The Tribune. (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, August 4, 1911 Page: 3 of 8
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TEXAS FARMERS
CATTLEMEN of TEXAS NEED
PROTECTION.
STONE AND WILLIAMS OBJECT
Tixin
Plana to Strike Out
Provlalona of Proa
List Bill.
Farm
Washington: In an effort to save
tha cattleman of Texas from world-
wide competition and to prerent the
agricultural interests of the United
8tates from facing a similar condi-
tion, Senator Bailer has introduced
an amendment to the frd* list bill
pending in the senate striking out
that portion which deals with farm
products. Thera is a strong probabil-
ity that this amendment will be adop-
ted.
Senators Stone and Williams, Dam
oerats, objected to this amendment
when proposed In connection with the
reciprocity bill and they may again In
terpoee objections, but with the new
coalition la the Senate its adoption
now becomes more probable.
In addition to a favorable outlook
tor the passage of the free list bill,
It Is understood the democrats and
Insurgents are “ery close to an agree-
ment on the cotton schedule, debate
apon which opened in the House last
week. Penrose, leader of the stand-
pat Republicans, expects to see this
bill rushed through before adjourn
fnent
Majority Leader Underwood of the
house may hold a conference with
the members of the Ways and Means
Committee. The House will refuse to
concur In the Senate amendments. It
Is the disposition of the House to wait
for the Senate to ask for appoint-
ment of a free conference committee,
but this will occasion little delay, as
the Senate Is anxious for action now
Texas will have two members of
the conference committee, Senator
Bailey and Representative Randell.
A strong stand will be made for the
original Underwood bill before a com
promise la reached.
STATE COURSE OF STUDY.
Department of Education Provides for
Al Grades Taught.
Austin: Por the first time In the
history of Texas the State Depart-
ment of Education has prepared a
complete course of study for the pub-
llc schools of tbe State, ranging from
grade In the primary school
to and including the four years
,the regular high school, eleven
of grades being Included In the
Course of study. Another fea-
about this course of study is
that tjt contains regular courses In the
high School for the subjects of agrl
culture, manual training and domestic
eoonomy. The first four years or
grades are allotted to the primary
aehooL the fifth, sixth and seventh
years .or grades to the Intermediate
school and the eighth, ninth, tenth
and evelenth to the high school. State
Superintendent F. M. Bralley says
that one who satisfactorily completes
this course of study will be reason-
ably well prepared for the duties and
responsibilities of life, and at the
same time will be equipped to enter
the freshman year of the oolleges of
the State. A .
GREAT UNREST IN MEXICO
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Danger of a Reign of Unlawfulness Is
Apparent.
San Antonio: That the State De-
partment Is uneasy in regard to con-
ditions la. Mexico, especially In view
of the approaching general election, Is
shown by the disposition of the troops
to remain In Texas. Two brigades,
numbering almost 10,000 troops, will
be kept within easy reach of the bor-
der for an Indefinite period. Exten-
sive Investigation Is being made by
the Engineering corps in regard to
the available camps, particular atten-
tion being paid to water supply and
railroad transportation for the quick
movement of troops. There will be
a patrql of two companies of cavalry
continued on the border and the re-
maining troops will be within easy
reach.
Tbe undercurrent of unrest that Is
seemingly now to reach all parts of
Mexico has had Its effect on the for-
eign residents. Many foreigners are
leaving the Republic.
What Is believed to be either honey
dew or root wilt has appeared In the
otton fields in some sections of An-
pn County. ___,_'.
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vsston Office to Be Savings Banff.
Washington: Galveston Is to get a
savings bank which will be
i receive deposits on August >8.
Galveston Is chosefi as the seoond of
the large Texas oitles for a postal
bank because of Its large Interna-
tional money order and foreign post-
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duction of Rate.
Original House Bill and
Bill Difference Split. Large Re-
Washington: A sort of compro-
mise bill revising tbe woolen eched-
ule was passed in the Senate through
a combination of Democrats, and in-
surgent Republicans by a vote of 48
to 32, after considerable parliamen-
tary maneuvering which permitted
record votes demonstrating that neith-
er the House wool bill nor the wool
bill prepared by Senator La Follette
and offered as a substitute for tbe
House bill could eommand a major-
ity.
The compromise bill thus passed by
the Senate provides for a reduction
of the duty on raw wool of 6 per
cent below the 40 per cent rate of
the original La Follette measure, with
corresponding reduction on tbe duties
on woolen manufactures. But Sena-
tor La Follette and his friends say
tbe general average of rates in bis
bill Is vary much lower than the aver-
age of ratea in tbe Payne-Aldrlch act
and but about 18 per cent higher than
the average of the House bill For
Instance, it has been figured that the
general average of the Payne-Aldrlch
act Is 118, of tbe House bill 34%, and
of the La Follette bill 47 per cent.
