The Sulphur Springs Gazette (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, February 4, 1916 Page: 8 of 8
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THE SULPHUB SPEDTOS GAZETTE, FXBEGAET 4, 1916
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WAGES OF SIN
JOKE WAS ON THE BONHAM MAN
“The wages of sin is death.”
This brief quotation from Holy
Writ took on a new and needed em-
phasis at Joliet, 111, Monday when it
was found in a 'note attached to the
Clothes of a woman who had deserted
-hpT husband for the husband of an-
other wife, and when the second hus-
band, growing tired of her, put her
away and forced her to .work for her
own support, accosted him in his of-
fice, demanded that she be taken back
by him, and on his refusal to accede
to the request, shot hfm and then
killed herself.
‘T have been horribly wronged,”
the woman wrote, and doubtless, she
for the chances are that the man
die killed was the aggressor In induc-
ing her to leave her husband and fol-
low him But if the woman was old
jwwigh to marry in the first instance
fi»«» was old enough to itnoW better
to desert her husband for an-
other and when she reaped death as
tile wages of sin she tasted the fruits
of her wrong-doing as well as that of
the nan she slew. Her victim desert-
ed a wife and seven Children seven
pisara previous in order to run off
with the woman who took his life.
On the same day at * Memphis we
saw a young woman* ’ admitting that
was with a railroad clerk on
flatanlay night when the latter mat
Hb death and confessed that they
with a pistol at the
the gun discharged- killing the
man. In her confession the girt ac-
knewledged her love for the man she
ISM and said that she knew he was
married. He contemplated getting a
divorce after which they were to be
married, she said.
Nature and God are no respectors
ef persons. Their laws are Immutable.
Violation of laws, both spiritual and
natural, constitutes sin and the sinner
must pay the penalty in one way or
another. Not all men who live the
double life are going to be shot down
sa the two mentioned were, nor will
a2fswomen who prove untrue to their
husbands suffer such tragic fates as
this woman who descanted so clearly
on the Wages of sin, but punishment,
certain and severe, will be meted out
in one form or another to all such
transgressors, and the immortal single
men and women will reap the fruits
of their sinning also, Just as will those
who have entered the matrimonial
state.—Waco Morning News.
R. H. SNOW
A story is going the rounds of a
Bonham man, who is not a stock man,
“getting in the mule market” the
other day. It appears that the Bon-
ham man got into conversation with
a gentleman who owned a mule. Div-
ers and sundry subjects were discuss-
ed when the mule owner mad it known
he would like to trade his Balaam for
something of equal value. The other
sniffing a bargain, was soon “on a
trade” for the son of a donkey on hygr'
pa’s side. After much bartering and
dickering, pro and con, it was agreed
that the said mule was worth $25.00
in merchandise. So the said goods
were delivered, and the long-eared ani-
mal changed owners. . After -two or
three days of ownership, during which
hiatus much provender was devoured
by the Balaam, the “mule trader”
found he would have to dispose of his
“hay-burner,” as he was burning it
on the high. After much trouble and
inquiry he sold his purchase for just
$1.85, is being ascertained ‘by people
who have some idea of the age of ani-
mates that this particular steed must
have seen service with Grant at
VickBburg or Lee in .Virginia, when
he was about ten years old. The joke
is on the Bonham man, but he is a
good sport, and unlike his mule, he has
not kicked yet.—Bonham Favorite.
IDLENE88 AND POVERTY.
.... Idleness is the bane of humanity.
[ Especially is this true In a country
like this, where the struggle for ex
istence Is not overly strenuous. The
tendency of people is illustrated by
bees into the sunny seoflon of Florida.
