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HOUSTON TEXAS WEDNESDAY..
..JULY 19 1922
Growing Unpopularity of the Tariff Bill
' Aa the hummer drags Us weary length along and the senate wrestles
ulth the Increasingly difficult tariff bill. It becomes more and more
doubtful that the administration can command a sufficient number of
republican senators to pass the bill unless the majority of its schedules
as framed y the house or by the senate committee on finance are still
further revised and the rates materially reduced.
. It may not be significant that Senator La Follette Senator Edge and
other republican senators are denouncing the bill but the absent mem-
bers of the house of representatives are mingling with their constit-
uents and learning that there is an exceedingly hostile sentiment among
the people to any measure which might hare a tendency further to in-
crease the cost of living.
- Even it the administration should succeed in mustering votes enough
to pass the bill in the senate it will have to go bacX to the house and
surely when many of the freshly enlightened republican members re-
turn to Washington on August IS they will not be so insistent upon the
passage of the bill which Mr. Pordney had them Jam through.
There Is already among thoughtful republicans throughout the coun-
try an impression that prudence would dictate the postponement of tar-
iff legislation until next year and that Idea may be prevalent among con-
gressmen by the time the house of representatives reconvenes assum-
ing that the senate wUl have completed the bill by that time.
This view has been nicely expressed by the Boston Transcript al-
ways an exponent of the doctrine of protection in the following: "Eco-
nomic conditions in Europe are in such a chaotic state that even the
best experts here or there are unable to tell what our tariff schedules
should be a year hence. On this account the present is a bad if not an
Impossible time to frame a tariff bill. On this account the administra-
tion -would be well advised would be widely supported would show
political sagacity if it reconsidered its decision to force tariff revision
through at the current session of congress. By putting over until an-
other session all tariff legislation the party in power would spare tha
: people the oppression Involved in the pending bilL"
Advices from Washington indicate that Mr. Harding is still insistent
upon tariff legislation at the present session hut despite his insistence
there seem to be favorable .prospects for either postponement or a
stralghtont defeat of the bill if the leaders should insist upon the rates
as the senate has fixed them. '
Despite the process of deflation which has been underway for many
months price levels are still causing complaint among the consumers.
Their baylnaf power has diminished more rapidly than prices and added
to this rattier unsatisfactory condition is the further fact that there is
still mucjf unemployment through strikes and other causes that ren-
the economic situation almost as precarious on this side as in Eu
rope.
The new tariff bill as it has been amended in the senate Is nothing
If not a measure to restore the higher prices of two years ago. with no
compensating increase of buying power among the people. The more
intelligent manufacturers comprehend this and do not favor tariff legis-
tlon at this time fearing that it may stir the country and bring the
whole protective theory iato disrepute among the people.
If newspaper expression is indicative of public opinion there is
among the people generally a more pronounced desire for the adminis-
tration to go slow on some of its policies and to avail itself of its oppor-
tunity and authority to restore industrial peace and especially to main-
tain law and order at whatever cost in such localities as hare wit-
nessed massacres and other manifestations of lawlessness not to say
anarchy.
If npon the end of the recess of the house of representatives con
gress should lay aside all measures which have been marked by con
tention and give serious attention to what is uppermost in the public
mind which Is public authority and its relentless vindication the ad-
ministration would soon behold a more friendly attitude toward it among
the people. '
; Early
Merer Grcihzs
By George M. Bailey.
Accompanied by Ambassador Harvey Chief
Justice Taft while in England vititcd Sulgravc
Manor the ancestral home of George Washing-
ton. And just to think Washington was a
slave owner a distiller and a monosyllabic
cusser. It ia a mighty generous modem people
to forget this.
The Los Angeles court decides that Gloria
Swanson is not a vamp after slL What a fine
actress she is I We suppose her attorneys
picked a jury that had not witnessed the picture
that shows Claris and Wally Reed ia a kissing
scene.
Let your invariable rule be : It makes no dif-
ference what he may be or what he has done
it' his opinions on all things do not agree with
mine he's a scoundrel and unworthy of trust.
That stamps you s patriot and the other fellow
a traitor.
The New York Post saya the republican party
is worried about what to do with Uncle Joe
Cannon now that he is retiring. It'a hard to
tell. Fifty years of continuous effort shows
that it is impossible to kill hint by electing him
to office.
New Records in Auto Sales
The automobile industry was the first to show signs of recovery from
the period of depression and the revival that began about a year ago is
continuing unabated. The second quarter of the year 19!3 is even bet-
ter than the first quarter and it is authoritatively given out that auto-
mobile aales during the last three months are the largest in. the history
of the Industry.
