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THE SAN ANTONIO DAILY EXPRESS: FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 22, 1907.
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POPULATION OF TEXAS CITIES:
The population of the seven largest
cities of Texas on June 1, 1904, as <5®*'*
mated by the United Spates Census Bu«
reau, Is as follows:
SAN ANTONIO B9.S81
Houston
Dallas
Galveston
Fort Worth 26,960
Austin ot'Al
y/aco 23,162
The Non-Parlisan Ticket.
In his speech of acceptance of tho
nomination for Mayor J. W. Tobin
eaid to the convention:
I feel that San Antonio needs a May-
or and I am ambitious to give it that
administration for which It has clam-
ored during the last two years. I
am ambitious to clean up these streets
and give them tho appearance they
should have, i want to go to work on
that fire department. It doesn't need
many changes, but that police depart-
ment! I am no financier. I do not
claim to be. I will have my hands
full of administering the other affairs
of this city and am content to leave
to the Finance Committee you will
select the handling of the city's
money. ,
Mr. Tobin has been Fire Chief, Al-
derman and Sheriff and haa had prac-
tical experience as a civil engineer.
He is acknowledged to be a most ef-
ficient peace officer and he is other-
wise well equipped for the duties of
the office of chief executive of the
city.
It is, perhaps, not essential that
the Mayor of the city should be a
financier, nut it is essential that he
should possess good executive ability
and that he should have good busi-
ness judgment with respect to the
city's financial affair^. With a good
Board of Aldermen and a Finance
Committee made up of men of high
character und of good business train-
ing an efficient and economic admin-
irtration of the affairs of the munici-
pality might be confidently expected.
Mr. Tobin says it is his ambition
t'> give the city such an administra-
tion as it has been clamoring for and
it appears from his own testimony
that he will sincerely strive for the
credit which will be his due if the
results shall ba all he hopes for in
ia successful administration of the
Vclty government, rather than for the
emoluments of the office and the pat-
rcnage which goes with it.
Mr. Tobin has received the nomina-
tion of the Non-Partisan organization
for Mayor, and on the ticket of which
he Is the head some of tho best citi-
zens of the city have been named for
Aldermen and other elective offices.
Now if these nominees can convince
the electors that the city government
"will be safer and better cared for in
their hands than in tho hands of their
PlPonenU it is up to them to do so.
The present city administration has
not been satisfactory. It has imposed
upon the taxpayers the needless ex-
pense of a dual force of firemen and
rolicemen for which they must pay
about $40,000. It has failed to provide
adequate police protection, as shown
by the numerous burglaries!, robberies
and hold ups, and it has failed in the
fitter of street improvements and
maintenance and in other matters
ccmplalned of.
It is now for the electors to choose
between the present administration
and the other candidates for their
favor and the choice should ba made
in the interest of good government
solely.
from the pledge he made shortly after
lis last election not to accept an-
other term or from an earnest de-
sire to lay down the cares of office
for more congenial employment or
from a concession to the anti-third
term sentiment can only be surmised.
In any event if Mr. Roosevelt is not
to stand for re-election himself, why
may he not entrust the work which
he will have partially completed at
the end of his term to a probable
successor believed to be capable of
taking it up and carrying it on?
Judge Taft has been President
Iioosevelt's right hand man during his
second term. If there was a knotty
political problem in Ohio Judge Taft
v/as sent there to straighten it out.
When there was trouble on the Isth-
mus where this Government is dig-
ging a canal, Judge Taft wan sent
there to straighten it out and when
it was necessary to intervene and
to establish a protectorate in Cuba
who but Judge Taft could be depended
on to do the work efficiently and dip-
lomatically? When President Roose-
velt retires who would be a more fit-
ting successor than his understudy
and chief Secretary who has been at
all times in full sympathy and in
active co-operation with him?
Of course, President Roosevelt can-
not exactly transfer his crown to his
successor as a sovereign might do
v hen be chooses to abdicate in favor
of the rightful heir nor would it be
gcod form for him to violate the evi-
dent, proprieties, but he should not be
rnduly sensitive concerning idle re-
ports when the physically and men-
tally big man of Ohio calls for a
friendly chat at the White House,
even though some other prominent
statesmen happen to be present at the
Etme time.
