The Albany News. (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, January 12, 1906 Page: 4 of 8
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richaro h. Mccarty.
EDITOR AND PROPBIETOR.
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Struggle*.
Man that sails along "on the
flowery beds of ease,'" seldom
does much in the world, in the
way of bringing things to pass.
The easy road seldom ever
leads to the achievement of
great things. God gives man
wisdom, nerve and grit—but
man must put it in the Blaok
tub of difHculties and tempers
It, himself. Man that is born
and reared in the micfst of
great trials is the only man
that can stand alone in all the
vicissitude s of life. Some
college man has recently said,
that the fad about self made
men is all a myth; that it is
only oollege bred men who are
properly equipped for the chase
in this age. History will not
snpport such assertions as this.
Tbs education that is handed
out to a man on a silver platter
while he lounges on sofa pil-
low* and dines on sweetmeats,
it not the intellectual diot that
puts iron in the blood, fiber in
the musole and converts the
plastic material into intelectual
giants. Genius does not dwell
in palaoes nor dine at the
tables of kings, but ^he lays
her chaplets upon the brow of
those who are willing to work,
struggle wait and toil, and give
value reoeived for the priceless
jewel. The lap of luxury, nor
the sohool of ease have never
givsn to the world a great poem
nor a book of Action. With
the pangs of hunger gnawing
at the vitals of its victim, in
the midst of squalid poverty,
and the oppression of kings,
has polished and given te the
world its brightest stars.
Down yonder in the prison
bell of Bedford fail, crushed
and bleeding, suffering the
pangs of hunger, with nothing
to cheer his lonely prison cell,
but the clanking of prison
ekains;nothing el?e would crash
this human flower and make it
give to the world its rarest
allegorical fragrance. Nothing
but the sting of the lash, and
the stenoh of a Roman prison
wsuld have wrung from Paul
bis great theology. Poverty and
hardships made Shakespeare
steal the deer and hold horses
at the door of the theatre be-
fore it would permit him
to write the immortal Hamlet.
It made Homer suffer want as
he wandered on the shores of
Greece before he oould sing the
Iliad. The sohool of hardships
made Chantry, the sculptor
drive a donkey with milk cans
on its back, before it would
>1 him to carve beauty in
Poverty forced
to pain! sign boards
road to Paris, before
his picture on the
of Paris.
ier ih« bronse
rare and beautiful,
must beautiful
grates are grown only in the
gardens of suffering. The
whirling, grinding wheels of
pain and sorrow, produces the
diamonds of character. The
battelfield and blazing fagots,
and flowing blood are the
sources of liberty and salvation.
The swoeteet notes of music
are drawn fropi the keys by the
hand which has swept the keys
of sorrow. Its touch is seen in
the grandest painting, its charm
is heard in the sweetest song,
and its power is recognized in
the deepest thought. Struggles
and difficulties are the arrows
from God's bow, not to kill,
but to warn and strengthen us
for the battles of life.
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A Patch of Roses.
In one of our early morning
rambles, not a great while ago;
it was spring time and all the
world was iu bloom, and life
seemed like a beautiful poem.
We had drunk the sweet odor
from wild blossoms, our lungs
were inflated with the pure
atmosphere, until we were in-
toxicated with joy and glad-
ness. The whole world seemed
to us like a song, and God's
orchestra was attuned to its
music, The commercial scales
had fallen from our eyes; we
lost sight of the dollar mark,
stocks and bonds. We banish-
ed from our mind our struggles
for bread and gold. We went
out to have a good time; to pay
our court at the shrine of soli-
tude; to make love to nature;
converse with the birds and
flowers. They are interesting
companions, if you will court
them and study their habits
and learn their language.
As we strolled along up the
railroad this lovely spring
morning, the butter cups, wild
pansies and the bluebells nod-
ded good morning to us. The
bobolinks and the robin red-
breast were a hopping and a
skipping here and there and it
Just seemed to us that all na-
ture said good morniug. As
we wandered along listening to
the musio and letting our eyes
feast upon the undulating hills
and emerald everglades; wV»
thought how good God is to
paint a picture like this and
hang it in nature's studio, that
man might catch the inspira*
tion from the brush of the de-
vine Artist. In the midst of
all this beauty, our heart was
bubbling over with godness and
as ws walked along, we looked
down at our feet and saw a
little withered bluebell betweeu
the orossties, and just under
the steel rail, the little blue-
bell was famishing for mois-
ture. The great iron horse had
sprinkled it with cinders and
ashes, until its little life had
about passed out. We atoooed
down and pulled the little flow-
er up gently, and transplanted
it out of the nath of commerce;
we made it a nice little bed and
hedged it around with stone;
we carried water from the brook
that the moisture might feed
its famishing roots. This lit-
tle bluebell became our daily
companion and we watched
over it with tender care. Bye
me bye, our little llower garden
began to multiply, the wild
pansiea the honeysuckles and
wild clover blossoms made their
appearance in this wild llower
garden-- We continued to dig
about thior roots and water
them daily.The wild i*y sprung
up and dressed the crude
stone with emerald frocks.
