The Daily Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 168, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 9, 1909 Page: 2 of 6
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DAILY LEADER
PRINTING COMPANY
-Proprietors
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FORD............Manager and Editor
Published Every Day Except Sunday
Entered as second class matter at the post*
Ipdffioe at Orange, Texas, under the act of Con-
gress of March 3, 1879.
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE
Per month........................
Pot year..........................
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.$6.00
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As we conceive it, the duty of a newspaper
* is to say everything good it can of its town
? and preach its advantages unceasingly.
At the same time, we believe it is just as
much the duty of the newspaper to point out
the evils that exist and make a determined
effort in this way to arouse public sentiment
to the point where this evil will be put down.
If there is a non-enforcement of law, the
newspaper should hammer away on that sub-
ject until the officers are made to feel their
dereliction and take some steps to improve this
laxity.
Declining to discuss these things does not
help to cure them, but, rather, it is like trying
to cover up an eating sore that can never be
cured until it is opened up and thoroughly
cleansed.
The public generally knows that there have
been a number of fires in Orange within the
past few months that are supposed to have been
of incendiary origin.
If nothing whatever is said about the opera-
tion here of firebugs and no effort is made to
apprehend them, they will become more bold
in their operations and begin soon to endeavor
to destroy property of real value. Up to this
time the property destroyed in this way has
not been of great value, nor lias it been insured.
If the newspaper boldly calls attention to
the fact that Orange is infested with fire-bugs,
perhaps we can arouse the people and the of-
ficers to the point where a determined and
successful effort will be made to rid the com-
munity of these undesirable citizens, or, at
least, put them where they can do no more
harm for a while.
The argument is advanced, though, that if
we talk about these things, the insurance com-
panies will either advance their rates, or they
will withdraw* from the city, as some of them
have already done.
Of course, it is bad to see insurance compa-
nies withdrawing from the city and refusing
to carry risks here, but this cannot be stopped
through the newspaper refraining from men-
tioning the fact that it is believed that there
are fire-bugs in the city.
If they are here, the insurance companies
will very quickly find it out, without looking
to the newspaper for the information.
If the newspaper, however, states that the
Jtown is infested with criminals of that kind
eucT'calls upon the people to demand of the
officers protection from their operations, the
insurance companies will see and appreciate
the fact that the newspaper nor the citizens
wink at such crime nor desire to cover it up,
and will the more readily be satisfied to con-
tinue their business here.
The people expect their representative news-
to grow, if they want good citizens to
the town and
move here and help'
country, they have first got to wake up them-
selves. We have got to get the people who
are already here interested in the development
of the resources of our section. If We do not
keep people who are already here, how can we
expect to keep those who come here. We are
a slow set of people when it comes to doing
things for the upbuilding of the country. Those
people who are here and are doing their best,
who enjoy seeing things on the move, become
discouraged and decide that it’s no use. Most
anybody had rather live in the country or town
where people are on the move to develop, than
to live where they just let things move along
in the same old way, never* seeming to stop to
think of doing anything for the town or coun-
try. The people of East Texas )iave the repu-
tation of being a slow, easy*-going people, and
people who want to live in a fast country won’t
come here. We have the best country in the
world to live in if we would wake up and get
busy.”
The little town of Tiinpson, hardly half as
large as Orange, has just completed and dedi-
cated a magnificent new church building for
the Methodist denomination. The church is
large, modem in design, is built of concrete
block construction, and would be a credit to a
city five times as large as Timpson. The Leader
editor recently went through this structure
and was delighted with its every detail. Near
the church has also recently been built a beau-
tiful two-story residence for the pastor, also
of concrete block construction. Orange is sadly
deficient in the matter of creditable church
buildings and needs to wake up along this line.
Outside of the one magnificent structure being
erected by private capital as a memorial, Or-
ange lias not a church edifice to which her citi-
zens may point with any degree of pride or of
satisfaction. We need to tie aroused on this
subject and get busy. The Catholic congrega-
tion have begun to make arrangements for a
ten thousand dollar brick church. Won’t the
other denominations fall in line?
