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THE SAN ANTONIO DAILY EXPRESS: SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 30, 1909.
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POPULATION OF TEXAS CITIES:
The population of the seven largest
cities of Texas on June 1, 1904, as esti-
mated by the United States Census Bu-
reau, is as follows:
SAN ANTONIO 59,581
Houston 54,468
Dallas 49,678
Galveston 32,613
Fort Worth 26,960
Austin 24,148
Waco 23,162
With his 125,00 for traveling ex-
penses President Roosevelt does not
need to envy members of Congress
their mileage allowance.
Secretary of State Root will travel
part of the way to Rio Janiero on a
Chilean warship. That shows how
friendly we are with Chile.
There are 715 votes in the Demo-
cratic State convention and Judge
Bell's friends have an idea that about
400 odd of them will be cast for him
for Governor on about the second or
third ballot.
It seems to be easy enough for Con-
gress to facilitate the transaction of
business when the members become
impatient to adjourn and, as usual,
the last week of the session has been
a very busy one.
If Judge Wells should go on the
stump for Judge Bell he would prove
a tower of strength for the Fort Worth
candidate. Judge Wells is not only
very popular in Texas, but he is a
r.peaker of ability and what he saya
carries conviction with it.
The opening of the Cuero-Stockdalo
extension of the Galveston, Harris
burg & San Antonio Railroad will
soon bring the rich and populous
country around Cuero into close con-
nection with this city and give us
another outlet to the sea at Port
Lavaca.
The battle of words at the joint
political debates next Saturday ai.
Garza's Crossing will doubtless bd
hotter than the barbecued meat or the
hot tamales. The candidates will
force each other to come out into the
open and say how and when and what
and for some of them it will be a
crossing of the Rubicon.
The Problem of Farm Labor.
There is throughout the South
su< h demand for labor on the farms
as creates a problem calling for so-
lulirn and interviews with a num-
ber of farmers and business men have
been published showing the need ami
suggesting the means for meeting it.
lr most instances the idea appears
tc bo that labor must be supplied by
immigrants brought into tlie fields
either from the North or fror.i foreign
countries. As one farmer expressed
it. "the time is near at hand when we
must either curtail planting or im-
port help."
A business man expressed the opin-
ion that the best way to secure un-
skilled labor for the farms is to La/e
more strict vagrancy laws and to en-
force them, that if all the vag ants
and idlers in the towns and cities
were made to work importation of1 la-
bor would not be necessary, it will
piobably occur to the farmers, how-
ever, that it might be found dif'icult
to make effective farm hands of the
vagrants who hang about tlie towns
without visible means of supnori and
without sufficient industry or energy
to earn more than a precarious living.
Perhaps an enforcement of the vag-
rancy laws that would accustom these
idlers to work on the public roads
under the persuasive impetus of a
watchful guard might fit them for
usefulness after a time, but it would
hardly be very desirable on the farm
to begin with.
An agricultural and immigration
agent in Georgia suggests that the
solution of the labor question in the
South can only be arrived at in the
agricultural territory by inducing
small farmers to take up the land
instead of large landholders trying to
work extensive plantations on the
wage or tenant system. With the big
plantations divided up into small
fprms and sold upon easy terms the
most desirable sort of labor would,
gravitate towards the agricultural dis-
tricts now suffering for lack of hus-
bandmen and the country would de-
velop arid prosper.
As a rule the best and most con-
tented citizens are the home owners
and those who are struggling to pro-
vide themselves with a home by
thrift and industry. It would cer-
tainly be better for the State to have
a large population of home owners
than a large population of roving,
restless tenant farmers or wage earn-
ers with no ambition for or prospects
ef measurable independence. The so-
lution of the labor problem in the
agricultural territory must, therefore,
be largely a matter of increasing the
number of small farmers rather thar.
of farm laborers.
upon which this "our" Caesar feeds is
merely eggs.
WHAT STATE PAPERS SAY
Like Unto the Millenium.
Representative Townsend of Michi-
gan thinks the present session of Con-
gress will be recorded as one of the
most important ever held because Con-
gress has establis i the principle-
that public service corporations are
corporations for the public service
end has served notice that this is to
be a Government of law and order ad
ministered tor the benefit of all the
people.
