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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-12-27
COMPULSORY SCHOOL LAW.

Texas Is plenty able to have free text books
as many OF the older STATES have, and she should
have compulsory law--.4uSiin StafeSmoH
A compulsory school law would do much to
advance the cause OF education IN Texas. Prop
erty holders are compelled to pay tax for public
school purposes aud every child within scholastic
age should be compelled TO attend some institu-
ton OF learning. Such law would be powerful
hard on chronic kiekers who get dissatisfied with
teachers, or With trustees ruling after the first
few weeks or al most one or two mouths of every
session, and take their young ones out of
school,--.Alicc Echo
Compulsory education may be defended as
a permissible act of democratic govern.
ment in extension Of the principle of State
education, but the argument for it on the
score of expediency remains to be made up.
Certainly with compulsory education free
text books would necessarily follow. for there
would be those who could not buy them.
There might also be those who could not
afford TO genteelly clothe their children, and
those who could not spare their earnings.
Must the State so further and furnish cloth
Ing and supply INDECENT women or crippled
fathers with the support otherwise furnished
by able-hodied children?
The system might lead to radical extremes
or impose grievous hardships.
upon the broader ground of expediency?
Compulsory education is not altogether I'm.
like compulsory morals.
II We can not reform the wicked we must
restrain them. but reform is the thing aimed
at. after all. and restraint is but temporary
expedient. Moral health comes only by
making morality personal quality preserved
for it's own sake
And intellectual health IS best promoted
by developing the appetite for intelligence
Cramming is not education.
nhteracy nowadays is badge of discredit
= shame TO the person and his parents. and
there are so few who lack appreciation oil
learning that they are hardly worth taking
into account Example, custom and auhi
non are accomplishing in better way What
compulsion Is designed 70 accomplish with
out the evil OF making the state too much
nf a master.
In fact the education OF the masses has
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y PAGES TO-DAY.
INDECENT JOURNALISM.

The New York Mali and Expregs takes
commendsblo view of the Indecent methods
n some New York pewspspers in reportine
the Vanderbilt illness and other affairs Of
PERSONS of rroroinert+ II ssvs
w.. H., t o.. $1,000. 81. .,..- L. ...-
actually done in FsrE dy,nuc eye~ 5sy last
~egS 10 re...te IFS upL9P,.. n Nc. .. ''.',',,
The door hair dozen cameras are snapped a.
tsem ana note5 ar, '.hs7 q ne" ns1'c anl
,5em T. T5ds the subject of FIppsrt and inner.
drsnt gossip IN the papcrs Again, after long
p,, ~, he bonsc s.i, n, me-. AZ. ,,c
The doctor, whose sfairs ought TO be their own.
pre- asae 70 hSlJs m very hla,y ,sEsn Piet ,b
is It's possible erect on the patient himself.
tbs assembly Of peppers 81 ne door attracts IDLE
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-12-27
A KANSAS lYNcAlNn.

rittzburg Kan n,ob celebrated C,bri.t.
mas by Ivncbirz ,Iontgoror,, code.
re,-o .,,c,,.,s -, -,,...,a.,.,.- 49,.
who atter,ptad n arres, hin, Win chez.
for disorder,v conduct
The ans,r vas sboot.,rr,, h-,,.., ous
hunr,aso,oo Tho rono ~, n.htoh w. a.aa
Az s,.,,,,s.s - 49,, 80 49,.
ground ,rotes,i,c bic ,n,,ooou.o a,s $50
inc fo,. a trt,I TN al, -. -
-, ~ -. --,
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an c. Arlhur Milliams(

Wy ~ fNitHhA WI
WAsHINoroN. December a3.-(Staf Corre-
spondence Nov that the gladstone Christmas
time is at hand and discussions relating to gifts
OF various kinds in order, several philan-
thropic republican newspapers in this section OF
the country are urging that a suitable Christ
mas gift for President Roosevelt would be an in
crease in salary. OF course such a gift could
not be given this year, but the newspapers in
question evidently have an eye to the future and
are willing TO have their suggestions take root
in time TO bloom about twelve months hence.
TO the average man 100000 per year is fair
salary. il is at least calculated to enable the
recipient to keep the wolf away from the door
and to occasionally indulge in some mild luxury.
The president of the United States must of ueces-
sity spend more money in entertaining than the
average man, and yet on the other hand, this
extra expense is probably fully countcractcd by
the favors which come to president account
OF his official position. AID, even when due al
lowance for the unusual outgo is made, the
opinion is held by many that the president gets
a fair salary especially since, in most cases 1t is
probably as large or larger than the salary he
could earn in private life prior to his administra-
ton as president Some mon might use TO great
financial advantage the fact that they had held
the highest position in the gift of the people
but there have not been great many presidents
who prior to their election to the presidency
were receiving salary of $4,000 per year.
= = Z
One Of the most unique arguments on the sub
Jet is made by the New York Commercial,
which says in par
We came near to starving or bankrupting half
a dozen OF our presidents pay fixed for the
position half century and more before they were
chosen to nil ~ and when the salary wds doubled
not many years it wasn't made large enough
to ut the times it ought to he doubled at least
before the term beginning on March T. 1906
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-12-27
SOME PosTscRlPTs

