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Houston Texaa Saturday Sept. It 1908.
ADVERTISERS' GUARANTEE.
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paid circulation among the buying
daaaee In Houston and 8outh Texaa
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time.
usnro the ship CHJLsnrcL
Wben the contraot for the cranlte to be
' fitaed. tn the conttmctloo of the e3B9.0O0 Fed-an-aj
building In this city waa awarded to a
ttan crpejratlng a qaarry tn Maine Instead
at to 1 home concern tor Texas granite
trhich in Quality Is equal to the best In the
land there was some disappointment felt by
Texans at the result That the Maine con-
cern was enabled to underbid Its Texas com-
petitor ws explained to be due to Its bet-
ter facilities for handling the stone at the
quarry including the loading" of It for trans-
portation. Looking at the question from the stand-
point of purely local benefit to Houston and
incidentally to Its tributary trade territory
later deTelopments point to the conclusion
that the award will Inure to the city's Advan-
tage In more than one war.
As detailed In Friday's Issue of The Post
the general contractors for the erection of
the building hare determined to engage ves-
sels schooners of light enough draft to as-
cend the Houston ship channel to Its head
to load this granite on at the works of the
company on the Kennebec river and trans-
port It direct to Houston. To handle the
amount of granite required. It Is expected
that seven schooners of about 500 tons
capacity will be engaged as vessels of this
capacity can easily make the all-water route
and discharge their cargoes here In Houston.
Besides this large cargo the contractor will
hold out the further Inducement a reason-
able one. and which will Inure to the bene-
fit of both the ship owner and the Texaa
producer that the boats can secure cargoes
for the return trip m cotton for Boston and
Fall River.
Bince the interests of Houston and all
Texas will be greatly promoted by the Im-
mediate utilization to the fullest extent pos-
sible of the deep water already secured la
tha ship channel. It can readily be teen that
the above stated arrangement for an all-
trater haul of granite from HaDowell Maine
win not only give Impetus to channel traffic
tns win be quite an advertisement of the
city's growing facilities as a deep water port
wrlfii oommerce already sufficiently large to
maka it profitable for the shipping interests
of the East to compete for It.
Am to Texas granite it is able to compete
on its merits with that of any other sec-
tion of the country and in sharp competition
from the outside wQl come the stimulus that
will eventually result In providing all needed
facilities for handling It as cheaply as It Is
handled elsewhere. V
THE COTTOW SITUATION.
Discussing the secret minimum price for
cotton alleged to have been agreed upon by
the National Farmers' Union recently In
session at Fort Worth the New York Jour-
nal of Commerce a paper that has Insis-
tently urged reforms in the New York cot-
ton exchange's methods of doing business
has the following to say. "How far the
farmers' union can control the selling price
of cotton is a more interesting question than
what Its secret minimum price Is or even
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v whether its members can keep a scret.
. There Is an advantage in keeping this fixed
minimum secret. If that is possible for then
--' It can be changed if necessary without any
A if "rank outsider knowing it and it might even
Wbe 'cut' and the offense not be made a scan
dal. Secrecy as to the fixed minimum price
Is foolish rather than harmful because a
price can no more be maintained In the dark
than In the light in defiance of the law of
' supply and demand without causing loss In-
stead of profit In the end."
Then adverting to the real source of power
r that the organised movement of the farmers
poids witn respect to prices tne Journal con
ttoueB: "But what Is the power of this farm
rs' in Ion over the cotton supply of the
v South? An agent of the organization passed
through hfre some weeks ago on the way to
a( Europe and in an Interview with a repre-
! sentatlve of this Jourial he said that owing
to Its action warehouse have been put up
la all the cotton State There were eighty-
six tn Arkansas alone and the aggregatsr
n amber was mora than 600 repreaenttng an
outlay of from 110000 to t&O.OOO each. It
had established a town tn Georgia and a
trading company at Memphis and Its pur-
pose was to enable the farmers to control
the market for their crop and 'hare a say In
the price of selling cotton.' "
It ta In the ability of the farmers to take
car of their cotton and market It In a tree
and open market to meet the demands of con-
sumption that they will find their greatest
power to command full values for It in ac-
cordanoe with the legitimate law of supply
and demand and not In arbitrary efforts to
Dx the pries. In the growing ability of the
farmer to do this the speculator bent on
hammettng the market finds his chief
stumbling block aad in proportion as this
farmer safeguards his own independence of
temporary market conditions to that extent
does he become a factor to be reckoned with
In the filing of prices.
