The Schulenburg Sticker (Schulenburg, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 19, 1907 Page: 3 of 8
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1 .
Texas and the Railways.
] The Logical Development Is that of Supplying the De
mand as Created by the Settlement of Mew Sections.
Discussing the railroad situation
in Texas, the Baltimore Sun says:
"Nearly 70 out of the 245 coun-
ties are without railways, and many
others are barely touched. Many
county seats are fifty miles from the
nearest railway. In fact, the great-
er part^ of the 266,000 square miles
of Texas urgently require railways
for the development of their latent
re'sourees, the average being but 4.6
miles of railway to each 100 square
miles of territory, while Illinois has
more than twenty-one miles to the
same area. There are, in short, but
13,000 miles of railway where 60,-
000 are wanted."
It-is true Texas needs additional
railways, but it is fallacious to es-
timate a people's transportational
needs by the area they occupy. The
60,000 miles of railway will come in
.good time, but they will come along
with the people who must create the/
traffic for them. ' To have 60,000
miles of railway now would mean a
mile of railway for every seventy
people, a number far too small to
produce the traffic necessary to the
operation of a railroad profitably.
There is nothing discouraging in
ihe fact that Texas possesses a to-
tal mileage of only 13,000 with a
population of possibly not more than
4,500,000. That is a mile of road
to far fewer persons than in New
Tork, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois,
Indiana or Massachusetts. The pop-
ulation of Texas, as well as its rail-
Toad mileage, is increasing at a good
Tate. As the people rush into the
great western region where the mile-
age is small and the population
sparse, the roads push out witlr
them.
It is a mistake to say that the Tex
as people do not assist in building
their railroads. In mqst cases right
of way and cash donations are giv-
en and other forms o'f help tendered.
Few miles of road are built without
the building company receiving in-
ducements in the way of land and
money. The prediction that outside
capital would not invest further in
Texas railroads is all moonshine.
Outside capital is investing little in
railroads anywhere just at this time,
but ultimately it will seek Texas
because of the inducements that are
unquestionably here.
The Texas laws about which so
much is written may be imperfect
in some respects, but the people
mean to be just, and when it is ap-
parent that the laws are unfair they
will be amended.N
As capital is accumulated in the
State it will begin to flow into rail-
road enterprises. If Texas money
has not been largely invested in rail-
roads up to the present time, it is
because it has been employed in oth-
er great works of development. It
has unquestionably required vast
capital to develop farms that now
produce almost half a billion of val-
ues annually. It has required cap-
ital to develon the lumber industry,
the cattle industry, the rice industry,
and various other industries which
have made Texas the greatest pro-
ductive commonwealth in the coun-
try—Houston Post*
of all public service corporations;
therefore be it
Resolved by the Central Wet Tex-
as Association of Commercial Clubs,
That we ask the agricultural and
commercial interests of our State to
join in a movement seeking to give
the State less unfavorable legislation
that will encourage corporations that
are willing to come into %ur State
and abide by our laws; that we in-
?ite the co-operation of the commer-
cial clubs and progressive citizenship
hroughout the State in building a
sentiment. for a State Democratic
platform that 'frill insure just laws
towards all commercial interests that
are in the State or may come to trie
State.
Be it further resolved, That we
commend our Legislature and State
officials for carrying into execution
the demands of the last State Demo-
cratic platform; but, believing that
aid platform was too drastic in its
nature and inimical to the best in-
terest of the State, we call upon the
citizens of Texas to join in an ef-
fort to guard against evils that now
exist and select men to represent
them in the Legislature who are
awake to our agricultural and com-
mercial interests and demands, and
not so alert to the cry of the dema-
gogue and politician.
Be it further hesolved, That this
Federation of Commercial Clubs
adopt as its slogan—"Fewer Laws,
Better Laws."
PEANUTS AND PROSPERITY. can not be traversed daily, he is
~T7T . ' _ ! urged to take the matter up with
The Goober in Other Lands «-ess Fa \ , . r ,
orabie Than This. j the people living along the roads,
In keeping with the growing sen- ! with a view to having the roads isn-
timent in favor of a more extensive ■, proved. The notice closes with the
culture of peanuts as a valuable crop j statement: "Advise them that if the
in the South Consul Murohy makes | roads are not repaired within thirty.
a favorable report of the value of the ; days the department may consider
products from this plant in France, j discontinuance of service." This
Mr. Murphy states: j ought to prove a powerfully strong
"Arachide oil, when well clarified ! argument for road improvement.
and fresh, is preferred to the best
LOOK OUT, MR. FARMER!
Some Hot Stuff for the Promising
Young Man.
