The Lampasas Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, January 6, 1899 Page: 3 of 8
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TWO LIVES. I
Two babes were born in the selfsame
town.
On the very same bright day ;
They laughed and cried in their m >tber d
arms
In the very, selfsame way:
AndbMh were ;.u e and innocent
As flakes of falling snow.
But one of them lived in the terraced
house,
And one in the street below.
Two children played in\the selfsame
town A ;
And the children both were fair.
But one had curls brushed smooth and
round,
The other had tangled hair.
The children both grew up apace,
As other people grow,
But one of them lived in the terraced
house,
And one in the street below.
Two maidens wrought in the selfsame
town,
And one was wedded and loved;
The other saw through the curtains part
v, .The world where her sisters moved;
And one was smiling—a happy bride,
A The other knew care and woe,
For one of them lived in the terraced
house
h And one in the street below.
Two women lay dead in the" selfsame
town,
_cnd one had tender care,
The other was left to die alone
On her pallet all thin and bare,
And one had many to mourn her loss,
For the other few tears would flow,
For one had lived in the terraced house
And one in the street below.
If -Jesus who died for the rich and poor,
In wonrirous holy love,
Took born the sisters in His arms
A;nd carried them home above.
*UThen all,' the difference vanished quite,
For in Heaven none would know
Which Jot them lived in the terraced
house
And/which in the street below.
—Chicago Sentinel.
Tlie Grade Bull.
grade biitll is the greatest curse to
[raising ip this country. Whether
if or tlie/dairy, the grade bull pro-
la scrub/ says the Western Agri-
|st. Farmers do not know the
of the improved breeds and think
lite of jrnoney to subscribe for pa-
[ltainilig stock news, for in their
they- think they know ail
LreefMng stock, but they will
|grjhe Shorthorn or Hereford
Jersey bull to get their ideal
^ however, produces a scrub,
beef and witflout dairy
atli such an experience be
ie stock is a fraud. While
who breeds a pure bred sire
the beef breeds, if he wants
f, or of the dairy breeds, if be
fry cattle, grades up bis herd
fves it with each cross. He
blood the first cross, three-
IbeY^xt, and seven-eighths the
iss, practically as good as full
lor market. A While these females
ling better with each cross, the
Ired to them must be pure bred,
[breeding backward to breed one
Je grade bulls. However fine look -
ey are they have not theprepoten-
Ireproduce their type as the pure-
have, but breed back to their
JJancestors, and one cross of grade
Ivill often destroy the good qualities
good grade herd.
U only excuse for breeding a grade
[is that he is cheaper, which cheap-
|all his calves, while the breeder who
$200 for a good pure bred bull pays
Fit with the extra price of his first ten
ves, as they readily sell for $10 to $25
her; rjjhey mature earlier and feed
better. The market pays 5 to 5 1 2 cents
for the good grades and 3 to 3 1-2 cents
for common stock. This difference of
2 cents on a 1200 pound steer is $24, and
ten steers a profit of $200. That would
buy a good,bred bull, yet so many farm-
ers would rather stick to their preju-
dices or the love of a scrub and sell for
cents a pound less than to buy a pure
rred bull at a price which to them in
pieir ignorance seems a fancy price.
Che western and Texas ranchmen have
[learned the value of pure bred bulls and
ire buying all they can get at $100 to
5200 in Gar loads and are marketing
fgood grades at advanced prices that
})nakes a big profit on the bulls.
There is a scarcity of cedar
i ghosts, and the Leader is requested
[to say that parties haying such
[for sale can find a ready market
for them by bringing them here.
)$y, have you tried that new
>er who bought Jo Ab’s shop?
do you good work at a
jble price.
Unveiling- Ceremonies.
Address of Consul Commander T. J.
Hocker at the unveiling of the monu -
ment, erected to the memory of Mrs.
Susan K Mace, member of the Wood-
men circle, on Sunday, .January 1, 1899:
Dear friends, there is no need to tell
you why we have met together on this
occasion. That monument, though si-
lent, speaks volumes. It tells that she,
whose mortal remains repose beneath,
in her life time, by her own free and
voluntary act, made it possible for its
erection, and in addition it tells she left
a heritage for her darling boy and her
sorrowing busband. But as we speak
of the living, we will give a brief his-
tory of the order under whose auspices
it is erected.
In 1882 in both Illinois and Iowa there
was organized at the same time camps
of the Modern Woodmen. Head offi-
cers were elected, a charter seccured
and deputies put in the field. It spread
rapidly in every direction, until now
it numbers near 300,000. But its area
was limited, there was a growing desire
upon the part of the promoters for a
wider sphere—a broader field of useful-
ness. As this could not be obtained un-
der their limited charter, a new order,
The Woodmen of the World sprang into
existence in 1890 at Omaha, Nebraska.