In a brief speech in the House the
ether day Mr. Townsend, summing up
the work of the session neating tho
close, said:
A campaign has been marie against
fraud and corruption in what hith-
erto have been called high places,
which has given hope and eourage
to honest men. One of the best in-
dications of improvement is the fact
that the criminal is no longer re-
spectable, whether lie steals mil-
lions or dimes; whether in- corners
money or directs a mob; whether lie
sells tainted meats or gives rebates,
or whether he misappropriates pub-
lic funds or filches from the individ-
ual. Whether he be a corrupt Sen-
ator or a defaulting clerk, lie is
amenable to the law and is brought
to justice and branded vvitli his
crime.
This is the ideal of government.
Equal and exact justice, absolute im-
partiality and no immunity to any
wrongdoer nor withholding of reward
from any of the deserving. The most
intense reformers could ask 110 mor-3
than has already been accomplished,
according to the testimony of M.\
Townsend, who declares that never in
all United States history was the pub-
lic service cleaner or of a higher
standard than now.
Mr. Townsend, the Congress and
the people of the United States are
certainly to be congratulated if all
that Mr. Townsend says be true and
whc^can doubt it?
The attention of The Express has
been called to the fact that in 1809
Mr. Colquitt was a member of the
State Tax Commission, the other
members being Governor Sayers and
R. W. Finley, and that on page 33 of
the report it is found that the com-
mission recommended an increase of
the tax on beer dealers from $50 to
$75, but Mr. Colquitt favored a tax
of $300, the same as paid for a whis-
key license.
Bailey and the Corporations.
The efforts made by the Hearst maga-
zine to produce 011 the public mind the
impression that Senator Bailey is th
tool of corporations received a heavy
blow in rebuttal by a chance overhearing
of a speech by Senator Bail* y to ccrtair
corporation officers in the lobby of u
New York hotel lately. The New York
Times publishes the account of the
cident, which has stirred considerable
comment in the East.
It seems that Mr. Bail- y was seated
talking to a friend, when a party of caj:
italists, who were known to the other
man, cam- up. Knowing of course who
Bailey was, these men began to complain
bitterly of the hostile attitude of Con
gress towards corporations as shown in
the railway rate bill and other measures
this winter. Their complaints had
reached the stage of denunciation, ac-
cording to the reporter, when Senator
Bailey cut in in menacing tone:
)«>n gentlemen who run these corpo-
rations, said lie, "must obey the law.
If you had obeyed it in the first place
>ou would not have this new legislation
to complain of. All of your properties
are held by virtue of the popular respect
lor law. and yet you are the very men
who are doing most by your very acts
to' break down this respect for law.
Every time Congress passes a law you
\ n>late it. You have violated every iaw
we have given you. We gave you the
interstate commerce jet; you violated
that. We gave you the Sherman anti-
trust law; you violated that. Than we
Rav<' you the Elkins law and you violat-
ed that, and now we give you a new one
It you violate that, we will give you
another one that will have iron teeth."
At this a pause ensued, and then one
of the group demanded to know what
"iron teeth" meant. "I mean a law that
will send every one of you to the peni-
tentiary," retorted Hailey. Then lie con-
tinued: "The ownership of competing
corporations by the same hands cannot
go on. This Pennsylvania Railroad com-
bination is one that will have to bo
broken up and will be. Corporation offi-
cials who violate the- law. who break
every law that Congress enacts are do-
ing more to create anarchists and social-
ists than all the propaganda that those
People cart put into operation from now
till doom's day."
Texas and the Cotton
The
Mills.
The White House Mene.
The National committee of the Peo-
ple's Party may decide to call a gen-
eral meeting of all the reform political
forces to mass them into one coherent
and homogeneous whole, it would bo
a fine thing to have all the reformers
hunched and thus get them out of the
way, but it is not probable that they
will ever be able to cohere.
if butchers, restaurant keepers and
purveyors of food products in gen-
eral knew that the findings of the in
spectors as to their premises were to
be made public, that would be a
greater incentive to cleanliness and
proper sanitation than any $5 or $10
fine. A man who keeps a dirty, un-
sanitary place deserves to have his
business hurt, for only in this way
can the public health be protected.
Colonel Campbell's campaign man-
ager declined to permit Judge Bell to
speak at Campbell's meeting in llotty-
ton when a joint debate was asked for.
Judge Bell's manager thereupon an-
nounced that Judge Bell woujd be
glad to divide time at his appointment
with Colonel Campbell The Palestine
candidate for Governor is not the only
one among them who has declined to
meet the Kort Worth man in joint de-
bate.
