Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 4, 1908 Page: 2 of 8
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POLK COUNTY ENTERPRISE.
By MANRY & WEST.
LIVINGSTON,
TEXAS
“Hard Times."
It must be admitted that after a
period of prosperity which has been
unequaled both in duration and de-
gree, the country is now experiencing
an industrial and financial depression
which comes near to being genuine
“hard times.” In a great many places
large numbers of men are unemployed.
It is reported that 200,000 are out of
work in New York city alone, and
throughout the country at large there
prevails a general feeling of uneasi-
ness which is at once a sign of busi-
ness depression and a potent cause of
it. In this situation it may be cheer-
ing and wholesome to recall Certain
facts which differentiate the present
conditions from those which usually
precede or accompany hard times, and
certain other facts which are true of
all periods of depression.
Material conditions at present are
all hopeful.1' Crops have been and are
good, and many lines of manufactur-
ing, like the iron and steel business,
are in a normal and healthy Condition.
These things are usually quite other-
wise in times of pronounced dulness.
Moreover, it ought not to be forgotten
that the real wealth of a country in-
creases faster during hard times than
In any other period. Men are not only
driven to werk harder, and therefore
to produce more, by the fear of being
thrown out' of work, but they save
more. Luxuries are discarded; old
clothes are made to do duty a little
longer; purchases are fitted to Income
rather than to desire. Undertakings
Which involve risk are made to wait a
more convenient season, and the coun-
try as a whole emerges from the
period of depression with greatly in-
creased resources, to enter upon an era
of prosperity whiefi will be somewhat
proportionate in length and intensity
to the duration and depth of the de-
pression which preceded it. This is
the silver lining on which it is well to
keep one’s eyes. The country has suf-
fered no serious wound, says the
Youths’ Companion, it has no fgtal dis-
ease. Rather is it in the condition of
a man whose pulse has been arrested
for» B0S}§& Mv$r M^bod^-
good, healthy blood—aqd it will soon
start flowing again in its normal chan-
nels.
TRUCK FROM SOUTH TEXAS.
CUCUMBER
SHIPMENTS
ALVIN.
FROM
About Three
Situation
Cars Per Day—Overflow
in South Texas Not
So Alarming.
Alvin, Brazoria Co., Tex.—The Alvip
truck growers are still shipping largo
quantities of cucumbers. Four car-
loads were Shipped from here Thurs-
day night and four Friday night. One
man picked from one acre at one pick-
ing a ton, Which he sold for 75c per
hundred. There are four packing
houses here, which are kept busy all
lay and part of the night packing and
loading cars. The shipments have
averaged about three cprs per day
luring this week. Great difficulty has
seen experienced because of washouts
on the railroads.
TO PASS WOLF BOUNTY
RESTORATION OF SHEEP INDUS-
TRY WOULD RESULT.
GREAT BENEFIT TO STOCKMEN
Swine Could Be Bred in Wooded Dis-
tricts With Lessened Danger
From Wolves.
$50,000 IN COLD DOST.
Wanted
Hotel Clerk
Amount for
That
Ruskin, it is said, has written more
sentences of inordinate length than
any other classic writer of modern
English prose. Frederic Harrison
some years ago counted the words in
a number of typical sentences, finding
that In the earlier books it was no un-
common thing for Ruskin to run
beyond the page before permitting
himself and his readers the relief of a
full stop. But in every case the sense
Is clear as day. Wordsworth’s ’ poem
on tho “Character of the Happy War-
rior” is a notable example of sustained
connections. Apart from the opening
and closing couplets, the poem con-
sists of two very long compound -sen-
tences almost entirely, comprised of
adjectival clauses. The longec of the
two sentences contains 57 decasyllabic
lines. This is probably a record In
English verse.
to Keep
Hirp.
