The Albany News. (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, July 7, 1905 Page: 4 of 8
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THE ALBANY NEW5.
RICHARD H. flcCARTY, - Editor and Prop.
Entered at the Post Office at Albany, Texas, as
Second Class Mail Matter.
ADVERTISING RATES.
Pay Local—Ten cents per line first insertion
five cents per line each subsequent insertion.
Display Advertisements;—Fifty cents per inch
•ingle column per month.
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $1 PER YEAR.
Watch us grow and spread.
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The Albany News, $1 per year.
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It looks like Russia was in the midst, of a revo-
lution.
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The Japs are shrewd diplomats as well as great
fighters.
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A good public school is the best evidence of a
town's interprise. \ '
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Say! Let's have a road working. God knows,
they need it bad enough.
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Don't sit down and whine about your lot ;
your own making.'
it's
THE PRICE OF FAME.
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It you haven't got a horn, get you one and toot
it for Shackelford county.
Let's all join hands and put up a solid front for
the upbuilding of our county.
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i. Shout and be merry te-day; to-morrow yon may
tdftn up your toes to the daisies.
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Russia is whipped aud it will take a century for
her to survive this great disaster.
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Jt looks to us liko we might lease the road grader
out on shares and get a little something out of it.
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Shackelford county will soon nave an agent in
the black land belt, advertising JHhackelford county.
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Let's whistle and sing as wo pass this way. If
you haven't got a whistle, see the editor. Ho has
them to give away.
We heard a farmer just a rearing the other day
about the bad places in the roads. "In some places
they are almost* impassable," ho said.
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iM The plenipotentiaries will convono in Washington
about the first of August. They will be clothed with
power to make terms and declare peace.
The increase in the school tax will only be thirty
cents on the hundred dollars; or about ten cents—
and lu somo cases less—per hundred on wht^t it would
take to buy your property.
$ID you ever sit down and figure on the price of
true fame? Did you ever follow the meander-
ings of a lifo that has achieved true greatness!
The world doffs its cap to the man thai wins in the
chase. If it is fame or fortune that you are seeking,
young man, bear in mind that it costs sweat, blood,
toil and pain.
Two boys stood at the foot of a precipice one
day, and while looking up at its towering cliffs, they
saw an eagle light on a ledge of rocks with a fish in
its mouth. One of them exclaimed, ''There's a nest
of young eaglets up there, and I am going to capture
them!" Ilis companion said, "Don't you dare do
that; it's a perilous undertaking!" The brave boy
did not hoed tho advice given, but at once began
the ascent of the cliff. From boulder to boulder, from
ledge to ledge, he made the during attempt to reach
the eagle's nest. Just as he was, with difficulty, pulling
himself over a dangerous place and ere he could
reach a sure foot-hold, the mother-eagle discovered
the enemy, and made a dash down the precipice at
him. The mad bird clawed him in tho face with
her sharp talons; blinded with blood, and death
staring him in the face; if lie turned his hold loose,
he would fall thousands of foot and be dashed to
death upon the rocks below, and with tho luad eagle
pelting him with all her power with her wings and
sharp talons. Hut he was an American youth, with
an iron will and dare-devil spirit, that knew not, fail
or defeat. While lie held 011 with one hand lie drew
his knife with the other and opened it , and with a
master stroke disemboweled the mother eagle that
was fighting for her lofty home of freedom and Jior
young eaglets. This adventuroous youth captured
the prize and made the descent in safety. In after
years this same dauntless courage and strategy
placed the military chaplefs upon his brow and made
him general in chief of a great army.
When one of our southern cities was infested
with that dreadful scourge, the yellow fever, and
medical aid was at a premium, it was a time when
heroes wore in demand—men who loved their profes-
sion and who were not afraid to face death to al-
leviate pain. A call was made for volunteers. • In a
little hamlet in the Southland, a beardless youth with
a heart of stool and the courage of a lion, tendered
his services to the stricken city, lie took his lite in
his hand, as it were, and went forth to battle with
the dreaded disease. Thousands died and his broth-
physicians foil at their post of duty, but, lie never
wavered; he faced the dreaded disease and staid at
his post. From obscurity he stepped to fame, but it
was a perilous rbuto,
Helen Keller, America's most famous woman
and the world's greatest genius, is a typtf of will and
determination. She has achieved fame, but no one
but herself and her tutors will ever know the price of
it.
There is a crown for every one if they can scale
the giddy heights and stand alone 011 the top-most
pinnacle and face tho storm.
Turn your eyes toward Japan and behold her
twin stars of military vrlory—Oyama and Togo.
Thoy have each achieved their fame, but the soil of
Manchuria aud the Sea of Japan are (crimsoned
with tho blood of bravo soldiers, and their paths to
military fame are paved with halt a million slain.
Young man, if you think it ejjyurth the price,
launch your bark in the middle of the stream and
face the breakers, and if you have got iron in your
blood and a nerve like tempered steel; and if you are
not afraid "to work, sweat,- toil and suffer, fame is
yours.
