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VOLUME III.
PALACIOS, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1911.
i THE WAY 10 MESS i:
11Y MAI ENOLA ;;
The Problem of the Boys.
The boy is a reality; he is on the
“job” every minute and what to do
about him.or with him is causing many
profound thinkers who have the besi
intorosts of the future generation* and
our state at heart, a lot of serious con-
cern.
The boy is the "livest” issue before
the citizens of this commonwealth to-
day if there is any doubt as to the
reality of these statements, call on any
judge of any juvenile court in the state
of Texas and ask him.
It has been found that one of the
best means of keeping wrong: out of
the boy’s mind is to fill it np with
good ft will be admitted that the
street, the alley, the old vacant, build-
ing. (frequently a rendezvous for the
criminal class) not the best place to
vive a boy the training that is most
healthful.
Neither will it be admitted that the
county or the city jail as educational
institutions are a success, unless they
are regarded as successful training
schools in crime.
Since the boy will not attend the
.t(il»{A a«4^nAl »»ai46iyAa m6nv tirnAO
but very little pressure from his home
to compel his attendance, and fre-
’|U5iitlj be is encouarged in crime by
his parents and in non-attendance at
the public school, it becomes evident
that we as a state have a real problem
confronting os in the hoy that we must
meet intelligently and promptly. If
therefore, lie can be removed from +he
centers of crime, placed in an instiu-
ition whose influence is refining and
(educational, a solution will be found
for one of the most serious conations
in our state life.
The state must provide the institution.
—Beaumont Enterprise
Many newspapers and platform
outers, in season and out of season,
clarion tones cry out against and en-
javoi to show the great danger which
ireatens from peternalism in govern-
icnt, yet when any great problem like
lat of the hoys or other great moral
socj*il question calls for solution, np
o our hand in~hpqT»*HM despair, and we
all on the government to provide a
remedy. According to the .Enterprise
there seems no hope for the hoy ex
cept for communities to allow him to
grow up in crime, .and then turn him
over to the state to be reformed. But
the Enterprise knows there is a reme-
dy, but it fails to point it out because
to do so would be inimical to that pa
per’s “business." as it, would with all
other papers in its class.
The solution of the problem of
the hov criminal is so easv that we
wonder at the stupidity of papers like
the Enterprise in mentioning it without
stating the remedy clearly. The En-
terprise says “if the hoys ean be re-
y r if i A' »t ft.
crioVHii « rom Liitd oi Clinic. Ujc
solution will be found, and then sug-
gests as the way to remove them is to
put them in State reformatories. It is
deeply suggestive that the Enterprise
has the courage even to admit that there
arc “centers of crime” in the great
State of Texas, but it doesn't tell whal
or where (hose centers are. But we
ask our esteemed cotemporary, if
'TS'J&s indeed has centers of crime,
mght it not be well to ask what are
we going to do with them as well as
the boys; put the boys behind closed
walls and locked door, and protect the
crime centers? So it seems the Enter-
prise would have it. And where and
what are the centers of crime in Texas.
Tile- Enterprise knows but it dasn’t
tell, but wefiiteii where and what they
are, and none wiii dispute the charge,
Every, saloon in aii this broau land
is la center of crime and it is the
/winter of -’nothing else. And they are
the only ctmtiers of crime in all the land,
for from out their doors come eveiy
other kind and sort of crime that can be
made a center of. The Enterprise
knows, or ought to know that the boy
who resorts to the dark alleys and va-
cant buildings it speaks of, goes there
dlfectt? from the saloon, and bur tor
the saloon he’d never be found lurking
ir. or looking tor such.places.