In his speech at Denton Judge
Brooks dwelt at some length upon the
opposition of the metropolitan press
tc his candidacy for the office 01 Gov-
ernor. If /here has been any special
autagonism to Judge Brooks on the
part of the "metropolitan press" it
has escaped the attention of The Ex-
press, although that gentleman has
V.een criticized for his attitude on
the prohibition question and for his
Insistence that prohibition is an issue
In this campaign. The press recog-
nizes the fact that Judge Brooks is a
tcod man with some erroneous ideas.
Upon what meat does this our
Caesar feed that, he is grown so
great? asked Cassius concerning the
mighty Roman who was said to stride
the narrow world like a Colossus.
Perhaps, if the truth were known,
Caesar did not eat meat at all. It
may be that he was essentially a
vegetarian and believed with them,
as do many of the pagans, that tho
eating of meat is little short of bar
barotts.
Some inquiring Cassius has shown
curiosity regarding the diet of the
occupant of the White House, the
modern Colossus who bestrides more
worlds than Caesar knew and who is
greater in his day than was the Ro-
man Emperor who thrice put away
the crown, yet did not know how to
found or to perpetuate a Republic like
that which is an example and a bea-
con light to the world of Twentieth
Century enlightenment. And Presi-
dent Roosevelt has satisfied the curi-
osity as to his diet by a specific
statement concerning the matin menu,
at least.
According to the information given
out the "regular White House break-
fast consists of hard boiled eggs,
rolls and coffee." That Is a!l there is
to it. No breakfast foods prepared by
patent process, no crisp bacon or
toothsome chops nor flap jacks or
waffles with honey to top the meal.
Nothing but eggs, rolls and coffee.
But there are other meals and proba-
bly some meat is served at other
hours of the day along with the vege-
tables that, come from the home of
tho President at Oyster Bay of which
he speaks with such becoming pride.
It is to be regretted that the world
has not been fully informed as to
the daily bill of fare at the Whito
House and that it does not show the
same simplicity always' that is char-
acteristic of the White House break-
fust. The President is known to bo
a man of robust frame and is gen-
erally accredited with robust health,
but he has never been accused of be-
ing a gourmand. Perhaps the break-
fast bill of fare affords a safe index
to the character of the other menus
and that the simple lifa for which
he pleads is reflected by his pimple
diet.
And so it may be that the meat
Now it appears that the railroad
under Colonel Campbell's receivership
was fined for giving rebates to a mo
nopolistic corporation whose act
were in such violation of the anti
trust laws of Texas that Attorney Gen
eral Charles K. Bell succeeded in put
tmg it out of existence. Actions speak
louder than words.
Another land deal involving nearly
two hundred thousand acres and
million dollars is added to the long
series of big transfers that is open-
ing up Southwest Texas to the farmer
and truck grower.
Nobody will demand an investiga-
tion of those Congressional "pork bar-
rels" to see whether the contents arc
pure.
The Man at the Desk.
The Man at tho Desk has a patient look
As lie writes and writes in his ouon
book,
And lie binds his back to the (ask before
.Like a galley-slave to his hand-rubbed
oar.
Columns of figures he marshals by,
Piled up decimals mountains high
Which seem to sing to his well-ruled
brain
His long, monotonous life-refrain:—
"Debit, credit, voucher, pay,—
Discount, balance, day liy day;
Carried forward, interest, duns,—
So the monotonous river runs."
'lhe Man at tho Desk with the patient
look;—
"Early to bed and early to rise,"
Yet he's neither healthy, wealthy, not-
wise.
Honest, industrious, sober, chained
To his office coll. he has long remained
Dead of ambition, busy of pen,
Adding up figures for other men.
Debit, credit, remit, amount.
Carried forward, close account;
Daybooks, drafbooks, interest,
duns,—
So the monotonous river runs."
The Man at the Desk with the patient
look
Has written his life in the open book.
Has charged up Youth with a small
amount.
And crossed off Love as a closed ac-
count.
Yet bright are the tears in Ills faded eye
As the column of figures marches by.
Black of Ink and with mourning brave,
Dike a last parade to yawning grave.
"Debit, credit," the bugles play,
"Discount, balance, voucher, pay,
Carried forward, interest, dums,—
So the monotonous river runs."
Of Interest to Women.
