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THE SAN ANTONIO DAILY EXPRESS: THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 11, 1909.
Elje ®aU}i (Express.
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The Charleston Collector of Customs.
The nomination of Dr. Crum for re-
appointment aa collector of customs
at the port of Charleston, S. C., has
been withdrawn and is not likely to
be again presented to the Senate of
the present Congress.
There was great opposition on the
part of the people of Charlestcm to
the appointment of Crum originally,
not so much because he is a negro as
because he owed his appointed to the
fact that he was a negro.
It was insisted that Crum had no
qualifications for the post to which
he was assigned and would not have
been considered in connection there-
with except in pursuance of the Presi-
dent's policy to appoint negroes to im-
portant places in the Federal service
In the South were such appointments
are particularly obnoxious. The Pres-
ident, on the other hand, maintained
that the appointment was fitting on
the score of qualification and the op-
position was due solely to race preju-
dice. The Senate refused to confirm
the nomination, but the President, was
Insistent and through recess appoint-
ment Dr. Crum was given the office
and maintained therein.
The reappointment of Dr. Crum
when transmitted to the Senate was
opposed with as much vigor as evei
end it was suggested that it be either
confirmed or rejected to save the in-
coming Executive any embarrassment
which might arise from his espousal
of or opposition to the cause of the
Charleston collector. That Piebident
Taft hat; ideas of his own in regard
to the matter is properly assumed,
but whether he would rather offend
the sentiment of the white people by
having a 'negro collector at Charles-
ton or offend the negroes by refusing
appointment to one of their race is a
matter which his friends would rather
not have put to the test.
Of course, it is purely a matter of
politics and the Democratic Senators
who would subordinate questions of
state to party exigencies might enjoy
the dilemma of the opposition party in
Such a case, but it is reallj- a matter
of email consequence except for the
fact that bo much has been made of
It. If the Republican Senators had
really desired to save the President-
elect from any embarrassment tho
best thing for them to have done
■would have been to reject the nomina-
tion outright., thereby creating a va-
cancy which the incoming President
would be at liberty to fill without
bringing the race issue into the equa-
tion.
be constructed more cheaply and op-
erated more cheaply and that it is in
every way preferable from an eco-
nomic view.
There appears to have been sev-
eral mistakes made in connection
with tho construction ot the isthmian
canal. First, and most serious, ac-
cording to the views entertained by
n great many persons, was the change
from the Nicaraguaa to the Panama
Canal route. Then there was the mis-
take of closing the transaction with
the French company before a thor-
ough understanding had been had
with the Republic of Colombia as to
the franchises and authority of ad-
ministration of the canal zone. This
delayed operations until the secession
of Panama and the institution of an
independent republic had eliminated
Colombia as a factor to be considered.
Then there was the mistake am to the
cost of completion, mistakes in the
selection of chief engineer^ who un-
dertook to direct the work and then
abandoned it, to the palpable embar-
rassment of the Government.
Now, in the opinion of the Senators
who have been giving the subject
serious attention, the greatest mis-
take was made in the adoption of a
lock canal Instead of a sea level canal,
and there is yet time to correct that
mistake. Perhaps Mr. Taft will know.
Perhaps he and Colonel Goethals havo
discussed the matter and' may have in
mind a sea level canal as an ultimato
result toward which the present prog-
ress is tending, the work so far dona
having been along exactly the same
lines as it would have been if the pur-
pose had been originally and exclu-
sively for a sea level canal, except,
perhaps, as to the Gatun dam.
But now is the time to decide defi-
nitely and tho decision or the consid-
eration should in nowise interfero
with the work in progress. The only
consideration should be to get tho
canal open as speedily as possible and
in accordance with the best plan.
A Sea-Level Cana.'J
Senator Kittrcdge, chairman of the
Senate Committee on Interoceanic
Canals, says that while the original
"estimate of the cost of the Panama
Canal with the lock system was $139,-
000,000, expenditures have already
reached $177,964,468 and the estimate
of the total cost has now been in-
creased to $400,000,000.
When the bill fcr the construction
of the Nicaragua Canal was pending
in Congress the estimates of total
cost ranged from $100,000,000 to twic*
that sum. When the commission of
engineers that had been appointed tj
examine the several suggested routes
reported in favor of tho Panama route
It was stated that this would be the j
cheapest because of the low price at !
which the French company had of-
fered to dispose of the incompleted
canal and railroad and other proper-
ties.
