The Lampasas Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, May 26, 1911 Page: 4 of 12
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Take The Tide At Its Flood.
Shakpspeare says, “There is a
tide in the affairs of men which
taken at its flood leads on to for-
tune,” and many are led to be-
lieve that this refers to just one
opportunity in all our lives, and
grieve because they have lost it.
Possibly there is an opportunity
given to every man, the one su-
preme chance to accomplish some
great thing, a crisis that deter-
mines his whole future career. It
was Blucher or defeat with Well-
ington, the death of Albert Sid-
ney Johnston with Grant, the
failure of Longstreet and the
stubbornness of Hancock’s corps
at Gettysburg with Lee, ■ and so
on through a long list of men
who might have won or lost but
for a seeming incident. The
divinity that shapes our ends was
the moving power in all of these
events.
But there are opportunities of-
fered to us all every day that we
neglect to our own loss—oppor-
tunities to do small things. There
are no small things, for out of the
least incident may grow great re-
sults. A spider decided the fate
of Scotland, geese saved Rome
and many seemingly insignifi-
cant events have determined the
fate of men or nations.
The man or the woman who
looks for opportunities to do good
will not fail to find them. It may
be to give a cup of cold water, to
speak a word of encouragement
or warning or to give just a smile.
Paul said, “Having opportunity
therefore do good unto all men.”
No one can say that he has not
had an opportunity to accomplish
something in life; but we must
use or lose.
We often fail to see an oppor-
tunity because we do not look for
it. It is a desire to do good that
helps us to see when the oppor-
tunity comes. If you have never
tried it you will be surprised to
find how many times a day you
will have an opportunity given
you to do a kindness to some
one. If you will adopt the scrip-
tural injunction, “Bear ye one
anothers burdens and so fulfill
the law of Christ,” your life will
not only be useful but happy.
Necessity of Late Cultivation.
The people must be taught the
absolute necessity of returning
everything possible in the line
of fertilizers to the soil, protect-
ing it from washing by terracing,
and plowing around instead of
up and down the slopes. They
must be taught to thoroughly
prepare the lands, before |plant-
ing the carefully selected seed,
^nd by constant shallow mulch
'Cultivation to keep down the
weeds. They must not lay by
and leave their crops, but must
toe taught to know that as the
&talk grows larger it has more
•live weight to sustain and it
needs more nourishment. Culti-
vation should!| continue until the
crop is positively made. The
rule has been to lay by the crop
and leave it to fight the suckers,
weeds, dry parched earth and
hot winds alone, when its life
wofck is yet to be accomplished.
Com and cottim rows should
be 4 1-2 or 5 feet apart instead
of three feet apart, so that it will
be possible to continue the culti-
vation up to the ripening period,
if this one last item mentioned,
namely, not to lay by and leave
the crop, but to keep a soft mulch
on top of the ground, and the
crop entirely free of weeds and
fp&kers until the grains are hard
upon the stalk, were literally put
into effect, it would add4millions
of dollars to the value of the
crops of the state this year.—
Henry Exall.
What War is Doing in Mexico.
A correspondent of The Ex-
press, writing from Mexico, says:
“Business is paralyzed in Mon-
terey and in every other part of
the country. The rebellion has
already cost the busin'ess inter-
ests of the country millions of
dollars. The falling off of sales
in the stores and other establish-
ments amounts to almost a com-
plete cessation of business. The
war has already brought great
numbers of men to the verge of
financial ruin, even in the towns
and cities outside of the turbu-
lent zones. Those within the
fighting localities have suffered
even more.”
Aside from the loss of life and
the hardships and suffering en-
tailed by the stoppage of busi-
ness and industry and the opera-
tions of the belligerents, there is
the lasting damage to confidence
in the stability of government—
national, state and civic—from
which it will take some years to
recover.
According to the correspond-
ent, the sympathizers of the rev-
olution say if the war brings real
independence and liberty to the
people of the country and if
peace is permanently established,
the good that will have been
done will be well worth the price
that is being paid. This, he
says, is the patriotic way of look-
ing at it, perhaps, but the Amer-
icans and other foreigners who
have large investments in the
country cannot see the situation
exactly in that light.
War is just what General
Sherman described it as being;
when it is over its effects remain
for a long time. Eventually the
government may be fully restor-
ed and private fortunes rehabil-
itated, but a generation will not
see the last of the scars, and the
lives that have been sacrificed
cannot be recalled. It is some-
times necessary to resort to ex-
treme measures to accomplish
great purposes, and it may not
be denied that nothing short of
revolution could have brought
about the reform in government
which the citizens who have re-
belled regard as essential to the
welfare of the republic, but now
that the necessity for the reforms
demanded have been conceded
on all sides, it ought to be pos-
sible to agree on a basis of peace
and to end the strife before con-
ditions become such that uncon-
ditional surrender will be the on-
ly alternative.
