Abilene Daily Reporter (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 163, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 16, 1909 Page: 2 of 8
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Farmers & Merchants
National Bank
Abilene
Capital Surplus and
Strong enough to take proper .care of all de-
sirable business offered it.
A
Conservative enough to afford its deposit-
' ors absolute safety.
Appreciative enough to give the business
of its small customers efficient attention.
DIRECTORS
ED. S. HUGHES
F. W JAMES
K.K.XEGETT.
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OF
(Continued from first page.)
Hot. Edgar A. Burton.
Mr. Toastmaster Ladles and Gentle
men:
' It is with pleasure that I on behalf
tf the ladles of Merkel propose a
toast to our guests the members of
the commercial clubs of West Texas.
I assure you of their doop interest in
every effort that concerns the biuldlng
up of our country that encourages an
Immigration of worthy citizens and
that elevates our moral Interests and
pur od'jcntlonal facilities- They do
p.6t aalr tho ballot at your hands but
they do ask that you shall conserve
tho highest interests of their homes
their Bchools and their religion. As
k noble matron of Greece pointed to
her sons as her jewels our Texas wo-
jnanbood realizes tholr highest Joy
when finding you worthy of tlu larg-
2Bt of their love and their love and
their greatest pride in your services
is tho champions of that whlc'i Ja
best .in American civilization. And
Vhen like Joan of Arc calling the ar-
mies of Trance to rally to the de-
fense cf tneir country thoy bade your
ilres go in tho strength of their noblo
manhood to fight the battles of a San
Jacinto or a Goliad for tho Independ-
ence of Texas and the protection of
Four liberties they guarded as a sa-
J:red trust for you the Alamo with its
traditions of loyalty and its inspira-
tion to patrl6tism. As the fair hand of
fi
Clearance
MEETING
SECRETARIES
OF:
A GREAT MONEY SAVING EVENT FOR YOU
f We are going to close out many
odds and ends in China and Queens-
; . ware
AT 50 PER CENT OFF
Space does not allow us to mention
all the bargains you can find ar-
ranfed on our counters. Here is the
greatest f opportunity ever offered
vfn Abilene to get High Grade China
and Queensware
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HALF PRI
hi Sale begins
when SOLD
ED. S. HUGHES-CO.
ABBUENE TEXAS .
Texas
4
Profits $160000.00
IIXNBY JAMES
X. U GOKSUCH.
woman Invested tho knights of the age
of chivalry with her colors that they
should go forth to Dght with lance and
sword for the idols of their devatiou
so do the women of today tho succes-
sors of the wives and sweethearts pf
our heroic pioneers look to you that
you should be the knights of our great
table-round of citizenship to fight as
tho fabled knights of King Arthur's
band their battles for God native
land and lady love.
I have stood by tho rolling sea and
with a Byron felt my pulses beat to
the rhythm of its surging waves; I
have stood on the towering mountains
with a Joaquin Miller where the eagle
tIppod his wing into the blue-vaulted
Bky and felt my blood stirred by their
glory but never did I so fully catch
the idea of infinity as when I Btbod
upon tho vast plains of tho west. And
I beheld in their boundless expanse
but' a type of the vast possibilities of
their coming populace. Bor laid upon
the bleek cheerless shores of New
England the corner stone of American
freedom; and on our Atlantic coast he
planted the flowera of human rights
and personal liberty which fertilized
by the blood of patriotic heroes bloom
ed with the glorious flowers of Inde-
pendence; but In the "vast southwest
shall they como to their most resplen-
dent fruitagle And what a romantic
change has occurred in this land of
primitive barbarity whero
In the broad Southwest in the Bun-
sunset's glow
Where the Mocking bird sings and the
blue bonnets grow
Is a lnnd that is kissed by a tropic
sea
A land of hope for the brave and tho
free.
Sale
Odds and Ends
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NOW and closes
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O'er Its roiling plataB spread far and
wldo
Tho rod man roamed with his dutdcy
brldo
And roared ills tont and his burial
mound
And dreamed o( his hdped for hunt-
ing ground.
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Dut how great tho transformation
under tho tnllamanlc touch of Amor-
lean civilization when our liloncors
turned to this lhnd of Eldorado for
Where thoy pitched their tontB or
mado tholr homes
Great cities have risen with many
domes;
O'er trails whorp hounds hold stags at
bay
Now progress rolgns and threads her
way "'
In vlplona prophetic they then could
seo
Our cities and stato and their proud
glory;
And as they planned a divine Man
wrought
That all should be greater than they
wrought.
