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THE TEXAS MESQUITER
John E. Davis, Editor and Prop.
Published Every Friday
at Mesquite, Texas
Subscription $1.00 Per Year
Entered at the postoffice at
Mesquite, Texas, as mail matter
of the second-class.
ASSOC.!*
Friday, January 15, 1915
How are your diversification
plans coming on?
If you have not paid your poll
tax, you'll have to hurry.
Cotton is selling in Germany
at 18 to 20 cents per pound, but
that does not seem to be helping
us any.
The 135,000,000 cotton loan
fund appears to be a gigantic
failure. Too much red tape
about it.
question to pick a candidate for
Speaker, I took great pleasure
in helping to eliminate his candi-
date. I do not mean to convey
Ihe impression that I was a big
factor in Judge Wood's victory.
I simply did all I could and
that's all anyone can do.
If Woods could not have won I! W
would have gone to Savage in
preference to Williams, because
of the fact that the corporations
wanted Williams elected. Per-
sonally, Mr. Williams is a tine
fellow and an excellent gentle-
man. but the power of the
Speaker is great and I could not
afford to vote for a man for that \
oflice with whom I differ so:
much, no difference how clever a
gentleman he might be.
Governor Colquitt will retire
frop oflice next Tuesday when
James E. Ferguson will be sworn
in. I hope we will have a suc-
cessful session and that Gov.
Ferguson will make good. As an
humble member of the legisla-
tive branch of the State govern-
ment, I stand ready to co-oper-
ate with him in every reasonable
way for the good of the state.
The kind of weather we have
bad most of the time this winter
demonstrates the value of pike
roads in the country and cement
sidewalks in town.
Governor Colquitt, who re-
tires from office next Tuesday,
is going in the oil business in
Louisiana. He was wise enough,
however, to keep clear of the oil
men while still in office.
Keep It Handy for Rheumatism.
The breweries doubtless think
that they are getting a raw d§al
in being sued by the Attorney
General for contributing funds
to defeat prohibition. And yet
it is the law and a good law
which makes it unlawful for cor-
porations to contribute money
for political purposes.
No use to squirm and wince and
try to wear out your Rheumatism. It
will wear you out instead. Apply
some Sloan's Liniment. Need not
rub it in—just let it penetrate all
through the affected parts, relieve
the soreness and draw the pain. You
get ease at once and feel so much
better you want to go right out and
tell other sufferors about Sloan's.
Get a bottle of Sloan's Liniment for
25c of any druggist and have it in
the house—against Colds, Sore and
Swollen Joints, Lumbago, Sciatica
and like ailments. Your money back
if not satisfied, but it does give al-
most Instant relief. Buy a bottle to-
day.
ii Exactly Right ii
That is the way we fill
prescriptions brought
to us, using drugs of
the highest quality. We
have lately enlarged our
stock in this depart-
ment and are prepared
to fill a'l prescriptions
promptly.
ii G. F. CHAPMAN, i;
DRUGGIST
Next d or to Post Office.
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Scyene Sittings
Sebern Tinner and wife of
Dallas visited in Scyene Satur-
day.
Mr Sultzer of near Dallas,
moved to the S. O. Marshall
farm this week.
! would have to be changed; our
wages cut down fifty per cent or
more; our comfortable homes
exchanged for hovels: our inde-
pendence yielded up; our citizen-
ship demoralized. These are
conditions inseparable to free
trade. This would be necessary
if we wonld command our own
Editorial Griefs
The politician, eyes afire, calls
on the man who prints the Lyre,
and roasts him roundly by the
| market among our own people;
Mr. Miller of Seugoville visited i an(j jj we vvould invade the
his brother, John Miller, Fri-
day.
■J. P. Grubbs is building an ad-
dition to his house.
Scyene W. O. W. installed of-
ficers Saturday night.
I see that a lot of the big guns
world's markets harsher condi-
tions and greater sacrifices
would be demanded of the mas-
ses. Talk about depression—we
would then have it in its fullnass.