There is something in the claim of the auto salesmen that the motor
vehicle has come to be a prime necessity with the people of this coun-
try and that they buy it in preference to everything else except food
' and clothing. Millions of people have gotten Into the habit of using
automobiles and few who have owned a car or used one regularly will
do without In addition to the sales to new customers the replacement
ales are enormous.
But the automobile people themselves have done much to stimulate
and to sustain this revival of their business. It is true they are mak-
ing what ia rather generally regarded aa a necessity but there are other
so-called necessities that have not experienced anything like the recov-
ery from suspended buying that the automobile has. The policy of the
automobile makers in deflating prices has perhaps done more than any-
thing else to stimulate their business. They save made it possible for
the people to buy what they want.
Through great advertising campaigns and selling campaigns and by
backing up their claims with the goods the automobile makers have
convinced the people that they are honestly giving better value for leaa
money. They have taken the people Into their confidence told them
joat what was going into their product demonstrated that they were
Improving the quality and at the same time reducing prices.
Under such a combination of inducements there is no secret about
the wonderful expansion of the automobile business during the past
year. Had some other big industries adopted that policy the evidences
of prosperity in the country would be more marked.
George J. Gould is in the spotlight again since bis marriage to Mrs.
Sinclair became known. Hla biographers are busily recalling that the
Other Gould heirs charged him with being a failure as a railroad man-
ager declaring that the Gould roads had depreciated $20000000' in
value. They ahould not be too hard on George. Managing railroads
baa been a difficult Job these last few years. Times are different than
when Jay Gould wan master of the nation's railway facilities. The
Gould roade were not the only ones to suffer. George Gould was not
wholly to blame.
Business women of New York are selling $500000 worth of bonds in
aa effort to get the funds for the building of a balf-mlllion-dollar apart-
ment and club house for their own exclusive use. The fact that asjen
establishments are now needed in the cities goes to show the extent to
which women have entered business and are becoming Independent.
The time la somewhat distant however when the ordinary apartment
house for both men and women will become obsolete. The flat owners
re safe for a while anyway.
If. as the figures show the rice producing States of America have
been able to Increase production from 650000000 pounds to 1500000-
000 pounds under the low tariff bringing the production 15 per cent
abofw norsaal consunrtive demand; and If at the aame time they have
Increased exports from 18.000000 pounds to 600000000 pounds and
have reduced imports to only 3 per cent of the exports will some one
kindly explain why it is that the rice growers "need protection- from
foreign competition?
' A.Colorado man had his wife arrested for picking his pockets. That
'surely Isn't a crime or there would not be jails enough in the country
to hold the women prisoners every morning.
Some dunce is suggesting as a solution of the
problem the orgsniiation of the United States
of Europe. The closer you get the European
people together the hotter the fighting is. Think
what would happen when the election returns
came ia from Russia's 1 60000000.
" Apparently former Governor Hoorjer'a efforts
to sdjust the strike are indorsed by all the peo
ple 01 Tennessee except those who disagreed
with him on prohibition seme twelve years ago.
The man who has been named to succeed
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis on the Fed-
eral bench will find that following Kenesaw
even in a high judicial position inflicts greater
obscurity than th conventional processes of
private life could ever do.
The inmates of the Missouri penitentiary
staged a riot because they were served meatless
pigs' feet. It is no quarrel of ours but are
there any other kind nowadays?
'
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch mentions Mr.
Bryan as saying- that he intends to quit talking.
We do not question Mr. Bryan's good intentions
but we don't believe he can quit. The ruling
passion is conquerable) only by death. If he
dies he will quit and if he quits he will die.
Just tot- years ago today Samuel Colt in-
ventor of the gatt that bears his name was born.
As a facilitator of the involuntary exit of man
from this vale of tears and guide to the
Promised Land this man has had no equal in.
forty centuries.
We". t 39. George J. Gould is an Intrepid
spirit to take up anew the task of supplying an
actor lady with diamonds and furs.
What Houston should take a pride in doing
is making the $9000000 mark in building per-'
ntits by August 1. Anything less would reflect
upon her ability to go ahead despite the heat
and the flies.
Never has Houston known so many July mar-
riages. When they marry in July they cer-
tainly must be in love and. ought to be able to
stick together for the rest of their lives.
Nothing seems to be definitely established in
our politics except that the other fellow is al-
ways a black-hearted traitor and a wall-eyed
blatherskite. ' .
Frca a :it i.i 3 Gi!!:ry
7
. By Herbert Corey.
We hear much about the pestiferous snap-
shotter but we believe that the humble photog
rspher is mora frequently the pursued than the
pursuer.
"Fingy" Conners is represented as the "head
and front" of Hearst's campaign in New York.