Tbe President and Judge Taft
President Roosevelt appears to
liave beene unnecessarily disturbed
by the idle report that a recent con-
ference at the White House was in
tbe interest of the candidacy of Judge
Taft for the Republican nomination
for President.
Of course, it would not be seemly
for the President of the United States
to use his high office for the promo-
tion of the political interests of ony
Individual, even one so close to him
as Judge Taft and enjoying his con-
fidence to such an extent as Judge
Taft does.
It was recently given out as au-
thoritative that Mr. Roosevelt would
tot stand for a re-election, no matter
»bat the pressure may be to com-
pel him to alter his determination.
Whether this determination results
barked upon a broad and comprehen-
sive policy of inland waterway devel-
opment that will in time bring a con-
tinuous transportation system from
Puluth on Lake Superior to New York
on the Atlantic seaboard on one hand
to Brownsville, Tex., on the other.
For each million that It will cost it
will doubtless save ten million every
decade for the people of America.
Governor Campbell's administration
has come forward with a scheme of
taxation so complex as to be consid-
ered statesmanlike, but seemingly lay-
ing many additional burdens upon pri-
vate corporations. Perhaps the time
will come when the business of this
State will be done by firms instead of
private corporations, although the lat-
ter system hae been found in other
States the best adapted to the conduct
of modern business.
The Waterways Commission ap-
pointed by President Roosevelt should
accomplish much in showing the pub-
lic authoritatively how to improve fa-
cilities for water transportation. The
Commission's finding will have more
weight than requests of individual
communities.
After a long fight the "ghost" bill
authorizing the use of certain classes
of dead bodies for dissection in order
to teach anatomy, has been passed.
There should bo no violation of the
law necessary in order for students
of medicine to Ret proper training.
WHAT THE STATE PAPERS SAY
Brownsville is naturally indignant
at being held up as a lawless com-
munity, and l'allo back on the record
in the matter to set itself right in
the eyes of the world. When critics
do not keep tha record straight their
criticism loses itr, force.
Development of Inland Waterways.
President Roosevelt's action in es-
tablishing an Inland Waterway Com-
mission for the purpose of developing
a regular system of inland water
transportation inaugurates a move-
ment of far-reaching importance. His
action reflects far-sighted statesman-
ship that will very probably be re-
ferred to in future histories as one of
the most important public services
that he has rendered, although it
Ifcks the spectacular qualities to give
It that temporary prominence that
some other of his acts have had.
The immense industrial develop-
ment of this country, with which the
railroads have been unable to keep
pace, has brought business men face
to face with the very serious problem
of insufficient transportation. This
problem unless solved will tend to re-
tard commercial expansion. To meet
the crisis Roosevelt has sufficient
breadth of vision to return to the sys-
tem of inland navigation, which was
the original policy of this country be-
fore the growth of railroads checked
it.
The famous Erie Canal in New York
Slate and the Chesapeake and Ohio
"Canal that parallels the Potomac
River from Washington up almost to
Harper's Ferry are survivals of that
earlier policy. The Brie Canal, built
entirely across New York Stato under
great difficulties, and the Chesapeake
Canal that practically climbs a moun-
tain, show conclusively that engineer-
ing feats of tremendous difficulties
can be surmounted, and in spite of ex-
pense can be mado profitable. If such
great works paid with the compara-
tive small businoss of that day, how
much greater would be the profit of
such enterprise with the immense
volume of inland commerce today?
Many modern canal projects have
been mere "bluffs" to force railroads
to give water rates by building the
semblance of canals which were never
designed to be actually used. Presi-
dent Roosevelt, however, plans to
have serviceable waterways that will
really carry the freight and actually
solve the problem of transportation.
The plau proposed by President
Roosevelt to bo developed by the
Waterway Commission is to develop
a comprehensive policy of linked wa-
terways, and not, leave the matter to
the haphazard system brought about
by the "pull" of various Congress-
men. Tho personnel of the Commis-
sion is a guarantee of the framing of
a broad and just policy. The head of
the Commission is Congressman Bur-
ton, chairman of the Committee of
Rivers and Harbors; General Alexan-
der Mackenzie, Chief of Engineers of
the Army; |a. H. Newell, Chief of the
Reclamation Service; Gilford Pinchot,
Chief of the Forestry Department; H.
