The Meridian Tribune. (Meridian, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, December 13, 1907 Page: 8 of 8
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The Big Reduction Sale will con-
tinue until December 24th, 1907.
Take advantage of it now. Buy
your supply while the goods are
cheap.
Remember we give out double the amount of hands we have been \
giving. Be sure to call for them, they may be the right ones /
Meridian
Texas
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Meridian
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“PLAY BALL.”
Keep cool; don’t get excited;
imagine that present monetary
conditions are more than short-
lived; don’t talk panic, don’t think
panic; create an atmosphere of
faith and optimism wherever you
go. Some people lost confidence
and that injured credit,and people
who ought to be ashamed of such
action drew currency out of banks
and locked it up. That can’t last.
Idle money soon burns a hole in
your pocket and gets out. Men
want their money to work 24
hours a day,Sundays and holidays
included. They want interest or
income ‘from it. Don’t imagine
that idle money is going to stay
idle. It will soon becoming back
into the banks, just as soon as its
owners come to their senses and
realize that they have been more
hysterical than a woman who yells
because a poor little mouse hap-
pens in her room. The whole
scare would be laughable if it
were not so serious consequences.
It’s like a nervous man who wakes
up suddenly in the night and
trembles with fear until he stops
to realize that a banging shutter
or snow sliding off the roof made
the great noise. Then his nerves
soon quiet down and he goes
peacefully to sleep. The coun-
try’s nerves were on edge, and
everybody was nuder a little ten-
sion because some of our public
men. Believing that there was a
thief in a big crowd, concluded
that they would try to kill him by
shelling the whole crowd with
grape and canister and take the
chance of hitting the thief. Some
were hurt and a few killed, while
dodging cannon balls of this kind
had kept the crowd, which includ-
ed the great American public, so
busy that naturally any sudden
noise even of a banging shutter
started them to running.
In olden cowboy days, when a
vast herd of cattle on the plains
became panic stricken in a great
thunder-storm at night or any
other cause, thousands offrighten-
ed, maddened animals would rush
headlong at terrific pace, Sucha
stampede,must be checked, or
hundreds would be trampled to
death or be lost, and so the cow-
boys, riding as none but cowboys
can,and risking life in danger of
being trampled to death, would
endeavor co turn the le ders and
gradually swing the mighty host
into a circle. Round and round
the cattle would go until finally,
tired out by this "swinging around
the circle,” they quieted down
aud went peacefully to sleep, ap-
parently wondering why in the
world they had been so scared.
The American public got scared,
started on a wild, mad stampede,
and but for the splendid “round-
ing-up” work by cowboys Morgan,
Rockefeller. Stillman and others
the crowd would have rushed
headlong to destruction.
Now that the stampede is over,
now that the injury of shelling a
whole crowd in order to hit one
possible thief has been realized,
the American people can resume
business operations, get over their
scare and do a little thinking.
There are just as many miles of
railroad, just as many bales of
cotton and bushels of grain except
what Europe had taken and paid: such promise leave him there, and
for in gold, just as many people to
feed and clothe and house. Some
of them may eat a little less or
wear their old clothes a little
longer, but this sad condition will
the sooner be righted by a return
of sanity. Stop now for a min-
ute and think. Do you see any
fewer people in the street cars, or
on the steam cars, do you see any
fewer people moving up and down
the streets, do you note any sud-
den disappearance of any larger
number of the 85,000,000 people
whose wants and activities will
keep us busy even if somewhat
less than during the strenuous
rush of late years, which has been beyond telling. Often, too, it
over taxing night and day nearly is the strongest and most robust
who suffer in this way. Joseph
Murphey, 1726 W. Market St.,
Indianapolis, Ind., was so afflict-
ed and for years tried everything
but he was not cured until he
every productive enterprise in
America. These people don’t
stand still. They are trading one
with the other; they are producing
something and consuming some-
thing; they are making necessary
constant enlargements of all our
transportation facilities; they are
buying and selling; they are min-
ing and manufacturing, and any
idea that the business world is
coming to an end and that we it before buying, send your ad-
... 1 :1 1dress for a free sample bottle to
must sit around with our thumbs Pepsin Syrup Co, , 119 Caldwell
in our mouths and wonder how Bldg., Montecillo, Ill. It is sold
soon the undertaker will be ready by all druggists at 50c and $1 a
for us unworthy of men. Dumb bottle.
beasts in a wild stampede may be
excused for their panicky con
dition when affrighted, but surely
men—men who have any back-
bone and gray matter—are not
going to follow their example.