This estimate does Fingy" an injustice. "Fingy'
is also the foot rear and sides of the Hearst
boom and probably the interior of it.
Mr. Edison has dropped mightily in our opin
ion as a fair sportsman. He holds the floor
like a filibustering senator and doesn't give the
rest of us a chance to ask him some questions.
You notice that the clothing makers and the
b. v. d. manufacturers never select men of your
shape for demonstration purposes don't you?
Mr. Harding's "psy-aa-you-go" pqjicy for the
government sounds pretty well but it looks to us
like a scheme for the taxpayer to do the paying
coming and going.
The primary election system of direct nomina
tions has developed to the point that mediocrity
has an immortal cinch on pa per cent of the
offices.
Improving wages and general employment de-
pend upon industrial revival. Choke that and
everything is strangled.
They are predicting an apple crop of 31000'
000 barrels this year not counting the rots.
specks and windfalls which the Ohio and In
diana fanners intends to press into cider some
of which may become vinegar if Mr. Haynes
doesn t catch it on the glorious turn.
The doctors say the people don't drink water
enough nowadays. We suppose when water lost
its utility as a chaser lots of folks became preju-
diced against k. ; ..
Just three more days and then well turn
you loose on the bunch you have it in for.
Some Postscripts
A radio system has been established between
Pekin and Tientsin that will enable telephone
subscribers in those Chinese cities to communi
cate through their office or residence tele-
phones. -
United States bureau of .mines experiments
haw shown that the flotation proceaa of con-
centrating metallic orea can be used to remove
soma of the ash and refuss content of lower
grade coals.
The Anstrian government it planning to ob
tain t. 000.000 electric horsepower by harness-
ing the Danube river and to build ten or more
ether hydroelectric stations ia the mountains of
that country.
A Pennsylvania physician has invented s
valve to be inserted In an automobile tank cap
to which a pump can be connected to compress
the air and convert gravity feed into force feed
when tbe fuel runs low.
A British steamship is experimentine with
apparatus that pulverises the coal en its way
fiom the bunkers to the boiler rnnma xti...
ing the powdered fuel to fhe furnaces without it
having absorbed moisture.
He's a Dead One All Right.
(From Ike InJianafolit Star.)
It is reported that De Vslera escaped dis-
guiwd aa a hearse driver and it was bis own
politics! funeral too. . .
Washington July 16. Things have a queer
way of leaking out in any capital city. Facts
become known although there is no real au-
thority for the knowing. No one ia quoted ex-
cept "they" . ' '
"They say that "
After the trouble is alt over one finds that
"they" are usually right because they have re-
flected the inner feeling of the inner circle
rather than reported actual happenings. Thus
they say that President Harding wanted to send
a representative to the Genoa conference and
that Secretary Hughes saw its failure a month
away and headed hint off. Now they say that
when the representatives of the European debt
commissions reach here to talk debt repudiation
to Washington thry will step into cool sir.
"No more hysterics. Business."
That will be Washington's rule of action. No
matter how thoroughly the European hysterics
may be justified or how much we sympathize
with them Washington does not propose to lift
any loud outcries to join the screama across the
water. The Washington attitude "they? say
wilt be something like this:
"We do not propose to join you in anything
until you show some signs of regaining your
common sense. You are all engaged in hating
gouging fussing and spending over there. Come
back to earth. Remember that our next duty is
to live as pleasantly aa we csn aa long as we
live. Try to get together. Then we will help
all that we csn."
Meanwhile we will give ia charity an we can
afford. Washington feels that European peo-
ple and statesmen are doing a lot of false think-
ing. . First they must acknowledge that the debt
ia a real debt. It consisted of real money
loaned for certain purposes on reiterated and
passionate assurances that it would all the paid
back.
"Acknowledge the debt" Washington says.
"We do not propose to stand before the light as
nation that has tried to collect a debt that is
not properly due. Do not come before the
world and say that your pledged word ia worth-
less. You do not really mean that anyhow.
You have not quite recovered your poise aa
yet. It is a bad precedent to set debt can-
cellation is."
Washington likewise says "they" say that
it does not propose to have Europe go on think-
ing that the United States is the chronic good
thing for the world. Europe must not come
bawling over here to have her wounds dressed
every time she stubs her toe. Europe must not
think the United States is such a childlike na-
tion that money can be taken from it like candy.
"Then" Washington says "we'll talk busi-
ness on the remitting of a part of the debt.
You must pay some- We know you can not pay
all. And we haven't said a word yet about the
assets you got out of the war Alsace-Lorraine
for example.''
Remember this when the debt commission gets
to work and see how near true it is.
