•Unfortunately for the popularity of
particularly, and more find that a
palpable appeal to public favor falls. , ....
. . ,, .1 • jiff „ i.io .u alr navigation, distressing accidents to
flat. But in all their difficulties thev b ' "
. . | aviators have become altogether too
forever forget to go among the plain ! , b
, , ,i . .. ti . i numerous at a time when it was hoped
people and talk to them. They forget I r
, . I air navigation had become compara-
to ask questions. , , . ,,
j tively safe. Everything goes on well
The mass of the people have a power enough> apparently) unti, somet,ling
is awe-inspiring, 't can be „. o
prides and half a dozen other shackles
which will drop when a sense of humor
is acquired and it becomes clear to
men that if they but love their neigh-
bors as themselves that about solves
the question, and some 50,000 or more
other laws can be relegated to limbo.
Now isn't it really funny to think
that the world is fairly burdened down
ith laws when nearly everyone has
had it clearly explained just why one
law will do and really admits it to him-
self? Of course, it is. So is every-
thing else that is out of proportion.
And so many things are out of propor-
tion thai- life is \ua filled with material
for good, kindly humor.
BERLIN, Aug. l-Tho German empire
Is a militant nation, ambitious and
unafraid, advancing swiftly tcuard its
goal of world supremacy. It is the ambi-
tion of the German state, of tho German
emperor, und of every German to mako
tho German empire what Rome was and
what Britain is. Germany is a military
state, but it Is even more an industrial
state. Germany is the nation uf dream-
ers, but it is even more a nat -u of doers.
The Germans are philosophical, but they
are even more practical. Germany la
tho heir of all the ages In it.s wealth of
ancient story and tradition, but it is fore-
most in the files of time as the youngest
of the great nations of tho world. The
German people are older than any" people
of the western world, the German empire
is the youngest state among the Occi-
dental powers.
The German people, on« in language
and instinet but divided in political alle-,
glance, were welded into a nation by tho
Iron Chancellor Blsmark In the five
years between lSliG and JS71. The empire
became possible in 1866; it was inevitable
in 1871. In this great work the modern
Vulcan took up tho broken bonds of the
ancient holy ltoman empire, heated the
chains white-hot in the fire kindled by
Frederick the Great, and welded them
anew with the trip-hammer of tho mod-
ern age of machines. The empire pro-
claimed at Versailles nearly forty years
ago has justified its existence as an ef-
ficient governmental machine, representa-
tive of a united nation and a homogene-
ous people.
♦ ♦ ♦
So successful has been its remarkable
program of progress that all Europe now
fears and distrusts the German empire.
In the last two years the world has seen
the British empire, the greatest power on
earth, pailic-stricken because of the men-
acing growth of the Teutonic empire. But
England is not alone In its fear of the
G' .mans. The system of alliances and
understandings built up by the late King
Edward between England and several
continental nations was due quite as
much to tlie common distrust of William
II as it was to the diplomatic ability of
Eilward VII.
Holland and Belgium fear Germany be-
cause they see the Germans building up
a great navy and a greater merchant ma-
rine, while having but a few third-class
ports. Belgium and Holland have the
ports which Germany needs, and the
low countries control tho mouth of the
Rhine, which is the chief artery of Ger-
man commerce. Germany needs the low
countries and in the course of time will
have them if it can get them, it is the
British navy in fact which protects the
Belgium and Dutch frontiers from the
German legions. The rejoicing in Holland
a little more than a year ago because of
the birth of an heiress to the throne was
remarkable because it was a popular
demonstration of the general fear of Ger-
man conquest.
♦ ♦ ♦
Austria, with its complex dual mon-
arch) anfl its conglomerate population of
antagonistic races, may not be said to
have a truly national feeling, but so far
as the national consciousness extends
Austria must fear the great German em-
pire. German-speaking Austria is the
only part oi the German world still out-
side the German empire. Although the
two empires now work together, religious
questions make them potential enemies
and Austria, remembering its experience
of a half century ago, will not do other-
wise than as Berlin directs.