On the contrary, they are going
to settle down to business, and if
grazing is not quite as good on
the new prairie as it was on the
old, they are going to hustle so
hard for their share that they will
keep their sides bulging with fat-
ness even if their timid or lazy
neighbours refuse to eat. In
other words, quit your fears; go to
work; if you have any friends who
were foolish enough to lose confi-
dence and draw money out of
bank, ridicule their tolly out of
them; take the demagogue or agi-
tor against legitimate business
nearest to you by the back of the
neck and duck him in a mill pond
until he solemnly swears to be as
active in building up business in-
terests as he has been in tearing
them down, or in the absence of
then go ahead and in the great
drama of business life act well
your part; there all the honor lies.
“Play ball.”—Manufacturers Rec-
ord.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
The Eiler King of the Cattle
Ring, will show at night only on
account of our calcium effects.
Will show here on Dec. 16 Night
only. Under a big tent.
MR. JOSEPH MURPHEY.
The number of people who
suffer from stomach trouble is
took Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup pep-
sin, the great herb laxative com-
pound, which also cures consti-
pation, indigestion and all liver
and bowel troubles. It is abso-
lutely guaranteed to do what is
claimed, and if you want to, try
HAS RETURNED HOME.
Jason W. Stephens, son of Mrs.
Ellen Stephens, arrived in town
yesterday after an absence of
three years, during which time he
has been serving as trumpeter in
the Iich U. S. Cavalry.
He enlisted in St. Louis and
j spent two months there as recruit
instructor. From there he was
assigned to Troop “B”, 11th
Cavalry, Fort Riley, Kansas, at
which place he remained until his
troop was ordered to Fort Des
Moines, Ia., for station with the
remainder of the regiment.
In August, 1906, his regiment
was ordered to Fort Riley, Kansas,
to participate in the Army ma-
neuvers of that year. While there
orders came for the regiment to
proceed at once back to Fort Des
Moines, to pack and ship the
remainder of the equipment to
Newport News, Va., preparatory
to embarking to Cuba to take
part in quelling the political up-
rising in that island. He was
then transferred to troop “G” Il
Cavalry, the most popular troop in
the regiment.
The regiment arrived in Havana
on October 19th, 1906, and were
then known as part of the "Cuban
Pacification, stationed at Comp
Columbia, four miles from the city
of Havana.
On their arrival at the camp
there were no quarters ready for
occupancy “and they were compell-
ed to pitch tents in a field adjoin-
ing. On the night of October 17th,
1906, they were visited by a vio-
lent typhoon, worse than any the
oldest inhabitants could remem-
ber of, which blew their tents
down and wet them and their
property through in a very few
minutes. The men were then
given orders to get their arms and
find what shelter they could for
the rest of the night.
During the night the horses of
the 14th Battery of Field Artillery
stampeded and made directly
through the then wrecked camp,
but luckily no one was killed, al-
though several were injured quite
badly. The next morning the
men were seen picking up articles
of clothing and horse equipment
several hundred yards from the
camp and the streets of the town
of Mariano were completely block-
ed with trees and debris of all
kinds. The next two days were
confined to recovering and replac-
ing the tents and getting thecamp
in its normal order.
, The regiment was then split up,
four troops going to Pinar Del
Rio 98 miles south west of
Havana for station, the remainder
of the regiment remaining at
Camp Columbia doing guard duty
and the routing duties of the Army.
Mr. Stephens says the United
States is the only place to live
after all.
MRS. FENBEE OF TENNESSEE.
The stomach is such an easy
organ to get out of order. One
is troubled with it in the form of
indigestion, another constipation,
another heartburn, flatulency,
etc. Mrs. Fenbee of Cumber-
land Furnace, Tenn., suffered
for seventeen years from sour
stomach. Naturally she tried
‘‘everything,’’ and she says
nothing ever benefited her until
she took Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup
Pepsin, and that cured her. It
is absolutely guaranteed to do
what is claimed, and if you want
to try it before buying, send your
address for a free sample bottle
to Pepsin Syrup Co., 119 Cald-
well Bldg., Monticillo, Ill. It
is sold by all druggists at 50c and
$1 a bottle.
LIVE OAK LOCAL.
Live Oak Local Union No.
2236 met in regular meeting
Saturday, Dec. 7th, and passed a
resolution that we would diversify
our crops and raise more of what
we consume at home and thus
avoid as much as possible going
in debt next year. We further
resolved, that we would decrease
the acreage of cotton 30 per cent
in 1908 and we urge and request
that all farmers unite with us in
diversifying our crops in order to
reduce the acreage of cotton
throughout the south. Resolved
that a copy be sent for publication
to the Meridian Tribune, Dallas
Weekly News, and National
Co-operator.
J. H. Loder, Pres.
H. L. Burch, Sec'y.
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Dunlap, Levi A. The Meridian Tribune. (Meridian, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, December 13, 1907, newspaper, December 13, 1907; Meridian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1629720/m1/8/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Meridian Public Library.