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El Democrata fronterizo. [volume] (Laredo, Tex.) 1896-1920, 1906-07-21
VELADA.
de la.
Escuela Normal.
DisCurso del Sr.
Ernesto Mourquet'
SENOR PRESIDENTE,
SENORAS, SENORES:

Los notables trabajos presenta-
dos por los estudiosos alumnos de
este progresista plantel prueban,
de un modo irrefutable, los cons
tantes esfuerzos de su habil Direc
tor, ell laborioso empeho de sus
Profesores, y hacen ell mejor elo
gio del inteligente Magistrate que
gobierna este Estado.
Siento, sin embargo, que una es
pecie de ''snobismo" impida la fu
sion de todas las clases de la Socie
dad; y, aunque ciertas personas
califiquen mi modo de pensar de
utopia poetica," digo, con toda
franqueza, que quisiera yer senta
dos en- las bancas de las escuelas
gubernamentales, al lado del hijo
del artesano, ell heredero del rico.
Asf como los sabios de un pals
comulgan con los sabios de los dc
mas paises en- ell goce de sus null
tiples descubrimientos, quisiera
que los j6venes, en- la escuela, for
masen una conciencia com1n, sin
distinction de range social.
Sehores: los mas grandes erro-
res de nuestra conducta ante la so
ciedad, de la mala orientaci6n de
nuestros sentimientos y de nues
tros actos, proceden de la com1n
y falsa conception de 81 mismo.
Pero, no quiero ocuparme de psi
cologia individual de los caracte
res, de las pasiones, de los defec
tos de la naturaleza humana; Plau
to, Terencio, Montaigne, La Bru
yere, Pascal y Moli6re han dicho
bastante sobre este tema, y no ten
60 la tonta pretensi6n de superar
los.
Os hablare suscintamente de los
hombres celebres que, durante ell
siglo diez'y nueve. han servido de
iniciadores Y de gufas en- las cien-
cias, en- las artes y en- las letras.
De 1901 q 1900, han nacido, en-
todas parties, artistas, literatos, pen
sadores: en- Inglaterra, Shelley y
Byron han inventado nuevas pasio
nes Y las han cantado; en- Alema-
mia, mientras Goethe escribia su
brillante tilosoffa, ,el esceptico En-
rique Hefne, en- su estilo mordaz,
se burlaba de las creencias ANTIGUA
Jas; y en- Mexico, ell erudito Igna
,io Altamirano. .inspirandose en-
las doctrinas de Agusto Comte,
preconizaba ell sistema positivis
"a.
Ofmos entonces, Sehores, todas
las elocuencias: en- medic de los
sarcarmos de Roger Collard ~ de
las imprecaciones de Gambetta,
las sonrisas, las lagrimas, ell genio |
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sublime de Victor Hugo, de La
MARITIME, de Musset, de Vigny.
FL pasado de Ia humanidad ha
revivido por Ia virtud de los histo
riadores: Quinet 10 ha evoeado;
Agustin Thierry 10 ha analizado;
Theirs 10 ha criticado; Michelet 10
ha cantado: Y Taine y Mommsen
han medido los pasos dc los con
quistadores.
En- Ia novela. Balzac ha pintado
toda una epoca. Dumas ha desper
tado ell heroismo; Flaubert he es
culpido tipos para Ia inmortalidad;
y Zola nos ha hecho sentir ell al
ma movediza de la muchedum-
bre.
En- pintura, Diaz, Corot, Dau
bigny, Dupre, Rousseau, Manet,
han descubierto nuevos matices en-
Ia Naturaleza.
En- fin, on m1sica, Rossini, Yer
di, Meyerbeer, Berlioz, Gounod,
Thomas Y Wagner han encontra-
do ritmos, verba, audAcia, seduc-
clones y portentosos esplendores!.
Que lista tan larga, Senores, 81
quisiera nombraros todos los ge-
MOS que han ilustrado el siglo diez
y nueve!. 49,.
