The Pearsall Leader. (Pearsall, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 14, 1908 Page: 4 of 8
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pilgrams, or anything you want
pAlished, must be in the office
bjj|l2 o,clock, Tuesday, otherwise
itvill not be published.
is said there is hope for a fool
who does not boast of his wisdom
ThFiwsjrto avoid Crying over
spilled milk is-nbt to spill it.
p i 11 ec| rinbg isyp$>t
jfisery loves company, that is
why some bachelors and spinsters
marry.
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Creditis a good thing, especially
when;
is often abused.
lon’fc have to use it, but
It is claimed that self made men
are conceited, but it is conceded
they i|te not in it with a taylor-
raade Woman.
pi
are about
thdtthin
l is something unkind you
it to say, think twice and
the* think again before you say
it.
The Leader used a clipping from
the Laredo Times last week Which
^F&is nof Vrediictf Trlucli was entir
ely an overnight and not at all in-
tentional.'
Did you read the “stranger’s”
letter in last week’s Leader? If
not, you should, for he mentioned
some things,which are of interest
to Pearsall and should be given
consideration.
The price of good land may ad-
ce or decline, but the land it-
will continue to grow in value.
Will never be really worth less
now’, but is a mighty good
S to hold on to. -
It is reported that Senator J eff
Doris of Arkansas has made an-
Notlipr “sire to a mule” of himself
> the United States Senate. But
wig would expect anything better
of Yeff in his great rush for notor-
iety, than to attract the newspaper
press and make one of himself
even more conspicueous and re-
diculous than “Ballam’s donkey”.
The Guinness farm of La Porte
Ind., turned out a grewsome sight,
giving up its twelve bodies with a
report accounting for eighteen
murders tracable to the farm. This
woman with her accomplices are
a .Veritable bunch of wholesale
mqfderers, but seem able to evade
thf officers.
)T
the cases against the Crouch
Brothers John W. ond Charlie A.
of Crown were disposed of before
t bo-Federal Court last week in
San Antopio. jt,Johnr\V- pleads
guilty and if* lined #200 and the
case against Charles A. is dis-
missed. Judge J. T. Bivens was
their attorney.
Statistical report of State Health
officer. Dr. Wra Brumby, for the
mgj^tjn of Harch is; Births 4515,
wfjjla the deaths are. 1417.
i&W* l * * * S * * * * * 11® the births, were 2020
males, 2495 females with 398 ne-
groes kt the batch.** Wh^ledortjie
q uartw- the- death 14g|f reached 4663
and the births 14,123.
We heard one of our town’s
most prominent citizens say the
other day they were going to boom
Pearsall, do a lot of advertising,
get 500 lots on the market, get a
big lot of northern people here,
give a great barbecue, have a big
time generally and sell these lots
out. Now this is the thing to do
for the town, for a iittle special
advertising will do good and is
needed, for to people abroad this
town is on the retired list.
It is so with some, that as long
as they can use you as a tool, or
make a “cat’s paw” of you, to rake
live coals with, you are the very
fellow, “Johnnie on the spot,”
but when you differ with them in
opinion and fail to see things as
they do and no longer subservient
to their will and pleasure, they
part ways with you and cut you
high and dry. This is wrong and
deserves to be condemned, because
a man differs in opinion from you
and shows manhood enough to
form an opinion and stand up for
it, he deserves respect and com-
mendation. Don’t fall out with
him because he doesn’t believe
like you, for he has the same rights
that you have, and you should re-
spect his rights and respect him
as a man.
•THE fflarGn Model 1894 it a medium light weight repeat-
I in* rifle, a well proportioned, fcnely balanced gun with all the
* advantages and comforts of the fflarfi* solid-top. side-eject-
ing construction. It is quick and easy of operation accurate up to
300 yards and a yery pleasant gun to carry and to shoot.