After the deal had been closed and
the work of completing the Panama
Canal had been undertaken there was
a deal of discussion as to the typo
of canal—whether lock or sea level—
and the decision was finally in favor
of the lock system. Now members
of the Committee on Interoceanic
Canals declare their firm belief that
a mistake was made when the lock
system was adopted, that a sea level
canal is more feasible and that it can
b« completed for less money, the es-
timated cost being $247,000,000. Sena-
tor Kittredge says it Is not yet too
late to correct the mistake and his
colleagues on the committee agree
with him that the sea level canal can
Progress Is the Slogan.
Progress and advancement is tho
policy of San Antonio and it is telling
in the improvements that have been
and are being made, as -.veil as in
those contemplated.
Only a few days ago Mayor Callag-
han delighted everybody with the sug-
gestion of a plan by which Travis
Street may be extended across the
river and a thoroughfare opened all
the way to the International & Great
Northern Depot that would relieve
the congestion on Houston Street.
Now it is announced that the city
authorities have practically decided
to open Navarro Street through to
Oakland, which would also involve
the bridging of the river. Of course,
private property would need to be ac-
quired for the extension of this street,
but this could be done by condemna-
tion proceedings as in the case of
the extension of other streets, and
the sooner it is done the less expen-
sive it is likely to be.
As the streets now run it is a round-
abd^t way one must take to get from
the present northern terminus of
Navarro Street to that part of Oak-
land Sitreet directly opposite, and the
more direct way would be a matter
of great convenience. It would also
bring into request some building sites
that would be very attractive besides
enhancing the value of property in
the immediate vicinity. Hardly any
one passes over the convent bridge
or the Fourth Street bridge in going
to or from the locality mentioned
without thinking of the need of such
a thoroughfare as is contemplated and
as the growing requirements of the
city demand.
San Antonio is no village where
crooked streets and devious highways
are simply picturesque and character-
istic. Business development is fast
extending beyond the few Btreets that
formerly comprised the business dis-
trict. Of course, it is desirable to pre-
serve as far as possible the distinc-
tive features of the Sfcin Antonio that
has long been unique among the cities
of the country, but mere sentiment
must, never be permitted to block the
w heels of progress, however much we
may venerate and Eeek to preserve
the old landmarks.
Progress must be the slogan.
The Winning; of the South.
Mr. Taft is credited with a purpose
to win the South by a sympathetic
policy which will treat this section
with tho same degree of consideration
given to other sections of the country.
The South has been politically solid
for a number of years and always In
opposition to the Republican National
Administration. Conditions brought
about tho solidarity of the South and
maintained it and so long as those
conditions existed nothing less was to
be expected.
As a^ rule tho National Administra-
tion has practically Ignored the South
except as to a few individuals allied
with tho dominant party in so far as
appertained to I he official patronage,
but in respect to the distribution of
favors from the public treasury for in-
ternal improvements, for waterways
and public buildings and for the ad-
vancement of material interests it
must bo admitted that the South ha3
been very fairly treated. President Mc-
Kinley did something and President
Roosevelt has done even more to
break down the sectional barriei- and
President Taft can do still more.
The South was never so ready for
a change as now. The President-elect
has the respect and confidence of tho
Southern people as probably no other
executive of the Nation has had in
many years. President Taft has only
to make such advances as may be
properly made to find that he will bo
met more than half way. There was
a time when a Southern man hitherto
classed as a Democrat would have
been severely criticised for accepting
an important appointment from a Re-
publican Administration. That was
long ago. No one criticised General
| Lee or General Wheeler for accepting
military honors offered by President
McKinley and the South generally was
well pleased when Mr. Wright of Ten-
nessee was given a place in the Cabi-
net of President Roosevelt.
Of course, President Taft will not
be expected to go outside of the party
which elected him to find his official
advisers and' his active assistants, but
he can, with perfect propriety, get,
away from the political spoils system
sufficiently to show that he is not
hidebound and he can make the South
feel tlfat it is really a part of the
Union without offending his party ex-
cept as to a few of the place hunters
and spoils partisans.
CARD INDEXING CONGRESS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.
