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A DUTY WELL FERFOSXED.
Aa much aa the temporary interference
with the great work of the Agricultural and
iraehaaleal college U to be regretted there
can be no criticism of the action of the
board of directors. They performed a mani-
fest doty Intelligently and courageously and
Out people of Texaa with few exceptions
- win commend them for it While their da-
clatanj has apparently left the college with-
out stjadenta for a time they hare in reality
. aaved the institution. Any other course
would hare destroyed- Its usefulness. No
student body of a State Institution can prop-
' eriy submit an ultimatum to the governing
authorities and if such ultimatum should
be submitted. It can be treated only one
Looking at the charges which were pre-
ferred against the president by the student
body it is amazing that 600 young men
. scores of whom must necessarily be highly
endowed intellectually and all of whom are
1 no doubt of good moral fiber should upon
such flimsy complaints ask. the removal of
. the head of the institution. It is almost Im-
possible looking at these charges to find a
reasonable motlye for the course of the stu-
. f debt body.
It is not conceivable that the antipathy .to
the president was shared by all the students.
It seems rather that the discontent was
. worked up by a few leader! and that the
body of students weakly followed where their
own welfare and the welfare of the school
would have dictated the opposite course.
Let no one think for a moment however
t that the college has been seriously damaged
or that its usefulness has been permanently
Impaired. On the contrary it has demon-
atrated to a crisis that it is Jus the kind of
Institution the State believed it to be. There
' are thousands of boys in Texas who need the
training of the college and there will be oth-
- era to step in and fill all vacancies. The
. work of the college will go on Just as though
i nothing has happened.
. While therefore there is every reason to
regret that such a trouble should have arisen
there is not the slightest reascfa to regret
'the action of the directors. It jlll all work
out for the best in good time.
THE WEST AST) REFORM.
Our old friend Walter Wellman Is out In
: the West feeling the public pulse and he In-
forms us: "The people of the West by an
arerwhslmlng majority of both political par-
;(Hes uphold the policies of President Roose-
i felt and demand their continuance." Con-
tinuance of what? Mr. Wellman surely
knows that "my policies" eilst for the most
part in the president's fiery messages. He
baa urged legislation on this question or
that he has hurled the Bryan policies at con-
gress but the standpat majority refuses to
' badge.
And if Mr. Roosevelt has been unable to
control his party in congress how in the
name of Bill Jones can one expect Taft to
do itT Should Taft be elected he would
soon adapt himself to the controlling lnflu-
race of the standpatters and the republican
party would then be back in Its accustomed
position of undisguised affiliation with the
trusts.
It It be true as Mr. Wellman says that
the majority of both parties in the West are
for reform then there Is but one thing for
- the West to do and that Is to leave the re-
publican party and Join the only party that
truly stands for the reforms which Mr. Roose-
yelt lias in part espoused.
Tariff reform financial reform railroad
' regulation trust suppression campaign pub-
licity and various policies which the presl-
. dent has from time to time advocated find
: no favor with the republican leaders. If Mr.
Roosevelt can not get congress to act then
It la pretty clear that Mr. Taft can not The
republican party Is responsible for all the
OTila Of which the country complains and It
Is too much to expect that party to repudiate
. ItVowm work.
The country has applauded Roosevelt most
for hit advocacy of democractlc policies
which the .KyubUcan party reject. The
West certainly knows by . this $lme that the
only hope to get a democratic policy exe-
catted Is to put the government In the hands
of democrats and that la probably what wll)
happen. ''..; ' - v"
Mr. Wellman finds the reform sentiment
la the West as aa indication of Tart's nomi-
nation. Possibly he la right about thai but
bow can the reform element support Taft at
the polls when It la certain that Tart's party
in congress will be dominated by Aldrich
Foraker. Knox Elklns and CuHom In the
senate and by Bayne DalseU and Cannon in
the house? These men are 'responsible to
small constituencies and they are; utterly
heedless . to the demands that may 'come
front the body of republicans la the Weat
These facta are quite apparent to the re-
formers in the West At the proper time
they will make a choice between real reform
and the fake reform which Taft's candidacy
stands for. If they are la earnest about re-
form Bryan will be elected with a demo-
cratic house of representatives behind him.
