The Hubbard City News. (Hubbard City, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, October 7, 1904 Page: 1 of 8
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Part Second.
The Hubbard City News.
Consolidated With The Texas Pick and Pan 1803.
‘WE WILL DO OUR BEST TO BE RIOMT, LET HIM FIND FAULT WHO MAY.*
VOL. 23.
HUBBARD CITY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7 1904.
Consolidated With The Hubbard City Progress iqoj.
NO. 2.
It There Is No Way I Will Make One.
Recently there died in an Fast-
ern State a successful business
man. He was one of the class of
men that does things; things that
count. His life’s work was made
up of littie details which to dove*
tail into an intricate business
system had to be met and worked
out to a precision. From early
life he had been trained to look
well to the little things. Exact
habits acquired in early youth
became with him fixed methods of
action for later life, enabling him
to count upon results with cer-
tainty. In the elegantly appointed
office of this man, and directly
above his working desk, hung
this significant and self-assertive
legend: “If there is noway I will
make one!” Each day this in-
spired sentence, embodying a
sentiment of heroic determina-
tion, which had become to him a
rule of life, stared him full in the
face and became at once a chal-
lenge to the highest degree of
exertion and an assurance of
success.
Sermonizing is foreign to our
design, but we are forced to ex-
claim : What next! Admitting of
minute dissection, it furnishes
much food for reflection. Its con-
sideration peculiarly commends
it to the young person who pro-
poses to know no failure, and its
only critic is the “ faint heart”
who will win none of life’s prizes
for lack of stamina.
Let us see! “If there is no
way.” How easy it is to travel j sure the performance. Few things
the broad, beaten road which the are really impossible of per-
labor of others has opened up. formance. Sure, the days of
No way! ” Such were the pre-
miracLs has passed, but we hold
vailing conditions that faced the il a fundamental proposition that
pioneer farmer. Such are present j a11 thinS3 necessary for man’s
conditions in much of the newer i comfort and welfare are su seep-
agricultural regions of America., tible of performance and that the
Lack of way impedes progress.! simplest means to that end may
i’he immutable law of God is 1 be found by man. No more in-
motion; forward motion. Inertia ! vigorating chapter appears in all
means death. The being who has;secular history than that dealing
been endowed with life, placed in
this sphere for a purpose—in
short, for action, finds the ob-
stacle at every turn. What is to
be done? “ I will,” says the suc-
cessful farmer. “
the young woman
1 will,” says
who masters
with the past one hundred years
of human accomplishment. “ I
will ” produced out of the chaos
of “ no way ” the steamboat, the
locomotive, the railroad, tele-
graph, ocean cables, telephone,
harvester and reaper, thresher,
each detail and lays by the store j improvements in stock, in grains
of knowledge, industry and and fruits and originated new
strength which shall equip her | varieties, added to which might
to make and contentedly rest in
the success of her own future
home. The will, made up of
choice, purpose and action, is not
be the enumeration of a multi-
tude of others which have made
this earth of ours a comfortable
place to live. “If there is no way
one
always easy of control, but it is | will make one ” should be
safe to assume that the principle 1 posted wherever the boy or girl
embodied in the ancient formula works, rests, sleeps. It should
of a sane mind in a sound body , be kept constantly in view. The
lias more than ail else to do with | “ grown ups” might also profit
securing and maintaining its by adopting this advice and ex-
mastery. If your life is to be- perienced its tonic effects, but
come a power, cultivate system.
Systematic labor, sleep, recrea-
tion, study and reflection. These
conduce to soundness of body
and soundness of mind. “ I will
make one,” says our oracle. The
way will be made because the
person equipped as above has the
reserve force at command to in-
our aim is to reach the coming
generation which is not yet
wedded to fixed habits of life.
During the next few decades will
be witnessed in all probability
greater strides in agriculture,
horticulture, stock raising and
kindred lines than in any other
business of life. The times are
ripe and tendencies all point to a plicity that
marked revival of interest in that
pursuit which, after all, is of first
importance as it was first in
practice at tiie beginning.—
American Farm.
