The Lampasas Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, July 28, 1899 Page: 2 of 8
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THE LAMPASAS LEADER,
Published Every Friday.
Stock and. Farm Notes,
From Texas Stockman and Farmer.
The scarcity of beef cattle in
Texas is gradually becoming more
^apparent and it is hard to tell
'iwhere Texas feeders will secure
their supply of aged stears this
coming fall.
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Texas is prosperous now, but
she will enjoy greater prosperity
when she converts her wool and
cotton into cloth, her hides into
shoes and leather; her lumber into
jfurniture and in short build mills
and factories to consume all her
raw products.
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Reports from the big horse mar-
kets are to the effect there is great
difficulty in supplying the demand
Yor all good horses the market re-
quires but there is a profusion of
aommon to fair grades offered for
sale. This has been the condition
of affairs in the horse market for
several years and if farmers will
only get rid of the scrnbs and
breed a class of horses the mar-
ket demands they will find there
>is some money in the business.
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Every stockman, farmer dairy-
orchardist and truck grower
will be benefited by attending
second annual meeting of the Tex-
as Farmers congress to be held at
College Station next week, The
program published m these col-
umns recently, contains a variety
■of topics sufficiently large to in-
terest those in the varied agricul-
tural conditions of Texas. A
rare treat awaits all who attend
this congress.
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Ths secretary of the Kansas
Sate Agricultural society has is-
sued a report on the sheep and
dog raising industries in that
commonwealth. He contrasts the
Tact on the 50,000,000 acres of land
the state there is but one sheep
to each 250 acres, while the num-
ber of dogs in the state is 189,000,
Two years ago the sheep outnum-
bered the dogs by 30 per cent,
while last year the percentage was
reduced to 16, In one county
there were 909 dogs to each sheep,
and in twelve selected counties
there were 206 dogs to each sheep.
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The Texas Stock and Farm
-Journal writes up the San Antonio
International Fair association in
dhe following approved style:
"‘The San Antonio International
fair association has arranged for a
■premium list aggregating more
than $13,000, and has acted wisely
in offering $11,000 of that amount
to exhibitors of live stock and
agricultural products. In this the
management shows its intention to
give its best efiorts to the develop-
'j&ent of the several branches of
agricultural industry upon which
all other material intere. ts in
Texas depend. But a few years
ago no one dreamed of the variety
and greatness of resource possessed
in southern and southwestern
Texas. How the world is learn-
iizgg that Texas can. produce in
marvelous quantity very much for
which only recently her people
sent to California and Ohio. The
fair at San Antonio will teach still
wider the lessons of the various
vWeslth of resource in Texas, and
will teach valuable lessons, also,
to our home people, encouraging
them to the cultivation of many
things which they have hitherto
pteo much neglected. It is well
Ber the fair association and well
for the people of Texas that the
"San. Antonio fair will be so dis-
tinctly an agricultural exposition.”
the live stock feature of the San
Antonio International fair will be
great success. Already applica-
tions for stalls has been received
for several hundred head, from
breeders of the various beef and
dairy breeds. More fine cattle
will be on exhibition at this fair
than were ever brought together
before at any fair or exposition in
Texas or the south. This feature
of this great fair will be worth
coming miles to see by all those
who are interested m fine stock.
Exhibits will also be numerous in
the horse, sheep, swine and goat
departments. The San Antonio
fair association certainly made no
mistake in offering liberal premi
urns to exhibitors of live stock.
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It has been demonstrated that
some 250,000,000 tons of corn
stalks which are annually burned
or left to rot by the farmers of this
country, might be converted into
valuable products. For instance,
there is cellulose, which the
government will buy for the pack-
ing of war ships, at $400 per ton,
and the dust of cellulose is exceed-
ingly valuable in the manufacture
of powder and dynamite. Corn
stalks ground and sweetened with
a little molasses and pressed into
bricks make a valuable cattle feed.
Glue and many other by-proaucts
can also be made from the stalks.