Italy, although nominally true to tho
compact of tho Driebund, hates Austria
with the hate of an age-long feud, and is
continually more suspicious of Germany
as Germany shows more and more a
disposition to back up Austrian claims
fur territorial aggrandizement. In the
height of the war panic in England, tho
English confidently relied upon the sym-
pathy of Italy.
France has not forgotten the lesson of
1870. It hates Germany, but It is still
afraid it is enraptured with its alliance
with its ancient enemy, perfidious Albion,
and depends largely upon the superior
strength of the English navy to stay the
appetite of the detested Germans. Ger-
many only yesterday finished spending
the French billions which it collected as
indemnity after the tragedy of 1S70.
France is prosperous, and its peasants
have other milliards to tempt the cupidity
of the Germans. The French know this,
and France fears the German advance.
♦ ♦ ♦
Russia, once the Germans' piost power-
ful ally, feels that the German Emperor
was too much responsible for forcing the
issue of a war with Japan which resulted
Editor Express: Yof? editorial "San
i Antonio Music Hungry/ bits the nail on
In crippling the Muscovite bear to the the head. Voluntary ottering* by various
extent that tho Czar has ben forced to j bunds should not 1>p depended upon for
take orders from Berlin as to his >li v ; the supplying of this want. Id the first
in the Halkan States, where St. Peters-1 place, it is an Imposition upon the bunds,
burg always has claimed a dominating Bands are not organized for charitable
influence. Russia's problems are in the ! purposes. They should not be asked to
Far Cast, on the Pacific seaboard, and donate their stock in trade. Moreover if
while not playing a conspicuous role in
the drama of European politics, it is cer-
tain that Russia also tears Germany.
Japan, another modern and synthetic
mpire, Is bound up hard and fast with
tho people of Snn Antonio need music
they can afford to pay for it. This should
be done by the city. In most municipali-
ties of the size of San Antonio, hands are
........v, ,»%»..uf ....... P"l(l for concerts in the different parks.
Great Britain in a general alliance, and , Tills is the case in Kansas City, Mimic
apolls and Milwaukee. In addition, bauds
are hired by the street railway companies.
In Minneapolis bauds play twice a day
at Lake Ilaniet and are paid by the street
railway company. Fifteen years ngo I
heard Gilmore's band at Lake Ilaniet.
Banda Rossa played there two summers.
Many other famous organizations have
played engagements there.
But In your beautiful Snn Antonio there
is nothing. There should be band con-
certs in Alamo Plaza three times a week
throughout the summer. There should be
, - . , , .I occasional concerts at different oortlons
remembers Admiral I lewey s unpl"asant | of ,v|lerever there u ,[
eiKountei with Admiral Dieiluchs in stand, f" some respects San Antonio is
Manila Bay. Naval officers, whose busl-1 ,v. v behind the other cities of the same
ncss it is always to suspect tho existence | obiss. In nothing Is she so provincial us
ut a war Just beyond the crest of every j in her uttpr fai)ure to provllit, fll. tll0
wave, were discreetly or Indiscreetly dis- amusement of her people.
cussing German-American relations all How niunv public playgrounds has she
the lime until the Japanese school quarrel for i,,.t- children? You are discussing the
San Francisco furnished them with problem of hlldren In the streets, "let
with its erstwhile enemy Hussla. in an
agreement for the spoliation of Man-
churia. Japan is afraid of but one thing—
that Germany and the United States will
take a determined stand to protect China
and therefore block the Japanese game
of continental Asiatic empire.
Even the United States, but recently
became a conscious (actor in world poli-
tics, has been the victim oi a German
war scare. At tiie time of the Spanish
war, German public sentiment was pro-
nouncedly anti-American, and everybody
T
EIF TIRED BUS-
INESS MAN
Tells Friend V ife a Few of the
Things One Fort;et.s on
a Vacation.