CAMPAIGN EXPENSE RULING
Pro and Anti Must Pile Bill of Ex-
penses for Campaign.
Austin: Attorney General Light-
foot has completed bis qplnlon to
County Judge Young of Dallas County,
and bolds that the pros and antis
must file Itemized statements of re-
ceipts and expenditures, dtc., Incident
to the campaign which terminated
with last Saturday’s election. Tbe
opinion establishes an Important pre-
cedent In the State. The reports to
be filed as a result of it will probably
have close scrutiny by tbe coming spe-
cial session.
It also directs attention to the dis-
crepancy in the provision of tbe law
requiring tbe filing of the reporta
and that prescribing the penalty, but
refuses to say whether or not It nul-
lifies the penalty. However, It is not
expected that either side will take
advantage of the situation and refuse
to file a statement.
Found Dead by Track.
Handley: The body of an unknown
man was found at tbe side of tbe
Texas ft Pacific track, about one mile
west of this place, by the crew of a
freight train. The left leg was en-
tirely severed from the body, just be-
low tbe thigh, and there was a braise
on the side of his left jaw, as If he
had been struck with a heavy weapon.
Council, Issued a call for another eleo-
tlon to be held for the same purpose on
Tuesday. August 28.
Body Cut In Twain.
Dallas: William Amos, a negro,
apparently 40 years old, was run over
and instantly killed by a Frisco pas-
senger train as It was lsavlng Dallas
for Fort Worth. Amos’ body was
several about the hips, both feet were
cut off, the lower limbs badly mu-
tilated and other parts of tbs body
cut and mashed.
Mother ef Many Children Diet.
Dallas: Mrs. Mary Jane Butler,
aged 78, died Thursday at tbe home
of her son, W. H. Butler, on the Lem
mon avenue road. She was born In
Kentucky and bad lived In Dallas for
twenty-five years. Mrs. Butler Is sur-
vived by fourteen children, seventy-
five grandchildren and twenty-seven
great-grandchildren.
Railways and Street Care to Report.
Austin: Every railroad and street
car company In Texas will be required
within tbe next sixty days to report
to IB* Labor Commissioner the num-
ber of men employed, the amount earn-
ed by each dally, and a Iso tbs general
condition of their employes, also other
statistics. This Is under the act creat-
ing the department of labor.
Convicted Man Shot.
Houstoa: E. L. Reaves, a white man
who is out on bond pending an ap-
peal to the Court of Criminal Appeals
from a conviction for sscond degree
murder, was shot and probably fatally
wounded at a late hour Thursday night
In the suburbs of tbe city. George
Vettl is charged with the shooting,
which Is said to have resulted from a
difficulty.
.
•1 business, it being tbe purpose of
the Postofflce Department to first
fir^.......
the foreign element whfoh sends
of Its settlings abroad for aafo-
Oal veston la considered an
e for such a bank.
Hopkins' Psashss Pay Well
Sulphur Springs: The cash receiv-
ed on the Elberta peach shipments
from Hopkins County up-to last Fri-
day In car lots and express shipments
Is $62,800. The amounts taken from
tbe growers by tbs wagon trad# from
the black lands Is not Included In the
above, but will be ascertained and
tabulated later.
The contract tor the $60,000 Federal
building at Terrell baa been let, and
work will soon be under way.
New Orleans Men Suicides.
Dallas: A whits man about thirty
years old, signing his name as H.
Dournaux, blew his brains out Thurs-
day morning about $:$0 o’clock at
tbs Airs villa Hotel, 102% Cental ave-
nue. He left a note requesting who-
ever found bis body to notify kit
brother, Frank Dournaux, Now Or-
leans, La.
ITHIN tbe past few years
representatives of outdoor
sports among tbs women
of this country have mul-
tiplied and Increased to s
greater extent than In any
previous era. Although
In the years p.sst there
have been a few devotees
of tbe mon strenuous
sports end recreations, tbs modern women
has just begun to realise all that outdoor
Ufa means to her, and tbe benefits she may
derive thereby.
A great number of tbe women who are
today living a life of health and pleasure
In tbe outdoor world have developed from
timid, feebls beings of no physique what-
ever, whose only socalled pleasures were
found over cards and other social func-
tions tbs nature of which not only sap the
physical, but Impair the mental vitality m '{
welL These women date their convalescent ’
period from the time these enervating
pastimes were abandoned for a Ufa free
from petty worries and carts—tbe life of
the groat outdoors.