Pero tengo que acortar esta sus-
cinta nomenclature, porque quiero
consagrar ell fin de esta alocuci6n
& la memoria de uno de los mas
grandes novelistas de Espaha. de
Jose Maria Pereda, que la implaca
BILE Parca acaba de arrebatar 4 la
vida.
Sehores, la forescencia de la Poe
sia & traves de las edades. su pa
pei glorioso de guardian del pa
| trimonio intellectual de Ia Humani
! dad, deben afirmar nuestra fe en-
ella, Y justifican todas nuestras es
peranzas.
! La poesla nos pone en- relacion
con ell Infinite, de manera compli-
cada y misteriosa. Mientras mas
noble es su objeto, mas entusias
mos creadores puede suscitar; ia
mas Sc puede osar demasiado;y la
audacia es siempre bella!
No conozco mas que dos name
ras de hacer la critica de los Poe
tas: leerlos Y alabarlos.
Con esos quimericos amantes del
Ideal, con esos pescadores de luna
como Rostand los llama, toda dis
cusi6n Sc vuelve ociosa; y, en- yer
dad, es querer anudsr los rayos
del sol, pensar en- someter q las lie
yes de una doctrina, a1n estetica,
q esos enamorados de la Fantasia,
cuya suprema razon sera'siempre
su voluble capricho.
Para escribir la historic, hay
forzosa obligation de conocerla:
desde que Ia terra ola vueltas, las
ciencias matematicas Sc resuelven
en- imperiosas ecuaciones; I'm siste
ma religioso.6 8 social Sc expone al
examen de los argumentos; sola,
la Poesia no tiene trabas, como las
Diosas, y pasa & traves de la mu
chedumbre sin preocuparse de los
rumores que puede levantar ell pol
vo de au manto.
'Quereis saber 10 que es Tin poe
ma!
Un poema es la ventana del so
hador alberta sobre ell cielo, sobre
los bosques, sobre ell Oc6ano; a
bierta, tambien, q la confidencia
de los amantes, q Ia oraci5n de los
campanarios en- ell misterio de los
crep1sculos. -.
=. 81 no annals q los Poetas. no hay
mas cue un modo dc impedir esta
invasion de luz, de sueiios, de
creencias, de ilusiones, de cantos,
en- medic del atropello de vuestra
labor cotidisna y positiva: cerrar
esa invisible ventana.
Pero, dejemos. un momentoJ dl
cha ventana alberta, v hablemos
del Cantor de la costa Cantabri-
ca,
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CONDICIONES.

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Exanenes y
Fiesta Escolar

Los profesores del bien organi-
zado Colegio Preparatorio que en-
esta ciudad dirije ell Sr. Abraham
u. Garzn, anuncian para mafiana
ell Examen General de los alumnos
que hacen sus estudios en- ese i'm
portante Institute.
Los examenes que Sc verificaran
maiiana, de 7 q - a. m. y de | de
la tarde en- adelante, versaran So
bre las materias comprendidas en-
ell programa Official de las Escuelas
de N. Leon. que es uno de los mas
adelantados en- la Rep1blica Mexi-
cana. Ademas, Sc 'examinaran los
alumnos del curse de ingles que Sc
estableci6 este aho en- ese plan
tel.
La fiesta escolar, que clausura
ra los trabajos de este afo, tehdra
lugar ell lines 20 4 las s de la
noche.
Ambas fiestas Sc verificaran en-
ell Salon del Mercado, y pueden a
sistir q elias, libremente, todas las
familias de Laredo y todas las per
sonas que deseen presenciarlas y
formarse juicio exacto de los ira
bajos que Sc hacen en- ese plantel,
uno de los mejores para la ense-
nanza de la ninez mexico-texana
que haya en- todo ell Estado de Te-
xas.
Lo fiesta escolar que Sc anuncia
Sc sujetara al siguiente
PROGRAMA.
10. Obertura por Ia orquesta.
20. Colon, Mon6logo recita
do por ell j6ven Ramon Salinas. a.
lumno de SO afio.