BY WALTER A. SINCLAIR
6iW l:LL" 6ai<1 friend Wife, aftei
** greetings, "did you—"
"Certainly," replied the Tired
Business Man. "Cetrainly I forgot to
take the bird out to a board birdlng
house—I mean a bird boarding house.
Of course, I left it in the flat to enjoy
my vacation. Of course, I forgot to turn
out the cut and when I came away she
was creeping speculatively toward Dickie.
Of course, 1 forgot to water the window
box and when I left the flowers had all
been overrun and choked by summer
widower's weeds.
"Yes. I'm positive that I left the gas
turned out in the kitchen range broiler.
Of course, I Can't be sure that I attended
to that but something seems to tell me
that when I get back the meter will be
a new bogle. An American admiral sang i them some playgrounds. Give theni some-
a song which reflected upon the Kaiser,
and at the time of the Venezuela Inci-
dent it was a rare day when there was
not u new rumor of some German scheme
for the destruction of the Monroe Doc-
trine and the conquest o( South Ameri-
can territory.
thing to do and you won't have to keep
them off the streets. They will stny off.
Are there no places nn the San Antonio
Ittver suitable for bathing? Why not pro-
vide hath houses where these children of
the streets can go swimming?
And it is the duty of the city to pro-
vide these things. The expense would he
small and of no consequence whatever
when the good that would result is con-
sidered.
MILTON SHAXG.
San Antonio, Tex,, Aug. ,\
The German government has courted
most assiduously the favor and good will
of the American Republic. Prince Henry
touted the Slates; a German ambassador
with an American wife played tennis with
the strenuous President; and another Ger-
man ambassador also with an American
wife, in a speech at Philadelphia prac-
tically subscribed to the principles of the j (San Antonio Daily Express, Aug. 5, 1870.)
Monroe Doctrine. There was a flurry in At the hist council meetings the Mayor
diplomatic circles a few weeks ago when \ was authorized to enforce proper measures
FORTY YEARS AGO TODAY.
tho text of the Kaiser's letter to his
"great and good friend," President Mad-
riz of '<tsicarugua, was made public, but
on the whole the United States has ceased
to be very much alarmed by the German
war lord.
Not since Waterloo have all nations
of the world looked upon one power with
so much suspicion. The German army,
tiie most powerful on earth, and the Ger-
man navy, so rapidly increasing in
power, disturb the sleep of the diplo-
matists of all the non-German world. And
yet, since tho empire was established, tiie
German army has not fought a battle
and tho German navy has not fired a
gun.
The German advance thus far is not a
military movement. It is not a campaign
for conquest of territory. It is not a
movement lor mere political aggrandize-
ment. It is something more than nil
these. It aims at something more than
Home ever did. It purposes something
greater than Britain has accomplished.
The German advance is a deliberately
planned economic campaign in which tlie
military forces of the empire are used
for protection of German interests and
not for threatening the safety of other
nations. Its aim is to make Germany
commercially and industrially the su-
preme nation of the world, its purpose
is to abolish poverty and to make the
German people the most prosperous peo-
ple on earth. Its endeavor is to claim
every drop of German blood and every
energy of German body and mind for the
German state, and therefore to make
tlita state supreme in the moral, as well
as in the economic and political sphere.
♦ ♦ ♦
Many years ago the great Blsmark
summed up the German imperial spirit
in these words: "Up to the year
IMG we pursued a Prusso-German
policy. From 1866 to 1870 we pur-
sued a German-European policy. Since
then we have pursued a world
policy. In discounting future events, wo
must also take note of the United States,
who will become in matters economic,
and perhaps in matters political as well,
a much greater danger than most people
imagine. The war of the future will be
the economic war, the struggle for ex-
istence on the largest scale. May my
successor always bear this in mind and
always take care that Germany will be
prepared when this battle has to be
fought."