What a blessing It would be to womankind If
more husbands end brothers, being sportsmen
themselves, would say oftener: “Come, go with
me into the woodland’s cool retreat, to the clear
lake where lurk the wily baas, and the air is
filled with tbs fragrance of growing things" or
perhaps, "Corns Where Bob White la hiding In
the lonely willow swale."
At a rule, man la. or haa been, a selfish crea-
ture where sport Is concerned, and until recent
years has considered bis work well done when
after a fortunate day of aport he came home,
glowing with exercise and vigor bringing tbe flab
•v game for tbe “meek and humble" wife to pre-
pare. But mankind also la beginning to “see tbe
error of bis ways," and each season there are
more and more recruits to tbs army of happy
men who have fitted their wives out with all
necessary equipment for tbe life outdoors,
whether to mast the requirements of tbs gentle
art of angling or tbe more exerting though not
lees congenial recreation with the gun. u
In the United States, those women who have
asserted themselves, either for thslr Inherent love
for nature, or the acquired attachment that in-
variably springs up-t-ths result of close com-
munion with natur*—have proven tbe equal, and
not Infrequently tbe superior of man contestants.
In games that try tbs utmost skill and endur-
ance In his or her special sport To tbs woman
who baa, as she will probably express It “lost
her health,” and whose strength and courage with
which to combat every-day tribulations Is fast
Asserting her, tbs one physician who can answer
every time as positive to a permanent cure Is old
Doctor Outdoors, and his prescriptions are many
and varied. This physician wHt* never advise a
timid, nervous woman to go for tbe first time,
armed with shotgun, nor would be tell a woman
who never had held before a mors formidable
weapon than a “straight flush" to start out after
big gams without some preliminary Instructions
In this 11ns. Tbs first advice would bo: Loan
to lore tbs outer world, cultivate a taste for
natural, beauty, learn to look, loam to listen,
learn to walk correctly, to tread tbe woodland
paths lightly, and learn to breaths, fully and
freely expanding, exhaling, till the blood cours-
ing merrily through every vein brings a warm
glow to cbeeka that have long been pinched and
fadad.
In using tbe terma. looking and listening, I
refer to the cultivation of the senses, without
which Ilfs In tbs open air loses much of Its en-
chantment Cultivate the sense of hearing;
wbsn out alone In the wooda, pause occasionally
and note bow many different sounds you can baar
distinctly and remember. Perhaps It Is tbs music
of a stream as It ripples softly over a bed of
gravel; maybe It Is tbs voice of the waterfull ae
It tumbles over great bowlders or through s nar-
row gorge, and simultaneously you may boar
the twitter of feathered songsters In the neigh-
boring trees, and tbs cry of some groat bird of
prey on Its pilgrimage through the air, wbllo
away off In the opposite direction comes tbs feint
tinkle of a cowbell. While grape!ng these separ-
ate, distinct sounds and storing them In your
mind your eyes have kept busy. Perhaps you
may notlee a bent or broken twig or a bush near
by, to your eye Involuntarily follows tbs course
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are rapid. Some animal haa passed that way.
As the twigs alone, and not tbs branches being
mutilated, you know tbs has not rushed
by In fright, and tbs nipped leaves higher up
will Indicate tbe leisurely passage of some her-
bivorous animal, and If you feel Inclined to fol-
low this trail you will bo rewarded In the end
by finding a stray borso, as at first surmised.
Not big gsme, far from It, but you have learned
one lesson In the book of woodcraft, which Is
only a page of the many volumes yet in store
for tho earnest studenL It may have been
smaller tracks that have claimed your sttontlon.
tracks that are visible In tbe soft earth. Learn
to distinguish those of a rabbit from those tbe
squirrel has made. Tbls la easy If you will be
member that In running tbe rabbit places both
lore feet close together end spreads the bind
feet apart, while tbe squirrel places all feet at
nearly equal distance apart In using tbe olfac-
tory sense you can stand perfectly still and tell
what trees or bush Is In blossom.
Truly, one season spent out of doors in culti-
vation and close observation will be of more real
benefit than years over books
These things, then, are the first rudiments
toward that higher education, tbs education of
the outdoor women. Perhaps the most Important
thing to be considered during tbe preparatory
stage Is tbe clothing to be worn, for without
comfortable attire, advanced lessons will bo of
Itttlo real benefit Although tbe outing costume
varies with the Individual taste, and also with
tho expenso to be considered, still tbe most
popular and tbe one universally adapted to most
mods Is a suit consisting of a plain short skirt
worn over knickerbockers, n coat of tbs sams
material, which may be made plain for camping
purposes alone, or supplied with tbe proper
pockets tor hunting and fishing. A soft flannsl
shirt will be found more convenient than a waist,
and stout shoss worn with loggings are lighter
and Isas fatiguing than tbs high top boots, al-
though tbsy may be worn to advantage In colder
weather or where there la a rough tramp to be
taken. A soft fslt hat, or cap with generous
via or to protect tbs eyes completes the costume.
