Bell County Democrat (Belton, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, September 4, 1908 Page: 4 of 8
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A Carefully Digested and Condensed
Compilation of Currant Newa
Domeatlo and Foreign.
Snntejort have ascertained that
San Angelo now has . 260 miles of
etxeets and alleys.
Jaa. C. Von Vlareum, president
of the National Bank of Commeroe
of St Louis died Tuesday at Old
Forge, N. Y.
It is reported that eight men were
killed and several injured in a mine
•t Warrior Bun, eight miles from
Wilkesbarre, Pa.. Friday.
The bank in Fillmore, Allegheny
County, N. Y., was robbed Saturday
morning, and it is said that the rob-
bers got a large sum of money.
Frank Jensen of Fort Worth re-
raved a letter Friday telling of the
death by accident of Herbert Fors-
jter, formerly of that city, but re-
cently of Tantallion, Canada.
Friday morning at 8 o'clock a
train at Como knocked John Miller,
m blacksmith, off the track and killed
him. The man had started to cross
fhe track in front of the train.
The grand jury for Hill county
has adjourned after a session of only
thirteen days within which time
ainety-one true bills were returned,
of which only thirteen are for felon-
k
Oapt. P. C. Haines Jr. and his
brother, T. Jenkins Hains of New
York were held without bail for the
action of a grand iury Friday on a
eharge of the murder of William E.
eharge
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Aocepting an invitation from a
committee of the Dallas Trades As-
sembly, President Samuel Qompers
of fiie American Federation of La*
bor has agreed to deliver an addresa
In Dallas.
There waa a quarrel and a fight
between two young negroes at Dallas
early Friday morning. As a result
Julian Sutton, aged 19 yean, was
•tabbed under the nipple. He died
within a few minutes.
After an illness of several months
Dr. L. Meyers Connor, reputed ens
of the most capable chemists of the
Southwest, died in a private sanitar-
ium in Fort Worth Friday. The re-
mains were shipped to hit home in
Dallas.
On the eve of his retirement Land
Commissioner Terrell opines that
the office of Commissioner of the
General Land Office must be a health
iving position, for there are more
ving. ex-Land Commissioners than
any other State office."
Tuesday, fpr the third time this
eesson, Bisbee, Ariz., was swept by a
disastrous flood; when torrents of
water ten feet high swept down the
two main streets of the town. Great
damage was done, some buildings be-
ing entirely destroyed.
Assaulted by a Mexican while she
was walking along the Southwestern
railway trpek near Tucucari, N. M.,
Monday, Miss Edna Wallace of Ala<
magordo, fought him for an hour, or
until a train passed when the Mexi-
can ran. The girl is in a critical
condition.
The Holder convict bill, providing
fbr the termination of the convict
lease system in Georgia, passed the
House of ^Representatives Friday
afternoon by a vote of 99 to 58.
The United States Treasury De-
partment at Washington has been
asked by the local department at
Naw Orleans to institute a search
•f the seas for the United States
revenue cutter Robert C. Davey,
which left Baltimore more than
three weeks ago for that port to be
stationed in that district.
The St. Petersburg papers state
that Count Leo Tolstoi's condton is
very grave. He has been suffering
for some time with dilation of the
veins of his feet, which more recent-
ly became "Complicated by an attack
of influenza.
Mrs. Kate Howard, alleged mob
leader and roter, killed herself at
Springfield, 111., shortly after being
taken into custody Wednesday on an
Indictment voted by the special
grand jury charging her with mur-
der.
| Jewel P. Lightfoot, assistant at-
patant attorney general of Texas,
P* in New York investigating the
affairs of the Standard Oil (Jompany
and the American Book Company.
Jndge Roderick E. Rombauer of
1 Louis, Mo., where he has served
rms aa probate, circuit and
i judge, nas hen lost in the
i sinoa Sunday. Hundred!
ten looking for Um
been toSda^H
ef oaU eai wm
Kodal will, la a very abort time, en-
able the stomach to do the work It
ahoultf do, and the work It should do
is to dlgaat all the food ..yon eat.
When the stomach can't do It Kodol
It for It and la the meantime
la getting stronger and
•Me to take «jp its regular natural
Xodoi dlgaata all fan
It la glsaast to taba. It Is sold here
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Albert Ferrier, formerly City Au-
ditor of Galveston, died in St. Louis
Monday morning in a hospital.
At Birmingham, Ala., Monday, a
white non-union miner was shot and
while on his way to work.