France and Germany have kissed
and made up and Great Britain and
Germany are locked in a fond em-
brace; the Balkan States, Turkey and
Austria have quieted down; tho Cen-
tral American republics have given
each other assurances of distin- |
gulshed consideration; war between
California and Japan has possibly
been averted and about the only
cloud on the peace horizon now Is
caused by the vigorous agitation of
the proposition to have women on the
school board—and that is merely a
passing cloud.
The bill pending in the Legislature
providing that ail applications for
marriage license shall be posted in
a book provided for the purpose and
open to public inspection at all times
for at least ten days prior to the
issuance of the license has received
tho endorsement of some women'.)
clubs and that should be sufficient
to insure its worthiness.
If the tour of the American battle-
ships around the world has cost the
country a very large sum it, has prob-
ably been worth the money. It has
helped to cement international friend-
ships and it has given the world as-
surance that the United States has a
navy that amouuts to something.
There appears to b« much discus-
sion at Austin as to what shall be done,
with the money which the Waters-
Pierce Oil Company ha3 been ad-
judged liable for to the State. But
the State has not yet got the money.
It may bo that the trees that are
putting on their livery of green are
a little too previous, but it must be
lemembered that the ground hog
didn't see his shadow when he ven-
tured out last week.
When San Antonio has a railroad
of her own to Brownsville schedules
can be so arranged as tp fit the busi-
ness interests and please the people
of San Antonio.
Ma Can't Vote.
Ma's a grauualo of college and Bh#'s
read 'most everything:
Sh» car. talk 111 •French and German, ah«
can swim and alia can sing—
Beautiful? Shu's like a picture! When
Hha talks sho makes you think
Of the sweetest kind of mnsic, and sha
doesn't smoke or drink;
Oh, I can't begin to tell you all tho pooma
sha can quote;
Sho'.s as wise aa any lawyer is—but ma
can't vote.
When my pa is writing letters ma must
always linger near
To assist him in his spelling and to make
his meaning clear,
If he needs advice her Judgment, he ad-
mits, is always liest;
Every day she gives him pointers, mostly
at his own request;
Sha keeps track of legislation, and is
taxed' on bonds and stocks,
But she never gets a look-in at the secret
ballot box.
Ma is wiser than our coachman, for he's
not a graduate,
And 1 doubt if he could tell you who is
governing tho .Slate;
He has never studied grammar, and I'll
bet lie doesn't know
Whether Caesar lived a thousand or two
thousand years ago;
He could never tell us how to keep the
ship of State afloat,
Kor lie doesn't know there's such a tiling
—but uia can't vote.
Once when Mr. Jones was calling they
got up a short debate
That wan on the tariff question; ho sup-
posed lie had it straight,
But before they'd finished talking ho
threw ud his liauds and said
That he'd not read much about It nor
remembered what he'd read;
He's too badly rushed to study how to
better human lives.
Still he looms up like a giant when elec-
tion time arrives,
Mrs. Gookins does our washing, for she
has to help alone.
Taking care of her six children, though
her husband's big and strong;
When be gets a job he only holds it 'till
he draws his pay,
Then he spends his cash for whiskey or
else gambles it away;
I suppose his brain's no bigger than the
brain of any goat,
And he'd trade his ballot for a drink-
but ma can't vole.
-8. E. Klser.
Pointed Paragraphs.
The hard drinker Is usually an easy
one.
Running up bills soon runs a man s
reputation down.
Sometimes a man's silence speaks vol-
umes for his discreetness.
Trust in the Lord—but do a little
hustling on your own account.
Everything comes to the girl who has
a reputation as an heiress.
The preaching of some women Is better
than the piano practice of others.
When some women go downtown and
loaf all afternoon they cull it shopping.—
Chicago New*.
\ VERITABLE gold mine of general
Information Is now beginning to be
opened up through a systematic Indexing
of the Congressional Record. It will make
the ordinary encyclopedia seem like a
small work In comparison. This gold
mine has more than half a million pages,
at least one-half chock full of Informa-
tion, but nothing except a subject index
can make its contents available. Imagine
the contents of a modern encyclopedia
with all its subjects jumbled together
without order or system, and you will
have a miniature picture of the thousand
volumes which constitute the record of
the things said and done in the sixty
Congresses that have met. But now It is
all to be systematized, and, through card
Indexes made available for dally relerence.
The subject Index that Is to make it so
1h being prepared by the librarian of tho
House of Representatives, John J. Boobar,
and his assistants.
