The Meridian Tribune. (Meridian, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, September 20, 1907 Page: 6 of 8
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MIERS' EDUCATION
AND
CO-OPERATIVE UNION
_ OF AMERICA =
IL
If you have contracted the dump-
ing habit, now is the time to get over
it easily.
Now that the minimum prices have
generally been set, don’t be a price-
cutter and a dumper.
A warehouse will do nothing for you
by itself; whatever good may come
of it comes through the use of it.
In all your transactions leave the
impress that the Union .man is the
man on whom it will do to rely.
Now is the time of the year when
farmers burn up a great many houses
by failing to examine the flues. Cut
out the “defective flue” record this
year.
This is another week in which you
may fight the implement and vehicle
trust by taking care of your tools and
vehicles and saving the purchase of
others.
Blackberries and dewberries grow
almost anywhere, and no other crop
will yield larger income per acre.
Have you arranged to plant some of
these?
Those trees that you took any sort
of care of last summer are in good
shape for the coming season. You
can’t just stick down a sprout and get
a good tree.
The meeting of the Union is a good
iplace to discuss the advantages of
consolidating the schools so as to get
bigger and better school houses and
bigger and better faculties for teach-
ing.
Have you done anything to help
lighten the good woman’s work late-
ly? If you have not, you have failed
to live up to the standard of a good
Union man, or a man of any sort,
as for that.
How about your split log drag?
Have you got yours yet? Well, it is
time that you had one and were us-
ing it under all sorts of provocations
and without provocation. Every time
it rains get out your log and give the
sloppy mud a twist.
You can’t get a tree to grow and
do well by simply sticking it out in
a hole in the ground in the pasture.
'Plant with care. Don’t be afraid of
having the ground too rich about it.
Then don’t forget that a tree likes
water and a whole lot of it, too.
It is a funny idea that makes some
people eat the rotten compounds sold
under the names of various syrups,
when there is hardly an acre in all
the South that will not make the very
best sort of sorghum cane, and this is
the very finest sort of food for man
or beast
Get ready now for the planting of
a whole lot of trees this fall. The
demand for fruit trees, in view of
the prices of fruit, ought to deplete
the nurseries of all good stock for this
and the next several years. Simply
be sure that what you get is of the
reliable sort, that’s all.
Well, suppose the Farmers Union
is forming a cotton trust, what are
you going to do about it? Then, did
you ever happen to try to prove that
it is a trust for a number of men,
who are raising a product to which
'as much land as they are using is
adapted to the same product and is
subject to planting at the behest of
any man, to agree to sell at a mini-
mum price?
! Do not get bigotted and think that
only Union men are worth while.
There are a whole lot of mighty good
imen out of the Union now that ought
to be in it. Let us rather co-operate
with these men and get them to co-
operate with us. We can not control
markets unless there is some further
union of effort.
The advances made in the past few
years in methods of evading drouths
and in conserving the water fall of
drouthy sections seem simply won-
derful as compared with old plans and
old ideas. The smallest amount of
moisture, under the dust mulch sys-
tem, is now producing crops that are
at once the wonder and the admiration
of the world. Arid plains are produc-
ing crops that were formerly consid-
ered impossible of raising except in
the most favored sections. Added to
the methods of conservation of mois-
ture, new varieties have been discov-
ered and evolved which are suited to
the dry conditions, until it begins to
look like the man on the hitherto bar-
ren plains is about as well off for of the people of this great State, and
'variety of crops as those on the lands that their will is law, and their voice
is supreme.”
ren plains is about as well off for
of regular rainfall.
In this day of cheap papers there
is no excuse for anybody not keeping
at least partly up with what is going
on in the world. For a dollar every
three or four months, one can have
one of the best daily papers including
the Sunday editions, and the weeklies
are to be had ’at all sorts of prices
from 25 cents to $3 or $4. Don’t fail
to get plenty of good reading matter;
a dollar’s worth of good literature will
go further in an educational way and
in the way of entertainment than a
dozen dollars in any other way on
earth,
Down in the coast country of Texas
it was, .the settled opinion for many
years that hogs could not be. success-
fully or profitably raised, and if one
did succeed in raising hogs, that the
meat could not be cured there. That
the idea:was an absurd one was con-
stantly being demonstrated over and
over by hard-headed old fellows who
"had to be shown,” and who year after
year did raise hogs and save their
own bacon and hams. Finally the
people are beginning to come into
their own. Nowhere else in this coun-
try can one raise hogs so easily nor
so cheaply. Food of the sort to make
the finest meat on earth is indigenous
to the South coast soils, and the win-
ters being practically nothing, the
cost of taking care of them is simply
that of having room for them to run
and seeing that they have access to
plenty of water. What is true of the
hog question is true of hundreds of
crops that “can’t be raised” in certain
localities. While it is true that every-
thing can not be raised everywhere,
the fact is that the number of things
that can be practically raised almost
anywhere is almost unlimited. It of-
ten happens that some acclimatization
must be done, and varieties suited to
the soils and climate must be sought;
but this the work that the diversifi-
cationist is now doing. Herein is the
greatest work of the Union. Let us
all be experimenters—all diversifica-
tionists.
