The Albany News. (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, February 14, 1908 Page: 3 of 12
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SUMMARY OF ™ED AND F0UND WANTINC
Ist roved property to the value uf over
QATHEBED FROM ALL OVER THE Secretary Paddn. k of the Fort
COUNTRY. J Worth Hoard of Trade has issued
formal invitation to the State Dem-
ocratic Kxcciilive ('onimittce to hold
Trouble with Colored Boy Wae "All
Take Hold and Mighty Little
Raiee."
HEMS FOR BUSINESS PEOPLE
A Breviary of Important News and
Happenings That One Wante
to Know About. •
of Viscount |
A «outhern congressman who
maintains an expensive establish
mcnt in Washington during the win-
ter season is accustomed t() leave the
engaging of servants exclusively to
the discretion of an old darky but-
ler, who . has for years been a de-
voted servitor.
In raiding a bootlegging joint at "Dick,' said the congressman on
awnee, Okla., Sheriff J'omeroy and | reaching Washington one day not
the next convention in that city
There was a de-pcrate fight in the
office of I Dited Stales District At-
torney Hubert T. \\ hitchouse at
Portland, Maine, when an indicted
uicide.
-muggier attemptei
The apopihtment
Sinzo Aoki, ex-ambassador to Wa.-h-1<•, t i t- t i i * n , .
. . ... ... -J>i force of deputies toiind among a long ago, "that yellow boy Joe we
Ington, as privy councillor, is oth-1 m|., Ilf rill i , , , , , , , h, , ! ° / . ,■ , 7
■milv-announced i ruMn--.Ii a bomb charged sut- had a short time last vear wants
I liciently to blow up the entire town ' to come back to me again. What
record for
was made
A new eold weather
Northern New York
Wednesday, when the mercury
dropped lo !."> degrees below zero.
The I -thllll an Canal Commission
has awarded a contract for tour mil-
lion barrels of cement to lie used in
the coii.-trriction of locks and dam-
of the canal..
I he ordinance recently passed hv
♦ lie Hoard of Aldermen id' New
\ ork ( itv forbidding woiiien from
smoking in public placet was vetoed
by \ 1 a vnr \I cC lei la u.
I hoiiias Ij. 14e« is of Briilgep*>rt,
Ohio, w.is declared elected President
of the I nited Mine Workers' of
America at tin
the annual convention.
A party of Pittsburg; Pa., capi-
talists, in company with Col. Paul
Mahotiey, has arrived at Sherman
to look over the' situation with a
view to boring for petroleum.
Mrs. Mary I. Sherrer died in
Hro< ton, X. \ Monday, at the age
of 111-'. She read without glasses,
and liad vivid reenlhieiions of An-
drew Jack-on and the war of LSI'.'.
Out of sixty. bales of'cotton await-
ing shipment on the Cotton platform
at Lore mi, thirty-three were totally
consumed and four were partial I \
burned. The cotton caught from
th,e sparks 6f a freight engine;
J. T. Munson lias presented tin
citv - of Deni'so.u w ith t;io. acres of
The Annoiia Lumber Company's do you think of him?"
drying kiln was burned Saturday! "Colonel George," responded the
i night at the company's saw mill, fivt:' 0]J butler, with convinci
ruiles ■ nhith of that place, entailing ^ ha8 tm,(1 (lat ,)0y
a loss of $,Joo or (ji ioo, with no in-
' .-uranee.
Failing to recoup his fortune lost
in speculating, Ldu.ird (■'. Brooks,
j aged thirtv-ti\e war-, committed sui-
cide at the Produce Exchange
building in Xew York City by tak-
ing cyanide of potassium.
William Perkins, a former resi-
i dent of l{o«e Pi He, l>a., who bad
' been residing in Arkan.-us, killed
himself by shooting. The act of
sell-destruction resulted from de-,
j -pondciicy over financial matters.
