The Sulphur Springs Gazette. (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, September 11, 1908 Page: 2 of 8
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It ia not so much the number of
split log drags' in the country that
Interests the {raveling public bat the
manner and frequency of their use.
The Ft. Worth Board of Trade has
an active membership of 500 and they
are going to make a strong effort to
make it one thousand within three
months.
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Recent complications of Che grain
crop of the United States for the year
of 1906 show (he amount total of corn,
-Ifawt, oats, rye am barley to be six
hondred million bushels. y
Ribbon cane does well in any sandy
soil. It sells at GOca gallon and will
prodace from 200 to 400 gallons per
acre. Any land (hat will make good
corn will grow ribbon cane.
“There’s never a heavy loss with*
out a small profit.” The merchant
who fails to advertise may console
himself in the fact that his sales will
not be so heavy or his clerk hire so
expensive.
Have yon sent in that dollar to help
Bryan along? If not don’t negleet to
do so. This is (he people’s fight and
when the smoke of battle ha9 lifted,
if there is a victory it will be of and
for the people.
What is to be done in the matter of
helping along 'the Bryan campaign
fond must be done quickly. The
democrats should get busy. This
campaign is one of the people’s.
Are fou doing your part?
Corn is now selling in Eastern
Oklahoma at $1.05 per bushel and it is
predicted that within 60 days it will
be selling at 25c per bushel. This
does not look like a corn famine in
Oklahoma as has been heretofore
reported.
THE SULPHUR SPRINGS GAZETTE. SEPTEMBER 11, 1908
The republicans are getting worried
over the guarantee bank proposition.
They realize that Bryan has the
initiative in beating them to a con*
dition which is meeting with the fkvor
and wants of the people more and
more as the days come on.
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so doing you will not miss a number.
If expressions from prominent men
all over the country go for anything
Bryan’f chances for election is good
and growing stronger as the day
approaches. Let us hope as this is
the third charge it will be the best
one and bring down the game.
OefTliABIES, EIC.-4UI obituaries, resohtlws of
resoect and matter of like character will be charged for
at rate of 1-2 cestper word for each word to excess of
250; 250 wards or toss toierted free. , ■
Last Sunday was about the hottest
day we have felt and Monday was no
improvement."
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Land is not always going to remain
cheap. Now is the time to get a
home and get it right.
Dry, Dryer, Dryest, this is Monday.
We hope by Friday we can be able {o
say this section has had a fiae rain.
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These hot days have been bard on
turnips recently sown. It will take
a good rain to save them, and that
soon. _
If the boll weevil is making any
this baking weather he is
short of a Hottentot pqre and
They say these hot scorching days
are hard on the cotton plant. What
do yon reckon it is doing for the boll
weevil?
The cotton is opening rapidly and
the crop of 1908 is in sight. The
thing to do is to gather it a& quick as
John R. Abernathy Uaited States
marshal and wolf catcher of Okla-
homa, is now at the home of his
father-in-law near Guthrie suffering
from blood poison from wounds re-
cently received in capturing wolves.
His condition is regarded as serious.
. Chicago is to have the greatest
passenger station in the world, to be
erected by the Chicago & Northwes-
tern railway. It will cost twenty
million dollars and will have a ca-
pacity to handle two hundred and
fifty thousand people every twenty*
four hours.
Business is said .to be picking up
along the gulf coast, especially is this
noticeable in the lumber business
which ftceived quite an impetus last
Saturday by the purchase of twenty
billion feet of pitch pine by Italian
interests. The lumber will be ship-
ped direct to Italy.
We hear but little said of the pea-
nut crop of Hopkins county. Up in
Fannin county the acreage is good
and the yield fine. There is no reason
why thousands of bushels should not
be made in Hopkins county every
year. They will grow anywhere the
sweet potato grows. t
Eminent geologists say that New
York has no special features that
would subject it to the terrors of an
earthquake. T
We understand the Dooley potato
llpp in some sections of the county is
As to the extent of the
Still keep in mind that $1000 in
prizes offered by Farm & Ranch to be
given for corn grown itt 1909 * Here
is the opportunity for the farmers to
improve thier land and get a fair re-
numeration for doing so. There is
something substantial about a thing
of this kind. It is a case in which the
loosers will be winners.
