A TEXAS CLERGYMAN
Speaks Out for the Benefit of Suffering
Thousands.
Rov. G. M. Gray, Baptist Clergyman,
Of W hitesboro, Tex., says: "Pour years
ago I suffered mis
'% ery with lumbago.
WOfr Every movement
.ffC I was one of pain.
j Doan's Kidney i'ills
I removed fhe wholu
difflcu ty after only
I- A-/ J a short time. Al
\W ' thou S h 1 do not
V vy?i 1 ' ike t0 have my
name used publicly,
I make an exception in this case, so
that other sufferers from kidney trou
ble may profit by my experience."
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AN OPTICAL ILLUSION.
The Professor-—How remarkable! I
■can distinctly see a man in the moon.
What an exceedingly plain person.
THREE CURES OF ECZEMA.
'Woman Tells of Her Brother's Terrible
Suffering—Two Babies Also Cured
—Cuticura Invaluable.
"My brother hail eczema three dif
ferent. summers. Each summer it came
out between his shoulders and down
his back, and he said his suffering
was terrible. When it came on the
third summer, he bought a box of
Cuticura Ointment and gave it a faith
ful trial. Soon he began to feel better
and he cured himself entirely of ec
zema with Cuticura. A lady in In
diana heard of how my daughter,
Mrs. Miller, had cured her little sou
of terrible eczema by the Cuticura
Remedies. This lady's little one had
the eczema so badly that they thought
they would lose it. She used Cuti
cura Remedies and they cured her
child entirely, and the disease never
came back. Mrs. Sarah E. Lusk, Cold
water, Mich., Aug. 15 and Sept. 2, 1907."
On Trial.
A Scotchman stood beside the bed
of his dying wife, and in tearful ac
cents asked was there anything he
could do for her.
"Yes, Sandie," she said; "I'm hop
ing you'll bury me in Craeburn kirk
yard."
"But, my lass," he cried, "only think
of the awful expense! Would •ye
no be comfortable here in Aber
deen?"
"No, Sandie; I'd no rest in my
grave unless I were buried in Crae
burn."
"It's too much you're askin'," said
the loving husband, "and I cannot
promise ye ony such thing."
"Then, Sandie, I'll no give you ony
peace until my bones are at rest in
my native parish."
"Ah, weel, Maggie," said he, "I'll
just gie ye a three-month trial in
Aberdeen, an' see how ye get along."
How Hammer of Dejth Struck James.
The old parish church of Plumstead,
which has .just been reopened', is prob
ably at lpast 1,000 years old. The pic
turesque churchyard, a cherished
haunt of the poet Bloomfield during
bis visits to Shooter's Hill, contains a
delightfully choice "derangement of
epitaphs." One of these, on "Master
James Darling, aged ten," teaches a
lesson of moderation during the pres
ent cherry season to the youth of other
places besides Plumstead. Speaking
from his tombstone, Master Darling
exclaims:
"The hammer o? Death was give to me
For eating the cherries oft the tree."
MOTHER AND CHILD
Both Fully Nourished on Grape-Nuts.
The value of this famous food is
shown in many ways, in addition to
what might be expected from its chem
ical analysis.
Grape-Nuts food is made of whole
■wheat and barley, is thoroughly baked
for many hours and contains all the
wholesome Ingredients in these ce
reals.
It contains also the phosphate of
potash grown in the grains, which Na
ture uses to build up brain and nerve
cells.
Young children require proportion
ately more of this element because the
brain and nervous system of the child
grows so rapidly.
A Va. mother found the value of
Grape-Nuts in not only building up her
own strength but in nourishing her
baby at the same time. She writes:
"After my baby came I did not re
cover health and strength, and the
doctor said I could not nurse the baby
as I did not have nourishment for her,
besides I was too weak.
"He said I might try a change of
diet and see what that would do, and
recommended Grape-Nuts food. I
bought a pkg. and used it regularly.
A marked change came over both
baby and I.
"My baby is now four months old,
is in fine condition, I am nursing her
and doing all my work and never felt
better in my lire." "There's a Reason."
