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Mounte Texas Monday Octobwr t 1916.
Vr'TBS OOMMISSIOH VACaVTCT. :
; ; The vacancy In the Texas Railroad com-
;1MU created by the death oC Commis-
. timer "W. D. Winiams cornea at a critical
? period la the life of that tribunal The
poet does not donbt that the governor la
. filling the vacancy will give careful consld-
I eretlon to the matter.
; There are not many men la Texas qualified
to lake a seat on the commission and render
Instantaneous efficient service. The vacancy
v should be supplied from the list of those tro-
C medjately eligible to the end that the many
important questions notf before the body may
receive the attention they demand.
.. ' It is the opinion of The Post that Governor
Ferguson could not select a more worthy man
than Hon. John L. Wortham of Houston. Mr.
Wortham has seen service on the commission
- and Is acquainted with the nature of the dn-
- ties of the office not only because of such ex-
; perlencebat because' of a Ions and successful
i business career which brought him into con-
stant contact with the shipper's side of
freight rates..
-n White it is true that lawyers can render a
certain necessary service on such a body as
''the commission it is highly important to
"'have then a first-class business man of
known ability. Mr. Wortham is Just such a
uia.r. JBa business experience includes aot
only a successful career in private business
t- but. as the chief financial authority of the
' Texaa penitentiary system he became' ac-
customed to dealing with trsnsportational
questions In a large way.
-' There Is not la Texas a man who could
-'tender mora satisfactory service upon the
commission at this time and Governor
Ferguson could make the appointment in the
. complete certainty that it would reflect credit
upon his administration and plglse multiplied
thousands of citizens throughout the length
aad breadth of the State.
t CHILD
LABOB LAW
TTtfBAintAKS-
As was to have been expected the federal
' 'child labor law is creating some embarrass
ing situations here and there. In North Car
olina.' wo are told there are not a few cases
where the' barrnig oX.chydrens from the mills
-.lias brought widowed mothers of large fam-
. JUSt to the brink of starvation
' The federal government has Inaugurated
-a mother's pension law1 to accompany its
statute which deprives many families of
f food nor has North Carolina such a law.
What Is the solution?
Bad the question of child labor been left to
. the States where it unquestionably belongs
Korth Carolina could have enacted a statute
. to apply to conditions which prevail there
" and possibly nowhere- else. ' It could have
I solved a problem which the federal govern
inent could not solve by pensioning the wid
owed mothers according to the number of
children which the law drives from the mills
. and It could have treated the problem hu
inanely.
The federal law in such cases drives the
children from the mills makes no provision
.'for their subsistence and leaves upon the
shoulders of the mother of a brood a burden
which she can not bear.
' There is but one possible way for such
- mothers to get along and that is to scatter
their children around the neighborhood
where in all probability they will have to
' work harder than they did in the mills.
; When government federal or State in-
' vades the family and upsets its industrial ar-
jaagements it should go further and provide
. an Income to take the place of that de-
. strayed.
'? ' The philanthropy that would rescue the
r Children from the mills by stopping the
meager Incomes which mean food and rai-
ment and turning the families out to starve
' la not getting anywhere.
:;. Of course it win be answered that the gov-
ernment has done no such thing; that it has
merely dealt with the minowners. Nonsense.
The aOlowners are not hurt but in thou-
aands of cases the means of subsistence have
-been' taken tram families and nothing has
. been provided for their relief.
. -' XSXS1CA BTJSS THEIR WOTJffDS.
'' . Your Sunday paper is a mighty compend-
Miiav of the newa and the literature of the
world. 7on see reflected then the views of
the leaders of modem thought In Its pages
' are. lnlerrtewa with the statesmen of your
cwa land and of Europe. Scientists of this
and father ' countries give to the public
' through ita columns their latest discoveries.
' Industrial' tonllders tell of accomplishment
: (nst.aad present. No field of effort but Is
; rr'iTored f(t the Sunday paper.
