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GIRL SEES BROTHER UNOWNED.
MEXIA WEEKLY
TYPHOID FEVER DISCUSSED.
Why May It
Not Yet Be
Possible ?
N. P. HOUX. Publisher
the Moon
SIXTEEN COUNTRIES HAVE REP
RESENTATIVES PRESENT.
MEXIA,
1'EXAS
Cuton bu fewer than 500 foreign
realdenta.
By PBOF. ERNEST GREEN DODGE. A. M.
King of England Delivers an Address
in Which He Expresses Gratifl
cation.—Queen Pleased.
lis Mid this will be a record year
for mosquitoes In Jersey. In other
words, It's to be a hummer.
Thank heaven, our presidential cam-
have never been complicated
by s poem from the mill of Alfred
Austin.
A Philadelphia girl bought 32 shirt-
waists at one time. And then people
talk about the women going daffy over
the dlrectctre gown.
In the French schools In Algiers
and Tunis the Arabic boys sit with
the French in school, but out of school
they do not mix much.
Again the experts are pointing to
the dangers that lurk in the ice cream
dish, but we are raising a generation
of courageous young women.
An old-fashioned plow on tbe side-
walk in front of a store in Dey street,
New York attracted a crowd. One
man asked how it was used.
The fact that Castro's pictures make
him look a little like John Philip
Sousa does not endear him to Wash-
ington as much as might be expected.
Every now and then the conscience
fund gets a contribution so large as
to suggest vast damage done to the
treasury by people who fail to repent.
A Jeweler says that skyscrapers are
bad on watches. One cannot safely
drop one, we know from experience,
from any height above the twelfth
floor.
Sign on a window of a New York
East side bakery: "Look Out for the
Dog." Underneath, which a wag i succeeds in reaching it ?"
wrote in chalk: "And Don't Get the
Rabbis."
AN men visit the moon?
In any age but the present this question, if seriously
asked, would have been answered by a chorus of jeers. So
far beyond the pale of possibilities has the visiting of other
worlds always appeared that writers of fiction have felt free to
treat the idea sportively, describing thrilling journeys through
space in impossible vehicles.
Nevertheless the thought of exploring distant planets,
pausing en route to view the further side of the moon, so tan-
talizingly turned from us, is one that fires the human imagina-
nation most profoundly. The worst that can be said is that it now looks
as difficult to us as the crossing of the great Atlantic must once have ap-
peared to the naked savage upon its shore. The impossibility of the sav-
age became the triumph of Columbus, and the day drcain of the nineteenth
century may become the achievement even of the twentieth.
A body on the earth's equator is traveling with the earth's rotation at
a speed of more than a thousand miles an hour. If relieved of gravity it
would not fly suddenly off, like a cannon ball, and disappear into space.
For several seconds its rise from the surface of the earth would be so
slow as to be practically imperceptible, owing to the small difference be-
tween a straight tangent line and the earth's slow curvature. Gradually,
however, its apparent upward velocity would increase, so as to lift it some
65 yards the first minute, and more than a hundred miles the first hour.
It would travel 239,000 miles, the distance between the earth and the
moon, in ten days; and if suitably exposed to the earth's attraction, acting
as a brake, while screened from that of the moon, its landing could be
made gentle and safe. Strangely enough, the unturning attitude of (he
lunar surface in relation to the earth makes the return voyage absolutely
impossible save by a tedious roundabout journey of many months, involv-
ing the circumnavigation of Mars.
The query may now arise: "What is the moon good for, even if man
A university professor says that he
has demonstrated that women have
two souls. But he has not under-
taken to find out how many minds one
of them has.
One of the rarest specimens In the
the world of the zebra has been re- I
reived at the New Ycrk zoological
garden—rarer even than predatory
wealth in stripes.
The Chicago court who broke a
woman's fast by compelling her to
take food is (he first court to go on
record as standing for the square meal
aB the square deal.
We know it to be a barren, rocky world, without air or moisture, un-
speakably cold at night, and below the freezing point even at noon. How-
ever, men could abide there for a time in thick-walled, air-tight houses,
and could walk out of doors in air-tight divers' suits. Scientists would
find in the lunar wastes a fresh field for exploration. Astronomers could
plant their telescopes there, free from their most serious hindrance, (lie
earth's atmosphere. Tourists of the wealthy and adventurous class would
not fail to visit the satellite, and costly hotels must be maintained for
their accommodation. Then it is quite probably that veins of precious
metals, beds of diamonds and an abundance of sulphur might be dis-
covered on a world of so highly volcanic a character.