Baron Sternberg, German Ambas-
sador to the Unitra States, died at
Heidelburg, Germany, Monday
night
Bear Admiral Edwin Fithian, re-
tired, chief engineer of the United
States Navy, died Saturday at his
home in Bridgeport, N. J., aged 88
years.
It is estimated that there were 100
lives lost in the recent floods of
Georgia and the Carolinas, and the
financial loss is said to be near $5,-
000,000.
Wendell and Terrell Malian, aged
10 and 8 years, sons of Mr. and Mrs.
A. S. Mahan, were drowned in the
Colorado river Tuesday at Smith-
ville while bathing.
Mary Morgan, aged 10 years, was
drowned Friday in the Colorado riv-
er at Austin. She was on the bank
playing with a 6-year-old sister and
slipped into the swift current.
News of the sinking of the Brit-
:ah steamer Dunearn and the loss of
all but two of her fifty-three mem-
bers of the crew, in a typhoon off the
coast of Gato, on the island of Kiu-
hu has been received.
An official order calling off the
strike of coal miners in the Birming-
lam districts was issued to all camps
Monday. The order ends the strike,
which began July 6, and which has
jeen marked with much violence.
Miss Helen Berger, only daughter
of Alex Berger, president of the
Berger-Crittenden Milling Company
of Milwaukee, Wis., is the fiancee of
William Jennings Bryan Jr., only
son of the Democratic candidate for
he Presidency.
Friday night at Murfreesboro,
Tenn., while a negro charged with
criminal assault was being removed
;;rom the jail to a place of safety by
the sheriff and his deputies, a mob
overpowered the ofBoers and the no-
gro was lynched.
Charles M. Johnson, an old and
well-known resident of Lamar Coun-
;y, died suddenly Monday morning
at his home, two miles east of Paris
while sitting in a chair. He was at-
tacked with a swelling in the throat
Friday night, which prevented swal-
lowing.
Adolph Maegelin, the 8-year-old
son of a San Antonio business man,
8 said to have been caught by two
negroes, while on his way home, and
after being severlv beaten was tied
to a tree and left to starve. He was
found and saved by a man who later
happened to pass that way.
More than 500 of the 900 organi-
zations affiliated with the federation
of Jewish organizations met Monday
in New York and discussed the
ways and means to improve the con-
dition of juvenile Jewish criminals
and delinquents, and also to find
some way to get hold of the children
before they have yielded to tempta-
tions and have been taken in hand
by the authorities.
The Attorney General has advised
|the Commissioner of the General
Land Office that the fee for patent-
ng land on Mustang Island is $5 for
leach tract, and they are all acre
tracts. There is some ambiguity in
the law placing the Mustand Island
land on the market relative to the
patent fee, and the Attorney General
rules that $o is the correct Bum. It
[is the uniform price charged for all
ands.
The Chinese government is con-
idering the recall of Wu Ting Fang,
e Chinese Minister at Washing-
n, on account of the recent disclos-
res on his part, which are believed
have been indiscreet
A resident of Burleson stated
ifonday that the son of J. R. Thorn-
las, living near that place, drowned
in .Valley Creek. The boy could not
iwim, and it is thought that he fell
)B of the springboard, which the
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iwimmers had placed on the edge of
ia deep hole.
Miss Grace Cox, aged 18 years,
red three shots from a pistol at a
egro whom she discovered peeping
in her window about X0 o'clock Fri-
day night at Beaumont.
The license of the Frisco to do
business in Oklahoma was revoked by
Acting Secretary of State Leo Meyer
Saturday afternoon for the road's
lea of foreign domicile in a case
ding in the Comanche County
istrict Court, whereby it might
transfer the litigation to the Federal
Court.
The report comes from Conway,
Ark., that a white farmer of that
neighborhood had killed his wife
Thursday and then made his escape.
It is reported that yithin the next
thirty days the Texas Steamship
lines will establish a line from New
Orleans to New York in competition
prith the oSuthern Pacific.
On an indictment charging big-,
Phillip Bryan was convicted in;
district court at Dallas and tbe
tjr of five yeara In
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Mrs. N. E. Meyers, who has
been visiting relatives and
friends in Pecos county for some
time has returned, and was a
pleasant caller at the Democrat
office Wednesday.
For the past few days cotton
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Marketing Cotton.
(From Fort Worth Record).
