The Sulphur Springs Gazette. (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, August 20, 1909 Page: 2 of 8
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THE SULPHUR SPRINGS GAZETTE, AUGUST 20, 1909.
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Will “Go!”
An engine does not run today be-
cause there was a fire, or steam, in
it yesterday. Nor does it run because
it’s a good engine=-the best in the
railroad yards; nor because people
are in the habit of seeing it run, and
know that it CAN run.
The fireman has to build a fire in
it TODAY if it is to be useful today.
A store is not a busy store unless
it is advertised today. It’s not busy
because it is “well known;” nor be-
cause it is a good store, and well lo-
cated. It goes because of the pub-
licity steam that’s gotten up TODAY.
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Whether Thaw is sane or insane,
It would be a relief to the public to
be spared from anything further in
this disgusting episode.
When we remember the producers
»re the genuine aristocracy of the
earth, should we Yiot raise onr top
gear in profound respect?
As an evidence of the profitable-
ness of Ostrich farming, the feathers
imported to the United States in 1908.
amounted to a valuation of 53,661,061.
A tide of immigration is abont due
from West Texas. The “dronthy”
plains must give np many of her citi-
zens who have “seen better days”—
people who have lived in East and
Northeast Texas.
That knightly pusher of the quill
and rotond president of the Batter-
milk Clab, Ool. Jim Lowery, of the
Honey Grove Signal, is being groom-
ed by his friends for the governor-
ship of Texas.
The number offering for governor
has reached seventeen. Thi9 does
not inclnde Hon. T. A. Hope, of Mt.
Vernon, who may or may not enter
the final list. Like some others, he
ii in the 'hands of his friends,’ all of
which is sometimes a perilous con-
dition. _
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A prominent citizen of Logansville,
Ga., has filed snit against his former
sweetheart for the recovery of $1,000,
which he claims he paid her to con-
sent to marry him, alleging that she
has broken faith with him. When a
man undertakes to bay either love or
or happiness he enters a market in
which the 'ooin of the realm’ ia not
legal tender.
Whatever may be said of strad-
dlers, or catering to the millionaires
by others, it can never be charged to
Senator Onlberson that he ever toad-
ied to corporate wealth, but on the
contrary has always stood four square
with the old Democratic ship. Charles
is the good fruit bearing scion of an
ok whose good name
others have passed in-
A report comes from a number of
counties in Arkansas that the farm-
ers have 'resoluted’ to abandon grow-
ing cotton until the boll-weevil is ex-
terminated ^or otherwise goes out of
business. We have heard of this res-
oluting on the management of cotton
before. Some years ago, not a thous-
and miles from the town of Mt. Ver-
non, in the county of Franklin, they
undertook to cat down the acreage
of the plant. Those prominent in
this felt confident that there was too
much of the staple made, hence re-
daction was the thing to do. Well,
they ‘resoluted’ and ‘re-resoluted;’
some favored a ten per cent leave
off, others wanted twenty-five per
cent and some insisted on catting the
thing in two and jast pat in one-half.
But they couldn’t agree and broke
np with the understanding that they
wonld all go home and plant just as
much as they “dinged see fit.’’ Re-
sult: An increased acreage.
Chicago has counted her souls, and
they reach 2,500,000.
Everyone now knows that con-
sumption is contagious.. So long as
it was thought to be hereditary there
was little hope for the human race;
but we now know that it may be
eliminated from the list of hereditary
diseases; and that it is curable when
taken in time. The remedies are:
good air, good food, good water and
a life in the open air.—Farm and
Ranch. ___
The San has been standing between
two fires for the last few weeks on
the base ball question, and getting
hot shots from each side. One side
has complained all the time because
our space was not taken up in boost-
ing the games, and the other side has
threatened to have their paper ‘stop-
ped’ because the games were report-
ed as news matter. It is certainly a
pleasure to run a paper and try to
please all the readers.—Grand Saline
Sun.
The Mt. Vernon Record has sus-
pended publication and the Optic-
Herald of that city has contracted to
carry out the unexpired subscriptions
of the Record. Editor Cbas. R. De-
vall, of the Optic-Herald, has also re-
cently bought the interest of his part-
ner, Robt. L. Rountree, (who was
forced to give up the work on ac-
count of declining health) and is now
the sole proprietor of Mt. Vernon’s
only paper. Charlie is able, active
and energetic, an A1 good newspa-
per man and deservedly popular with
the people of Mt. Vernon and Frank-
lin county. The Gazette wishes him
much prosperity and continued suc-
cess.
