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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-08-15
DIPLOMACY won THEM OVER.

Boys lngeniously Persuaded to Guard a
Grass Plot Against Themselves.
Home and Flowers.
In indianapolis some years ago group
Of women set themselves to do what they
could for the Improvement Of their neigh
borhood. There was strip Of street waste
which, redeeming, they transformed into a
lawn. But II had been for long lime n
tnoroughiare. and AN unforbldden bit of
playground for street Arabs. 30 that the
women saw their efforts 90 for naught as
the grass was thoughtlessly trampled down
one Of them, with much Insight OF char.
acter. called the street boys to meetins
told them the purpose, 81 herself and her
associates. and asked them to form among
themselves sort of POLICE band 20 assist
the women by protecting that bit of lawn
from trespassers. The boys eagerly agreed
They defended IL n ON all Corners not
least from themselves. with a true knight.
ly zeal. The turf was saved, and group
q boYs that had run Wild without thought
of the towns appearance became hand
Of Jealous champions OF city beauty. whose
eyes had been opened not to the POSSIBLE.
tiles OF that spot alone. but Of many rne
anecdote suggests good course for the
society to take This Is the establishment
OF a cbildren's auxillary-or, II the town
he Of considerable size of several auxil.
iaries.
Give to them responsibility for the re-
moval of what Is hidcous and ugly--be Il
weeds. loose paper or what not. The chill.
dren need not Of themselves do the actual
removing. Some of them viii delight to do
IL, as Colonel Warnings band Of luveHne
street cleancrs-slncc organized IN 80 many
cities outside Of New York--have con
clusiyely shown; but always they can make
record OF the necessity of such removal
and hand In their reports to a desgnat, I'd
and Influential person. so learning early
to scrutinize public work and to demand
from officials the full performance Of their
duty. Thus they will observe the wfIl,
how real and close Is the personal respon.
aibility Of every citizen, however humble.
for the appearance of the town, and viii
absorb municipal esthetics' most dfncuit
hut great first lesson-that precedent 10 ali
true and lasting progress there must be
laid the prosaic and practical foundation Of
civic whOlesomeness aud Cleanliness
II the society interests the children with
these results. and encourages among adults
n widespread effort TO beautlfy home
grounds. II viii have done much to turn |
10 account the present opportunity Of the |
town,
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Th The ~ Tor girls; in Pennsy,vs v BOYS
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limit is IA years ana Kentucky the
more re ftbr Ira is satisfied thar auonr
cotton mills iV y; ~, wage earners in the
come instances Injustice sna states In
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tbev Oh England and New Ens,end no
some or exceptions. Below is riven
in this NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., set,Iirns, the first received
epn,,s n by each mail from The mn, mre
the Trada sIs, and In the next issue ~
port i wli1 Sn complete statistosi ro OF
not sni am oe made IL the mills that have
respond inquiries promptly
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cravson COUNTY Old settlers.

Sherman, Texas, August 1.-THE second
day OF the old settlers picnic was grand
success. The grounds were crowded 20
their uttermost. The principal features this
afternoon were two interesting talks-one
by Grandma Whitaker 81 Elm View, aged
SO. and Rev. Jarret Flnney, an aged min
lister. Both talks elected frequent ap-
pause. Pursuant TO request from Mayor
Fielder, all business houses. including
banks, railroad offices. freight and express
Offices. have agreed to close tomorrow Dirt
day.
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III exclusive Of s cotlard Il ;So2 700 900
b a i've Jew England the subieet has
the un,,naee Tor nearly nifty Years,
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The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-15
Books and Authors
4 auEsr1oN j OF COMPETENCY

The catalogue Of the New York School of
Journalism for 1s02-19o3 states that "thes de-
mand for trained journalists and literary
workers is far in excess Of the supply and
that what the law school has done and is
doing for the legal profession the school of
journalism must do for the profession or
journalism" That is an unfortunate state
ment, for what the law schools are actually
largely doing is to issue sheepskins of pro-
flciency and expert skill in the law to thou
sands Of men who neither by special gifts
nor training can be fitted for the legal pro-
fe<sIon They ovrrcrowd and drop our OF
it through sheer incapacity or starvation and
drift into businesses which will yield them a
support - y
Schools of journalism are in the expert
mental stage Thus far they have been
largely schemes by which to coax from the
pockets of aspiring young writers the money
necessary to meet the bills presented by the
shopkeeper to the principal of the school. II
they have served any other purpose the
effect has not yet been felt in the offices OF
newspaper publications.
Schools sof Journalism might do for journal
ism In a very limited degree what schools OF
law have done for the legal profession, but
tte danger Of rnisapplied effort is not SO
great from that source. The product of the
law school may 'enter the practice of HE
nrofession', without the consent of any one
else. All that is necessary is that he be able
to hire an Office and hang out "shingle,'
hut IN the case of the product of the schoo
of Journalism he must first secure the con.
sent OF the experienced editor before he car
become regular attache of newspaper
The mere possession OF a certificate of gradua,
tion from a school Of Journalism does not arm
him with the weapons of offense' in hi
chosen profession to the same extent that 4
does in the case of a graduate of school O
law or medicine, because he must serve ac'
centably some one else who is experienced
sIt Is necessary for him to demonstrate the
possession also of some natural qualification
for the work which he has undertaken.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-15
CUPlD'S SUMMER SCHOOL?
By HENRY WINTHROP