"In any case" as the Journal of Commerce
correctly assumes "If the minimum price is
fixed above what the normal price would be
In a free and open market with competition
of buyers and sellers through the regular
exchangea It Is sure to break down with
losses exceeding any that would come from
selling below the committee's minimum
price. "
THE COMMODITY CLAUSE 0? THE
RATE LAW.
The decision of the United States circuit
court for the Eastern district of Pennsyl-
vania declaring unconstitutional the com-
modity clanse of the Federal rate law will
U sustained by the United States supreme
court greatly Impair the usefulness of the
law. The clause In question prohibits rail-
roads from transporting in interstate com-
merce any article or commodity manufac-
tured mined or produced by them or under
their authority. It was designed to break
up the anthracite coal monopoly In Pennsyl-
vania and destroy the power of Standard OH
to ruin Its competitors.
The coal carrying roads In Pennsylvania
have through their ownership and control
of the mines robbed the consumers of an-
thracite coal unmercifully and unless they
are compelled to abandon the business of
production the people of the Eastern States
will continue to be exploited by this gigantic
combination for the Independent producers
are at such a disadvantage they can not
compete with the roads which control both
production and trans porta tlon aj facilities.
If railroads are allowed to control the pro-
duction or manufacture of any commodity
it Is certain that no Independent producer
or manufacturer can compete with them and
the public Is thus placed at the mercy of
the railroads. The commodity clause was In
many respects the most Important provision
of the rate law. It was drawn by Senator
Bailey and designed to place all coal pro-
ducers on an equality In the matter of trans-
portation. Senator Bailey Is confident that the su-
preme court will sustain the validity of the
clause but If it does not a most serious sit-
uation will be created for the millions of
hard coal consumers of the Atlantic sea-
board and we shall hear again the proposi-
tion of government ownership and control
of the coal mines which was advanced by
David B. Hill during the greet anthracite
strike.
8enator HTH's suggestion was Inserted In
the New York democratic platform and sent
a shiver down the backs of the trust mag-
nates. It was denounced as socialism and
confiscation hut at the time there was a
great coal famine tn the East and the price
of coal was almost prohibitive.
On thing is very certain: The anthracite
coal deposits of Pennsylvania were created
for the benefit of the people and no combina
tion has any moral right to use these great
natural resources for the purpose of rob-
bery and If the laws can not divorce the
roads from the business of production and
re-establish competition in both production
and transportation the time will come when
the government win hare to take charge of
the mines and operate them for the benefit
of the people. There la a limit to the pub-
lic's capacity to respond to the exactions of
the coal trust and that limit was In sight
dnrtog the strike. If the roads continue to
control the production -f anthracite they
are going to encounter something worse than
the commodity clause of the Hepburn law.
THE HEED OF TEACHERS.
Quite a number of localities announce a
shortage of teachers due to the fact that
the scholastic population of the State Is In-
creasing more rapidly than the supply of
teachers. This condition la somewhat ac-
centuated by the Increasing school terms In
the rural districts which tend to widen
the demand for teachers. Texas would be in
a bad way for teachers were It not for the
fact that annually hundreds of bright young
women come here from other States to take
advantage of the better salaries paid tn
Texas. Every year hundreds If not thou-
sands of teachers are lost to the schools
through marrlaefC' and the result Is many
schools are Insufficiently supplied.
The legislature will have to take note of
this situation for the progress of public
education must seriously suffer If there be
not a sufficient number of competent teach-
ers to carry on the work. Our normal
schools and colleges are not supplying a suf-
ficient number at this time and we must
not overlook the Importance of increasing
normal school facilities to meet the growing
demands of the public schools.