* * *
During each of the sixty Congresses
that havo held sessions thero have been
anywhere from 100 to nearly 500 mem-
bers. These have been men among men.
the choice of their constituents. Each of
then* has sought to promote his own in-
terests unci to advance the cause of his
party, and has brought the best contribu-
tion within his power to enrich the Con-
gressional Record. With over 6000 picked
contributors, nearly every one with a
specialty, handling his self-chosen subject
like a specialist, with the debates taking
the tvidest possible range, it is easy to
see what a mass of information lies in
tho Record waiting to be r>ut in available
reach by the Boobar index. This will be
an index of speakers as well of
speeches, which makes it still more valu-
able.
To show the thoroughness with which
it is prepared it might be said that to
index the speeches of the Fifty-ninth Con-
gress alone requited more than 20.000
cards. It Is faithful even to the smallest
detail, and its cross references are abun-
dant enough to enable even the amateur
to find that for which ho is seeking. I,ast
winter John Wesley Gaines, who repre-
sents the old Andrew Jackson district in
Congress, and Representative Burleson of
Texas had a set-to Over tho mistletoe
Purleson declared it a parasitic plant that
harms the trees on which it grows. The
knightly soul of Gaines was shocked to
its core with such talk, and he proceeded
to rattle the very emblazoned skylights of
that historic hall with his eloquence in de-
fending the mistletoe from the insiduous
attack, and in declaring it tho fairest
flower in the garden of love. That gem
of oratory might as well be buried in the
sands of the Sahara as to he left in the
Congressional Record without a subject
index. With such an index the world will
always be able to find this memorable de-
fense of the mistletoe.
• • •
Not long ago champ Clark was discuss-
ing all things in general and the tariff
on art in particular. He is an observing
man. and called the attention of the
House to the fact that an Indian in a
picture In the rotunda of the Capitol had
been painted with six toes. It was the
picture of the baptism of Pocahontas, and
from that day to this every Washington
tourist has had those six toes pointed out
to him by the c.ipitol guides. The new
card index is faithful in even so small a
matter as this.
Mr. Boobar took un this work more as
a pastime than anything else, lie was
appointed librarian in 1000. from Minne-
sota. and brought to his position a re-
markable fund of energy. He says that
no attache of Congress Is worked so hard
as to be in danger of nervous prostration
from overwork: and that he thought the
best way to utilize his snare tlm<» was by
doing something useful. So he foil to
Indexing the proceeding of the current
session of Congress. He has kept this up
until he now has a complete index of both
sessions of the Fifty-ninth Congress and
of the first session of th* FKtleth. Pur-
ine his spare time he is going back to
index the Fifty-eighth Congress.
Cnrd Indexing is about as tedious a
business as nn« can very well lmaelne
it is like feedlnc a furnace with a tea-
spoon Put Roobar and his assistants
have been faithful at the task. Thev ex-
pect to continue this work as the so°clons
pass, and even if they are not able to
cattv it back to the beginning thev will
catch all the good things of tho future.
The librarian and his staff are eettiner no
extra pay for their work. Whether they
ever fret nnv or not. they propose to carry
the index through the coming years and
bsok as far into th* pa*t as their time
will allow. Roobsr's attitude is this:
"What bootc It whother T ever get any
par. T am doing mv best to make a gond
index, and If I succeed in that T shall
have rendered a great service whether T
am paid for it or not." He hopos to do
his work well that Congress mrv
eventuallv decide to have the records of
all past Congresses indexed, and will give
him men to do it.
v* •
Anyone who has had anvthing to do
with ^ard Indexes must appreciate the
stupendousness of that. task. Crudcns'
Concordance is recognized as a work of
monumental proportions, and yet it was
but a pleaHfint little diversion as com-
pared with the indexing of the proceed-
ings of sixty Congresses. Many a single
session fill* 10.000 pages of closely printed
matter, and each Congress has two ses-
sions at. least. A single session mav turn
out ten 1000-page quarto volumes. Of
course the first Congresses wyie not as
wordy as some of the inure recent ones.
A single octavo volume suffices to give a
synopsis of every speech delivered in both
sessions of the First Congress.