What does your wife see when she
looks out the front door? Flowers,
"brightening and beautifying the
jard and filling the air with their
delightful fragrance? Or does she
see a bunch of rusty sweeps, a for-
lorn looking plow and a pile of tin
cans being rooted about by a mangy
hog? Or, perhaps, a wilderness of
cockle burrs and jimson weeds,
through which a weak-legged calf is
struggling? Is there a well-kept
walk for her to travel to the gate
"when she wants to get in the buggy. ?
Or does she have to wade through
mud and weeds to climb over the
□rickety wheel of a mortgaged wagon?
Is there share for the little fellows
to romp and play under while their
shouts of glee fill mamma's heart
with joy? Or do the poor little
■cusses have to mope silently and
sadly under the house, on hot days"
to keep the fierce rays of the sum-
mer sun from blistering their little
liodies? Is there lucious fruit in the
summer time, to bring health and
liappiness to the home? Or do you
ruin the digestion of the whole fam-
ily with a steady diet of Kansas
sowbelly ?
Think the girl you used to lie to
an the moonlight don't care? Don't
you believe she don't care, Pilgrim.
Mayl)e she doesn't say much about it.
That, probably because you are
of nearly any- creek you can find
voung trees that can be transplanted
anv time in the winter, dozens of
different ,kinds, as beautiful as any
that can be bought. And flowers?
The prairies-and fields are fairly
carpeted in spring with the most
gorgeous flowers that nature has
ever bestowed upon mankind.
Fruits? Plant a few peach seeds,
and next summer your neighbor will
give you some limbs off of his good
trees, and you can bud 'the little
seedling yourself. And all of this
will take but very little of your time
and will repay a thousand-fold all
the energy that you expend. Will
repay in the pleasure to that good
old girl who has shared all your
troubles, and to those little fellows
who didn't ask to be brought into
a world of tincans, paper bags and
indigestion.—Southwestern Farmer.
Land Speculation a Factor.
Many people who are in darkness
and in chains attribute the present
financial condition to the cotton
farmers holding cotton, which is an
absurdity; might as well attribute
it to the cattlemen who have cattle
in their pastures which they won't
sell. Many others attribute it to a
desire on the part of cotton buyers
to put the cotton farmer and Farm-
ers' Union out of business. This,
too, is a fallacy worse confounded.
It is all because hundreds and thou-
'Seiling on Hungry Market.
It was noticed that there were on
the public square on Saturday a
score of corn wagons at one time,
the corn having been brought in by
farmers who had it there for sale at
from 60 to 65 cents, and in the case
of the best grade 70 cents a bushel
to customers.
This is a good price for corn, and
it is evident that the farmers are
exhausting every other resource be-
fore parting with the remainder of
their cotton. With corn bringing
such a price, those who have a sur-
plus will be able to hold cotton long-
er, and the. corn is therefore quite a
factor in enabling some to hold.
Most of the corn, while not heavy, is
quite clean and free from weevils.
It is evident that the farmers of
this section are fast getting where
they do not depend on cotton alone,
and, while this is a great crop, and
must alwavs be the chief money crop,
still conditions are always better
where it is not the sole dependence
—Waco Times Herald.
sands of men have bought property,
liateful, grouchy, an old tryant, and raj]roa(j stocks, all sorts of fake
she is afraid to say much. Maybe
jour cussedness has taken all the
spirit- out of her and she is just
•drifting, hoping that maybe some
•day you will be something like the
boy that used to come around pa's
Sunday evenings. Maybe the poor
girl is hoping that God will open
your .eyes. She would get better
action with a hoe handle.
Do you think you can raise chil-
dren that will make good and noble
men and women and give them the
same treatment you do chickens? It's
a hundred to one bet that your chick-
ens are dunghills, if you look at it
that way. Y014 haven't time to mess
around the yard? You lazy old
skate; you surely lied to that ladv
when you used to sneak around her
home in the summer days of long
ago. Just half the time you spend
stocks, wind and water stocks, ana
all sorts of property. Not because
they needed or wanted to use it, but
because they expected to make a big
spec off of some other speculator or
some feller that needed the thing
they possessed and would pay the
price. This craze grew to such an
extent that even farmers by the score
bought cotton at the opening of the
season. Not because they wanted it,
needed it, or could use it, but the in-
sane desire to make money. Hun-
dreds and thousands of people
bought corner lots, city property and
thousands of acres of land. Not be-
cause they needed it, or could use
it, but because thev expected to spec-
ulate. Even in Texas there is a
land speculator in real estate at ev-
ery cross road, and twentv-five in
every village of one hundred inhab-
itante. As a#result speculators, buy-
Prosperity Goes With Diversity.
