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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-02-01
Impressive Ceremony at the I. n
G. A. Hall.
EULOGY TO MEMORY or GEO. D. LEES
The Late Fhysical Director of the
Association-High Tribute Paid
to His Worth ~ . Christian.

Der present, composed OF members and Wis.
itorp. Everyone seemed impressed, with tbs
solernnity Of the occasion and during thu
entire meeting the deepest attention wa;
paid to the remarks. coming from those
who had been associated With the deceased
and who loved and hcnored him
Mr.. S. p. Luce. secretary. requested ali to
Join in singing certain selections. The FOL
lowing numbers were sung during the ser
vices: No. i. Every nay VIII Bless
Thee" No. -. BE We Also Ready" No
IS. Softly and Tenderly." No. ls5. Trust
ing Jesus. that Is All"
touching prayer was offered by Mr..
Thomas after which safe to Land was
touchingly rendered hy Il quarteiie com
posed OF Messrs Breaker. Ruaph. sch0li
and Bell.
The following was then read by Secretary
Luce:
The occasion which has brought this as
semblage together Is one o. extreme sor'
row and profound sympathy Death is at
all times sad 10 those who have t. part with
those they love aud cherish Bnt 70 see
one like our dear brother. George D. Lces
cut down In the midst u active service in
his youth makes 1t douhly sad. Mr. Lees
was born In Toronto Canada November 10
(. 1865, being the youngest child of family
OF five. He died in Houston. Texas, jan
nary q. at 10 O'Clock p. IN. 1877.
At the age of ~ he was compelled IA
leave school and take a pcsitieu +, aia 4,
the support OF bis mother. VITO ever since
has been dependent upon hin. Thus he
was deprived Of wha- he SO much coveted
n higher c1ucatien wi 3, lovln, ygar h,
that be gave his ,lme and sli that he earned
towards the supper, 81 HIS family. All his
sisters are poor and inns his sear rnofber
now ca years Of age ia left I'd in.' charged
OF the Kind Loving Father who fook MIN
from this earth
George had longing Ia beeon,. ,,.a.pl :, |
that line OF work which has ga CHARACTER
lied his success. the rymqssiurn yorlf I'm |
Tho Young Mems christian asso,,ofiops
Accordingly he ilt,nt himself by p,inr bts !
evening hours under The tutnrsbip Of com.
petent men until the wear 1s9f ,ehc, ~ I
while working In a whoireale srrr e,,-
during the day time. gave three NIGHTS
every week 10 Tho gymnasium NJ N~r9
railroad branch of assdclation WORT pe,r
Toronto. july fg9s t,. vas .ol.t 10, ,h.
position Of physical director of Toronto
Canada. holding the same tfu ir.hr,,.,., n
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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-02-01

Four-d dollar Fountain fen "A eetlkrs
to the most popular LADY az"
free. at PastoriZa's. i.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-02-01

Only the best OF ruDps,,ii, find ~ x
against Houston mud ~ VI, stfot
at Sans shoe store. ol9 "A X
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-02-01

Money to buy vendors lien y rs s.a =
small discount or aaya,~rs iess Y
liens. r.. f, Soiourner w. a
gress avenue.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-02-01
DON'T KNOW EvERiin u, =

Fielding & Co., moved 10
street.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-02-01

Don't forget your rubbers W. .,.
, Mem TO- please YOU Sans shoe store az
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-02-01

We don't know eyerythla .ss.,as vi !
know how to do the best i I,,snt xrir
town, and how TO give proDpP bo,s y
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-09-16
ANOTHER "GREAT AND GOOD
FRIEND.o