Fancy to yourself a dry town. An almost
terribly dry town in which the corn liquor
tastes a good deal like a rat's nest and the
Scotch makes a bully carbon remover and raw
alcohol costs $-0 a gallon even to generals and
admirals. Fancy it. Fancy a town which has
not lifted its voice in song since early in 1917.
Then fancy that town strolling on its charming
avenues of an evening and hearing alcoholic
anthems busting right out through tbe windows
of a large house :
"Hi lee hi lo hi lee hi lo "
Followed by the international drinking sonns.
French songs about wine German songs about
beer Scotch songs about whisky English songs
about ale Italian songs about grapes Jugo-Slav
songs about slivoviu Russian songs about
vodka American songs about the (rani and how
it is all collected on this auspicious occasion.
Fancy that if you can. Fancy an uproar that
can be distinctly heard six city blocks even if
your motor is knocking badly as you pass.
"Its gotta be stopped says the indignant citi
sens clamoring at the police department.
"Can't be" says the police department. "Dip
lomatic immunity.
One. of the beautiful things about being a
professional diplomat is that you can not be
arrested for anything short of murder. The
young diplomat who had been the genial host
on several of these joyful occasions knew it
What did he care about the agonies of citixens
wnose parched lips were turning back? He
cared nothing Thats the answer. Nothing at
all. So far as he was concerned the town might
die of thirst right at his front door snd he
would not even go out to count the bag.
"We will circulate a paper around tbe neigh-
uuruuou Hia me sunerrrs while their in
flamed tongues cracked like tor balloons. The
young diplomat emitted a crystal metallic laugh.
ne snouid manliest coocent i they circulated
a paper. Circulate two papers. Circulate a lot
of papers. He not . pot propose to alter bis
habits just because he. had been condemned to
live in a hypocritical false face easy money
son 01 a country.
" 'N we will not never pay back the money
we owe nic said tne young diplomat. "Wbad-
da yuh know about that?"
Well there ought to be a climax or some-
thing to this story. Like somebody throwing a
rock through the winitdw n. .l
va III III
front door and hauling off and hitting the young
uipiomai on tne cnm. But there isn't. Noth
ing was done. Diplomatic immunity reigned su
preme.
Only the next time the young diplomat goes
10 ni-iee-ni-io-ing ot sn evenings the black
gang is apt to come right up out of the stoke-
hold and get some of it.
I ' Tl.2 Qzzz Over
I By H. I. Phillips.
The Burden of the Black Brother
By Irvln S. Cobb.
Yesterday I told a story relating to Booker
Washington. Today I crave consent of the
readers to tell another. It was a favorite anec
dote of the great negro educator. He said that
the citiiens of a remote Southern community
got interested in a project to import some Euro
peans to tbe neighborhood snd coloniie them
upon the fertile but gnne-to-seed farm lands
and trurkWches which dotted the Hintrirt.
A meeting was held st the county court house
to discuss ways and means and to raise funds
for putting tbe undertaking through and for
sending to New York an agent whose task would
be to paint to desirable immigrants tha joys and
pruun 01 nKTicuiiurai me in the cotton
Belt. In the audience sat an elderly and highly
respected colored citizen.
After the meeting adjourned the chairman of
11 nanra me old negro.
"Hello Uncle Zackl'Vhe said. "I wss glad
to have you with us tonight. I take it that you
indorse the project we've put under way?"
"Well. Kunnel I wouldn't go so far et to
say dat" stated the old man. "To tell you do
Gawd's truth they's already mo' w'ite folks in
dis county than us niggers kin suppo'te."
(Copyright ioaa by McNaught Syndicate Inc.)
Our Over-8lied Chief Justice.
(From Ike Chicago News.)
Chief Justice Taft ia bavins: a
built for him so that Oxford can make him a
doctor of laws.-' A chief justice with an eieep-
tional wheelbase has to move circumanertlv
even within a readjusted environment.
He's An Unusual Man.
(From Ik Kansas Cily Timet.)
The nuvnr nf VflnnnlMrfi HkU 1
signed becsuac he found himself hampered by
civil service laws. Whit a .quaint mayor i
Dumm and Cummer en the Shelled and
Unahelled Peanut Tariff. .
"Well tbe republican party faces the loss
of the monkey and circus elephant vote" de-
clared Senator Dumm throwing aside his paper.
"I predict both animals will go over to the
democratic side in a body next election." '
'Whatiametter?'' asked Representative Dum-
iner. v
"Tha high tariff on shelled and unshelled
peanuts as voted by tbe United States senate'
replied Senator Dumm. "Didn't you read
about it?"
"I only got as far as the debate on soya
beans" admitted Duramer.