The coarseness ot the Enterprise's
allusion to the dereliction of duty oi
the parents of boys, is certainly?.most
disgusting. That is sterotyped bar-
room babble, if you want to hear it
wrung iu all its changes visit any
saloon in a neighborhood where there
are boys, and you will get it from
ev”: ;cvypoint, of the maudlin ine-
Bib’s who want to knew what
,ort their parents are can
, the saloon. They cah learn
tout their family’s aiTaiis in the
m than they will at home. But
he like that, quoted from the
rise, such as will lead them to
j the heme and disrepect their
-This sort of education is a part
sftlpfn’s business But the boy,
parents, and usually his
Enterprise, Houston Post and nearlv all
other principal state papers. A per-
usal of the Enterprise’ columns dis-
closes that distilleries; breweries and
liquor wholesalers are among its largest
and best advertising patrons. And of
course such papers can’t be expected
to advocate anything detrimental t<
the business interests of their best pay-
ing pa Irons. Then those largo paper;
arc owned by corporations, and it would
be nothing surprising to know that
brewers and liquor dealers wei « large
stock-holders in these companies, and
hence have the right and power t<
dictate what they shall say. Now il
any or either of these papers should
sell its editorial pages and influence tc
the promotion of some trust or monopo-
ly, or tc designing politicians to faster
some unexpected burden on the people,
and this should he known and proved,
they would be scorned of all men, and
would be forced to quit business from
loss of patronage from an outraged
public. But the newspaper that sells
itself thus is more to be respected than
the paper that aids and abets the liquor
traffic by carrying its advertisement,
and making editorial apologies for the
v» iitivo it creates. Foi uu mauci how
fraudulent or oppressive might be the
thin Of tor which tho newensmor ®o!c
its influence its work vmuld result in
real benefit to those who bought it;
somebody would he actually benefitted,
even though tlte people at large might
be defrauded and oppressed. In selling
its space and itself to the liquor in-
terests the newspapers do that which
absolutely benefits no one iu any way,
but aids in perpetrating the most stu-
pendous fraud and fastening the great-
est burden upon the people that the in-
genuity of the devil has ever yet de-
vised. If the alternative were given
us of advertising and protecting the
saloon interests, or selling ourself out-
right to some nefarious scheme that
would defraud or oppress,the people
we’d do the latter, with the conscious-
ness that we had chosen the must man-
ly and least harmful part.
But we said the solution of the boy
problem was easy, and it is. It can
be solved^wthout putting the State and
the tax-pa to the e>
Presbyterian Church Secures A Pastor.} distiller, hrewev, antoon, ang keepers
of dens of immorality.. To every other
line of business of whatsoever charac-
Rev. W. K. Johnston, of Texarkana,
who recently visited the Presbyterian
church of this city, and to whom a
formal and official call was extended
by the session and congregation to this
mg a uingldj formate. y; riii'C&Sr flnftiH
make juvenT.e courts unnecessary, and
save the expense of their maintenance,
it will also immensely lighten' the bur-
den and responsibility of the parents,
and make it a.hundred ’’old easier for
them to train their boys in the way they
should go; it will put every truant boy
in Defied or at work at some useful
occupation ; if will once and forever rid
our great State of all its “centers of
crime;” and finally it won’t cost the
State nor any tax-payer a single cent.
If this he true, anu it is, don’t you
think that as enlightened, educated
wild sensible peupie, we ought to be
eager and anxious to adapt it? Will
you do it? Here is the remedy. When
the day rolls round and the opportunity
is offered you, as it will be, go to the
polls and place in the ballot box a little
slip of white paper, bearing but a few
printed words, the definition and in-
terpretation of which will say, “The
Saloon Must Go. ” That’s all.
That Blizzard io Kansas.
That blizzard two weeks ago, which
made a good many of our people think
they were back home on a visit, did all
I" lliiiiMs in folks PurTfieFnnrth
ter, the saloon is a positive and distinct
detriment. No, the saloon doesn’t help
the resort business, but the pleasure
charge, has advised the f-hureh that he j : ':HortK> V)(! it said to our shame and
cannot accept the call, hut will remair shortsightedness, are most wonder •
with the church at Texarkana. Througl helpful to the saloon business,
tne good offices of the Presbytery Rev.
•Jas. P. Green., of Clarksville, Mo, and
who is member of the St. Louis Pres-
bytery, was sent to visit the Palacios
church, with a vie w of accepting the
pastoral charge, and 0; eupied the pulpit
Sunday morning and evening, and sc
pleased the eongregtion that at a con-
gregational meeting held after the Sun-
day evening service, a unanimous call
from the congreagtion was tendered
Dr. Green, and wh eh we are pleased tc
say he has accepted. lie preached to
two large and most attentive and in-
terested congregations Sunday, and the
unanimous voice of those who heard
him was that he is one of the most
eloquent, able and magnetic pulpit
orators ever hard in Palacios. Dr.