There is a great deal being said
about the parcels post system, which
is in general vogue in England and
in Europe. Some of the retailers see
in the proposition the utter destruc-
tion of the local stores, while its ad-
vocates see in it the salvation of the
country. Neither of these views is
guaranteed by the facts in the case.
In Europe, where economies that we
have never dreamed of are neces-
sary, the parcels system has not stood
in the way of the local stores, and
there are as many of these as ever
there were. In isolated localities such
a system would be of benefit to those
who wanted things that it would not
pay the local store to keep in stock
on account of the small demand, but
when it comes to the bulk of pur-
chases, the trouble of making orders,
sending money in advance and wait-
ing many days for what was wanted,
with the prospects of the thing or-
dered not coming up to the expecta-
tion, would make the parcels post a
very small object in the way of com-
petition with the local stores. Taken
as a whole, it seems that some sort
of a modification of the European plan
of parcels post would be of benefit to
the people at large, and that is the
object of the government, or at least
it ought to be. Taking that view of
the case, this matter should have
the attention of Congress right soon.
Any man with the sense to lead a
blind goose to water knows that the
farming class must unite in some sort
of protective organization or else be-
come the slaves of the other organi-
zations. There is not a single line of
industry or commerce that has not its
fine organization whose purpose is to
get the best of the other fellows, and
it is the farmer who has to do busi-
ness with all of them, and all of them
have special agents or committees to
see that the farmer gets the hot end
of the poker. This is known of all
men. In the face of this condition,
how on earth can one of us stand out
and fight the best organization we
have ever had? The Farmers Union,
in its short life, has done more than
all other farmer organizations put to-
gether. It had the advantage of all
the other organizations, for it has had
a day of organization to work in,
and it has had the experience of the
farmers’ organizations that have gone
before and blazed the way, pointed
out the pitfalls and put us on notice
of the slippery places.
It is the love of gold that makes the
quartz of life worth while.—A. C. Man-
ning.
Do something to build up; there
are enough trying to tear down.
It is the enemy of the Union who
is all the time trying to raise a dis-
cord; friends are always seeking har-
mony, and the man who is guided
by the advice of his enemies, rather
than the welfare of his friends, has
not the material in him to make a
good Union man.
In commenting on some observa-
tions of Judge Storey, a Texas railway
comissioner, who, to protect the “in-
terests” in their investment in com-
presses (as he admits) has held that
the greater density of round bales
does not entitle them to any lower
rate than cotton in square bales, the
Co-Operator gives utterance to a
mighty truth in the following: “The
commissioner ought to know that su-
preme courts and all other courts;
that railroad commissioners and all
other officials, are the creatures, the
servants, of the people, and that the
farmers of Texas are the great body
CAUSES OF TAINTED MILK.
A noted Swiss scientist, Dr. Gerber,
has formulated a list of things which
cause the tainted conditions of milk
most frequently met with. Among
them are:
1. Poor, decayed fodder, or irration-
al methods of feeding.
2. Poor, dirty water used for drink-
ing water or for the washing of uten-
sils.
3. Foul air in cow stable, or the
cows lying in their own dung.
4. Lack of cleanliness in milking;
manure particles on udder.
WHAT ONE MERCHANT DID
Correspondent of Home Trade League Testifies
to Value of Publicity
One country merchant writes the
Home Trade league as follows:
"Since I have adopted the city idea
of advertising—naming new goods
with prices, and at the same time
making known what I desire to dis-
pose of at or about cost to make room
for new goods—my sales have not
only increased very largely with regu-
lar customers, but I have secured
many hew ones. Not only this—in-
stead of the farmers’ wives spending
from a half to an hour and a half look-
ing about the store to see what there
is in stock they may want and taking
the clerk’s time who otherwise would
have a chance to sell goods to several
other customers, they come in and
ask for the very articles they have
seen advertised and which they have
already decided they do want from
seeing the advertisement in this week-
ly paper, and the result is I have been
able to dispense with one of my clerks
to whom I was paying $500 per year.”