The Leader believes that the Orange city
schools have never begun a year’s work uith a
stronger faculty or brighter prospects than
they start with this year, and we trust that
every patron of the schools will do his or her
best to aid the faculty in maintaining the
schools at the highest standard of excellence
to which they have ever attained. First class
public schools mean much to a town or city
and we cannot afford to see the Orange schools
retrograde, or even stand still. They must
press forward all the time, improving with
each succeeding year.
“Ixmging for the flesh pots of Egypt” is not
in it with the consuming desire to drop every-
thing. grab hook and line and depart on a fish-
ing trip that-takes hold of the Leader editor
every time a gasoline launch pulls away from
the wharf overlooked by his office—which is
about every ten or fifteen minutes in the day—
the “put” “put” of the engines completely
routing any* ideas that may have been forming
in his brain preparatory to transmission to pa-
per for the delectation of his readers.
CASES OF INTEREST
SOME RECENT DECISIONS OP
IMPORTANCE BY HICWER Reporter. 481,
COURTS OF THE (.AND.
B
vorce she had expressed her belief
that her husband lived, and that after
she had ceased payments oil his cer
tificate she was <
that he was dead,
prerne^ Court* I. '
Short Synopsis of Decisions in Csses
Rendered by Various Higher
Courts and Reported by West Pub-
lishing Company to the Orange
Daily Leader.
preme Court decided *
was not estopped to asse
band’s death within the two years
following his disappearance, as the as-
sociation could not have been in
jured by reason of her conduct.
Among some of the recent decis-
ions of higher courts, the following
will be of more than passing inter-
est:
Power of Courts to Punish For
Contempt. A Missouri statute pro-
hibits courts from punishing con-
tempts by fine exceeding $50 or im-
prisonment for more than 10 days.
In Chicago, B. & Q. Dy. Co. v.
Gildersleeve, 118 Southwestern Re-
porter, 86, it appeared that appellant
had disregarded an injunction for-
bidding his traffic in partly used
railroad tickets, and had been sen-
tenced to 15 days’ inprisonment for
contempt Appellant relied on the
statute , and expressed the fear that
unless the statute were recognized as
constitutional the courts could ex-
ercise their power to punish for con-
tempt in an arbitrary and oppress-
ive manner. The Missouri Supreme
Court held that as the court wa<
created by the Constitution, and had
inherent power to punish for con-
tempt, allowing the Legislature to r<*»
gulate this power would be permit-
ting the legislative body to exercise
functions properly belonging to the
judicial. Three judges dissented
Taxation of Barbers For viola-
ting the statute providing that bar-
bers shall be licensed and registered
before being allowed to engage in
tonsoria! toil, appellant in Jackson
v State, 117 Southwestern Reporter.
818. was convicted The law exempts
students in the state university and
bathers in small towns Its purpose
is to insure efficiency in the barbers
and hygienic conditions in their es-
tablishments. Th* statute was re
dared unconstitutional by the Texas
Court of Criminal Appeals on the
ground that is was contrary to the
provision prohibiting taxation of me-
chanical employments, and that by
its exception* it became discrimina-
tory because the evils intended to be
prevented could as easily arise in an
institution of learning or a
as in the frescoed parlors of a
ropoli* f
Publication of Portraits irr Adver-
tising.—The defendant's newspaper,
in Peck v. Tribune Company, 29 Su-
preme Court Reporter, 554, publish-
ed, in an advertisement of whiskey,
a portrait of plaintiff in connection
with a signed statement purporting
to have been made by her that she
was a nurse, had used the whisky for
herself and patients, and recommend-
ed it. In her suit for libel in publish-
ing the portrait, plaintiff alleged that
she was not the woman whose name
was signed to the recommendation,
that she was not a nurse, and was a
total abstainer It was suggested in
defense that defendant published the
portrait by mistake, and without
knowledge that it was plaintiff's por-
trait, or was not what it purported to
be. The court says that defendant
took the risk in publishing the por-
trait, and the usual principles of tort
make him liable if the representa-
tions are false. It could not be said
that the obvious tendency of what
was imputed to plaintiff by the ad-
vertisement was not to seriously hurt
her standing with „ considerable and
respectable class of the community
The United States Supreme Court,
reversing the decision oLtbe lower
court, concluded that plaintiff was
entitled to have her case submitted
to the jury
EUCALYPTUS AND BEES
Big Fast Growing Trees
for Honey Makers.