"Well the senate voted 51 to 13 to raise the
tariff on shelled peanuts to 4 cents a pound and
cn unshelled peanuts to 3 cents a pound" ex-
plained Dumm. .
"It's another blow at the common people I"
declared Dummer with rising indignation.
"Congress haa discovered thst thousands of
wage earners unable to buy meats vegetables
and other foodstuffs owing to the high cost
have been feeding their wives and kiddies 00
peanuts. Naturally it has determined to put a
stop to the practice. If the public is sllowed
to develop a peanut appetite if we become a
nation of peanut eaters what will become of
the Chicago packers?''
"As a matter of fact your logic is unsound"
admonished Dumm. "Peanuts have been among
our most expensive products for the past sev-
eral years. The good old s-cent bag that used
to hold enough peanuts to feed the elephants
monkeys Little Arthur Sister Sue Ms and
Uncle Otis and still leave enough for munching
purposes at tomorrow's baseball game is aa ex
tinct as the dodo. They've been reducing the
peanut bags for nearly a decade. The process
has been gradual : summer after summer Dora
inick the Italian vendor has been buying
smaller bags and putting in fewer peanuts until
today a circus elephant pays no attention
to anybody who is carrying less than a
doaen bags. I should say the public now is
buying peanuts at the rate of 5 cents a half-
doien. Under a higher tariff they'll be aold j
cents each or two for a nickel. Peanuts soon
may give the tone to fashionable dinners that
was formerly given by stuffed olives. I wouldn't
be surprised to see upper-crusters wearing pea'
nut pendants lavalieres. and earrings."
"What's the idea then?" asked Dummer.
"Can it be this congress is trying to keep us
out of peanuts the way the last one kept us
out of wsr ?"
"I dunno" reasoned Dumm "but congress
should proteed with caution ia this peanut busi-
ness. The constitution of the United States
plainly atipulates that every citjsen is entitled
to life liberty and the pursuit of peanuts.
shelled or unshelled. The government has
taken away the peepul s beer light wines rye
Scotch bourbon rum and honest-to-goodness
gin. By the same process it has taken away
our pretzels sliced bologna and cheese-cubes.
Blue laws and censors have taken away our
bathing beauties our snappy burlesque shows
and our vampish movies. But I raise a finger
ot warning to those who would take away our
peanuts t
"The peepul will never stand for that" agreed
Dummer. "The "American public will endure
much sacrifice abundantly but when it wants
peanuts it wanta peanuts. An uprising will be
sure to follow and at the head of it you'll find
the baseball fan and the Girl Who Cracks Pea
nut Shells Between Her Teeth During the
lense Moment in Every Drama.
I wouWn t be surprised to see a revolt."
said Dumm. "The whole thing amounts to a
sort of Peanut Prohibition law. The working
classes may rise at any moment and parade the
streets with banners bearing NO PEANUTS
NO WORK!' ultimatums."
"Do you know what I think congress is do-
ing?" demanded Dummer. -
What?" asked Dumm.
"Playing peanut politics'' declared Dum
roer dodging.
Twenty-five Years Ago
Prom The Houaton Pest Files.
Constable W. W. Glass and family are sum
mering at Morgans Point.
Miss Libbie Dunn has as her guests Mr and
Mrs. m. M. fat ton of Waco.
Miss Nettie' Slemenberg has returned from
an extended visit to relatives in Austin.
Classified ad : Board and room with bath all
moaern conveniences close in $3. so per week
Editorial: "The president has lately filled
many consulates. He has also made many dis.
ctrasoiarc.
The new Gartenverein at Brunner was opened
Sunday. It is a beaullfnt nUrm nA ;. r.uu.j
- . .iuwij
10 Become a popular resort.
Beginning tomorrow the Dickson Car Wheel
woraa announce tney will increase their output
from So to 100 wheels per day.
C. D. Allen and familv
and Mrt. L. G. Lumm Af Vsv.avAem ft.... .
- " net pjuigv
10 iorw oaivestofl to spend the season.
G. A. Sternenberir anil wife rt..mj rn
extended trip in which thev vi;.i w...t..u.
- .. ..aunvuM.
v.oicago wew 1 ork and other. Eastern points.
The nomination of W. A. Kimbrough as
superintendent of
the city council this evening. It was also voted
10 exicna me proposed pavement to Washing
ton avenue to forty-five feet.
Rev. I. C. Mason who h f .k. .... l.
- - - ymn va.l
years oeen tne pastor of Central Christian
church of this city buildimr it in ft-Atea as tistA
. . as f vaa fS siwiiit;-
less congregation pt twenty-five members to a
cnurcn 01 350 witn a property worth $15000.
has resigned to becCme State evangelist.