For settled restricts and farming country where the shooting at
woodchucks, badgers, foxes, 'coons, hawks, etc., is at ranges trom
100*^200 yards? the 25-20 and .32-20 nflfs with the black and
low-pressure smokeless loads cannot be equalled, for accuracy and
safety. The factory ammunition for the Model 94 nfles is cheap,
and can be reloaded at very small cost. _
The uD-to-date sportsman needs the "fSumeft Book"
“SaVii, theyear, It contains 136 page* of live stuff
f Jr thelman who loves a good gun. and wants to know everj-
thing about it. FREE for 3 stamps postage.
7%e 2/larU/i firearms Go*
42 Willow St.. New Haven- Conn-
Had you ever thought what peo-
ple abroad in other parts of this
State and of other states think of
Pearsall when they see the local
paper. They say, “well that cer-
tainly is a dead town to have such
a paper as this. It has two banks,
one grain house, one dry goods
and grocery house, two general
merchandise houses, one dry goods
and notion house, one drug store,
one barber shop, two meat mar-
kets, one lawyer, one dentist, two
doctors, one restaurant and one
confectionery. They would prob-
ably say I have heard of South-
west Texas as a fine country and
I suppose some parts of it is, but
the town of Pearsall certainly
must be a dead place, they do so
little advertising, or else there are
no merchants there scarsely to ad-
vertise. I suppose they are all
very small concerns and not able
to do much advertising. But I see
local papers from other towns in
that part of the country, where
the business people seem to be alive
and in the push for business, for
the papers have a good local ad-
vertising patronage, but Pearsall
hasn’t learned that it pays to ad-
vertise.
Watermelons Profitable,
That Frio county is the greatest
watermelon-raising spot on earth
is the claim of E. B. Rutledge, for
the last fifteen years a resident of
Pearsall, the county seat. Mr.
Rutledge is here on a business mis-
sion, being registered at the New
Maverick Hotel. He is very en-
thusiastic in discussing the soils
and natural advantages of his sec-
tion of the State, and believes
that their superiors do not exist.
As an earnest of their potentiali-
ties in the watermelon-raising line
he says two enterprising farmers
near Pearsall last year realized
each over $5000 from their water-
melon shipments.
“Our soil is a rich sandy loam
and is, therefore, facile princess
of all good soils when it comes to
truck and garden products. Some
irrigation is done from our fine
wells. All water, by the way, is
soft and therefore well adapted to
irrigation purposes.
Peaasall is now pushing what
might be called a boom. A big
cotten oil mill and a compress
plant of no mean proportions are
two of the big enterprises now
nearing completion. Big buildings
of every kind are being reared,
and we are coming to the front as
fast as any town or city of our size
in the State.
Ours is one of the greatest cot-
ton raising regions of the State.
The country is all the time set-
tling up, and even now prepera-
tions are being made to cut up a
big 90,000-acre ranch that runs up
to within a few miles of the city
in order to give way to the e n-
coachments of immigrant farm-
ers.”
Mr. Rutledge settled on the
present site of Pearsall before it
attained the dignity of a village.
The town now boasts a population
of 3000. An electric light plant,
a water system and a fine telephone
system are among the municipal
improvements that have been made
during the last few years.—Ex-
press.
When abroad, in speaking o f
your home town, always say some-
thing good.
LASCARS ON BRITISH SHIPS
England Seriously Concerned Over
Shortage of Seamen to Man
Merchant Marine.
Admiral Evans took final leave
of the battleships on the 9th inst.
He now retires from active service.
The leave taking seemed to touch
him, as tears were seen in his eyes.
On Saturday there were shipped
out from Pearsall some twenty-
four cars of nice steers for market.
These were all native grass cattle
and in very nice condition for
market. What place can beat Frio
for good cattle.
The men elected as new trustees
on the Pearsall school board were
J. A. Pranglin, J- T. Salmon and
Ernest DeVilbiss. The board met
in called session’May 7th and or-
ganized by electing J. A. Pranglin
president; W. Trickey, secretary;
E. DeVilbiss, Scholastic Sensus
trustee.
Miss Lora B. Donaldson, 1st
Assistant; Mrs. Betts, Misses Hal-
lie Arthur and Oma Stallings As-
sistants. Miss Reed made no ap-
plication.
Board will meet again May 19th
3 p. m.
The Ball Game.