K. Smith, Commissioner of Corpora-
tions; W. J. MeGee, Government Geo-
logist; Senator William Warner, who
comes from the Missouri River dis-
trict; Senator Francis J. Newlands of
arid Nevada and ex-CongTessman II.
J. Bankhead of Alabama.
Each of these men is in his way
au expert on some phase of the great
subject involved in inland waterways,
and all of them men of unimpeacha-
ble integrity and known ability. With
such an aray of talent, it is in the
range of probability that another Con-
gress will see this Government em-
The proposed direct line of steam-
ers from New Orleans and Galveston
to Panama will enable business men
of tho Southern States and the wheat
and corn, growers of the West to get
into competition for the Panama Caaal
business.
Brown of Wharton says he does not
want to be whacked on tho head by
the self-constituted leaders of Democ-
racy In this State, and he intimates
that some persons are using platform
demands to sandbag their way into
power.
Former Secretary of the Treasury
Shaw says the cembined railroads of
this country could not transport an
army, with necessary supplies, to the
Pacific Coast in sixteen months. Let
us hope the Japr, have not been lis-
tening.
The Tennessee Legislature threatens
to imprison the Nashville city council
for criticizing the Speaker of the
House. Lese majeste is too popular a
pastime in America to bo put in the
catalogue of crimes.
San Antonio as the site for the next
annual convention of the Texas Cattle
Kaisers will bo in her glory. San An-
tonio was the original home of the
cowman, and the liking that is mutual
is also most natural.
Premier Stolypin again comes for-
ward with a program of beautiful
promises as to v hat the Russian Gov-
ernment will do, but the Russian peo-
ple find the performance^ somewhat
unsatisfying.
Twenty thousand officers and men
for coast defense to be drawn largely
from the militia of the various States
will furnish opportunities for many
bright young men to get into the serv-
ice.
Dallas now has an idea how big the
Trinity River looks to Mr. Bailey; and
Dallas is busy telling how small Mr.
Bailey seems to Dallas.
From the appearance at, the begin-
ning of the interest it seems likely
that San Antonio will have more base-
ball fans this season than ever be-
fore.
Old Enough to Know Better.
Gonzales la nearly S3 years old, vener-
able In years, and has n<i parks. Isn't
tnis a reflection on our civic pfide?—-Gon-
zales Inquirer.
It would appear that Gonzales is old
enough to know better than to neglect
the park question. However, "while the
lamp holds out to burn the vilest sinner
may return." Gonzales should get a
move on and- institute a park or tw-o be-
fore It fall Into its dotage.
♦ ♦ ♦
Speed of Automobiles.
Beaumont is about to fall Into line
with other cities and regulate the speed
limit of automobiles. The public thor-
oughfares of a busy city are not the
place to speed these machines, and with
the ever Increasing number being pur-
chased here tho dangers consequent upon
lang'
wilt
s consequer
be multiplied
t upon
. lhe
careless driving _ -
shell roads leading In all directions out
of the city furnish all the speedway
necessary. Iy>t the procession move slow-
ly In tin' heart of the city. Beaumont
Enterprise.
San Antonio ought to do likewise. Au-
tomobiles In the heart of the city should
be compelled to go at a slow rate of
speed. Soma of the chauffeurs appear to
think that people on foot have no rights
which the former are bound to respect.
♦ -»■ ♦
Roosevelt on the Inside.
A newspaper published in the Mikado's
canital says the school issue la Japan
was only a aide issue. It was. Frisco
was on the right side; Tokio on the
wrong side, and the Japs on the outside.—
Houston Chronicle.
5Tes, and with Kooaevelt on the Inside.
♦ ♦ ♦
Take Care of tha Trees.
Some people seem to think that the
only thing necessary to do to get trees
to grow Is to plant them. It Is abso.ute-
necessary in this country to give shade
trees some water for the first season or
two. Fruit trees will thrive where tho
ground is kept stirred on top ami a dust
mulch thus k -pt to drnw the water from
deep down In the ground, but the hard
ground of the streets or the average town
yard watering Is necessary. Do not make
the mistake of watering trees too much.