. Stats Happenings.
Galveston. Tbe common rnnn;i
ymoaya m II
ordinance reauirinar all rv-li... . k.n.
and lights en their wheels.
Alvin The Braioria Count v c..... xt
1 .JW.1I HI. .1 Ul
mal opened with an interetln t... rt.
Adams. Mayor John Wilburn and Professor R.
a. nsiiry.
Austin. Indue
- - --""ii'iv n u 1 11c
craft of his reply t0 Henry Watterson as to
wncmer rresinent Lincoln ever offered to pay
the South for the slaves. .
Beaumont. Miss Florenr - 1-
escaped being seriously injured when her bi-
nds wss struck bv a .it-.h .
- - ai me in
tersection of Washington and Main streets.
. Genisal.
Wsshineton. Coneresaman n-H j- .:.
- - i.iauc Ilia
maiden speech on the tariff today which was
sn extraordinarily fine effort.
Fairmont. W. Va. E
- - v vfioae to
the miners here this evening. It j rumored
that the railroaders are nmurin. ...... .L .
. r--r -"a .v ami! me
miners in their strike.
'. fii 2 .... 2 CJT J
Cy Walt Mason and C.'ar Cusst
They're Perfectly Independents
(From Ike Kansas City Times.)
CSt TAIITa tll.F. im - . . ! .
. " agreement among tne
oil Aainan.a miIim. all - .. .
... ... ... w .pvm put up eneir
price the same day. One stsrts the hike and the
I2Mt.tn t fr 10 P oown
snd take the trade away from it. .
Like Socialists Who Get jtJch. 1
(From Ike New Orleans States.) '
WhenMhe meek Inherit k a u . .
us hope they will not get swell-headed end'be-
tin to out on a lot of ai..fa..t ik. u.....
they will. - 1 v . ; -
tarda and Farmers.
To the bard serenely singing I remarked
"You're loafing there while the husbandmen
are bringing com' and turnips to the fsir. Oh
the farmers raise their squashes build the barn
snd crib snd byre .while the poet only sloshes
tinhorn music from his lyre. And the farmers
feed the masses and they make the world go
round but the poe as he passes merely deals
in empty sound." Said the bard "The busy
granger as he toils from day to day as be fills
tbe yawning manger with the home grown
brands of hay quotes the message of the sing'
ers quotes the poets' cheer-up dope thinking
that the bards are dingers giving courage pep
and hope. 'Let ua then be up and doing' quotes
the farmer and he plows; 'still achieving still
pursuing' feeding hogs snd milking cows. And
the poets words inspire aim as he labors an
day long and I fear you'd'only tire him if you
robbed him of his songr" Oh we work in divers
manners ss the bright days come and go ; some
sre bom to carry banners some are born to
shovel snow ; and no man should view his neigh
bors with a sneering sort of mirth saying "Use-
less1 are your labors why not tumble off the
earth?" Walt Mason.
(Copyright teas by George Matthew Adams.)
A Modern Curse.
. av idcas a: quest. '
v In olden days when hate grew hot
.. The days of brave Sir Launcelot
In classic phrase or rhythmic verse
At enemies they launched a curse.
"A plague besiege you" they would cry
"May you be withered arm and thigh 1"
When anger rose to fever heat""""" "
The maddened persoji would repest
Some prayer unto the imps below '
To blind or lame his hated foe
"A murrain seise you 1" he would shout
"And wipe your generation out."
No torture known to human ken
Was overlooked by cursing men.
"May apoplexy end your race
And smallpox scar your ugly face
In agony" the knight would cry.
"May you and all your family die !"
The custom has passed out. 'Tis well.
1 'Tis not good taste for men to yell
In hate such harsh and ugly things
Or pray the pain disaster brings
Yet still there stays one goodly plan
In hate to curse a golfing man.
I would not pray that he should meet
An accident along the street
A torture infinitely worse
Would be the burden of my curse
This I would cry: "While you're alive
May you forever slice your drive I
"Plague on your game of golf" I'd cry ;
"May you forever lift Vur eye
May you be prey to trap and ditch
And always shank your mashie pitch
While you and all your tribe survive
May you forever slice your drive I"
. t (Copyright. by Edgar A. Guest.)
That's What It Said.
She was a little mail nf tn tlUtlnm
buttcrflylike through the National Gallery. For
some seconds she had stood ho wever. ffliinir at
a picture by Nicolas Poussin thus described in
the catalogue : "Centre nymphs and fauns danc
ing; right a satyr embracing a nymph; left two
infant bacchanals one raising a bowl" etc. Sud-
denly she caught sight of the first words on the
irame ana turning to her mother exclaimed
'Mummiel Do look I Isn't this funny? It's a
French school 1"
Two Roads.
raoM THE NEW YORK TIMES.