The birds came and bnilded
their nests in the trees and
hatched their young. In the
midst of this garden the little
bluebells continued to grow
and smile and throw out its
fragrance to all—and thus,
through the life and influence
of one llower many more were
brought into existance, and
wild aird spot in nature be-
came a llower garden and so it
is in the lives of men, In the
slums of a great city a kindly
gentleman was walking one
day, when a dirty ragged street
gammon walked up to him a fid
looked up into his kindly face,
and said mister: "I am ten
years old to-day and never was
kissed in my life, please kiss
me," and the man stooped anc
kissed the cheek of the dirty
faced urchin. What the water
was to the famishing roots o
of the little bluebell—that kiss
was to the fragile human liow
er, it transplanted it, and the
civilized world inhaled the
aroma of his sweet Christian
life and his eloquence ineltec
the hearts of millions.
If gold and the applause of
men is your star of hope,
when you die, your name will
soon fade from the memory ol
men.
Good luck is the product of
steady toil.
There is nothing in a pedi-
gree; some of the sorriet runts
and the biggest scoundrels on
earth have been sired by blue-
stockings.
Love is the key that unlocks
the hearts of stone, confounds
reason, unseats lcigio and cov-
ers the world with sunshine
and happiness.
Its all tomniyiot about what
your daddy did; if you want a
job young man, roll up your
sleeves and show the world
what you can do.
gives
The w o r 1 d a 1 w a y s
a man a hearing. If lie makes
a new rat trap, preaches a new
sermon or writes a new book—
lie's got an audience.
Do your,duty and standby
your conviction; the multitude
may rail at you—but posterity
will honor your name and write
an epitaph of approval on your
grave stone.
God pity the man that can
not get the dollar mark out ol
his eyes. If money is your serv-
ant, all good ami- well, but if
you are the servant of money,
you have got a hard master to
serve.
Supt. George D. Beason says
the Public School is flourish-
ing. New scholars are coming
in daily. In two years the
Albany public school will be
4 or 5 hundred strong and
College Ilill will be decorate**
with a new stone or brick
structure—this will sound, big
to the moss backs—but get in.
the wagon boys, or get out of
the way, if you don't, the
wheels of progress will grind
you to dust, and future pos-
terity will point the linger of
scorn at your grave stone, and
say here hew the block heads
who tried to clog the wheels
of progress—but in their strug-
gles they lost out and had to
turn up their toes to the dais-
ies,
Exhibit Car
We are negotiating with the
railroads to haul _ a car of
Shackelford county exhibits
through Hast Texas,Aik.,Miss.,
Ala. and (la. If wh can make
satisfactory arrangements with
the roads, we will start about
inarch the 1st, and will be gone
about three months. The car
will be labeled with box car
letters: "Sli'ckelford county
exhibits" A scheme of this
kind will be worth fifty thous-
and Jo tli^ land owners
of Shackelford county. Some
people laughed up their sleeve
when w<* made thn assertion
that we would put tiv<< thousand
people in Shackelford county
iii the next two years. Keep
ydttr eyes on the dial plate and
watch the liigure live.
The world don't care a snap
in what college you got your
intellectual ax ground; if you
cannot hue to the line and
make the.chips-of wisdom fly,
the world don't want your serv-
ices.
God pity the man that has
no enemies.
Watch the honey bee, and
profit by its example.
I will, is the motto that
quers all difficulties.
con
The rarest and most fragrant
flower is the hardest to culti-
vate.
If you would give
petals the rich red
must dig ab >ut
bo, if you would possess the
rarest thoughts, you must dig
deej) to find the priceless
jewels,
A Foather in Shackel-
ford's Gap.
Two car load of 2-year old
range cattle, captured the ti rat
and second prize at the
National Stock Show in Chi-
cago. Tliene cattle were
owned by Blach and son of
this county. They were bred
its roots; and and raised on their ranch 10
miles north of Albany. This
classed Shackelford county
away high up, as a breeding
ground for high class cattle.
the llower
hue, you
Learn your boys to be sharp
in trade, and the devil will do
the rest.
The most precious gem in
the crown of life is u spotless
character.
Character and ability is
bank stock, that money panics
do net effect.
If you want to be popular
with the masses, don't have
any opinion of your own.
When a minister of tho gos-
pel preaches to empty pews,
it is not the people's fault.
Get you a telscope young
man, and scan the heavens—
there's millions of undiscovered
stars.
Man always pays for what
he gels. Don't get It into your
head young mau» that you can
escape the penalty.
I We want to move
'Our Etire Stock of
It Does Not Pay ns to Keep it.
{recite JMefore Y"*1 lUiy.atjd SAVE MONEY.
ROCKWELL BROS. & CO*
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S. W'KBH, President.
C. It. Snyder .lr., Vlee-l'res,
W. 11. Kddleiuan
w. O. w KHI. Cashier.
K k. I.\ Nell, Asw't. Cushier.
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Albany, Texas.
"CAPITAL 8,50.000
©urplu», 6,000
Official Depository of Shackelford Co
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McCarty, Richard H. The Albany News. (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, January 12, 1906, newspaper, January 12, 1906; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth497374/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting The Old Jail Art Center.