The farmers in best position to
hold their cotton for a higher mar
ket are those who, by growing a va-
riety of good food crops are able
to do without ready cash for a while
or who have other cash crops than
their main ,one—cotton—to provide
funds while they hold the white sta-
ple. There are numbers of farmers
in Wise County in this shape, and
we are proud of the fact. But there
others who have had to call on the
merchant to help them make the
crop they are now holding, and, in
their effort to crush the speculator,
they are destroying the best friend
they have. The News believes tho
- farmer is making a just fight, and
that in the end f is aim will be ac
complished.' He should, however
protect his friend from destruction
by selling enough to pay what he
owes, and thus relieve the strain on
the one who carried him over the
hard summer.—Decatur News.
sitting around, chewing navy lying
about the fish von caught, and air-jers jn things, have increased a thou-
ing your fool notions on politics, sand-fold, while actual bona fide buy-
would fix that place you live in so er3 for use an(j to keep have fallen
your wife won t be ashamed to eafll.off' on account of the inflated val-
it ,-onie. | ue3) made so bv speculators. There
How many men call a woman caq be but one inevitable result—a
wife and a smal' section of the mun- a big burst-up and a settling down to
dane sphere home and still treat the j reasonable values. This will not
one like she was a Digger Indian come in a dav, because values are
sqijuw and the other like he had a now sure to go to the other extreme
grudge against is, is one of the mys- before they settle at the point of rea-
teries that a sane mind can't solve, sonableness. Therefore, it behooves
Can't afford to buy trees? Then every farmer and every family to
don't. Don't you know that God stay close in shore in shallow water,
runs a nursery? And that Hisj and live strictly within their income
most beautiful gifts are as free as for at least eighteen months or more,
the air you breathe. Along the bank;; —Richmond Coaster.
Industrial Development Coming.
Up Denison way they have opened
a woodworking plant with a nice pay
roll attached, a plant that will de
velop into the finished product the
hard wood resources that abound
along Red River. There is room for
a thousand such industries in the
hardwood belt of Texas. Fcrr the
past two seasons Eastern and North
ern plants have ben unable to sup
ply the Texas demand for the single
item of ax handles. To this might
be safely ridded hoe handles. The
Denison industrial achievement
worth while—Fort Worth Star.
The Bird on the Farm.
Farmers are beginning to appro
ciate the value of birds on thei
farms. In the last issue of the
Bowie Cross Timbers notices forbid
ding hunters to hunt on their lands
were published, signed by seventy
.eight farmers. Wise County farm
ers are also posting their lands and
notifying the bird slayers to keep
:>ff. A few quail to eat occasionally
is all right, bnt the wanton slaugh-
ter of from fifteen to fifty birds by
a hunter is rubbing it on too thick,
and ough- to be stopped.—Decatur
News.
olive oil for table use by manv peo-
ple in this part of France. In Bor-
deaux the sales of arachide exceed
that of all othr oils; in fact, they
are almost as larje as the sales of
all others combined. Over $50,000 !
tons of peanuts are brought to this
port, every fear from the Frencn
possessions in Africa the average
annual value of the peanut (or ar-
achide) oil manufactured in this
city being over $2,000,000. Noj.
only is arachide a most excellent ta-
ble oil, palatabb, nutritious and
healthful, and verv much cheaper
than olive oil, but it is employed al-
most exclusively in the manufac-
ture of compound lard. For cooking
sardines before packing in olive oil
am told it is unsurpassed. The
best quality of arachide oil is selling
wholesale at about 80 or 82 cents
per gallon at this time, and the low-
er grades at from 55 to 65 cents.
The process of. manufacturing the
oil is simple, the nuts being pressed
in the same kind of presses used for
cotton seed. The oil is clarified in
the same manner as olive oil, that is,
by filtering through layers of card-
ed cotton, the quality depending
largely upon the number of filterings
and the degree of clarification at-
tained. The residuum is pressed in-
to cakes, making an excellent and
nutritious food for cattle. This cake
is selling at from 15 to 18 francs,
per 100 kilos, or from $2.90 to $3.47
for every 220 pounds. There is not
a particle of waste in the manufac-
ture. The shells are finely ground,
mixed with common m o la s s e s ,
pressed into cake and used as cat-
tle food, not so good, it is true, as
the cake made from the residuum of
the nuts, but still nutritious, and
selling for about one-third its price.
To make a fuel, which burns weli
and gives great heat, the powdered
r.hells are mixed with coal dust and
pressed into blocks. The records of
the Bordeaux consulate show that
the exports of arachide oil to the
United States for the past five years
amounted to $115,220."