Life held her hands behind her back
(I knew that Life was rich)
And ss she faced me starry-eyed
She simply asked me "Which?" .
A Road she held in either hand
A Road where I must go ;
But which would prove the better one
Not even Life could know.
Like greedy children who must choose
Of treasures I was loath
To take the right and leave the left
Because I wanted both.
And who shall say what spirit rules
When Contradiction goads
Some part of us toward either choice
Of Life's two different roads? '
But Life was urging me to choose
(The ways of Life are swift)
. And so I closed my eyes and reached -A
haqd for either gift.
And as I walked sometimes slone
I questioned Life one day
"What fairer things might I have found
Along the other way?" j
And Life assured me with a smile
"Some thoughts will always yearn
To know the still untasted joys
Down Roads we never turn.
"Some sad regret is sure to come
For ways we 'did not know
But something worth the finding lies
Whichever way we go.
The Shorter Course.
An ambitious young man went to a univer.it.
professor and said: "Sir I desire a course of
training which will fit me to become the super-
lnienueni 01 a great railwajhsyslem. How much
will such a course cost and how long will it
take ?" '
"Young man" replied the professor "such a
course would cost you $20000 and require twen-
iy years 01 your time. But or! the other hand
by spending $300 of your money and three
months of your time you may be elected to con
gress. Qnce there you will feel yourself com
peient to direct not one but all the great rail.
reaa systems ot our country." ' '
The Wonder Bird
By Dr. Frank Crane.
Tbe other dav a shin aaiUH m th T .... t.
London bearing a huge collection of specimens
from the ends of the earth n1 th. i.l.mt. f
the sea for the London Zoological gardens.
line collection which was brought was amaz-
ingly beautiful. It was a number nf R;.!. r
Paradise. '
Man is vrnr inaenlnna mil fiai'Mirm..!
beautiful things. He has built temples like the
Milan Cathedral and monuments like the Taj
Mahal. He has carved statues painted pictures
wqven cloths and cut jewels which amase us
for their charm and ingenuity
But he has done noth
- a v i lit
work of Nature's skilful tinam . .
He has never made so lovely a thing as a
rose a paipitaung Butterfly a warbling canary
or a mechanism tike the human body with its
superintricste machinery that works itself.
He has painted nothinr that ran rnmniH
sunset and no canvas he has covered with
colors csn equal the message of the dawn.
While the contemplation of the smallest in-'
sect gives us a smsttering idea of Nature's con-
summate skill yet when we look st such a
creature aa the Bird of Paradise th .(.. i.
more palpable to our stupid senses. . . ..
-iue Bird of Psrsdise is a prismstic fountain
And frame your mini lo m'rtk J '
If air bars a tkonstni harms and U
lift. y-M'"rV
jinnjviryiri-i- "'
Burgess Bcxkime Stories
Sammy Recovers HI Speeeh.
at tbosnton w.t auaccss.
However fast gooi new may ttrt
' Bad news is always far ahead.
- ' . i Peter RsU"
The discovery that Peter Rabbet was a f
oner in a pen in Farmer "Brown's henyard i
such a shock to Sammy Jay that for etsi
his life he waa speechless. He hsd know t t
some one waa a prisoner there but not c
hsd he thought of Peter Rabbit .You see
thought Peter knew too much to get into
such scrape at that. . " .
But Sammy wasn't speechless for long.- T
indeed Sammy wasn't speechless for long. I
was news indeed snd Sammy enjoys no.
more than spreading of news. So away .
started shouting at tbe top of his lungs "Ft
Rabbit is a prisoner! Peter Rabbit ia I t
oner I He ia over in Fanner Brown's 1
ysrdl" -v .- v ":-'rj
Now Sammy's voice csn be heard a Ion. .
tance. Everybody in the Old Orchard he
him at once and of course everybody at e.
started for Farmer Brown's henyard to see
what Sammy had Hid was -true. Sammy we
straight over to the Green Forest to spread t
news there. Then he hesded for the dear C
Briar Patch. Before he reached it he saw Jo'
ny Chuck getting his breakfast ia a clovtr
patch. '.: ::..
"Hi Johnny Chuck I What do you think t . -pened
to Peter Rabbit ?" he cried.
"Nothing bad I hope" replied Johnny sJttii j
up and talking with his mouth .full.. ' .
"He's a prisoner I" cried Sammy Jay. - '
Johnny Chuck stopped chewing "Whc
prisoner is he?" he asked anxiously. i
"Farmer Brown's Boy's. Anyway he Is up
in a pen in Farmer Brown's henyard" replic l
Ssmmy. .