V.'e would revel in unretrained
trade. Everything would indeed
be cheap, but how costly when
COULD SCARCELY
WALK ABOUT
at Dallas sent Pres. Wilson a measure(j by the degradation
telegram in regard to the various ] wliicti would ensue! When mer-
attacks O. B.C. made on the ad | cj,ancjj9e tj)e cheapest, men
ministration. He did not m'8*jarethe poorest; and the most
represent it. If they will just^ distressing experience in the
wait until 1916 they will find j liistory of our country—aye, in
so. Let us fco back and get a :a|j hum(in history—have been
little history of the nation and j wj-,en everything was the lowest
compare it with the presentj antj C(,eapest measured by gold,
times; everything is low priced J jor everything was the highest
that the farmer has to sell except atKj j dearest measured by
hour and hands him laog UBtsewheat) and the war makes the|lttbor. From 1789 to 1888 a per-
AUSTIN LETTER
by john e. davis
Austin, Texas, Jan. 13.—The
Thirty-Fourth Legislature con
vened at noon yesterdoy with
139 members present out of the
142 elected. Two have died
since the election and another
was detained at home on account
of sickness.
The only thing accomplished
in the half-day session yesterday
was the election of a Speaker,
but to my mind that was a good
deal, because we elected my
friend, John W. Woods, pro,
over N. B. Williams and H. B.
Savage, antis. Woods received
72 votes, Williams 57 and Savage
10, giving Woods a majority of I
votes over both. I reached Aus
tin Thursday night of last week
and I worked night and dav un
til the ballot was over, doing
what I could to help Woods win
Not only that, but I have been
writing letters and taking trips
in his behalf for the past three
months. But 'twas a glorious
victory and I was so happy when
it was over 'that I could hardly
figure out whether Judge Woods
or myself had been elected pre
siding officer of the House.
Lewelling and myself voted
for Woods, Laney and Florer for
Williams and Parks for Savage
It is easy to understand why
Lewelling and I should vote for
Woods because he is a pro as we
both are, it is likewise easy to
understand why Parks voted for
Savage, for he is an anti, but 1
cannot yet understand why Lan
ey or Florer voted for Williams
This applies especially to Laney,
who as is well known, ran as
pro and both he and his friends
invoked the prohibition question
in bis behalf in the campaign.
Just before leaving Dallas for
Austin he was quoted in the
Times Herald as saying that in
choicc for Speaker he had elim
inated the prohibition question.
Inconsistent at least, that seems
to me. With Florer it was dif-
ferent, at least to the extent tbat
he did not invoke the prohibition
question in his campaign, as it
will be remembered he had no
opposition. I am not criticising
them for their votes. I am sim
ply telling facts, but I cannot re
frain from suggesting that when
Laney eliminated the prohibitio
BUSINESS LOCALS.
Good ear corn for sale by J.
M. Gross, Mesquite. 3t.
For Sale—Texas red rust proof
seed oats—Alva Summers.
Good 4-roem house for rent; al-
so want, to buy some calves and
hngs.—Snm T. Vanston.
Plenty of money to loan on
farm security.
E. W. Lasater, Lawson, Tex.
For SALE--Good curd wood;
$2.25 on ground or $U.50 deliver-
ed.—Mrs. E W. Ingle.
Lost—Sunday night, near
Presbyterian church, Eastern
Star emblem pin. Reward for
its return to H. H, Frayard.
For sale cheap, a course with
the Franklin Institute that guar-
antees to pass you for Rural
Carrier. Box 72, Mesquite, Tex.
Men—Our illustrated catalogue
explains how we teach the bar-
ber trade—free. Moler Barber
College, Dallas, Texas. 2t-29p
MARDI GRAS
NEW ORLEANS
FERRUARY Uth to 10th
Excursion Rates
Ask the Ticket agent or write
A. D. BELL, GEO. D. HUNTER,
Asst. Geu. Pass. Gen. Pass.
Agt. Agt
DALLAS, - TEXAS
which is sour.
"Dodgast your measly, rancid
sheet!" the politician cries with
heat. "It isn't worth the dyna
mite to blow the blamed thing
outof sight! I've always been
your truest friend; I've boomed
your paper without end. I've
worn out seven pairs of shoes in
bringing you the latest news.
Now years ago, as you mustown,
I handed you a silver bone—a
whole round dollar at one time to
pay up for your weekly crime.
No gratitude your soul possessed
—I warmed a viper on my breast!