I stood on tho Bteps of tho capital
of the Confederacy and In vision Baw
tho flower of tho southern citizenry
Its proud aristocracy and its noblo
yeomanry go forth to battlo for tholr
convictions of right and their native
land; and I saw them lay themselves
on the altars of their country-and their
blood flowed as a rich libation to the
gods of war. I taw the sword ravage
their homes with dread desolation
and the fire fiends glut themselves
on cottage and palace on hamlet and
city till they painted deep the sky
with their-lurid flames; and I looked
till I lunrd the poet of tho Confeder-
acy cry: ' '
"Furl that banner for 'tis weary;
Round Its Btaft 'tis drooping dreary;
Furl it fold it; let it rest!"
But as time passed I heard above
the ashes of this holocaust the voice
of a now prophet ''Lift up your gates
O ye Southland; behold tho morning
dawn 1b purpling with the sunrise of
thy glory!" The South heard the
voice of Henry Grady turned from the
night of her mourning and a now
day had dawned. Cities have risen
since then where colonial palaces had
crowned the hills factories with their
buzzing spindles mark the places
where had stood the quarters of
slaves; and the South though once
despoiled of her beauty is novy bloom
ing like the gardens of tho peri. My
vision swept thence to the westward
and I saw a fair maiden resplendent
and majestic in her beauty rise from
the bosom of war. Her robes were
stained in the blood of martyrs for
liberty's Bake a golden coronet circled
her head and on Its frontlet gleamed
the lone star of Texas' independence
while her radiant face was turned
toward tho morning. She waved her
magic scepter and plows turned the
virgin soil of her vast plains; at her
bidding commerce laid Its network of
steel -throughout all her borders and
sent vast fleets to wait at hor ports
for the teeming harvests from her
ladened fields.
The wanderer from the Austrian
Alps feels his heart thrill with long
ing for his mountain homo when he
hears tho song of the Tyrolose and
the blood of the Frenchman tingles
with a loyal patriotic fervor when ho
listens to the hymn of the Marsell-
lese; but what native of Texas as he
has Boen tho floating banner of the
Lone Star has not cried out from his
hoart with as deep fervor:
"This is ray own my native land!"
The birds that carol within her
woodlands and tho murmuring' streams
that go rippling down hor hillsides
sing to-tho world their Bangs of.Cvel-
como and tell of coming fortuno jto the
thrifty mnn who would make his homo
within the pines; hor plains boastful
of their latont wealth locking the for
tlllzing dews to her bosom by night
and the fructifying beams of the sun
by day call aloud with the promise of
beautiful homes upon her lndoned
farms and broad ranches and popu-
lous cities upon hor rolling prairies;
the waves that kiss her southern
shores toll of tho commerce that shall
dot hor harbors with hardened craft
and of tho great ports that shall there
be buildod to send tho products of tho
West throughout tho world and of tho
timo when her waters shall becomo the
thoroughfares of tho nations. Pres-Ident-eloct
Taft has Just returned from
Panama and has assured us that the
Isthmian canal Will be pushed rapidly
to completion. Just a few days before
that a railroad purchase assured us pf
dlreot freight communication from
Chicago to Galveston; and visions are
floating everywhere in the air of cot-
ton factories and manufacturing
plajits that shall spring up along the
course of our streams.
It Is not yet many days slncp the
Wall St. brokers awoke one fair fyorn-
ing and found that the financial center
of the United States bad slipped frovv
their kwiad and was located far in the
West with tho American farmer and !
