The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 6, 1909 Page: 4 of 8
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Entered as second-class matter March
f, 1908, at the postoffice at Mexia,
Texas, under the act of Congress of
March 3, 1879.
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Ex-Gov. Beckham of Kentucky
is now an editor. Can't get alonj
without some excitement.
Smith-Mock is tlie heading
over a marriage 'notice. But it
was not a mock marriage.
And there is talk of another
called session of the legislature
after the present one is finished.
The middle states were swept
by a terrible storm Thursday and
many lives were List, while the
damage to property was great.
It now loks favorable for an
early adjournment ot' the legisla-
ture. All keep quiet lest you
wake them up.
Roosevelt and his party are
bagging some big game in Africa.
Fodr lions were killed by the Tor
rible Teddy in one day. And his
son. Kermit. killed a big king of
the forests.
Gov. Campbell - ems bent on
making the legislature do Iin will
in the matter of a bank guarante
law, and the legislature seems
bent the other way. In '• n
time J-.m-s, iie pays the freight.
Character is
stone of slice—;.
one have a ;<
stv... .' ir.it;;] i. 'the
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i vili l:C"i> th
the foundation
Why not v r.
i:;d foundation
children in the
go, and most of
right tfack.
IT- on Thomas charges 11.; t
Gone Johnson has stolen his cam-
paign thunder. Well, it's about
six of one and half a dozen of
'tother as between Thomas -and
Johnson.
Representative Branch has re-
turned to his home at Mount
Pleasant and says he will not at-
tend the legislature any more dur
ing this session. But the main
body is still running along regard-
less of the Branch line.
Holland's queen, "Little Mina,'
as she is affectionately called by
the loyal Dutch, has presented the
nation with an heir to the throne
5n the person of a wee bit of -a
girl baby, and the country is re-
joicing.
They are having some more
trouble down on the Rio Grande,
and a Mexican ranchman has bee)
shot and killed by a Ranger who
was sent down there to keep th<*
peace. Those Rio Grande des-
perate characters are never sat-
isfied unless they are raising ca n
If our people here in Mexia let
this opportunity for a railroad
connecting Fairfield and Mexia
slip by for want of a little push
and financial assistance, they ma)
Advertising and news are first
cousins. The railroad and the
stage coach are grandchild and
grandfather. Four out of five
advertisers still use stage coach
methods. The agency that dis-
tributes news has the quickest,
cheapest and most effective ma-
chinery for distributing advertis-
ing. That agency is the weekly
newspaper.
An anxenndment has been made
to the appropriation bill to use
about one million of that big fine
money to take up some of the
state debt that will soon fall due.
and the governor has threatened
to veto the whole bill if that item
is not stricken out. Evidently he
wants to use the money for gen
eral purposes and thus be enabled
to reduce the tax rate for the
next year and take the credit of
it to his administration.
A short time ago some men
were engaged in putting up tele-
graph poles on some land belon
BASIS FOB DECEPTION.
Alleged Washington Special Pub-
lished in1 Effort to Mislead
Readers of the Paper
in Texas.
(Houston Post Special,)
Washington, Jlay 3.—The Post
correspondent called Senator Bai-
ley's attention today to the fol-
lowing purported interview with
him appearing in the Houston
Chronicle of April 26:
(Special to the Chronicle.)
Washington, April 2(>.—
Senator Bailey, when inter-
viewed this afternoon regard-
ing his stand on the tariff
bill, said he favored it as a
whole, lie declared opposi-
tion to the measure by the
insurgent republicans the last
few days will not delay its
passage materially. Bailey
believes the senate will take
a final vote on the bill June
1, and will not be in confer-
ence longer than two weeks,
lie savs he will boost it along
were so quickly obtained and the
remedy so easily administered,
that several of the owners gave
the plan a trial. The sick sheep
were drenched every hour with
liberal doses of the mixture with
the result that animals which be-
fore drenching were unable to
stand, were, inside of twenty-four
hours, eating and running around
with the rest of the herd ap-
parently as well as ever.
While the government experts
have not yet made a study of this
disease or given the suggested
remedy official sanction, the rein-
ed./ itself is so apparently harm-
less and unobjectionable, that eon
sidering the results obtained by
its use, there seems to be no pos-
sible danger in giving it full
publicity. The sheepmen can, in
this manner, give it more extend-
ed trials and possibly save them-
selves from the serious losses
which the eating of this weed by
stock has heretofore caused.
The disease will be carefully
studied and the results of admin-
istering this remedy watched w.itl
a view to correcting any errors
After reading the above alleged in its use should it not prove of
and the man who wrote it knew will, no doubt, be only too eager
it to be. It is inconceivable that:to give this simple remedy of hot
any newspaper correspondent at water and salt drenches, every j
Washington thinks that 1 lavor hour, a good trial, because tlu an
the Aldrich bill, and that par- nual losses have been serious ones
ported interview was written in for the flock masters of the Soutl j
the field, shouted at the top of . Pl
his voice, 'Show him the paper!'