One or the obligations of tho youthful
(.ays of the present generation was the
unday frock, which was kept expressly
■ be worn to church or to any festival
connected with church doings. The belles
ci today no longer have this to consider,
but simply arrange that, two or three of
their prettiest dresses «hal! be kept fresh
and ready for any emergency, and this
Includes the Sabbath day duties. It en-
tirely depends upon Mio whim of the
maiden, too, as to what sfe will elon, anil
a rainy Sunday In summer, In the coun-
try, of course. Is eitiUo likely to find Iter
In fresh white pique skirts of walking
length with some dainty lingerie waist,
or if too cool for pique, serge will re-
place, but always just reaching the
ankle, in order to keep clean of the mud
or dust. The luxury of a bi ruffled gown
tor Sunday wear, is confined to those
that drive, for the full trailing, beruffioil
skirt Is cumbersome to hold up, and the
effect when it is uplifted in not one of
grace.
Denison cotton mill has done so
well that its owners fori justified in
aelding fifteen cars of new machinery
and embark in the manufacture of cot-
ton fabrics. Similar successful reports
ronie from the mills at Bonham, Shor-
tfall, Waxahacbie and other points. Cot-
ton spinning ought to bo one of the lead-
ing industries of T< \as and some day it
will be.—Denison Herald.
\\ hen questions of fuel and transporta-
tion have been worked out to a more
economical basis and two additional
deep-water ports are, built on our gulf
coast, Texas as the largest cotton pro-
ducing State in the Union wilt be the
largest cotton manufacturing State. It
will take time and men and money to
work it out, but a start lias been made
and natural conditions will inevitably do
the rest.
♦ ♦ ♦
By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them.
Amid all the excitement. and charges
and counter-charges provoked by tlv-
champaign men are apt to lose sight of
rhe main question, and that is, who Is
the best man for Governor? It is not a
question turning: on purely personal or
social qualities or accomplishments, or
the intellectual charms or attractions ol'
any candidate, but its solution must de-
pend on the record each candidate has
made and the evidence he can furnish of
fitness and experience.
It may be conceded that all the. candi-
dates are men of above the average of
ability, and that they are men with clean
records and of honorable character.
There is no occasion or . xcijse to assail
either of them personally, but it is proper
to examine their records. The Chronicle
has not and will not say an unkind word
as to either of them, for it feels no un-
kiiidness. It supports Judge (_\ K. Bell
for the sole reason that it knows he has
given strongest proof of his fitness for
the place.
Mr. Campbell, a most likeable and
worthy man. is wholly untried and inex-
perienced. Judge Brooks has had only
one oft ice, and that purely non-political.
Mr Colquitt has been In the Senate and
is now Railroad Commissioner, and has
in the latter position so demeaned him- i
self that it is alleged as ground for in-
junction against his acts that he pre-
judged a cause of profound importance
as a candidate- and enforced his pre
vlously expressed opinion by judicial de
cree when he went from the stump to
the bench.
Judge Hell has been District Attorney,
District Judge. State Senator, member
of Congress and Attorney General, and
he was efficient, clean and honest in all
these places.
The unanimous, enthusiastic testimony
of those who knew him best and those
who served with him in high places is
that he is clean-handed, high-minded and
most capable.—Waco Times-Herald.
"By their fruits ye shall know them,'
as it is written In scripture, and judg
rnent of a man based on his acts is a
safer and better guide than on his mere
words. Most men have good intentions
and make good professions, but the few-
est match them with good deeds. Judgr
Bell's record is an open book which all
may read, and in it is nothing to be
apologized for or explained away.
♦ ♦ ♦
Fruitless Opposition. ^
Mr. Crane declines to become a candi-
date for the Senate in opposition to Joe
Hailey. Mr. Crane is wise —Waco Times-
Herald.
It would be more fcolish for any
man to enter the race at this eleventh
hour against Senator Bailey. The hope
of a stampede from Bailey by reason of
that muck-raking article is about as
forlorn as that the calf cherished when
he tried to butt the tra'n oil' of the track.
♦ ♦ ♦
Our Wastefulness.
Other people become well to do on
things that the American people literally
throw away. Our farmers buy machin-
ery, which with proper care should last
a life time, and allow it to become rusty,
making it necessary to r« place it in a
tew years, ('ottou is allowed to be dam-
aged when at. small expense it could be
kept in good condition. Ana so it goes.
Nor is this wastefulness confined to the
farmers. It pervades nil classes—the
rich probably being the most wasteful.—
Denison Herald.
This spirit of wastefulnt s is one that
permertes our whole life nd inflicts a
financial loss greater than the boll
weevil and other insects. Here in Texas
especially, our farmers too often forget
that wagons atid farm machinery are
more damaged by the hot pun than by
rain. Extravagance and wastefulness iu
dress, in cooking an over-supply of food,
in allowing grain and fodder to rot for a
little prop< r protection make a big hole
in our annual budget.
The Gift of Speech.
