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CAGE TWO
THE BIIESHAM DAILY BANNER.
TUESDAY, MAY 20, 101S.
BRENHAM DAILY BANNER
Published Daily and Weekly by
THE BRENHAM BANKER PUBLISHING COMPANY
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0E0. A. T. NEU Business Manager
#08. CATHRINER - — - Manager of Planl
R. H. FISHER, Editor.
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at Brenham Texas.
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC
Any erroneous reflections upon the character,
standing or reputation of any person, firm or cor-
poration which may appear in the column* of The
Banner will be gladly corrected upon its being
brought to the attention of the publisher*.
BRENHAM BASEBALL.
ATTRACTS ATTENTION TO BRENHAM-
Dread not, neither be afraid of them. The
Lord ,your God which goeth before you, he
shall figrht for you.—Deut. 1, 29-30.
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Too Short and Ugly.
"Lied is a rough phrase," says Browning;
"say he fell from truth," Or, if Bob really
wanted delicacy, he might have suggested he
iwflected to keep in continuous obedience the
ninth command of the decalogue.
DEAD HAND IN PARTY PLATFORMS.
Brenham is entirely too large a city to be
without haseball, but unless people attend the
games, that is precisely what will take place.
The team is composed of local boys, except-
in starks. catchtr; ad Gibbs, relief pitcher
They are p'aying entirely for love of the game
aad to assist as far as possible in affording an
apportunity to Brehnam people to see baseball.
If they were on a salary, there would be no
necessity to make a plea that the games ba at-
ttnded. But they are not, and in addition,
they assume the costs of the transportation of
all visiting teams. The public under these cir-
cumstances should attend and promote an en-
thusiasm. provided the public really wants base
ball.
And just one more suggestion. The local
ball players are showing as much form as oth-
er teams without salaried men show at the
beginning of the season. They have plyaed
but three games. Two of these games—both at
home were rather lame; at Hempstead, a de-
cidtdly fast exhibition was given That
means, perhaps, that the grand-stand is not
supporting the players to the expected degree.
Not making enough noise, nor lending suffi-
cient vocal encouragement. It is an absolute
fact that one railroad man from Hempstead
did more rooting for the visitors Sunday than
the four score home fans. Rooting is not to be
discounted .particularly where home boys as
distinguished from salaried men are playing.
Let's everybody get in behind the local ttam
and have baseball here this summer.
Benham had attractive representation in
both the Galveston News and the Houston
Chronicle Sunday. Each of these papers
carried stories and photographs attracting fav-
orable attention to this city.
In tht Chronicle, a large 2-column picture of
Miss Musa Irby of the local High School was
run. Miss Irby was one of the first winners
of the Chronicle's Rocky Mountain Trip. Be-
ing one of the first among a score or more is
a decided distinction. Miss Irby's friends con-
gratulate her. The quick success reflects cred-
it alike upon the enterprise of Miss Irby and
the Brenham citizenship among whom she se-
cured her subscriptions.
The Galveston News carried a 3-column cut
of the Washington County Corn club, organiz-
ed and now being supervised bv L. C. Wilkin-
son, farm demonstrator. The photograph was
taken during the Maifest by F. C. Winkelmann.
It indicated to the remainder of the state for
the News has a state-wide circulation, that
the farming element of Brenham and Wash-
ington County are alive, progressive and up-to-
the minute. On the same page, the News un-
der a Brenham date line published a correct
and enthusiastic report of "Split-Log Drag"
meeting at the Court House.
Thest things help. Publicity of that char-
acter is undoubtedly beneficial. There is no
discounting the value of advertisement, even
when it is labelled advertisement. There are
firms who pay millions annually for newspa-
per space Brenha mis fortunate in having
progressive correspondnete for the larger news
paptrs—the newspapers also are fortunate.
_—. —o
Thf Lord Will Fight for You.
It is doubtless most unwarranted to suggest
that Secretary Bryan has the single term plank
in mind in his exhortations to remember the
platform. Nobody these days—least of all so
progressive a citizen as Mr. Bryan—is a strict
constructionist. While we are interpreting
the constitution in accordance with modern
needs, shall anyoen say that we are not to in-
terpret party platforms in the same way?
So experienced a platform carpenter as Mr.
Bryan certainly knows that issues that were
"paramount" four years ago are not "para-
mount today. Rtpeatedly has he seen plat-
forms which he has constructed with the ut-
most care, lose whole sections—flooring, brac-
es, studding and all—with the efflux of a few-
years. It is impossible to fix a minor plat-
form declaration which was not even discuss-
td in the campaign and say: "This plank is
particularly sacred. The sacred cows of all
sorts are finding this an exceedingly irrever-
ent age.