London, July 28.—The seventeenth
universal peace conference organized
by Society of Friends, assembled at
Canton Hall here today. Over 100 so-
cieties in sixteen countries are in at-
tedance.
Edwin M. Mead and Benjamin r\
Trueblood were prominent among the
American delegation.
The Bishop of Carlisle, president of
the congress, in his speech, said:
"Nothing has impeded national pros-
perity so much as partisan strife and
blind antagonism."
King Edward and Queen Alexandria
received the delegates at Buclilnbham
palace at noon. The delegation pre-
sented an address to which the king
replied as follows:
"It gives me great pleasure to wel-
come you, the representatives of the
universal congress of peace, and re-
ceive your address. There is nothing
from which I derive more sincere grat-
ification than from the knowledge that
my efforts in the causeof international
peace and good will havenot been with
out fruit, and a consciousness of the
generous appreciation both from my
people and from those of other coun-
tries.
"Rules of states can set before them-
selves no higher aim than the promo-
tion of international good understandi
ing and cordial friendship among the
nations of the world. Itis the sluirest
and most direct means by which hu-
manity may be enabled to realize its
noblest ideal, and to its attainment will
ever be my constant endeavors. 1 re-
joice to think that your international
organization, in which are represented
all the principal civilized countries of
the world, is laboring in the same field,
and pray that the blessing of God may
attend your labors."
The delegates afterward were intro
Twelve Miles Separated Brother and
Sister at the Time.
St. Louis, Mo., July 27.—While her
twin brother, Fred, was being sucked
to death in the quicksands of Long
Lake, uear Mitchell, ill., yesterday.
Merle Huber, 17 years old, who was
twelve miles awuy in Granite City, at
home alc-re, shrieked and fell to the
front porch in a faint. Neighbors ran
to her ass', ;tance and revived her.
"Fred is dying. I can hear him calling
to me. He is drowning. Let me go
to him," moaned the girl. Merle made
frantic efforts to leave the house, but
was held back by friends, who assurea
her that Fred was all right. Five min-
utes later a message came from
Mitchell that Fred Huber had been
drowned. When the news reached
his sister she again fainted, and up
to late last night was in a critical con-
dition. An hour later the boy's body
was taken from the lake. A rope was
tied about his shoulders and he was
dragged out of th« sands. It required
five men to extricate him. A compari-
son of time showed that the girl had
fallen Into the faint at the exact mo-
nien when Fred became entangled in
the quicksands.
The foregoing may seem filled with "the stuff that dreams are made I duced to the king and queen, both of
Hetty Green has quit her expensive
apartments. Probably she . thought
she didn't care to buy the hotel once
a week if she couldn't own it and col
lect rent after paying for it.
The Moscow municipal council has
decided to celebrate Tolstoi's eightieth
birthday by opening a public library
and giving the count's name to the
school he attended in his youth.
of," yet most of the assertions are based on the hard facts of mathematics
and physics. History is not always particular to follow (he precise path
laid out for it by prophets, yet in the long run it never fails to achieve
larger things than the seer dared to predict.
Is it too much to suppose that after visiting the Queen of Night, our
only near neighbor, pioneers will try the long voyage to Venus, Mars and
other planets of our system, finding some of them even more interesting,
more inviting and more use hi 1 to man than the pale moon, which lirsi
tempted him to try his wings in outer space?
Don't feel discouraged if none of the
colleges has added any capital let-
ters to your name during this com-
mencement season. Next year (hey !
may remedy the unaccountable omis- ;
slon.
Prince Helie is not to have control
over the estate of his wife, but then,
with the pull he has at headquarters,
he ought to do fairly well as a chair-
man of the advisory committee on
finances.
"Wpll done, Johnnie! My best
wishes and good luck to you," ex-
claimed King Edward to his equerry |
after the wedding. That's consider- j
ably more genial and jovial than the |
customary stiff royal nod.
The
New
Edu-
cation
By PHILIP DAVIS,
Director ol Newsboys of Civic Service
House, boston.
The ultimate value of playgrounds in
our large cities depends entirely upon the I
ultimate kind of playgrounds, playfellows
and plays, upon tlie synthesis of the three
l"s, in short. This new trinity in education
is certainly full of promise; but its glorious
future may not be as easily divined as its
humble past. And since, as Patrick Henry
tells us, there's no better way of judging of
the future than by the past, let us lift its
veil for an instant.
whom shook hands with each delesate
and spoke a few words, evidencing the
keenest personal interest taken by
their majesties in the work of the
congress.