It is stated tliat Dr. Simmons,
; owner of the" great Simmons ranch
in Atascosa and Live Oak Counties, ,
containing !r>,niio acres, has bought
forty miles of steel with .which to lav
j the first'• section of a railway from ]
San Antonio to and through his
J la in 1 s.
After reading several chapters in I
the Bible and kneeling with mem-
bers of his family, David Potts of
Last Lake, a suburb ol Birming-
ham,- ,\la., repaired t<► a rear room
i a in I with a shotgun blew the top of1
his head oil, killing himself in- i
stantlv.
mg gravity,
an' he's no
good, fifth! 1 tested him in de case
of movin' de pianner. I found ckit
when it comes to lift in', dat boy is
all take hold an' mighty little raise.
Dat's a pore sign o' character, Col-
onel George, a pore sign of char-
acter !"—Harper's Weekly.
I FARMERS' EDUCATIONAL
n
AND J
. I
CO-OPERATIVE UNION
= OF AMERICA =-=
COST OF COTTON PRODUCTION.
LIKE MOST OF THEM.
JlHt
mil;.
A venue
(Mill.
of
for the
c park,
'outside
at the
"Ye3, my son is very brilliant. He
has a poet's dream."
"Ah. .yes, I see. Dreams he la a
poet."
OPPOSITE EFFECTS.
expenses
Friday at noon J. W. Young, liv-
ing -ix miles ea.-t of town, had eigh-
ty bales of cotton and ten tons of
cotton seed burlied. I he cotton and
seed jw'i'e.stored in a corrugated iron
wardiou.-c, and the origin of the, tire
<s a mystery. The cotton was in-
sured.
Lcandcr Adam-, tin years of asre.
a son of a widow, «a- killed Sunday,
afternoon by a Santa le train at
Shawnee. Ok. 11 is head wa- se\ crt d
from his body, lie was walking ill
company with a play mate on the
right of way near Main Street Whet;
sn'.uck.
Dr. 11'eOrge If. Tabor, ex-Stab.'
Health Officer of Texas, now a resi-
dent physician of Dallas, was elected
to the pre-ideiiev of the Interna-
tional Tuberculosis Congress, at a
meeting of the Kxccutive Council of
I he jura. 111 the case of J^ck Ear---
l-y, charged with the murder of City
Mai.-hal J. Terrell Calloway of Mt.j
ot providing a Calm,.who was killed on October 24,
4 1 - .
■ * P'o.">, after, being our thirtv-six
- hours, returned a \erdict linding liini ,
guilty ot manslaughter and assessing cutting down «.»f
his "punishment at two wars in the aflected t lie side show f
penitentiary. Manager of, the Freaks—Well,
Bid- for three aeroplams. ranging : the 'ossenin^ of the food supply
in price from >10,0011 to 000, caus,'s l'u' un»st noticeable effects,
which hum have a speed of at least "'u w^ult wav .
forty miles per hour and carry two "Why, the living skeleton looks
persons; with a combined weight of his part better than ever, but we'll
A gentleman on a Dallas, Texas.,
street car was heard to remark a few
weeks ago about as follows: "I've
raised cotton, and the cost of produc-
tion was not exceeding 5 cents a
pound, and tt is extortion for farmers
to ask 15 cents." This Is not the
word for word statement* of the gen-
tleman, hut was the spirit and exact
substance of what he said. He spoke
in some bitterness, too, and was In-
clined, one would judge, from his man-
ner and tone, to lay the blame of the
panicky times and hard lines resulting
therefrom upon ttit* Union farmers
who were holding their cotton. He
thought thejv ought to sell for what
they could get for the products of
j their fields and the gifts of Mother
I Earth in payment for the hard toll of
themselves and their families, His
business was at a standstill All busi-
ness was languishing, and the farmer
should sacrifice himself and the dear
ones of his heart and his home that
business might pick up
Now, this gentleman Is not an un-
kind man, nor selfish, nor unjust. He,
was, and Is yet, In ignorance of the
facts In the case and does not com-
prehend the fact that no interest or
business can thrive, or even exist, as
it' ought to exist, and prosper, unless
the farming classes are prosperous.