You know I am a candidate for
cheese inspector of this state,
and I expected your support, the
warm, enthusiastic sort. I wrote
my platform t'other day and
brought it here upon a dray,
supposing you would print the
same. 'Twould fill eight pages
of your sheet and give your
readers quite a treat. But by
the sun that on us shines, you
chopped it down to fourteen
lines! Such perfidy I've never
seen! Such low-down conduct,
base and mean! That soul of
yours is out of gear—I've half a
mind to pull your ear!"
The noisy statesman now is
gone; Ye Editor, with widespread
yawn, takes up his trenchant pen
to write an essay on ''Can Bel-
Fight?" He goes as far as
"Ages hence the bards will sing
their brave defense of forts be
sieged by German foes," when
through the oflice door there
blows a gent who says, "Dog
gone your life! Your paper says
I beat my wife! Your actions
cannot be denied! I've come
around to tan vour hide!"
He hits YePrinter with a chair,
Ye Printer grabs him by the
hair, and fur and wniskers fly
around, accompanied by a mar-
tial sound upon its broad founda-
tion stones the building rocks
and sways ano groans, and finally
the gent aggrieved out through
the office door is heaved. He
stands awile upon his head, to
j figure out if he was dead. Ye
l Editor then goes to buy beaf-
steak for his damaged eve: then
to his oflice desk returns and
starts reviewing Robert Burns.
But ere he fairly can begin
the merclnnt prince comes
whooping in, "Great Scott!" he
cries, just boiling mad. "You've
'fairly ruined this week's ad! I
: wrote about a suit of clothes at
' seven plunks—that's cheap, Lud
j knows!—and you have made it
: seven cents! Now all the jays
'and crossroad gents will come to
buy those bloomin' clothes, and
, that means ruin, I suppose!"
Thus drags along Ye Printer's
day; what wonder if his name is
gray.—Walt Mason.
demand for that. I have before j0(j ninety-nine years there
tne a report made by Wm. Mc-, been forty-seven years when
Kinley on the committee of ways a Dem0cratic revenue tariff policy
and means in congress in 1889.
and it is a note worthy fact that
Let us go back to 1889 when mos^ progressive and pros-
kodger Q.Mills of Texas present-j perous periods of our history in
ed the tariff bill, and get an ex-ievery department ol human ef-
tract from Wm. McKinley s re- jort an(j material development
port. The depositors numbered were during the fifty-two years
in 1H86, 944,7<H, averaging $320.-j when protective party was in
control and the most disastrous
Aad For Three Summers Mrs. Yin-
cent Was Unable to Attend to
Any of Her Housework.
Pleasant Hill, N. C.—"I suffered for
three summers," writes Mrs. Walter
Vincent, of this town, "and the third and
last time, was my worst.
1 had dreadful nervous headaches and
prostration, and was scarcely able to
walk about. Could not do any of my
housework.
I also had dreadful pains in my back
and sides and when One of those weak,
sinking spells would come on me, I
would have to give up and lie down,
until it wore off.
1 was certainly in a dreadful state of
health, when I finally decided to try
Cardui. the woman's tonic, and I firmly
believe I would have died U I hadn't
taken it.
After I began taking Cardui, I wr.s
greatly helped, and all three bottles re-
lieved me entirely.
1 fattened up, and grew so much
stronger in three months, 1 felt like an-
other person altogether."
Cardui is purely vegetable and gentle-
acting. Its ingredients have a mild, tonic
effect, on the womanly constitution.
Cardui makes for increased strength,
improves the appetite, tones up the ner-
vous system, and helps to make pale,
sallow cheeks, fresh and rosy.
Cardui has helped more than a million
weak women, during the past 50 years.
It will surely do for you, what it has
done for them. Try Cardui today.
IPrt!< to: Ch«tUnoofa Medicln* Co., Ltdln' Ad-
visory D«pl.. Ch tt«noo *. Tenn., for Special In-
MlrucliorU on your c«se and 64-page book, "Hgukj
Treatment tor VVoiinn." mm la plain wrapper. J-Cj
67 each. The savings banks of
nine states have in nineteen
years increased their$('>'28,000,000
The English savings banks have
in thirty four years increased
theirs $850,000,000 Our opera-
tive deposits are $7 to the En-
glish operative $1. These vast
sums represent the saving of the
men whose labor has been em-
Plies Cured in 6 to 14 Days
Your druffiti't will refund money i! PAZO
OINTMENT fails to cure any case of Itching,
Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Pilea in 6to 14 days.