Without venturing an opinion as
to what Is a fair price for cotton t^is
year, we heartily commend the plan
at the Farmers' union for marfeetiag
the crop gradually.
In the broad sense and in the finxl
analysis, tbe law of supply anAitEe-
mand must control prices.1 But two
important factors are to be consid-
ered In securing tbe logical market
price under this law. One is to hare
accurate knowledge of tbe supply and
tbe demand and the other is to So
handle the supply aa not to give the
appearance of overproduction.
Bobt points are comprehended In
the union's plan.
It is true that the government re-
ports reflect the supply more or less
accurately, but they do not reflect
the depiand, which is quite a impor-
tant as the supply. If the farmers
can ascertain through an alert and
intelligent agency how much cot-
ton the world will consume they will
have the most reliable index to the
fair price. Under some circumstances
at 12,000,000-bale cotton crop would
be too much, and under other circum-
stances too little. It is easily con-
ceivable that the extremes of trade
conditions might cause a variation
of 10 per cent or more than a million
bales in the actual demand. Without
knowledge of those conditions a
surplus might be presumed when it
did not exist and prices would fall
far below real value, or vice versa.
The spinner is sure to know with
approximate accuracy how much cot-
ton the farmer has produced. Now,
let the farmer strive to ascertain with
approximate accuracy how much cot-
ton the spinner wants. Then the
farmer will be on even terms with
the spinner.
That point determined, it will re-
main for tbe farmer to market bis
crop gradually Instead of rushing It
to market before Christmas. The
spinner Is not going to manufacture
it all in four months, and there Is no
good reason why the farmer should
sell it all In that time. Indeed, when
he does so he puts himself at a dis-
tinct disadvantage. He creates the
impression of a big crop, he tempts
the spinner to buy supplies months
in advance of needs, he causes an
enormous amount of money to be tied
up and he engages in fierce selling
competition with his neighbor.
Twelve monthfc are required to
spin the crop. Why shouldn't
twelve months be used in selling it?
If the farmer would sell 10 per cent
a month he would feed the market
about as it should be fed, and be
would prevent the annual fall slump
that naturally follows the September,
October and November rush.
Cotton will not spoil by keeping.
Protected from the weather It suffers
no appreciable loss. If its sale could
be extended through eight or ten
months instead of being concentrated
In three or four, the producer would
be sure of developing the correct mar-
ket price from month to month, he
would help himself directly by main-
taining prices with some steadiness
and he would help the whole conutry
by keeping money moving through-
out the winter and spring.
How's This ?
We offer One Hundred Dollars Re-
ward for any case of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by Hall's' Catarrh
Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Tole-
do, Ohio.
We, the undersigned, have known
F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years,
and believe him perfectly honorable
In all business transactions, and fi-
nancially able to carry out any obli-
gations made by his firm.
WALDINO, KINNAN & MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken in-
ternally, acting directly upon the
blood and mucous surfaces of the sys-
tem. Testimonials sent free. Price
75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists
Take Hall's Family Pills for con-
stipation.
Judge Felts Good Fortune.
Judge G. M. Felts, formerly
county Judge of this county left
yesterday for his western ranch,
where he will assist in the laying
off of a town site on his lands.
There is a new railroad building
through western Texas; and it
will run throuh Judge Felts land.
The Esta Cado & Gulf, which
will build from Plainview to
Coleman, is being built at pre-
sent time and the entire route
has been surveyed. The build-
ing started at McCauley, a stat-
ion on the Orient road, and the
laying of rails has begun from
this point toward the Felts lands.
In conversation with Judge Felts
just before his departure it was
learned that the new town would
be located in the center of his
possessions out there and that
as soon as he was on the ground
the town would be given a name.
Those who bought land from
Judge Felts a while back are to
be congratulated as they can now
consider themselves in possess
ion of, valuable property.
Kodol will, without doubt, make
your stomach strong and will almoat
Instantly relieve you of all the symp-
toms of Indigestion. It will do this
because It la made up of the natural
digestive juleas of the stomach so
combined that it completely digests
the food Just as the stomach will do
It, so you see Kodol can't tall to help
you and help you promptly. It la
sold here by Bolton Drue Co.
Mr. m7f. ffiatt reoeived a
telegram a few days ago of the
death of his brother in Plain
field Ind.