Business Awakening.
St. Louis, Mo.: Yellow pine lumber
dealers report that about S5 per cent of
the mills in Louisiana. Mississippi, Ala-
bama, Arkansas and Texas are now in
operation, that tlie probability is that
the percentage will be increased stead
| ily henceforth. Coal operators state
that about 85 per cent of the mining
forces of Illinois, Kentucky and Tenn-
essee are at work and that the output
will be up to the normal within twenty
or thirty days. The reopening of saw-
mills and coal mines meanes the re-
employment of many thousands of
workmen.
China to Entertain Fleet.
Peking: The Chinese gove. nnient is
completing preparations for tbe enter-
tainment of the officers and crew of
Anarchy is a mark of disease in the
view of a Memphis physician. He
finds anarchistic ideas conclusive evi-
dence of insanity, and would commit
all anarchists as dangerous lunatics,
thus making them harmless.
"Everything is charming, and f find
the American men and women very
lovely," says an Englishwoman who
is at present visiting America. The
lady's use of adjectives indicates that
English and American femininity are
delightfully alike.
President Woodrow Wilson of
Princeton declared in his baccalau-
reate address this year that the great
need of the country Is men with
"moral initiative." We thought one of
the troubles of the country Is its ex-
cessive supply of men who initiate
new and wondrous Ideas in morals.
It is understood that, the college
All forms of modern education, of which
health education, the supreme mission of the j fleet of American battleships at Amoy
where the visiting men-of-war are due
to arrive in the latter part of October.
The sum of 400,000 taels appro-
priated by the Chinese for the purpose
of entertainment will be augmented by
another 100,000 taels.
playground, is the latest and most signifi-
a child of the renaissance) of the three B's, i. e., t,he bare bringing togeth-
er of the boy, the book and the bench. The book, as the embodiment of
^ the Word, was the central issue in an age when mankind suddenly awoke
I to the realization that through the sleep of centuries it had almost lost
memory of its rich legacy—the wisdom of antiquity. Then came com-
merce with its growing demands upon education. To reading was added
writing and arithmetic, and so gradually the three B's gave way to the
familiar three It's.
Then came industry with its demands. Production and distribution
merged into one. Hand and head were harnessed together. To reading,
writing and arithmetic were added sloyd, manual training and drawing.
The heart, too, pressed forward its claims. Accordingly music was added,
and other culture studies, and so gradually a new trinity was proclaimed,
the three It's, which stands to-day for the harmonious working of head,
hand and heart.
Note, then, how each step in educational history led to the next. What
will the three P's ultimately lead to? No one can tell. This much is cer-
tain, the playground will prove the alemic in the history of education.
It will become incumbent upon the play-teacher to actively engage
its head, and and heart—and not being fettered by the rules and routine
and university tailenders will supple- of the classroom, it may be that inspiration will come to him which will
eventually lead up to a reconstruction of the entire educational program—
based not on traditions but on the child's true impulses and activities. Is
it too much to hope that this will prove the ultimate value of the play-
ment Prof. Lowell's investigation of
the relations of high scholarship and
success In life with some conspicuous
Illustrations of their own triumphs
over difficulties. Their contention In j p.™,,,,,] 'j
their own behalf will be based on the °
Emersonian proposition that univer-
sity rank Is likely to be inverted In
20 years.
The automobile is growing In favor
here and abroad. But the horse ;s not
entirely supplanted. In some respects
he Is more popular than ever. As an
indication of this may be cited the na-
tional exhibit now held under the su-
pervision of the French govern-
ment, at which animals have been
purchased for Americans at prices
ranging from $4,000 to $5,000. The
horses, which are Percherons, used for
draft purposes, wiil be sent to this
country with a view to improving- the
aatlve stock. There are many uses to
which eauines can b« put profitably.
Texas Not in Bad Shape.
Austin: The present fiscal year, as
far as the state government is con-
cerned, ends on August 31, 1&08, and
with the beginning of the new year
all appropriations made by the 30th
legislature for the second of the two
years, will become available Deficien-
cies were created by several of the de-
partments and state institutions to tide
over the time until the new fiscal
year rolls around. The state treasury
will not find itself in a bad shape, so
to speak, at the end of this fiscal year.
Betting on Elections.
Waco: It was with alarm that some
persons viewed the amount of betting
on the election just held, bets being
large and small and posted by men,
young men and boys. Even some offi-
cers are alleged t o'nave indulged opt n-
ly in the practice. As this is unlaw-
ful, and it is held by many that undue
influences are usually brought to bear
by the betters, the practice is regarded
by the far seeing as dangerous in the
J. W. REESE EXPIRES.
Dies Sixty-Five Hours After Shooting
at Comanche.