The promoter of the industry was
struck with the possibility of having
bees make honey during the entire
year. During that time they seemed
to have discovered that winter does
not* come in that section of the coun-
try, and, consequently there was no
need of storing honey for use during
the winter time. The bees quit mak-
ing honey and resorted to idleness,
living, off the swee*ts of the flowers
that bloomed continually. Thus it is
that the people of Texas are lured in-
to idleness for a large portion of the
time, conscious that in any event they
-will not freeze or starve. When This
spirit of idleness is allowed to pre-
vail the native will lose opportunities
that might be used for advancement;
foreigners will step in to take vacant
places and the natjve element will be
crowded out. Such a condition now
confronts us in Temple.—Temple
Telegram.
Blacksmith and Woodwork-
All work guaranteed. Shop
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Sulphar Springs Gazette and Dallas
Semi-Weekly News, f 1.75—a splendid
combination.
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This is a velvet bean, maturing in
one hundred days. Fine for stock, and
one of the best soil builders known to
agricultural science. Price $3.50 per
bushel, $1700 per peck.
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The astronomers who have to deal
with tremendous figures when deter
mining the distance of the stars and
other heavenly bodies, long ago realiz
ed that such terms as “billions,” “tril-
lions,” etc., conveyed no definite idea
o the mind, so they devised a more
satisfactory methods. Light travels
at the rate of 186,000 miles a second,
30 the astronomers have taken the dis-
tance that light travels in one year
for their measuring stick and, instead
of saying that a star is some hundred
billions of miles distant, they say that
it is so many light years distant, mean-
ing that it takes the star’s light that
many years to reach us. As an illus-
tration, the astronomers always say
that the north star is seven light years
away from us. It is quite evident that
something of the same kind will have
to be devised by the financiers to de-
termine, or rather to convey an idea
of the cost of the present great war.
The thing has already been done in
France, where a recent loan was made
by the French government which one
paper over there made quite intelligi-
ble by saying that the loan represent-
ed $2 fo revery minute that has elaps-
ed since the institution of the Christi-
an era. TJiat was only one loan ne-
gotiated by one government, and when
the loans of all of them are footed up
it is evident that the total is beyond
comprehension. Each of the great gov-
ernments engaged in the war has spent
more money than has ever been min-
ted by the whole world since the first
mint was established down to the pres-
ent day. That shows how little actual
cash enters infix the commercial af-
fairs' of the world and how great is
the power and influence of credit. It
also accentuates the fact that war’s
real destruction and cost consists of
the actual destruction of property and
the stoppage of the productive ability
of the country. Little is being created
and much destroyed.—State Topics.
AL RINGLING
A1 Ringling died the other day at
his home in Wisconsin. Most of the
newspapers merely referred to him as
“the circus man.” How many youngs-
ters have stood, wide-eyed ahd hopeful
before the Ringling posters! These
posters, with the diagonal line of
Ringling brothers’ faces have been fa-
miliar, at one time or another, in al-
most every city and village in the
country. ATs was the first face in the
line. The eldest of the five brothers,
he was the original showman of the
family, and the peacemaker whenever
internal disputes or business difficul-
ties arose. The American circus was
first made prominent by P. T. Barnum
and developed later by Forepaugh,
Van Amburg, Bailey, Coup, Robinson,
the Ringlings, Wallace, Sells-Floto and
others. The public has not yet tired
of the circus. The bigger the better.
The more tinsel and blare the greater
the interest. Barnum’s early specialty
was to fool as well as to entertain.
The later shows, especially those ag-
gregations which passed from the
“road days” to the railroad age, went
in for the spectacular, and in this fea-
ture, A1 Ringling is said to have ex-
celled. The Ringlings were German-
Alsatians. From their boyhood ambi-
tion was to go into the show business,
which at that time was mostly confin-
ed to hall entertainments, museums
and small menageries with feats of
juggling and physical entertainers and
his real circus apprentiship was ob-
tained with a wagon show at small
towns and villages. — Indianapolis
News.
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BRINGING HIM THROUGH.
Never allow a wave oi pessimism to
roll over your soul as your eyes rest
upon things animate or inanimate.