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HAPPY RESULTS
ing to an old farmer who disliked.the following statement; "'! hat
seeing his wheat trampled down, interview is a pure fabrication,
The men produced a payer by
which they said they had leave
to put the poles where the.v
pleased. The old farmer went
back and turned a large bull in o
the field. The savage Imast mad*
after the men, and the old far- the hope, and with the deliberate| west where the disease or sum-
mer. on seeing them running fron t>m'l>"se «>£ trying to d • eive .theines appears to be most pr< valent
pie of Texas, it will not,, at the present time.
however, mislead anybody in our |
State because every intellig
An amendment lias been made man in the State will know i'
to the general appropriation bill not true the moment he reads
in the senate setting apart. file Houston Chronicle never t
000 in addition to a former appro the truth about me.
priation of $25,000 to improve and' Senator Bailey said t-ni:
beautify the San Jacinto battle that in hi
field, and convert it into a park, to think that any de
A hont the only objection that wa a tor would vote for
raised was because it would con- of tl
vert the battle field into a pari; does
for the benefit of the ''plutocrats denio<
ef heavenly Houston." Why a
man with brains enough to be a
senator should offer such a silly
objection to a measure of tbi:
kind is just a little beyond the
limit.
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Have Made Many Mexia
idents Enthusiastic.
No wonder scores of Mexia
t es-
pinion it is absurd A" wonder scores ot
ratie sen- - i^eus grow enthusiastic, it
nough to make anyone happy
Mid relief after years of suf:
nsr. 1'ublie .statements like
le pa
bill.
lb
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been susneet-
d of
le Aldrich ta
not think th
•rats who hnv
tided leaning toward
stiff revenue tariff mixed with
little protection will vote for th
bill.
Senator Bacon of Georgia, on
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Willi
in the town of
, county. I was
case of kidney (
McDa.le.
L'ured of
mnpla nt
ollb
of the three Southern senators j livinn:
who have spoken eiiarnestly in Bastr*
favor'of a revenue tariff only onjfl bad
lumber, said today that be in-j b.v the use of Doan's Kidney Pills
tends to vote against the bill be-, I iiad no return of my trouble tin
cause he does riot, see how any til a lew months ago when 1 con-
democrat could sanction such attracted
measure.
Senator Bacon said also tlmtihadv oecame so
the democrats will sotin
a cold which :
toy kidneys. At that
back became so stiff
ettle.l
time
and
on:
my
ore
irdly straighten
The kidnev set
re-
The Tioga Tribune was brave
enough to perpetrate the follow-
ing ilnes:
A fly and a flea in a flue
Were imprisoned, so what
they do f
Said the flv: "Let us flee;
the flea, "Let us fly." • the democrats will some time ini tli«t 1 could
So they flew through a flaw in the near future offer certain tor stooping.
the flue. amendments to the Aldrich bil!. tions were too frequent inaction.
It sounds like a vaudeville ly- which, on test ballots, will show | at times scanty and*again profuse
ric, but as vaudeville is not indig-j conclusively that the attitude of l jii"cuu
enous to Tioga nor. as far as the senate minority is tor a rev- m > i ill
known, the lyre indigenous tojenue tariIt' only in the strictest
the Tribune, it will probobly be sense. He does not expect to see
set down by most investigators! any of these amendments adopted
as a poetic inspiration born in the but their introduction will serve
fertile mind of some hypochron-l to show the true democratic posi-
driac full of Tioga mineral water. | tion with reference to tariff re-
— Dallas News. foiin. 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co Btif
In other words the Tribune is I . falo, New York, sole agents for the
. 1 1 United States.
1 a iyre. Rubber Weed Causes Sheepmen of Remember the came—Doans—and
Southwest Heavy Lost. ta> e no 0 her"
A mob at Marshall stormed the Albuquerque, N. M., May 3.—
jail and took three prisoners out For several years past the sheep-
and hanged them, within an hour! men of the southwest have suf-
after the local militia campany fered serious losses from a dis-
i a box of Doan's Kid-
and after using them
for a short time my condition was
greatly improved. I take great
pleasure in recommending Doan's
Kidney Pills to my neighbors.
This remedy can be procured at
the M.exia Drug Co."
For sale by all dealers. Price
We will Send the
Weekly Herald
And either of the following Papers
one year for
interview, Senator Baile.v dii tat el great value as is expected. M all
time, every sheepman whose slice]
are sick or dying front pingue
$1.50
<§£
\as 5err i-Week!y News.
H o u £ ton Se n i=Week \ y Post.
Fort Wort h Semi=WeekIy
Record.
Texas Farm and Ranch.
Holland's Magazine.
Pratical Magazine of Teague.
The National Co-Operator and
exas Far 11 Journal.
ow
ire but trueful r< pre-
sell tativ.es of the daily work dene!
in Mexia bv Doan's Kidney Pills.i
.Mrs. -J. C. McDonald, of Com-j
m.-rce St.. Mexia. Tex. sa.\s:
"About seven vears ago when!