In the United States 10000 locomotives haul
100000 cars.
The amount invested in the Siberian railway
is S4oI,7oo.ooo.
The Caspian is land-looked sea cighty-tour
feet lower than the ocean.
The average New Yorker pays $lo.44 street
care fare year.
The first electrical railway was that of siemens
OF Berlin in 1870
The cost OF producing sugar in Cuba averages
ga cents a pound.
The worlds population is increasing about
sooooo,ooo century
The railway from Caracas to Valencia, ffty-
FIVE miles, has eiehN-siN tunnels.
-Four new and rich tin mines arc being deyel-
oped in North Queensland
In san Francisco the per capita yearly rcceipts
Of street railway companies is $r3S7
So short is the wheat crop Of Australia that
inquiry for American wheat is being made
The annual loss of fruit from insects Is nut by
the United States entomoiogst at 100000 900
The oat crop and sugar crop OF the United
States have each increased six fold in ffty
years
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-12-27
NEGROES FOR HAWAII.

T. Thomas Fortune, the presidents com.
missioner to the Pacific islands under the
American flag to study conditions that may
be inviting to negro labor. now in Hawaii,
says
II believe that the Importation OF negroes here
forms a natural solution Of the difficulty TIM
avoidaby following the absorption OF tropical
or semi-tropiCal countries by the United States.
In the Southern States aud in the Caroluas the
negro made the industries what they arc.
The commissioner said that there might be
difficulty in OBTAINING the negro here, but he
thought that the planters could get all they
wanted If they sent the right sort OF agents alter
them.
You could get 10000 here in six months" he
said.
Before any ships are chartered for trans
port it would be well for the promoters to
make preliminary canvass The negro IS
chronically credulous, and quite apt to be
impressed by tales of happy lands but he
has been wrestling with the actualties OF
life long enough 10 have a little caution
He will al least want to know, How much
you gwinter pay?'
And The Post suggests that he also ask
about the cost of living out there and the
chances of getting back to Dixie in case
he is dissatisfied Hawaii is a long way off,
and the walking is rather damp.
Possibly the negro can better himself in
the islands, but 1t is not likely that oppor.
tunities are much superior. There is a
large population OF Chinese ana Japanese
laborers whom he must rival, and he will no
doubt and barriers 10 social ambitions
which ne may entertain.
lie will he ur0tartnrI IN all his ma t,IraI and
legal rights there as here hut he will fnd
nowhere any open avenue to comfort with.
out labor or responsibility without merit.
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MlIIIonaIres oIve to the poor-

New York Evening Journal
To make the poor happy during the holidays,
the milonaircs OF Westchester county are ar
ranging 10 make Christmas gifts Of coal. wood
and turkeys
Miss Helen Miller Gould viii present many
turkeys 70 the poor residents OF lrviugton where
her estate rs located as well as 10 the employes
OF the place. She has packed M a collection OF
suits sleds and other useful presents which will
be shipped to RoHhury, where the crippled bows
from the Woody Crest home are now stayinc
while the institution IS being enlarged. Mrs
Oliver Hartman, Howard Willets Paul Gilbert
Thebaud and William Rockefeller viii make their
usual Christmas gifts.
John D. Rockefeller viii make his annual visit
20 Iauytown. where he win distribute cold
pieces among the employees OF the New York
Central railroad az TarDtowu aud among his
help. John f. Andrus the multi millionaire al
Nonkers has corps OF clerks aiding him in
getting the names Of hundreds Of poor people
~ Workers who are IN dire circumstances for
the purpose OF making gifts Of Christmas dinners
among them. This year he IS compiling com
plete list and - addition 70 giving dinners he
may also present the deserving ones Who are
actually freezing with coal and wood
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-12-27
BETTER HURRY.
Better settle down 10 practice,
Let no idle moment fee
So that by next week 81 this time
You can write 1t r9'5.
BETTER HURRY.