Lady—Yon said this parrot had the gift
of speech. He does nothing but holler and
shriek and say nothing.
Dealer-1 meant the gift of "political
speech," lady.—Judge.
MERITS OF
AN INDUSTRIAL
EDUCATION
An Illustrated Lecture Delivered
Last Night by President C.
T. Work of Denton.
BASIC PRINCIPLE IS
PRACTICAL ECONOMY
The illustrated lecture expounding the
aims and principles of manual training
and industrial education in Texas, de-
livered by President Cree T. Work of the
College of Industrial Arts at Denton,
Beethoven Hall last night was heard
by an appreciative audience consisting
of representative educators of San An
tonio and others interested in educational
affairs.
President Work was ably assisted in
liis lecture by Prof. C. N. Adkisson,
member of the faculty of the college, who
operated the stereopticon, tlie slides' for
which were made by the students in the
department of photography in the in
dustrial school.
A widespread ignorance of the purposes
of the College of Industrial arts in par-
ticular and a seeming lack of sympathy
with industrial education throughout the
State have promoted these two edu-
cators to tour Texas on a campaign of
publicity in the effort to awaken
proper understanding t)f the valuable
work of that Institution. President
Work and his assistant, Professor Ad
kisson, came to San Antonio from Vic
toria, where they exploited the work of
tho industrial college night before last.
On 1110 preceding evening they were in
Houston on the same mission and tonight
they appear iu San Marcos.
President Work declared the prime ob-
ject of industrial education to be tho
perfect co-ordination of physical and
mental ability, showing that neither
could reach the highest development
without the assistance of the other.
Education
Really Life.
"Education," said President Work,
"according to the founder of the kinder-
garten system, is 'the proper treatment
of life.' A more recent definition, how-
ever. is 'the preparation for social effi-
ciency.' We have also been taught that
education is a preparation for some-
thing that is to come in the future.
Education'is more than a preparation
for life; it is life. It is the proper func-
tion ol' schools to deal with life as it is,
and it is the place of the teacher to de-
velop life as it now for its own best
present interest.
"Industrial and manual training are
essential features of education. AH our
people should appreciate what skilled
crafts mean by realizing that through
them are produced the wealth and sus-
tenance of the world."
Here the spaker entered into a brief
review of the different industrial periods,
showing by use of the stereopticon the
former manner of spinning, threshing,
candle making, house building, in whien
rough-hewn logs were chiefly utilized,
coming on down to the present age »f
high industrial achievement, with its
fabric factories, combined harvesters and
elaborate office buildings and residences.
President Work showed how these re-
sults had been attained only through the
development of industrial arts to which
the world owes the majority of its mag-
nificence.
The lecturer laid stress upon the state-
ment that an industrial education in ac-
cordance with the system in use at the
'ollege of Industrial Arts is more eco-
nomical in the matter of time and labor
than what is commonly known as a
literary education.
"The diversity of methods by which
knowledge is imparted in the industrial
schools," said President Work, "has a
tendency to sustain the effort of a stu-
dent beyond that of one devoting his
time to literary and scientific work
alone.
Develop
All the Faculties.
"Literary courses are given side by sid.3
with the studies in the practical arts.
The student can spend an hour at a
literary or scientific task and enjoy a
recreation by studying the art of practi-
cal gardening, cooking, sewing and the
like. These courses develop every fac-
ulty of the student at the same time af-
fording him a benefit in the way of
husbanding his physical and mental
strength."
He brought out that an Industrial edu-
cation develops the esthetic nature of the
student, teaching him to delight iu tho
beautiful and the symmetrical through
a series of lessons in drawing, wood-
carving. gardening, weaving, rafia work
and the like that depend uuun the laws
of precision and beauty for their intrin-
sic value. He also urged that when a
child has obtained a consciousness of
having made by his own efforts some-
thing of real value h spirit of indepen-
dence and confidence is thereby engen-
dered that is an indispensable acquisition
to his general fitness for life.
He explained how the principles of
elementary geometry, civil engineering
and other mathematical sciences were
forcibly illustrated by studies in draw-
ing, gardening, woodearving and even
the forging of iron, and how by the prac-
tical application of these principles tho
student was enabled to grasp compre-
hensively their real meaning.
" i lie majority of the money of tho
world," said President Work, "is spent
by the women, and the average salarv
earned by the men is something like $40
a month. 'How is it possible to live?'
you say. Well, we are trying,* to make 't
easier to live even on that salary by
teaching the girls practical economy.
Girls Make
Graduating Dresses.