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HAPPY
A $25,000 REDUCTION SALE
We Have i Very Urge Stock es Head, seaie of whiek we parehated at 20 per eeat
discoaat aa actual wholesale priees and are goiag to give oar customers aa extra discoaat
aa retail i rices to reduce this stock:
$18.00 Set of Furniture
$25.00 Set of Furniture lor
$30.00 Suit of Furhiture for
$35.00 Suitof Furhiture for
. $15.00
$22.50
$27.50
$IS0.(>0
18c grade of Matting
25c grade of Matting
28c grade of Matting
35c grade of Matting
Everything Else in the Furniture Dipe At Hha Same Rate. We Are Here For Business-Come To See Hs.
EADS-ROBINSON FUR. CO.
Do The Public Schools Educate?
How well do the public schools of
this country fit children to become
useful and sane citizens? Ask the
Housekeeper in hs September num-
ber. This question may be partial-
ly, if not wholly, answered by stat-
ing a very gruesome fact. Individ-
uals, societies and municipalities
are spending twice as much in
charity and for the maintenance of
that organized body of officers
whose duty it is to preserve good
order, prevent and detect crime,
and enforce laws, as it is spending
to educate the coming men and wo-
men of one of the greatest nations
in the world. That might as well
be looked upon as one phase of the
results of our modern system of
schools. Viewed at closer range,
which means a knowledge of the
work individual men and women
are doing, and their fitness for it,
one can say truthfully that the sys-
tem of education which turns out
boys and girls by the hundreds and
the thousands, illfitted in the ma-
jority of cases to do their work, un-
able to give it individuality or make
it a force in teh world, is but a sad
travesty on our vain-glorious boast-
ing of our great national progress.
Children in every state in the na-
tion are obliged to attend school be-
tween certain years of age. Regard
less of natural ability, or deficien-
cies, or aptitude for any certain
kind of work,—regardless of the
manner of work either must do
when through school—regardless of
whether the pupil is to continue in
school until a university course is
finished, or at fourteen years of age
he is to become a wage earner,—
both boys and girls are turned into
the public school hopper and the
grinding goes mercilessly on.
Girls and boys alike start out on
their life journey with the same
equipment. Much like starting a
Peary or a Nanses off in search of
the North Pole with supplies suit-
able for a sojourn in the West In-
dies, is it not? Girls are not even
getting the fundamental training
that fits them for home makers,
neither are they getting any prac-
tical knowledge which may help
them to solve their own economic
problems. With boys it is much
the same and the great mass of men
drifting without anchorage of any
kind makes the thoughtful men and
women hearken to the pulse beat
of the nation. It is not the political
system but the educational system
that should determine and set stan-
dards for the country. Since this is
true, why not give to every boy and
girl those things in the public
schools which shall tend toward
making them efficient workers and
allowing them to put into the labor
of their hands and hearts their own
individuality.
The lack of individuality and ef-
ficiency has been and is the stumb-
ling block in the development of
this country for the benefit of the
masses of its citizens. There is evi-
dence in every phase of our nation-
al life of the process of suppression
which was begun in the earliest
years of our young citizens. The
process has been carefully fostered
on through the years until personal
liberty is for the few and political
liberty for all a mockery.
The best educators of the country
are recognizing the need of practi-
cal training along all lines, but be-
cause of the political ridden system
their work is curtailed on every
hand and the country at large is
the chief loser.
To Be Happy
you must have good health. You
can't have good health If your liver
Is not doing It's duty—Milow but sure
poisoning Is going on all the time
under auch circumstances. Ballard's
Herblne makes a perfectly healthy
liver—keeps the stomach and bowels
right and acta as a tonic for the en-
tire ayatem.
Commercial Clab Tonight,
leat forgot fte Mofcg of fto
Evory oao oMri It tore.
Baylor College.
Baylor College opened on Tues-
day morning, Sept. first with the
brightest prospects for a successful
year. The Alma Reeves Chapel
was filled with students from all
parts of Texas and other States
while Belton was represented by a
goodly number of her citizens. As
the folds of "Old Glory" floated
out in the greeze above old Baylor,
one little fellow remarked that it
was Washington's birthday. While
he was mistaken in the day, the
occasion was perhaps none the less
important" for Belton and for the
many students who will date their
achievements to this day when new
aspirations were born in their
lives.
Seated on the stage with the fac-
ulty were the ministers of the var-
ious denominations of the town and
several representatives of other ed-
ucational institutions. The exer-
cises were opened by an organ pre-
lude by Dr. Hans Harthan. The
sweet toned pipe organ thrilling his
hearers. The scripture was read by
President Wilson and was followed
by the invocation by Rev. J. D.