The Commissioners of Rains coanty
have let the contract to boild the new
court boose to the Falls Construction
Company of Lonisville, Kentucky.
The structure is to be a modern fire-
proof construction and will cost
twenty thousand dollars.
Since the law in Oklahoma compels
every parent or guardian of children
to place them in school frorriythree to
six months in the year, under such a
provision the illiterates will diminish,
and there’ll be .none that can nut
read and write. We think this a good
law. Every child should at least be
taught to read and write.
We frequently hear farmers com-
plain that they can’t make oats to do
any good on the sandy land—espec-
ially is this true in the timbered dis-
tricts. As a rale those who sow in
the timber generally select some off
pla^e that is thin and the soil poor,
and hence there is nothing doing in
making oats. Oar observation has
been, that it requires strong land to
make oats and land that will make
good corn will make fair oats., Try
a piece of strong dirt and sow them
thick and yon will see the difference.
Could the wild beasts of the jangles
of Africa know of the sanguinary
preparations now in propress* in
America for their extermination
doubtless a convention would be held
to give expression to ways and
methods of escape. Theodore, the
hunter, has called to his, aid Bill Mc-
Donald and John Abernathy to serve
as “right and left bower” in his raid
on the wildest of the wild. This trio
of “big stick” strenaousness, man-
catcher and catch-’em-alive combina-
tion is enough to bring the residents
of the jangles to a ready account.
We have some nice homes adver-
tised for sale in this issue. The time
to look sfter bargains is when they
are offered—now is that time. If yon
want to bay a home on easy, terms
in a good community tyou’ll never
find a better time than right now.
Hopkins county has a productive
soil, plenty of water and timber; her
educational facilities are first class,
her railroad transportation is all that
coaid be desired and her citizenship
is second to none. What more do
yon want? Come and see and on the
inspection of the goods you will be
satisfied.
Mt. Pleasant is not near so large a j
city as Sulphur Springs. Her educa-
cational advantages are no better and
her surrounding country no better for
agricultural purposes. Yet Mt. Pleas-
ant, from all accounts, is pushing her
resources to the limit Among herre-
cent acquisitions is the Dell wood park,
now she will soon put in a street car
service. If such things are possible for
Mt. Pleasant what might we expect of
Sulphur Springs if her citizens would
take hold and pull out the throttle of
progress?
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor made a
brief speech in Ft. Worth on Tuesday
night in which he outlined his posi-
tion in the matter of the presidential
contest. Mr. Gompers made it plain
and said he wanted it to be understood
that neither he nor the American
Federation were committed to the
Democratic party in a partisan sense,
but" he said impressively “no man will
work more assiduously for the Demo-
cratic party, not even the great
Democratic leader himself than he
would for the success of the Demo-
cratic party this year.”
September is here and the work of
the school room will be pushed all
over the state. It U a good thing to
1 the ohlM$H in the first day of
■. Don’t wait’till yon get
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How do you like the compulsory
law of Oklahoma to enforce the educa-
tion of children between the ages of
8 and 16 years, requiring that they
be sent to school for a period of from
3 to 6 months in. each year under a
penalty of not less than $10 nor more
than , $50 for each offense? It is
claimed that at this particular time
the enforcement of this statute will
work a hardship on the farmers of
Oklahoma for the reason they have a
very heavy crop of cotton and the
children will be needed to gather it.
However, this may be, there’s one
thing certain, there’s a time for all
things, s tims to save a crop and a
Which is
Reports from the West say they
will make from one-third to one-half
bale of cotton per acre and that the
feed and forage crops are fiue. This is
all good, and we congratulate them on
their prospect. To those who have
lived in the rain belt of North and
East Texas where timber and water
abounds and backed np with a pro-
ductive soil, the matter of hauling
wood and water for miles does not
appeal. Th^ West may be a good
country in some respects but for
alround purposes and a sure enough
sure thing, we’ll take wood and water
in ours. ■*
Water and wood are two essentials
which the people must have. There’s
no dodging this if you expect to *4to
anything or be anybody or enjoy life
anywhere. When a country is short
on these prerequisites to every well
ordered home there’s trouble in the
land. Imagine one in the West far-
ming on land that will make a half
bale bf cotton per acre perhaps, and
hauling woo^ and water for miles.