80. "Cortes y Cuauhtemoc, f" dia
logo recitado por los nihos Vidal
Sep1lveda y Jose Angel Gonzalez,
alumnos de so. y Der. aflo, respec-
tivamente.
40. La Bandera Nacional," re
citaei6n declamada por los niIos
Alberto Molina, Toribio Almaguer
Y Jose Idar, alumnos de Ser. aho;
y en- coro, por varios nifios del
mismo afio.
so. LA CIENCIA. Dialogo
Escolar por diez nifos de 20. aho.
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IntermeSio de IS Minutes.

Intermeoio de IS Minutes.
so. Recitacioues por los nihos
Roberto Siller, JESUS Cant1. S6cra
tes CARA Y Jose Cant1, .alumnos
de so. afio. -
20. "Cuauhtemoc, ,Hidalgo,
Juarez v PorfrioDfaz." Cuadro
patri6tico, por los nifos Martina
no Perez, Nicolas Treviho, Juan
Lozano Y Antonio Cant1.
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Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-11
LIKE WH|RLW|ND
IS AUTO RACING
FAMOUS DRIVER TELLS OF
EXPERIENCES
Turns of the Course Are Greatest Dan-
ger and Binding Dust Makes
Speed Events Hazardous
for Contestants
BY Webb Jay

am often asked to describe the SEN
sations I experienced when travelling
at the rate of over seventy miles an
hour on a track. Well, if you were fast
ened down somewhere and a seventy
mile an hour cyclone were sweeping by
you, you would get some idea of the
way the wind whistles past the face of
one travelling in a car at the same rate
of speed.
Secondly, the turns are an ever pres
ent problem. No sooner has one turn
been safely negotiated than the driver
must begin to figure on the next. The
driver must know his car very well, or,
instead of taking the turn, he will wake
up in the hospital or IN the great here
after. For every track and every car
there is a certain speed at which the
car would topple over on the turns in
obedience to the laws of nature. The
task of the driver of a fast machine is
to take his car around the turns at a
speed--as near as his judgment tells
him-which is close to this limit, but
still n shade ON the safe side.
The third proposition to be considered
is the tires. Here is where n tremen-
dous amount depends on luck. No driver
of a high-speed racing car can be per-
fectly sure that his tires will carry
him around the track All he can do Is
to be on the alert ready to keep his
car on the track if one OF his tires
comes off or explodes.
These three elements are present even
if a man is alone on a track, as l was
when / placed the worlds track record
for the mile at AS 9-5 in my White rae
ing car. But when there are other
cars on the track new element Of
danger is added.
The dust, the fourth factor to be
considered, is the most dangerous OF
all. If there is a car ahead the driver
Is travelling through cloud OF dust
with only now and then a rift through
which he can see the fence to guide
him. I had been eneveloped IN DUST m
before. but always when danger i'm
pended 1 could catch glimpse OF the
fence at short intervals, take my pear
ings and steer my steamer accord
ingly.
AIT at Buffalo by some malevoence
of fate. when 1 trailed behind the other
cars (Which I had previously beaten
repeatedly) in order to make good
race, the dust did not lift. was speed
ing blindly along at at least seventy
five miles an hour, when suddenly the
fence loomed up Immediately in front
of me, just, so 1 imagine, as great
ocean steamship looms out OF the fog
to the fisherman directly in its path
and about to be crushed by 1t.
BY quick movement of the steering
wheel 1 cleared the fence with my front
wheels, but my back wheels skidded
into a post, taking off a fence rail-
which, hitting me on the back of the
head, put me out Of commission for
many a long and painful week.
Now / am back in harness again in
charge of the local branch of the White
company, enjoying practically my for
mer state of good health and spirits.
NV leg is still a little sore, but it is
only a question of time when 1t will
return absolutely to its normal condi-
tfon
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-11
TEN YARDS FOR THREE DOWNS
Football Reform Committee Makes
Many Changes and Suggestions
for Elevation of Sport
BY Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Feb. 10-Ten yards to
be gained in three downs was the
principal football reform tentatively
agreed upon at a meeting of the col
lege football rules committee in this
city today.