Green is a native of Missouri, hpt his
ministry has been principally in the
east, having been pastor of a Presby-
terian church in the city of Baltimore
and later serving the Presbyterian
church at Hamilton, Ohio, for a num-
ber of years, and then returning to his
native state, Missouri. Dr. Green is
also a man of business affairs, and is
the owner of valuable property in the
coast country, and it is for the purpose
of being near and looking after the
improvement of his property, as well
as for a desired change hi climate
that he is coming to Texas: Dr.
Green’s property is near Kingsville,
and lie was cm Ins way to Visit his hold-
ings when lie was invited to stop at
Palacios and inspect this field by the
Presbytery officials at Houston; and it
was chiefly through the good offices
of the Presbytery evangelist. Dr.
Johnson, that he was induced to come.
Dr. Green left Monday morning for
Kingsville to give some attention to
his property, but will return the last
of the week and hold services again
next Sunday. Under the present ar-
TEXAS’ CENTER Of- POPULAl ION
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Sundays in each month, and at Angle-
ton on the fourth Sunday. lie will at
once remove to Palacios and will oc
cupy the Chappell cottage on the lot
adjoining the church. The family
consists only of himself and wife, Mrs.
Green being now at Columbus, Mo.,
where she is ^visiting relatives during
her husband’s absence.
The Beacon believes that not only
the Presbyterian chureli, hut all the
city of Talacios is to be congratulated
on securing Dr Green as » pastor and
citizen. We believe that he will not
only quickly build up a strong and pros-
perous church hut that his personality
and energy will be felt in the promo-
tion of every good thing that promises
for the welfare and progress of Pala-
A Call ^ o Service.
To the Sunday school army of Texas:
With gratitude to the Heavenly
Father for Ilis marvelous blessings
luring the past two years and the
marked increase in the enlistment of
tho soldiers of the Gross, through the
Sunday Schools of the various denom-
inations, we are impelled through the
leading of the Holy Spirit to call to
arms our vast army in a campaign for
doubling ear membership.
At the last Intenational Convention,
in Louisville Jtuie, 1908, we reported
6800 Sunday SyupOuis, «inu 503,400 mem-
bers in the P/otestant Sunday Schools
of Texas. At the present time we can
not tell hov%, many there are enrolled,
but we belijre it possible to report One
Million at tfje next meetng, in San
Francisco, Jifee, 1911.
jf.iis • and towns of Texas
Some couijmwo
have demonstuited what an aggres-
sive, united ilampaigri through the
efforts of all denominations can ac-
complish Wo therefore call upon the
Sunday School army of Texas to join in
the campaign to reach every home in
Texas on Wednesday, February' 22,
1911, through some worker, with cor-
dial invitation .to attend the Sunday
School and church of their choice, and
at the same time securing accurate
census of the people in each home, as
to t.Vipir ohnsffiliiitmn nr nro
This campaign is . to be followed up j 1850, the first Federal Census, and the
with a universal Statewide Rally Day, I pathway of our civilization is shown by
1 HE STAR OF THE EMPIRE
MOVES WESTWARD.
The Center of 1910 Population Five
Miles Northwest of Waco.
Fort Worth, Texas, Jan. 8th, 1911.
There is no more inspiring scene than
to watch the growth of an empire and
no viewpoint is more instructive than
that of the center of population
The Texas Commercial Secretaries
Association has developed the popula-
tion centers of Texas tiy decades since
On Sunday, February 26, 1911, with
the slogan,‘One Million People Present
In the Sunday Schools on One Day. ”
Following this co-operative visita-
tion, the pastors are urged to have
thier forces organized in a follow-up
campaign, to go out persistently after
each one until they are enlisted in the
Sunday Schools, .Oher gcfcjvely or
partment.
Let us remember that while this is
the greathsI, movement ever under-
taken by any State in the world, we
believe we can do it. and we will.
Even then, after we reach the one
million there will he three, million
people not in any Sunday school in
Texas.
TVie County Associations, the local
pastors’ unions, and all organizations,
denominational and interdenomination-
al, are urged to at once organize not
only their town but every part of their
county.