Compare this proceedure to the man
in the sandy lands of North and East
Texas who is working a productive
soil in the rain belt, has an abundance
of the finest fruits and vegetables at
all seasons and his wood and water
works right at his door. Which will
you take?
Never perhaps in the history of the
country has there been sooh e demand
for teachers. Sore enough teachers
can get .employment qt good wages
anywhere. Oklahoma is now one of
the greatest fields for teachers in the
Union and they are offering gjpod
salaries for the right kind of teachers.
Some would-be teachers have an idea
that very little ia necessary to make a
success in the school room and do not
take the necessary care in preparing
themselves for the high positions they
might otherwise secure. Forinetance,
recently four thousand applicants to
teach in Texas fell down, and failed
for want of proper preparation.
There’s nothing ioeures success in
any work more than a “knowing
how” to do Che work. With this in
hand the *est is easy enough.
—tton wlB time to un the children
the moot Important?
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It has now developed among the
republican leaders that the hereto-
fore plan of conducting their presi-
dential campaign is perhaps not the
proper thing after all. The policy of
the Republicans in the past, of cpn-
ducting a quiet campaign without
speech making is about to be shelved,
and it is now considered that the
times demands that the candidate
take the stump personally and go
before the people. Mr. Hitchcock,
Mr. Taft’s manager, has so stated to
his friends and those close to the
party that the inroads made by
Bryan calls for a match up of the two
personalities. , Therefore, it is decided
that Mr. Taft will relinquish ^his
tactics of a still hunt and go on a
public drive throughout the West and
East. It is believed that Mr. Taft’s
personality will serve/him well in a
mix np with the people. We will
now have a forensic battle before the
people of the contending forces of
the greatest political parties on the
American continent with Taft and
Bryan on the front line.
Among Our Exchanges
♦ ♦ ♦
Peanut Raisers, Attention
I promised you last fall that I vould
do all in my power to make the pea-
nut industry a success in Fmnin
county. I have done my best s> far.
I am now about to make arrange-
ments for a thrasher to come into the
county to help take care of the crop.
Mr. Watts of Monkstown can’t ?each
everybody but will do his best. I
asked that every farmer in Fmnin
county who has peanuts planted to
write me at once and gjve mt the
following information:
Number of acres you have plaited,
the present condition and your opinion
about the crop. Tell your neighbor
about this if be has peanuts, for fear
he won’t see this. Do this at ejee.
I have several hundred peanut by^k-
lets left. They are free. Send stamp
for postage.
I have yet the first crop to hear from
that is not doing well. Several far-
mers have told me that they will double
their crop next year. One man who
has 12 acres says he will plant 50 acres
next year. Four factories have wtft
ten to me they will have buyers b
I hope to have sprue extra good n<
for you soon. Remember to write
at once.
Yours for prosperity,
W ILL H. Evani
—Bonham News.
The above will be watched wj
interest by those who are study
the peanut /business from a basin
standpoint. That peanuts can
made profitable in any soil adapted!
their growth there is no doubt,
shall watch the reports made to
Evans and will perhaps have so
thing more to say on an iudastry
believe will handsomely pay those
living on a sandy soil.
Be Well Dressed
There is not a time during the year
that something can’t be produced on
the farm that can be sold for cash
The farmer who bears this in mind
and Qians bis year’s work with the
idea to sell something for cash every
month—every time he goes to town,
in fact—isn’t affected by panics, tax
collectors or sheriff. Dry goods, or
merchants of any kind, don’t stay in
basiness and work twelve months in
the year just to sell goods for sixty or
ninety days of that time. They plan
ahead. They buy goods for all seasons
and do business all the time. That’s
basiness too. The farmer can do basi-
ness twelve months in the year if he
wants to.—Cotton Journal.
And this ife where diversification
comes in. However, it is a matter of
election with the producer as to
whether be will have a monthly in-
come for his time and labor. To have
ready cash at all seasons is to plan
and execute for, that end. The far-
mer of many methods who carries
them into execution at all seasons at
the year is farming for profit. The
idea is to have a succession of pro-
ducts of necessity, appearing in their
respective season, all of which can be
accomplished by judicious care and
Intense Industry.