This rule, if finally adopted the foot
ball experts believe will do more than
anything else toward opening the game
The committee adjourned to meet
again Saturday, March 8, in this city.
In addition to agreeing upon the ten
yard rule, which exactly doubles the
distance to be gained in three downs
under the playing rules of the past
several years, the committee agreed
upon the following:
That every player on the kicking
side shall be on the side when the
kicked ball touches the ground,
That the question of affording proper
protection for the man catching the
ball be taken up and carefully defined
at the next meeting.
That one forward pass shall be al
lowed on a play, provided the ball
does not touch the ground before be-
ing touched by a player of either side.
Such a pass to be made by any man
who was behind the line of scrimmage
when the ball was put in play.
If the ball touches the ground be-
fore being touched by a player OF
either side, 1t shall go to the opponents
on the spot from which the pass was
made. The pass shall not be received
by q man who was on the line of
scrimmage when the ball was put in
play except for the two men playing
on the ends of the line when the ball
was put in play. A direct lop over the
line within the space of five yards on
each side of the center shall be un-
lawful.
The report of the subcommittee ap-
pointed to formulate suggestions rela-
tive to the formation of a permanent
board of officials was received, and it
was agreed to make 1t public with a
view to receiving suggestions from
persons interested in the game. every
member of the committee being asked
to invite criticism Of the plan.
The sub-committee's recommended
tions are that u central governing COM
mite of three or five be appointed as
a subcommittee of the intercollegiate
rules body, to constitute national
committee of officials.
In addition to this committee IL is
proposed that sectional committees of
three each be appointed to represent
the different sections Of the country.
A salaried secretary is proposed to
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-11

state funds placed at his disposal by
the Due de ChoiSeul, constructed a
steam gun carriage and the following
year he produced an improved auto
which is still preserved in Paris. The
machine had but three wheels, the
boiler overhanging in front on the the
ory that its weight would be counter
acted by the load on the carriage. The
engine was directly behind the boiler
and consisted of two thirteen-inch sim
gle-acting cylinders.
The movement of the piston was
transferred to the axle of the driving
wheel by two ratchet wheels. The en-
gine could be reversed at will. There
was steering gear, and the vehicle
proved its capacity for carrying load
of two and one-half tons at speed of
three miles an hour. Napoleon Bona
Darte caused the appointment of COM
mission of the institute to investigate
the invention, but the revolution sud-
denly put an effectual check on the
further development of the automobile.
1t is interesting to note that in the
matter of the production of a practical
automobile France led the world in the
eighteenth century, as she now leads
the world in the building Of racing ma
chimes of tremendous power.
The first American inventors to
tackle the steam propelled vehicle prob
lem were Oliver Evans of Maryland in
1887, and Nathaniel Read Of Massa-
chusetts in $780,
Richard Trevithick of England in
1902 patented a steam carriage that was
a distinct advance over previous ef-
forts.
By this time it came to be believed
that ordinary wheels We're insufficient
to secure traction, and mechanical legs
were devised as propellers. The Cor
don machine, patented in 1924, was a
six-legged affair, the pedals being op-
Grated by steam. Goldworthy Durney
about the same time produced a steam
carriage which used legs as auxiliaries.
The steam coach patented by Walter
Hancockw and named the Autopsy
was placed in commission, with four
others, between Stratford and Padding
ton in 1886 and did a lively passenger
business.
Recent Development
The more recent development of the
automobile is better known. In 1886
Charles %, Duryea conceived the no.
tion of propelling a carriage with a
gasoline engine, and two years later
partially produced a light buggy dirty
en- by a two-horsepower engine. His
first complete vehicle was brought out
in 1892. The three following years Mr..
Duryea spent in altering the defects of
his first machine, and in 1895 he sue
ceeded in bringing his automobile to
such point of practicability that he
Won the Times-Herald race with it.