The hegira of noncombatants
from the disturbed portions of
the neighboring republic has be-
gun, and is likely to increase as
the sphere of activity of the in-
surrectos is enlarged and the
dangers of life and liberty be-
come more alarming.—San An-
tonio Express.
Why Employers Want Young Men.
An editor of a daily paper,
when asked why he did not em-
ploy men over 50, replied: “Al-
though a man may do just as
much work after this age, he
takes himself too seriously.” He
did not like to have people
around him from whom the
youthful spirit had evaporated.
He wanted optimism—men in
whom hope was large. He want-
ed the exuberance, the enthusi-
asm and the zest which usually
belong to younger men.
It is not so much a question of
years as it is a question of the
loss of buoyancy, of hopefulness,
of that exuberance which is
characteristic of young life. If a
man has been good to himself in
his earlier years, if he has taken
good care of himself, and has not
squeezed out all the juices- of his
youthful, joyful nature, if he has
not sapped his vitality by unsci-
entific, vicious living, if he has
practiced plain living an'd high
thinking, has conserved, his en-
ergy, his life force, has not over-
strained his resources, he is
young at almost any age.
It is the burned-out, the spent
man that is not wanted.—Orison
Sweet Marden in Success Maga-
zine.
President Taft has stirred up a
hornet’s ne^t in the very exclu-
sive Metropolitan club in Wash-
ington by referring to some
members of the club who had
black-balled'some of his friends,
as “small headed men, who in
clubs attempt to manifiest their
greatness by blackmailing men
of prominence,” saying he had
friends kept out of clubs “by
people who were not worthy to
button their shoes.” Three
prominent officials of the club,
who belong to the army and na-
vy of the United States, imme-
diately tendered their resigna-
tions. It seems that there is at
Washington a growing spirit of
exclusiveness in army and navy
circles' and President 'Taft did
well to rebuke it. The United
States is still a republic in name
at least, and while the concen-
tration of wealth in the hands of
a few tends toward the cultiva-
tion of this spirit, the great
masses of the American people
are still democratic enough to
rebuke it.
Race Prejudice.
Whenever the question of race
prejudice is mentioned most peo-
ple think of the negro in the
South. But the South is not the
only place where race prejudice
exists nor are the negroes the
only race against whom this
prejudice is felt.
Tuesday’s papers give an ac-
count of a most horrible massa-
cre of Chinese in Torreon, Mex-
ico, by the insurrectos. There
were 224 shot down in cold blood,
though they had taken no part
in defending the city. Let us
not be , too hasty in condeming
this murderous attack upon in-
nocent foreigners, as our own
skirts are not clear. The Pacific
coast has witnessed several such
slaughters by people who claim
to be more civilized than the
Mexican revolutionists. It is
greatly to be deplored that such
an outrage should occur in any
professed Christian country in
the twentieth century. /.
The Farmer Will Get Along.
The farmer who owns a farm
is the particular person who is
fixed. Banks may fail and fac-
tories close, workmen strike and
mines suspend, merchants fail
and towns burn, times may be
panicky and even crops may be
short—but the farmer who owns
his acres will get along. He will
live in comfort and quiet, with
plenty to eat, drink and wear.
He is the most independent man
on. earth. Yet there are lots of
them who do not appreciate their
situation.—Buffalo Advocate.
White Crest Flour.
Pronounced by critics to be the
best ever sold in Lampasas, is
kept fresh, full stock, and in
sanitary condition. It makes
biscuit, cakes, pastry, light
bread, or anything good needed
from flour. Sold only by
w.tf-d Higdon-Senterfitt Co.
Equalization.
Notice is hereby given that the
commissioners’ court of| Lampa-
sas county, Texas, will meet as a
board of equalization at the court
house in Lampasas on Thursday,
the 1st day of June, 1911, for the
purpose of equalizing the tax
renditions for said year, at which
time and place all parties inter-
ested may appearand contest the
action of said equalization board,
should they desire to do so.
J. E. Morgan,
w28 County Clerk.
By D. C. Thogias, Deputy.
While peace between the fed-
eral troops and'the insurrectos
under Madero is an assured fact,
there has been much rioting in
some of the Mexican towns, and
this is liable to continue until the
strong arm of organized military
law suppresses it and this is not
so easily accomplished as might
be supposed. War is demoral-
izing at best and few countries
escape the aftermath of war and
especially is this true of civil war
as many survivors of the war be-
tween the states, can testify. The
condition thatfexisted in a num-
ber of the Southern states after
the war was something awful and
cannot be ynderstood by those
who live in these peaceful times,
and the United States was at that
time classed as among the en-
lightened nations of the earth
What shall we expect from Mex-
ico?