With an abiding faith and confidence
that the brethren of all denominations
will join hands and co-operate in these
plans, of great magnitude, in order
that each and every Sunday School
t *.f *'
id attention devolves almost en~
on one—the mother. Arrayed
,t the mother’s influence fo? the
if the hov, there are a thousand
outside to lure him or to evil,
^ all emanate from the nuioon.
wonder that so muu.v bu^s no
:, and blame the parents
ng how to raise them,
why this pel: to deference to the
intermits by such papers as. the
to make them wish they had homes in
the sunny f^uiif const of Tc«mc. IVlr.
John Fberstein received a letter from
his sun C. V. Eberatein, giving some
of the details of the blizzard at his
home town, Kensington, Kans., and
from wnich we are permitted to quote
the following, Mr. EbeWJiein wrote to
his parents here on the 2d inst., and
thus describes their experience with
the blizzard:
“Saturday was a nice warm day hut
during the night the wind changed to
the north, and yesterday ij. snowed and
blowed all day; was one of our had
days that you read about; vvus very cold
and very high wind all day and all
night Had a good fire in the kitchen
and in the dining room until 10 o’clock
last night; moved our house plants all
on thei table -by the side of the stove,
and when we got up this morning
everything was frozen stiff; could
knock al! the leaves off the plants with
a slick, so we have no more house
plants this winter to bother: water,
mill: and everything frozen solid in
the pantry, and Louie says that some
of her canned fruit froze in the cellar.
The thermometer this morning regis-
tered 14 degrees below zero, and with
the strong, piercing wind blowing, it
seemqd an much as 40 below; i
thought oi you, anu tnought you could
consider yourselves lucky to be in
Texas.
The wind has heon h low lug all day
today and the thermometer has not got
above zero yet. v\o are keeping both
stoves red today, and have to set on
the stoves to keen warm. L:.0t night
was the hardest freeze we hove mor
| had in the house since it was built. It
for not j ;s going to be another stinger tonight”.
Por^ Lavaca is making substantial
commercial and industrial advance-
ment, but is at a stand still as a re-
sort. Nothing builds up a town faste."
than the resort business, and our
citizens cannot afford to neglect it.—
Port Lavaca Wave.
Palacios is also a resort town, but it
makes no such complaint as this from
Port Lavaca ; and our Calhoun county
neiq-h'nnr if i« elairrted hv sorrm has
the heavy line in the map below. Dur-
ing this period the population center
has traveled a distance of 105 miles
west and 45 miles north, and it now
rests five miles northwest of Waco in
McLennan County, anu the City of
Waco may be said to be the “Heart of
Texas.”
COMPARATIVE GROWTH.
The first Federal Census was taken
\H I€50, showing a total population of
tJhtc? oi Maa -
soWounty. At that time there were 168
counties having no population, or at
least none were enumerated and only
one county in the state thart’had a pop-
ulation exceeding 10,000, which was
Harrison. In 1860 the population
cenier moved west a distance of 35
miles, resting in Robertson county.
In 1870 it took a northwesterly course,
trivc!ir*b ton lyiilc?- but c£il! keeping its
abode in Robertson county. In 1880
the center makes its largest jump,
apparently under tile influence ttf black
land belt development, and moved a
distance of 40 miles, entering Mc-
Lennan county, and il still remains in
that county'. This last, movement in
population center appears to' have
aroused the eastern and northern por-
tions of the State to a realization of
their losing prestige, and thereafter
overy inch of the ground is warmly con-
tested by all sections. From 1880 to
1890 the center moved only five miles,
and from 1890 to 1900 it moved only
four miles, hut in 1910 it appeals to
feel the power * of the Panhandle de-
velopment, which is a new influence
and it moves ten miles with equal
tc. rmrih anrl a/Mw T^X^.S.
Wc now have a population of 3,892,-
000, and all our counties are populated ;
we have 127 counties having a popula-
tion of 10,000 and over, and we. have
four counties with a population of 100,-
000 and over. Wc have two counties
that now have a population equal to
the cm Te Stale of Texas in 1S.r,n with
42,832 to spare. They are Bexar and
Dallas. If we' make the same per cent
of gain in the first half of 1900 that
we did the last half of 1800 our pop-
ulation in 1960 well be 40,000,000.
The center of ^**ea restsiin McCul-
>Wgb CO'U’fiv n- “ .. 1 1 w infli
CHtect on t«e map by ajPSY. f
the State into four seasons by dr<.
a line cast and west an\i another no
and south through tftv area centei
we find one-half our ptjjiulation in the
northeast section of Ipie State; one-
tenth in the northwest; one-twenty-
sixth in the southwest, anu uiie-Lhiiu in
the southeast section.