He did not know, then, and does not
even dream now, that this panic be-
gan in October last and Just ending,
was the deliberate, unscruplous work
of Eastern "captains of finance," for
their own sinister purposes, utterly
reckless as to what the effects might
be on others so they prospered—a
scheme, indeed, simply and purely for
spoliation and to help along other
ends they had in view for the further
and continuous robbery of the people.
As to his estimate of the cost to
produce cotton, let us look at that a
little, He says he raised cotton at
a cost of only 5 cents a pound He
did not do any such thing. At the
time he farmed, some years ago, he
might have produced cotton at an 0111-
THE A. A M. COLLEGE.
m
A Texan, writing of the Texas Stat*
Agricultural & Mechanical College
has this to say, which Is applicable tc
practically all State A & M. colleges:
One excellent feature of the advan
tages at the Agricultural & Mechanl
cal College is that they are easily
within the reach of the poor man's
son. The necessary expenses for the
entire school year do not amount to
much more than the sum they must
pay for tuition alone at many of the
universities and colleges of the couu.
try. And then a young man of grit
and energy can keep up with his stu-
dies and at the same time by outside
work earn money enough to defray a
large part of his expenses. Students
have not Infrequently paid all,of their
expensee, and it has occasional!) hap-
pened that some unusually thlrfty fel-
low, In addition to making enough to
pay all his college expenses, has laid
by a snug little sum to begin life on.
A graduate of the college was recent-
ly asked how much money he had
when ho entered the freshman class.
Ho replied; "I had forty dollars at
the beginning of the session, am} I
had forty dollars at the close of school
in June." It Is reported of another
student who paid all his expenses by
working, that during the four years
of his college life he accumulated
eight hundred dollars Some of this
amount, however, was earned during
the summer vacations. An education
acquired under such circumstances
generally means a great deal mora
than one, the expenses of which are
all paid by a parent or guardian. The
young man who pays his own way
through college learns thoroughly the
value of a dollar, and he also gets
some lessons In self-denial and Inde-
pendence that can not fall to be help-
ful to him in after life.
IN UNION IS STRENGTH.
I he land is situai
the city limits, beg in-
north end of Houston
; is valued at *-b,-
tl.io congress
Y'ork dunni!
»hu h
was held in New
the last week.
Prof. II. B. Cousins, State Super-
intendent of Public Instruction, has
officially announced for re-election to
his present position.
Application has been filed to or-
ganize the Home National Bank of
Stanton, with $25,000 capital stock.
pounds and sufficient fuel for a
flight of 1 J,:. null -, have been accept-
ed by the W ar Depart incut.
I lie Sullaway bill calling for an
.increase in the pension to the wid-
ows of Mexican War veterans from
$!■ to * 1per month, has passed the
House of llepresenlativtis. It is es-
timated that thei • ar>- !'">oo widows
oi \eterans of this war in-the Unit-
ed States. ,
The Louisville and Nadiville
llailroad has reduced the salaries of
all employes making more than $2o0
Those receiving $400
over are cut 10 per cent, while
those making more than $230 and
It-s than $loo will suffer a reduc-
tion of S per cent.
Mark Twain has returned from a
trip to the Bermudas,
tited by the salubrious climate
After telling her husband she
would cook 110 more biscuits, Mrs.
the fat lady—
middle-weight
per month,
and
lay of actual cash of only 5 cents a
Winter Circus Proprietor—How ' pound, but that actual cash outlay did
not represent the entire cost of pro-
duction His time was occupied in the
management of the affairs of his farm.