If you keep the ground soaked all tho
while the roots will soon rot and the
tree will die, the water soaking Into the
roots that have been cut, and the soli
becoming heavy and soggy. As a rule
once In two weeks is iften enough to
water a tree and then it snout,1 be
watered good, given as much as can be
put around it, but avoidng aas far as
possible having the water stand right
around the body of the tree as that tends
to scald It. After the second season the
tree is pretty well able to take care of
Itself, on! yrequlrtr.g wat«r In extremely
dry spells of weather.—Brow nwood Bul-
letin.
Take care of the trees and the trees
will take care of the land.
♦ ♦ ♦
Taft and North Pole.
Now it Is said Taft may go to Alaska.
If the North Bole is discovered during
this generation we believe we know who
is going to find It.—Houston Post.
If Taft ever discovers 'he North Pole
and sits on It there will no longer be
any North Pole. That would be a bless-
ing. What the dickens do wo want with
a North Pole, anyway? It is probably
a great big Icicle and would melt before
It could be brought to the States.
♦ ♦
Hint to Mr. Griggs.
Griggs should also Introduce a bill reg-
ulating the size of hotel bedbugs.—Cuero
Record.
This is a capital idea.
♦ ♦ ♦
The Forestry Bill.
There is a measure pending lJefore the
the present Iv.*glslature which Is of great
Importance to the interests of the State,
and yet which seems about to be con-
signed to oblivion for lack of a champion
with sufficient interest in the subject
and energy enough to push it to a suc-
cessful issue. This is the bill to create
a Slate Board of Forestry, the duty of
whose members shall be to safeguard the
forests of the State, supervising the
methods of the lumbering Industry so as
to prevent the complete devastation of
Texas forests and the bad results natur-
ally consequent upon present lumbering
methods. It is to be hoped that the
solons may do their duty by the State
and enact the proposed' law.
The Stato that neglects its forests has
a dark shadow threatening Its future.
The trees conserve the moisture. With-
out moisture Texas would become an arid
desert.
Thought and Disease.
It Is now advanced as a sober, scientific
theory that deep and serious thinking is
tlie cause of disease. Notice what a large
percentage of us are healthy?—San Mar-
cos Herald.
Now we know what makes us sick, and
it Isn't easy to make us sick either. It is
the deep and serious thinking we have to
do to make both ends meet every week.
♦ ♦ ♦
Black Vote and White House.
Foraker will get the negro vote in Ohio
over the Brownsville trouble, but he is a
long way from the White House.—Sher-
man Democrat.
In other words, the black vote of this
country will never put Foraker in a
White House—the pinnacle of his ambi-
tion.
♦ ♦
Roosevelt and Railroads.
Should President Boosevelt prove to
be right In his recently announced de-
cision. that under the terms of the United
States Constitution as Interpreted bv no
less an authority than Chief Justice Mar-
shall, that the rate bill passed at the last
session of Congress wipes out of ex-
istence every railroad regulation law
passed by the State Legislatures since
the rate bill became a law won't many
of our embryo statesmen be hunting holes
to hide themselves in. But seriously
speaking, if the i'r< sldent is right in his
contention, there Is going to be a great
deal more stability than there seemed
to be when every little Tom, Dick and
Harry was trying to climb into notoriety
ty advocating all kinds of hostile legis-
lation against railroads In the Mute -Leg-
islatures'.—Laredo Times.
Mr. Roosevelt's attitude toward the
railroads, while It Is now creating unrest
In financial circles, will have a satulary
effect in the end. It will compel the
corporations to observe tho golden rule.
When this Is done the agitation against
the transportation lines will cease, and
they will have the hearty support of
the people who are after all the real
masters of combines arid corporations.
"ONE OF THE FINEST" ON GUARD.
H. X' TOPICS OF THE TIMES X N*
Mr. Bailey should consider that
sometimes there is a great deal of
water in the Trinity River.
Getting to Be a Man.
My fawver says boys can't bo men
As long as they keep crying when
They bump their lenees or fall down
Rtairs,
Or like thing3 best if they ain't theirs.
My fawver says as son as I
Want things I can't have and don't cry
Or look as dismal as I can
'Cause they're denied I'll be a man.
When muvver heard him tellin' mo
About the way to get to be
A man she kind of sadly smiled
And said: "lle'll always be a child."
--S. E. Kiser.
Reflections of a Bachelor.
When a girl semis you her photograph
it's a sign it flatters her.