The first application gives Kaae and Rest. 50c.
LIFE INSURANCE REFUSED
Ever notice how closely life in-
surance examiners look for syrnp-
tons of kidney diseases? They
do so because weakened kidneys
lead to many forms of dreadful
life-shortening afflictions. If you
have any systoms like pain in the
back, frequent, scanty or painful
action, tired feeling, aches and
pains, get Foley Kidney Pills to-
day. Sold by Mesquite Phar-
macy.
years—years of want and
wretchedness, ruins, retrogres-
sion, were during the free trade.
Now boys, we have been told
that 8 cent for cotton would have
been all that we would have got
if the war had not have come up.
What is the trouble:' This
speech was in my mind when I
ployed under the protective pol-, was trj,inw ta aell my cottcm this
icy which gives, as experience
has shown, the largest possible
reward to labor. Free trade, or
as you are pleased to call it, rev-
enue tariff, means the opening
up of this market which is ad-
mitted to be the best in the
world to the free entry of the
products of the world. It means
more. It means that the labor
fall.
Grip Left Me With a
r
winter you
unng
suffering from the after effects,
now
time to
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is your reme
Steamboat Bill.
A Test for Liver Complaint.
Mentally Unhappy—Physically, Dull.
The Liver, sluggish and inactive,
first shows Itself in a mental state—
unhappy and critical. Never Is there
joy in living, as when the Stomach
and Liver are doing their work. Keep
your Liver active and healthy by us-
of this country is to be remitted ing Dr. King's New Life Pills; they
to its earlier conditions and that empty the Bowels freely, tone and
the condition of'our people is to Purlfy t,ie Blood. 25c at Druggist
Invigorating to the Pale and Sickly
The Old Standard general alrengthenlnir tonic,
GROVK S TA8TKI.ESS chill TONIC, drives out
MalarU.cnrlche* the blood.ami build* up the sys-
tem. A true tonic. For adultH«nd children. 50c
be leveled down to the condition
of rival countries because under
it every element of cost, ever
item of production including
watjes, must be brought down
to the level of the lowest paid
labor of the world. No other
result can follow and no other
result is anticipated or expected
by those who intelligently advo-
a revenue tariff. We cannot
maintain ourselves against un-
equal conditions without^ the
tariff and no man of affairs be-
lieves we can. Under the sys-
tem of unrestricted trade which
you gentlemen recommend, we
will have to reduce every ele
ment of cost down to or below
that of our commercial rivals or
surrender to them our own mar-
ket. No one will dispute that
statement; and to go into the
domestic market of our rivals
would mean that production here
must be so reduced that with
transportation added we could
undersell them in their own mar-
ket. First then to retafn our
own market under the Demo
cratic system of raising revenue
by removing all protection,
would require our producers to
sell at as low a price and upon as
favorable terms as our fereign
competitors. How could that be
done? In one way only—by
producing as cheaply as those
who would seek our market.
What would that intaiiy An en-
tire revolution in ithe methods
and conduct of business here; a
leveling down through every
channel to the lowest line of our
competitors; our habits of living
Bucklen's
Piles.
Arnica Salve excellent for
CAUSE FOR WORRY.
"What is Owens worrying alx)ut,
his debts?"
"No; because he is unable to con-
tract new ones."
QUICK AT IT.
A Vary Bad Cough.
Mrs. S. J. Kountz. 1015 Scovel St.,
NoahvUW, Ten a. writes: "I have
had a very bad cough nearly all my
life. I have taken almost every kind
of cough medicine, but none did me
much good. X would have spollB of
coughing that 1 thought I would
cough myself to death. I took Pa-
rana. and last winter and this winter
I have had no cough and I know that
I'erun* cured ma.
1 was always thin and delicate,
very easy to catofa cold, but I am well
now and enjoying good health. I
feel that I owe It all to Peruna."
A Severe Caic of Grip.
Mr. W. S. Brown, R. F 1>. 4, Box
82, Rogersvllle, Tenn., writes: "1
recommend Peruna to ull sufferers of
catarrh or coukIi. In the year of
1909 X took a severe case of the la
grippe. I then ti>ok a bad cough.
Everybody thought I had conmimp-
tV*i I had taken all kinds of cough
remedies, but got no relief.
"I then decided to try Peruna.
After taking five bottles my cough
stopped and my catarrh was cured.
