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EXCHANGE INTERVIEWS.

II we 90 after thing we USUALLY oct IL i ,h, .n -
John H. Kirby sized up the situation IN tba %e me way
Merely another version of +b s,,;,, ..r,,
i,iy a. . ta so..asi, - '"' S""s Keeping everlast
The plaintiye voice Of N. n,oy.r o.,,. -. .....
the aowerbedecked nt e pIyeF ealS me huntsman TO
beekon the fisherman to the placid pool bes 5
beauties play. Don't mention it,-Yoakiur Tunes
we won Tor Necessity points us another and less agree
able way.
& -
According TO Major walters +,s,;, to-
rti,I tSI iE n sGts esumony before the court
march to the sea- Nina Of orcr o. nose SheTm9ns
pine campaign TO blaze his way terally from ono III
his instructions from Cerer S MAJOR waller says that
and said the more h. Lle6 co. III eir 20 XIII and burn
would be That was NO ~ oiea inc better pleased he
was to make Samar bovin SS prisoners aud that he
peculiar attitude with the nations Of the oTd Sls IN
should take charge OF General Smiths at once Here IS
Su"''' 0' 0"'leSo" IeSoluhoh-fof Yorh Mail7eie-
And Messrs Smith and vy,l,o. 49,. .o.
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president in 1904 but up date he has not been cc
enough away from his bait jug to get refusal from i,
Santos-Dumont says 81 will the Atlantic ii Ii
ship He, of course means hot air srship
Chinese natives are charging the foreign miy,u
with gouging out the eyes of boys The mssonsna
pull legs, but they don't gouge
New York woman has Just died from the shock d
by her husbands death which occurred thirtyeisht
ago. She must have loved him madly to have foloss
soon,
carload of liquor was wrecked near New York,
recently, and the entire male population proceeded
glory-eyed Which seems to prove that many more
would be drunkards if it didn't cost money.
Thomas Fallon of White Plains, N. J., fell sixty 4
to pile of bricks, and unnured If the bricks
hurt.
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TAMPERING WITH rp ,ss's :

<oOcoo<>o.
scHNEEDER's swIMMIw Ho'0
Cattails grow long. an, -. "olE
Lean out above til t;ds asses rank
IN primrose blossoms "a. "a Daat
Like larry shallops bow ans s i,
An feel each ripple's roll up
An willow boughs hang al,'
In Schneider's swimm;r,T s,1rip
seen it all Jest yesterd,.
Jest as it useter be-
A-beckonin' ter me. ~ an sway
wanted ter--as I'm alivst
II so possessed my soul
CT snuGk my growedup clotbe, :,
In Schneider's swimmin boI. ~ dive
When us kids snuck ery.,
Wed gallop down tn slons. 4 ''A'''
"nen we got near tn dear Of ma,
Undressin' on tn lope. p''l
Fer minutes then was full Of a.,
We'd holler on tn knoll ''1i
Til last kid in knows what !. ~
In Schneidcr's swimmin' hol =
We'd go a-pourin' down H. I'm
As unchecked torrents roll
An "Chug ker-chugl" us kid, - 4,
Inter TIL dear OIL hole ~ 'pil
1t does one good ter break som. 4.
Away I'm things, an wend 10y
Adown tn most forgotten wav
AT leads ter Schneider's bend
The springbcard at we use,.r IA.
Long since fell in TIL tide.
An boys at made tn dear d, er.w,
Are growed an some've died
But yesterday seen EN- ALI
In ecstasy O soul
seen EN- beckon, heard EN- c,u,
FIN Schneider's swimmin' bol.l
y y II
,orkers are trying to boost Grover cI,,.h.
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TICKET scALPINo EVIL.