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if you come to us. We
display 500 handsome fab-
rics and many exclusive
fashion ideas from which
you can readily decide
upon a
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Our unusual advantages
enable us to make you
clothes that for style, fit,
shape, workmanship and,
service quality can’t
equalled by the a
tailor for less than
twice the money.
R. L. MASTERS,
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WEARING APPAREL.
Tbree-Bottoo Norelty Sack
No. 516.
Say, Mr. Farmer, did you know that
the mors yon do to build up a home
market for yoar produce the more
said market enhances the value of
your property?^ Think it over.—
Ladonia News.
Perhaps the majority *of farmers
never think of it in just this light,
but they should. Take the good
towns oat of any county and the
price of every foot of land would de-
preciate from one-fourth to three-
fourths.—Bonham News.
A stable and virtuous citizenship,
good schools, and well attended
churches are incidents to every good
town. Cat out the schools, shqt up
the church doors and the best town
dwindles and dies. Restore them,
and you and your surroundings take
on new life. The success and up-
building of your home town means
an increase and advance in value of
all your property. Sefe that you stand
by your own town.
The useful man in a town is not the
one who goes about finding fault with
his neighbors and picking flaws in
everything that doesn’t happen to
salt bis narrow contracted ideas.
Look for the good things Awhile and
see if you are not a happsaj* and a
more useful man in yonr community.
—Alba News.
The disgruntled and fault finders
are a nuisance in any country and an
injunction should lie to restrain them
in the interest of the public good.
John A.\Hnrley, of Texarkana,
nominee of the Republican party for
congress, has given notice that he will
withdraw from the race, for the rea-
son of the press of other basiness
whioh. makes It impossible to make a
campaign.
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Bonham is expecting £%at things
from her peanut crop. ,ney have
made arrangements for t'flt thresh-
ers in the community.—Atl^ma News,
Not more than half as gr^mthings,
though, as we expect next jBr. We
believe that when those f*rl»*8 who
have planted this year sell tllar nuts
and gather their hay, that themitnrns
will be such as to induce man
to plant next year.—Bonham
It is to be hoped that other co1
Will follow the example of F
county. The peanut is a hardy
and like a cockle bar never fail
make seed. It is immune to the
weevil and other crop destroying
sects and will pay handsomely or)
thin land. There is no reason why j,
the peanut should not be profitably
grown on soil where the sweet potato
thrives.
An exchange says* v“What with
record kisses and spirit kisses and
stage kisses, the old, sweet, haphaz-
ard snatched-on-the-stairs or the
grabbed-in-the-moonlight kiss is in
danger of being forgotten.” Don’t
you think so? As long as 99 percent of
the boys and girls refuse to know any-
thing about scientific fadism, the good
old ways will hold their own. They
are imperishable.—Blossom Bee.
The good old-fashioned kiss will be
doing business when the Rock of
Gibralter is a hole in the ground.
Cheer up.—Denison Herald.
Yes, innovations may come and go
but there’ll never be an improvement
on the old fashioned kiss. It took out
its first patent in the primitive ages
and has never expired. The Herald
has the right conception of a good
thing that has come to stay.
Bryan’s Personal Popularity.
Wbat is the secret of the hold W.
J. Bryan undoubtedly has upon the
confidence and esteem of the Ameri-
can people? That he has that con-
fidence and esteem is not questioned
by those who regard truth above
partisan advantage and admire the
man above the candidate. The answer
to the Interrogatory propounded mast
be, or include, the acknowledgment
that the eminent Nebraskan bas con-
vinced a large proportion of the peo-
ple that he is an able and sincere man,
one who really believes the things he
teaches apd whose political tenets
are conceived in a real and praise-
worthy wish befriend the public.
That the j Democratic Presidential
nominee is nbt altogether free from
the weaknesses that beset most public
men will scarcely be denied by hie
most loyal anjd devoted friend. He
_______ do jail, and he jmsy
on subvert fact or abase logic
to wisi a handclap from his audience;
Bach is oratory as' it is practiced by
the professionals. Bat in the main
Mr. Bryan’s conception of manly duty
and the obligations of citizenship are
lofty and secure in their elevation.
He stands for something, and that
something is virtue. Mr. Bryan is
virtuous, meaning thereby that order
of cleanliness that makes for personal
and political parity. The people ad-
mire that quality in any man which
marks him as one superior to the
vices, large and small, which adhere
to the characters of so many men in
public and private life.—Dallas News.