Name fiiven by Postum Co., Battle
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.Interest
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Racial Drama
In Politics
Foreign Born Run Most Eig
Cities by Their Votes.
"By Ernest Mctiaffey
American Is, as a ~
Rule, a Stay-at- y ERY , a cU
Home on Election ■.
Day. His"Holler", I* mixed lia-
However. Is Long ** tlonality of
and Loud When „
Sin Finds Him fers a rare °PI» or "
Out. tunlty for studying
V J what may be well
termed "racial poli
tics." To an outsider, the facts are of
course not apparent enough to make It
interesting, but to a man on the "in
side" the drama is chock-full of inter
est. As I had, and have, no sort of
prejudice against any race or creed,
my experience In municipal politics
was as good as an extended course of
travel in foreign countries. I saw the
various outs and Ins of politics unfold
themselves, viewing matters with a
strictly impartial eye. There was noth
ing in the life of the city that was not
in some way, either remote or immi
nent, connected with the political
game. A man might stay at home and
abjure politics if he wished to, and
most of the native Americans did this,
but his sin would And him out. Then,
when he made his roar of protest
against existing conditions, ho lmd no
one but himself to blame.
The ward I lived in was, for our
city, singularly free from an admixture
of races. There were quite a number
of Germans, a large array of Swedes,
Norwegians and Danes, some Irish and
Irish-Americans, a strong colony of
Poles, a few English and Welsh, some
Bohemians, and a.scattering of Greeks,
Arabians, Jews, Armenians, Italians,
Spanish, Chinese, Finns, Scotch, Rus
sians and some Americans, with an oc
casional Patagonian or a native of
the Cannibal Islands. Hut it was not
one of those wards of the city where
all races under the sun were repre
sented; and a few besides.
Py and large the Irish-Americans
"ran"the ward. That is, in our par
ty. It was the simplest thing in the
world. They were born politicians,
taking to politics as a duck does to
water, and having a real love for the
game. They were ready speakers,
and sometimes good ones; they were
Invincible "hustlers;" they always at
tended the ward meetings, and usual
ly held the ofiices; they were active in
getting acquainted, liberal in their pur
suit of their natural prey—the other
races—and resourceful. They were not
too scrupulous in attaining a desired
end, and they never lost heart in de
feat. They could and did rejoice in a
victory, but they were never cast down
when they lost. It's all well enough
to talk about the alleged volatility of
the Irish race, but they make good
soldiers, don't they? Well, there's a
deal of discipline and other military
ingredients in political life, and while
it is true that in the rural districts the
American comes out strong for poli
tics, in the majority of the cities, big
and little, the Irish-American poli
ticians "run things." If you don't be
lieve this, travel a little and Inquire.
Put "politics is such disagreeable
work, don t you know." Of course,
"don't you know." Put the result of
letting politics go hang while one
keeps his nose stuck tenaciously to
the grindstone of business often re-
in disaster to the entire commu
nity '"doncherknow." And I for one,
had nothing but bitter contempt for
the people of my race who lifted pro
testing hands and gave voice to the
"lily-livered" dictum that "politics was
something a gentleman couldn't en
gage in."
Put speaking of "Americans," so
far as the cities are concerned, where
are they?
"English and Irish, Dutch and Danish,
German. Italian, French and Spanish.
Crosslin; their veins until they vanish.
In one conglomeration:
So subtle a tangle of blood Indeed
No Heraldry-Harvey could ever succeed
In llnding the circulation."
You can find regulation Americans
down in Kentucky, for instance, men
who can trace their ancestors clear
down to Daniel Poone in an unbroken
line. You may find them indulging in
such pleasantries as burning tobacco
warehouses or shooting at each other
from behind rail fences, for they are
quite as handy with a rifle as Daniel
was.
The Poles were a clannish nation,
and no one else could do anything
in their wards. Where they repre
sented only a smattering of strength
they could be handled fairly well by
the "leaders" in the ward, but they
were "live members" and wanted some
share in the "spoils" of office.