Fine
paper to be outspoken for the right and against
the wrong all the time.
If it fails to do this, then it fails in its duty
to its patrons and can no longer be reckoned
as a force for either good or evil in the com-
munity.
Then, if this be the ease, we trust that onr
friends who have been prone to criticize the
Leader for calling attention to the number of
incendiary fires that have transpired in this
i city recently, will withdraw their criticisms
and complaints and join the paper in a crusade
to stir up the officers and the |>eople to the
point where they Vill see that law is enforced,
j criminals apprehended and punished and prop-
«rty protected.
HI
NEED WAXING UP.
Ltndale is a town up in East Texas that,
judging from its paper, the Reporter, has some
wonderful opportunities, but its people are slow
to grasp or take advantage of them. Under
the caption “Need Waking Up,” the Reporter
its people the following lecture, and as
we read it wr were filled with amazement and
kxdaimed, “Why, that man most be talking
•foot Orange.” Read it, good people, and see
tfa# description fits any man or any condi-
PlilMI IB the Gate City, and if it does, then make
j:* teteivu, right now, that we will try to wake
Of in this old town, snd make them
“Tpiy to astonish the natives:
of Lindale want this good old
We have heard of families of ten to sixteen
children, and all of them raised without the
use of a baby incubator.—Port Arthur News.
Orange has a citizen who is the father of
forty-nine children and he is hale and hearty
yet. The man who told us this the other day
stated that none of his wives had been di-
vorced, but all had died natural deaths. We
couldn’t refrain from remarking that it was no
wonder that they died.
The most surprising thing about that Kansas
man’s coughing up a live frog is that it didn’t
happen in Orange.—Port Arthur News.
It would have been a real surprise if it had
happened in Port Arthur, for we have been led
to believe that those people down there never
cough up anything except under the hardest
kind of pressure.
Us* of Secret Order's N'anie by
Other Corporations The Benevolent
and Protective Order of F,lk* of the
United States of America, a corpora-
tion composed exclusively of Cauca-
sians, prayed for an injuction to pre-
vent the use of the name “Improved
Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks of the “World" by another cor-
poration composed of persons of Af-
rican descent, and to prevent the use
of it* badge, emblem* ritual and pass*
words Defendant insisted that the
rights asserted in the bill were not
property rights, and that the wrong*
complained of were not such a* a
court of equity would protect by in-
junction In Benevolent & P O. E
v Improved Benevolent Ik P O R,
118 Southwestern Reporter, ,189. the
Tennessee Supreme Court, consider-
ing the facts that while plaintiff
was not engaged in business for pro-
fit. in the sense of commerce and
trade, yet it employed certain busi-
ness activities for purpose of main-
taining itself, and that the name it
had acquired and appropriated had
become very valuable in the nature
of a trade-name which had derived
great financial business and social
value, granted the injunction
Mr R L Lester, who i* largely
interested in bee culture, reading the
Leader’s article on the eucalyptus
trees recent!) and the remarkable
growth attained by those in the yards
of Geo VV Bancroft am! T M Dodd,
in seeking further information, has
learned that the eucalyptus is a
great honey producer; that it furn-
ishes the material for the tiers to
work into honey Mr 1-ester says
that the native black gum is the best
and about the only honey tree there
i* here, anti that the bee* arc so short
on sweets that they are resorting to
hamlet 'he blossoms of the notorious hitter
weed Mr Lester says the eucalyp-
tus tree i* one of the very best aids
to the liee, and on that account he
wants to try and help in the intro-
duction of the tree in Orange
We have a dandy sewer system and we have pure ar-
tesian water. “The Prize to Offer”
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We have Men to give you Estimates on
Placing In the Artaalan Water and
Connecting Up Bath Booms to
the Sanitary Sewer
BARRETT RANGES! * BARRETT RANGES!