A Lexington. Ky, market woman recently died
leaving fortune OF 100000, all accumulated by
tho sale Of garden truck Here's IS On object
lesson for our truck farmers -u-ri1 NcuS
Good suggestion mint isn't hard TO raise
either,
An editor of Germany figures H. out that in
case OF war between Germany aud England
laainst the United States the conquest on Can
fda by this country would more than pay tor
figures so lar don't show any probable loss Of
the navy. We've got Dewey and the Texas
Bci57He Times
ssshl don't mention the Texas; its the
"bo"uPinest' hoodoo that ever happened.
The temperature Of swallows body is ex-
traordnarily .high: no less than IIa degrees
Fahrenheit PGNisaipr NeotS
The swallow is certainly "a small hot bird"
Lost--White Shetland floss espe.-Bel.on
NcJrs
The finder of that cape had better pony up.
What right has the independent newspapers TO
dictate or suggest to the democratic legislature
who should be speaker of the next house p
IWcy Dcmocrdf-RcPoucr.
What taking the independents" seriously ?
You Aatterer
If a man has nothing, his hair doesn't become
prematurely gray because Of losing it-CHnon
Record.
Especially il he has no hair.
How are they going to extermnate the boil
weevil There seems to be but way feasible
now and that is to catch him, lay him on one
block and mash him with another. That will get
thcm.-Longgtc50 Times Ciarion
But the American people seem TO be getting
tired OF block aids,
Now, mind you, the Tribune does not vou,h
for the truth OF the statement, but il is said
all over the world where it is night AZ ? o'clorL
tonight all the cattle will kuee dow1 You can
watch EN- and see,--fHJtin Tribune
What did they do where it wasn't night at J.,
o'clock Christmas night
The Crony says Corpus needs gin Wander
what for? If the boil weev keeps on we viii
let them have one or two of ours--Cueyo Stor
Perhaps the Croney meant some" gin.
This is the season Of the year when New
Years resolutions are Epidemic Yorkioun Mems
And as regards depth, epidcrmic
There was an exciting bowling contest for
medal at Houston, Sunday Houston is The
bowling center of the universe ---Denisor Hsr5iy
Won't you come down and bowl up?
a Washington man claims he has invented a.,
machine by which he can read thoughts ha,
breath.--PitSbWR Gdschc. ny
He must be trying to boom the love marke,
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-12-27
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Chicago News.

Chicago News.
Once fisherman, always a liar.
A lazy man is always trying to work other
people.
Luck is combination of an opportunity and
the man a''1
When money is tight the pawnbroker is ant 70
take the pledge, 'F' w
1t is easier to bras of ones future than - :.
to boast of ones past -
Stealing march is not larceny any mare A. -,
firing a servant is arson. nan
Horses arc like eggs It is impossible to tell
what's in them until they are broken. ''''
Talk is cheap, but when a vo,,pc MA.
love he naturally thinks the chief talkcr I,., ~,
dear ''''c
Naturally the man who leads crooked i;t.
row path. ''4 mar
II the average woman knew what he 81,
hors say OF her she would probably tai, I'm i
them worse than ever. N 'oou'
The millennium will he at hand vb., 49,,
instead Of asking what man is worth pe1Ple
out by looking at his tax receipts '' ''n md
Now doth the long suffering bp.b,,,l
devise some plan Whereby he NAV ss ny to
Christmas presents his wife is prer,r; r,sspe the
chase for him at his expense. 10 pur-
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-12-27
LEMONS AND TYPHOID.


A New York bacteriologist has discovered
that drop of lemon juice will kill tube
full of typhoid germs, and officials of the
board of health have mado experiments
which satisfy them as to the efficacy of the
simple remedy as a preventive of the dread
disease
The germs, they explain, must be taken into
the stomach in order to cause typhoid fever.
The germ usually comes from water drunk
without boiling or from raw foods. such
as lettuce, salads, onions, celery. etc, washed
in such water The method Of prevention
is to put a drop or two of lemon juice in
glass of water and to sprinkle lemon Juice
on the raw foods, Salads and such relishes
are usually seasoned with vinegar, and
lemon juice is a good substitute So we may
still have our salad appetizingly seasoned
ana at the same time make assurance
against typhoid fever.
Possibly other fruit acids would serve as
well and this may be why the eating of
fresh fruits is SO wholesome.
Al any rate it is well to understand the
value Of lemon juice, and If it will do what
the New York psychologists claim there
is no reason why anyone should have typhoid
fever
Certain il is that pure drinking water and
fresh fruits promote health, which we are
learning is matter Of prevention by sim
pie laws OF sanitation rather than by drastic
measures of cure
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STATE PRESS COMMENT,