Bismarck's successor was not a chan-
cellor, but a Kaiser, and there is as yet
no reason to believ that be has not done
everything humanly possible to prepare
his empire for that great economic war.
Tomorrow: The (iermau Advance.
II—The (ionium Nu\ul PolLy.
to compel certain property owners on
Bowie Street to move tliolr fences.
♦ ♦
In n communication to the St. Louis
WestlHw Post, forty young Germans <>f
Kansas City complain of a want of yo ing
women at the latter place and Invite mar-
riageable. especially German women to
come there i remising to marry them right
off.
♦ ♦ ♦
The streets need new pavements and to
be nicely macadamized. We alsw hope
"DISHES."
creaking dismally and the stove will bo
burned to a crisp. There is a chance, of
course, that the janitor or the neighbors
w ill break In, because I couldn't make* up
not
i til
style to display goods by thrusting then I 0f c'ourse' if 1 was pnough to
into the street, but must lie done with
see show windows take the place uf 'rheap , mjnd 'tl w h ' wUoth(.r or ,
».!! » .1 ni.."ftl'lan/l'!!K t". <S' 1 had left the water running in the bi
pants outside the doors. It Is quite the nf ,, , „,ao
which is awe-inspiring
measured by no device which this
century knows. But it seems forever
to rend and tear itself. It is like the
chaos, which scientific men tell us
reigned before the sun an t earth were
formed. But when its motives are
discovered it breaks forth under a di-
recting hand and manifests itself
In his latest message to the Legis-
lature Governor Campbell recommends
gives way and then the air craft, no | legislation to amend and strengthen
longer under control, turns turtle and ; the statutes regulating the granting of
is precipiiated to earth.
Accidents are liable to happen any-
where, at any time, of course, and can-
not always be provided against, either
on land or sea or in the air. The
dangers, however, must be minimized
as far as possible. The frail boat on
liquor licenses and other legislation
relative to the liquor traffic, and there-
upon a flood of bills are introduced to
swat the open saloon. Nofr the puzzle
is to find the date of adjournment of
the special session.
clearly. Mr. Roosevelt has not been a the wa(er may fce upset fey #
marked success id obtaining the things j ,hat WQuld har(}ly affec| a s(auncher
craft. The passenger steamships carry J
life preservers as a protection against
for which he fought. President Taft,1
who does not seem to be popular, has
gone about the work discovered by
Theodore Roosevelt much better than
did Theodore Roosevelt. But Roose-
velt id undoubtedly more popular. It
Is because he discovered what the
mass of the people wanted
The public men of this country who
so often appeal "to this intelligent
audience" are susDected of not saying
that word intelligent sincerely. They
often doubt the advisability of taking
the public into their confidence be-
cause sometimes when thev try it they
fail. It is because they are not close
enough to the plain people. The plain
Ethel Clare Leneve is so good look-
ing that most of us are quite willing
to believe that she is entirely innocent
of any part in the crime with which
her companion is charged.
the loss of life at sea when the ship
goes down and is swallowed up by the
waves. The balloonist provides him-
self with a parachute, by the aid of
which he can descend gradually and
safely when he quits the big gas bag.
The railroads have adopted numerous
safety appliances, the use of which
has greatly reduced the dangers of ac-
cidents and mishaps.
There is no question that in time the
aeroplane will be made safer by some
sort of device which will prevent it
from losing its balance and dropping
The standpatters appear to have
made a clean sweep in Oklahoma and
so, also, the grandfather clause. They
seem to be a queer lot in Oklahoma.
By all means let us have the open
air concerts and let the music be of a
quality to educate the public taste,
rather than of the rag-time variety.
The Iowa Republicans have put a
veto on the suggestion that the Payne-
Aldrich tariff bill is "the best ever."
, , ,. . , | precipitately to the ground when any-
people hew out h'.story with a meat! ., ... ..
' K I thing goes wrong with the machinery.