Copyright, 1902, by the S. S. Mcclure Coz
Tommy Daring-it was Thomas Hendrix
Darling on the hotel register-was in love.
Now, in way, this was nothing unusual for
Thomas was SO frequently, so variously and
SO obviously in love that no one at the Sea
View House took him at all seriously.
!. II Jack Harding sat out two dances In the
moonlight with Eunice Vane or George Top
pling strolled on the sands with Alice TEN
pie, the chaperons of Rocking Chair row had
food for gossip the next morning but II Tom
my fagrantly; held the hand of the prettiest
girl at the hotel for full half an hour In broad
daylight 1t was pronounced merely one OF his
little pleasantries. Tommy was once hearo
to remark that his heart was larger than
the hotel since it housed so many more girls
than the inn could accommodate.
In other words, Thomas was a wholesale
flirt who conducted his campaigns SO openly
that had he sat in solitude for an hour the
entire summer contingent upon the island
would have remarked upon the strangeness
of the proceeding; not that such an even,
was probable when there were twenty-sever
attractive and tractable young women a
hand-that is, all were tractabie except one
Tommy frankly admitted that he had beer
rejected by twentysix out of the twenty
seven, but when urged to go ahead and make
his volume OF reflections complete he turned
strangely reticent. -
No one would have believed the truth
that the twenty-seventh was the real OBJ
| ject Of his adoration-and that, despite hi
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LITERARY NOTES

The Century company announces The BIZ
ography of Prairie Girl, by Eleanor Gates,
who spent her childhood in the Dakotas and
tells what little girl did and saw there
about twenty-five years ago. The story will
begin in the August number of the Century
Magazine. lsz. .5azi3
1t is stated in London publishing circles
that the anonymity of the authorship of San
EngIishwoman's Love Letters' will be un-
yelled by the publication of another book, to
which the author will sign his name. 1t Is
generally believed that it is masculine pro-
duction.
j. Pierpont Morgan has added to his fine
collection OF books and manuscripts an eighth
century manuscript Bible, dn a gold binding
studded with Jewels. The manuscript is val-
ued at $4,000. T
The original charter of William Penn. giv-
ing the Pennsylvania. eol0nists the rights and
privileges of a commonwealth. sealed and
signed by Penn, has been bought by George
G. Thomas. the Philadelphia collector. for
SIT 500. It .ds written on two parchment
leaves
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ADJUSTMENTS
The Percy Haswells In "Cntherine.'