There is never a heavy loss with-
out a small profit. If we don’t make
so much cotton possibly we will get
a better price for it. Then too, we
will save considerable time and ex*
pense in gathering it, and this will
give more time to send to school, im
prove the home, get np the winter
wood and look after the farm gener-
ally. So it may be that a short cot-
ton crop will not materially affect us
after all. _
Nearly every section of our great
state has suffered from dry weather
this year, bat East and Northeast
Texas has been more fortnnate than
many other sections in this matter,
and Hopkins county still stands prom-
inent as one of the beet agricultural
counties in the state—a place where
short crops are unusual and failures
unknown.
Bank Robbed in Minnesota.
Hallock, Minn., Aug. 18.—The State
Bank of KArlslad, Minn., was broken
Into early today. The robbers secur-
ed 81,600 in cash and made their es-
cape. A posse has been organized
and is in pursuit.
Farms for Sale.
I have several good farms, well lo-
cated, six miles south of town; most
all in cultivation, well improved, good
water. Will sell for one-third down,
balance from 1 to 5 years time. Might
Me Thomas.
Deserted to Visit Father.
New York, Aug. 17.—John Brun-
ner, a deserter from Fort Leaven-
worth, Kansas, has been captured
near his home at Wallingford, Conn.,
and returned to Fort Hamilton at
this port as a military convict. While
at Fort Leavenworth and when he
had a few months more of enlistment
to serve, Brunner received word that
his father was dying at Wallingford
and needed his assistance. Unable to
obtain a furlough Brunner deserted
hut was captured on a freight train at
New Haven while making his way to
Wallingford. He will be court mar-
tialed and sentenced to the Fort Ham-
ilton prison for 18 months. A few
days ago another appeal from his
father reached him and he and an-
other military prisoner, John Shehan,
escaped by sawing the bars out of a
window. Shehan had not been cap-
tured but the officers knowing that
Brunner had escaped so as to be near
his father, warned the Connecticut
authorities, and Brnnner, just arrived
from his long walk from New York,
was captured as he approaohed Wall-
lord.
You should remember that the good
road over which the farmer hauls his
produce to town is the same good
road over which he hauls his pur-
chases made in town. The town is
quite as much interested in good dirt
roads as the rural districts are.—Paris
Advocate..
It is true that town and country are
mutual partners in business. What-
ever builds up the one, promotes the
interest of the other, and the benefits
arising from good roads are shared
alike.
Timpson Times: Times heard a
young man remark that some men
were so short they could sit on a dime
and their feet wouldn’t hang off.
Well, if this is true they seem to
have shorter ones at Timpson than at
any other place.\ There are a plenty
of them in every town who coaid
stretch oat on a quarter without
their feet lapping over, and hundreds
who coaid turn somersaults on a dol-
lar without ever toaching the rim,
bat there are few, outside of Timpson,
who can sit on a dime without hang,
ing their feet over the edge.—Dalles
News.
T. A. Hope, of Mt. Vernon, is try-
ing to jump into notoriety by an-
nouncing as a candidate for govern-
or. He would fit iu the office about
like an ox fits in a china shop, but
the funny part of it Is, it is said that
he looks as serions over his candi-
dacy ‘as a donkey does in a hail storm.
-Mt. Pleasant Times-Review.
The above is not kind, neither is it
jast. Mr. Hope is a loyal Democrat
and an upright citizen, and he has
the right to offer for governor or
anything else he sees proper. That
is his business; moreover, this is a
free country.
That the American crop of Irish
potatoes averages seventy-five bush-
els, while, the crop in Prussia aver-
ages 400 bushels, is worth consider-
ing. Germans have made their soils
richer, while ours are being exhaust-
ed. A difference of 326 bushels per
acre will well repay cost of manares
and of cultural methods. Those Ger-
mans are scientists, which means tnat
they farm with knowledge of needs
of soils, and supply the needs.—Tex-
as Farm and Ranch.
There is food for a whole lot of
good hard thinking in that paragraph.
What is true of potatoes is likewise
true of most other crops. We are
not getting anything like a maximum
yield. Isn’t it time onr farmers were
waking np?—Denison Herald.
The sentiment expressed above in
the preservation of the soil and main-
taining it to a high standard of pro-
ductiveness is food for mnch thought.