But Mr. Bryan has doubtless considered the
question from another point of view. From
tht lawyer's standpoint the single term decla-
ration was merely an obiter dictum of the plat-
form, and it might be contended that it was
ultra vires and un-Jeffersonian. Was it not
Jefferson who declared against the doctrine of
the deaf hand? Could, then, the convention of
1904 bind the convention of 1908? Or the
vonvention of 1912 pledge the convention of
the constitutional lawyers who believe this pos-
sible kindly raise the right hand? Not a hand
goes up. The decision is unanimous in the
negative.
Evidently, then, all the arguments point to
the fact that the people will make their own
nominations in 1916. In spite of party plat-
forms or anything else, as they have got re-
cently in the habit of doing.
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IN THE NAME OF PEACE.
It is hard to realize what awful rot emotion-
al people talk when they assemble to promote
the cause of peace. For example, at a recent
peace dinner in New York Secretary Bryan
said that throughout the world there were
t-h or a great causes working irresistibly for
peace—"growing intelligence, increasing un-
derstanding of the doctrine of brotherhood and
the growing power of the people to control
their government." The fact is that "intelli-
gent" does not in the least affect popular pas-
sion. the doctrine of "brotherhood" does not
affect the conduct of anybody and it is the peo-
ples, and not the governments, who make all
modern wars. The people of the United States
compelled the Government, much against its
will, to go to war with Spain. The real
"cause" which makes for peace is the inability
of nations to get trusted any more for war ex-
penses.
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FAVORING THE UNITED STATES.
Yves Guyot, former Minister for France and
a distinguished writer on economic subjects,
has been looking into the international effects
of the armament mania, and finds them all
working greatly to the advantage of the Unit-
ed States. He points out that Europe is spend
ing 2,000,000,000 a year in war preparations
and has 2,500,000 of the flower of youth ab-
stracted from the productive arts and massed
together for naval and military service. The
United States, with a territory as great as sev-
en-eighths of Europe and a population of 92.-
000,000, has an army of 81,000 with an effec-
tive maximum of 100,000. Such an economy
in national expense, says Guyot. forms a gen-
uint premium on the industry and commerce of
the United States which no taxation can sur-
pass. And yet there are those politicians
among us who preach that the more taxation
we levy the better for everybody. They really
mean the better for those who draw their1;
subsistence from taxation and the patronage
at the disposal of governmtnts. ,
o
The Wrong Remedy.
"My dear woman, your husband ought to
be treated for the drink habit"
"That's how he got the habit, am'am"
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IIoir About Your Grocery?
"There are no flies in my house." says the
housewife complacently, when warned of the
perils the little psets bring.
Well and good. ,
But how about your grocery store and meat
market?
Is your food infected by flies before it reach-
es your immaculate kitchen?
Investigate the store at which you trade.
If it is infested with flies, transfer your pa-
tronage to a clean place.
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Warding to Englishmen.
Springfield Republican.
It is prouednt for every Englishman nowa-
days to look under his chair before sitting
down.
Rice Hotel-South's Largest
Houston Post.
It is the largest hotel tev bruilt south of the
Mason-Dixon line.
It stands on the identical spot where the sec-
ond capitol of the Republic of Texas stood.
It represents an investment of $3,000,000,
inclusive of grounds, construction and furnish-
ings.
It will require an army of 300 people to run
the hotel, 175 of these being in the culinary
department.
Two men were killed during the progress of
of the construction work.
During the excavation, 22,000 cubic yards of
dirt were removed.
Sixty-three thousand cubic feet of concrete
were placed in the foundations.
Sixty-three tons of steel were used in the
foundations, and 2,400 tons in the framework
of the building, making a total of 2,463 tons,
or 4,926,000 pounds. ,
Eight hundred and sixty-eight tons of terra
cotta were used in the building.
Two thousand and 200 cubic yards of cin-
ders were used in the floor finish, 5,000 cubic
yards of sand and 7,000 cubic yards of gravel
One hundred and fifty thousand sacks of ce-
ment were required.
One million .six hundred thousand brick
were laid throughout the building. The walls
of brick are backed with hollow tile.
If these brick were placed end to end it
would cover a distance equal to that between
Houston and League City, or 21 miles. Or, if
extending into the air, it would be 1,100,000
feet high.
If the hotel could be placed on an enormous
pair of scales it would tip the beam at about
70,000,000 pounds.
Excavation started November 1, 1911. re-
quiring one year and 11 months to build.„The
demolishing of tht old Rice covered a period
of one month. „
The building fronts 184 feet on Texas av-
enue, 128 on Main street and 152 feet on the L.
It covers a space of 423,936 square feet. If
each of the 18 stories were placed on the
ground adjoining each other, it would cover
a space equal to 10 acres.
The cement, lumber, common and face brick
sand and lime were furnished by Texas peo-
ple and made in Texas.
There are 1600 windows in the building, and
2200 doors.
The hotel extends 440 feet above the street
levtl, and 18 feet below.
With one exception it is the tallest building
in the State of Texas.
The wood floors in the entire building cover
a space of 14,000 square feet, or less fhan 3
per cent.
An army of 400 men were employed in the
construction work-
Fifty frieght cars were required to trans-
port the furniture from the factory to the ho-
tel.
