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THE WEEK'S EPITOME
A RESUME OF THE MOST IMPOR
TANT NEWS AT HOME AND
ABROAD.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE
A Carefully Digested and Condensed
Compilation of Current News
Domestic and Foreign.
The Texas and Pacific railroad will
begin replacing the Lake Ever man
dam tha5 was washed away about ten
days ago at Big Sandy.
Jessie Cadell, the 14-year-old son of
Mr. Cadell of Sparks, died Thursday
from tho effect of gunshot wounds in-
flicted yesterday evening.
Carl, the 7-year-old son of George
Hamlin of Palmer fell from a barn
loft and fractured his skull. He is
in a precarious condition.
Near Birmingham, Ala., Wednesday,
a clash occurred between negro minors
and officers, in which one negro was
killed and two deputies were wound-
Drinking, even out of one's own
flask on railroad passenger trains in
Louisianan constitutes a misdemeanor
punishable by tine or imprisonment or
both.
As a result of an automobile being
struck by a passenger train, at Col-
umbia City, Ind., Monday, six persons,
riding in the auto, were instantly
killed.
J. W. Wade of Paris, Texas, was se-
riously injured Wednesday and an au-
tomobile belonging to E. F. Judkins,
president of the Judkins Company in
Chicago.
The action of the Hock Island lines
in declaring in favor of merchants"
rate® in the North below the 2c basis
has aroused interest among passenger
men everywhere.
Jacques de Ville, an aged French-
man, residing near Buffalo Gap, Sun-
day poured kerosene oil over himself
and set the oil on fire, which re
suited in his death.
Ancient cannon, used in the defense
of the Alamo have been unearthed at
San Antonio and will probably be pre-
sented to the state to be mounted in
their original position.
Near Paris, Saturday, a Frisco rzz-
senger train ran over a cow and as a
result Engineer Clark has a broken
leg and many other cuts and bruises
about the face and body.
Miss Elizabeth Spingler Van Beuren,
great-granddaughter of Henry Sping-
ler in his time one of the wealthiest
men of New York, died Friday in the
old Spingler homestead.
Farmers residing in the Piedmont
neighborhood, midway between El
Reno and Guthrie, Okla., report eath-
quake vibrations Tuesday morning,
continuing several seconds.
While dispondent on account of fi-
nancial reverses, W. A. Williams of
Chicago shot and killed himself Fri-
day night in a saloon next door to the
place where he had lost his money.
As a result of an attack on cars
bearing nonunion workmen, by the
striking miners of Alabama, Saturday,
at Birmingham, one officer was fatally
wounded and a dozen other persons
seriously injured.
The Gans-Nelson fight scheduled for
Labor Day at Ely, Nevada, has been
called off by the promoter, "Tex"
Rickard. He says that he is unable to
make satisfactory arrangements with
the railroads from Utah and Clifornia
points.
It is reported that unless the con-
cerns engaged in thrashing grain in
Oklahoma reduce thoir price, which is
ten cents per bushel, the farmer fur-
nishing everything, the old fashioner*
flail will be resorted to by the farmers
of that state.
Judge Peter S. Grosscup of Chicago
one of the three judges who reversed
the action of Judge Yandis in finding
the Standard Oil Company $29,400,000,
Friday declared at the Waldorf-As-
toria that the decision of the Circuit
Court of Appeals was practically final.
Baron Karoly Tomasomawzky de Fe-
renoczy, widely known in Europe and
this country as a maker of violins and
credited by experts with having redis-
covered the cremonez varnisV, is dead
at Far Rockaway from diabetis.
At Chicago, Tuesday, in a head-on
collision between two Aurora, Elgin
and Chicago electric cars, forty per-
sons were injured, some so seriously
that they had to be taken to the hos-
pital. The coaches were going at a
rapid speed when the accident oc-
curred.
The Oklahoma militia boys will soon
be re-equipped with the latest model
of Springfield rifles. The old Krags
are being packed up and will be
shipped to the arsenal at Rock Island,
111.
According to the statement of E. C.