It is estimated that the cornstalks
thrown away might be converted
into products worth many millions
annually.
TV
The J. B. Wilson Texas bred and
Texas fed cattle sold at Chicago
some days ago shows what can be
done in Texas. These cattle were
a credit to the man who fed them
and the state. They averaged 1628
lbs and sold at $5 to $5.65. What
Mr. Wilson has done others can
do and it will not be many years
before Texas fed. cattle will sell
side by side with the best native
cattle. Five years hence Texas
will not only own the largest
number of cattle credited to any
state but in additon they grade as
high as cattle from Illinois, Iowa,
Missouri or any other state.
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"It‘Is now definitely settled that
The state legislature of Texas,
at its last session, passed a law for
the investment of the state perma-
nent school fund, amounting to
nearly $3,000,000 in state, county
and city bonds. When the fact
became apparent that passage of
the bill was certain, bon brokers
from all over the country sent their
representatives into the Btate and
brought up all of the county and
city bonds they could get hold of,
their object being to unload them
on the state at handsome profits
when the new law became effect-
ive. The first proposition of this
nature was presented to the state
board of education, a short time
ago by a Cleveland (O.) bond firm,
who offered to sell to the state an
issue of $400,000 of Tarrant county
bonds at an advanced price over
what they had paid for them.
The board of education took the
proposition under consideration
and rendered their decision, re-
fusing it. In their written refusal
the board makes the significant
and important ruling that bonds
will not be purchased by the state
from speculators and that the
dealings will be confined tc the
counties and cities direct.—
American Investments.
The Dead Fetter Office.
The Dead letter office at Wash-
ington received, last year, nearly
6,000,000 letters and parcels, near
ly half of which were returned to
the owners. These letters con-
tained money, drafts and notes
amounting to nearly one million
dollars. There were44,500 letters
and parcels without any address
About 117,000 articles are to be
found in the mails every year
without wrappers. Over 23,000
photographs were found in letters
opened in the Dead Letter office
during the year. The letters of
this office are “live"’ and “dead.”
“Live” letters are those posted at
various offices and unmailable for
lack of necessary postage, mis
direction, or insufficient address
“Dead” letters are those that are
duly stamped and properly ad
dressed, but unclaimed at office of
destination. The ingenuity of the
best “readers,” sustained by ahost
of directories and reference books,
is taxed to the utmost to decipher
puzzling addresses before the gov-
ernment permits a letter to be
opened. The sacrednees of cor
reepondence is respected. Every
day 17,000 pass under the knife.
Dead letters which contain
mouey,, and which cannot be re
stored to owners, are kept for
three months, when they are
turned over to the Third Assistant
Postmaster-General. The letter
and money may be reclaimed at
any time within four years. The
faithfullness of the records kept,
and the thoroughness of the sys-
tem of tracing lost letters and
packages is wonderful. About
80,000 parcels are constantly on
file in the department storerooms.
All addressed matter remaining
in storage for two years, and all
unaddreBsed matter on file over
six months, is sold annually. The
auction is held every December
just before the holidays. A regu-
lar catalogue is printed and the
sale lasts a week. The contents
of many packages or letters may
make up a single sales parcel.
The average price is sixty cents a
parcel; the total amount some-
times exceeds $3000. All un-
claimed magazines, papers, mis-
cellaneous publications and pic-
ture cards are sent to the charit-
able institutions of the District of
Columbia—Saturday Evening
Post.
HOW
TO CUIiK
FLUX.
BLOODY
Never Known to Fail.
As a druggist, 1 have handled various
remedies for bowel complaints for the
past five years, but have never found
anything so beneficial or certain to ef -
feet a cure as Chamberlain's Colic,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. It is
an absolute specific for bloody flux, di-
arrhoea and summer complaints in gen-
eral. I have never known it to fail.
John X. Taylor, Druggist, Cromwell,
Kentucky. For sale by Key & Ratliff,
druggists, Lampasas, Texas.