ORATORY ASTO BUSINESS.
There is a good deal of spellbinding going
on. in the country at present not counting
what our statesmen at Washington are giv-
ing us when the house sits in committee of
the whole house. Even former Secretary
Leslie M. Shaw is on the stump again and
we hear of him np in Michigan advising the
people against any further tearing down of
business. "While I approve of the strict
enforcement of the law" he declared "and
the enactment of constraining and preventive
legislation I can but believe the time has
come to give primary consideration to the
restoration of Industrial and business ac-
tivity." .
Just what the former secretary means Is
not clear but people are going to assumo
that he is speaking in criticism of the presi-
dent's recent message. Other orator are
going about deprecating any form of denun-
ciation at present for fear It may injure
business or defer the return to prosperity.
Mr. Shaw ought to give the people a sam-
ple of the oratory which he thinks will im-
prove conditions. If talk haa brought about
the depression then we suppose talk can
bring about a resumption of all forms of In-
dustrial and commercial activity. Probably
it might be advisable to proclaim to
the country that for a year or two
violations of law would not be prose-
cuted and that corporations could cut
any sort of capers without tear of punish-
ment; that congress would make no attempt
to reform any evil or enact any law for the
protection of the public. But would that sort
of program Improve business?
However Mr. Shaw may look at the pres-
ent situation the Indications are that the
people are quite determined to pursue the
evils which have appeared to harass them.
Mr. Roosevelt has not enumerated all of
them by any means. Neither has Mr. Bryan.
But the business depression which our great
men are deprecating is due rather to the
evils than to the mention of the evils. The
confidence of the business world can not pos-
slbly exist knowingly side by side with cor-
ruption and wherever confidence is shaken
It Is because of the conditions and not be-
cause somebody has called attention to the
conditions. Therefore the return of con-
fidence will be brought about by rectifying
conditions rather than by silence.
It is the duty of public officials to proceed
with the enforcement of the laws and to the
execution of sound public policies. Legiti-
mate busness can not be Injured by any in-
telligent effort to correct evil conditions nor
by efforts to restrain or punish wrongdoing.
Moreover the people are not apt to take
flight at the warnings of such men as Shaw.
They Know pretty well what the matter Is
and they are going to fight a great cam-
paign for genuine reform. And the right sort
of campaign for the right sort of policies will
hurt no one.
THE "BRYAN MAP."
The New York World continues to Inflict
Its "Bryan map" upon the country as an
argument against the nomination of Bryan
but indications are that it will have no Influ-
ence upon the democratic voters who do not
bolt tickets. Mr. Bryan himself pointed out
how unfair the map Is by showing that it was
the campaign of 1894 rather than that of
1896 that Inaugurated the season of 'demo-
cratic defeat and In 1894 Mr. Bryan was not
even rated as one of the party leaders.
The fact remains in spite of maps' that
Mr. Bryan in 1896 received by far the larg-
est vote ever polled for a democratic candi-
date for president and It Is Just as certain
that he will receive at least 1000000 votes
more in 1908 than he received in 1896. News-
papers that make It a' point to proclaim
Bryan's weakness and to demand the nomi-
nation of some other candidate are strangely
blind to the real situation as regards the
democracy. To publish maps indicating
Bryan's strength as only In the South is ut-
terly misleading. Mr. Bryan's greatest
strength is in the North. Relatively speak-
ing he Is stronger In the North than In the
South. The Southern democrats honor and
respect Mr. Bryan but It Is true that any
formidable movement for some other candi-
date would have received considerable sup-
port in the South. Texas would have been
glad to offer Senator Culberson and no one
doubts that other Southern States would
have rallied to Culberson's banner but the
fact Is that Mr. Bryan has held Intact his
support among the masses of the North and
the logic of Mr. Bryan's candidacy is that
he Is stronger in the North than any other
democrat.