If the State normal colleges were greatly
enlarged there Is no donbt that hundreds
of young worsen would qualify themselves
for teaching. This would help much but
the teachPr problem will not be solved un
til the profession is made remunerative and
attractive lo both men and
one great trouble Is. teachers fcTw 4ot Ball
enough and as loog ai this Is true fwwVowag
men will remain In the school room any
longer than U Becessary to equip thana for
more remunerative work
Teaching ought to be regarded great
profession tor It is the school room where
all the ground work of good citizenship Is
done. Yet It happens not only In Texas
but in most of the States that teachers trt
not paid as well as common laborers. It re
quires a considerable outlay of monwjv to
eqtrlp one for good work In the school room
and the men and women who take up this
profession ought to be paid well enough to
make it attractive And our school system
will never be what It ought to be until the
teachers are better paid
We are making fine progress In building
up a great public school system bait much
remains to be done. We must have better
school houses more teachers and better paid
teachers. Ultimately no doubt this will
mean additional taxation but tha schools
must have what is required to make them
equal to the best and the legislature must
formulate the policy that will accomplish
these ends.
Additional normal college facilities better
school houses and better pay for teachers
can not be deferred much longer If our for
ward movement Is to be maintained and the
next legislature can do much toward secur-
Jng thes by making liberal provision for
the normal Institutions which are now over
crowded for lafk of accommodations. Gov
era or Campbell can do nothing that will re
dound more to his credit than pursuing a
policy that will make his administration
known In history as the one that accom
plished most for public education
The Washington Post aajs the better class of
New York republican! will aupport Hughea. An
inaccurate statement. There ia no "better class
of republicans. Our contemporary should have
said the lcaat bad class of New York republicans
would aupport the bewhiskered reformer.
The Iowa deadlock makes Gover.mr Cummins
look like a senatorial dead duck.
A HuntsviHe subscriber inquires "What has
become of those old-time girls In calico frocks
who used to part their hair in the middle?" What
indeed O Lord has become of them unless they
constitute the angelic hosts that hover about
Heavenly Houston t
The feathered hata now in vogue make a wom-
an's club mrf nj loom like an Indian war council.
Well they have prodded us with the hot end
of the poker now and than but never did the
Texas vox populi ever hand us the penetrating
soldering iron that those South Carolinians
punched into the Charleston News nd Courier.
The son-in-law problem is still a most vexatious
perplexity with all rich proprietors of female
progeny.
The papers print a long cable to the effect that
young Will Vanderbilt intends to quit auto rac-
ing. What this young sprig does or fails to do
ia af matter of profound importance to the 80000
000 real people in this country isn't It?
Be a thoroughbred old skinflint and be a
participant in the fourth thousand dollars for the
campaign fund.
The Washington Herald Is angry because The
Post spells It "punkin." Our overparticular con-
temporary may eventually get a new round of in-
dignation because we call another delicious vege-
table "sparrow grass."
We are after the fourth thousand and want to
forward it to Treasurer Haskell on September so.
Get into the game.
Mrs. Bryan will lock charming ia her morning
gown walking through the White House conaerra-
tories cutting flowers for the breakfast table
TbtV a what ahe will doon the morning of
March 5 1900.
About the only fun the South Carolina demo-
crata seem to have is plugging our dear old
friend. Major Hemphill.
St. Louis Washington Birmingham Brooklyn
Charleston and other towns with tailend aspira-
tions are overlooking great opportunities by Ig-
noring the members of the disbanded Houston
ball team.
Houston's vast series of moving picture shows
afford much amusement to the thronging honey-
mooners now infesting the city.
Now that tha excursion season Is about ended
the Galveston thieves are again turning their at-
tention to the churches and we shall not be great-
ly surprised to hear thry have stolen the seawall.
Texas cares not who writes the campaign songs
lust so she furnishes the warblers to sing them.
Strike the tuning fork. Ham Bee and sing.