Young of the Methodist church.
There were greetings from the
members of the faculty, Dr. E. H.
Weels and the lady principal, Mrs.
Rose Whissen, being particularly
pleasing in their remarks. J. W.
Grissom, County Superintendent of
Schools, Rev. W. B. McGarity, Rev.
J. D. Young, Rev. W. M. Williams,
Rev. E. G. Townsend and Mrs.
Townsend also made brief interest-
ing talks. The exercises of the
morning closed with the benedic-
tion. In the afternoon with the
classification of students the sixty-
fourth annual session of Baylor was
begun in earnest.
Belton and Baylor friends of Mr.
G. E. Simpson received several
days ago the following announce-
ment:
Mr. James Herndon Beckham an-
nounces the marriage of his daugh-
ter, Mary, to Mr. George Elliott
Simpson on Tuesday, August the
twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and
eight, Kansas City, Missouri.
Mr. and Mrs. Simpson are at
home to their friends in one of the
pretty cottages on the campus. It
is with the keenest pleasure that
the community welcomes this
charming young couple to its midst.
Miss Rosylene Anderson of Kil-
leen has returned to take a post
graduate course this year. She was
a member of the interesting class
of 1908.
Miss Ethel Wilson, a niece of Dr.
W. A. Wilson, and a daughter of
Mr. Fred Wilson of Pleasant Hill,
Mo., is here to attend school this
year.
Miss Beryl Smith of Mart was
here to attend the opening of
school.
Misses Beatrice Killingsworth
and Mary McCauley, members of
the alumnae from Moody, were
here on Tuesday.
Messrs. J. M. Crouch of Temple,
W. O. Boney of Bay City, J. C.
Stribbling of Llano, W. H. Ligon
of Packsaddle, Judge Russell of Ty-
ler, Mesdames Engleman of McKin-
ney, M. T. Rogers of Waco, Pun-
chard of Resner, accompanied their
daughters here for the opening of
school.
Mrs. Rachel Jackson of Farmers-
ville was here on Tuesday with her
granddaughter. Miss Grace Nea-
thery, who has returned to Baylor.
Miss Mary Ball of Gainesville, a
Baylor graduate is here to enter
her sister, Miss *Louise Ball in
school.
Miss Pearl Patterson of Cisco,
another member of Baylor alumnae,
was here for several days this week
with her sister, who enters school
for the year.
Dewitt's Carbollsed Witch Hasel
Salve la recommended aa the best
thing to use for plies. It Is, of course
good for anything where a salve Is
Beaded. Beware of lmltatioas. Hold
by Belton Drug Co.
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SCHOOL SUPPLIES
Ink, Pencils, Tablets, Composition Books,
Pen Holders, School Satchels and Straps, Pencil
Boxes, and in fact everything in the way of
school supplies except text books. I have a
fine lino of books by standard authors at special
prices. Drop in and see what I have.
HENRY HOWELL
The Avenue Druggist
PAINLESSS DENTISTRy
We want your work and in order to get it will allow your car fare
from Belton to Temple on $5,00 worth of work or more, and will guaran-
tee all our work for 10 years, in writing. We have had 12 years prac-
tical experience and will do your work by our expert Painless Methods,
at the following' Exceedingly Low Prices.
Set of Teeth $5.00 to $10.00
Gold Crowns $5.00
Pridge Work $5.00 White or Bone
Painless Extraction 50,
Gold Fillings $1.00 up.
Painless Filling $1.00up.
50c
Over Brady & Black
UNION PAINLESS DENTISTS
DR. THOMAS, Prop.
Temple, Txas
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SCHOOL BOOKS
We will have all the new State adopted school books in
stock by the time the schools open, as well as the High Schoo1
book3 ahd all the necessary supplies for the children.
The children should have good matealal to work with, but
not expensive, and that is just what we are prepared to supply
them with.
As it is well known, school books, are sold for spot cash,
and no exceptions wfll bo made to this rule.
Hunter & Freeman
^BELTON TEXA^^
Aermotor, Dandy, Sampson
WINiD MILIvS
PROVEN THE BEST
Tanks, Flues, Tin Work and Plumcing
If you fail to get ray pricen on this line
you neglect a duty to yourself.
„ BOB TULLOCH
Eut Side naln Street Belton, Ten*
THE DEMOCRAT 50c THE YEAR.
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