The Texas Mesquiter. (Mesquite, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, September 10, 1909 Page: 4 of 8
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V
THE TEXAS MESQUITER.
One Dollar Per Year
John E. Davis, Ed. and Pub.
Women, it is said, are crowd-
men out of many of the profes-
hats in
Published Every Friday At
Mesquite,
Texas.
Entered in the postofficc at Mes-
.q.iite, Texas, as second class matter.
s ASSOC!*
Friday, September 10, 1909.
FORNEY VS. MESQUITE.
The Forney Messenger is
making some extravagant claims
about the alleged superiority of
Forney as a cotton market, which
the facts—not even its own re-
port of prices paid—will bear
out. Now, we do not blame the
Messenger for boosting Forney.
In fact we would blame it if it
did not, but the last issue of that
paper contained statements that
showed the editor of the paper
was either woefully ignorant of
what other towns were doing or
wilfully misrepresented the facts.
We prefer to believe the former.
The facts are that any day in any
week in any month in any year
MESQUITE PAYS AS MUCH
FOR COTTON AS FORNEY OR
ANY OTHER TOWN AND
OFTEN MORE. This paper
publishes the prices paid this
week, just as it does every week
throughout the season, and we
invite a comparison with the
prices paid in Forney or any-
where else. Wind jamming makes
a noise but facts speak louder
still.
Here is an example: Mr. M.
C. Snyder, a highly respected
citizen who lives in the Long
Creek community, between Mes-
quite and Forney, sold five bales
in the latter place last Saturday
for 12.25 and he was only offered
that much after he threatened to
call i>p Mesquite. That very
day the lowest price paid here
was 12.85 and some sold as high
as 12.60.
Now let us have a pipe line
the north pole.
to
Prices talk. Mesquite is a top
notcher cotton market.
At any rate the pole is ours.
Cook and Peary are both Ameri
cans.
In the perfection of the air
ship and the discovery of the
north pole, science appears to be
making headway.
The baseball season in Texas
is over. But we can stand that
if Harry Thaw will keep quiet
and Roosevelt will stay in Africa.
THE man with a job is the one
to enjoy Labor Day celebrations.
The day probably brought little
pleasure to the 30,000 idle men
in Western Pennsylvania.
Roosevelt is nob in it with
Dr. Cook. The former is said to
get a dollar a word for what lie
writes for the magazine®, while
Dr. Cook could easily get double
that price.
Atlanta, Ga., is to turn loose
a baseball manager who has won
tive pennants and has a cinch on
the sixth. Those Atlanta owners
do not know a good thing when
they sfte it. Here's hoping that
(she "Crackers" will bring up the
rear in 1910.
Tom Johnson won his tight
for the Democratic nomination
for mayor of Cleveland. Johnson
lost his fortune since his last
election and his enemies thought
he was down and out. Here's
hoping lie will show them a
thing or two.
want to crowd the
face of the earth.
men off the
| WILL JUSTICE BE DONE?
It is given out by the defense
I that Mrs. K. R. Flanary, who *'">"*• From the big hats
I shot her husband down in cold vogue this tall, its looks like they
blood, a short time ago, is to
plead insanity. From the ac-
counts of the killing it appears
that no plea of self defense, un-
written law or other reasonable
plea was tenable, and insanity
was about the only thing left.
Let us hope that the jury will be
sane and sensible and that Flan-
ary 's murder will be avenged.
May the God of Heaven see that
justice is done.
Contemplation of this case
moves Riley's Rounder to print
the following philippic, which.
while the history of the other
cases referred to may appear to
justify, is too strong for this pa-
per to indorse in toto:
WThen wc look back over the
fate of poor Frank Bell, a man
Gov. Campbell finds that he
cannot be at El Paso to meet
Presidents Taft and Diaz, but
informs the committee that he
will visit El Paso later. Perhaps
the Governor prefers to go when
he can be the Big Cheese.
who was mild and kind to a fault;
when we look back at the time
not far gone when three red-
handed villains poured turpen
tine on a sleeping victim
There is nothing the matter
with Brother Charley. He has
been putting up ever since Broth-
er Bill first became a candidate
for the nomination and has just
spent half a million on his Texas
ranch in order that the Presi
dent might enjoy to the fullest
extent his few days stay there.