Aad certainly The "post of October 1 Is
. r :2arkib)e for the amount and variety of ln-
f .nation ft contains but for the student of
VTrla affaire the news stories placed oppe-
t i each other on pages t and t wlQ hold the
.test attraction. ? Xrlifiil ;C
is' Herbert Corey's account of 6i XJhi-
tr.'itvrho ia fn
unded' Fre. '
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kinds' of splints for use In the SOCfr wax hos
pitals of the French army. ;The number of
men whose arms ana tegs ui dooms nave
been andwfll be aavsd by her work w tacal-
culahle. -'rhls trieiriw thbii ap;
the wounds of injured men . "
Aad across the weywm the oppoails.page
of The post fTederfack - Starr talis ; wnai
America has done to tnake of Havana Cuba;
a dean healthful aaf bustoesslike city.?
contrasts the Havana at today' "with ! the
Havana of 1896 Just JO years ago. - Then ft
was a city of fQth and disease reeking with
yellow fever abounding with mosquitoes a
place of death. . But the American occupation
changed all that aad the Havana of today Is
all that a city should be. There America has
done service to a city as la Europe she ren-
ders it to men. N;i
So America buds the wounds of the worldl
Havana la cleared of disease aad maae a
splendid city. The French soldiers have their
fractured bones bound up and are restored to.
health. TO Belgium we send food for the
starring. Our surgeons and our medicines
save the Serbian from typhoid. Nearly $30-
000000 of our money has helpsd the Red
Cross minister to the suffering of every coun
try. In every crisis whether of war or iam-
ine or pestilence or flood the United States
is the benefactor of the world.
THE COLOHEL'S HOT 8TTTTF.
Colonel Roosevelt is getting in his work.
just as he was expected to da He Is stump
ing the West for Hughes. The colonel gen-
erally syjs what he thinks and it is assumed
that he is saying what the candidate thinks.
The colonel is criticising the administra
tion with more vigor than the candidate has
exhibited thus far but that must he attrib-
uted to a difference of temperament
For instance the colonel tells the people
at Battle "Crick" as he calls it that had be
been president he would have answered Ger
many's submarine warfare by seising the
German merchantmen fa American waters.
That would have set the fireworks off even
if the colonel's emotions had not thrust him
in before.
Of course no intelligent person in this
country doubts that had Colonel Roosevelt
been president we should have been up to our
necks in war long before thineven long be-
fore the sinking of the Lusltanla.
But what about Candidate Hughes?
The colonel has placed the stamp of pro
gressive approval upon him and the approval
followed a personal conference. It is fair
for the country to assume that the colonel Is
speaking the candidate's sentiments since
the candidate for political reasons prefers
to avoid positive ground.
Under all the circumstances the president
is fairly justified in declaring that the United
States will be dragged Into- war If the re-
publicans win. Of course it is hsrd to say
with whom but one or the other wing of the
now apparently united republicans would be
left holding the bag.
It is pitiful to contemplate the position of
an i Oermaa-American friends vrho are so bit-
ter toward the administration if after they
had helped to defeat the president the man
they voted for should be called upon to make
war upon Germany. That would be the only
kind of war that would Ucile Colonel Roose
velt
And it would be pitiful to contemplate the
rage of the colonel If after his part in de-
feating the present administration he should
find his candidate joining Germany in a war
on England France Russia Italy and Bel
gium. And what our big business men would
think of such a course of events is too painful
to hint at for a war against the entente allies
would paralyze our foreign trade and pro
duce convulsions at home.
The outcome of the election is admittedly
doubtful. If the fortunes of the contest
should happen to rest with the republicans;
one or the other of the factions now appar-
ently united would soon be conscious of hav
ing bought a kiln of gold bricks.
THE NEED FOB FABMEES. ft
According to the census of 1910 there were
In Texas within a radius of 100 miles of Dal-
las shout 1275000 people and there were
In the same area about 140000 farms.
At that time and within the same distance
of Houston there were about 675000 people
and 60000 farms.
That radius of 100 miles of Houston
reaches on the north to Houston and Trinity
counties on the east to the Sabine river far
into the Gulf of Mexico on the south and as
far west as Matagorda county In the south
west and Fayette county due west from
Houston.
It contains much of the richest land la the
State. The Trinity the Brazos and the Colo-
rado river valleys are within this circle. The
rich lands along the lesser streams the
Neches the San Jacinto the San Bernard
and a dozen others lie within that distance
of 'us.
In fact there is not a foot of land within
that circle that is aot agricultural land.
