The Sulphur Springs Gazette. (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, September 27, 1912 Page: 2 of 12
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THE SULPHUR SPRINGS GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 27, 1912
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..We Invite Everybody.
To Pfiy Our Store a Visit
and inspect our nearly complete
stock. We carry nearly every-
thing in Household Conveniences.
Here Are Some of the Things We Are Showing:
17 qt. Blue and White Granite Dish Pan • • • • 75c
Granite Teakettles, 50c to.................90c
Granite Wash Pans, 10c, 15c, 25c and.....-.35c
Granite Coffee Pots, 25c, 35c and...........45c
Granite Dippers, 10c to....................25c
Standard Books for boj’s and girls at 25c and 35c
Conner’s Racket Store
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McDaniel printing company,
R. W. FANNING, Editor.
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Long staple cotton sold In Clarks-
ville last week for 26 cents per pound.
It is a safe rule when you have any-
thing to sell, and a good price is of-
fered, to let it go on the first op^
portunlty.
The cold wave last Monday was like
sare-enopgh winter, and firee >amd
heavier clothes were in demand; in
fact, Jack Frost was not far away.
Governor Eugene Foss, of Massa-
chusetts won the Democratic re-nom-
ination for the Governorship in Wed-
nesday’s election—another score for
the Democratic landslide.
HIGH COST OF MARKETING FARM
PRODUCTS.
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REAL ORIGIN OF THE PEARL
OUR GREATEST NEED!
A deporable condition of affairs ex-
ists in Sulphur Springs, by reason of
the ever-pressing demand for more
rent houses. For the past twelve
months it has been an arduous task
to find a vacant house within our
city limits. People have moved here
and been compelled to board several
months before they could secure a
place to begin housekeeping. More
peopleware coming every day; and our
little city is full to overflowing. Ev-
ery residence in £he corporate limits
is occupied; every boarding and room-
ing house is full, and our city’s pro-
gress is being retarded in her steady
growth by reason of this deplorable
condition.
A number of our progiessive citi-
zens have been building residences for
rental purposes, and the song of the
carpenter’s hammer and saw is still
heard on almost every street through-
out the entire town, hut still the de-
mand for houses cannot be supplied.
A number of our citizens still have
idle capital, and to them we suggest,
in the interest of a greater and more
prosperous Sulphur Springs, that they
BUILD HOUSES! We know rents
have been low here for years, but they
have been steadily advancing for the The cost of handling the peaches af-
Down in Van Zandt a new bug has
made his appearance and is eating up
the boll worms. Farmers regret that
he did not^come sooner as the boll
worm has "done much damage tp the
cotton.
A close student of henology gives it
m her personal observation that a
hen will lay at the exact time when
she was hatched; for instance, if the
kiddy was hatched at 7 o'clock a. m.,
she will without variation lay at that
hour. • « ( /
In effect, Col. Roosevelt has written
friends in London that he is not ex-
pecting to capture the Presidency, but
will have the time of his life ‘‘stirring
sip the animals. This stunt doubtless
the Colonel will pull off, to the dis-
credit of Taft and profit of Wilson.
past two years and htfVe now reached
the point where they become a source
of profit to the property owner
We need more manufacturing enter-
prises; we need several things to make
a real city of Sulphur Springs—all of
which will come in due season—but
our greatest present need is HOUSES
for our present population and the
many good citizens from other parts
who are anxious to cast their lot with
Sulphur Springs. The rent house prob-
lem is one that the enterprising citi-
zens of Sulphur Springs should take
hold of and solve NOW, while the
question is of vital interest to our
town and our people.
Cotton is coming in at a lively rate
and a good price is being paid. By
experience the fanners have learned
that a good price paid in hand is bet-
ter than a prospective better price
to be paid in the future, and, acting
on this policy they are selling as fast
as they get It ready for market.
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It is thought the G. O. P. will dis-
card all differences and get together
in time to save the party. This is not
probable in the light of the record
of Roosevelt, who will maintain to
the finish his heretofore unbroken
rcord as a stayer with anything he ad-
vocates.
It seems that peaches are not a pay-
ing proposition in the good old state
of Georgia. An exchange tells us that
the largest peach orchard in the world,
located near Macon, has been cut
down and the trees burned, because
the orchard was not a paying invest-
ment.
MAGNIFY NOT THY BROTHER’S
FAULTS—BE FAIR;
History tells us of hut one perfect
man. This being true, why should we
magnify ^ach other’s faults? Why
not give our friends and fellowmen
full credit for their good traits and
seek to condone their faults and mis-
takes, rather than magnify them?
