Excerpt from Texas State Government: A Volume of Biographical Sketches and Passing Comment The members of the twenty-fifth Legislature have been brought together in the committee rooms, have engaged in pas sages of arms in debate upon the floor of the two Houses in fighting for or against measures that will affect the interests of their constituents, and have commingled socially in hours of leis ure and said many things to one another that will be long re. Membered after this session has reached its close, to provoke a smile or to gravely influence their after views and thoughts. Their 'association has led to friendships whose ties will prove stronger than many of them now suppose, and has evoked a spirit of comradeship that will lead them to note each step in the future careers of colleagues with more than passing interest-to feel in the coming years sincere gratification upon learning of new suc cesses achieved and new honors won and no less sincere regret upon learning of reverses sustained. This volume filled with specific information concerning those with whom they are now so intimately connected will hereafter recall many an incident of the session that would otherwise be for gotten and, with the reading will rise forms and faces of former as sociates even after a majority of them have passed to the undis covered country, that they and all of us must eventually ex plore. A book of this kind will, therefore, doubtless be a source of never failing interest to them. It preserves, moreover, in euduring form, records of lives lived and services rendered, many of which deserve to be remembered, not alone by the descendants of the men themselves, but by a people for whom they have 1a bored and in whose service many of them have grown gray and achieved deserved renown. Now a few of the biographies contain lessons that should prove of value to the young, for they teach that sobriety, earnestness, honesty, and labor and talents well applied for the good of one's self and others, are the sesames that alone unlock the doors that bar the way to honorable fame, desirable success, and true usefulness and happiness, and alone can render this world a place of sunny hills and pleasant valleys, and that without these, noth ing is to be hoped for and everything to be dreaded. May the lessons be well laid to heart. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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