A millionaire brother like Chas.
P. Taft is a handy thing to have.
They have a queer sort of jus-
and ' ' ice at Beaumont that tines a man
burned him to a crisp; when we
look down an interminable row
of vicious murderers walking the
streets of Dallas, or else with a
little self-respect left, who in
sheer shame quit the town, who
have never felt the avenging
hand of justice; who, though in-
trigue, purchase or outright ly-
ing, are walking around among
free and decent men, we do not
expect to ever hear of this mod-
dern Lucretia Borgia suffering
for the crime of murdering, pre-
meditatedly and cruelly thought-
ful, kind and much loved Kit
Flanary. The same officials who
permit the red stained murder-
ers of scores of others will do
the same act in this case. The
same cowardly officers who, for
fear of running down some use-
ful element in their own future
candidacy, permitted the easily
discovered would be murderer
and thief to tie and old, worn
out horse on the railway track at
Irving a few days since, will per-
mit this murder to go unwhipped m{irsuai
of justice. It is all one solid ring
from end to end, and he who is
so careless of his political future
as to try to serve the ends cf
justice in Dallas county, is soon
displaced or a new deal is made
whereoy this reformer is ren
derea impotent. This is the rea
son criminals are the favored
ones in Dallas county.
The Rounder forgets, appar-
ently, that laws passed by the
legislature, made up principally
of lawyers, the lawyers for the
defense, and last but not least,
the jury, has something to do
with the cases. Therefore, is it
right to lay all the blame on the
officials of the courts?
$18.50 for being a vagabond on
evidence showing that he was
walking from Galveston to
Shreveport. And the "vag"had
$4,000 in currency strapped to
his ankle! The unfortunate]
pedestrain was a native of Italy j
and on his future tours of Texas |
he should make Beaumont in a
big red auto.—Grand Saline
Journal.
And perhaps get fined $50 for
reckless driving.
In Minnesota, the governor,
his private secretary and execu-
tive clerk are country newspa per
men; so are the labor commis-
sioner; the executivo agent of
the game and fish commission,
the state oil inspector, the state
librarian, the secretary and as-
sistant secretary of state, the as-
sistant labor commissioner, the
fire warden, the assistant fire
the deputy public ex
aminer, the secretary of the
dairy and food commission, the
assistant cle.-k of the supreme
court, the secretary of the board
of control. The state adminis-
tration in Minnesota is Demo-
cratic, due it is said to the per-
sonal populatity of Gov. Johnson,
as the state is normally Republi-
can. If it were safely Demo-
cratic, as well as we like Texas,
it would be Minnesota for us.
"The it an who realizes the
vast possibilities of the hog rais-
ing industry in this part of Texas
is the man who will own the big-
gest and best automobiles, the
finest horses and the prettiest
barns in the near future. The
pioneer in fine hogs will bo to-
morrow what those who were
yesterday the pioneers in fine
cattle are to the day. Ijee broth-
ers of San Angelo, for instance,
years ago saw the determination
of the ranch owners to improve
grades and they turned this into
profit. The next turn of the
wheel will bring the hog grower
to his own. The man who puts
brains into the hog producing
business today, tomorrow will
reap the rewards that are in
store for wise men."
Charter No. 6140.
report
OF THE CONDITION OF
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF MESQUITE,
At Mesquite, in the State of Texas, at the
close of business Sept. 1st, 1909.
RESOURCES.