Another mistake the World makes is in as-
suming that party alignments this year will
be the same as In 1896 1900 or 1904. The
conditions are wholly different Even the
republicans recognize that There is going
to be a vast amount of independent voting
especially lp the North and the Northern
people are going to Judge the democratic
party by its platform Nobody doubts the
character or patriotism of Mr. Bryan and ha
hajs plainly declared thatsflver and railroad
ownership are not issues so far aa tie la
concerned. The country knows ' that Mr.
Bryan standi tor equal ' opportunity under
the law ant that he la against' privnege.
Mr. Btjmd standa for the good policies which
Roosevelt baa preached but which the re-
publican party haa rejected and' besides he
stands (or tariff reform "by the friends of th
people- ' ' 5 . - 'j il: ' h' V
; If Roosevelt could rn 1904 aweep the North
because of his attitude toward progressive
reform how can newspapers declare; that
Mr. Bryan la weak in the same aeotioat If
the World is genuinely In favor of democratic
success it Is destroying its capacity to aid
amy movement to that end by constantly
deprecating .what la now the unquestionable
determination of the democratic masses
throughout the country v". -
4 We could never understand what the ' Atlanta
Georgian meant by alluding to the rodents of
Houston until yeiterday. A lady of the Third
ward informs us that she caught a. mouse -six
years ago tnd a former resident of Houston who
has rerurned after an absence of twenty-saves
years tells us that in '1879 two rat Were killed
near the Santa Fe depot But what of Uf
It set roi that the old Alamo has at least con-
nected with one surrender.
The Post has received from J. Allen Myers of
Bryan three White Globe turnips each about
twice the site of Colonel John Temple Craves'
bead. We have figured it out that if these tur-
nip wer served at the Waldorf-Astoria at the
rate of 15 cents a portion they would bring In
$43.35. The estimate doesn't include the greens.
Senator Foraker doesn't deny that it has hap-
pened but he defies them to make him acknowl-
edge that ht knows it
Just one year from today Mrs. William J. Bryan
will be distressingly busy packing and storing the
household goods at Lincoln and worrying about
the gown she will wear to her husband's inaugura-
tion. It is always well enough to remember
women have their troubles.
We do not know who started the joke about' the
"first Ade te the Fairbanks boom" but it haa
almost undermined our health.
The Washington Herald has discovered a Boa-
toncse who drinks three gallons V' water daily.
We suppose he is trying to preserve the law of
averages. There are quite a number of Boston
people who do not drink water at all.
As the Due de Chaulne will get nothing whea
he weds Miss Shonts it wjll be an even up match.
The tSridc will get nothing also.
While we have said many mean things about
Cortelyou it is hut Justice to say that we greatly
admire and appreciate his silence and we are
grateful that he is not vociferous like John Wes-
ley Gsines or Billy Sulier.
Those wise democrats in Washington who wer
afraid to bell the cat are showing symptoms of the
sort of courage it takes to buck the elephant
Memphis boasts of a $10000 diamond robbery.
That doesn't put the Tennessee metropolis even
in the first division of the diamond robbery per-
centage table. Houston's record of a $50000 job
still holds the top.
A scientific test has demonstrated the fact that
the sun shines forty quadrillion candlepower
brighter in Texas than anywhere else in the
world.
The boys in Nashville have organized a press
club. This looks very much like the craft there
is oreparintj for eventualities and we suppose
thaj Mr. Dickel will see that they are protected
if anything happens.
A correspondent says "Mr. Roosevelt is s man
of vast powers of endurance." That he is or he
would certainly have put the quietus on Jacob
Riis long ago.
The Atlanta Constitution tells us about the
mint gardens of Georgia "gleaming glorious in the
blizzard." The bliizard that knocked the Georgia
miet crop happened in the State house met sum-
mer. Paul Cook says he holds tight shoes as the
greatest curie. Still the shoes are not tight so
often as the Birmingham fellow who happens to
get into than.
A Mr. Sutro told a congressional committee
that mince pie was more harmful than good licker.
Well it would not take long to convince the aver-
age congressman of that all right.