"The girls at the College of Industrial
Arts are required to make their own
graduating dresses. The hats they wear
are made by their own hands from the
frame to the last aigrette for an orna-
ment. They are taught to cut by the
moat economical patterns and not waste
the goods. They are taught to cook
scientifically and to mix brains with
food, so to speak, in its preparation.
They arc taught to launder and learn
how to orevent the useless wearing away
of garments oy the use of impure soaps.
They are taught to beautify the home
and to care for it scientifically. In fact
they are given an education that emi-
nently fits them for a useful place in
•democratic society."
With a picture of a human brain on the
screen, President Work showed the ne-
cessity for the perfect co-ordination of
all the faculties of man in order to at-
tain the best mental development. lie
declared that the brain was connected
with every part of tho body by a nerv-
ous system that required development
as much as the brain.
"One's education is not complete," said
the speaker, "unless the hands have
been trained to execute satisfactorily
the dictates of the brain. Industrial
training makes the student adept with
his hands and equips him to cope with
the various resistances with which he
will be confnyited in life. It is to de-
velop all faculties alike and attain ap-
proximate educational perfection to.*
which industrial education strives, and
when it is universally accepted as an
excellent means of attaining the bt st
equipment for life the social system will
be materially bettered."
President Work closed with a comn1'-
ment to the City of San Antonio for the
industrial movement it has inaugurated
in its public schools and assured those
present that It was one of the most im-
portant stens taken in some time.
NEWS FROM SOUTHWEST TEXAS.
ALPINE NEWS ITEMS.
Crop and Pasture Are Very Good and
People Are Prosperous.
ALPINE, Tex., June 27.—Alpine had a
heavy rain followed by a heavy hail
storm today. The rain was a great bene-
fit to the country. It was badly needed
and came in good time. The hail did
some damage to the fruit and vegetables.
Miss Iva, Loula and Lottie Sowell have
gone on a visit to relatives at Abilene.
Dan Carr of El Paso is here on a visit
to J. B. Irving.
G. W. Gourley of Presidio County vis-
ited Alpine this week.
Mrs. West and child rep of Waxachie is
here on a visit to Mrs. Linn.
W. A. Breed love has sold his home in
Alpine and has moved to El Paso.
Miss Lavcrne Crenshaw has returned
from Beaumont, wheie she has attend-
ing school.
The protracted meetiitg at the Chris-
tian Church closed Sunday. There were
eleven names added to the roll of mem-
bers, eight by confession and baptism
and three by letter.
Miss Irene Hunter of Cuero Is here
for the summer.
Mrs. I. S. James of Marfa paid Alpine
a visit this week.
Miss Emmet Kelley returned to El
Paso Monday, after a pleasant visit with
Mrs. Irving.
Tom Pulliam visited Alpine Monday.
Robert Wade came up from his ranch
last week.
Cebe Dugat returned from tho North-
ern part of Mexico last week.
Rocky Wilhelm was up from his ranch,
near Marathon Saturday.
C. C. Hurley of Ditto was in Alpine
the last week.
The Marfa baseball nine came down
Friday and again defeated the Alpine
team by a score of 9 to 3.
BOQUILLAS ITEMS.
Another Good Lead of Quicksilver
Struck in This Section.
BOQl'ILLAS, Tex., June 28.— Mr. Tovvn-
send report having struck a good vein
of quicksilver in his mine at Nesmith
This is the property of D. E. Lindsay,
adjoining the Dallas people property.
Mr. Townsend is well pleased with his
prospects and expects to do a good deal
more development work. He is now on
his way to Alpine by way of Lahltas,
but expects to be back in o few days
Mr. Dryden is looking after the work in
the meantime.
It is very not and dry and no rain to
speak of. Some corn at San Vicente is
nearly made, but grasshoppers may
damage the fall crop.
Mr. Aveury sold a couple of carloads of
mixed horses and mares to P. T. Bent
we understand at a good figure.
Mr. Ernest has made contract again
with the Government lor carrying mail
the next four years from Marethon to
Nesmith. He expects to put on a second
mail hack and will run two buckboards
weekly after the July 1.
Briggs News Items.
BRIGGS, Tex., June 28. —M. L. Lang-
ford, who has been in Bertran the past
month, spent Sunday with his family.
Charles Patterson and wife of Florcnse
spent Tuesday with M. Patterson.
Mrs. Rollie Beech and sisters of
Youngsport have been visiting friends
here.
The Baptist meeting is now In progress.
Rev. Mr. Thompson of Florence at-
tended the meeting Sunday.