Just a pointer: Last week a
stranger walked into The Times
office and asked to see a copy of
the paper, remarking that he was
here for the purpose of looking
after the location of a large manu-
facturing establishment, “And,
said he, “I look to the newspaper
of a town as an index to the en-
terprise of its citizens.” Adver-
tising pays in more ways than
one, and especially to those who
are interested in building up a
town.—West Times,
Recepton Monday Night.
At the rooms ot the Lotus Club
last night, the young men of Tem-
ple assisted by lady friends, tender-
ed Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Crawford a
reception. It was at once a wel
come to the fair bride and a mark
of the esteem in which the groom
is held among his associates.
The Lotus Club is a social organ-
ization comprising a large number
of the leading young men of the
city and their nice rooms were ap-
propriately decorated for the occa-
sion. It was agathering of beauty,
talent and wit, and the hours of
pleasure were a continuous round
of happy greetings and bright say-
ings, and the old time-worn amuse-
ment of dancing was indulged in
by those who patake of such.
The bride was resplendent in
beauty, and the well-wishes and
greeting of welcome must indeed
have impressed her with the gra-
ciousness of the affection of the
people for her noble husband and
of the love that extends to all that
is his.
With such a welcome, added to
the other marks of esteem shown,
the future opens with a portal of
flowers, and that the entire path-
way may be so strewn is the wish
of the Tribune —Temple Tribune.
Robert G, Ingersoll, the noted
agnostic, died suddenly of heart
disease Friday at his home in the
state of New York. He has had a
wonderful career, and has caused
more doubt, perhaps, than any
man since the days of Tom Paine.
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Secretary Alger, of the war de-
partment, has at last resigned, and
Elihu W. Root, of New York, has
been appointed by the president to
fill the vacancy.
Miss Nellie Rogers arrived home
Saturday evening from a visit of
some two months to a sister who
resides in Dallas county.
Noah Smith is a busy man these
days, as he is assisting in saving
one of the finest crops of hay ever
produced in this section of the
country.
VACATION
In deciding where yon will
New stationery
drug store.
at Cassell’s
Please remember that the
Leader has one of the best job
printing establishments in the
west, and that we are always
ready to give you the best work
at the lowest possible prices.
Patronize this office and it will
help you in every legitimate en-
terprise.
Notice.
I have begun my summer ses-
sion which will close August 25.
My fall session begins Sept. 4.
A 1 pupils desiring to join m y
class will please call and notify
me. Thanking you for past pat-
ronage I earnestly solicit your
patronage in the future and guar-
antee entire satisfaction.
MRS. NELLIE DAVIS.
Principal Lampasas Music School.
The Lampasas Nurse y.
1 desire to say to all who want
well rooted healthy fruit trees,
of the best varieties adopted to
this section, that I can supply
such trees. I have a large test
orchard and it is my aim to prop-
agate only those varieties that
succeed here. I have no interest
in, or connection with any other
nursery. I am the sole owner and
proprietor of my nursery and
those who give orders to me or
my agents, may depend upon it
that I will fill them correctly.
FERNANDO MILLER,
Lampasas, Texas.
Day light or flash light photos
at Cotten’s.
June corn for sale at this office.
Felix Garrett is still in the
barber business at his old stand,
and wants all the customers he
can get. He will give you a neat
and easy shave for a dime, and
cut your hair for twenty cents
more. Only the best work done
at his shop. Your regular trade
is solicited.
spend vacation why not consider
Colorado with its matchless cli-
mate, superb and varied scenery,
its many resorts, its Chatauqua,
cheapness ol rates, and its access-
ibility via
The Denver Road?
A quickened schedule and com-
plete, up-to-date equipment, in-
cluding Pullman’s latest produc-
tion iu Sleepers and Cafe cars.
Menu the best, served a la carte.
Trains solid to Denver. Hours
convenient. For further details
address D. B. KEELER,
Traffic Manager,
or A. A, GLISSON,
General Pass Agent.