Every acre of It will produce crops that win
make money for the farmer. Some of It must
be drained to accomplish this result but the
land Is there. ; rr '
In the six years that have intervened since
the census of 1910 It Is likely the population
of the hundred mile radius around Dallas has
Increased to tuny a minion and a halt The
number of farms' has grown to perhaps ltu
000. Fully one-fourth of the vast agricultural
wealth of Texas comes 'from that rich area
and It is likely that the same proportion of
the commerce of the State has its point
origin or of destination there. ' L
But la the sarae six years South Texas
has not increased la population In nearly that
ratio. It is aot Ukelf the number of farms
within a hundred miles of ' this city has
gtowa at fTly It Is not necessary here to dis
cuss the causes whicb have -tended to this
result but the statement is true. And today
there Is Idle land wlthia.100 mes of Houston
which ft put under the plow jrould make this
city the agricultural center of Texas and the
financial center of the entire South.' "
Hirru codhty Is but' a small part of! this
Hie Mystery of D.-lIi.
I Take eft your hats! ThOnaa't dead I
YoVve hosted him ever'tht ! lrs!.d aba
through the weeds waited for' him at Vi lota
followed sua from aiding plsce ta J.....'g plate.
aad now you'vo got; him. W W tbers.wiu
taring eyes. Ma arm outajtrtad a ragged els i
his breast moveless quiet hand us wood
dead I KWCS'-hV;
So take off hats I He was criminal a ttUl
a murderer lowest of men yet; a was A hwaen
being an immortal soul a ertstlon ef tha- lafl-
oite God.' Alive he was detpwt " Eead Jis U
a solemn thing sacred as a canrch.-H ? v
Against death all our hate out Vindictive pur-
rait our violence stop ana . are. beaten oaca
scattered into thin air as the. hesaa. wv stops.
dashed to foam against the rocky cliff. -
Death is the one sanctity that all met respect
the one gesture that melts the aardest the see
awe hat appalls (be most impious.' : 4 V
Life mav be sordid and chean fa the Bving of
it; when it departs the mark'it leave ft always
majestic. - ' '. T
At death the mysterious beaut jf of eternity Suf-
fuscs the coarse face of time.' --v
Death is the great democrat (als't mock at our
aristocracies and highmindednesses V v
The bands play dirges the processioa wind
along the crowded street a dead general is going
to hu tomb in the pantheon. Over ia ' a narrow
back street the undertaker is loadina- a naueer's
Kbody into his wagon to take it to the potter's field.
Famous general and obscure pauper must crawl
throush the same narrow wicket sate; where all
earthly honors and possessions are removed from
them aad must stand naked before the Judge.
Death is the one priest whose wonts are heeded.
In death is that one stroke of common sense
that annihilates our folly. ; !.
It is the one shrewd move of nature that check.
mates ear supreme wisdom baffles fior schemes.
Without death we could not .understand hfe.
For life's evU institutions are too venerable its
senseless customs too iron its manias too intense.
its passions fevers' too fierce so that unchecked
by death's cool reasoning life would speedily be-
come a whirlwind of fury.
Death is the one preacher of righteousness no
bility mercy chanty and justice' whose lips
cannot be stilled.
Life has forsiveness. which is aoodr but death
has forgetfulness which ia betterC.
(Copyright 1016 by Frank Crane.)
vast territory yet in Harris county alone
there Is vacant agricultural land sufficient
to produce crops of a value of 160000000 a
year. Were all the land In these twenty-
seven counties surrounding Houston to culti-
vation the State's entire $500000000 cotton
crop could be grown here and still leave room
for all the citrus fruits the truck; and the
watermelons our fanners cared to grow.
South Texas needs farmers. Harris county
needs farmers. Houston needs farmers. And
the men or set of men who find ways and
means to supply this need will be doing more
for this part of Texas than any one has yet
been able to accomplish. ' '-
Little more than s month from now and the
Texas Woman's fair will be opened to the world.
The progrni is said to be already complete and
gives promise of much delightful sad instructive
activity. This is peculiarly our own institution.
The idea of a woman's fair originated in Houston.
tt has been carried to consummation here. The
exhibition which will begin on November. 4 will
show many features of interest to men amd women
alike. It will feature football games baby 'shows
tancy work art cooking home making muse
dancing industrial progress and everything that
pertains1 to the betterment of humanity. Just
now those who desire arc being given aa oppor
tunity to assist in this exposition by becoming
sustaining members of the fair association. It
is noteworthy that the committee which has this
matter jn charge is meeting with every encourage
ment in the work. Houston people have the in-
ure st of the Women's fair at heart and are glad
to assist those women who are devoting time and
energy to its success.