A retired army officer in San An-
tonio thinks he has solved the problem
of keeping the air craft so evenly bal-
anced by an automatic arrangement
ax, but they hew it, and the sooner i
more public men adopt the policy of
getting close to 'he people the more '
rapidly history and statesmen will be
made in this country. The power is
here, it lacks directing hands.
that it cannot turn over, and, in case
of accident aloft, It would descend as
gradually as a parachute. The demon-
strated effectiveness of such a device
Mr. Loudermilk is elected president
of the Texas Farmers' Union. Excel-
lent! Now if it had been followed , wouid make air navigation safe enough
with Mr. Noisypigs for vice president
and Blatantalfalfa for secretary, but
then louder milk without a chalk dust
accompaniment helps.
to popularize it with persons who are
not sufficiently adventurous to risk it
now.
Paw.
It's funny how Paw changes
When lie's up town, on the Job.
I alius take his dinner
An' he's silent as a lob
When the others is a talkin'.
But he's wise as wise can he
When he's layin' 'round home talkin',
Talkin' just to Maw an' me.
It's funny how Paw changes
When my Grnu' ljaw comes ter see
Us an' stiiys all day ter supper.
Paw's as silent as can be
'Bout anything important:
Hut, when tli' nlnt nobody there
But .Maw an' me, you orter
Ilear him brighten up au' swear.
It's funny how Paw changes
When Maw's mother—(iran'niaw—come*.
Paw says he's In renl torture,
'Zif hung up by tlier tbnm's.
He Koes out by the woodshed
An' says—but, hully gee!
You orter hear Paw talkin',
lalkin' Just ter Maw an' me.
T t miivy 44,
THE COUNTRY-REARED MAN
Has Broad Views of Life and Faculty
of Contemplating a Decision.
I have never known a man of rank in
Ihe world of attainment who was not
j;lad that he was reared in the country
j and I have known many who regretted
i that tliey hud not had that benefit. The
I country Is the growing place for life's
chief growing time, childhood. It is the
plr.ee where life strikes deep root. The
child whose home is in the country
grows Into the habit of drawing lessons
from nature und in the crisis of his ilfe
he harks back I those habits.
Confronted with a big problem, the
lesson he learned from nature returns
to help him. lie learns the value of
waiting. The man grown from the city
child is neurotic, impulsive, liable to
obey the crazy demands of discorded
nerves. Country breeding begets the con-
templative habit and the decision that
comes of reflection.
in the big moments of life, when
the scales are well balanced, the man
who was bred in the country rarely dis
turbs the scales by an unsteady, Impa-
tient hand.
The country reared mail has the habit of
the broader view The wide spacers and (
the far horizon of his childhood have
ntven him a broader vision. And the
mental vision has corresponded with
the physical. He who has looked widely
across plains or high to mountain peaks
never takes quite the same view of per-
son, phi e, or problem as the man who
has had to squint to get a glimpse of the
s k v
tiie country child lives largely In hts
visions, lie 'becomes in a degree a vis
Innarv but those visions help him in his
practical after years Life will curb the
ImaLlnatloii. The « rid 1ms a brutal habit
of dealing the imagination blows. No one
Is the worse and most of us are better
lor these early dream days. They point
the way Of the career of the future The
child who dreams of pictures Is liable In
after years to paint them. The child who
builds' air castles about music Is fairly
sure to live In a world of sweet, sounds.
The child who organizes companies of bis
nlavmutes will probably head a corpora-
tion some day. The deeds of the man are
most, often the fulfillment of the child s
dreams The student of life often Bees
the drenins In a country child's eyes thans-
lated Into the nets of a man of might in
cities- I.os Angeles Examiner.
When O. Henry I>ost Prestige.
Once, when exploring a factory district
for story material, 0, Henry Invited a
bright little girl to dine with hlrn. She
accepted on condition that she might
bring n friend along. During dinner the
writer sought to mako his guests feel at
euse by resting his English to the extent
of using "ain't" and "hadn't ougliter"
and a few other popular mutilations ot
the mother tongue.