Was his time worth nothing? His
education and his skill were brought
Into full play and force in the prep-
aration of his land, in the pitching of
his crop, In its cultivation, In tight-
lug and warding off crop enemies. In
gathering his crop, in preparing it for
market, in marketing it Is all this
worth nothing? is the wear and ex-
haustion of body and mind and the
| worry and care incident upon the pro
| duct Ion of a crop worth nothing? Is
| the capital' invested in a farm, in
| the teams and farming implements/ in
1 the feed stuffs for i'uan and beast,
[-.needful in. the year's work, worth
nothing? Shall there tie 110 interest
1 on this investment added into the cost
[of production? All these things we
have enumerated above enter Into the
| expense account and cost bills in ev-
i cry Other line of business under the
sun, and why not into the business of
farming, too?—CO Operator."
have to discharge
she's down to the
class."
No organisation—religious, political,
fraternal or Induct rial—that ultimate-
ly accomplished great good for the
common' people (and by this term wo
mean the very backbone of this coun-
try) has ever had smooth sailing.
It has been assailed by traitors with-
in and by a prejudiced public without,
just as the Farmers' Vnion has been.
And now that some little wave of dis-
cord has drifted into the portals of
that organization. In the language of
the Georgetown Commercial,' let us
urge "every member of the Union
who loves his home and family, his
rights and the great cause of justice,
to stand firm today. He steadfast,
though the dark clouds come. There
is victory ahead. Defeats and disap-
pointments, panics and gambling will
pass away. Put none but true, loyal,
unselfish men on guard, local, county,
district, State and National. Then all
is well, and the Farmers' Unnlon will
triumph Let us stand together now."
—McUregor (Tex.) Mirror.
GET THE TREE PLANTING HABIT.
PERHAPS.
De Style—I hear Lakeside is so
forgetful he always forgets to put
gasoline in his auto."
(iunbusta—I hear he bought a
motor boat for his private lake.
De Style (absent ntindedly)—•
Yes. And I suppose half the tuna
now he'll forget to put,water in the
lake.—11 arpef's Weekly.
SATISFACTION.
''Well, my poor man, I hope I've
satisfied your hunger,'r said the
good housewife afu
much bene-1 liberal supply of victuals to Mr.
William Wraggles, Fsq., tramp, etc.
4\Yes, mum,"' answered that wor-
thy, "I must confess that as a pro-
Cen.e Owens a bride of two months, vijer yVe mied tho Will»
ended her lile in Kockport, Ky. :
Dodging the Mortgage.
A farmer near McKiuney, Texas, has
marketed thirty bushels of turnips the
past season from a quarter of an acre
r handing out a I The stHH' cost *l'm cents and he
n sold the product at t>0 cents per bush-
el. He was well paid for the time he
took to plant, take care of and market
the turnips and he had something to
sell when he went to town instead of
going there to buy a wagonload of
something he could have raised.
The Palestine Railroad
Young
The Corporation Commission of
Men s Christian Association building j. Oklahoma has issued a proposed or-
at Palestine w as damaged by fire, I der that passengers shall not be re-
smoke and water Saturday to the e.x- quired to surrender their tickets un-
tent of nearly four thousaud dollars, less they are provided with a seat
covered by insurance. I while traveling 011 passenger trains.
It is reported direct from head- f Tom Smith lias taken the contract
quarters that the proposed Shawnee to rebuild the Texas and Gulf Bail-
Central Kail road, surveyed during j road from Waterman to Grigsby.
the summer between ( hecotah and It is a sensational rumor that
A DIFFERENCE.
"Did I understand you to say,"
asked the court, "that there had been
collusion between this husband and
wife?"
"No, your honor," responded the
lawyer, "not by a mighty sight.
Look at my client's bla'ek eye. I
said 'collision.' "— Philadelphia
DONE WITH WORK.