Four years ago President Cleveland
sent minister to the Hawaiian ere
public" with credentials to the presi-
dent of that government in which he
addressed him as sGood and Great
Friend" Whereat the testers of the
Republican press made themselves
merry and their readers applauded the
jests, and the laugh went merrily
around. Mr. Cleveland had not taken
the attitude of friendliness towards the
president of that so-called republic. and
the point of all the jokes, more or less
witless and all dipped in gall. was the
contradiction of his greeting and his
prior course. Now his successor sends
his accredited minister to the court of
Spain to be presented to the queen re-
gent with a letter Of Introduction in
which the queen is addressed as Good
and Great Friend"
The queen regent and her minor son,
the king, are employing and for
some time have employed their
resources in quelling revolt
of their subjects in Cuba. They
have spent sundry millions and sacri-
feed thousands of lives and brought
the nation to the verge Of bankruptcy
in their efforts to preserve intact the
kingdom. In such a situation the
queen and the little king have a right
to regard as their friends only those
who sympathize with their efforts and
cause, and they will read with surprise,
equaling only that OF President Dole,
the assurance of President Mckinley
that he regards them as his great and
also his good friends. They will recall
that he was the nominee of a conven-
ton that resolved it's sympathy for
Cubans and regarded the efforts of the
presidents great and good friend" TO
subdue them as acts of Cruelty and
oppression" assuring the Cubans that
"our best hopes go out to them for the
full success of their determined con-
test for liberty" If President Cleveland
could call Dole his great and good
friend" while suspected of trying to
take his presidency away from him
and if he was therefore a proper butt
for the gibes and jokes of his opponents
how will they treat their own presi-
dent who addresses the throne of Spain
as his great and good friend" while
accusing it of acts of Cruelty and on
preston" to the Cubans and wishing
the latter success in their effort to take
the island away from Spain? But is
this only white horse of another
color?
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-09-16

The Minneapolis Tribune's suocon-
sciousness asserts itself at rare inter
walls and compels it to frankness and
accuracy. It has an editorial with the
CAPTION "a Chance for Home Stone
Yet in which it grasps the straw the
attorney generals letter throws out
and declares it's confidence that the
home stone will win yet. But its sub
consciousness knows well that this let
ter is but a bit of by-play of the gov
ernor for political effect. and 1t accord
ingly compels the continuation Of the
editorial with darkling reference to the
sequence of disasters that always run
in triplets. and foreshadows the fate Of
home stone by reference to the two re-
cent railway disasters and the two re-
cent murdersa in the state The only
possible inference from this obscure
connection Of unrelated topics is that
the. subconsciousnesS of the tribune
predicts a final disaster to home stone.
1t is regrettable that the sub gets into
action so irfrequently.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-09-16
FUSION BREEDS CONFUSION.

The secretary of state of Iowa may
have been influenced by his Repab-
lican partisanry in holding that the
n1iddle-o -the-road Popullsts In that
state are entitled to have their nom1-
nees put on the official ballot as the
only candidates of tbs Popuif5t party,
but his reasoning is sound. When the
fusion Populists nominated, as their
candidates, the same persons who had
been nominated by the Democratic
their identity in the eye of the law and
became Democrats. Assuming that
The Iowa ballot law is similar to our
own we can see no escape from this
conclusion. The law recognizes the ex-
istence of political parties but not by
name. It contemplates the creation
and disappearance of parties as posi-
bic and probable and takes cognizance
only Of them through the list of candi-
dates their conventions may make and
certify to the official charged with
printing the official ballot. 1t accepts
the designation such conventions may
adopt to distinguish them from other
organizations It does not look into
their platforms to see wherein they
differ
The candidates nominated and the
names adopted are all the ballot Of
ficer can take into consideration in de-
termining what names shall go On the
ballot. He has right to assume that
candidates stand for identity of prin-
ciples and policies and that where SIM
liar candidates are certified to him as
the nominees of two conventions with
different names, there has been
merger Of parties into one and that the
greater has absorbed the less. The
Iowa Populists therefore, who adopt
ed the candidates of the Democratic
convention, became Democrats, SO far
as the ballot law is concerned, and the
only Populists who can be recognized
under the law are the nominees of the
middle e-of-the-roaders. The election
board should sustain the position of
the secretary for it is good sense and
should, therefore, be good law.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-09-16