Loans and Discounts $100,401 51
Overdrafts, secured and unsecured
(Cotton) 6,040 M
U S Bonds to secure circulation
(Net) 12,500 00
Banking house, furniture and
fixtures 5,892 27
Other real estate owned 2,004 35
Due from National Banks not re-
serve agents 5,000 00
Due from approved reserve agents 17,352 92
Checks and other cash items 514 86
Notes of other National Banks 2,460 00
Fractional paper currency,
nickels and cents 100 98
Lawful money reserve in bank viz:
Specie 5,561 25
Legal tendernotes 1.010 00 6,571 25
Redemption fund withU S Treas-
urer 5 per cent of circulation 625 00
Ostrich
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Are the best on the market. See
them them before you buy. New
goods exchanged for old. Ex-
pert repairing. Ltemember I
will not be undersold.
J. E. RATCLIFF
155 Commerce St. Dallas, Tex.
Total
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock paid in
Surplus fund
Undivided profits, less ex-
penses and taxes paid
National Bank notes outstanding
Individual deposits subject to
check
Cashier's Checks Outstanding
J159,463 68
$ 50,000 00
7,500 00
610 70
12,500 00
87,646 98
1,206 00
Let us hope that the claims of
Cook and Peary as to the dis-
covers of the north pole will not
be another Sampson-Schley af-
fair.
The action of Rear Admiral
Melville and others who failed in
attempts to discover the north
pole, in now trying to throw
doubt on Dr. Cook's achievement,
looks very much like sour grapes.
Tiik "editorial infants ' on the
Dallas News are lucky. They
are the best paid newspaper
writers in Texas, and Christ
said, "Suffer little children to
"Raise More Hogs."
^The question of "Raise More
Hogs'' is dealt with by the Press-
News, San Angelo, is a rather
long editoral and it is worth
reading. This part of it should
not be overlooked anyway:
"P. P. Hill of Denton county,
who besides being a perpetual
member of the legislature, an
incomparable tax dodger and a
sledgehammer orator, is also a
bookkeeping farmer who clears
over $15,000 on his farm in Den-
ton county, once told the writer
that his hog production paid the
entire expenses of his farm.
He keeps a careful tab on the
cost of raising and finishing
hogs. He charges every ear of
corn, every ton of hay, every bit
of work required by the hogs to
the hog account. He states that
Total £159,463 68
State of Texas, County of Dallas, ss:
I, R S. Kimbrough, Cashier of the above-
named bank, do solemnly swear that the
above statement is true to the best of my
knowledge and belief.
R. S. K1MBROUCH, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
9th day of September, 190!!.
JOHN E. DAVIS, Notary Public.
Correct—Attest:
J. C. RUGEL,
E. G. WALKER.
L. W. WILSON,
Directors.
Tell us the news.
come unto Me, for of such is the j it never does cost him more than
Kingdom of Heaven
The Republic of San Antonio
compares Mayor Callaghan of
that city with Brand Whitlock,
the reform mayor of Toledo. The
fact that the San Antonio mayor
holds on to his job so long is proof
positive that he is not a reformer.
$2 per hundred pounds to get
hogs to the Fort Worth market,
and frequently he places them on
the buyers' scales at that point
at $1.85 per 1.00 pounds. He
gets from $7 to $8 per 100
pounds on the hoof for them. I s
there any wonder that Hill is a
CroseusV
20 Years
WiihHeartT rouble
"Dr. Miles' Heart Remedy has
cured me of heart disease of
over 20 years' standing. I was
so bad that I could not do my
work, and could scarcely draw
a full breath without fainting or
smothering. The doctor told me
he could do no more for me;
then I commenced taking the
Heart Remedy. I shall never
forget that night. I slept better
than I had before in months. I
kept right on getting better, un-
til I was perfectly well."
MRS. LAURA RUSSELL,
Logan, Iowa.
When the heart action is
weak, it fails to pump the blood
through the lungs with sufficient
rapidity. Then the lungs do not
absorb the proper amount of
oxygen, although they may be
taking in a normal amount of
air. The result is shortness of
breath, smothering spells, diffi-
cult breathing, oppressed feeling
in chest. Dr. Miles' Heart Rem-
edy strengthens the heart nerves
and muscles, and in this way
increases the circulation.