"How do you know?'' demanded Johnny
Chuck looking at Ssmmy suspiciously. ' Yon see
Tt ft
"HI Johnny Chuck! What do you think
naa happened to Peter RabbltT".
he cried.
Johnny had lived long enough to learn that ha
couldn't believe everything that was told him.
"Because I saw him" snapped Sammy Jay.
"Anyway I saw his tail which amounts to the
same thing ! Then he XtM Johnny all about
that pen in Farmer Browrfb henyard and how
he had watched and watch Jj to see who waa in
it and finally that very mornipg had caught a
glimpse of a white tail disappearing inside the
little box in the pen.
"Perhaps it is some other Rabbit" suggested
Johnny Chuck- "I don't believe Peter Rabbit
would be so stupid ss to be caught snd put in a
pen. It must be some other Rabbit."-
"When did you see Peter last?" asked Sam-
Johnny Chuck scratched . his nosei tiousrht-
uniy. I haven't seen him for several days."
he confessed. "I hadn't thought of it before
but now you mention the matter I hsvett't Seen
Peter Rabbit in the dear Old Briar Patch for
rvrrai oays. out mat doesn t mean that he
hasn't been there."
Just then Sammy Jay's sharp eyes spied the'
face of little Mrs. Peter at the edge of-the dear
Old Briar Patch. She was looking anxiously
out across the Green Meadows. At once Sam-'
my called to her. "Where's Peter?" he Aed
"I don't know" confessed little Mrs. Peter.
"I'm worried about him. He hssa't been home
for several days." . 1
"You needn't worry sny more" replied Sam-
my. "I can tell you where he is. He's a pris-
oner up in Farmer Brown's henyard." '
And then Sammy couldn't understand why lit-
tle Mrs. Peter looked more worried than ever.
You see to Sammy it was a great .Joke that
Peter Rabbit had been caught.. So all the rest
of that day he flew about spreading the news i
(Copyright i9m by T. W. Burgess. ) j
The Next StoryTMany Visitors to'
Farmer Brown's Henyard."
of feathers" says Mr. Mainland. "Some are
tnrav nf ..IT-J .1 .
. w...tu plumes. Diners save ribbons
crests streamers or feathered shields? .
... ......... .. irgcnus snouia grow aroum!
Such SUOerh iratira m.A XI- u . . ..
...MV. .IIVI .' Mainland teli.1
us some of them.
It waa uiil !. .L .
ihey were dead but flew up toward the sun
rhey could float on lephyra and the female ton
her egg. on the back of the m.le'.nd sat
th. m till they were hatched. They lived on th
nure He rt If. ........ .ji.- .. .
.k. j . ' wcau ne orops befoi
the were fouled by touching the earth.
Un. r 1.. i j .. . .
u naturalists agreed that t i
bad no feet. Even the great Linnaeus fa;'
of scientific classification iramortelised the 1
gend bv callinc th- RlrJ .( r ..
Apoaa. Apoda means footless.
Dr. Wallace a noted collector tell I tha
one of the most gorgeous sights a man fanr
U ft danrincr tSarta" $.. n. 3 . . i
.. Uf nic nca Bird of Faira-
dise when the adult male flock to sing tree
Me write.: . 9 .
"A doien or lw-iu r..n .1 . . .
. -"-"'j luu-iniimagaa DfrdS s
scrub e toik-r .. -t.. . ""u"
.. .v .-- p ineir wings trei -o
t their necks and elevate thei -exqui
P": T!V continual witt .
. - ! ""j ny across from brar
to branch in a state nf -:i
.1 . . - - Aiuciiieni so th.
Ihe whole Im ;. :ii-j . . ro '".
vu wlln warln- plumes i
very variety of attitude and motion.
It is at thru 'M.--: .- .. . -. .
-...v..ai parties Tbat aha n
lives shoot th. bird with blunt arrow "or r
Huporean market i
- It i. the male; howeverwnq has alt t'
adornment. The female bird is a quiet dow
crow-ike crrnlnr. J. j 1 .H . a0
brown. ' 1 folate .
fopyright ! by Frank Crane.)
1 I it-:
Judge Landla Halri Duty. I
( From. Ihe Liberty Press.) ' .
Probablv I.iH. t .-J
h.s business but whan he forbade Babe Y
psperc: -.!"tfor
1 1 .
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(From the Cincinnati Buanirer )
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feredWiy hi. WntfJ fi! tV
Though Something Depends en' Qu
' (Solomon.) I )
' Whef HA awAssM1 U .
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