Friday night was the coldest September night
for seven years in Houston but for all that
Houston is a "warm number". With three vau-
deville theaters in full blast cabaret features at
two or three dining rooms several dancing "pal.
aces" working overtime a dosen or so moving
picture houses playing to full capacity and numer-
ous other entertainment features in progress there
is no lack of a place to go for the man who
is all dressed up. Every minute is a busy
one in Houston.
The State troops of New Mexico Arizona and
Texas will remain on guard on the Mexican border
when other guardsmen shall be returned to their
homes. This is as it should be. In the event of
any serious trouble along that boundary the troops
of these States would have to bear the immediate
brunt of the fighting. They should therefore be
better trained soldiers and more seasoned) . We
do not expect trouble but this preparedness' idea
has quite a few advocates in the border States.
We may as well be ready.
Port Arthur must havfe a pretty good credit
That city sold $64000 worth of bonds last week
tor par accrued interest and a premium of $1905.
The money will be spent for paving thus increas-
ing the security for the debt and making Port
Arthur credit just that much better. That East
Texas port will soon have more than six miles of
asphalt driveway and there is .more to come.
Port Arthur is a city of builders. Her people
know how to get results. .
With a gain of $tai$tg in bank clearings
over last year for the month' of September Hous
ton can look the financial world in the face with
s clear conscience. Fifty millions In deposit and
bank clearings of $60000000 puts us in the class
with the cities of the half million population class.
State of Texas Owes a Million.
(NtvUn A. FutstU in tin CrafhsmmtA
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That the State of Texas owes $tooooe
f i
to
merchants fa Texas s large portion of which
has been running for several years has been
ascertained-receaf ly. This announcement as made
at a meeting of the Chamber' of Commerce
Houston. There is no reason why the ;great
State of Texas should 'default on its just bills
and certainlv no reason whv these' merchants who
gave credit to the penitentiary system for mercRan.
otse ana supplies that were so badly needed should
suffer for their confidence aad trust or be msde
to say lawyers a bis fee for .attemntin to collect
biUa that are just and that hive been- approved by
those officials who bought the supplies. - It is
said that mere are firms fa Houston who have
accounts ranging trom Sr.000 to ss.ee' each.
Some of these buis are five sod some seven years
old.
TJiere are a few bills bought during the year
100 are sail unealov Tlua merchanrii- u
bought for our penal institutions. Does this State
of affairs attest a business administration or dos
it attest; criminal indifference aad unpardonable
negligence. ; Men who have- boasted of their bti-
nesa records in private lifejiavs had the macbin.
ery of this government for years but today we
ire a nuuiov oouars soon.
; A peanut vender soul
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have done oetter.
A to tha Or:
(jfrseV tU Were-Tiiiu i:rtU .
The esteemed Austin ; American has seen fit
ihuaWlfaduIgi Itself s . .vv
-' The o:id labor law was a wise set-one of -
humanity; -and hea a member of congress v
W sttackwl -for voting for its russge it can '
only be sn the ground that those so making'-'
thecattack tn in favor of enslaving the chil-
drea pf the -land fat order that large milli fac
tory and -mine interests may was wealthy at
thtf espesse of the bodies and minds Of the
'youth of the' land.' i . . ti .
C'Oors is a eoostirutional avernment Th mem
bers -of the )tongreas are hound by oath er sffir
siatiea te .support the Cousdtutioa : Tht Coasti-.
tation nowhere confers on the congress such pew
era ai that hsdy hat bees exercising these past
tweet ysSTKSeastor Brsadegee of Connecticut
recently pointsd out that the very form of govern.
meat of .the United States Is st stake la this kind
'f kwslatibe.He said he would go as far as any
beo-fa'tryfaf: tS relieve distress or te. prenote
wegeaerai rwerfare especially ef little children
but that he thought such projects should be car-
ried out in 1 more legal aad ceastitutioasl method.
He eontfaueiV i ..vt r.4t h .' "V
X do not IrnoV what the supreme court will
say shout this bill new but if. we are going
-to pass up everything tooths supreme court n.
shirk all our responsibility in the matter and r
vote for-measures that we think are uncon--
etitutiensl - or . that . we think ninety-nine .