The value of a card index of Congres-
sional proceedings to the country at large
can he readily illustrated. In every im-
portant community there are bound
copies of the Congressional Record cover-
ing many years, but not so useful as they
might be if properly indexed. Congress
can authorize duplicate lists of the cards
printed, to be given, or sold at actual
cost, to the various newspapers and li-
braries which have card indexes, and thus
make the record a sort of community
encyclopedia. Think of what It would
mean to the student of the tariff to he
able to got a complete Index of the Con-
gressional debates from the beginning,
and to the student of finance to get a
complete index to the discussions of the
money question. When the historian
comes to write the history of the Panama
Canal, what a fund of information he
would havo at hand did he have a sub-
ject index of Congressional debates on
inter-oceanic canals!
• *• *
There is. and has always been, an In-
dex of the Congressional Record. But
so far as Indexing debates according to
subject is concerned, it is no index at all.
The only way one can possibly find aJl
that, was spoken on a given subject In a
given session Is to go laboriously through
the index of tlif* doings of each individual
member of the Senate and the House.
Attd there are nearly 600 members. To
the ordinary investigator its usefulness is
very limited. Recently a young man was
sent to the House library to look up some
speeches on woman suffrage. He had no
Idea who had delivered them, and no idea
in what Congress they wero delivered. It
was impossible for the librarian to find
what he wanted, so long as it was not
known who had spoken on the subjcct.
That has always been the fatal flaw of
every index of Congressional proceedings
ever prepared.
There is no form of job that has been
worked harder than tho index job. The
proceedings of Congress are voluminous
beyond anything the average individual
dreams of. Beyond the record there are
hundreds of documents, reports and the
like printed. In all there are some 500
books added to the literature of the coun-
try bv every Congress. To make every
fact in every one of those volumes avail-
able for ready reference is a vast task,
and Congress is in the habit of buying
every sort of Index that is offered to it.
on the ground that each one possesses
some good point, and that after awhile
the man will come upon the scene who
can unite the good points of all into one
index covering everything that Congress
has done from the beginning.
* * *
For years Congress had on Its staff a
set of men who were indexing the docu-
ments of the past Congresses. They frit-
tered along with that job so long, with-
out showing any appreciable result, that
at last Speaker Cannon lost patience and
resolved to send the whole crew away,
bag and baggage. Then he declared that
so long as he was In Congress such a
thing should not happen again. And it
hasn't. Thero are Indexes of every kind
and description, indexes of the Record,
indexes of the journals, indexes of docu-
ments, Indexes of reports—indexes in such
rich profusion that it takes a small-sized
volume to adequately index the Indexes.
Tn one instance a prominent newspaper
correspondent of a bygone generation pre-
pared an index of documents. There
were many good things about it, but with
many subjects it was as easy to go
through the un'ndexed rccord Itself and
find what, was wanted as to find it
through the index. Yet. the newspaper
correspondent got $10,000 for his manu-
script.
The recent editions of the Revised Ftat-
uteq have a little marginal addition which
will be appreciated by overv lawyer and
Federal judge throughout the land. Tt
shows the number of the bill upon which
the law it accompanies was based, and
whether it originated in the Senate or the
House. Tt Is often essential to the correct
interpretation of the law that the dehatos
that preceded Its passage should be
studied. Under the old svstem It required
hours of patient investigation to find
those debates. The investigator had to
first find the date of approval, then find
the particular approval, and from that
finally locate the number of the bill upon
which the law was based. Then he w*s
ready to trace the hlstorr of that bill.
Tho addition of the marginal reference
eliminates all that. This reference was
placed there at the instance of Mr.
Boobar.
(Copyright. 1909. by 'Frederic .T. TIaskin.)
Tomorrow: "The American Chauffeur."
A COUPLE OF WARNING STINGS
w
i
-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
WHAT THE STATE PAPERS SAY
TOPICS OF THE TIMES
LONGEST ROAD IN THE WORLD.
Cape-to-Cairo Railway to Be Complet-
ed in Three Years.
E. von Gheel Glldemeestpr. chief prisl-
neer of the Cape Town-Cairo Railway
Syndicate, now In charge of tho opera-
tions which, within' a few years, will
form the connecting link between North
and South Africa, is stopping ut the Wal-
dorf-Astoria. He is In tho United States
to make a study of the railway systems
of this country.