The center of area and the center of
pOpuIntlOT! ?.pppf>** to !)3va nr no
affinity for each other, but the develop-
ment in the western portion of the
State will have a tel|<iH|icy (o bring
them closer together.
No Floods at Palacios.
Dr. M. F. Smith of Paw Paw, Mich.,
in renewing ilia, subscription to the
Beacon, makes the following inquiries:
“Please let me know through your
columns how the tidal wave that swept
Galveston in 1900 was at Palacios,
and Church and denomination may reap | Was it submerged? Also do they ever
Paper clips, the best made at
Deacon office; 100 Si box.
the
special resort advantages which Pala-
cios does not possess. It is persistently
urged by some that the saloon and open
disregard of tire oabbuth are absolute
essentials to the success of a pleasure
rosorl. where people jrn for rest, and
recreation. Port Lavaca has these in
largest and most liberal abundance ; yet
it is at a stand still as a resort. Pala -
cios ean boast neither of these essen-
tials (?) to sucess as a pleasure resort,
and yet the number of both summer
and winter visitors increases with every
passing season. Thousands come here
every summer and the coming summer
will see the number mor« largely in-
creased than in any previous year.
Notwithstanding the rapid growth of
the city, and the many new buildings
erected, the winter visitors with each
succeeding year tax the rooming capa-
city of the city beyond its limit and
many have to accept unsatisfactory ac-
commodations, and yet they come.
Who is there so lacking in good judge-
ment as to say or claim that the report
business of Palacios would he helped or
benefitted one penny’s worth by the
addition of u saiocn. Thousands of
people visit our city every year who
would not come if we had saloons, and
the few if any who stay away because
we have them not are never missed,
and beside wouid be undesirable visit-
ors. How much benefit does Port La-
vaca receive from those who are al-1
traded to that place by its saloons?
We have hut this advice, to offer our
neighbour cross the bay, and that is
if it would profit from its attractions
as a resort, hholish the saloons and in
their place offer something that will
give visitors auimjq.vtuni pleasure aim
pastime. We know Vis said that, the
saloon helps business! ana so it dees, h3?“!crCr! , A. r
, A. , ,, , , - I throughout the
out its uerients are resnicieuto butiew. I iffi-j ____i
The saloon helps the business ot
its share of the harvest, we earnestly
plead for such co-operation upon the
part of all.
Robt. H. Coleman, State President,
J. T. McClure, Central Chairman.
William Nehemiah Wiggins, Gen.
Sec.
The above call is prepared and joined
in by representative leaders of the
following twelve aenominations in con-
ference: Baptist, Christian, Congre-
gational. Episcopal, Evanr/elical, Cum-
berland Presbyterian, Germaji Metho-
dist, Lutheran, Methodist Episcopal
South. Presbyterian, U. S. Presbyter-
ian U.S . A.
The Held Law Defeated.
The special election held last Satur-
day to vote on the adoption of the law
restraining live stock from running at
large in this county was defeated by
a 'arge majority. We haven’t the
official vote, but the majority against
the law is something like 500. The
vote at Palacios was 94 for to 78
against, a majority of 16 in favor of
the law'. Collegeport also voted in
favor of the law by a majority of 21.
The big majorities aganst the law
were voted at Bay City and Matagorda.
The only surprising feature of the
election was the unanimity with which.
Bay City voted to remain a cow town.
Belton boasts of an orange grove.
The citrus fruit belt of Texas is about
a3 elastic ai- the cotton belt and the
fig and orange trees, have pressed far
into the interior.andlare rapidly travel-
ing toward our northern and western
borders. The time1 was when only a
portion of the Texffe soil was classed
! in the useful !is* nrril that was thought
to be a cotton producer only, but the
thrifty farmer hat been pioneering
until he has investigated almost the
entire area of Texas and demonstrated
that the soil and climate of the state
are adapted to the production of almost
every coiiuiiei’eial nirwlurt known to
agncuturc. We have subjugated,
diversified and ^Intensified almost our
entire area.
have yellow fever in those parts,
am asked these two
many that I should
self. 1 am sending many good citizens
down to your city since my visit there
last whiter, as I was delighted with
all I saw while there.”