should contain all the news Of the day
preceding from all over the world, he
would have failed. There was no tele-
graph system and no Atlantic cable
by which the, news could be brought
to him. Yet 20 one would think of ar
guing from that shat such a news
paper cannot be published today
A century ago all traoe in this coun-
try was strictly local. There was no
such thing as general average OF
prices, and there were no price statis-
tics or means for collecting them The
experiment referred to included only a
few commodities and those. Of course,
were subject to the great fluctuations
always noticeable in a locli market.
Today it is possible to make list OF
hundred commodities and to fix to
the fraction of a mill the average price
of these in any and all the great mar
kets of the United States. The ma
chinery of commerce has supplied the
material for multiple standard, and
there would be no more difficulty IN
putting it into. effect tomorrow than
there would be in ascertaining the cost
per ton per mile Of carrying freight ON
any railroad system in the United
States. The multiple standard Is,
therefore, theoretically ideal and prac-
ticaIly possible. No greater reform has
ever been introduced In the financial
history of the world
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-09-16
FINANCIAL REFORM.
Some Advice Offered to the Bankers
of Ohio.

TOLEDO, O., Sept 15.-"Our rela-
tions as bankers and citizens, to finan-
cial reform, was the subject of an ad-
dress by Bradford Rhodes, editor Of
the Bankers Magazine, of Mamar-
oneck, N. Y, before the Ohio Bankers
association "To attain the supreme
usefulness of the banking system of
the country" said he, "the bankers
themselves must convince the majority
of the people that it is for their in
terest to have the credit money issued
by the banks. l would suggest that
while every earnest man who thinks
he has a good idea should not refrain
from sending it to the committee of
the monetary conference at Indian
apolis now / understand, working on
n bill for presentation to the next con-
gress. He should, whether his sugges-
ton be adopted or not, refuse to allow
his personal feeling to make him an
opponent of any measure that may be
adopted by that committee provided it
generally satisfies the demand for re-
form.
Gold payments have been steadily
and firmly maintained by all the sue
cessive administrations since 1879, the
law compelling the purchase of silver
bullion has been repealed and conf
dence in our currency has been re-
stored by the decisive defeat of free
silver. 1t yet remains for us to con-
vince the people of the desirability of
according to the banks freer use of
their credit in developing the COM
merce and industries of the country.
and to demonstrate that the national
source for supplying a credit currency
is to be found in the banks rather than
the treasury"
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-09-16

When the nation gets to work 1t will
not stop until it gets out of gear
again, and then it will halt and then
go on again-a succession of like
events forever and forever" Again
we find the speaker agreeing with us
in the similarity of conditions now
and in 1879, resumption then letting
out the boarded money as the settle
ment of the financial question has
now, although he makes nc mention
of the bumper crop that made re-
sumption possible while admitting it's
potency now. It may probably have
occurred to the speaker that to have
made such an admission would COM
pei agreement with the G o b that
these condolences of party emergen-
cies and big crops establish the truth
that his party is '.a fool for luck"
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-09-16
SHE FOUND OUT,
But the Explanation Came Too Late
to Do Any Good.

to Do Any Good.
j. E Glass likes nothing better than
telling a good story, and one that he
told me the other day will bear repeat
ing, says the Mississippi Valley Lum-
herman. Matt Clark, who used to he
in the office of the land commissioner
over in the Capitol building, and has
for years been identified with pine land
matters, lives out on Summit avenue.
in ST. Paul He has a little son. five or
six years old, who, despite his youth.
displays a marked aptneSS for buSl-
ness. Desiring to earn little money
with which to buy fireworks for the
Fourth he persuaded his mother to al
low him to run small lemonade stand
or the street in front of the house. A
lady came along soon after he had
started in business, and asked for
glass of lemonade. He told her that
the lemonade in one pail was five cents
a glass, and that in the other pail two
cents per glass.
''Why do you charge only two cents
for this lemonade, while you charge
five cents for the other?" asked the
lady. isn't it just as good?"
Eyes; it's just as good in either pail,
replied the boy.
"All right" said the lady; "give me
some of the two-cent lemonade, If that
is the case"
After she had drank the glassful and
paid for it she said:
"Now. Johnnie. want you to tell me
wbv YOU only charge two cents for this
lemonade, when it is just as good as
the other"
gwen. you see, it's just this way"
renlied Johnnie '"This here lemonade
that I charge five cents for was made
just the same as that in the other pail
that only costs two cents, but Bobby
Jones's little bull pup fell In that pail,
and so I'm selling it three cents cheap
r.,
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-09-16
WILL TEST ELS BACKBONE.