When we err, or make a false step,
vjp hope for and expect forgiveness;
then, in order that we may be worthy,
is it not fair that we forgive our fel-
lows for like errors or mistakes? The
man who is full of ego, sees none of
his own mistakes, or, when being
brought face to face with them, seeks
to explain them away, as mere non-es-
sentials; but let his friend or fellow-
man be guilty of the same mistake,
and it becomes unpardonable and in-
excusable error. This is the wrong
spirit; a man can never reach the
high plane of real good and useful
citizenship until he becomes so fair
and liberal in his views that he sets
no higher standard of perfection for
his brother than he does for himself,
and is willing to accord to his fellow-
man every right he claims for his own.
Fairness is one of the first requisites
to good citizenship and the greatest
essential in real character building,
and no man can round out a truly suc-
cessful life without it. It has been
said that we get back from life just
about what we put into it; so, in deal-
ing with humanity, follow the old axi-
om, “Do unto others as you would
have them do unto you”—be fair with
the world,/ if you want the world to
be fair with you.
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S. A. LINDSEY.
Tyler, Tex., Sept. 25.—Mr. S. A.
Lindsey, chairman of the sub-commit-
tee on production and Marketing of
Farm Products, has been conducting
an investigation into the mgh cost of
marketing, on behalf of the Welfare
Commission. There have been shipped
out from this city this season 1,571
carloads of peaches to out-of-state
points and the last end of the crop
rotted on t£e ground for want of mar-
ket, although the consumer was anx-
ious for the fruit.
A great deal of the Texas product
goes to Colorado and Mr. Lindsey’s in-
vestigation into market conditions at
Colorado points shows peaches that
the Texas producer gets sixty cents
per bushel for packed and delivered
f. o. b. Tyler art a cost of 27 cents for
picking, packing and hauling, sell to
the Colorado consumer at $3.75 per
bushel, and when the market drops
to $3.42 per bushel the Tpxas farmer
gets nothing for his peaches. The
cost per bushel of marketing a bushel
mmon point
as follows;
Picking, 2 cents; packing, 2 cents;
package, 20 cents; hauling, 3 cents;
freight, 40 cents; icing, 15 cehts;
handling after reaching Colorado,
$2.60; total, $3.42. It follows that
peaches which sell to the Colorado
consumer for $3.75 brought in Texas
33 cents.
of peaches in Boulder, a cor
with Denver, is distribute*
ter they get to Colorado is more than
four times the cost f. o. b. Tyler, and
nearly five times the^ cost of the
freight and icing clmrads added to-
gether.
This situation exists to a greater or
lesser degree with all perishable
farm products, and many that are not
strictly perishable.
The high cost of marketing reflects
its results upon Texas producers in
that it lessens the consumption of the
quantity and reduces prices below the
cost of production.
EDITORS AT GREENVILLE.
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Northeast Texas Press Association
i Holds First Meeting in
Gre*nv»He,
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Frank P. Holland, of the Farm and
/Ranch, has invited the peach growers
I of Texas to a state meeting, to be held
daring the Fair, to devise a plan of
gotting together under one organiza-
tion to the end of selling their peaches
The heavy crop this
the incident waste and pooi;
Broom corn is one of the absolute
necessities of every household. Hetty
Green, one of the most successful
financiers of the age, said; “If you
would succeed, deal in a necessity.”
In this connection the growers of
broom corn in Goliad county expect to
ship fifteen thousand tons the present
season, and have set the price at $100
per ton. Texas is adapted to broom
corn and there is no reason why it
should not become one of the staple
monied crops.
There was a great gathering of
newspaper men in Greenville last Fri-
day, the occasion being the organiza-
tion of the Northeast Texas Press As-
sociation. There were about fifty
editors present, representing the most
progressive papers throughout North-
east Texas. Permanent organization
was perfected and Harve P. Nelson, of
the Greenville Bannef^was made pres-
ident, and J. A. Green, of the Leonard
Graphic, was made secretary-treasurer.
A splendid dinner was spread for
the newspaper men at the Beckham
Hotel and a banquet was tendered
them by the Booster Club that night.
The people of Greenville met the. vis-
itors with glad hands and ma^e them
feel that it was good te be there. The
entire party was shown th city in au-
tomobiles in the afternoon, and later
carried around the street car circuit
with the compliments of the Green-
ville Traction Company
Those who spent the entire day as
guests of Greenville report a busy
and highly profitable and pleasant day.
The Gazette editor started hiB part of
the day’s program with the auto ride,
and finished up with the banquet
given by the Booster Club. A number
of Interesting and highly instructive
speeches were made, on the “after-
dinner” style, at the banquet. Dr.