The Pohemians were also a com
batively inclined people, politically,
and waged lively campaigns in the
wards where they held the balance of
the voting power. Put they did not
have the cuhesiveness of the Poles,
and candidates of other nationalities
could occasionally squeeze in. The
Bohemian, and in fact all of the for
eign-populated wards, were strong for
personal liberty, and as near as pos
sible for the social privileges
they had enjoyed in Europe, minus any
intrusion of"the king business." The
Scandinavian voters were apathetic
mostly, only once in awhile producing
an orator or a hustling politician. They
were governed In their political judg
ments partly by party fealty, partly
by the question of personal fitness,
and somewhat by the question of na
tionality. Put I give them credit for
not being carried away entirely by
either pride of race or demand of par
ty. They really wanted good men;
and the fact that_ v, inan was one of
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 17, 1408.
their race did not Invariably get him
their vote. Occasionally they nomin
ated a man of their race for the ex
press purpose of defeating him, be
cause he had proved himself too small
ftr the position.
The Germans were good, live poli
ticians, and like as In other matters,
somewhat Teutonic in their prejudices
and tendencies. Clannish was hardly
the word for their particular brand of
political cohesion. Out of the ruck of
many a particular defeat would emerge
triumphant the form of some German
candidate whose race vote had been
plumped solidly for him, no matter
what party ho belonged to. To nom
inate a state, county or city ticket
without the name of at least one rep
resentative German for one of the prin
cipal offices, was something that no
party convention either cared or dared
to do. A good many of the Germans
still spoke the language of the Father
land, and even when there were spies
about, seeking to pick up crumbs of
Information, they were usually baffled
by "the vernacular." The Germans had
good, solid, and eloquent speakers
among them, and they were excellent
campaigners.
Their particular wards elected Ger
man aldermen as a rule, and as a
rule the German office-holders were
good men. Occasionally they were
amusingly Independent when given
appointive offices. Togo against a
mayor's wishes when placed in an ap
pointive position is as much worse
than lose majoste as murder la more
of a crime than petty larceny. Yet
on occasions the sturdy independence
of the Teutonic mind boiled over. An
alderman called on a German official
with a request from a mayor (not in
my time) to do something the official
disapproved of. The official took the
message with an expressive shrug of
the shoulders. "I won't do it,"was his
answer. "liut I've got the mayor's
orders," replied the surprised and in
dignant city father. "I don't care
what you've got," was the retort. "You
ain't got me, Hein. I run this office.
I've got my resignation written and
in my pocket. The mayor can have
this office in ten minutes if he wants
it, but he can't have me." So the alder
man had to give It up, and the official
remained.
The Hebrew wards were inclined to
a man of their own race, but they
were not massed excepting in about
three wards. They are not, strictly
speaking, a people who "go in" very
strongly for politics, but they make
a success of it when they do engage
in it deliberately. , The scattering vote
of this nationality was large, but di
vided among so many wards that it
was a matter of uncertainty as to
number. But where they had taken
up residence almost solidly, as in
certain wards, they ran things them
selves. When they engaged actively
in politics they developed good speak
ers. They were, as a rule, rather in
clined to one of the ruling parties,
but the fetish of party could not com
pel their votes to be cast Irrespective
of men and principle.
Now the striking dissimilarity of so
many races, and their segregations of
one another In different parts of the
Shooting at Each Other from Behind
Rail Fences.
city, produced a curious state of af
fairs from a social standpoint. Here
was a race from the south of Europe,
eager, bustling, emotional, with its
awn particular customs and mode of
life. There, three blocks away, might
be a race from northern Europe, total
ly unlike them, with creeds, schools,
ways of living and every conceivable
viewpoint, both mental and physical,
absolutely separated from their neigh
bors.
What was the result? Why, It was
like a lot of block-houses, each with
Its hostile or semi-hostile occupants.
Dwellers in the same city? I say no!
Dwellers in the same community, I
grant, but so carved apart by nation
ality and environment as to compose
foreign settlements.