San Antonio, Tex.—When George
Kramer of Vancouver, B. C., walked
Into the Southern Hotel Friday morn-
ing and deposited on the counter a
bag containing $50,000 in gold dust,
and asked the head clerk to keep it
for him, that official almost dropped
dead. It was the first deposit of its
kind ever offered, and the clerk ad
vised the man to hike for a bank right
away. Mr. Kramer is just from Alas
ka. He says that the mines are run-
ning full tilt, and that the total year’s
output of gold will be $75,000,000. The
gold dust in Mr. Kramer’s possession
was what he had taken out of his mine
during the past year.
Soldier Killed While Cleaning Gun.
El Faso, Tex.—David G. Stot, a pri-
vate in Company B, Nineteenth Infam
try, stationed at Fort Bliss, near this
city, was instantly killed Saturday by
the accidental discharge of a gun
which he was cleaning. Stout was
Cleaning his gun for the regular Sat-
urday inspection, and had, so he
thought, taken all the loads out of it.
One of the shells hung, however, and
while cleaning the gun was discharged,
rthe bullet striking him just below the
heart. Death was instantaneous.—
Prospects Fine at San Diago.
San Diego, Tex.—The crops in this
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man at any time sinnee 1903. The
corn will make a fine yield, and the
:otton is in the best of condition. The
acreage was somewhat reduced this
year on account of the late season,
but this will probably be more than
made up by the increase -in production
San Antonio, Tex.—B. L. Crouch of
Corpus Christi, one of the most wide-
ly kuown and successful ranchmen of
Texas and the originator of the wolf
scalp bounty law, introduced in the
last legislature, declares he has as-
surance that a bounty bill of some kind
aiming at extermination of wolves and
wildcats will be passed by the Texas
lawmaking body at its next session.
The bill framed and introduced last
winter passed successfully both houses
of the legisature, but was killed by
veto, of Gov. Campbell. Gov.- Camp-
bell, Mr. Crouch declares, is known to
be in favor of such a law, but vetoed
the bill simply because of the large
appropriation which was an item of
the document. A fund of $100,000 for
payment of bounties was aimed at,
and the governor did not feel that the
state could stand for such a sum. Mr.
Crouch has been busy conferring with
members of the legislature during the
spring, and says he feels sure of the
success of his measure early next year.
Mr. Crouch claims that such a bill
would have for its main result the re-
storation of the big sheep industry
that in early days was responsible
more-than anything else’ for the up-
building of the Southwest. As Eaqt
Texas settled up, he says, the wolves
and wildcats were crowded west, and
soon made the range a terror to the
sheep raiser. For this reason the
herds were taken up into New Mexi-
co, Arizona and Colorado.
TRINITY VALLEY DESTRUCTION.
WITHOUT
CLOTHES;
holies.
One Large Family Is Missing—Some
of Scenes When Flood Rusned.
Down the Valley.
DESTRUCTION
Dallas, Tex.—On account of the im
passable condition of the roads and of
the low lands whigh were submerged
there have so f^r been but few per-
sons, in the city from the river valley
above or below the city. But those
who have come in coiffirm the reports
of last week that the destruction ol
property in the valley,, was complete,
and they add that the number of per-
sons rendered homeless and penniless
above and below Dallas far exceeds
the number of suffers in Dallas and
West Dallas combined. It is said that
the heavy loss of horses and cattle was
due largely to the barbed wire fences
Carcasses are hanging on the wires
throughout the valley. Many horses
and cows that managed to reach the
shore had their flesh so badly cut and
torn that the farmers shot them to
put them out of their misery.
H. C. .Ashley of Wilmer, who came
to the city Monday, reported that the
river was still four miles wide at Bois
d’Arc Island.
DESOLATION.
RE-EMPLOY 17,200 MEN.
Crop Prospects Good.
San Antonio, Tex.—Now that the
weather is clearing, farm work
again progressing and crop conditions
tre good. The rains have not been
■hard enough to cause any damage and
conditions in this section are fine
Without a setback South and West'
Texas can expect a record-breaking
harvest.