After simplicity, durability la sn Item to be
considered. Strong, serviceable duck, canvas and
khaki cloth are durable and easily cleaned, but
of recent years whole suits of waterproof mate-
ria can be had at such reasonable coet that It
la folly and a greater expense to make one’s out-
ing garments at boms.
Cultivate a love for nature, which you can do
with neither rod ner gun, the us* of which Im-
plements of pleasure should come after tbs first
rudiments are mastered. With new strength and
nerve gained through a Ufa out of doors will also
come now courage and confidence.
In some Respects the prevailing variety of
aport is characteristic of that portion of country
wherein It la most Indulged. In tho southern and
some of the eastern states, fox hunting la one
of tho moat popular of recreations, as the physi-
cal features and topography of tho country make
tt tho natural homo of tho fox, rod and gray;
and In tho sunny south tor generations fox
hounds have been brad with tho exhilaration of
the chase la view; horses have keen judiciously
brad la order to hoop up with tbs hounds; and
established through generations of riding to
hounds in the open air, for It Is a sport that is
Indulged In to a great extent by women, and It
Is worthy of note that they have proved to be
tbe most fearless as wall as most graceful of
riders.
In tbs wilder portions of the west where the
turbulent broncho and tho fiery mustang bold
supremo sway, riding Is one of tho prevalent
modes of enjoyment, although In n vary different
manner from that of riding to hounds, for tho
.vestern horsewoman differs as much from tho
cultivated horsewoman of tho south and oast siv.
the broncho differs from the thoroughbred; and
yet the daughters of tho west are fearless riders,
many of whom are export ropers an<j spend their
spars moments In tha healthful, albeit rude,
atmosphere of tho camp.
Archery claims many devotees who sro very
enthusiastic over their favorite pastime, but an
yet the gams of William Toll baa not gained ns
tlonal pre-eminence. It seems to be growing In
popularity, howover.
Mora than a century before our beloved Isaao
Walton had published bis Immortal work, “Tho
Complete Angler,” another book was written oa
tbe subject so’dear to the heart of the angler—
this by a venerable dame, Julianna Berners. It
was called “Treatyse of Fysahynge wyth an
Anglo." and even In that remote time (1488)
there must have been the sams existing charm
of outdoor life and proof that a woman might
profit by this recreation either beside still waters
or running stream, as demonstrated In tbe old
dame’s words: ’Tt nods be tho dysporto of
fyshyngs wyth an angle that causeth a long life,
and a mery." And truly, what life can bo more
full of the sweet, seductive charm than an outing
beside a running brook?
Take a warm day In early spring when all
nature Is awakening from her long winter sloop.
Go away off “far from the maddening crowd" to
some sequestered nook wbors tbs trees are be-
ginning to wear their green dress of the season,
and whore tbs lark sings. Take with you the
light rod and little coaxer, and try your luck with
tbs finny tribe. It Is not all luck, however, and
It Is Interesting as well as Instructive to note
under what conditions tbs greatest amount of
success in angling can bo attained.
From a practical viewpoint, angling baa mush
to recommend It ss sn enjoyable means of
recreation, as tho sport need not bo mads aa
expensive one, although with angling as with
all other sports. It may bo made aa expensive aa
on# would wish, according to the richness of tbe
outfit to be employed end enjoyed. Many an old
fisherman, and any little boy will tell you that
he can catch more fish using a pole cut from a
neighboring tree, with home-made tackle, than
with the most elaborate set of bamboo rods and
flys ever manufactured.
Trap shooting Is a great sport and claim* a.
number of women devotee* In this country aa
well as abroad; It Is said that Queen Margharita.
of Italy Is an adept with both shotgun and rile,
trap shooting being her fmtorlt* diversion.
Gradually but persistently the outdoor woman
and lover of this means of recreation Is asserting
herself, and at present time plans ere under
way to perfect sn organisation composed of th*
women trap shooters of tho United States. Ae
tbs bead of thta movement la on# of the most
autbustastlc and abl* representatives of trap
shooting among tho fair sox. . More than svsr
women are beginning to realise bow mueh out-
door 'lfe moans to them, and they will seen find
that no one but tbe doctor haa a kick coming If
they spend thslr vacation In th* wtldoruaM or am
the plain*
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The Tribune. (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, August 4, 1911, newspaper, August 4, 1911; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth883174/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Stephenville Public Library.