Why did Home from her seven hills
rule the world? What makes Paris
such a great city? What gives the dis- ,
tinctlve touch to London. Berlin, i
Dublin, Edinburgh? It is the sense
af homogeneity that makes them as .
they are; the feeling among their in- i
habitants of a common interest, a uni
formity of racial feeling and instinct,
and kindred aims and aspirations. You I
tell me of a great city that has 40 or 1
50 different uatiopaliUea dragging j
i away In different directions? Not In ■
. thousand year*! Yet the reformer!
and dreamers, seeing no further than
beyond their own attempt to
I weld Into a homogeneous mass, in ■
few years, what time intends to de
vote centuries into doing.
, A slight study of racial politics will
i convince the most enthusiastic believ
er iu "having things his own way,"
' that It "<ain't be did" in some cities.
Racial prejudice, old-world customs,
i religion, suspicion, temperament, how
many and how impregnable are the
barriers which present themselves. To
Ket alonß without any trouble with
the representatives of all these differ
ent nationalities was not a hard task,
provided you looked at mankind as
being all lineal descendants of Adam,
and not different in what they wanted,
but only different in the way they
went at it. The sanguine races ges
ticulated, grew eloquent, rapt, even
poetical in asking for some small fa
vor. The taciturn races expressed
themselves briefly, and devoid of en
thusiasm.
Racial politics concerned Itself care
fully as to the selection of the vari
ous ward halls In which to hold the
meetings, the hiring of band 3, the em-
Sorting Out Petty Jobs.
ployment of printers, the distribution
of "ward patronage" and all the In
tricacies of municipal politics. "What's
in a name?" Well, you can bet your ul
timate sesterce that there was near
ly everything in a name when it came
to sorting out the petty jobs in a
ward. Why, an astute ward superin
tendent (supposing he were an Irish-
American) would "turn down" with
cold disdain the request to put on an
other man of his nationality on a Job,
if there already had been sufficient
representation of the race on the job.
It made a heap of difference what a
man's name began or ended with In
municipal politics.
Of course everyone cannot be satis
fled, but favors must be distributed as
near evenly as possible to keep a
ward organization or a party "ma
chine" in good running order. And
weren't these "handy boys" on the
lookout to see that there* was no un
due favoritism practiced? I should
say. And they could tell you just how
things stood in the ward, and they
were "johnny-on-the-spot" if any
"coarse work" was attempted.
When an approaching ejection was
coming on the leaders of the party,
of as many races as there were colors
in Joseph's coat, would assemble to
consider the personnel of the ticket
Not that I ever heard them use the
word personnel. These meetings
might take place in a hotel, or party
headquarters, or K it was a straight
ward meeting of leaders in the ward,
it might take place in a, say, school
house.
Then and there the various qualifi
cations of the different prospective
candidates would be discussed and
argued, and "a slate," as it is called,
would be agreed upon. Sometimes
these "slates" went through on con
vention day without a slip. Sometimes
there were battles in the convention,
and compromises effected.
I was present at one of these "cau
cuses" of leaders, when there was
merely talk about the prospective
ticket, but no settlement of the ticket.
It was an informal gathering, acci
dental. but an earnest meeting never
theless. The main office was spoken
of. A prominent German-American
was suggested. He was approved by
all present. Another office was named.
It was assigned to a well-known Irish-
American. A third office came up.
After a little wrangling a popular
Scandinavian was selected. A fourth
office was mentioned. An influential
Pole was the favorite. A fifth office
became the topic of conversation and
the name of a Hohemlau citizen was
proposed and a Hebrew who had been
active in the party. Finally during
the wrangle an Irish-American poli
tician said heatedly: "Well, what's
the matter with giving it to a good
American? I know just the man.and
he's a corker." The leader of the
group looked at him disgustedly and
said: "Do you mean that?" "Sure, I
mean it,"was the reply. Tho leader
laid his heavy hand down with a quiet
force that made the glasses tilt as he
said: "This is business, seol I want it
distinctly understood that I'm in fa
vor of no d d experiments." That
settled it. ERNEST M'QAFFEY.
(Copyright, 190S, by Joseph B, Bowles.)
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