He saw the little girl a few d:.,-s later.
"1 was awful mortified that night,"
she said. "You spoke so ungrammatical
before ray lady friend! '—Success ila*a-
great taste or It looks bad
♦ ♦ ♦
The New York Tribune of July 22, notes
;i remarkable feat accomplished by A. 1\
Meslsst'iror when he rode 500 miles in less
than 50 consecutive hours on a velocipede
in the Central Hall in the Bowery. His
time was 42 hours and 38 minutes and
immediately after the completion of the
rid-' he weighed 7 pounds less than when
lie started.
<N>
THE ONLOOKER.
New play called "The Great Name"
has ben tried out in Connecticut. Seems
that It might refer to something Colonel
Roosevelt called somebody he didn't
like.
See there's more rioting in Bogota,
but that "American lives do not appear
to be in peril." Should say not. Rioting
In Bogota has about as much danger
for an American as the periodical unrest
in the Balkans.
After the "Arcadians" we went to the
Savoy, where all the swells go to sup-
per. The lack of good-loooking women
was most noticeable—Annapolis middy's
letter from London. Avast heaving
there, mate. Largely Americans.
Whitefield McKlnley, a negro real es-
tate agent, has been appointed Collec-
tor of Customs of the port of George-
town, I). C. Major Sylvester, chief of
police in Washington, has not forbidden
the* exhibition of any moving pictures.
Paris has formed an Association of
Noses That Suffer. Somebody has evi-
dently hit some of those dying cigars
and cigarettes carried into public con-
veyances, either by callow youths, dod-
dering old men or Just plain loafers.
While there Is no doubt J. A. John-
son is responsible to a great extent for a
financial iacknge just now noticeable
in certain financial circles, the Wall
Street bears have no right to saddle all
their troubles on to his capacious shoul-
ders.
That's a bully por>m, "The Man With
the Hoe." Refers to the commuter try-
ing to water his garden with only a
faint stream issuing from the nozzle.
Thought at first it was going to be
something blistering on the fellow with
the low shoes, high trousers and green
socks polka dotted with yellow.
Saddest sight these bright summer
days Is to see a largo fat man smok-
ing a corncob pipe and thoughtfully writ-
ing answers to women correspondents as
to the best method of laundering lingerie
frocks without rubbing holes in them,
and relating how linen dresses will re-
tain their color if boiled with baled
hay.
What's the sense of allowing a lot of
free advertising to individuals who chal-
lenge Johnson to meet an unknown when
one Langford is in the open with a defi
to the champion? if a purse of a mil-
lion dollars was fought for it would be
subscribed by that ultimate consumer,
the public, In gate money, so why keep
the producers in the dark?
Question whether beer is a spirituous
liquor Is agitating Washlngqton and tiie
brewers if the courts after sampling it
decide In the affirmative the stuff can't
be sold on the ceded Indian lands. An-
other of those Indian outrages we hear
about. Might compromise by voting no,
but ordering the places to close at 1
a. m.
English suffragettes are practicingtiu-
jitsu for militant work. One frail but
expert woman, five feet; in height, with
a single twist of the wrist, floored a po-
liceman six feet tall and weighing 200
pounds. Like to have the moving picture
concession for the next run in. Streets
full of thin women standing on their
righto and and air full of fog und fat.
"booriies" standing on their heads ought
to show up bully.
INDIANAPOLIS AT IT IS
Or at Least as a Big Metropolitan
Daily Stys It Is.
Indianapolis la one of the Cities of the
Plain. It Is as nearly in the center of
Indiana us It could be placed without meas.
tiring. The streets are wide and the sky
is dark with soft coal smoke. It Is a
cousin of Chicago, and is shamelessly
proud of the relationship.
bellow trollej ears, built of steel, ram-
ify in every venture >reekle: ly to distant
Fort Wayne and to Columbus, where the
Ohio penitentiary thrives. The trolleys
are bigger, better, cleaner, and faster
than anything of the kind In the East,
and are run to suit public convenience
and not so as to keep folks from meet-
ing trains, as Mr. Melleti manages his for
example.