Oklahoma has a nine-foot sheet law but the
subject was worked to death when Texas was
tugging at it. The union will please take note
that it is barred.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox takes another shot st love
in half a column of Elinor Glynish sort of stuff.
It must be amusing to Mr. Wilcox to peruse his
wife's burning rhapsodies.
It is said Mr. Shonts will give no dowry with
his daughter. If that be true the little spindle-
shanked duke she is going to marry will make
things lively for her.
The Nashville American discusses the "Tennes-
see Republicans" seriously. Over here whenever
anybody uys anything about the Texas repub-
licans people just laugh.
SOME POSTSCRIPTS.
An average yield of ginger in Jamaica is about
aooo pounds an acre.
The department of health of New York city is
working with a new serum for the cure of rabies.
The largest wooden building in the world is
said to be the parliament building at Wellington
New Zealand.
A full grown deer wandered into the streets of
Providence and caused considerable commotion
before it wss captured.
The largest yield of bone from one whale was
taken in i8lj by the Mary and Helen. It
amounted to 3100 pounds which was worth about
$15000 at the prices which prevailed at the time.
A novel spectacle of a convicted counterfeiter
filling a Christian pulpit was recently offered
at the First Congregational church at Wheaton
111. He is Rev. James R. Kaye the pastor. He
and his congregation contend that morally he Is
Ninnocent.
Bridget Stanton who died December 10 after
spending the greater part of her 70 years in the
employ of the family of the late Rear Admiral
Bancroft Gherardi left her entire estate Valued
at $8000 except two email bequests to .relatives
to be divided between the two sons of) Admiral
Gberardi both of whom she nursed when they
were children.
In the Lord's Country.
(from the Skintr Gasellt.)
The Texas strawberry crop is said to be fine ia
Texaa this spriag. and we invite the f rosea North
to coat down and help eat theav !
GossiV bi tie Corridor
Manuel Lopea of .New York' well known
manufacturer' of cigars with factories at New
York and Havana was ia the city yesterday se-
companied by Mrs. topes sad C. W. MeCermlck
of San Francisco' one of hif talesmen and had
apartments at the Rice hotel ; Mr. and Mrs. topes
left New York on January ij and have beeh
traveling continually ever since-.. The object of
the trip is to make a personal Study of the con-
dition of the country so mat the production el
cigars maybe governed accordingly. '
"I have been all through the North and West
said Mr. Lopez and am-well pleased with the
outlook for business.!; tverywhere there is a more
hopeful feeling and the general opinion is that
by March 1 there will be a marked change for
the better. An encouraging phase of the situa-
tion is the fact that the banks are 'piling up
money which must soon find its wsy through la-
vestment channels into circulation.
"The panic caused by overspeculatioe and a too
liberal swinging oi the vbig stick' both are to
blame affected the sale of higher grade cigars.
The cigar consuming public went to the cheaper
grades to pipes and to cigarettes. Cigars can be
included in the list of luxuries) and the business
suffered with the curtailment of other luxuries.
"The American cigar smoking public ia fickle.
They do not stick to one kind of cigar for any
length of time and are continually keeping the
manufacturers guessing. Sometimes they wsnt a
strong sometimes a mild cigar. Sometimes it is
a thin cigar sometimes a fat one now a long
now a small cigar. It is a difficult proposition to
keep up with the wants of the people. "
The Lopez factories manufacture between 11-
000000 arid iaoooooo cigars annually. . Mr. Lopes
is a Spaniard. He learned the cigar business in
Havana and has worked in every branch of it
He has been living in New York about fifteen
years. From here the party went last night to
New Orleans thence to Washington and New
York.
P. H. Isaacson William Kruschenski J- J.
Foster and H. W. Morrow of River Falls Wis
comprise s party which had rooms at the Maca-
tee hotel yesterday. They have been making a
tour of the gulf coast country with the view of
purchasing 10000 acres to be used for coloniz-
ing purposes. Mr. Morrow said yesterday that
the parry represented a syndicate representing
leading citizens of River Falls. They have been
to Jackson county where sn option was secured
on sooo acres and they will remain in the State
for several weeks before returning home.