Judge Cox, of the supreme court of
the District of Columbia. has given a
construction to the civil service law
that seriously impairs the efficacy Of
the recent order of the president. pro-
viGing that no removals shall be made
except upon written charges served
upon the officer and opportunity given
him for defense, making sufficient
cause and not merely arbitrary will of
the superior necessary to displace an
officer within the classified lists. The
judge holds this order ultra wires in the
case of Wood, superintendent of mails
at Louisville, summarily removed by
the postmaster general, who sought
an injunction restraining that officer
from discharging him. Judge Cox finds
no warrant for the order in the act es-
tablishing the civil service and, con-
sequently, no ground for jurisdiction
Of the court.
In his opinion the judge says that,
although the order is ultra wires so
far as the law is concerned it is within
the scope of the authority of the presi-
dent in the direction of the internal af-
fairs of his administration, in which he
may lay down rules for the guidance Of
his chief executive officers and require
them to conform to them or to sever
their connection with the administra-
ticn. If they will not obey he has the
absolute and unquestionable power of
removal; that is, he has the power in
his own hands of enforcing such Or
ders, although the beneficiaries of them
have no redress in the courts should
they be violated by subordinate.
The judge declares that his own SYM
pathies are with the order and he re-
grets that it is not authorized by the
act of 1888
This throws upon the president the
responsibility Of enforcing his recent
order. He has received the ungrudg-
ing approval ofs all friends of the re-
form, regardless of party, and his
order was felt by the spoilsmen
as the hardest blow their expectations
had yet received. 1t is probable that
the president thought his action within
the authority Of the act of 1888, and
that it would be sustained While it
does not lessen the force of the order
that it is not thus sustained it does
put upon him the responsibility of see
ing that his subordinates obey it. He
cannot afford to let it lapse into ''in-
nocuous desuetude' because that
would shatter the reputation he gained
by making it, and put under suspicion
that made by his prior record. The
power is wholly in his own hands. No
officer would dare to disobey it if it
| were understood that the president
would request his resignation or sum-
marily dismiss him for disobedience.
| In fact the decision immensely
strengthens his hands if it does put
upon him additional responsibility
| The country will wait with interest to
see how stiff Mr.. McKinley's backbone
is, Will he do what every one knows
Mr. Cleveland would do in his place?
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-09-16
WILSON INSTALLED.
Now the President of Washington
and Lee University.

and Lee University.
LEXINGTON, Va, Sept. 15.-Will-
lam l.. Wilson, ex-postmaster general,
and formerly member of the house OF
representatives, was installed into Of
flee as president of Washington and
Lee university today. At an early
hour students, friends and alumni be-
gan to gather on the campus, and in
the chapel to take part in the cere-
monies. No brighter or prettier day
could have been chosen for the occa-
sion. Promptly at IL o'clock a line
was formed and marched into the
chapel as follows: President-elect
Wilson, Gov. Charles T. O'Ferrall, and
other distinguished guests; the board
of trustees, of the university; alumni,
students and friends. The chapel was
already filled with the society people
of Lexington, and many guests from
the neighboring towns and cities.
The ceremonies were opened with
music. After prayer by Rev. DR..
Smith, Judge William Mclaughlin,
dean of the university, made short
address, and DR.. Henry Alexander
distinguished people, among them being
letters from Hon. Grover Cleveland,
ex-Attorney General Harmon, of Gin
cinnati; Judge Tracey, of New York:
Senator John w. Daniel, President
Patton, of Princeton, and DR.. War
field, president of Lafayette college.
Judge Mclaughlin then introduced the
Rev. DR.. Henry G. Cameron, of Prince
ton university DR.. Cameron spoke of
the three most distinguished presi-
dents Of the university, William Gra-
ham, and the two Lees, telling Of the
work each had done in the university.
He closed by congratulating Washing
ton and Lee university on having such
distinguished man as William L.
Wilson for it's president.
Judge William Mclaughlin then in
troduced Mr.. Wilson, who began his
remarks by thanking the university
and those connected with it for the
honor they had given him. He then
expressed gratitude at the presence Of
such an audience and next gave
short sketch of the university and of
its standing among other universities
of the South. He laid great stress on
the need of education in political and
governmental science, and pointed out
that this branch of education had been
strongly favored by Washington.
Franklin, jefferson, Adams and many
great men. He closed his address with
an acknowledgment of the great duty
to Robert E. Lee,
Judge Mclaughlin then administered
the oath of office. A procession was
then formed and marched to the gym
nasium, where a banquet was served
at o'clock to the board of trustees,
the faculty of the university and their
guests, visiting friends, alumni and
students Mr.. Wilson held a general
reception tonight.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-09-16
IT'S WITS ARE wooL-GATBERyNc