Nevertheless it has not been proved yet that
the Worthless securities foutld in Uncle Ruts
Sagr'jS vaults were not a stock of gold bricks he
carried to sell to other ambitious fortune builders.
Mr. P.n-an handed Uncle Joe a good one. The
republican party had better be careful about
shooting its old brass Cannon at William J.
Some of the paragraphers seem to think that a
split infinitive should be carefully planed and
hand-carved. We shall split them as we please
and let the splinters take rare of themselves.
The Salome dance can never be a success until
it has obtained Houston's approval and it will
have to shuffle in prettv fancy style to get an in-
dorsement here.
Houston democrats are walking around the site
of the new Federal building as if it were fore-
ordained that some democrat should be the first
to play the role of postmaster in It
Even the gruffest old rounders in fexas are
considerate in the presence of the Texas bride-
groom hriausethry know how Inexpreaaibly happy
and foolish he is.
You notice that many people are criticising
Japan for calling off her proposed world's fair
'but no American with sense enough to grease a
gimlet will say shr's a fool.
If that New York cider is so much better than
our Houston arti'ie why doesn't the New York
Mail send a "can" of it down hert. so that it can
get. a reputation?
sciFuwuoai 1
' datp$ &om Texu(Sanctrun.
QenlMs.
Geaias It oeva part talent and aia parts sweat
-JSttats aftW Tisen Timtt.
.
Dent "orgat the Split Log Drag..
While laaawng big things doot overlook the
split log drag ft keeps the roads ia shape for
you to carry out your plana. CritnvilU JBmmtr.
A Good Demaorat.
David Bennett Hill will make speeches for
Bryaa and Kara. David Bennett Hill is about
the beat democrat in the Stat of Oyster Bay.
DtiUi Tim HtraU.
A Growing Belief.
Democrats are growing in the belief that Bryaa
will be elected. The party is united for him and
this is one important consideration m political
calculations. Tyta- Cowritr.
A Precious Privilege.
There is ont privilege the American people will
nevertrrender and that Is the privilege of reso-
nating oa most every kind of a subject when in
political conventions aaaembled. Lartdo Ttmi.
A Complets Farce.
The editor of the Inquirer has ample reason to
know that the Texas and -pass law Is about aa
complete a farce as was ever written into our
atatute books rta violation is even flagrant.
CanMalts Inqmiiti.
The Man With the Hoe.
Happy old Uncle Sam. He produced $8000-
000000 worth of agricultural products this sea-
son. We suspect that Wall street does not create
all the wealth of this nation. The man with the
hoe helps. Dolias Timtt Htrald.
Watch the Pigpen.
Don't forget that the pigpen this fall Is one
thing that needs your attention. A well filled pig-
pen this fall will turn out enough bacon later in
the season to make a big difference in your
grocery account another jtn.Wtaihtrford Htr-
ald. Watching the Contributions.
The republicans have nominated Hon. C. L.
McCoy of Bryan for congress In opposition to
Jadge Hardy and it is said will make an active
canvass of the district In the meantime Judge
Hardy is keeping his eye on the list of con-
tributors to the democratic campaign fund from
which he will make hia recommendations to Presi-
dent Bryan for appointment to the several post-
offices and other jobs that will be open for the
faithful. Grotshrtck lournak
Things Beginning to Hum.
When manufacturers begin to receive telegrams
of three or four pages ordering lumber in lots of
from two to twenty cars each of various itema
it is a pretty good indication that things are be-
ginning 10 hum in the lumber business that
stocks on the retail yards are low and that every-
body ia afraid of the car shortage that is certain
to appear soon. Prosperity in the lumber busi-
ness means proaperity in all other lines and we
are glad to see the lumbermen coming into their
own again. Orangt Ltcdtr.
Para Grass.
W. W. Clark of Jefferson county was in the
city Monday. Mr. Clark for the past three years
has been experimenting with Para grass and
brought to the city a bundle of the grass to tell
and prove what it is and what could be done with
it. Several of our people have become interested.