This merchant further says that
this saving of clerk hire expended in
this same kind of advertising during
the year will, he is confident, increase
his trade 50 per cent, and that he can
already name 28 customers who but
very recently have been buying their
goods almost entirely from Chicago
catalogue houses.
This experience without doubt can
be duplicated by thousands of other
men in business throughout the coun-
try. It is to be feared that the aver-
age merchant in the smaller towns has
allowed himself to get into a rut, and
it is one from which he must swiftly
emerge if he has any desire to “stay
S HUMAN WEAKNESS
THE DESIRE TO GET SOMETHING
FOR NOTHING.
AN IGNIS FATUUS TO AVOID
One Cause That Has Led to the Down-
fall of Many—Fallacy That
Ever Tends Toward
Evil.
A man who won the confidence, re-
spect and admiration of the people of
his state was elected to the United
States senate. Soon it is discovered
that he was “owned by the railroads,”
bought by favors and instead of repre-
senting the interests of the people
who sent him to his high place in
the nation’s councils, preferred to rep-
resent the corporations that made it
possible for him to ride over rail-
roads without cost. It is only a dem-
onstration of human inclination to get
something for nothing.
The member of a state legislature
was accused of showing special atten-
tion to legislation favorable to the
railroads and corporations. He was
charged with riding on passes; and in
fact it became known that his prin-
cipal supporters, too, rode free over
the railroads. Another illustration of
the human desire to secure something
for nothing.
The mayor of a city regularly occu-
pied a box at the leading theater;
handed out a free street car ticket to
the conductor, enjoyed free drinks at
the bars—another example of the man
who wanted something for nothing,
and at last his greed caused him to
enter into dishonest deals that landed
him in the penitentiary.
On certain days of the month at
numerous supply depots conducted
by county and city charities, long
rows of men and women can be seen
awaiting their turn to get a small
supply of flour, sugar and other neces-
saries of life. Some are helpless, de-
formed, and their looks indicate want
and misery, but there are others who
have no appearance of need. Here
again we find men and women leaving
pride and self-respect behind because
of the desire to secure something for
nothing.
On special sales days in the retail
districts of every large city great
crowds can be seen about the en-
trances of the great department
stores, crushing, fighting to get to
the bargain counters, all bent upon
getting something of value for little
or nothing.
From the highest walks of life to
the lowest the all-prevailing and dom-
inant trait in evidence to show the
weakness of the individual is the
struggle to get something for noth-
ing. It is based upon a knowledge of
this fraility of humankind that some
great business enterprises are built.
Wonderful bargains are advertised,
and the masses rush to buy, without
calm reasoning in the matter of any
comparisons of value. Good business
judgment is cast in the background
by the madness to get something for.
nothing.
The get-rich-quick operator uses the
same methods to lead to his trap vic-
tims with dollars as do the railroads,
the big department stores and the
others who have certain objects to
gain. It is always the promise held
out to give something for inadequate
compensation, without its equal in ex-
penditure of money or labor that al-
in the game.” The methods of a gen-
eration ago, it must be remembered,
are not necessarily adapted to the
conditions of to-day.
By the persistent and persevering
use of every device for publicity the
catalogue houses have built up their
present enormous trade. It is not rea-
sonable to suppose they can be dis-
lodged from the position they occupy
—a position, as has frequently been
pointed out, that threatens the well-
being if not the existence of every
small community throughout the coun-
try—unless they are opposed with
something like their own weapons. A
favorite phrase much in use to-day is
“Get business!” and to’ get business
you must go after it. Is it reasonable
to expect it will come to you un-
sought?
Take the experience of this Home
Trade league correspondent as a
guide. He had the goods. He wanted
to sell them. His proceeding was
simple. Through publicity, which in
his case simply meant attractive and
truthful advertising, he brought the
goods and the people together. Re-
sults were never in doubt.
To sum up, successfully to compete
with the powerful catalogue houses
of the cities the country merchant
must in a measure adopt their meth-
ods. They have won by publicity.
Meet them on that ground. Match
advancement with advancement. You
have the medium in your local paper.
Let your advertisements say some-
thing, and mean what they say. Let
the people know what you have to sell,
and depend upon it, they will come to
buy.
lows the frauds to succeed. There is
magic in the “something for nothing”
deal. It is a bait that catches people
in every rank and walk of life. It
often is the cause of the downfall of
men who have all the abilities to suc-
ceed. It is a fallacy that tends to-
ward evil. There can nothing be
gained without adequate compensa-
tion. “The something for nothing is
an ignis fatuus that the wise will
avoid.