TALK TO ME—IT’S MY PLEASURE
W. E-. McCorquodaie
We Have Received a Car of
Flour and Feed
And prices arc much lower than they have
been all summer.
Our Chops are pure and contain no cobs
and our bran is the richest in the city.
Our Groceries are of the best quality and
our prices the lowest. A trial order will
convince you.
We Duplicate Houston Prices
for Spot Cash
JACKSON GROCERYCOMPANY
met-
The tree its a rapid grower, make*
a beautiful shade tree, and would be
the very thing for Anderson Park,
and for the streets and yard* Mr.
Gate* brought a large number to
Port Arthur a year ago, and people
all over the state are watching the
result There t* some apprehension I
that they won't stand the winter*,]
but last winter was about a* severe j
a* it ever geu m this elimate ami
the young tree* were not killed In
some instance* the leave* were
killed, but the tender tree* were
not killed, so it t* safe to presume
that the tree* will stand the climate
as soon as they get a start
A Chicago physician wants us to discard the
breakfast food, which, by the way, is a rap at
the sawmill industry. Listen for a howl from
Orange, Texas.—Allen town (Pa.) Democrat.
We might have made a howl but for the fact
that manufacturers of “Floorshine” and other
dust-laying mixtures are utilizing all the sur-
plus sawdust manufactured at Orange, and the
breakfast food people have been left at the
post.
“The paragrapher of the Wilkes-Barre News
says ladies no longer wear garters. ‘We’re
from Missouri,’” is the way Bud Weiser, of
the Allentown (Pa.) Democrat, states it.
Bud Weiser is a married man and the fat
of a new twelve poqnd baby boy, which has
just recently put in an appearance at his home.
We are shocked.
Competency of Wifi lo Testify
Against Husband Who Abuses Her.
One Vaughan became drunk and
wended hi* way bomewarl at the
height of ebriety Arriving there he
pulled hi* wife out of bed, and admin-
istered corporal and verbal abuse; to
her On the trial she was compelled
to testify against him. He was duly
convicted of disturbing hs wife's
peice. for which crime he had hern
indicted. In State v, Vaughan. 118
Southwestern Reporter, J186, the Kan-
sas City Court of Appeals, holding
the wife incompetent a* a witness,
remarked that there is no telling, if
a wife under such circumstances
should be permitted to testify, to
where such a course would lead To
permit the mere quarrels between
husband and wife to be used as a basis
for a prosecution, under the pretense
that the peace of the wife had there-
by been disturbed, would be against
public policy and unnecessary for th*
protection of the wife.
A Massachusetts physician declares that man
will have hoofs instead of feet a thousand years
from now. Judging from their actions,
would think that some of them already
hoofs—cloven ones—and horns, too.
Person Setting Up Estoppel Must
Be Prejudiced Thereby—One insured
in a beneficiary association indicated
his purpose to absent himself from
bis family for a few days, but from
that time nothing was heard of him
two years following hi* absence
the premiums were paid by hi* wife,
Thereafter an opportunity presented
itself to the wife to dispose of her
real property (of which purpose she
secured a divorce that she might con-
vey a good title to the realty. Seven
Bee Culture in Orange.
Mr Lester says he hs* about
twenty hives of bees, and as he is
just a beginner, he is hardly good
authority on the habit* and need*
A L Dee* has about thirty, while
Mr. Burton has nearer fifty hives,
and Mrs. Luteher has a few They
are alt interested in more growth of
those plant* and trees which pro-
duce the essentials to successful bee
culture: and th* eucalyptus is one
of the most valuable We are apt to
hear more of the eucalyptus in the
near future
The Southwestern
Telegraph and
Telephone Co.