The embarrassment of the under-
ground electric railways which link
together all sections of London, and
which have now gone into the hands
of a receiver tor the readjustment of
the finances of the system, is said to
be due to the sharp competition of
the motor buses and cheap cabs that
continue to do a flourishing business
on the surface, in the open. This
explanation isn’t altogether incom-
prehensible even from this somewhat
remote distance. For passengers who
are in no great hurry the charms of
the top of a London ’bus, as well as
.those of a cab, for a shilling are Irre-
sistible, especially when compared
with the dfTrk, dank and gloomy under-
ground traveling facilities of tbe Eng-
lish metropolis. *
A St. Louis preacher tells his flock
that the young people’s habit of hold-
ing hands should be stopped. He ex-
plains that there is a nerve running
from the back of the hand to the brain
and another from the palm to the
heart. “When a man takes a girl’s
hand and presses those two nerves, she
comes under hi* control.” Scientific
blunder. The ytobth of the congrega-
tion are studying up on “nervuiogy,”
while the elders who have been
through tbe mil] are chuckling at what
the preacher dosen’t know about hold-
ing hands.
A Submerged Farm.
Paris, Tex.—J. F. Whitesides of Chi-
cago reported Wednesday that all of
his farm of 1GX acres, except about
thirty acres, was under water several
feet. He had corn ready to lay by
and it is out of sight. Men on the
farm paddled in boats to the cabins
and tied them with wire to prevent
them from floating away.
C-apt. Bill McDonald in Washington.
Washington, D. C.—Capt. Bill Mc-
Donald, state revenue agent, is spend-
ing a few days in Washington on his
way home via New York. He was cor-
dially received by President Roose-
velt, but did not meet Senator Fora-
her, who made a great deal of sport
of McDonald In the speeches on the
Brownsville outrage.
Conroy Guilty of Forgery.
Shreveport, La.—E. T. Conroy, for-
merly member of the Des Moines, la
Western League team, who came to
Shreveport from New Orleans several
months ago and was arrested on the
charge of passing a forged check, was
held guilty Thursday of uttering a
forged Instrument.
Crops Saved at Karnes City.
San Antonio, Tex.—Dr. W. 8. Pick-
ett of Karnes City Is In the city] He
says the rain of Sunday came just In
time to save the crops in his section.
He says that both corn and cotton are
late, but with a good season an av-
erage crop may be expected.
8uicide at Austin. ,
Austin, Tex.—J. E. Sharp, an Aus-
tin contractor, was found dead on his
front porch Thursday morning. He
had died ■ as the result of a pistol
Wound through the head. He had
been HI for a long time, and de-
spondency is assigned for his act.
National Prosperity Association Makes
June 1 a Glad Day.
St. Louis, Mo.—As a result of the
National Prosperity Association and
its Empoyment Day plan, June 1 saw
17,200 men back at work in St. Louis,
men who lost their positions or were
laid off during the recent financial andu
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possibly 2,000 were employed after
the association sent out its request to
the different manufacturers and cor-
porations May 1, asking them to1 ob-
serve Employment Day, many of the
firmB acting at once on the suggestion.
The executive committee of the asso-
ciation has taken the plan up with
railroads and other corporations out-
side of St. Louis and many have
agreed to try it. The number of men
to be re-employed outside of St. Louis
has not been learned.
Course of the Red River Is Marked by
Serious Conditions.
Texarkana, Tex.—All Red River
plantations in this section, covering a
front of perhaps 100 miles, are under
water, some of them to a depth of
many feet.
Destruction and desolation reign su-
preme, and where two days ago were
fine growing crops, only a mighty
waste of waters is now to be seen.
Thousands upon thousands of acres of
corn, cotton and alfalfa have been
swept away, and many miles, horses
and other live stock have been
drowned.
FINAL APPORTIONMENT.
Schools Were Awarded $6 Per Capita
and Early Payment Expected.