Most people, without considering the subject in it,
proper relation look upon ticket scaping matter
concerning only the railroads It does concern the
railroads in that it cuts into their legitimate revenue
But it concerns the public much more
In the first place ticket scalping Is evasion Of
the rule that all persons shall pay price fol
the service 1t would be like pcryerson of the
law for brokers to traffic in freight contracts and
allow one shipper 10 lower rate than another
It is charged from time to time that railroads secretly
cooperate with scalpers they secretly give freight
rebates The answer is that if they do the are
ocnally wrong, and the public should demand Iegsla
ton to evil which experience has proved SO
wise in correcting another
In the second place railroads can not and will not
give special rates to communities for particular occa.
sions unless those rates be reasonably confined to
the persons and occasions they were designed to ac-
commodate. Not only the communities where such oc.
casons arise but the entire travelling public are inter.
ested in this phase of the subject The railroads do
not care much for excursion business II is difficult
to handle it requires extra equipment is hazardous
and 1t DISCREPANCIES regular travel They can not be
censued for denying excursion rates without some pro.
lection from SPECTATORS,
Resides all this the scapers ticket is often fraud,l.
lent and many an innocent purchaser has found him.
self out the reduced price he congratulated himself he
was paying Other purchasers tempted to tell lies
by posing as original purchasers of signed tickets
The whole system is wrong in principle and bad in
practice
Most railroads Of the country after an unsuccessful
war against the scaper have passed Tho contest up to
the public and the public act in its own behalf
The Texas policy of and exact treatment of all
persons and interests is we'll established and if the
present laws are not comprehensive enough TO cover
ticket scalpng they should be amended Here is an
opportunity for some member of the next legislature
to do the state a real service
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The rain stays away Laredo persistently that even
the weather man has quit predicting itLaredo Times
Well, if that doesn't fetch it nothing will
x
paper like th Eye fer whole year ony eighteen gallons
Of iekerf We stand fer compulsory irrigation, an more
Of it--4ikafi Eve
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EDITORIAL PlcKuPs.


Ths News has dealt gently with all candidates in Sh
campaign and bas made distinction hut pulled their legs
with an equal sameness,pan AisfyHe Ne'oS
81
Hanna has been again denying that he is candidate fol
tne peSdcncy Ot course he isn't II s only an amateur
ahcad--La Grange joHrnaL
y
The eyes Of the commercial world are focused upon Texas
ana the greatest and graudcst State OF the Union presents
G2nhu2N growth OF the commonwealth and with 9pp9rtun
He galore and competition scarcely normal all classes
Snad thrive and prosper during the next few yearsScf"
wo guests at hotel discussing the pronunciation
o inc word ocomagarnc when they agreed 10 submit tho
question to the colored waiter That ebonyhued dentary
soon came around and pointing the object under discus
sion there and in the United States senate OF them said
Waiter what do you call it p Butter he promptly an
swefed and then in lower tone 81 have call it butter
to hold my job '--EuHis NcaS.
Isn't strange that there arc small farmers least
very few engaged in the raising OF ricc Vet the chances
are just as good the returns just large and the investment
are thousands OF acres OF undeveOped rice lands in Orange
county lying Idle and unproducve which could and should
ne turned INTO source Of wealth to the community and to
the individual While welcoming the man who can own and
cultivate his hundreds and thousands of il the small
farmer whom need most-the who build homes,
churches and schools and create socey.Oyouge Daily
Tribune,
Now the flower garden waits him
IN the dusky evenings shade,
And mere man by way OF resting,
Grunts above a tenpound spade.
-J.MI.
And when at nightfal all is still
he rested man viii cuss like hades
All because he could not fill
bobtail flush OF jet black spades
-Gihper Tribune
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CORRESPONDENCE Of any description. srhcther ~
fenSed for the Business Or bditord Dcfament saoaa r.
ctdadi aud all checks GRATIS money orders eic MADE pay
able 10 THE HoUsToN PRINTING COMPANY
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When a man insists on beef,
And no other food will take,
He is more than apt 10 find
That his salary's at steak.
]. N. IiV
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THE HOUSTON DAILY POST.
HOUSTON PRINTING COMPANY.