Securing a charter, deputies were put
into the field and wherever the princi-
ples of the order were promulgated, it
received a generous welcome. Early in
its history organizers’came to Texas.
They were received with open arms by
the noble and hospitable people of the
south. Texas to-day stands in the
front rank. The order numbers in the
United States and Canada almost 200,-
000, there being an increase of about
5,000 per month during the year 189S.
Texas, as I stated, heads the list with
membership of nearly 20,000. In 1893
when I came to Lampasas, I stood alone
so far as Wodcraft was concerned.
Now including the Circle we have a
membership of about 80.
You ask what is there in Woodcraft
that has secured an enrollment of 500, -
000 in the short space of 16 years. First
of all there is the insurance. I have
been a member" of the order almost
from its infancy. A policy of $2000 has
cost me all told about $18 per year. I
have watched the workings. Every
loss has been paid in full. No compro-
mises asked, no contested claims. The
patriotism of the order was shown in
the late war. It said to its members,
go fight your country’s battles, we ask
you not a cent as additional premium,
should you fall, we will care for your
loved ones, your certificate will be paid
in full, Insurance in the Woodmen of
the World is not only the cheapest, it is
the best. It will stand by yon when all
other forms of insurance will desert
you. A member stricken down upon a
bed of sickness, not able to attend to
his usual vocation, the very fact of his
illness will keep his policy in force with •
out payment. Our order is the only
one that will stand by you in this try-
ing hour.
Fraternalism need be but briefly
mentioned. In common with all our
sister, orders we care for the sick and
affleted. When a member is stricken
down we hasten to him on swift feet,
with a generous heart, an open hand
and minister to his necessities. Should
the great Sovereign Commander sum-
mon him to the great Forest above, we
will attend bis mortal remains to the
last resting place and then give a
watchful care to the loved ones he has
left behind.
There is another feature pecliar to
Woodcraft and to which I now call
your attention. It is one of the prin-
ciples of the order that no deceased
member rest in an unmarked grave, but
that an enduring monument be erected
to perpetuate his memory. This desire on
the part of mankind manifested itself
even in ancient times. The Egyptians
were wont to erect costly monuments
in memory of their dead. Old Abra-
ham when he and his faithful wife had
marked over a century in life’s journey,
cared not to own a permanent abiding
place until his beloved Sarah was called
to her long home, then he bought a
spot of ground and sorrowfully and
tearfully placed in in the mortal re-
mains of his life companion and then to
mark the spot he erected a mausoleum
that you or I could see to-day were we
to visit the Holy Land. Not long since
1 read of a poor boot black in a great
city, going to a carpenter and asking
him if he would make him a little
board and put on it the name, “Jennie.”
The carpenter asked who is Jennie.
The little fellow replied, Jennie was
my sister, she was buried yesterday,
and there are so many graves there
that I am afraid after while I can’t
find Jennie’s grave. You see even in
the midst of poverty there was an over-
whelming desire to mark the spot
where rested his loving sister. Visit
any cemetery and you will see this de-
sire manifested in marble urns, which
only the opulent can afford, while all
about yon there will be unmarked
graves, or marked only by a rough
stone, a few shells or an evergreen
plant. I have seen the poor widow
shed bitter tears, because she was not
able to erect a suitable monument at
the grave of one whom she had loved
and lost. Woodcraft makes no distinc-
tions. It is not charity. It is a free-
will offering to the memory of a de-
parted brother.
Now to the membership, let me ap-
peal to you to be faithful, to be loyal
to the grand and noble principles of
Woodcraft. Remembering that it will
benefit you not only in life, but depart-
ing you will leave behind you a grand
army of faithful brothers and sisters,
who will mark your last resting place
with a monument enduring as time,
and in addition will care for the loved
ones dependent upon you for protection.
To those upon the outside we invite
you to investigate the principles of our
order. You will find them true and
lasting. We invite to membership all
pure and noble men and women while
they have health and strength and af -
terwards should disease hasten itself
upon your vitals, the order will not
desert you- Should you be possessed
of a competence you will have the
pleasure derived from helping the
widow and the orphan. Should your
possessions be few Woodcraft will en-
able you to care for your loved ones
when that strong right arm of yours lies
powerless in the grave. We ask how
can you sit contented at your table at
your evening meal, and look across at
that confiding wife of yours and those
prattling children, when you know
that if you should be called to your
final account, grim poverty will stalk
into your home, when she whom you
have pledged to protect, and those for
whose very existence you are responsi -
ble, would be left to the cold charaties
of the world.