S. D. O'Brien the Vindicator learns will this
year plant one acre and if it does what the pro-
moter claims it will dj he will immediately plant
100 acres in it. The bundle of grass Mr. Clark
was showing measured in length about thirty-six
inches and was a growth of thirty-two days.
i-tbrrty Vindicator.
Imported Speakers.
In view of the fact that we are almost certain
to have a State prohibition election next year
and possibly numerous county elections thereafter
the Tribune believes the nxt legislature should
levy a tax on speakers imported from one cottnty
to another that would be absolutely prohibitive.
Nine-tenths of the strife enmity acraps and hit-
ter feelings resulting from the prohibition cam-
paigns is directly traceable to imported speakers
who are never choice about the language they
use or the charges brought against the opposition.
Such a tax would put them out of business and
leave the bnttlea to be fought out in a friendly
contest by the people of the various counties.
Lttfkin Tribune.
Looks Like an Election.
Messrs. C. K. Bell Jonathan Lane. John I
Wortham. J. F. Woltera Monta J. Moore and
several other well known Texans have iasued a
call for a State convention to be held in the city
of Houston on October 11 for the purpose of re-
sisting State prohibition. One might easily infer
from the language these gentlemen employ that
all opposition to submission is to be withdrawn
although that ia not aet forth in specific terms.
Thry are opposed to "the adoption of a prohibi-
tion amendment to our constitution." which seems
to imply that it's to be a straight-from-the-shouIdeT
fight at the polls. The presence of Hon. H. B.
Terrell at the conference lends color to this theory.
-that gentleman being committed by the vote of his
district to submission. It begins to look ai though
each side would presently be clearing its deck for
Laction. This suggestion to the legislature: Don't
protract tne agony ; call the election for the ear-
liest possible date.-Woco Timft-HeraJd.
Responsibility for Double Standard of Morals.
TrA club women of Fort Worth at a meeting
last week declared in favor of a "single star.dara
of morality." That ia they want to expatriate
men from good society who are lax In their
morals and who are given to overstepping the
bounds of decency In their relations with women
causing the downfall of members of the fairer
aex. The cuatom among women '.s to push a girl
who has made a wrong step instead of reaching
out a helping hand and to honue and fawn upon
the man responsible for tht ruin of a son). The
action of the Fort Worth clnb women is com
mendable but will not amount to anything. Women
are responsible for the double standard of moral
ity in their treatment of their fallen sisters. The
seduction fiend dese.-ves the execration of all de-
cent men he should be spumed by society and
driven from all f ood homes. But this is not the
way the women treat him and this is the cause
of so much misery and woe and blighted lives and
hopes In many homes in our land. If the women
would spurn the brute things would be different
But they uon t Grand Satin Sttn.
A Never-Ending Demand.
Panics may come and go but the demand for
good honest and Industrious boys Is always with
ua. There is alwsys a job for the boy ready and
wi.ling to do something rather than nothing
vhlle the first opportunity offered may not prove
iust what is desired the one who accepts it is tak-
ing a step that puts him closer to something bet-
ter and is one step in advance of that boy who
failed to take the job because it did not suit kirn.
The Chilllcothe Hornet very truthfully says:
"There Is a demand for gqod toys. The boy who
is honest earnest and industrious will not be long
out of s job. There are lota of prosperous busi-
ness men. merchants and mechanics who are con-
stantly on the lookout for good boys. They do
not look for them in the streets however but
in some sort of employment They have no use for
an idle boy. He is apt to make an idle man. The
hoy that jumps 'into the first job that offers
whether it is agreeable or not is the boy that is
chosen when the boy hunter comes along. The
boy truddling the wheel barrow is taken while
the boy playing marbles in the shade ia left; the
boy efceerfuily minding the baby on the step is in-
vited: to put oa a boy's soM while the one playing
kookeyis refused a place! to drive a dirt cart."
AbiUttf KrtorUr.
APtUltf Kftorttr. A I
OUK LOVING CONTCMPORARIU.
f The Houston Post drops tha remark that Inas-
much as Artist Earte not only beat but kicked his
'affinity" the act proves that the was but his sole
mate. FeiMtfftotm Trtegrwrn.