Get a bottle from your drug-
gist. Take it according to direc-
tions, and if it does not benefit
he will return your money.
Senator Bailey and Prohibition
Senator Bailey has come out
and put himself squarely against
state prohibition. He virtually
did it last January, but he boldly
did it at Canyon City in a speech
to the people of that section last
week. Too bad! Too bad! No
man owes more to prohibition
than Senator Bailey. His bril-
liant stand on that question put
him in congress when a young
man, and later on it put him in
the United States senate where
he has achieved national fame.
And one year ago last May it
saved him from humiliation and
defeat when his enemies were
pressing him to the wall. Enough
of the prohibition forces of North
Texas stood by him to bring vic-
tory to his standard. Now he
turns round and deliberately cut
the last remaining tie that has
bound to him through thick and
thin a large portion of a moral
constituency that he ought to
have appreciated, at least by his
silence on the question of prohi-
bition. With all his brilliancy
and with all his prominence as a
statesman he can not lead us in-
to the anti-prohibition camp.
Roger Q. Mills undertook this in
1887, and the fates consigned
him to political oblivion. Strange
that modern statesmen can not
read the signs of the times. No
man, however great and howrever
influential, can throw himself
across the progress of a great
movement and stem the current.
It has been tried too often with
fatal results. Too bad! Too
bad! On with the battle!—Texas
Christian Advocate.
The Waxahachie Light says:
The retirement of Mr. Sears of
the firm of Sears, Roebuck &
Co. with a fortune of $20,000,000
gives the patrons of that exten-
sive mail-order establishment an
j idea of how cheaply they have
| been selling goods. Better stick
to your home merchants. They
will treat you right, and each
one will guarantee that when he
retires his wealth will not amount
to even one million.
! NIGHT ON BALD MOUNTAIN,
j On a lonely night Alex. Ben-
! ton of Port Edward, N. Y., climb-
ed Bald Meuntain to the home of
a neighbor, tortured by Asthma,
bent on curing him with Dr.
King's New Discovery, that had
cut«d himself of asthma, This
i wonderful medicine soon relieved
land quickly cured lus heighbor.
Later it cured cured his son's
wife of a severe lung trouble.
Millions believe its the greatest
Throat and Lung cure on Earth.
Coughs, Colds, Croup, Hemor-
rages and Sore Lungs are surely
en red by it. Best for hay fever,
Grip and Whooping Cough. 50c
and $1.00. Trial bottle free.
Guaranteed by all druggests.
HourlyTliougnts
Always and Ever of the
Same Person
The Roseoe Times in com-
menting on a speech recently de-
livered in Roseoe by Hon. Cone
Johnson, concludes with the fol-
lowing tribute to man:
"Eloquent and logical, argu-
mentative and persuasive, com-
manding and magnetic, Cone
Johnson stands today the equal
of any man in Texas in public
life, and should the people of
Texas see fit, to honor him with
the office of Governor or any
other office of trust in the state
honors will bo even, for the re-
cipient of the honor will worthily
bear the laurel wreath."
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To come to our yard when you need
lumber, why? Because we sell the
same grades for a little less,
'Phone 13/2
Mesquite, Texas.
JOHN E. QUARLES QQ Walter W, Walker
Manager.
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"i wonder," thought Miss Arabella
as she thoughtfully finished her break-
fast, "1 wonder If there will be a letter
from him this morning."
And as though in answer to her
thought the clock struck nine and the
bell rang. She ran to the door for
the mail.
"O dear!" sighed Arabella.
"Is there any mail?" cried a voice
from the kitchen. i
"Only a letter from grandpa," «aid
Arabella. "He says he expects to Ar-
rive here at seven o'clock to-nighk."
And running into her room slic
gazed at the photo of a soulful young\^
gentleman and turned up her nose
at the same.
"If you don't want to write," slio
exclaimed, "you needn't! I'm sure I
don't care!"