Several months ago we visited at the
home of a friend and saw a small
white pig that was bowed at the mid-
dle and seemed to be headed toward
death with steam up and the track
greased. But the owner of the infant
porcine despaired not. He gut the pig
on a buttermilk diet and no turn of
the. Kaleidoscope ever showed a great-
er change. The kink*went out of the
diminutive swine’s abdomen and its
body rounded like a stove drum and
the tail twisted itself into a love knot
on the broad back of the fat porker.
This week we ate some sausage made
from the pig, and truly it was food for
the gods. And henceforth we shall
look upon a runty pig only with opto-
mistic eyes, knowing well that the
fullness of time and buttermilk will
turn that pig into delightful Bausage
not many months in the future.—
Honey Grove Signal.
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SCHOOL TEACHERS.
Continue what you are and where
you are and you are what and where
you will always be. The world of
wage-earners is a world of hopers,
wishers, and hesitators, held down by
foolish doubts and empty fears. End-
less thousands of bright, fine fellows
whose wish bone is where their back
bone ought to be, are excusably afraid,
halting, timid, clinging with the
drowning man, grasp to their slender
salaries, because they think business
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is a mystery and they can never learn
to transact it.
You must be more, have more and
do more in this life or you will al-
ways be seeing other men that are
better dressed getting more out" of
life, more of this world’s enjoyments
and comforts than you. We can point
you to hundreds of young men and
women no smarter than you that are
now successfully and Tiappily engaged
in a business of their own, because
they attended our institution, took a
course of bookkeeping and shorthand
or business administration, and fin-
ance, and prepared themselves to go
into the business office and work along
with trained men and become masters
of the art of doing business.
Business is not a happy-go-lucky,
haphazard sort of a thing. If you un-
derstand it thoroughly, you are sure
to succeed. If you have never been
trained, it is all left to luck and guess
work .
Write for our catalogue today and
read the unsolicited testimonials from
many of our former students who are
today demonstrating their success and
the value of our training. Opportuni-
ty never comes to him who waits. It
comes to him who goes after it with
all there is in him, with a deep, burn-
ing, intense iron resolve of his inmost
being. Read our catalogue carefully.
Why not you be one of the 2000 that
will go out of our institution this year
into a good business office. Proscras-
tination is a thief of time. Fill in the
following blank and send in by return
mail. It may be the turning point in
your life.
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Tyler Commercial College, Tyler, Tex.
A record was made in the county
iourt at Canton last week that doubt-
less has never been duplicated in any
ourt, a man being both acqu tted and
convicted on the same evidence. It is
lot necessary to mention names. The
defendant was charged with theft of
cotton seed in two cases, the alleged
hefts being at the same time but
from different parties. The trial of the
first case resulted in an acquittal and
the second in a conviction. In the trial
of both cases the same witnesses were
presented and the testimony was
identical in both cases except in the
first trial reference was made of tracks
leading to the defendant’s house from
one place and in the second of tracks
leading to his house from another
place. The jury in the second case
was composed of six men, five of
whom served on the jury in the first
case, which makes the verdicts more
remarkable. The Chronicle will not
attempt comment but presents the
circumstance as a peculiar incident in
the annals of the courts as they admin-
ister justice, “according to the law and
the evidence.”—Wills Point Chronicle.
THE SIZE OF EUROPEAN
COUNTRIES
In reading of the vast operations of
men in the European conflict it is hard
for Americans to realize the tiny size
of the theater which nature has pro-
vided for such maneuvers.
Heroic Belgium, now drenched with
her own and German tylood, is about
the size of Maryland. So far as agri-
cultural resources are concerned,
Maryland is probably the richer of
the two.
Germany, the home of 65,000,000
people, haS about sixty per cent of
the area of T'exas. If Texas were a
circular lake and Germany a circular
island, the island could be anchored
in the lake out of sight of the sur-
rounding shores.
France is a trifle smaller than Ger-
many. France and England together
are almost exactly the same extent
as Texas.