NJ. JOHNSTON. ..,...... President
J. PALMER. .......................Yi Vice President
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OFFICE OF PUBLICATION,
Nos 1901, i1os t1o5, 1fo7 and 1909 Franklin Avenue
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FOREIGN oFFIcES-Eastcrn business Office, 49, a., ~
e. A. 40 Tribune building New York The 5 & beekT Tb
s. C. Beckwith Special Ageney Office Of MashnsioR t0I
respondent Room Ames building, street ~ W.
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Entered at the Posioee al Houston Texas SeeondCiass
Mai Matter.
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TRAPELfNG dGENTS-C. S. f. Holland, Auditor; e
x. Holland, A. W. Palmer and B. B. Throop
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II we 60 after thing usually get is about the way
speedy odkmn Herald " ''N""'
Merely another version OF the saying Keeping eyerlast
ingly at It brings success
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tering procession started from the rail-
road station preceded by Dragon
guards and artillery, the Viceroys es-
cort, and by heralds and trumpeters.
The route was entirely lined by British
and native troops. From the saluting
battery, posted at the fort commanding
the Lahore gate, guns Numbered out a
royal salute as the Viceroy passed with
the heralds and trumpeters sounding at
intervals spirited fanfares. The cor
tege passed in front of a magnificent
line of $50 elephants carrying the bril-
liantly dressed retainers of the ruling
chiefs. The beasts all saluted by trum-
peting and throwing their trunks in the
air, presenting a truly imposing sight,
and afterward fell in line behind the Of
fetal procession, as the cavalcade trav-
erscd the broad road leading to the
Jumma Musiid mosque. with its white
domes and gilded minarets cleaning in
the sunlight.
And so forth and so on. The Ahkoond
of Swat doesn't seem to have been pres
ent, but he wasn't needed to MAKE the
! pageant a shining success. We can't do
anything of this kind either at home OF
in any of our dependencies"
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UNIVERSITY DRUmMEKs.

Queer stories come out of the West
concerning the performances of educa-
tors, and some of them turn out to be
not true. 1t is interesting if it is true
that the office of University drummer
has been created by President James
of Northwestern University at Chicago.
The work is to swell the ranks of stu
dents entering the Evanston institution.
V. K. Froula is the first appointed to
the new office. He was selected by
President James to act as agent for the
university among the various prepare
tory schools and minor colleges in the
country from which most of the uni
versity students come. Mr.. Froula's
duties will be to point out the advan-
tages of Northwestern in an effort to
influence students to cast their lot with
the Methodist school.
Why not? This is only formally do
ing what has long been informally done
If a University has merits why
shouldn't it have an agent to point
them out to those who want to know
about them? If the Northwestern has
picked out good man for drummer
and if it can keep it's bands of athletes
in the front rank, it will doubtless gair
many new students.
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planes to get his eyes opened at the
proper time. One omrning last week he
came into the office OH time to the min
ute; the others in the office expressed
great surprise at this unusual event
and asked the whyfore of it. He thus
explained:
L deterinemd that this business of
sleeping when I should be awake had to
stop, so 1 called in an electrician and he
fixed EN- up a few things. [ have it so
arranged that at the hour set light
flashes in my eyes. If this is not sue
cessful and I donot get up and throw
the switch mosquito bar and the
fraem falls on EN-. If l still slumber
and sleep a gong like the one used on
the patrol wagon goes off. Should fail
to notice all of these things there is
over y mbed bucket filled with wa
ter, having a small nozzle attached,
and a rachel releases a stop so that a
stream of water is squirted into my
face. When 1 sleep through all these it
will be time to order my coffin. Mo
bile Register.
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A GREAT SHOW.

There will be a pretty gorgeous pro-
cession in Hartford next week, but it
will be Republican simplicity COM
pared with the procession which yes
terday celebrated the entry Of Lord
Curzon, the Viceroy Of India, into the
capital of the Moguls. 1t was a great
show, even for India. Lord and Lady
Curzon rode on the state grand tusi1-
err, twelve feet high, the largest ele-
plant in India. Their hoWdah was deck
ed with gold and silver, and the ele-
plant itself was almost hidden beneath
gold worked saddle-cloth. Surround
ing them were footmen in scarlet and
gold liveries and bearing massive silver
slaves. The Duke of Connaught, who
represented King Edward, and the
Duchess Of Connaught followed. Thei1
elephant was equally gorgeously capar'
| isoned. Then in order Of precedence
came the Nizam of Hyderabad, the Ma
harajah of Travancore and other ruling
chiefs, their elephants forming line {
quarter Of a mile in length. This gilt
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PERSISI EA3.