The heretofore failures of many far-
mers may be attributed to a prodi-
gality of the soil. In the past we
have been prone to cultivate land
year after year without improving
it. The habit has been that when
onr fields fail to respond we would
clear more land and soon find ns har-
dened with a large and unprofitable
acreage, requiring much labor to
manage it. Small acreage, well im-
proved and well diversified with in-
tense care and cultivation, is the
thing today for the southern farmer,
and those who practice this will dis-
tance the larger farms in profitable
returns.
Phenomenal Growth.
Very few institutions have grown
daring the last ten years like the City
National Bank. Just ten years ago
the present management took it in
charge and since that time its growth
has been little short of marvelous.
The comptroller of the currency
called for a statement on the 30th of
Jane, 1899, and a comparison of this
statement with the last one publish-
ed on the 23rd of June, this year,
shows in actual figures what we have
done, and we believe will prove in-
teresting to our friends and custom-
ers: In June, 1899, our individual de-
posits were $73,701.75; in June of this
year they were $247,651.69, over three
times as much. In June, 1899, we
had cash on hand, 826,428 10; in June
of this year we had 8120,787 85, or
over five times as much. In June of
1899, our surplus and undivided prof-
its were $40,736 05, while in June of
this year it was 877,156 76. Ten years
ago the total resources of the bank
were only 8267,660 65, while our la^st
statement shows a total of 8636,179 61,
We have more than doubled the size
of the institution afcd that without an
increase in the capital stock. Start-
ing with only a little over a quarter
of a million of resources, we have
made it one half million, and started
on the next. The bank was ten years
old when we took it and our ten years
completed its first charter of twenty
years. We have renewed the char-
ter for twenty yeari longer, have re-
modeled our building and made it
the equal of the home of any bank of
our size in the state, and now come
before the people with an institution
that is modern and np-to-date in ev-
ery respect.
We have achieved this success by
attending strictly to business; going
after that which was good, and cut-
ting out that which was doubtful or
bad; meeting the people strictly on
the square and treating them in a
way that made the man who once
transacted business with ns want to
come back again. We have had un-
bounded confidence in the resources
and the people of this section, and
the people have returned that con-
fidence with their business. When
times were hard and crops failed, we
have not been afraid to stay with the!
people and turn loose our resources
among them, and our success proves
that our confidence was well placed.
We now come before you with this
record of snccess, and with an insti-
tution that is as strong as the rock
of Gibraltar, and with a force of men
that will give yon service that means
something, and ask for a continuance
of your patronage.
Respectfully,
City National Bank.
Farmers’ Encampment.
The Farmers’ Encampment has
been on at Vine Hill Park, four mileB
southwest of town since Tuesday, and
a general good time is reported, de-
spite the intense heat.
On Tuesday the Free Rural Tele-
phone Oonvention was held. The
convention was composed of the
presidents of the Rural Telephone
companies and one delegate from
each company. President John N.
Johnson called the Oonvention to
order; a committee on credential was
appointed, which reported thirty-one
delegates present qualified to parti-
cipate it^ the convention. A new con-
stitution and by-laws was read and
adopted. O. M. Pate, W, A. Wor-
sham, A. P. Landers and J. A. Moore
were appointed aV a committee to
take the neeessary steps to establish
a Rural Telephone Exchange in Sul-
phur Springs. John N. Johnson was
re- elected president, J. B. Morris was
elected vice-president, A. P. Landers
was re-elected secretary and Bruce
Pate was chosen as treasurer for the
Hopkins County Rural Telephone As-
sociation. A number of interesting
and instructive talks were made.
Today is Ex-Confederate day and a
good crowd is expected.
Ip to the Jury.
“There is a great deal of real, hon-
est justice dispensed in onr country
courts throughout the land,’’ a prom-
inent lawyer said the other day, “and'
this I am at all times willing to main-
tain, though I cannot help laughing,
sometimes, at the manner of it.
“You ’pear to be up’agin it, boys ’
he said. “These here two lawyers
has muddled things up terrible; the
plaintiff and the defendant air pretty
well matched for bein the meanest
rogues in the country, an’ all the wit-
nesses is notorious liars. But you
heard what was said—do the best you
can, and recollect that it’s pretty close
onto dinner time.”—Ex.
Gets Estate of $450,000.
Muskogee, Ok., Aug. 18.—George
Gibson, for years foreman at the Mis-
souri, Kausas and Texas coal chute
here at a salary of 860 a mouth, has
been left an estate valued at 8450,000.
Gibson’s aunt, who had charge of the
estate, died a few days ago. The rail-
road man was the only heir. He re-
signed and drew his pay check today
and Will leave for Rochester, N. Y.,
tomorrow to assume control of his
>roi
Jury List.