The automobile built by Elwood
Haynes in 1898 was recently sent from
Kokomo Ind, to Washington, where
it was installed as an exhibit in the
Smithsonian institution. 1t is a four
horsepower machine capable of a speed
of twelve miles an hour on good roads
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-11
Shows Wonderful Development Since the Days of
Hazy Ideas When Wise Men Predicted
What Has Now Been Achieved

Early in the dawn of human intelli-
gence there came the dream of unre-
stricted Individual locomotion. 1t was
toward the end OF the thirteenth cen
turn, says r. II. Sloss in his Book of
the Automobile" that the learned
Franciscan friar, Roger Bacon, wrote:
1--WE will be able to propel carriages
with incredible speed without the as
sistance Of any animal" At the same
time he predicted the coming of the
steamship and the flying machine. The
scientific character of Bacon's imagina-
ton has been completely vindicated in
the ocean liners and the swift-fiying
automobiles and partially so in the
recent efforts of Santos-Dumont and
others.
The horseess carriage first took tam
gible form in the seventeenth century,
when Johann Haustach of Nuremberg
contrived a vehicle propelled by a huge
coiled spring, the action being on the
principle of cloclS-work. Haustach was
known as "a manufacturer of chariotS
going by spring and making 1000 PAGES
an hour" The spring was controlled
by lever in the hands of the chauffeur
and, in the absence of a steering de-
vice, the 'chariOt" could be propelled
only in q straight line, which would
have rendered its progress through the
loop district of Chicago somewhat diff
dcult, even at it's advertised rate of a
little more than a mile an hour. HauS-
tach seems to have paid more atten-
ton to the ornamentation of the body
Of his vehicle than to its propulsion.
Moved With Sails
About the same time probably the
general utilization of the winds of
heaven in the windmills of Holland
suggested the idea of "sail wagons"
used to some extent on the fiat plains
of that country. These were called
"seylende windwagen," and consisted
of the rigging of q ship attached to
wheeled platforms.
In 1914 u patent of Louis XIV grant
ed to "Jsan Theson the privilege of en-
ploying a little four wheel carriage set
in. motion without any horses, but
merely by two men seated" The sup
position, in the absence of detailed
drawings, is that the "men seated
propelled the vehicle by strenuous leg
work.
Sir Isaac Newton is said to have in
vented steam carriage, after others
had conceived the idea Of propelling
vehicles by steam power. The develop
ment along this line followed closely
that of the steam railroad. The latter,
however, appeared so much more feaS-
ible to the inventors that it was fol-
lowed and the steam carriage idea
thrown into the background. Newton's S
idea was not original fundamentally,
it is said, but copied after the original
steam engine of Hero of Alexandria,
who broke into the steam-engine busi-
ness about 200 B. C. Newton's model
was propelled by the reactionary force,
or kick, of a jet of steam escaping
from a nozzle in the rear.
In 1769ANicholas Joseph Cugnot, with
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-11

attend to the executive and the cler-
ical details of the committee. All
universities and colleges accepting the
provisions Of the rules committee prior
to the fall of 1906 are to submit lists
of all college men whom they consider
desirable and competent game Off
cials.
This list is to be carefully investi-
gated by the national and sectional
committees and a general official an
nouncement will be issued. containing
first a complete list of officials judged
competent by the central COMMITTEES
with appropriate addresses,
The various games scheduled during
the season are to be subdivided in order
of collegiate importance to determine
the remuneration of the officials. There
are to be four officials, the remuner-
alton, grading as follows: $780, $780, $25
and $40.
Colleges and universities will be re-
quired to select Officials from the list
agreed upon. Reports will be received
as to the class of work rendered by
the different officials and complete rec
ords kept.
Some changes in the rules agreed
uron at the last conference were made.
To prevent piling up, 1t was agreed
that the ball shall be considered dead
when any portion of the person of the
runner with the ball except his hands
or feet touches the ground in the grasp
OF an opponent.
Either captain may ask that time
be taken off three times during each
half without penalty. If, thereafter
either captain requests that a time be
called his side shall be penalized by a
less of two yards for each request,
unless the injured player be removed
from the game.