The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 3234, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 8, 1912 Page: 4 of 4
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The Lampasas DaHy leader
J. E. VERNOR . J. H. ABNEY
Proprietors.
J. E. Vernor, Editor and Manager
'Entered at the postoffice at Lampasas, March 7
1904, as second class mail matter.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
PAYABLE IN ADVANCE
One week......_______............... 15c
One month................. 40c
Three months................*..........$1,00
One vear....................... 4.b0
What Intervention Would Cost.
“Intervention in Mexico means
fifty years’ war,” according to a
statement made at the war de-
partment by Brig. Gen. Anson
Mills, United States Army, re-
tired, who is one of the Mexican
boundary commissioners of the
United States, and who has been
almost constantly in touch with
developments on the boundary
and in the interior of Mexico.
Brigadier General Mills told
army officers of the general staff
yesterday that there was no rea-
son whatever for the United
States to think of intervening in
Mexico, and that the immediate
consequences of such action
w ould spell prolonged trouble
and implication, which few per-
sons here evbr dreamed of.
“Let the Mexicans fight it
out!” is the slogan jof Brigadier
General Mills, reiterated to the
War Department office. “Let
them fight as we were allowed to
fight during our Civil War. Think
of what would have happened if
some foreign power had attempt^
ed to intervene in our war.
“If the army should enter Mex-
ican soil, it would be fifty years
before it would come out. It
would mean 250,000 men in the
field, and even then it would be
an endless process to subdue the
country. We might take the
City of Mexico with 50,000 troops;
but what good would that do?
Madero has the City of Mexico
now,, but there is still fighting in
Mexico.
“Americans are not in danger
in Mexico, and I would feel safer
in many of the Mexican cities to-
day than in many places in the
United States. There never was
a time when the fights pf Amer-
icans were being given more
consideration in like conditions
than the present time in Mexico.
While this vague talk of Amer-
icans being endangered is going
bn in. the United States, these
Americans themselves are being
given a thousand times more pro-
tection than the Mexicans them-
selves. £ In many instances
Americans legitimately imprison-
ed for crimes have been let out
of jail simply because they are
Americans.
“Mexico has not done one-
tenth the harm to Americans
that Americans have done to
Mexico. Was not the present
revolution started from the Unit-
ed States, with money from the
United States, and even the men
from the United States—a great
part of them? They were Mex-
icans, but American Mexicans,
and many went into Mexico from
the Texas border. At the be-
ginning of the revolution there
was ten times as much excite-
ment on the American side of the
border as in Mexico. The ac-
tivity was all here. And yet
now we talk of the necessity of
American intervention.
“Let Mexico alone, and mat-
ters will adjust themselves in
that country. We can rest as-
sured that neither England,
Germany nor France would think
of intervening, even if the United
States would sanction it. France,
backed by Austria, tried it once,
and had enough. That was a
lesson which has never been for-
gotten.’ Washin gton Post.
“WouldfSave a Match.”
I«n speaking of what was term-;
ed penuriousness a few days ago,
a young woman of intelligence
stated that a certain man would
“save a match.” The writer once
knew a man who always struck
three matches at once to light his
pipe; he died poor. It is told of
a philanthropist that he once
called UQpn a poor woman to as-
sist her, if found worthy* Having
no light he handed her a double-
headed match, such as were com-
mon years ago. She lighted her
lamp and threw the other end
away. Being reminded that the
other end would ignite, she re-
plied that she never used both
ends. The philanthropist replied
that he was not disposed to help
those who threw away one half
of what they had.
In the matter of saving little
things the great corporations
show important lessons, which is
just now being demonstrated by
the Santa Fe system, which has
supplied every office of the com
pany with lead pencil lengthen
ers by which a lead pencil, can
practically all be used. It is es
timated that this small device
will save $600 per month or more
than $7000 year which was for-
merly wasted. Save the little
things and you will have big
ones.
Health On The Farm.
The beneficient effects of sci
eiitific progress is being felt in
the country in many ways, but it
is pleasing to note that its in
fluence on the farm is no less
marked than in the cities and
towns.