"You have no idea how many people of the
North are anxious to come to Texas said Mr.
Morrow. "Thousands of them are anxious to
lesve the cold climate for the warmer and more
pleasant one in this part of the country and the
inquiry for Texas lands is something enormous.
" I have had s great deal of experience in colo-
nizing lands in the Saskatchewan and Elberta
countries in Canada and in sections of the United
States but none appeals to me as strongly ss
Texas which I believe haa the greatest future
before it
"The Canadian lands are better for wheat but
this is sll that they are good for. You can only
raise one crop on them. In the gulf coast country
you can use your land all the year round. Prices
are about the same here as there but Texas gives
you more tor your money.
"The price of newspaper has affected the site
of the tablet which school children use" said
A. B. Phipps of Holyoke Mass. representing a
paper factory who was a guest yesterday at the
Hotel Brazos. "For the nickel which the fond
parent gives Willie or Mary to get a tablet to be
used for his or her work in school a book of only
fifty pages can be had. The reduction in the
quantity was made on January ' before which
time 100 pages was the amount sold for 5 cents.
"Newspaper has doubled in price. For the ar-
ticle used m tablets we paid $1.80 a year ago;
now it can mot be had for less than $260. The
cost of labor in the manufacture of the paper and
in making it into convenient packages has in-
creased. Wood pulp and labor all are higher."
E. G. Eaken of Jeffersonville Ind. a retired
wholesale grocer who is making a teur of the
South for his health accompanied by his son
E. W. Eaken was in the city yesterday and has
apartments at the Rice hotel.
"I am a democrat" said Mr. Eaken "and be
lieve that the democrats have an excellent chance
of electing the president this year. Mr. Bryan
who will get the support of Indiana will be the
candidate I believe and I feel sure that he will
win. In Indiana the chances for democratic suc-
cess are especially bright. The republicans have
many factions the presence of which is not gen-
erally known. The democrats are in better ac-
cord with each other than they have been in
years and are thoroughly organised. I am thor-
oughly in earnest when I say that our party will
carry Indiana.
"Jeffersonville depends a great deal upon its
industries which have suffered because of the
financial stringency and trade is rather dull al-
though it is beginning to show improvement. We
have a branch of the American Car and Foundry
company which employs J500 men one of the
largest boat building companies in the country
and the largest quartermaster depot in the United
States army."
"My wife didn't want me to take this trip and
I had a presentment myself that something was
going to happen; I wish I had stayed at home"
said Johnson I.. James of Dallas a traveling sales-
man who was registered yesterday at the Hotel
Brazos. "Besides this I bad berth thirteen in
the Pullman.
"When I awakened this morning I was ill. The
man with whom I had an appointment was at
home sick and so my trip was useless. And then
at noon I went into a downtown restaurant for
lunch and someone took my hat by mistake leav-
ing me his in its place a very bum piece of head-
gear. Really it has been a jonah day for me."
ODD THINGS IN A DAY'S NEWS.
While hauling seine in Winona lake Minnesota
fishermen ' brought in a pocketbook containing
$1500.
Mary Korche of Scranton jilted a few months
ago on her wedding day is trying to starve her-
self to death.
Miss Martha Davis aged 60 years of Peoria
I1L who recently died of dropsy in her life had
been operated on eighty-five times.
Dean W. S. Pattee of the Minnesota Law
school at Minneapolis recently said to his stu-
dents: "If you must sleep in class please do it
quietly; don't shore."
Miss Grace Simmons of New Kensington Pa.
has a pet pullet which each morning irppears at
the kitchen door and when admitted it deposits
its egg in s nest prepared for it.
This advertisement appeared in the Sumner
(Mo.) Star; "A piece of a gent's watch chain
was found in the chicken house of Mrs. A. J.
Miller at Clover Hill farm one morning this week.
The owner will confer a favor by calling on the
premises and claiming his property."
Georgia Then and Now.
(From the Waco Timei-Htrald.)
