The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1911-04-28

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vHI VOtn huo ulBt8lgS ouu youI
rate Of speed may be vastly
ku increased. Clouds there sail
VIVA serenely against the wind.
0Y1n The Nhip-poor-will delivers
flllu its disconsolate cry with the
MNll|UlM notes exactly reversed from
those Of his northern broth
q. Given . drought. and . subsequent
lively rain, and 10! from . glazed and
stony soil will spring In . single night
blossomed lilies. miraculously fair.
Tom Green county was once the stand.
ard Of measurement have forgot
ten how many New Jerseys and Rhode
Islands II was that could have been
slowed away and lost In Its chaparrai.
But the legislative AZ has slashed Tom
Green into q handful Of counties hard.
ly larger than European kingdoms. The
legislature convenes At Austin. near
the center of the state: and. while the
representative from the Rio Grande
country ID gathering his palm-leaf fan
and his linen duster to set out for the
capital, the Panhandle solon winds his
muiIler above his well-buttoned over
coat and kicks the snow from his well
creased boots ready for the same jour.
ney. All this merely to hint that the
big ex-republic Of the southwest forms
. STABLE star on the nag. and to pre-
pare for the corollary that things
somstimes happen there uncut to pat
tern and unfettered BY metes and
bounds.
Tho commissioner Of insurance. sta
tistics and history OF the state OF
Texas was IN oficial Of no very great
o. very small Importance. The past
tense 10 used. for he 10 commissioners
Of insurance alone. Statistics and his
tory are NO longer proper nouns In the
government records.
In the year 1855 the governor ap-
pointed Luke Coonrod Standifcr to be
head Of this department. Standifer
vas then nfty-ave years Of age. and
Texan TO the core. His father had been
one Of the states earliest settlers aad
psonssrs. Standifsr himself had served
the commonvealth - Indian fighter.
solder. ranger and legislator. Much
leaning he did not claim. but he had
drank pretty deep Of the spring OF ex'
perience.
II other grounds were less abundant.
Texas should De wen UP IN .n. "''s W
glory - the srstetui !epuo"o
both ~ republic ana .'s'e" ~. 49,
ly heaped honors and solid rewards
upon 'ts sons VINO 'e"c"eo ~ "" Wv
wilderness.
Wherefore and thereIoee. luz
Coonrod Standifer. son OF ezra stsndr
fer. ex-Terry ranger, simon-pure Demo
crat. and lucky dweller In IN nnreprs
scented portion OF the politico-seoerspn-
ical map. was appointed commissioner
Of insurance. statistics ana history.
standifer accepted the honor WIN
some doubt - to tho nature OF the OF
nee ne was 20 MI eno me- csp,.v ~
nn"ns H-ou' ne sc.ep'. NJ ~..,.
he immediate'y se. on, I'0n IN. n's
country Uown wneN .'I's"'"
tsnd wss scaice'y m.sn.en ~,
somno'ent ana un.'u.u' ~%se
veyins ana map-or.w'ns. neio'e ~"
pafuns' ne n.d ,ooaeo w unde ."s
70. IS ana ne IN the ncy'opseu's
hr'..an'cs vas, ,n'oIm..,"n ..u r1p
grafton toward ms omc'.' d"''e' '""'
those we'snty volumes ano'ded'
A few weeks Of incumbency dimin.
ishsd the new commissioners ave Of
the great and important once he had
besn called upon to conduct. An IN
creasing familiarity With It's workings
soon restored him to his accustomed
placid course Of life. In his once Was
an old. spsctacled cierk-a consecra.
ted. informed. able machine. who held
his desk regardless Of changes OF Id
ministrative heads. Old Kaufman In
structed his new chief gradually In the
knowledge Of the department without
seeming to do 20. and kept tho wheels
revolving without the slip Of cog.
Indeed, the department Of insurance.
statistics and history carried no great