The worst about having a man do you
a favor Is he never forgets it.
A woman's idea of a committee meet
ing fr.r charity Is what clothes they will
wear.
Tho man who thinks he knows how to
manage women is the easiest target they
shoot at for tfcem to hit.
Diplomacy is eating things you hate at
other people's dinners and saying you
can never get it that way at home.—New
York Pre*s*
The Social Nucleus.
In his new book on "Pox and Society/'
Professor Thomas declares that of the
two sexes the woman is tho more nor-
mal human creature, and that the only
ground for any suspicion that man is h«'r
superior is the fact that his muscles are
bigger and llvlier, and these have ha;l
the tendency to supress woman
and relegate her to the background.
In primitive society woman was the
socla nucleus and really led in the ac-
tivities of 11 fo by virtue of her mental
directness and vigor, but, in the course
of tim<, when war and arms became the
employment of society, "chronic milit-
ancy" took the place of the "social
nucleus," and ever sine** then the wo-
man's environment has been very much
narrowed and her active life limited to
drudgery and household work.
So it is war that has been woman's
greatest enemy. She has been pushed
aside from great efforts because she
couldn't flglit—so runs the argument of
this scientific writer. And then, the
argument goes on further to show how
■woman, to maintain her former prestige
and save her personality from complete
dissolution, began to adorn that person-
ality and make it attractive. In this way
she is winning back the "social nucleus."
although "the chronic militancy" still
asserts itself. And here one cannot help
noticing the retribution that has fallen
upon man for his muscular domination,
which has resulted in narrowing wo-
man's life, <n the contemplation of what
one can read the philbsopny of dress and
the deeper meaning of dry goods and
mlllinary bills. The price of the hercul-
ean club that man goes swaggering
down tho stroot with is the dry goods
store and the millinery shop, and the
hope now Is that this "social nucleus"
may prevail and drive out its old enemy,
the "chronic militancy," and give the
right of way to the "more normal creat-
ure," whose just claim the argument
establishes.—Ohio State Journal.
Mr. Metcalf in the Navy.
A Washington newspaper declares that
Secretary MMcalf after three months in
office knows more about the navy than
some of his predessors had learned in a
year. This may have been intended for
a "high tribute," but the standard
scarcely entitles it to that characteri-
zation. Probably the traditions of the
service to the contrary* notwithstanding,
we never did have a Secretary of tho
Navy who was surprised at learning that
a ship was "hollow," but there have
been men at the head of the department
who were put there because there was
no other pla^e to be found for them.
On the other hand, there have been
Secretaries of the Navy who without
possessing any nautical experience have
left their impress broad ana deep on the
service and development. George ]3an-
croft, was one of these. The Naval
Academy was his idea. He founded it
in reality, and by so doing revolution-
ized naval training not only in this coun-
try, but in he world. Gideon Welles,
the most unsailorlike of men, labored
mightilv during the Civil War, but he
had at his side Captain Fox, an ex-offi-
cer of the Navy, for an adviser. So ex-
cellent a business man as the late Wil-
liam C. Whitney and so imperturbale
an administrator as John D. I.ong, were
of immense value to the country.
Since Mr. Roosevelt has been Presi-
dent. a period of six and one-half years,
there have i>een five Secretaries of the
Navy. Messrs. I^ng. Moody. Morton,
Bonaparte and Metcalf. Continuity of
policy has been endangered under a sys-
tem of frequent change in the admini-
strative chiefs, while the routine has
suffered no serious interruption. The de-
partment is {'o organised that the rou-
tine work goes on smoothly whoever oc-
cupies the secretary's office but there
is still the kjver present possibility in a
service so highly technical of subordin-
ates really constituting tho governing
force.
This possibility renders the possession
of a sympathetic interest ln,.nav|y mat-
ters a very important consideration in
the selection of a Secretary of the Navy.
The man who brings to the position
ministrative talents and a familiarity
Washington Post.
with naval developments is forearmed
and forewarned, too.