England—not counting Wales—is a
little smaller than Illinois. Italy is
about two-thirds the size of Califor-
nia. Holland and Belgium together
could be set down in South Carolina
and leave a little room to about the
same extent as the national forest
reserves of the United States.
Only when one gets to Russia does
he find the continental sweep to
which Americans are accustomed at
home. Russia in Europe is two-
thirds the size of the United States
Her great extent as well as her low
industrial development makes her
slow at the beginning of a war, but
she has always proved herself mighty
at the end of one.—Chicago Journal.
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cessed for easy digestion—and is always ready to eat direct from
the package. Economical—convenient—and makes for efficiency.
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—Sold by Grocers Everywhere.
NATIONAL PROVERB8
A crow is no whiter for being
washed.
He that lies with dogs riseth with
fleas.
More flies are taken with a drop
of honey than with a ton of vinegar.
Pride is as loud a beggar as want
and a great deal more saucy.
Save at the spigot and let out at
the bunghole. >
Some have been thought brave be-
cause they were afraid to run away.
He who will not be ruled by the
rudder must be ruled by the rock.
Although it rain throw not away thy
watering pot.
A blunt wedge will sometimes do
what aH sharp axe_ will not.
A lot of bread cast upon the waters
has a string tied to it. ,
Neat, but not gaudy, as the devil
said when he painted his tail sky-blue.
Success consists of an ability to
climb a little higher than the place
from which you last fell.
When a^man insists that he has a
kick coming he can nearly always find
somebody to accommodate him.
SLIGHTLY MIXED.
“I’m in a hurry,” he said, rushing
into the hardware store, “just got time
to catch a train. “Give me a corn-pop-
per, quick!”
“All right, sir,” replied the clerk.
“Do you want a large pon-corner?”
“No, just a medium-sized—an ordi-
nary porn-copper!”
“How will this cop-pomer do?”
"Is that a pon-corper?”
“Yes, but you’re getting twisted. You
mean a con-porper—no a pern-Copper!
No, a—”
“I mean a con-porper!”
"Oh, yes, a pon-corper!”
“Yes, be quick! Gimme a pup-eoon-
er, and be quick!”
"All right! Here’s your pun-cooper.”
—Ex.
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It Is Near at Hand to Hundreds sf
Sulphur Springs Readers.
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Don't neglect an aching back.
Backache is often the kidneys* cry
for help.
Neglect hurrying to the kidneys’ aid
Means that urinary troubles may
follow.
Or danger or worse kidney trouble.
Here's Sulphur Springs testimony.
H. A. Osborn, farmer. Route No. 5,
Sulphur Springs, says: '1 did a great
deal of heavy lifting and it affected my
kidneys, causing my back to ache. I
couldn't raise up from a chair, but
what a sharp pain caught me in the
small of my back and nearly doubled
me up. My kidneys acted irregularly
and the kidney secretions ders highly
colored. I finally used a box of DoafFs
Kidney Pills, procured from Askeir ft
Buford’s Drug Store, and they entire-
ly cured me.” • .
Price 50c at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy—get
Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that
Mr. Osborn had. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Props., Buffalo, N. Y.
ONLY REASON.
“Why Sally,” said the justice, “what
are you doing here?”
“Well, jedge, I wants a divorce.”
“You want a divorce, Sally? Why I
thought Bill was a good nigger. Ain’t
he good to you?”
“Oh, ya-as, jedge; Bill ain't never
hit me a lick in his life.”
“Well, doesn’t he support you?”
“Ya-as, sir, he gave me 60 cents last
Saturday night.”
“Well, then, what in the world is
the matter with you?”
“Jedge.” said Sally in confidential
tones, ‘To tell de truf, I jes loe’ my
taste for Bill.”—Ex.
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Fanning, R. W. The Sulphur Springs Gazette (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, February 4, 1916, newspaper, February 4, 1916; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth816302/m1/8/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.