D. M. CARR.
SHARP PRACTICES.
Schemes by Which People in Country
Districts Are Defrauded.
One of the winning games that is
widely played is the giving of prizes
for the sale of baking powder, flavor-
ing extracts, etc. Numerous con-
cerns are interested in this line of
business. Premiums are offered to
club raisers, and an outfit for can-
vassing is sent for a dollar or so, or
perhaps furnished free if some person
will vouch for the honesty of the ap-
plicant. But a “bond” is required as
security for goods sent. The offer is
so attractive that many are induced
to order a lot of the goods to get the
premium. The goods are of the
cheapest and most trashy kind. The
soap, the extracts, the species are all
of an inferior quality often adulter-
ated and unwholesome. The person
who orders them realizes that the lot
is worth little. If they are not sold
by the agent, it matters little to the
concern sending them out, as the per-
sons vouching for the honesty of the
“agent” will be informed that they
will be held for the price of the goods,
and to save trouble, the agent will
send the money due, and make the
best of a bad bargain. It is a good
thing to avoid all propositions that
offer much for little.
Give Charm to Town.
Attractive streets, well paved, good
sidewalks, clean appearing buildings,
signs arranged well, all go to add a
charm to a town. One of the things
that often gives strangers to a town
a bad impression is the loose manner
in which storekeepers and others take
care of the exterior of their places.
Often not a sign about the place is
to be found to designate the character
of the business carried on, and this
can only be known, by a peep through
the open door. The windows are
often arranged in such a way as to
give little knowledge of the goods
handled. During the summer time
awnings hanging low over the walks,
so the passer-by must stoop to avoid
them, are found in many places. Just
a little care is needed to improve
along these lines. An attractive sign
does not cost much and is a good in-
vestment for the storekeeper. Clean-
liness in front of business places
makes a good impression. In fact
strangers will seldom enter a store if
the outside appearance indicates slov-
enliness and carelessness. The up-
to-date merchant will always be found
with a well-cared-for establishment
It is quite often you can tell the busi-
ness importance of a man in the com-
munity by the appearance of his store.
Make business places attractive 25
possible. It may cost you a little
money, a little extra labor, but it will
pay in the long run.
Pays to Keep the Town Neat.
The streets of a town overgrown
with weeds never makes a good im-
pression on the stranger. Good side-
walks, well-kept streets in the resi-
dence and business portions of a
place, always speak well for the hab-
its of its residents.
HERITAGE OF CIVIL WAR.
Thousands of Soldiers Contracted
Chronic Kidney Trouble While'
in the Service.
The experience of Capt. John L. Ely,
of Co. E, 17th Ohio, now living at 500
East Second street, Newton, Kansas,
will interest the thou-
sands of veterans who
came back from the
Civil War suffering tor-
) tures with kidney com-
plaint. Capt. Ely says:
“I contracted kidney
trouble during the
Civil War, and the oc-
casional attacks final-
ly developed into a
chronic case. At one time I had to use
a crutch and cane to get about. My
back was lame and weak, and besides
the aching, there was a distressing
retention of the kidney secretions. I
was in a bad way when I began using
Doan’s Kidney Pills in 1901, but the
remedy cured me, and I have been
well ever since.”
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
New to Him.
The leading lady of a road company
playing in one of the smaller cities in
Ohio concluded that she would press
some of her lace collars one morning.
She accordingly rang the bell, and
when the hall boy appeared said:
“Bring me up a hot iron.”
In course of time he returned empty
handed, and when the lady answered
his knock he said:
“I couldn’t get it for you, lady.”
“And why not?” she asked, mysti-
fied.
“The bartender said he didn’t know
how to mix it.”
Makes Pain Go Away.
Are you one of the ones who pay in toil
For your right of way through this
life?
If so you will find Hunt’s Lightning Oil
A friend which will aid in the strife.
To those who earn their own way
by their own labor, accidents occur
with painful frequency. Burns, bruises,
cuts and sprains are not strangers to
the man who wears corns on his hands.
A better remedy for these troubles
Joes not exist than Hunt’s Lightning
Oil. ______________________
The Peaceful Joy of the River.