Simmons, chairman of the National
Prosperity Association, between 17,-
000 and 20,000 men made idle last
October have been put back to work
in various manufacturing plants in
and around 9t. Louis since January
A typhoon struck Hong Kong short-
ly before 12 o'clock Monday night,
causing unusually high seas to run.
News has been received of the kill-
ing of tho famous bandit, Cenobin
Rodriquez, in Mexico, by govcrnmen
troops.
An unknown mexican was killed by
the midnight Houston and Texas Cen-
tral train near Metzger's dairy, Dallas,
Tuesday.
At Longview Thursday Miss Jennie
Guy, 14 years old, killed herself by
taking poison. She was a halfsis-
ter of Will Heinman, who recently
killed his wife and himself at Mar-
shall.
The report comes from Brownwood
that more gold has been discovered
at that place while digging for oil
This time the precious metal was
struck at a depth of 23 feet and is
said to be very rich.
Another great artesian well, the
second in a week, has been brought
in at San Antonio. The present well
is located on the property of the San
Antonio waterworks and will flow
3,500,000 gallons a day.
August Eberhardt, the nephew of
Mrs. Otillie Eberhardt, tho woman
who was recently found murdered in
Hackeusack, N. J„ and who escaped
at the time, has been captured and
is in the custody of the officer^.
Early Sunday morning 200 feet ot
the San Joaquin river levee at An
tioch, Call., gave way, and Jersey Is-
land, comprising 4000 !* res, including
300 acres of celery, was flooded. The
j property loss is estimated at $3,000,-
j 000.
At Philadelphia Friday the camp
; of the National Guard was struck by
! a heavy rain and thunder storm, dur-
| ing which lightning killed three pri-
! vate soldiers and a number of per-
i
j sons, Including Governor Stuart, were
] severely shocked.
i It is reported that the people who
live in the flooded district of Louis-
iana, along the Red river, are in des
| titute circumstances, many eating
j raw corn, weeds and anything that
will furnioslv the least particle of
j nourishment.
E. W. Parr of Abilene died Monday
I morning at a local sanitarium in Dal-
las. He was found on the streets in a
dazed condition one day last week
and was conveyed to the hospital.
| Lingering in unconsciousness, he sank
steadily until he died.
Attacked Monday night by a strange
j white man whom they met on Ervay
street in Dallas Harry Dade received
a severe wound in the bicpes of the
right arm, and Miss Amanda Peter-
! son, his companion, was stabbed
deeply in the back. The weapon used
was an ice pick.
Walter Goodwin of Trigg County,
! Ivy., who gave away the alleged secret
of night riders at a recent term of
court, was fired upon and wounded
j in the jaw by unknown persons Mon-
day night as he was returning from
spending the evening with a neighbor.
Louis Prussing, the 13-year-old
daughter of a well-known Chicago law-
; yer, who so mysteriously disappeared
j a few days ago, was found Thursday
j in an unconscious condition in a clump
i of bushes in Lincoln Park, that city.
New York's new crusade against
unnecessary noises is on in earnest
under Police Commissioner Bingham,
and Sunday although Sunday is a day
off for street hawkers, several arrests
were made.
While watching a game of baseball
Dallas, July 28.—Attorney General
Davidson's majority will probably not
exceed 20,000 votes. The returns print-
ed this morning give him a lead of
14,219. These returns account for a
vote of more than 200,000. If the to-
tal vote should turn out to be 300,-
000, as has been estimated from the
beginning, then the Attorney General's
majority may exceed 20,000, but if the
total vote should be under that figure,
likewise his majority will probably be
proportionately less.
These figures result not only from
additional returns received last night
but from a careful revision of returns
previously published, as well as a re-
addition of its figures to correst any
errors which might haVe crept into its
first calculations. It will be seen,
therefore, that the figures printed this
morning are entitled to a high degree
of credit.
The account of the votes cast in the
contests for Superintendent of Public
Instruction. Land Commissioner, Court
of Criminal Appeals and for Governor
has been dropped. As for the govern-
norship, it is of course, only a ques-
tion of majority and will of necessity
wait until completed county returns
are available to make this calculation.
