The Texas Mesquiter. (Mesquite, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, February 14, 1908 Page: 4 of 8
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The Texas Mesquiter
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One Dollar Per Year.
John E. Davis, Ed. and Pub.
Published Every Friday At
mksqu1tk
Texas.
Friday, February 14, 1908.
ANNOUNCEMENT RATES.
For Congress, $10.00
For Dist. and County offices, 7X0
For the Legislature, 5.00
For County Commissioner,.. 5.00
For precinct offices, 2.50
"SENTERISM."
"Senterism" is a new term,
coined by some of the ardent
friends of the junior Senator
from Texas. "Senterism" as ex-
emplified in the life of State Sen-
ator E. G. Senter means purity
in public and private life and a
loyal and unselfish devotion to
duty. Senator Senter, has al-
ways been active in public affairs
and has always been on the peo-
ple's side. His enemies know it.
The only fault they can find with
him, as much as they would like
to, is his opposition to Baileyism
He is honest, sincere, unselfish
and absolutely fearless in doing
what he believes to be right.
The people who let their admi-
ration for Senator Bailey make
them hate Senter and "Senter-
ism," don't know the man.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
We are authorized to mak ethe
following announcements, sub-
ject to the Democratic primary
election, July 25, 1908:
For the Legislature, Place No. 1
L. Q. C. Lamar.
For Sheriff:
A. L. Ledbetter.
1
Don't wait until you die to get
a monument. Plant shade trees
now.
Judge James J. Hargis, the
noted Kentuckey feudist who
was killed by his own son, reap-
ed as he had sown.
Plant onions and promote
prosperity, with apologies to
East Texas, where the phrase
originated, with peanuts instead
of onions.
When the taxpayers of Texas
realize fully what the full rendi-
tion tax law means, a howl will
go up, the like of which has nev-
er been heard before.
Now, that it is no secret that
Fredereck Upham Adams is the
paid press agent of Henry
Clay Pierce, his articles in
defense of the Waters-Pierce Oil
Company are not liable to change
public sentiment in Texas to an y
great extent.
If the signs of the times mean
anything, they mean that Dem
ocratic chances of success at the
next election are better than
they have been in a long time.
The old argument that hard
times and panics cannot come
during a Republican administra
tion has been knocked silly.
The signs of the times seem to
indicate that if he does nothing
else, Secretary Taft will put
Fire Alarm Foraker of Ohio out
of business.—Mesquiter.
And, per contra, if Fire Alarm
Foraker accomplishes nothing
else, he will aid materially in
putting Secretary Taft out of
business. All of which is per-
fectly proper and strictly with
in the limits of propriety.--Tex-
as Republic.
And the Republic might have
added that in the event that the
Fire Alarm failed to put Taft out
of business, the chances are that
William Jenning Bryan will.
Commoner Clippings. £
From Bryan's Commoner:
Experts count on the comple-
tion of the Panama canal in 1915—
if Uncle Sam's money holds out.
There is a growing feeling that
congressmen are not earning
that 50 per cent increase in sala-
ries.
It would seem that some of
Mark Twain's good Wall Street
friends might have given him a
tip when to get his money out.
Administration organs loudly
claim that President Roosevelt
did not cause the panic. Perhaps
not. But the protective tariff
failed to prevent it.
Secretary Taft is talking about
our'"generous altruistic spirit,"
referring to our Philippine
policy. This is calculated to
make the sugar, tobacco and cor-
dage trusts smile gleefully.
0
The St. Louis Times says "the
more one hears of Oklahoma's
new scheme for government the
surer one is that the old reliable
brand is good enough." The St.
Louis Times' declaration will
have the hearty support of a
number of eminent Penusylvan-
ians.
"Pennsylvania will surely go
for Knox," exclaims an enthusi-
astic Pennsylvanian who is help-
ing the Knox boom along. The
country will also go for Knox if
ever it gets an opportunity, but
not in the way meant by the Pen-
nslyvanian.