Joe Becton acted as toast-master and
met the occasion in such a pleasant,
affable manner that he kept everybody
In a good humor and made the guests
feel at home .
We feel that Messrs. Nelson and
Horton, of the Dally Banner, the oth-
er newspaper men and printers of
Greenville, the Booster Club and all
others who contributed to the suc-
cess of the organization and its first
meeting are to be congratulated up-
on the splendid way in which Green-
ville handled the meeting.
The next meeting of the Associa-
tion will be held in Paris.
Science Has Rudely Shattered Poetic
Idea That Has Been Held
For Centuries.
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For many centuries, even until com-
paratively recent times, it was the
common belief that pearls were drops
of dew that gained entrance into the
shell of an oyster, anck.were there
transpired into lustrous gems. Arab
and Indian divers still believe that at
certain seasons oysters come to the
surface and suck in the rain-drops
that later become pearls. Science,
however, has rudely shattered this
poetic fancy, and discovered the real
origin to be a worm. Dr. Hugh M.
Smith gives some interesting infor-
mation on this subject in the National
Geographic Magazine.
We how know that almost any for-
eign body—a grain of sand, a bit of
mud or shell, a piece of seaweed or
a small animal—may by Its irritation
cause the mollusk to cover it with
nacre and make it the nucleus of a
pearl; but the largest part of the an-
nual pearl-crop of the world is due to
parasites that normally pass a part
of their life-cycle within the shell of
the pearl-oyster.
Minute spherical larvae of marine
worms known as Cestodes become em-
bedded in the soft tissues, as many as
forty having been found in one Cey-
lon oyster. As the result of irrita-
tion, the oyster forms a protecting
sac about the intruder, and then, if
the larva dies, its body is gradually
converted into carbonate of lime, and
the pearly mass proceeds to grow
with the shell.
If the larva lives, it may pass Into
the body of the strong-jawed trigger-
fishes which prey on the pearl-oyaters,
there undergoing further development
Ultimately it reaches the body of the
great rays, which In turn eat the trig-
ger-fishes. In the rays the worms at-
tain full, development, and produce
larvae that are cast into the sea and;
find lodgment in pearl-oysters. Thus
the cycle is be^un once more.
We may literally accept the saying
of a celebrated French investigator,
that “the most beautiful pearl is in
reality only the brilliant sarcophagus
of a worm.”
NO SATISFYING PASS FIEND
Comedian Relates Story That Would
Seem to Be Almost the Limit
Even In That Line.
Raymond Hitchcock Is to he credited
with this story, says the New York
correspondent of the Cincinnati Times
Star. He deserves it, for of late he
has milked cows from the wrong side,
fussed with his wife on the deck of
an ocean liner and been kicked into
the water by a motor boat In his hunt
for first page position and something
better than a No. 4 headline. “An old
friend of mine came to me last win-
ter,” said Hitchcock, “and asked me
to get him tickets to the show in which
I was then appearing ‘I would if I
could, old chap,’ I said, ‘but honestly,
I can’t get ’em for you. I have no ac-
count at the box office. The only way
in which I can get you tickets would
be to pay for them out of my own
Socket.’
“ ‘Aw,’ said he, ‘any old place will
do. I don’t care where I sit. See if
they won’t let you have a pair for me.
Explain to 'em that I’m an old friend. ”
Mr. Hitchcock admittedly lost his
temper. He pulled a flve-dollar hill
out of his pocket and walked toward
the box office window. They had
been standing in the theater lobby.
"I’ll prove to you,” he said, sourly,
“that I have been telling the truth.”
And to the man behind the cash reg-
ister: “Two seats at a dollar and a
half each.” And then he handed them
to the persistent pass grafter. “Now,”
said he, “I hope you’re satisfied.”
“ ‘Yep,* said the other. ‘I am, and
my wife will be tiqkled to death. But,
gee, my sister-in-law will be disappoint-
ed because I only got two.’ ”
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THE NEW STORE
We have moved from the old Hargrove
stand on the corner two doors west on
Connally street, where we will he glad to
see all our friends. We invite yotfto see our
New Ginghams at 7 l-2c and 8 1-3c per yard
DON’T F0R6ET WE HAVE MOVED TWO Q00RS WEST
AUSLEY & SON
HAD HEARD OF THE BANDITS
Great English Actress Thus Explained
Why She Had Put Her Money
in Her Trunk.
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Some person may find it hard to be-
lieve this story, but it is true, every
word of it.