L. Ij. Price of Lampasas spent a few
days here last. week.
Miss Madeline Kirk, who has been vis-
iting here, returned to her home In San
Angelo Sunday.
W. C. Baker and daughter, Maude, of
Mahomet, spent Saturday here.
Messrs. Eseavllle and Burns ck Burnet
were here Saturday.
Charlie McCormick and brother of
Mahomet were here Saturday.
Cotton Will Be Made.
GOLIAD, Tex., June 27.—The long
drouth was effectually broken by an inch
rainfall last night and it is steadily rain-
ing today. It came too late to help corn,
with the exception of preventing it from
shrinking and losing weight. Cotton will
be made and a large crop is almost
issured if it turns off dry for the next
month.
La Bahia Camp W. O. W. gave a swell
banquet last night at their hall. The
Charco degree team came over to con-
fer degrees on four candidates. The fat-
ted call' was killed, and the members
and visitors were treated to a sumptuous
feast of barbecued meats and other nieo
things.
Cotton Crop Assured.
BART LETT, Tex., June 27.—The ter-
rible drouth that has prevailed here for
the last three or four weeks was broken
last night by a four or five-inch rain,
east of here six to eight inches of rain
fell.
This will insure a fair cotton crop,
but corn was already greatly injured,
will probably make from one-third to
one-half crop, possibly enough to keep
the people front having to import Kansas
corti. Considerable wind aceomanied the
rain, but little if any damage resulted
from it.
Round Rock Items.
ROUND ROCK, Tex., June 27.—A heavy
rain came up yesterday about t> o'clock
and continued about six,hours. The rain,
which was too late to do the corn any
good, will help the cotton a great deal.
The supper to have been given by the
Masons last night was postponed to a
later date on account of the weather.
The W. O. W. Brushy Camp No. 218
will give their annual basket picnic
Thursday, June 28. Speeches will be
made by prominent speakers. The skat-
ing rink will open at 4 p. nt. Music will
be given by the Palm Valley cornet
band.
Smithville News Notes.
SMITHVILLI?, Tex., June 27.-A good
slow rain fell here for about four hours
and trainmen coming in from the
North report good rains north of here
as high up as Egan, 190 miles up the
line of the Katy. Tho weather today
has been cloudy and cold, with prospects
for more rain.
A series of three games of baseball
will be played here between Hurdleston's
Colts and a team from McMahon. The
first game was played yesterday even-
ing and resulted in a score of 6 to I
in favor of the visitors.
Conductor A. B. Snover left today for
Lawrence, Kan., on a visit to his father
and sister. Mr. Snover will be gone for
thirty days.
Miss Blanch Nevill, who was re-elected
as one of the teachers in the public
schools here has resigned, having ac-
cepted a positron elsewhere. Miss Nevill
has made ma^iy friends in Smithville,
who will regro to see her leave.
Mrs. Ernest tfngle and children have
returned front j visit to Honey Grove,
where they ha\r been visiting relatives.
San Patricio Items.
>AN PATRICIO, Tex., June ^S.-A fin«
raXfoll here last night, whic hwas very
benei ^ial to both farmers and stockmen,
as grab /ind water were beginning to l»e
scarce in pastures.
Miss May Eads of Beeville spent a few
days of last week here.
Mrs. J. E. Sullivan has returned homo
from Skid more.
Miss Josephine Sullivan came over from
Corpus Christ! last Friday witli the re-
mains of her niece. Miss Ida Wood, who
died there last. Thursday. Miss Wood
was buried here Saturday in the Catholic
graveyard on the hill.
J. (\ Wood and Miss Josephine Wood
of Beeville were here to attend the burial
of Miss Ida Wood.
Mrs. John Conlau has returned home to
Cotulla. She was accompanied by her
sister, Miss Dora McMurray, ho will
spend the summer in Cotulla.
Alisscs Lizzie McGloln and Mabel Mc-
Gloin returned to tlv Lake Saturday front
Sinton, to which place they will return
shortly to remain permanently.
Falls City News Items.
FALLS CITY, Tex., June 28.—Miss
Kate Shoehv visited friends here Sun-
day and returned to Sutherland Springs
Monda y.
Miss Nora Hodden entertained a crowd
of young people at a croquet game Sun-
day oven ing. All spent a pleasant even-
ing, and ended ihe day by attending a
singing at Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Moczy-
gamba's home.
F. J. Kolodzie made a business trip to
our city from Pa una Maria Tuesday.