The Elgin National Watch com-
pany is about to discharge a
thousand or two employes who
are so nieely "protected" by the
tarifl which enables the Elgin
Watch company to charge Amer-
ican dealers $10.15 for the Watch
that is sold to English dealers
for $7.41.
"What does 1908 mean to you?"
askstheChicagoTribune. "Well,
for one thing it means fifty-two
pay days," gleefully replied the
Columbia State. Our South
Carolina contemporary should
wake up There will be fifty-
three pay days is 1909—and five
of them in February.
Town Council Meeting.
The story of a "Tramp Print-
er," by John E. Davis, in last
week's Mesquiter. was very
good, but the photographs were
a little ccarse. The Mesquiter
man can hardly stand for "wood
en" editorials to be run as orignal
stuff, but evidently thinks it all
right to go through his advertis-
ing cuts and pick out a couple of
pictures and run them as photos
of the hero and heroine of his
story. Come straight, John —
Carrollton Chronicle.
We approciate the statement
of Editor Risien that the story
was "very good," and cheerfully
acknowledge that it whs illustra-
ted with advertising cuts. We
do not use "wooden" editorials
because we have an editorial fac-
tory at home but used the cuts
referred to for the very good
reason that we lack the equip-
ment nocessary to make cuts.
PUTS THE BLAME ON SATAN
California Girl Declares His Satanic
Majesty Just Forced Her to
Become a Thief.
Trinity Labadie, a 17-year-old
girl of Oakland, Cal., is going to
give Mary McLane, erstwhile of
Montana, now of'Boston, a close rub
for a "pull" with his satanic majesty.
Miss Labadie recently reported to
the police that the devil told her to
steal and she just couldn't help it.
Trinity was given a room at the
Young Women's Christian associa-
tion recently and the next day, it is
alleged, a sum of money and some
of the room's furnishings disap
peared. Likewise Trinity. When
she was rounded up and questioned,
she laid the blame for the matter
on the devil, who not being there to
defend himself, or summon an alibi,
it under suspicion as accessory before
the fact. Miss Labadie is being
detained by the police until further
inquiry ran be had into her rela
tions with the imp of darkness.
[Copyright 1807 by j. R. Mo«e«]
Side Talk By Burk's Store Boy
Mother says that in 25 years
America will be just what the
kids of today make it. And so
if the grown-ups have any inter-
est in the future, they ought to
know what their boys and girls
are doing. But that ain't all.
Somebody must look after them
kids what ain't either got no
homes, or a home worse than
none at all. Maybe a kid's fath-
er ain't no good, and so of
course he can't learn no good
from him. Maybe his mother is
busy looking after the younger
children, and trying to make a
living, that she has to let him run
loose on the street. Maybe the
kid sells newspapers. Maybe he
gets a job as messenger kid.
That forces him to go to all kind
of places. He sees loafing,
gambling and grafting. And so
he might get it into his noodle,
that it ain't so bad to do a fellow
out of a nickle or two, if he gets
a chance. He might even think
it's cute and shrewd to do it.
And that may be just the begin-
ning of a crooked and thieving
life. A whole lot has been said
how these kids should be handl-
ed, and I am glad to say that
much has already been done in
Dallas. The Juviline Court is
working fine, but would work
lots better if that Industrial
School, Detention Home, and
playground for delinqent kids
was running. You might think
that Dallas won't be able to get
all them things. But you've
got it down wyong. We've got
a bunch of good, smart and en-
ergetic women, around this town,
who can't fail, because they
won't. They've got a great
scheme on for Feb, 29th, to raise
the first money for the play-
ground business. I don't see
why they shouldn't make a grand
success. It's going to be Tag
Day. Good women are going to
stand on corners, hop on street
cars, march through stores, and
tag tags on every man they run
across. In return for this com-
pliment, the fellow is supposed
to cough up a nickel, or dime,
two-bits, or anything that he is
willing to give toward this noble
cause. Mrs. Calloway was in
the store just now. She talked
about this Tag business 'till she
got me awfully interested. I
told her that I couldn't be here,
because the boss is getting ready
to make a business trip to New
York and to our factory in Balti-
more, and I have to go with him.