The Percy Haswells In Cather1ne." !"
In his drama of Catherine - Henri Lave
dan holds up for inspection a woman's soul,
naked and quivering. The experiment Is ac-
comrlshed with all the brutality OF the
operating table and with equal frankness 1t
compels interest through its audacity and by
the skill of its. performance. NJ Lavedan
wields a sharp knife and he does not hesi-
tate at vivisection. He starts out to lay bare
the soulsof woman, and he leaves nothing
to the imagination. h He achieves his end with
the skill and directnessso of a German scientist
and without the doubt of an emplricist In
fact the play itself is German rather than
French, both in theme and treatment Its
dialogue is ponderous; situations, 1t has few
in the. commonly accepted meaning of the
word; and it is all heavy, sombre, morbid.
Such play. while 1t will delight the few,
may yet be expected to prove caviare to the
general. Catherine Is an intellectual
drama; drama Of distinct psychological
value, but it may be doubted whether 1t is
suited to summer audiences which desire to
be entertained rather than fascinated
| Such a task as the German Sudermann set
himself In "Magda, the Gaul" Lavedan has
attempted in Catherine" The early en-
| yironment Of the two women might be ex.
pected to lead them along similar pathways
Both were the children of humble things
both were taught to know the right. To one
this teaching became oppressive; to the other
! her mainstay OF life. One became a wanton
the other, wife. The characters of both are
| laid bare with relentless hand by their: crea
| tcrs. In Catherine M. Lavendan has pre-
/ sented to the stage wonderfully skilfu
portrait Of good woman. Hers is the con,
manding figure Of the play; in fact. the ONLY
/ figure that rises much atoye conventioha,ty
4 The antithesis of "Magda in all that goe:
/ to make up womanhood, the one, in some In
/ dehnable way, yet suggests the other
AS for the others, there is the Due ,sd'
Coutras, a good looking young fellow, who
j like Hopes Philosopher in the Apple Or
chard' refuses an offer Of marriage in th'
i first actswithout at all being aware that h
i has listened to confession Of love and re
4 pulsed 1t. and who finally marries Catherine
/ And there is also Helene, Countess de Grisol
1 les, the fair confessor, whose barriers Of re
serve are finally broken down and who plead'
/ with the duke to give her 'just one hour
i his life.' With George Mantel, who, though
4 he loves Catherine, reiinquistes her withou
4 objection to the man she loves, these thre'
/ people provide the plot The others ar
i merely incid dental
Miss Percy Haswell played the name roll
4 In last nights production and proved her
Il self an actress Of emotional ability. He
i scene with Mantel In the second act an,
with her husband in the third. were man
aged with skill and good taste In fact, tn
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have been Endorsed and the congressional del
egatlon would have been let pass without a
word. 1t was bad politics and an underhand
deal or deal from the bottom, and "a great
many who know it are afraid to make a klcE
= Redwood Reveille-The platform adopted by
the convention on the whole is good one
It is to be regretted however, that the party's s
declaration on the question Of Cuban recl-
proeityr could not have been more to the point
Warren Register-Our fourth objection lies
to the Cuban reciprocity plank. The members
of the committee could easily have chosen one
of three methods OF disposing Of this trouble
some question, viz, they could have passed
it by without any notice whatever, they could
have lined themselves up squarely on the side
Of the president, or they could have taken
their stand without. equivocation alongside the
''insurgents.tt, They did none. .of these things.
Instead, they executed most adroit straddle
by indorsing both the president and the in
surgents In the same breath. but in such a
manner as to satisfy or please neither.
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vast experience, in this instance he became
oddly incapable Of uttering the words that
would put his fate to the test. With twenty
six Of the "Sea Viewers" as he dubbed them,
he was brave to the point of audacity, and
not one of the girls felt her heart touched
by the turn of so much feathers weight,
but with Janet Marsden! All, that was diff
ferent! She might not take him seriously
either. a.. = >,-..-->-- = - ~.
If one or two observing danes had noted
his evident embarrassment in Miss Mars
den's presence, they naturally supposed that
the somewhat reserved young lady from Phil
adelphia had resented Tonmy.s easy assump-
tion that young womanhood in general had
been provided for his special entertainment
and had administered some stinging rebuke,
which, coming from her gentle Cupid's bow
lips, would carry unexpected force. Never
for an instant did they dream that Tommy
really loved this quiet, self-contained girl
or that his tongue stammered and grew slow
when he tried to tell in all seriousness what
he had ofttirnes spoken in jest. In spite OF
his mercurial. temperament Darling was not
a. firt in the common acceptation of the
word. He TESTED lightly with Dan Cupid and
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characterization throuehou. was highly cred

scharacter'zatlcn throughou. was highly cred
table.
Frank Gilmore was the duke. He is q
convincing actor, with fine presence and
good voice. although his work is occasionally
marred by mannerisms His acting in the
scene with Helene. when she confesses her
love and makes her, astounding proposal, was
or an unusually high character. His protes-
tatlons, his surrender to her persuasion his
revulsion of feeling when his wife appears
upon the scene, all these were naturally SIM
ulated and skilfully portrayed Miss Laura
McGtiyray as Helene added much to the
effect of the scene. She brought out to the
full the intensity and the bitterness of the
countess passion for her cousin, and the
feroctty Of her appeal for his love aroused
the audience to a fine pitch of enthusiasm.
The part of George Mantel was played,
and we'll played by Frederick Lewis A diff
fcult role, and one that must present many
temptations to excesses, Mr.. Lewis handled
the part with discretion and with nice
appreciation of its requirements His work
was admirable throughout.
Alfred Hudson, Sr., presented an excellent
portrait of GATHERINGS father, and Miss Alice
Butler was good as the Duchess de Coutras.
Altogether the opening of the HasweH COM
pany was most auspicious
j. S. Lawrence
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-15
"PERPETUAL CONTROL"