"In the Cape Town-Cairo Railway,"
said Mr. Cllldemeester, "there is at pres-
ent a stretoh of about 2600 miles to be
completed. It lies between Khartoum. In
the British Egyptian Sudan, to Broken
Hill, a point In Rhodesia. It
that this remaining mileage will be com-
pleted within three years, and tUen the
longest railroad in the world cove ins
in tile neighborhood of 6400 inllas, will be
" ''What do I estimate the total cost to
he" Very close to £200,000.000. or about
Jl.doo.ooo.iwo, 1 should nay. but a. compara-
tively small amount when It Is M*
ered what a glorious tiling it will ™
Africa, one of the greatest and richest
countries of the world. It will be possi-
ble for the traveler to Journey from Ber-
lin or Paris to Cape Town In t*n «r
eleven days—just think of that. And then
it will open up a country that is rich In
almost everything in the mineral world
—gold, silver, copper and diamonds. \\ hat
else they will find there remains to be
seen
"It's a great work, Is this building of
the longest railway, and what it all means
to Africa and the world Is not fully ap-
preciated. 1 am afraid. To the business
man, to be found everywhere, and espe-
cially those liovlng affairs in Africa, It
will be a wonderful thing. Where now.
in traveling from Paris for examp e. he
Is compelled to take a long sea trip, lie
will ho able, after the completion of the
road, to take train to Brlndlsl. Italy,
thence by boat to Alexandria. EgyrV. and
a short Jouruev to Cairo, where h« will
take the'train that will land him tn Cape
Town, at the southern extreme of Africa,
all in eleven days. Just at the present
time we are working In a rather disagree-
able country—that Is to say. a country
which has a fair climate, but fever is
quite prevalent. The engineers on the
work are (lerman, American and English
with, or course, the Kaffir as the laboring
lactor."—New York Times
Just Between Lady Fr'en's.
Sadie—Say, honest, now, do you like
Mttggio.'
Pauline—Well—she's got n good heart-
on' she means renj well, but
Sadie—Neither do I.—Puck.
NAME STREETS AND PLAZAS
RIGHT.
Editor Express: In your issue of this
morning I note with satisfaction your
well-put editorial reference to names for
the streets of this city. 1 havo often
wondered what policy or method, if any,
controlled In their selection. I drive
about tho principal thoroughfares and
inquire in vain for the names of fho
puulic'-spirited men who years ago were
conspicuous in taking the Iniative in
building up San Antonio as a great com-
mercial metropolis. Who were some of
them, who promoted by word and acts
the construction of the first railroad to
the little village on the banks of the Han
Pedro? Who were they who contributed
in words and money to the establishment
hero of the beginnings of the great mili-
tary post that overlooks the city? Shall
tho memory of John Twohig. Horace Gre-
net, Herman Kampmann, FrancK.-o Guil-
beau, remain only until the folding twi-
light of recollection has deepened into
tho black night of forgetfulness? Let
memorials of their usefulness and labors
as public-spirited citizens and pioneers
in the development of this growing com-
mercial center of Southwest Texas, be
inscribed with their names where the vis-
iting public may see and know who it
was in the years of long,ago that put
their shoulders to the wheel of gropress.
Let me make a suggestion, viz: Twohig
Avenue, Grenet Avenue, Kampmann
Boulevard, Qullbeau Plaza.
*AN OBSERVER.
San Antonio, Tex., Feb. 10.
Paid in His Own Coin.
"I've got nothing else, and you'll have
to take it," said tho consequential man
in the tramcar.
"But we ain't supposed to change half
sovereigns," said the conductor.
"Can't help that," said the passenger;
"you'll have to find change, that's all.
I'm not going to get off."
A man in the corner with a big black
bag beckoned to the conductor; there was
a whispered confab and a smiling con-
ductor returned to the wealthy passen-
ger.
"A gentleman lias offered to give you
cliange," he said.
"Ha, JTa! Ho you had to climb down
and find change, after all, my fine fel-
low, eh? Well' here's the half sover-
eign.''
It was five minutes before he got his
change.
When tho conductor brought it, it was
in a double handful. "There you are,
sir," he said. And, camping do%n one
hundred iwul nineteen pence and a penny
ticket upon the cantankerous one, ho left
him to gasp out his expostulations.
The man with the black bug was an
automatic gas meter collector.—Tlt-Biia,
Keeping an Eye on the Clock.
Every morning it is the duty of the
clerk of tho House Appropriations
Committee to write on the big gold-
| framed mirror of the committee room
the number of days to March 4. A day
or two ago a few lines of verse made
their appearance. They follow:
"Look in this glass, and ere you turn
away <-*
Consult this number here from day to
day;
Jt shows In fashion brief, in manner curt,
The leaden passing of theso days that
hurt.