Comanche, Tex., July 27.—Hon. J.
W. Reese, who was shot on the street
here last Thursday, died at his home
in Comanche this morning about 4
o'clock, sixty-five hours after he re-
ceived the fatal wound. Deceased
was 40 years old and is survived by
his widow and six children and an
only brother, George Ileese, of Por-
(ales, N. M„ who reached here Friday
Four years ago he was elected district
clerk and re-elected to tlie same po-
sition two years ago, which position
he was holding at the time of his
death. He was a candidate for the
Democratic nomination for representa-
tive from this county in the election
held Saturda.
Record for June Show* 235 Deatha in
Texas from Faver.
Austin, Tex., July 25.—The June
bulletin of the department of public
health and vital statistics, which was
issued yesterday, deals at some length'
with the prevalence, likewise the pre-'
vention, of typhoid fever. Protection
for the sourceB of the water supply,
especiallly in the western sections of
the State, to which emigration has
lately been diverted, is now holding
the attention of the State health of-
ficers. Over a period of the last five
months of this year there have been
a total of 235 deaths, all over the State
from typhoid.
"In every instance where the pres-
ence of typhoid is suspected," sayB
the bulletin, "the health officer should
Instruct the public t« boil all drinking
water, for this is the chief source of
Infection. Flies and raw foods are
another source of danger, and the pre-
caution of screening against the flies
and cooking of all raw foods, as vege-
tables, should be taken by every one
living in the infected locality."
During June the total number of
deaths reported to the department is
1,728, as compared with 4,538 births.
It is notable that the greater number
of deaths for the month were persons
above the age of 60, while the age in
which the next greater number of
deaths occurred is under 1 year.
The table of ages shows deaths for
the month as follows: 'From 1 to 5,
16S; from 5 to 10, 62; from 10 to 20,
102; from 20 to 30, 1C3; from 30 to 40,
132; from 40 to 50, 122; from 50 to 60,
153; ages not given, 134. Of the 4,538
births, 2,283 were females and 2,255
males; 42,226 whites, 312 blacks; still-
born, 161.
TWENTY FIVE ARE DROWNED.
Bitten by Mad Dog.
Texarkana: Norman B. Diinnam, a
salesman at the Hoffman Hardware
Company's store was bitten by a mad J
dog while coming down town Satur- j
day. The dog, which weighed about I
75 pounds, nttacked him unexpectedly
while it was being pursued by a crowd
of men and boys. Mr. Dunnam kicked
the dog away, but it returned to the
attack and sank its teenth into the
calf of his leg. The wound was cau-
terized by a physician a few minutes
later and Mr. Dunnam left on a train
Sunday afternoon for the Pnsteur In-
stitute at Austin.
The Hudson Lands Big Snake.
New York: With the largest snake
ever brought to the United States, the
Hudson anchored off of Stapleton yes-
terday. His snakeship, taken on at
Singapore by aptain C. B. Fenton,
commander of the Hudson, is thirty
feet, three inches long, and weighs
312 pounds. Captain Fenton would not
say whether the snake, which is a
magnificent specimen of the Indian
python, was for the Bronx Zoo Garden,
but a story months ago of the snake's
coming, said that it was to increase
the collection there.
Italian Workmen are Caught by Water
From Unknown Lake.
Berne, Switzerland, June 25.—A
frightful accident occurred early this
morning in Loetchberg tunnel in the
Bernese Alps, which resulted in the
deaths of twenty-five workmen. The
men were drilling inside the tunnel.
Without warning the tools pierced the
wall that separated them from a sub-
terranean river or lake, the existence
of which was not known. The wall
gave way with a crash and a torrent
of water and mud rushed into tunnel
and filed it. All the workmen were
drowned. They were Italians.
Cadets May Be Retained.
Washington: Honesty and frank-
ness on the part of eight cadets sus-
pended from the military academy at
West Point disarmed the severity of
Secretary of War Luke Wright and
there is hope for their retention in the
service. All have been found guilty
of hazing by a board of officers and
their dismissal recommended to the
Secretary. They came to Washington
this morning and secured a hearing.
W'hen they had finished Secretary
Wright had more information than the
board of officers were able to secure,
and the eight wanted to stay in the
army worse than they did the first
day they donned the uniform.