Austin, Tex.—The State Department
of Education Monday made the cus-
tomary apportionment from the avail-
able school fund, the same being $432,-
254. This amount is sent to the vari-
IH1 BoUuueS1 am independent school
^districts oh a $fi per capita basis of
disbursement. This month’s appor-
tionment also clears the balance for
the year, the disbursement being made
through the tenth coupon. There will
be no apportionment during the
months of July and August. The ear-
Mississippi Pilot Commission.
Baton- Rouge, La.—As a first result
of the legislative probing of the port
of New Orleans and the investigations
carried on at Galveston, Savannah,
Jacksonville and elsewhere, bills were
introduced in the two houses of the
general assembly Friday providing for
a board of commissioners to have ab-
solute jurisdiction over pilotage on the
river and.harbor of New Orleans. This
board shall consist of five members,
one bar pilot, one river pilot and three
citizens. The bills also provide for the
fixed charges of bar pilots at $3 per
foot and river pilots at $2 per foot.
ly disbursement Is due to the excellent
collection of the taxes which contrib-
ute to the available school fund. The
department is hoping that the ensuing
apportionment for the year 1908-09
will exceed $0 per capita, the present
basis, whicii is also in excess of any
that has yet been made. The financial
end of the current school year is com-
pleted with this month’s apporitlon-
ment.
DECEPTIVE RAI8ED BILL.
Bills Which
Detect
Twenties Made from $2
Are Hard to
Houston, Tex.—One of the most dar-
ing pieces of bill-raising that the po-
Negro Boy 8laln.
Rockdale, Tex.—Earnest Taylor was
stabbed Saturday night about 11
o’clock, and as a result died an hour
later. Frank Evans was arrested Sun-
day morning by Constable Arledge,
charged with the deed. Both parties
are negro boys, each about 14 years
old. Evans has made bond In the sum
of $750. '
Chasing the Chinamen.
Victoria, Tex.—Inspector R. D. G.
Gould was here Friday on his way to
Port Lavaca in pursuit of two China-
men, who, it is said, entered this coun-
try at Brownsville and made their way
from Corpus to Port Lavaca by boat.
Sheriff Weisinger and Deputy Mar-
shal Smith are assisting Mr. Gould in
finding the Chinamen.
Kamas City, Tex.—A number of
young men from Kenedy were fined
here in the county court for theft of
melons. They went into a car on the
sidetrack and purloined three dozen
melons, and the fine and costs against
each was $35.10, making melons very
costly:
Lampasas, Tex.—The remains of
Norton Moses, accompanied by his
sons, which were to have arrived here
Sunday morning and been interred
Sunday afternoon at -Strlckling, have
been waterbound at Purcell, Ok., all
this , week, and word has not yet been
received ep to when they will arrive.
lice and federal authorities have ever
had to deal with has- been put through
in Houston during the past ten days.
About a dozen two-dollar bills raised
to twenties have shown up and others
are expected now that the case has
been made public. The raising Is ap-
parently the work of a professional.
TEXAS VOLUNTEERS PENSIONED.
Defenders of Frontier Against Mexican
• Marauders.
Washington.—After knocking at the
door of Congress for fifty-three years
for recognition, the surviving officers
and enlisted men of the Texas volun-
teers won their long fight for pensions
tfy the action of the house in passing
the senate bill making provision there-
for. These men were employed In the
defense of the frontier of Texas
against Mexican marauders and Indi-
an depredations from 1855 to 18C0.
“Tired nature’s,
sweet restorer,
balmy sleep,” is
essential to the
health and vigor
of body and mind-
But our moral
and spiritual na-
tures need no
sleep. Love,
faith, hope, hu-
mility need never
slumber. Hence in
heaven we shall
be able to serve
God day and
night. The spirit-
ual will have the supremacy. The un-
tiring will be forever active.
In the ninth verse of the previous
chapter Israel is trying to wake up
Jehovah. “Awake, awake; put on
strength, O arm of the Lord.” The
words of our text is God’s answer
to that prayer. “Awake, awake; put
on thy strength, O Zion.” “Wake up
yourself,” says the Lord. “I am not
asleep. No attribute of mine needs
repose. I am ready, willing, waiting
to exert my power, whenever you ful-
fill the conditions I have Imposed.”