There is something to think about in the fol-
lowing from the Tifton Gazette:
" N'ews comes from the comptroller general's of-
fice that Georgia's tax values will this year reach
a fiirure in excess of what they were in 1861.
While the State is to be congratulated on the
sped with which it has recuperated its losses
yet some idea of the calamity of the civil war is
had when we realize that even with Georgia's
phenomenal growth it has required forty-two
years to replace what was lost in four."
With all of Its rsilway building its city en-
largement and its farm improvement Georgia is
only just now getting back to its position ss to
wealth of a half century ago. Is that the truth?
We would be glad to have from our Georgia con-
temporary B statement as to what constituted the
basis fw these aate-bcUum
-Thtt ParagraVer Trusty
i TH6 VILLAINS IN HOT PURSUIT. .
try durina the last-tea wears iatTae Houatoa Post
unarmio droit and oner V- r.
' The Houston Post says' thst mint is now luseex
nigh in Texss. How convenient la districts where
the blind tigers crouch I llonls Ctwftiswtse. '
t ' 'K (4 ""'n lP4 V ' I"
An Eastern contemporary emits a plain defy
to The Houston Post when ft speaks of a blizzard
Coating up from Texas.- mg-iry Aivritr.
The president recently mistook ' Senato Jeff
Davis-for Senator Overman of North Carolina.
Wmuton' fori. Has Overman done anything about
it? Chicago Rtcord-fftral4lfj J(.4i''V'
The Scientist who assert that the' Australian
flea is the smallest thing ia the world has evi-
dently "failed to consider The Houston. Post's re-
gard for the exact sausage factr J?'Wk
Trnet-Diifttch. i. t- t
The Houston Post is authority for the. oou
what oracular statement that on a recent visit to.
Washington Martin Littleton "did not even latljr-
gag with John Wesley Gaines. Mr. Gaines has
opposition fon re-election this year and he is not
to he caught lallygaging with any man. JVa-
vill American.
''Cartoons sometimes emphasize facts as nothing
else can. Fo instance: the Houston Post prints.
President Roosevelt wildly brandishing s paint
brush as a spear while over against the wall is a
ten-dollar gold piece on which the words fin God
We Trust' have been stricken out The cartoon
is labeled "The only trust he ever busted." If
there are others we do not now recall them.
Chattanooga Timet.
HEAVENLY HOUSTON.
This Houston style of weather is all to tils'
mustard for the dealers in umbrellas slickers
galoches inside waterproofs and cough drops.
Nashville American.
The fact that prohibition is growing in Texas
doesn't daunt the American press humorists who
are going to Heavenly Houston. The buttermilk
supply holds good. tor Angeles Hrroid.
The Washington ball club is to train in Hous-
ton. On the idea that "birds of a feather flock
together" Houston is ait ideal place for a tail-
end team to linger in the spring. Nathvilk Ten-
nesieon. '
More United States senators get jabbed with
the big stick in Wonderful Washington every
three days during the open season than there are
big stick punches in Mirthprovoking Manhattan
and Homely Houston together and singular with
all the right members and appurtenances there-
unto belonging or in anywise appertaining.
Washington Herald.
Mrs. J. Plerpont Morgan passed through Hous-
ton Texas the other day a circumstance which
leads The rost ot that city to nope max ane ap-
preciated the "celestial and saintly privilege.
Every traveler through the Southwest appreciates
the privilege of passing through Houston espe-
cially in view of the thoughtfulness of the trains
which do not stop there except on flag. Rich-
mtmd Times-Ditpatch.
The scientists of Columbia university demon-
strated the rotation of the earth last Monday but
we advise them to keep away from Tennessee
with that theory. Over in Tennessee they sre
"sun-do-movers. Houston Post. Also from
Houston ss that pernicious paragrapher down
there is convinced that the earth revolves around
Houston which is about as true ss the belief of
the Tennesseans. San Antonio Express.
SLAMMING GRAND OLD TEXAS.
Mr. Onion is a candidate for office down in
Texaa and very likely he scents victory from
afar. Bridgeport (Conn.) Post.