The hotel spittoons are built two storiet
hlk'h to accommodate Ihe expectorations of
the gentlemen from Kentucky and Ten-
nessee, who are numerous visitors. The
('lay pool Hotel has a barroom on each
corner, so that guests cannot go astray.
Sightseeing in the town begins and ends
with a view of die Soldier's Monument,
which is a tribute to nil of the fighters,
from George lingers Clark and Tippe-
canoe down. It was sculpt by a German
and the effect is Teutonic. The figure of
Liberty with a torch, that tips the tup,
suggests a plump German domestic guild-
lug herself to the attic with a lighted
tallow candle.
Most of the buildings of prominence are
called after some one named Clavpool
To correct a frequent inadvertency a
sign lit the entrance reads; "Tills is the
Cluy Pool Hotel, not the l.'nion Station."—
New York World.
MARODS OF CEMENT
( homical Action Continues for About
a Century.
An expert worker in cement was tell-
lfig about it the other day, Its use is i , , , ,,
constantly Increasing 7 changing and adjusting themselves to
constantly menacing, and reinforced ce- i each llthor for a full hundred years and
mem is a compound which, for certain ! then will be better and stronger 'than
that the celling in the flat below will
fall about now and the police will break
in the doors and maybe they'll have
sense enough to shut off the gas.
"Jf you read the papers you will no-
tice that the police invariably break In
the doors, even though the landlord of-
fers the keys and begs them to use them.
At that, I think 1 may have left a couple
of windows open—that one on the fire
escape, where u good, wideawake second-
story worker could slip in. It's lucky
we live on the third floor or we might
have something to fear from those sec-
ond-story workers.
"I forget which other window I
couldn't remember if I closed, but I
think it is the one on the street wliera
all the dust blows in from. At any
rate the flies and mosquitoes will find tho
Ones which 1 may have left open, so it'ti
all right. Otherwise i would feel so
lonesome when I went back there, but
they will make me feel right at home.
"Of course, I dropped all the trunk keys
Into the bottom of the trunk, but I
discovifed them after I had the trunk
packed and the lid nicely crowded down.
On the way out here I tried to remem-
ber what 1 did with Ijie trunk check and
what it was you wrote mo to be sure and
bring out. I was just reaching a solution
when the conductor yelled out the name
of this place.
"1 didn't remember to telephone the
milkman to stop leaving the morning bot-
tle until I got back, but it's all right,
because the people who have been swip-
ing it every morning would feel ag-
grieved if we deprived them of their
supply. Then I did intend to tell the mail-
man to have our mail sent out here,
but 1 never could get to the door at
the same time he was there. That re-
minds me; here's a couple of letters that
1 intended to forward to you last week,
but I changed suits and didn't remem-
ber.
"I believe you wrote me that some
folks we hadn't heard from for months
had written that they were coming to
call on us tonight, but I couldn't find
the letter, and, therefore, didn't call
them up to lip them off. And, as you
have no doubt guessed, the two weeks'
accumulation of unwashed dishes is still
waiting in the dlshpan. 1 intended to
clean them up last night, but was de-
layed. And that's all 1 Can think of
right now."
"You foolish! I was just going to ask
if you had a pleasant trip here," ex-
plained Friend Wife.
"Well, aside from wondering about
these things I have mentioned, I had a
perfectly line trip," replied the Tired
Business Man.-Copyright, 1910, by the
New York Evening Telegram (New York
Herald Company). All rights reserved.
work, where a tremendous weight or
pressure is to be met, engineers rely upon
more than anything else. Indeed, there
Is nothing else known that can take lis
place. It was found recently that a
famous cathedral In Europe which had
stood for a thousand years was in immi-
nent peril of having its front collapse
and fall like a rotten iceberg. Hut an
engineer went to work upon it and with
reinforced cement, applied In a way that
did not in tiie least interfere with the
carved splendor—"the frozen music"—of
it, made It not only secure, but experts
declare that it Is stronger than when
first erected.