We do not care a coottnental about
Whittier. . . Old Whittler. . . . That
fierce old nonfighting aeaiot John Greenlesuf
Whittier . Houston Put. Even literary eriticisai
ia Texas wears the urbane style of Joe Baileyv
Ntw York Sun.
The editor of The Houston Poet ought to be
put at the head of the impossible department in
the Bryan campaign ; he has undertaken the job
of landing Colonel Guffey In the Bryaa band
wagon before frost falls on the persimmons.
KnosviU Journal and Tribunt.
They say that the parting of a Georgian from
his campaign fund dollar makes S noise like the
snapping of an anchor cable. Houston Pott.
Huh. Haven't noticed Texas getting into the
press dispatches on account of the munificence
of its campaign contributions. fiosfa Georgia's.
George Bailey of The Houston Post calbj the
people of that town saintly. They must be. If
thev were not we thiak we could sec Bailey's
finish after perpetrating the following: "Who Is
Hisgen?" aaks a Wharton county subscriber.
"Who's Who" does not contain Hisgenealogy.
AUtntown Call.
We have sent s committee to New York to re-
port on the Salome dance and Houston may be
confidently depended upon to add some improve-
ments to it ultimately. Houston Post. As it ia
danced in View York It wej paradoxical to speak
of adding improvements. Such affairs are im-
proved by subtraction. Nsw York Mail.
If Atlantic City will invent a Sunday lid that
will lift every time s man winks at it Galveston
and San Antonio will share the expense of tha
patent and pay a royalty for the use of it. Hous-
ton Post. San Antonio can not speak for Galves-
ton but The Post is advised that San Antonio
entertains some ideas of its own concerning what
qualifies a satisfactory lid. San Antonio Espnss.
LITTLE DIGS AT TEXAS.
Ham Bee is the political poet lariat of Texas.
Mtmphis Commercial Appeal.
When it is announced Mr. Taft will speak ia
the doubtful States Mr. Hitchcock may be look-
ing toward Oklahoma and Texas. Pittsburg Dis-
patch. Only the dear ones at home kept the veterans
from Texas taking up their residence in Star-
Spangled Toledo and living happily ever after.
Toledo Blade.
John Gates' Texas golf links will cover 750
acres of land. Do they play golf on horseback
or in motor cars in Grandoldtexas ? Loutsvtlle
Courier-Jon rn al.
A young Texan named Bee is singing Governor
Haskell's campaign songs. We've heard of the
spelling bee. but we believe that this is the first
and only singing Bee on record. Allentown Call.
Mr. Will Hogg of Braroria county Texaa says
that he will send a fine possum to every para-
grapher in this country who will ask for one.
We hereby file our application but Will Hogg or
will he not? Montgomery Advertiser.
The Oklahoma man who. aided by two ne-
groes killed seventy-five skunks certainly did a
strong day's work. Oklahoma must be trying to
put the Texas onion on the retired list as a pop-
ular perfume. Richmond Times-Dispatch.
80 ME POSTSCRIPT 8.
The Hong Kong harbor has a vater area of
ten miles and is regarded aa one c." the finest in
the world.
According to Dr. Sven Hedin the Swedish ex-
plorer the famous Astetic river Brahmaputra
rises from an enormous glacier in the northern-
most Himalaya mountains.
Being unable to agree on the name of either
Bryan or Taft for their 4-year-old son because
the wife is a republican and the husband a demo-
crat Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Johnson of Polk City
Iowa named the boy Jennings Howard Johnson.
The fact has just become known that Pope
Pius X since his accession to the throne has in-
creased considerably in weight. When he was
elected the supreme pontiff weighed 171 pounds
whereas a few days ago he tipped the scales at
Jio.
An example of the progress of the science of
forestry in this country ia furnished by the co-
operation just arranged between the University
of Idaho and the United States forest service
for testing the timber growing in the State of
Idaho.