Fort Worth, Texas.
A nick le saved is a nickle made
Get a good shave for ten cents.
Felix Garrett will serve you well.
Good Newspapers at a Very Low
Price.
The Semi-Weekly Mews (G-alveston
or Dallas) is published Tuesdays and
Fridays. Each issue contains eight
pages. There are special departments
for the farmers, the ladies nnd the boys
and girls, besiees a world of general
news matter, illustrated articles, etc.
We offer the Semi-Weekly News and
the Leader for twelve months for the
low price of $1.80 cash.
This gives you three papers a week,
or 156 papers a year, for a ridiculously
low price.
Hand in your subscriptions at once.
School Land.
School Land.
PUBLIC DOMAIN.
PUBLIC DOMAIN.
Forfeited Lands.
Forfeited Lands.
A CUBE FOR CHOLERA IN
FANTUM.
Never Known to Fail.
During last May an infant child of
our neighbor’s was suffering from chol-
era infantum. The doctors had given
up all hopes of recovery. I took a bot-
tle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy to the house, telling
them I felt sure it would do good if
used according to directions. In two
days’ time the child had fully recovered.
The child is now vigorous and healthy.
I have recommended the remedy fre-
quently and have never known it to
fail.—Mrs. Bnrtis Baker, Bookwalter,
Ohio. For sale by Key & Ratliff, drug-
gists, Lampasas, Texas.
Go a Camping !
McFadden will supply you
with a complete outfit for a small
compensation.
Picture ■
tells a story that
thousands of
women will re-
cognize—a story
of monthly suf1
fering just be-
fore and during menstruation—a
story of aches, darting pains, torture
in back, head, limbs and abdomen.
BRABFIELD’S
FEMALE REGULA TOR
will cure these sufferers—regulate
their menses and drive out all “fe-
male troubles.” Druggists sell it
for $1 a bottle.
THE BHADITELD ESGULATOK CO., Atlanta, Ga.
DO YOU KNOW that the supreme
Court of Texas has decided that all the
Public Domain in Texas belongs to the
Free School Fund, and that the Legis-
lature has just passed an act placing’
8.000. 000 acres more of the Public Do-
main on the market for sale as school
land on 40 years’ time at only 8 per cent
interest, which act will take effect 90
days after the adjournment of the Leg-
islature ^
DO YOU KNOW about when the for-
feited list of school lands will he sent
out by the general land office to the
county clerk of each county placing
each forfeited section on the market for
sale again?
DO YOU KNOW in what counties in
this State public free school land is on
the market fexr sale?
DO YOU WANT a book giving the
full text of the State law in regard to
the purchase of public free school land
together with the resources of!} the va-
rious sections of the State and statistics
in regard to them of great value to
you?
DO YOU WANT a map of the State
by counties?
DO YOU WANT a copy of the act of
the legislature just passed placing this
3.000. 000 acres of public domain on the
market for sale, which will take effect
90 days after the adjournment of the
Legislature?
DO YOU WANT to be instructed as
to what steps to take in order to place
yourself in a position to secure some of
this public domain, which will be on
the market, and to secure some of the
forfeited sections which will he forfeited
when the lists are sent out?
If you are1 interested in the above,
then send $1, either by personal check
or money order, to the undersigned for
a copy of his book, with map of Texas,
giving school land law and telling how
to buy same, with list of counties in
which it is located, and a copy of the
recent act of the Legislature, which
ought to be worth $100 to you, if you
feel an interest in these matters.
CHAS. P. SCRIVENER,
Formerly State CompilingDraughtsman
Box 495, Austin, Texas.
References—Hon. John H. Reagan,
Railroad Commissioner; Hon. E. P.
Wilmot, President Austin National
Bank.
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The Lampasas Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, July 28, 1899, newspaper, July 28, 1899; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth871760/m1/2/: accessed July 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lampasas Public Library.