High Praise.-'Marie has a wonder
full knack for gravies and dressings"
Hasn't she? | really believe that
mayonnaise of hers would make door
mat paIatable '-Cleveland Plain Deal
er.
She-Why do you suppose they have
all the telephone wires so high in the
air?
He-Oh, that is so they can keep up
the conversation, / suppose,-Yonkers
Statesman,
First actor-Boothby had a tremend-
Gus audience last night and they were
very enthusiastic.
Second actor-Yes, at the box office,
trying to get their money back.-De-
troit Free Press.
He-When l marry the girl in the
case must be both handsome and intel
ligent.
She-Then you really believe that
people should marry their opposit es.-
Chicago Daily News.
"Why will you women persist in
shopping until you are completely ex-
hausted?"
ut isn't the shopping that tries one
dear; it is taking the things back and
changing them "-Harper's Bazaar.
Next.-"Yes," said the funny barber
we're up to date here. We shave you
while you watt
Indeed" replied Pepprey, 1--WE usu-
ally found that you shave several 9th.
err fellows while l wait. "-Philadelphis
Press
Just my luck" said Borem. shes
always out when l call"
so she was telling me-" said Miss
Pepprey.
She told you the same thing, eh?''
Yes, only she said it was just he
luck. ''-Philadelphia Press
Larger Quantities.-Mis Cable
And she accused me of retailing GOSSIP
about the neighborhood.
Miss Sharpe-The idea!
Miss Enthusiastically insulting
isn't she?
Miss Sharpe-Yes, for you're really
wholesaler.-Ph Press.
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The legislature of Victoria one Of the
States of the new Commonwealth OF
Australia, has taken action on matter
which is becoming important in several
countries. 1t has passed bill, pro-
posed by the government, for the sep
arate representation of public employees.
AS Victoria owns and operates its rail-
roads, it has many thousands Of en-
ployes, including those in departments
of the government other than the rail-
road department. In some countries
public employees are deprived of the
privilege of voting, on the ground that
they should not be in a position both
to control wages and to receive wages.
The idea is that if employees have votes
and are numerous they may decide the
election of representatives and thus in
effect be in a position to vote them
selves wages. Victoria does not take
| the extreme course of disfranchising
| public servants''-as they are called
there-but prevents them from voting
| in several districts where they would
influence a great many elections. BY
combining they could get, it was sup
posed, an excessive number of repre-
sentatives elected to voice their special
interests. whereas under the act just
passed they will vote for such num-
Der of candidates at large as is in pro-
portion to the number of public en-
ployes. If 10000, for example, is the
average number Of voters for one
representative and there are 10000 pub
lie employees, they will have two repre-
sentatives in the legislature and will be
powerless to influence greatly other
representatives than their own.
It may yet become necessary in the
United States to do something to checl
the election and control of representa-
tives by public employees.
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AN INSTANCE OF IMAGINATION

AN INSTANCE OF IMAGINATION.
Two bright young men attended a
lecture in the city a few days past, the
dlecturer's subject being one dealing
with the rather occult features of the
mind as exemplified in physical phe-
noenma. After giving several demon
STATIONS of how fraud might be prac-
ticed in such matters the speaker sta
ted that. he had in his possession a
small bottle containing a chemical
agent of wonderful solvent properties.
This bottle, he said, he would uncork
and use as a test of the sensitiveness of
the audience to Geographic impressions
The test consisted in being able to de-
tect the odor Of the chemical, which
was a liquid. Those who could detect
the odor were sensitives, and those who
could not were, to borrow the language
of Shakespeare, fit for treason, strate'
gems and spoils.
It was at this point that the two
Young emn, or one of them made good
| He began to smell Immediately and re-
called his companion with sundry rii
labs and remarks on the strength of thu
odor about.
But his friend was from Missouri,
and had to be shown. His olfactor!
| nerves responded to no sensation. Ac
cording to the terms of the lecturer
request those who smelled held up thei
hands.
After a number of hands had beef
raised the bottle was recorked, but thi
man was so very sensitive that he coul
even then detect the odor, and said SC
When afrter little further talk tn
speaker announced that the bottle con
tanned nothing but distilled water tn
young man lowered his head as we'll a
his hand and was quiet. But even nov
he is sensitive on the subject.-Mem
phis Scimitar.
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1he street Minstrel.