Rut we were going to tell what this
cement worker said of It. He was talk-
ing about street paving and In substance
he said: "When the sand and gravel
are all right, and the proper proportion
of cement is mixed with them and they
are spread say upon a street, and say six
inches deep, then if kept wet for ten or
fifteen days, so that the face of it will not
crack, it will set and then its active work
is done, and It is more enduring than
solid rock. If surfaced with asphaltum
It will bear the traffic indefinitely, for
the concrete has to bear the wear. I
said 'it's active work was finished,' but
do you know UiM putidus vili J,
when first laid? Of course, all matter
is constantly changing, but there seems
to be a method in the changes going on
in perfectly proportioned concrete, and
the effect of those changes is that it
grows stronger and stronger all the time.
Hut it must be perfectly made in the
first place; then it must be constantly
looked after for a few days and never
permitted to dry out, and then it Is not
only absolutely above decay or disinte-
gration but it grows stronger and
stronger for years. '-Salt Lake Evening
Telegram.
Another Tradition Exploded.
Two Englishmen were resting at the
"Rod Horse Inn" at Stratford-on-Avon.
One of them discovered a print pictur-
ing a low tumbling building underneath
which was printed: '"riie House in Which
Shakespeare Was Born." Turning to ills
friend in mild suprrise he pointed to the
print. His friend exhibited equal sur-
prise, and called a waiter who assured
them of the accuracy of tho inscription.
" 'Pon my word," said the observing
Englishman, shaking his head dubiously,
"I thought he was born in a manger!"—
TIMELY TEXAS TOPICS.
The Burnet liulletiu remarks that meat
In Chicago dropped half a cent a pouud,
but that Is a long way to go for meat.
The Fayette County Record Is pleased
to note that more attention is being di-
rected toward the care of the insane of
this Slate.
The Galveston Tribune thinks graft Is
growing less and that it is more spoken
of because it.s existence is more offensive
than It once was.
The Gainesville Register addresses a
note to "Siakiller Rankin," telling hiiu
"to cut his State wide canine loose" and
"we will meet you are PUilllppl."
The Laredo Times says Colquitt has but
to carry out his platform policy of fewer
laws to make his administration one of
the most popular this State has ever
known.
"Snn Benito is shipping sweet pepnerg
bj the ear load," says the Brownsville
Herald. This is Indeed interesting infor-
mation, San Ileal to has recently been ac-
quiring fame by other means.
The Wilson County Journal comment*
Oil the fact that there are very few vacant
houses in Florcsvlile and the number of
brick buildings, already large for a town
of that size, is constantly increasing.
The Greenville Evening ISnnner has a
very timely editorial on the subject of
commercial clubs which depend upon tlielr
secretaries to do everything and wonder
why the work of the organization is not
brilliantly successful.
The Nacogdoches Sentinel remarks that
insanity seems to be a fad judging from
the number of times It Is used as a menus
of defense in criminal cases. It Is not
exactly a fad. It is probable that many
persons who commit crimes are mentally
infirm. The only cause for regret is that
in the majority of cases only those suffi-
ciently wealthy to afford the luxury of a
careful examination by alienists succeed
In thus avoiding a purposeless punishment.
Tho Tyler Courier-Times calls the at-
tention of the farmers of Smith County
to the fact that this Is the very best op-
portunity tliey have ever had to raise hogs
because they have plenty of corn, peas and
hav. This is true of Southwest Texas.
There is very little doubt that the farm-
ers of this part of tiie State will take ad-
vantage of their opportunity. More- hogs
are going to be raised ill this part of the
State than ever before as n result of the
bounteous crops produced this year. It 1»
ju*- •uwliaat j«t to suut.
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