'chances eut of one hundred ere that they sne V .
unceastrtntioaaL I do' not think we are treat- ' -ing
the supreme court fairly. The supreme
court of this country ought to have some sun-
port but if we are constantly going to throw
upon the supreme court all the responsibility
of setting aside acts we thought were unwise
but we psssed ia response te public clamor '
we are to a certain extent depriving the su-
preme court of its right to have support of a
-coordinate branch of the government m try-
ing to maintain the constitution of the United
States . '.'::
There is probably no man in the senate who is
more respected for hUintegrity and legal knowl-
edge than Senator Works of California. He has
been one of the meat progressive members in the
senate. For years he was one of the supreme
court judges of California and when he came to
the senate it was not as a politician but as a law-
yer who had merited the esteem of 1 the people.
He has announced that he is not a candidate for
re-election. What he says about the -child-labor
law therefore must be regarded as wholly impar.
tial and untouched by political er sectional preju-
dice. He thus spoke in the senate : ' -
I think there is no doubt of the power of
congress to deal with interstate commerce in
any form but the question that troubles me
in this matter is whether or net this' is an in-
terstate matter. I can understand very well
why the power' of congress should be ex-
tended te the distribution over the country of
lottery tickets because the evil is just as
great in the State to which they are carried
as it is fa the State from which they are sent ;
but that ia not true respecting the msnufsc-
ture of goods that are aot hurtful ia them-
selves.' The transportation of them is- not
harmful and the use of mem fa Other States
is not detrimental to the interests of those
States neither is the actual transportation of
them from one State to another. The evil
here is strictly and solely within a State; that
is to say the use of children in the manufac-
ture of goods. .It does not extend to other
States ; it does not extend to transportation
itself from one State to another.- There-
fere the question fa my mind is whether it
is interstate commerce that is being dealt with
fa this kind of legislation. I say with all
deference that I think the lottery Cases do
not reach this question for the reason. I have
suggested and it is a very troublesome ques-
tion to my mind. I am in entire' sympathy
with this legislation if it is going to accom-
plish what is intended bat I must say that I
nave grave doubt about the constitutionality
of it.
The Honorable Wood row Wilson has Said that
the congress by legislation of this sort showed its
contempt for the constitution thus marking ours
a government - of whim rather than of stability
or words to that effect 1
It will be a sorry day for American people when
their chosen representatives no longer respect the
organic law of the land.
School Children Learn Life.
INnelon A. Futile in the 'Craftsman.)
At college I saw fortunes spent every autumn
to teach football candidates how to elude opposing
tackles but not a cent to teach them how to elude
tuberculosis typhoid pneumonia or cancer. Wc
were required to dig out Latin roots and to ttn-
kink logarithmic gnarls but there was no required
course fa intelligent living.
There was s nerenniaL concerted rock-ribbed.
steel-girt conspiracy of silence against ths human
body. The educational system frowned upon bad
teste in deportment manners language and liter-
ature : but bad taste fa life Itself was quHe the
proper thing. It wss deemed more important to
know quadratic equations than the simola fact
that to sleep habitually fa a room-where the sun-
oesms never enter is as suicidal as a mole ot cyan-
ide atteit somewhat slower.
Long before. New York's public school children
of today learn how to decline amo they are-taught
to decline indiscriminate lasses. Long before they
leant how Gettysburg was fought they learn hew
tire is fought the toothbrush drill precedes the
first spelling drill They learn the intelligent way
to sneeae or cough. Long before they take up the
avenues of Cesar's entrance into Gaul they are
instructed fa the avenues of entrance of regiments
of bacilli into the human body. Gotham's tots
learn the necessity of f reauent sirinc of bedding:
the proper cleaning of ice boxes the curability Of
pntmsis. - no longer the pathetic spectacle of Alice
fa Blunderland. When Alice reaches the age of
6 sad matriculates in New York's nub lie schools.
she is now ushered st once into the wonderland of
genuinely useful knowledge of her wisp of s body.
And it begins to look as if the public schools of
the future were to be s vast system of. service sta-
tions on the highway of human life. . -
Kanaas City's Night Scheole. : .