Now in conclusion, this monument
marks the last resting place of Sister
Susan K. Mace, one whom we all knew
and loved for many virtues, the faith-
ful and devoted wife of our brother,
W. E. Mace. This monument will do
her no good, but it will do us good.
We need it not to keep alive her mem-
ory, but it is a token that she left be-
hind her a substantial heritage. Her
little boy, Howard, is yet too young to
realize the loss of a mother, Bnt this
monnment will 1be looked upon by him
when manhood years shall have worked
his brow. Yea, all who stand here will
pass away, other generations will fol-
low, yea, even these little forest trees
will grow to be giant oaks, die, fall
down and decay; and yet this monu-
ment will stand sacred to t he memory
of our beloved sister.
Sacredness ot Appointments.
There is one thing that is almost as
sacred as the marriage relation—that is,
an appointment. A man who fails to
meet his appointment, unless he has a
good reason, is practically a liar, and
the world treats him as such.
“I give it as my deliberate and solemn
conviction,” said Dr. Fitch, “that the
individual who is tardy in meeting an
appointment will never be respected or
successful in life.”
“If a man has no regard for the time
of other men,” said Horace Greely,
“why should he have for their money?
What is the difference between taking a
man’s hour and taking his five dollars?
There are many men to whom each hour
of the business day is worth more than
five dollars.”
“It is not necessary for me to live,”
said Pompey, “but it is necessary that I
be at a certain point at a certain hour.”
When President W ashington dined at
four, new members of congress invited
to dine at the White House would some
times arrive late, and he mortified to
find the president eating. “My cook,”
Washington would say, “never asks if
the visitors have arrived, but if the hour
has arrived.”
When his secretary excused the late-
ness of his attendance by saying bis
watcb was too slow, Washington re-
plied, “Then you must get a new watcb,
or I another secretary.”
Franklin said to a servant who was
always late, but was always ready with
an excuse: “I have generally found
that- the man who is good at an excuse
is good for nothing else.”
On the eve of Nelson’s departure on a
famous cruise, his coachman said that
the carriage would be at the door punc -
tually at six o’clock. “A quarter be-
fore,” said the admiral. “I have always
been a quarter of an hour before my
time, and it has made a man of me.”
Napoleon once invited his marshals to
dine with him, but as they did not ar-
rive at the moment appointed, he began
to eat without them. They came in just
as lie was rising from the table. “Gen-
tlemen,” said he, “it is now past dinner,
and we will immediately proceed to
business.” /
ns*2**—- PROGRAM OF THE-^-ar
IxRJ/lPRSRS COUNTY —
HUBS’ INSTITUTE!
To be Held at the High Softool Building, Lometa, Texas*,
Friday and Saturday, February 3 and 4, I&99.
FRIDAY EVENING SESSION]—7:30.
Song.
Invocation—Rev. Geo. F. Fair.
Song.
Address of Welcome—J. IT. Stanley.
Response—Buren Sparks.
Song.
The Duty of Self Improvement oil the Part of Teachers
—Miss Lila Browning.
Recitation—Miss Paralee Floyd.
RECESS.
Co-operation of Parents
Baker and Eva Hickman.
The Teacher as Governor—S. J. Enochs.
SATURDAY MORNING SESSION—9:30.
Song.
Invocation.
Song.
Primary Reading—Miss Eva Young.
Supplementary Reading—J. W. H. Ware.
Primary Numbers—Miss Lou" Hocker.
RECESS.
Verbs, as Treated by Our New Grammars-
AFTERNOON SESSION—2 O’CLOCK.
Course of Study and Program of Daily Recitations—G.
S. Arnold.
Business session.
General discussion after each subject. The public in
general, and school patrons in particular, are invited to be
present. Let every teacher in the county be present and con-
tribute something towards its success. “Thou that teachest
others, teachest thou not thyself?”
-J. W. Brooks, Misses Beulah
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J. VY. Ratliff. C. A. Lee.
Ratliff & Lee,
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JLaxo.jj'Stsa® sro-d. Texas.
Lampasas office over Key & Ratliff’s Drug Store.
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Brownwood office over Brownwood National Bank.
We use only the latest and best appliances known to the pro-
fession. Pleasant parlors adjoining operating rooms.
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JOHN N. MANUEL,
THIRD STREET, LAMPASAS, TEXAS.
Hardware, Harness and Saddlery....
....Implements, Wagons and Buggies.
Barbed and smooth wire, stoves, tin and glassware. Blacksmith supplies
a specialty. Roo fling, guttering and repairing in tin and sheet iion.
OF MUSIC.
Mrs. C. H.Montgomery, Principal
Motto:—Honesty, Thoroughness, Kindness.
New England Conservatory Methods.
Studies from the Best Authors. Special Lessons in Theory,
Harmony and History. v
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