As Texas farmers are just begin-
ning to consider this plant as a fu-
ture important farm product this in-
formation will be of interest to farm-
era. As in many other crops, when
Texas takes up this plant to culti-
vate it as a money-making crop, it
will not be long until the Lone Star
State will stand at the head of the
column; there are thou^knrs of acres
of land adapted to it, and also it
is said to be an easy crop to bring to
maturity. This, when grown in suf-
ficient quantities, will open other av
enues for capital to build refineries
for refining the oil and turning the
shell, vine and so on, into other com
mercial products. — Jacksboro Ga-
zette.
Pean to the Average Man.
It's the average man that counts,
one on whom the salvation' of the
country, commercially and political-
ly, rests. The most enduring achieve-
ments in the history of the world
belong to him, and to him belong
the brightest prospects of the future.
He is the foundation on whom rests
the whole fabric of the nation. Bril-
liant people are for show and dis-
play, getting in their work at times
of dress parade, but the man who
is wanted is the man who is always
there when needed, about whom
there is no displav, no dancing ef-
fervescence, but who keeps going on
just the same, unmoved and unmoy-
able. He it is that is wanted, arid
PRACTICAL EDUCATION.
'friv his tribe
Transcript.
increase
Terrell
Wealth and Its Creator.
Texas soil will produce so many
varieties of crops that it is only a
question of time when the wealth, in
actual cash, of the State will be
found among the men who till the
soil. Farmers are fast realizing this
fact, and are becoming more and
more proud of being in that class.
—Corsicana Sun.
For goodness sake, where ought
the wealth of the country to rest, ex-
cept with the producers of useful
and necessary things? True, it has
been the history of the world that
the road to wealth was along the
lines other than production of ne-
cessities, but the old world is grow-
ing wiser and better day by day.
How manv of our farmer readers
keep accounts? How much do you
spend in a year? How much do you
take in? What did your crop cost
you to produce and harvest, and
what was its market value? Did
you make or lose by your year# op-
erations, and how much wa§ the
profit or the loss? How much of
vour "living" did you produce at
home, and how much of it did you
buy ? The Index doesn't mean these
questions as impertinence, but mere-
lv to call your attention to the neces-
sity of business methods. — Bridge-
port Index.
Farming is just as much a busi-
ness as the mercantile business, and
it is just as necessary for the farm-
er to keep accounts as it is for the
merchant. It is a little trouble, but
it pays in more ways than one. There
are a few farmers who keep books,
and everyone of them are successful
men.—Jacksboro News?
Its Needs and Its Uses to Its Pos>
sessors.,
Since the State is making every
legitimate endeavor to broaden out
the public school curriculum, espe-
cially along the lines of industrial
education, the following, from the
Texas Trade Review, is very much
to the point:
Practical education is a thing of
moment at the present time. In-
dustrial schools, though not very
old, are rapidly gaining in-import-
ance, and destiny seems to point to
a time when every school will De
equipped with industrial features.
A literary education is not all-suffi-
"eient. It is not enough for us to
know what has been done, but we
must know what is to be done and
how to do it. Life is divine and
time a sacred trust. Each individ-
ual is endowed with life, but the
time allotted to each is problemati-t
cal. It, therefore, behooves every
boy and girl, man and woman, to
take from every passing minute ev-
erything that it contains for them.
Life is lived only>once. A moment
of wasted time is gone forever. The,
wheels of time never turn backward,
neither do they slacken their pace. ,
An unskilled hand is like a dull'
tool, and those who are not .whetted
with the very best advantages, even
though they labor unceasingly, are'
squandering* time. One lick of a
skilled artisan will accomplish more
than many blows by the untutored
hand. Industrial education in its
strictest sense would make the la-
borer skilled and every task a sci-
ence. A school is not complete with-
out its industrial department. They
are being added to the city schools,
and are found to be the saving of
many boys who would otherwise be
cast on the shoals of disaster, to
wander aimlesslv through their re-
spective terms of existence, only to
at last drop life's precious moments
into the dark vacuum of Proc#asti-
nation. The men of the hour are
the men who both know and ao
things. Knowledge will sink into
the slumbers of. the grave, while
works remain as monuments to the
living horde's who in turn play their
part in the game of knowledge and.
work and pass on. If thev would be
factors in a progressive era they
must have knowledge, though,
knowledge unapplied is of little
worth. Every man who at the close
of his career find himself nearer the
goal than when he started adds a
cog to the wheel of progress. Then
industrial schools will add more
cogs than any other institution ex-
tant. > < '
Texas and Louisiana Rice.