His hands are s0iled, his throat is bare,
His face is streaked with dirt and thin,
And many Il slip is in the air
He plays upon his violin;
a sadness dWells within his eyes,
The shoes are ragged on his feet,
And scOffers stop to criticise
The little minstrel in the street.
There by the curb he plays away,
Where flakes float past and winds blow
chill.
And maybe. as the critics say,
He lacks the tutOred artists skill;
But now and then little strain,
Played faultlesSy and soft and sweet,
Foats up from where he stands out there
The little minstrel in the street,
Say. ragged little minstrel, why
Must people listen but to hear
The false note, ever passing by
The strain that rises soft and clear?
Oh, 1t were well with us If we
Might in our own ways sound the sweet
And faultiess notes as oft as he
The little minstrel In the street
IS. E. Kiser, in Chicago Record-Herald.
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WAKEsBY ELECTRICITY.

UNIQUE Invention for a Late Sleeper in
Mobile.
There is in Mobile a gentleman who
in the past has been in the habit of
over sleeping in the morning hours, and
as his business requires that he come
down street early it is essential that he
should awaken at certain hour. Time
after time he came late to his business
in spite of alarm clocks and other APP
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4 RESULT OF THE COAL STRIKE

a RESULT OF THE COAL STRIKE.
One of the results of the great coal
strike is the announcement of Senator
Mason of Illinois that he will introduce
to the consideration of congress a bill
permitting the federal government to
engage in coal mining whenever a pro-
longed strike ties up the ordinary
sources of fuel supply. He is urged to
this, he says, by the petitions of more
than fifty thousand residents of the
State of Illinois, which he represents.
He proposes that congress shall en-
power the Encouragement, in the
name of the public, to enter a court of
equity and ask for the appointment of
| a receiver who in seasons of emergency
shall provide for the resumption of
work at the mines, pay the miners and
render an accounting to the owners OF
the property. Senator Mason believes
that congress has the right to pass such
legislation under that section of the
constitution known as the general vel
fare" clause, which authorizes it to
pay the debts and provide for the COM
mon defense and general welfare of the
United States"
Perhaps, not to say probably, wher
congress gets through with this bill its
own father wont know it. 1t is moi
likely that the United States is ready
to go into the coal-mining business
either temporarily or permanently. Blu
Senator Mason's bill will have some
popularity.
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Experiments have been conducted by
DR.. Lemstrom, of Helsingfors univer-
sity, on the effect of an electrical dis
charge on the growth of plants. Four
seeds of barley, wheat and rye were
sown in pots, the soil being electrically
connected with the ground. Above the
two pots was suspended an insulated
network of wire with number of
points of Holz machine so connected
-. that in some of the pots the electric
lrrent passed from the metal work to
earth, while in others it passed in
reverse direction. For five hours
ally current was passed through the
After eight weeks the height OF
plants affected by the electric cur
was found to be about forty per
sreater than that of those to
& current had been applied. 1t
lat experiments with other
" similar results.
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AS they are dangerous and mis-
chievous creatures, accustomed to sting
mankind" no one has right to keep
bees in unreasonable numbers or in an
improper place, so the Dublin King S
bench has decided.
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General Baden-Powell, the popular
English warrior, was at luncheon re-
Gently where a celebrated physician
was his fellow guest. The doctor was
chatting the soldier and said: How do
you feel after killing a man profess
sionally?" The general replied in his
characteristic silky tone: "Oh, I don't
mind 1t much more than you do, dare
say"
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