It says each morn, as writ in red or
blue.
You'll soon be through with him—and
he with you.
And tho' the minutes seem like drag-
ging days,
Each nears—oh, sweetest thought!—tho
parting ways
When we will speed him from the haunts
of men
With 'Heaven bless you till we meet
again.'
But softly murmur as we give our ribs
a prod,
'A peevish lion is the noblest woi*k of
God.' "
Calm and critical the Congress may
become, but its poetical spirit remains
unstlfled. It will not indulge in ill-timed
transports, but it can keep an eye on the
clock. Its satisfaction has the certainty
of geometry. It is not guided by chance;
it is rigorous, systematic, convincing and
it devotes itself ungrudgingly to the va-
rious aspects of a closing career.
It signals for special praise, "the pee-
vish lion, that noblest work of (Sod."
whose august and formidable majesty is
to be invaded by an accomplished in-
vestigator. who, despite his aversion for
the limelight, is to Illustrate and punctu-
ate an ex-President's taste for movement
and adventure. With a positive trans-
port of enthusiasm these time-servers
greet the coming days of deliverance.
Their sympathies are with the peevish
Hon and not with that special phenome-
non seeking the sensation of a wilder
West.
Tn the simple touching history of the
President's relation to the Congress, in
the record of his happy faculty for a
generous and ingonuous confidence in his
advisers, these verses of tho day havo
the precision of a legal document.
But, be it said to his credit, he is too
robust to care; too imposing in his self-
satisfaction to take notice. He is sturdy
and resolute and self-centered, and, iii
his own good time, he will take care of
the peevish lion. Congress, recently, has
been like the man who kept, a jgfoat,
which he loved surpassing well until it
took to chasing him. Even then he be-
lieved in Its kind heart, for a while; hut
the time came, somewhere around tho
Fourth of March, when he was willing to
throw it to the lionu.—Louisville Courier-
Journal.
College Women as Wives.
Dr. Charles W. Elliot, Harvard's distin-
guished president, is disposed to take
college women to task because so few
of them marry. He says that 26 years
ago college women did not marry fre-
quently because they could not; the gen-
eral run of girls who went to college
lacked sufficient personal attractions to
get them husbands. This rather unchi-
valrous statement contains probably
much truth, although no larger propor-
tion of college girls marry now than
then, and the type has immeasurably
Improved.
What, then, can be the cause? Can it
be that highur education really makes
marriage unattractive try women, a.s Dr.
Elliot seems to think, or doe.i it make
them unfit for a domestic life? Women
themselves will insltt upon the former
as the true reason why college trained
girls do not marry, but there will be a
few to insist quite as much upon the
last as the first cause.
Perhaps a good method of getting at
one angle of the matter Is to ask the
young men. In a measure, at least,
they are supposed to have something to
do with the matter. Probably not one
college-bred man In twenty marries a
college girl, and there must be a rea-
son. The man's reason runs something
like this: He is not attracted to tho
girl who knows fully as much as he
does and thinks she knows a great deal
more. He does not want to marry an
oracle in veils and flounces, but a woman
who will look up to him as the greatest
man on earth. As a matter of truth, so
long as she can take a woman's care of
her home and children and give to him
a womanly sympathy, the average man
does not care if his wife hasn't an
ounce of bookish brains in her kead.
Of course, he likes her to be* intelli-
gent. If a college education happens
not to have given her an enlarged sense
of the importance of herself and her
sex, and a deprecatory view of the crea-
ture masculine, then it is well. But un-
fortunately this very thing Is largely
truo of college-bred women; it makes
them condescending, and a man despises
the woman who patronizes him. He sees
clearly what she does not see—that a lit-
tle knowledge Is a foolish thing, and some-
times not so pleasant to live with as
none at all.
After nil, a man chooses his life com-
panion for personal qualities far more
than for mental atalnments. The brain-
iest men have given all their love to
women with little mentality. What a
man wants in his wife is a woman, not
a trained mind.—Washington Post.
Only Spot in Sight.
"Git off, yo's steppln' on my foot!"
"Good lan,' nlggah. nh's got to stan'
somewhtres."—Cornell Widow.
Convicts and Public Roads.