When Irving and Terry, the cele-
brated English artists, came to Kansas
City in the spring of 1900 it was their
first tour this far west. From Kansas
City the company went to St. Joseph
and the trjp was begun about 10
o’clock in the morning. Miss Terry
was standing near her train at the
Union depot, talking to Laurence Irv-
ing, a son of Sir Henry. Presently
Miss Irving’s maid approached and
whispered to the actress that she
needed $5 to pay for some drayage
and other incidentals.
“I haven’t that much,” said the ac-
tress. “Laurence, lend me $5.”
The younger Irving immediately re-
sponded, but out of curiosity asked
the actress what she had done withj
her money.
“In my trunk,” said Ellen Terry.
“In your trunk!” ejaculated Mr*
Irving. “Why in your trunk?” >
“Train robbers!” said the actress,
“Don’t you know that Missouri 14
noted for its train robbers?”
And it was no Jest. As a matter of
cold fact, about all that any member
of the Irving and Terry company had
ever heard about Kansas City wag
the town’s intimate relations with the
James boys.—Kansas City Star.
Ex-President Roosevelt was a guest
of Springfield, Mo., last Monday night.
His reception was enthusiastic and
pronounced, and hundreds from ad-
joining towns and cities turned out to
hear (he policies of the man who leads
the new party—to defeat and the-ov-
erthrow of the G. O. P. as a conse-
quent incident. •
As compared to last year, those who
are in a position to know say the cot-
ton crop of Hunt county, one of the
best counties in the state from a pro-
ductive standpoint, say the crop indi-
cates a yield of 500 to 600 pounds of
seed cotton per acre, and that all
things considered the crop will not
be as good as last year
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The Mayor of Wolfe City has issued
a proclamation and given due notice
that every dog roaming on the streets
without being securely muzzled will
be instantly killed by the City Mar-
shal. If there is a public nuisance, it
is a mangy dog lying around and
should be abolished, muzzle or no muz-
zle.
8ize and Strength.
Increase of population is not neces-
sarily a good thing of itself, nor is a
low birth rate necessarily a bad thing.
Increase of population does not even
make any necessary additions to the
national strength.
England would be a stronger nation
than she is today if her population
had not out-run her food supply. Many i
thoughtful'observers believe the same
true of Germany.
Patrons of the prize ring used to
say that a man weighing 180 pounds
weighed enough. A man of that weight
was deemed big enough to encounter
any adversary, and additional weight
was thought as likely to be a hin-
drance as a help.
The rule may hold good with na-
tions as with men, though to be sure
no one knows where to draw the line.
But the nation which is much too big
to feed itself has taken on a handi-
cap, to say the least.
By reason of the fearful epidemic
among horses in Kansas recently, it
is stated that farmers may have to
use steers to do their fall plowing and
seeding. It is remembered that many
years ago an epidemic known as “pink
eye” broke out in Kansas and prac-
tically killed every horse in twenty
counties^, and it is asserted that the
recent plague has been as fatal.
T^VONT walk into a stoic
J and pick out a suit that
may appear individual
to you, then walk along Fashion
Avenue and bunk into a half dozen
other* wearing the same style.
Throw a little
v ourself. Gall on as _
•how you 500 ekquisile individual
strictly pure wvol samples from
the well known "BrONER" Ene,
and let us tmtlor a suit to yum
indhddual measure, aad you have
our assurance That you will be the
envy of your circle.
A B, BOHANNON
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Within the past year, six nations
have contributed to the population of
the United States more than a mil-
lion souls. Of this number Italy leads
with 176,107, >and England second
with 86,131. v
Our townsman, Dr. Wm. Oliver, who
has been in poor health for serenl
months, grew suddenly worse Wednes-
day and as we go to press we learn
his condition is very critical and his
recov ery doubtful.
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Judge William F. Ramsey, late can-
didate for Governor, has announced
his intention of locating in Austin to
j practice
Bicycles in France.
The number of bicycles in France
appears to be on the increase, judging
from the latest returns for 1911, which
give a total of 3,009.626, as compared
with 2.697,406 of the previous year.
The total revenue from the tax on bi-
cycles last year amounted to upward
of nine millions of francs, or about
half a million francs more than in
1910. The ten departments having the
greatest number of bicycles last year
were those of the Seine, with 309,759;
Nord, 159,656; Seine-et-Oise, 97,271;
Gironde, 75,390; Pas-de-Calais, 70,610;
Seine-Inferieure, 62,997; Maine-at-
Loire, 60,265; Saone-et-Loire, 58,595;
Belne-et-Marne, 55,594; Loiret, 54,510.
The department with the smaHestj
number was that of Lozere, with only
1,920 ci
What you want, we have it at
just the price you want to pay
hardware, Croc Aery, Slass ware,
China9 *Dry Soods and Tfotlons
Noveliies and Toys of all kinds
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