Mrs. Emil Lock went to San Antoniu
for a few days this week.
Will Grun's mother of Yorktown vis-
ited him this week.
Mr. and Mrs, Gid Pace and Mr. find
Mrs. Merriweather of Karnes City aro
camped on the river here fishing.
Muss Ruth Culpepper of Dewces is
visiting relatives here this week.
Mike ( lark was here from Hobson
Wednesday.
Arthur Krdman returned home from
Kenedy Friday last.
Bob Scale made a business trip to
Floresvllle Thursday.
Mrs. F. O. Culpepper visited relatives
at Floresvllle last week.
Felix Moezygamba is visiting at San
Antonio for a few days.
Mrs. Henry Moezygamba visited her
parents at Pa una Maria Sundav.
C. W. Spencer & Co. have nad their
store moved and are having a larger one
crectc-d in its place.
Mathls Culpepper nf Stockdale, who
was here Wednesday left for Kenedy.
J. A. Richardson a . sons, Willie and
Monie, went to Cucr Thursday.
Sutherland •' ^rings Items.
SUTHERLAND PRINGS, Tex., June
28.—One of the most enjoyable society
functions of the week was given by Mr,
and Mrs. Edward Polley at their homo
Wednesday evening.
Among those who attended were: Mes*
dames Herndon, Wiseman and Craig-
head. Misses Everts, Cooper, Warren,
Pruitt and Woods. Messrs. Wiseman,
Olm Polley, John Sutherland, and Robert
Brown.
Graves Chapman is here from tho
North to visit his sister, Mrs. Edward
Polley.
Miss Sallie Woods of Runge is visit-
ing Mrs. J. W. Wiseman.
Miss Sue I*ay of I>avernia ?»pcnt ono
Uay here last week.
R. Murray visited friends in Seguin
Sunday.
Miss Lauk Clifton of Stockdale is vis-
iting relatives here this week.
Professor Webb and wife spent last
Sunday here.
Robert Southern went to Eavernla
Tuesday.
Frank Anderson and Fred Livingston
of San Antonio tire stopping at the
Oak Hotel this week.
The camping season has opened and
quite a number of campers are arrivit-g
daily.
W. N. McKay of Seguin was in town
Tuesday.
Miss Mary Sheliy visited home folks
Saturday and Sunday.
Miss Martha Lezerne and nephew,
Charlie McGee, left Saturday for Seguin
to visit relatives.
Helps the Crops.
WARING, Tex., June 27.—The severe
drouth has been broken in this section
by heavy showers in the past twenty-
four hours. The rains will be a great
help to corn and cotton.
Smithville News Items.
SMITHVILLE, Tex., June 28.—Mrs.
Nevill died very suddenly early yesterday
morning and the remains were shipped
to Burk, Tex., iter old home.
A big barbecue was given at West
Point today and several from Smithville
attended and report having a good din-
ner and a good time generally.
Weather Conditions at Uvalde.
UVALDE, Tex., June 27.—a high wind
was experienced here last night and a
few siight shower of rain. Tito rain
must have been heavier to tlie North.
It is getting dusty and rain is needed.
Good Rain at Hutto.
HUTTO, Tex., June 27.—A two-Inch
rain fell here. It began at about .7
o'clock and rained for three hours. It
is certainly a blessing for this country,
as there has not been any rain of ac«
count for 3 months.
Crops Are Benefited.
TAYLOR. Tex., June 27.—A rain, which
began falling at 7 o'clock and continuing
for two hours or more, fell throughout
Williamson County. The precipitation
was. something over four inches, thu
heaviest rainfall for monthB. Both corn
and cotton will be greatly benefited.
Santa Anna News Notes.
SANTA ANNA, Tex., June 27.—A fin®
rain fell all over Coleman County last
night. Crops were needing it badly;
corn especially. The crop has been cut
down as it is, but there will be lots of
corn made here still. Without the rain
the crop would have been almost a total
failure. Cotton Is fine, it Is fruiting
and blooming right along. All other
growing crops are doing well.
Manor News Items.
MANOR, Tex., June 27.—Some sections
of this territory had a good rain last
night, very little in Manor, but indica-
tions for more are very promising.
Great preparations are being made for
the community barbecue to be pulled off
here on the 28th. Will bo prepared for
10,000 people.
Sweet Home News Items.
SWEET HOME, Tex., June 27.-A fine
rain fell here last night and again this
morning. It will do cotton good, but
it is almost ten) late for corn.
Our county is divided for Governor
between Campbell and Bell, with som*
Colquitt votes.
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