The Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, February 27, 1903 Page: 6 of 10
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The Brand
Official Organ of D«kf Smith County
A Weekly Journal Devoted to the Interests
of the Pan Handle Country of Texas
r. L. VANDERBURGH
Publisher
ADDISON CLARK. JR
Editor
THE PANHANDLE PRESS.
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It is a conspicuous instance of the
injustice circumstances tint so
brilliant and erudite a mm as the
editor of The People's Review, of
Henrietta, should be compelled to
wear out nis mammoth intellect grind-
ing out copy for a country news-
paper. He deserves better things;
he ought at least to be the president
or secretary of something or other.
He is one of those large minded
philanthropists who are never con-
tent with knowing everything ¡hem-
selves but want everybody else to
know everything too. In a recent
number of his valuable journal he
relieves himself, with the assistance
of numerous exclamation poiuts, of
a column and a half of overworked
atmosphere apropos of the quaran-
tine discussion and the relation of
t he Panhandle papers thereto. The
particular burden which seems to be
bearing down upon our amiable
brother below "the line" ani hurt-
ing him to the heart so that he can't
sleep nights is the crass ignorance
which has overwhelmed the Pan-
handle press in regard to everything
i: general and the tick theory in
particular. This painful subject has
so wrought upon his sensitive emo-
tions, and occasione i him so many
lugubrious reflections that he has at
last deem;d it incumbent up>n him
to devote a portion of his valuable
space to injecting into the ben ghted
brains of Panhandle editors a few
< ;oice sparks from his calcium light
ir diligence. Truly we are all deep-
ly and tearfully grateful to our dis-
tinguished contemporary. It is re-
freshingly kind of him to wish that
v/ - might know as much as he knows.
Possibly it is true, as he so modest-
ly suggests, that what the Panhandle
press needs is sense—"common tick
.¡case." We had never thought of
it that way exactly, but he may be
right. We will, however, be con-
: ii?rate; v/e will not ask our good
friend to supply our deficiency. We
that he must have about all
• he can do each week to furnish
intellectual lubricant necessary
:^ep the wheels of hi own small
a-whirling. But wc thank him
"theless. We confess, with
that we were grossly ignor-
We did not even know until
•..'eel; that there is such a paper
v".y? VirroVs Rv.'Ict published
icn¡fí-
at Henrietta. But now we know,
and we feel better; we feel that life is
brighter and nnre worth living.
And we shall take up again our
study of the habit3 and peculiarities
of the fever tick with hope and con-
fidence.
Strangers visiting a town for the
first time naturally judge it by it
physical appearance. If it has clean,
well-kept streets, shade trees, yards
made beautiful with shrubs and
flowers, they are likely to think well
of it, and to say "Here were a good
place to live." Nature has not done
much to beautify the towns of the
Panhandle. She has given them
only an abundance of fresh air, and
room to g-ov. The rest, the adorn-
ing an 1 beautifying, must be done
by human hands. But the task is
not an ungrateful one The soil is
fertile and yields ready return.
Trees, shrubs, and flowers grow
with little trouble, if they be but
given a chance. In the absorbing
inerests of land and cattle and
rai1 roads and prospectors, it were
well to think sometimes of these less
necessary things which adorn and
m ike beautiful.
It is not to be presumed for a mo-
ment that the members of our state
legislature who were recently appre-
hen led in a gambling dive in Austin
were really engaged in the repre-
hensible and vulgar practice of play-
ing poker. They were merely em-
ployed in observation and sociologi-
cal study. As representatives ot
the "great free people," who are
engaged in the onerous business of
legislation, they fael it necessary to
keep constantly in touch with all
classes of society ; hence their ming-
ling upon terms of apparent famil-
iarity with crap shooters and black-
legs. Possibly, even as the police
swooped down upon them and rudely
interrupted their meditations, they
were deeply absorbed in the solution
of some vital question of public pol-
icy. They miy have been studying
the tick theory; or perhaps they
were gatheiing statistics to be used
in fighting the Cattle Trust. We do
not know, but surely wc cannot be-
lieve they were playing poker. There
is some sinister mistake here. For
are not our senators and representa-
tives dignified men, and men of
elegant manners and irreproachable
character? .
MORE WÜATHÉR.
One could easily write volumes
about this Panhandle weather, but
the reflections occasioned thereby
just at the present sitting would net
look well in print, so we forbear to
express them. We had elevated
our thoughts and feelings to a pitch
appropriate to the production of an
exquisite verbal symphony upon the
surpassing pulchritude of Panhandle
days as compared with any other
days in the mundane universe; but
just as we were about tuned up and
ready to tako the key, something
broke loose somewhere; tho wind
fell down in a furious stifling shower
that sent the mercury ot our enthu-
siasm tumbling incontinently down to
umpity-four degress below. And
since then we have been hovering
over the stove, reflecting upon the
inanity of life, and wondering if,
after all, a literal hell wouldn't have
its compensations.
Panhandle weather! O miscel-
laneous succession of incongruous
and immiscible elements! Today
proud Phoebus chases his fiery steeds
in splendor across the heavens.
The sun-kissed earth awakes, and
smiles like a maid at her lover's
glance; the vast wilderness bour-
geons, and the heart of man swells
and turns warm within him. But
ahon, before the night falls, a screw
slips out of the enternal cosmos; the
sun dies in a gfay agony of mist;
the ravenous wolves of the winds are
loosed to ravish and torture the earth ; I
and the great plains lie stricken and]
helpless, a dead, white waste of
snow.
Panhandle weather! Bah !—Bj
the way, the Fourth of July will b<]
coming on afterwhile.
Hereford needs very much a
Y. M. C. A. hall, or some such at,
tractive resort for young men. At
present there is no place in town
where the boys and young men may
go to pass a pleasant evening in
reading or playing games. It is a
trite saying, but one still full oc
truth, that idleness is the mother cf
many evils. The best safeguard
against degrading practices and un-
seemly conversation is refined asso-
ciations and pleasant employment,
It is just these things that a Y. M,
C. A. hall and reading room would
give; and unless something of the
kind Í3 established soon, worse
things are sure to come instead.
"The trouble with the Panhandle
is the awful cattle trust which keeps
out actual settlers," or *'it is the
quarantine line," or "it is the lease
law," or "this, that or the other,'4
persistently vociferate the ' genial
wiseacres who are attempting to
edit the thousand or less weekly
(and often weakly) newspapers
below the line. Gentlemen, you are
wrong. The trouble with the Pan-
handle is that there aro too many
quacks in the legislature, and out
with patent nostrums which they are
W* Strive to Pleas*. ^oo4 Weight and Small Profit
&/>e City Meat Market
LEE GXI#I*II#ANDt Proprietor
We handle only the choicest of
Fresh Meats of all kinds and so-
licit a share of your patronoge.
C>Q
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Phone 85 Prices treasonable 3
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R« H. Cough, M. D. T. J. Davis
GOUGfi BAVÍS
Dealers in
....DRUGGISTS
Drugs, Medicines and Chemicals
Solid Gold Jewelry, Watches and
Diamonds
Headquarters for Paints, Oils Varnishes
and Brushes
Phone 26 Night Phone W
HEREFORD, TEXAS
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Clark, Addison, Jr. The Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, February 27, 1903, newspaper, February 27, 1903; Hereford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth142339/m1/6/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Deaf Smith County Library.