John W. Gates says in New York that he re-
sides in Texas. Guess whst the Texas assessors
will do when they hear of it New Orleans Item.
A Texas exchange says there are "trained bit-
ing snakes" in Georgia so much a bite and so
much a gallon for the remedy. Atlanta Constitu-
tion. "Intangible assets tax suits" sre being prose-
cuted in Texas by the assistant attorney general.
Hot air assets in other words. Charleston News
and Courier.
Mr. Onion and Mr. Peeler are both candidates
for office in Texas. This combination in a joint
debate ought to spout oratory that would make
people's eyes water. Montgomery Advertiser.
A. Mr. Onion is a candidate for office in Texas
and a Mr. Stake is a candidate in Pennsylvania.
Stake and Onion would make an appealing com-
bination for a presidential effort Washington
Herald.
An 18-year-old Texas girl who is in Los An-
geles fought a pistol duel with a thief. What a
thrilling tale of life in the real Wild West she
will have to tell when she returns to Tameold-
texas. Los Angeles Herald.
Texss slso has troubles in her Agricultural and
Mechanical college. Yesterday the faculty and
students went on strike following the removal
of President Harrington. Mississippi originates
others follow. Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger.
TEXAS RIFLE BALLS.
At this day and time few people die from being
worked to death minding their own business.
Terrell Tranjfript.
The individual who does the kicking does not
often get the credit for the good results that
often follow. Laredo Times.
The man who permits the other fellow to do all
the talking is generally ahead after alL Try this
occasionally ?oom Herald.
Pity the poor fellow who is so that he is never
better engaged than when fault-finding and busy
pursuing and punishing others. Blooming Grove
Rustler.
That necessity is the mother of invention haa
again been demonstrated In Georgia. Since the
adoption of prohibition in that State they have
learned to make whisky of collard leaves. Nacog-
doches Sentinel.
It's not the felow who voted for or against Bsi-
ley that the Pilot is "laying" for but it's the
chap who voted to take from the newspapers the
right of contract that we are sharpening our reap
hook for. Bryan Pilot.
The Houston Post remarks that not only is Mr.
Onion a candidate for the Texas State senste
"but Mr. Peeler is a candidate for the senate
fromsjthe Austin district" But what the Texss
senate sadly needs is a representative of the Re-
pealer family. Charleston News and Courier.
While the above is said in jest it ia cram full of
truthfulness. Liberty Vindicator.
The Facta Misrepresented.
(From the Bonham PavoriU.)
Senter of Dallas could not find anything else
to charge Joe Bailey and his friends with so he
has' laid the State prohibition campaign at their
feet. We don't suppose thst Mr. Bailey or his
friends either object to the charge specially but
Mr. Senter has misrepresented the facta in- the
case. No special brand of politicians are pushing
the prohibition movement and the move should b
kept apart from politics in any form whatever.
A Longing for Something Else.
From the Testarkani Courier.)
The average man In town longs for the time
when business will shape itself in a way that will
permit him to retire to the country and settle
down for life while the farmer is constantly sav-
ing every dollar in an effort tovmove to town and
enjoy life. Yet these men rarely change places.
It is simply a manifestation of unrest that doss
no hsrnau .
.Tampering With Trifles
'" OLD TIMES. y 1' '
"Tell me lout when papa was a itty-bitty boy"
My baby says and settles down ia xny arms te ;
' enjoy ' ' j ' ' ' .' '
Tke thrilling tale of a c chap back la the long
"'-age ''M hu I 'l3a 1 " ' V
Who did such thing as au boys do' went; the
same to-and-fro 1 - ' '
That all boys go was just ss bad and nrobably aa "
bi'aa :r
as most Boys are forgot sometnoes spin
solit the "
" . kiadlinc wood
For anoraiaa and to But it in beneath the
And was chased out W get it la whik start blinked
j r sm the sky. t t -? s
Ska llfeM in time ma aa 1 imi hack la the wears :
For names ef ether little boys vita wnom I icarnea
to awint
She knows ths hsme of every nog 1 used to own.j r I
and goes ;
In rapt attention with her dad between the rustling ;
' . rows ... V' ' -
Of standing corn; she sees herself a "ftty-bftty"
Amis mm liar AmAA - m WM hov with wnkemmt "
? locks that curl . ' .