We take pleasure in answering our
good friend’s questions, and in reply
to the first will say that Palacios was
scarce aware that a storm was raging
on the gulf at the'time of the Galves-
ton flood, the tide here being but very
little above normal. The storm did not
teacher of the Bible class of tho Pres-
byterian Sunday school of this city,
and this coining together and being
photograped was the sequence to a
pleasing incident of the holiday season,
and which was done by unanimous
agreement and arrangement of the
members of the class as a compliment
to and expression ofj appreciation of
questions by so j their teacher, who it is a deep pleasure
like to know mv I f011C! to nay in the editor of the Beacon.
The picture is one of the most highly
prized of our cherished keepsakes, and
one that we appreciate more than words
can express.
This Bible class, which is facetiously
referred to in tho school as their infant
class, we beilevo in srrmFweiy im.port-
aul particulars has not an equal in any
other Sunday school in Texas and we
now make the claim that it is relativc-
extend as far west from Galveston as j ly the largest Bible class in the State.
Palacios, that is, on tlie coast. The | The prevailing complaint among the
highest tide ever known here in tfiA I ?wnd»y schools is tho lack of interest
history of the country was at the tine | and attendance by adults. The rule is
of the great storm in September, 1886.
i lie I £*»
Charles J. Horn hai
teresting data on the
this yearn orange, crop in i,
Galveston district. The crop
yet all in and the picking will pro.
extend up until Christmas. There
probably 35 per cent of the crop yet
on the trees.
The largest shipments of the season.,
according to Mr. Horn, were made
from the P. I. Gil! and the Charles
Shadle orchards near League City.
The quality of the fruit is superior to
that of last year and the yield so far
as can he determined from shipments
made is abuuL ten times that of iast
year.
Baldwin & Cargill of Houston who
are the exclusive distributers for the
two orchards mentioned and for several
others, in fact being the selected agents
cf the Texas Citrus Fruiit Growers’
Assocation, have shipned between 3009
and 4000 packages or crates so far this
season. They expect, the entire record
for the season to be about 5000 crates.
Last year this firm's total shipments
was o()0 crates. If this pioportion of
«no vnaua . Voflwa.ttri.
ly that it will, ooiue 30,C00 crates of
oranges will he marketed from the
IIouston-Gaiveston “district next sea-
son.
“There is already an established mar-
ket for the Satsuma in the cities of
Texas and moat of this year’s crop
that has been shipped has not crossed
the Texas line. Dallas, Fort Worth
and other North Texas cities have been
ready purchasers. The price is from
two to two and a half times that of
Louisiana, Floidia oi California fruit.
Wholesale quotations hav^ been from
$2 to $2.25 per package. The packages
are less than half the size of the reg-
ular orange crates which market at
from $2.50 to $3. ,
TO EXTEND MARKET
With next year’s crop an entrance is
I f i he made into some Ilf the inrtrer
Northern markets. The Satsuma is
pratically unknown on the Chicago and
St. Lpuis markets. It has been just
barelyi introduced with the sole aim of
notin " he l'ec^pt^fcit won#! receive.
. r<inn' a was
if the Tex a'
net 50,000 to 100,000 p
nges next year, they wi
find their way in cons Id,
cpianities to SI. Louis and Ch
markets.
The country here described is \
place where F. A. Yanoschowski .
going to soon improve a piece of land
he hougiit there or at luaal to uel out
a number of orange trees. Th'we
SatsiAna oranges ate going .to be,of
immense value to that part oi Texas.
Mr. Yanoschowski left a couple of
samples with us and we found them to
be seedless, fine flavored sweet orange
of good size though possibly not quite
as large as the Caifornia orange - It
is without question an excellent fruit.
—Henry, (Til.) Times.
The Aristocratic Texas Steer.
UixClu* ortiu ii«o pituicu luc uiutr
ribbon- on the Texas Steer. The
November Crop Reporter quctc3 the
average price of Texas cattle at $4.00
per 100 lbs. Texas leads all southern
states in high prices of her cattle and
heads the list of states on ihe grass
fed product. P
-J
Palacios wasn’t here then, but the
land on which the city stands was not
submerged. There is no danger from
tidal waves at Palacio3, as our eleva-
tion places us above the danger line of
any such disaster.