The Farm As a Character Builder.
Did we ever investigate what
the farm does toward character
building? It is a difficult matter
to find a great man who ie not in
love with nature and whose
character was not moulded by
the influence of the country. We
are told tha^ “all great leaders
come from the country,’’and that
“their children must go back to
learn the secret of their fathers’
power.” And Victor Hugo states
that “woods and fields make the
education of all great men.” So
many of us believe that a man’s
character is better developed
amidst the activity of city life
because of the association of
mind with mind, the great com-
petition, and the never ending
struggle to be first in everything.
The city alone does not properly
build character, but one must be
ground in the ethics of nature.
The boy on the farm has a dis-
tinct personality of his own ; lie
makes his own money, works out
his ideas by himself, and this
makes him king of his country ;
he is self-sustaining; he makes
his own amusement, and through
his environments he becomes
self-reliant in all things. He pos-
sesses that high quality of si in-
is found in every
great man; he is not easily in-
fluenced as his own principles
have taken deep root.
The city youth hears so much
and sees so much that he has no
time to give to develop his own
thoughts or ideas.
One must use some time to lie
alone if there is perfect growing
of character. Thoughtful quiet is
the way of discipline for our
young people; it is of far greater
importance than anything to be
seen or heard in the city We
must live pleasantly and suc-
cessfully with ourselves before
we can hope to be of any assist-
ance to others.
The ancients appreciated the
| influence of solitude far better
than we do to-day, and their
lives were built on grand sim-
i plicity. Life has become such a
: nervous hurry in the city that we
1 have no time to pause and ascer-
! tain what sort of a person we are.
If our mind has a message for
j the world we have no time to
think it out. The country gives
us solitude and solitude will bring
out the best in us and lead*us to
find the beautiesof nature. When
we find a person not touched by
the beauties of nature we wonder
what sort of a creature is this,
and we find ourselves mistrusting
him.
The country boy may not know
so much of the evils abroad in
the land, but his honesty and
perception of right and wrong
are superior, and being self*
| centered he is equipped to battle
against temptation.
We miss in the city youth the
poise and depth that is acquired
by the boy on the farm, who
learns the secrets of nature and
has a supply of moral sweetness
and strength Pities do not give
us room for our individualities to
grow; it shuts us out from many
avenues of knowledge we have
in the country. How we are all
startled when some great crisis
of our nation calls out from the
backwoods a leader. Sometimes
we find a person like Lincoln, in
whom is centered all the virtues
of the city and country, and the
vices of neither. The farm af-
fords us an ideal way of living,
as it presents more opportunities
for the proper character building
than any other surrounding. If
wo throw off our artificialities
and open our eyes to the culture
of books and kindly nature, we
can posess treasures of knowl-
edge, health, beauty and virtue.
—American Farmer.
The agnostics who paraded
round the monument of Bruno
in Rome last week did not usher
in universal brotherly love. They
declared “ the Vatican is a
corpse; we are life”; and the
Pope's organ alluded to them as
“ the Satanic congress of Free-
thinkers.” and expressed the
wish that the Pope had a little
temporal power for the occasion.
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Wish to thank their many
Friends and Customers for
their esteemed patronage during the past season and be-
speak for your most generous patronage for the Fall and
Winter Season of 1904-’05. We want to make this Season
the Banner Season of our business. To do this, we have
made greater preparations, Bought More Goods, and by
careful watchfulness, will work hard to merit your trade.
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FOR EARLY FALL BUYERS.
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Better values for your money have never been offered than we are
prepared to give you this season in Dry Goods and Clothing. We laid
in our new goods at close prices with the determination to sell to our
patrons at the closest possible prices consistent with dependable
Merchandise. We picked up many unusual values this season while
in the market, that were offered to watchful buyers, which enables us
to offer to our customers at incredibly LOW PRICES.
McRAE BROTHERS & BARRON
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