About his forehead and she gives a sigh of baby
ley . '
10 near ner oaaay teu 01 wnen ne was a iny 1
boy." . -
She knows throutrh having heard me tell of horses '.
I bestrode . r
sne sees me Helping loaa tne nay ana riae aome !
on the load; ' . . "
.h'a a sir- wIim t hmv a wnrtr and ean't ffO ant
and play
With other boys along the road and wander fat
sway
She thrills all over with' a most delightful little
thrill 1
And snuggles closer to me when I find s snake -
to kill "
And tears rolled down her rounded cheeks the day -
she came to know -Her
daddy cut his finger once some thirty years '
ago. .'.' s
Heigh-ohl the sympathy one gets from a wee two-
year-old . 1
Makes manhood's pathwaya blossomed ways and
all life a sunsets gold ;
The way she giggles with her dad e'er joys of
long ago
The way she weeps as ''she has wept when it was
hers to know
Her daddy hurt his finger brings a queer heart-
softening joy
To him who holds her in his arms who was a
little boy
Away back yonder in the past now grown so faint
and dim
Ah little girl with yellow curls you sre the world
to him I
WHY SHi QUIT.
"Why did she cease singing? Did she find she
waa losing her voice?"
"No; she found we were losing our neighbors.
OUT OF SIGHT.
Real estate men now lie low
As real estate men oughter ;
You can't sell people resl estate
When it is under water.
faulty"machine.
"I thought you had bought a typewriter?"
"So I had bu I returned it."
"What was the matter with it?"
"It was one of these simplified spellers didn't
spell one word in a dozen properly."
IT ISTTME.
"I see Mrs. Pierpont Morgsn was robbed while
riding in a Pullman car."
"T wonder wheri there'll be a law passed pro'
hibiting these car porters from holding people up?
SWEET SOLICITUDE.
Ere they were wed
She used to send
Sweet trifles from
Each journey's end.
Notes all perfumed
And sealed with kisses
Now for some time
She's been his Mrs.
And she went off
The other day
Upon a journey
Far away
And as of old
Ere they were one
She sent him gifts
As once she'd done.
This time however
He received
A chest protector.
And he grieved
To get instead
Of kisses sweet
" 'F you catch the grip
You soak your feet"
THEN THEY QUARRELED.
"He's very well off is he not?"
"Yes very."
"Someone was telling me that he had no money
at all?"
"He hasn't."
"Then how can he be well off?"
"He's s bachelor isn't he?"
THEIR REGULAR TURN. '
Peary's going on another
Expedition bless his soul I
In the hope that he'll eventu-
Ally find the frozen Pole.
And as a preliminary
He is giving interviews;
You can read them every morning
In the latest bunch of news.
Wellman too will get his airship
A most scientific thins;
And will put it through its paces
And will lead it with a string.
Then he'll house it when the summer
I Fades in autumn's changing sheens
And he'll tell the world about it
In the ten-cent magazines.
Good old Pole I That sad "The Balkans"
The newspaper maker cheers ;
They will be live news items doubtless
For the next two thousand years.
EXACTLY.
"What are virtues dad?"
"Virtues son are the things you read about en
a man's tombstone."
BOOSTED.
"I see Jinx has been boosted into prominence."
"I haven't read this morning's paper whatM
he do?"
"Dropped a stick of dynamite he was carrying''
DECOLLETE.
A fellow who lived in Nantucket
Saw a girl in a ball dress ; with pluck it
Is said he essayed
To help the fsir maid ;
He thought she was trying to shuck it.
"Made Out ef Whole Cloth."
Prom the Bryan Eagle.)
Those stories about swarms of rats in Houston ' !
are manifestly exaggerated. Ws are sure of this
because there haa been no stampede of recV j.
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