An ingenious Spaniard says that
“rivers and the inhabitants of the wa-
tery element were made for wise men
to contemplate and fools to pass by
without consideration.” And though
I will not rank myself in the number
of the first, yet give me leave to free
myself from the last, by offering to
you a short contemplation, first of riv-
ers, and then of fish; concerning
which I doubt not but to give you
many observations that will appear
very considerable; I am sure they have
appeared so to me, and made many an
hour pass away more pleasantly, as I
have sat quietly on a flowery bank by
a calm river.—Isaac Walton.
He Set a Date.
A merchant in a Wisconsin town
who had a Swedish clerk sent him out
to do some collecting. When he re-
turned from an unsuccessful trip he
reported:
“Yim Yonson say he vill pay ven he
sells his hogs. Yim Olesen, he vill pay
ven he sell him wheat, and Bill Pack
say he vill pay in Yanuary.”
“Well,” said the boss, “that’s the
first time Bill ever set a date to pay.
Did he really say he would pay in
January?”
“Vell, aye tank so,” said the clerk.
“He say dat it ban a dam cold day ven
you get that money. I tank that ban
in Yanuary.”—Harper's Weekly.
A Little Courtship Comedy.
A good-looking, well-to-do bachelor
of Manchester was being teased by
some young women of his acquaint-
ance for not being married. He said:
“I’ll marry the one of you whom on a
secret vote you elect to be my wife."
There were nine women in the com-
pany. Each one went into a corner
and used great caution in preparing
her ballot and disguised her handwrit-
ing.
The result was that there were nine
votes cast, each receiving one. The
man remains a bachelor, the, friend-
ship is broken up, and the women, all
mortal enemies, united in the one de-
termination that they will not speak to
the man again.—The Tatler,
FOUND OUT.
A Trained Nurse Made Discovery.
No one is in better position to know
the value of food and drink than a
trained nurse.
Speaking of coffee, a nurse of Wilkes
Barre, Pa., writes: “I used to drink
strong coffee myself, and suffered
greatly from headaches and indiges-
tion. While on a visit to my brothers
I had a good chance to try Postum
Food Coffee, for they drank it alto-
gether in place of ordinary coffee. In
two weeks after using Postum 1 found
I was much benefited and finally my
headaches disappeared and also the
Indigestion.
“Naturally 1 have since used Postum
among my patients, and have noticed
a marked benefit where coffee has been
left off and Postum used.
“I observed a curious fact about
Postum when used among mothers. It
greatly helps the flow of milk in cases
where coffee is inclined to dry it up,
and where tea causes nervousness.
- “I find trouble in getting servants to
make Postum properly. They most
always serve it before it has been
boiled long enough. It should be boiled
15 to 20 minutes after boiling begins
and served with cream, when it is cer-
tainly a delicious beverage.” Read
“The Road to Wellville" in pkgs.
"There’s a Reasen."
MR. JOHNSON NOT TO BLAME
Good Old Lady Understood How the
Mistake Occurred.
There is a good old lady who cannot
resist speaking well of all her ac-
quaintances.
On Thanksgiving day she told the
colored man who did chores about th®
place that he might go into the barn-
yard and help himself to a chicken.
The man obeyed with alacrity and was
most profuse in his thanks.
In the course of a few days the
lady’s husband informed her that on
Thanksgiving day neighbors had seen
Mr. Johnson seize two choice hens
from the coop.
“I did tell him to take one,” con-
fessed the lady regretfully, “but, you
know, dear, how intensely Mr. John-
son celebrates the holidays. Why, he
simply cannot help seeing things dou-
ble.”
THREE BOYS HAD ECZEMA.
Were Treated at Dispensary—Did Not
Improve—Suffered Five Months
—Perfect Cure by Cuticura.
“My three children had eczema for
five months. A little sore would ap-
pear on the head and seemed very
itchy, increasing day after day. The
baby had had it about a week when
the second boy took the disease and
a few sores developed, then the third
boy took it. For the first three months
1 took them to the N— Dispensary,
but they did not seem to improve.
Then 1 used Cuticura Soap and Cuti-
cura Ointment and in a few weeks
they had improved, and when their
heads were well you could see nothing
of the sores. Mrs. Kate Keim, 513
West 29th St., New York, N. Y., Nov,
1, 5 and 7, 1906.”
Cool.
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“No,” answered the girl in the yacht-
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me by wigwag, and I have accepted
him. Our engagement, therefore, is
off. Kindly put me ashore.”
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Dunlap, Levi A. The Meridian Tribune. (Meridian, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, September 20, 1907, newspaper, September 20, 1907; Meridian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1629708/m1/6/?q=waco+tornado: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Meridian Public Library.