IT'S WITS ARE WOOL-GATHERINC.
We have almost ceased to wonder at
anything that may appear in the edi-
torial columns of the MINNEAPOLIS
Tribune; but it has quite outdone it.
self in absurdity in an article in which
it attributes the disturbance of India
to decentralization of silver at the In
dian mints." While we do not suppose
it was so intended, the Tribune's COM
ment is an admission and approval OF
all that the free silver party In the
United States has ever asserted and
more. The prize statement Of the edi-
torial is found in tue following SEN
tence; "but when the mints were shut
down, although the silver rupee re-
tanned its former purchasing power.
the uncoined silver dropped to half it's
former value" Not even Senator
Stewart ever advanced anything quite
as idiotic as that. We are to under
stand that the Tribune believes that.
while silver was being coined in India
the uncoined metal or bullion retained
the same value as the stamped metal.
When the mints were closed this bull
lion, that had formerly been at par
with the coinage ratio, dropped IN
simultaneously so per cent in value.
Of course, nothing whatever of the
kind happened or could possibly hap
pen. The price of silver bullion has
not varied for twenty years all over
the world further than night cover the
cost of exchange between one market
and another. Equally, CT course, it
could not do so. # silver had been at
par in India, II would have Been at
practically Size PER ounce IN the Init
ed States; or, if it were less than that
here, then the total American product
would be shipped instantly to India
and sold at the price paid there The
closing of the indian mints was not
a cause but q consequence of the fail
in the market value of silver bullion.
Doubtless it helped to continue and in
crease the decline, but there was not,
because there could not be, any such
sudden fall as the Tribune talks about.
If what it assumes were possible, then
the position of the free silver people
would be impregnable, and all the
Tribune's previous articles on the side
of sound money would be mere bosh.
Just about as much connection with
the uprising in India as the election
of Seth Low as mayor of Greater New
York would have with the police ad-
ministrati ton in Bombay. If the Trib-
une cannot always discuss public ques-
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-09-16
DROVE HIS BROTHER TO SUICIDE
Forced Either to Marry an Heiress
...a r.4 or Take His Life.


VIENNA, Sept 15.-An unique case,
George Lowenthal. has just terminal
ed in the law courts here. 1t appear
ed from the evidence in the case that
in 1895 Emil LoWenthal, a brother of
the captain, aagreed to furnish money
TO the latter, who was rOue and
gambler, on condition that he either
marry the daughter of millionaire or
commit suicide after the expiration of
two years from the time of entering
upon the agreement.
Emil then heavily insured Georges
life in various companies, and had in
serted in the policies clause declaring
that they would not be affected after
two years by the manner in which the
insured should meet his death. George
failed in his attempts to inveigle a
rich mans daughter to marry him
and upon the expiration of the two
years he kept the other part of his
agreement and blew out his brains
with a revolver.
Then Emil applied for the payment
of the policies on his brothers life,
but the companies had learned of the
agreement he had made with George
and refused to pay their losses. Later
they caused his arrest on the charge
of having fraudulently secured the re-
version of some of the policies.
The trial which concluded today, re-
suited in the conviction of the accused
and he was sentenced to two years
Imprisonment. 1t appears that another
brother and also sister had specu-
lated by means of insurance on
Georges suicide. Emil was often
heard to say after he knew that
George could not induce a wealthy girl
to wed him, that unless his brother
shot himself he would prove himself
a Scoundrel