The president is reported to have decld-
ed upon General Wood, late governor gen
eral of Cuba, to he the head Of the 18TH
nian canal commission, and, If so, the
appointment will insure prompt and
thoroughly good work on the canal con-
struction. The leading cause OF delay is
not found in the substantiation OF the va
lidity of the title of the Panama Canal
company, for such verification presents no
difficulties, but the Colombian govern
ment is haggling over the terms OF the
necessary cession of a strip Of territory
through which the canal Is to be con-
structed. -. r-.4.. 'sEE
In the Spooner amendment to the canal
act the president is authorized to ac-
ouire from Colombia perpetual control of
q strip Of land, which control shall in
clude Jurisdiction over said strip and the
ports at the ends thereof, to make such
police and sanitary rules and regulations
as shall he necessary to preserve order
and preserve the public health thereon
and to establish such judicial tribunals
as may be agreed upon thereon. as may
regulations" S
The necessity for this stipulation and
cession Is perfectly obvious. The state
of Panama in the United States OF Co
Iombia is in very hot water about half
the time. 1t is a hotbed of revolution
and of ambitious swashbucklers. Time
and again our government has been called
upon to defend the Panama railway across
the isthmus against the combattve OBJ
trusion of revolutionists. It is abso-
lutely necessary that the United States
shall in perpetuity control the canal strip
six or seven miles wide from sea to sea,
in order to protect the canal from ma
rauding parties. The state Of Panama
is too disorderly to have any other ar
rangement. But the Colombian govern
ment does not want to transfer territory
in that way, and it would limit the control
of the canal strip by our government.
This point must be yielded by Colombia
if our government proceeds to the work.
Even if this point is yielded by Colon
bia, the treaty has to be ratified by the
Colombian congress, which has yet to be
elected. The Colombian government has
to appoint a nonpartizan commission to
I rearrange the electoral districts so as to
order the new elections and then congress
will assemble, probably in October, to
ratify the canal treaty. There has been
an ugly revolution in Colombia for about
two years, and the conservatives and lib
erals are just trying to arrive at an adj
justment of their difficulties. It will have
to be put down in black and white that
whatever changes may hereafter disturb
the public peace in Colombia, the canal
agreements with that republic shall stand
as a national obligation and be respected
Our department of justice will, during
the next few weeks, examine at Paris
through it's experts, the title of the Pana.
ma Canal company to the property, sc
that there cannot be any hitch hereafter
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-15
THE STATE PLATFORM

Clara City Herald-The more the reputli-
cans of the state think about the Cuban reci-
procty plank adopted by the late state con-
vention, the madder they feel 1T was a
pretty laid scheme on the part OF the friends
OF the Minnesota congressional delegation not
to report the resolutions till the work Of the
convention was over and the delegates were
tired Of remaining longer in the hall. The
Minnesota delegation have weakened their
cause and the people more than ever believe
that the president is right in his position
Eden Valley Journal-The managers of the
state republican convention sprang a coup on
the delegates by holding back the resolutions
until half Of them were tired out and had left
the hall to catch trains for home 1t was
given around the hotels that compromise
plank on the Cuban sugar wrangle would be
adopted and that neither the president nor
the congressional delegation would be in
dorsed wholly. It was "a cowar1ly act to with
hold the resolutions. Had they been read to
the convention when they should have been
read and when the delegates were in frame
Of mind to listen to them, there is no doubt
hut that there would have been a pleasant
hour of merry fun before action was taken,
and after the voice OF the delegates was
heard 1t Is most certain that Roosevelt would
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-15

has had some pretty strong evidence that
administration support OF a measure does
not insure its acceptance and passage by
congress. The Cuban reciprocity bill
proved dead failure, the only good oe-
complished being the revelation made
during the discussion Of the increasing
tendency of the public mind to limit and
remove the excessive tariff protection ac-
corded certain industries which, ike
Jeshuran, wax fat and kick the hand that
feeds them.
That the president is not shamming Is
very evident to any one acquainted Win
his character and disposition. During the
whole late session of congress there can
not be cited an occasion when he yielded
hair's-breadth to any counsel winch IN
volved any REIMBURSEMENT of his duty or
any policy which he had adopted Inc
public were convinced that the president
is no trimmer and that he can be de-
pended on to promote. so far as he is
able, the policy which looks to the largest
good of the largest number. The 1ndl1-
ference or antagonism, il you please, TO
the presidential recommendation as TO an
operative policy against trusts and a.
to relief for Cuba through reciproc-
ity, declared and thrice de-
clared republican policy, indeed, may still
characterize the short session of the fifty
seventh congress, but 1t Is very llkels
that if the democrats were to capture
majority in the house of the fifty -elghtf
congress which will assemble in Decem-
Der, 1903, with possibility of obstructine
the republican majority in the senate
there would be stronger inclination or
the part Of the present house and senate
to comply with the late ignored recon-
mendations Of the president.
1t Is very evident that the public art
approaching the conviction that ther'
must be trust restraint by, operative leg
islation for public protection, and pro
gressive tariff revision carrying out th
process of genuine protection, which J
simply the reduction of each duty to a.
amount equal to the difference in th
cost of producing the American and for
eign article. That is the true measur
of duty to be laid on the foreign article
AS for the immediate outlook, it !
! very evident that Bryan, judging from hi
present tone and temper, is going to d
his best to divide the democratic part
and frustrate the action of any incipien
return to reason on their part.