I just wish we could have waited
'till after Tag Day, so I could
have had a tag put on me, but as
I can't be here, I told Mrs.
Calloway to put a tag on the
store girl, Miss Gertrude, who
will give her a dollar for me, and
take chances on getting it back.
Now, good people, I hope you
will keep our boys busy while
I'm gone. We've got a bunch
of fine stuff around here, what
we're willing to turn loose at
way down prices, simply because
we need the money worse than
we do the goods. Take a look at
the half price suits and overcoats,
and the big bargains in shirts
and underwear, and see if it
won't be to your interest to buy
now. Good-bye.
Burk's Store Boy,
Care Burk & Co.. 233, 235, 237 Main, 236 Elm
The regular monthly meeting
of the town council was held
Thursday night of last week
with the mayor and all aldermen
present except Dr. Cullom.
Town Marshal Miller submit-
ted his monthly report which
showed tax collections of $450.00
with $68.36 due and uncollected.
An order was passed extending
the time for the payment of taxes
to March 1.
The ordinance creating a Board
of Health and prescribing san-
itary regulations was passed to
final reading.
The order allowing citizens the
cost of a plank walk in front of
their premises where they desire
to build cement or brick walks
was amended so as to read that
such walks as the town was in
the habit of building should be
taken as a basis in arriving at
the amount to be allowed, regard-
less of the width of the brick or
cement walk constructed.
The committee appointed to
investigate the proposition of
lighting the town was discharged
for the reason that the finances
of the town would not at this
time justify expenditures for
that purpose.
The st reet committee was or-
dered to have filled up the holes
in the gravel road within the
corporate limits of the town.
The following accounts wei*e al-
lowed and ordered paid:
A. J. Miller, services as mar-
shal and fees for collecting taxes,
$54.90.
J. A. Kimbell, work on streets,
$2.25.
A. J. Todd, work on streets,
$1.65.
C. P. Porter, work on side-
walk, $1.10.
Texas Mesquiter, advertising
and printing, $4.30.
J. H. Hass, material for walk,
$8.40.
Humphreys & Vanston, hard-
ware, $40.25.
Jno. E. Quarles Co., lumber,
$169.70.
CITY BARBER SHOP
Located in W. M. "Brown's store.—North side of square.
Your patronage solicited.
LUTE L. BROWN.
HARRIS BARBER SHOP
Located on North side Public Square, Mesquite, Texas,
AGENT FOR ORIENTAL STEAM LAUNDRY
Wm. F. Harris, Proprietor,
We will make special prices
on planters, cultivators and har-
rows.
J. C. Rugel & Son.
KNEW IT.
Jones (to old gent who Is staring)—
Excuse me, sir, but do you And any-
thing familiar about me?
Old Qent—Yes, my umbrella.
What first impressed me about
Sierra Leone was the heat. It does
not permit one to wholly give his at-
tention to anything else. I always
have maintained that the hottest
place on earth is New York, and
have been in other places with more
than a local reputation for heat;
soma along the equator, Lourenco
Marquez, which is only prevented
from being an earthen oren because
it is a swamp; the Red sea, with a
following breeze, and from both
shores the baked heat of the desert,
and Nagasaki on a rainy day in
midsummer.
But New York in August radiat-
ing stored up heat from iron framed
buildings, with the foul dead air
shut in by the skyscrapers, with a
humidity that makes you think you
are breathing through a steam heat-
ed sponge, is as near the lower re-
gions as I hope any of us will go.
And yet Sierra Leone is no mean
competitor.—From "The Congo and
Coasts of Africa."
WELL-DRESSED QUEEN.