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had been withdrawn from duty
at the jail. And yet there are a
few members of the legislature
who would cut out all of the ap-
propriation for the support of the
Guard and the pay of same when
doing such duty as this company
was doing there. If there is no
use having militia companies, as
some of the legislators say, why
are the boys called into service
every time there is danger of a
mob taking a prisoner out of a
jail? And why were the soldiers
put on doty during the flood at
Tegret it all too soon. Other Dallas last year and the recent
towns in this section would be
glad of the chance Mexia now
has.
The daily papers tell us that
the lata sultan' harem is being
dissolved and th'al the fair dnm-
wels are scattering' out with no
definite destination. What's the
jroatter with going on the stage fj order.
fire in Fort Worth ♦ Cut off all
of the appropriation, as has been
suggested by some smart lawma-
ker, and it will result in the dis-
bandment ef the force and then
when a mob is threatened they
will see the need of having a few
"tin soldiers" on duty where they
could be called out to preserve
ease known among the 'Mexican
herders as "pingue."
"Pingue" is popularly supposed
to be caused by eating either the
leaves or roots of a plant which
has in the last few years been
quite prominent in the publiq eye
as the 'rubber plant" or "rubber
weed."
Whether this plant is a true
rubber plant or not is a matter
which does not interest the sheep-
men so much as some remedy for
the sickness that follows its eat-
ing by their sheep. On the Car-
son National Forest in New Mex-
ico, Forest Ranger Bert Phillips,
in whose district a great many
sheep had recently died Irom pin-
gue, after making a study of the
sickness, suggested to the sheep-
men whose animals were dying
with it, that drenches of hot wa-
ter and salt might prove effica-
cious.
The materials for the remedy
NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that the
Board of Trustees of the Mexia
City Schools will elect to the of-
fice of treasurer of said board
that person or corporation who
offers satisfactory bond as pro-
vided by law, and the best bid
of interest on the average daily
balances for the privilege of
acting as such treasurer. All bids
shall be sealed and handed to the
secretary of the board on or be-
fore noon of the first Tuesday of
June, 1909.
The above notice is given under
the law a? amended by the 31st
Legislature, and the award will
be made in accordance with the
provisions of said law. For fur-
ther information apply to the un-
dersigned.
W. M. White,
President Board Trustees.
ABOUT WALKING.
The ordinary man, who is em-
ployed indoors throughout the day,
dc' - li t walk enough. He needs the
fret!) air and sunshine of the out-
doors and. no matter how tired he
may be, a short time in the open air
will rest him. If be has no opportu-
nity to walk during the evening he
ought to do it in the morning. There
1 is no belter tonic than a two-mile
walk before going to work. Some
business men, who live some dis-
tance from their offices or stores,
walk down regularly every morning
and are greatly benefited thereby.
No matter how sluggish they may
feel on arising the morning walk
puts them in good trim /or their
work. Exercise in the open air starts
the blood to circulating in every ar-
tery and vein in the entire system,
opens up the pores of the skin so
that the waste mutter in the body
may be set free, limbers up the
joints and muscles and puts one in
shape for the duties of the day.
Rev. H. B. Luncy of Richland
was here last night attending the
lecture and returned home this
morning.
WAS KIS DAY OF FATE.
An extraordinary street accident
happened the other day in Stutt-
gart, Germany. A cart loaded with
cylinders filled villi carbonic acid
skidded on the slippery track. One
cylinder ft il off. Ihe top broke and
the acid, suddenly released from
enormous pressure, caused the cylin-
der to fly up like a projectile fired
from n gun.
Several blocks away it slruck •
middle-aged man, went clean
through him and lore off his limbs,
which were flung upon a woman who
was passing on the sidewalk. The
body was mutilated beyond recogni-
tion.
FOUND CHARGER FOR SULTAN
King Edward Most Fortunate of Eu
ropean Monarchs Who Sought
Gift for Turkith Ruter.
Some weeks ago the sultan was
asked by certain of bis high officials
to proceed sometimes to the Selarn-
lik (the Friday weekly visit to the
mosque) on horseback, instead of in
his carriage, in order that his sub-
jects might have a better chance of
beholding him.
1'he monfeh hesitated a few mo-
ments, then said with a smile:
"Yes, if a bay horse can be found
with three white spots on his feet,
cne on each hind foot and one on
s fore foot, a white spot between
the eves and a tail reaching to the
ground."
The answer was whispered among
the diplomatists in Constantinople,
and each "chef de mission" tele-
graphed it to his government, sug-
gesting the possibility of a national
compliment.
King I'Mward upon hearing of it
dispatched 60 telegrams throughout
the United Kingdom, inquiring at
the best studs if such a horse wetw
procurable. One answering the de-
scription in every respect was found
in Bublin, in the stud of Lord Rib-
blesdale, and the beautiful animal, \
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once the properly of Mr. ("Boss")
Crokcr, which lias taken the first
prize at the horse show, was secured
as a royal gift to the eastern po«
ten tat e.
CRAZY.
Babette—What did Mr. Gnu
think of Violette?
Nanette—Oh, lie raved about her.
Babette—Poor fellow I Did thejj
have to put him in a padded cellf J
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Houx, N. P. The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 6, 1909, newspaper, May 6, 1909; Mexia, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth290216/m1/4/?q=music: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gibbs Memorial Library.