Letter List.
List of unclaimed letters for
the week ending today:
Irma Dunham, E. D. Frazzer,
Wm. J. Golly, Miss Vera Harris,
Febronio Medranio, Camp 1, Jose
Gomez Moncoyo, Camp 7, Theo-
dore Smith, W. J. Shelton, Mrs.
Mollie Walker.
W. H. Webber, P. M.
Two news items published in
this paper a day or two ago ev-
idence the fact that Texas is fast
arriving. Several years ago a
man bought a “cheap” piece of
sandy land near Rockdale and
has since farmed it. Recently
lignite was discovered on the
land and last week the -farmer
sold the tract for $40,500, or $135
an acre. Last week also a farm
of 182 acres, near Bartlett, in
Williamson county, sold on a
strictly agricultural basis for
$38,220, or $210 an acre. Un
questionably the advanced prices
for Texas farm lands is due in a
large measure to better farming
—diversification of crops, inten-
sive cultivation, better market-
ing, etc.—for as the Texas Com-
mercial Secretaries show in an
analysis of federal statistics, the
increase in agricultural produc-
tion in this state greatly exceeds
our increase in population. In
the decade ending 1890 agricul-
tural production increased 42 per
cent, whereas population in-
creased 40 per cent; in the next
ten years the increases were 54
per cent for agriculture and 36
for population; in the decade
closing with 1910, the increase in
agriculture was 35 per cent and
in population 28 per cent. In the
last twenty years there has been
a gain in farm production of 25
per cent more than the increase
in population, which, as the sec-
retaries remark, is clearly attrib-
utable to increased efficiency on
the part of the Texas farmers.—
Dallas News.
Removal Sale.
On June the first the Nickel
Store will be located in the
building known as the Penny
store, across the street from R.
E. Noble, and to pay you for
hunting me up, I will offer you
some bargains worth your while.
61bs splendid good coffee.. $1.00
201b8 granulated sugar.... 1.00
251bs good rice........... 1.00
lOlbs lard................ 1.00
1 sack best fresh meal. .... 55
5 gal. best kerosene oil.... 55
Any of the above “killers”
with a sack of Marigold flour at
$1.65, or a 50c purchase of other
goods.
Fancy patent flour $1.25 a sack.
Satisfaction or your money back.
Any of the following “hot-
drops” with a 10c purchase of
other goods:
8 bars Clariette soap......... 25
10 boxes matches........... 25
51bs navy beans............. 25
51bs lima beans.......... 25
5 boxes axle grease......... 25
50c “Brass King” washboard 25
Hundred and thousands of
other things just as cheap. Come
and let me figure with you.
Yours truly,
w H. M. Campbell,
The Price Cutter.
Mrs. J. D. Pickett, from San
Filippe, came in Tuesday and
will be a guest of her mother,
Mrs. A. J. Mackey, for a week.
O.O. Eddy, of Stanley chapel,
was in town Wednesday. He
says that oats in his section will
not thresh out as much per acre
as they did last year. This
opinion is held by a number of
farmers in different sections of
the country. Wheat in the neigh-
borhood f of Stanley chapel is
very ligl^t.
Pigs For Sale.
Full blood Duroc-Jersey, two
months old May 19th. Look like
six-months shoats. Also) one
Duroc-Jersey sow. Can be
seen at my place in East Lampa-
sas.
dw J. E. Vernor.
Judge Jennings, a special
friend of Rev. J. W. Cowan and
family, passed through town
Tuesday enroute to Temple and
Williamson county. He will re-
turn Friday and attend the com-
mencement exercises of the city
schools.
Some excellent work is being
done on the streets, many of the
worst places having had atten-
tion since the rains. What is now
apparently needed worse than
any other one thing, is the cut-
ting of the weeds along the
streets and sidewalks of the city,
and this should be done at once
by the owners of the property up
to and including the sidewalks,
and by the city authorities on
the streets and up to the side-
walk line. Lampasas can be
made “the city beautiful” by
proper work upon the part of all.
Get busy and see that the un-
sightly weeds are cut from your,
premises, and the city authori-
ties will see that the streets are
cleared of the weeds and rubbish.
Parisian Sage turns dull, life-
less, faded hair into bright, lus-
trous hair and for that purpose
is used by women and men who
take pride in beautiful and lux-
uriant hair. Schwarz & Hoff-
mann guarantee it. 50c. dw
FOR THEIR
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IT IS SURE TO PLEASE
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Vernor, J. E. The Lampasas Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, May 26, 1911, newspaper, May 26, 1911; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth892568/m1/4/: accessed June 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lampasas Public Library.