As to the other contests it is indis-
putable that Robinson has been noir.i-
nated for Land Commissioner, Cous-
ins for Superintendent of Public In-
struction and Davidson for Judge of
the Court of Criminal Appeals. As to
the race for comptroller the account
has been kept until now, but it is evi-
dent that there will be no longer any
necessity for doing so, as Mr. Steph-
ens has gained a lead of over 10,000
votes over Barker, which seems to
make it certain that he has been re-
nominated.
The additional returns printed this
morning,c cas well as the revision tco
which previous figures were subjected,
has added somewhat to the majority
against the proposition to submit a
prohibition movement. It may be that
returns yet to be received will change
tho complexion of the contest, but
] those now in hand indicate rather
| strongly that the antis have won a
\ victory. A number of correspondents
I report having had trouble in getting
returns. Many judges seem to have
locked them up in the boxes, and
where this has been done it will be
necessary to wait until Saturday. This
applies especially to the returns on
the submission proposition. A notably
large number of the reports last night
| gave the figures for all other contests
except this one, which accounts for
i between Chicago and New York, from : t'1R fact; returns in the Attorney
DAVIDSON'S MAJORITY
MAY REACH TO 20.000
Probably 200,000 Votes Are Accounted for and
the Indications Are that Campbell's
Majority Will Reach 75,000
SUBMISSION PROPOSITION HAS BEEN DEFEATED
To Determine a Numbe-r of Contests It Will Undoubtedly Require a Full
Count of the Votes —Indifference Shown ns to Local Option-
Count Is Slow Judges Refuse to WorK On Sunday
the roof of a three-storv building, in
Chicago, Monday, Willie Hudson, 14-
years-old, fell to the ground, receiving
serious injuries.
The 3000 Woodmen of McLennan
1 county have decided to have a big log
rolling September 8 at Waco, last-
ing two days.
At West Point eight cadets in the
United States military academy were
Tuesday sent to their homes as a re-
sult of hazing members of the fourth
class.
The body of Alex T. Posey, the fa-
mous Creek writer, who drowned in
the overflow waters of the North Ca-
nadian rived near Eufaula, Okla., on
May 27, was found in a drift Monday.
A great excitemcent was created at
Galveston Saturday when a monster
devil fish come within ten feet of the
bathers In the gulf. He was killed and
weighed 1800 pounds.
At Waxahachie Saturday triplets,
two boys and a girl, were born to Mr.
and Mrs. W. E. Brown.
Eugene William Swindells, a well-
known traveling man formerely of
Texas died at I o'clock Monday af-
ternoon in Chicago. He had been ill
In that city for about four months.
The body will be interred in Dallas.
The school board of Fort Worth is
advertising for bids for the construc-
tion of an eight-room upto-date school
house. This is the first of the series
of new buildings to be erected.
Fire of unVnown origin at 11 a. m.
Wednesday almost wiped out the lit-
t'o town of H'gh Banks, Falls Coun-
ty, thirty mt'e? north of Valley Junc-
tion.
Chas. H. Rogers nnd Angelo Laud-
iero were electrocuted at Sing Sing
prison Monday. Two contacts were
given In each case.
| Generals race total very much more
' than those for the submission contest.
The congressional contests are all
decided except that in the Second dis
trict between Mr. Cooper, the incuru-
| bent, and Mr. Dies. The count shows
9,928 for Cooper and 8.486 for Dies
This would seem to show that Mr
'Cooper has been renominated, but
dispatches from Beaumont say that
still fuller returnsj got there give
Cooper a lead of only 300, with Pa-
nola county to yet hear from. It is
conceded that Panola County Is fav-
orably disposed to Dies. Therefore the
| result of this contest will depend on
what Panola County has done for Dies.
As yet no full returns can be got
from that county.
These are the totals in these con-
tests, of which account has been kept:
For Attorney General — Davidson
111,927, Wynne 97,708.
For Controller—Barker 40,240, Steph-
ens 50,044.
For Submission 71.035, against 79,031.
There has been received no addi-
tional returns last night from the
contest between Randell and Barrett
in the fourth Congressional District.