Mr. Metcalf has not been in the Navy
Department long enough to permit the
formation of a definite opinion as to his
efficiency. He did not bring to the place
the high reputation his immediate pred-
essors enjoyed, and it is an open secret
that his selection was a disappointment
to that element of officers who deprecate
the choice of a Secretary of the Navy
for purely political considerations. They
would like to serve under a man whose
relations to the Navy are based on inter-
est In it. and who has the judicial tem-
perament thit enables him t<> balance
the many conflicting claims of the dif-
ferent branches that are almost dally
submitted to him. Certainly everyone
will wish well to Mr. Metcalf if for no
other reason, that the expenditures for
the Navy have attained such proportions
as to make them the subject of intense
Interest to the taxpayer.—Boston Trans-
cript.
The Feminine Young Person.
According to Dr. J. J. Walsh, a lec-
turer on Joan of Arc, "it is the young
women who see most clearly into life.
They are its true interpreters. Think of
it—a girl of 17 chief commander of tho
army of a nation! Think of Juliet, not
14; Imogene, 17; Cordelia, under 16! Al-
ways Shakespeare puts the burden of
■•ethical responsibility on young girls."
Nowadays it is more likely to be Gwen-
dolen, 17 and Maud, 16, at the matinee
munching caramels and bearing their
burden of ethical responsibilities lightly
to all out waul appearances. Hut why
not? There are no more armies for
young girls to command and mamma
monopolizes the leadership of social-re-
form movements. Having no great
dramas of their own to perform, they
delegate the duty of interpreting life to
the playwright, to the great profit of the
syndicate.
Yet young women have made them-
selves the interpreters of our national
life to a point where the question about
everything, with Podsnap, is whether :t
will bring a blush to the cheek of the
voung person. The young miss is to
America what the British matron is to
England—the censor of morals whose
verdict Is final and Irrevocable. There
are ungallant souls who begin to regard
her as a good deal more of a nuisance
than as an interpreter of life.—-New
York World.
Executives in Legislation.
The greatly Increased activity of the
executive in legislative work is not by
any means confined to the National Gov-
ernment. In a number of the Stato capi-
tals this tendency is about as marked as
it. is in the capital of the Republic. There
is, however, more reason why Lhe peo-
ple of a State should look upon their
Governors as more directly their repre-
sentative than that the people of tho
Nation, the inhabitants or all the States,
should thus regard their President. For
a Governor is the only official charged
with legislative responsibilities for whom
all the people of the State who are
clothed with suffrage can vote. En eh of
their State Senators and Representatives
is voted for or against by only a small
percentage of the State's qualified voters,
but all citizens 1 voiding the franchise
may vote for Governor, thus making him
the only factor in legislation for whom
all the voters have a chance to :\ast their
ballots. On the other hand, no voter can
cast a ballot for President.. That office
by the terms of the Constitution, is lar-
ther removed from the people than any
oher elective office in the National Gov-
ernment. By the express terms of the
Constitution, a President must be elected
without any voter casting a ballot for
or against him. And by the express
terms of the Constitution a President
miij- bo elected without any citizen vot-
ing for the officials who elect him. By
tile intent of the Constitution all Presi-
dents were to be elected by the free
choice of the Presidential electors and
nobodv else. And these electors were to
be "appointed" in such manner as the
Legislature of each State should deem
expedient. But while It cannot be denied
that the pooular feeling regarding the
relation of ;b" President to the peor. a
is not justified by the Constitution, It is
equally undeniable that in the? case of
Ifhjsident Roosevelt his insistence on
the compliance by the Congress with his
wishes is approved by the people. And
it is because the people are behind him
that he wins. Public opinion comes very
nearly being the supreme law of the
land.—Washington Post.
LAWYER GROWS POETIC.
Assistant Attorney General Writes to
Man in Michigan About Marriage.
Daily Express Austin Bureau.
AUSTIN, Tex., March 21.—A few days
ago a man from Grand I-Iavon, Mich.,
made inquiry by letter to the Attorney
General's office if there is any legal bar-
rier in the way of establishing a matri-
monial bureau. Claude Pollard, Assistant
Attorney General replied to the letter as
follows:
T. V. Orr, Grand Haven, Mich.—We are
in receipt of yours of 11th asking to be
advised what license, occupation tax or
other requirements are demanded of a
Matrimonial Bureau doing business in
this State.
Replying, beg to advise that an insti-
tution of this kind in Texas would have
a scarcity of clientage, compareel to
which that of a "briefless barrister,"
would be as a mountain to a mole hill.