Farmers’ Union Meeting.
The two days meeting ofithe Farm-
ers’ Union of Lamar county at Blos-
som yesterday and Friday was at-
tended by fifty-five accredited dele-
gates, besides the committeemen, of-
ficials and visitors. The sessions
were held in the school building and
considerable time was devoted to
hearing reports of crop condition
and in discussing them. Some of the
reports were not very encouraging.
The principal business that engaged
the attention of the meeting was the
consideration of a proposition from
the citizens of Blossom to have the
Farmers Union warehouse located
there. Will Womack said that if they
would locate it there he would head
the subscription list and take $500
worth of stock, and that he knew
another man who wonld take an
equal amount of. stock. It was
thought that people of Blossom would
raise $2,000. H. M. McCuistion and
Jas. W. Biard were appointed a com-
mittee to return to Blossom Monday
and take the matter up with the peo-
ple. The next meeting of the county
union will be held at Cross Roads,
uthwest of Paris.—Paris News.
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It is announced that Hon. Tom Ball
Houston will be a candidate for
governor in 1910. Let’s see—there’s
O.^l Colquitt, Col. Dick Wynne, Most
Marvelous Brooks, Tom Love, Gus
Shaw, R. V. Davidson—and the en-
tries remain open for nearly two
years. Shades of Jim Hogg! Where
is this thing going to end? And 225
counties yet to hear from.—Ex.
In a prohibition election last Satur-
day, the antis carried Hamilton county
by a majority of 73 votes.
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New York Bern
Chicago, 111., 8ept. •$.—
Bryan wifi be greeted by
Norman E. Mack of the
National Committee tomorrow morn-
ing with the information that New
Yorly State is safely Democratic.
Chairman Mack returned from New
York this afternoon. He/jumped into
the task of arranging the welcome for
Mr. Bryan which is to be accorded to
the nominee by the National cou^OMt*
tee.
“If there are any factional differ-
ences in New York I failed to find
them,” said Mr. Meek. “Within aa
hour after Senator Hill left hie steamer -
as he retdrned from Europe he
to oof headquarters for
and to offer his eervieea.
Mr. Efflj was 'there, Alton
had been talking o
ing secure New Y
Mr. Murphy and
working fikncf Tn hand
tional organization, and
most earnest co-
active Democrats
There are no more .....
men,’ ‘Bryan men,* ‘Connors men’ or
‘Mack men.’ They are ail £}|ii
and I am convinced that the Demo-
crats will sweep New York. X
“I will be able to report to
Bryan tomorrow morning th*t
East is sweeping as rapidly to
standard as is the west.”
Two weeks ago mention was made
in these columns of a mother eat
adopting three baby squirrels which
Mr. Evers Mason captured in the
woods and brought home. The fort-
night’s acquaintance between the
babes of the. woods and the motherly
feline has served to strengthen rather
than diminish the bond of affection
which seemed to spring into life at
their first meeting. The mamma cat
had been robbed of her progeny, tad
the baby squirrels bad been ruthlessly
torn from their mother’s bosom by
the hand of man, so when they met
the squirrels turned at once to the
cat for snccor and sustenance, and
the cat bestowed true maternal af-
fection upon the orphans. The squir-
rels have not learned to jnew hot they
know the voice of their foster mother,
even as the chick knows the cluck of
the mother hen, and when the squir-
rels take their morning and evening
nourishment the cat licks their coats
and bestows upon them every mark
of affection knowfi to the feline family.
This strange attachment leads os to
point out a great boon to humanity
that may result therefrom. Possibly
the mamma cat may teach the baby
squirrels the art of .catching mice, At
which the nimble inhabitants of the
woods ought to prove adepts, if pro-
perly trained. We know enough of
the physical construction of the squir-
rel to assure all inquirers that there is
no danger of its acquiring the vocal
accomplishments of the cat tribe; so,
if it can be trained in the useful call-
ing of mice-catching, the world wlil
enjoy the services of a rodent de-
stroyer without the nocturnal feline
serenade.—Honey Grove Signal.
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Last week Dallas lost two of her
most prominent and distinguished citi-
zens—Judge Thomas F. Nash and
Judge George N. Aldredge.
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