- The Nederland News says tha' ~. ~, any
don't know the use OF money don ! "' "A
- The Llano Times mentions a ' ,.n posp
it has received and says it welsn1sa -
then it says, This is whopper :,
- The Nordheim View ask: Nv, wa't ) head
of peaceful blockade since II iS''s4
the Kpling poem. .,.,ads
- The Taylor Journal wants 'ne nest nay
increasing the time that cattle IN fro" from tsst
derived OF water, food and rest 1--WE
eight to forty hours, defeated
- The Weatherford Democrat k bird,
put to the indiscriminate killing o. ~. Isl
-. The Mount Vernon Herald ...' rs Il "
mans religion is known as he p'ea...rols,s 4
his Christianity is known as nc eN n, ,.pg
.. The Bells News issued s 3 sar ps.a
holiday edition and then laid on ~ M
=, The Beeville Bee says that ? III sirs q
field catching bugs is better iaah y mas
woman's hat and besides It ousa'
hat cheaper. poekdsls
- {. L. Tanners lease on thS Eenuss
porter having expired Mr. <, ". =
resumed charge Of he Paal''asi0n'
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-12-27

already made the education of the individual
so desirable thing that legislation can
add nothing on this score. The standards of
life and citizenship have been elevated to
such a degree that the people need no com
puision to teach them the way of comfort
and responsibility.
Instead of leading the unwilling horse to
water let us see to it that he is kept in
health and that he has water to drink when
he wants II.
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tempt at cordial relations between England 70
Russia was vigorously denounced, produced
profound effect Now, in the poem which
printed below, the alliance between England az
Germany is taken up and treated with expl.
sions Of extreme disfavor II doubtless TAX
its keynote fram popular sentiment in tnslar'
and it is printed from the london Times,
which it FIRST appeared. 1t is as follows;
The banked oars fell an hundred strong
And backed and thrcshed and ground
But bitter was the rowers song
AS they brought the warboat round
They had no heart for the r,lly and roar
That make the whaehack smoke
When the great blades cleave and hold ana eaV
AS ono on the racing stroke.
They sang: What reckoning do ye keep
And steer her by what star,
If VIC come unscathed from the southern us'PI
To be wrecked on Baltic barr
Last night We sworc our voyage was done
But seward still VIC go;
And yet tells MS now a secret vow
Yc have made with an open toe:
THAT we must lie off lightless coast
And haul and hack and veef
At the will of the breed that have wrong"
most
For year and year and year.
"There was never a shame in ChTlstenoN
They laid not to our door;
And We say we must take the Winter s'a
And sail with them once more
Look south. The gale is scarce oI Paw
That stripped and lay US down "a t,s
When we stood forth. But they stoou 1851
And nraVcd to see US drown,
"The dead they Knocked are scarcely e0u'
Our wounds are bleeding yet -. 4. sos
And We tell us now that Our strens'n .
TO help them press Tor DEBT
meath all the flags Of all mankind
That use upon the seas,
Was there no other feet 70 hno,
That ye strike hands with these
"of evil times that men could choose
On evil fate to fall, -.
What brooding judgment let ye loo's
TO pick the worst OF all
I'm sight Of peace from the narrow s'4"
Der half the world to run
With a cheated crew TO league ane" Lump
With the Goth and the shameless 49,
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KIpIlna on the Alliance.

New pryeans Picaylnc.
Rudysrd Kiplins the British poet and ,,or,,
writer, has the faculty Of getting very liz. !,
The popular sentiment in England on subjects ~
National Importance. His Truce Of the r. q
when friendly convention with Russia 90.
talked Of in England, poem IA vhieh spv a.,
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-12-27

In Kansas the negro indicators are not only
hanged but their throsts are cut The Northern
negro like the politician is in the hands Of his
fIitnds
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Up to the Leoisla,u,.