The "Old Alcalde" of Texas, while a
member of the Supreme Court of tho
State, saiel as to occupations and taxa-
tion thereof in this State, that "the law
eloes not create or shape habits of busi-
ness, but regulates them as they exist."
This policy of our law furnishes the rea-
son why there Is not on our statute
books today any law taxing or regulating
a "Matrimonial Bureau." Hut should it
within the future be found within our
borders, not only would Its scalp be tak-
en without offer of bounty, but It would
not take a simple request of an Ilerodi;tf
daughter for its head to be brought forth
on a charger* Even the bachelors in the
State Senate would, without secret eva-
sion of mind, urge the imposition of a
prohibitory lleense tax, the like of which
is not Imposed even, upon the "Police
Gazette."
Our women will not get upon the bar-
gain counters, and the "old way" of woo-
ing is so enchanting to our men that an
"advertising" proposition would be an
insult to their gallantry.
"How delicious is the winning
Of a kiss at love's beginning,
When two mutual hearts are sighing
For the knot there's no untying."
Tho time we lose in wooing,
In watching and pursuing
The light that lies
In woman's eyes
Will ne'er be our undoing.
We revere the name of Miles Standish,
and look with pity and horror upon
"knots tied" through the medium of such
commercialism as a "Matrimonial Bu-
reau."
We invite you to Texas, but not the
"Bureau." (We don't like "Bureaus.")
And should you come to Texas, we wager
a mint julip that before you leave you
will become* entangled in a "Knot of
Blue," and reveal your secret thus to the
"Old Folks at Home:"
"She has no gem of lustre bright
To sparkle in*her hair;
No need hath she of borrowed light
To make her beauty fair.
Upon her shining locks afloat
Are daisies wet with dew.
And peeping from her lissome throat
A little knot of blue.
"A dainty knot of blue,
A ribbon blithe of hue,
It fills my dreams with sunny gleams—
That little knot of blue.
"I met her down the shadowed lane,
Beneath the apple tree.
The balmy blossoms fell like rain
Upon my love and me;
And what I said and what I elid
That morn I never knew.
But to my breast there came anel hid
A little knot of blue.
"A 11 tie knot of blue,
A love-knot strong and true—
'Twill hold my heart till life shall part
That little knot of blue."
A Pertinent Question.
A teacher in a Long Island-City school
was giving her class a lesson in hygiene.
"Never siren on more than one pil-
J«>w," she said; "In fact, it's better to
use no pillow at all, because if you do
it's likely to make you round shoul-
dered."
Little Rocco Pisciotta waved his arm
wildly.
"Well7" said the teacher.
"S'posen you sleep on your stum-
mick?" piped Hocco.—Harper's Weekly.
Pressure.
"We have no orators such as our fore-
fathers listened to," said one statesman.
"No," answered the other. "It takes
some care to compose spee ches of that
kind. Topics come up so fast nowadays
that by the time you'd get one good old-
fashioned oration written its subject
would be out of date."—Washington
Star.
Disturbing Thought.
"Worried about me, aren't you, elear?"
said the very sick man.
"Oh! not at all, dear," replieel his wife,
musingly.
"Then why do you look so gloomy?"
"I was thinking what a barbarous cus-
tom It is to expect widows to wear black
when it's unbecoming to them."—Prila-
delplda Press.
Later Particulars.
Delilah had cut off Sampson's long
hair.
"It's a trifle coarse," she said, "but I
can use it for a switch."
When it was too late, however, she re-
flected that she could have utilized Sam-
son to much better advantage by exhibit-
ing him In a State Street shop window as
an advertisement lor a hair tonic.—Chi-
cago. Tribune.
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE
WOULD SAVE THE WALLS.
Friend of De Zavala Chapter Urges
That Old Mission Be Preserved.
Editor Express: Being' an old citizen
and it subscriber to your paper, I feel as
though I might express my opinion on
the leading topic of the day—the Alamo.
While the noble women of De Zavala
Chapter, Daughters of tho Republic of
Texas, are still working for and trying
to save the historic old building, it
seems many of our citizens have un-
knowingly signed petitions to the con-
trary, bring misled by the heading of
the petition, thinking it was holplng tha
Daughters of the Republic and tho
worthy cause. Still we, the loyal citi-
zens. 'need have no fear, for I am cer-
tain that Texas legislators, Senator!?
and all the worthy people of the. South
and the bono Star State are too proud
,.1' the historic old Alamo Building to
allow it to be sacrificed for the advance-
ment of commercialism and to please
those concerned in the money-making
scheme.