The result there seems to be regarded
To Make Rome a Seaport.
Rome a seaport! This Ideal which
has been long under discussion, Is, ac-
cording to a British consul's report,
about to be realized. Several schemes
have been brought forward, Including
one for a ship canal something like
that which has opened Manchester to
the Bea. The royal commission ap-
pointed to study the question has,
however, adopted the project proposed
by the Italian board of works, which
la to dredge the Tiber sujflciently to
•Uow ordinary ateameri approach
as having been settled, as in fact was
indicated by returns yesterday morn-
ing, which showed Mr. Randell to have
a substantial majority.
Campbell has won the nomination
for Governor: A. B. Davidson for j
Lieutenant Governor; R. V. Davidson i
for Attorney General; W. L. Davidson j
for Appellate Judge; O. B. Colquitt for !
Railroad Commissioner; J. T. Robison
for Land Commissioner, and R. B. ;
Cousins for Superintendent of Public j
Instruction.
The race for Comptroller is very
close, Messrs. Bob Barker and John
| W. Stephens leading, and it may re-
! quire the official count to determine
| the final result.
The returns so far received show
j that Attorney General Davidson has
| carried Dallas, Van Zandt, Coryell,
Smith, Travis, Galveston, Lamar,
Starr, Hidalgo, San Saba, Jefferson,
Wilson, Harris and Bexar Counties
certainly, and, probably, in addition,
Uvalde, Polk, Taylor, Anderson, Colo-
rado, Navarro, Eastland and Val
Verde. The counties which Col.
Wynne seems to have carried beyond
doubt a.re Tarrant, Kaufman, Mon-
tague, Duval, Rusk and Nacogdoches,
and the probalities are that he also
carried Madison, Grimes, Brazoria,
Cass and Bowie.
The most surprising and perhaps
the most notable feature of the re-
turns is that they show a slight
majority against the proposition to
submit a prohibition amendment. The
exact figures are: For submission,
58,290; against, t>0,020. it will un-
doubtedly require very nearly com-
plete returns to make it certain what
has been the outcome of this conteset.
Davidson has about 19.000 more
than Lattimore in the race for Judge
of the Court of Criminal Appeals.
These returns indicate that Steph-
ens for Controller, Robison for Land
Commissioner, Cousins for Superin-
j tendent of Public Instruction and Da-
| vidson for Judge of the Court of
Criminal Appeals have been nomi-
nated. In fact. It may be regarded as
almost a certainty with respect to ail
of them except Stephens.
For Judge of the Court of Criminal
Appeals in the Second, for the one
place that was the subject of contest,
the returns give the following totals:
Dunklin 10,202, Kirby 8,102, Carswell
6.854.
Congressman Henry, in the Elev-
enth and Congressman Gillespie in
the Twelfth have good leads, as has
Congressman Smith in the Sixteenth
District. In the Fifteenth District
there seems to have been no real con-
test, Mr. Garner's election having been
apparent upon the receipt of the first
returns.
There has been no count kept of
| the vote for and against local option,
for it has been apparent from the be-
ginning that most of the voters ig-
! nored this question as if it were an
immaterial issue.
Texas Will Not Grow Tea.
Washington: The department of ag- i
riculture will probably abandon furth- |
er efforts to cultivate tea in Texas.
"Our experiments have not been satis-
factory in results," said Dr. Galloway,
head of the bureau of plant industry.
"There was something in the soil
which militated against the growth of
the plant. We do not know just ex-
actly what that was. The soil was
sufficiently fertile and general condi-
tions seem to be favorable
A in «> n dm rui to tlir Stale Cou-
nt ftution ItrliiiiiiK <" < omuila-
«lourrti' I*re<*luctM.
Joint He-solution to amend Section 18,
Article fi, of the Constitution of th<
State of Texas, so as to provide lor
subsequent redisricting of a county
Into commissioners' precincts, defin-
ing tho manner thereof; lor submit-
ting sarin? to the electors of the State,
and making an appropriation there-
for.