Queen Victoria Eugenie is cred-
ited with the ambition of being
considered the best-dressed queen in
Europe. Thoroughly English as
she is in taste, she, of course, wears
only the most severe and serviceable
costumes of golf, yachting and all
sorts of outdoor sports; but in the
evening and at great public func-
tions her toilettes are splendid and
her jewels the admiration of every-
one. Since her marriage her figure
has greatly improved and she is very
particular as to the cut of her
dresses.
Professional Cards.
Dr. J. H. Fender,
Physician and Surgeon,
Office at McGwier's Drug Store,
MESQUITE, TEXAS.
B. E. HUDGINS, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon
Office at Chapman's Drug Store,
MESQUITE, TEXAS.
DID THE tiEST HE COULD.
"Please, sir," said the beggar,
"would you give • poor old man a
few pennies?"
"See here," rejoined the person
aocoated, "didn't I giv« you a dime
<hm days agof
*I believe you did, sir," replied
the beggar, "but, do the beet I can,
I find it impoaaible to keep my ex-
penses below three and one-third
cents a day—and yetxr dime is all
gone, •if."
Publisher's Notice.
Under a ruling of the Post Of-
fice Department at Washington,
weekly papers can not be sent to
subscribers as second class mail
who are one year in arrears.
This law goes into effect April
1st, so if you are due us a year
or more, place remit at once, as
we will be forced to drop all who
are one year behind on that date.
John E. Davis.
Never kiss a girl on the front
porch. The mouth's the place.
Many a Wall Street bi'oker
started life on a farm watering
stock.
A wedding is a great thing to
sober a man who is intoxicated
with love.
—Western Publisher.
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a bottle of Dr. King's New Discovery cured me of the
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PRICE BOo
SOLD AND GUARANTEED BY
Cullom & Chapman.
AND SI.OO
DR. W. G CULLOM,
Physician and Surgeon
Office at Chapman's Drug Store]
MESQUITE, - • TEXAS
Dr. J. B. Bryant,
Physician and Surgeon
Office at McGwier's Drug Store.
Private consultation at residence.
Mesquite - - Texas
DR. J. O'CALLAGHN,
Physician and Surgeon,
REINHARDT,
TEXAS
r L. CRUMPLEY, V. S.
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R r D NO 3
mesquite, texas,
Is prepared to treat diseases of horses
and cattle; perform operations when
necessary. Will answer all calls.
Residence near Housley. Phone 36 2-2
W. L. CURTIS,
Attorney^at/La w,
509 Scollard Bldg. Dallas, Tex.
HORACE WILLIAMS,
—LAWYER—
405, 406, 407 Trust Building,
Dallas, . . Texas.
W L. Bibb. H. R. Williams,
BIBB & WILLIAMS,
LAWYERS
208 Slaughter Building,
DALLAS, TEXAS.
J. W. Pierson, W. M. Pierson,
Asa'fc County Att'y
Pierson & Pierson
Attorneys and Counselors at Law
Suit 310 Slaughter Bldg., Dallas, Tex.
Phone Main 804
WHITEHURST &
WHITEHURST,
ATTORN EYShAT-LA W
Second floor NorthTexas Building,
Dallas, 3?exas.
Will practice in all the courts.
John L. Young
Attorney at Law
Slaughter Bldg. Photae No. 1255
Dallas, Texjte
Charles F Clint,
LA W Y E R.
Special attention giv6l» to ex
amination of titles, wills, estates
and insurance practice.
395 Main Street, Opposite Post
Office., DaUas, Texas.
THE OBJECTION. 1
— 1
"Nearly everybody makes mis-''
takes at some time or another," said!
the philosophic person.
"Yes," answered Miss Cayenne,
"you can forgive anybody for mak-
ing mistakes if lie isn't bo egotistic!
as to insist on you admirinir them."
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Davis, John E. The Texas Mesquiter. (Mesquite, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, February 14, 1908, newspaper, February 14, 1908; Mesquite, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth406994/m1/4/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mesquite Public Library.