Miss Estelle Reel superintendent of Indian in-
struction asserts that the graduates of the In-
dian schools at Carlisle Hampton and Mount
Pleasant do make practical use of the knowledge
gained in these institutions. Indian girls take
naturally to sewing and cooking.
When the windows broken by two suffragettes
at the prime minister's official residence 10 Down-
ing street London were reglazed it wae then
found that the glass of the broken windows had
never been disturbed since the house was built
and was of the old crown style.
Cities and Their Names.
(From the Washington Herald.)
I -os Angeles la worried at least. General Har-
rison Gray Otis' paper the Times is worried
over the great diversity jf opinion prevalent
throughout the country anent the correct pronun-
ciation of that city's name. The Times haa care-
J1 -e.;ogi;ed twentyrtwo wrong ways of pro-
nouncing It and strongly suspects that the liat
might be indefinitely extended if further evi-
dence were necessary to establiah the righteous-
ness of registering a protest.
In order to get at the bottom of the matter the
Times referred the question of the pronunciation
of "Los Angeles" to the American legation at
Madrid which legation after conscientious and
painstaking consultation with Spanish scholars of
eminence and renown sent word that the nearest
.English equivalent is "Loce Ahng-hayl-es"
whatever on earth that is I
This is not a matter to be treated facetiously;
it is no laughing affair. There ought to be some
standard pronunciation of Los Angeles ; and every-
body should confine himself to it There ia in-
deed too much diversity of opinion and versa-
tility of expression in the pronunciation of the
names of a great many of our cities. As many
people pronounce New Orleans with the accent
on the "Or" as with the accent on the "leans."
And yet one must be proper the other improper.
You couldn't tell by mingling with average Ameri-
cans whether St. Louis is St. Louis" with the
English pronunciation strictly or "St. Loo-y."
Yet it is surely one or the other and not both I
Is St. Augustine to be pronounced with the ac-
cent on the "Aii" or the "gust?" Is Houston
"Hewston" or "Howston" or something else?
And so forth and so on.
Of course there Is a right pronunciation and
a wrong pronunciation for every one of these
cities' names ; but how many people agree about
them? Certainly to say the least of it there is
enough disagreement to render the subject one
for earnest consideration. Hence we think Los
Angeles' agitation for uniformity In this regard
a point well taken. We should know that (ts
name is to be pronounced "Loce Ahng-hayl-es"
and we should study exhaustively the diagram to
find out just exactly how that is pronounced and
act conceitedly upon it.
In the meantime we can all agree' on pro-
nouncing Los Angeles charming I
The Ideal Versus the Real.
From the Privdencs Bulletin.)
In an ideal political system it would be possible
to support a progressive candidate for president
like Mr. Tsft without the necessity of supporting
also s reactionary candidate for vice president like
aw. Merman. . J
Mr. Merman.
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aivavvamo.
When all of us were Uttav tads
la bio us as sad ia pinafores
Concealed beneath dMVnry pads
Were monsters huge and bat-o-doori
Were wonders vast m wait iar ua.
Things lurking just beyond each ton))
Good fairies full of thana sad fata
And armored knighti of visage stem.
i
r
e
Sometimes we ventured band m
Till we had reached tha
Then how we hiked out homeward and
Breathed hard as we had seen a ghost
Aad all that day ia ur back yard
We stayed not dared e 1
Something we knew was there
(uataV
Too big for us te put to rout.
At other dates you will recall.
Two blocks along the street you fared
Aad were not scared no not at all
At least well then a little scared;
But wasat it delightful though
That tiptoe of expectancy I "
- Just farther than you dared te ge
Were fairies gnomes aad errantry.
Hi-hum I we're only kids grown tall I
Beyond the tarn waits everything I
We almost hear the voices call.
We almost hear the fairies sing
We almost ate our ships bear home t
With every straining sheet tight drawn
Bravely she crowds sside the foam
We look again and she is gone I h
No I there she is far out the seas
Deceived our eyes but now we're right I
Look at her cornel tomorrow she's
Bound to come into pott all right I
Tomorrows and tomorrows fly.