Be it Resolved by the Legislature of
the State of Texas:
Section 1. That Section 18, Article 5,
of the Constitution of the State of Tex-
as, be amended so as to hereafter read
as follows:
Each organized county in the State,
now or hereafter existing, shall bn di
vided from time to time, fur tho con-
venience of the people, into Justice
precincts, not less than four and not
more than twelve. The present county
courts shall make th * first division.
Subsequent divisions shall be made by
the commissioners' court provided for
by this Constitution. In each such pre-
cinct there shall be elected, at each
biennial election, one justice of the
peace arid one constable, each of whom
shall hold his office for two years and
until his successor shall be elected and
qualified; provided, that in any pre-
cinct in which there may be a city of
eight thounand or more inhabitants,
there shall be elected two justices of
the peace. Each county shall in like
manner and in the first instance, be
divided into four commissioners pre-
cincts, in each of which there shall be
elected by the qualified voters thereof
one county commissioner, who shall
hold his office for two years and until
his successor shall be elected and quali-
fied'. Subacqueui diviNioux of a county
Info eoiiiiitiMMlonerN' precinct* aliall be
made on In now or hereafter may lie
provided liy Iimv. The county commis-
sioners so chosen, with the county
judge as presiding officer, shall com-
pose the county commissioners' court,
which shall exercise such powers and
jurisdiction over all county business as
is conferred by this Constitution and
the laws of the State, or as may be
hereafter prescribed.
Sec. 2 That the sum of one thousand
($1,000) dollars is hereby appropriated
out of the State Treasury not other-
wise appropriated for the purpose of
defraying the necessary expense of sub-
mitting the above proposed amendment
to tho people of the State, a the next
general or special election in the man-
ner required by law, by the Governor
of the State.
(A true copy.)
W. R. DAVIE, Secretary of State.
I'ropoMed Amendment to the State Con-
stitution FIxIuk the ( oiiipeumallou
of the Governor and l.ieu*
tenant Governor.
Joint Resolution proposing an amend-
ment to Article 4 of the Constitution
of the State of Texas by amending
Sections 5 and 17 of said Article 4 so as
to fix the compensation of the Gov-
ernor at eight thousand ($8000) dol-
lars per annum in addition to the use
of the Governor's mansion, fixtures
and furniture, and the compensation
of the Lieutenant Governor at twen-
ty-five hundred ($2000) dollars per
annum.
De it Resolved by the Legislature of
the State of Texas:
Section 1. That Section 5 of Article 4
of the Constitution of the State of Tex-
as be amended so as to provide that the
Governor of the State shall receive as
compensation for his services, an an-
nual salary of eight ($8000) dollars and
with the use and occupation of tho
Governor's mansion, fixtures and furni-
ture, said Section o as amended, to read
as follows:
Section 5, He shall, at stated times,
receive as compensation for his ser-
vices an ajinual salary of eight thou-
sand ($S000) dollars, and no more and
shall have the use and occupation of
the Governor's mansion, fixtures and
furniture.
That Section 17 be so amended as to
read as follows:
Section 17. If, during the vacancy in
the office of the Governor, the Lieuten-
ant Governor should die, resign, refuse
to serve or be removed from office or
be unable to serve or if he shall be
impeached or absent from the State, the
President of the Senate, for the time
being, shall in like manner administer
the government until he shall be suc-
ceeded by a Governor or Lieutenant
Governor. The Lieutenant Governor
shall receive an annual salary of twen-
ty-live hundred dollars per year, and no
more. During the time he administers
the government as Governor, he shall
receive in like manner the same com-
pensation which the Governor would
have received had he been employed
in the duties of his office, and no more.
The President of the Senate, for the
time beJng, shall, during the time he
administers the government, receive in
like manner the same compensation
which the Governor would have re-
ceived, had he been employed in the
duties of his office.
Sec. 2. The Governor of this State
Is hereby directed to issue and have
published the necessary proclamation
for the submission of this resolution
to the qualified voters for members of
the Legislature of the State of Texas,
as an amendment to the Constitution
of the State of Texas, to be voted upon
on the day of the next general election
of the State of Texas, which will be
held on the day fixed by law thcrfor.