(frm Kantat City Timu.) ;
The first term of the night school will begin in
nine schools with s possibility of opening a tenth
school to accommodate the waiting list at the
Polytechnic Institute. The institute will organise
classes with 1775 students enrolled. The Lathrop
School of Mechanical Trades will begin with sixty
nine while the Lincoln High (negro) will stsrt
With is. There will be no enrolling at the in-
stitute. . ..' '
Persons desiring a course of study fa elementary
subjects enroll st the Boys' Hotel the Lathrop and
Karnes schools. In the letter two foreign depart-
ments will be opened. Trade work will be taught
at the Lathrop School. Five Schools will open
classes 1 for negroes. They are the Lincoln High
Ppnn Blue Valley Wheatlejr and Garrison schools.
Approximately two hundred persons were un-
able te obtain subjects they wanted at the Poly-
technic Institute. fT
On Your Wrist '
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! (From tht Botton'EoM. '''(-
Acootdjng to the solemn expert ocfaion 'of the
American; Nations! Retail Jeweler association
fa wirrwtion assembled -the Wrist' wstch wiU be
more in vogue than 'ever before during the coming
rear. 'Aad why shouldn't ; r4l $
Time wss and nbt long departed when the tiny
timepiece attached to the masculine f wrist Was
considered effeminate. Just ss the severely stren-
uous gam of tennis was thought to be too lady
like for men by those who had never played it
But not now. . The sthletes of desidcdly mstily
type and most of slL ths soldiers regular snd
state hsvs t-en example that the rest of man-
kind have not failed to Observe. The wrist wstch
is not only s convenience but fa some esse a
necessitv. I And "a : man's a man for a' that"
or any'4Jrk else that he chooses to wear. . -
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Vhwe and. 9u:;stlon Sslgtirsj to Men and
i Msttsrs of. General lRrert
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0'
F COURSE - si
stockings ars so e x
travagance for - mo t
girls hut it Is one- that !
we shall Set denounce so
lone ss skins are abb re-
viateJ as theyre.; j
r A -. Montana- woman 1
shot a republican politl-!
..We may aa well
recognise the fact ."that
we are living ia a new t
era and the broomstick
d the rolling pin
havev.'glvee way x for the
grand ' oU tri.jer.
Csto Ssla tefls the reporters that there "are
mors Indian in the country now than vfcen he
took the job Of commissioner of 'the Tadisn bu-
rtau.; But ths main question .is are mere more.
democrats fa the country new than when the great
Catoatan' hesrt first commenced to bleed .i
officer . ;l-.
There sfe .s crest many ways of getting money.
but tht mesr reliable and safest is to work for it
Sometimes one cant help borrowing trouble.
Here five .weeks before the election we cant
sleep of nights because it is impossible to decide
whether we shsll invest the money we Ire going
to .win from the republicsnt in s steamship line
or S controlling interest in1 the Texas Compsny
Frequently a girl can keep out of the divorce
court by marrying s real man and not an suto-
mobiie. 1 .
We suspect that the ill health which csused
Dr. Wellington Koo's resignation is something
like the iH health that will necessitate the resigns
tioaa of democratic postmasters if v the party
doesn't gtt a move on it and landslide the two
polar Charleys. f
That train' hoM-up near Detroit ought to show
the democrats how active the republicans are in
Michigan. - -
There are times when we suspect that the jit-
neurs Of Houston would be satisfied if the city
council would put the street railway out of com-
mission and subsidize each flivver at the rate of
600 a month.' .
That Chicago case of two husbands st the bed-
aide of one wife opens up an impressive vista of
mutual embarrassment
' John D Rockefeller made $8000000 fa one day
last week.' We really believe if the eld man will
exercise a little diligence and practice thrift he
may yet escape the direful fate of dying fa an
almshouse. "''
The . country has found out who Jeremiah
O'Leary is but exhibits no symptoms which Indi-
cate that It Care S particle.
The New York Herald's poll places Massachu-
setts fa the doubtful column. As we view it
the doubt fa Msssachusetts is whether the Old
Bav State will srive 10.000 remiblican maioritv
or 6ooo.
The New Yorkers don't care what the rest of
the striker do now that the 9000 brewery work-
ers have returned to work.
1 0 V
Experience teaches strange things. For in-
stance sve know now that if we want to keep dis-
content out of this country we shall have to find
a way. to avoid such prosperity as it ia having now.
That Texaa hunter who mistook s Mr. Hare
for a squirrel and shot away a section ol physi-
ognomy must have been a nut
They say the Jeremiah O'Leary who sent the
insolent message to the president is a young law
yer. It was evident enough that he was young
but we didn't know before that he was a lawyer.
The North Carolina troops are now fa Texas.