the day of tholr autocratic dictation oT
prices for otir commodities had for
ovor paBt. And Texas Is teaching the
northern monopolies that tholr mil-
lions of inoncy cannot suppress tho
powers of a sovereign state. And great
indeed beyond all estimation Is tho
Borvlco that has been rendered by tho
merchant In tho ovolutlon of tho com-
mercial and agricultural development
of America from tho East India com-
pany that planted its colonics upon
our eastern shores and from tho mer-
chants who In patriotic devotion to
tholr adopted country helped boar the
expenses of our glorious army of tho
revolution to the merchants of to-day
who are ovor ready to glvo of tho pro-
ceeds of their industry for tho better-
ment of civic Interests. Tho supre-
macy of nations wns once established
by war; but now their importance Is
largely estimated by tholr commercial
contributions to foreign nations. And
only recently did wo again show1 our
right to a place of primacy among the
powors of tho world whon we conver-
ted our dogs of war into minlstrants
of mercy and poured our products
lavishly Into the laps of tho earth-
quake sufferers of stricken Sicily. And
how significant was this of tho victor-
ies which wo shall win in tho future
not those of war but those of ponce
and in which commerce and agricul-
ture shall play their noble part
But I' do not feel that I shall have
discharged my duties to the ladles of
our city nor express their sentiments
unless I Bhould address some words
on this occasion directly to tho farm-
ers present We look upon you as tho
ever conservative element of our civ-
ilization those who make possible our
advancement in letters and in arts
and tho promotion of our civic moral
Interests. I deem that the service of
the American farmer to his fellows
was typified in the experience of Cin-
cinnati when he was called from the
plow to save his heloved Rome from
the grasp of Volscians and by the
farmers of Lexington who left their
homes to meet the invading forces of
England and who shed the first blood
of war for American independence.
You doubtless well remember the
prophecy of Isaiah "they shall beat
their Bwords into plowshares and
their spears into pruning hookB." As in
a drop of water the heavens are mir-
rored so in this prophecy the 'future
of man's development is comprehen-
ded. The sword is iconoclastic des-
tructive of nil that makes for man's
highest social moral and intellectual
interests; the plow is constructive of
those very things which the sword
would destroy the highest citizenship
and its noblest ideals so that there
follows within its wake the develop-
ment of colleges the promotion of
science and literature the establish-
ment of higher ethical standards tho
erection of schools .and churches and
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the cultivation of all the nobler graces
of a refined society.
In recognition of their indebtedness
(Continued on page six.)
The
General Demand
of tho Well-informed of tho World has
always been for a siinplc pleasant and
efficient liquid laxntivi remedy of known
value; a laxative which physicians could
sarction for family so because its com-
ponent parts aro klown to them t0"Ee
wholesome- anil truly benefioJajJif effect
acceptable totho Jystenvaagentlc yet
prompt in nltion
In supplyJ
ng
iemand with its ex-
ccllcnt col
sinatL
of Syrup of Figs and
Klixir otwnna
lie California Fig Syrup
Co. n6cejlsior
; ethical lines arid reljca
oifiho mi
! laxativo for its remark
able Buccjfos.
That la onofof many reasons why
Syrup of Figs aiil Elixir of Senna is given
tho preference I by tho 'Well-Informed.
To get its beneficial effects always buy
tho genuine manufactured by tho Cali-
fornia Fig Syrpp Co. only and for ealo
by all leading druggists. Price City cents
ter bottle.
Made to Eat-
Not to Keep
World Famed
Bottom layer DriiHjs forth
as many delicious morsels
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rw mf
fMCandies
& surprises as cop isycr--
Just Received a
Frsh Shipment
R B. Compton Druggist
Your Earnings may be Checked
but your Expenses go on
An Accident Pel icy
Will Previde
MOTZ & CURTIS
Let Us 'Refer You to Someone
Using One of Our Stoves?
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A SINGLE FACT OUTWEIGHS A THOUSAND CLAIMS
Boone-Mueller Hwd. Co.
Please do not buy until I demonstrate you a
BUICK
the best known" automobile in West Texas. I have;
3 models to show you will take pleasure in doing
so anytime. .Buick Automobile complete model F
nHHHHpMC9 IBBKL. lS
errliember durability counts. We run Buick cars
rby the hour day or trip
They all start from North Second opposite the
Windsor Hotel Logan Garage. Special rate for
round the world trip in a new 4 cylinder Buick
No. 40.
S. F. LOGAN Agent Abilene Texas
Wear Famous
HOLEPROOF HOSIERY
FOR MEN
THE ORIGINAL GUARANTEED HOSE
Good for six months Under Our Guarantee against Holes
and will Wear Longer
FOR
MISFIT CLOTHING CO.
FULWILER'S LIVERY BOARDING STABLE
Can take care few more board horses. Give good
8rvice and will tak$ good care.of harness end bug.
gies. Oldest busiuese in the City Iteen inthe
business 26 years in Abilene.
O. E.
anywhere' in the country.
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