All persons favoring said amendment
shall have written or printed on their
ballots as follows: "For- the amend-
ment to the Constitution fixing the sal-
ary of the Governor at eight thousand
($*,000) dollars per annum, and the
Lieutenant Governor at twenty-five
hundred <$2,r 00) dollars per annum."
And those opposed to said amend-
nent shall have written or printed
.>n their ballots as follows:
'Against the amendment to the
Constitution fixing the salary of the
Governor at eight thousand <$S,000) dol-
lars per annum, and the Lieutenant
jovernor at twenty-five hundred ($2,.'>00)
dollars per annum." And the sum of
r ne thousand ($1,000) dollars or so much
thereof as may be necessary, is hereby
appropriated out of any funds in the
Treasury of the State of Texas not oth-
erwise appropriated to pay the expenses
of such publication, proclamation and
election.
(A true copy.)
W. R. DAVIP3. Secretary of State.
and equipment of school bulldffl
therein, provided that a majority ot til _
qualified property tax paying voter®
tiro district, voting at an election to b® :
held for that purpose shall vote such
tax, not to exceed in any one year 50
cents on the $100 valuation of til#
property subject to taxation in such
district, but the limitation upon the
(mount of district tax herein authorised
shall not apply to incorporated cities or
towns constituting separate and incit*
pendent school districts.
Sec. 2. The Governor of the State of
Texas shall and he is hereby directed
to issue the necessary proclamation for
the submission of this amendment to
the qualified voters of the State of Tex-
as at the next general election, or at
a special election called by the Gov-
ernor ano i«i * i um oi iuui «■* j'uaaiul
($4,000) dollars, or so much thereof as
may be necessary, is hereby appropri-
ated out of any money not otherwise
appropriated to defray the expenses of
publication of such proclamation. At
such election the qualified electors vot-
ing and favoring said amendment shall
have written or printed on the ballot
as follows: "For amendment to Section
:i, Article 7, of the Constitution of th«
State, relating to public free schools,"
and those opposed to said amendment
shall have written or printed on the
ballot as follows: 'Against amendment
to Section 3, Article 7, of the Constitu-
tion of the State, relating to public free
schools."
(A true copy.)
W. R. DAVIE. Secretary of State.
ROMANCE MORE IN THEIR LINE.
Factory Workers' Criticism of Louisa
M. Alcott's Great Story.
In a conversation about books which
the author of "The Long Day" had
with two of her workmates at a box
factory, she spoke enthusiastically
of "Little Women,'' and told them how
she had read it four times, and that
she meant to read it again some day.
"Little Women" was unknown to
them, hut their curiosity was roused
over the unheard-of thing of any-
body ever wanting to read a
book more than once, and they
pressed her to repeat the story for
them. This she did with great accu-
racy of statement, and with genuine
pleasure to herself at being given an
opportunity to introduce anybody to
Meg and Jo and all the rest of that
delightful March family.
When she finished, Phoebe stopped
work and Mrs. Smith looked up from
her label-pasting, saying: "Why, that's
no story at all."
"Why, no," echoed Phoebe, "that's
no story—that's just everyday hap-
penings. I don't see what's the use
putting things like that in books. I'll
bet any money that lady what wrote
It knew all them boys and girls. They
just sound like real, live people; and
when you was telling about them I
could see them as plain as plain could
be—couldn't you, Gwendolyn?"
"Yep,'' yawned Gwendolyn, undis-
guisedly bored.
"But I suppose farmer folks likes
them kind of stories," Phoebe gener-
ously suggested. "They ain't used to
the same styles of anything that us
city folks are."—Youth's Companion.
RECORDED THE TRUTH ALWAYS.
Wordsworth's Poetry Set Against Hie
Failure as Correspondent.