Nor is this progress limited to
improvements in agricultural ma-
chinery and the intelligent treat
ment of crops—it is noticeable as
well in the improvement of sani
tary conditions ^Which will result
in more heal thy,.vigorous, robust
men and'women on the farms.
Health on the farm has always
been considered as a natural con
sequence; the outdoor life, the
beneficial and vitalizing effects of
the sunshine and the copious
draughts of oxygen drunk from
the pure country air contribute
greatly to good health and give
the farmer a decided advantage
over his town brother in this re
spect, yet for the past several
years health on the farm has not
been up to the high standard set
by the hardy pioneers?^
The reason for this Has been
to a great extent, the changing
conditions and methods on the
farm. As the country has be-
come more populatedTlmore in-
sanitary conditions have been
crowded about the farm house
Hog pens have been kept too of-
ten within only a few rods of the
farmer’s dwelling place; cow lots
have been maintained quite as
near, and the horse stable has
frequently been . even nearer.
These, with j other contributing
causes, have made conditions on
the farm less sanitary, and the
result is manifest in the greater
liability to disease among farm-
ers. Bu| with the progress of
science, ‘the people generally are
becoming better acquainted with
the necessity for observing sani-
tary regulations and farmers are
apt scholars in the study. They
are eliminating the dangers from
infection by reason of the insan-
itary places; ponds of water are
not allowed to stand for any con-
siderable time near the houses ;
screens are provided to keejPbut
the disease-spreading fly and the
death-bearing mosquito, and in
many other respects farm life is
being better protected and better
health on the farm is daily be-
coming more in evidence.—San
Antonio Express.
Poor Horse Needs No Feed.
Business men who first cut out
tkeir advertising in their desire
to Cut down expenses simply cut
off the light that illuminates the
way to their own doors, and they
have no cause to quarrel when
the trading public loses the trail.
When a merchant “lays down”
on his job and ceases to go after
business, he helps to make “hard
times” and dull business. When
business lags is the time to push
it vigorously; that truth has been
demonstrated over and over
again, and shrewd business men
are learning that newspaper ad-
vertising is their best investment.
—-Hamilton. Rustler. .
’J’he good advertiser, like death,
hath all seasons for his own. To
stop advertising because business
is dull is equivalent to cutting
out the horse’s feed because he is
poor. If John Wanamaker, for
example, had followed that policy
probably he would now be run-
ning a little store on a side street
in Philadelphia and lamenting
his inability to make headway
against “capitalism.” —Dallas
News.
Good Advice.
Commenting on a recent ad-
monition in The Express:
“Whether walking or riding or
driving, keep to the right,” the
gan Benito | Light observes:
^Whether talking, thinking or
writing, keep to the right.” Good
advice in either case. If all per-
sons traveling youM kebp to the
Tight there would be few collis-
ions, and if all persons who talk,
think or write would be careful to
go to the right there would be
fewer mistakes made. Davy
Crockett' was neyer given credit
for a^better motto than: “Be
sure you are right, then go
ahead.”—^an Antonio Express.
Sanitary Neglect in Villages.
A greater menace to the pub-
lic health in the South than the
careless conditions obtaining on
so many farm in the reckless dis-
regard of sanitation shown by
the average town o» village, j
Here a few score or a few hun-
dred people have come together,
and, being usually as careless as
they were in their isolated life in
the country, they foster disease
dangers by wholesale negligence
unchecked by health laws or.
health officers. Not only are ty-
phoid fever and hookworm dis-
eases and other maladies spread
among the villagers themselves
by such neglect of sanitation,
but the country people in the vi-
cinities often suffer also. The;
small rural village without water-
works or health Qfficials is the
chief hothouse of disease breed-
ing in the South.—Progressive
Farmer. /
S i b you
EVER SEE
A LOT OF
PEOPLE
GAZING
INTO A
BARK
SflNDO
Announcements.
Subject to Democratic Primary.
For Senator 20th District
T. H. McGREGOR.
For Rpresentative &3rd District,
W. F. BARNES.
For County Judge
M. M. WHITE.
For County Commissioner Prec.l
W. H. SIMMONS.
T«0. HARRELL, Sr.