And Texas will start the roxsum and the per
simmons forward just as soon as they strike camp.
To prove that truth can triumph under the
most painful circumstances we make the . 1
nouncement that the absence of this column for
ten days did not result in even one mess of fish.
Reading Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg's
speech critically one is almost teased into an im-
pression that he harbors some dislike of England.
The president is probably mistaken fa saying
that the republicans "want to drag this country
into wsr. What the rascals really want is to drag
our patriots out of the postoffices.
If the Bremen is captured one more time it
will tie Emperor Frans Josef's death record and
push the Crown Prince' "mortally wounded" ex
perience.
We are getting the benefit of 'lots of good -ad
vice ss how to make Houston great but none of
it is applicable until .there is evinced a willingness
to put up the money.
We msy take it for granted that no belligerent
is going to exaggerate the achievements of it
antagonist or understate the extent of it own
operations.
The owner of the Bremen declare the sub has
docked in New London but New London does not
confirm ths report ..Perhaps this is a case of
constructive docking.
"How should chicken pi be served?" inquire
an Austin bride. We teach the art of serving
chicken pis by example snd not by precept. Fetch
on the pic
.4r.mmmWmmWmmmfmmmmMnmBmmmimmmin.
They tell us the Texas campaign fund is grow
ing. The election is five weeks away snd Texas
has raited nu" of her allotment of $106000 "ex
cept about I90M0. ' '
Nearly two hundred dlvorcei were granted In
Houston fa September. .It seems thst fa a gret
many cases love dies the moment the gasoline
tank get empty.. . -t t - i
; "- No Time For Sssh etlon. -'
(Pr0M iht Cltvtland pfain Dealer.) !
It is reported from Texas thst s poker-chip
mini has been discovered Investors would better
go Slow however till it is reported whether the
mine produce blue or red or merely white chips.
Denmark's Judflmsnt Seems Peor..
1 (From fas Nathvilu Southern j.smcreuM.l
1 Turning down an off er of $soooboo for three
coral reefs 1 what might he logically expected of
a nation which so enthusiastically sung the laurel-
wreath on ur.cooa.- ''.f '
: tPrim ikt Pittttmri GuMTttnts.1f:
. Those vsrsnts who refused jobs at jq cents an
hour m' lit have been induced to accept had they
been e.. i t.'.frs to-do ue work.-- v j
- t j. .
. It ' -.
Wherein He Tampers V.-.i
penses Both WL '
1 ti V 1
I
LOVE ' to v'spesk In
pubUc'v-For a fsllcr
of my sge it's funny
hew. I paw ths earth snd
long to mount the stage
I love to haw an audi
encc that reache to the
door t lovs .to best two
thousand feet impatient
bit tht floor I love to
step out te the front on
scared snd "'wobbly legs
snd mark my audience '1
eye Hk half s miiuon
eggs; straight T up look.
up to' where I stand and watch ni I
a drink of water and dare me to try a.1
them Uugh. .From the time when I make a
until that date it fiUed the joy that make
pulse jump is hardly evefc stilled. -1 canr
to sleep' at night -I wake up when do
mornins finds me fuU.of "jumps the ev
finds me blue j my babies find me preoccupk
f rsu find me distract i 1 wish I knew some u
to which 1 could pull my freight when I. wc
not be asked to speak or even read pome;
settle down on thst fair isle and 1 would cal
home' And I would rule tt long and Weu
keep a club and reach for any nub who wo
suggest an sfter-dfaner speech 1 or any one
dartit suggest they give an author tight- (
would . soak them j en the bean sad 4 wo
sk them right I And I would take their wrec!
remains and cast them fa the sea the wretch
dared to e'en suggest s 4stform speech to t
Oh there are men who like- such stunts -
treasure them s heap who can stand up en tl
two legs and sing themselves to sleep aad sing
audience to sleep on can nut tt te rout - so ;
them paw the heated air I think fll cut it'll
FRIDAY NIGHT. -TV-'
There may be other nights which hold a little i
- of joy.. .- - '
When there is much of hsppinem and tour; tat
" .to annoy ' n'f v'
When mqments come on dancing feet aad
and go slong .. JJ".-' r ; f
On feet which seem to keep it'ep W s more t
hspfiy song; - t r
Times when perhaps a 'north wind" blows t
down the chimney roars - s
And folks within are gUd.' that-they are.)