There never has been any yellow
fever in this section of the const enun
try. We are not quite pnstive, hut,
that the Bible classes are the smallest
ii number of members of any of the
classes in the schools. The total en-
rollment of the Presbyterian Sunday
school in this city is a little over one
hundred. This Bible class has thirty-
two enrolled, or nearly one-third of
the entire membership of the schoo!,
and the average attendance of the class
is over twenty each Sunday. If there
is another Sunday school in the State
nur understanding is that there has , ,
, r n r____tnat has a Bible class to equal this, it
never been a case of yellow fever us . , . , . ,
The Texas steer that once went to
market under its own steam now rides
in palatial ears to the marts of the
world and commands attention wnere-
ever he appears. This awkward ani-
mal which once roamed (he plains aqu
itr-ic herded deanpradrwas \/ith trnMM
and spurs has become transformed into
a thoroughbred and itow walks
majestically in Packing House society
chaperoned by proud owners with
silk hats and fat bank accounts.
The progress of Texas is recorded in
the advancement of the Texas Steer.
This remarkable animal has survived
yellow journalism, outlived the caresses
of spring poets; overcome the jealous-
ies of rivals and put down the prejudice
icvei *. w—s. _______________ ot consumer anji all this has been
thp putiro State of Texas If there I's c?rta,’n'y worthy of special, note, | accomplished by pure blood and solid
the entire State of.....it***, it there a„d ,t .would please us much to know , , , . now ,hp markets and
ever were they were very few and
occulted years ago. But this dread
disease has been so completely master-
ed and such means to prevent its spread
discovered, that it no longer has any
terror for the people of this country.
We can positively assure our friend
and all other inquirers that there is no-
thing whatever to fear from either the
We need rho
ilcrcrr to
onghn
!pur land --------
the ! ggjj „f the ’wdrlu
there is a place on earth freer from
disaster from the elements or conta-
gions or epidemics than the great
Texas const country, we have never
heard of if, and do not believe it can
be found.
[yALA&ft’ IL ■ RavvNi
A Noteworthy Sunday School Class,
There assembled at the Beacon office
Monday evfcning of this' week a com-
pany of about thirty ladies and gentle-
men from among tile heat laiuiiiea of
the city', and who were grouped in
where it is.«
In a special article recently prepared
by Judge Fd. K. Konc, Commissioner
of Agriculture, «nd published in the
Atlanta Constitution. The Texas
Commercial .Secretaries’ Association
is mentioned as a great agency at
work for the upbuilding ot T'eaxs.
fever of floods at Palacios. In fact if. This splendid organization is well
worthy of state recognition for its
flesh and he now faces the markets and
is as sound commercially as the hank
of England.
Texas is proud of her cattle; proud
of her hogs and proud of her citizen-
ship that has elevated our five stock
industry to the top of the markets of
the world.
j ~ ~->tAr nio |
Prohibition Record in North Carolina
Raleigh. N. C. Jan. 5.—Discussing
valuable services, inviting the home i state-wide prohibition, which has been
seeker and encouraging capital to
coiiite to Texas. The imiiie of fhs. or-
ganization is 3ynonomous with pros
I perity
The J. H.
in foiee in North Carolina for two
years Governor Kitchen in his annual
message, Pent to the legislature today,
says:
“Business has experienced an in-
crease rather than decrease ir. proS-
f these agricultural
th'1 d hCCodt»>,!«ff i *ront office and photographed by j show gave universal satisfaction
Texas' the°haivest I «rtist Parks. Tins special company j SteelviiK Mo.. News, April 14.
| was composfct of the niombors and ’ At Palaeiois ^o-monow night,
last night to Sty0hTJinessaSi pro- i P,erit.y = mCfa,ity’ *uUvuS»U
.r.cunccd by all the beat show that has havc ITT! ^ ^ ^
, , . „ ! government have been to a great ex-
qhnwoH here !n years* i he ex, j £ent ,rclieveiJ of une of U,eir Tnest cor-
niuiiitm «m t'ne show grounds at .' p. m. j rupting influences.”
was worth walking miles to see. The |
; Ar.k for rcupoiio ». Rh .vuu
I chases and get any dish
j cniifh Mercantile Co.
i casii jjui-
you want,
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