Tyler Dsmoerat-Rsporter
iSs , hest ,, ss' , should B. certain to
cffenae 70 carry pistois When 49,. tnitenuary
the pistol "totsF" will lay aside his p,,n az law
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-12-27

tons pistol totcrs haven't been rounded up
yet.
TExAs certainly had a killing Christmas Seven
fatalities
ANorHER killing, this time double one at
Hot Springs. 1t will be remembered that Hot
Springs IS where people 80 for their health.
GERMANY wants her expenses paid in cash,
She will arbitrae the rest
CHRIsrMAs seems to have chirked Castro up
some and left him feeling sassy. lie now makes
his acceptance Of arbitration conditional
IT is said that Joe Wheeler is Disguised at the
peaceful trend of the South American matter
----------
IT the coal strike commission ever concludes
its present labors it might help Theodore in adj
justing the Venezuelan matter
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-12-27

Two young men amused themselves Chustmas
day by saloping up and down Crawford street
and Meeewsn avenue and hrns iusilladss from
reviewers in true Wild West style All OF Heus.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-12-27
gamperina z0hk 9rifIeS
HE DIDN'T KNOW,
IN I "a LeRiGl

Then pity Kaiser Wilhelm for how was he to
know
That an alliance with Britain gainst the doctrine
OF Monroe
Would arouse in Rudyard Kipling such wild
vndictive vim.
That he'd sharpen up bis pencil and would iao
the thing at him
Now il the kaiser's foxy he will arbtraIe the
thing
Before sweet Alfred Austin hops upon his perch
TO sing.
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praCidanf'c Salary Advocates of Extravaganza Th- i
lSSIuSHt OdA0A y S5O0ON Year Is pair, ,mas

turn their backs on such nav. To
Column OF the Commercial this r,ne fefsou,i|
ern business man is mentioned 40, =" mig Sotsb
tnat saIsry why, salaries OF Ssos ssNR deutil
para;lyeiy oorlnqn IN this country II sss eon
requiring not a 1.-THE Of the abilit,, Y POSITION
the character of president Of ~ ri.ne tact and
sponsiblity part OF bis n
And if it were not for tile fac, Al.
enormous amount OF honor attaches u such a
eioilI,oIe' II Is our proud boast. thar lug ue POSI-
a crown or a throne anywhere IN H. az goes viii
''u.'u 20 NIL the place ~
One OF the conclusions to be drawn !.
somewhat remarkable screed is that n. N .
a'taeheu TO me office of president and =. sslail
nohof' should appeal to all prospeet;v, w
you, with vengeance There is ,.s,e ISM N
onstration OF the republican idea ~. O'nsr dsu
holders should be well paid THAT ,ts s'l oihe
on even more tenaciously than a. 80 w'll asl]
in short, is another exempli6eat;on ~ ihtrd
publican belief that in these dav, Ia, :, .ae II
position are everything and real worth sas az
arc nothing. s''a ntr|
he Bayonne man who discussed N. 80.
so "sensibly' and so "forciblyq makes ~ s.'s''1
that practically all foreign nations ~. 'ae pgll
executive heads more than we pay our n,..,s as
and then goes on TO show that all ,bs.s -'
are in debt more than We are and havs as ss,yu
ton less than ours. Had this .scnsil, pVpu']
"forcihle' gentleman stopped to flint j. ~
moment he might have arrived at the $50, y.
that all these foreign nations have deb,. s'.'
than ours for the very reason that thew T. ~
their executive heads euormous saIar;c, -. ~ M
they arc equally cNtravagant in other l;r., y,
the emperor OF Germany and the king n !.
gland and the car OF Russia and a fev - d
others received smaller rewards for N. n.;rt'
of ruling their people, Germany and Prs,,
England might not he 50 deeply in debt rr,t.1
more, # more money were devoted IA Is, n
provcment OF the condition of tho neoDl. w
less TO the enrichment OF tin many easesl ~
tiigate rulers, the number OF emisrants uivht n
be so large and the populations Of such eo,,n,,,l
might therefore he greater The BavonrJ
philosopher seems TO have utterly failed ia mi
this point When prncely salaries arc p,j Is \
ers OF chief executives 1t is safe to assum, Il !,
there is prncey extravaganza in other branch,
of the government. And such extravaganza lad
sooner or later to enormous National debts
This fact would be placed in evidence IN tsil
country within a very few years after the ed
sage OF a bill doubling the salary Of the pres
dent As soon IS such bill was enacted irta
law the members OF the cabinet would want \,
increase. TAeu congressman would naturslt
think themselves entitled to higher rates Of psy
Then clamorngs would come from other ID
fcials all the way down the line there would n
official extfavagances OF various Sorts and Il
would not be many years before the condition.
which now exist in England and the other eou
tries mentioned by the gentleman from BayonnS
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ms GREATEST TERROR.

II don't consider death such terrible thing.
Moo, not death itself SO much as what comes
after
You mean the cortege OF woe;'
NO I was referring to obituary verses
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NOT SYMPATHETIC.

THE bed OF the Cas,ellanes is said to be worth
ono million dollars"
We'll, Boni needn't look to me for sympathy
he has made his bed, now let him lie in it.
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! tons pistol 'oler. haven't been rounded up