This matter of working short-term con-
victs on the public roads Is a hobby of
our State Senator, the Honorable li. R
Terrell. We havo no objection to a man
having a hobby, provided it be a good
one, and this one of Mr. Terrell's 1s
about the best in the bunch. As we seo
it. both short-term and long-term men
should be given outdoor work. The State
is cruel and unjust when It shuts a man
In prison walls, away from the sunlight
and the fresh air and the singing of the
birds.—Waco Times-Herald.
Texas needs the roads and the convicts
need the exercise. Tt will be argued that
tho latter feature is being fully carried
out on the convict farms of the State.
That the men are getting the exercise is
true. That, it is the best for them is dis-
puted. But that their employment on the
public roads would be best for the State
and for the people leaves no room for
argument. Texas does not need to make
a dividend-producing machine out of her
convicts, and the fact that she is In need
of roads is the best argument why the
attempt to make profits should be aban-
doned at once. The Terrell bill should
become a law, and by its operation it
would not be long until the demand for
employment of all convicts on the public
roads would be so general as to make
this plan necessary. v
Watch the Demagogues.
Down Alice way the weekly Chronicle
suggests the Wta tors-Pierce fine be set
aside for the construction of railroads to
develop isolated sections of tho Stat».
Fine. But when that suggestion catches
tho ear of the demagogue corner there
will be a shrieking protest Instead of an
"amen." However, keep your optimism
bright, your poll tax handy and maintain
a steady pull for a greater Texos.-Fort
Worth Star-Telegram.
Texas could well afford to spend all the
money from the fine in building railroads
to develop th*» remote areas and then
give the roads to operating companies,
without price if necessary, just in order
to get the State developed. This is not
necessary, and of course will not bo con-
sidered, but the vast importance of de-
velopment is such as make the situation
worthy of consideration, nevertheless.
♦ ♦ ♦
Here Is a Suggestion.
An El Paso husband. In asking for a
decree of divorce, alleges that his wife
makes a practice of donning male attire
and going out nights to see the sights
and to carouse with the boys. Surely tho
aggrieved hunband would rather she went
out disguised If she had to go at all.—
El Paso Herald.
Surely there is nothing wrong about
going out disguised, provided the dis-
guise shall be safe. If the El Paso wife
has fo securely concealed her identity as
make recognition impossible, she has
protected the reputation of her husband.
That seems to be the only cause of his
complaint. By the way, El Paso manages
to spring a great many freak things in
various forms from time to time.
♦ ♦
Wealth in Quayule.
We saw Mr. Vogel loading a ear of
rubber, and learned that it was -?oiny: to
some parties in Boston. Mr. Vogcl Is
not Inclined to talk for publication, but
kindly gave the following information,
which we liopo he will not object to our
writing: He has most of tho gunyule In
several counties for his factory. Where
a plant is pulled up a dozen to fifteen
young plants will grow from the pieces
of root left In the grounl. Plants w'll
grow from seed at an il»*,fatlon of U9W/ to
fcooo feet. An average section will produce
in the wild state, as it grows now,
twenty tons per section. Plants are
growing right here in Marathon, from
seed, large enough to take to r'.ie fac-
tory. So you see. Instead of being used 4
up. as we" had been told, tha wild plants
will, at this rate, prodrm? '.'00 tons ner
section. Suppose Brewster County should
sow the seed. In three years we would
not only produce L'llO tons per section,
but. by cultivation, we could raise a
plant that will, and doe*, grow without
irrigation, that will make thousands of
tons per section, anl all this waste and
will become a veritable g«;U mine-
Alpine Avalanche.
Here is another Texas wealth-producing
factor that promises to 'iccomplish won-
ders for the people of the western part
r>f the State within the next few years.
Guayuie that will reproduce itself in a
short time will be worth more money to
Texas than the plne.v woods that will
not reproduce themselves under many
years. Some day West Texas will secure
more profits from woods than East
Texas, and that is a great deal.
— <>
Modest Expectations.
"Sometimes church officials are over-
conscious of the dignity of their Impor-
tance," says Rev. P. H. Dltchfleld, In his
entertaining volume, "Tho Old-Time Par-
son," "and even their wives are not
without a sense of reflected glory. On
one occasion a new church warden's wife
came late to church, just when the peo-
ple were rising from their knees. She
smiled genially and said. 'Oh. pray don't
rise for me; 1 don't expcct it.* "—Buffalo ,
Commercial.
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