1 have been investigating the question,
and I am convinced that the De Zavala
Chapter and their noble leader, Miss Do
Zavala, are in the riglu and, while I am
not able myself to certify that those are
the original walls of the old convent, I
am perfectly satisfied that they are, as
many of our most worthy citizens who
do know, have stated the fact, and I
feel well repaid for my search of tho
truth and history concerning the Alamo.
I have seen many pieces about the
Alamo but, not exactly understanding
the situation, I have been rending and
learning a great deal more on tho sub-
ject, and take pleasure in assisting the
Daughters, if possible, and trust that
e-ver.v trui' citizen and Texan will lend a
helping nand und make a. museum of
this old building that all will bo proud
to own, as I believe Is their intention.
THOMAS BROWN".
San Antonio, Tex., March 21.
FEUDAL CASTLE ON HUDSON.
A New York Banker to Build a Home
After Medieval Architecture.
■, On the heights of the Hudson, oppo-
site West Point, in Putnam County, one
of the most elaborate country houses In
America is to be built this summer by
Evans R. Dick, a banker and broker of
3 Broad Street, whose city house is at
51 East Forty-ninth Street. Walker &
Gillette, architects, have completed a
plaster model of the place which, when
completed, will cost nearly a quarter of
a million dollars.
Fuedal castles of the Tyrole.se and old
monastarles are the models on which the
Evans home Is planned It will be built
entirely of cement about a courtyard
sixty feet square. The cement -frill be
in tones to (Tlve the appearance of age
and this will be carried In the dull toned
tiles of the roof. Loggias and towers
attached in irregular order will further
preserve the character of an ancient pile
built in different periods by additions
from time to time. A peristyle across
the front of the court will connect the
two main wings.
While the main part of the castln com-
prises three wings there are two addi-
tional ones abutting, ono for bachelor
guests and one for the servants. Tn its
greatest reach the house will be nearly
200 feet long. Each member of the fami-
ly .will have an entire suite, Including
bed room, sitting room, dressing room
and bath. To the Evans children, ono
whole wing Is devoted. The library will
be partlv underground in a part of tho
building planned to give a bastion effect.
Throughout the Interior the feudal
character will be maintained in the fit-
tings and furniture. About the low lying
building the Evans estate spreads to 200
acres. The grounds In front of tho houaa
running down to the river, are to be
Inclosed by high cenemt walls guarded
by turrets. The entrance driveway will
be from the rear, circling a huge foun-
tain behind the building. At the gate
will be a lodgekeeper's house In a style
in keeping with the feudal Estate.—New
York Herald.
WONDERUFL BERNHARDT.
Actress Undergoes a Routine That
Would Exhaust an Athlete.
All Paris 's now asking how a woman
who acts every night can possibly, at the
age of 65, find the strength to add teach-
ing to her other arduous work. That only
proves that—well, as Paris knows Sarah
Bernhardt, it does not yet comprehend
her. During her first seance at the Con-
servatoire, from which ever}- one but the
class and a few prlveleged friends were
excluded, no one was talked of In tho
corridors hut tbe wonderful woman. An
author who went to Belle Isle last sum-
mer to read a play to her and was de-
tained there to visit a few days, gave an
account of her life there that would bo
past belief if It were anyone but Sarah.
He said:
"During my stay there she rose at 6
In the morning and, with a gun on her
shoulder, went out to shoot her break-
fast. On , her return she changed her
dress, and from 10 o'clock until break-
fast—which was at noon—she played ten-
nis and played with vigor. At noon she
breakfasted and the contents of her
game bag figured as the feature of the
repast. Aft-.^r breakfast she sat out on
tbe terrace and talked over her coffee
and then took a long walk. At 4 o'clock
she dressed and from then until the din-
ner hour she received. After dinner
there were always visitors—and In the
evening there was Invariably a little
play, in which Sarah hersel| always took
.part I was there a week, and not once
•did 1 see and sign of fatigue or age in
her."—Paris Letter to the New Yorlt
Telegraph.
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