Now ha* in Orange a telephone exchange that i*
second to none in thii or any other’eountry.
It* lervice will be found first-clan in all respect*.
It i* prepared to take on its li*t of tubacriber*
every one desiring its service. Your patronage is
respectfully solicited Call op the Manager, No.
0 or No. f>2, for rates or other information and he,
or acanvaiscr, will call upon you.
WEAVER & SON
SHIP 0ARPENTER8 AND BOAT BUILDER8
W* build and repair Launchm of all wees. Tug tom and »u|« Our yards
an lor sled twrwsnn th# Luteher Jr Moon Lumber Company '• two mills. Bm
laciiMM* m the South lor getting lumber. New Fhoee ITS.
YOUR PATRONAGE SOLICITED.
ITCH cured in M minute* by Wool-
ford's Sanitary Lotion Never fail*
Sold by B F, Hrwson. druggist
JUVENILE OFFENDERS
Lad* Arrested for Fighting,
and One Relaaaad.
Fined
Yesterday complaint was made
against a couple of small boy*, one
Italian and one negro, on a charge of
fighting They, in their innocence, ac-
knowledged the charge, and by Jus-
tice Tatum were fined $2 50. which
with the costs, made about ||4 each
Young Italy’s father, Delbarto, paid
the fine of his youngster, but Aunt
Joana Read was indignant that they
put her “chile” in jail, and *he went
to her friend. Dr. W B Simmons,
who upon being told the child wa*
only eight years old, told Her it was
not right and referred her to judge
Tom Adams The result wa* that
upon her affidavit that the fighting
man of the famity was "eight years
old next February,” he was freed
Judge Tatum thinks the Doctor better
go to practicing law. The Judge in-
sists the lad was several year* past
eight. Nine i* the age at which boys
may be held accountable, provided
they appear to have discretion, etc.
Don’t Forget that I am in the Re*l folate and Insurance Business j
If you want rovr property mid. ItM it with aw and- 1 will guarantee yoa
goo* service' Htmltk. Aterdnt. lit* mmJ Lit* Jwek Utmramt* /
Repress#/ Nlhi»t *#rt /*# ten OU Lhu Imtmrmmct.
W. J. BURTON.
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WITERS-PIERCf OIL COMPM
II T FOUNTAIN. AGENT
Over M. V. A«uler»nn Jr C».'s Jam
BOTH PHONES No. 4*
P. A. PEREZ F
Ldunch Commodore
A. L. MITCHELL. Manor. .
HEADACHE—Hicks' CAPU
DINE.
Whether from colds, heat, stomach
years after thr husband's disappear- or nervous troubles, .Capadine prill
yon tnce *he instituted an action for the relieve you,
had insurance. Th* association insisted to tike-acts
that by bringing the action
!. 1 j•,<ii.1 - pleasant
icdiately. Try
immediately.
10c, 25c and 50c at drug stores.
Beal boat on the river for salt water
Hatting. Terma reaaonabl*
MERCHANT TAILO(
West First National Bank !
ENGLISH. FRENCH AND IN
MESTIC OOODS
Dyeing, Cleaning
I She
Old Hata Made New
; am! Repairing Do
on short Notice
Launch Pastime, mEEK & tompk.1
a j. tines, mho
Regular trip* to Fort Arthur Every
Sunday. Leaving Orange. 9 a. ns.,
returning 7;30 p. m.
FAME. ROUND TRIP, 11.08
FISH! FISH! FISH!
I keep on hand Freeh Water Fish
all aiaea, aieofwh bait for everybody
Houseboat near O- & N. W, gener-
al office. Give me your orders (or
hah. A. J.
Bill
GENERAL HOUSE MOVING
AND BUILDING CONTRAC
You'll &■*« Money it You Figure with <
New Phone No. 411,
We
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Your Shirts, Collars ml Cuffs; a!
all VO nr Unm ami C uinterpan*
M hW
cheaper than you can do R at
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