Following is a list of the grand and
petit jurors drawn for the August
term of the District Court of Hopkins
county:
grand jurors.
J. B. Davis, T. J. Russell, W. A.
8mith, Frank Poor, Holland Goolsby,
J. C. Carmack, R. W. Harris, J. W.
Potts, G. L. Glossup, Harmon Gregg,
Charley Mahaffey, W. H. Hayden,
Lawrence Carroll S. M. Pharr, A. B.
Rhodes, S. D. Renshaw.
PETIT JURORS—FIRST WEEK.
R. F. Johnson, J. R Scruggs, R. D.
Hurt, H. H. Brown, E. M. Agee, W.
J. Hulsey, C. C. Sheppard, Robt. Orr,
Oonnally Bauman, W. W. Prim, J. H.
Wilcox, W. H. Coppedge, S. W. Wor-
tham, J. P. Stanley, R. B. Leewright,
A. C. Addy, A. H. Hopkins, W. E.
McGill, T. S. Kirkbride, J. H. Bryant,
J. J. Whatley, C. H. Marable, John
Felton, Ab. Worsham, C. E. Smith, J.
B. Lamb.
PETIT JURORS—SECOND WEEK.
Earnest Speed, L. W. Wolf, J. M.
Joyce, W. B. Shelby, J. A. Anglin, C.
B. Martin, 0. W. Adams, E. J. Melton,
O. B. English, Guy Vaden, R. L. Estes,
S. L. Millan, S. A. Pierce, W. H.
Threat, W. E. Bertram, H. I. Mobley,
J. R. Click, P. K. Baker, T. L. Bishop,
G. W. Teer, S. L. Ring, J. B. Corbet,
R. F. Pippin, J. W. Jones, R. Teer, G.
W. Payne.
-y PETIT JURORS—THIRD WEEK.
L. E. Shoffit, G. W. Hogan, B F. Al-
exander, B. H. Moss, W. M. Scudder,
J. W. Teer, I. C. Miller, S. I. Masters,
A. M. Embry, A. P. Stewart, J. A.
Bibby, Jr., Mark McKinney, G. W.
Harper, Jack Nalls, J. C. Tedford, R.
W. Randolph, H. L. Mosley, Sain
Long, J. P. Caldwell, J. I. Vander-
griff, Alex Mahaffey, C. H. Ponder, C.
T. McDowell, W. J. Robinson, B. M.
Liner, G. W. Chapman, W. D. Smith
Wm. Raines, Moore Conner, J. H. Nix.
PETIT JURORS—FOURTH WEEK.
Edgar Smith, W. A. Worsham,
Frank Boggs, W. S Posey, S. D. Shel-
ton, J. F. Frazier, Oscar Lewis, J. B.
Mahaffey, Theo, Collins, W. H. Pat-
rick, C. M. McClain, C. B. Anderson,
J. B. Martin, Sam McClure, W. A.
Wilson, Godfrey Earhart, W. U. Mox-
ley, W. C. Stephens, Jim Landrum,
John M. Hargraves, M. O. Mays, O.
F. Junell, W. L. Whisnance, B. F. Lof-
ton, Bob Bernard, S. B. Gilpin, H. L
Wattenberger, H. L. Smith, A. Dor-
sey, Ed Minter.
The Swiftest Creature.
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CHECKER COLUMN
EDITED BY
EUGENE L. WITT
Solution to Problem No. 14.
By O. H. Richmond.
Black—3, 4, 12, 20, 24, 26, 27; kings—
28, 32.
White—18, 13, 11, 10, 9, 5; king—6.
White to move and draw.
11-7 30-26 9-6 18 15 1-5
26 3Q 18-14 22 18 5-1 8-11
6-fe 26-22 13-9 3-8 6-1
Drawn.
Problem No. 15.
By S. B. Harkins, Saron, Tex.
WHITE.
•sovna
Black to move and win.
The problem above illustrated is a
beautiful and instructive composition,
and reflects credit on the author.
Game No. 11. Ayrshire Lassie.
Played between Christy Mathewson,
star pitcher of the New York Giants,
and a Chicago expert. A
11-15
15 18
6 15
1-6
10 26
24-20
22-15
21-17
26-23
31-22
8 11
11-18
7-11
7-10(a) 15-19
28-24
26-22
17-14
14 7
24-15
4-8
10-15
3 7
6-10
11-18
23-19
19-10
30-26
23-14
2^ 15
Drawn.