Shew nee by the Missouri, Kansas ! King Leopold of Belgium is tlie next | °tr'
and Texas, will be under course ol in line of victims marked bv the Bed
construction. Hand. * ■ I
! "I suppose Dremer is still potter-
It is announced that Swift & Com- A martyr to duty. Dr. \V. D. Gross ing along at his inventions."
panv, packers, will build a plant at died at his home in Philadelphia ' Well he has actually perfected a
^S!oo!;(.0rtOv^C^0(mtl^/ha»!!'7,v!ll'K)J l»°woning, caused by the givat labor-saving scheme at la»."
$6,000,000. U\er 3000 atrto of.(infection ot a cut upon his thumb, I '.v.,,, mem it'""
land land have been bought for the j received about three weeks ago 111'
plant. j performing an operation.
Two hundred masked night riders j Low prices and slack demand for
visited Discurburge, K\., early (oil have plaved havoc with develop-
Tuesday morning and applied the j menta in Oklahoma.
torch to Bennett's tobacco warehouse! A thousand bushels of cotton seed
Xothing so adds to the beauty of a
home's outward appearance as pretty
shade trees! It makes the home look
permanent, comfortable, prosperous,
inviting. When one sees a nice shady
j lawn, he feels like going in to rest,
and he never comes home, tired, hot
and dusty from his day's work, if he
has such a yard of his own, that he
does not breathe an involuntary pray-
er of thankfulness for God's blessed
trees.
Nothing so adds to the outward ap-
: pearance of town as streets lined with
trees. The stranger feels perfectly at
home, though he may not know a hu-
man soul, in the ordinary sense. It
was a man of true feeling who wrote,
One touch of nature makes the whole
world kin." Trees, nature's splendid
1 exemplars, make the stranger wish to
1 stay Many Arlington people are
planting trees. They are adding to
the comfort and the beauty of their
homes, and at the same time doing a
great good for the town. (Jet the tree-
planting habit.—Arlington Journal.
!
DONTS.
"Yes, he's going to marry Misa
liichley."—Philadelphia Press.
NEEDED 'EM?
Bicker—My wife has brains
and distillery. Both were complete- are being sent out from Waco in
ly destroyed. The loss is about $10,-1 four-pound packages by the Govern-
W0. j nient, under the free seed provision.
enough for two.
Knocker—-That why you married
her?
Don't sell your cotton below 15
cents.
Don't be a grumbler. It does not
pay.
Don't think that everybody sho.uld
do just what you say.
Don't decide that you are the only
man that has sense enough to run the
world
Don't go to the man for advice
whose business interests are contrary
to yours.
Don't think when you are idle that
other people should not work.
Don't be a knocker. He a builder.
This is the time for building, i^nd
every man must do his part
Don't be alarmed at some weary
tales that you hear, as some men from
different branches of the Farmers' Un-
ion have been "drapped' from the
pay roli.
Don't forget that there are always
drones in the hive. These drones or
drift wood, must be thrown out, and
sometimes when- they are they make
a fuss about it, for it Is nice to eat
without having to work.—Union News,
When the Union came to William-
son County in 1903 the Commercial
said then—when it was unpopular to
do so—when some newspapers were
denouncing it as a political machine—•
that the farmer ought to organize.
These newspapers and politicians be-
gan to cast aspersion on the Union,
but it grew steadily. They then
jumped in the band wagon when the
Union became powerful and popular.
But now that the crisis has come in
its history-—the time when all true
farmers and patriotic citizens should
stand together against a common ene-
my—the old enemy—the latter pro-
fessed friends are growing cold and
lukewarm in their support. The Com-
mercial earnestly urges every member
v>t" the Union who loves his henne and
family, his rights and the great cause
of justice, to stand firm today. Be
steadfast, though the dark cloud come.
There is victory ahead Defeats and
disappointments, panics and gambling
will pass away. Put none but true,
loyal, unselfish men on guard, local,
county, district, State and Natlonak
Then all Is well, and the Farmers' U*
ion will triumph. Let us stand to-
gether now.''—Austin Statesman.
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