The Louisiana and Texas Kice
Consumers' and Distributors' Asso-
ciation has just issued an official
statement as to the total production
of rice for the crop of 1906, which
began August 1, 1906, and contin-
ued to July 31, 1907. This state-
ment has just been issued by Secre-
tary W. D. Marshall of the associa-
tion at Crowley, La., under date of
September 5, and from this we
learn that over the land in such vast
quantities when the total crop of the
two States, recorded in standard
bags of 162 pounds each, was 4,-
376,733 bags. Of this, Louisiana
produced 2,406,789 bags and Texas
1,969,944 bags. Of the Louisiana
product a million and a half bags
were received by the countrv mills
outside of New Orleans and some
900,000 bags of the Louisiana crop
went to New Orleans by rail and
river. Of the Texas crop the Texas
rice mills secured about 1,500,000
bags, and about 400,000 bags of it; ^;rn jn effort and go down in de-
Things Good In Texas.
With the importations of gold
from across the big waters, the ad-
ditional National bank currency is-
sued and the deposits made in the
banks by the Government, there has
been an increase of the per capita
circulation in the United States
since the panic began of about $3
to each individual inhabitant. Now
if the Standard Oil people would
turn 'in that twenty-nine millions
they have been fined, and the Wa-
ters-Pierce people the million and a
half assessed against them in Texas,
there would seetn to be good reason
for "turning things loose" again.—
Lampasas Leader.
Can't Serve Two Masters.
The Brownwood Bulletin asks:
"Can anv public servant serve the
people" and at the same time accept
employment from the acknowledged
enemies of the people?" Notwith-
standing the fact that a good many
men, are attempting it, we are 'of
the opinion that they never make a
sncccss of it. They usually end by
giving their best service to the in-
terests of the enemies of the people.
This is a question that each man
must answer with his ballot.—Bon-
ham News.
We Must Get the Price.
The Texas farmer mav not get
15 cents for the cotton he is held-
But we had rather stand by
! mg.
went to New Orleans.
Rural Routes and Good Roads.
Rural routes do not always exist
in those sections where no attention
is paid to the public road;. Better
stick a pin here. The Denison Her-
ald says:
The postmaster at Whitesboro Itas
been notified by the Fourth Assist-
ant Postmaster General that certain
roads leading out from that place
over which rural routes run are in
bad condition. As it is contrary to
the policy of the depaitment to op-
erate rural routes over* roads that
feat with him than to discourage or
discredit his effort. His fight is the
fight of the South. That is the al-
pha and omega of the mattef.—
Waco Times Herald.
Correct.
"An oration/ wrote a Western Re-
serve freshman in examination the
♦ ther day, "consists of three parts;
the preamble, the bo^y of the speech
and the peroration. The preamble, is
what you say before you begin. The
body of the speech contains what you
have to say. The peroration is what
you say after you're all through"—
Cleveland Leader.
BETTER AND FEWER LAWS.
A Demand That is Coming to be Heard
in Texas.
At the recent meeting of Central
West Texas Commercial Clubs at
Stamford, the following sane reso-
lution was adopted: «
Wliereas, We believe that the time
has come in the history of Texas
when the agricultural and commer-
cial interests of the State are be-
ing retarded by unfavorable legis-
lation that is being engrafted into
the State's democratic platforms
and enacted into laws by our State
legislators, and
Whereas, We believe that the ten-
dency toward such legislation has
its origin in the minds of politicians
who either disregard or do not ap-
preciate the needs of the State from
an agricultural and commercial
standpoint, and
Whereas, There has been and is
now a deep-seated lethargy among
business men generally m the affairs
of State, and especially in matters
that are seriouslv affecting the prog-
ress of our State and retarding its
development, agriculturally and com-
mercially, and
Whereas, We believe that every le-
gitimate dollar in Texas should have
a square deal, that all capital invest-
ed, whether il be corporate or oth-
erwise, is entitled tor a just protec-
tion of our. laws, so long as it obeys
them, and should; not only be pro-
tected butj?.ucouraged; and
Whereas, We recognize in the rail-
roads and other corporations most
potent factors iri the development
of the resources of our State, and
that just laws affecting them is all
they can ask and all theyv should
receive; and we believe that just
treatment toward them will result in
a continuation and extension of their
operations in the State; and
Whereas, We believe that agricul-
tural and commercial development
of the State is dependent upon the
better equipment of the railroads,
and better service at their hands,
rather than in the reduction of pas-
senger fares, and in the better serv-
ice and more complete equipment
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