In a desperate bat tie between Mex-
ican troops and Papago Indians last
Tuesday at the Imacu'ada ranch near
Cetro, Mexico, a mining camp in the
Altar district of Sonora. nineteen In-
dians and two soldiers were killed and
five soldiers wounded.
If they can only keep the children off the street and keep thein
actively engaged in healthy play the future will take care of itself and
the juvenile court may eventually go out of business. For after till, many I extreme. The matter has occasioned
boys' misdemeanors are the consequences of a cramped city life which
works against the boy nature.
Boys are on the street because they have neither field nor yard to
play on. Boys roam over the city dumps because there are no other open
spaces. Boys ride on ears because there are no hayracks to ride on. Boys
pitch pennies because they are not allowed to pitch Vail. Boys shoot craps
because they can't shoot with or at anything else. These and similar mis-
demeanors will disappear in proportion to the playgrounds which will be
opened up every year. Ifer^in, I take it,
lies the playground's highest ralne, im- *
mediate or ultimate.
good deal of comment.
Reports Crop Prospects Good.
Austin: Col. K. T. Miller, commis-
sioner of agriculture, has returned
from a tour of East Texas and other
section® of the cotton belt of the state,
and said that the prospects for one
of the largest crops In the history of
the state ait most favorable. He de
clared that If favorable weather pre-
vails for the next twenty days, the In-
creaae in the crop over the last three
or four years will be marketed. The In-
dlcatlona are 3,000,000 balea.
Fatal Wreck on Frisco.
Paris: Frisco passenger train No. 0
northbound, which left here at 12:40
o'clock Sunday afternoon was wreck-
ed four miles north of Hugo, Okla.
The engine, mall, baggage and ex-
press cars and the smoker went into
the ditch and the chair car was par-
tially derailed. Engineer Mike Hlckey
and E. P. Clark, t.he baggageman, were
killed and A. Cole and C. A. Miller,
(he postal clerks, were slightly In-
jured. A brakeman, said to be from
Rogers, Ark., who was riding next to
(he engine, had both legs cut off.
Reward of Heroism.
Temple: As a testimonial of appre-
ciation for his services in saving the
lives of a train crew and a freight
train near Betton several months ago
the Santa Fe Railroad Company has
presented Arthur Mtillins, a young
man living near this city, with a costly
gold watch of the finest movement,
suitably inscribed with the recipent's
name and a brief record of the inci-
dent which prompted the gift.
Bombay Strike Riots.
Bombay: Twenty thousand hands, who
went on strike Thursday started a riot
Friday morning and a detachment of
British infantry was called out to put
down the disorder. It was found nec-
essary to fire and as a result one na-
tive was killed and six wounded. Sev-
eral members of the European and
native police forces sustained injuries.
The rioters were quelled for the mo-
ment and dispersed.
Packers Fight Increase.
Fort Worth: Fort Worth packing
houses are joining in the campaign to
prevent all Mexican railroads from
discriminating against Fort Worth.
Word was received Friday from Traf-
fic Manager Mille of Swift & Co. from
Mexico, that he was protesting vigor-
! ously before the government officials
against the heavy freight rate increase
which has just been declared not only
| against Fort Worth but all Texas
i cities.
Fata! Shooting near Houston.
Houston: N. J. Bonner, owner and
driver of a hack at LaPorte, was shot
and killed at the East Railway Depot
at that place Sunday morning and J.
L. Mitchell, Jeweler of Houston, has
been arrested and taken in custody by
the shell. The shooting threw the
little bay shore town In a fever of ex-
citement and the prisoner was hast-
ened to Morgan's Point, where a
launch was secured and the party
cam* to this city.
Constable Conger Dead.
Waxahachie: Constable Tom Con-
ger, who was murderously assaulted
by Nelse Golden, colored, on the morn-
ing of July 0, died Friday at Red Oak.
Officer Conger was shot twice while
attempting to arrest Golden, one shot
passing through his body. He made
fair progress toward recovery for
awhile, but a few days ago his con-
dition changed for the worse. His suf-
fering for the last two or three days
was intense.
Fort Worth Woman Shot.
Fort Worth: Miss Lulu Beaty, 23
years of age, was accidentally shot
Friday afternoon by dropping a pistol
on a table. The bullet took effect In
the abdomen. The accident occurred
in the home of Mrs. J. E. Wilson,
North Fort Worth, where MIbs Beaty
has been stopping for about a month.
Her parents, who formerly resided
here, now live In Waco. The wounded
women wa taken to St. Joseph'a in-
firmary,
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