W. H. PICKETT,
For County Treasurer
G. WgTINKLE
For Public Weigher
D. C. (PETTB) I’HOMAS
WALTERGARNER.
D. D. HOOVER.
For County Clerk,
J. E. MORGAN.
For Sheriff and Tax Collector,
ALBERT R. MACE. g .
For Tax Assessor,
E. T. JORDAN.
For County Attorney,
E. M. DAVIS.
For Justice of the Peace Prec. 1.
JOHN NICHOLS.
Dr. J. D. READ
Office at Nichols Hotel
Lampasas. Texas
CITY DIRECTORY
Mayor—W H McGuire
Attorney—H. F. Lewis
Recorder—Roy L. Walker.
Marshal—G. D. Zivley.
Secretary—T. H, Haynie.
Treasurer—W. B. McGee
BOARD OF ALDERMEN,
First Ward—J. S. Taylor, C.E.Marti
Second Ward—G.W. Clements and
W. Smith.
Third Ward—H. F. Dickason and
R. Young.
City Council meets first and tbi
Monday night sin each month.
Railroad Time Table.
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe.
Departs.
East-bound, 9:45 a. m. and 9:44 p. fa
Westbound, 6:32 a. m. and 6:45
Houston and Texas Central.
Departs.
For Burnet and Llano at 8:05 a. m.
For Burnet and Austin at 1:20 p. m.
Arrives
From Austin and Burnet at 11:35 a.
From Llano and Burnet at 4:55 p. m.
Townsen & Lamb
Barbers and Hair Drfisers
North Side Square
Hot Tub and Shower Baths
Good Workmen, and Courteous Treat
ment. Your patronage solicited.
In New England there is a
plethora of old maids and they
are growing man-hungry.. The
spinsters are after the old bach-
elors with the strong arm of the
law and will doubtless succeed in
forcing the men into matrimony
or out of the state. Their first
effort was to secure the enact-
nnffit of a law levying a heavy
tax upon all unmarried men over ^
25 years old, but this fight was
lost, ’though a good showing was
made in the legislature. Now
they have turned their attention
to another scheme upon which
they are making good headway.
They are seeking to have the
constitution so amended that an
unmarried man cannot hold of-
fice. Such a law has been ef-
fective in France for many years
and there is a strong probability
of the success of the spinsters’
efforts to make matrimony com-
pulsory in New England.—Ex.
FOR THE
TYO YOU knew of anyone
who is old enough to
read, who has not seen that
sign a| a railroad crossing?
If everyone has seen it at some
time or other, then why doesn't
the railroad let the sign rot
awagi? Why does the railroad
company continue to keep
those signs at every crossing ?
Maybe you think, Mr, Merchant,
Most everybody knows my
store, I don't have to advertise#?
Your store and your goods need
more advertising than the rail-
roads need do to warn people
to “Look Out for the Cars.”
Nothing is ever completed in the
advertising world.
The Department Stores are a
very good example—they are
continually advertising—and
they are continually doing a g
good business.
If it, pays to run a few ads 'rottnd
about Christmas time, it cer-
tainly will pay you to run ad-
vertisements about all the time.
It’s just business, that’s all, to
ADVERTISE in
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V COUNTY DIREQTORY
County Judge—M. M. White.
County Clerk—-J. E. Morgan.
District Clerk—C. G. Bierbower.
Sheriff and C ollecior—A. R Mi
Assessor—E. T. Jordan.
Treasurer—G. W. Tinkle.
Attorney—A. McFarland.
County Court meets third Monda;
May, August and November.
District Court meets first Mondin
April and October.
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
Precinct 1—W. H. Simmons.
2—J. 0. Holly.
* 3—Frank Kirby.
He 4—Luke Ligon,
Commissioners Court meets sec<
Monday i.^February, May, August f
November.
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Vernor, J. E. The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 3234, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 8, 1912, newspaper, May 8, 1912; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth890169/m1/4/?q=%22~1~1%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lampasas Public Library.