Any one suffering with catarrh In any
form I will advise them to take Pe-
runa."
EXTENDS FAR INTO THE PAST
"So the Chinese have gone to fight-
ing Japan."
"Well, you see, it is easy for the posed him to be. "When we reflect,"
Chinese to take a cue."
.Scotch Professor of Opinion That An-
tiquity of Man Has Been Much
Underestimated.
j In his recent work, "The Antiquity
of Man in Europe," Prof. James
Qeikie of Edinburgh university de-
clares his belief that man has in-
habited Europe between 250,000 and
500,000 years. All such estimates
are based on geological facts—such
as the rate at which sediment is de-
posited, or at which stalagmites
■grow—that are very hard to deter-
mine with any accuracy, but no one
now doubts that man is far older
than men of science originally sup-
How To Cure a LaGrippe Cough.
Lagrippe coughs demand in-
stant treatment. They show a
serious condition of the system
and are weakening. Postmaster
Collins, Barnegat, N. J., says: 1
took Foley's Honey and Tar Com-
pound for a violent lagrippe
cough that completely exhausted
me, and less than half a bottle
stopped the cough." Tty it. For
sale by Mesquite Pharmacy.
DANGEROUS WIT.
"What is the charge?" asked the
magistrate.
"Nuthin' 't all," snickered the
prisoner at the bar; "this 'a on me."
• A BITTER PLAINT.
"My wife is the most exasperating
woman on earth," said the man with
literary hair.
"I thought she was wonderfully
pleasant."
"There you are. She won't sym-
pathize in my work. I'm one of
those humorists who describe family
quarrels, and she insists on remain-
ing absolutely good-natured."
JEER FOR JEER.
"Ila, ha!" said the man who was
elected. "I thought you said vou
trusted the wisdom of the plain
people."
"I still believe in it," replied the
man who was defeated. "The wisest
people want a joke now and then."
The Quinine That Does Not Affect The Head
nernn*e of its tonic ntnl laxative effect. I.AXA-
TIVF. HKOMO QUININE is betterthan ordinary
Quinine and does not cause nervouaneaa nor
ringing in head, Remember the full name and
look for the signature of K. W. GROVK. 25c,
says Professor Geikie, "on the many
geographical changes that man has
witnessed—the submergence and re-
elevation of enormous tracts, the ero-
sion of valleys and general lowering
of the surface by denudation; when
we consider that he has lived through
a succession of stupendous climatic
revolutions; that he has seen widelv
contrasted floras and faunas alter-
nately occupying our continent—tun-
dras, steppes and great forests suc-
ceeding eac h other again and again—
we must feel convinced that the few
thousand years that have elapsed
since the downfall of Babylonian,
Assyrian and Egyptian empires are
as nothing compared with the long
eons that separate the earliest times
of history from the apparition of
paleolithic man in Europe."—
Youth's Companion.
YOUR COLD IS DANGEROUS.
BREAK IT UP—NOW.
A Cold is readily catching. A run-
down system Is susceptible to Germs.
You owe it yourself and to others
of your household to fight, the Germs
at once. Dr. Bell's Pino-Tar-Honey
is fine for Colds and Coughs. It
loosens the Mucous, stops the Cough
and soothes the Lungs. It's guaran-
teed. Only 25c at your Druggist.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
DR. W. C. CULLOM
Physician <yul Surgeon
Oflice at Palace Drug Store
MESQUITE, TEXAS
DR. A. F. JONES.
Physician and Surgeon.
Oflice in Drug Store, next door to
Postoffice.
Mesquite Texas.
HIRAM F. LIVELY
Attorney-at-Law
Offices: Suite 402-5 Commonwealth
National Bank Building.
Dallas, Texas. PhoneNo. 903.
Will do general practice. Special at
tention given wills, probate and es-
tate matters,
E. G. SENTER
LAWYER
Opposite Sangers; 816 Main St
(2nd floor) Dallas, Texas
Latch-string on the Outside,
DR. J. H. RYON
Physician and Surgeon
Orphans Home, Texas.
Calls answered day or night.
Mesquite phone l -2 rings
Dallas phone Haskel 9507-12 rings
WHITEHUPST
& DONALSON
Attorneys-a* Law
Will pracitice In all the court*
Commonwealth bank building
Oalla*. Tax* a.
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