There are 100 miles of pipe in the building,
or enough to reach to Galveston and back.
Fifteen thousand icnandescent globes light
the hotel, 2,500 of these being on the roof gar-
den.*
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Love And Learning
San Francisco Chronicle,
There was something of the charm of old
romance in that story from Seattle of tht Es-
quimau boy who set sail for the Artie extrem-
ity of Alaska to claim the girl for whom he
had served three years, partly in the delights
of hunting but mainly in the labor of learning.
And it must have been hardest of labor for
a full-blooded Esquimau to have mastered
short-hand, typewriting, bookkeeping and the
various subjects taught him in a grammar
school. Think of the youths born to our
speech who so often give these subjects up in
despair.
But Paul Patkotak. trapper and fisherman,
rould never have accomplished the truly re-
markable feats of earning his own living, ac-
cumulating the necessary college fees by trips
to the Artie regions during his vacations, and
acquiring a commercial and literary education
had it not been for the stimulus of the gtntle
passion. Love of work will often work won-
ders, but they are as nothing compared with
those wrought by the work of love.
Paul's lover was indeed a hard taskmistress,
but doubtless the youth felt as Jacob of old, of
whom it was said that he "served seven years
for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a
few days, for the love he had to her."
It may be that the kayak navigator will nev-
or find cause for his shorthand, typewriting
and bookkeeping, but as trapper or educator
he will have, as the result of his test ,a char-
had it not been fo rthe stimulus of the gentle
acter asset f ionestimable value.
BECAUSE.
Guy d' Hardelot.
Because you come to me with naught save lovflr
And hold my hand and lift mine eyes above,
A wider world of hope and joy I see,
Because you come to me-
Because you spoke to me in accents sweet,
I find the roses waking round my feet,
And I am led through tears of joy to thad,
Because you speak to me.
Because God made thee mine I'll cherish the?
Through light and darkness, through all tim#
to bt,
And pray this love may make our love diviner
Because God made thee mine.
——^i—•
Morals are apt to spoil good stories, but it
is interesting to note in the latest romance of
a well-known writer of character building sto*
ries that the hero is transformed in precisely
the same way as the Esquimua, and the au*
thor unfolds a philosphy of love as a practiea*
ble solution for all youths who find themselves?
without ambition and the disposition to Work.
There is plenty of love in our colleges atltf
co-education has often been called coo-educS~
tion, but as yet no very scientific systtm haff
been devised for harnessing Cupid or of in*
ducing him to preside as a professor of ambi-
tion. It may yet be done. In any case th#
matter is worthy the earnest thought of
gogues.
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IN A HUMOROUS WAY
Longs for a Padded Cell.
He works until midnight and by the tirM
he has discussed the day's events with his Wifff
the morning is well on its way. It was clos#
to 3 o'clock when they retired Monday morrt»
ing. Here is a truthful schedule of the Mom*-
ing's happenings;
7:30—Telephone rings. Woman wants job
as a maid. Not hired.
8:15—Laundress knocks loudly for admit*-
tance. Admitted.
8:30—Iceman arrives with much slamrttiilff
of refrigerator doros an dclashing of metal.
9:30—Dog and cat fight under bed foon*
window.
10:30—Neighbor calls. Has information
about another house to rent. Parley thro^gl?
the doorway.
From 10:30 until 11:30, his time to get Upf
the man- spent devising plans for a padded cell-
—Kansas City Times.
Quite So.
Patch—To write fiction I suppose the first
requisitt is imagination.
Penley—Yes; you have to imagine that yoUf
stories will sell or you won't begin.
"I suppose you trie dto save every penny
when you started in business?"
"I did more than that,' 'replied Mr. Casshl§
Crex. "I rescued a lot that other people wei't?
squandering.—Washington Star.
Drummer—This town isn't even on the
map.
Proud Reuben—Well, the town don't feel as
badly about it as maybe ought to.—Chicago
Daily News.
"He's a deep thinker."
"I guess so. None of his ideas ever get tfl
the surface."—Detroit Free Press.
Heck—.What was the worst storm you ovel*
encountered ?
Peck—I think it raged at the rate of 300
words a minute—Boston Transcript.
In a Light Mood.
Don't use cocktail when trying to feather
your nest.
Frequently a bull in the market comes out
bare.
Odd that it gives one a start to see one's fin*
ish.
Some men can't have a corking time with'
out a lot of uncorking.
Sometimes instead of having an idea
only have an idea that we had.
Although there are many in it, ction writ'
ing is a novel business-
A girl may be very light-headed and yet not
shine in conversation.
Ont would expect them to serve hasty pud-
ding at quick lunch places, but they don't.-—
San Francisco Chronicle.
Feminine Suspicion.
"Don't you think our leade rdeserves great
crtdit for refusing to eat when she is in jail ?"
asked on London suffragette.
"Perhaps," replied the other, "although my
private opinion is that she is trying to reduce
her weight, anyhow"
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