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A very neat ending.
Covering 1,600.05 yards a minute, a
homing pigeon, on July 12, flew from
North Bay, Ontario to Baltimore. It
was 510 miles in an air line, and the
total time was 9 honrs and 17 minutes;
486 birds were liberated. The record
for 600 miles is 1,705.62 yards a min-
ute.
Racing pigeons are the fleetest of
all creatures. They have maintained
a speed of a mile and a half a minute
for a hundred miles, and they have
flown 700 miles between the rising and
setting of the sun. The bird that
made the 700 mile record on the day
of the toss was “Wilkens” owned by
W. J. Lautz. The averag4 speed was
1,546.97 yards a minnte. Three other
birds covered the distance. The four
were blown home by an 80-mile-an-
hour wind In their tail feathers. That
record will probably stand for all
titae, as weather conditions were un-
exampled over all the coarse.
A hundred-mile record twas estab-
lished in 1900 by a bird who clipped
off 2,511.87 yards a minute. That is
at the rate of a mile and one-half a
minute.
Pigeons have flown a thousand
miles back to the home loft. In 1904
a bird covered that distance in five
days, two hoars and fifteen minutes,
proving “how unerring is the mys-
terious homing instinct that will drive
them across a continent without
swerving, l.
The perfect pigeon-racing distance
is 500 miles. The racing bird weighs
from twelve to fourteen ounces, and
measures eleven to twelve inches in
length from tip of tail to beak. It
stands strongly, is full-chested, and
has broad flight feathers, well pro-
tected by secondary feathers.
The racer rises into the air with
heavy, slow wing pulsations, then
once poised over the starting point,
there is a swifter, shorter beat, and
then the time is hit up to the “third
and permanent wing rhythm, rapid
and steady as a pulse beat, which sees
them home before dark.”
They fly 300 feet high over land,
but low over water. Their enemies
as they fly are wind, rain, gunners
and hawks. They do all their flying
between sunrise and sunset. If
caught out over night, they fend for
themselves till dawn.
The homing instinct is life-long.
During the Franco-Prussian war the
Germans caught a homing pigeon
which was on its way into beleagured
Paris. The bird was kept prisoner
for ten years. It was then released
and immediately returned to its old
home.
Hog Day.
Wednesday, Sept. 1st, will be our
next hog day. If you have hogs to
sell_ phone us mt our residence or O.
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
S. B. H., Saron, Texas.—Thanks for
problem.
W. J. K., Beckham, Texas.—The
three for three shot won’t draw for
white in No. 14. At 18th move of
your solution instead of 24-27, go
31 26, 22-31, 24-27, 31-24, 28-10, and
black wins.
NEWS OF THE GAME.
The North Texas Checker Club met
in Honey Grove August 5 and held
their annual tournament. A. B. Guth-
rie of Honey Grove won first prize,
and Col. White of Grayson county
capped second prize. More players
entered than at any previous meeting,
which speaks well for the progress of
the, game in that section.
S. B. Harkins, Saron, Texas, is con-
testing a match by mail with Frank
G. Farmer, Wichita, Kas. Mr. Har-
kins has promised to contribute some
of the games when finished.
It is rumored that the Brandt-Bar-
wick match for the championship of
(Hockley) Texas, is likely to fall
through. What a pity. I
China Expects Roosevelt.
Washington, Ang. 16.—China ex-
pects a visit from Theodore Roosevelt
next year. While he was president,
he discussed such a visit with Tang
Shao Yi, the Imperial Ambassador
who came to Washington last winter
to thank this government for the gen-
erosity iu remitting its $7,000,000 claim
against China.
This was not the beginning of the
talk of Roosevelt making a journey
through the Flowery Kingdom. When
Miss Alice Roosevelt was in Pekin on
the now famous Taft journey to the
East, she was asked by the Dowager
Empress if her father would ever
come to China. She said she did not
know, but that he was very muoh in-
terested in the ancient land and that if
he ever did come it would be her pleas-
ure to come along.
Just what version of this interview
Miss Alice gave to her father is npt
known, but for some reason the Chi-
nese government felt encouraged to
hope that in the future it would have
a visit from Mr. Roosevelt. The im-
perial envoy pressed the matter on bis
visit to the White House and received
the answer that the president hoped
see the Chinese at close range.
Since then the Chinese and Ameri-
can governments have come closer to-
gether and recently word has gone
from the Chinese legation here that it
is likely Roosevelt will make his prom-
ised visit next year.
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