We have not by prayer or exertion to
induce God to bless us. But prayer
and exertion God requires for our
good. It would be no kindness in him
to bless sleeping Christians. They
would not know it, if he did. Let us
inquire:
1. ” What are the signs of sleep?
2. What are the causes of sleep?
3. Why should we awake?
The Signs of Sleep.
Inactivity. If a man remains mo-
tionless on the lounge for three or
four hours, I take it for granted that
die is asleep. If he should continue
in that motionless condition for three
or four days, I should pronounce him
dead. If a Christian does nothing for,
Christ, he is asleep. If he persists'
in his course of uselessness, It is a
fair presumption that he is no Chris-
tian at all. Life will express itself.
By their fruits ye shall know them.”
insensibility to Slight Impressions.
If I wished to learn whether a man
were asleep, I would not. fire a can-
non over him. Awake or asleep, he
would be aroused by that. I would
whisper to him or. touch him gently/
The fact that you are startled by the
cannon-boom of great crime is no
proof that you are awake. But how are
you affecte.d by what the world calls
little sins? Disobedience of any kind
makes the wide-awake Christian smart
with pain.
^j}f-Directed Effort. People talk and,
walk in their sleep, but it is all to no;
purpose. Their talk is incoherent,
and their walk without aim. When
pastor and people, with all their,
preaching and activities, have no
blessing, it is because tjiey are
asleep.
Causes of Sleep. >
Inactivity. One is not apt to go to1
•sleep while he is moving about A
Christian active in winning souls will'
not go to pleep. His activity will keep
him awake. Go to work. Exercise,
your mental, moral and spiritual limbs.
Atmosphere. Certain climates put,
So there are moral.
Mad Skunk in Stockdale Home.
Stockdale, Tex.—A mad skunk en-
tered the home of Mr. Arthur Hobbs
Saturday. It fought with his dog,
then tried to attack Mrs. Hobbs and
children. She fastened herself and
children up In the room and summon-
ed Mr. Jlobbs, who was employed in
the Covington store; Mr. Hobbs suc-
ceeded in killing the skunk and says
lie will kill his dog also.
Elka’ Building Fund Carnival.
San Antonio, Tex.—The Elks of this
city are preparing to give a grand
carnival for the benefit of their build-
ing fund. They are about to com-
plete one of the finest buildings in
the city.
people to sleep,
and social atmospheres that seem to
be very good, but Christians who go:
into them fall asleep. Prove to me!
that the atmosphere of the theater, the
ballroom and the club are as good
as the prayer meeting; that first-
class people go to these places; that
men and women whose characters are
above reproach patronize them; the
fact remains that these good people
are, as Christians, sound asleep. They
are not awake to winning souls, con-
verting the heathen, building up the
church.
Why We Should Wake Up.
It Is Harvest Time. Christ looked
out upon the fields and declared that
they were ripe, waiting for the sickle.
To-day the fields are larger and the
grain just as ripe. Shame, shame, a
thousandfold, on the Christian who
sleeps and takes his rest, while the
fields in which he might reap many
golden sheaves are all around him,
and the grain that invites his sickle is
being trampled by the hoofs of infidel-
ity and sin.
It Is a Time of War, and the Enemy
Is Wide Awake. While we sleep, the
citadels of truth are being taken. Otir
very children are made captive by the
enemy.
We Are Watchmen, F:aced by the
Lord on the Walls to Give the People
Warning. Sleep Is treason. For the
private soldier to fall to sleep In the
midst of battle Is bad enough, but for
the sentinel on whom depmds the
safety of the army to sleep at his post
is criminal. And doubly^ criminal is
it, when those we love are fn dafiger
Wake un. aDd seek their salvation.
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Manry, E. J. & West, W. L. Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 4, 1908, newspaper, June 4, 1908; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth660430/m1/2/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Livingston Municipal Library.