.forced out of doort; 'VCi "' t
But however those nighte taay'Jbe abrim jw
rare delight 'i 'v - r J
They can't compare a moment with the joy
rnaay nignt. ; )
That the first night of all the week the k'
are feeling free ; C -l 1
And when their voices lilt snd sing and
athrob with glee; ' : ' 1
And Margaret across the way comes in"K
comes Janice 1
And Toots snd Wsweese (that's "Loutse) e
then they stsrt s piece v -''
On the old phonograph a piece that haa a dsn
ing swing t
And then their feet catch up the tune I and sw
lows' on the wins ' . sbI
Are not So light snd not so glad and arsts
half so bright - - -s.. i
As the kids are -at our house when the night (
Fridsy night. .
They hammer the piano and their voices aft 1
song; isn'f
The week it wss s weary week snd h was pa.
ing long - J
There were hsrd sums in school of day a
sums at night to do . I
Aad once or twice a- music lesson crowded t
them toe: . . .1 f
And o they did not .look aside and did n-
romp and play - - o
n mm a ...... .... ... .
out rnaay nigm as use s ins nignt tne nooi
are put swsyl - - I
And that' the night ths kids ars glad the nigf
the kids are free . I
And bubbling full of happiness ths way the Ud
saeuid ne
And so when the eld phonograph starts us 1
scratchy piece -
And Margaret ha come across and I tan Sea;
Janice - .'-. . :'." !
Come romping up the steps aad Toots eomet evtt
with Wsweese f v ' I
I know there's nothing on the boards' that even
ing to displease i . . j
I know the kids will gather round the pheoogrtpL
and sine 'I
Or theft- feet wiU catch the missure light ss
swallows on the wing 1 I
And they .will romp through room and halt and
queer in their delight ! h-a j
love to be st our house when the alght Is'
Fridsy night t ' ' t ( .
. sau ' : -
A Shortage In Stooklngs.' ' .! ' '
(From tk JCsswm Cfry Tim. ' ;' - j
Warnings to housewives and mothers' to' darn.
all the old stockings for winter1 use ere being
sent eut by retail dry goods dealer and whole-
salers. The warnings follow a famine of chetp
knit good precipitated by the scarcity of tmmt- f
grant labor lack of dye stuffs and German maaV
knitting needles. Ths absence of needles is giv-
ing the wholesalers grave apprehension of meet-
ing the demand this winter. - - ' r
Some of the retail stores now have no small
site of children's stockings. Their orders- to f
wholesaler are being turned back. f
Cheap grades of children's 'hosier nam mra wlr. ''
tually out of the. market wholesalers explain !
tnese grraea soon wiu oe repiacea Oy vetletiet
mittens neangear and stoeUng now are doubled
in pricey and the prospects point toward still'
further increases' : '-i . ' 1 'v ff
The shortase of German made nonltM U ih. '
most serious cause just now snd this together
who un uonKo lomn aemana since German
products are off the market 1a certain te) make the
famine serious in this country. . t ' ;'
First indications of the famine were the' short- i
age oi utom oyes. uioseiy xouowlng this came !
the increase in the price of cotton. . Then thet
Scarcitv of labor became notleeahlo mnA i.iijf
came the exhaustion of; the surplus supply of I
knitting needls in America. Three needle making
factorie have been started sine the shortage he-
came grave but these can not hop to supply the r"
demand.) k iim '. fcs -a ...
.i : lt . Modsnf Itfoeatlenl M'f !
. t-Scrib in. W Chitf.) r f
a young man warned to take the agricultural
course at Cornell but was barred because he did
not have enouch Latin or tinA. r.
thatr- Education t- Seyl If is a joke. 1 X 'asked i
s number of high school pupil a few .question -lately."
Who was the fourth president -of the ."
United State and what was. the principal event
of hit sdmlnistrstion? Who' wit the democratic
candidate for president IS 1904? Bound Cstun
county f Where did yesterday first dawn
No It.WM not the fsult of thei"'
our vicious syttem" which makecountt the
only thing worth while. And the grestStttt of
New York pays out dosens of imllions warl
ftr this sort of noneducatlon. the ism- of
thtprophetrFigl AUo Piffle) Likewise! Bunk?
Thsrs Should Limit '
. . (aFivsi Jh. IfathingtoH Slot) y '
'Bete' contented wlf yoh lot" laid Uncle 'rUn
i
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