Wordsworth, except by virtue of on©
quality, was not remarkable as a let-
ter writer. His happiest moods were
those "trances of thought and mount-
ings of the mind" which oame to him
when wandering among the hills or
seated upon some old, gray stone. The
act of penmanship was always a dis-
tress to him; In his elder years he was
troubled with inflammation of the
eyes, and h* often dictated his letters,
lie cor.'d chain his mind to record
facts, but to do so implied a state of
servitude. He cared little for the let-
ters of great writers, and expressed
a wish that his own might de de-
stroyed. He had no pleasant malice
eager to escape from the tip of the
pen. such as Horace Walpole had. He
had no bubbling mirth which will not
be repressed like that of Lamb. He
could not engrave an exquisite vignette
for a friend's delight and his own, like
Cowper. His pen was not an etcher's
needle, nor a dagger to stab, nor a
sword to cut, nor a hobby horse on
which to canter. But to set over
against all this Wordsworth could
write the truth, and the truth he In-
variably wrote.
Bishop Henry Codman Pottc, of the
Episcopal diocese of New York, died
at Coopertown, N. Y., Wednesday,
after an illuess extending over a pe-
riod of several months. He was 72
years of age.
Home from the river's mouth at Fiu-
micino, where important entrance
works are to be undertaken Thus the
transfer of cargoes from steamer to
rail at Civita Veechia, 50 miles off,
will be no longer necessary.
Personal.
Young Stoutly—Where's my father*
Oh. he's off to the cattle show! I
nevor see much of him. His main
hobby in life is fat pigs.
Miss Prettypert—I wonder be
doesn't take more interest in yea
Taxation—Submitting Vmeiidmt'ut to
Constitution.
Joint Resolution amending: Section 3,
Article 7. of tho Constitution of the
State of Texas, increasing tho amount
of tax that may be voted on school
districts and providing for a majority
vote of the property tax paying
voters of such district to vote such tax.
Section 1. He it Resolved by the Leg-
islature of the State of Texas:
That Section of Article 7 of the
Constitvition of the State of Texas be so
amended as to hereafter read as fol-
lows:
Section 3. One-fourth of the revenue
derived from the State occupation taxes
and a poll tax of $1 on every male in-
hahitnnt of this State between the ages
of twenty-one and sixty years shall be
set apart nnnunllv for the benefit of the
public free schools, and in addition
thereto there shnll be levied and col-
lected ;in annual no valorem State tax
of such an amount, not to exceed twen-
ty cents on the $ 1 o«i valuation, as with
the available school fund arising from
nil other sources, will be sufficient to
maintain and support the public free
schools of this State for a period of not
less than six months In each year, and
tho Legislature may also provide for
the formation of school districts within
all or any of the counties of this State
by general or special law. without tho
local notice required lti other cases of
special legislation, and may authorise
an additional ad valorem tax to be levied
nnd collected within such school dis-
tricts for the further maintenance of
public free schools, and the erection
Police Methods In India.
A jewel was lost by a rich Komati.
It was found In the possession of a
Mohammedan Two policemen of the
station seized it from him and pledged
It and obtained a loan from a local
merchant. Then another policeman
was asked to search the houBe of the
merchant, and before the search was
effected the merchant gave It to him
with a present as a bribe not to haul
him up before the court. Between the
three policemen a sum of about 60
rupees was looted from one or the
other of the dishonest and avaricious
merchants. Then arose a split among
these policemen and their comrades
about the division of the spoils, and
they are now blinking as to what
course to adopt and whom to charge
and what offense to charge with. The
people are losing all confidence in
these men.—Mysore Standard.
Lacking the "Ear for Music."
He bears a great loss and sorrow
who has "no ear for music " into
one great garden of delights he may
not go. There needs no flaming
sword to bar the way. since for him
thnre Is no gate called Beautiful
which he should seek to enter. Blunt-
|ed and stolid, he stumbles through
life for whom its harp strings vain-
ly quiver. Vet, on the other hand,
what does he not gain? He loses
the concord o' sweet sounds, but he
Is spared the discord of harsh noises.
For the surges of bewildering har-
mony and the depths of dissonant
disgust, he stands on the levels ot
perpetual peace.—Qaii Hamilton.
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Houx, N. P. The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 30, 1908, newspaper, July 30, 1908; Mexia, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth290176/m1/3/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gibbs Memorial Library.