The Frios went to Devine t o
pull off a game Friday and played
a good game up to the seventh in-
ning, when their pitcher broke
down and gave the Devine boys a
walk-over. The Frios had given
Devine several shut-outs and had
allowed them to make only two
tallies up to this time and then
that imp of all things unfavorable,
bad luck, went against the Frios
and Devine stepped into the lead
by one score and the game ended
with the score standing 5 to 6 ip
favor of Devine. Luck turns
some funny tricks sometimes.
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CALL FOR CAREFUL WQftgpK
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Reliable People Always in Demand,
Poor Ones Retained Only
Through Necessity.
If carelessness could be elimin-
ated, existence would not be as liard
as many find it. A working girl
who had as good a situation as the
members of her class could possibly
find voiced that in a declaration she
made to a new employer who asked
her reason for being out of work.
“We do not always know when we
are well off/’ was her reply. She
certainly did not, for she threw
away her chance for such a little
piece of carelessness as continual
neglect of the table knives. The
necessary few minutes needed for
knife scouring were worth more than
two weeks’ wages and the strain of
settling in a new family, where the
work was much harder. She is not
a solitary example of a reckless re-
gard for consequences—there are
many of both sexes to bear company.
Workers are necessary in all depart-
ments of life, and if they were all
poor or all good, there would he lit-
tle to choose between them. But
good workers are reasonably sure of
honorable places, while poor ones
are retained only through necessity.
It is with real regret that any em-
ployer parts with a capable, faithful
helper.
England has become seriously con-
cerned over the shortage of seamen
to man her merchant marine. Las-
cars have now largely supplanted the
native product. During the last 15
years there has been an increase of
17,103 of these East Indian seamen,
as against 510 Britishers. Is conse-
quence, the British government is-
sued a notice recently that foreign
seamen should not be engaged on
British ships in European waters un-
less they have enough knowledge of
English to understand orders given
in that language. It is stated that it
has been no uncommon thing to find
a ship’s crew composed of eight or
nine nationalities with absolutely no
language in common, and perhaps a
boatswain who only understands
English as “interpreter.’’ The re-
turn relating to seamen employed in
the British mercantile marine shows
30 English and Irish per 10,000,
while Scotland supplies 56 and
Wales 44.—Harper’s Weekly.
BIRDS THAT FIGHT WINDOWS.
“The mating season of the birds
approaches,” said a nature student,
“and, if you live in a good bird coun-
try vour windows will kill off many
a male. Male birds in the mating
season become extraordinaril)’ bold
and fierce. Houses have no terrors
for them. Approaching, they see
their own reflections in the glass of
the windows, and mistaking these
images for rival males, they dart in-
domitably upon the glass, to fall
back stunned, or bleeding, or broken-
winged. I have a south window that
I can rely on in the spring to kill me
two birds a week. I grill them on
toast.”
LEAP-YEAR WOOING.
The Wooer—Cheer up, little one. 1
shall be careful and brave. We will
soon know our fate. Come what may,
you shall be mine.
And the leap year girl went in to asK
the young man's mother.
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HOW SHE WILL E/^RN LIVING.
A Chicago woman recently found
herself without the means of sup- ! ,,
port, her husband having become in-
volved in business transactions that j
resulted in his imprisonment. She '
had been very extravagant in her way
of living, the testimony revealed, but
as soon as the necessity arose she
scare
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went to work and made all arrange-
ments for conducting a violet farm •,
during the coming season.
FLOWERY.
Cavaliere Grasso, one of the Sicil-
ian actors now in London, at a
luncheon given in his honor recently
made a speech to his hosts, a part of
which has been translated as follows:
“Would that I were a dove, its wings
laden with diamonds, that l might |
scatter them over you. Fain would
I he your dawn, herald of a golden
future. Fain would 1 be your twi-
light- haunted by happy memory. I
would be your sun. to hold all in my i
embrace, to melt the snows of your
winter with the fire of my art into
limpid streams, chiming as they flow’.
I would he the spring time, bringing
to you fresh happiness and tender-
ness of love. 1 would be the spring,
the twilight, the dawn, the sun, the
dove, all together—your Giovanni!”
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