And still she sails just as she was
The day before against the sky.
As fabled Frying Dutchman does.
So our desr little folks and we
Are just alike the nearest turn
Hides treasure that we long to see
Holds everything for which we yearn I
For them and us when we shall heap
Our this world playthings as well do
Someday beyond the realm of sleep
May all these darling dreams come true.
THERE ARE OTHERS.
"My wife told me to bring home a caddy."
"What in the world for? You don't play gall
a home surely?"
"Nope it's a tea caddy she wants."
OR OF LIMITED UNDERSTANDING.
"Is Jinx absent-minded?"
"I guess so; he's got s wooden leg."
"What's that got to do with it?"
"He must have lost his other leg and a mag
who Vould or could lose a leg must be absent
minded."
A PEACEMAKER.
"Do you believe that a soft answer turn eta
away wrath?"
"Why?"
"I was thinking Choflie Saphed must think I
am wrathy all the time from the kind of answers
he givea me."
-
ENVY.
"Johnnie if you were going to be cast into a
ucn 01 lions as ianiei was wnat wouia you aof
"Tell all the kids I know an' see 'em git sore.
PATRIOTIC.
"I am looking for a model."
"Will Oi do. tor?"
"Yes j want to earn half a dollar?"
"Shure yis sn' phwat must I do?"
"Just stand still while I paint you."
"Go ahead be-jahbersl Paint me granel"
AND STAY THERE.
Let Roosevelt and London go
Where Africa's frightened critters flee.
And settle their disputes and chase.
Each one the other up a tree.
AN EXCELLENT REASON.
"And why madam did you pull your husband'
whiskers out?"
"Look at is 'ead yer honor 'ee ain't got no)
air!"
AN ERROR.
"Johnnie how is it you joined Sunday school
and then stopped coming so abruptly?"
"I fought 'twas nearder Christmas when 1
Joined."
ACKNOWLEDGED ERROR.
"John have you yet aeen the error of your wsy
aa I told you you would when I saw ajou stagger-
ing home the other night?"
"Indeed yes; the way I was gofn' took me four
miles out o' my way."
BETTER.
"Want a new wig for your doll? I see you have
snatched her baldheaded."
"Papa I b'leeve I'll have you get a new doll
for my wig."
SPOILING HIS APPETITE.
"You say you have ordered your convalescent
typhoid patient not to eat much?"
"Of course."
"Do you suppose he will obey orders?"
"I know he will; I presented my bill at the
same time I gave the order."
GOING SOME.
"Is music any good?"
"You bet It is; I've got a phonograph that can
sing my wife to a standstill."
A GOOD LISTENER.
"My husband talks in his sleep."
"Can't you do anything to break him of the
habit?"
"I wouldn't break him of it for the world I"
AEROPLANY.
The battleships are out of date.
The forts are worthless wholly.
Great guns are now no longer great.
How fate plays roly-poly
With things that just this morning were
The whole thing! Now they're dying!
Aloft our engines soon shall purr
Our battleships be flying. r
Locating a Genius.
(Prom the New York Moil.)
Count that day lost whose low descending BUQ
shines not upon dollars for the Bryan campaign
fund. Houston Post.
The Post ci edits thia beautiful near-couplet to
Euphemia Hemana Simpson evidently a Houston
poet-laureateas. Nexv York Tribune.
Miss F.uphemla Hemans Simpson may we In-
form the Tribune is not a Houston Doet-laurest-
ess. She is the talented staff poet of the Gotham
Weekly Gazette a hebdomadal published for tha
people of New York county and second to only
the Tribune in sprightlinees end general interest
Patsmlng After tha Leaders.
(Prom the Lomiston Journal.)
The wave of crime which is sweeping the couw
try ia the legitimate consequence of the misdeeds '
of wealthy malefactors. The alien who is idle be. .
. ( 1 i- - ! .... ill
csiih 01 nairinianisru is migouiy SUSceptlDM a
Haywoodiam. -jfiY
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