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PROSPERITY .
It is a nice thing to seoa prosperous community.
But what is prosperity! Surely, it is not wealth;
neither is it great numbers of people. It is content-
ment, happiness and plenty, whether among tho few
or the millions. Prosperity means much. It means
a unity of purposes, of aims, of likes and dislikes. It
means confidence in your town and community, a
liberality of your means and an abiding taith in the
future. People who are close-listed never help to
bring prosperity to a Community; rather, they hold
back and lessen the efforts of others. The man who
helps his town is the man who is always ready and
willing to pull in the front, lie is like the real soldier
011 the battle-field—lie is found on the tiring line. A
dead town means a dead people—a people who have
given up the struggle. The right kind of energy and
enthusiasm will build a town in the midst of a desert.
\ people with a good country surrounding them have
but to invito tin* world into their locality and wel-
come them, and tho thing is done. Millions are
hunting homes, and they are looking for the best
locality. If your town,aud community will, measure
up to the average, you can- get them. Prosperity
hovers over every portion of the American continent.
If your section lags behind it is because you lack an
enterprising citizenship. It is because your people
are dead to their own interest—dead to the rumbling
march of our superior civilization, There is 110 doubt
but that the United States is destined to bo the most
populous portion of the globe. Wo have the rich
lands, the mineral resources and the natural advan-
tages. The people of every land are Hocking to our
shores. There is 110 reason why that every hamlet
within the metes and bounds of our country should
not smile with prosperity.
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Shackelford county is going to be systematically
advertised. v Wo have ordered material for fifty thou-
sand folders which will be 100,000 impressions.
This will bo an artistic job when completed. The
literature will be distributed in East Texas. Shack-
elford county has a glorious future before it; there is
no better land in Texas; there is '110 community in
the state that offers better inducements to farmers
than Shackelford county, but, gentlemen, we have
got to£0 out in the highways and byways and tell
the people of our advantages. This is going to be
done too. Every man that lives in this county should
be a walking advertisement. Let us all get up now
aud do our dead level best for the settlement of our
county. Other people west of us are making a des-
porate effort, why not us?
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Tho front page of the Fort Worth Record was
handsomely decorated with tho stars and stripes in
its issue of July 4th. The cartoon service of the
Ft. Worth Record is second to none. Bateman is an
artist of rare skill, and the cartoons 011 the front page
are worth the price of the paper.
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Meet the prospectors with a smile and a hearty
hand-shake, and toll them of t he good things that are
hero for them, if they will just tickle our soil with a
double shovel plow.
S. WKBB, President.
W. U. WKBB. Ciuhler. K. K. LYNCH, Ass t. CMliler.
0. B. Snyder Jr., Vice-President.
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ALBANY, TEXA8.
Capital $50,000. Surplus and Profits $5,000.
Wr make loans on liberal terms and do a general
banking business.
The government cotton re*
port brought about a wild
aerambleia cotton exchanges.
Oetton jumped one cent a
pound in leee than ten nain
a too. Rxcitng scenes were wit.
■ssssd in tho trading pit
When tho report was road the
ahorta mads a wild rash to
oover their oontraots. Ths
prloe advanood sometimes 90
points between trades. Not
until the ehorts had covered
their oontracts.and the major-
ity of the trading interests had
protected ' themselves on the
readjustment of the crop situa-
tion, did the market subside.
December"1 and Jannary ad
vanoed 90 points at a time, more
than 100 points in all, Decem-
ber aelling at 10.60 and Jan-
uary at 10.66.
Do 70a take the News?
At my Store you can find anything usually kept in a first-class
Grocery store and my prices are always right. I do not handle cheap
Groceries—1 mean to cater to the good trade and my Groceries are good
enough for you to eat, I handle Chase & Sander's Tea and Coffee, Cox
& Gordon's Hams, Bacon and Lard, and all kinds of Groceries,
GROCERIES AND HARDWARE.
GROCERIES AND HARDWARE.
At my Store you can find everything usually kept in a first-class
Hardware Store. 1 handle absolutely best Paint on earth, Paint Brush-
es, Window Glass and Oils of every kind. 1 sell the Weyeth Warranted
Cuttlery and Razors; Loaded Shells and Ammunition, Fishing Tackle
of every kind. Shoe Tacks, Carpet Tacks, Brass Headed Tacks, Staple
Tacks, Screws, Nails, and all kinds of Wire, such as Net wire, Screen
wire, Copper wire, Hay tyire, Barbed wire and Smooth wire. All
kinds of Hardware.
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McCarty, Richard H. The Albany News. (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, July 7, 1905, newspaper, July 7, 1905; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth497410/m1/4/?q=%22Places+-+United+States+-+Texas+-+Shackelford+County+-+Albany%22: accessed June 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Old Jail Art Center.