Adding—
"I wonder why he doesn't write!"
the clock strikes 10.
"Six wedding notices in the paper
this morning!" she announced.
"Yes," cried the voice from the
kitchen. "Juno is always a busy
month."
Whereupon Arabella walked slowly
to her room, took a window curtain
from a drawer and draped it around
her head like a bridal veil.
the clock strikes 11.
One corner of the room was shel-
tered by a screen and adorned with a
sofa, a canopy and a profusion of
cushions. These Arabella rearranged
and her smile was the smile of a
tender reminiscence. On a table in
the middle of the room was a lamp,
and this she moved to the other end
of the apartment.
"I've moved the parlor lamp!" she
announced.
"What," said the voice In the kitch-
en, "did you do that for?"
"Because," said Arabella, "it shone
right in the cozy corner and spoiled
everything."
THE CLOCK STRIKES 12.
She seated herself at the desk and
found a package of picture postcards.
These she began to address to various
masculine names.
"Are you in Europe?" Bhe wrote on
one.
"Don't say I never think of you,"
she wrote on another.
"Guess who it's from," she wrote on
a third. «:
"Now be a good boy," she wrote on
a fourth.
the clock strikes 1.
She called a friend on the tele-
phone.
"Say, Agnes. Listen. Can't you
come over to-morrow night? No, lis
ten. Grandpa's coming to-night, but
he goes away again to-morrow. Listen.
Come to-morrow night and bring Jim-
my—bring Charley, too, if you can
find him. Listen. What time did you
get home last night? No, listen. I
got in at half past ten; he's an aw-
fully nice feiiow. o,.y, listen. At,
eight o'clock to-morrow night. Listen.
Come early and we'll try and get them
to take us out somewhere. Good-by."
THE CLOCK STRIKES 2.
She looked at herself in the glass,
right view, front view, left view and
hack. She powdered her nose and
looked at the effect: she dusted the
powder off and looked at the effect.
She arched her eyebrows, threw her
head back, showed her teeth, nodded
her head and shook it. She advanced
her face until it nearly touched the
mirror and studied hor mouth intently.
"1 wonder," she thought, "if this
stuff they put on their lips does come
off."
THE CLOCK STRIKES 3.
"I would like to see some stockings,
please," she said to the salesgirl.
"What kind?" asked the salesgirl.
"Silk," said Arabella; "silk open-
work."
"Here are some very pretty ones,"
said the salesgirl.
"No," said Arabella, "I want to see
the latest styles with clocks on them."
THE CLOCK STRIKES 4.
"I never made a better fit," said the
dressmaker.
Arabella looked at her reflection
with all serious attention proper to
the trying on of a new dress.
"I wish," she said, "that you'd made
it a little tighter in the waist and a
little fuller—up here—"
THE CLOCK STRIKES 5.
"Why are you so quiet?" cried the
voice from the kitchen.
"I'm working," said Arabella.
There was silence.
"Yes, 1 am," said Arabella.
"What are you doing?" asked the
voice in the kitchen.
"It's Lawrence's birthday to-mor-
row, and I'm embroidering a bunch of
for-get-me-ndts on the ends of a neck-
tie I bought for him to-day," said
Arabella.
THE CLOCK STRIKES fi.
She put on her hat and sauntered
slowly down the street perfectly ob-
livious to the manly throng that was
hurrying home. She almost ran into
one hurrying person.
"Why, Bella!" said he.
"Why, John!" she exclaimed, "who'd
have thought of meeting you?"
THE CLOCK STRIKES 7.
Tho bell rang. Arabella answered
the door. Old grandpa walked in-
naughty old grandpa with his waggish
look and snow-white hair.
"Well, if here isn't little Arabella,"
he exclaimed, and in his naughty, wag
glsh, grandfatherly way he whispered,
"Arabella, how's your fellow ?"
"Pooh, grandpa!" exclaimed Ara
bella, "I've more to do than think oi
fellows!"
♦
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